Summer Evening 2025#Event 4: 28 August 2025

Adrian Green, Gillian Thompson, Helena Ruinard, and Ann Garry - An Evening with Mozart

Adrian Green, Tenor, Gillian Thompson, Piano, Helena Ruinard, Violin, and Ann Garry, French Horn, will perform an all-Mozart programme including the Kantate for tenor, Violin sonata in B flat, K454 and movements from the Horn Concerto no. 4 in E flat.

 There will be an interval with refreshments.

Adrian Green

Adrian Green is a graduate of Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the Managing Director of Convivium Records and Convivium Singers, and a tenor Lay Clerk at Portsmouth Cathedral. Adrian has sung professionally in choirs, and as a soloist, on recordings released by Hyperion, Signum, NAXOS, Convivium Records, and other Labels.

Adrian’s experience as a soloist and musician have enabled him to work and sing in many countries around the world. He is in demand as a soloist and has recently performed works by Monteverdi, Handel, Purcell, Mozart, Haydn, Vaughan Williams, and Carl Orff. Adrian has a particular interest in ‘English Song’ and produced a commercial recording of works by Britten, Butterworth, Coates, Elgar, Finzi, Grainger, Gurney, Head, Ireland, Quilter, Somervell, Vaughan Williams, Warlock, and others, with pianist Noel Skinner.

Adrian has run Portsmouth Cathedral’s chorister outreach and partnership programme since September 2008, which engages with thousands of primary school children a year. 

 

Gillian Thompson

studied piano with David Ward at the Royal College of Music on the graduate course, then took her post-graduate teaching qualifications at Homerton College, Cambridge.  She studied singing with Dr Margaret Lobo and was a soloist with Discantus and Linden Baroque, directed by Catherine Mackintosh. She was Head of Music at Kew College for 15 years, directing the annual musical productions from the keyboard. She performed frequently at Art in Action, in Oxford, both as a soprano soloist and duettist, as an accompanist and as a solo pianist.  She now teaches piano and singing privately.     

Helena Ruinard

read Music at Selwyn College, Cambridge, followed by instrumental studies at the Royal College of Music, where she was supported by an award from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. She has developed a career as an orchestral violinist, performing regularly with some of the UK’s finest ensembles, including the orchestra of Opera North, City of London Sinfonia and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and touring to major venues around the country. Alongside this she has become a dedicated teacher, currently working for In Harmony Opera North, and contributes to publications in the world of music education and classical music.

Ann Garry

has been playing the French horn since the age of 10. Her first big break was to play at the Aldeburgh Festival when she was 14 years old when she took part in the ‘Wheel of the World’ written by Benjamin Britten and conducted by Gordon Crosse. She taught at St James Independent School from 1987 to 1994.

Ann is currently playing with the Finchley Symphony Orchestra in North London. She performed the Strauss horn concerto and Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings whilst at University. She played at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with a contemporary wind quintet, at the Edinburgh Festival with a chamber group in 2015 and in Dresden with the same group in 2018. Her repertoire as a soloist includes arrangements of the Mozart Concertos and a range of items  written specifically for horn and piano.