Remembrance Day Gala

The Champagne Quartet

Erin Alexander soprano

Miriam Sharrad mezzo soprano

Ross Wilson tenor

Sam Young baritone

Featuring opera singers from around the world, The Champagne Quartet are celebrating their seventh year performing as a collective. Their professional highlights include performing at St David’s Hall supporting The Sixteen, and performing alongside the Welsh National Opera Orchestra.

In this Remembrance Day Gala, The Champagne Quartet will perform a captivating selection of opera repertoire, choral masterpieces, and poignant songs, honouring and reflecting through the power of song.

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La Trompette Chantante

The Singing Trumpet

Arthur Honegger Intrada

Lily Boulanger Nocturne

Jean Françaix Sonatine

Jean Hubeau Trumpet Sonata

Florence B. Price The Glory of the Day was in Her Face

Florence B. Price Song to the Dark Virgin

Guy Ropartz Andante and Allegro

Aaron Akugbo trumpet

Zeynep Özsuca piano

Born in 1998 and of Nigerian-Scottish descent, Aaron Azunda Akugbo hails from Edinburgh and is poised as a future leading exponent of his instrument. He brings a wide-ranging musical taste to his artistry and despite being classically trained, cites Louis Armstrong as his biggest musical inspiration. He is a charismatic performer with an abundance of natural humour which translates into an effortless engagement with people and audiences.

Aaron and Zeynep present an introduction to French trumpet staples in the repertoire alongside female composers Lili Boulanger and Florence B. Price through arrangements of songs. This recital aims to show the versatility of the trumpet with an emphasis on the lyrical and singing qualities the instrument has.

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Frau, That’s What I Call Music

Fantastic feminist cabaret with Anna Pool & Amy J Payne

Dietrich, Lemper, La Voix…The cabaret has given rise to some of the most boundary- pushing female performers of the 20th & 21st Centuries. Yet the songwriters behind these performers, those who get remembered, are usually male. No more, we say!

Amy J Payne and Anna Pool invite you to a relaxed and intimate cabaret of words and music from a dazzling array of female songwriters. Expect riotous laughter, quiet reflection, and plenty of joyful surprises as we journey from Piaf to protests to…penguins?

Named a Spitalfields Festival 2024 festival favourite, Frau, That’s What I Call Music might just help you discover that some world-famous numbers might not be written by who you thought they were…

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Made Human

Songs for trombone & piano

Michael Csányi-Willis The Last Letter

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Et incarnatus est

Clara Schumann Romanze

Hubert Parry No Longer Mourn For Me

Geraldine Mucha Tempo di mazurka

Torbjörn Hultmark Spring in an Unreal World

Peter Warlock Cradle Song

Peter Warlock Jillian of Berry

C. V. Stanford La Belle Dame sans Merci

Cyril Scott Lotus Land

Ivor Gurney Sleep

George Butterworth Loveliest of Trees

Sam Haywood Piano

Emily White Trombone

Emily White & Sam Haywood will be coming to St Margaret’s to perform their brand new album. Taking its name from Mozart's famous sacred aria, Et UK incarnatus est, Made Human showcases Emily White's astonishing ability to make the trombone sound like the human voice.

Each song on their 2024 album was arranged for trombone and piano by Emily and Emily's passion for bringing human language to life through her playing. Supported by pianist Sam Haywood's sensitivity and intelligence, and beautifully captured by recording engineer Matt Wadsworth's sense of sonic warmth, this performance does what the best song recitals do: communicate some essence of the human experience.

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Romantic Vistas

Chopin Etude in C sharp minor, op.25/7

Chopin Scherzo no.3 in C sharp minor, op.39

Brahms Four Piano Pieces, op.119

Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

Robert Bridge piano

For many people the finest things to come out of Belgium are Stella Artois, the invention of asphalt and the EU directive on banana curvature - but that would be to overlook the achievement of César Franck, composer of that iconic violin sonata; the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue which concludes this programme in a rich landscape of intense harmonies and stirring melodies. It is preceded by two passionate and evocative pieces by Chopin and the very last piano pieces that Brahms ever wrote.

Robert Bridge has been bewildering Putney audiences with his playing and questionable humour for 30 years and organises an annual series of Knitting Concerts at All Saints.

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Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 - J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Nimrod (from ‘Enigma Variations’) - Elgar (1857-1934)
Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 - J. S. Bach
The Swan (from The Carnival of the Animals) - Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Toccata with Fugue in D minor BWV 565 - J. S. Bach

The Naked Cellist

Bach G major suite

Caroline Shaw In Manus Tuas

Mark Summer Julie-O

Kirsten Miller unaccompanied cello

Kirsten is a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she studied with Alice Neary. She is a freelance cellist, cello tutor, and Alexander Technique teacher. She performs with a variety of ensembles, including Orchestra De Cymru and the British Sinfonietta, an ELO tribute band, and her own chamber group, Borders Ensemble.

Passionate about outreach, Kirsten works as a cellist for Live Music Now and Arts Active, bringing live music to diverse and underserved communities. She is also dedicated to highlighting works by LGBT composers.

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Dementia friendly opera:

The Parting & Buster’s Trip

The Music Troupe presents two short operas adapted from texts by Federico García Lorca with music by Edward Lambert. Formed to feature the art of ‘bel canto’ in new, small-scale operas, The Music Troupe celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The Music Troupe's performances are often appreciated by people of all ages who have never been to an opera before.

The Parting (Quimera) tells of a man who is leaving his wife and children to go on a journey. He’s accompanied by a mysterious old man and it’s not clear where they’re going or if they’re coming back.

Buster’s Trip features a brainstorming session to develop a screenplay for Buster Keaton. He cycles and he walks through the countryside. Clearly, he’ll get up to all kinds of mischief and the feds will make their usual appearance. But will he fall for his leading lady?

"Packed full with stunning music… ”

Broadway World on The Duchess of Padua, 2024

This is an informal performance/workshop to which we invite those living with dementia, their families and their carers to attend.

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Inspiration & Variation
Couperin - Les Langeurs-Tendres
Bach - French Suite no.2 BWV 813
Rachmaninov - Corelli variations

This programme is one of stylistic inspiration/variation — Bach taking inspiration from Couperin and his contemporaries, Rach doing the same in a very different way with Corelli.

Peter Foggitt is a pianist, conductor, and composer, currently on the music staff of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich.

This programme explores composers' sources of inspiration, from Bach's reflection of the ornate French style of his time to the Russian Rachmaninoff's virtuosic variations (written in Switzerland) on a Spanish tune made famous by an Italian violinist.

 Join us from 3.30pm for a drink before the concert at 4pm.

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Dusk Until Dawn

Dvořak The Water Goblin

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor

Beatrice Nicholas piano

Dimitri Chrysostomou conductor

Hapax Orchestra

Immensely popular pianist, Beatrice Nicholas returns to Putney to perform Rachmaninov’s famed 2nd piano concerto with the Hapax Orchestra under the baton of rising star conductor Dimitri Chrysostomou.

This is also a rare opportunity to hear Dvořak’s symphonic poem based, on the Czech folk story of a mysterious and mischievous water goblin who traps drowning souls in upturned teacups.

Tickets are £15 with students/concessions £10

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Llywellyn Ifan Jones plays a sumptuous harp recital here for us at St Margaret’s, Putney

Multi-award winning pianist, Alexander Doronin, gives a recital of Schumann and Firsova.

Programme:

Elena Firsova - Hymn to Spring op.64 (1993) 

Robert Schumann - Kreisleriana op.16

Alexander Doronin - Bio

Russian pianist Alexander Doronin started his undergraduate course at the Royal College of Music in September 2021 as an ABRSM Scholar. He is currently studying with Professor Dmitri Alexeev (piano). From 2015 to 2021, Alexander studied at the Gnessin Moscow Special School (College) of Music with Professor Mikhail Khokhlov (piano) and Olga Martynova (harpsichord). Alexander is the Eileen Rowe Musical Trust award holder, and is also supported by the Drake Calleja Trust.

Alexander Doronin has achieved remarkable success in piano competitions, including First Prize at the Moscow Piano Open International Competition (2019), Third Prize at European Piano Competition in Bremen, Germany (2024), Second Prize at the Vladimir Krainev Competition for Young Pianists (2019). He has consistently demonstrated extraordinary talent and dedication in his musical pursuits.

Alexander also participated in various music festivals such as The XXX International Chopin Piano Festival in Gaming Abbey (Austria), the 4th and the 5th Festivals of the Russian Chamber Music «Winter Nights on the Amstel» (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Dmitri Alexeev’s ‘Beyond Boundaries’ Music Festival in London, Scriabinfest (Moscow, 2022), ‘Pianissimo’ festival in Repino, Saint-Petersburg (2021) and others.

He performed as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra (Founder & Artistic Director – Mikhail Pletnev), Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra (as the result of the First prize at the Concerto Competition in Royal College of Music (2022) playing Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto.), City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Yaroslavl Philharmonic Orchestra, Voronezh Youth Symphony Orchestra, Omsk Symphony Orchestra. Alexander performed recitals and took part in various concerts in the UK, Austria, Poland, China, Vietnam, Netherlands, Switzerland and in various cities of Russia including the series "YAMAHA Stars" in Sochi (2019), the Loft Philharmonic project, “Summer evenings in Yelabuga”, Kazan (2021) and a piano recital at the Hermitage, Saint-Petersburg (2021), Piano recital in Steinway Hall in London organized by Keyboard Trust (2023).

Rebecca Silverman (soprano) gives a solo recital on Sunday 26th of May.

⏰ 4pm on Sunday 26th May

🎟️ Concert entry by donation.

🍷 Bar opens from 3.30pm.

Rebecca Silverman - Biography

An honours graduate of the Royal College of Music, Rebecca is an accomplished performer of opera, sacred music and art song. At the age of fifteen, she had the opportunity to take a small principal role in Ludd and Isis, an opera by Stephen Taylor and Richard Plaice, commissioned by the Royal Opera House to inaugurate the opening of its new production facility in Purfleet in Essex. It was this experience that sparked her ambition to become an opera singer.

Rebecca has worked closely with Longborough Festival’s Playground Opera, performing the role of Adina last summer, and Gretel in their tour of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. In September 2020, she created the role of Eve in the Tête à Tête opera company’s production of A&E, a new contemporary opera by Muelas+Ward, which was revived for Grimeborn Festival in 2023. In 2018 she created the role of Lucy in Sophie Sparkes’ Our Perfect Child.

Rebecca has prepared the roles of Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Adina in L’elisir d’amore with the New Generation Festival company in Florence. She has also performed the roles of Adele in Die Fledermaus with Chelmsford City Opera, as well as Pepik in The Cunning Little Vixen and Cathleen in Riders to the Sea, both with British Youth Opera.

Rebecca is also a former Essex Young Musician of the Year, and Freda Parry Classical Singing Scholarship winner.