Harp Festival: Hugh Webb Lunchtime Jazz Recital
- 1.15pm
You are viewing:
Event information
About this event:
- Category:
- Classical Music | Harp Festival | Jazz
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Location:
- Silk Street Lecture Recital Room
Event information
A fantastic opportunity to hear one of the UK’s most distinguished and versatile harpists in a programme of jazz standards, announced from the stage.
Part of the 2025 Guildhall School Harp Festival, two days of exciting events celebrating the instrument.
View the Harp Festival programme
The 2025 Guildhall Harp Festival is generously sponsored by Salvi Harps London
Free, no tickets required
About Hugh Webb
Hugh Webb was Principal Harp in the Philharmonia Orchestra from 2001 to 2012. He has worked extensively in contemporary music and has had pieces written for him with support from Arts Council England by Javier Álvarez, Robert Keely, Paul Archbold and Ian Dearden. Recent CD releases include Bax’s Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Harp and String Quartet with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, a disc of solo and chamber music by Nino Rota, a CD of French Renaissance songs with the medieval group Joglaresa, the complete Sonatas for Violin and Harp by Spohr and Bax’s Fantasy Sonata. Hugh also performs regularly as a jazz harpist and has given recitals at the European Harp Symposium and the World Harp Congress.
Hugh can be heard on countless television, film and popular music soundtracks, and has composed music for a show for children based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. He has given numerous masterclasses throughout the country and has lectured at the Royal Academy of Music, the Paris Conservatoire and the Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam. Hugh now freelances with all the major London orchestras and frequently appears as Principal Harp in the John Wilson Orchestra.
Venue information
Silk Street Theatre, Music Hall and Lecture Recital Room are located in the main Guildhall School building on Silk Street and for Barbican produced events the venue can also be accessed from the Barbican if you exit via the doors next to Barbican Kitchen on Level G.
-
Silk Street
Barbican
EC2Y 8DT
