Performer(s): Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano), Joseph Middleton piano)

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BBC New Generation Artist, Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano) and pianist Joseph Middleton perform a programme of music by Fanny Hensel, John Ireland and Mahler in this lunchtime recital at the Wesley Centre in Harrogate.

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WORLD PREMIERE

Performer(s): Whiddon Autumn Festival Children’s Choir; Corvus Consort; Harry Baker (piano); Freddie Crowley (cond.)

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Rising star vocalists Ellie Stamp and George Clark are joined by pianist Harry Baker and the Festival String Quartet to perform lyrical songs celebrating flora, fauna and landscape, centred around the hauntingly-beautiful Tree Carols by Sally Beamish. Punctuated with a selection of gorgeous partsongs sung by members of the Corvus Consort, the programme also features a very special guest appearance...

In the middle of the programme we welcome the very special WAF Children's Choir, made up of pupils from four local primary schools who have participated in our schools singing programme. The Children's Choir will sing reimagined versions of local folksongs, created specially for this performance by our 2023 Composer-in-Residence Nathan James Dearden.

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Performer(s): Nicky Spence (tenor); Andrew Matthews-Owen (piano)

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Robert Schumann’s iconic song cycle on a woman’s life and love, Frauenliebe und-Leben, sung by Claire Booth (“an epoch-making performance – a real tour de force." Guardian) is interwoven with Nathan James Dearden’s specially commissioned responses of a beloved friend, Nicky Spence (“one of the most engaging and communicative singers around” Guardian). The concert, curated by pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen (“an immaculate accompanist” BBC Music magazine), also features songs by LGBTQ+ composers and poets, including Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Jonathan Dove, Nikita Gill, Jennifer Higdon, Francis Poulenc, and Ned Rorem.

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Performer(s): Nicky Spence (tenor); Andrew Matthews-Owen (piano)

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Robert Schumann’s iconic song cycle on a woman’s life and love, Frauenliebe und-Leben, sung by Lucy Crowe (“soprano artistry beyond compare” Independent) is interwoven with Nathan James Dearden’s specially commissioned responses of a beloved friend, Nicky Spence (“one of the most engaging and communicative singers around” Guardian). The concert, curated by pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen (“an immaculate accompanist” BBC Music magazine), also features songs by LGBTQ+ composers and poets, including Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Jonathan Dove, Nikita Gill, Jennifer Higdon, Francis Poulenc, and Ned Rorem.

Life, love and loss are explored and celebrated through a special friendship and some of the greatest songs ever written.

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Performer(s): Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone); George Ireland (piano)

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K. J. Nakao: He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead (W.B. Yeats)

Delyth Naya: Blossoms and Shadows (Hisajo Sugita & Hilary Tann) 

Hilary Tann: Light from the Cliffs 

Nathan James Dearden: I sleep alone (Kakinomoto no Hitomaro) 

Shinji Inagi: Journey Through the Heart of Hitomaro (Kakinomoto no Hitomaro) 

Fascinating songs by composers from Japan and Wales. For full information, please visit the festival webpage: https://www.beaumarisfestival.org

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Performer(s): Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone); Paula Fan (piano)

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Performer(s): Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone); Paula Fan (piano)

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Performer(s): Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano), Ilan Kurtser (piano)

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Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston triumphed in the most recent Kathleen Ferrier Awards, walking away with the Song Prize, while alumnus of the Leeds Lieder Young Artist scheme pianist Ilan Kurtser won the coveted Accompanist’s Prize.

The Ferrier Award joins others on Helen’s mantelpiece – she is a current BBC New Generation Artist, winner of the 2018 Handel Singing Competition and Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In addition to her growing reputation as a fine early music singer, she received widespread praise for her recent Isolation Songbook. A creative response to a time of chaos and change, it was originally conceived as an open call-for-scores to composers and lyricists to respond creatively to lockdown, the resulting 15 new songs are by turns witty and melancholic, brash and joyful. Helen intersperses these songs with songs about nature by Brahms, Clara Schumann, Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky.

This event will be streamed live and available to watch on demand until Sunday 31 July 2022. Buy tickets for the in-person event or for livestream/on demand access.

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Performer(s): Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano); Sholto Kynoch (piano)

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Performer(s): Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano), Sholto Kynoch (piano)

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Performer(s): Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano), Sholto Kynoch (piano)

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Performer(s): Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Wendy Hiscocks (piano)

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About the project

Celebrating Australian Music returns with an exciting project celebrating the composers and performers from both South Wales in the United Kingdom and New South Wales in Australia.

For the forthcoming recital Jeremy has selected two songs by four South Wales composers that include the young dynamic composer Nathan James Dearden as well as Grace Williams, Alun Hoddinott and William Mathias.

Four New South Wales composers, Alex Palmer, Andrew Schultz, John Martin and Wendy Hiscocks have accepted CAM’s invitation to contribute eight songs in today’s programme; each of these composers have filmed their own introduction before the world premiere of their songs which we shall feature in forthcoming news items.

Full information can be found at www.celebratingaustralianmusic.com

Performer(s): Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano), Sholto Kynoch (piano)

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Tune in from 7.00pm on S4C to hear a performance of my folksong settings, Pedair Cân o Forgannwg.

Performer(s): Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Paula Fan (piano)

Performer(s): Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Paula Fan (piano)

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Performer(s): Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano), Alexander Soares (piano)

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Song Futures is Oxford Lieder’s programme to perform and commission new music. This year we have a dedicated series of eight late-night Song Futures concerts, Tuesdays to Fridays in both weeks of the Festival. They are by no means the only performances of music by living composers in the Festival, nor are they exclusively contemporary music in all cases, but new music is their strong focus.

Tonight, for the first of these, we hear the Isolation Songbook. This songbook for the modern world was commissioned and curated by Helen Charlston (who has recently become a BBC New Generation Artist) during 2020, when she invited 15 composers to respond to their experiences of lockdown. Since then the Songbook has been recorded and widely acclaimed for its rich and inspiring variety. Tonight, we add one more new work, specially commissioned by Oxford Lieder from the brilliant young composer Alex Ho.

To book your tickets for this event, please visit Oxford Lieder Festival 2021’s website by clicking here.

About ‘the way we go’

Setting the beautiful short poem of Katharine Towers of the same title, the way we go, was written as part of The Isolation Songbook project in 2020 for Helen Charlston and Alexander Soares. Full information about the song can be found by clicking here.

Performer(s): Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano), Alexander Soares (piano)

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Newly announced BBC New Generation Artist, the mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, together with baritone Michael Craddock and pianist Alexander Soares will perform a selection from the songbook, a set of pieces they commissioned over lockdown in 2020 dealing with various moods and emotions brought up by the pandemic.

To book your tickets for this event, please visit Boxgrove Choral Festival 2021’s website by clicking here.

About ‘the way we go’

Setting the beautiful short poem of Katharine Towers of the same title, the way we go, was written as part of The Isolation Songbook project in 2020 for Helen Charlston and Alexander Soares. Full information about the song can be found by clicking here.

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The fast-rising mezzo with a ‘warmly distinctive tone’ (The Telegraph) performs famous spring-inspired songs by Schumann, Brahms, Copland and Finzi, alongside extracts from the much-praised Isolation Songbook she commissioned in 2020 to reflect lockdown lives in music.

Filmed in the Long Gallery at Castle Howard and available to view until 8th July 2021

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As part of their Midweek Music series, the Choir of Royal Holloway feature a collection of Nathan’s vocal, choral and vocal works, including the world premiere of This is the day.

Performer(s): Choir of Royal Holloway; George Nicholls (organ); Rupert Gough (cond.)

About Midweek Music at Royal Holloway

The Choir of Royal Holloway is the only university choir in the UK to offer free concerts every week during term-time. The innovative programmes have included themes of seasons, festivals, single composers, one historical period or event, concerts of solos or ensembles, organ recitals as well as everything else in-between.

All of these concerts are live streamed, on Wednesday lunchtime at 1:15pm and can be viewed here.

If you miss the live stream, you can watch again as part of our concert catch-up.