Tuesday 20 January 2026
12pm
Silk Street Lecture Recital Room
English Song Prize
adjudicated by Kitty Whately and Alisdair Hogarth
Programme
Hannah Hughes | soprano
Lucy Barratt | piano
Rebecca Clarke
‘The Seal Man’
Frank Bridge
‘Come to me in my dreams’ H71
Liza Lehmann
‘There are fairies at the bottom of our garden’
Marianne Ruel | mezzo-soprano
Liz Marcus | piano
Srul Irving Glick
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
I. To Olga
II. Yes, That’s the Way Things Are
VI. The Butterfly
Júlia Guix i Estrada | soprano
James Housego | piano
Alison Bauld
‘Titania’s Song’
Rebecca Clarke
‘Tears’
Cecilia McDowall
‘Give me my robe’
No 2 from Four Shakespeare Songs
Madeleine Dring
‘Song of a Nightclub Proprietress’
Georgia Tolson | soprano
Alex Dakin | piano
Roger Quilter
‘Love’s Philosophy’
No 1 from Three Songs Op 3
Benjamin Britten
‘Nocturne’
No 4 from On This Island Op 11
Rebecca Clarke
‘The Seal Man’
Katharina Russell | soprano
Niall Townley | piano
John Duke
‘The Bird’
Rebecca Clarke
‘Eight O’clock’
Lennox Berkeley
‘He would not stay for me’
No 3 from Five Housman Songs Op 14
André Previn
‘Good Morning, Midnight’
No 3 from Three Dickenson Songs
Hubert Parry
‘My heart is like a singing bird’
No 1 from English Lyrics (tenth set)
Please stay in your seats after the final performance while the panel deliberates, the prize giving will follow.
With thanks to Richard Jackson and Harriet Burns for adjudicating the preliminary round.
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24 February 2026
Milton Court Concert Hall
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4 March 2026
Milton Court Concert Hall
Guildhall Vocal students present an evening of operatic scenes, combining expressive singing and imaginative staging under expert musical and stage direction.
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