Performing Rachmaninov with the superb Toruńska Orkiestra Symfoniczna and Agata Zajac at CKK Jordanki last night. Thank you to everyone for such a warm welcome and memorable evening! ✨🎉 (📸Łukasz Ułanowski)

A massive thank you to Storybook Dads for these CDs: pieces for solo piano co-created with participants at HMP Featherstone & Oakwood, & composer @mbetteridge.bsky.social. Storybook Dads helps kids stay connected to parents in prison, showing they're loved and missed www.storybookdads.org.uk

This has really cheered me up - might do it to my piano at home...!! 😊🎶

Without a doubt, the most fulfilling and moving work I've done all year was co-creating pieces for solo piano with participants at HMPs Oakwood & Featherstone and composer @mbetteridge.bsky.social. Music connects us and builds hope for a better future. Read more in Classical Music Magazine!

An exhilarating experience - performing George Stevenson's new Bloodshift with the Britten Sinfonia & Tom Fetherstonhaugh at Kings Place this weekend. A phenomenal piece and inspiring ensemble ✨ (📸 Hannah Williams-Brown)

In rehearsal for George Stevenson's beautifully evocative Bloodshift - join me to hear the world premiere with the Britten Sinfonia & conductor Tom Fetherstonhaugh at Kings Place on Saturday, 7pm! 🎉🎵 www.brittensinfonia.com/events/magnu...

🎉 OUT TODAY!! My recording of Grace Williams' breathtaking Sinfonia Concertante with BBC NOW & Jac van Steen on Lyrita Records, alongside her violin concerto with Geneva Lewis & Jaime Martín, and Elegy for strings with Ryan Bancroft. Some superb music - well worth exploring! ✨✨

🎹 Here's @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social rehearsing on the celeste for the premiere of Kenneth Hesketh's 'Living Ghosts', which has its first performance this Saturday, as part of a reflective evening of music at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building. Details: www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/ken...

I love performing this gorgeous piece - Chaminade's 'Autrefois'. Catch it live @rwcmd.bsky.social, 11am on Sunday! www.rwcmd.ac.uk/events/stein...

It's so exciting to see people enjoying our new album of British concertos and to read high praise for the BBC SO & @georgevass.bsky.social in Gramophone 🎉 "A wholly immersive, keenly responsive display that I feel confident will yield lasting satisfaction" 🎧 at bisrecords.lnk.to/2604

My podcast @pianistmagazine.bsky.social is out today! 🎉 A real pleasure to chat with their editor, Erica Worth - I loved discussing my new album with the BBC Symphony Orchestra & @georgevass.bsky.social for BIS. Do tune in if you can 🎧 rss.com/podcasts/the...

My first time playing celeste! ✨ Rehearsing @krhes.bsky.social's stunning 'Living Ghosts' with Lisa Nelsen, Kamila Bydlowska and Ella Rundle today 🎶 Catch the World Premiere @musicatoxford.bsky.social 1 Nov: www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/ken... @rcmlondon.bsky.social @vwfndn.bsky.social

At the National Gallery this weekend - a joy to perform alongside breathtaking artworks and explore stunning music by Ravel, Bonis, Chaminade & Barraine ✨ Catch these next in Chipping Campden (tonight), Norwich, @rwcmd.bsky.social, Newton Abbot & Whitstable 🎶 clarehammond.com/concerts/

Delighted that BBC Radio 3s Record Review featured our album of British piano concertos yesterday, describing Walton's Sinfonia Concertante as "persuasive", "entertaining" and "fun" 🎉 🎶 Listen back at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... (from 12'00) and explore the score with OUP!

Clare Hammond will perform Michael Betteridge’s ‘Shards of Freedom, Shattered Hope’ at Campden Music on Tuesday. The work was co-created by Betteridge & participants from HMP Oakwood @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social @mbetteridge.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/clare-hammon...

OUT TODAY!! 🎉 My album of concertos by Walton, Britten and Tippett with the BBC Symphony Orchestra & @georgevass.bsky.social is now out on BIS. Praised @thetimes.com for its "crisp artistry" and Video of the Day in Gramophone, listen online bisrecords.lnk.to/2604

🔉 Less than one week to go! My album of concertos by Walton, Britten and Tippett with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and @georgevass.bsky.social will be released on Fri 10 October, for BIS Records and Apple Music 🎉 Pre-order at bisrecords.lnk.to/2604

I have been playing Ravel's Sonatine for a quarter of a century now and still find new beauty every time. The glimmer of light, tart bite of the harmonies, and exuberance is just exhilarating! ✨ Hear it live at London's National Gallery, Fri 10 Oct: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/music...

I'm delighted to be on the front cover of this month's Pianist Magazine 🎉 It was so lovely to speak to Peter Quantrill about my new album of British concertos, work in schools and prisons, and collaborating with living composers! www.pianistmagazine.com

From last weekend's performance @royalalberthall.bsky.social with @philharmonialondon.bsky.social & Christopher Warren-Green for RG Live. Thank you to Oliver Dixon for the amazing photos! 📸

Listen to the 'Vivace' from Tippett's Piano Concerto - an advance release from my album of British Piano Concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra & @georgevass.bsky.social. The full album goes live on the 10 Oct on BIS Records / Apple Music! 🎉 🎹 bisrecords.lnk.to/2604S03

🔉Pre-order my new album, of concertos by Walton, Britten and Tippett with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and @georgevass.bsky.social - due for release with BIS Records on the 10 Oct!! 🎉 🎹 bisrecords.lnk.to/2604

Performing to 1,225 children at 12 schools near Cirencester over 3 days - intense work but so fulfilling. I love seeing the enthusiasm on the children's faces 😊 Thank you to the Arts Society Corinium, Gloucestershire Music & the Gloucestershire Piano Trust for their support!

Mind still reeling after yesterday @royalalberthall.bsky.social... An incredible experience to perform with the phenomenal @philharmonialondon.bsky.social & Christopher Warren-Green ✨🎶 Thank you to everyone at RG Live, @rayfieldallied.bsky.social, the backstage crew & friends who came in support 🙏

Such a joyful evening, performing Mozart's luminous concerto No. 21 last night with the superb @bournemouthso.bsky.social and Enyi Okpara at Portsmouth Guildhall ✨ The encore was Montgeroult's Etude No. 41 bisrecords.lnk.to/2603

Joy, life and light ✨ 🎶 Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major. Join me on Thursday with @bournemouthso.bsky.social and conductor Enyi Okpara to hear this magnificent concerto alongside Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and Beethoven 7! bsolive.com/events/energ...

Ravel's Sonatina was written for a competition. The only entry, it was disqualified for being a few bars too long... Given what a masterpiece it is, this seems like an extraordinary oversight!! 😬 Catch it live @rwcmd.bsky.social, 26 Oct 🎹 🎶 www.rwcmd.ac.uk/events/stein...

🔉 OUT TODAY! A pre-release from my album of British piano concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and George Vass - Britten's 'Romance' from Diversions for left-hand piano and orchestra. Official release on the 10 Oct with BIS Records and Apple Music 🎉 bisrecords.lnk.to/2604S02

Less than a month until my recital at the National Gallery 🎉 Gorgeous music by Ravel, Chaminade, Bonis and Fauré. Here is a snippet from 'Mélisande' by Mél Bonis to whet your appetite! www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/music...

Had a wonderful time at Radio 3's In Tune speaking to Katie Derham about my new album of British concertos for BIS Records, the extraordinary music of Mél Bonis & my co-creation project in prisons with @mbetteridge.bsky.social! Listen back www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Another trip down memory lane - playing oboe in the Nottingham Youth Orchestra, c. 2001 🥰 Lifelong friends and some wonderful musical memories. Very glad to see that they are still going strong and providing opportunities for the next generation! #youthmusic #youthorchestras #nottingham

Really looking forward to joining @bournemouthso.bsky.social & conductor Enyi Okpara for Mozart's exquisite Piano Concerto No. 21 in Portsmouth on the 18 Sep - do join us if you can! 🎶 bsolive.com/events/energ...

Rachmaninov really knew how to make an entrance 🚀🔥 The opening to the third movement of his second piano concerto. Less than a month to go before I perform this with @philharmonialondon.bsky.social and Christopher Warren-Green @royalalberthall.bsky.social! 🎉

My first ever piano competition - clearly way past my bedtime!! (And, had I cut my own fringe...?) Thank you to the Long Eaton Rotary Club and Rotary International for these early opportunities 😊

Read Bronte Schiltz's take on our co-creation in prisons project with composer Michael Betteridge in the @bigissue.com! It has been inspiring to see how powerful and therapeutic music can be: www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...

Performing on two pianos in one recital for Martin Randall Travel last week at the Château d'Ételan - here is Ravel and Bonis on a modern Steinway and Montgeroult on a 1914 Gaveau!

Thank you to the Lichfield Festival for taking such good care of us this week. So much fun to perform our Lord Byron concert play for you with Tama Matheson!

Catch my interview with Jess Gillam on BBC Radio 3's 'This Classical Life' at 5pm today! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Carwithen's superb Sonatina, performed earlier this week at Domaine Forget in Québec. Hear it next at the Carwithen Festival in Haddenham, Sunday 13 July, 1.15pm 🎉 www.tickettailor.com/events/carwi...?

Dawn at the Domaine Forget Academy, Québec - it is worth having jet lag if I get to see this!

Somehow my concert clothes cupboard has become a storage place for children's pirate costumes. I love the juxtaposition!

Space-saving tip - dual-purpose piano / desk stool. Email while you practice! 🤓

Witty and wry - Tailleferre's superb Partita 🎹 Hear it live at Domaine Forget, Québec (6 Jul) & the Carwithen Festival in Buckinghamshire (13 Jul)! 🎉 🎹 clarehammond.com/concerts/

Gearing up for rehearsals with Tama Matheson for our Byron play at the Lichfield Festival, 16 Jul. Join us to explore the seductive and scandalous life of Lord Byron with some gorgeous music by Hélène de Montgeroult, Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and W. G. Still! lichfieldfestival.org/event/don-ju...

Hélène de Montgeroult's exquisite, ground-breaking etudes - you'd never guess she was only 8 years younger than Mozart 🤯 Looking forward to performing her music live & meeting my students at Domaine Forget in July. If there are any Québécois among you, please do join us! clarehammond.com/concerts/

Day 2/3 of school concerts playing to 1,280 children across 8 schools. So lovely to see their enthusiasm when they hear what a piano can really do! Massive thanks to @glos_music & The Gloucestershire Piano Trust for their support 😊 gloucestershirepianotrust.org.uk

Doreen Carwithen's vivacious and energising Sonatina - catch it live at Domaine Forget, Québec (6 Jul) & the Carwithen Festival in Buckinghamshire (13 Jul)! 🎉 🎹 clarehammond.com/concerts/

With Jess Gillam at BBC Radio 3 earlier this week recording for 'This Classical Life'. So lovely to discuss the music that inspires us and to discover some of Jess's favourites! The broadcast is scheduled for July, so not too long to wait 😊

A privilege to have spent the last 3 weeks working with the incomparable @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social & @mbetteridge.bsky.social alongside two extraordinarily creative groups. Emotional, uplifting & unforgettable. All taking place within fantastic #libraries - can't wait for week 4. #music

Such moving music 💖 'Desdémona' by Mel Bonis. Hear it live alongside some gorgeous music by Clara Schumann, Chaminade and Doreen Carwithen at the Ludlow Piano Festival, 2.30pm on Sat. Tickets are selling fast! ludlowpianofestival.com/programme25/