Will Prior (countertenor) and Alfred Fardell (piano) in Concert

7:30pm, Fri, 12 Mar 2027

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  • Type of event: Performance
    Start time: 7:30pm
    Venue: Gerrans Parish Memorial Hall, Gerrans Hill, Portscatho, Cornwall TR2 5EE
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    Ticket pricing/options: Adult £20 (Unreserved)
    Member £15
    18 or under Free
    Adult accompanying child 14 and under £10
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    Tel. 01209 312505 (10am - 4pm) Monday to Friday

    Description: Will Prior (countertenor) and Alfred Fardell (piano) in Concert
    This is the inaugural recital in "The George Parker Memorial Song Recital".  Will Prior is a new young champion of the countertenor voice will present a concert which demonstrates the wonderful colour and register of the countertenor voice..  Will  won the Inaugural Dame Janet Baker Award, is a Brtten Pears young artist and Countess of Munster young recitalist.  

    The programme explores Enlgish and German song  thorugh the poetry of Shakespeare and Heine, with further additions from Frank Bridge, Thomas Campion and Rebecca Clark


    George Parker was a well known concert baritone soloist in the years from 1920 -1960.  He was invited to sing with the Falmouth Opera Group by Roseland resident musicians the Radford Sisters (Maisie and Evelyn). and for many years thereafter was a regular visitor to Cornwall with his family.   The story of the first UK performance of Mozart's Idomeneo and other baroque operats in Falmouth at the Polytechic is told in the Radford Sisters published account "Musical Adventures in Cornwall".  George's family settled on the Roseland and also at Callestick Farm north of Truro.  The family has made a gift to the Society for a series to support young emerging professional singers to give a regular recital in the Roseland Music Society Series. 

    Concert supported also by the Countess of Munster Trust


     
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