Please support the CMF Artists as they begin to perform for in-person audiences once again.
The weather may be getting hotter but we're not closing down for the summer - we have one final concert for you to attend in July and a recital in the middle of August! Read on to learn all about these events, and more about how our artists are getting on...
Please join us on Wednesday at Fidelio Café, Clerkenwell, for a final opportunity to hear CMF and Anglo Arts Mexican Scholar Marcos Sosa. Marcos presents a recital of Kuhlau, Pierre Sancan, Mexican composer Samuel Zyman and a rare chance to hear the music of Hamilton Harty, alongside pianist Daniel King Smith.
Marcos’ time in London is drawing to a close. Recent highlights include hearing the Manchester Collective at Wigmore Hall, La Boheme at the Royal Opera House and over the weekend, he experienced the rehearsal process of both Southbank Sinfonia and London Sinfonietta. Here he is in full flow two weeks ago at Barts Great Hall:
Richard Robbins (tenor) Lunchtime Recital
Wednesday 18th August, 1pm
Barts Great Hall
Next in our lunchtime recital series in collaboration with Barts Heritage is 2020 City Music Foundation Artist, Tenor Richard Robbins with a programme of songs and arias reflecting his chosen theme of love.
Tickets are free for this event but the number of tickets remains restricted, so please book early to avoid missing out.
Prior to joining City Music Foundation, Richard has also been a Young Artist for Handel House, Leeds Lieder, Oxford Lieder, Brighton Early Music
World Premiere 'Battle Cry' Owain Park
Helen Charlston (Mezzo-Soprano) & Toby Carr (Theorbo)
Tuesday 7th July, 7pm
Barts Great Hall
Helen Charlston will perform the world premiere of new song cycle ‘Battle Cry’ by Owain Park, commissioned by CMF for mezzo and theorbo. There will be a pre-performance talk from Jeremy Summerly, balanced with a selection of early music.
This concert has been moved a number of times due to the various lockdowns and will now have an in-person audience but won't be live streamed, so please come along to show your support for a fantastic evening of music!
CMF ARTISTS FORTHCOMING CONCERTS Samson Tsoy (piano)
Friday 30th July 1pm
Wigmore Hall
City Music Foundation Artist Samson Tsoy makes his solo debut at Wigmore Hall at the end of July with a programme pairing Bach and Mussorgsky, sandwiching selected works by Kurtag. Samson opens the recital with Bach’s highly virtuosic Partita No. 2 in C minor and closes it with the ever popular Pictures at an Exhibition, perhaps better known through Ravel’s luscious orchestration in 1922 but originally composed as a suite for piano in 1874.
The concert has £5 tickets available for under-35s and will be approximately an hour in duration, without an interval.
Samson is the co-founder of the Ragged Music Festival which took place most recently in May 2021. Recent performances at the festival have involved violinist Alina Ibragimova, violist Lawrence Power, tenor Mark Padmore and fellow founder and pianist Pavel Kolesnikov.
We were delighted to read this warm review of our concert last week, given by Violin-Piano Duo Michael Foyle and Maksim Stsura. In the early evening light, a ‘phantasmagoric mood was conjured’ as the pair played three sonatas from different periods of the composer’s life. The reviewer spoke of the ‘faultless’ technical playing and ‘fully attuned’ musicality of the pair, both playing everything from memory and working ‘brilliantly as a team’. In our reception after the concert, City Music Foundation celebrated the launch of the second of their three albums comprising the complete Sonatas, as well as Michael’s birthday! A truly fitting review and a worthy birthday present.
A number of CMF Artists have recently been at the stunning Snape Maltings. Soprano Sian Dicker and Mezzo-Soprano Lotte Betts-Dean visited Aldeburgh for three days to begin their work as Britten-Pears Young Artists, where they received coaching from international superstars Sarah Connelly and Joseph Middleton. We're all very jealous of them spending time at this special place.
