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The 2024 Peter Tranchell Foundation Concert: Songs, Lost & Found

Songs, Lost and Found concert - montage of performers: Mary Bevan, James Gilchrist, William Vann, Lucy Colquhoun, and composer Peter Tranchell
Clockwise from top-left: Mary Bevan (Soprano, credit Victoria Cadisch), James Gilchrist (Tenor), Lucy Colquhoun (Piano), Peter Tranchell (composer, 1922-1993), William Vann (Piano, credit Helena Cooke)
Date Saturday 9th November 2024
Time

Doors open 18:00, for a complimentary glass of champagne, accompanied by light piano music by Peter Tranchell
Concert starts 18:30
Reception 19:45 - 21:15 (wine, soft drinks and finger buffet)

Venue St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge 32A Wilton PlaceLondonSW1X 8SH
Performers Mary Bevan (Soprano), James Gilchrist (Tenor), William Vann (Piano), Lucy Colquhoun (Piano)
Tickets

Concert (including glass of champagne or soft drink): £20 (students & unwaged £5)
Reception: £15

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Programme

The winning works in the 2024 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize on a theme of Peter Tranchell's Lost Songs: Lullaby and Summer Dance, by Will Harmer. Plus some of our 2nd and 3rd prize winners: Songs for Peter, by Ian Shaw, and Three in Three, by Guy Turner.

Plus songs and piano works by Peter Tranchell, to including:-

A duet aria (or two!) from The Mayor of Casterbridge (1951) an opera by Peter Tranchell.

Songs from In a Sunday Paper (1953) a song cycle by Peter Tranchell, using texts from The News of the World and The Telegraph, 9th August 1953.

Songs from Child's Play (1958) a revue by Peter Tranchell.

Movements from Friendly Grotesques (four hands, one piano, 1953) by Peter Tranchell.

Kavafy Songs (1956) by Peter Tranchell.

Songs from Seven Poems of Po Chü-i (1948) by Peter Tranchell.

Songs from Zuleika (1954), a musical comedy by Peter Tranchell.

Concert programme booklet

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