The Academy of St Martin in the Fields present a stunning and varied programme of works by female composers, including a World Premiere from Eleanor Alberga, her Symphony No. 2 written for ASMF. The concert’s finale is with violinist Elena Urioste, who with ‘her airy, silvery tone and fine filigree detail’ (The Arts Desk) will perform Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The concerto in D Major, which despite its reference to Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in the violin’s solo entrance and references throughout, is distinctly Price’s own style and launches into new musical ideas with the last movement ending the evening on a flourish.

We also return to an ASMF favourite, Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, inspired by Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 77 No. 2, and will perform Grażyna Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra, often referred to as her magnum opus. The concerto earned Bacewicz the State Award of the 3rd Degree in 1950, with the piece going on to be one of her most loved and performed works.

Academy of St Martin in the Fields is the principal orchestral partner of the St Martin-in-the-Fields, which is its historic home.