Harry will sing as part of a quartet in this delightful performance of the Messiah

As described by the Foundling Museum - “Handel – like many other baroque composers – constantly modified his Messiah to attract new audiences to the point where nearly a third of this work underwent revision during the composer’s lifetime. Les Bougies Baroque have reimagined this seminal work so that more of us can share in its power, particularly those at the fringes of society. Expect an evening of intellectually-informed fun. All you are required to do is leave your preconceptions at the door, fetch a libation from the bar, and come as yourself – with or without bells on!"

This event is part of A Queer Georgian Social Season, a series of LGBTQI+ events where history, the arts and queer culture combine, conceived and curated by Ian Peter Bugeja and Mark Francis-Vasey. Think Baroque music, historical performances, flute solos and… drag queens”

A Queer Georgian Social Season presents Domenico Sarro’s rarely performed serenata.

For more information and tickets please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qgss-2023-24-opera-the-quarrel-twixt-minerva-venus-tickets-665695211297?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

Emma Roberts, Mezzo-soprano

Harry Grigg, Tenor

Nigel Foster, Piano

David Mildon, Speaker

‘Berlioz and Friends’ paints an atmospheric picture of the musical environment of mid-19th century Paris, a setting for intense, romantic music and largerthan-life characters. This vibrant world is depicted in a domestic setting through the songs of Hector Berlioz and his friends, including the pianist Franz Liszt and the opera singer Pauline Viardot, both noted celebrities of their day, and through the words of Berlioz himself, taken from his lively Memoirs and his book The Musical Madhouse (Les Grotesques de la Musique), in which he applies his often-caustic tongue to the musical foibles and eccentricities of his time.

Nigel Foster, renowned accompanist and Director of the London Song Festival, is joined by prize-winning soloists Emma Roberts and Harry Grigg, with stage and film actor David Mildon reading Berlioz’s own words.

Nicholas McGegan conductor
Harriet Burns soprano*
Lauren Lodge-Campbell soprano*
Katherine Aitken mezzo-soprano*
Michael Bell tenor*
Harry Grigg tenor*
Daniel Barrett baritone*
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia
Royal Northern Sinfonia

* Samling Artist soloists

Antonio Vivaldi Dixit Dominus
Caroline Shaw Is a rose
Johann Sebastian Bach Magnificat

Bach’s Magnificat is exuberant and richly inspired – every performance is a celebration. Today it gets the deluxe treatment from the full Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia, and conductor Nicholas McGegan. We begin with two visions of beauty – Vivaldi’s jubilant Dixit Dominus, and Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose. An unmissable evening!

For tickets please visit: https://sagegateshead.com/whats-on/rns-bach-magnificat/

Charlotte Bowden – soprano

Harry Grigg – tenor

Nigel Foster – piano

David Mildon – speaker

Benjamin Britten and W H Auden’s relationship flourished on a musical level, resulting in numerous songs, many of which were written as direct responses to the emotional tensions both men experienced on a personal level. This concert tells their story through Britten’s songs and his own words from his letters and diaries, from their meeting in 1935 when both were working for the GPO Film Unit in London, through their experiences of both Britain and America, to their falling out in the 1940s. The programme incorporates every available voice and piano song they wrote together; On This Island, the Cabaret Songs and numerous individual songs including Fish in the unruffled lakes, Underneath the abject willow, Night covers up the rigid land, To lie flat on the back, When you’re feeling like expressing your affection, What’s in your mind, and The sun shines down, and selections from their other works including Ballad for Heroes, Hymn to St Cecilia, the Spring Symphony and the operetta Paul Bunyan. The programme features an arrangement by Griffin Candey for speaker and piano of one of their first collaborations, Night Mail, commissioned for this concert by the London Song Festival. The performers are soprano Charlotte Bowden (a Britten-Pears Young Artist and Glyndebourne Jerwood Young Artist), tenor Harry Grigg (winner of 2021 Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards), pianist Nigel Foster and speaker David Mildon (‘Son’ in the BAFTA-winning Happy Birthday Grandad, leading roles at Hackney Empire, Meunier Chocolate Factory and Jermyn Street and Soho theatres) reading Britten’s commentaries and reflections on the songs and about his friendship with Auden and life in general.

For tickets and more information please visit: https://www.londonsongfestival.org/concerts-1

Introducing eight new Samling Artists in a public masterclass, held in the stunning music room at Marchmont House, led by mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, conductor Paul-Emmanuel Thomas, Samling Artist pianist Joseph Middleton and actor James Garnon. pianist Samling Artist Jo Ramadan supports the team as staff pianist.

Samling Artists

Daniela Popescu soprano
Emilia Utter Mangsbo soprano
Annabel Kennedy mezzo-soprano
Harry Grigg tenor
Arthur Bruce baritone
Jamie Woollard bass
Ilan Kurtser piano
Krystal Tunnicliffe piano

For more information please go to: https://www.samling.org.uk/events/sap-november-2022/

Falling in the very midst of the season of remembrance (the day after Armistice Day and the day before Remembrance Sunday), this event is an opportunity to pause and take stock as you are guided by the sacred music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) on a musical, spoken and, at times, silent journey of reflection and remembrance. 

For tickets and information please go to: https://www.figureensemble.co.uk/events

Role: Reynard

Composer: Christopher Wood

Director: Jonny Danciger

A sequential trilogy of one-act operas, exploring the self we all find ourselves locked into. Inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit, the piece collides three fundamentally incompatible, emotionally flawed people.

This event is presented as part of Opera Studio: Chamber Works - two days of intimate chamber opera events, curated by Director Jonny Danciger.

For tickets please visit: https://www.osoarts.org.uk

Role: Reynard

Composer: Christopher Wood

Director: Jonny Danciger

A sequential trilogy of one-act operas, exploring the self we all find ourselves locked into. Inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit, the piece collides three fundamentally incompatible, emotionally flawed people.

This event is presented as part of Opera Studio: Chamber Works - two days of intimate chamber opera events, curated by Director Jonny Danciger.

For tickets please visit: https://www.osoarts.org.uk

Programme 

Iain Farrington – Jazz Cantata – Then Sing We All
Mozart – Requiem

Performers

Brandenburg Sinfonia
Twickenham Choral Society
Bob Porter Artistic Director
Christopher Herrick Conductor

For tickets please visit: https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whatson-event/mozart-requiem-by-candlelight-21/?whatson-event-date=2022-09-22&whatson-event-time=6:30%20PM

Musical Director: Tom Bullard

Isabelle Atkinson - Soprano
Elizabeth Green - Soprano
Bernadette Johns - Alto
Harry Grigg - Tenor
Johannes Moore - Bass

For tickets and more information - https://www.waverleysingers.com/concertdetail.htm?concert=30

Music for a Royal Jubilee

Nevill Holt Opera celebrates the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with this celebratory Last Night of the Proms-style concert of Music for a Royal Jubilee, taking place in the award-winning NHO Theatre.

NHO Artistic Director Nicholas Chalmers conducts the world-renowned BBC Concert Orchestra alongside a chorus of sixteen outstanding opera singers.

With much-loved music from celebrated composers including Handel, Elgar, Holst and Parry, this joyful concert will also have an element of audience participation. Come prepared to raise the roof!

The beautiful NHO gardens will be open for picnicking for two hours prior to the concert.

For tickets and more information: https://www.nevillholtopera.co.uk/whats-on/music-for-a-royal-jubilee

Role: Amour

Conductor: Jonathan Williams

Director: Guido Martin-Brandis

For more information, https://www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/rameau-castor-et-pollux/

Harry will take part in a Public Masterclass with tenor Nicky Spence, singing Ginastera and Handel

For more information and tickets: https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=2368470

Musical Director - Jessica Norton

Piano - George Ireland

In collaboration with soprano Catherine Hooper, Harry collated and performed a recital celebrating female composers, including music by Cécile Chaminade, Nadia Boulanger and Muriel Herbert. Two new commissions by Rebecca Nisco and Jasmine Morris were also performed.