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| Song in the City’s Creative Minds in Song |
Song in the City is an artist-led charity directed by Gavin Roberts and Rebecca Cohen that aims to take classical music out of its comfort zone, using the talents of professional classical musicians to respond to the world around us, whilst challenging our artists and audiences in creative ways.
Their 2025 season gets off to a lively start with a trio of concerts at St Giles Cripplegate. First off is Reclaiming Love: An Alternative Valentines on 14 February when Sam Cobb (soprano), Charlie Morris (alto), Jonathan Henley (tenor), Thomas Litchiev (baritone), Gavin Roberts and Anna Reiley (piano), as part of LGBT+ History Month celebrate love of all kinds with music including Brahms’ Love Song Waltzes, and songs chosen specially by the performers that share what ‘love’ means to them!
For Wales Week London 2025, Elinor Rolf Johnson (soprano) and Gavin Roberts are presenting A Welsh Songbook on 7 March, with music and poetry by Morfydd Owen, Meirion Williams, Nicholas Olsen, Alun Hoddinot, Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, RS Hughes, and E T Davies.
Then on 11 April, they celebrate 10 years of Creative Minds in Song. Lynda Shariff (mezzo-soprano), Gavin Roberts and artists from Creative Minds in Song will present the premiere of My Child by poet Isobel Lane and composer Michal Kawecki, alongside previous compositions and poetry readings from former Creative Minds in Song participants.
Creative Minds in Song was begun by Song in the City in 2015, and has produced 30 co-created songs with in collaboration with writers who have lived experience of mental illness using the talents of Guildhall School composers, singers and instrumentalists. Isobel Lane and Michal Kawecki first met on Song in the City’s Creative Minds in Song project.
Further information from the Song in the City website and tickets from TicketTailor.
