About Howarth
Howarth of London is a specialist woodwind instrument maker and retailer. Known all over the world as makers of the finest oboes, oboes d’amore and cors anglais, our instruments are made in our dedicated manufacturing workshops in Worthing, West Sussex.
We use high-tech CNC machinery to make precision components for our instruments which are then hand-assembled by highly experienced technicians into our beautiful instruments.
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Upcoming Events
Rossini – Bassoon Concerto
October 6th 2024 at 15:00 – 16:30
Conductor Dominic Grier
Bassoon Siping Guo
Beethoven — Leonore Overture No.3
Rossini — Bassoon Concerto
Dvořák — Symphony No.8 in G major
The Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra begins its season with this uplifting concert of orchestral favourites. Plus, a new commission from the WPO’s Composer-in-Residence, Ansel Chaloner-Hughes.
Beethoven’s dramatic overture, one of three originally composed for the opera he eventually called Fidelio, is among his most well-loved works and will provide a rousing start to the WPO’s concert season.
Ansel Chaloner-Hughes, who has recently been engaged by the WPO as its resident composer, will present his first full-scale work for the orchestra — his approachable and energetic style is sure to complement the drama of the other works on the programme.
Young bassoonist Siping Guo makes his debut with the orchestra to play Rossini’s tuneful concerto, a rarely heard gem and a brilliant showcase for the instrument.
To round off the afternoon, Dvořák’s ever-popular and sunlit Symphony No. 8 presents all the virtuosity, energy, lyricism and dramatic flair of a composer at the peak of his compositional powers. It rightly remains one of the most frequently performed of all late nineteenth-century symphonies.
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Philhar’Intime – Bach Concerto for Oboe d’Amore in A Major
06/10/2024 4:00 pm
Auditorium, Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, 116 Av. du Président Kennedy, 75016 Paris, France
Philhar’Intime – Bach Concerto for Oboe d’Amore in A Major
October 6th 2024 at 16:00 – 17:00
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto pour violon en mi majeur
Concerto pour hautbois d’amour en la majeur
Suite pour flûte en si mineur
Conductor, harpsichordist, tireless pioneer, Leonardo Garcia Alarcón is a regular guest of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he has often played Bach – let us remember the Mass in B or The Art of the Fugue in recent years seasons. This time, here he is sharing a handful of masterpieces from the harpsichord, with his faithful from the ‘Philhar’, in the spirit of the Zimmerman café concerts which flourished in Leipzig during Bach’s time. Friendship in music, nothing else. Cyril Ciabaud is on oboe d’Amore.
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Liverpool Wind Collective
14/10/2024 8:00 pm
Music Room, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BP
Liverpool Wind Collective
There’s nothing to match the colours of a woodwind ensemble – put four terrific wind players together and it’s like opening a musical paintbox! Four of the Orchestra’s own woodwind superstars travel from swinging London to the jungles of Brazil in this joyous recital.
Richard Rodney Bennett Travel Notes 2
Bozza Trois Pièces Pour Une Musique de Nuit
Françaix Quatuor
Schulhoff Bassnachtigall
Tansman Suite for Wind Trio
Villa-Lobos Wind Quartet
Helen Wilson flute
Ruth Davies oboe
Ausiàs Garrigós Morant clarinet
Gareth Twigg bassoon