Free Recital Series RAM

Free Lunchtime Recital Series
In Association with The Royal Academy of Music

All are warmly invited to attend a free lunchtime recital series in association with The Royal Academy of Music. 

The featured artists are talented students at The Royal Academy of Music. The recitals are free to attend and run from 13:00 to 14:00 on selected Wednesdays. A retiring collection taken at the end will go towards the students performing, and the work and ministry of St Clement Danes.

Please check our online calendar for further details of the concerts, taking place in October and November in 2024, and in January, February, March and June in 2025, or sign up for our newsletter.

Dates: 

  • 2nd October 2024: Lizzie Estrada, Soprano & Thomas Scott, Piano
  • 6th November 2024: Lily Petrova, Piano
  • 15th January 2025: Rachel Kwa, Violin & Lin Xu-Zhang, Piano
  • 5th February 2025: Tsang Hin Hei, Violin, Hiu Ching Wong, Piano & Jonathan Ho Man Fong, Cello
  • 12th March 2025: TBC
  • 4th June 2025: TBC

If you would like to support these concerts, please get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to one of our recitals soon.

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Upcoming Concerts

2nd October: Lizzie Estrada, Soprano & Tom Scott, Piano

Programme:

W. A. Mozart: Abendempfindung, An Chloe & Dans un bois solitaire
Ma se colpia io non ho… Batti, batti o bel Masetto’ from don Giovanni

Franz Schubert: Die Junge Nonne, Rastlose Liebe & Geheimes

Amy Beach- Op.44: The year’s at the spring, Ah, love but a day & I send my heart up to thee

Diminick Argento – from Six Elizabethan Songs: Winter, Dirge & Diaphenia

Ernani Cuenco: Nahan & Kalesa

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Lizzie Bett Estrada is a young classical soprano from the Philippines. In the Philippines, she was a scholar at the prestigious Philippine High School for the Arts, under the tutelage of Ms. Camille Lopez-Molina and Mr. Pablo Molina. She graduated with Highest Honors and “Outstanding Student Award” in the field of Music. Lizzie’s classical music experiences includes performances and recitals at St. Leonard’s Church Streatham, London, United Reform Church Caterham, London, The Cultural Center of the Philippines, National Museum of Natural History Manila, Ayala Museum, and Manila Pianos. She has also sung in masterclasses for Hartmut Höll, Prof. Thomas Steinhöfel, Monika Medek, and Arthur Espiritu. She was a prize winner for several vocal competitions, including 1st prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for Young Singers Competition 2023, 1st prize in the National Music Competitions for Young Artist 2020 (NAMCYA) – Junior Voice Category, 2nd prize in Odin International Competition 2021, 2nd prize in the Maria Carpena Kundiman Song Festival Competition, a finalist in the ASEAN Vocal Competition Junior Category held in Singapore, and a Shining Star Award in Sugree Charoensook International Music Competition 2021. She is currently studying BMus (Hons) –Vocal Studies with Professor Susan Waters at the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK.

Tom Scott has a BMus first class honours degree from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He now studies a post-graduate degree at the Royal Academy of Music. Music has always featured in Tom’s life; in 2018 he performed Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto in Ely, in 2019 he was the musical director for Ugly Youth performing at the Edinburgh Fringe. He has since been involved with various musical shows, including Oh! What a Lovely War and Sunday in the Park with George with RWCMD. Since being at RWCMD and RAM, Tom has immersed himself in the music world, taking on numerous solo, ensemble and choral works. Collaborating with singers and instrumentalists, he has had the opportunity to work closely with renowned musicians such as Susan Manoff, James Baillieu, Natalie Clein, Simon Lepper, Jayson Gillham, Andrew West, Alice Neary, Ben Tarlton, Robert Plane and Jams Coleman. He is now taught by Michael Dussek and John Reid Tom has had the privilege to perform at many concert venues, including a charity concert to raise money for Ukraine in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. In 2021 and 2022 he performed at the Penarth Chamber Music Festival alongside Ben Goldsheider. In November 2022, Tom performed at Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London. In 2023 and 2024 Tom performed at the Italian Cultural Institute and Austrian Cultural Forum, respectively.
At RWCMD in 2020, Tom was awarded the Geoffrey Buckley Memorial Prize and in both 2021 and 2022 he won the Bryan Davies Memorial Prize. He was also the winner of the 2023 John Ireland competition and was nominated for the Musicians’ Company Carnwath Piano Scholarship. In 2023 Tom also won the Trevor Pugsley Prize.

6th November: Lily Petrova, Piano


Programme:

Prokofiev: Selections from Romeo and Juliet, op.75

Schumann: Fantasie in C, op.17

Bartok: Piano Sonata, Sz. 80

Lily Petrova (b. 2003) began her piano studies at the age of six. She received her formative education at The Purcell School of Music with Professor Tatiana Sarkissova and is currently continuing her studies at The Royal Academy of Music under Professor Joanna MacGregor CBE.
As a concert pianist, chamber musician, and curator with a diverse musical background rooted in Bulgarian folk song and dance, Lily champions rarely performed works and explores the boundaries of classical music performance through other art forms. She played a key role in founding the Forgotten Melodies Society, an organization created to provide more concert opportunities for conservatoire students in London and to perform rarely heard pieces. 

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Subsequently, she founded the Muse and Fashion Collective, aiming to bridge the gap between art forms such as fashion and dance, and to introduce classical music to children. Lily has performed at prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, St. Martin- in-the-Fields, and the Royal Overseas League. She was invited to perform at a welcoming concert for the Bulgarian Cultural Minister and conductor Nayden Teodorov at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute. Internationally, Lily has performed across Europe in countries such as Italy, Germany, and Bulgaria, including the Bulgaria Hall in Sofia. She has played at the Piano Extravaganza festival in Sofia and recently participated in the first complete performance of Kurtág’s Játékok at the Royal Academy of Music Piano Summer Festival. She is the first prizewinner of numerous international piano competitions, including the Springboard Festival Concerto Competition, which led to her performance of Arensky’s Fantasia with the Brighton Youth Orchestra conducted by Andrew Sherwood. She was a category winner at the Rickmansworth Young Musician of the Year and most recently won third prize at the Pietro Argento Competition in Italy. Lily has received guidance from esteemed musicians such as Bernd Goetzke, Imogen Cooper, Dmitri Alexeev, Steven Osborne, Barbara Szczepańska, Ludmil Angelov, Hinrich Alpers, Sontraud Speidel, and Nicholas Walker, among others. Her chamber  music coaches include Adrian Brendel, Nathan Braude, and Nicola Eimer. As a chamber musician, she performed alongside the Kaleidoscope Collective at the Side-by-Side project at the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Music Festival and has toured England with violist Vanessa Hristova. She also performed the Poulenc Two-Piano Concerto at the Bushey Festival.