Amigos de Música

29 Years of Great Music From Helga Hampton                              Dear Amigos,                                                                                  June 14, 2020 Still in compliance with government guidelines, albeit with more and more relaxed restrictions, the last two of our planned concerts also had to be cancelled.  Our pianist Konstantin Lapshin was waiting and hoping […]

From Helga Hampton                              Dear Amigos,                                                                                  April 1, 2020 MORE CANCELLATION OF CONCERTS “This is a sad but dutiful Newsletter on Friday the 13th of March 2020.” That was the start of my March Newsletter in which I had to inform you about the cancellation of the […]

29 Years of Great Music From Helga Hampton                              NEWSLETTER March 13, 2020 Dear Amigos, CANCELLATION OF CONCERTS This is a sad but dutiful Newsletter on Friday the 13th of March 2020. Present circumstances in our lives made it impossible to stick to our plans.  We saw no other way than to cancel the March concerts […]

To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton                              NEWSLETTER                                                       January 19th, 2020 Dear Amigas and Amigos, Best wishes for a good 2020, with a lot of music and in the best of health! Let us spend 2020 in the only way possible: by celebrating the Beethoven Jubilee Year together with the entire music world with a […]

From Helga Hampton                              NEWSLETTER Dear Amigos,                                                               November 17, 2019 How happy I am to sit down and reminisce with you about our latest two music events at Os Agostos! Our November recitals were true spectacles, and lucky the many Amigos who came to experience  Milan Miladinovich whom I had announced to you as a pianist […]

August; 2019 Dear Amigos, Summer greetings wherever you are spending your Summer Break, hopefully with as much music as possible.  I am certainly spoiled for choice here in London and inspired to continue filling that cultural void in the Algarve again soon in our 2019/20 season. We begin on September 10th at Os Agostos and, […]

Dear Amigas and Amigos, In the afterglow of the last two concerts of the 2018/19 Amigo season let me take the occasion to thank you for your support and your friendship. The recitals with Alissa Firsova and Daniel Rowland were certainly the best Grand Finale we could have hoped for. And I just wish that all Amigos […]

To all Amigas/os From Helga Hampton                               NEWSLETTER                         April, 23,  2019 Dear Amigas and Amigos, It was good to spend the Easter week with so many of you at Os Agostos. We enjoyed, and were bowled over, by the music of the amazing Katya Apekisheva.  This young pianist has a power, imagination and concentration […]