Amanda Pitt, David Owen Norris

The pieces for this concert, performed by Amanda Pitt (soprano) and David Owen Norris (piano) will be drawn from seventeen music albums that belonged to Jane Austen and her female relations. Eight of the albums are held by the Jane Austen House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire, and are well known. The remaining nine, in private ownership, have recently been deposited in Chawton House Library, where this concert will take place. Research of the entire collection led by Professor Jeanice Brooks of the University of Southampton has yielded new insights into the Austen family’s musical life.