This student-led concert aims to raise awareness for women’s experiences and give voice to the creative talents of women and female-identifying composers, performers and librettists who are currently not being showcased nearly as much as they should be.

Together with her duo partner Eléna Esposito, Anna will perform two songs from Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel.
Tickets: here

RCS Vocal Performance students perform French songs, with the hope of winning the A Ramsay Calder Debussy Prize for Voice including the Norma Grieg French Song Prize.

Together with her duo partner Eléna Esposito, Anna will perform a programme of Poulenc, Lili Boulanger and Debussy.

Tickets: here.

In performance with Eléna Esposito

Tickets and information: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s website

Collaboration with Phaedra Ensemble, developed with Arnolfini Bristol and Holly Thomas.

Experimental sonic theatre work by composer Edward Jessen.

“In the 1950s French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet innovated a manner of storytelling focused purely on a drama’s inanimate aspects and on its incidental components. His stories spell out the habits and patterns of people: what they hold, where they sit and how they touch. Robbe-Grillet’s breakthrough novel, Jealousy (1957), repeatedly visits an assortment of compact scenes—each within the same day-and-a-half window—on adjacent plantations in an undisclosed location. From this place, whose surface we explore in aurally-discernible routes and patterns, comes a theatrical puzzle. The sum of these descriptions leads the story’s narrator, a man brought to a standstill by jealousy, to suspect an infidelity between his wife and their neighbour. What’s missing is the character whose very name contains an ellipse—three dots. We know her only as A…”

Tickets and info: here.

Collaboration with Phaedra Ensemble, developed with Arnolfini Bristol and Holly Thomas.

Experimental sonic theatre work by composer Edward Jessen.

“In the 1950s French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet innovated a manner of storytelling focused purely on a drama’s inanimate aspects and on its incidental components. His stories spell out the habits and patterns of people: what they hold, where they sit and how they touch. Robbe-Grillet’s breakthrough novel, Jealousy (1957), repeatedly visits an assortment of compact scenes—each within the same day-and-a-half window—on adjacent plantations in an undisclosed location. From this place, whose surface we explore in aurally-discernible routes and patterns, comes a theatrical puzzle. The sum of these descriptions leads the story’s narrator, a man brought to a standstill by jealousy, to suspect an infidelity between his wife and their neighbour. What’s missing is the character whose very name contains an ellipse—three dots. We know her only as A…”

Tickets and info: here.

Collaboration with Phaedra Ensemble, developed with Arnolfini Bristol and Holly Thomas.

Experimental sonic theatre work by composer Edward Jessen.

“In the 1950s French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet innovated a manner of storytelling focused purely on a drama’s inanimate aspects and on its incidental components. His stories spell out the habits and patterns of people: what they hold, where they sit and how they touch. Robbe-Grillet’s breakthrough novel, Jealousy (1957), repeatedly visits an assortment of compact scenes—each within the same day-and-a-half window—on adjacent plantations in an undisclosed location. From this place, whose surface we explore in aurally-discernible routes and patterns, comes a theatrical puzzle. The sum of these descriptions leads the story’s narrator, a man brought to a standstill by jealousy, to suspect an infidelity between his wife and their neighbour. What’s missing is the character whose very name contains an ellipse—three dots. We know her only as A…”

Tickets and info: here.

Collaboration with Phaedra Ensemble, developed with Arnolfini Bristol and Holly Thomas.

Experimental sonic theatre work by composer Edward Jessen.

“In the 1950s French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet innovated a manner of storytelling focused purely on a drama’s inanimate aspects and on its incidental components. His stories spell out the habits and patterns of people: what they hold, where they sit and how they touch. Robbe-Grillet’s breakthrough novel, Jealousy (1957), repeatedly visits an assortment of compact scenes—each within the same day-and-a-half window—on adjacent plantations in an undisclosed location. From this place, whose surface we explore in aurally-discernible routes and patterns, comes a theatrical puzzle. The sum of these descriptions leads the story’s narrator, a man brought to a standstill by jealousy, to suspect an infidelity between his wife and their neighbour. What’s missing is the character whose very name contains an ellipse—three dots. We know her only as A…”

Tickets and info: here.

Anna performs in the Wigmore Hall’s masterclass series with the renowned mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, who passes her knowledge and expertise on the new generation of young singers.

Event description and tickets: here.

This event will be live streamed and available to watch on the Wigmore Hall’s website.

Five duos from the SongEasel Young Artist Programme will be performing to an audience with pianist and Lecturer of Lied at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Keval Shah providing invaluable guidance for the participants.

Dulwich College, London

Text and logo sourced from the SongEasel website. Link to the event: here.

In her final recital of the bachelor’s degree, Anna will present a recital on the theme of incertitude that is an integral part of humanity.

Anna Pych, soprano & Paul Chilvers, piano

Programme:

G.F. Handel - “Furie terribili” from Rinaldo
N. Laufer - “Hokulus” from Undine aber sang
A. Schönberg - “Erwartung”
“Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm” from Vier Lieder op. 2
C. Wieck-Schumann - “Die gute Nacht”
S. Barber - “Sea-Snatch” from Hermit Songs op. 29
“Nocturne” from Four Songs op. 13

B. Britten - Tower Scene from The Turn of the Screw
M. Glinka - “Сомнение” (Doubt)
I.J. Paderewski - “Gdy ostatnia róża zwiędła”
“Chłopca mego mi zabrali” from Cztery pieśni op. 7
L. Janáček - “Kradla jsem” from Příhody lišky Bystroušky

Peacock Room, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

In a concert curated by MMus student soprano Emily Beech, singers perform a varied repertoire showcasing unaccompanied solo voice.

Anna will perform Hokulus and Glottermohn from Norbert Laufer’s Undine aber sang (1998-99).

Peacock Room, Trinity Laban Concervatoire of Music and Dance

Featuring George Morton’s stunning chamber arrangement of Holst’s iconic The Planets, the programme will also include Pendlebury’s own transcription of Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector for solo electric viola and sonic delay. Eliana Echeverry’s new work The Lost Planet for electric viola and ensemble completes our astrological journey, with the work imagining the sounds and atmosphere of our once ninth planet, Pluto.

(text and promotional image from Trinity Laban’s website)

The Queen's House, Royal Museums Greenwich
Tickets

Anna Pych, soprano
Chiara Naldi, piano

A special recital of Polish song and piano music at the beautiful Polish Hearth Club. The programme includes rarely performed songs by Chopin and Paderewski and Chopin’s Mazurkas.

Polish Hearth Club / Ognisko Polskie
55 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PN

tickets: link

Trinity Laban Opera Scenes

Purcell’s King Arthur, Puccini’s La Bohème, Musgrave’s A Christmas Carol, Catalani’s La Wally, Massenet’s Werther, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden.

Anna will perform the part of Walter in scenes from Catalani’s La Wally as well as chorus parts in Purcell’s King Arthur, Puccini’s La Boheme and Musgrave’s A Christmas Carol.

The Hearn Recital Room,
Blackheath Halls

link to the event on Trinity Laban’s website

Trinity Laban Opera Scenes

Purcell’s King Arthur, Puccini’s La Bohème, Musgrave’s A Christmas Carol, Catalani’s La Wally, Massenet’s Werther, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden.

Anna will perform the part of Walter in scenes from Catalani’s La Wally as well as chorus parts in Purcell’s King Arthur, Puccini’s La Boheme and Musgrave’s A Christmas Carol.

King Charles Court,
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

link to the event on Trinity Laban’s website

Peacock Room,
King Charles Court

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Old Royal Naval College

link to the event on Trinity Laban’s website

Carne Room,
King Charles Court

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Old Royal Naval College

Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2022

‘Film performance’ is a musical response to the short film Film (Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton). The objects featured in Film are examined through sound-making physical actions while exploring interactions with cameras in performance, projecting live video on stage onto which live electronics and audio and video samples are superimposed. This vocal and electroacoustic work addresses the phenomenological enquiry around perception and self-awareness explored through the figure of the doppelgänger in Film, transposed to our daily interaction with cameras over the pandemic.

Composed and produced by Luciana Perc

More info and tickets available on the Tête à Tête website.

Oxenfoord International - Opera Scenes

part: Susanna (Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro), act I
chorus (Wagner’s Parsifal)

Trinity Laban Opera’s summer production, a jukebox opera Strozzi! with music by Barbara Strozzi and Carlo Gesualdo.

In Strozzi! performers bring to life the intriguing world of seventeenth-century Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. The drama uses Strozzi’s own music to illustrate the events of her extraordinary life, right from her childhood in a bohemian household, as a gifted young singer at L’Incogniti, to the days of her celebrity and success as a published composer and society queen.

Set in a city famous for the pursuit of pleasure, the story also explores her alleged double life as a courtesan. Many colourful characters enter the stage in this ‘pasticcio’ - and the scandals, controversies and tragedies in Barbara’s power-packed life are featured against a backdrop of plagues, wars, poverty, carnival and celebration.

Conductor: Harry Sever
Director: Jennifer Hamilton

Part: Paulina

Tickets available to buy here.

Trinity Laban Opera’s summer production, a jukebox opera Strozzi! with music by Barbara Strozzi and Carlo Gesualdo.

In Strozzi! performers bring to life the intriguing world of seventeenth-century Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. The drama uses Strozzi’s own music to illustrate the events of her extraordinary life, right from her childhood in a bohemian household, as a gifted young singer at L’Incogniti, to the days of her celebrity and success as a published composer and society queen.

Set in a city famous for the pursuit of pleasure, the story also explores her alleged double life as a courtesan. Many colourful characters enter the stage in this ‘pasticcio’ - and the scandals, controversies and tragedies in Barbara’s power-packed life are featured against a backdrop of plagues, wars, poverty, carnival and celebration.

Conductor: Harry Sever
Director: Jennifer Hamilton

Part: Paulina

Tickets available to buy here.

Trinity Laban Opera’s summer production, a jukebox opera Strozzi! with music by Barbara Strozzi and Carlo Gesualdo.

In Strozzi! performers bring to life the intriguing world of seventeenth-century Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. The drama uses Strozzi’s own music to illustrate the events of her extraordinary life, right from her childhood in a bohemian household, as a gifted young singer at L’Incogniti, to the days of her celebrity and success as a published composer and society queen.

Set in a city famous for the pursuit of pleasure, the story also explores her alleged double life as a courtesan. Many colourful characters enter the stage in this ‘pasticcio’ - and the scandals, controversies and tragedies in Barbara’s power-packed life are featured against a backdrop of plagues, wars, poverty, carnival and celebration.

Conductor: Harry Sever
Director: Jennifer Hamilton

Part: Paulina

Tickets available to buy here.

Trinity Laban Opera’s summer production, a jukebox opera Strozzi! with music by Barbara Strozzi and Carlo Gesualdo.

In Strozzi! performers bring to life the intriguing world of seventeenth-century Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. The drama uses Strozzi’s own music to illustrate the events of her extraordinary life, right from her childhood in a bohemian household, as a gifted young singer at L’Incogniti, to the days of her celebrity and success as a published composer and society queen.

Set in a city famous for the pursuit of pleasure, the story also explores her alleged double life as a courtesan. Many colourful characters enter the stage in this ‘pasticcio’ - and the scandals, controversies and tragedies in Barbara’s power-packed life are featured against a backdrop of plagues, wars, poverty, carnival and celebration.

Conductor: Harry Sever
Director: Jennifer Hamilton

Part: Paulina

Tickets available to buy here.

Text and image sourced from Trinity Laban’s website.

Premiere of Assyl Almakhanova’s “Cosmic Tree” with a SATB choir, big band and electronics.

It’s about a diversity in unity. 6 different pieces with diverse ensembles, electronics, big band and choir.

An immersive experience with electronics imitating the sound of earth, roots of trees and people.

Public event

Streetwise Opera x Trinity Laban CoLab showcase

Blackheath Halls

link to Blackheath Halls’ website
about Streetwise Opera
about CoLab

Syllable is a new sonic theatre work by Edward Jessen. With a sinfonietta-scale ensemble, auxiliary audio, and visual projection, this ambitious and experimental work is no ordinary opera. Inspired by a range of material, including Primo Levi’s 1975 collection of short stories The Periodic Table, audiences can expect a drama driven by sounds rather than conventional plot.

Conductor: Gregory Rose
Director: Joseph Alford

ensemble

About ‘Syllable’
Tickets available to buy here

Image: Trinity Laban

Syllable is a new sonic theatre work by Edward Jessen. With a sinfonietta-scale ensemble, auxiliary audio, and visual projection, this ambitious and experimental work is no ordinary opera. Inspired by a range of material, including Primo Levi’s 1975 collection of short stories The Periodic Table, audiences can expect a drama driven by sounds rather than conventional plot.

Conductor: Gregory Rose
Director: Joseph Alford

part: Kael

About ‘Syllable’
Tickets available to buy here

Image: Trinity Laban

Syllable is a new sonic theatre work by Edward Jessen. With a sinfonietta-scale ensemble, auxiliary audio, and visual projection, this ambitious and experimental work is no ordinary opera. Inspired by a range of material, including Primo Levi’s 1975 collection of short stories The Periodic Table, audiences can expect a drama driven by sounds rather than conventional plot.

Conductor: Gregory Rose
Director: Joseph Alford

part: Kael

About ‘Syllable’
Tickets available to buy here

Image: Trinity Laban

Conductor: Alain Judd

chorus

Burgate Church, Suffolk

Trinity Laban’s Rude Health Composition Festival 2021

soloist:
Georgia Barnes - ‘Peripeteia: a reversal of circumstance’ (premiere)
Yulia Temnova - ‘Divination’ (premiere)

Link to Trinity Laban’s website

watch ‘Peripeteia’