Seminar & Clavichord Concert - Bach's Attick - June 8 at Pinner Parish Church

Start: Monday, June 8, 2026 12:30PM
End: Monday, June 8, 2026 2:30PM

Petroc Trelawny is one of the best-known voices on BBC Radio Three - where after fourteen years presenting the daily Breakfast programme, he now hosts In Tune. He will be hosting the traditional start to this year's Pinner Music Festival, a panel of musicians who will be playing their part in the week's concerts. As an additional treat, after the seminar Julian Perkins will perform a concert on the clavichord entitled Bach's Attick, exploring works by the composer's predecessors and his own offspring. As a boy, it is said that Johann Sebastian Bach would creep into his elder brother’s study ‘on moonlit nights’ to copy a music book that he had been banned from seeing. The music that he copied includes composers featured in today’s programme, all of whom had a profound effect on him. Julian likes to imagine Bach playing this music on what was reputedly his favourite keyboard instrument – the clavichord.