Performances

Saturday 28th November 2019, 7.30pm

Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

A further performance of Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, a seven-song cycle for soprano and string quartet, setting texts on evolution and the environment. With Purcell Chaconne and Fantasias, Nicola LeFanu’s But Stars Remaining and Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet.

Further information and booking https://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/events/gildas-quartet-carola-darwin-mozart/

Thursday 18th October 2019, 5.45pm

Oxford Museum of Natural History with The Gildas Quartet

World Première of Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful. A seven-song cycle for soprano and string quartet, setting texts on evolution and the environment. Funded by Arts Council England, the Ambache Charitable Trust and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. The programme also included Henry Purcell’s Chaconne and Fantasias and Nicola LeFanu’s But Stars Remaining.

19th April 2019, 7.30pm

St Anne’s Church Highgate

Good Friday Recital – Music for penitence and reflection by candlelight. Carola Darwin, Ruth Shwer (sopranos) Sophia Brumfitt (mezzo-soprano) Matthew Power (piano)

12th January 2019

St Michael’s Church, Highgate

Recital with Nicholas Baumgartner. Debussy Ariettes Oubliées and Schumann  Liederkreis op. 39 and Kinderszenen.

24th June 2018

Pigott’s Music Camp in Buckinghamshire.

Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo (Concert Performance)

18th-27th May 2018

Jackson Lane Theatre, London

Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata with Hampstead Garden Opera.

22nd April 2018

Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music

A Celebration of Jeremy Dale Roberts with Roderick Chadwick (piano)

30th November 2017

St Paul’s Girls’ School

Birthday concert for Nicola LeFanu.
Nicola LeFanu But Stars Remaining.

8th October 2017

East Finchley Methodist Church

With The Hermitage String Quartet and Nicholas Baumgartner (Piano)
​Songs by Johanna Müller-Hermann (UK Première), Brahms and Barber. Also
Dvořák Gypsy Songs, Jonathan Dove Ariel Songs.

​14th May 2017

St Mary’s

Concert at St Mary’s Great Henny Concert with The Hermitage String Quartet
Mozart Exsultate Jubilate; Dvořák Gypsy Songs; Schubert Quartet in A minor