Name: Brundibar Arts Festival/Cobweb Concert
Start: 2026-05-16T02:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-16T03:30:00+01:00
Location: Brunswick Methodist Church

$Brundibar Arts Festival\/Cobweb Concert$

First ever festival special spring event in collaboration with Cobweb Orchestra.
About this Event

Programme

- Henriette Bosmans: Poème for solo cello and orchestra

Soloist: Gabriel Waite

- Lee Bradshaw: Five Lullabies for Ilse

Soprano: Hannah Fumoleau Reynolds

-Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek: Symphony in D, Op.24

Conductor: Mark Edwards

This concert will offer both a reflection on the festival that has just taken place and a preview of what’s to come in 2027.

The Five Lullabies for Ilse have been specially composed for this concert, based on poems written by pupils from Gosforth East Middle School. The poems were inspired by a workshop the Brundibár Arts Festival brought to the school in 2026, exploring the story of Ilse Weber, a Czech Jewish poet who perished in Auschwitz.
We are especially grateful to composer Lee Bradshaw—whose commissioned work we premiered this February—for agreeing to set these poems to music.

This promises to be a truly special and meaningful concert, and we very much look forward to sharing it with you.