Concert: A Place Called Paradise
26th October, 2022
Holywell Music Room, 1.00pm
Tickets £5-£15: Book tickets here.
This lunchtime concert includes the world premiere of A Place Called Paradise, commissioned by Oxford Lieder from our new Associate Composer, Alex Ho, and poet Theophilus Kwek. It tells the true story of Prince Lee Boo of Palau, near the Philippines, who came, via a shipwreck and an unlikely meeting with a British sea captain, to London in 1784. Thrilling young mezzo Fleur Barron and BBC New Generation Artist Kunal Lahiry also include songs on a broad theme of transcultural journeys and encounters by Chen Yi, Huang Ruo, Kamala Sankaram, Elgar and Coleridge-Taylor, among others.
Performers:
Fleur Barron (Mezzo-soprano)
Kunal Lahiry (Pianist)
For full details please visit the festival website
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This event is part of the 21st Oxford Lieder Festival, Friendship in Song: An Intimate Art. The series invites audiences to explore song as an art form that grew up among friends, often at special and sociable gatherings, and inspired many composers’ most personal and profound works. For more details and to view the full programme of events in the series please visit the Festival website.
