November 2026 Music Inspired by Literature

Saturday 14 November 2026 at 3pm, United Reformed Church, Guildford, Surrey GU2 4BS

Join us for a free concert for all the family presenting music for orchestra, choir and band inspired by literature and framed around the music of Richard Stoker, an English composer and Professor at the Royal Academy of Music.

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I will be accompanying singers Olivia Carrell and Siân Cameron in four Shakespeare song settings by Richard Stoker. The programme also includes excerpts from Stoker’s opera Johnson Preserv’d reimagining the final meeting of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, Stoker’s song settings of texts by Emily Brontë and Ralph Waldo Emerson, solo and chamber music, pieces composed specifically for children and even some popular music!