UPCOMING EVENTS:

THURSDAY 22ND JANUARY, 2026:

ROBERT PLANE & THE GOULD PIANO TRIO

8.00pm on Thursday 22nd January 2026 at Kettle’s Yard House, Cambridge

PROGRAMME:

Huw Watkins Four Fables

Elliott Carter Epigrams

Eleanor Alberga Duo from Dancing with the Shadow

Sarah Frances Jenkins Shivelight

Judith Weir Piano Trio No.1

Piers Hellawell The Rising of Sirius

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SATURDAY 6th JUNE, 2026:

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: Summertime Soiree Tour 2026

7.30pm, Saturday 6th June 2026 at Turner Sims, Southampton

PROGRAMME:

Schumann Genoveve Overture  
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel 
Sarah Frances Jenkins The Coming of Night 
Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 Reformation

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WEDNESDAY 10th JUNE, 2026:

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: Summertime Soiree Tour 2026

7.00pm, Wednesday 10 June 2026 at the Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple

PROGRAMME:

Schumann Genoveve Overture  
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel 
Sarah Frances Jenkins The Coming of Night 
Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 Reformation

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FRIDAY 12th JUNE, 2026:

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: Summertime Soiree Tour 2026

7.30pm, Friday 12 June 2026 at St George’s, Bristol

PROGRAMME:

Schumann Genoveve Overture  
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel 
Sarah Frances Jenkins The Coming of Night 
Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 Reformation

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SATURDAY 13th JUNE, 2026:

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: Summertime Soiree Tour 2026

7.30pm, Saturday 13 June 2026 at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff

PROGRAMME:

Schumann Genoveve Overture  
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel 
Sarah Frances Jenkins The Coming of Night 
Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 Reformation

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THURSDAY 18th JUNE, 2026:

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: Summertime Soiree Tour 2026

7.00pm, Thursday 18 June 2026 at Theatre Clwyd, Mold

PROGRAMME:

Schumann Genoveve Overture  
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel 
Sarah Frances Jenkins The Coming of Night 
Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 Reformation

Tickets available soon


FRIDAY 19th JUNE, 2026:

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: Summertime Soiree Tour 2026

7.00pm, Friday 19 June 2026 at Pontio Arts Centre, Bangor

PROGRAMME:

Schumann Genoveve Overture  
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel 
Sarah Frances Jenkins The Coming of Night 
Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 Reformation

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SATURDAY 20th JUNE, 2026:

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: Summertime Soiree Tour 2026

3.00pm, Saturday 20 June 2026 at The Hafren, Newtown

PROGRAMME:

Schumann Genoveve Overture  
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel 
Sarah Frances Jenkins The Coming of Night 
Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 Reformation

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PAST EVENTS:

2025

25th October 2025: Odyssey Ensemble at Sinfonia Smith Square

Performance of The Lark Ascending (arranged for piano quintet by Sarah Frances Jenkins) and Wounded Wings https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/odyssey-ensemble/

27th June 2025: RCM Wind Ensemble perform Ammil

https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3094261

15th June 2025: The Fingersmith Collective premiere ‘Seasons of a Tree’

https://www.fingersmith.in/

14th June 2025: Hangsong Summer Music Festival, South Korea

Nick Thompson (Clarinet) and Minji Kim (Piano) perform ‘Shivelight’

24th May 2025: Odyssey Ensemble & Elena Urioste at Kings Place

World Premiere: ‘Things I carried’ (Music: Sarah Frances Jenkins, Sound Design: Noah Lawson)

https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/classical/max-richters-four-seasons-with-elena-urioste-odyssey-ensemble/

22nd April 2025: Raj Bhaumik (clarinet) and Qden Blaauw (piano) perform Shivelight at Southwark Cathedral

8th March 2025: Live broadcast of the premiere of BBC Radio 3’s commission for International Women’s Day 2025, ‘I am out with Lanterns, Looking for Myself’ for solo piano on the ‘Saturday Morning’ programme with Tom Service.

2024

23rd November 2024: Nicholas Morris premieres ‘Lux et Umbra’ for organ at Queens College Chapel, Cambridge.

7th September 2024: The Manukau Symphony Orchestra premiere ‘The Coming of Night (Orchestral Version)’ at the Due Drop Events Centre, South Auckland, New Zealand

26th August 2024: Premiere of ‘Dancing with Playford’ at the 2024 Presteigne Festival Finale Concert

24th July 2024: The Marian Consort premiere ‘Halfway to Zenith’ (Royal Philharmonic Society commission) at the Ryedale Festival 2024.

9th July 2024: Fenella Humphreys performs ‘Tincture at the Skies’ at Oxford Festival of the Arts

26th June 2024: Fenella Humphreys performs ‘Tincture at the Skies’ at 1901 Arts Club, London

22nd June 2024: The Oxford Symphony Orchestra premiere ‘The Holloway’ 

5th June 2024: Sinfonia Cymru Curates perform ‘The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn’ at All Saints Church, Penarth

4th June 2024: Sinfonia Cymru Curates perform ‘The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn’ at the Riverfront, Newport


2nd May 2024: Nick Thomposon performs US premiere of ‘Shivelight’ at Stamps Auditorium, University of Michigan

2023

14th October 2023: St Albans Symphony Orchestra perform ‘And the Sun Stood Still’

28th August 2023: Robert Plane and the Presteigne Festival Orchestra premiere ‘The First Swallow (Clarinet and String Orchestra Version)’

25th August 2023: Mathilde Milwidsky, Alexei Watkins and Ivana Gavrić premiere ‘The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn’ at the Presteigne Festival.

30th July 2023: Robert Plane and the Gould Piano Trio premiere ‘Gaia’ at the Corbridge Chamber Music Festival


10th June 2023: Jack Hancher performs ‘Veiled Dawn’ at the Hertfordshire Festival of Music