Will Harmer and Friends

Trad. arr. Britten – Down by the Salley Gardens
Trad. arr. Britten – The Ash Grove
Will Harmer – ‘Words’ (Edward Thomas)
Vaughan Williams – Six studies in English Folksong
Will Harmer – This is my Letter: ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’
Finzi – Ditty
Gurney – I will go with my Father
Trad. arr Britten – The Last Rose of Summer
Imogen Holst – Two Scottish Airs
Trad. arr Britten – At the Midhour of Night – arr. Britten
Will Harmer – ‘Golden Hour’

Will Harmer piano
Gabriel Francis-Dehqani cello
Hannah Dienes-Williams soprano
Violetta Suvini violin

Will Harmer is a London-based composer and pianist. Will is an Oxford Song Young Artist 2024-25 and has performed recitals at Cheltenham Festival, Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Oxford Song and Lied Festival Zeist. As a composer, Will has been commissioned by the BBC Singers, Oxford Song and Ludlow English Song festivals and was a National Youth Choirs Young Composer 2024. Competition successes include the Lord Mayor’s Composition Prize, BBC Proms Young Composer and John Sanders Memorial Prize. He recently completed an MMus in composition at the Royal Academy of Music, having previously studied at Worcester College Oxford. 

Gabriel Francis-Dehqani has performed extensively throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Asia, broadcasting numerous times on BBC Radio 3 and P2 Danish Radio. He was awarded First Prize at the Muriel Taylor Cello Competition, the International Contemporary Music Interpretation Competition and the Irish Heritage UK competition, held at Wigmore Hall. He has been invited to Festivals across Europe including The Aldeburgh Festival, Schiermonnikoog, Brussels Cello Festival and IMS Prussia Cove. Gabriel is the cellist in the award-winning Elmore Quartet who hold the position of Hans Keller Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, enjoying a busy performance schedule.

Hannah Dienes-Williams is a London based soprano working across Europe as a soloist and ensemble singer, specialising in contemporary music. She graduated with Distinction in her MA from the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded the DipRam for her final recital, the Edlee Prize for Singing and the Edwin Samuel Dove Prize, selected from the whole of the Academy. From 2026 she is an Equilibrium Young Artist, sponsored by Barbara Hannigan. Whilst studying, she was a member of the Academy Song Circle and supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, as well as being chosen for the Glyndebourne Opera Lab. Before this, Hannah studied Music at Clare College Cambridge, where she graduated with a First and the Lester Brough Prize for Music. As a soloist she has performed alongside Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Savaria Symphony Orchestra, and will perform alongside Wiener Symphoniker in 2027.

Irish-Italian violinist Violetta Suvini enjoys a varied concert diary across the UK and Europe. Violetta is the 2024 recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize and a 2025-2026 City Music Foundation Artist. She was awarded First Prize at the Premio Internazionale Il Suono Giovane 2024, the Rovere D’Oro Concorso Internazionale and the D’Addario String Festival Competition. She has appeared as a concert soloist in works by Saint Saens, Mendelssohn and Panufnik. She is Young Artist in Residence at the Merel Quartet’s Kammermusikfestival Zwischentöne 2025 and was a Britten Pears Young Artist for the 24-25 season. She is the recipient of awards from the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Trust, the Kathleen Trust, the Finzi Trust, the Vaughan Williams Foundation, and the Grant Fund for Musical Instruments.