The afternoon's performance blends narrative and music, telling the stories of cellos lost and found. The stories are drawn from Kate Kennedy’s book Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound (Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury), released in August 2024.

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Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound

Wigmore Hall

New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry. Named a BBC New Generation Artist (2022–24), Ms. Lewis is also the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition, winner of the Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize (2021), Musical America’s New Artist of the Month (June 2021), a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, and a YCAT Concordia Artist.

Solo Recitals at the Strand: Geneva Lewis, violin

Strand Theatre, Rockland

Ryan Wigglesworth’s feast of English music opens with Britten’s suite of ‘best bits’ from his 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s new climate change-themed Cello Concerto – premiered last year in Glasgow by tonight’s forces – takes inspiration from three disparate aspects of the natural world. Elgar’s Symphony No. 2 is considered by many to be the best ever written in England. ‘I have put my soul into it,’ said the composer of this captivating journey, whose thrusting outward energy conceals deep inner poignancy.

Prom 10: Elgar’s Second Symphony

Royal Albert Hall

An Avery Fisher Career Grant winner and Performance Today young artist, Lewis made her debut at the Tannery in 2022, and we re-engaged her immediately. Her beautiful musicality supported by an astounding technique will captivate you.

Geneva Lewis, violin & Janice Carissa, piano

Union College

Our Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth closes the season with a passionate and moving concert with 2012’s BBC Young Musician, Laura van der Heijden.

Elgar's Symphony No.2

City Halls

The ensemble’s recent album brings together a sequence of works, ancient and modern, to mark the feast of Epiphany.

The Gesualdo Six

Dunedin Consort’s Associate Director Nicholas Mulroy leads Scotland’s only professional choir through music that invites contemplation and reflection in four of Scotland’s most beautiful acoustics. The season of Lent, a time of penitence for Christians leading up to Easter, has inspired composers over the centuries to write some of their most beautiful and heartrending music. In this a cappella programme, you’ll hear connections between renaissance polyphony, Francis Poulenc, and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 20, 2024

The Gesualdo Six · Wigmore Hall

Mar 27, 2025

The Quality of Mercy choral tour · Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Past events

Sep 29, 2024

Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound · Wigmore Hall

Aug 8, 2024

Solo Recitals at the Strand: Geneva Lewis, violin · Salt Bay Chamberfest

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