We’re having party and you’re invited! On Wednesday 11 December, The Hilliard Ensemble are kicking off their 40th Anniversary celebrations with a concert at our Winter Festival. The current vocal quartet – countertenor David James, tenor Rogers Covey-Crump, baritone Gordon Jones and tenor Steven Harrold – will be joined by former members to celebrate four…
Check out the video above for a preview of what’s on this winter. Our Chief Executive Abigail Pogson and Programme Director: Festivals Kate Kelly introduce the programme, while director of La Nuova Musica David Bates and composer/ performer of Remember Me: A Desk Opera Claudia Molitor talk about the events they’re presenting at the Winter…
Spitalfields Music sent to me… a clip from yesterday morning’s performance, Scottish Reels and Winter Riffs, featuring the London Handel Players and renowned Scottish Fiddler Alasdair Fraser. That’s right, click play below to hear the first movement from Vivaldi’s La primavera (Spring) from the Four Seasons concertos, as arranged by 18th-century French man du jour Nicolas…
With the last of the golden egg shakers back in its box and the magical forest all folded up, the Musical Rumpus tour of A Fairy Queen in the Forest to Barking & Dagenham and Newham has come to an end. But worry not, the tour was the start of a three-year programme of musical…
Our hit event series for the toddling audiences is currently sprinkling some musical fairy dust around libraries and community venues in our neighbouring boroughs of Barking & Dagenham and Newham. Musical Rumpus: A Fairy Queen in the Forest takes Henry Purcell’s opera The Fairy Queen and adapts it especially for 0-2 year-olds. To celebrate the…
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