July 30
AFTERNOON SONG 1
In the first of three song recitals given at St. Anne’s, Soprano Milly Forrest performs Schumann’s seminal song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Accompanied by Melina Karagianni, she will also present a selection of English songs by Vaughan Williams and Quilter.
August 6
VIVALDI CONCERTO MACHINE
An opportunity to come and hear London’s most exciting up-and-coming Baroque-Meets-Psychedelic-Improv collective. The collective includes Keyboards, Violins, Flutes, Theorbo and Electric Guitar, reimagining music by Biber and Bach.
August 13
AFTERNOON SONG 2
Stephen Fort is a Bass Baritone post-graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music In Manchester. In the second instalment of Song and Lied at St. Anne’s, he presents a programme of Lied by Schubert and Strauss.
August 20
RAINFOREST JOURNEY
Drawing on instruments collected from a lifetime’s study and travel, Sue Shorter creates a hypnotic rainforest soundscape, also featuring African, Latin and Middle Eastern percussion, bamboo flute and goat bells.
August 27
AFTERNOON SONG 3
International theatre performer and teacher, Alison Guill, presents an eclectic programme of American and English song, revealing her personal, educational and musical theatre history. She is joined by pianist Julian Kelly, with whom she performed in the European premiere of Adam Gutter’s The Light in the Piazza.
September 3
MAHLER’S 4th SYMPHONY
In this season’s final concert we welcome back Finnegan Downie Dear to conduct the St. Anne’s Festival Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s classically infused 4th Symphony, in an arrangement for chamber orchestra by Klaus Simon.
