What’s on this 2025-26 season

Please be advised of a change of programme notified January 2026.

Nikita’s outstanding performance in Shropshire last spring was followed by multiple live and studio recordings on BBC Radio 3. After extensive touring north of the border, he has marked himself out as one of the most exciting pianists based in Scotland.

He returns south with an ensemble to give us Grieg’s Piano Concerto in an exceptionally beautiful arrangement for piano and string septet. The programme will also include music by Tchaikovsky, Liadov, Stanchinsky and Scriabin.

Established by award-winning British composer, violinist and teach Christian Garrick, the electrifying 4-piece Budapest Café Orchestra plays gypsy and folk-flavoured music, including traditional Balkan, Russian, Hungarian and Romanian tunes, with jazz nuances and following their own unique arrangements. Specialists of the ‘distilled concerto’, they artfully rework masterpieces by the greats of the Romantic era.

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44

For their final concert of the 2025-26 season, the Carduccis are joined by the young international star pianist Simon Callaghan. Simon played with the Carduccis in our 2023-24 season and their wonderful performance prompted a standing ovation.