
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

Timeless Classics and New Beginnings
Dialogue of Minds
June 21st 2025 at 19:30 – 21:00
Programme
Rolf Martinsson – Suite Fantastique
Gerald Finzi – Five Bagatelles
Nicole Rubinova – TBA (world premiere)
Debussy – Premiere Rhapsodie
Margaret Sutherland – Clarinet Sonata
Mozart – Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Dialogue of Minds
Kristina Newton – clarinet
Joel Slott – piano
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, international duo Dialogue of Minds visits St Pancras Clock Tower in their second London tour. Praised for their “great sensitivity” and technical virtuosity, British-Australian clarinetist Kristina Newton and Swedish pianist Joel Slott come together in an evening where timeless masters of classical music meet with exciting new voices of today.
The program commences with the Australian Margaret Sutherlands lyrical Clarinet Sonata. The energetic high points of Finzi’s Five Bagatelles and the romantic Premiere Rhapsodie by Debussy will both draw parallels with the alternatingly vivid and melodic Suite Fantastique by Swedish composer and professor Rolf Martinsson.
Dialogue of Minds is also proud to present their newly commissioned work by celebrated Swedish composer Nicole Rubinova. The program will conclude with a joyful a virtuosic arrangement of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
Only 45 tickets will be available for this unique musical setting, inside the Clock Tower above Kings Cross Station! Enjoy the London skyline and share this intimate experience with us and other music lovers.
Additional information on the building:
The Clock Tower is within St. Pancras Chambers, the modern name for the former Midland Grand Hotel. a railway terminus hotel which was constructed at St. Pancras by the Midland Railway from 1868 to 1876, with the hotel opening in 1873.
The architect was George Gilbert Scott, the great proponent of the style known as the Gothic Revival, a Victorian style with echoes back to the Gothic era of the middle ages. The town hall at Armentières in north-eastern France was the inspiration behind much of the building.
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Felix Mendelssohn, Lachner, Mozart and more – Sabine Meyer
23/06/2025 1:00 pm
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP
Felix Mendelssohn, Lachner, Mozart and more – Sabine Meyer
June 23rd 2025 at 13:00 – 14:00
Pure melody, steeped in tonal beauty and infinite depths of expression, runs through Fatma Said’s recital. She and Malcolm Martineau are joined by another champion of melodic beauty and heartfelt music making, the great German clarinettist Sabine Meyer.
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Saxophone Concerto – Jonathan Radford
26/06/2025 7:30 pm
St George’s Church, Hanover Square, Mayfair, London W1S 1FX
Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Saxophone Concerto – Jonathan Radford
June 26th 2025 at 19:30
Foundation Composer – Miles Walter – World Première composition
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Saxophone Concerto – World Première
Brahms – Symphony No. 2, Op. 73
Orpheus Sinfonia
Thomas Carroll: Conductor
Daniel Joseph: Foundation Conductor
Jonathan Radford: Saxophone
We are very excited to be presenting two world premières this evening.
Foundation Conductor, Daniel Joseph, will direct the world première of our Foundation Composer’s brand-new work.
Renowned saxophonist Jonathan Radford is the soloist in the world première of Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s saxophone concerto.The concert will close with Brahms’s Second Symphony, under the baton of our Artistic Director, Thomas Carroll.
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