Music & Tapas - Susanna Macrae & Petra Hajduchova
Join us at The Garlic Farm Restaurant for our monthly tapas & music evenings. We are very pleased to be hosting a series of visiting professional musicians for recitals throughout 2024.
4th September - SUSANNA MACRAE (VOICE) & PETRA HAJDUCHOVA (Piano)
Royal College of Music trained soprano & GSMD pianist
The restaurant will be open from 6pm serving a tapas menu until 7.30pm with 40 minute recital starting at 7.45pm. The bar will be open throughout.
Programme
- Fear a' Bhàta (O my Boatman) - Trad. Gaelic Folk Song
- I dreamt my love was singing, from Breton Folk Songs - Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
- Volksliedchen - Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- Down by the Salley Gardens - Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
- Nature the gentlest Mother - Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
- Auch Kleine Dinge, from Italienisches Liederbuch - Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
- The Spring is at the Door - Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
- Quando spieghi i tuoi tormenti, from Orlando - Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
- The Hummingbird, from An Amherst Bestiary - Julian Philips (b. 1969)
- To a Little Red Spider - Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
- The Last Rose of Summer - Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Susanna MacRae is a graduate of the Royal College of Music, London. Recent career
highlights include touring various literary festivals with her curated song recital, “Words of Women”, created alongside pianist Claire Habbershaw. She also made her debut as Dorinda in Liberata Collective’s sold-out production of Handel’s Orlando at the Buxton International Festival, in collaboration with Ensemble Hesperi and Adrian Butterfield. Susanna reprised the role of Dorinda this season at both the Beaumaris Festival and the Stour Early Music Festival. In addition to her performing career, Susanna is the Managing Director of Liberata Collective CIC. Baroque Gesture is central to the collective’s productions, and their current production of Handel’s Orlando tours several major U.K. festivals during the 2023/24 season. This tour is supported by Arts Council England, The Maria Bj rnson Memorial Fund, The Fidelio Trust, and The ӧ Golsoncott Foundation.
www.susannamacrae.com / www.liberatacollective.com
Petra Hajduchova completed her studies at Trinity College of Music in London and was awarded a TCM Scholarship and the Raymond Russel Prize. Since then she has pursued a busy and varied career and has recently accepted a scholarship from Canterbury Christ Church University to research life of Bohemian and Moravian cantors of Baroque period for her doctoral thesis. She is known for her radio and television work, including a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and has recorded with The Harmonious society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen. Petra has been in high demand as a soloist, accompanist, orchestral and chamber musician and regularly performs at venues such as Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, St Martin in the Fields, St James Piccadilly and St John’s Smith Square.
www.petraharpsichord.com
£12 per person, entrance only
Book your table and tickets here - choose 4th September evening on booking calendar
See our other Tapas & Music Evening dates:
25th October - CHRIS HIRST (THEORBO) & EMMA-MARIE KABANOVA (VIOLIN)
Lute-based classical and folk music fusion