Upcoming Events
Cello and piano lunchtime recital
Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EL - Downing Place United Reform Church - Wednesday 08th May 2024
Cellist Veronica Henderson and I are delighted to be returning to Downing Place United Reformed Church in the heart of Cambridge. Our lunchtime concert will include two masterpieces of the cello repertoire, Beethoven’s last cello sonata, Op102 no 2, and the only sonata that Debussy composed for the cello. However, the talking point of this recital is a ‘lost’ work by Scottish composer Neil McKay that has been hiding in plain sight amongst my music for nearly 40 years! - Read More→
Past Events
The London Piano Duo
104 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5EW - The Reform Club
- Thursday 18th April 2024Nigel Foster and I are delighted to be returning to the Reform Club in Pall Mall to celebrate the 80th birthday of organiser, Michael Corby. He has specifically requested that we perform our piano duet programme of French and English music from the 1910s and 1920 again with a special emphasis on William Walton's Façade. - Read More→
Art Sung – Edith Sitwell, Behind her Façade
Barnes Music Festival - St Mary's Church, Barnes, SW13 9HL
- Thursday 14th March 2024We are delighted to be taking part in the Barnes Music Festival whose theme this year is legends. Our semi-dramatized recital Art Sung – Edith Sitwell, Behind her Façade is a celebration of the legendary 20th century poet Dame Edith Sitwell. - Read More→
Art Sung – Edith Sitwell, Behind her Façade (Shortened version)
VocalFest24, Music in New Malden - New Malden Methodist Church, 49 High Street, New Malden, Surrey KT3 4BY
- Sunday 11th February 20242024 marks the 60th anniversary of the death of the flamboyant English poet, Dame Edith Sitwell: a perfect opportunity to revive and celebrate her wonderfully fantastic brand of artistry. Art Sung – Edith Sitwell, Behind her Façade explores her unusual and eccentric life in her own words, both spoken and sung. Settings of her poetry by Benjamin Britten and William Walton are at the core of this semi-dramatized song recital... - Read More→
Art Sung – Edith Sitwell, Behind her Façade
19 Thayer St, London W1U 2QJ - London Song Festival, Hinde Street Methodist Church
- Friday 24th November 20232023 marks the centenary of the premier of Façade in 1923. Next year, 2024, marks the 60th anniversary of Edith Sitwell’s death: a perfect opportunity to revive and celebrate her wonderfully fantastic brand of artistry. In collaboration with the London Song Festival, Art Sung – Edith Sitwell - Behind her Façade is a semi-dramatised song recital which explores her unusual and eccentric life in her own words, both spoken and sung, beginning with her troubled childhood at Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire (where she fell in love with a peacock), leading to a life of celebrity and notoriety in London, Paris and America. - Read More→
Art Sung – Clara Schumann
Buckingham Summer Festival - The Radcliffe Centre, Buckingham
- Monday 10th July 2023Hailed as the “Queen of the piano”, the young Clara dazzled 19th century European audiences with her virtuosic, yet delicate and highly musical piano performances. Acclaimed as a composer before her legendary marriage to creative genius, Robert Schumann, her own works have been neglected until recently. - Read More→
Inspired by Dance
60 St Giles High Street London WC2H 8LG - St Giles-in-the-Fields
- Friday 23rd June 2023Elegant ballet, sultry tango, rhythmic Bulgarian choro, laidback Brazilian samba - hopefully this programme, inspired by dance, has something for everyone! We begin though with a suite of pieces by Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), a Russian composer of Jewish-German descent. - Read More→
Inspired by Dance
Church Path, Saffron Walden CB10 1JP - St Mary's Church
- Wednesday 07th June 2023Elegant ballet, sultry tango, rhythmic Bulgarian choro, laidback Brazilian samba - hopefully this programme, inspired by dance, has something for everyone! We begin though with a suite of pieces by Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), a Russian composer of Jewish-German descent. - Read More→
Inspired by Dance
Abbey Farmhouse, Abbey Gardens, WALTHAM ABBEY, Essex, EN9 1XQ. - Waltham Abbey
- Monday 22nd May 2023Elegant ballet, sultry tango, rhythmic Bulgarian choro, laidback Brazilian samba - hopefully this programme, inspired by dance, has something for everyone! We begin though with a suite of pieces by Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), a Russian composer of Jewish-German descent. - Read More→
Piano duets
Church St, Peterborough PE1 1XB - St John The Baptist Church
- Tuesday 16th May 2023This piano duet programme of music from the 1910s and 1920s explores a period of huge experimentation in France and England as composers sought to find new musical paths after the devastating upheaval of the Great War. - Read More→
Words and Music
Abbey Farmhouse, Abbey Gardens, WALTHAM ABBEY, Essex, EN9 1XQ. - Waltham Abbey
- Saturday 22nd April 2023Our lunchtime programme of piano duet music focuses on works which have been inspired by words whether it be prose or poetry. - Read More→