“Coming from broadly different musical traditions, these two musicians collide firmly within the realm of the improvised and experimental. Opera, contemporary classical, jazz, folk – theirs will doubtlessly be a performance that dissolves such simple classifications.” Tony Dudley-Evans
Suzie and Steve join forces as part of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s CODA Festival.
Link for festival schedule and tickets: https://linktr.ee/CODA_Festival
Suzie performs her experimental work-in-progress “(Zu viel) Frauenliebe und Leben”. It’s a playful experiment exploring ways of disrupting the narrative of songs from Robert Schumann’s song cycle Frauenliebe und leben, in which the female protagonist is defined entirely through her relationship to a man.
Suzie is on the team organising this year’s CODA festival at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire which is taking place on Tues 16th and Wed 17th June, as well as some taster performances on the evening of June 5th.
Link to tickets and schedule of festival:
Suzie is alto soloist in this concert in Harborne, Birmingham. Conductor - Nicola Starkie
Suzie is mezzo soloist in this exciting project with Mahogany Opera
ROLL UP! CUMBRIA
Thursday 14 & Friday 15 May 2026
Sandside Lodge Special School, Ulverston
Attendance by invite only - for more information please email marc@mahoganyopera.co.uk
Suzie is the mezzo soloist in this performance of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with Harrow Choral Society. Conductor - Jennifer Sterling
Suzie performs Elgar’s Sea Pictures with Worcester Philharmonic Orchestra as part of their Spring Concert. Dan Watson - conductor.
Handel – Messiah
In the traditional scoring.
Abbi Temple soprano
Suzie Purkis alto
Archie Inns tenor
David Pike bass
OSJ Voices
Orchestra of St John’s
John Lubbock, conductor
Handel – Messiah
In the traditional scoring.
Abbi Temple soprano
Suzie Purkis alto
Archie Inns tenor
David Pike bass
OSJ Voices
Orchestra of St John’s
John Lubbock, conductor
Suzie is alto soloist with CBSO in Joan Armatrading’s commission, Homeland.
“Homeland is a piece that highlights the city of Birmingham and its people, reflecting their strong sense of community, resilience and warmth. It is a tribute to a place to which I am bonded, and one I will always hold with affection and pride. Through both words and music, the piece weaves together the sounds, energy, and rhythms of the city while reaching out into its vast surrounding countryside. This is Birmingham not simply as a backdrop, but as a living, breathing presence – an often-underrated landscape where industry and nature exist side by side in quiet beauty.” - Joan Armatrading
Margaret Lingas - soprano
Imogen Russell - soprano
Suzie Purkis - mezzo-soprano
Tom Hawkey-Soar -tenor
Samuel Oram - bass
Continuo - Sam Hayes
Ludlow Camerata led by Anne Tuplin
Directed by Nicola Starkie
Handel lived and worked in Italy in the early 1700's. The main work is Handel's Dixit Dominus. The programme includes the shorter Nisi Dominus and other works from composers Handel would have met in Italy - Vivaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti and Lotti. Luton Camerata will also perfomr Corelli's Christmas Concerto.
A work in progress sharing of three new 9 minute operas commissioned by Second Movement, each adapted from a single source, Note 615 on “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, English translation by Eirill Alvilde Falck. Note 615 (1892) is Munch’s first articulation, in text, of the image which would become the paintings, drawings and lithographs of The Scream, one of the world’s most recognised motifs. The operas explore themes of alienation, anxiety, displacement, grief and loss, written for a shared cast of baritone, mezzo, soprano, bassoon, cello and violin.
Another Day
Sarah Forbes text
Elif Karlıdağ music
Maelstrom
Romanne Walker text
Vinicius Motta music
Exposure
Nicola Warner text
Zhenyan Li music
Finn Beames director
Olivia Clarke music director
Claire Shovelton creative producer
Abigail Toland creative director Second Movement
Ella Taylor soprano
Suzie Purkis mezzo
Julian Chou-Lambert baritone
Chihiro Ono violin
Ben Michaels cello
Jo Turner bassoon
Pei Hong Chew stage manager
Jonathan Goldsmith surtitles
Leonora Shovelton Front of House for Rough for Opera
Roisin Murphy archive video
Erika Gundesen workshop conductor
Chris Allan workshop cello
Craig Fuller workshop photography
Works with electronics developed and performed by RBC’s Music Technology Department Team (with interval)
Admission - £5
With
Katharine Lam piano
Suzie Purkis voice
James Dooley, Simon Hall, Joe Wright, Edmund Hunt, Ben Markland electronics and diffusion
Over the past quarter of a century, the department has championed the development of new music through composition, research, commissioning, and supporting the technical sustainability of legacy pieces. We present some of the works from the past quarter of a century to include:
Jonathan Harvey Tombeau de Messiaen
Simon Hall GSOH
Edmund Hunt UNGELĪC IS ŪS
James Dooley Formuls
Autumn Concert
GF Handel: Zadok The Priest & Dettingen Te Deum.
JS Bach: Lutheran Mass in G Minor
Soloists
Alto - Suzie Purkis
Tenor - Ed Harrisson
Bass - Barney Stevens
Pace trio perform a programme of new music in this lunchtime recital. Suzie Purkis mezzo, Flora McNicoll cello and Chris Bowden saxophone perform music written especially for them by Kámea Németh, Liz Dilnot Johnson, Michael Wolters, and others.
Suzie will be the alto soloist in this concert with Midlands Hospitals Choir and the Phoenix Singers, Birmingham. Conducted by James Llewelyn Jones.
Suzie is the mezzo soloist in this concert with The Campden Chorus, conducted by Charles Matthews. With Eleanor Broomfield soprano, Tim Burton tenor and Jack Holton baritone.
Suzie will sing alto in this concert with Ex Cathedra consort (10 singers), conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore.
Suzie will sing alto in this concert with Ex Cathedra choir, conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore.
Suzie will sing alto in this concert with Ex Cathedra choir, conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore. Also with special guests Una Pavlovic Aldridge, violin and Edward Harris Brown piano.
