Mezzo-soprano
Anita Monserrat
British mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat is recognised for her poised musicianship and richly coloured voice.
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Guiting Music Festival: From Mahler to Manhattan
Saturday
1
August
2026
,
6:30 pm
Guiting Music Festival
Guiting Power
Cheltenham
GL54 5TX
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Ellington Take the "A" Train
Gershwin Someone to watch over me from Oh, Kay!
Kern Can't help lovin' dat man from Show Boat
Gustav Mahler Adagietto from Symphony no. 5
Alma Mahler Mild Summer Night from Five Songs 1910
Alma Mahler Harvest Song from Four Songs 1915
Strauss Serenade op. 7
interval
Kern The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time
Elgar Chanson de Nuit
Strauss Die Nacht from Songs op. 10
Elgar Chanson de Matin
Strauss Morgen from Four Songs op. 27
Sondheim Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music
Porter I Get a Kick Out of You
Gershwin Let's Call the Whole Thing Off from Shall We Dance
With arrangements by Harry Baker
Anita Monserrat
Mezzo-soprano
Tom Fetherstonhaugh
Conductor
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Fantasia returns to Guiting Music Festival with a programme featuring the soaring romanticism of Alma Mahler and Richard Strauss to the bittersweet elegance of Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim.
A love letter to twentieth century song in its many different forms, this programme has lush orchestral arrangements of songs for solo voice that are heard alongside music from beloved twentieth century shows and musicals.
Join us in the idyllic Cotswold village of Guiting Power, with its rolling hills and glorious countryside, for a concert that features British mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat.
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Anita Monserrat
British mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat recently won 1st prize at the 2024 SWR Junge Opernstars competition, 2nd prize at Neue Stimmen 2024 and was a semi-finalist at the 30th edition of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. In the UK, she reached the final of both the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the 2022 Handel Singing Competition. She was a member of the Young Singer’s Project at the 2023 Salzburger Festspiele and also took part in the 2024 International Meistersinger Akademie (IMA).
Concert highlights
Conductor
Tom Fetherstonhaugh
Tom is Fantasia's Conductor & Artistic Director.
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Tom Fetherstonhaugh
Tom’s start in music was fortuitous, as he was lucky to be introduced to an inspiring violin teacher by his grandmother at the age of four.
At eight he became a chorister of Westminster Abbey, an experience he describes as ‘transformative’, benefitting from musical training that featured high profile occasions like singing the solo at the Royal Wedding in 2011. Tom then attended Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, a state comprehensive that champions music and the arts.
He continued with the violin, sang, played the organ, and started to explore conducting, enjoying the process of rehearsals and the ability both to make music with and to bring together large groups of people. It was in his final year at school that he saw the potential for a career in it, founding Fantasia Orchestra in 2016.
Tom now enjoys a busy career with major orchestras, including with the BBC Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland. In his rare moments of downtime he enjoys running, listening to jazz, and cooking, likening the process to conducting — it being about balance, flavour, pacing and bringing people together.
Venue
Guiting Power Village
A picturesque village nestled high in the Cotswolds.
Guiting Music Festival
Guiting Power
Cheltenham
GL54 5TX