Imelda Staunton to appear in Royal Festival Hall gala concert in aid of Pancreatic Cancer UK

29 March 2016, 09:00

The Harry Potter actress will join the Philharmonia Orchestra, The Bach Choir, conductor Grant Llewellyn and renowned soloists for a spectacular evening of entertainment to raise money for Pancreatic Cancer UK in the charity’s 10th anniversary year.

Imelda Staunton (above left) will narrate a newly commissioned script accompanying The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 21st April 2016.

The programme also includes Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1 featuring Francesca Dego (above right), the 26-year-old Italian-American violinist who already has an impressive number of Deutsche Grammophon recordings to her name, in her London concerto debut. Watch her performing some Paganini below:

Four more glittering soloists take to the stage in the second half for Mozart’s Requiem: the soprano Katherine Manley, mezzo-soprano Emilie Renard, tenor James Gilchrist and bass Ashley Riches.

Classic FM will be supporting the concert and recording it for later broadcast.

Pancreatic is the most lethal cancer, with just four per cent of those diagnosed living for five years or more. Pancreatic Cancer UK is working to double this survival rate. It is the only national charity fighting pancreatic cancer on all fronts: support, information, campaigning and research.

Philharmonia Orchestra and The Bach Choir: a Gala Concert in Aid of Pancreatic Cancer UK

Royal Festival Hall, Thursday 21 April 2016, 7:30pm

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