The Cosman Keller Trust is thrilled to share the news that the full catalogue of Milein Cosman’s archive at the Tate is now available online.

The full catalogue of more than 10,000 items can be accessed here.

A selection of 260 items has been digitised and can be viewed online here.

Tate Archive’s detailed catalogue is now making fully accessible this rich archive, enabling detailed study of Milein Cosman’s artistic practice, together with the cultural context in which she played such a central role.

The Trust is deeply grateful to the staff of Tate Archive for their exemplary work on this precious archive, which will preserve Milein Cosman’s legacy in perpetuity, ensuring that her remarkable life’s work will be known and appreciated by generations to come.

The Cosman Keller Trust is delighted that the YCAT Composer Fellow for 2026-27 is Arthur Keegan.

The first of the two works that Arthur is writing as part of his fellowship is for the remarkable guitarist Samrat Majumder, who will be performing it at the Wigmore Hall on Tuesday 3 November.

The Trust sponsors the YCAT Composer Fellowship in memory of Hans Keller, who was involved with YCAT at its foundation in the 1980s.

Read more about Arthur here. Book tickets for the 3 November premiere here.

The Cosman Keller Trust is very pleased to announce a new partnership with Burgh House  and ChamberStudio  in a project that remembers Hans Keller and Milein Cosman in the heart of Hampstead, where they made their home together.

Burgh House will be welcoming ChamberStudio’s acclaimed Hans Keller Forum to its beautiful and intimate Music Room, and at the same time will present a complementary exhibition of Milein Cosman’s work in its Wells Room gallery.

More information here.

The Trust is delighted to announce that the award-winning Trio Havisham will be joining the Astatine Trio as Hans Keller Chamber Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama this year.

Like the Astatine Trio, Trio Havisham are also alumni of the Hans Keller Forum, also supported by the Trust.

Read more here.

The Trust is pleased to be supporting the Burrell Collection’s new exhibition and educational project Drawing Inspiration which opens today.

This intimate exhibition displays choice drawings from the Burrell Collection (some of which have not been on public display in Glasgow for over thirty years) carefully selected to include a variety of techniques and media — from the delicate pencil marks of the neoclassicist Jean August Dominique Ingres, to the bold black lines of impressionist Éduard Manet and the sweeping, intense drawing of Jean François Millet.

A vibrant programme of facilitated creative activity for both adults and children has been designed around the drawings, including talks, tours, and a wide variety of artist-led workshops (both paid and free), to encourage the whole community to explore the art of drawing. The programme is designed to showcase the social and psychological benefits of drawing, supporting participants to use drawing as a tool to ignite their own creativity and explore the world around them, developing their confidence and strengthening their connection with others.

The exhibition and associated educational programme runs until 26 November 2026. Further information and tickets here.

Coventry Cathedral is a twentieth-century British icon, now a potent symbol of war, suffering and reconciliation. But it might have looked very different, as Basil Spence’s winning design was one of 219 proposals submitted by architects competing to rebuild the bombed cathedral after the second world war.

The Trust is pleased to be supporting Towards a New Cathedral, a new exhibition of drawings from the 1951 architectural competition. Focussing on the original competition drawings and the public debate surrounding them, the exhibition reveals the richness and variety of the unsuccessful designs and casts a new perspective on postwar British architecture.

The new Coventry Cathedral became a showcase for contemporary art and music, including Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, commissioned for its consecration in 1962. As Hans Keller telegraphed to his friend Britten immediately after the premiere, ‘THE REQUIEM EMERGED AS ONE OF THE SUPREME MASTERPIECES OF ALL TIMES’.

The exhibition runs at Coventry Cathedral until 21 September 2026. Opening hours are Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm and Sunday 12-3pm.

Hampstead was Milein Cosman’s home for seventy years. When she moved to London after her studies at the Slade during its wartime evacuation in Oxford, she first lived briefly in lodgings on Christchurch Hill before securing a small studio in Willow Road. In 1955 she and Hans Keller bought their first home together at 50 Willow Road (where a plaque now commemorates them) and in 1967 they moved to Frognal Gardens, where they lived the rest of their lives.

When Milein Cosman died, the Hampstead School of Art inherited her library of art books, together with her easel and palette, and a number of still life objects. In 2021 the School honoured her centenary with a wide-ranging special exhibition, and the Trust is delighted by this year’s new exhibition of her drawings, prints and oil paintings, from the collection of her great friend Julian Hogg, founding chairman of the Trust.

The exhibition is free and continues until 30 November. Further details here. The image on the left shows one of Milein Cosman’s paintings of her husband Hans Keller at their home in Frognal Gardens.

For the last five years, the Cosman Keller Trust has been supporting string quartet performance and composition at the University of Oxford.  In 2021 the Trust was delighted to help establish the Hans Keller String Quartet Residency, an exciting new partnership between the University and the Castalian String Quartet, whose residency brought the highest standards of quartet-playing to Oxford and inspiration to countless student composers and performers.

During the 2025-26 season, the Adler Quartet, the Villers Quartet and others have continued this work, and the final event of the year will feature a special commission from composer Anna Clyne. Her new work, Looking Glass, has been created in collaboration with the sound designer Jody Elff and has been workshopped in Oxford throughout the year.  It brings together the Adler Quartet, Ensemble Isis and the St Anne’s Camerata, conducted by Alpesh Chauhan, and will be premiered in the concert hall of Oxford’s new Schwarzman Centre on 24 June. 

Further details and tickets are available here, and an interview about the work with Anna Clyne and Jody Elff can be viewed here. Also in the programme the Adler Quartet will perform Dvořák’s American Quartet, a chamber version of Copland’s Appalachian Spring with the St Anne’s Camerata, and the premiere of Concealment, a new work for string quartet by Oxford student composer Alexander McNamee.

Today sees the opening of Beyond Impressionism: Printmaking from Manet to Picasso at the Holburne Museum in Bath — an imaginative new exhibition that shows another side to the celebrated impressionist painters: their contribution to the resurgence of printmaking from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

The Trust is pleased to be able to support the Holburne in bringing to Bath high-profile works from world-class collections, to show how key artists primarily known for their paintings — including Éduard Manet, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Pablo Picasso — made remarkable contributions to the art of printmaking.

The exhibition continues until 13 September 2026.

Further information and tickets here.

The Trust is thrilled to share the news of the Flowers Band of Gloucester’s historic victory in the 2026 European Championships in Linz. They are the first band for over 30 years to win the competition on its debut appearance, the first British band to win for more than a decade, and they also achieved the third highest points score in the history of the competition.

The Trust supported the Band by funding the commissioning of a new work for this remarkable ensemble to take to the Finals in Austria: West Wind by Oliver Waespi, which the Band performed to great acclaim and a lengthy standing ovation.

The Trust provided this support in memory of its Patron, the late Joseph Horovitz, whose own works for brass band remain staples of the repertoire and whose centenary is this year.

The Trust is pleased to be supporting the Drimnin String Quartet Academy, run by the St Columba’s Drimnin Trust, which offers younger string quartets of exceptional potential the chance to spend time rehearsing and receiving intensive coaching in the beautiful and remote west coast of Scotland.

The Academy’s artistic director is John Myerscough, cellist of the renowned Doric Quartet and an acclaimed educator, whom the Trust also knows well from his much-appreciated teaching at the Hans Keller Forum. He began coaching quartets at Drimnin in 2025 – among them the Elmore Quartet, whom the Trust is supporting as Hans Keller Fellows at the Guildhall. Such was the Elmores’ ecstatic response to their experience that the Trust is only too happy to support an expansion of the Drimnin Academy.

Today, four prize-winning quartets from around the world begin the first of two residencies at Drimnin: the Isla String Quartet from London, the Moser String Quartet from Switzerland, the Quartet Integra from Japan and the Katarina String Quartet from the USA. At the end of each of their stays they will also give performances for the local community in Lochaber and the Isle of Mull to share their creative journeys and the glories of the string quartet repertoire.

Today sees the opening of Lines of Enquiry, a special exhibition of drawings from Leeds Art Gallery’s nationally renowned collection of 10,000 works on paper.

The Trust is pleased to support this display of fascinating drawings from the eighteenth century to the present day.  The selection includes many sketches and preparatory drawings, offering insights into the creative process of individual artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, Frederick Shields, Edward John Poynter, Frank Brangwyn and Walter Sickert.  Often never intended for public view, these drawings capture moments of experimentation, and refinement — tracing how initial ideas evolve into fully realised compositions.

The exhibition continues until 11 April 2027.

Further information here.

On Wednesday 29 April, the Slade School of Fine Art presents Maggi Hambling CBE as the 2026 Milein Cosman lecturer.

Hambling is recognised as one of Britain’s leading artists – relentlessly inventive in her approach to painting, drawing, sculpture and installation.  She is perhaps best known for her virtuoso paintings of nature, her psychologically acute portraits, and her often-controversial public sculpture — yet drawing has formed a constant throughout her work. To this day, she begins work every morning with an ink drawing, made ‘blind’ with her left hand, ‘like a pianist doing his scales to get into that energy and movement’.

Hambling will appear in conversation with the writer and critic (and Cosman Keller Trustee) James Cahill, discussing the ongoing and central role of drawing in her practice.  She will look back at her formative years at the Slade (1967-69) and some of the milestone exhibitions that have shaped her career.

Further details and ticket bookings here.

The Hans Keller Forum at Cambridge is now completing its fourth year. The Florens Quartet, the Juno Quartet and the Trio Musae (from the Guildhall, the Royal Northern College and the Royal College of Music respectively) are meeting in April for the third of their residencies in Cambridge, working intensively with ChamberStudio’s Director Donald Grant, pianist Alasdair Beatson and cellist John Myerscough. 

The Forum is also benefitting this year from two gifted artists-in-residence from the Slade School of Fine Art: Zainab Wood and Ayse Yardimci.

Members of the public are invited to experience the Forum at work in its open masterclasses on 14 April (reserve a place here) and closing concert on 15 April (tickets here).

The Trust is thrilled to hear that the Fibonacci Quartet has received two major awards this spring: a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellowship and the 2026 Merito Award. Both awards recognise the rapid rise of this remarkable ensemble, who are now one of Europe’s leading string quartets.

The Cosman Keller Trust continues to support the Fibonaccis as the current YCAT Hans Keller Artists.

The Trust is delighted to share the news that the Elmore Quartet has won first prize in the Royal Overseas League Competition strings and keyboard division. In addition to their prize they will now play at the Gold Medal Final at the Wigmore Hall on 15 May.  Book tickets here.

The Elmore Quartet are currently Hans Keller Chamber Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. On 20 March, they will be opening this year’s Guildhall Chamber Music Festival, performing Mendelssohn’s Octet with the Vista String Quartet from the Yale School of Music, marking the beginning of a new collaboration between the Guildhall and Yale. Tickets for this concert are free — full details here.

Today sees the opening of I found the giant and he was dead, Gabriel Kidd’s new exhibition at HOME, Manchester.

For this first institutional solo exhibition since completing their MFA as the Milein Cosman Scholar at the Slade School of Fine Art, Gabriel has created an immersive work of figurative and sound pieces inspired by local folklore, landscape, erosion, and medieval notions of time.

The Trust is excited to announce the premiere of the second of the two new works written by Fergus Hall as part of his YCAT Composer Fellowship, which the Trust supports in memory of Hans Keller.

Adrift for solo cello, was written for the exciting Australian cellist James Morley, and will be performed by him at the Wigmore Hall on 3 March 2026.

Tickets can be booked here.

The Cosman Keller Trust is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025-27 Milein Cosman Scholarship at the Slade School of Fine Art is Beth Simcock.

Like Milein Cosman, Beth spent her undergraduate years in Oxford, followed by further study at the Berlin Drawing Room, a residency in Japan, and an interdisciplinary residency working alongside musicians at the HQI Foundation in London.

Read more about Beth here.

The Trust is pleased to be supporting the Walker Gallery’s special Turner anniversary exhibition, exploring the enduring influence of J.M.W. Turner on later generations of artists.

The exhibition runs until February 2026: tickets can be booked here.

Step behind the scenes to see how the exhibition was created in this special video here.