Juxtapositions
Lizzie Knatt – Recorders
New works for solo recorder, created in collaboration with Lizzie Knatt’s team of composers, cellist and visual artist, dialogue with 17th century variations. An exploration of the infinite tonal and expressive power of this extraordinary instrument, drawing on its rich repertoire, and in juxtaposition with electronics and live painting.
Jakob van Eyck – The English Nightingale
Elliott Park – Broken Consort Music
Andrea Balency-Bearn – Antecedere
Suting Han – Nightingale
Part of the Royal Academy of Music’s Students Create Festival. Free festival passes are available via the Royal Academy of Music Box Office
Theorbo Today
Song of the Olive Garden receives its premiere by theorbist Toby Carr, commissioned by the Theorbo Today project.
The programme of new works for voice, theorbo, and lutes also includes commissions by Rhiannon Randle, Peter Openshaw, and Giovanni Grosskopf.
Isolation Songbook | Boxgrove Choral Festival
Helen Charlston mezzo soprano
Michael Craddock baritone
Alexander Soares piano
Programme features extracts from Skysong along with other pieces commissioned as part of the Isolation Songbook project.