Chester Music Society - Peter Edge, Baritone. John Gough, Piano

Programme

English songs: Songs of Travel, A Shropshire Lad and more.

Shropshire baritone Peter Edge is delighted to return to Chester Music Society, presenting a recital of Songs of the Countryside. Graduating from the Royal College of Music, London, with Distinction, Peter went on to become a principal artist enjoying seasons with English Touring Opera, Grange Festival Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and Opera North. In Autumn 2024, Peter joins the Royal Opera House, performing a lead role in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place, marking both Peter’s and the opera’s debut at Covent Garden.

John Gough was born and bred in Chester and has enjoyed a busy and varied career as soloist, accompanist and chamber music player which is now entering its fifth decade. He studied at the RNCM on several scholarships and was the first pianist to gain a First Class degree and the coveted Performance Diploma with Distinction in the same year. He won the John Ireland Centenary Piano Competition in 1979 ( held at the Wigmore Hall), and was then invited by the BBC to broadcast several works by this composer. Since then, engagements have taken him to America, (including the Carnegie Hall, New York), and Denmark.

This concert is supported by a Friend of the Celebrity Concerts.

Tickets £18