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George Robarts & Thomas Eeckhout
Oxford Song Young Artists, 2024–25
George and Thomas are a prizewinning song duo performing together since 2020, having met at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Their recitals typically set canonical composers against new or rediscovered work, with programmes crafted around a diverse range of themes, from the natural world to Don Quixote to Persian poetry.
They have appeared together at the Barbican’s Milton Court Concert Hall and Oxford’s Levine Auditorium, and won prizes at the national John Kerr and Patricia Routledge Awards for English Song. They make debuts this year at the Oxford Song Festival (Holywell Music Room) and at Ludlow Song.
Beyond their core diet of 19th-century Lieder, their repertoire includes cycles by Butterworth, Ravel, Ibert, Viktor Ullmann, Michael Tippett, Sally Beamish, and more.
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George Robarts & Theano Papadaki
City Music Foundation Artists, 2024–26
George and Theano are a versatile baritone-soprano double act. They curate joint recitals of art song and chamber music, and perform light entertainment sets for livery dinners, private parties and salon concerts.
Their winning combination of style, humour and chemistry underpins imaginative programmes ranging from contemporary classical to roaring-twenties cabaret.
George and Theano are supported and promoted by the City Music Foundation from July 2024. As CMF Artists, they will appear together in recital series at prestigious London venues and benefit from extensive career development coaching.
In 2024-25 the City Music Foundation have pledged generous funding support for George and Theano to produce and perform Pergolesi’s two-person mini-opera La serva padrona in George’s award-winning English translation, titled The Revolting Maid.