Join us for this programme from the internationally acclaimed soprano and one of the UK's leading composer-pianists, as we delve into music - ancient and modern - inspired by love, loss, and our connection to folk song. This is not to be missed.
This event is presented as part of the International Concert Series 2025-26 at Royal Holloway.
Event programme
To include:
Huw Watkins (b. 1976): Echo
Helen Grime (b. 1981): Bright Travellers
Cameron Biles-Liddell (b. 1997): Under the Dome of Heaven (English Premiere)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): A Selection From Irish Folk Songs
Huw Watkins: A Selection From Welsh Folk Songs
About the performers
Former BBC New Generation Artist, winner of both First Prize and Audience Prize at London's 2009 Handel Singing Competition, Ruby Hughes also holds a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and was shortlisted for a 2014 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award. Through her blossoming catalogue of recordings and lovingly curated performances, she has become known for her interpretations of the music of the baroque and 20th and 21st Century. Read more.
Huw Watkins was born in Wales in 1976. Huw is one of the UK’s foremost composer-pianists, in great demand with orchestras and festivals including the London Sinfonietta, Britten Sinfonia, the BBC orchestras, Aldeburgh and Cheltenham Festivals. Strongly committed to the performance of new music, Huw has given countless premieres of works by composers such as Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Huw has established strong connections with Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Paul Watkins, Mark Padmore and Carolyn Sampson and the Emerson String Quartet. Other UK appearances include performances at Wigmore Hall, as well as in Bath, Birmingham, Cambridge and Saffron Walden. Read more.
