Nadine Sierra, Louise Alder, Magdalena Kožená, John Holiday, Benjamin Appl, Alice Coote, Allan Clayton & Gerald Finley Highlight Wigmore Hall’s 2026-27 Season
By Francisco SalazarWigmore Hall has announced its 2026-7 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances.
Nadine Sierra and Bryan Wagorn open the season with a gala.
Performance Date: Sept. 8, 2026
The Gesualdo Six perform “English Motets.”
Performance Date: Sept. 9, 2026
Il Pomo d’Oro and Il Pomo d’Oro Choir perform in concert.
Performance Date: Sept. 13, 2026
Alice Coote and Sergey Rybin join forces for a recital.
Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2026
Allan Clayton joins Paul Lewis for works by Schubert.
Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2026
Rebecca Hardwick perform “Kafka Fragments” with Toby Young.
Performance Date: Sept. 17, 2026
Ema Nikolovska joins Jonathan Biss for Schubert.
Performance Date: Sept. 17, 2026
Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy, Bogdan Volkov, and Adrian Brendel perform Leonid Desyatnikov and Stravinsky.
Performance Date: Sept. 18, 2026
Rebecca Hardwick and Tamsin Waley-Cohen perform music by Kurtag.
Performance Date: Sept. 18, 2026
Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier take on the Monteverdi “Vespers.”
Performance Date: Sept. 20, 2026
The Mozartists under Ian Page will join forces with soprano Alexandra Lowe.
Performance Date: Sept. 24, 2026
Sir George Benjamin conducts “Fretwork” with soloists Susan Bickley, Iestyn Davies, Ian Bostridge, and Silas Wollston.
Performance Date: Oct. 1, 2026
The Schallfeld Ensemble will be joined by Marisol Montalvo and Johanna Vargas.
Performance Date: Oct. 3, 2026
Allan Clayton and Christine Rice join James Baillieu for music by Britten and Schumann.
Performance Date: Oct. 3, 2026
Mark Padmore and Jonathan Biss perform works by Schubert and Schumann.
Performance Date: Oct. 5, 2026
The Sixteen, under Harry Christophers, perform in concert.
Performance Date: Oct. 7, 2026
Iestyn Davies joins Oliver Wass join forces for a program of titled “The Evolution of Art Song in Vienna.”
Performance Date: Oct. 8, 2026
Richard Stokes, Juliane Banse, Lizzie Bett Estrada, Aksel Rykkvin, Günther Groissböck, and Joseph Middleton lead a program titled “Carl Lowe Song Companion.”
Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2026
Fleur Barron, Suleiman Suleiman, Julius Drake, and Hibiki Ichikawa lead a “Kabuki Winterreise.”
Performance Date: Oct. 11, 2026
James Newby and Joseph Middleton perform music by Schubert.
Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2026
Johannes Kammler, Katharina Ruckgaber and Imogen Cooper perform works by Wolf.
Performance Date: Oct. 18, 2026
Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton perform “The Memory of a Season.”
Performance Date: Oct. 20, 2026
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge join conductor Daniel Hyde and Harrison Cole.
Performance Date: Oct. 21, 2026
Ian Bostridge and Vadym Kholodenko perform music by Schumann.
Performance Date: Oct. 22, 2026
ORA Singers under Suzi Digby OBE celebrate its 10th anniversary.
Performance Date: Oct. 24, 2026
Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton perform works by Brahms, Debussy, Korngold, Sohoeck, and Webern.
Performance Date: Oct. 27, 2026
Jonathan Cohen conducts Arcangelo in sacred music with soloists Hilary Cronin, Daisy Livesey, James Hall, Jeremy Budd, Hugo Brady, Matthew Long, Dominic Sedgwick, and William Gaunt.
Performance Date: Oct. 30, 2026
Fleur Barron and Mauro Peter join Joseph Middleton for “Songs of the Beloved Earth.”
Performance Date: Oct. 31, 2026
John Dowland will be performed by Thomas Dunford conducting the Jupiter Ensemble, which will feature soloists Lea Desandre, Hugh Cutting, Thomas Hobbs, Florian Störtz, Myriam Rignol, Clémence Schlitz, Mathilde Vialle, Étienne Floutier, and Nick Milne.
Performance Date: Nov. 4, 2026
Samling Artists will showcase music by Nardus Williams, Cláudia Ribas, Felix Gygli, Jonathan Ware, and Alfred Fardell.
Performance Date: Nov. 6, 2026
Yellow Barn Showcase Day will feature music by Beethoven, Bach and Johnson with soloists Melissa Wimbish, Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Anthony Marwood, Katherine Yoon, Pauline Sachse, Gerard Flotats, Leland Ko, John Myerscough, Travis Laplante, and Julian Chan.
Performance Date: Nov. 7, 2026
Benjamin Appl will join the Jerusalem Quartet for chamber works.
Performance Date: Nov. 8, 2026
Stile Antico will perform an evening titled “Discord to Harmony: Renaissance Music of War and Peace.”
Performance Date: Nov. 11, 2026
John Holiday and Kevin Miller lead an evening titled “Over my Head.”
Josè Maria Lo Monaco sings music by Conti, Scarlatti, Fux, Porpora, Hasse, and Haydn alongside Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri and Giulio Prandi.
Performance Date: Nov. 13, 2026
Helen Charlston and Sholto Kynoch perform works by Monteverdi, Hahn, Boulanger, and Viardot.
Performance Date: Nov. 16, 2026
Fleur Barron, Shengzhi Ren, Tom Poster, and Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective lead a program including Alex Ho and Mahler.
Performance Date: Nov. 21, 2026
Il Pomo d’Oro Choir perform music by Gabrieli and Cavalli.
Performance Date: Nov. 23, 2026
Marlis Petersen joins Stephan Matthias Lademann for music by Berg, Strauss, Reger, and Zemlinsky.
Performance Date: Nov. 25, 2026
Les Arts Florissants under William Christie join Paul Agnew for works by Monteverdi.
Performance Date: Nov. 26, 2026
Tom Coult conducts his music with La Nuova Musica, David Bates, and Nick Pritchard. The program also includes works by Bach and Dieterich Buxtehude.
Performance Date: Nov. 28, 2026
O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra will join Hugo Ticciati, Cyrille Dubois, Ema Nikolovska, and Annemarie Federle in music by Nico Muhly and Benjamin Britten.
Performance Date: Dec. 3, 2026
Robin Tritschler, Malcolm Martineau, and Philip Higham take on the music of Geoffrey Bush, Lennox Berkeley, Richard Rodney Bennett and Benjamin Britten.
Performance Date: Dec. 4, 2026
Laurence Kilsby, Toby Spence, James Newby, and James Baillieu join forces for an all-Britten program.
Performance Date: Dec. 6, 2026
Magdalena Kožená and Malcolm Martineau perform music by Janacek, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg, and Wolf.
Performance Date: Dec. 6, 2026
Gerald Finley and Julius Drake perform works by Barber, Grieg, and Schumann.
Performance Date: Dec. 10, 2026
Tenebrae will be conducted by Nigel Short in a program that includes music by Joby Talbot, Eric Whitcare, Judith Weir and more.
Performance Date: Dec. 11, 2026
Claire Booth and Nash Ensemble perform works by Beethoven.
Il Pomo d’Oro Choir perform a Christmas concert.
Performance Date: Dec. 16, 2026
Fatma Said and Malcolm Martineau join forces for music by Brahms, Falla, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Schubert.
Performance Date: Dec. 17, 2026
Irish Baroque Orchestra and Choir under Peter Whelan will take on the “1742 Dublin Messiah.”
Performance Date: Dec. 18, 2026
The Cardinall’s Musick perform a concert titled “Heaven and Earth in little Space.”
Performance Date: Dec. 21, 2026
Allan Clayton, Iestyn Davies, Peter Brathwaite, James Baillieu, Olivia Jageurs, and Richard Watkins perform music by Britten.
Performance Date: Dec. 22, 2026
The Dunedin Consort under John Butt will celebrate a German Christmas with Lucy Crowe, Joanna Songi, Sarah Anne Champion, Guy Cutting, and Chris Webb.
Performance Date: Dec. 23, 2026
Ed Lyon and Iain Farrington perform music by Britten, Bridge and Coward.
Performance Date: Dec. 28, 2026
VOCES8 will be joined by Jonathan Dove to ring in the New Year.
Performance Date: Dec. 31, 2026
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