Published: 3 June 2010

FRIDAY JUNE  4
Alberto Popolla/Noel Taylor Group, Ray’s Jazz, Foyles Café, 020 7437 5660, 113 Charing Cross Road, WC2, 6pm, free
Original compositions: Yazz Ahmed, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free 

SATURDAY JUNE  5
Chamber music: Wihan Quartet of Czech musicians play Czech music – Martinu, Dvorak, Smetana, Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street,  W1, 020 7935 2141, 7.30pm, from £12
First night: revival of Francesca Zambello’s production of Carmen, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 020 7304 4000 7pm, from £8, till June 26

SUNDAY JUNE  6
Classic jazz guitarist: Dave Cliff joins Pete Chapman Trio, Princess of Wales, 22 Chalcott Road, Primrose Hill, 020 7722 0345, 2pm, free
Fundraiser: Hampstead cellist Corrine Morris and pianist Yoshiko Endo play varied programme, Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, 02089 983 659, 3pm, free/donations Raphael Summer Music Scholoship
Grimsdyke Brass Band, Parliament Hill Bandstand, 3pm, free
Steel All Stars, Golders Hill Park Bandstand, 3pm, free
Family friendly: Trilogy Ensemble of four clarinettists, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, N6, 020 8348 8716, 11.30am, £7/con£5/school children £1
Song recital: Royal Opera House singers Elisabeth Meister soprano & Robert Gardiner tenor, Ivy House, 94 North End Road, NW11, 020 8457 5000, 3.30pm, £15
Mozart romantic pieces: Insieme vocal ensemble, St George’s, Bloomsbury Way, WC1, 020 7242 1979, 4pm, free
Piano recital: David Silkoff plays Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Mussorgsky, The Forge Arts Venue, Delancey Street, Camden Town, 020 8501 3115, 6.30pm, £12/con £10
Rick Simpson Quartet/ Sarah Tandy Trio, North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Road, NW6, 07941 962356, 7pm, £

MONDAY JUNE  7
Recital: mesmerising young Swiss violinist Deborah Marchetti and pianist Stefan Wirth play Ravel, Szymanowski and Schumann, Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street,  W1, 020 7935 2141, 7.30pm, from £10
Pianist Graham Harvey and drummer Matt Home join Steele bros/sitters-in second set, Positively 4th Street, 020 7388 5380, 119 Hampstead Road, NW1, 8pm, £2
Dave Smith Austrian Trio plus Fini Bearman Berlin Quartet, The Con Bar, 42 St Pancras Way, NW1, 07830 255 958, 8.30pm, £5

TUESDAY JUNE  8
Double bill: Updog & Verses, The Oxford, 256 Kentish Town Road, NW5, 020 7485 3521, 8.30pm, £5

WEDNESDAY JUNE  9
Tenor saxist: Gilad Atzmon, Map Café, 46 Grafton Road, Kentish Town, NW5, 020 7916 0544, 7.30pm, £10

THURSDAY JUNE  10
Recital: LSO principal clarinettist Andrew Marriner, St Luke’s, 161 Old Street, EC1, 020 7490 3939, 1pm, £9/con £7/under-16s £4
Recital: cellist David Kadumukasa, St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, NW1, 020 7388 1461, 1.15pm, free