LEWES FESTIVAL OF SONG
Patron: Mark Padmore
Welcome to our song festival, a celebration of art-song which takes place in St. Anne’s Church in Lewes every summer.
inspiring performers ~ beautiful music ~ thought-provoking programmes
Our Summer Festival 2025 is on Sunday June 29th
ONE DAY, THREE CONCERTS
We’ve invited the winners of the 2024 Ashburnham English Song Award to begin our day of song at 1pm. Mezzo Ellen Pearson and pianist Archie Bonham are reflecting on the changes in us as we grow older, with songs by Mahler, Lehmann, Coleridge-Taylor, Schubert, Chaminade, Barber and others.
We’re very glad to welcome back pianist Jâms Coleman, who performed with Elizabeth Watts last year. This summer he brings tenor Nicholas Mulroy for Since she whom I loved, at 4.30pm. Expect Hahn, Quilter, both Schumanns, Debussy, Guastavino and more.
The highly rated chamber choir Brighton16 with their conductor Matt Jelf close the day with To the Sea, an unusual programme of mostly English music, but to include Mäntyjärvi’s Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae.
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Well done on putting on yet another truly fantastic festival, beautifully planned and full of very special moments.
-M.P.
Gorgeous programming, as usual - thought-provoking, mind-expanding, lovely!
-O.G.
The programming & the performances are very special.
-L.Y.
The best ever song festival – so many talents and so much inspiring music on display. It was all world class, but if I had to choose a favourite from the whole thing it would be my personal love of the emotional Finzi settings of Hardy in James Newby’s wonderfully varied and insightful evening – what a talent! Or Alison Rose’s “Illuminations” – another favourite piece but in a spectacular performance with the Corelli – and wasn’t the tenor good! You should be very proud and pleased to bring all this to Lewes.
-M.B.
What a treat yesterday’s lunchtime concert was. I can’t thank you enough. Fabulous repertoire – most of which I didn’t know – beautifully played and sung.
-A.S.
What a huge success I thought the Festival was. Really interesting programmes and such well-chosen, brilliant young players. It was all delightful and last night’s ‘Illuminations’ was absolutely electrifying.
-J.H.