Captivating audiences across Europe and the US, concert pianist Alexandra Silocea is dedicated to expanding classical music's reach through diverse cultural collaborations. She bridges music and art with galleries, museums, and institutions like the Heidi Horten Collection Vienna, Wien Museum, Belvedere, Mozart Haus, and the Gustav Mahler Society, highlighting and blending different arts to make them more accessible.  

She plays with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Bamberg Symphony. 

A Bösendorfer Artist for over 20 years, Alexandra's upcoming highlights include a new CD featuring works by Norwegian composer Martin Romberg and a Piano Concerto composed for her by Chilean composer Luis Saglie, to be performed in Chile in 2025.  Her innovative project "Klimt meets Bösendorfer - The Tree of Life" blends solo piano, Klimt’s favourite songs, poetry, and a unique Bösendorfer grand piano. This concept premiered at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and has been showcased at the London Craft Week and the Heidi Horten Collection in Vienna.

This concert marks her debut at the National Gallery London.

Having graduated from The Guildhall School of Music, Robin appeared on the concert platform, in film, on television and in the London theatre playing principal roles in 'Blood Brothers', 'Boys in the Band', 'The Winslow Boy', 'Twelfth Night', 'A Patriot for Me', 'Bent', 'King Lear', 'Hamlet' and 'The Canterbury Tales'.  He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and sang with The New D’Oyly Carte Opera at Sadler’s Wells. Robin subsequently qualified (London University) as a mental heath doctor and has worked within HM Prison Service and for the Basil Street Practice, a leading General Practice in London. Robin co-founded the mental support app Stress & Anxiety Companion and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

During the Second World War, many of London's music halls, theatres, galleries and museums closed.

With the Gallery empty of its paintings, the celebrated pianist Myra Hess had the revolutionary idea of using it as a venue for concerts to help raise morale and make classical music available to all. 

From October 1939, Hess and her friends from the world of classical music performed concerts Monday to Friday, every week of the year, and even during the Blitz. They were a huge success with queues forming in Trafalgar Square.

We now hold an annual concert in commemoration of Hess.