Music & Tapas with Faryl Smith & Ashley Beauchamp - Voice & Piano

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Join us at The Garlic Farm Restaurant for our monthly tapas & music evenings. We are very pleased to be hosting a series of visiting professional musicians for recitals throughout 2025 in collaboration with Wight Proms Wednesdays.

The restaurant will be open from 6pm serving a tapas menu until 7.30pm with 40 minute recital starting at 7.45pm. The bar will be open throughout.

Booking is via our restaurant booking page at www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk - select the date of the concert on the calendar

5th March: Faryl Smith & Ashley Beauchamp - Voice & Piano

Classical BRIT Award nominee & Soprano headliner of 'Last Wight of the Proms' 2024

"Smiths soprano is a plush instrument, with bags of colour and integrated register: very easy on the ear." Bachtrack

Faryl Smith is a soprano whose performance repertoire includes opera, classical and classical crossover. She has released two albums with Decca Records both in the UK and the US. Faryl was privileged to perform with Jose Carreras at Hampton Court Palace and has also shared the stage with Placido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann and Angela Gheorghiu at the Classical Brit Awards. She had the honour of performing for HRH Queen Elizabeth II several times during her career. Faryl recently covered the role of Giannetta in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at The Glyndebourne Opera House and performed in Il Barbiere di Siviglia as an Opera Holland Park Young Artist and at Waterperry Opera Festival. She also took part in a recent masterclass with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

British pianist and conductor Ashley Beauchamp studied on the opera course of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has worked on over 30 productions with companies including the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, Garsington, Waterperry, Nevill Holt and Blackheath Halls Opera. He is Head of Music and Co-Director of the Young Artist Programme at Waterperry Opera Festival, Musical Director of the Glyndebourne Youth Opera programme, and Musical Director of Thames Opera Company. He was previously Head of Music for Nevill Holt Opera. Ashley is a passionate advocate for musical education and participation and every year introduces thousands of people across the UK to singing and performing opera for the first time.