In line with Public Heath and Government guidelines, concert activities are currently under some restrictions. See below for current performances during the pandemic.
Alexander returns to live performance (via livestream) with Helen Charlston, Michael Craddock and City Music Foundation. They will give the premiére of the Isolation Songbook - a new set of commissions written during lockdown.
6pm, St Pancras Clock Tower
Stay tuned for YouTube link.
Alexander will record the Isolation Songbook in Queen’s Hall Edinburgh, with Helen Charlston and Michael Craddock for Delphian Records. Expected release date is March 2021 - stay tuned for more details.
LIVE CONCERT
Alexander will perform Messiaen’s Quartet for the end of time under the iconic dome in St Paul’s Cathedral, for City Music Foundation. The concert will be performed in front of a socially distanced audiences.
Joseph Shiner, clarinet
Emily Sun, violin
Ariana Kashefi, cello
Alexander Soares, piano
ONLINE CONCERT
Alexander performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time under the iconic dome in St Paul’s Cathedral, for City Music Foundation, will be available to watch online.
Joseph Shiner, clarinet
Emily Sun, violin
Ariana Kashefi, cello
Alexander Soares, piano
CLICK HERE to register for tickets. The event is free, but donations to City Music Foundation are greatly appreciated.
Alexander will record his second solo album with Rubicon Classics, produced by Andrew Keener and engineered by Oscar Torres.
Further details to be released at the end of the year.
Britten Variations
Ravel Forlane
Bridge Piano Sonata
A livestream concert from the Princess Alexandra Hall, ROSL London
6.30pm via YouTube
Postponed due to illness
Britten Variations
Ravel Forlane
Bridge Piano Sonata
Lunchtime concert from Imperial College London
Livestream below, recorded by Black Swan Film & Audio
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet: Prelude, Courante, Sarabande (from Suite in A minor, 1687)
Ravel: Prelude, Forlane, Menuet, Riguadon (from Le Tombeau de Couperin)
Chopin: Mazurka Op 17. No. 4
Bridge: Piano Sonata 2nd mvt Andante ben moderato
Liszt: Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude
Online recital; for more information click here
The Isolation Songbook CD will be released on 26th March 2021 by Delphian Records. The lockdown project from Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano) and Michael Craddock (baritone) with Alexander Soares (piano) features new songs from 15 composers.
For more information and to order, click here.
The Isolation Songbook CD was featured on German Radio WDR3, with excerpts from composers Owain Park and Derri Joseph Lewis
For more information, click here.
Alexander will perform a lunchtime recital at St James’s Piccadilly in association with ROSL
LIVESTREAM
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la guerre Suite in A minor (excerpts)
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin (excerpts)
Beethoven Sonata Op 10 No 3
Alexander’s second album with Rubicon Classics will be released on 25th June - featuring piano works by Bridge, Britten, Berg and Ravel.
Alexander will play live on In Tune, and speak to Katie Derham about his new CD Threnodies
Video recording
Alexander will perform a lunchtime recital with young Mexican Flautist, Marcos Nicholás Sosa, a scholar of the Angle Arts / City Music Foundation programme.
Alexander will give a solo recital as part of ROSL’d EdFringe in London series
3pm Princes Alexandra Hall, Royal Overseas League
Programme to include Jacquet de la Guerre, Chopin, Lili Boulanger & Beethoven
Acclaimed violinist Emily Sun and Alexander will give a duo recital
3pm Princes Alexandra Hall, Royal Overseas League
Programme to include Gershwin, Piazzolla & Bernstein
Extracts from the Isolation Songbook
2.30pm Boxgrove Priory, Chichester
Helen Charleston mezzo soprano
Michael Craddock baritone
Alexander Soares piano
https://thebeaufortsingers.co.uk/boxgrove-choral-festival-2021/
A private solo recital.
3pm Dover
Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert and Albeniz.
Extracts from the Isolation Songbook
10pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Helen Charleston mezzo soprano
Michael Craddock baritone
Alexander Soares piano
https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/1293
Alexander will perform a recital for Haywards Heath Music Society
Scarlatti Sonatas in E major & F minor
Chopin Nocturnes Op 62
Beethoven Sonata Op. 10 No. 3
Debussy Estampes
Albeniz El Puerto & El Albaicin
The recital will be live-streamed only, on YouTube.
For further information, please click here.
Alexander will perform a live recital at SJSS
1.05pm Monday 13th December 2021
Britten Variations (1965) for piano
Ravel Menuet (from Le tombeau de Couperin)
Bridge Piano Sonata
For further information, please click here.
7.15pm Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Bach English Suite No. 3 in g minor BWV 808
Albeniz El Puerto & El Albacin
Messiaen Regard de l’Eglise d’amour
Interval
Beethoven Sonata Op. 111
For more information click here
6.30pm Pre-concert talk
7.30pm Recital
Bach English Suite No. 3 in g minor BWV 808
Albeniz El Puerto & El Albacin
Messiaen Regard de l’Eglise d’amour
Interval
Boulez Notations
Beethoven Sonata Op. 111
For more information, click here
Alexander’s debut recording is featured on Philippe Cassard’s broadcast ‘Portraits de famille’.
Click here to listen to the broadcast.
Collaboration & recording with composer Gonçalo Gato
Centro Cultural de Belém
Pequeno Auditório
8.40pm Les Salons en Musique
Recital with Tessa Seymour, Cello
Debussy Sonata for Cello and Piano
Nadia Boulanger: Trois Pièces for Cello and Piano
Poulenc: Les chemins de l’amour
—interval—
Lili Boulanger: Nocturne (3’)
Franck: Sonata (30’)
https://tessaseymour.com/
1.10pm City of London School for Girls
Main Hall
Alexander curates a complete performance of NMC’s Many Voices
works for violin by Daniel Kidane, Tansy Davies, Kate Whitley, Mark-Anthony Turnage & more
7.30pm St Hildeburgh Church, Hoylake
Bach: English Suite No.3 in G minor, BWV 808
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Suite in A minor
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat, Op. 110
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7.30pm Eton College, Main Hall
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Windsor and Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra
Leon Gee, conductor
CANCELLED - due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Alexander will play works by Jacquet de la Guerre, Copland and Liszt.
POSTPONED
1.10pm Thursday Lunchtime Concert
Dutilleux Sonata
Beethoven Sonata Op. 110
Bach English Suite No. 3 in g minor BWV 808
Dutilleux 3 Préludes
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
Interval
Marshall Waltz for Eleanor, Prelude No. 3, Valse Chouette
Beethoven Sonata Op. 110
D’Anglebert Prélude in g minor
Chopin Mazurka Op. 17 No. 4
Messiaen Prélude 1964
Alexander discusses his debut album Notations & Sketches ahead of its release in January 2019 by Rubicon Classics. Alongside he will perform works by D’Anglebert, Chopin and Messiaen.
6pm Lecture Recital Room
Works by Boulez, Dutilleux and Messiaen to mark the upcoming release of Alexander’s debut album, Notations & Sketches, recorded in GSMD’s Milton Court
1.10pm St. Giles’ Cripplegate
Alexander curates a performance of contemporary music by the young students at City of London Girls School
10am francemusique ‘En pistes!’ broadcast Dutilleux’s Chorale et variations from Alexander’s new disc Notations & Sketches
Click here to listen to the show.
The Notations Project
Alexander leads his educational outreach programme The Notations Project at Whitgift School. 25 young pianists will each write a composition inspired by the works of Boulez and Kurt.
For more information, click here.
3.30pm Venue tbc
Lecture Recital examining memorisation in the works of Boulez and Messiaen.
7.30pm Holy Trinity Church
Delius Concerto
7.30pm Vicars Hall, St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
Bach English Suite No. 3 BWV 808
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
Beethoven Sonata Op. 111
11.30am SWR2 broadcast
Alexander’s debut album Notations & Sketches is reviewed on German radio SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik – Neue CDs by Jürgen Kesting.
Includes the second movement of Dutilleux’s Piano Sonata ‘Lied’, and Boulez’s Notations.
“In the album titled Notations & Sketches, British Pianist Alexander Soares makes a brilliant case for the pioneering works of new music”
- Jürgen Kesting
Click here for more details.
7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Edward Road Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2HL
Bach English Suite No. 3 in g minor BWV 808
Albeniz El Puerto
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
Beethoven Sonata Op. 111
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2pm, St Mary’s Church, Perivale
Bach English Suite No. 3 in g minor BWV 808
Albeniz El Puerto
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
1.10pm St Giles Cripplegate
Women Composers Concert
Alexander opens a student concert featuring the talented students at CLSG
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre Prelude in A minor
The second workshop of Alexander’s collaboration with composer Gonçalo Gato.
Gonçalo Gato NowState (2019)
Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal
CD recording
Stay tuned for more details
St. James’s Piccadilly, 1.10pm
Dutilleux 3 Preludes
Chopin Mazurka Op. 17 No 4
Debussy Poissons d’or
Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableaux Op. 39 No 3
Sponsored by Talent Unlimited.
St. Giles Cripplegate, 1.15pm
CLSG Spectrum Concert
Alexander will curate a performance of contemporary music, performed by pupils of City of London School for Girls
Southgate, Maxability Charity Recital, 7.30pm
Bach Partita No 5 in G BWV 829
Arnold Variations on a Ukranian Folksong
Beethoven Sonata Op. 110
Liszt Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude
Chopin Polonaise Fantaisie Op. 61
The Notations Project Launch
11am Whitgift School, Croydon
As part of Whitgift School’s piano day, Alexander will be launching his composition and piano workshop The Notations Project inspired by Boulez’s miniatures.
Fore further details, please visit thenotationsproject.com
Highgate School, 7pm
Debussy and Friends Faculty Concert
Works by Debussy, Bizet and Lavignac
LSO Soundhub residency 1
Workshop with composer Gonçalo Gato
King’s Ely, 7.30pm
Chopin Polonaise Fantaisie Op. 61
Liszt Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude
Dutilleux Choral et Variations
Bartok Sonata Sz 80
Liszt Sposalizio
Beethoven Sonata Op.110
Senate House, London, 5.30pm
Surrealism and music in France, 1924-1952: interdisciplinary and international contexts
Boulez douze notations
Boulez Une page d’éphéméride
Jolivet Piano Sonata
Messiaen Prelude (1964)
Messiaen Île de Feu 1
Click here for more info.
St Giles’s Cripplegate, 1.15pm
Alexander will curate a concert of contemporary music performed by the students of City of London School for Girls
St George’s, Windsor Castle, 7.30pm
Mozart Rondo in A minor K. 511
Liszt Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude
Chopin Mazurkas Op. 17 Nos 3&4
Chopin Nocturnes in C-sharp minor Op. posth and E minor Op. 72 no. 1
Chopin Polonaise Fantaisie Op. 61
Private Recital, 6pm
Liszt Sposalizio
Chopin Nocturne in C-sharp minor
Chopin Mazurka Op. 17 No 4
Rachmaninoff Prelude Op 23 No 4
Debussy Images Book 2
Beethoven Sonata Op. 110
Private Recital, 6pm
Liszt Sposalizio
Chopin Nocturne in C-sharp minor
Chopin Mazurka Op. 17 No 4
Rachmaninoff Prelude Op 23 No 4
Debussy Images Book 2
Beethoven Sonata Op. 110
Dame Cicely Saunders Recital Series, St Christopher’s Hospice, &.30pm
Liszt Sposalizio
Chopin Nocturne in C-sharp minor
Chopin Mazurka Op. 17 No 4
Rachmaninoff Prelude Op 23 No 4
Debussy Images Book 2
Beethoven Sonata Op. 110
www.stchristophers.co.uk
Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm
Dutilleux 3 Preludes
Messiaen La fauvette Passerinette
Beethoven Sonata no. 31 Op. 110
The Monday Platform sponsored by Royal Overseas League
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/alexander-soares-consone-quartet-201707171930
The Wallace Collection, 1pm
Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61
Dutilleux 3 Preludes
Messiaen La fauvette Passerinette
Beethoven Sonata no. 31 Op. 110
http://www.wallacecollection.org/collections/event/8700
ROSL Clubhouse, Princes Street, Edinburgh, 2pm
Rachmaninov Prelude in D major Op. 23 No. 4
Rachmaninov Prelude in B minor Op. 32 No 10
Debussy Images Book 2
Liszt Sposalizio
Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
ROSL Edinburgh Fringe Festival Residency - Rachmaninoff after lunch
ROSL Clubhouse, Princes Street, Edinburgh, 2pm
Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor op.65
Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 110
with Abel Selaocoe, cello
ROSL Edinburgh Fringe Festival Residency - Chopin after lunch
ROSL Clubhouse, Princes Street, Edinburgh, 2pm
Chopin Nocturne Op. 72 No.1 in E minor
Chopin Nocturne Op. Posth in C-sharp minor
Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61
Chopin Ballade No. 3 Op. 47 in A-flat major
Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16
ROSL Edinburgh Fringe Festival Residency - Chopin after lunch
Dudley International Piano Competition, 10am
Scarlatti Sonata in F minor K466
Beethoven Sonata Op. 110
Dutilleux Choral et Variations
Two Moors Festival Residency Recital, 7.30pm
Bach Partita No. 5 in G BWV 829
Chopin Mazurka Op. 17 No 4
Dutilleux Trois Préludes
Bartok Sonata Sz80
Liszt Sposalizio
Beethoven Sonata Op. 110