Fitzwilliam Quartet at University of Cambridge
Clare Hall, University of Cambridge – with Patrick Hemmerlé
SHOSTAKOVICH - Quartet No.4, Op.83
LIZ DILNOT JOHNSON - Quartet No.5 Borderlands
DVOŘÁK - Piano Quintet in A major, Op.81
Dymock Poets Re-Imagined
Hereford Chamber Choir performs its critically acclaimed 'Dymock Poets Re-magined' concert at the Hay Festival 2024. This innovative concert focuses on seven contemporary composers and their choral settings of works by the Dymock Poets. The concert will also feature the winning composition of our Young Composers' Competition, 'All Last night' by Arush Panwalkar. Abercrombie, Brooke, Drinkwater, Frost, Gibson and Thomas will be brought to life through a contemporary lens distilling sound and sense, sense and sound.
Tickets for this concert will be sold through the Hay Festival Box Office. Click here to be forwarded their website.
Summer Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra will be performing two of the tracks from Liz's album Gentle Flame: the 'stroke of genius' Blake Reimagined and the tour de force for baritone and 10-part choir The Windhover setting the extraodinary poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Liz's album will be out on June 21st.
Summer Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra will be performing two of the tracks from Liz's album Gentle Flame: the 'stroke of genius' Blake Reimagined and the tour de force for baritone and 10-part choir The Windhover setting the extraodinary poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Liz's album will be out on June 21st.
Summer Music by Candlelight - gala concert
Ex Cathedra will be performing two of the tracks from Liz's album Gentle Flame: the 'stroke of genius' Blake Reimagined and the tour de force for baritone and 10-part choir The Windhover setting the extraodinary poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Liz's album will be out on June 21st.
Summer Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra will be performing two of the tracks from Liz's album Gentle Flame: the 'stroke of genius' Blake Reimagined and the tour de force for baritone and 10-part choir The Windhover setting the extraodinary poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Liz's album will be out on June 21st.
Summer Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra will be performing two of the tracks from Liz's album Gentle Flame: the 'stroke of genius' Blake Reimagined and the tour de force for baritone and 10-part choir The Windhover setting the extraodinary poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Liz's album will be out on June 21st.
Three Choirs Festival: Another Road
Hereford Chamber Choir perform Liz Dilnot Johnson’s setting of Rain by Edward Thomas as part of their concert celebrating the Dymock Poets.
Fitzwilliam Quartet at St Mary’s, Cratfield
St Mary's Church, Cratfield, E Suffolk
SHOSTAKOVICH - Quartet No.4, Op.83
LIZ DILNOT JOHNSON - Quartet No.5 Borderlands
MOZART - Quartet in A major, K.464
Fitzwilliam Quartet at Hay Music Festival
13 - 16 September 2024
Date and time tbc
"Music and Friendship: the Transformative Power of Music"
J S BACH - excerpts from The Art of Fugue
MOZART - Quartet in A major, K.464
BEETHOVEN - Quartet in F major, Op.135
BARBER - Quartet Op.11
LIZ DILNOT JOHNSON - Quartet No.5 Borderlands
SHOSTAKOVICH - Quartet No.4, Op.83
SCHNITTKE - Piano Quintet, with Sarah Nicolls
Fitzwilliam Quartet at Music in the Village, Walthamstow
BARBER - Quartet Op.11
PETER McCARTHY - Athas
LIZ DILNOT JOHNSON - Quartet No.5 Borderlands
SHOSTAKOVICH - Quartet No.4, Op.83
Fitzwilliam Quartet at University of St Andrews
Laidlaw Music Centre, University of St Andrews – with Sophie Renshaw (viola)
SHOSTAKOVICH - Quartet No.4, Op.83
LIZ DILNOT JOHNSON - Quartet No.5 Borderlands
MOZART - Quintet in C major, K.515
to be followed by "Strings in Spring" residential weekend chamber music course
Borderlands 60th Birthday Celebration
Join Liz Dilnot Johnson to celebrate her 60th birthday with a concert of song and chamber music to intrigue the imagination
EMPOWER: Manchester
Suzie Purkis will perform three of Liz's 'Jo Shapcott Settings': Pig, Elephant Woman and Watching Medusa.
'The three Jo Shapcott Settings were imaginative, quirky and entertaining. Suzie acted superbly ... and demonstrated every vocal trick in the book, with dramatically extended vocal techniques.' (audience member review)
International Women's Day Celebration 2024
Celebrating International Women's Day 2024 including Liz Dilnot Johnson's Blake Reimagined and Gentle Flame for voices and saxophones.
A cello and piano recital by Heather Tuach and Yoko Misumi
A cello and piano recital in celebration of International Women's Day on 8th March by Heather Tuach and Yoko Misumi, including the premiere of On Malvern Hill by Liz Dilnot Johnson.
#LSEMusic
Malvern Festival of Ideas
Liz talks with Abdullah Tamo about his journey from war-torn Syria to the UK and shares other stories about her creative work with asylum seekers and hwr award-winning requiem When A Child Is A Witness.
Malvern Festival of Ideas: Songs of Hope
Liz leads this creative singing workshop on the theme of hope.
“Sigh No More, Ladies”
The Hills Singers perform a programme spanning nearly 1,000 years and is exclusively by female composers; the date has been chosen to mark the beginning of International Women's Week. The programme includes two works by Liz Dilnot Johnson - a piano solo and the Sanctus from When a Child is a Witness - Requiem for Refugees.
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
Christmas Music by Candlelight
Ex Cathedra’s 2023 Christmas By Candlelight tour features three of Liz’s carols. Hear her new eco(nomics)-carol Generous Winter, with words drawn from Prof. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, along with Gentle Flame and Lighten Our Darkness - one of the movements from Johnson’s award-winning When A Child Is A Witness – Requiem for Refugees (Ivors Composer Awards 2022).
Buy tickets here.
The singers will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.
‘Ex Cathedra…probably the best choir in the world’ (Sean Rafferty)
RBC Scholars Ensemble
Liz Dilnot Johnson Blake Reimagined
Byrd Ave verum corpus
Purcell Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes mei
Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
Howells Take him Earth for cherishing
Bacharach Anyone who had a heart
Warwick Arts Centre Lunchtime Concert
Suzie Purkis (mezzo soprano) and Flora McNicoll (cello) perform songs by Purcell, Chloe Knibbs and Ryan Latimer with Elephant Woman and Watching Medusa for solo voice by Liz Dilnot Johnson.
Meet the artists after the performance with free refreshments.
Ensemble Room, Warwick Arts Centre
Tickets (£5) available here (Under 26s Free)
Sarratt Festival: Byrd to Bacharach - and Bach
Ex Cathedra perform Blake Reimagined - ‘genius’ by Liz Dilnot Johnson alongside a programme of gorgeous vocal music from the Renaissance to the present day.
Tickets and more info here
Fitzwilliam String Quartet in Cumbria
A programme of quartets, duos and solos by Mozart and Bartok including Duo Doubles for two violins by Liz Dilnot Johnson
Holy Trinity Church, Grange-in-Borrowdale, Cumbria
Fitzwilliam at Hay Chamber Music Festival
St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet are joined by pianist Simon Callaghan to perform Dvorák’s Piano Quintet in A major Op. 81. The programme includes the premiere of Ben Hartley Notebooks for String Quartet by Liz Dilnot Johnson .
Tickets available here
Nonsuch Singers
Including the first performance of the full set of pieces exploring birth, love and death setting words by Teresa of Avila and Maria Wine, The Song of Songs and Philip Larkin’s Cut Grass
The Dymock Poets Re-imagined
Hereford Chamber Choir cond. Simon Harper
A programme of newly commissioned pieces and competition winners, setting words by the Dymock poets including Liz Dilnot Johnson's setting of Edward Thomas's tragic poem Rain (1916) for choir and piano (2023 - 6 mins)
Before the Ending of the Day for orchestra
Premiere of a new piece for orchestra - Before the Ending of the Day - evoking the colours and sounds of dusk on a summer’s day.
More info coming soon…
RCM Saxophone Ensemble dir. Kyle Horch
Three pieces for saxophone ensemble by Liz Dilnot Johnson:
Orisha Osun for soprano saxophone solo, saxophone ensemble and percussion
Agnus Dei for saxophone ensemble
Gentle Flame for saxophone ensemble