Image: Black Lion Festival
There is a new classical music festival starting in Hammersmith, which the organisers hope will become an annual event.
Travis Baker, the new Musical Director at St Peter’s Church in Hammersmith, has collaborated with soprano Orlanda Bryars and composer / arranger Lee Bradshaw to create the Black Lion Festival on Friday 9, Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May.
Travis took over as Musical Director at the Grade II listed church in Black Lion Lane last autumn.
“The vicar, Charles Clapham, is a very generous man,” Travis told The Chiswick Calendar. “He has given me free reign to design the music as I want.”
The basic job is to run the choir and play the organ at the church, but he decided he would ask the congregation what they wanted from the music programme.
“They came up with three things,” Travis told us. “They wanted to bring in more people from the broader community. They wanted more music activities for children – there are a lot of families who come – and the choir wanted a project-based event, so I decided we would have our own music festival.”
He has chosen the programme based on the instruments available at the church. They will be presenting Faure’s Requiem on the Saturday, which will be a collaboration between their own church choir and the West London Chamber Choir, under the leadership of Hilary Campbell.
Hilary Campbell
Travis will be playing the organ and the Cirrus Quartet will be providing the strings.
On Friday night, Australian pianist Stefan Cassomenos will be performing Franz Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9, and on the Sunday there will be a concert aimed at children aged under the age of ten, of Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf, again with the Cirrus Quartet.
“Because we’re doing it for the community, I hope it will be supported,” said Travis, “because I would really like to grow this into an annual event.”
Book tickets on St Peter’s Church website
Black Lion Festival tickets
Image: Cirrus Quartet
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