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Our office may be empty, but we have been working harder than ever during the lock-down. We have not furloughed staff and our small team have switched seamlessly to working from home to ensure that Samling Institute’s work supporting brilliant young artists continues unabated.
Samling Artist Pianist James Baillieu answers questions for a special lockdown edition of Samling Shorts.
Mezzo-soprano Heather Lowe reflects here on what the Samling Artist Programme meant to her as a young emerging artist. We caught her as she was rehearsing Rosina’s aria from Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Samling Artists Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu work with Samling Academy Singer Ben Ryan in an online masterclass, filmed remotely during lockdown.
We are very sorry to announce that in light of the ongoing effect of coronavirus – and specifically the uncertainty it has brought to venues, festivals and other performance-based organisations up and down the UK – we have decided to postpone this year’s Samling Academy Opera production of Mansfield Park.
On Saturday 7 March, we welcomed our eight newest Samling Artists at our public Masterclass and Concert in Sage Two, where they worked with Samling Artist mezzo-soprano Anna Stéphany, Caroline Dowdle and James Garnon.
We begin a new decade with rehearsals for a twenty-first century opera by one of this country’s most exciting composers. Announcing the return of Samling Academy Opera this summer, we’ve chosen Jonathan Dove’s sparkling chamber opera adaptation of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.
Samling Artist Programme and Sanling Academy leader James Garnon answers questions for the Samling Shorts interview in our Newsletter 55 (Spring 2020).
We invite you to ‘Come into the Garden’ at this year’s Samling Artist Showcase at Wigmore Hall where we present a programme that moves through the seasons reflecting our responses to the garden as a place for romance, for refuge, for family, and for deepening our connections to the natural world.
Our Samling Academy summer concerts ‘Come into the Garden’ start on Saturday 20 July. To give you a flavour of the programme, here’s a preliminary music list, and some reflections on music and nature from some of our young singers.