Thursday Lunchtime Concerts 2015/16

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

THURSDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS 2015/16

Patron HRH The Duchess of Cornwall —— In the exceptional setting of St John’s, acoustics, atmosphere, fine dining and architecture come together to create a rich and welcoming experience. © Matthew Andrews THURSDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS —— Our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts series showcases the exceptional talents of internationally renowned musicians such as Thomas Trotter and Steven Devine alongside those of emerging artists, thereby providing young performers with an indispensable concert platform. We are delighted to welcome musicians from The Musician’s Company, Dartington International Summer School, Park Lane Group, and our very own Young Artists Scheme amongst many others. From song and organ recitals to chamber music, opera scenes and more, there is plenty of music on offer this season. We look forward to welcoming you at St John’s Smith Square this season!

THURSDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS START AT 1.05PM. TICKETS COST JUST £10 EACH. £5 for those under 26 (when they join our FREE Under 26 membership scheme).

1 SEPTEMBER

STEPHEN DE PLEDGE —— Piano Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 Wagner/Liszt Liebestod Prokofiev Four pieces from Romeo and Juliet Anthony Ritchie Touched (UK premiere)

Debussy L’isle joyeus Liebeck © Jack New Zealand pianist Stephen De Pledge returns to St John’s Smith Square with a programme based on the theme of love, featuring evocative works by composers from Schumann to Prokofiev, and a new work by New Zealand composer Anthony Ritchie. stephendepledge.com

Thursday 3 September 1.05pm

2 Rolf Hind © Mykel Nicolaou

OCCUPY THE PIANOS PREVIEW —— Rolf Hind piano and guest artists A mouthwatering and finger-tingling preview of the upcoming weekend occupation of the pianos. Join Rolf Hind and guests as they set the scene for an exhilarating marathon of keyboard virtuosity.

Thursday 10 September 1.05pm

3 SEPTEMBER

JANE WATTS Organ Series —— Macmillan Cortège Academique Jane Watts opens the 2015/16 Lloyd Webber CBE Arietta organ recital series and makes Buck Concert Variations on a welcome return to St John’s The Star Spangled Banner Smith Square. Recent Lloyd Webber CBE Pastorale performances have taken Guilmant Sonata No. 5 her to many parts of the in C minor Op. 80 world and she has recorded a wide range of recordings for Priory Records. janewatts.co.uk

Thursday 24 September 1.05pm

4 OCTOBER

SARAH GABRIEL & VIV MCLEAN —— Autumn in Paris Sarah Gabriel soprano Viv McLean piano Poulenc Metamorphoses Hahn Chansons Grises Fauré Notre amour • En sourdine Gershwin An American in Paris

Debussy Apparition Sarah Gabriel © Raphaelle Photography Poulenc Les chemins de l’amour Following their debut recital and CD of Gershwin songs and piano solos in 2014, and inspired by Gershwin’s brief visit to Paris, Sarah Gabriel and Viv McLean explore the music of other composers who were influenced by the City of Light. sarahgabriel.eu vivmclean.com

Thursday 1 October 1.05pm

5 OCTOBER © JohnnyLangridge

LOUISE KEMÉNY & PETER FOGGITT —— Soprano and Piano Night, and its incumbent dreams, has long captivated Rameau Rossignols amoureux poets and composers. From from Hippolyte et Aricie RCT43 the soporific to the fantastical, Schubert An die Nachtigall we explore in these songs D497 • Nacht und Träume all that takes place at night: D827 • Die Sterne D939 from the beguiling beauty Debussy Nuits d’étoiles • of dreams to the terror of Clair de lune, Apparition • nightmares; from lovemaking Pierrot • Pantomime to sleepless reminiscence; from Strauss Die Nacht from the nightingale’s song to the 8 Gedichte aus ‘Letzte moon and starry firmament. Blätter’ Op. 10 Berg Nacht • Die Nachtigall louisekemeny.co.uk • Liebesode from Sieben peterfoggitt.com frühe Lieder Marx Selige Nacht Britten Excerpts from A Charm of Lullabies Op. 41 and On this Island Op. 11

Thursday 15 October 1.05pm

6 Steven Devine

ENSEMBLEF2 —— Discover Danzi Jane Booth basset horn Anneke Scott natural horn Steven Devine fortepiano Danzi Grand Sonata for pianoforte and basset horn in F Op. 62 • Sonata for fortepiano and horn in E minor Op. 44 ensembleF2 celebrate their recently released second album of music for piano and winds by the German composer Franz Danzi with a performance of two of his lyrical sonatas. ensembleF2.com

Thursday 22 October 1.05pm

7 OCTOBER

DAVID PONSFORD Organ Series —— Organ Distinguished scholar and performer, David Ponsford Buxtehude Praeludium brings the French Baroque in G minor BuxWV 149 to St John’s Smith Square. Böhm Vater unser His most recent book French im Himmelreich Organ Music in the reign of Clérambault Suite Louis XIV has been widely du deuxieme ton acclaimed and has led to Grigny Pange lingua a series of recordings on from Premier livre d’orgue important French organs Bach Prelude and Fugue for Nimbus. in B minor BWV544 davidponsford.org

Thursday 29 October 1.05pm

8 NOVEMBER © Ian Dingle

THE JORGENSEN TRIO —— From the Romantic to Radical A concert exploring different approaches to the piano trio Olga Jørgensen piano repertoire with two works Antonia Kesel violin from opposite ends of the Cecilia Bignall cello spectrum – the high-Romantic Mendelssohn Trio No. 1 spirit of Mendelssohn’s Trio in D minor in D minor contrasted with Gunther Schuller Piano Trio Gunther Schuller’s colourful and exciting Piano Trio. jorgensentrio.co.uk

Thursday 5 November 1.05pm

9 NOVEMBER Joseph Shiner © Martin Tompkins

JOSEPH SHINER & FREDERICK BROWN —— Clarinet and Piano This prize-winning duo presents a broad selection Benjamin Le Tombeau of works spanning over 150 de Ravel ‘Valse-Caprices’ years; ranging from Italian Ian Morgan-Williams opera to one of the pinnacles Party Pieces of the Romantic sonata Brahms Sonata in F minor repertoire. The programme Op. 120 No. 1 also features a work written Bassi Concert Fantasy on for, and premiered by the motives from Verdi’s Rigoletto duo in March 2015 – a suite of enigmatic Party Pieces. josephshiner.co.uk

Thursday 12 November 1.05pm

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FOURNIER TRIO —— Sulki Yu violin Pei-Jee Ng cello Chiao-Ying Chang piano Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor Op. 50 ‘In Memory of a Great Artist’ The Fournier Trio have been captivating audiences since their inception in 2009. They make a welcome return to St John’s Smith Square with a programme featuring the epic Tchaikovsky Piano Trio. fourniertrio.com

Thursday 19 November 1.05pm

11 NOVEMBER © Bridgewater Hall Leader Communications

DANIEL MOULT Organ Series —— Organ Following studies at Oxford and in Amsterdam, Daniel Bruhns Praeludium in E minor Moult has established himself Bach Nun komm der Heiden as one of the leading organists Heiland BWV659 and teachers of his generation Mendelssohn Theme performing internationally. and Variations in D Brahms Praeludium danielmoult.com and Fuga in G minor Reger Benedictus Schmidt Toccata in C

Thursday 26 November 1.05pm

12 DECEMBER Nick Walkley

ÆÐELFRÌTH BRASS QUINTET —— Nick Walkley trumpet Led by Nick Walkley, Darren Moore trumpet æðelfrìth present an Anglo- Alex Hamilton horn Nordic programme featuring Matthew Lewis trombone the unusual combination Ross Knight tuba of brass quintet and harps. Both original and arranged Amy Turk harp music is on offer from Anne Denholme harp sixteenth-century Dowland Nick Walkley Jórvíkekkoer and Byrd, to contemporary Byrd Earl of Oxford’s March music by Michael Berkeley Mogens Andresen Three and a newly commissioned Norwegian Dances work from Simon Dobson. Britten Interlude from aedelfrith.com Ceremony of Carols Simon Dobson Joan of Arc: A vision of St Michael Michael Berkeley Music from Chaucer Dowland Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Elbow Mirrorball arr. Walkley

Thursday 3 December 1.05pm

13 DECEMBER © William Scott

JOSEPH HOUSTON —— Out of Doors Built around a new solo piano work by Simon Holt, Bartók Out of Doors Suite No. 1 ‘Out of Doors’ is designed Colin Matthews Eleven Studies to run without pause; each in Velocity No. 9, 10 & 11 individual work will segue Debussy Les sons et les parfums into the next, resulting in tournent dans l’air du soir an extended single ‘piece’ Messiaen Île de feu I from that explores ideas of stillness Quatre études de rythme and frantic motion in the artful Feldman Intermission 6 way in which it juxtaposes Debussy Ce qu’a vu le a large variety of music. vent d’ouest and Voilles Simon Holt New Work There will be a pre-concert Debussy Les collines talk at 12.30pm with Joseph d’Anacapri • Images II Houston and composers Simon Liszt Les Cloches de Genève Holt and Colin Matthews. josephhouston.co.uk

Thursday 10 December 1.05pm

14 THOMAS TROTTER 30th Christmas Festival Organ Series —— Bach Concerto in A minor Thomas Trotter is one of after Vivaldi BWV593 Britain’s most widely admired Mozart Adagio & Allegro K594 musicians and, since 1983, Schumann Two Fugues Birmingham City Organist. on Bach Op. 60 He is a recipient of the Royal Prokofiev Kijé’s Wedding Philharmonic Society’s and Troika from Lieutenant prestigious Instrumentalist Kijé Suite Op. 60 arr. Trotter Award in recognition of his Liszt Fantasia & Fugue particular achievements on BACH S260 as “one of the foremost exponents of the organist’s art” and International Performer of the Year Award for 2012 by the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Thursday 17 December 1.05pm

15 JANUARY

DANIEL COOK Organ Series —— Merkel Wie schön leuchtet Daniel Cook is Sub-Organist der Morgenstern from Sonata of Westminster Abbey, where No. 6 in E minor Op. 137 he is the Principal Organist Langlais La Nativité to the Abbey Choir. He is also (Poèmes évangéliques, No. 2) Artistic Director of the Mousai Litaize Variations sur Singers and maintains a busy un Noël Angevin schedule of recitals, concerts, Bach Canonic Variations: recordings and teaching. Vom Himmel hoch da komm danielcookorganist.com ich her BWV 769 Reger Chorale Fantasia on Wie schön leuchtet uns der Morgenstern Op. 40

Thursday 7 January 1.05pm

16 LUBA TUNNICLIFFE & HANNAH WATSON PLG Young Artists —— Viola and Piano Luba Tunnicliffe and Hannah Watson both attended the Vieuxtemps Sonata for Guildhall School of Music Viola and Piano Op. 36 and Drama on scholarships. Edwin Roxburgh Ricercare for Viola and Piano Luba won GSMD’s Max Hindemith Sonata Op. 11 No. 4 and Peggy Morgan Award in 2012, and was the viola soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Alexander Luba Tunnicliffe © Matilda Hill-Jenkins Janiczek and the GSMD Chamber Orchestra in 2014. Hannah has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in major London venues, and was awarded second in the Norah Sande piano competition in 2014.

Thursday 14 January 1.05pm

17 JANUARY

OPERA DANUBE —— A Waltz along the Danube Opera Danube provides a showcase for emerging Opera Danube’s Young artists as well as encouraging Artists 2015/16 the growth of operetta in A selection of well known and the UK, presenting a recital lesser known operetta works, of popular operetta arias from a range of composers and ensembles, as well as including Strauss, Suppé, some rare Viennese gems. Lehar and Millöcke as well operadanube.co.uk as a few glimpses of Opera Danube’s forthcoming production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld

Thursday 21 January 1.05pm

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FLORIAN MITREA —— Synthesis and transcendence – Viennese piano music Mozart Sonata in C minor K457 Schoenberg 6 Little Pieces Op. 19 Beethoven Sonata in C minor Op. 111 Two of Mozart’s and Beethoven’s finest piano works exploring the iconic tonality of C minor, a key associated with heroic struggle. A taste of Schoenberg in the middle. florianmitrea.uk

Thursday 28 January 1.05pm

19 FEBRUARY © Hannah King

THE GESUALDO SIX Young Artists’ Series —— Gesualdo Tenebrae What Owain Park and Responsories Feria Quinta the singers have managed And plainsong propers to achieve is an ensemble for Maundy Thursday with extraordinary potential, who stand head and shoulders “The six voices blended above any other vocal group beautifully in the stunning in Cambridge, and who surely setting of King’s College have a promising future Chapel to create a truly ahead.” – Varsity outstanding concert. thegesualdosix.co.uk

Thursday 4 February 1.05pm

20 NARDUS WILLIAMS & PETER FOGGITT PLG Young Artists Nardus Williams © James Keates —— Soprano and Piano The monthly series of lunchtime recitals by artists Brahms 8 Lieder Op. 57 from the Park Lane Group Rihm Der Reigen dreht ohn continues with a song recital Unterlass • Weltgeheimnes by Nardus Williams and Peter Walton A Song for the Lord Foggitt. Williams won the Mayor’s Table Trinity Laban Gold Medal in January 2015. Of her success, adjudicator, Professor John Wallace commented, “A singer on this sort of form is well-nigh unbeatable – superb control, with beautifully focused tone, runs, and good enunciation of words.” peterfoggitt.com

Thursday 11 February 1.05pm

—— “Just to come across it in that quiet square is an event. To enter it, to enjoy its spaces, to listen to fine music within its walls is an experience not to be matched in conventional concert halls and is a lasting tribute to the man who designed it.” —— Sir Hugh Casson © Matthew Andrews FEBRUARY © Chris Christodoulou

ROGER SAYER Organ Series —— Rheinberger Sonata No. 7 Roger Sayer is Organist in F minor Op. 127 and Director of Music Saint-Saëns Fantasie No. 1 in Eb at The Temple Church Duruflé Suite Op. 5 and Deputy Chorus Director to the London Symphony Chorus. Roger is the organ soloist on the soundtrack of the blockbuster film ‘Interstellar’ which was released in November 2014. rogersayer.org

Thursday 18 February 1.05pm

24 HOMAGE TO © Bayard Bryan SCHUMANN —— Fraser Langton clarinet Rosalind Ventris viola James Willshire piano Schumann Fairy Tales for clarinet, viola and piano György Kurtág Hommage to Robert Schumann Rory Boyle New work (world premiere) A performance of trios for clarinet, viola and piano with a particular connection to composer Robert Schumann. This will be an exciting celebration of the timeline of works for this line up of instruments culminating in a newly commissioned work by award-winning British composer Rory Boyle. fraserlangton.co.uk rosalindventris.com jameswillshire.com

Thursday 25 February 1.05pm

25 MARCH

ASHLEY FRIPP —— Piano Ashley Fripp’s programme displays the piano as an Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca instrument of tremendous • Années de pèlerinage S161 vocal and orchestral colour Wagner Isolde’s Liebestod with repertoire which began arr. Liszt S447 in other forms. Liszt’s poetic Thomas Adès Concert Petrarch Sonnets and his Paraphrase on Powder passionate transcription Her Face of Wagner’s Isolde’s Liebestod contrast magnificently with Adès’ wildly intoxicating, hyper-virtuosic transcription from his opera about the salacious Duchess of Argyll. ashleyfripp.co.uk

Thursday 3 March 1.05pm

26 CHARLOTTE © Vanessa Haines ASHTON & JOSEPH HAVLAT PLG Young Artists —— Flute and Piano She is the recipient of numerous awards, including Messiaen Le Merle Noir Making Music’s Philip & Handel Flute Sonata in C Dorothy Green Award for Edwin Roxburgh Stardrift Young Concert Artists, the Bartók Suite Paysanne Royal Academy’s Chris Taylor Hongroise Flute Award and the Harold Boulez Sonatine Craxton Memorial Trust Award, Charlotte Ashton is a as well as winning the 2015 prize-winning flautist who Royal Overseas League Wind, has played with the City Brass & Percussion finals. of Birmingham Symphony Charlotte is joined for this Orchestra and Welsh National recital by Australian born Opera as well as holding the pianist and composer Joseph position of Principal Flute with Havlat. Since moving to the Britten-Pears Academy. London Joseph has already performed in solo, chamber and orchestral concerts at venues such as Royal Festival Hall, Sage Gateshead, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and Wigmore Hall.

Thursday 10 March 1.05pm

27 MARCH © Paul Hurst

ASHLEY GROTE Organ Series —— Michael Berkeley Wild Bells Since 2012, Ashley Grote Bach O Mensch, bewein dein has been Master of Music Sünde groß BWV622 at Norwich Cathedral. Mozart Fantasia in F minor K608 As organ scholar of King’s Bach O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig College, Cambridge, he BWV656 performed worldwide and Dupré Cortège et Litanie was subsequently Assistant Op. 19 No. 2 Director of Music of Gloucester Widor Moderato cantabile and Cathedral and director of the Finale from Organ Symphony Edington Festival of Music No. 8 in B Op. 42 No. 4 within the liturgy.

Thursday 17 March 1.05pm

28 © Gianluca de Girolamo

LIGETI QUARTET Young Artists’ Series —— Stravinsky Three Pieces Composed 7 years before the for String Quartet Stravinsky, Webern’s Bagatelles Lutosławski String Quartet mark his full transition into Webern Six Bagatelles Op. 9 serialism with a tightly bound György Kurtág Six Moments structure. Musicaux Op. 44 In complete contrast to the Stravinsky’s Three Pieces other works, Lutosławski’s for String Quartet of 1918 are String Quartet was composed classics of the 20th century using elements of chance repertoire; rhythmic, folksy, procedures. strident and expansive, Kurtág’s Moments Musicaux all within a tightly bound draws upon various influences, structure. yet his quixotic and idiosyncratic mind prevails. ligetiquartet.com

Thursday 31 March 1.05pm

29 APRIL

MATTHEW MARTIN Organ Series —— Patrick Gowers An Occasional Matthew Martin’s varied Trumpet Voluntary career as a composer and Bach Allein Gott in der performer has earned him a höh’ sei Ehr BWV662 noteworthy place in the UK’s Bach Prelude & Fugue musical life and internationally. in C BWV547 In October 2015, he was Guilain Suite du deuxième ton appointed Director of Music Widor Andante Sostenuto at Keble College Oxford. from Symphonie Gothique Vierne Carillon de Westminster

Thursday 7 April 1.05pm

30 ATTARD-ZERAFA DUO PLG Young Artists —— Philip Attard saxophone In the final lunchtime recital Christine Zerafa piano before their Festival, the Park Lane Group are represented Schmitt Légende Op. 66 by the Attard-Zerafa Duo. Denisov Sonata Hailing from two sister islands Albright Sonata (I. Two-Part in the Maltese archipelago, Invention, II. La Follia Nuova: Gozitan saxophonist Philip a lament for George Cacioppo, Attard and Maltese pianist IVb. Mad Dance) Christine Zerafa are the Milhaud Scaramouche Attard-Zerafa Duo. (I. Vif, II. Modéré, III. Brazileira) Philip and Christine gave © Jonathan Borg© Jonathan their debut as a duo in April 2012, and since then they have been invited to perform in major festivals and venues, including the Embassy Series in Washington DC, the Malta Arts Festival, the Royal Albert Hall (Elgar Room) and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. philipattard.com christinezerafa.com

Thursday 14 April 1.05pm

31 APRIL

SAMSON TSOY & PAVEL KOLESNIKOV —— Piano Duo They travel the world treating audiences to Messiaen Visions de l’Amen extraordinary, critically for two pianos acclaimed performances, Samson Tsoy and Pavel thrilling fans all over the Kolesnikov live in London globe. They have been and in 2014 were chosen called striking pianists, by the City Music Foundation virtuosic and brilliant, and BBC New Generation refined, spirited, thrilling Artists respectively to join and poetic. their schemes for young samsontsoy.com performing artists. pavelkolesnikov.com

Thursday 28 April 1.05pm

32 MAY

JOO YEON SIR & IRINA ANDRIEVSKY Joo Yeon Sir © Benjamin Harte Young Artists’ Series —— Violin and Piano Korean-born British violinist Joo Yeon Sir and Russian Schnittke Suite in Old Style pianist Irina Andrievsky Franck Violin Sonata in A present the popular Violin Shostakovich Preludes Op. 34, Sonata by Cesar Franck, selections (arr. D Tsyganov) together with Alfred Schnittke’s Suite in Old Style, a work which was composed in one night and a selection from Shostakovich’s Preludes Op. 24 arranged for Violin and Piano by violinist Dimitri Tsyganov. jooyeonsir.com

Thursday 5 May 1.05pm

33 MAY

ARTEA QUARTET —— Thomas Gould violin Rhys Watkins violin Benjamin Roskams viola Ashok Klouda cello Schubert String Quartet No. 15 in G D887 Join the award-winning Artea Quartet for a performance of one of the greatest works in the string quartet repertoire: Schubert’s last quartet, the great G Major D887. thomasgould.com

Thursday 12 May 1.05pm

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TABEA DEBUS Young Artists’ Series —— Points of Contact Contact and communication are vital elements of all Tabea Debus recorder music making – both with Oliver Pooley percussion other musicians as well Bassano Ricercata Quarta as the audience. Throughout Monteverdi Zefiro torna, this programme, which puts oh di soavi accenti music from the 14th and 16th Straesser Points of Contact I centuries next to contemporary Machaut Amours me fait desirer compositions, the performers Eckhard Kopetzki Kaskada will tread their own paths, Bull Fantasia meeting and exchanging ideas Anon. Wilson’s Love on the way before going into Ole Buck Gymel separate directions again. Anon. Lamento di Tristano tabeadebus.de • Tre Fontane

Thursday 19 May 1.05pm

35 MAY

DAVID GRAHAM Organ series —— Bruhns Præludium in E minor Bach Partita: Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig Guy Weitz Sicilienne • Prière on Salve Regina in the 5th mode • Paraphrase on Regina Coeli laetare Honegger Choral Karh-Elert Harmonies du soir Op. 72 No. 1 Reger Dankpsalm

David Graham is recognised internationally as one of the UK’s leading organ teachers. As Professor in charge of Organ at the Royal College of Music he has taught some of the most talented young organists. He is also Organist and Director of Music at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, in London’s Mayfair district.

Thursday 26 May 1.05pm

36 JUNE

Robert Schumann SCHUMANN & FRANCK —— Jens Lynen violin These five young musicians Kaija Lukas violin met through the Yeomen Michael Trauer viola programme of the Worshipful Yuki Ito cello Company of Musicians. This Kumi Matsuo piano afternoon they will explore some of the most expressive Schumann Piano Quartet chamber music works in Eb Op. 47 of the romantic repertoire. Franck Piano Quintet in F minor wcom.org.uk

Thursday 9 June 1.05pm

37 JUNE © Leo Cinicolo

DAVID TITTERINGTON Organ Series —— Buxtehude Chorale fantasia David Titterington is Organ Nun freut euch, lieben Curator at St John’s Smith Christen g’mein BuxWV210 Square, Head of Organ Studies Franck Prière at the Royal Academy of Music August Ritter Sonata No. 3 and Artistic Director of the in A minor world-renowned St Albans International Organ Festival.

Thursday 16 June 1.05pm

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CANCIONES: SPANISH & LATIN AMERICAN SONGS —— Laura Mitchell soprano Laura Mitchell and Morgan Morgan Szymanski guitar Szymanski have been working together since they first met Ponce Estrellita while studying at the Royal Rodrigo Three Spanish Songs College of Music in London. Tarrega Recuerdos de They have both embarked on la Alhambra extensive solo careers since, Albéniz Suite Espaňola: Asturias collaborating with numerous De Falla Seven Popular artists and ensembles, and Spanish Songs performing at various festivals, Lauro Four Waltzes concert halls and opera houses Leo Brouwer Cancion De Cuna around the world. (Berceuse) from Dos Temas populares cubanos laura-mitchell.com Villa-Lobos Two Brazilian Songs morganszymanski.co.uk

Thursday 30 June 1.05pm

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EXPERIENCE FINE DINING Nestled beneath the Hall under Legend has it the church was the vaulted ceiling of the crypt, the dubbed ‘Queen Anne’s Footstool’ Footstool Restaurant is an elegant after architect Thomas Archer asked and cosy place to enjoy everything Queen Anne for her view on how from a delicious snack or light meal, it should look. Kicking over her to a sumptuous lunch or dinner. All footstool she replied ‘like that!’ The our food is freshly prepared by our four towers are said to mimic the talented chefs using locally-sourced, upturned footstool. The restaurant seasonal ingredients. keeps this charming nickname alive. Indulge in fine tea and homemade The Footstool takes à la carte cake, choose from our enticing daily reservations for lunchtime and buffet menu, dine à la carte before evening service, buffet bookings for a concert, or enjoy a glass of wine groups of ten or more, and caters from our extensive list during the for private events. interval. Our friendly staff are on To book, or to find out more, hand, whatever you choose. call us on 020 7222 2779 or email [email protected] © Matthew Andrews THURSDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS —— Our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts series showcases the exceptional talents of internationally renowned musicians alongside those of emerging artists, thereby providing young performers with an indispensable concert platform.

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