Songbird Strings of Texas – Free Concert! – 3pm
Songbird Strings of Texas hails from the famously musical city of Austin, Texas. Representing the Songbird Rising Suzuki School and honoring a combined 100+ years of dedicated study, our students are excited to showcase their hard work with a program of classical music including Bach, Brahms, Mozart, Dvorak and Palladio by Karl Jenkins. Aged from 7 to 16, these impressive young students are sure to wow with a musicality that defies their age.
Biography
Laura Poyzer is a passionate music teacher and school director. An education in performance and pedagogy, spanning Wales and Austin, Texas, set the stage for the founding of Songbird Rising Suzuki School. For over a decade, Laura has guided hundreds of students in Austin, TX, on their musical journeys.
The ensemble’s story is told in the school’s ideals: Growth, Joy, and Community, and by a long-held dream of director, Laura Poyzer to return to her homeland with her students. Across Edinburgh, Chester, Bristol, Bath, and London, our performance celebrates friendship, fun, and enthusiasm for new experiences. The tour is an incredible opportunity for our student’s growth as musicians and as people. We welcome you to join us, enjoy our performance, and become a part of what is sure to be one of the most formative and memorable experiences of these young musicians’ lives.
Upcoming Events
VOCES8 Scholars Ensemble and Wishful Singing sing Gregorian Treasures in London
Experience the meditative beauty of gregorian chant!
Discover the timeless beauty of Gregorian music with a repertoire spanning nearly a thousand years: from the ancient works of Hildegard von Bingen, Perotinus, and Taverner to contemporary star composer Ola Gjeilo, who draws inspiration from Gregorian chant.
The unique interplay between the clear voices of Wishful Singing and the deep tones of the VOCES8 Scholars Ensemble promises a mystical experience for music enthusiasts.
Wishful Singing is a leading all-female vocal ensemble from the Netherlands, with a strong reputation for performing a broad repertoire ranging from early music, folk, close harmony, and contemporary music.
The VOCES8 Scholars Ensemble programme is an initiative established by the ensemble VOCES8 in 2015. It serves as a training opportunity for talented young singers in the UK and the US who have a specific interest in choral and small ensemble singing.
Dame Sarah Connolly & Damon Nestor Ploumis – Charity Concert – 7pm
A sublime evening of music, bringing together two international star soloists, mezzo soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and New York-born bass-baritone Damon Nestor, as well as the excellent Choir of Holy Trinity Church. The evening will include beautiful arias by Bach and Handel, sung by Dame Sarah, Mozart’s joyful Missa Brevis in D, accompanied by strings, and popular operatic arias from Don Giovanni, Cavalleria Rusticate, and L’Elisir D’Amore
The concert is in aid of the Royal Marsden Charity and the Brain Tumour Charity.
The London Chorus and Petroc Trelawny for a VE Day 80th Anniversary concert – 7:30pm
On the 8th May The London Chorus is joining people up and down the country to mark the historic 80th anniversary of VE Day and celebrate 80 years of peace since the end of the Second World War in Europe with a performance of Arthur Bliss’ Morning Heroes. The work is a choral symphony in five sections and scored for narrator, chorus and large orchestra. The poems Bliss chose are wide ranging – Homer, Whitman, Owen, Li Tai Po and Roger Nichols. Morning Heroes was composed for the Norwich Festival in 1930. The score is powerful and dramatic. Performances are rare and here is a chance to experience a masterpiece.
The London Chorus and New London Orchestra, under the baton of Adrian Brown, are thrilled to have as our orator Petroc Trelawny. A giant in the world of radio and television broadcasting, Petroc is one of the best-known voices across the BBC’s classical music programming having presented the BBC Proms on radio and television for 25 years.