Voice and piano duo Lucinda Cox, soprano, and Tom Jesty, piano will present a programme drawn from the vast repertory of song inspired by nature and the sky. there will be texts about nightingales, blackbirds, swallows, and the stars. You will also hear songs addressed to daisies and daffodils, songs describing gardeners and roses, and depictions of the blustery outdoors. The composers represented include Maude Valerie White, Caroline Maude and Amy Beach, as well as Benjamin Britten, Michael Head, and living composers James Ottaway and Piers Connor Kennedy.
Admission: Free. No ticket necessary.
Come and be delighted by high quality classical performances in our beautiful church. The concerts will take place on the third Friday of every month at 1.15pm with free hot drinks and cake served from 12.45pm.
www.stmaryislington.org/events
Dates for the next few concerts: 18 October and 14 November
Free Friday Lunchtime Recitals at St Mary’s have been made possible by a generous legacy left by Denise Antenen.
See Lucy and Tom on YouTube:
The Last Rose of Summer | Benjamin Britten realisation
Caroline Maude - Magdalen
Find out more about Lucy on her website and YouTube channel.
Find Tom on YouTube.
Lucy Cox
British soprano Lucy Cox read Music at St Peter’s College Oxford, before winning a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, where she studied with Anthony Rooley and Evelyn Tubb. Lucy now enjoys a busy career as a concert soloist.
Lucy is a former Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artist, and was a finalist in the cancelled 2020 John Kerr Award for English Song. She has appeared as a soloist at venues including the Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, Cadogan Hall, St George’s Bristol, Oxford’s Holywell Music Room, and the Vienna Konzerthaus, with ensembles including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, the Villiers Quartet, the Monteverdi String Band, Orkiestra Historyczna, the Gabrieli Consort and Players, and the Hanover Band.
She has sung title roles in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Handel’s Semele, Cyril Rootham’s Andromeda, Scarlatti's La Giuditta, and Cavalli's La Calisto, for Brighton Early Music Festival, Cantata Dramatica, and New Chamber Opera.
Recent engagements have included Rutter's Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bach Choir conducted by the composer at St Paul's Cathedral; Sebastiani’s Matthew Passion at the Wigmore Hall with viol consort Fretwork; Bach’s Matthew Passion in Derby Cathedral; Bach's B minor mass in Dorchester Abbey and Hereford Cathedral; Handel's Solomon at Oxford's Town Hall; and Haydn's Creation at Milton Abbey.
Tom Jesty
Tom Jesty began his musical education by singing as a Quirister in the Winchester College Chapel Choir from the age of 8. Tom went on to study piano with Nick Salwey at Winchester College, where he gained an FTCL performance diploma, and performed Rachmaninov's second piano concerto with the school orchestra. Tom studied for a bachelor's degree in music at St Peter’s College Oxford, and during this time he sang as a choral scholar in the college chapel choir. Since graduating, Tom has worked as a piano teacher and accompanist. Tom recently completed a masters course in piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Pamela Lidiard and Iain Burnside. In March last year, Tom won the Paul Harmburger Prize for Voice and Piano, accompanying baritone George Robarts. Tom accompanies for the Encore Choir, directed by Charles MacDougal, the City Chamber Choir, directed by Stephen Jones, and the Hampshire Youth Choirs, directed by Kerry Kenward and Andrew Hayman. Tom works as music director of St Mary’s church in Islington in addition to pursuing a career as a freelance recitalist.