Five Armitage Songs, New Commission for &Piano Festival- Song Cycle

Song: Shakespeare and Simon Armitage

The Civic, Slaithwaite | Saturday 25 May 2024 | 7.30pm

Alice is delighted to have been commissioned to write a new song cycle for high voice and piano, setting five poems by Huddersfield’s own Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. This new commission will be performed alongside Madeleine Dring’s Five Betjeman Songs.

Five Armitage Songs:

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Sarah Fox soprano | Joe Shovelton tenor | Christopher Pulleyn piano

Full festival listings can be found on the Festival website, and tickets available here

Generously supported by the 2024 &Piano Festival and the Vaughan Williams Foundation