SongEasel

SWEET HARMONY 21-24 MAY 🍬 Our festival starts next week! Take a look at all the events we have on offer and don’t forget to book your tickets via the link in our bio 🎟️ full festival passes available 📆 whole-day passes available 💸 free events every day 🎶 exciting new events such as our first song exchange 📍 all in the heart of South East London We hope to see you all there! #whatsonlondon #southeastlondon #songrecital #lieder #classicalmusic

Meet the artists! We are so excited to be collaborating with @emilyhazrati and @nomadicnazli on our first ever Song Exchange. This is going to be such a special part of our Sweet Harmony festival, where we bring together Persian melodies, the traditional world of Lieder, and cello improvisation, as well as works by @kianravaei and the wonderful artists featured here. Don’t miss it! 📆 6:30pm Sat 23 May, St Matthew’s Church 🎟️ Link in bio #classicalmusic #composer #newclassicalmusic #whatsonlondon #southeastlondon

Beautiful sounds from @filo_turk39 and @pianolieder . We are thrilled to welcome Filippo to our upcoming festival, who has just been named as an @edintfest Rising Star of Voice. Bravo! This lovely bit of Schubert will feature in our first ever Song Exchange on 23 May, part of our Sweet Harmony festival. Persian song, German Lieder, cello improvisation, new compositions…a real melding of worlds. Tickets available in our bio! 📆 6:30pm Sat 23 May 📍 St Matthew’s Church, Elephant & Castle 💸 £0-20 #classicalmusic #southeastlondon #liederabend #schubert

On 21 May, join us for a day exploring the music of Carl Loewe. This prolific composer was very popular during his lifetime, but his music is now much more rarely performed. But fear not! We have two events to help you get to know him: 5pm Pre-concert talk with music by @isaac_tolley and @pianolieder (seen here) 7:30pm The Shipping Forecast, a recital with superstars @jamesn103 and @malcolmmartineau Link in bio for tickets Don’t miss out on learning more about Loewe! #classicalmusic #southeastlondon #songrecital

We are very lucky in our venue for our Sweet Harmony festival: the beautiful St Matthew’s Church SE1. SongEasel is proud to bring song concerts to the heart of South East London, and working with venues like this one makes it all possible. Located just a short walk from Elephant & Castle underground station, St Matthew’s is easy to get to for those of you travelling from other parts of London (or further afield!). We can’t wait to welcome you there next week. St Matthew’s is an English-Spanish bilingual parish that brings people together from different cultural backgrounds, united in creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere bound together by music. Take a look at these words from recent audience members who so enjoyed visiting the parish. London’s newest Lieder venue has arrived! Tickets for our festival are on sale now. Head to our bio for more information 🙏🏻🍬🎟️ #southeastlondon #londonculture #whatsonlondon #classicalmusic

🥁 The countdown is on! 🥁 10 days to go until our 2026 Festival launches here in South East London! Hear what to watch out for from our Artistic Director, Jocelyn Freeman @pianolieder 🎶 Hope to see you there! Link in bio for full info and tickets 🎟️ #classicalmusic #whatsonlondon #southeastlondon #elephantandcastle #elephantandcastlelondon

Meet the artist! We are so excited to have Lorena join us for her recital Mujeres ¡Presentes! on 22 May. Here she tells us a little more about what art song recitals are like from the performer’s perspective Tickets to this exciting concert and all of our Sweet Harmony festival are available via the link in our bio #soprano #classicalmusic #artsong #liederabend

A glimpse into what you can expect from a SongEasel concert. We love the atmosphere of song recitals. Close up to the audience, we can create real warmth in the room and communicate directly with the people who have come to watch us. These are a few moments from our March recital Greetings from Afar, which explored the theme of love letters across time and distance. If this looks like the kind of event you’d like to go to, we would love you to join us at our upcoming festival of Sweet Harmony 21-24 May. Link in bio for tickets. All taking place in the heart of South East London! Piano: @pianolieder Soprano: @catherinehooper_ Baritone: @aleksikoponen #classicalmusic #southeastlondon #liederabend #songeasel

Greetings from Afar 💌 Some beautiful memories from our March concert inspired by love letters across time and distance Our performers @pianolieder , @catherinehooper_ and @aleksikoponen took us from East to West, with echoes of 14th-century Persian poet Hafiz resounding through the music of Brahms, Szymanowski and the English art song tradition Each song felt like a love letter: from the poet, from the composer, from the performer We have many exciting things ahead here at SongEasel. We look forward to welcoming you to our upcoming festival of Sweet Harmony 21-24 May. Please check the link in our bio to book tickets. There are several free events and also day passes available. A little love letter from us to you ❤️ Special thanks to @djbailliephotography for these beautiful shots #lieder #classicalmusic #recital #loveletters

What a week! We are thrilled to have six fantastic duos joining us as young artists this year. Check out our grid to learn more about each of them There are lots of upcoming events featuring our new cohort, all as part of our festival of Sweet Harmony: 21 May | Masterclass with Professor Richard Stokes (free) 22 May | Masterclass with Roger Vignoles (free) 23 May | Masterclass with James Gilchrist (free) 24 May | YA Artist Spotlight (free) 24 May | YA Lieder Lounge (£5) Head to the link in our bio to book tickets to these and other events throughout the festival. This is a great chance to see these young musicians who will be shaping the future of art song Don’t forget, you can purchase our Full Festival Pass, which gives you access to multiple events across the festival. See you there!

😱 And for our final young artist duo of the week, please welcome @haz.performs and @siyuann.x ✨ Don’t forget to book your tickets to Sweet Harmony 21-24 May to see Harriet and Siyuan perform! 🗣️Harriet Cameron studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 2023, she appeared with Bampton Classical Opera in At the Venice Fair by Salieri, and her operatic roles include ‘Mum’ in the world premiere of Louise Drewett’s Daylighting (2021), Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia) with British Youth Opera (2024), and Amor and Valletto (L’incoronazione di Poppea) with Hampstead Garden Opera (2025). She also performed as a soloist in Mademoiselle Duval’s Les Caractères de l’Amour (2025), and in the upcoming season will cover Barbarina in Wild Arts’ production of Le nozze di Figaro. Harriet was awarded the ‘Most Promising Young Singer’ prize at the Somerset Song Prize and was a finalist in the Ashburnham English Song Competition with Siyuan. She also sang in the chorus of Longborough Festival Opera’s production of Wahnfried by Avner Dorman, and in March 2026 performed as a soloist at Bath Abbey with the Bath Minerva Choir. Alongside her singing career, she is a passionate actor and director, a member of the National Youth Theatre, and recently directed Margarida Gonçalves’s opera for the Tête-à-Tête Festival. 🎹 Siyuan Xu graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a Master of Arts in Ensemble Piano in 2024 and a Professional Diploma in 2025, studying with James Baillieu, Joseph Middleton, and Anna Tilbrook. Siyuan was awarded the Major Van Someren-Godfery Prize for Accompanists in 2023. In 2024, she reached the finals of the Ashburnham English Song Awards with Harriet, and returned in 2025 as a finalist with baritone Theodore Nisbett. Siyuan was a Leeds Song Young Artist in 2025 and will also be partaking in the Lied the Way Song Festival in Florence in July 2026. As an active chamber musician, Siyuan performs regularly with her duo partners at venues across UK and Europe, such as Southwark Cathedral, British Library, the Elgar Concert Hall in Birmingham, and Château Voltaire and Fort L’Écluse in France.

💡Roll up, roll up for our fifth young artist duo of the week @_davidpalmer_ and @laura.coppinger Don’t forget to head to our bio for your tickets to Sweet Harmony 21-24 May so you can see David and Laura in action 🎼 🎹David Palmer is a London-based composer and pianist specialising in 20th- and 21st-century repertoire. Alongside a busy performance schedule, David teaches at the University of Oxford, where he is a College Lecturer in Music at Keble, and the Royal College of Music Junior Department. David is also a Junior Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he previously studied with Rolf Hind and Ronan O’Hora on the Master’s and Artist Diploma programmes. David was a Leeds Lieder and Britten Pears Young Artist and attended the Ensemble Modern Young Ensemble Academy. With soprano Bridget Esler, David won the Prix de mélodie and Prix de lied (Special Jury Prize), and commissioned work prize at the Boulanger Competition. David is the pianist for Mad Song, which will release its debut album in 2026.  🗣️Laura Coppinger is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Dunedin Consort’s Bridging the Gap scheme, and Leeds Lieder Festival Young Artist Programme. She considers song a crucial part of her artistic identity, with particular interests in lute song and contemporary repertoire. She won 2nd prize in the John Kerr Award for English Song 2024 and 2nd prize in the Charles Wood International Song Competition 2022, as well as the Charles Wood Song Prize. She has given recitals at Broadway Arts Festival, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building and many other venues. Laura‘s previous operatic roles include Die Frau (Erwartung) with Orchestra Vox, Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Oxford Alternative Orchestra, Baroness Irene (La Vera Costanza) with New Chamber Opera, Cunegonde (Candide) with Barricade Arts, and Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas) with Glyndebourne Youth Opera. As a 2025-26 Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artist, last Autumn she performed the roles of L’Amour/Nymphe/La Sylphide in Mademoiselle Duval’s rarely performed opera Les Génies.