Barry Douglas has established a major international career since winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, Moscow. In 1999, he formed Camerata Ireland, an all-Irish chamber orchestra, with players from both Northern and Southern Ireland to celebrate "the wealth of Irish musical talent" where he remains Artistic Director.
Saturday 5th April 2014  7.30pm

Formed in the mid sixties by a group of young musicians whose passion was jazz music typified by the classic period of the twenties, this style and passion carries on - despite the years and a few changes of personnel. Led by John Goddard, trombone.
Sunday 27 May 12.15pm

Once again, at the end of the season, Bob Gough - pictured here in a bar on Bourbon Street, New Orleans - has gathered together a group of his friends from various bands.
Sunday 24 June 12.15pm

Presented by Quazar Productions.
In Quazar's 'Cafe Society', songs are performed songs from the great songwriters - Gershwin, Kern, Coward, Lehar and Sondheim, to name but a few, setting them in cafes and bars across Europe and the USA.
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 June 8.00 pm

Presented by Runnymede Drama Group. A play by Paul Doust - adapted from the novel by Stella Gibbons. Directed by Faith Powell. This adaptation of the well-loved Stella Gibbons' classic rural novel, set in the 1930s, is written with its tongue firmly in its cheek.
Wednesday 18 to Saturday 21 July 8.00 pm

Once a month Riverhouse hosts a line-up of three comics from 'Off the Kerb', the leading agency responsible for organizing some of the best clubs throughout the country.
Starts at 8:00pm

Presented by Julie Brown, a specialist in film music at Royal Holloway, University of London. She ran the research network 'The Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain' with Annette Davison; a book entitled The Sounds of the Silents in Britain is soon to appear.
Thursday 28 June 7.30 pm

Francois-Frederic Guy has a reputation for interpretations of great authority, intensity and insight. He is especially renowned for his performances of large-scale works in the Austro-German tradition – BBC Radio 3’s CD Review selected his Naive recording of Beethoven’s epic Hammerklavier Sonata as the finest in the catalogue.
Saturday January 2014  7.30pm

by Charles Dickens adapted by Adrian Preater. Hotbuckle Productions explode onto the stage with this new, innovative adaptation of one of Dickens' greatest novels.
Saturday 19 May 8pm

One of Britain’s leading pianists over several decades, Hamish Milne has appeared as soloist with most of the leading British orchestras and has given over two hundred broadcasts for the BBC.
Saturday 5th January 2013

1920 - directed by Cecil Hepworth.
A Special Screening of the recently rediscovered Hepworth Film classic, Helen of Four Gates, accompanied by a live, specially commissioned score from the Elysian Quartet, supported by an exhibition in the Robert Phillips Gallery.
Friday 25 May 7.00 pm for 8.00 pm

To include a Champagne Reception and private view of the Hepworth Exhibition in the Robert Philips Gallery, vintage bus ride to the Everyman Cinema in Walton, a talk by Hepworth authority Simon Brown and screening of 'Helen of Four Gates' accompanied by live, devised score from Elysian Quartet.

Petra Cox, Learning Officer at the Elmbridge Museum, will take two workshops focussed on our Hepworth Exhibition in the gallery.
Saturday 2nd June - 2pm and 4pm

Gold Medallist at the Royal Academy of Music and a Fulbright Scholar, prizewinner in many competitions, Jonathan won Gold Medal at the Royal Overseas League Competition as well as first prize at the European Piano Competition.
Saturday 6th April 2013 7.30pm

Presented by Oddsocks Productions.
This production will take place outside in the Riverhouse Gardens. Imagine the year is 44BC, the heat is rising, the contestants are sweating, the excitement is brewing and the competition is fierce. Oddsocks are back with their hilarious rendition of the political thriller Julius Caesar set to the background of ancient sporting competition.
Sunday 1 July 5pm

Acclaimed pianist Catherine Leonard returns to Riverhouse with a virtuosic programme that will include works by Liszt.
Wednesday 20 June 1.00 pm

BEETHOVEN Sonata in C minor Op 30 No 2
BRAHMS Sonata in A Op 100
Wednesday 13 June - 12.15 pm lunch, 1.10 pm concert

Sing along to your favourite nursery rhymes; Ten Green Bottles, Hickory Dickory Dock, The Grand Old Duke of York and many, many more.
Saturday 19 May - 11am and 2pm

Nikolai’s passionate pianism means that he is in demand worldwide. Frequent London recitals have included the Great Performers series at the Barbican, the International Piano Series at Southbank Centre and recently the London Pianoforte Series at the Wigmore Hall Nikolai’s passionate pianism means that he is in demand worldwide. Frequent London recitals have included the Great Performers series at the Barbican, the International Piano Series at Southbank Centre and recently the London Pianoforte Series at the Wigmore Hal.
Saturday 5th October 2013  7.30pm

Airlie Scott's Pronto Jazz is a vocal-led jazz band based in London with its heart in 1930s-50s swing and half an ear to Italy!
Sunday 17 June 11.30am

By Tom Stoppard, directed by Stephen Willis. Presented by Enigma Theatre
'Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?' Set 'in the wings' of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead focuses on the escapades and fate of two nobodies with a penchant for coin-flipping.
Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 June 7.30 pm

With a singular artistic vision that transcends musical fashions and trends, Stephen Hough is widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctive pianists of his generation.
Friday 5th October 2012 7.30pm

By Alan Bennett. Presented by Lighted Fools Theatre Company.
In its 10th Anniversary Year, Lighted Fools Theatre Company returns to Riverhouse with three of Alan Bennett's highly-acclaimed 'Talking Heads'. Touching, real and very funny, they reflect Bennett's marvellously observant view of the British way of life.
Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 July 8.00 pm

The Ian Engelmann Singers, under their Musical Director John Tudhope, return to Riverhouse to give a delightful Summer Concert of unaccompanied part-songs and music.
Saturday 16 June 8pm

A midmorning treat for all ages... live music, bacon butties and a chance to read the papers! A stunning synthesis of virtuosity and energy, The Outside Track's marriage of Canadian, Scottish and Irish music and song has been rapturously received around the world.
Sunday 20 May 11.30am

By Robert Browning, adapted by Jo Humphries. Presented by Monkey Theatre Chimps and Orangutans.
Monkey Theatre brings you this classic tale of the Pied Piper who rids the town of the terrible rats by playing on his pipe... and then asks for his payment.
Thursday 12 and Friday 13 July 6.00 pm
Saturday 14 July 4.30 pm

By Geoff Bamber. Presented by Monkey Theatre Gorillas.
980 A.D. - young Freydis wants to be famous and have her story written about in a Norse Saga. To do this she must perform a brave act of daring... and she decides to take on Thorbrand the Destroyer...!