Pinner Music Festival's lunchtime recital is performed by virtuoso pianist Maki Sekiya, who gave her brilliant Wigmore Hall debut earlier this year.  She has for some years been Musician-in-Residence at Green-Templeton College, Oxford. Born in Tokyo, she studied at The Purcell School and Moscow Conservatoire, has won many prizes, and gained honours (full marks) in her Performance Diploma at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Beethoven’s popular Waldstein Sonata is finely crafted but also a technically exacting work from his…

For Pinner Music Festival, the Victoria String Quartet brings a wealth of chamber music experience, as a quartet of friends and colleagues of long standing who share a passion for chamber music-making at the highest level. They open with a charming Haydn string quartet – from a set he described as “new and special”, brimming with typical humour – and end with a sunny work by Mendelssohn, energetic and joyful, with a gorgeous slow movement. Between, they will play six…

Now something completely different for the Pinner Music Festival: JS Bach played on Moog synthesizers. These four baroque specialists comprise – with technology – Art of Moog, in a varied, inventive and respectful recital, giving the great composer’s music a fresh perspective. In the ‘day job’ Art of Moog’s musicians can be found playing with the best period instrument and modern orchestras. Here they swap harpsichord, organ, recorder and flute for cutting edge synthesizers, samplers & vocoder, to cast new…