Artistic Temperaments Festival Event
- Date:
- 9 - 11 February 2024
- Venue:
- Turner Sims, University of Southampton
Event details
Turner Sims, in association with the University of Southampton Music Department, presents a three-day keyboard festival. Now in its second year, Artistic Temperaments celebrates music performances on beautiful antique instruments.
We showcase the Department’s remarkable collection of keyboard instruments, from the 1770s to the present day. Hear favourite pieces as you’ve never heard them before.
Alongside brilliant performances from professionals and students, the Festival also makes room for YOU to play. Sign up for a private session to try your favourite Mendelssohn Song without Words on a nineteenth-century piano, or that lovely Bach Prelude on a harpsichord.
Friday 9 February
- 1pm Clementi’s Waltzes
- 7.30pm Pocket Sinfonia: Mozart, Haydn, CPE Bach
Saturday 10 February
- 11am Listening, Measuring and Modelling: A Journey into Piano Acoustics with Dr. Giacomo Squicciarini
- 12.15pm Student Masterclasses: 1796, 1826 with David Owen Norris
- 2pm Tuning Temperaments with Cesar Hernandez
- 3.15pm Songs: 1796 – 1826
- 7.30pm Liturina Fortepiano Trio Concert: Sterndale Bennett, Schumann, Mendelssohn
Sunday 11 February
- 11am Sawn in Half: An exploration of the divided damper-rail with Professor David Owen Norris
- 3pm Vienna in 1782: Haydn, Clementi and d’Auenbrugger
Try the Pianos – Friday 9 to Sunday 11 February
During the Artistic Temperaments Festival, the University of Southampton Music Department is offering the chance to play the Schantz pianoforte (modern replica of Viennese 1802) and the Taskin 2-manual harpsichord (modern replica of Paris 1769), with Music Students on hand to support visitors.
15-minute, timed slots available across Friday 9 to Sunday 11 February 2024
Tickets £5 for a 15-minute session. Book here .