For the second concert of our 2026 season, we are delighted to welcome award winning British violinist Fenella Humphreys for a varied recital of solo violin repertoire.

Fenella is a resident at London's Wigmore Hall for the 2025/2026 season, where she is delivering a series of both solo and ensemble recitals. She has won the Premiere recording Award from BBC Music Magazine in both 2023 and 2025.

Fenella performs widely as a soloist. Her album of Sibelius’ solo works with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and George Vass has been featured in BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library, Gramophone Magazine’s Guide to the Concerto, and was Album of the Week on Scala Radio. BBC Music Magazine has written of the recording: “it takes an unusually fine artist to be able to bridge the two extremes. Fenella Humphreys’s playing is a genuine revelation in the way it brings out the music’s dark and introspective qualities, with no shortage of technical panache meanwhile.”

Most recently her recording of Adrian Sutton's Violin Concerto has been released on Chandos with Michael Seal and the BBC Philharmonic. The work was written for Fenella in 2023, and premiered with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Southbank Centre. "Humphreys, Seal and the BBC Philharmonic have its [Violin Concerto] linguistic number. Humphreys brings her endlessly unfurling violin lines taut, silvery weightlessness. The recording beautifully captures her duets with woodwind, and a tremendous dynamic range…” (The Strad) The album received BBC Music Magazine's 2025 Premiere Recording Award. 

Her programme for this concert spans from the 17th to the 21st centuries, including male and female composers. It promises a widely varied experience and mix of textures.

Programme
SHAW: In Manu Tuus (2009)
BIBER: Passacaglia (1676)
BEAMISH: The Lone Seafarer (1998)
JS BACH: Ciaconna from Partita No.2 in D Minor (1720)
STRAVINSKY: Elegy (1944)
FRANCES-HOAD: Suite No.1
JS BACH: Partita No.3 in E Major (1720)
YSAYE: Solo Sonata No.2 Op.27 (1923)