Jenny Broome Solo Harpist

Solo recitals

Jenny has given recitals for various different groups including concert clubs, theatres, societies and even the WI! Her current recital programme is:

La Source, Etude de Concert Op.44	Alphonse Hasselmans
Serenade Op 83	Elias Parish-Alvars
Une Chatelaine en sa tour Op 110	Gabriel Faur;
Sonatine Op.30	Marcel Tournier
- Interval -
Concerto in B flat Op 4 no 6	Handel, realised Marcel Grandjany
Suite for harp Op 83	Benjamin Britten

Recitals can be designed for different occasions; for example, Jenny has given recitals of eighteenth and nineteenth century music for special interest groups, and of Welsh music for St David's Day.

Concertos

Jenny has appeared as the soloist in several harp concertos, working with conductors including Philip Ellis, Andrea Quinn, Paul Hoskins and Stefan Hofkes.

Repertoire includes:

Bruch	Scottish Fantasy (violin and harp)
Debussy	Danse Sacre et Danse Profane
Ginastera	Concerto for harp
Handel	Concerto Opus 4 no 6 for harp
Frank Martin	Petite Symphonie Concertante (piano, harpsichord and harp)
Mozart	Concerto for Flute and Harp
Vaughan Williams	Dives and Lazarus

Song recitals

As an accompanist Jenny has worked with several solo singers and her repertoire includes much wonderful original music for voice and harp:

Repertoire includes:

Britten	Canticle V Death of St. Narcissus
	A Birthday Hansel
	Folksongs
	Evening, Morning and Night
	Songs from the Harmonia Sacra
Robin Holloway	The Blue Doom of Summer
Lennox Berkeley	Five Herrick Songs
Edmund Rubbra	The Jade Mountain

These pieces have been combined with more familiar repertoire by Monteverdi, Purcell, Mozart, Chausson and Ravel amongst others.

Solo with choir

Jenny has also worked with many choirs as a solo accompanist, especially in Britten's Ceremony of Carols, which she has recorded with the Phoenix Choir (www.readingphoenix.org.uk). Other repertoire includes:

Bernstein	Chichester Psalms
Brahms	Four Songs
Britten	Choral Dances from Gloriana
Holst	Hymns from the Rig Veda
Janacek	Otcenas
Nelson	Lute Book Lullaby
Rheinberger	Wie Lieblich
Rawsthorne	Lament for a Sparrow
Rutter	Dancing Day

Jenny has worked with many choral conductors including Gregory Rose, Janet Lince, Norman Morris, Richard Vendome and Brian Kay and Robin Gritton.

Chamber Music

Jenny is an enthusiastic chamber music player, working most often with her group Trio Sospiroso (www.triosospiroso.com) playing all the major repertoire for flute, viola and harp. They have played at Pangbourne College Arts Society, Didcot Festival, South Hill Park, Bracknell, Winchester Cathedral, Chichester Music on Sundays and at Marlborough Festival.

With the Hilser Ensemble (www.rachelsmithflute.co.uk ) Jenny has played chamber music in London, Lewes and Bramber and has recorded music by Paul Lewis and Hamilton Harty.

She has also played with members of the Philharmonia and West Forest Sinfonia (www.westforestsinfonia.org ).

Repertoire for trio:

Alexander	Orange & Aureolin on Blue
Bax	Elegiac Trio
Beamish	Between Earth and Sky
RR Bennett	Sonata after Syrinx
Nathan Currier	A Sambuca Sonata
Debussy	Sonate
	Four Preludes
	Children’s Corner Suite
Paul Lewis	Divertimento
Jolivet	Petit Suite
Elizabeth Poston	Trio
Ravel/Salzedo	Sonatine en Trio
Edward Watson	Aegean Dances

Repertoire for other combinations:

Bax	Sonata for Viola and Harp
	Quintet for Harp and Strings
Berlioz	Trio from The Childhood of Christ
Paul Lewis	Norfolk Idyll
Marson	Suite for Flute and Harp
Mozart	Adagio and Rondo for Glass Harmonica
Ravel	Introduction and Allegro
Saint-Saens	Romance Op 37
Tippett	Dreaming (viola and harp)
Vaughan Williams	Studies in English Folksong

‘impeccably prepared and sounding to great advantage in Conway Hall… (the) choir was supported by accomplished professional Jenny Broome. High spots were a rare opportunity to hear Holst's Rig Veda choral hymns, and a splendid mock-tragic Lament for a sparrow by Rawsthorne.

‘Jenny Broome not only gave quality support but delivered a riveting solo performance’ Britten A Ceremony of Carols

‘Close empathy with great care for detail coupled to graceful execution, resulted in an extremely satisfying account.’ Chamber music for flute, viola and harp

‘The achievement of the players and the success of the evening can be judged by the fact that what was perhaps the most familiar piece (‘La fille aux cheveux de lin’) sounded as if it was written precisely for this combination.’ Debussy Preludes arranged for flute, viola and harp.

Vysehrad opened the concert with a luxuriant harp solo, beautifully played by Jenny Broome Smetana Vysehrad

Opera

‘Robert Secret’s orchestra plays sensationally, with a sonority that would do credit to a band twice the size’ Verdi Don Carlos