Music at Mansfield concert - Shakespeare in Song

Mansfield College presents the second in its professional termly concert series on Saturday 24 May at 7pm.

Thanks to donations from an anonymous individual, and kind support from alumnus Mr Jan Fischer (PPE, 1987), these funded concerts will be offered free of charge to the public, as well as to members of Mansfield. The concerts will be held in Chapel once a term, and are an hour in length, without interval.

The concert will feature London based soprano Eloise Irving in a programme of settings of texts by Shakespeare, featuring the music of Purcell, Schubert and Vaughan-Williams among others. James Brown will be the accompanist.

You are warmly invited to attend this free concert, which forms part of the artistic offering to the city and community by Mansfield College.

Saturday 24 May at 7pm 

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About Eloise Irving: 

Eloise studied voice and harp at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and went on to read English at King’s College London, where she held a choral scholarship. She then gained an Acting degree at Central School of Speech and Drama.

She has an extensive solo and choral concert, consort and operatic portfolio; performing at venues all over the world including the Royal Albert Hall, La Scala and Carnegie Hall as well as for various television and radio broadcasts in the UK and abroad. Eloise has also toured and recorded with groups including The Monteverdi Choir, The Tallis Scholars, BBC Singers, Armonico, London Choral Sinfonia, Sonoro, Gabrieli Consort, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Tenebrae, Academy of Ancient Music, Polyphony, London Voices, Philharmonia Voices, Eric Whitacre Singers and Gareth Malone’s Voices. She also sings as a regular soprano at Royal Hospital Chelsea, Temple Church and St Mary Le Bow.

Future singing plans include a UK and Spain tour of a semi-dramatised version of ‘Israel in Egypt’ with Armonico Consort, a European tour of Mendelssohn’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ with Sir John Eliot’s newly formed Constellation Choir and a performance of Bach’s St John Passion with the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican.