Lunchtime Concert – Thursday 26th June at 1pm

We are delighted to welcome Sebastian Hill and Will Harmer to perform a Tenor and Piano Duo for us at our Lunchtime concert on 26th June at 13.00.

Sebastian Hill starts on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in September and is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is an Opera Holland Park Young Artist covering the title role in Jonathan Dove’s Itch and was previously a member of the Glyndebourne Chorus. He was awarded first prize in the London Bach Society Competition as well as the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition.
Recent debuts include Britten’s Serenade at the Barbican conducted by Roberto González- Monjas, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge in Schaffhausen, Zürich, Bern and Basel with Camerata Variable.
Song highlights include a Goethe celebration at Wigmore Hall accompanied by Graham Johnson, the International Lied Festival Zeist, and the Oxford International Song Festival where he is a Young Artist.
Other recent performances include with Ex Cathedra at Birmingham Symphony Hall, Oxford Bach Soloists, and Worcester Festival Choral Society.

Will Harmer is a London-based pianist, composer and singer. Will is an Oxford Song Young Artist 2024-25 and has performed recitals at Cheltenham Festival, Wigmore Hall, St Martin- in-the-Fields, Oxford International Song Festival and International Lied Festival Zeist. As a composer, Will has been commissioned by the BBC Singers, Oxford Song and Ludlow English Song festivals and was a National Youth Choirs Young Composer 2024.
Competition successes include the Lord Mayor’s Composition Prize, BBC Proms Young Composer and John Sanders Memorial Prize. Will is also active in the London choral scene, performing with groups such as BBC Singers, Temple Singers and St Martin’s Voices. He studied at Worcester College, Oxford and has recently completed a post graduate degree in composition at the Royal Academy of Music

Their entertaining and varied programme includes pieces by Schubert, Clara Schumann, Roger Quilter, Hugo Wolf, Cesar Franck and Carl Loewe.

All are welcome – there is no need to book. A retiring collection will be made.