After a debut final yr, Classical Pleasure, creative director Oliver Zeffman is again with a five-day competition from 3 to 7 July 2024, showcasing the breadth, variety and depth of expertise of LGBTQ+ composers and artists, previous, current and future.
The centre piece of the competition is a live performance on the Barbican Corridor the place Oliver Zeffman conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in programme that includes a brand new fee from Jake Heggie with soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, Cassandra Miller’s Spherical, Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3, ‘Track of the Evening’, with tenor soloist Russell Thomas and LGBTQ+ Neighborhood Choir, Saint-Saens’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Pavel Kolesnikov and music by Tchaikovsky and Copland.
At Milton Court docket Live performance Corridor, the Fourth Choir, conductor Nicholas Chalmers might be specializing in the connection between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in My Beloved Man that includes music by Britten, Barber, Imogen Holst, Barber and extra.
There’s a free efficiency of Julius Eastman’s Homosexual Guerilla, within the Barbican’s lobby carried out by the Julius Eastman Ensemble assembled by Stephen Upshaw in an association by US composer Jessie Montgomery.
A Proud Future options performers and composers from the LGBTQ+ pupil our bodies of the Royal Academy of Music, Royal School of Music, Guildhall College of Music & Drama and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in a collection of concert events of LGBTQ+ music that has private which means for them.
The competition opens with one thing a bit totally different, Classical Drag at Outernet in Soho, to showcase a number of the largest names in drag and classical music.
Classical Pleasure is non-profit with web proceeds donated to 3 necessary LGBTQ+ charities; Rainbow Railroad, Terrence Higgins Belief & GAY TIMES’ Amplifund.
Full particulars from Classical Pleasure’s web site.
