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November 2019
Haze / Figures In A Floating Landscape: Double Bill
To coincide with the hosting of the prestigious Turner prize at Turner Contemporary, Margate, CantiaQuorum reprise Helen Caddick's Haze, inspired by JMW Turner. Projected alongside the work is the premiere of a beautiful new film by Phil Miller which weaves images of the Turner paintings which inspired Helen's work with sublime imagery of the Kent coast, seen as it is today.
Find out more »October 2019
Hostry Festival: Opera Unwrapped
Into Opera return to the Assembly House Norwich with a new Opera Unwrapped concert which puts Women Centre Stage. The artistic director of Into Opera, Norfolk born Genevieve Raghu, will host this event and welcome to the stage Anna Patalong, Carolyn Dobbin and Libby Burgess. These women will join forces to explore the way in which women have been portrayed in opera over time by composers, stage directors, costume designers and, of course, by the singers themselves.
Find out more »September 2019
Beverley Chamber Music Festival: Godiva
Chamber music meets storytelling in this journey woven through tales of folklore and love, with former BBC New Generation Artist Kitty Whately. Featuring music by Brahms, Clara Schumann, Judith Weir, Rebecca Clarke, and the world premiere of Juliana Hall's Godiva – monodrama for mezzo-soprano & piano on a libretto by Caitlin Vincent.
Find out more »Beverley Chamber Music Festival: The Cello’s Voice
A recital with cellist Laura van der Heijden featuring Rachmaninov's Sonata and works by Poulenc and Schnittke.
Find out more »Beverley Chamber Music Festival: Prelude & Fugue
Libby joins the Brodsky Quartet for Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, as well as solo music by Bach.
Find out more »Chants sacrés d’Europe de 1550 à l’ère moderne
The Choir of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, returns to Pontigny for its annual residential week, this year under guest conductor Libby Burgess.
Find out more »A Night at the Opera
Alison Rose, Angharrad Lyddon, Joseph Doody and Marcus Farnsworth sing memorable operatic melodies, duets and ensembles, by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and many more.
Find out more »August 2019
Concerts in the Round: solo recital
A solo recital of Bach, Schubert and Clara Schumann, in the beautiful Georgian Church of St Chad's in Shrewsbury.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: American Chamber Classics – Sounds of the New World
Welcome to the distinctive and engaging soundscape of American music, featuring song and chamber music by Copland, Barber, Ives and Michael Torke, performed by the Festival Chamber Soloists.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: Israel in Egypt
If you enjoy Messiah you’ll love Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt. As with Messiah Handel sets a biblical text – the dramatic story of the Israelites’ departure from Egypt in the Book of Exodus; also like Messiah, Handel’s choir – a spectacular double chorus, is a leading character in the drama. Add orchestral writing that fizzes with originality and solo numbers of plangent beauty and this masterpiece will have you on the edge of your seat. And when the Israelites finally cross the Red Sea with the pursuing Egyptians drowning behind them there’s a choral celebration to rival the Hallelujah Chorus. Conducted by Marcus Farnsworth; chorus preparation by Libby Burgess.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: Death and the Maiden – Late Night Chamber Music
Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' string quartet – a worthy successor to those of Beethoven – was composed in 1824, the year Schubert realised that he was dying. It takes its name from a Schubert song depicting a dialogue between a young woman and Death; the song’s theme forms the basis for the quartet’s second movement, but bleakness and foreboding pervade the entire piece. A performance of the song will precede the quartet, whose movements will be interspersed with readings.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: An Equal Music
Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann struggled for recognition as musicians and composers of talent equal to their celebrated male family members. Felix Mendelssohn paid homage to his beloved sister in a string quartet which bears the title “Requiem for Fanny”; these little-known songs reveal her genius. Robert Schumann’s music and above all his songs were inspired by Clara, whose lush and poignant Romances show what might have been.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: lunchtime concert
A varied lunchtime programme in the beautiful Southwell Minster, including Poulenc's Sextet for piano and winds.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: Straight Americano
Lucy Schaufer, Marcus Farnsworth, James Baillieu and Libby Burgess perform Bernstein's witty and rarely-heard Arias & Barcarolles, for two voices and piano duet; the all-American programme is completed with short works by John Musto and Nico Muhly.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: Opera Gala
Rebecca Lea, Judy Brown, Joseph Doody and Libby Burgess perform highlights from the operatic repertoire.
Find out more »North Norfolk Music Festival
Katherine Broderick and Libby Burgess present Debussy's Proses Lyriques and Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, and are joined by viola player Simon Rowland-Jones for songs by Bridge and Brahms.
Find out more »Lake District Summer Music
Libby joins The Berkeley Ensemble in Schubert's Trout Quintet and Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew themes; also in the programme are music by Poulenc, Martinů and Woolrich.
Find out more »July 2019
MusicFest Aberystwyth
A week vocal coaching on MusicFest Aberystwyth's vocal course.
Find out more »From the Kitchen to Broadway!
Chamber ensemble CantiaQuorum returns to the Colyer Fergusson Hall in a collaboration with the Mustard Seed Singers, a local singing group for people with mental health problems and people affected by offering care and support to those who do.
Find out more »Hampden Ensemble
The Hampden Ensemble's annual exhilarating programme of chamber music in aid of the Church Fabric Fund at St Mary Magdalene Church Great Hampden.
Find out more »Annelies
James Whitbourn's setting of Anne Frank's diary, 90 years after the text was written, performed by The GRAMMY-nominated choir Westminster Williamson Voices, under the direction of the composer, with the renowned British soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, who sang to a worldwide audience earlier this year at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Find out more »May 2019
CantiaQuorum: ¡You say choreeetho and I say choritzo!
Tuneful tapas to tempt you this lunchtime - join CantiaQuorum as they explore the spicy sounds of Spain. Whatever the Canterbury forecast the sun will be shining in the hall today. Folksongs of de Falla lead us on an adventure around España. ¡Hasta luego!
Find out more »Brighton Festival: Lines from a Wanderer
Songs by Schubert, Britten and Casken on a theme of journeying, performed by Marcus Farnsworth and Libby Burgess.
Find out more »Berkeley Ensemble Chamber Course: Tutors’ concert
The tutors for this year's Berkeley Ensemble Chamber Course perform a concert of music by Hurlstone, Bliss, Schumann, and John Casken.
Find out more »April 2019
CantiaQuorum: An American in Paris
A programme of French and American music with chamber group CantiaQuorum.
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