MAGNARD ENSEMBLE

We’ve been channeling our good friend Wolfie this week, as we’ve huffed and puffed our way through many rehearsals and built up the lung capacity just to even introduce our H- themed programme of Holliger, Honegger and Hindemith at the Swiss Church of London on Thursday! This was a concert of works all connected in some way to Switzerland, featuring some beautiful solo contributions from Mana, Joe and Suzie, which was wonderfully received a lovely audience. Juon and Stravinsk

Brace yourselves, piglets. The Magnards are coming. Nothing can stop them. World Domination is at hand. ... Fresh from seeing the wonderful Theater Gnaffel and the Cambridge Philharmonic perform their interpretations of 'The Three Little Pigs and 'Little Red Riding Hood' with full orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, I spent my journey home thinking about what I should write for this week's blog, where we are as a group and what we have coming up on the horizon. On the face

In case you missed it last week check out our live video recording of Paul Patterson's 'Three Little Pigs' here! We are so excited to perform this around the UK throughout this year as part of our Revolting Rhymes Our collaboration with Kenny and Suling has been brilliant in so many ways! It has been so fun to able to explore the repertoire written for this combination but also we are always learning lots from them both! From Suling and her experience accompanying many differ

Hello all! Another Sunday means another blog from the Maggerz team! People often ask us where we got our name, the 'Magnard Ensemble' from, so I thought the blog would be the perfect opportunity to enlighten you all! To do this we have to cast back to 2012 and to our student days at the Royal Academy of Music. Whilst there, we originally formed a piano quintet - piano plus flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon (can you believe we originally didn't have a Jon!) and really the only ma