Small Performing Arts Event of the Year 2023

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“City and Country”
20th October - 1st December 2023

All the concerts take place at Hinde Street Methodist Church W1U 2QJ in the heart of London’ West End; the nearest tube stations are Bond Street and Oxford Circus.

 

 

Concert 1: Friday 20th October, 7pm – “The South Country – a celebration of Sussex”

Rebecca Leggett – mezzo-soprano
George Ireland – piano

The winners of the 2022 London Song Festival British Art Song Competition present a programme of songs from and about Sussex, Rebecca’s home county. George Butterworth’s settings of ‘Folk Songs from Sussex’ will be combined with songs by Vaughan Williams, John Ireland and Frank Bridge to create a tapestry in words and music to celebrate one of England’s most beautiful counties.

 
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Rebecca Leggett – mezzo-soprano
George Ireland – piano

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Concert 2: Friday 27th October, 7pm – “Two Cities: Ned Rorem in Paris and New York”

Christopher Killerby – tenor
Jonathan Eyers – baritone
Nigel Foster – piano
James Crutcher – actor

2023 marks the centenary of the American composer Ned Rorem’s birth. His explosive dairies detailing his life as a young gay man in Paris and New York in the 1950s caused a sensation when they were published, and his interactions with Poulenc, Jean Cocteau, Leonard Bernstein, and many others form a rich backdrop to his songs.  

 
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Christopher Killerby – tenor
Jonathan Eyers – baritone
Nigel Foster – piano
James Crutcher – actor

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Concert 3: Friday 3rd November, 7pm – “Escape to the Country: Rachmaninov’s haven of Ivanovka”

Alexandra Dunaeva – soprano
Iestyn Morris – countertenor
Nigel Foster – piano
David Mildon – speaker

Rachmaninov found peace and contentment at his summer residence of Ivanovka, a country estate where he could escape from the hustle and bustle of Moscow and St Petersburg. Many of his greatest compositions, including many songs, were written there between 1890 and 1917. This programme combines some of his most beautiful songs with reading from his letters to create an intimate portrait of Rachmaninov in his 150th anniversary year.

 
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 Alexandra Dunaeva – soprano
Iestyn Morris – countertenor
Nigel Foster – piano
David Mildon – speaker

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Concert 4: Friday 10th November, 7pm – “Childhood in the Countryside and the City”

Lotte Betts-Dean – mezzo-soprano
Hugo Brady – tenor
Nigel Foster – piano

A celebration of the 150th anniversary of Walter de la Mare’s birth, with settings of his poetry by Herbert Howells, Ivor Gurney, Britten and others, and what is probably the world premiere of ‘The White House Song Cycle’, a cycle of de la Mare settings by John Carol Case written in the 1940s.

 
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Lotte Betts-Dean – mezzo-soprano
Hugo Brady – tenor
Nigel Foster – piano

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Concert 5: Friday 17th November, 7pm – “Rain in City and Country”

Ella Taylor – soprano
James Atkinson – baritone
Nigel Foster – piano
David Mildon – speaker

2023 is the bicentenary of the invention of the Mackintosh raincoat by the Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh. To mark this illustrious anniversary, the London Song Festival is presenting a programme of songs and readings on the subject of rain, by Schubert, Brahms, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Poulenc, Chaminade, Finzi, Samuel Barber, Holst and many more, including the premieres of new songs written by Noah Max and David Ward.

 
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Claire Booth – soprano
James Atkinson – baritone
Nigel Foster – piano
David Mildon – speaker

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Concert 6: Friday 24th November, 7pm – “Escape to the City: Edith Sitwell in London”

Lucy Stevens – contralto and actress
Michael Gibson – tenor
Elizabeth Mucha and Nigel Foster – piano
James Symonds – video artist
Roxani Eleni Garefalaki – director and movement

In collaboration with Art Sung this concert is a multi-media celebration of the life and work of the poet Edith Sitwell, and the centenary of ‘Façade’ with music by William Walton. The programme includes songs by Britten, Michael Head, Noël Coward, Debussy, and the premiere of songs by Hayley Jenkins.

 
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Lucy Stevens – contralto and actress
Michael Gibson – tenor
Elizabeth Mucha and Nigel Foster – piano
James Symonds – video artist
Roxani Eleni Garefalaki – director and movement

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Concert 7: Saturday 25th November, 2pm – AESS Prizewinners’ Concert

Charlotte Jane Kennedy – soprano (Patricia Routledge National Song Competition)
Ellen Pearson – mezzo-soprano (Dorothy Richardson English Song Prize)
Cameron Eldridge – baritone (Catherine Lambert Junior Recital Prize)
Edward Picton-Turbevill (Pianist Prize)
Maximus Evans (Concert Artistes’ Association Speech Prize for Actors)

Prize winners from the Association of English Singers and Speakers’ five competitions come together to present a programme of songs and spoken words in English on the subject of “The Country and the City”, which will also include the three winning entries from the 2023 Composers Song Writing Competition, setting texts by Walter de la Mare.

 
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Charlotte Jane Kennedy – soprano (Patricia Routledge National Song Competition)
Ellen Pearson – mezzo-soprano (Dorothy Richardson English Song Prize)
Cameron Eldridge – baritone (Catherine Lambert Junior Recital Prize)
Edward Picton-Turbevill (Pianist Prize)
Maximus Evans (Concert Artistes’ Association Speech Prize for Actors)

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Concert 8: Friday 1st December, 7pm – “A Rural Ramble”

Peter Edge – baritone
Frasier Hickland – piano

The winners of the 2022 John Kerr Award for English Song present a programme of English Song and German Lieder about the countryside by composers including Roger Quilter, Butterworth, Ivor Gurney and Brahms.

 
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Peter Edge – baritone
Frasier Hickland – piano

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Location and Map

Address of concerts:

Hinde Street Methodist Church

Hinde Street

W12QJ