On Monday July 10th at the Buckingham Summer Music Festival, we will be shining the spotlight on Clara Schumann. Until quite recently, she was mainly remembered as a distinguished pianist and the spouse of the quintessential Romantic composer Robert Schumann. However, the bicentenary of her birth in 2019 prompted new research and interest in her compositions and her life including …
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
“Shall we play piano duets?” asked pianist and London Song Festival director Nigel Foster after the successful premiere of ‘Art Sung – Clara Schumann’. This was at the end of 2019 so it took a while for us to get going as sitting next to someone at a piano keyboard wasn’t an option for quite some time! Scroll forward a …