The composer and pianist Thomas Larcher, born in Innsbruck in 1963, has earned worldwide acclaim for the transcendent beauty and expressive richness of his musical language. As Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall this season he will be celebrated with a Focus Day featuring three concerts.

Since becoming one of the first composers to grace Wigmore Hall’s ongoing series of commissions in 2007, he has beguiled audiences with some of the finest works of contemporary chamber music and song. 100 Thomas Larcher Poems - 12 Pieces for Pianists and Other Children; Piano Sonata Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor Op. 10 No. 1 Schubert Fantasie in F minor D940 His season as composer in residence promises to show why his music has been described by The Times as ‘one of this century’s wonders’.

Thomas Larcher Focus Day
Saturday 1 November, Wigmore Hall

Quatour Diotima
11.30am
Quatour Diotima was praised by Gramophone for ‘the assured confidence and élan’ the group brought to its recording of Thomas Larcher’s Third String Quartet. It gave the world première of ‘Out of the Bluest Blue’ in 2023 and brings the vibrant work to life again as Wigmore Hall launches its focus on Thomas Larcher.

Benjamin Baker violin; Maciej Kułakowski cello; Benjamin Frith piano; Matthew Hunt clarinet; Ilker Arcayürek tenor
3pm
Thomas Larcher’s searingly honest music making, whether as composer or pianist, rises from the very depths of his soul. His season as Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence opens with a quartet of essential works, including Kraken, an impassioned sequence of virtuoso pieces for piano trio, and the titanic expressive contrasts of A Padmore Cycle.

Thomas Larcher piano; Paul Lewis piano
7.30pm
Rarely lasting longer than a minute, each of Thomas Larcher’s 12 Poems for Pianists and Other Children captures the essence of a particular emotion or state of being. They flow naturally into Schubert’s sublime Fantasie for piano for four hands and the surging energy of Beethoven’s Op. 10 No. 1.

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