Dame Jane Glover’s stellar conducting career has taken her from the Wexford Festival in 1975 to Glyndebourne and the London Mozart Players in the 1980s. In America, she was one of the first women to conduct opera at the MET in New York in 2013 (The Magic Flute) and is now the first female conductor of Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. She has published a ground-breaking study of Mozart’s Women in 2005, followed by Handel in London and more recently Mozart in Italy. She was awarded the CBE in 2003 for services to music. 

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Her talk will be introduced by Siri Fischer Hansen, Trustee of SIM.   

The Wells Madrigal Singers – Amelia Monaghan and Naomi Mcloud-Jones (soprano), Andrew O’Sullivan (countertenor), Iain Mcloud-Jones (tenor) and Laurence Whitehead (bass) - delight in unaccompanied voice performances. With a common background in Cambridge and wider experience of other church music traditions, they present a choice programme of more than a dozen madrigals in Stratford’s historic Guild Chapel. 

 

 

Introduced by Martyn Bond, Chairman of SIM Trustees. 

The Linarol Consort of Renaissance Viols - David Hatcher, Asuko Morikawa, Alison Kinder and Claire Horácek - is widely respected in Early and Baroque Music circles. Here they will be joined by Héloïse Bernard, the prize-winning young French-American soprano who has performed with them previously.  

 

Introduced by Paul Higgins, Trustee of SIM, this recital is kindly supported by the Continuo Foundation. 

 

 

Few contemporary Elizabethan songwriters set Shakespeare’s sonnets to music. More recently, however, Ross Duffin, scholar and author of Shakespeare's Songbook, has matched some of the best-loved sonnets by Shakespeare to pre-existing tunes from the lute-song repertory. Our artists - Liz Kenny (lute) and Mark Padmore (tenor) - will perform some of these sonnets for the very first time, alongside songs by John Danyel, Thomas Morley and John Dowland, in addition to twentieth-century composers, Benjamin Britten and Alex Roth. 

 

Programme introduced by Dame Jane Glover, Patron of SIM.