Peter and the Wolf

 

Sunday 27^th June, 2.30pm at St Michael’s Church, Elmwood Road, Chiswick

Tickets £5

 

Popular broadcaster and conductor Brian Kay narrates Prokofiev’s family favourite Peter and the Wolf, performed by the Brandenburg Sinfonia.

 

Brian Kay divides his working life between the broadcasting studio and the concert platform. He currently presents two long-running series on Radio 2 - Friday Night is Music Night and Melodies for You - and on Radio 3, Brian Kay’s Light Programme and the Sunday afternoon listeners’ request programme 3 for all. On the concert platform, he presents and narrates concerts with many of the leading orchestras and frequently guest-conducts choirs and orchestras in many parts of the country, and further afield.

 

Chiswick Suite

Local composer Graham Preskett has written a new commission especially for the Grove Park Music Festival, inspired by his daughter’s impressions of living in Chiswick. This delightful piece takes us from waking up early one morning, with a trip to the park, meandering along the river, a walk down the High Road, and a moment of reflection at sunset until it’s time to go home.

 

Graham is a composer, arranger and player with a Masters Degree in Classics from Cambridge and is an Associate of the Royal College of Music. He has written music for films, television drama and advertisements, arranged music for famous recording artists like Tom Jones and Sir Paul McCartney and as a session musician his credits include Captain Corelli (mandolin), Moulin Rouge (tango violin), Thelma and Louise (harmonica), and Bridget Jones’s Diary (bouzouki). He also recently played the Albert Hall with Deep Purple.

 

Performances by the Grove Park Music Festival Singing Competition winners Jessica Hughes and Alexia Prakas.