We are delighted to be performing our Clara Schumann programme on Mon 10th July, 8pm at the Buckingham Summer Festival. Soprano Lorena Paz Nieto Baritone Malachy Frame Actress Gay Soper Pianist Elizabeth Mucha For tickets and more information please visit https://www.buckinghamsummerfestival.org/events/art-sung-clara-schumann
We are THRILLED to have received funding from The Golsoncott Foundation for our latest project, Art Sung – Jane Bathori! Established as a Charitable Trust in 1998 from the estate of the artist and sculptor Rachel Reckitt (1908-1995), the Golsoncott Foundation is an arts-funding trust whose declared object is … to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the …
Art Sung has gone digital! We are embracing the new normal and producing visual online content for you as it seems that it may still be a while before we can meet again in a concert hall. Following the success of Art Sung – Clara Schumann last autumn here is a short film of a scene which we had to …
Our warmest congratulations to young artist, Hannah Crooks, whose award-winning photographs have been awarded the Adam Bruce Thomson Award by the Royal Scottish Academy and are being exhibited as part of their ‘New Contemporaries Exhibition’ in Edinburgh until 11th March 2020. For the visual material in Art Sung – Alma Mahler, Hannah created beautiful hand drawn dates which took their …
Art Sung – Clara Schumann flyer On a visit to the Clementi House in London, with a view to doing some filming for Art Sung – Clara Schumann, I was introduced to illustrator Katyuli Lloyd. Her evocative drawings of the Greek island of Hydra and the beautiful illustrations which she created for Virginia Woolf’s book, “Flush” inspired me to ask …
After the resounding success of Art Sung – Alma Mahler at the London Song Festival in 2018, director Nigel Foster invited us to return in 2019 with a new production. On Thursday, 28th November 2019 we will proudly premiere Art Sung – Clara Schumann, a celebration of an extraordinary woman, composer and pianist in her bicentenary year. The life of …
“What can we project onto?” It was one of those niggling thoughts that went round and round my head as the Art Sung project evolved. Originally we performed it with a TV screen, which, frankly, looked very amateurish. We then upgraded to a projector screen, which was better but smacked of a University lecture. We then toyed with a huge back …
Art Sung – Alma Mahler is thrilled to be part of the London Song Festival this year. Going from strength to strength and in its second decade, the Festival gives audiences the opportunity to hear young up-and-coming singers and prize-winners as well as internationally established artists. This year’s Festival theme, ‘1918 – Forward and Back’ chimes perfectly with Alma Mahler’s …
Earlier this year, Art Sung teamed up with author Mary Sharratt for the Wandsworth Arts Fringe in London. Author of six previous critically acclaimed novels, her mission is to write strong women back into history. Mary’s love of classical music and her explorations into the lives of female composers inspired her latest book, “Ecstasy” in which she gives voice to …