Join us for Howdenshire Music's sixth lunchtime concert of the year, featuring BBC New Generation Artist Hugh Cutting and award-winning pianist George Ireland! "The fast-rising countertenor Hugh Cutting undoubtedly has an exceptional voice: lustrous and rounded, with power in reserve and immaculate intonation" The Times Spectacular, sensitive and vivid accompaniment The Latest Programme: MORPHEUS Burgon This Lunar Beauty Cavalli Erne e solinghe cime from La Calisto Purcell One charming night from The Fairy Queen Britten My gentle Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream Howells Goddess of Night Britten I know a bank from A Midsummer Night's Dream Schubert Erlknig Rodney Bennett 'Baby baby from Songs Before Sleep Britten This is thy negligence from A Midsummer Night's Dream Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Rodney Bennett Dream Songs Bolcom Song of Black Max Hugh Cutting is a graduate of the Royal College of Music where he was a member of the International Opera Studio. On graduating, he was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal, presented by King Charles III. In the autumn of 2021, Hugh became the first countertenor to win the Kathleen Ferrier Award and to become a BBC New Generation Artist (2022-24). During his first professional season in 2022/23 Hugh made his debut at Opernhaus Zrich singing Monteverdi, made his debut at Wigmore Hall, and sang Bach's St Matthew Passion at Carnegie Hall with Bernard Labadie and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, marking his U.S. debut. In the 2024/25 season he makes his debut at La Scala Milan singing Corindo in Cesti's Orontea, makes his U.S. opera debut in the title role of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, his Australian debut singing Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare for Pinchgut Opera and Unulfo in Handel's Rodelinda at the Garsington Festival. George Ireland is in demand as a recital partner with some of the finest singers of his generation. From a working-class, non-musical home, he began to play the piano from scratch, self-taught at the age of 14. He is now 29 and recently graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music. George accompanied soprano Oksana Lepskas winning recitals at the 2022 National Mozart Competition in London, and the Kathleen Ferrier Award-winning recitals of countertenor Hugh Cutting and soprano Jessica Cale in 2021 and 2020. With Hugh Cutting he has enjoyed live performances on Radio 3s In Tune, recording at BBCs Maida Vale Studios, a greatly-acclaimed recital at the Brighton Festival and a recital on the harpsichord at the Theatre Grvin in Paris. +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Advance booking for this concert is optional but recommended. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.