“Your concert was amazing...one of the best performances that we have recently hosted at Pushkin House. ”
“The close rapport between the players can be heard at every twist and
turn.”
Nicola performs regularly as part of a duo with pianist Jonathan Pease, who she has known since both were active in the music scene at Cambridge University. The pair are now an established duo, and together they have performed at St. James Piccadilly, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. Mary’s Perivale, Peterborough Cathedral, St. George’s Hanover Square and Waltham Abbey amongst many others.
In January 2020 they released their first album, Light & Shade, of which MusicWeb International wrote: ‘It’s hard to imagine a more sensitive and sincere performance of [Dranishnikova’s] Poem than it receives here’. Their second album ‘Phoenix’, a disc of English oboe and cor anglais music, was released in January 2021. Nicola and Jonathan are proud to have the support of Making Music and the Concordia Foundation.
“This new CD of music performed by Nicola Hands and Jonathan Pease is to be welcomed: for its imaginative, wide-ranging and often surprising programme as well as the immaculate playing of both artists.”
Nicola and Jonathan are available for bookings for 2021, please get in touch here to find out more. Listen to live recordings of the duo below:
“...the players’ almost telepathic
communication...”
Sample programmes
Valentine’s Day Programme
Solo - Emile Paladilhe
Romance No.1 in Db Major - Clara Schumann
Intermezzo in Eb - Johannes Brahms
Watermill - Ronald Binge
Westbourne Nocturne - Jonathan Pease
Poem - Marina Dranishnikova
Salut d’Amour - Edward Elgar
French and English Music
Interlude -Gerald Finzi arr. Ferguson
Berceuse No. 2 - Lennox Berkeley
Sonatine for Oboe and Piano - Pierre Sancan
Improvisation in C Minor - Francis Poulenc
Sonata in C for Oboe and Piano - Edmund Rubbra