Concerts and Events
Date: 20 November 2008 @ 1:05pm
Venue: St Mary le Bow Church, Cheapside, London EC2V 6AU
Artist(s): Lisa Wilson (Soprano), William Vann (Piano)
A free lunchtime performance of works by Britten, Duparc, Schubert, Strauss and Elaine Hugh-Jones by Guildhall Opera School Graduate and 2007-8 Silk Street Award recipient Lisa Wilson and the 2008 Gerald Moore Prize winner and Royal Academy of Music graduate William Vann.
Date: 25 November 2008 @ 7:30pm
Venue: Dulwich College Old Library, London SE21 7LD
Artist(s): Philippa Boyle (Soprano), Carris Jones (Mezzo-soprano), Julian Forbes (Tenor), Thomas Faulkner (Bass-baritone), William Vann (Piano)
A recital in the Dulwich Subscription Concerts series. Tickets cost £15 (£10 concessions, £5 students) for the single concert, or £50 (£40 concessions) to subscribe to the whole series.
Programme includes partsongs by Brahms, Haydn, Schubert and Schumann, including Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel.
Date: 27 November 2008 @ 7:30pm
Venue: St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4RL
Artist(s): Kate Symonds-Joy (Mezzo-soprano), Sophie Rivlin (Cello), William Vann (Piano)
This thrilling concert combines the works of three old masters with three new pieces written by young composers working in London. All the new works have been written especially for the occasion and will be world premieres. All three artists are distinguished graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. See Read more for full details of the programme and ticketing.
Date: 15 January 2009 @ 7:30pm
Venue: St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4RL
Artist(s): James Gilchrist (Tenor), Robert Rice (Baritone), Rebecca Hodgetts (Soprano), William Vann (Piano)
World-renowned tenor James Gilchrist sings the world premiere of Martin Eastwood’s stunning Erotic Fragments, settings of texts from the Song of Songs. He is joined by Robert Rice and Rebecca Hodgetts for a programme of English Song, including works by Dove, Finzi, Quilter and Walton. See Read More on the concerts page for reviews and the full programme. See Read more for full details of the programme and ticketing.
Date: 19 February 2009 @ 7:30pm
Venue: St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4RL
Artist(s): The Nephele Ensemble: Nicola Smedley (Flute), Samantha Wickramasinghe (Violin), tbc (Viola), Rebecca Hewes (Cello), William Vann (Piano)
Fresh from their St David’s Hall, Cardiff debut in September 2008, the Nephele Ensemble return to St Stephen’s after their stunning concert given in the last season. They kickstart a U.K. mini-tour with a programme that includes Elgar’s Violin Sonata Op. 82 and Brahms’s Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 60. See Read More on the concerts page for the full programme. See Read more for full details of the programme and ticketing.
Date: 25 March 2009 @ 7:30pm
Venue: Rhyl Town Hall, Wellington Road, Rhyl WL18 1AB
Artist(s): The Nephele Ensemble: Nicola Smedley (Flute), Samantha Wickramasinghe (Violin), tbc (Viola), Rebecca Hewes (Cello), William Vann (Piano)
The Nephele Ensemble give an evening concert of chamber music as part of Rhyl Music Club’s recital series.
Date: 26 March 2009 @ 7:30pm
Venue: St Cuthbert's Church, Carlisle
Artist(s): The Nephele Ensemble: Nicola Smedley (Flute), Samantha Wickramasinghe (Violin), tbc (Viola), Rebecca Hewes (Cello), William Vann (Piano)
The Nephele Ensemble play an evening concert of chamber music in the North Cumbria Recitals series.
Date: 27 March 2009 @ 7:30pm
Venue: St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4RL
Artist(s): Caroline MacPhie (Soprano), Thomas Herford (Tenor), Julien Debreuil (Baritone), William Vann (Piano)
The distinctive Lieder and duets of two giants of German composition are performed by graduates and opera course students of the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama: a thrilling exploration of the metamorphosis from Classical to Romantic. See Read more for full details of the programme and ticketing.
Date: 16 April 2009 @ 7:30pm
Venue: St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4RL
Artist(s): Máire Flavin (Mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Morris (Baritone), William Vann (Piano)
Máire, Nicholas and Will, all members of Aldeburgh Music’s 2007 Strauss and Mahler Lieder course at Snape Maltings, are reunited for this recital of extraordinary music. Includes songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the Rückert-Lieder. See Read more for full details of the programme and ticketing.
Date: 07 May 2009 @ 7:30pm
Venue: St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4RL
Artist(s): Elizabeth Weisberg (Soprano), Kate Symonds-Joy (Mezzo-Soprano), Daniel Joy (Tenor), Philip Tebb (Baritone), William Vann (Piano), Joseph Ramadan (Piano)
Hugo Wolf’s song settings of the poet Eduard Mörike are almost certainly his most vivid - the echoes he found in Mörike’s writing of his own personal struggles brought out a string of Lieder that veer from madness to melancholy, with buckets of poetic and compositional humour. See Read more for full details of the programme and ticketing.
Date: 04 June 2009 @ 7:30pm
Venue: St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4RL
Artist(s): Celeste Gattai (Soprano), Gavin Roberts (Piano)
This fascinating exploration of songs by the South American composers Villa-Lobos, Mignone and Fernandez is given by Sao Paulo-born Celeste Gattai and Gavin Roberts, her accompanist. See Read more for full details of the programme and ticketing.
Date: 26 June 2009 @ 7:30pm
Venue: St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7 4RL
Artist(s): Elizabeth Franklin-Kitchen (Soprano), Samuel Evans (Bass-baritone), William Vann (Piano)
The 48th Opus numbers of Strauss, Schumann, Grieg and Beethoven each refer to a superb set of songs, including perhaps the most stunning song cycle of all, Schumann’s Dichterliebe. All the artists were runners-up or finalists in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards. See Read more for full details of the programme and ticketing.