CELEBRATING AVRIL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Ensemble 360 & Dr Leah Broad

Presented by RPS award-winning writer Leah Broad, whose group biography of female composers Quartet (2023) won plaudits around the globe, this Music in the Round concert with conversation introduces us to the ground-breaking Avril Coleridge-Taylor and her world. Setting this too-often overlooked composer, conductor and pianist in the context of the musicians who championed, supported and inspired her, Leah introduces rarely heard works, performed by Ensemble 360. Music by Coleridge-Taylor herself will be presented alongside her father Samuel’s crowning achievement in chamber music, Vaughan Williams’s soulful romance and Elgar’s charming, celebrated song to the morning.

Programme:
A COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Can Sorrow Find Me? (4′)
S COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Clarinet Quintet (I. Allegro energico) (10′)
ELGAR Chanson de Matin (4′)
A COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Romance (6′)
SMYTH Piano Trio (III. Scherzo) (5′)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Romance (7′)
A COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Idylle (5′)