Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn

Performance
  • Date and time: Wednesday 13 November 2024, 7.30pm
  • Location: In-person only
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Admission: Tickets: £18; concessions £16; students £5, booking required

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Event details

Roderick Williams  baritone
with Caroline Blair  soprano
Christopher Glynn  piano

Programme to include:
John Ireland   Sea Fever
Vaughan Williams   Selection from Songs of Travel
Ivor Gurney   Down by the Salley Gardens
Rebecca Clarke   The Cloths of Heaven
Michael Head   Tewkesbury Road

Join Roderick Williams and Grammy award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn for a journey through the highways and byways of English song, including famous songs by John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams but also rarely heard and atmospheric gems by Irish composers Ina Boyle and Joan Trimble. The programme also features irresistible compositions by Roderick Williams himself (the first glimpse of a forthcoming CD), including a witty duet in which he is joined by rising-star soprano Caroline Blair.

A firm favourite with York audiences, Roderick Williams is one of the UK’s most sought-after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital. In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the Year award and was awarded an OBE for services to music a year later. He also sang at the Coronation of Charles III in 2023, performing Walford Davies’ Confortare in a spectacular arrangement by John Rutter with the Choir of Westminster Abbey.

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible

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