The BBC Proms 2024 programme is out today - I'm absolutely delighted that I shall be making my Proms debut performing Rachmaninov's Paganini Variations with BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing on the 8 Sep TRCH. Join us if you can! 🎉 bbc.co.uk/events/efnqwh

An exhausting but fulfilling week of school concerts for Gloucestershire Music: 18 schools, nearly 2,000 children in attendance, 9 pianos dismantled, 3 spiders safely re-housed...! 🕷

The final few moments of Clara Schumann's whirling Romance Op. 21 No. 3 🌀 Hear it live Hay Festival, 26 May! shorturl.at/elmNP

My brain is completely frazzled after a week working on the exquisitely beautiful 'À l'assaut des jardins' by composer Samy Moussa - a tough learn, but definitely worth it ✨ Catch it live Hay Festival 26 May and @gowerfestival 5 July! HarrisonParrott Group @rayfieldallied

Calling all musicians who need new publicity photos - I can't recommend photographer Philipgatward and makeup artist Kat Krupa-Ringuet highly enough! 📸 💄🎉 philipgatward.com katkruparinguet.co.uk

I'm delighted to be returning to the Wigmore Hall for their Autumn International Piano Festival, performing Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata alongside works by Clara Schumann, Mozart, Fauré, and Chopin on the 3 Oct 🎹 Tickets now available! wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20241…

The Hay Festival programme is now out 🎉 Join me and actor tamamatheson for 'Don Juan - the brilliant irreverence of Lord Byron' with music by Beethoven, Montgeroult, Felix Mendelssohn and William Grant Still, 27 May! hayfestival.com/m-199-hay-fest…

Very excited to be returning to Cheltenham Festivals this July - join me 10 July for Mixtape and 13 July in recital at the Pittville Pump Room! 🎉 cheltenhamfestivals.com/music/whats-on…

Ravel transports us to Spain in 'Alborada del gracioso' 🇪🇸 I have wanted to play this since I was a teenager and it didn't disappoint - such a thrill to perform! Hear it live on Sunday Harrogate Festivals 🎶 harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/whats-on/clare…

Acclaimed as 'a pianist of extraordinary gifts', Clare Hammond brings an impressive programme of Romantic repertoire for piano, including works by Ravel, Clara Schumann and Coleridge-Taylor, to our next Sunday Series concert this weekend 🎶

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🏝 Top picks before being cast away with Clare Hammond - who is set to play at the Sunday Series on 24 March

💿 Grazyna Bacewicz's Violin Concerto No. 1
📚 Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible
🍴 Pock-marked Old Woman’s Tofu - supposedly tastier than it sounds! Have you tried it?

Ravel's 'A Boat on the Ocean' - luxuriously beautiful music and so vividly evocative of the sea. Hear it live Harrogate Festivals 24 Mar 🌊 harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/whats-on/clare…

Performing Walton with the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra last weekend in preparation for a recording with BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. So much fun to play with old friends - let's celebrate the flourishing amateur music scene in the UK! 🎉 (📸 Mike Spencer)

The recital of Romantic music on 24 March celebrates the recently rediscovered composer Hélène de Montgeroult, fêted as “the missing link between Mozart and Chopin”

Clare Hammond delves into the aristocrat who was caught up in the French revolution.

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An utterly exhausting two days recording concertos by Walton and Tippett with the phenomenal BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus led by eminently unflappable conductor, George Vass. They really were incredible! To be released on BIS Records next year 🤩

Clare Hammond discusses playing UK prison concerts, the power of music, her inspiration and excitement for the upcoming Sunday Series concert on Sunday, 24 March.

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An exquisitely beautiful etude by Cécile Chaminade, performed Barbican Centre in January - catch it live Morpeth Music Society 14 Mar 🎉 morpeth-musoc.org.uk/clarehammond

Very excited to be recording Tippett and Walton concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus this month for BIS Records, alongside live recitals for Morpeth Music Society and Harrogate Festivals. Some really wonderful repertoire - can't wait to get started! ✨ (📷 Philip Gatward 💄@Kringuet)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's life and music changed course after he first heard African American spirituals. This powerful, stirring music became a source of inspiration, as here in 'Deep River'. Hear it live Harrogate Festivals 24 Mar harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/whats-on/clare…

Bring some musical sunshine into your mum's day!💐

Treat her to a classical concert at the Harrogate International Sunday Series featuring the brilliant Clare Hammond on March 24th.

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