Matthew Palmer has worked for the Brigitta Festival - Estonia, Iford Arts, Opera North, Garsington Opera, Grange Park and Glyndebourne Education amongst others. He has performed live on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and at LSO St. Luke’s and St. Martin in the Fields, the latter with the Concordia Foundation.

Richard Leach has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Charlton House and St Bride's Fleet Street. He was the musical director for Tosca (Grimeborn, 2016) and Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Pop-Up Opera, 2017), and has worked as a répétiteur for Royal Academy Opera, Pop-Up Opera, The English Concert and Blackheath Halls Opera. He is also the Organist of Ealing Abbey Choir.

PROGRAMME

Rodgers & Hammerstein - Oh What a beautiful morning - Oklahoma!

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Songs of travel

1.      The Vagabond

2.      Let beauty awake

3.      Roadside Fire

Robert Schumann - Intermezzo - Liederkreis Op. 39

Robert Schumann – Myrthen op. 25

No. 24 -  Du bist wie eine Blume

No. 1 - Widmung

Claude Debussy – Minstrels – Préludes, Livre 1 (Piano solo)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Deh vieni alla finestra - Don Giovanni  

Gaetano Donizetti – Bella siccome – Don Pasquale

Paolo Tosti - Ideale

Benjamin Britten - Folk Song Arrangements

Foggy Dew

The Plough Boy

Ivor Novello - We’ll gather lilacs

Nacio Brown - Singin’ in the rain - Singin’ in the Rain