About this Event
Today's Hanover Square Lunchtime Concert is given by Luca Zucchi, baritone and Lilly Vadaneaux, piano, who will perform the following programme:
Hugo Wolf - ‘Wohl denk’ ich oft’ from Drei Gedicht von Michaelangelo
Franz Schubert - ‘Tränenregen’ from Die schöne Müllerin, D.795
Robert Schumann - ‘Warte, warte wilder Schiffmann’ from Liederkreis, Op.24
Robert Schumann - ‘Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen’ from Liederkreis, Op.24
Franz Schubert - ‘Die Stadt from Schwanengesang, D.957
György Kurtág - Labirintus from Hét Dal, Op. 22
Franz Schubert - ‘Der Atlas’ from Schwanengesang, D.957
Franz Schubert - ‘Ihr Bild’ from Schwanengesang, D.957
Franz Schubert - ‘Frühlingsehnsucht’ from Schwanengesang, D.957
Franz Schubert - ‘Die Krähe’ from Winterreise, D.911
Alban Berg - ‘Schlafend trägt man mich in mein Heimatland’ from Vier Gesänge, Op.2
Hugo Wolf - ‘An den Schlaf’ from Mörike Lieder
György Kurtág - Ars Poetica from Hét Dal, Op. 22
Robert Schumann - Belsatzar, Op.57
Thomas Adès - Erdő sűrüjében from Növények
As always admission is free with a retiring collection.
Luca Zucchi is a London-based singer and composer currently studying for a PhD in composition at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM). Taught by tenor Adrian Thompson, Luca has a particularly strong interest in Lieder, regularly performing songs and cycles by Schubert, Schumann, Mahler and Wolf alongside works by living composers. In 2024, he performed a new stage-adaptation of Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ at Pentameters theatre in London and most recently performed Schumann’s ‘Liederkreis’ Op.24 alongside Robin Holloway’s partnering ‘Fantasy Pieces’ for chamber orchestra. Over the past couple of years, Luca has received coaching and teaching from Julius Drake, Andrew West, Nicholas Mulroy and Richard Stokes. He is currently an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist (2026-27).
As a composer, Luca’s work has been performed by a number of leading musicians including conductor Ryan Wigglesworth, The Hermes Experiment, The Choir of Clare College, Riot Ensemble, Orpheus Sinfonia and CHROMA. Recent compositions include Fairer Westminster for brass quintet, commissioned by the Lord Mayor of Westminster on behalf of the council, and Drop, Drop, Slow Tears for choir, recorded by the Choir of Clare College to be released on their forthcoming album with Signum Records. Luca received a distinction (DipRAM) from the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) for his MA in Composition and was awarded the Composition Postgraduate Prize and The Jane Manning and Anthony Payne Award. He is currently taught by composers Helen Grime and Philip Cashian and has received teaching from other leading composers including Hans Abrahamsen (1952-), Robin Holloway (1943-), Nico Muhly (1981-), Huw Watkins (1976-) and Ryan Wigglesworth (1979-). Luca’s current studies are supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and a scholarship from RAM. Before studying at the Academy, he read music at Cambridge, graduating in 2024 with an honorary scholarship to the university as well as the Lester Brough Performance Prize and the Royalton Kisch Prize for the highest academic grade for music in his college.
In 2023 Luca founded Isokon Ensemble, a group committed to innovative programming and performances that bring theatre, art and music together. As part of this, Luca has conducted staged performances of Purcell’s (1659-1695) Dido and Aeneas (1689), Britten’s (1913-1976) Curlew River (1964), Nyman’s (1944-) The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (1986) and sung in a staged reimagining of Schubert’s Winterreise (1828) performed alongside Beckett’s (1906-1989) play That Time (1975). The group has received a significant grant from The Marchus Trust to put on the first UK-staging of Gerald Barry’s (1952-) one-woman opera La Plus Forte (2006), which Luca will conduct alongside his own new orchestral work ‘Andate a Rotolare Tra i Porci - Hommage à Gerald Barry’ in March.
Lilly Vadaneaux is a pianist, singer and composer based in London. She is currently pursuing a Master of Performance in piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studies with Sam Armstrong and Ronan O’Hora and is supported by the Huddersfield 1980 Scholarship. Lilly is an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist 2026/27.
Lilly read music and was a choral scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. She was an Instrumental Award Scheme holder as a member of a piano quintet, and in her final year was a pianist on the CAMRAM scheme, receiving lessons at the Royal Academy of Music with Andrew West. Previously, Lilly studied piano with Stephen Coombs and composition with Paul Whitmarsh at the Guildhall Junior Department from 2011 to 2021, where she won the Junior Guildhall Piano Prize and was a Lutine Prize finalist. As a composer, Lilly has a strong interest in working with texts, and her works have been recognised in numerous competitions. She has received mentoring from Roxanna Panufnik and has been commissioned to write works for the West Wicklow Festival, Opera Cameratina Festival and Electric Voice Theatre.
Lilly is the soprano in the Bruegel Consort, a five-part early music vocal ensemble she founded in 2023, which has been selected as a Brighton Early Music Festival Emerging Ensemble for 2026-27 and was the recipient of the Stile Antico Ensemble Development Scheme from 2024-26.
Event venue & nearby stays
St George's Hanover Square, St George Street, W1, St George's Hanover Square, London, United Kingdom
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