Friedman, Rice and Buckley join Cantabile for Christmas concerts

Published Monday 14 December 2009 at 14:02 by Alistair Smith

Vocal quartet Cantabile are to host two Christmas charity concerts with guests including Tim Rice, Jessie Buckley and Maria Friedman.

The first will take place at the Delfont Room at the Prince of Wales Theatre on December 17 and the next on December 21 in St John Smith’s Square. The concerts are in aid of the Alan Jay Lerner Fund for Cancer Research and the Caron Keating Foundation, respectively.

Cantabile - The London Quartet were formed in 1982 and have previously performed in West End musicals, QE2 galas, concerts in New York’s Carnegie Hall, opera at the Covent Garden Festival, jazz with the BBC Big Band and classical parodies in front of 40,000 people at the BBC Proms in the Park.

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