February News
We have had a wonderful February with a recital by Milly Forrest in Henley and an evening of Baroque in London which was such a lovely event we have decided to repeat it in Henley in November.
Claire Ward, soprano and Xavier Hetherington, tenor sang at Christchurch in Chelsea in a concert with baroque musicians Kristiina Watt and Miriam Nohl.
Milly Forrest gave a lovely recital in Henley.
Milly has also been working at The Royal Opera House covering in Woolf Works, a ballet interpreting Virginia Woolf’s writing.
Toki Hamano, baritone is pictured here receiving an offie (off west end) award for the production of The Cunning Little Vixen that he starred in at Jackson’s Lane Theatre.
Ben Knight, bass baritone sang at a lunchtime recital at The Royal Opera House and is also involved in their sing and create series. We are also thrilled to have Ben working on our new young artist mindfulness outreach projects at The Chelsea Theatre.
Samantha Quillish, soprano and Jack Holton, baritone are on tour with the National Opera Studio and got to perform at Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru, Caerdydd!
Peter Edge, baritone and Ben Knight, bass baritone have been busy in rehearsal with The English Touring Opera’s production of Lucrezia Borgia by Donizetti.
Claire Ward, soprano moping, is performing 14th/15th March, Buxtehude's Jesu Membra Nostri with Figure Ensemble at The Swiss Church London, Bach's B Minor Mass at Cadogan Hall with Thames philharmonic choir and at the end of the month joining the Monteverdi choir as an apprentice for more B minor masses.
Jolyon Loy, bass baritone will be performing at The ENO as Aye in Phelim Mc Dermott’s Olivier award winning production of Akhnaten by Philip Glass. 11 March - 5 April
Jolyon is also performing at Neville Holt Opera as Silvio/ Marco in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci & Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, various dates in May and June.
Francesca Chiejina, soprano will be playing Lauretta in Il Trittico (premiere) with Scottish Opera in March and The High Priestess in Aida (various dates May-June) at The Royal Opera House. Franny has also been singing with The African Concert Series, well worth a look at Wigmore Hall.
Patrick Alexander Keefe’s (baritone) upcoming performances - March - Covering Sir Bryn Terfel in Gianni Schicchi for Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
April-June - Singing Betto and covering Gianni Schicchi for Nevill Holt Opera.
Georgia Mae Bishop, mezzo soprano is at The Coliseum covering Erda in English National Opera’s production of Das Rheingold, Wagner. Georgia will also be playing Giovanna in Opera Holland Park’s production of Rigoletto this summer.
Alexander Chance, counter tenor has now opened in Giulio Cesare by Handel with The English Touring Opera and was also on this recording:
'Taverner to Tavener', a celebration of the sacred music of Tudor master John Taverner and his 20th-century namesake, John Tavener - was recorded by BBC Radio 3 and is now available to listen online: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hxkd
Jevan McAuley, bass baritone has been playing Belcore, L'elisir d'amore, and Sciarrone, Tosca, with Diva Opera in South Africa.
Jo Harries, mezzo soprano has some super events coming up;
13 May MOZART Requiem with Mountain Ash Choral Society and VERDI Rigoletto (Contessa Ceprano) at Opera Holland Park this summer
Anna Cooper, soprano will be performing as Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutti with Random Opera in Rugby in March.
Glen Cunningham, tenor has been busy working in France. He recently performed a series of Poulenc song recitals in Strasbourg and Colmar and a week working with François Le Roux.
James Way, tenor and Natalie Burch, pianist have recorded at Red House, Aldeburgh. Enjoy this excerpt of Gute Nacht 'Goodnight' Schubert Winterreise 'Winter Journey'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTAX1abCZJs
Alex Haigh, tenor is at The Royal Opera House performing in The Barber of Seville.
Our Ambassador Roderick Williams OBE has been invited by King Charles to compose a new piece for The Coronation of King Charles III. Roderick will also be a soloist on the day.
Samuel Stopford, tenor will be performing at The Petersfield Music Festival and is incredibly excited to performing his first Messa di Gloria at the end of March.