A FITTING recital is to be held at a coastal venue. 

The Songs of the Sea recital will be held at the Eype Centre for the Arts on Monday, August 14 from 7pm.

Performing will be Katharine Fuge (soprano) and Laetitia Fédérici (piano).

Entry is free and there will be a retiring collection for the RNLI. Free parking wil be available.

Songs of the Sea will feature compositions from Berlioz, Britten, Debussy, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Poulenc, Quilter and Vaughan Williams, plus poetry readings about the sea.

Katharine Fuge is a versatile and critically acclaimed performer with a well-established reputation as a performer of integrity, versatility and sensitivity. She has a special feeling for text and language in both concert and recital.

She grew up on the Channel Island of Jersey and moved to London to study music at City University.

Since then, her singing career has taken her far and wide, across the UK and Europe, to North and South America, the Far East and Russia. She is particularly known for singing Bach and has performed and recorded Bach with many of the leading ensembles and conductors, especially Philippe Herreweghe, Philippe Pierlot’s Ricercar Consort, and John Eliot Gardiner with whom she has enjoyed a long and fruitful association both as a soloist and member of the Monteverdi Choir.

Katharine has taught the trebles of the renowned Trinity Boys Choir since 2002, preparing them for opera and concert performances across Europe and further afield.

She lives by the sea in Bridport and when she's not swimming or gardening she loves going to the theatre, art galleries and exhibitions, and music performances of all sorts.

Laetitia Fédérici Katharine first met Laetitia Fédérici when she taught her son singing at Trinity. She has an eclectic career and performs varied repertoire. As well as song recitals across Europe, future and recent projects include piano trio recitals, a piano four hands recital in Paris, a chamber music project combining poetry and the music of Brahms, Clara Schumann and Debussy for the festival Klassik in Brittany.

Laetitia studied in France at the Conservatoire of Cergy-Pontoise from where she graduated with four Gold Medals. After obtaining the Postgraduate Diploma in Performance at Trinity College of Music, she studied piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she took part in the Young Songmakers’ Almanac with Graham Johnson, and in masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. In 2002, she was awarded the first prize at the prestigious Gerald Moore Award for accompanists.