After the success of Songs of Nadia Anjuman, which earned Richard Blackford nominations for both the Ivor Novello and Sky Arts Awards, Liz is delighted to be collaborating with this exciting composer again, this time on The Black Lake. Inspired by the great Welsh novel One Moonlit Night, Blackford’s soaring yet poignant work is for full orchestra, chorus, narrators, and soloists, tells the story of a boy’s passage to adulthood whilst growing up in a remote village in North Wales. Blackford’s music captures the beauty, sorrows, elements, and mysteries that surround this community who unite through music and song in times of sadness and joy. It has been commissioned by and will be premiered at The Three Choirs Festival, this year in Hereford. Liz will join the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a programme which also includes Britten’s Les Illuminations.