Recital Performance – Friday 6th May, Schott Music, London

SONGS & DANCES

the music of
PENELOPE THWAITES
featuring
JENNA ROUBOS soprano STEPHEN VARCOE baritone COLIN MILNER tenor
Alex Clatworthy, Lara Bourdeaux sopranos, Mark Bowler guitar, Guy Passey winds, Sally Wigan piano
& The Marlborough Singers

Friday 6 May 2016 at 7pm
Schott Recital Room
48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7BB
Drinks and canapés 6.30pm
Tickets £15 from Schott Music 020 7534 0710 or at the door

“Wonderfully catchy tunes and some impressive effects…a compelling aural drama”
Gramophone magazine

“Thwaites is a composer with a gift for hummable tunes and songs that are elegantly wrought”
John Amis critic and broadcaster

Known internationally as a concert pianist, Penelope Thwaites has written music all her life. From an early age she worked with choirs and upon graduating with honours in Music from Melbourne University, she worked as musical director for various shows. She continued to write for this medium for several years before postgraduate piano studies in London with Albert Ferber launched her career as a concert pianist. She has played in over thirty-five countries, and with some of the world’s leading orchestras, and has a large recording catalogue. A strand of her work – for which she received the Order of Australia in 2001 – is her promotion of Australian composers, and particularly the music of Percy Grainger. Throughout her career she has continued to write, usually for specific occasions and performers. A number of her works are published by Bardic Edition and available from Schott Music, including her song cycle A Lambeth Garland – commissioned for the Lambeth Palace garden renovation in 1987. Last year her commissioned Missa Brevis was performed at the Church of St John the Baptist in Canberra. Her music has been performed around the world, and here in London’s West End (Ride!Ride! – subsequently having more than forty productions world-wide) on the BBC (My Music, In Tune) at Lambeth Palace, the Wigmore Hall, Southbank, Kings Place, St John’s Smith Square, and many other venues. Penelope will introduce the programme and is delighted to welcome friends old and new.

Enquiries: Schott Music: 020 7534 0710 or Penelope Thwaites : 0207 794 5090

PROGRAMME

Missa Brevis 2015

for ‘My Music’
All the Days of Christmas
Reverie

Chorale Prelude: Who Would True Valour See

Early Songs/ Australian songs
Cold Winter’s Night
Forestry
Walkabout
The Ballad of ‘Old Sox’

A Waltz Sequence

Cross Road
Three Psalm settings
Psalm 19
Psalm 121
Psalm 23

from ‘Ride!Ride!’ – a sequence
Have you heard?
The Whole Wide World is my Parish
The Garden of England
Why Me?

from ‘The Downing Street Cat’
The PM’s Rumba

A Lambeth Garland