oxford international song festival
2024/5
overview
Francesca is a 2024-25 Oxford Song young artist and together with her duo partner, Ellen Pearson, she spent a week learning from esteemed professionals Anne Le Bozec, Sholto Kynoch, Stéphane Degout, Joan Rogers and Christian Immler. They were surrounded by other 14 inspiring young artists (who can be found on the Oxford Song website throughout the course where they benefitted from a full schedule of concerts and masterclasses. They opened the 2024 Festival headlining a concert with Roderick Williams and Natalie Burch with songs by Chaminade, Brahms, Quilter and Poulenc. Ellen and Francesca will be returning to Oxford to perform in the Oxford Song Spring Song Series in April 2025 and again next October to perform in the Festival.