Ludlow Song Young Composers 2025

Ludlow Song Young Composers 2025
RBC Musicians
Date and time
21 Sep 2025 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Location

Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

Free - booking required

Booking Information

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Singer, pianist and adjudicator on stage of Eastside Jazz Club

Ludlow Song Young Composers

Join us for a free, early evening concert featuring some favourite English songs, alongside brand new compositions by this year’s LS Young Composers.  

Five composers, all 25 and under, have been selected after a competitive, national open call to take part in the Ludlow Song Young Composers Workshop at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with Professor Julian Philips. Come and join us, to hear the first public performances of their new songs, all setting poetry in English for voice and piano.

Featuring baritone George Robarts (winner of the Kurt  Weill Foundation for Music’s annual Lotte Lenya Competition 2025), the programme will also include a variety of well-loved songs from the English song tradition, which continue to inspire. 

This year’s Young Composers are: Ben Pease Barton, George W Parris, Gregory May, Roseanna Dunn, and Tyler Zwink.

Tickets are free, and a great way to get a taste of the Ludlow English Song Weekend. LESW is an annual festival in Shropshire every April celebrating the golden period of English song from Hubert Parry to Benjamin Britten, taking in Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Bridge, Gerald Finzi and John Ireland along the way. To find out more visit: Home – The Ludlow English Song Weekend.

Running time approx. 60 minutes

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