Music & Concerts
solitude / dance / hygge
Experience live music and art exploring the space between isolation and warmth, stillness and movement, abstraction and tradition.
Join us for a unique evening of live string quartet film music by Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) and Scandinavian folk arranged by Danish String Quartet performed by London’s leading musicians:
Magnus Johnston · Jan Regulski · Warren Zielinski · Ashok Klouda.
The performance will be paired with extraordinary art by Olga Szynkarczuk who has been collaborating with dancers on unique art pieces capturing movement, as well as exploring the subject of motherhood of professional dancers.
Please note: silence and staying in one seat during performance is encouraged, this event is designed for an adult audience. We recommend it for ages 12+.
Drinks available for purchase before and after the musical part of the event.
Art by Olga Szynkarczuk is available for purchase.
Profits from the event will be donated to London Music Fund to support free music education in under-served communities.
MAGNUS JOHNSTON - VIOLIN
Magnus Johnston. A past member of both the Navarra String Quartet and the Aronowitz Ensemble, Magnus has been a recipient of two Borletti-Buitoni Trust Awards and a place on BBC Radio 3ʼs New Generation Artists Scheme. Aside from his dedication to chamber music, Magnus has been in demand as Guest Leader and Principal of orchestras such as the Philharmonia, Royal Opera House, Britten Sinfonia, Halle, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Scottish and Australian Chamber Orchestras.
As a chorister of the choir of Kingʼs College Cambridge, Magnus toured extensively at a young age, going on to study at Chethamʼs School of Music in Manchester and later the Royal Northern College of Music.
Magnusʼ passion for chamber music led to the birth of the Aronowitz Ensemble, a unique chamber group of string sextet & piano. The ensemble made their debut performance to a sold out St Johnʼs Smith Square, and enjoyed a busy touring schedule along with frequent live broadcasts & studio recordings for
BBC Radio 3.
As a member of the Navarra Quartet, Magnus made appearances at major venues and festivals throughout Europe and the World including the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Lincoln centre New York, Aix en Provence, Berlin Konzerthaus, Sydney Opera House and the BBC Proms.
Since 2023 Magnus has been Concertmaster of the Royal Opera House.
JAN REGULSKI - VIOLIN
Jan is a musician, composer and educator.
He is a former member of the Philharmonia Orchestra and a frequent guest with the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as a session musician at Abbey Road and Air Studios.
He has toured the world with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel and Andris Nelsons, performing in major concert venues including Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Philharmonie (Berlin), Musikverein (Vienna), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Lincoln Center (New York), Barbican, Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall in (London).
Jan has recorded numerous film, TV and game soundtracks for Alexandre Desplat, Alan Menken, Steven Price and James Newton Howard, among others. Many of these scores won prestigious awards, including Oscars (The Shape of Water) and BAFTAs (The King’s Speech).
His pop credits include string section recordings for Ed Sheeran, Barbra Streisand, Ellie Goulding, Dermot Kennedy, Neil Diamond, Rag’n’Bone Man and arrangers such as Walter Afanasieff and Bill Ross.
In the West End, Jan has been a guest musician for The Book of Mormon, Hamilton, Les Misérables, Aspects of Love and The Phantom of the Opera.
Jan has also been a visiting lecturer at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and the University of West London. He was a co-founder and Planning Director of the Polish National Youth Orchestra. He has given masterclasses and led workshops in Germany, Poland and the UK.
During his tenure with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Jan was a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Artistic Committee.
WARREN ZIELINSKI - VIOLA
Canadian born Musician Warren Zielinski is one of the UK’s most Celebrated and In-Demand Violinists. He studied with Gwen Thompson, a disciple of Josef Gingold, Ivan Galamian & Jascha Heifetz. By age 16, Warren was appointed the Leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
In 1999 Warren completed his BMus with Dr. Felix Andrievsky at the Royal College of Music. In addition to several Concerto prizes, Warren was also the Leader of 4 different RCM Orchestras.
Professional life soon followed with Performances & Recordings with Major London orchestras including the ECO, LSO & Britten Sinfonia. Warren serves as Guest Leader for the BBC Concert and Scottish Symphony Orchestras, the Guy Barker Festival Orchestra and the John Wilson BBC Proms Orchestra.
Recent Concerto dates include Performances of the Korngold & Rozsa Violin Concertos and also Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy.
Warren has had an illustrious Studio career, having participated in several thousand live music recordings and over 400 Feature Film Soundtracks.
Since 2009, Warren has been the Exclusive Violin Soloist for the BBCʼs ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Television programme.
ASHOK KLOUDA - CELLO
After his initial request to play the double bass was discouraged due to the size of the family car, Ashok settled on the cello aged 8 and has loved playing it ever since.
Half Indian, a quarter Czech and a quarter Irish by blood, Ashok was born in London. He moved to Malawi as a baby, where he lived happily, and warmly for 3 years, before being brought back to cold, rainy North London. Musical ancestors on his Indian side include his great-great-uncle - the Bengali composer, lyricist, singer, writer, lawyer, philanthropist and educationist Atul Prasad Sen (1871-1934), whose songs are known throughout India - and Ashok’s grandmother Ratna Killick - a talented pianist who met and performed with Lord Yehudi Menuhin on one of his visits to India.
Despite the genes, Ashok’s musical start was somewhat shaky – being asked to leave his school’s choir and attaining a mediocre pass in his Cello Grade 1. However, thanks to the endless dedication of his wonderful teachers (and a patient, practice-supervising mum), things quickly improved. He has gone on to perform around the world, as a member of the Artea Quartet, Barbirolli Quartet, Cellophony and Chineke! Chamber Ensemble. Ashok has taught cello at the Yehudi Menuhin School and given classes at the Royal Academy of Music.
As a cellist he has won various competitions and prizes, but the biggest ‘achievement’ by far that he continues to be a part of, is raising two children – Enzo & Anoushka – with his wife Natalie Klouda, whilst both of them continue to be performing musicians and jointly run the Highgate International Chamber Music Festival.
Ashok regularly records from the major London studios and from the Kloudas’ own SoundKlouda Studio. He has played principal cello on tracks which have been streamed billions of times, with artists such as Ed Sheeran, Stormzy and Rosalía. Most children in the Western world have likely heard his cello on the recent film ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’. Classically, Ashok has recorded for Decca, Nimbus Alliance, Lyrita, Edition Classics and Champs Hill Records.
An avid Formula One fan, Ashok would probably have been an engineer of some sort had he not ended up pursuing music. As his colleagues will attest to, he can often be found tinkering with his instrument’s setup – trying to optimise every aspect of it. He also loves table tennis, Star Trek and all things dark chocolate.
OLGA SZYNKARCZUK - ARTIST
Olga Szynkarczuk is a Polish-born artist based in London and currently pursuing an MA Fine Arts: Digital at Central Saint Martins, UAL. Her practice explores the intersections of motherhood, female embodiment, migration, and the emotional labour embedded within everyday life. Working across installation, drawing, sculpture, and moving image, she often uses discarded or domestic materials—such as reclaimed fridge doors, paper remnants, and low-energy light sources—to transform overlooked objects into carriers of memory, resilience, and layered identity.
Szynkarczuk’s work frequently investigates the quiet tensions between visibility and disappearance, particularly in relation to women artists who become mothers. Through luminous sculptural forms, rhythmic light, and the physicality of repurposed materials, she examines how personal narratives can become political, and how the intimate body can speak back to cultural structures that render it silent.
Her installations foreground sustainability, repair, and the aesthetics of care, drawing together environmental concern with feminist inquiry. In her Window Wonderland 2025 display, Szynkarczuk brings these themes into the public realm, using the window as a stage for reclaiming presence and voice—illuminating the strength, vulnerability, and creative force of mother-artists whose stories often remain unheard.
Olga's upcoming projects include a digital exhibition during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
