Trad. arr. Britten Down by the Salley Gardens
Trad. arr. Britten The Ash Grove
Will Harmer ‘Words’ (Edward Thomas)
Vaughan Williams Six studies in English Folksong (cello and piano)
Will Harmer This is my Letter: ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’
Finzi Ditty
Gurney I will go with my Father
Trad. arr Britten The Last Rose of Summer
Imogen Holst Two Scottish Airs (cello and piano)
Trad. arr Britten At the Midhour of Night (cello and piano) – arr. Britten
Will Harmer ‘Golden Hour’ 

Will Harmer piano
Sebastian Hill tenor
Gabriel Francis-Dehqani cello
Violetta Suvini violin

Will Harmer is a London-based composer and pianist. Will is an Oxford Song Young Artist 2024-25 and has performed recitals at Cheltenham Festival, Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Oxford Song and Lied Festival Zeist. As a composer, Will has been commissioned by the BBC Singers, Oxford Song and Ludlow English Song festivals and was a National Youth Choirs Young Composer 2024. Competition successes include the Lord Mayor’s Composition Prize, BBC Proms Young Composer and John Sanders Memorial Prize. He recently completed an MMus in composition at the Royal Academy of Music, having previously studied at Worcester College Oxford. 

Sebastian Hill is currently studying on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. He studies with David Pollard and is supported by the H R Taylor Trust, Drake Calleja Trust and The Countess of Munster Trust.

He was an Opera Holland Park Young Artist covering the title role in Jonathan Dove’s Itch and previously a member of the Glyndebourne Chorus. He was awarded first prize in the London Bach Society Competition as well as the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition. 

Recent debuts include Britten’s Serenade at the Barbican conducted by Roberto González-Monjas, ‘Opera in 1775’ with The Mozartists at Cadogan Hall, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge in Schaffhausen, Zürich, Bern and Basel with Camerata Variable. Song highlights include a Goethe celebration at Wigmore Hall accompanied by Graham Johnson, the International Lied Festival Zeist, and the Oxford International Song Festival where he is a Young Artist. His increasing portfolio as an Evangelist includes performances with Ex Cathedra at Birmingham Symphony Hall, Oxford Bach Soloists, and Worcester Festival Choral Society.

Gabriel Francis-Dehqani has performed extensively throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Asia, broadcasting numerous times on BBC Radio 3 and P2 Danish Radio. He was awarded First Prize at the Muriel Taylor Cello Competition, the International Contemporary Music Interpretation Competition and the Irish Heritage UK competition, held at Wigmore Hall. He has been invited to Festivals across Europe including The Aldeburgh Festival, Schiermonnikoog, Brussels Cello Festival and IMS Prussia Cove. Gabriel is the cellist in the award-winning Elmore Quartet who hold the position of Hans Keller Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, enjoying a busy performance schedule.

Irish-Italian violinist Violetta Suvini enjoys a varied concert diary across the UK and Europe. Violetta is the 2024 recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize and a 2025-2026 City Music Foundation Artist. She was awarded First Prize at the Premio Internazionale Il Suono Giovane 2024, the Rovere D’Oro Concorso Internazionale and the D’Addario String Festival Competition. She has appeared as a concert soloist in works by Saint Saens, Mendelssohn and Panufnik. She is Young Artist in Residence at the Merel Quartet’s Kammermusikfestival Zwischentöne 2025 and was a Britten Pears Young Artist for the 24-25 season. She is the recipient of awards from the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Trust, the Kathleen Trust, the Finzi Trust, the Vaughan Williams Foundation, and the Grant Fund for Musical Instruments.