‘THREADS ACROSS THE SEA’

Music: Sarah Frances Jenkins

Sound Design: Noah Lawson

Poetry: Shukria Rezaei

The Odyssey Ensemble and Cities and Memory, in collaboration with the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), will present highlights from the global Migration Sounds project in a live context, along with discussion of how sound can be used to highlight and reframe some of the complex debates around migration - in particular forced migration.

TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-migration-through-sound-tickets-1053218347429

SARAH FRANCES JENKINS ‘Lux et Umbra’ (World Premiere)

Nicholas Morris (organ)

Commissioned for the Choir & Organ New Music Series 2024, in partnership with the Marian Consort.

The Coming of Night (World Premiere, Orchestral Version)

This new orchestral version of The Coming of Night was commissioned by the Manukau Symphony Orchestra. Originally a Sextet commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the BBC CO for BBC Radio 3's 'Capturing Twilight' series, the piece was premiered by members of the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Chloe Rooke on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny on October 25th 2021.

SARAH FRANCES JENKINS The Coming of Night (World Premiere of Orchestral Version) 
BRAHMS Double Concerto for violin and cello
DVORAK Symphony No. 6

Uwe Grodd Conductor

FESTIVAL FINALE

Sarah Frances Jenkins Dancing with Playford (World premiere)

Tayla-Leigh Payne Blodeuo (World premiere)

Richard Blackford Songs of Nadia Anjuman

Adrian Sutton Sap and Sinews

Lynne Plowman Harp Concerto (World premiere)

Benjamin Britten Sinfonietta, Op 1

Rebecca Afonwy-Jones mezzo-soprano ꞏ Anne Denholm harp Presteigne Festival Orchestra ∙ George Vass conductor

TICKETS: https://presteignefestival.com/events/

The Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned Sarah Frances Jenkins as one of its 2024 Composers to write this work for The Marian Consort, with support from the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund.

Marian Consort

Sarah Frances Jenkins New work  WORLD PREMIERE (RPS Comission)

Weelkes Death hath deprived me

Laurence Osborn Spare Parts (i) loop (after Weelkes)

Dowland His golden locks

Laurence Osborn Spare Parts (iii) spring (after Dowland)

Byrd Ad Dominum cum tribularer

The outstanding choral group present a vibrant and wide-ranging programme, opening with the world premiere of a new piece by Sarah Frances Jenkins, inspired by the stunning pre-Raphaelite designs of Castle Howard’s chapel.

TICKETS: https://ryedalefestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173654720

Winner of the 2023 BBC Music Magazine Premiere Recording Award, and the 2018 BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Award, Fenella Humphreys has attracted critical admiration and audience acclaim with the grace and intensity of her remarkable performances. Following the performance, Fenella Humphreys will be joined by multi-award-winning writer, historian, and public speaker, Dr Leah Broad, for a discussion and Q&A. Leah specialises in twentieth-century cultural history, especially women in the arts.

Programme to include:

Fritz Kreisler – Recitativo & Scherzo Caprice
Sarah Frances Jenkins – Tincture of the Skies
Michael Small – Prism
Caroline Shaw – In Manus Tuas
Heinrich Biber – Passacaglia
Cyril Scott – Idyll

FELIX MENDELSSOHN  Hear my prayer
GIOACHINO ROSSINI  O salutaris hostia
CESAR FRANCK  Chorale No 3 in A minor, for organ
EDVARD GRIEG  Ave maris stella
SARAH FRANCES JENKINS  new work for soprano, choir and organ (world premiere)
MORTEN LAURIDSEN  Lux Aeterna

Richard Harvey  organ
Naomi Jones  conductor

(tickets available soon)

Sarah Frances Jenkins - The Holloway (world premiere)
Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor
Vaughan Williams - Symphony no.2 in G "A London Symphony"

Tickets available here: https://www.ticketsoxford.com/events/london-in-the-summer

Chamber music meets art, activism and hope in this lunchtime concert exploring the relationship between human society and the planet we live on.

Works by Ethel Smyth, Lili Boulanger and Florence Price appear alongside contemporary pieces, including Sarah Frances Jenkins’ ‘The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn’ and the Welsh premiere of Lucy Armstrong’s ‘The Whale’s Cabaret’. Through No Music on a Dead Planet, we’re putting a positive spin on planetary panic.

Lynn Henderson horn

Haim Choi, violin

Joe Howson piano

Chamber music meets art, activism and hope in this lunchtime concert exploring the relationship between human society and the planet we live on.

Works by Ethel Smyth, Lili Boulanger and Florence Price appear alongside contemporary pieces, including Sarah Frances Jenkins’ ‘The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn’ and the Welsh premiere of Lucy Armstrong’s ‘The Whale’s Cabaret’. Through No Music on a Dead Planet, we’re putting a positive spin on planetary panic.

Lynn Henderson horn

Haim Choi, violin

Joe Howson piano

Kodály Summer Evening

Sarah Frances Jenkins - new work (world premiere)

Stenhammar Two Romances for violin and orchestra, Op 28

Rodrigo Tres viejos aires de danza

Haydn Symphony No 89 in F

Martin Smith violin
George Vass conductor

Jeremey Huw Williams - Baritone

Timothy Todd Simmons - Piano

Sarah Frances Jenkins - At the Gray Dawn of Day (world premiere - song cycle for baritone and piano)

Spectri Sonori, a concert series and a chamber music ensemble specializing in performance of contemporary music, has been in residence at the Newcomb Music Department, Tulane University, since 1987. The series has presented the most recent compositions along with the established masterpieces of the recent past.

Conductor: Bill Carslake

Sarah Frances Jenkins: And the Sun Stood Still
Nielsen: Helios Overture
Sibelius: Nightride and Sunrise
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

David Matthews Three Birds and a Farewell, Op 118

Electra Perivolaris Mastiha (World premiere)

Roxanna Panufnik Four World Seasons

Sarah Frances Jenkins The First Swallow, for clarinet and string orchestra

Pyotr Tchaikovsky Serenade in C, Op 48

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Mathilde Milwidsky (violin)

Festival Orchestra

George Vass (conductor)

Sarah Frances Jenkins The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn (World premiere)

David Matthews Adonis, Op 105

Charlotte Bray April 21st (World premiere)

Johannes Brahms Horn Trio in E flat, Op 40

Mathilde Milwidsky (violin)

Alexei Watkins (horn)

Ivana Gavrić (piano)