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Wednesday 26 August 1.1pm
A beautiful soprano and piano recital with works by Novello, Strauss, Liszt and Britten to mention some.
Online streaming
This concert will be streamed live on our YouTube channel at 1:10pm.
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Programme
Ivor Novello: Waltz of my heart Richard Strauss: selection from 4 Lieder Op.27 – Ruhe meine Seele! – Heimliche Aufforderung Franz Liszt: O lieb so lang du lieben kannst S.298 Johannes Brahms: Unbewegte laue Luft Op.57 No.8 Benjamin Britten: selection from On this Island Op.11 – Let the florid music praise! – Seascape — (interval) — Carl Loewe: selected songs – Meine Ruh’ ist hin – Szene aus Faust – Mädchenwünsche – Wandrers Nachtlied I – Wandrers Nachtlied II – Die Mutter an der Wiege – Die wandelnde Glocke – Lynceus, der Türmer, auf Fausts Sternwarte singend Ernani Cuenco: Kalesa.
Artist Bio
Lizzie Bett Estrada is a classical soprano from the Philippines. She recently graduated from her undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Professor Susan Waters. In September, she will be joining Royal Academy Opera as a Bicentenary Scholar. She has won prizes in competitions including First Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for Young Singers Competition (2023), First Prize in the National Music Competitions for Young Artists – Junior Voice Category (2020), and Third Prize in both the Royal Academy of Music Schumann Lieder Prize (2025) and the Basel International Song/Lieder Vocal Competition (2025) in Tokyo, Japan. Lizzie was one of the Young Artists at Leeds Song Festival 2025, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2025 in Lübeck, Germany, Projeto Canção 2026 in Porto, Portugal, and the Song Easel Festival 2026 in London, where she performed in recitals and masterclasses with Elly Ameling, Sir Thomas Allen, Anna Tilbrook, Brigitte Fassbaender, Juliane Banse, James Gilchrist, and Roger Vignoles. She has also had masterclasses with Audrey Saint-Gil, Susan Manoff, and Hartmut Höll.
This summer, she was one of the Fellows at the Toronto Summer Music Festival, where she spent two weeks studying with Sasha Cooke and Warren Jones. She will also take part in the Oxenfoord International Summer School this August. Her performance experience includes solo lunchtime concerts and song recitals at 22 Mansfield Street, St Marylebone Parish Church, St James’s Church Piccadilly, Halifax Philharmonic Club, and St Mary the Virgin Church, Aylesbury. Lizzie will be performing at Wigmore Hall this coming October for Richard Stokes’ Carl Loewe book launch and in January 2027 for the Royal Academy of Music’s Song Circle Concert. *** Thomas Scott has a BMus first class honours degree from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and completed his post-graduate degree at the Royal Academy of Music. He is now pursuing a Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed to members of the British Royal Family and has performed across the UK at venues such as; a charity concert in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, Steinway Hall, the Penarth Chamber Music Festival, Austrian Cultural Forum and the Halifax Philharmonic Club. Thomas has been awarded the Geoffrey Buckley Memorial Prize and the Bryan Davies Memorial Prize. He is the winner of the 2023 John Ireland competition, won the Trevor Pugsley Prize and was nominated for the Musicians’ Company Carnwath Piano Scholarship. In April 2025, Thomas was part of the Leeds Lieder Festival as one of their Young Artists.
Presented in association with Music Lessons Marylebone.
