John Woolrich: Stendhal's Observation

Claire Booth (soprano) and Jâms Coleman (piano)

Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Oxford International Song Festival
13 October 2025

Conlon Nancarrow Prelude & Blues (arr. John Woolrich) (LS commission, World Premiere)
Conlon Nancarrow Toccata (arr. John Woolrich) (LS commission, World Premiere)

London Sinfonietta
Jonathan Berman conductor

Sat 11 Oct 2025
Teatro Juárez, Mexico

John Woolrich: Once there was not

first performance of new songs with words by Zoe Gilbert

Song in her hallways.
Moonlight in her eaves.
The elm hollows herself and subsides.

Claire Booth (soprano) and Andrew West (piano)

Folkestone New Music
7.30pm Thursday 25 September
The Grand, Folkestone

John Woolrich: Stendhal's Observation

Claire Booth (soprano) and Andrew West (piano)

Folkestone New Music
7.30pm Thursday 25 September
The Grand, Folkestone

John Woolrich: Unlit Suburbs

'....quintessential Woolrich - filled with ghosts, shadowy half-heard reminiscences, and marked by a laconic, black humour.'

Sarah Parkin (soprano) & Lara Dodds-Eden (piano)

7pm Thursday 4 September
Kollectiv, Folkestone CT20 1RN

'All the hallmarks that make John Woolrich’s music so alluring are evident in his string quartet ‘Ending Up’...a wistful lyricism tugged at by disruptive undercurrents.'

Salomé Quartet
7.30pm 25 July
Biggin Hall, Dover

7.30pm 26 July
St Leonard’s Church, Hythe

Zephyr Wills is playing John Woolrich's Three Pieces for Viola.

7pm Thursday 12 June
Kollectiv, 69 The Old High Street, Folkestone

John Woolrich: Pianobook 7

William Howard (piano)
1pm Thursday 27 March
The Grand, Folkestone

Ensemble Pelléas in Folkestone

Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
John Woolrich: Favola in Musica III
and music by Harrison Birtwistle, Barbara Strozzi, John Dowland, Anna Clyne and much more.

Folkestone New Music
7.30pm Thursday 6 March
The Grand, Folkestone