About this Event
Join us for Morning Calm with Andrew Cowie, pianist from the Royal College of Music, who will be playing works by Jacques Duphly, Jean-Henri d’Anglebert, Reynaldo Hahn, Grieg, Schubert and more…
Dates: Daily Monday - Friday
Time: 8.40-8.55am
Location: St George's Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Morning Calm is a short piano recital beginning at 8.40am, consisting of around 10-12 minutes of music followed by a few minutes' silence for reflection and meditation before ending with brief prayers for the day ahead. You are most welcome to stay for the whole recital or if you would prefer not to stay for the Christian conclusion to leave just before the end. Morning Calm aims to offer a reflective and calm start to the day for people of any faith or none in the hustle and bustle of the West End of London.
As always admission is free.
Andrew Cowie has performed at some of the world’s most distinguished venues, including Buckingham Palace, Cremona Cathedral, and Salzburger Dom. After completing an undergraduate in trombone at the Royal Academy of Music, he is now a Royal College of Music postgraduate specializing in keyboard, historical performance, and conducting. Recent highlights range from the reopening of the King’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace, a double song recital debut at the Royal Albert Hall with duo partner Mariana Rodrigues, the London Handel Festival and London Bach Society Singer’s Prize on keyboard, and performances at the Japan Matsuri Festival and with Aurora Orchestra at Southbank Centre.
At home in most music performed in the last 600 years, Andrew performs on various instruments, including piano, historical keyboards, trombone and sackbut; he also conducts and composes. Equally at home in the studio and on stage, his recorded work spans film, jazz, folk, classical, medieval, and pop music. He has been a regular song accompanist alongside some of the world’s leading song experts including Richard Stokes, Florence Daguerre de Hureaux, and Emily Kilpatrick, and has enjoyed working with/performing for artists such as Rachel Podger, Patricia Kopatchniskaja, James Baillieu, Laurence Cummings, James Gilchrist, Dame Emma Kirkby, Yvonne Kenny, Nick Mulroy, and Liz Kenny. Recent albums as an instrumental accompanist with Girton College Cambridge Choir have placed top 10 in the UK/Worldwide Classical Charts. Future collaborations include Rambert School on keyboard and concertina, Leeds Song, and the Handel Hendrix House.
Andrew is a Parnassus Scholar, supported by the Charles Colt Scholarship, and a recipient of Help Musicians Ian Fleming Award. His song project “Chantefable” with Mariana Rodrigues blends improvised music, poetry and song into complete concert narratives. They are BREMF 2025/26 Emerging Artists and Leeds Song 2026 Young Artists.
His recent piano feature film score for Away with Words (Reshoot Productions) will be released in 2026.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St George's Hanover Square, St George Street, W1, St George's Hanover Square, London, United Kingdom
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