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Pittville Pump Room
East Approach Drive
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL52 3JE
England
Programme
Mumford Jeffrey – undiluted days (2000)
Claire Victoria-Roberts – Like ships adrift
Conor Mitchell – Look Both Ways
Bobbie-Jane Gardner – Hit or Miss (Odetta)
Performers
Ed Lyon – tenor
James Cleverton – baritone
Psappha
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Programme Note
Four genre-defying composers dive into the intricacies of love and identity. Characterising a life resonant with wonderful possibilities, Jeffrey Mumford’s piano trio receives its UK premiere. Belfast’s busiest composer Conor Mitchell has turned Britten and Pears’s love letters into astonishing songs that swing from tender to silly, in which high art collides with the pizazz of Broadway. Composer-performer Claire Victoria Roberts’s miniatures are inspired by the intimate letters between Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya; and “one of the most exciting figures on the dynamic Birmingham new music scene,” Bobbie-Jane Gardner delivers a stomping arrangement of Odetta’s iconic 1970s song: Hit or Miss.
We have secured singers and players of the highest calibre to launch these new works – Ed Lyon and Richard Burkhard are amongst the finest singers working today, and Psappha’s reputation in contemporary music is both formidable and richly-deserved.
Presented in partnership with Wild Plum Arts, Mitchell, Gardner, and Roberts explore the themes of connection and identity in a performance that promises to be as exuberant as it is touching.
We're incredibly grateful that James Cleverton has kindly stepped in to perform this concert, replacing Richard Burkhard who has unfortunately had to withdraw.
