Ella Rainbird-Earley – voice
Jack Redman – piano

The Programme

Ella Rainbird-Earley – voice
Jack Redman – piano

‘Three Songs’
Daphne
Through gilded trellises
Old Sir Faulk

from ‘Over the rim of the moon’
Beloved
A blackbird singing
Nocturne

The seal man

from ‘Hermit Songs’
St Ita’s Vision
The Crucifixion
Promiscuity
The Monk and his Cat
The Desire for Hermitage

The Artists

Ella Rainbird-Earley is a soprano and animateur from the West Midlands. As a soprano, she has sung with the BBC Singers, London Voices and I Fagiolini. This year she has featured in recordings by the BBC and Corvus Consort with Chandos Records. She is also a regular fixture on the front row of the choir at St Bride’s. Her work with Armonico Consort, as a singer and animateur, has taken her across the country, most recently to the Royal Albert Hall as an assistant conductor of over 1500 school children. Whilst studying English Literature at the University of York, she sang with The 24 and I Fagiolini under Robert Hollingworth and was a member of the Genesis Sixteen consort in her final year. She is currently living and teaching in West London.

Jack Redman is a British pianist and composer, who regularly performs as an accompanist and opera pianist. He has played for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lyric Opera Ireland, and performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has played for many acclaimed soloists including Danielle de Niese and Nadine Benjamin MBE. He has performed recitals at the Wigmore Hall and other venues nationally with flautist Katie Taunton, and Duo Melus. They are supported by the City Music Foundation. Following studies at the Royal Academy of Music, Jack was a young artist at the Georg Solti Accademia and with the Oxford International Song Festival. Jack’s compositions have been performed at the OIS Festival and on BBC Radio 3.