Katherine and Sam will play a wide-ranging programme of music for clarinet and piano. The performers are outstanding musicians, with established careers in the UK. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke Op.73 BRAHMS: Sonata in E Flat, Op 120 No.2 GERALDINE MUCHA: Tempo di Mazurka CHOPIN: Scherzo No.1 in B minor Op.20 MACMILLAN: From Galloway, for clarinet POULENC: Sonata for clarinet RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumblebee RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Stranger on the Shore Katherine Spencer, the newly appointed principal clarinet of the Handel and Haydn Society, is also the principal of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Consort and Players, The Irish Chamber Orchestra, and the City of London Sinfonia. She made her concerto debut at London's Royal Festival Hall aged 14. She has played as a soloist in all of the UK's major concert venues with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Sam Haywood has performed in many of the world's major concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Tonhalle in Zürich. Following his early success in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, the Royal Philharmonic Society awarded him their prestigious Isserlis award.