We look forwards to hearing Laurence Hughes – Cello, Thomas Henderson – Piano’s WACIDOM Concert
Programme
Hermann of Reichenau – Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen) – trad
J S Bach – Prelude, Sarabande & Gigue, Cello Suite No.1 in G major BWV 1007
G F Handel – Ombra mai fu
F Schubert – Ave Maria
S Prokofiev – Montagues and Capulets
L Bernstein – From the musical West Side Story
America
Maria
M Bruch – Kol Nidrei
Biographies
Laurence Hughes
Laurence Hughes was a chorister at Hexham Abbey before studying cello with Hannah
Roberts at Chetham’s School of Music, where he won a scholarship to the Royal Northern College of Music. After further studies in London, Laurence has enjoyed a career where he has sought to balance his professional academic interests with a love of making music.
Recent chamber music collaborations have been with Caroline Pether, the Sterling Trio and Lucia Strings. Laurence also teaches cello and freelances with various orchestras, as well as directing the Ignatius Singers in the church of the Holy Name at Manchester University and the Yorkshire Late Starters Strings Orchestra.
Tom Henderson
Tom Henderson is from Cornwall and has established a reputation as a distinguished
accompanist across the country. He studied piano with Melvyn Cooper at Warwick
University. Tom is a Junior Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music working as a
Repetiteur in the school of Vocal and Operatic studies. He is also an accomplished choral
singer and currently sings with the Royal Philharmonic award nominated group The Sunday Boys, an LGBTQ+ low-voiced choir based in Manchester, and also performs with Manchester Chamber Choir and the Ignatius Singers. Tom was accompanist at the Stoller Hall in the world premiere of Michael Betteridge’s secular oratorio, ‘Stay as long as you like’. He also recently collaborated with Streetwise Opera at the Bridgewater Hall in their Re-discover Festival, a celebration of African and Caribbean heritage through the voices of people with lived experience of homelessness.
This is the last concert in our current series.
