Russell Hepplewhite 🇪🇺

Composer “One of the brightest talents to emerge in recent years” @EveningStandard Current project: LIVING VOICES

[Russell Hepplewhite 🇪🇺 @RussHepplewhite]

This concert features @whitehallchoir & @joannaconductor performing my choral works with new texts by: @MichaelRosenYes @PamAyres @McgoughRoger @motionandrew @jamilaji @arshi_mona Alice Oswald, Joseph Coelho, Wendy Cope, Fiona Benson, Simon Armitage. https://t.co/jTF59MRVnN

[Russell Hepplewhite 🇪🇺 @RussHepplewhite]

TONIGHT! St Paul’s, Knightsbridge. Yes we know it’s hot, but the church is cool & we don’t want anyone to miss out on this utterly brilliant poem by @MichaelRosenYes sung by the astounding @whitehallchoir

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

As we look forward to our performance of Living Voices tonight at St Paul's Knightsbridge, here's one final taster of @RussHepplewhite music, his setting of Song of Flight by Jamila Gavin
Tickets available on the door tonight
7pm start. See you there!
https://t.co/3n5pfefdqh

[Pam Ayres MBE @PamAyres]

This will be a lovely, different evening and I shall look cool and cucumber-like. Please come along if you can.

[Russell Hepplewhite 🇪🇺 @RussHepplewhite]

So delighted about this! @PamAyres making an appearance at our concert tomorrow. The church will be cool & @whitehallchoir are sounding phenomenal. @stainerandbell @CrossEyedPiano @IanTindale

[Fran Wilson 🎹🖋 @CrossEyedPiano]

Tomorrow night @whitehallchoir premiere the complete Living Voices by @RussHepplewhite at St Paul’s Knightsbridge. 10 contemporary poems by 10 leading poets including @PamAyres (who will be at the concert) @McgoughRoger @MichaelRosenYes Andrew Motion, Wendy Cope set to music, plus 2 new settings of poems by Simon Armitage sung by Marcus Farnsworth, with pianist Ian Tindale

https://t.co/aGU2ZAG7na

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

So hot in London outside☀️ but cool here inside. Come and join us at St Pauls Knightsbridge A refreshing, peaceful haven to escape London’s heatwave. We're performing tomorrow night, world premiere of #LivingVoices by @RussHepplewhite. Celebrating music & poetry. Cold drinks too!

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

We're really looking forward to singing this - and all the other pieces in the Living Voices collection at our concert on Wednesday!

Why not escape the heatwave and come and enjoy contemporary poetry vividly brought to life by Russell's music?

https://t.co/3n5pfefdqh

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

We're counting down to our Living Voices concert on Wednesday. Here's another taster of music and words - @RussHepplewhite's setting of @McgoughRoger's poem The Good Ship Attenborough. Witty and playful, it has a powerful message about #climatechange

https://t.co/3n5pfefdqh

[Russell Hepplewhite 🇪🇺 @RussHepplewhite]

This specially commissioned text by @McgoughRoger was a delight to set to music. It gets performed as part of the entire ‘Living Voices’ collection on Wednesday at St Paul’s Knightsbridge by @whitehallchoir @joannaconductor @IanTindale tickets: https://t.co/WKInILqlsY?

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

Thank you @RobertHugill for this preview!
Our Living Voices concert is just days away now, on 24 June
@RussHepplewhite

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

"When I'm setting music, I'm always thinking about the words..."
Composer @RussHepplewhite speaking ahead of our performance of his Living Voices on 24 June - plus a little taster of his setting of @MichaelRosenYes's poem True Story
Find out more/tickets https://t.co/3n5pfefLfP

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

4 great reasons why you should come and hear Living Voices by @RussHepplewhite on 24 June at St Paul's Knightsbridge
https://t.co/3n5pfefLfP

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

As we count down to the premiere of the complete Living Voices by @RussHepplewhite next Wednesday 24 June, here's a taster of one of the movements - Three Trees/Angels (poem by Fiona Benson).

Tickets / info https://t.co/3n5pfefdqh

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

Rehearsals are going really well for Living Voices on 24 June & we can't wait to share this wonderful suite of pieces

Here's a taster from @RussHepplewhite's setting of The Good Ship Attenborough by Roger McGough
https://t.co/3n5pfefLfP
#newmusic #worldpremiere #choir #poetry

[Fran Wilson 🎹🖋 @CrossEyedPiano]

Living Voices is @RussHepplewhite's new collection of settings for choir of poems by leading contemporary poets including @PamAyres, @MichaelRosenYes, Sir Andrew Motion & Wendy Cope
@whitehallchoir give the world premiere of the complete work on 24 June at St Paul's Knightsbridge

The concert also includes world premiere performances of 2 new settings by Russell of poems by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, sung by @MBJFarnsworth with @IanTindale
https://t.co/aGU2ZAG7na

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

With the world premiere of the complete Living Voices by @RussHepplewhite less than 2 weeks away now, one of our choir members chatted to Russell about the work, how it came about & more.... #newmusic #choralmusic

https://t.co/3n5pfefdqh

[Fran Wilson 🎹🖋 @CrossEyedPiano]

Contemporary Poetry Meets Choral Music in 'Living Voices'

On 24 June, Whitehall Choir give the world premiere performance of the complete Living Voices - Russell Hepplewhite's settings of contemporary poetry https://t.co/oRss4K7Tu2

[Fran Wilson 🎹🖋 @CrossEyedPiano]

This is part of @whitehallchoir’s Living Voices concert on 24 June, when they will perform the complete suite of 10 settings by @RussHepplewhite of poems by leading contemporary poets including @PamAyres @MichaelRosenYes Sir Andrew Motion and Wendy Cope.

Full details / tickets https://t.co/eOkeyllRn2

[Russell Hepplewhite 🇪🇺 @RussHepplewhite]

WORLD PREMIERE!
Two new songs for Baritone & Piano

7pm, 24th June
St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London

https://t.co/WKInILqlsY?

[Whitehall Choir @whitehallchoir]

Singing poetry. It's where we'll be 24 June, presenting a world premiere performance of the complete #LivingVoices works by @RussHepplewhite. Come hear new poems by these brilliant, acclaimed writers👇 Some of the poets will be there ✨🎶❤️ Tickets: https://t.co/3n5pfefdqh