Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Recital
16th March, 6pm
We are delighted to welcome students from RBC for a special recital at Lamport Hall on Monday 16 March, featuring the 2025/26 Lamport scholar and award winners. The evening promises to be magical, with the performances taking place in the beautiful High Room.
The evening will begin with performances by Triptych and PACE and a presentation by E&J Recordings, all of whom won the Lamport Hall Music Entrepreneurship Competition, a multi-stage opportunity for groups formed at RBC. The idea of the competition was to provide groups with career guidance to support their future employability potential and the prize used to help market and promote them. The evening will conclude with a performance by Thomas Hawkey-Soar, the current Lamport~RBC scholar.
Performers
Triptych is a lively, joyful, and highly versatile folk trio that blends Celtic traditional music from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales with original tunes and arrangements to create an energetic, animated sound that is equally at home running a ceilidh dance and a standalone 3-piece concert. The Band's aim is simple: to create music that makes people dance, feel good, and spread the tradition and joy of folk music. The current lineup includes Diego Villarreal (percussion), Jamie Paxton (guitar) and Zinnia Smart (violin).
Pace is a new music collective committed to making contemporary music feel immediate, visceral and unmistakably alive. They place emotional directness at the centre of every performance in order to transform how audiences experience new work. The current lineup is mezzo Suzie Purkis, cellist Flora McNicoll and saxophonist and composer Evie Ingles.
E + J Recordings is a musician-led recording service specialising in high-quality audio and video recordings for classical singers. Founded by two working opera singers, Ethan and Justin, the company was created in response to a clear gap in the West Midlands: accessible, affordable, and musically informed recording services tailored specifically to performers’ professional needs.
Thomas Hawkey-Soar is a Tenor, currently studying for a Master’s in Performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with Christopher Turner. Winner of the St Clare Barfield Rosebowl for Operatic Distinction (2025), he is also a member of the National Opera Studio (NOS) Academy Programme, and is recognised for his versatility across opera, oratorio, and choral repertoire. Tom will be accompanied by Sarah Potjewijd on piano.
Tom's programme will include a Frank Bridge's 'Love Went A-Riding', E. J. Moeran's 'In Youth is Pleasure', Britten's 'Cradle Song' and Noel Coward's 'The Party's Over Now' to name but a few.
Doors open at 5.45pm for a 6.00pm start. Refreshments will be available to purchase during the interval. It is anticipated the evening will end around 8.00pm.
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