04/04/2026
She’s so lovely! Do you know her? ⛪️📍🗺️
St Martin-in-the-Fields is a huge landmark next to Trafalgar Square. But have you ever been inside?
It hosts an incredible music programme, a cavernous underground cafe and a lot more besides 🎻
You’re invited to join us there on Thursday 9th April 7.30 for Bridging Worlds, celebrating 5 extraordinary female musicians.
It cannot fail to be one awe-inspiring night because we have,
1.Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga giving her world premier of her new music, her Second Symphony.
2 & 3. Elena Urioste will performs Florence Price’s Violin Concerto.
Now let’s just unpick this a little...
Florence was born on 9th April 1887 (so this concert is on her birthday!) and was the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. I mean, can you even imagine, how hard she must have committed and created to do that? It gives me goosebumps it really does.
Elena is American, just turning 40 and was 2 years old when she first saw the violin on Sesame Street. As well as being a musician is a yogi, writer and entrepreneur.
4. Then we also have Caroline Shaw, a New York-based musician also in her 40’s, whose music Entr’acte will be performed. Caroline is known for her versatility, as a composer, violinist, vocalist, and producer, who has won a Pulitzer Prize in Music and four Grammys. She’s remixed a song for Kanye West and last year formed an electronic pop duo Ringdown.
5. And then there’s also a performance of Grażyna Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra. Grażyna was born in 1909 and has gained a reputation in the 21st century as the “First Lady” of Polish music.
It should be quite a night; a wonderful joining together of forces in a gem of a venue, intimate, unique and very very central.
I only have 30 tickets for this so book up if you want to be there!
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