This concert is part of the London Song Festival

Friday October 25th, 7pm
St George’s Hanover Square, 2A Mill St, Mayfair, London W1S 1FX

Join Australian singers Samantha Crawford, winner of the Wagner Society Singing Competition and Berliner International Competition, and Victoria Hodgkinson, Kohn Bach Scholar at Royal Academy of Music, as they explore the riches of Australian art song. They will be performing songs composed by Roy Agnew, Don Banks, Brett Dean, Wendy Hiscocks and others.

Australian literature also features with David Martin’s description of an outback Australian Christmas and Michael Leunig’s popular texts both witty and wise read by actress Ann Holme as well as set to music in Brett Dean’s Poems and Prayers.

Samantha and Victoria will be joined by pianist Wendy Hiscocks and Chi-Yu Mo, co-principal clarinettist with the London Symphony Orchestra and professor at the Royal Academy of  Music.

And what better way to top it all off than with a glass of Australian wine?

“Great venue, inspired programme and sublime performances all round,”
Ann Holme, actress

Don Banks
Five North Country Folk Songs

Margaret Sutherland
Three Songs for voice & clarinet 

Wendy Hiscocks
The Champa Flower; The End (from Mother & Child)
The Twenty-ninth Bather
Bush Christmas

Brett Dean
Poems and Prayers:
Literature; A Child is a Grub; Prayer I Equality; Prayer II plus Leunig recited by Ann Holme

Horace Keats
The Orange Tree

Brennan Keats
Moons as big as Mountains

Roy Agnew
No. 2 from Songs without words

Isaac Nathan arr. Hiscocks
The Aboriginal Father
The Eagle Chief
Francisca

Samantha Crawford soprano
Victoria Hodgkinson mezzo soprano
Chi-Yu Mo clarinet
Wendy Hiscocks piano
Ann Holme actress