Living Songs: The soprano Jessica Summers and pianist Jelena Makarova will perform Camden Reeves’ ‘Echo from the Styx’ at St Mary at Hill, London on Wednesday @livingsongs.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/living-songs...

The Living Songs Series II - songs for baritone composed after 2000 is now live and the Living Songs website has had a little tidy up! Huge thanks to Composers Edition who have been such a supportive partner. www.livingsongs.co.uk/series-2/ #songsdontstopatschubert #newsongsnowsongs #LivingSongs

Thank you Ben Lunn for sending me his new songs with texts by Sunderland poet, William Martin. More for the Living Songs song library! #SongsDontStopAtSchubert #NewSongsNowSongs #newmusic #artsong

It’s proving a good week for contemporary song… today’s highlight is Hugh Cutting and Dylan Perez performing Alex Ho’s The Glass Eye (2023) at the Wigmore Hall

More like this please Wiggers! Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano) perform Judith Weir’s woman.life.song and songs by Laura Bowler and Roxanna Panufnik. Tuesday 22nd July, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall

Alison Smart Fisher (soprano) & Katharine Durran (piano) launch their CD of new art songs by 12 female living composers tomorrow, 18th July, 6-8pm St Mary at Finchley, Hendon Lane, London #SongsDontStopAtSchubert #NewSongsNowSongs

13 works by 13 composers from 20th-century trailblazers to present day pioneers. Xenakis & Aperghis Weir & Wallen Sunday July 20 — 15:00 @ 6 The Uplands, St Leonards-on-Sea Tuesday July 22 — 19:30 @ Lauderdale House, Highgate, London 🎟️ Tickets available from the link in @contemporaryvocalsunds’ bio

Jumping in last minute to give a lunchtime recital with Fei Ren (piano) at Harrow Summer Music Festival. Yikes!!! facebook.com/events/s/jes...

Amazing people of Bluesky, the IRC are complete saints and doing the work that is beyond the rest of us. Please donate your coffee money today for Gaza. donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/gaza-...

Thank you Fei Ren for your outstanding playing today and thank you St Peter Mancroft for hosting a Living Songs recital and for your large, appreciative audience. Lady came up to me afterwards & said “My favourite song was the one by Elliott Carter”. Could have hugged her. #SongsDontStopAtSchubert

LIVING SONGS Saturday 12 April, 1pm Mancroft Music Series The Church of St Peter Mancroft Music by John Dowland, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Henry Purcell, Elliott Carter, Linda Catlin-Smith, Carl Vine, R R Bennett Jessica Summers (soprano) & Fei Ren (piano) www.livingsongs.co.uk www.feirenpiano.com

Jessica Summers and Fei Ren will perform Linda Catlin Smith’s ‘In Black Ink’ for mezzo soprano and piano at the Mancroft Music Recital Series in Norwich on Saturday! [LCS photo © Claire Harvie] @livingsongs.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/summers-ren-...

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This Saturday, 7.30pm: Herschel Concert Series Helen Vidovich (flute) Fei Ren (piano) Jessica Summers (soprano) Works by Rosy Wertheim, Mel Bonis, Phillippe Sancan, Georges Hüe, Nadia Boulanger, Cecile Chaminade, Maurice Ravel www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trio-of-vo...

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2024 BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL by Judith Weir Text: Byron for baritone & piano 3 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2023 ONLY BREATH by Sadie Harrison Text: Rumi for soprano & piano 5 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2022 RAISE NO FUNERAL SONG by Silvina Milstein Text: Yeats for mezzo/soprano & piano 6.5 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2021 NO SAD SONGS by Mark-Anthony Turnage Text: Rossetti for voice & piano 5 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2020 TWO BLACK CHURCHES by Shawn E. Okpebholo Text: Randall, Amaker for baritone & piano 17 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2019 THE TUNING by Martin Suckling Text: Donaghy for mezzo soprano & piano 20 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2018 LA TERRA IMPAREGGIABILE by Richard Causton Text: Salvatore Quasimodo for baritone & piano 36 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2017 O by Rebecca Saunders Text: Joyce for solo soprano 12 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2016 DREI GEDICHTE VON NELLY SACHS by Wolfgang Rihm Text: Nelly Sachs for (mezzo)soprano & piano 7 mins

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🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2015 SONGS OF PURE NOTHINGNESS by Tansy Davies Text: Guilhelm IX d’Aquitane for mezzo/countertenor & piano 13 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2014 OPHELIA’S LAMENT by Alison Bauld Text: Shakespeare for soprano & piano 9 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2013 LOST PRINCES by Pete Stollery Text: Davidson for baritone & digital sound 11 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2012-13 SONGS FROM THE SAME EARTH by Harrison Birtwistle Text: Harsent for tenor & piano 30 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2011 SONNETS AND LOVE SONGS by Charlotte Bray Text: Pessoa for baritone & piano 17 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2010 THE EARTH AND EVERY COMMON SIGHT by Raymond Yiu Text: Clare, Murray, Darwin, Dickinson, Larkin, Wordsworth for soprano & piano 12 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2009 MEET ME IN THE GREEN GLEN by Brian Elias Text: Clare for solo voice 12 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2008 A WINTER’S MORNING by Thea Musgrave Text: Burns for soprano & piano 3.5 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2007 LA MUSIQUE by Elliott Carter Text: Baudelaire for solo soprano 2 mins

NEW UPDATES on THE LIVING SONGS SERIES! Check out soprano songs by: Stephen Barchan, Vivek Haria, Sadie Harrison, Anselm McDonnell, Chris Mortlock, Barbara Rettagliati www.livingsongs.co.uk/living-songs...

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2006 PEACE ON EARTH by Errollyn Wallen Text: Errollyn Wallen for voice & piano 3.5 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2005 POEMS ALMOST OF THIS WORLD by Richard Causton Text: poems of the Late T’ang for solo soprano 8 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2004 SIX SONGS OF OLD JAPANESE WISDOM by Richard Whalley Text: Haiku by Issa for voice & piano 9 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2003 A STRANGER CALLED THIS MORNING by Colin Riley Text: Le Galienne, Emanuel, Szirtes, Cornford, McGough for soprano & piano 16 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2002 QUATRE INSTANTS by Kaija Saariaho Text: Maalouf for soprano & piano 20 mins

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR 25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄 2001 GAY LIFE by David Del Tredici Text: Ginsberg, Monette, Gunn, Kidde, Calhoun for baritone & piano 45 mins

…and this is why I bang the drum for new song, having spent time listening to absolutely brilliant songs by Anselm McDonnell sung by the stunning soprano Rebecca Murphy. Adrenaline is pumping - not sure if it’s cos I’m so excited to hear them or cos I’m so cross that new song is so often overlooked

Is anyone anywhere performing a piece for voice & piano this weekend that was composed post 2000? Is there a dearth of new song performances this month? Bluesky, restore my faith!

Wonderful evening last night at the Performing Rights Society's Members Fund 90th Anniversary, supporting @errollynwallen.bsky.social who gave a fabulous performance of four of her songs.

The Queen of Song, Errollyn Wallen, has arrived on Bluesky! A truly remarkable composer, her SONGBOOK should be on every singer’s shelf. Here is one of my favourites, ‘London’s Burning’, sung by the great lady herself! m.youtube.com/watch?v=J_4J...

As things are getting a little bit snowy in the UK, this song by Ed Nesbit from his song cycle In Antarctica (2021) seems apt! The text is taken from the diary of Captain Scott on his 1910 expedition to the South Pole. m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6VM...