Watch Now — A Day in the Life: Shoreditch Treehouse feature by Steinway & Sons
Watch Now — A Day in the Life: Shoreditch Treehouse feature by Steinway & Sons

Steinway & Sons UK came to the Shoreditch Treehouse to discover how this magical space came about. Some great footage of our DEBUT concert that evening too! Featuring pianists Simone Tavoni, Varvara Tarasova and Sam Pena, guitarist Michael Christian Durrant, soprano Nicola Said and our founder soprano Lizzie Holmes.

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Q&A with soprano Natasha Day — Producing DEBUT's 'Conquests of Love' at Old Bayham Abbey
Q&A with soprano Natasha Day — Producing DEBUT's 'Conquests of Love' at Old Bayham Abbey

This Saturday, 3 August 2019, DEBUT comes to the Lamberhurst Music Festival. We are really excited about performing a new opera, Conquests of Love, which features highlights from Carmen to La bohème, Don Giovanni to Die Fledermaus. Ahead of this weekend’s performance, we caught up with soprano Natasha Day about Conquests of Love, which she has written and produced.

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Q&A with Glyndebourne’s Composer-in-Residence Lewis Murphy — The Toast of British Opera
Q&A with Glyndebourne’s Composer-in-Residence Lewis Murphy — The Toast of British Opera

Check out our Q&A with composer Lewis Murphy. Lewis is Glyndebourne’s youngest ever Composer-in-Residence – a position he held until the end of 2017. His other recent commissions have been for Scottish Opera and the National Opera Studio, as well as our very own DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse with soprano Gemma Summerfield. He chats to us about his collaboration with librettist and director Laura Attridge, his biggest inspirations and what it’s like to be a composer in the 21st century.

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Watch Now — pianist/composer OKIEM, Cinematic Classical at the Shoreditch Treehouse
Watch Now — pianist/composer OKIEM, Cinematic Classical at the Shoreditch Treehouse

A year on from when OKIEM joined us for DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse as our special guest, we wanted to catch up on what the pianist/composer is up to now and share our exclusive live recording of him for DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse.

OKIEM is a pianist & composer who's music is described as "cinematic classical”. He creates his signature sound by combining piano, orchestral instruments and synthesizers.

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Q&A with soprano Elizabeth Karani — 'The Monstrous Child' at the Royal Opera House
Q&A with soprano Elizabeth Karani — 'The Monstrous Child' at the Royal Opera House

We spoke to soprano Elizabeth Karani, who is currently working at the Royal Opera in Gavin Higgins and Francesca Simon’s The Monstrous Child.

“I’ve been really interested in contemporary works for a few years now and have always sought out opportunities to perform and be involved in new pieces. Somehow the casting team at ROH must have heard this and so invited me to audition and, of course, I jumped at the chance, I devoured Francesca’s book and coached my extracts to death before the audition and…

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Watch Now — pianist Somi Kim's Instagram Takeover with the NZTrio
Watch Now — pianist Somi Kim's Instagram Takeover with the NZTrio

South Korean-born New Zealand pianist Somi Kim is a highly accomplished, multi award-winning collaborative pianist. She works with singers and instrumentalists in instrumental chamber music, opera and more.

This month she recently completed a 7-concert tour of New Zealand with the NZTrio. The programme was entitled Twine and was described by The Big Idea as delivering 'virtuosic skill and an affable, accessible stage presence in equal measures’

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