Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano) and Hamish Brown (piano): The Deeps Have Music Debut Album in Recital - FREE (retiring collection in aid of RNLI)

This project focuses on coastal regions, the sea and how composers found and explored solace. Elgar's treasured and expansive Sea Pictures are brought to life is a new piano transcription by Hamish Brown, as well as works by Dame Ethyl Smyth, Hedwige Chrétien, Franz Schubert, Hamilton Harty and Alma Mahler. In an exciting new addition, we are thrilled to present for the first time a specially commissioned work by emerging Welsh composer, Cameron Biles-Liddell. By pairing these diverse composers across generations and locations from across the UK and Europe, this programme provides a nuanced approach to the theme, embracing the diverse song tradition from Schubert to the present day and brings this creative and exciting duo's artistic approach and skill to audiences in their characteristically charming, approachable and emotive fashion.

About the Musicians:
Glaswegian Mezzo-Soprano Beth Taylor, lauded for her “warm, caressing timbre” and “sensational coloratura”, has already made notable debuts across the globe and is an active arts accessibility advocate. She was a finalist at the 2023 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition and winner of the 2022 Elizabeth Connell Prize. She was nominated in the “newcomer” category at the 2023 International Opera Awards. Some of her upcoming engagements include her anticipated debut at Carnegie Hall, reviving her highly coveted interpretation of Cornelia in Handel's Giulio Cesare with The English Concert and as the alto soloist in Mahler's Second Symphony with the LA Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, touring the USA and Asia. She will also return to the BBC Proms in August 2025 for Mahler's Third Symphony and will make her Wigmore Hall debut in April 2026 with friend and collaborator, Hamish Brown. Hamish Brown is an award-winning British pianist, arranger, and composer. Hamish has won prizes at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, ROSL Annual Music Competition, Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Copenhagen Lied-Duo Competition, Mozart Singing Competition and Somerset Song Prize. His work as a song accompanist has taken him to Wigmore Hall, Oxford International Song Festival, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Kings Place, International Lied Festival Zeist, Three Palaces Festival (Valletta), Beethovenfest Bonn, Heidelberger Frühling and more, with multiple broadcasts on BBC Radio 3.