Ewan Millar, oboe
and Tomos Boyles, piano
Tuesday 24 November 2026, 7.30pm
Raised in Reading, local musician and BBC Young Musician finalist Ewan Millar is now one of the most sought-after oboists of his generation. In partnership with rising Welsh pianist Tomos Boyles, their eclectic recital programme features a rich vein of French music by Lili Boulanger and Debussy. It also includes a transcription of Brahms’s second violin sonata, one of the composer’s most lyrical and intimate works.
Programme
JS Bach - Cello suite in Dm, prelude
Clara Schumann - Three Romances
Samuel Barber - Canzonetta
Lili Boulanger - Introduction and Cortège
d’un Jardin Clair - solo piano
Nocturne
Elle etait descendue au bas dans le prairie
D’un matin de Printemps
Claude Debussy - Beau Soir arr. Heifetz
Benjamin Britten - Pan from Six Metamorphoses After Ovid
Anne Cawrse - Callisto from Carmen Perpetuum - solo oboe
Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo Op.119/1 - solo piano
Violin Sonata in A Major
Peter Facer - Manhattanhenge
Tickets £25, MMS members £20, Under 18s £5 free with an adult
These prices include a £1 Building Restoration Fund Levy applied by Norden Farm
Tomos Boyles piano Ewan Millar oboe
“[an] exemplary, richly shaded account” The Guardian
“Rarely appearing to take a breath, he swept though all moods with rather hushed aplomb” The Times, 2021