Saraband
Vermeer’s Guitar Player
Join Saraband in the music room of Kenwood House for an intimate concert to celebrate Vermeer’s painting ‘The Guitar Player.
The wider musical scene will be set up by the whole quartet with music from Italy, France and England, as well as Dutch popular tunes that Vermeer may well have heard in 'The Flying Fox' tavern in Delft, where he was brought up.
These concerts coincide with 'Celebrating Double Vision', a new display at Kenwood which invites you to compare Vermeer’s The Guitar Player with a related painting from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The concert is seated in the Music Room at Kenwood House. There are two identical performances for 45 minutes at 1pm and 2.30pm.
Sun, 16 November 2025
Kenwood House
2:30pm
£25- ➕1 other performance
Full Event Details
Saraband's brilliant guitarist Johan Löfving has an instrument identical to the one in this painting, and he will play music that was popular with refined and accomplished Dutch ladies of the late seventeenth century, which may have been known by the girl in the painting.
The wider musical scene will be set up by the whole quartet with music from Italy, France and England, as well as Dutch popular tunes that Vermeer may well have heard in 'The Flying Fox' tavern in Delft, where he was brought up.
These concerts coincide with 'Celebrating Double Vision', a new display at Kenwood which invites you to compare Vermeer’s The Guitar Player with a related painting from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The concert is seated in the Music Room at Kenwood House. There are two identical performances for 45 minutes at 1pm and 2.30pm.
Venue Details & Map
Location
Kenwood House
Hampstead Lane, Hampstead, NW3 7JR
Other performances
In addition to the performance listed above, this concert will also be performed as follows: