West Green House - AMF Fundraising Lunch

Sunday, 17th September 2023

The Australian Music Foundation held a special fundraising lunch party on Sunday 17th September at West Green House near Hook in Hampshire. West Green is the home of Australian garden author and former Marketing Manager of the Sydney Opera House, Marylyn Abbott, who had generously offered to provide a five-course Sunday lunch with wines and music in her beautiful home, in aid of the AMF Awards Fund. 

Since the pandemic, more and more young Australian musicians have struggled to find grants to support their studies overseas, and this event has helped us to increase the number of our awards for 2024, to help as many as possible to achieve their dreams.

West Green House is never open to the public, so this was a rare chance for a select number of guests to take in the atmosphere of this delightful Queen Anne property and enjoy an exceptional lunch prepared by John Kahout, previously Head Chef of the Orient Express. Visit the West Green House website

After lunch, coffee was served and guests were treated to a short concert featuring AMF alumni - soprano Sky Ingram (Royal Opera, Opera North, Garsington Opera) and bass-baritone Jeremy Kleeman (Opera Queensland, West Australian Opera) - who kindly donated their services for this important fund-raising event. skyingram.com / jeremykleeman.com

Later, our guests enjoyed a walk around the beautiful gardens and saw the lake where the West Green Opera Festival takes place each year. 

Thank you to all who donated and bought their tickets and helped to make the event such a wonderful success.