Guest feature for Harry Baker & Tom Syson @ PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)
Harry Baker and Tom Syson (aka SYSON) bring their unique blend of original music and arrangements to PizzaExpress Live Soho for the launch of their brand new E.P. This a unique cross-genre project, with influences from jazz, classical and singer songwriter traditions.
Whilst this is predominately a duo musical exploration project, it is expanded into a quartet for this tour featuring the renowned Conor Chaplin (double bass) and Dave Hamblett (drums). They will perform arrangements from the likes of Cyrille Aimee, Laura Mvula and John Scofield, alongside jazz standards and classical masterpieces, as well as numerous original scores.
Follia 4 @ Kościół Ewangelicko-Reformowany
Klub2020 presents: Best of Luck 4 “And all in you is youth, and you make new, By quoting them, old things I made for you.” This edition will take place in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Warsaw, a locus of reverence that will be turned into a concert venue. We have invited very special guests: @lubomirgrzelak with live drums @follia4recorder live flute compositions @zuzannabartoszek will have a secret guest read her short stories @b_steeel live 7-10PM Church rules: no alcohol, no outside food, no trash. The public toilets are a 2 minute walk away in the Ratusz Arsenał subway station Afterparty at @klubplanB The afterparty will happen at Warsaw's favorite bar @klubplanB with a selection of local and overseas DJs: @jasia1234567 @ottohashmi @madddmami @ru.tka b2b @generator42 free entry, no church rules. come and party <3
Follia 4 @ Cecil Sharp House
Join London cult heroes Goblin Band for a folky Halloween celebration, with support from Follia 4.
Goblin Band are a four-piece English traditional folk band based in London. The band formed in the wake of the pandemic from small sessions organised by young, queer, folk obsessive friends looking to forge their own way into traditional music. This gave rise to a band of multi-instrumentalists firmly rooted in the music of England, concerned with representing a perspective that confronts the nation’s social and political history of class struggle, industrialisation and colonialism. Through a fusion of harmony singing, fiddle, squeezeboxes, hurdy gurdy and more, Goblin Band deliver a charismatic and unruly alternative expression of English traditional music both riotously joyful and deeply sincere.
Follia 4 are a recorder quartet from London. Inspired by their instrument's lack of representation, they explore popular music of the renaissance and our current day, broadening this underappreciated instrument's potential across unconventional contexts.
Ben Nobuto / Zara Hudson-Kozdoj / Otto Hashmi //ELECTRONICA // Up Close and Musical
Up Close and Musical’s inaugural New Music Nightspotlights three composer/performers at the forefront of the contemporary classical scene. The night will feature new and recently released works in three individual sets.
Artists
Ben Nobuto, piano/electronics (“sonically dazzling” - RPS Awards)
Zara Hudson-Kozdoj, cello/electronics
Otto Hashmi, recorder/electronics
Otto Hashmi with Felicity J Lord @ barbican (supporting Smerz)
Norwegian art pop duo Smerz return to London presenting their Big City Life album as part of Italy’s C2C Festival’s 25th anniversary.
Smerz is the duo of Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg, based in Oslo and Copenhagen. They recently released Big City Life, a fabulous and melancholy record that earned widespread critical acclaim. Using collages to capture moments of everyday life and dreams, Smerz tell stories lived and imagined—of apathy, loneliness and internal monologue, love and friendship.
Smerz operates at the intersection of genres, drawing inspiration from compositional techniques in classical music, the experimentation of computer music and the immediacy of pop music, in the palettes of girly existentialism.
Support comes from Felicity J Lord.
serpentine.iii @ Utrecht Oude Muziek Fringe
This concert is part of the free fringe programme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2026.
Serpentine.iii is an ensemble performing early and contemporary music on historical instruments. Active as a trio since 2022, it expanded into a five-piece ensemble in 2025 within a collective connecting music and visual art. Its members, graduates of leading London conservatoires, explore the dialogue between past and present. Blending classical, folk and contemporary influences, Serpentine.iii aims to introduce early music to new audiences while developing new repertoire for period instruments.
A Returning Cloud
A Returning Cloud is a fundraiser event, involving an art exhibition, art fair and live performances in solidarity with Palestine, to raise funds for The Sameer Project (@thesameerproject).
This event is centred on the idea of Home, inspired by Mahmoud Darwish’s poem I Belong There.
We are very excited to be in The Bath House which is an amazing not-for-profit community space, located near Hackney Wick (https://thebathhouse.co)
Doors will open at 3pm and close around 11pm! You can join us with your ticket at any point during this time. There will be also be Palestinian food and drink available to try.
We recommend arriving in the afternoon to see the creativity on display at the art exhibition and fair, where zines, prints, clothes etc. will be on sale. You can also enjoy the summer weather in the garden on-site.
Into the evening there will be live performances to enjoy, and the bar will remain open for snacks and refreshments.
Live Premiere of 'eight ricercate after giovanni bassano'
Otto Hashmi premieres his collaborative album project 'eight ricercate after giovanni bassano' at the St Pancras Church Crypt Gallery.
Alongside collaborators including Jocelyn Campbell (phonewifey), Leo Chadburn, Thomas Shorthouse, Larli Davies, Ozgur Kaya; Bassano's 16th-century eight ricercate are reimagined and recontextualised, reflecting on what it really means to perform historical material in our modern times, and how much of that original essence translates to our contemporary consumption and experience of melody.
This performance is a radical reclamation of historical repertoire with usage of electronics, short moments of strobe lighting, and disregard for standard historical performance convention. Physical copies of the album will be available for purchase at the event, supported by serpentine.iii label.
Londinium Consort @ Skipton Music
Londinium Consort will present an exploration of the pressing questions of our modern era, with new works and arrangements paired alongside thematically linked pieces by composers John Dowland and Claudio Monteverdi.
Londinium Consort is an emerging ensemble based in London comprising current and former students of the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Exploring the intersection of old and new, the ensemble takes its name from the ancient name of the City of London, highlighting the city’s living history and richly varied cultural landscape.
In 2024, Londinium Consort won the New Elizabethan Award organized by the Musician’s Company and they made their debut at the Wigmore Hall in February 2025 in the New Elizabethan Award Prize winner’s concert.
They are grateful to the Continuo Foundation for generously funding their first album, Crossing Paths, which was released in 2025.
We are delighted to announce that the ensemble will also be the guest artists for our Annual Schools Concert from 2-3pm.
Londinium Consort ‘Crossing Paths’ @ Leeds International Chamber Series
Elizabethan songs, folk ballads and new compositions meet in this layered programme on exile and migration. Music by John Dowland and William Brade tells of musicians who travelled across Europe in search of work and expression. These are paired with new works by young composers that respond to history with stories of immigration, longing, and personal rebirth.
These New Puritans: Autumn 2025 EU/UK tour (session performer)
https://www.thesenewpuritans.com/live/
Londinium Consort @ BREMF Clubnight
Join the BREMF Emerging Artists ensembles for a relaxed evening of early music over a pint.
Featuring short sets from Chantefable, Londinium Consort, The Lyons Mouth and The Royal Sackbut Collective.
Standing event (very limited seating)
Londinium Consort @ BREMF Emerging Artists Showcase
Your opportunity to hear the newest cohort of ensembles selected for the 2025 BREMF Emerging Artists scheme. Each ensemble presents a 20-minute performance, showcasing a programme which explores connections between music and nature.
Previous participants have gone on to be selected as BBC New Generation Baroque Ensembles and enjoyed national and international success – this is your chance to hear the stars of tomorrow!
Interval with tea and delicious home-made cakes
Chantefable
Londinium Consort
The Lyons Mouth
The Royal Sackbut Collective
Londinium Consort ‘Crossing Paths’ @ City Music Society (free entry)
‘Crossing Paths’, the debut album by Londinium Consort supported by a grant from Continuo Foundation, blends repertoire from Elizabethan London with contemporary compositions, creating moments of liminality where the two worlds meet, are reimagined, and become something altogether new. Each work in today’s programme explores a theme of journeys: how do these transitions help us embark on quests for meaning? From stories of relationships, exile, and immigration, to the sounds of commuting in the city, historical lines are blurred as these ideas appear in both their modern and historical contexts.
Secret Concert - DEBUT at Queen's House
Join DEBUT for an unforgettable evening - not one, but two concerts at the magnificent Queen’s House in Greenwich – a hidden gem of classical architecture, nestled between the River Thames and the Royal Observatory.
small room session #4: Follia 4, The Aris Solomon Ensemble, and J Roller
Join us on August 7th for small room session #4!
We are delighted to be hosting a packed small room session with recorder ensemble Follia 4, sonic landscape exploration group The Aris Solomon Ensemble, and sound artist J Roller.
Follia 4 is a new recorder ensemble who made their recent performance debut at the SRP Early Music Shop Recorder Festival 2025. Formed by members of London’s tightly knit recorder scene, with specialities ranging from historical performance to pop music, they look to be a fresh voice in the UK’s woefully sparse landscape of recorder-focused music.
Secret Concert - DEBUT at Brunel Museum
One of London’s best kept secrets, DEBUT at Brunel Museum offers magnetic performances, time to chat to your favourite musicians and the chance to discover Brunel Museum’s historic Grade II* listed Thames Tunnel Shaft.
Launched in 2017, DEBUT have hosted over 100 sold out shows, showcasing 200+ top level musicians through our intimate and fun Secret Concerts.
Crowned as Airbnb’s No.1 Music Experience and with 400 ★★★★★ reviews, it's an experience unlike any other.
The Gleeman Guild presents: Goblin Band
https://www.leicestermuseums.org/event-details/?id=1c10c613-deb1-495d-bd4c-2392245a2769
Londinium Consort at Wigmore Hall, New Elizabethan Award 2025
This biennial award celebrates the rare artistic achievement in solo and ensemble repertoire of composers for the lute and guitar during the two golden ages of Elizabethan music. Today’s recital showcases the outstanding performers selected to receive the award in a captivating programme of music, which focuses on the creative powers of both composer and interpreter in exploring the forms and spaces where the old and new intersect.
Otto Hashmi presents ‘into the night...’
An evening of music exploring the theme of the night and all its interpretations. Otto Hashmi performs solo recorders from sopranino to contrabass and eCorder, as well as performances alongside Londinium Consort and Rothko Collective.
Featuring Anna Meredith's 'Origami Songs', alongside music by Colin Stetson, These New Puritans, and more. Further info TBC.
FREE ENTRY - no advanced booking required
Programme:
Black Intention I – Maki Ishii (1936-2003)
Red Horses – Colin Stetson (b.1975) arr. Otto Hashmi (b.1996)
Air – Brian Inglis (b.1969)
Flow My Tears – John Dowland (1563-1626)
Here the deities approve – Henry Purcell (c.1659-1695)
If I Were You – These New Puritans / comp. Jack Barnett (b.1989) arr. Otto Hashmi
Origami Songs – Anna Meredith (b.1978)
Charavgi – Calliope Tsoupaki (b.1963)
OTTO HASHMI:
www.ottohashmi.com
LONDINIUM CONSORT:
https://www.continuoconnect.com/artists/londinium-consort
ROTHKO COLLECTIVE:
https://www.rothkocollective.co.uk/
Singing with Nightingales
Singing with Nightingales is a one-of-a-kind experience where guest musicians join Sam Lee each spring to improvise with the virtuosic and critically endangered Nightingale.
Rothko Festival presents: Festival Unboring
Otto Hashmi will be performing a set of music for solo recorder with electronics, in addition to earlier performance with the Rothko Collective. Music both old and new, unboring-ed.
rage 'n' boredom – FREIER EINTRITT (West Germany, Kreuzberg, Berlin)
Blockflöten Performance „Rattenfänger von Hameln“ Otto Hashmi
Otto Hashmi spielt eine freie Blockflötenkomposition inspiriert vom Motiv des
Rattenfänger von Hameln. Der Beginn ist klassisch ruhig und endet in der Wut der
Gegenwart. Otto ist Blockflötenspieler und Komponist aus London, UK.
rage ’n’ boredom
Mittwoch, 25.10.2023
19 – 24 Uhr
West Germany, freier Eintritt
Irina Novarese / Jonathan Scotti / Karø Goldt / Matthias Mayer / M van Hundt / Otto
Hashmi / Saeed Foroghi / Kuratiert von Karø Goldt
Live Acts:
Reading „Gegensatzpläne, ein Kommentar„ M van Hundt 20 Uhr
Blockflöten Performance „Rattenfänger von Hameln“ Otto Hashmi 20:30 Uhr
Soundperformance "Vom Abbau der Welt zu Ganz Berlin", Matthias Mayer aka DJ
Sporty Jack, 21 Uhr
Videos von Karø Goldt
narzissus (floral) DE/A T/NZ 2007, Colour, Sound: pumice,3 min.
FEMICIDE (english version) DE/USA 2020, Colour, Music: Timothy Shearer, 6 min.
Ready to Ride the Tiger DE/USA 2021, Colour, Music: Timothy Shearer, 1 ½ min.
Comments on FEMICIDE DE 2021, Colour, field recordings Goldt, 5 1/2 Min.
ever now DE / USA 2004 / 2023, Colour, Sound: Jimmy Peggie, 10 min
the shortest day DE/A T 2017, Colour, Music: oval, 3 min.
solstice DE 2007/2021,Colour, Music: J. Grözinger, 5 min.
Choose Your Battles DE / USA 2022, Colour, Music: Timothy Shearer 4 1/2 min.
vanitas DE / USA 2023, Colour, Music: Jimmy Peggie, 6 min.
Irina Novarese: https://irinanovarese.de/do-the-words/
Jonathan Scotti: https://www.instagram.com/jonathanrasmusscotti/
Karø Goldt: http://www.karoegoldt.de/news
Matthias Mayer: https://matthiasmayer.org
M van Hundt: https://www.myself-in-a-sleeping-world-downtown.de/
Otto Hashmi: www.ottohashmi.com
Saeed Foroghi: http://saeed-foroghi.com/
Guildhall Recorder Festival
The Guildhall School welcomes all recorder players for a day exploring various aspects of the instrument with performances from Palisander, Finn Collinson, Otto Hashmi and Apollo’s Cabinet. Browse instruments for sale by Tim Cranmore, Jack Darach and music and accessories from the Early Music Shop.
Otto Hashmi – Music for the End Times – EP release show
Otto Hashmi will be performing his latest EP ‘Music for the End Times’ in full at NHAC. Fusing a backbone of dance music, inspired by club-culture in post-lockdown London, with recorder and elements inspired by early music. Expect hard hitting beats and lush recorder harmonies.
Otto Hashmi's 'Music for the End Times' @ Brighton Festival
Otto Hashmi will be supporting Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet, Sun Ra Arkestra) at Brighton Festival. The multi-instrumentalist specialised in instruments from the Recorder family, combining their tones with electronic sounds. He is previewing his forthcoming EP ‘Music for the End Times’ in a set reimagined for All Saints Church, Hove.
XX Y X: RAUM FÜR NOTIZEN @ Echoraum WIEN, AT
Raum für Notizen ist eine Zusammenarbeit von Karø Goldt (Berlin) und Otto Hashmi (London).
Im Sommer 2022 wurde das Projekt für einen ehemaligen Grenzwachturm der DDR in Berlin-Treptow konzipiert, in dem Goldt die TheWatch Residency hatte.
Londinium Consort at Hundred Years Gallery
The focus of the consort is to connect early and contemporary music. It is comprised of recent graduates and current students from London’s world-renowned conservatoires, including The Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama: Anne Sutton (Soprano), Ben Finlay (Treble Viol), Emanuele Addis (Lute), Otto Hashmi (Recorder), Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez (Bass Viol).