CMR: Siobhain O’Higgins - Piano at Princess Theatre

Classical Musical Rocks (CMR) is a charity that brings world class musicians into West Norfolk Schools to inspire and entertain young people.

In February and March 2021, CMR are producing a series of six Sunday afternoon Chamber Music Concerts played to a socially distanced audience at Hunstanton’s Princess Theatre.

Siobhain's programme will feature the music of Rachmaninov, Schubert, Brahms and Gershwin. It will introduce the theme of Nature through music such as Debussy's 'Clair de Lune'. This could provide a gentle escape from all thought of pandemics.

Siobhain specialised in collaborative piano playing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in a two-year postgraduate course. This was followed by a Junior Fellowship in Accompaniment at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Whilst studying at the GSMD, Siobhain won the School's Accompanist Prize, and later the Megan Foster Prize, the pianist's prize in the Maggie Teyte Competition with Soprano Martene Grimson.

Since then she has been based in London, working mainly as a recitalist and a vocal coach. During this time her performances have taken place in locations such as the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, St James's, Piccadily, Southbank Centre, the Austrian Cultural Institute, the House of Lords and the Tower of London, as well as aboard Swan Hellenic's Minervas 1 and 11 and BBC Radio broadcasts. Recital partners have included Paul Hamburger, Elizabeth Watts, Phillip Smith, Ameral Gunson and Lee Bisset, amongst several others.

Current and regular work includes performing with Streetwise Opera, Lost Chord and as Pianist and Advisor to the Somerset Song Prize. She frequently works as a pianist at the Junior Guildhall School of Music, which involves performing with instrumentalists of any genre. Recent performances include a programme with four of their scholars at London’s Charlton House, solo recitals of Rachmaninov and Chopin, and Carmina Burana at The Anvil, Basingstoke.

The concert lasts approximately 1 hour with no interval. Tickets are available now, limited to 100 seats due to social distancing. Visit Princess Theatre’s box office to book or for more details: www.princesshunstanton.co.uk/.

CMR is run by the truly inspirational Peter Barker, who is hoping to bring a performance to the Guildhall next Autumn in partnership with SGT. You can read more about CMR on their website: Classical Music Rocks - West Norfolk (cmrschoolswestnorfolk.com).