
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

May 3rd 2025 at 19:30- 21:30
Programme
Mozart – Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 “Haffner”
Finzi – Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31
Mozart – Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor
Ma Yue, clarinet
Gerald Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto is one of the 20th century British composer’s most popular orchestral works, a woodwind gem whose pastoral nostalgia and folk-inspired spontaneity will come to life with Singapore Symphony Principal Clarinet Ma Yue. SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez continues his survey of Mozart’s symphonic oeuvre with the stately harmonies of the Haffner Symphony and the supreme confidence of his 39th.
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Soweto Kinch/LSO: Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
07/05/2025 8:00 pm
Milton Court Concert Hall, 1 Milton St, City of London, London EC2Y 9BH
Her Ensemble: The Three Dancers with Jess Gillam and Laura Van der Heijden
May 7th 2025 at 20:00
Caroline Shaw – Thousandth Orange
Dobrinka Tabakova – Insight
Elena Kats-Chernin – The Three Dancers
Ezo Dem Sarici – Balkan folk tunes
Her Ensemble
Laura Van Der Heijden – cello
Jess Gillam – saxophone
Junyan Chen – piano
Inspired by the history of still-life paintings, Caroline Shaw’s piano quartet Thousandth Orange depicts tiny oblique revelations that time’s filter can open up in a musical memory. Picasso, meanwhile is the starting point for Elena Kats-Chernin’s sax, marimba, and accordion enriched dive into love, death, and desire. These ideas streamline through Dobrinka Tabakova’s 2002 string trio which grapples with the idea of visualising sound itself.
Devoted to championing women’s voices, the ‘forward thinking ensemble’ (Gramophone) enlists two star soloists for its folk-gilded brush with the plastic arts. ‘A performer who can hypnotise a room’ (Arts Desk), saxophonist Jess Gillam ‘frankly rocks’ concedes the Huffington Post; while ‘superstar cellist’ (The Times), Laura van der Heijden ‘has everything within reach to become a cello diva’ (Trouw).
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Christian Forshaw – Sanctuary
May 8th 2025 at 20:00
Forshaw – Nunc Dimittis
Monk (arr. Forshaw) – Abide with Me
Gibbons (arr. Forshaw – Drop, Drop Slow Tears
Anon. (arr. Forshaw) – Mortal Flesh
Forshaw – Unknown Love
The Choir of King’s College London
Christian Forshaw – saxophone
Rosanna Wicks – soprano
Richard Pinel – organ
Ryan Hepburn – percussion
A candlelit concert celebrating the 21st anniversary of Christian Forshaw’s groundbreaking album ‘Sanctuary’ – which topped the classical charts in the year of its release. Simple ecclesiastical melodies inspired by Christian’s childhood as a church chorister are cast in a new contemporary light and developed into atmospheric concert pieces.
King’s College London was recently awarded University of Sanctuary status. Its acclaimed choir featured on the album. They reunite with Christian for this unique blending of sacred music with saxophone, organ, voice and percussion.
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