He wrote: "We welcome the news that, from 2026, Wigmore Hall will no longer require the support of public investment. We congratulate its leader, John Gilhooly, for raising £10 million in private ...

Wigmore Hall, the concert venue in London, has announced that it no longer requires public funding, after raising £10 million in order to become financially self-sufficient. The achievement follows a ...

One of London's most prestigious classical music venues has pulled out of England's cultural subsidy scheme because of "crippling" red tape and a controversial strategy that is seen as failing to ...

Chamber music remains at the heart of the Hall’s programming, with Beethoven cycles from the Elias and Ébène quartets, the 50th anniversary of the Takács Quartet, and the return of the Leonkoro ...

Wigmore Hall will exit Arts Council England’s national portfolio in April next year, with artistic director John Gilhooly saying the organisation was ‘better off being independent’ ...

Wigmore Hall currently receives £344,000 of public money a year from Arts Council England, but will stop taking the funding from 2026. Director John Gilhooly said: ...

Over half a century Wigmore Hall has hosted the leading German song recitalists of each decade. From Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, impossibly mannered but gripping in her final years, to the simpler ...

I have never seen the Wigmore Hall stage more crammed with instruments than for this Colin Currie Quartet concert. Sadly the auditorium was not similarly packed, the hall’s admirable initiative of ...

Wigmore Hall's 2023/24 season was announced by John Gilhooly, the Hall's Director. With more than 500 concerts from September 2023 to July 2024 featuring some 2500 artists performing music from ...

The Wigmore Hall has been one of the most important concert halls in my entire career. I made my debut there in January of 1985, the same week that I came from Paris to live in London.

Wigmore Soloists is such a good idea, and still at an early stage of its development. The group brings together top players to perform the wider chamber music repertoire, normally septets and upwards.

Sixteen composers, aged between 24 and 63, have been chosen as winners of Wigmore Hall’s Lockdown Commissions Scheme. Chosen from over 700 applications, each winning composer – over the age of 18 and ...