Discover one of London’s best kept secrets - DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse - the acclaimed classical music experience held in a magical bohemian loft space in Central London. This intimate and fun night is like no concert you’ve experienced before, DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse offers awe-inspiring performances, time to chat to your favourite musicians and the chance to feel at home in the heart of the city.
You’ll be greeted at the door by the Shoreditch Treehouse team, invited to grab a craft beer or some bubbles and take in the amazing space. Surrounded by hundreds of fairy lights and beneath the vaulted wooden ceiling draped with plants and a swing, our resident piano improviser Sam Peña sets the tone for a spontaneous night ahead - mashing up your favourite tunes with Bach, Mozart and Liszt. Then it’s time to gather round our Steinway 9-foot concert grand piano, sit back, relax and enjoy some of the most exciting musicians from around the world, compèred by DEBUT’s own Lizzie Holmes.
Launched in 2017, DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse has hosted over 50 sold out concerts showcasing over 150 musicians, including up and coming talent as well as fully fledged stars. Split into three parts of 30 minutes the night features 5 extraordinary musicians (different every month) sharing their favourite pieces from the world of classical music, opera and musical theatre as well as stories from their careers. With over four hundred 5* reviews from around the world already, this is an experience not to be missed!
December’s Musicians
Stuart Orme baritone
Bethany Horak-Hallett mezzo soprano
Ben Leonard tenor
Patrick Davies clarinet, saxophone, flute
Sam Peña, resident piano improviser
Lizzie Holmes soprano & host
George Ireland piano
David Fearn tenor
& more special guests!
Programme
Part I 24’
Ross Introduction
Deck the hall - DEBUT Quartet 2’
Lizzie Introduction
Somewhere in my Memory from Home Alone - Ben & George 3’30
Let it snow! Let it snow! - DEBUT Quartet acapella 3’
In dulci jubilo - DEBUT Quartet 2’ acapella
Frühlingsstimmen by Johann Strauss - Lizzie & George 6’
The Christmas Song - Chestnuts Roasting - Stuart & George 3’30
O Holy Night - DEBUT Quartet & George 4’
Part II 31’
Faites lui mes aveux by Gounod - Beth & George 3’
Jingle bell rock - DEBUT Quartet acapella 2’
Audience Singalong - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - DEBUT Choir, George 3’
Una furtiva lagrima from The Elixir of Love - Ben & George 5’
Christmas piano mash-up - Sam 5’
River by Joni Mitchell - David & George 4’
The Song That Goes Like This - Lizzie, David & George 3’
Audience Singalong - Silent Night - DEBUT Choir acapella 3’
Audience Singalong - Jingle Bells DEBUT Choir & George 2’ (With BELLS?)
Part III 28’5
Audience Singalong - The Twelve Days of Christmas - DEBUT Choir & Sam 4’
Fantasiestücke, Movements II & III by Schumann - Paddy & George 7’
White Christmas - Beth & George 3’
The Toreador Song - Carmen by Bizet - Stuart & George 4’
Walking in the Air - Lizzie, George & Paddy 3’30
Audience Singalong - Hark the herald - DEBUT Choir & George 3’30
Hallelujah Chorus - Handel’s Messiah - DEBUT Quartet & George 3’30
Biographies
Lizzie Holmes
soprano & founder of DEBUT
British soprano Lizzie Holmes was born in Dorset and grew up in Ethiopia, Hong Kong and Australia. Praised for her “infectious smile and creamy soprano” her recent roles have included Cunegonde in Candide for Bernstein at 100 at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, Laurette in Bizet’s Doctor Miracle for Wexford Opera in Ireland, Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel for Grange Park Opera, Destino in La Calisto for Longborough Festival Opera and both Mimi and Musetta in the Olivier Award nominated ‘Best New Opera’ La bohème at the Trafalgar Studios for King’s Head Theatre in the West End.
After reading English Literature at Warwick University, Lizzie was offered places at all 5 top conservatoires in the UK. She graduated from London’s Royal College of Music with Distinction straight into her West End debut in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre in 2014, a year later she founded DEBUT. Recent solo recitals include the Royal Opera House, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Royal Albert Hall, and Cadogan Hall with the Bands of the Household Division. Lizzie makes major concert hall debuts across the UK as the Soprano Soloist for Raymond Gubbay’s Johann Strauss Gala Tour, including the Viennese New Year’s Eve Gala 2019 at the Barbican Hall.
“Audiences are left with open eyes and a thirst for discovering more”
“Intimate, alternative, engaging”