I’m delighted to be appearing in these two daytime concerts on 26/28 June with the acclaimed Tredici Chamber Choir. These two special performances take their title from T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, placing spoken word and unaccompanied choral music in quiet dialogue. Tredici performs works spanning five centuries, from William Byrd and Robert Parsons to Felix Mendelssohn, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Pablo Casals and James MacMillan interspersed with readings by actor Christopher Kent from Eliot, Philip Larkin, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Samuel Beckett and Rainer Maria Rilke. Shaped as a single, continuous narrative arc, texts and music intersect to offer a movingly contemplative perspective on time, memory and mortality.

Friday 26 June at 1pm, St James's Sussex Gardens, London W2 3UD (Lancaster Gate 3 mins. Paddington 5 mins)

Sunday 28 June at 5pm, St George's Bloomsbury, London WC1A 1SA (Tottenham Court Road or Holborn 5 mins)

Free admission with a retiring collection.

Full programme details: tredicichoir.org/concerts