Concert 10: Cross-Channel Currents - Friday 12th December, 7pm
Kitty Whately - mezzo-soprano
Nigel Foster - piano

The final concert of the 2025 London Song Festival presents an over-view of English and French song, written by women composers or setting poems written by women. The composers and poets include Rebecca Clarke, Madeleine Dring and Ursula Vaughan Williams from this side of the Channel, and Marguerite Canal, Armande de Polignac and Rita Strohl from France. A feast of rarely-heard vocal gems from composers and poets who would be far better known had they been men.

Kitty Whately is a Kathleen Ferrier Award winner and BBC New Generation Artist. She made her Royal Opera House debut as Michelle in the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turner’s opera Festen. She has sung leading roles with English Touring Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera National de Lorraine, at the Edinburgh International, Aix-en-Provence and Verbier Festivals, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, at the Barbican and Wigmore Halls, and in Antwerp, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Bruges and Lisbon among other places.
Nigel Foster has performed at Wigmore Hall, the South Bank Centre, Barbican Centre, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Crush Bar) and across Europe as well as in North and South America, Japan, Malaysia and New Zealand, playing for singers including Roderick Williams, Dame Sarah Connolly, Nicky Spence, Nadine Benjamin, Kate Royal, Lotte Betts-Dean, James Gilchrist, Julien Van Mellaerts, Ashley Riches, Simon Wallfisch, Louise Winter, and Elizabeth Llewellyn.