Living Songs
@livingsongs.bsky.social
Bluesky thinking on new song. Performing & promoting new song since 2013. The Living Songs Series - a collection of songs composed post 2000, curated by me, Jessica Summers
http://www.livingsongs.co.uk/
http://www.livingsongs.co.uk/
The Living Songs Series II - songs for baritone composed after 2000 is now live and the Living Songs website has had a little tidy up!
Huge thanks to Composers Edition who have been such a supportive partner.
www.livingsongs.co.uk/series-2/
#songsdontstopatschubert
#newsongsnowsongs
#LivingSongs
Huge thanks to Composers Edition who have been such a supportive partner.
www.livingsongs.co.uk/series-2/
#songsdontstopatschubert
#newsongsnowsongs
#LivingSongs
October 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Living Songs Series II - songs for baritone composed after 2000 is now live and the Living Songs website has had a little tidy up!
Huge thanks to Composers Edition who have been such a supportive partner.
www.livingsongs.co.uk/series-2/
#songsdontstopatschubert
#newsongsnowsongs
#LivingSongs
Huge thanks to Composers Edition who have been such a supportive partner.
www.livingsongs.co.uk/series-2/
#songsdontstopatschubert
#newsongsnowsongs
#LivingSongs
Thank you Ben Lunn for sending me his new songs with texts by Sunderland poet, William Martin. More for the Living Songs song library!
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs
#newmusic
#artsong
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs
#newmusic
#artsong
July 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thank you Ben Lunn for sending me his new songs with texts by Sunderland poet, William Martin. More for the Living Songs song library!
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs
#newmusic
#artsong
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs
#newmusic
#artsong
It’s proving a good week for contemporary song…
today’s highlight is Hugh Cutting and Dylan Perez performing Alex Ho’s The Glass Eye (2023) at the Wigmore Hall
today’s highlight is Hugh Cutting and Dylan Perez performing Alex Ho’s The Glass Eye (2023) at the Wigmore Hall
July 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It’s proving a good week for contemporary song…
today’s highlight is Hugh Cutting and Dylan Perez performing Alex Ho’s The Glass Eye (2023) at the Wigmore Hall
today’s highlight is Hugh Cutting and Dylan Perez performing Alex Ho’s The Glass Eye (2023) at the Wigmore Hall
More like this please Wiggers!
Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano) perform Judith Weir’s woman.life.song and songs by Laura Bowler and Roxanna Panufnik.
Tuesday 22nd July, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall
Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano) perform Judith Weir’s woman.life.song and songs by Laura Bowler and Roxanna Panufnik.
Tuesday 22nd July, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall
July 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
More like this please Wiggers!
Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano) perform Judith Weir’s woman.life.song and songs by Laura Bowler and Roxanna Panufnik.
Tuesday 22nd July, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall
Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano) perform Judith Weir’s woman.life.song and songs by Laura Bowler and Roxanna Panufnik.
Tuesday 22nd July, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall
Alison Smart Fisher (soprano) & Katharine Durran (piano) launch their CD of new art songs by 12 female living composers tomorrow, 18th July, 6-8pm St Mary at Finchley, Hendon Lane, London
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs
July 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Alison Smart Fisher (soprano) & Katharine Durran (piano) launch their CD of new art songs by 12 female living composers tomorrow, 18th July, 6-8pm St Mary at Finchley, Hendon Lane, London
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs
13 works by 13 composers from 20th-century trailblazers to present day pioneers. Xenakis & Aperghis Weir & Wallen
Sunday July 20 — 15:00 @ 6 The Uplands, St Leonards-on-Sea
Tuesday July 22 — 19:30 @ Lauderdale House, Highgate, London
🎟️ Tickets available from the link in @contemporaryvocalsunds’ bio
Sunday July 20 — 15:00 @ 6 The Uplands, St Leonards-on-Sea
Tuesday July 22 — 19:30 @ Lauderdale House, Highgate, London
🎟️ Tickets available from the link in @contemporaryvocalsunds’ bio
July 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
13 works by 13 composers from 20th-century trailblazers to present day pioneers. Xenakis & Aperghis Weir & Wallen
Sunday July 20 — 15:00 @ 6 The Uplands, St Leonards-on-Sea
Tuesday July 22 — 19:30 @ Lauderdale House, Highgate, London
🎟️ Tickets available from the link in @contemporaryvocalsunds’ bio
Sunday July 20 — 15:00 @ 6 The Uplands, St Leonards-on-Sea
Tuesday July 22 — 19:30 @ Lauderdale House, Highgate, London
🎟️ Tickets available from the link in @contemporaryvocalsunds’ bio
Jumping in last minute to give a lunchtime recital with Fei Ren (piano) at Harrow Summer Music Festival. Yikes!!!
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July 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Jumping in last minute to give a lunchtime recital with Fei Ren (piano) at Harrow Summer Music Festival. Yikes!!!
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Thank you Fei Ren for your outstanding playing today and thank you St Peter Mancroft for hosting a Living Songs recital and for your large, appreciative audience. Lady came up to me afterwards & said “My favourite song was the one by Elliott Carter”. Could have hugged her. #SongsDontStopAtSchubert
April 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Thank you Fei Ren for your outstanding playing today and thank you St Peter Mancroft for hosting a Living Songs recital and for your large, appreciative audience. Lady came up to me afterwards & said “My favourite song was the one by Elliott Carter”. Could have hugged her. #SongsDontStopAtSchubert
LIVING SONGS
Saturday 12 April, 1pm
Mancroft Music Series
The Church of St Peter Mancroft
Music by John Dowland, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Henry Purcell, Elliott Carter, Linda Catlin-Smith, Carl Vine, R R Bennett
Jessica Summers (soprano) & Fei Ren (piano)
www.livingsongs.co.uk
www.feirenpiano.com
Saturday 12 April, 1pm
Mancroft Music Series
The Church of St Peter Mancroft
Music by John Dowland, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Henry Purcell, Elliott Carter, Linda Catlin-Smith, Carl Vine, R R Bennett
Jessica Summers (soprano) & Fei Ren (piano)
www.livingsongs.co.uk
www.feirenpiano.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
LIVING SONGS
Saturday 12 April, 1pm
Mancroft Music Series
The Church of St Peter Mancroft
Music by John Dowland, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Henry Purcell, Elliott Carter, Linda Catlin-Smith, Carl Vine, R R Bennett
Jessica Summers (soprano) & Fei Ren (piano)
www.livingsongs.co.uk
www.feirenpiano.com
Saturday 12 April, 1pm
Mancroft Music Series
The Church of St Peter Mancroft
Music by John Dowland, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Henry Purcell, Elliott Carter, Linda Catlin-Smith, Carl Vine, R R Bennett
Jessica Summers (soprano) & Fei Ren (piano)
www.livingsongs.co.uk
www.feirenpiano.com
Head in hands to read that one of the world’s finest film actors has had her children’s book about having freckles banned from schools.
February 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Head in hands to read that one of the world’s finest film actors has had her children’s book about having freckles banned from schools.
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2024
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL by Judith Weir
Text: Byron
for baritone & piano
3 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2024
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL by Judith Weir
Text: Byron
for baritone & piano
3 mins
December 24, 2024 at 12:05 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2024
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL by Judith Weir
Text: Byron
for baritone & piano
3 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2024
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL by Judith Weir
Text: Byron
for baritone & piano
3 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2023
ONLY BREATH by Sadie Harrison
Text: Rumi
for soprano & piano
5 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2023
ONLY BREATH by Sadie Harrison
Text: Rumi
for soprano & piano
5 mins
December 23, 2024 at 11:01 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2023
ONLY BREATH by Sadie Harrison
Text: Rumi
for soprano & piano
5 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2023
ONLY BREATH by Sadie Harrison
Text: Rumi
for soprano & piano
5 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2022
RAISE NO FUNERAL SONG by Silvina Milstein
Text: Yeats
for mezzo/soprano & piano
6.5 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2022
RAISE NO FUNERAL SONG by Silvina Milstein
Text: Yeats
for mezzo/soprano & piano
6.5 mins
December 22, 2024 at 8:54 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2022
RAISE NO FUNERAL SONG by Silvina Milstein
Text: Yeats
for mezzo/soprano & piano
6.5 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2022
RAISE NO FUNERAL SONG by Silvina Milstein
Text: Yeats
for mezzo/soprano & piano
6.5 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2021
NO SAD SONGS by Mark-Anthony Turnage
Text: Rossetti
for voice & piano
5 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2021
NO SAD SONGS by Mark-Anthony Turnage
Text: Rossetti
for voice & piano
5 mins
December 21, 2024 at 9:45 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2021
NO SAD SONGS by Mark-Anthony Turnage
Text: Rossetti
for voice & piano
5 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2021
NO SAD SONGS by Mark-Anthony Turnage
Text: Rossetti
for voice & piano
5 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2020
TWO BLACK CHURCHES by Shawn E. Okpebholo
Text: Randall, Amaker
for baritone & piano
17 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2020
TWO BLACK CHURCHES by Shawn E. Okpebholo
Text: Randall, Amaker
for baritone & piano
17 mins
December 20, 2024 at 7:23 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2020
TWO BLACK CHURCHES by Shawn E. Okpebholo
Text: Randall, Amaker
for baritone & piano
17 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2020
TWO BLACK CHURCHES by Shawn E. Okpebholo
Text: Randall, Amaker
for baritone & piano
17 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2019
THE TUNING by Martin Suckling
Text: Donaghy
for mezzo soprano & piano
20 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2019
THE TUNING by Martin Suckling
Text: Donaghy
for mezzo soprano & piano
20 mins
December 19, 2024 at 12:41 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2019
THE TUNING by Martin Suckling
Text: Donaghy
for mezzo soprano & piano
20 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2019
THE TUNING by Martin Suckling
Text: Donaghy
for mezzo soprano & piano
20 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2018
LA TERRA IMPAREGGIABILE by Richard Causton
Text: Salvatore Quasimodo
for baritone & piano
36 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2018
LA TERRA IMPAREGGIABILE by Richard Causton
Text: Salvatore Quasimodo
for baritone & piano
36 mins
December 18, 2024 at 9:12 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2018
LA TERRA IMPAREGGIABILE by Richard Causton
Text: Salvatore Quasimodo
for baritone & piano
36 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2018
LA TERRA IMPAREGGIABILE by Richard Causton
Text: Salvatore Quasimodo
for baritone & piano
36 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2017
O by Rebecca Saunders
Text: Joyce
for solo soprano
12 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2017
O by Rebecca Saunders
Text: Joyce
for solo soprano
12 mins
December 16, 2024 at 11:56 PM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2017
O by Rebecca Saunders
Text: Joyce
for solo soprano
12 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2017
O by Rebecca Saunders
Text: Joyce
for solo soprano
12 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2016
DREI GEDICHTE VON NELLY SACHS by Wolfgang Rihm
Text: Nelly Sachs
for (mezzo)soprano & piano
7 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2016
DREI GEDICHTE VON NELLY SACHS by Wolfgang Rihm
Text: Nelly Sachs
for (mezzo)soprano & piano
7 mins
December 16, 2024 at 8:40 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2016
DREI GEDICHTE VON NELLY SACHS by Wolfgang Rihm
Text: Nelly Sachs
for (mezzo)soprano & piano
7 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2016
DREI GEDICHTE VON NELLY SACHS by Wolfgang Rihm
Text: Nelly Sachs
for (mezzo)soprano & piano
7 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2015
SONGS OF PURE NOTHINGNESS by Tansy Davies
Text: Guilhelm IX d’Aquitane
for mezzo/countertenor & piano
13 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2015
SONGS OF PURE NOTHINGNESS by Tansy Davies
Text: Guilhelm IX d’Aquitane
for mezzo/countertenor & piano
13 mins
December 15, 2024 at 8:00 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2015
SONGS OF PURE NOTHINGNESS by Tansy Davies
Text: Guilhelm IX d’Aquitane
for mezzo/countertenor & piano
13 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2015
SONGS OF PURE NOTHINGNESS by Tansy Davies
Text: Guilhelm IX d’Aquitane
for mezzo/countertenor & piano
13 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2014
OPHELIA’S LAMENT by Alison Bauld
Text: Shakespeare
for soprano & piano
9 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2014
OPHELIA’S LAMENT by Alison Bauld
Text: Shakespeare
for soprano & piano
9 mins
December 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2014
OPHELIA’S LAMENT by Alison Bauld
Text: Shakespeare
for soprano & piano
9 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2014
OPHELIA’S LAMENT by Alison Bauld
Text: Shakespeare
for soprano & piano
9 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2013
LOST PRINCES by Pete Stollery
Text: Davidson
for baritone & digital sound
11 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2013
LOST PRINCES by Pete Stollery
Text: Davidson
for baritone & digital sound
11 mins
December 13, 2024 at 12:31 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2013
LOST PRINCES by Pete Stollery
Text: Davidson
for baritone & digital sound
11 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2013
LOST PRINCES by Pete Stollery
Text: Davidson
for baritone & digital sound
11 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2011
SONNETS AND LOVE SONGS by Charlotte Bray
Text: Pessoa
for baritone & piano
17 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2011
SONNETS AND LOVE SONGS by Charlotte Bray
Text: Pessoa
for baritone & piano
17 mins
December 11, 2024 at 7:52 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2011
SONNETS AND LOVE SONGS by Charlotte Bray
Text: Pessoa
for baritone & piano
17 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2011
SONNETS AND LOVE SONGS by Charlotte Bray
Text: Pessoa
for baritone & piano
17 mins
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2010
THE EARTH AND EVERY COMMON SIGHT by Raymond Yiu
Text: Clare, Murray, Darwin, Dickinson, Larkin, Wordsworth
for soprano & piano
12 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2010
THE EARTH AND EVERY COMMON SIGHT by Raymond Yiu
Text: Clare, Murray, Darwin, Dickinson, Larkin, Wordsworth
for soprano & piano
12 mins
December 10, 2024 at 12:11 AM
🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2010
THE EARTH AND EVERY COMMON SIGHT by Raymond Yiu
Text: Clare, Murray, Darwin, Dickinson, Larkin, Wordsworth
for soprano & piano
12 mins
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄
2010
THE EARTH AND EVERY COMMON SIGHT by Raymond Yiu
Text: Clare, Murray, Darwin, Dickinson, Larkin, Wordsworth
for soprano & piano
12 mins