Catch up on what our Samling Academy Singers have been working on as they put their skills into practice in a joyful afternoon of song and opera accompanied by Samling Artist pianists Jonathan Ware, Ian Tindale, Marianna Abrahamyan, George Ireland, Sid Ramchander and Yihan Zhao.

This concert by our 2026/27 cohort of thirty Academy Singers follows six intensive days of coaching and workshops, directed by Caroline Dowdle. They’ll work on every aspect of their vocal technique and stagecraft skills with a team made up of opera singers, vocal teachers, pianists, an actor and a movement specialist.

Programme

Bob Chilcott, My Heart is Like a Singing Bird
Roger Quilter, Fair House of Joy, 7 Elizabethan Lyrics
Claude Debussy, Beau Soir L84
Ernest Chausson, Le temps de lilas Op.19 no.3
Gabriel Fauré, Lydia Op.4 no.2
John Ireland, In Summer Woods
John Ireland, Her Song, 3 Songs, no.2
Harold Noble, My True Love Hath my Heart
Aaron Copland, The Little Horses
Reynaldo Hahn, À Chloris
Ottorini Respighi, Nebbie
Michael Tippett, Come unto these yellow sands Three Shakespeare Songs
Gilbert & Sullivan, The Sun whose Rays The Mikado
G.F. Handel, Son nata a lagrimar Giulio Cesare
George Gershwin, Summertime Porgy and Bess
Irving Berlin, I got the sun in the mornin’ Annie Get Your Gun