This opening concert at the Forge will explore the intriguing contrast between music written for voice and guitar, and for voice and piano. The feautured composers are Benjamin Britten, Lennox Berkeley and the less well known Mathias Seiber, a Hungarian who adopted England as his country 1955. Ahmed Dickinson will collaborate with mezzo soprano Katie Bray and tenor Rupert Charlesworth.
The London English Song Festival was founded by award - winning pianist William Vann to promote and celebrate the performance and knowledge of the wide and varied repertoire of English Song in London and Throughout the U.K.