2024
Life as a working mother of a young child is busy! I try to keep my diary up to date, but there will undoubtedly be omissions along the way! Please take the follow as a broad overview of what I'm up to at the moment...
2-5 January Recording CD of French choral music with London Choral Sinfonia
15 January Recording with BBC Singers
19&20 January Recording folksong settings by Clive Osgood with Polyphony and Britten Sinfonia
21 January recording session (singing)
22 January BMus composer workshops at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with EXAUDI
24 January recording session (singing)
25 January recording session (singing)
30 January recording session (singing)
13-16 February EXAUDI concert tour, Northumberland
28 February EXAUDI concert at King's Place
5&6 March recording sessions (singing)
21 March conducting Bach St John Passion with Orlando Chamber Choir and Musica Poetica
30 March-7 April Endellion Festival conducting Fauré Requiem and Brahms Nänie
8 May recording music by Michael John Trotta
18 May recording session
24 May recording session
30 and 31 May recording sessions
3 June recording sessions
4 June recording sessions
5 June recording sessions
7 June recording sessions
9 June recording sessions
11 June recording sessions
13 June Orlando Chamber Choir summer concert
16-22 June conducting Lacock Singer's course at Monteconero, Italy.
3 July recording sessions
4 July Ruth Crawford Seeger at Sound Within Sound at the Southbank Centre with The Marian Consort.
13 July Orlando Chamber Choir summer workshop
5 & 8 July DRET Festival concerts with the BBC Singers
12 September EXAUDI performance in Kammermusiksaal, Berlin Philharmonie of Isabel Mundry new work.
14 September EXAUDI Chromatic Renaissance performance in St. Matthäs Kirche, Berlin
5 October Polyphony performance The Romantic English programme at Tetbury Festival
6 October Recording sessions
7 October Polyphony performance The Romantic English programme at St John's Smith Square
13 October Conducting Concordium String Ensemble in performance of Finzi Clarinet Concerto with Jernej Albreht, Janacek Suite for Strings and Stephen Dodgson Last of the Leaves with Jon Stainsby, supported by the Stephen Dodgson Charitable Foundation at St Stephen's Dulwich at 4pm
11, 14, 15 October recording choral works by Clive Osgood with Polyphony
16 &17 October Recording sessions
24 October James MacMillan Since it was the day of preparation with Dunedin Consort and Hebrides Ensemble in Derry
25 October James MacMillan Since it was the day of preparation with Dunedin Consort and Hebrides Ensemble in King's Place, London
26 October James MacMillan Since it was the day of preparation with Dunedin Consort and Hebrides Ensemble in Cumnock, Scotland
27 October James MacMillan Since it was the day of preparation with Dunedin Consort and Hebrides Ensemble in RSNO Auditorium, Glasgow
7 November Orlando birthday concert
9 November 2nd soprano soloist in Mozart C Minor Mass with London Forest Choir, conducted by Jonathan Rathbone
12-18 November Dunedin St John Passion, with concerts in Chicago and Kansas City
19&25 November Recording sessions
4 December Sonoro carol concert
7&8 December Directing Dunedin Consort's Bridging the Gap choral weekend
9 December recording session
13 December Conducting Cassandra Miller Swim and Schumann's Second Symphony with Royal Irish Academy of Music Philharmonia at the Whyte Recital Hall in Dublin
22 December Bach Christmas Oratorio at St John's Smith Square with Polyphony
23 December Handel Messiah at St John's Smith Square with Polyphony
2023
9 January An American Songbook II lunchtime recital at Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, with Siwan Rhys
16-19 January Recording of CD of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with London Choral Sinfonia
23, 24, 27 January recording sessions (singing)
1 Feb Chromatic Renaissance concert with EXAUDI in Durham
3 Feb Conducting Tchaikovsky Serenade for String and Howells Elegy in Music by the Bridge concert series at All Saints Putney with Concordium.
9, 10, 11, 15 February recording sessions (singing)
17 Feb Studio recording of Jonathan Dove, Thea Musgrave and Brahms with BBC Singers
24 February recording session (singing)
3 March recording session (singing)
Mid March- start of June Maternity leave!
19 May recording session (singing)
11 June EXAUDI Verses of Love concert at Aldeburgh Festival
22 June Orlando Chamber Choir South American concert
23 June London Early Opera concert in Chiswick
24 June recording session (singing)
25th June Elgar Light of Life with the Elgar Sinfonia of London
9 July recording session (singing)
4 August recording session (singing)
11 August recording session (singing)
12 August recording session (conducting)
29 August recording session (conducting)
19 and 20 August Bach concerts with Dunedin Consort at the Chaise-Dieu Festival in France
1 September recording session (singing)
11 September recording session (conducting)
12 September recording session (conducting)
13 September recording session (conducting)
16 September recording session (singing)
25th September - back surgery requiring 2 weeks recovery
14 October concert in Brighton Early Music Festival with Fieri Consort
17 October recording session (singing)
22 October recording session (singing)
3 November BBC Singers recording
6 November recording session (singing)
9 November Cloistered Composers concert with Orlando Chamber Choir
20 and 22 November three concerts in Wien Modern with EXAUDI
30 November Collaborative translation-composition project at the Royal Academy of Music with University College London
2 December recording session (singing)
5 December EXAUDI concert at Imperial University
14 December Orlando Christmas concert
22 December Polyphony Christmas Oratorio at St John's Smith Square
23 December Polyphony Messiah at St John's Smith Square
2022
5-7 January
Recording of music by JAC Redford with London Voices and Ben Parry
18,20 & 21 January
Recording Choral Inspirations with Sonoro and Neil Ferris
19 January
Student composition workshops at Durham University with Siwan Rhys
24-27 January
Recording Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs (soloist Roderick Williams) and Lennox Berkeley Variations on a Hymn by Orlando Gibbons (soloist Andy Staples) with London Choral Sinfonia and Michael Waldron
10 February
EXAUDI concert in Durham Cathedral of world premiere by Mike Worboys
11 February
Student composition workshops at Durham University
1 March
Guest lecture at City University on writing for SATB
4 March
Conducting Concordium string ensemble in the Music By The Bridge concert series at All Saints Fulham. Rep includes Grieg Holberg Suite and Bach Cantata 170.
6 March
Guildhall student composition workshops
18 March
Myriad concert at St Stephen's Dulwich
24 March
Orlando Chamber Choir performance of Handel's Messiah with London Baroque Sinfonia, Elinor Rolfe Johnson, Jessica Gillingwater, David De Winter and Gareth Brynmore John.
10-17 April
Endellion Easter Festival
15 April
Bach St John Passion with Academy of Ancient Music
24 April and 28 April
EXAUDI Gesualdo madrigal concerts in Ghent and Barcelona
7 May
EXAUDI performances in Witten, Germany
16 May
EXAUDI EXPOSURE performance at Milton Court concert hall
22 May
EXAUDI Gesualdo madrigal concert in Norwich
14 June
BBC Singers performance in Snape as part of the Aldeburgh Festival
22 June
World premiere of Plain Air by James Weeks at Musicon series in Durham, written for Lucy and Siwan Rhys
23 June
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir Isle of Song concert
17,22, 23, 28 July
Conducting London Voices recording sessions
30 July
Concert with Orlando at the Marvão International Festival in Portugal
10 August
Beethoven Fidelio in Edinburgh International Festival with Philharmonia Orchestra and Voices
23-28 August
Course conductor for National Youth Choir of Great Britain Girls' Choir summer course, working alongside Principal Conductor Joanna Tomlinson.
22 September
Fin de Siecle Vienna and Paris song recital in Hurst Festival with Gavin Roberts
30 September
Performing George Benjamin's Upon Silence for mezzo soprano and 5 viols, the world premiere of Donnacha Dennehy's That Time and Purcell with Hathor Ensemble at Bruges Concertgebouw.
4-5 October
Recording one-per-part madrigals by Casulana with Fieri Consort.
11-13 October
BBC Singers recording of music by John Pickard.
2 November
The Moon Hares with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
5 November
Mezzo soloist in Mozart Coronation Mass and Haydn Nelson Mass with Havering Singers
8 November
Polyphony concert London
10 November
Conducting Orlando's Schütz anniversary concert (350 years since his death).
22 November
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/London Voices
19 November
EXAUDI performance in Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
4 December
EXAUDI's 20th anniversary concert at King's Place.
14 December
A Christmas Carol at Milton Court with BBC Singers
15 December
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir's Christmas concert: To Bethlehem: Music of Three Wise Men and a Shining Star
23 December
Handel Messiah with Polyphony at St John's Smith Square.
2021
14 March 2021
Guildhall School of Music and Drama MMus composition workshops with EXAUDI
21-23 April 2021
Recording James Weeks' Fantasie di strani e dolci misteri della parola in Orford Church, Suffolk.
23 April 2021
Digital performance James Weeks' Fantasie di strani e dolci misteri della parola as part of his Libro di fiammelle e ombre for MUSICON at Durham University. Watch here.
3 May 2021
Working with composition students at Durham University on their works for voices
5 May 2021
Italian coaching for Dunedin Consort's A Lover's Discourse
14 May 2021
EXPOSURE and MMus composition concert with EXAUDI at Milton Court
26 May 2021
Guildhall School of Music and Drama BMus composition workshops with EXAUDI
31 May 2021
Chromatic Resonance with Wigmore Hall with EXAUDI.
6 June 2021
1st Witch in Dido's Ghost by Purcell/Errollyn Wallen with Dunedin Consort at the Barbican
7 June 2021
Performance at City University of student compositions and works for solo voice by Barbara Monk Feldman, Morton Feldman and Aaron Einbond.
16 June 2021
EXAUDI Gesualdo Madrigal concert for City University at Holy Trinity church, Hoxton.
[Lucy had to pull out from the following concerts, due to ill health. She is looking forward to resuming work in mid September.
14 and 17 July 2021
1st Witch in Dido's Ghost by Purcell/Errollyn Wallen with Dunedin Consort at the Buxton Opera House
13th - 15th August 2021
Dartington International Summer School - performance of James Weeks' new work, and coaching.
21st August 2021
1st Witch in Dido's Ghost by Purcell/Errollyn Wallen with Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh International Festival
August 2021
EXAUDI Gesualdo Madrigal programme in Cologne
Coaching and performing student compositions at Royaumont Voix Nouvelles festival
28th September 2021
Haydn Creation with Academy of Ancient Music at Barbican Hall.]
30th September and 1st October 2021
Choral composition workshops with BBC Singers.
28th October 2021
Orlando Chamber Choir Autumn concert at St Peter's Eaton Square.
30th October 2021
EXAUDI performs at Listenpony concert series at Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell.
4th, 5th and 6th November 2021
Chronicles of an Assassination at the Coronet Theatre with English Voices and Natalie Nessay.
11th November 2021
Contemporary music for Remembrance at St Paul's Knightsbridge with BBC Singers
15th and 16th November 2021
Recording sessions of works by Kevin Raftery with EXAUDI.
17th and 18th November 2021
Recording sessions of the music of Christopher Fox with EXAUDI.
2nd December 2021
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir at St James' Piccadilly for Amos Trust's Christmas service.
3rd December 2021
Student composition workshops with EXAUDI at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
8th December 2021
Lucy and Siwan Rhys premiere James Weeks' Plain Air at Musicon, Durham.
9th December 2021
Student composition workshops at Durham University with Siwan Rhys.
17th December 2021
Lucy conducts Christmas Mirrored concert with Myriad Chamber Choir St Stephen's Dulwich.
Past concerts in 2020
3 and 4 January 2020
Conducting film sessions at Air Studios
31 January and 1 February 2020
Laura Bowler Rumplestiltskin with Riot Ensemble in Peckham
3 and 5 February
Education workshops with EXAUDI at Durham University
4 February 2020
Concert with EXAUDI in Durham
9 February 2020
Recording session
14 February 2020
Concert at St Peter's Eaton Square with BBC Singers
19 February 2020
Guest lecture at City University on composing for voicE
1 March 2020
EXAUDI workshop with Guildhall School of Music and Drama
5 March 2020
George Benjamin Dream of the Song with Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall
8 March 2020
FInzi Let Us Garlands Bring with Brighton Youth Orchestra String Ensemble
12 March 2020
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir in Bach family motets concert
14 March 2020
Concert with Sonoro at Saffron Hall CANCELLED
20 March 2020
Concert with BBC Singers at Cutty Sark CANCELLED
21 March 2020
Soprano 2 solos in Bach B Minor Mass with Coro CANCELLED
27 March 2020
Studio concert at St Paul’s Knightsbridge with BBC Singers, including works by McNeff and Bingham CANCELLED
4-12 April 2020
Conducting at St Endellion Festival CANCELLED
14-19 April 2020
Sectional leader for National Youth Choir of Great Britain CANCELLED
27 April 2020
Recording sessions CANCELLED
30 April 2020
Stockhausen Sternklang in Cologne CANCELLED
8 May 2020
Music for Royal Occasions at Milton Court, with Sofi Jeannin and BBC Singers
15 May 2020
EXAUDI concert at Milton Court CANCELLED
27 May 2020
EXAUDI concert at City University MOVED ONLINE
9 June 2020
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir at Gray's Inn chapel CANCELLED
18 June 2020
Concert with Orlando Chamber Choir CANCELLED
21 June 2020
EXAUDI American pioneers concert in Aldeburgh Festival CANCELLED
6-10 July 2020
Recording sessions
1 August 2020
Orlando Chamber Choir in Marvão International Music Festival POSTPONED TO 2021
15 August 2020
Premiere of James Weeks' Book of Flames and Shadows at Dartington International Festival POSTPONED TO 2021
16-22 August 2020
Coaching at Dartington International Festival POSTPONED TO 2021
5-6 October 2020
Rehearsals and recording of Guildhall Masters student compositions at Milton Court.
23rd October 2020
Performance at Aberdeen's Sound Festival with 2 members of EXAUDI
27th and 28th October 2020
Coaching and performing in the Purcell School's Online Composition Academy
4-6th November 2020
'How Lonely Sits the City' live broadvast with Dunedin Consort
27th November 2020
BBC recording with EXAUDI
7th December 2020
Recording with Sonoro choir
10th December 2020
Recording the Snow Hares community opera with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
16th December 2020
London Choral Sinfonia concert at St John's Smith Square
19th December 2020
Handel's Messiah with Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
Past concerts in 2019
3-11 January 2019
Rehearsals, concert and recording sessions for Gesualdo disc with EXAUDI
27th January 2019
EXAUDI concert in Barcelona
29th January 2019
EXAUDI concert in Durham
5th, 11-14th February 2019
Recording sessions with Sonoro choir
17th February
Conducting choir of St Margaret's, Westminster
18th and 21st February
Recording sessions
20th February
Guest lecture on composing for the voice at City University
2nd March 2019
Ligeti choral music concert with BBC Singers at St Giles Cripplegate
7th March 2019
Recording sessions
14th March 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert
22nd March 2019
EXAUDI Exposure concert
13th April 2019
Conducting Come and Sing at Endellion Easter Festival
20th and 21st April
Second soprano solos in Mozart C Minor Mass at Endellion Easter Festival
18th May
Sound Unbound at the Barbican with the BBC Singers
22nd May
EXAUDI concert at City University
7th and 9th June 2019
One per part chorus in Larcher's opera The Hunting Gun at the Aldeburgh Festival
12th June 2019
American Songbook recital at Downing College, Cambridge, with Siwan Rhys. Including works by Ives, Barber and Copland.
13th June 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert at St Mary, Aldermary
21st June 2019
Academy of Ancient Music Handel Coronation Anthems in Poland
13-14 July 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir in Suffolk
23 July 2019
Solomon's Knot at Ryedale Festival
27 July 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert at Pimlott Foundation in Colchester
10 and 16 August 2019
Recording sessions
15 August 2019
Gluck Orfeo with English Concert at Edinburgh International Festival
23 August 2019
Bach Cantatas with Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh International Festival
6th September 2019
Berio Sinfonia in Helsinki with EXAUDI, conducted by Susanna Mälkki
27 September 2019
Rachel Portman Earth Song with BBC Singers
17 October 2019
Launch party performance of EXAUDI's new Gesualdo madrigals CD
19 October 2019
Juice vocal trio The Birth of Venus at King's Place, as part of Venus Unwrapped series
23 October 2019
EXAUDI concert in Aberdeen Sound Festival
26 October 2019
Danieli Kidane Curates with Juice vocal trio and players from LSO at LSO St Luke's
29 October 2019
Recording sessions
4 November 2019
Recording sessions
5 November 2019
Martin Bussey CD launch with Sonoro
7 November 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert
13 November 2019
Handel and Purcell concert with Freiburger Barockorchester in Stuttgart Liederhalle
14 November 2019
Handel and Purcell concert with Freiburger Barockorchester in Berlin Philharmonie
15 November 2019
Handel and Purcell concert with Freiburger Barockorchester in Freiburg Konzerthaus
17 November 2019
Handel and Purcell concert with Freiburger Barockorchester in Cologne Philharmonie
22 November 2019
Conducting Concordium String Ensemble in Music by the Bridge concert series at All Saints Church, Fulham.
25 November 2019
Composition workshops with EXAUDI at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
6 December 2019
Composition workshops at Royal Holloway University with Héloïse Werner and Anne Denholm.
12th December 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert
17 December 2019
Sonoro Chamber Choir Christmas concert in Wimbledon
Past Concerts in 2017 and 2018:
15th-17th January 2017
Aldeburgh Residency with Emily Howard, Dan Ayling, Scapegoat and Simon Whiteley
25th January
Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans with The King's Consort, Theater an der Wien
26th January
Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans with The King's Consort, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
27th January
Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans with The King's Consort, Palace of Versailles
30th January - 2nd February
EXAUDI recording sessions for Poem of a Cell
10th-18th February
Masterclasses on French Opera with Malcolm Martineau at Crear, Scotland
4th March
2nd soprano soloist in Mozart Mass in C Minor at Guildford Cathedral with Vivace Chorus/Brandenburg Sinfonia
1st April
Wigmore Hall, London
EXAUDI 15th Anniversary Concert including works by Arcadelt, Monteverdi, James Weeks and Salvatore Sciarrino
9th April
English Romantics programme in Cuenca, Spain with The King's Consort
10th-16th April
Concerts in St Endellion Festival, Cornwall
21st April
Cambridge Early Music Festival at Fitzwilliam Museum with The Clerks
'Domestic Polyphony'
29th-30th April
Royal Philharmonic Society Women Conductors course, Cardiff
12th May
English Romantics programme in Cirencester with The King's Consort
24th May
EXAUDI City University student composition performance
25th-27th May
Aldeburgh residency for the American Songbook Project, with Siwan Rhys and Laura Bowler
2nd June
EXAUDI concert at IRCAM MANIFESTE, PARIS, live on France Musique
5th-10th June
Residency in Aldeburgh with EXAUDI.
10th June
EXAUDI performance in Aldeburgh Fesitval
‘Chromatic Renaissance’
Works by Vicentino, Lassus, Rore
James Weeks: Primo Libro (excerpts, wp)
14th-16th June
Recording Franc Martin Mass for Double Choir and works James MacMillan with Sonoro chamber choir
17th June
2nd soprano soloist in Bach Mass in B Minor with the Vasari Singers/Brandenburg Sinfonia at St James' Piccadilly
21st and 22nd June
Mezzo soprano soloist in Beethoven Mass in C with EC4 Music at St Bride's Church
23rd June
Monteverdi Vespers with Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
1st July
PRS for Music Foundation: New Music Biennial at Albemarle Music Centre, Hull (broadcast on BBC Radio 3)
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art with EXAUDI
8th July
PRS for Music Foundation: New Music Biennial at Royal Festival Hall, London
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art with EXAUDI
14th July
Monteverdi Vespers with Academy of Ancient Music (choir/solos) in Gloucester Cathedral
26th-27th July
Vocal coach at residential course with National Youth Choir of Wales in Monmouth.
2nd August
BBC Prom at Royal Albert Hall
Bach Vom Himmel Hoch, arr. Stravinsky, with Philharmonia Voices & Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
8th August
BBC Prom at Royal Albert Hall
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust with Monteverdi Choir/Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
10th-15th August
Aldeburgh residency rehearsing with Siwan Rhys, Laura Bowler and Michael Finnissy on the American Songbook Project and recording parts of programme.
Open Session on 13th August in Britten Studio at 6pm. Tickets £6.
20th August
BBC Prom at Royal Albert Hall
Bach St John Passion with Dunedin Consort
30th August
Festival Berlioz, La Côte-Saint-André
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust with Monteverdi Choir/Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
6th September
BBC Proms at Tate Modern
Cassandra Miller Guide with EXAUDI
13th September
Seminar afternoon at the Purcell School on the American Songbook
19th September
American Songbook recital with Siwan Rhys
Danny House, Hurst Festival
3rd October
Staged performance of Purcell King Arthur with Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
6th October
American Songbook recital with Siwan Rhys
Brunel Tunnel Shaft, Rotherhithe
17th October
American Songbook recital with Siwan Rhys
Durham University
31st October
American Songbook recital with Siwan Rhys
City University
16th November
Performance with EXAUDI in Luxembourg
25th November
Performance with EXAUDI in Milan
26th November
Performance with EXAUDI in Naples
20th December
Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
18th and 19th January 2018
Verdi Requiem with Monteverdi Choir/Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra at the Zürich Tonhalle
27th January
An American Songbook with Siwan Rhys at International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester (7.30pm)
31st January
An American Songbook concert with Siwan Rhys at Purcell School, performing student compositions, and Laura Bowler's A Damned Mob of Scribbling Women
7th February
An American Songbook lunchtime performance with Siwan Rhys at St Nicholas' Church, Brighton.
18th February
EXAUDI performance at Principal Sound Festival, St John's Smith Square.
27th February
Handel concert with Stephen Layton and Florilegium at St John's Smith Square (solos and chorus)
1st March
Beethoven Choral Fantasy (soloist) with Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall
6th March
Sonoro CD launch
20th March
EXAUDI performance of Guildhall student compositions
28th March
Britten Sinfonia Voices perform 'Easter Voices' programme at Milton Court
30th March
Academy of Ancient Music St John Passion, 3pm, Barbican
31st March-8th April
Endellion Easter Festival (violin)
14th April
EXAUDI performance in BBC Open Ear
16-19th April
Jerwood Opera residency at Snape Maltings: Devil in the Belfry by Tom Coult with Britten Sinfonia.
22nd April
Conducting charity string ensemble lunchtime concert at St Laurence Church, Catford.
28th April
Mozart C Minor Mass (second soprano solos), conducted by Jonathan Rathbone
29th April
Siren Song recital at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, with Siwan Rhys. A programme of song by British women composers, including Rebecca Clarke, Morfydd Owen, Ivy Priaulx Rainier, Mary Plumstead, Elizabeth Maconchy, Madeleine Dring, Nicola Lefanu, Lynne Plowman, Judith Weir and Kerry Andrew.
1st May
Performance of extracts from Michael Finnissy's Remembrance Day and Recordare (a Finnissy reworking of the Recordare from Mozart Requiem), accompanied by the composer, in his retirement celebration concert, Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton.
13th May
Planet Earth with live orchestra and choir at Royal Albert Hall
20th May
Recording sessions
26th May
EXAUDI concert at Beverley Early Music Festival
1st June
Recording sessions
2nd and 3rd June
Star Trek with live orchestra and choir at Royal Albert Hall
5th June
EXAUDI performance of City University student compositions
8th June
Recording sessions
16th June
Flower Songs recital with pianist Jocelyn Freeman
19th June
Recording sessions
22nd June
Conducting Wagner Siegfried Idyll with Blaze Chamber Orchestra at St Barnabas, Ealing.
Early July
EXAUDI recording sessions
8-10th July
R&D residency with Siwan Rhys
11th July
Song recital in Hungerford Arts Festival
13th July
Concert with Blaze Ensemble
16-17th July
Recording sessions
20th July
Spitalfields Music/Music in the City: a recital of songs by female composers with soprano Héloïse Werner and harpist Anne Denholm.
29th July
Chamber music concert in East Grinstead
31st July
Chorus master for SWAP'ra gala at Opera Holland Park
5th August
Direct choir of St Margaret's Westminster
8th August
Recording sessions
29th August-10th September 2018
EXAUDI residency at Royaumont
16th September 2018
Verdi Requiem with Monteverdi Choir in Wroclaw
18th September 2018
Verdi Requiem in London
20th September 2018
Verdi Requiem in Italy
28th September 2018
Recording session
29th September 2018
Recital in Stamford
6th October 2018
Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle with Sonoro, Holy Trinity, Sloane Square
11th October 2018
Dusapin Passion with Music Theatre Wales & EXAUDI, The Anvil, Basingstoke
13th October 2018
Dusapin Passion at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
23rd October 2018
Dusapin Passion in Millennium Centre, Cardiff
26th October 2018
Mini recital at Handel House with harpsichordist Satoko Doi-Luck
28th October 2018
Concordium String Ensemble concert at Church of the Holy Spirit in Clapham
30th October 2018
Dusapin Passion in Snape Maltings
6th November 2018
Dusapin Passion at the Lowry, Salford
10th November 2018
Dusapin Passion, Clwyd Theatr Cymru
17th November 2018
Handel Messiah with Academy of Ancient Music in Antwerp
24th November 2018
Sciarrino Carnaval at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with EXAUDI and Explore Ensemble
1st December 2018
Haydn Paukenmesse with Dulwich Choral Society, conducted by Aidan Oliver
15th December 2018
Mozart Mass in C Minor and Charpentier Te Deum with Tring Choral Society
Past performances in 2016:
24th January
Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony with Philharmonia Voices/Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
25th - 29th January
R&D workshops with Erratica
9th February
Steve Reich The Desert Music, Barbican
Britten Sinfonia/Britten Sinfonia Voices
23rd February
Bach Magnificat (solo&chorus) with Sonoro at St Martin in the Fields
12th March
Finnissy at 70 concert at Milton Court, Barbican with EXAUDI
16th March
GSMD MMus composition concert with EXAUDI at Milton Court, Barbican
24th March
Bach Cantatas with Academy of Ancient Music at Milton Court, Barbican
26th March
Bach Cantatas with Academy of Ancient Music at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
2nd April
Performance at St John's Smith Square with EXAUDI
15th and 17th April
Zerlina in Mozart Don Giovanni with Midsummer Opera
25th-27th April
Recording sessions with The King's Consort
2nd and 3rd May
Fairy in Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream in Middle Temple Hall
14th May
Opera Puteri Saadong in Notting Hill
21st May
London Choral Sinfonia concert at Cadogan Hall
25th May
EXAUDI concert of new commissions at City University
2nd June
Stravinsky 'Faith' concert with Philharmonia Voices/Philharmonia Orchestra in St John's Smith Square
7th June
Kammer Klang, Cafe OTO, Dalston
Christopher Fox: Catalogue Irraisone
11th June
Bach Magnificat in Nikolaikirche, Leipzig Bach Festival with Solomon's Knot
25th June
EXAUDI performance in King's College London, including works by Christopher Fox, James Weeks, Claudia Molitor, Zeynep Bulut
30th July
BBC Prom at Royal Albert Hall
Berlioz Romeo et Juliette with Monteverdi Choir/Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
11th August
Schumann Manfred with Monteverdi Choir
21st August
Berlioz Romeo et Juliette with Monteverdi Choir in Festival Berlioz
25th August
Feldman performance with London Contemporary Orchestra at the Roundhouse
28th August-10th September
EXAUDI residency and concerts at Royaumont as part of Voix Nouvelles Academy
15th and 16th September
Mendelssohn Lobgesang at Leipzig Gewandhaus with Monteverdi Choir/Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
17th September
Recital with Miranda Heldt in Stamford
22nd September
Rachmaninov Vespers with Sonoro
10th October
Purcell Fairy Queen (staged) with Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
19th and 20th October
2nd soprano soloist in Mozart Mass in C Minor with EC4 Music at St Bride's Church
23rd October
EXAUDI Exposure at LSO St Luke's
12th November
Fanshawe African Sanctus with Sonoro
18th and 20th November
Hansel in Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel with Midsummer Opera
25th November
Sonoro concert, St James' Piccadilly
11th December
Britten A Ceremony of Carols (solos&chorus) with London Choral Sinfonia
16th-18th December
Handel Messiah with Academy of Ancient Music in Braunschweig, Groningen & Einhoven
2015
25th-30th January
Aldeburgh residency with EXAUDI/Michael Finnissy
3rd February
EXAUDI Wigmore concert
4th February
EXAUDI recording session for Finnissy Kelir
12th February
Ravel L'enfant et les sortilèges with Philharmonia Voices/Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
22nd February
Francis Grier Sword in the Soul (solos&chorus) filming in King's Chapel, Cambridge
18th, 19th and 21st March
Telemann Die Tageszeiten with Solomon's Knot in Bern, London Handel Festival and Cambridge Early Music Festival
26th and 27th March
Bach St Matthew Passion with Academy of Ancient Music in San Sebastien and Valencia
30th March
EXAUDI performance GSMD MMus compositions, Milton Court
12th April
EXAUDI performance in World Minimalism Festival, Amsterdam
14th April
EXAUDI at Kammer Klang, Cafe OTO
17th April
St Bride's song recital with Michael Waldron
23rd May
Meg Page in Verdi Falstaff with Lambeth Orchestra
28th&29th May
Michael Finnissy Gesualdo: Libro Sesto recording with EXAUDI
3rd June
James Weeks Mala Punica in Spitalfield's Festival with EXAUDI
15th June
Spitalfields Festival concert in Tower of London
4th July
Mark Simpson The Immortal (wp) at Manchester International Festival with EXAUDI/BBC Phil
16th July
Monteverdi Vespers with Dunedin Consort in Durham Cathedral
1st August
Recital at Danny House with Ronnaug Sundling and Michael Waldron
12th-16th August
Meg Page in Verdi Falstaff with Black Cat Opera
24th August
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall
Shostakovich Orango with Philharmonia Orchestra
30th August
Concert in Antwerp with The Clerks
4th September
Mendelssohn Paulus with The King's Consort in Bucharest
16th September
Concert at Tower of London
18th September
Mozart Requiem with Dunedin Consort in Bremen
6th-8th October
Recording with Syred Consort (solos&chorus)
17th October
EXAUDI Exposure at the Warehouse
20th-24th October
David Lang Little Match Girl Passion with Crytic Theatre at Royal Northern College of Music, Nottingham University, King's Place and Sound Festival, Aberdeen
26th-29th October
The King's Consort recording sessions of Israel in Egypt
26th November
Grieg Peer Gynt with Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall
1st December
NMC recording session
5th & 6th December
Janáček Glagolitic Mass with Monteverdi Choir/Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
21st December
Bach Magnificat (solos&chorus) with Solomon's Knot at St John's Smith Square
Life as a working mother of a young child is busy! I try to keep my diary up to date, but there will undoubtedly be omissions along the way! Please take the follow as a broad overview of what I'm up to at the moment...
2-5 January Recording CD of French choral music with London Choral Sinfonia
15 January Recording with BBC Singers
19&20 January Recording folksong settings by Clive Osgood with Polyphony and Britten Sinfonia
21 January recording session (singing)
22 January BMus composer workshops at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with EXAUDI
24 January recording session (singing)
25 January recording session (singing)
30 January recording session (singing)
13-16 February EXAUDI concert tour, Northumberland
28 February EXAUDI concert at King's Place
5&6 March recording sessions (singing)
21 March conducting Bach St John Passion with Orlando Chamber Choir and Musica Poetica
30 March-7 April Endellion Festival conducting Fauré Requiem and Brahms Nänie
8 May recording music by Michael John Trotta
18 May recording session
24 May recording session
30 and 31 May recording sessions
3 June recording sessions
4 June recording sessions
5 June recording sessions
7 June recording sessions
9 June recording sessions
11 June recording sessions
13 June Orlando Chamber Choir summer concert
16-22 June conducting Lacock Singer's course at Monteconero, Italy.
3 July recording sessions
4 July Ruth Crawford Seeger at Sound Within Sound at the Southbank Centre with The Marian Consort.
13 July Orlando Chamber Choir summer workshop
5 & 8 July DRET Festival concerts with the BBC Singers
12 September EXAUDI performance in Kammermusiksaal, Berlin Philharmonie of Isabel Mundry new work.
14 September EXAUDI Chromatic Renaissance performance in St. Matthäs Kirche, Berlin
5 October Polyphony performance The Romantic English programme at Tetbury Festival
6 October Recording sessions
7 October Polyphony performance The Romantic English programme at St John's Smith Square
13 October Conducting Concordium String Ensemble in performance of Finzi Clarinet Concerto with Jernej Albreht, Janacek Suite for Strings and Stephen Dodgson Last of the Leaves with Jon Stainsby, supported by the Stephen Dodgson Charitable Foundation at St Stephen's Dulwich at 4pm
11, 14, 15 October recording choral works by Clive Osgood with Polyphony
16 &17 October Recording sessions
24 October James MacMillan Since it was the day of preparation with Dunedin Consort and Hebrides Ensemble in Derry
25 October James MacMillan Since it was the day of preparation with Dunedin Consort and Hebrides Ensemble in King's Place, London
26 October James MacMillan Since it was the day of preparation with Dunedin Consort and Hebrides Ensemble in Cumnock, Scotland
27 October James MacMillan Since it was the day of preparation with Dunedin Consort and Hebrides Ensemble in RSNO Auditorium, Glasgow
7 November Orlando birthday concert
9 November 2nd soprano soloist in Mozart C Minor Mass with London Forest Choir, conducted by Jonathan Rathbone
12-18 November Dunedin St John Passion, with concerts in Chicago and Kansas City
19&25 November Recording sessions
4 December Sonoro carol concert
7&8 December Directing Dunedin Consort's Bridging the Gap choral weekend
9 December recording session
13 December Conducting Cassandra Miller Swim and Schumann's Second Symphony with Royal Irish Academy of Music Philharmonia at the Whyte Recital Hall in Dublin
22 December Bach Christmas Oratorio at St John's Smith Square with Polyphony
23 December Handel Messiah at St John's Smith Square with Polyphony
2023
9 January An American Songbook II lunchtime recital at Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, with Siwan Rhys
16-19 January Recording of CD of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with London Choral Sinfonia
23, 24, 27 January recording sessions (singing)
1 Feb Chromatic Renaissance concert with EXAUDI in Durham
3 Feb Conducting Tchaikovsky Serenade for String and Howells Elegy in Music by the Bridge concert series at All Saints Putney with Concordium.
9, 10, 11, 15 February recording sessions (singing)
17 Feb Studio recording of Jonathan Dove, Thea Musgrave and Brahms with BBC Singers
24 February recording session (singing)
3 March recording session (singing)
Mid March- start of June Maternity leave!
19 May recording session (singing)
11 June EXAUDI Verses of Love concert at Aldeburgh Festival
22 June Orlando Chamber Choir South American concert
23 June London Early Opera concert in Chiswick
24 June recording session (singing)
25th June Elgar Light of Life with the Elgar Sinfonia of London
9 July recording session (singing)
4 August recording session (singing)
11 August recording session (singing)
12 August recording session (conducting)
29 August recording session (conducting)
19 and 20 August Bach concerts with Dunedin Consort at the Chaise-Dieu Festival in France
1 September recording session (singing)
11 September recording session (conducting)
12 September recording session (conducting)
13 September recording session (conducting)
16 September recording session (singing)
25th September - back surgery requiring 2 weeks recovery
14 October concert in Brighton Early Music Festival with Fieri Consort
17 October recording session (singing)
22 October recording session (singing)
3 November BBC Singers recording
6 November recording session (singing)
9 November Cloistered Composers concert with Orlando Chamber Choir
20 and 22 November three concerts in Wien Modern with EXAUDI
30 November Collaborative translation-composition project at the Royal Academy of Music with University College London
2 December recording session (singing)
5 December EXAUDI concert at Imperial University
14 December Orlando Christmas concert
22 December Polyphony Christmas Oratorio at St John's Smith Square
23 December Polyphony Messiah at St John's Smith Square
2022
5-7 January
Recording of music by JAC Redford with London Voices and Ben Parry
18,20 & 21 January
Recording Choral Inspirations with Sonoro and Neil Ferris
19 January
Student composition workshops at Durham University with Siwan Rhys
24-27 January
Recording Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs (soloist Roderick Williams) and Lennox Berkeley Variations on a Hymn by Orlando Gibbons (soloist Andy Staples) with London Choral Sinfonia and Michael Waldron
10 February
EXAUDI concert in Durham Cathedral of world premiere by Mike Worboys
11 February
Student composition workshops at Durham University
1 March
Guest lecture at City University on writing for SATB
4 March
Conducting Concordium string ensemble in the Music By The Bridge concert series at All Saints Fulham. Rep includes Grieg Holberg Suite and Bach Cantata 170.
6 March
Guildhall student composition workshops
18 March
Myriad concert at St Stephen's Dulwich
24 March
Orlando Chamber Choir performance of Handel's Messiah with London Baroque Sinfonia, Elinor Rolfe Johnson, Jessica Gillingwater, David De Winter and Gareth Brynmore John.
10-17 April
Endellion Easter Festival
15 April
Bach St John Passion with Academy of Ancient Music
24 April and 28 April
EXAUDI Gesualdo madrigal concerts in Ghent and Barcelona
7 May
EXAUDI performances in Witten, Germany
16 May
EXAUDI EXPOSURE performance at Milton Court concert hall
22 May
EXAUDI Gesualdo madrigal concert in Norwich
14 June
BBC Singers performance in Snape as part of the Aldeburgh Festival
22 June
World premiere of Plain Air by James Weeks at Musicon series in Durham, written for Lucy and Siwan Rhys
23 June
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir Isle of Song concert
17,22, 23, 28 July
Conducting London Voices recording sessions
30 July
Concert with Orlando at the Marvão International Festival in Portugal
10 August
Beethoven Fidelio in Edinburgh International Festival with Philharmonia Orchestra and Voices
23-28 August
Course conductor for National Youth Choir of Great Britain Girls' Choir summer course, working alongside Principal Conductor Joanna Tomlinson.
22 September
Fin de Siecle Vienna and Paris song recital in Hurst Festival with Gavin Roberts
30 September
Performing George Benjamin's Upon Silence for mezzo soprano and 5 viols, the world premiere of Donnacha Dennehy's That Time and Purcell with Hathor Ensemble at Bruges Concertgebouw.
4-5 October
Recording one-per-part madrigals by Casulana with Fieri Consort.
11-13 October
BBC Singers recording of music by John Pickard.
2 November
The Moon Hares with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
5 November
Mezzo soloist in Mozart Coronation Mass and Haydn Nelson Mass with Havering Singers
8 November
Polyphony concert London
10 November
Conducting Orlando's Schütz anniversary concert (350 years since his death).
22 November
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/London Voices
19 November
EXAUDI performance in Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
4 December
EXAUDI's 20th anniversary concert at King's Place.
14 December
A Christmas Carol at Milton Court with BBC Singers
15 December
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir's Christmas concert: To Bethlehem: Music of Three Wise Men and a Shining Star
23 December
Handel Messiah with Polyphony at St John's Smith Square.
2021
14 March 2021
Guildhall School of Music and Drama MMus composition workshops with EXAUDI
21-23 April 2021
Recording James Weeks' Fantasie di strani e dolci misteri della parola in Orford Church, Suffolk.
23 April 2021
Digital performance James Weeks' Fantasie di strani e dolci misteri della parola as part of his Libro di fiammelle e ombre for MUSICON at Durham University. Watch here.
3 May 2021
Working with composition students at Durham University on their works for voices
5 May 2021
Italian coaching for Dunedin Consort's A Lover's Discourse
14 May 2021
EXPOSURE and MMus composition concert with EXAUDI at Milton Court
26 May 2021
Guildhall School of Music and Drama BMus composition workshops with EXAUDI
31 May 2021
Chromatic Resonance with Wigmore Hall with EXAUDI.
6 June 2021
1st Witch in Dido's Ghost by Purcell/Errollyn Wallen with Dunedin Consort at the Barbican
7 June 2021
Performance at City University of student compositions and works for solo voice by Barbara Monk Feldman, Morton Feldman and Aaron Einbond.
16 June 2021
EXAUDI Gesualdo Madrigal concert for City University at Holy Trinity church, Hoxton.
[Lucy had to pull out from the following concerts, due to ill health. She is looking forward to resuming work in mid September.
14 and 17 July 2021
1st Witch in Dido's Ghost by Purcell/Errollyn Wallen with Dunedin Consort at the Buxton Opera House
13th - 15th August 2021
Dartington International Summer School - performance of James Weeks' new work, and coaching.
21st August 2021
1st Witch in Dido's Ghost by Purcell/Errollyn Wallen with Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh International Festival
August 2021
EXAUDI Gesualdo Madrigal programme in Cologne
Coaching and performing student compositions at Royaumont Voix Nouvelles festival
28th September 2021
Haydn Creation with Academy of Ancient Music at Barbican Hall.]
30th September and 1st October 2021
Choral composition workshops with BBC Singers.
28th October 2021
Orlando Chamber Choir Autumn concert at St Peter's Eaton Square.
30th October 2021
EXAUDI performs at Listenpony concert series at Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell.
4th, 5th and 6th November 2021
Chronicles of an Assassination at the Coronet Theatre with English Voices and Natalie Nessay.
11th November 2021
Contemporary music for Remembrance at St Paul's Knightsbridge with BBC Singers
15th and 16th November 2021
Recording sessions of works by Kevin Raftery with EXAUDI.
17th and 18th November 2021
Recording sessions of the music of Christopher Fox with EXAUDI.
2nd December 2021
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir at St James' Piccadilly for Amos Trust's Christmas service.
3rd December 2021
Student composition workshops with EXAUDI at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
8th December 2021
Lucy and Siwan Rhys premiere James Weeks' Plain Air at Musicon, Durham.
9th December 2021
Student composition workshops at Durham University with Siwan Rhys.
17th December 2021
Lucy conducts Christmas Mirrored concert with Myriad Chamber Choir St Stephen's Dulwich.
Past concerts in 2020
3 and 4 January 2020
Conducting film sessions at Air Studios
31 January and 1 February 2020
Laura Bowler Rumplestiltskin with Riot Ensemble in Peckham
3 and 5 February
Education workshops with EXAUDI at Durham University
4 February 2020
Concert with EXAUDI in Durham
9 February 2020
Recording session
14 February 2020
Concert at St Peter's Eaton Square with BBC Singers
19 February 2020
Guest lecture at City University on composing for voicE
1 March 2020
EXAUDI workshop with Guildhall School of Music and Drama
5 March 2020
George Benjamin Dream of the Song with Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall
8 March 2020
FInzi Let Us Garlands Bring with Brighton Youth Orchestra String Ensemble
12 March 2020
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir in Bach family motets concert
14 March 2020
Concert with Sonoro at Saffron Hall CANCELLED
20 March 2020
Concert with BBC Singers at Cutty Sark CANCELLED
21 March 2020
Soprano 2 solos in Bach B Minor Mass with Coro CANCELLED
27 March 2020
Studio concert at St Paul’s Knightsbridge with BBC Singers, including works by McNeff and Bingham CANCELLED
4-12 April 2020
Conducting at St Endellion Festival CANCELLED
14-19 April 2020
Sectional leader for National Youth Choir of Great Britain CANCELLED
27 April 2020
Recording sessions CANCELLED
30 April 2020
Stockhausen Sternklang in Cologne CANCELLED
8 May 2020
Music for Royal Occasions at Milton Court, with Sofi Jeannin and BBC Singers
15 May 2020
EXAUDI concert at Milton Court CANCELLED
27 May 2020
EXAUDI concert at City University MOVED ONLINE
9 June 2020
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir at Gray's Inn chapel CANCELLED
18 June 2020
Concert with Orlando Chamber Choir CANCELLED
21 June 2020
EXAUDI American pioneers concert in Aldeburgh Festival CANCELLED
6-10 July 2020
Recording sessions
1 August 2020
Orlando Chamber Choir in Marvão International Music Festival POSTPONED TO 2021
15 August 2020
Premiere of James Weeks' Book of Flames and Shadows at Dartington International Festival POSTPONED TO 2021
16-22 August 2020
Coaching at Dartington International Festival POSTPONED TO 2021
5-6 October 2020
Rehearsals and recording of Guildhall Masters student compositions at Milton Court.
23rd October 2020
Performance at Aberdeen's Sound Festival with 2 members of EXAUDI
27th and 28th October 2020
Coaching and performing in the Purcell School's Online Composition Academy
4-6th November 2020
'How Lonely Sits the City' live broadvast with Dunedin Consort
27th November 2020
BBC recording with EXAUDI
7th December 2020
Recording with Sonoro choir
10th December 2020
Recording the Snow Hares community opera with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
16th December 2020
London Choral Sinfonia concert at St John's Smith Square
19th December 2020
Handel's Messiah with Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
Past concerts in 2019
3-11 January 2019
Rehearsals, concert and recording sessions for Gesualdo disc with EXAUDI
27th January 2019
EXAUDI concert in Barcelona
29th January 2019
EXAUDI concert in Durham
5th, 11-14th February 2019
Recording sessions with Sonoro choir
17th February
Conducting choir of St Margaret's, Westminster
18th and 21st February
Recording sessions
20th February
Guest lecture on composing for the voice at City University
2nd March 2019
Ligeti choral music concert with BBC Singers at St Giles Cripplegate
7th March 2019
Recording sessions
14th March 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert
22nd March 2019
EXAUDI Exposure concert
13th April 2019
Conducting Come and Sing at Endellion Easter Festival
20th and 21st April
Second soprano solos in Mozart C Minor Mass at Endellion Easter Festival
18th May
Sound Unbound at the Barbican with the BBC Singers
22nd May
EXAUDI concert at City University
7th and 9th June 2019
One per part chorus in Larcher's opera The Hunting Gun at the Aldeburgh Festival
12th June 2019
American Songbook recital at Downing College, Cambridge, with Siwan Rhys. Including works by Ives, Barber and Copland.
13th June 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert at St Mary, Aldermary
21st June 2019
Academy of Ancient Music Handel Coronation Anthems in Poland
13-14 July 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir in Suffolk
23 July 2019
Solomon's Knot at Ryedale Festival
27 July 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert at Pimlott Foundation in Colchester
10 and 16 August 2019
Recording sessions
15 August 2019
Gluck Orfeo with English Concert at Edinburgh International Festival
23 August 2019
Bach Cantatas with Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh International Festival
6th September 2019
Berio Sinfonia in Helsinki with EXAUDI, conducted by Susanna Mälkki
27 September 2019
Rachel Portman Earth Song with BBC Singers
17 October 2019
Launch party performance of EXAUDI's new Gesualdo madrigals CD
19 October 2019
Juice vocal trio The Birth of Venus at King's Place, as part of Venus Unwrapped series
23 October 2019
EXAUDI concert in Aberdeen Sound Festival
26 October 2019
Danieli Kidane Curates with Juice vocal trio and players from LSO at LSO St Luke's
29 October 2019
Recording sessions
4 November 2019
Recording sessions
5 November 2019
Martin Bussey CD launch with Sonoro
7 November 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert
13 November 2019
Handel and Purcell concert with Freiburger Barockorchester in Stuttgart Liederhalle
14 November 2019
Handel and Purcell concert with Freiburger Barockorchester in Berlin Philharmonie
15 November 2019
Handel and Purcell concert with Freiburger Barockorchester in Freiburg Konzerthaus
17 November 2019
Handel and Purcell concert with Freiburger Barockorchester in Cologne Philharmonie
22 November 2019
Conducting Concordium String Ensemble in Music by the Bridge concert series at All Saints Church, Fulham.
25 November 2019
Composition workshops with EXAUDI at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
6 December 2019
Composition workshops at Royal Holloway University with Héloïse Werner and Anne Denholm.
12th December 2019
Conducting Orlando Chamber Choir concert
17 December 2019
Sonoro Chamber Choir Christmas concert in Wimbledon
Past Concerts in 2017 and 2018:
15th-17th January 2017
Aldeburgh Residency with Emily Howard, Dan Ayling, Scapegoat and Simon Whiteley
25th January
Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans with The King's Consort, Theater an der Wien
26th January
Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans with The King's Consort, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
27th January
Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans with The King's Consort, Palace of Versailles
30th January - 2nd February
EXAUDI recording sessions for Poem of a Cell
10th-18th February
Masterclasses on French Opera with Malcolm Martineau at Crear, Scotland
4th March
2nd soprano soloist in Mozart Mass in C Minor at Guildford Cathedral with Vivace Chorus/Brandenburg Sinfonia
1st April
Wigmore Hall, London
EXAUDI 15th Anniversary Concert including works by Arcadelt, Monteverdi, James Weeks and Salvatore Sciarrino
9th April
English Romantics programme in Cuenca, Spain with The King's Consort
10th-16th April
Concerts in St Endellion Festival, Cornwall
21st April
Cambridge Early Music Festival at Fitzwilliam Museum with The Clerks
'Domestic Polyphony'
29th-30th April
Royal Philharmonic Society Women Conductors course, Cardiff
12th May
English Romantics programme in Cirencester with The King's Consort
24th May
EXAUDI City University student composition performance
25th-27th May
Aldeburgh residency for the American Songbook Project, with Siwan Rhys and Laura Bowler
2nd June
EXAUDI concert at IRCAM MANIFESTE, PARIS, live on France Musique
5th-10th June
Residency in Aldeburgh with EXAUDI.
10th June
EXAUDI performance in Aldeburgh Fesitval
‘Chromatic Renaissance’
Works by Vicentino, Lassus, Rore
James Weeks: Primo Libro (excerpts, wp)
14th-16th June
Recording Franc Martin Mass for Double Choir and works James MacMillan with Sonoro chamber choir
17th June
2nd soprano soloist in Bach Mass in B Minor with the Vasari Singers/Brandenburg Sinfonia at St James' Piccadilly
21st and 22nd June
Mezzo soprano soloist in Beethoven Mass in C with EC4 Music at St Bride's Church
23rd June
Monteverdi Vespers with Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
1st July
PRS for Music Foundation: New Music Biennial at Albemarle Music Centre, Hull (broadcast on BBC Radio 3)
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art with EXAUDI
8th July
PRS for Music Foundation: New Music Biennial at Royal Festival Hall, London
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art with EXAUDI
14th July
Monteverdi Vespers with Academy of Ancient Music (choir/solos) in Gloucester Cathedral
26th-27th July
Vocal coach at residential course with National Youth Choir of Wales in Monmouth.
2nd August
BBC Prom at Royal Albert Hall
Bach Vom Himmel Hoch, arr. Stravinsky, with Philharmonia Voices & Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
8th August
BBC Prom at Royal Albert Hall
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust with Monteverdi Choir/Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
10th-15th August
Aldeburgh residency rehearsing with Siwan Rhys, Laura Bowler and Michael Finnissy on the American Songbook Project and recording parts of programme.
Open Session on 13th August in Britten Studio at 6pm. Tickets £6.
20th August
BBC Prom at Royal Albert Hall
Bach St John Passion with Dunedin Consort
30th August
Festival Berlioz, La Côte-Saint-André
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust with Monteverdi Choir/Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
6th September
BBC Proms at Tate Modern
Cassandra Miller Guide with EXAUDI
13th September
Seminar afternoon at the Purcell School on the American Songbook
19th September
American Songbook recital with Siwan Rhys
Danny House, Hurst Festival
3rd October
Staged performance of Purcell King Arthur with Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
6th October
American Songbook recital with Siwan Rhys
Brunel Tunnel Shaft, Rotherhithe
17th October
American Songbook recital with Siwan Rhys
Durham University
31st October
American Songbook recital with Siwan Rhys
City University
16th November
Performance with EXAUDI in Luxembourg
25th November
Performance with EXAUDI in Milan
26th November
Performance with EXAUDI in Naples
20th December
Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
18th and 19th January 2018
Verdi Requiem with Monteverdi Choir/Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra at the Zürich Tonhalle
27th January
An American Songbook with Siwan Rhys at International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester (7.30pm)
31st January
An American Songbook concert with Siwan Rhys at Purcell School, performing student compositions, and Laura Bowler's A Damned Mob of Scribbling Women
7th February
An American Songbook lunchtime performance with Siwan Rhys at St Nicholas' Church, Brighton.
18th February
EXAUDI performance at Principal Sound Festival, St John's Smith Square.
27th February
Handel concert with Stephen Layton and Florilegium at St John's Smith Square (solos and chorus)
1st March
Beethoven Choral Fantasy (soloist) with Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall
6th March
Sonoro CD launch
20th March
EXAUDI performance of Guildhall student compositions
28th March
Britten Sinfonia Voices perform 'Easter Voices' programme at Milton Court
30th March
Academy of Ancient Music St John Passion, 3pm, Barbican
31st March-8th April
Endellion Easter Festival (violin)
14th April
EXAUDI performance in BBC Open Ear
16-19th April
Jerwood Opera residency at Snape Maltings: Devil in the Belfry by Tom Coult with Britten Sinfonia.
22nd April
Conducting charity string ensemble lunchtime concert at St Laurence Church, Catford.
28th April
Mozart C Minor Mass (second soprano solos), conducted by Jonathan Rathbone
29th April
Siren Song recital at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, with Siwan Rhys. A programme of song by British women composers, including Rebecca Clarke, Morfydd Owen, Ivy Priaulx Rainier, Mary Plumstead, Elizabeth Maconchy, Madeleine Dring, Nicola Lefanu, Lynne Plowman, Judith Weir and Kerry Andrew.
1st May
Performance of extracts from Michael Finnissy's Remembrance Day and Recordare (a Finnissy reworking of the Recordare from Mozart Requiem), accompanied by the composer, in his retirement celebration concert, Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton.
13th May
Planet Earth with live orchestra and choir at Royal Albert Hall
20th May
Recording sessions
26th May
EXAUDI concert at Beverley Early Music Festival
1st June
Recording sessions
2nd and 3rd June
Star Trek with live orchestra and choir at Royal Albert Hall
5th June
EXAUDI performance of City University student compositions
8th June
Recording sessions
16th June
Flower Songs recital with pianist Jocelyn Freeman
19th June
Recording sessions
22nd June
Conducting Wagner Siegfried Idyll with Blaze Chamber Orchestra at St Barnabas, Ealing.
Early July
EXAUDI recording sessions
8-10th July
R&D residency with Siwan Rhys
11th July
Song recital in Hungerford Arts Festival
13th July
Concert with Blaze Ensemble
16-17th July
Recording sessions
20th July
Spitalfields Music/Music in the City: a recital of songs by female composers with soprano Héloïse Werner and harpist Anne Denholm.
29th July
Chamber music concert in East Grinstead
31st July
Chorus master for SWAP'ra gala at Opera Holland Park
5th August
Direct choir of St Margaret's Westminster
8th August
Recording sessions
29th August-10th September 2018
EXAUDI residency at Royaumont
16th September 2018
Verdi Requiem with Monteverdi Choir in Wroclaw
18th September 2018
Verdi Requiem in London
20th September 2018
Verdi Requiem in Italy
28th September 2018
Recording session
29th September 2018
Recital in Stamford
6th October 2018
Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle with Sonoro, Holy Trinity, Sloane Square
11th October 2018
Dusapin Passion with Music Theatre Wales & EXAUDI, The Anvil, Basingstoke
13th October 2018
Dusapin Passion at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
23rd October 2018
Dusapin Passion in Millennium Centre, Cardiff
26th October 2018
Mini recital at Handel House with harpsichordist Satoko Doi-Luck
28th October 2018
Concordium String Ensemble concert at Church of the Holy Spirit in Clapham
30th October 2018
Dusapin Passion in Snape Maltings
6th November 2018
Dusapin Passion at the Lowry, Salford
10th November 2018
Dusapin Passion, Clwyd Theatr Cymru
17th November 2018
Handel Messiah with Academy of Ancient Music in Antwerp
24th November 2018
Sciarrino Carnaval at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with EXAUDI and Explore Ensemble
1st December 2018
Haydn Paukenmesse with Dulwich Choral Society, conducted by Aidan Oliver
15th December 2018
Mozart Mass in C Minor and Charpentier Te Deum with Tring Choral Society
Past performances in 2016:
24th January
Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony with Philharmonia Voices/Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
25th - 29th January
R&D workshops with Erratica
9th February
Steve Reich The Desert Music, Barbican
Britten Sinfonia/Britten Sinfonia Voices
23rd February
Bach Magnificat (solo&chorus) with Sonoro at St Martin in the Fields
12th March
Finnissy at 70 concert at Milton Court, Barbican with EXAUDI
16th March
GSMD MMus composition concert with EXAUDI at Milton Court, Barbican
24th March
Bach Cantatas with Academy of Ancient Music at Milton Court, Barbican
26th March
Bach Cantatas with Academy of Ancient Music at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
2nd April
Performance at St John's Smith Square with EXAUDI
15th and 17th April
Zerlina in Mozart Don Giovanni with Midsummer Opera
25th-27th April
Recording sessions with The King's Consort
2nd and 3rd May
Fairy in Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream in Middle Temple Hall
14th May
Opera Puteri Saadong in Notting Hill
21st May
London Choral Sinfonia concert at Cadogan Hall
25th May
EXAUDI concert of new commissions at City University
2nd June
Stravinsky 'Faith' concert with Philharmonia Voices/Philharmonia Orchestra in St John's Smith Square
7th June
Kammer Klang, Cafe OTO, Dalston
Christopher Fox: Catalogue Irraisone
11th June
Bach Magnificat in Nikolaikirche, Leipzig Bach Festival with Solomon's Knot
25th June
EXAUDI performance in King's College London, including works by Christopher Fox, James Weeks, Claudia Molitor, Zeynep Bulut
30th July
BBC Prom at Royal Albert Hall
Berlioz Romeo et Juliette with Monteverdi Choir/Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
11th August
Schumann Manfred with Monteverdi Choir
21st August
Berlioz Romeo et Juliette with Monteverdi Choir in Festival Berlioz
25th August
Feldman performance with London Contemporary Orchestra at the Roundhouse
28th August-10th September
EXAUDI residency and concerts at Royaumont as part of Voix Nouvelles Academy
15th and 16th September
Mendelssohn Lobgesang at Leipzig Gewandhaus with Monteverdi Choir/Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
17th September
Recital with Miranda Heldt in Stamford
22nd September
Rachmaninov Vespers with Sonoro
10th October
Purcell Fairy Queen (staged) with Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican
19th and 20th October
2nd soprano soloist in Mozart Mass in C Minor with EC4 Music at St Bride's Church
23rd October
EXAUDI Exposure at LSO St Luke's
12th November
Fanshawe African Sanctus with Sonoro
18th and 20th November
Hansel in Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel with Midsummer Opera
25th November
Sonoro concert, St James' Piccadilly
11th December
Britten A Ceremony of Carols (solos&chorus) with London Choral Sinfonia
16th-18th December
Handel Messiah with Academy of Ancient Music in Braunschweig, Groningen & Einhoven
2015
25th-30th January
Aldeburgh residency with EXAUDI/Michael Finnissy
3rd February
EXAUDI Wigmore concert
4th February
EXAUDI recording session for Finnissy Kelir
12th February
Ravel L'enfant et les sortilèges with Philharmonia Voices/Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
22nd February
Francis Grier Sword in the Soul (solos&chorus) filming in King's Chapel, Cambridge
18th, 19th and 21st March
Telemann Die Tageszeiten with Solomon's Knot in Bern, London Handel Festival and Cambridge Early Music Festival
26th and 27th March
Bach St Matthew Passion with Academy of Ancient Music in San Sebastien and Valencia
30th March
EXAUDI performance GSMD MMus compositions, Milton Court
12th April
EXAUDI performance in World Minimalism Festival, Amsterdam
14th April
EXAUDI at Kammer Klang, Cafe OTO
17th April
St Bride's song recital with Michael Waldron
23rd May
Meg Page in Verdi Falstaff with Lambeth Orchestra
28th&29th May
Michael Finnissy Gesualdo: Libro Sesto recording with EXAUDI
3rd June
James Weeks Mala Punica in Spitalfield's Festival with EXAUDI
15th June
Spitalfields Festival concert in Tower of London
4th July
Mark Simpson The Immortal (wp) at Manchester International Festival with EXAUDI/BBC Phil
16th July
Monteverdi Vespers with Dunedin Consort in Durham Cathedral
1st August
Recital at Danny House with Ronnaug Sundling and Michael Waldron
12th-16th August
Meg Page in Verdi Falstaff with Black Cat Opera
24th August
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall
Shostakovich Orango with Philharmonia Orchestra
30th August
Concert in Antwerp with The Clerks
4th September
Mendelssohn Paulus with The King's Consort in Bucharest
16th September
Concert at Tower of London
18th September
Mozart Requiem with Dunedin Consort in Bremen
6th-8th October
Recording with Syred Consort (solos&chorus)
17th October
EXAUDI Exposure at the Warehouse
20th-24th October
David Lang Little Match Girl Passion with Crytic Theatre at Royal Northern College of Music, Nottingham University, King's Place and Sound Festival, Aberdeen
26th-29th October
The King's Consort recording sessions of Israel in Egypt
26th November
Grieg Peer Gynt with Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall
1st December
NMC recording session
5th & 6th December
Janáček Glagolitic Mass with Monteverdi Choir/Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
21st December
Bach Magnificat (solos&chorus) with Solomon's Knot at St John's Smith Square