Together We Unite Through Music

an event celebrating International Women’s Day, Sunday 9th March 2025

Together We Unite Through Music celebrated music and words by women and FINTA creatives on Sunday March 9th at the Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, curated by composer Liz Dilnot Johnson.

Liz invited choirs and singers to come to this event as part of the audience to take part in the world premiere of her innovative new work The Same Element which uses texts by famous women. Liz devised this piece on stage with the audience live as part of the event. The audience will be invited to sing with several layers of music that build, and it is designed as an opportunity to explore sung and spoken words together and let things emerge.

Also involved: Suzie Purkis and her ensemble Pace, also singer/songwriter Millicent B James and the RBC Sax Ensemble (dir. Naomi Sullivan).

The rest of the programme included an eclectic mix of music including new songs written especially for Suzie and Pace by Liz and up and coming RBC student composers, and a new version of Liz's Lighten Our Darkness for saxophone ensemble - The Same Element takes the same melody and reinvents it....