Support from The Pitfield Trust for CAM concert

CAM is delighted to have received a grant from The Pitfield Trust for its July concert featuring music by Thomas Pitfield alongside work by British and Australian composers.

‘I’m thrilled that this funding enables us to present not just one of my pieces but also a range of exciting works from Australia and Great Britain, including Pitfield’s beautiful yet rarely performed Sonatina’

CAM founder, Wendy Hiscocks, says of the news

The concert, to be staged at Oxford’s St. Michael at the North Gate as part of the Music on Mondays series on 21 July at 1pm, will be performed by cellist Coral Lancaster and pianist Wendy Hiscocks. 

The event coincides with the recent publication of a biography of the life and work of Thomas Pitfield by Forsyth Brothers Limited entitled: Endless Fascination: the life and work of Thomas Pitfield, composer, artist, craftsman, poet. 

One of Wendy’s most successful pieces, Songline for cello and piano will also be performed as part of the programme. Composed in 2018, the work takes its name from a book by Bruce Chatwin.

The composer’s response was to create her own songline of the Illawarra region in New South Wales where she was born. As part of the journey, musical reference is made to key sites such as the shoreline, Lake Illawarra and the two mountains dominating the escarpment.

The programme also features the rich colours of Arnold Bax’s romanticism in Folk Tale, the UK premiere of John Wayne Dixon’s  Giverny Idyll and Peter Sculthorpe’s Threnody for solo cello.

MUSIC ON MONDAYS

21 July 2025, 1pm
St. Michael at the Northgate, Cornmarket Street, Oxford OX1 3EY

Coral Lancaster cello
Wendy Hiscocks piano