the balanas sisters
the balanas sisters
📅 Date: 19 February 2026
🕰️ Time: doors open 7pm
📍 Location: The Mildmay Club (N16 9PR)
59% funded
Kristine and Margarita Balanas bring duets for violin and cello by Maurice Ravel, Peteris Vasks, and more to iconic working people’s club The Mildmay Club.
timings
7pm: doors open
7.30pm: recommended latest arrival
8pm: The Balanas Sisters' set starts
9.30pm: estimated finish time
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the balanas sisters
Having grown up in the small Latvian town of Dobele, Kristine and Margarita Balanas moved to the UK in their teens. Since studying together at the Royal Academy of Music in London, they have performed together at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Berlin Philharmonie, and London’s Royal Albert Hall, Barbican, and Royal Festival Hall.
This performance, their first since signing a record deal with Decca Classics, is an intimate exploration of duet repertoire for violin and cello. Taking place in Newington Green’s iconic working people’s club The Mildmay Club, the programme centres around compositions by Maurice Ravel and fellow Latvian Peteris Vasks.
Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello features at the heart of the evening. Written in memoriam of Claude Debussy, it finds common aesthetic ground with Vasks’ Castillo Interior, a meditative and spiritual piece inspired by the writings of St Teresa of Ávila. It’s a journey of discovery that mirrors the sisters’ own path in music, a theme of personal reflection which links together all the music in the programme at this one-off London show.
the mildmay club
The Mildmay Radical Club opened in 1888 on Newington Green as part of the new wave of working men’s clubs, designed to extend clubs to working class men as an alternative to the pubs.
Founded with the aim of “social intercourse, rational recreation and the advancement of progress in political opinions”, the club's roots were in radical politics and social campaigns. The current building dates to 1900, and retains almost all of its original features.
tickets
Rewards: standing tickets to noisenight232 on Thursday 19 February 2026 at The Mildmay Club, London. First-come, first-served for the best views. Doors open at 7pm.
In order to qualify for a concession ticket, you must be in receipt of Universal or Pension Credit, in full-time education, a Blue Badge holder, or aged 25 and under. There are a strictly limited number of concession tickets available for each event. These are available on a first-come, first-served basis. This ticket is also available to members of The Mildmay Club.
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