I am tremendously honoured to have been asked to sing at the commemorative events to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, at the Thiepval Memorial in France. There will be a military vigil starting at 21:15 on 30th June 2016 where I will be singing ‘The Lads in their Hundreds’ (Butterworth) unaccompanied, and on 1st July 2016 I will sing ‘Abide With Me’ (Monk) for the main National Commemorative Event. There will be worldwide coverage provided by the BBC and both events will be broadcast live on BBC Two. For more details please see this article on The...
This Sunday I will be performing in a concert dedicated to HM Queen Elizabeth II in the week of her 90th birthday with Ensemble Marsyas at the Wigmore Hall in London, in a programme about Irish culture in Britain. More information can be found on the Wigmore Hall’s website here including a link to buy tickets online. There is a pre-concert talk at 3pm before the performance which starts at 4pm. There is also an interesting article about one of the pieces here.
“Tenor Samuel Boden played the comically poignant role of the strangled, roasted swan to perfection.” Nottingham Post, 14 March 2016
“A strong quartet of soloists move through the seasons… Samuel Bodensensuous, Brittenish summer.“Gramophone, February 2016
“As Castor, Samuel Boden sang notably communicative French, his light tenor phrasing with a near-ideal period elegance.”Financial Times, 23 November 2015
This evening, 8pm UK time on 22nd August, as part of the “Festival de La Chaise Dieu”, Handel’s Israel in Egypt will be broadcast live on Radio France Musique: http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/le-concert-du-soir/2015-ete/la-chaise-dieu-2015-israel-en-egypte-de-haendel-08-22-2015-20-00 The lesser-performed and more doleful first part “The Ways of Zion do Mourn” will be performed as well as the more dramatic and descriptive 2nd and 3rd parts. This is the last of three performances of the work here in France, with “Les Cris de Paris”, directed by Geoffrey Jourdain.
