George Robarts, baritone

Edward Picton-Turbervill, piano

Fri 15th May

12:05 pm

St James Church

Doors open at 11.35am

The performance will end at approx. 1.05pm

Young Artists Lunchtime Series

BUTTERWORTH: Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad:

PURCELL: 'Twas within a furlong of Edinboro' Town

Trad. arr. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Harry the Tailor

Trad. arr. EECKHOUT: The Maid of Amsterdam

Muriel HERBERT: To Daffodils, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Tewkesbury Road

Dilys ELWYN-EDWARDS: The Cloths of Heaven

WOLSELEY Charles: The Green-Eyed Dragon

FLANDERS & SWANN: Transport of Delight

Noël COWARD: Bad Times Just Around the Corner

A recital  of beautiful pastoral songs, a folk section, and plenty of light relief. Perfect for a Friday lunchtime. 


George Robarts is the First Prize Winner of the 2025 Lotte Lenya Competition in the USA, awarded by the Kurt Weill Foundation for versatility across opera and musical theatre. With a gift for rapid-fire text and a “great penchant for comedy” (Opera Scene), he has performed Noël Coward in recital alongside Dame Felicity Lott, who describes his work as “laugh-out-loud funny”. George is currently appearing with English Touring Opera in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, delivering a “side-splitting” turn (The Guardian) as the hapless drummer boy Luiz. This summer he joins the Buxton International Festival as Pritschitsch in The Merry Widow and Marchese in La traviata. 


We are extremely grateful for George and Edward for stepping in with a weeks notice to perform at the Chipping Campden Music Festival. 

£10 (£7.50 if you book for all 4 lunchtime concerts)

Free for U25s

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