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The Memory Garden: Award-winning Classical Guitarist, Jack Hancher
Debussy, Ravel, Antonio José and contemporary composers Laura Snowden and Dani Howard
Part of the Summer Music in City Churches 2025 Festival
Add to my Calendar 24-06-2025 13:00 24-06-2025 15:00 36 The Memory Garden: Award-winning Classical Guitarist, Jack Hancher Award-winning guitarist Jack Hancher performs a programme inspired by remembrance and light-filled impressionism, including works by Debussy, Ravel, Antonio José and contemporary composers Laura Snowden and Dani Howard. This is a lunchtime concert lasting one hour with no interval. Kestrel Music presents its seventh annual festival, ‘Summer Music in City Churches’, 18 - 27 June 2025 – an eight-day celebration of music in the City of London. Choral requiem settings form the cornerstones, inspiring this year’s theme ‘Eternal Light’. Guest artists are drawn from the finest musicians performing internationally today, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Choir, conductors Sir John Rutter and Daniel Hyde, and soloists including guitarists Jack Hancher and Gus McQuade, pianists Iain Farrington, Lucy Parham, Mark Bebbington and Viv McLean, and singers Eleanor Grant, Edward Grint and Rachel Nicholls. Embracing the theme of ‘Eternal Light’ – sunrise, moonlight and reflected light in nature, as well as the everlasting light of remembrance – live music takes place in four of the historic churches in the City of London. Full details can be found on the website. St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Church
Bishopsgate
City of London
London
EC2M 3TL
England
Tickets
Prices: £6 - £12
Book Tickets
Programme
Claude Debussy – Preludes, Book I: La Fille aux Chevaux de Lin
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. J Hancher)
Maurice Ravel – À la manière de Chabrier
Claude Debussy – Danse bohémienne
Performers
Jack Hancher – guitar
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Programme Note
Award-winning guitarist Jack Hancher performs a programme inspired by remembrance and light-filled impressionism, including works by Debussy, Ravel, Antonio José and contemporary composers Laura Snowden and Dani Howard.
This is a lunchtime concert lasting one hour with no interval.
Kestrel Music presents its seventh annual festival, ‘Summer Music in City Churches’, 18 - 27 June 2025 – an eight-day celebration of music in the City of London. Choral requiem settings form the cornerstones, inspiring this year’s theme ‘Eternal Light’. Guest artists are drawn from the finest musicians performing internationally today, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Choir, conductors Sir John Rutter and Daniel Hyde, and soloists including guitarists Jack Hancher and Gus McQuade, pianists Iain Farrington, Lucy Parham, Mark Bebbington and Viv McLean, and singers Eleanor Grant, Edward Grint and Rachel Nicholls. Embracing the theme of ‘Eternal Light’ – sunrise, moonlight and reflected light in nature, as well as the everlasting light of remembrance – live music takes place in four of the historic churches in the City of London.
Full details can be found on the website.
