We welcome 2019 with the launch of Venus Unwrapped, our year-long celebration of music by women, a bumper edition of London A Capella Festival and much more.
Star soprano Mary Bevan is the soloist in Strozzi’s sensuous solo songs in their 17th-century Venetian context. Also with Monteverdi’s spectacular Madrigals (Book VIII) alongside those by Strozzi.
The eminent Canadian pianist presents an exquisite Parisian menu prefacing a Chopin sequence with works by Debussy, Fauré, Ravel and Poulenc.
Now based in Los Angeles, Cate Le Bon is one of Wales’ greatest exports. She is celebrated for her playful lyricism and inventive guitar-pop melodies married with post-punk grit and experimentalism.
From the songs by Hildegard of Bingen, via the French and Spanish medieval convents, to the flowering of polyphony in the convents of Renaissance Italy...
Guest curators The Quietus showcase a new collaboration between the multi-instrumentalist and composer Ashley Paul and Factory Floor’s Nik Void. Also part of Luminate.
Curated by Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe, New York’s electric Bang on a Can All-Stars return to London with a soulful-explosive-ambient super-mix of the group’s incomparable repertoire.
Bang on a Can All-Stars join the BBC Singers for the UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s poignant and relentlessly physical Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio, Anthracite Fields, a musical examination of Pennsylvanian coal-mining industry.
A thrilling new collaboration between internationally-acclaimed composer, singer, and Venus Unwrapped cover star Laura Mvula and Europe’s finest female vocal quintet, Black Voices.
The Grammy-winning all-female vocal ensemble are famed for bringing a contemporary twist to traditional music, performing modern arrangements of Bulgarian folk melodies.
A sublime acoustic collection from the multi-award-winning artist that marks something of a new era in her 30+-year career. ‘One of Nashville’s finest song interpreters’ The Washington Post
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