Woven Gold is a choir made up of refugees fleeing persecution. Their music has a raw energy and power drawn from the diversity of the musical cultures they have come from – Burma, Congo, Guinea, Iran, Kenya, Kurdistan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Uganda.
The Thames Chamber Orchestra has appeared at the festivals at Windsor, Norwich, Fishguard, Nottingham, Cambridge, Pershore, Madley, and at many other venues in this country and abroad, including several visits to the Flanders Festival.
To include Fairy-Tale Pictures and other piano works by Finnish conductor and composer Toivo Kuula (1883-1918).
The Trafalgar Sinfonia was founded by its musical director and inspiring British conductor Ivor Setterfield in 1992.
Southbank Sinfonia is an orchestra of outstanding young professionals described by The Times as ‘a dashing ensemble who play with exhilarating fizz, exactness and stamina’.
Guest lecturers: Nicholas Holtam, David Monteith and Sally Hitchiner
Since making her debut as a concert pianist on the stage of the Minsk National Opera House at the age of eight, Olga Stezhko has been performing internationally to great acclaim at venues such as Wigmore Hall, The Barbican and The Southbank Centre in London; Minsk Philharmonic Hall; Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria in Santander; Salle Cortot and Saint-Étienne Opera Theatre in France and Carnegie Hall, New York, both as a soloist and in recital.
The mission of London International Gospel Choir is to get people singing together and enjoying themselves. They sing both secular and non-secular music in a ‘gospel style’ – rich in harmony and full of movement and expression.
On the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm of 1987, we explore musical references to storms in the Bible.
