Programmes: July 2018 – August 2019 About

Arcangelo aspires to be one of the world’s leading ensembles bringing together exceptional musicians who excel on both historical and modern instruments, under the direction of founder and artistic director & conductor Jonathan Cohen.

Its players believe that the collaboration required in chamber music, whether working in duos or as a chamber orchestra, is the highest expression of what it means to make music. Setting it apart from other ensembles, all performers are committed to this chamber ideal and as such Arcangelo attracts an outstanding calibre of performers who already have flourishing solo and chamber music careers. These are performers of dazzling technical ability, but they also have a passion for faithful interpretation that goes far beyond historical understanding.

Formed in 2010, Arcangelo has exploded onto the musical scene with verve and energy and has since enjoyed numerous invitations to appear at major festivals and concert halls in Europe and America including Wigmore Hall (London), Musikverein (Vienna), Prinzregententheater (Munich), Philharmonie (), (Austria), Carnegie Hall (New York), Aldeburgh Festival (UK) and the Edinburgh International Festival (UK).

“'Scrupulous preparation allied to a pleasure in the freedom of performance” Play: Mozart– Non piu andrai ( for Benucci) The Times, 2015 Matthew Rose / Arcangelo / Hyperion “All quasi-improvisatory brilliance and fire'” Gramophone Magazine, 2014

Awards Arias for Guadagni / Hyperion Gramophone Award Winner 2012 Sky Arts South Bank Awards Nominee 2013 Handel’s Finest Arias for Base Voice , Christopher Purves / Hyperion Gramophone Award Nomination 2013 BBC Music Magazine Award nomination, 2014 JS Bach Mass in B Minor / Hyperion Gramophone Award Finalist, 2015 Mozart violin concertos, / Warner Classics BBC Music Magazine: Concerto choice – 5 stars 2015 Best recording, Gramophone Magazine (Mozart Sinfonia Concertante), 2015 Award 2015 ‘Scene!’ , Christiane Karg / Berlin Classics Nominated, Operatic Recital category, International Awards 2016 Gramophone Award finalist 2016 Echo Klassik Award 2016 ‘Arias for Benucci’ with Matthew Rose / Hyperion Nominated, Operatic Recital category, International Opera Awards 2016 JS Bach violin concerti, Alina Ibragimova / Hyperion Disc of the Year 2015, Presto Classical CPE Bach cello concertos, Nicolas Altstaedt / Hyperion Finalist, International Classical Music Award 2017 BBC Music Magazine Concerto Award, 2017 JS Bach Cantatas, with / Hyperion Gramophone Award Winner 2017

Critical Acclaim

Arias for Guadagni / Hyperion Editor’s Choice, Gramophone Magazine 2012 Handel’s Finest Arias for Base Voice , Christopher Purves / Hyperion CD of the Month Opera Magazine 2013 Editor’s Choice, Gramophone Magazine 2013 JS Bach Mass in B Minor / Hyperion Editor’s Choice, Gramophone Magazine 2014 CD of the Week, The Sunday Times 2014 Mozart concertos, Vilde Frang / Warner Classics BBC Radio 3, CD Review: album of the week 2015 No 1 in the UK specialist classical chart, March 2015 CD of the Week, The Sunday Times 2015 BBC Music Magazine: Concerto choice – 5 stars 2015 ‘Scene!’, Christiane Karg / Berlin Classics Critics‘ Choice 2015, Gramophone Magazine JS Bach violin concerti, Alina Ibragimova / Hyperion No 1 in the UK specialist classical chart, November 2015 Classic FM Drive time featured album, 2015 Recording of the month, BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 CPE Bach, with Nicolas Altstaedt / Hyperion Recording of the month, BBC Music Magazine, October 2016 JS Bach Cantatas, with Iestyn Davies / Hyperion Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice The Sunday Times :Album of the Week Press Highlights

‘Not only is there fine focus to the oboe and bassoon…but every solo line is thoughtfully inflected, as if this were really four solo concertos being played at the same time. You sense the fun they have with the music while never playing fast and loose with the basic pulse. A joy from start to finish’ Gramophone Magazine (Haydn and Mozart concertos, Hyperion)

‘Three string voices, hovering without bass, reverberate in an endlessly swirling series of fleeting notions, furling, unfurling and inextricable, interwoven in counterpoint. The almost eerily mimetic power of this music, which instantly transformed the atmosphere in the packed concert hall, is delivered by the musicians of the Arcangelo ensemble with a seemingly ethereal, transcendent intensity.’ Martin Wilkening, Frankfurter Rundschau (Berlin, Philharmonie)

‘The magniloquence of the opening announces a period instrument performance with some old-style grandeur. The forces of Arcangelo – 20 in the chorus, two dozen in the orchestra – place this performance in the middle rank for size, and conductor Jonathan Cohen has trained all to a high standard. Solo numbers, entrusted to five high-quality voices (not members of the choir), are spirited and full of character. The choruses are taken at sensible speeds, never a hell-for-leather rush.’ The Financial Times (Bach Mass in B Minor, Hyperion)

Play: Mendelssohn – Infelice! (Scene!) Play video: Haydn, Christiane Karg / Arcangelo / Berlin Classics Cello concerto No 1, 3rd Movement Nicolas Altstaedt/ Arcangelo / Hyperion Artistic Director - Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen is one of Britain's finest young musicians. He has forged a remarkable career as a conductor, cellist and keyboardist. Well known for his passion and commitment to chamber music. Jonathan is equally at home in such diverse activities as baroque opera and the classical symphonic repertoire. He is Artistic Director of Arcangelo, Associate Conductor of Les Arts Florissants, Artistic Director of Tetbury Music Festival, Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Music Director of Les Violons du Roy. Summer 2016 saw Jonathan Mozart's Figaro at Glyndebourne, as well as appearances with Isabelle Faust at Wigmore Hall for their 115th Anniversary concert and major European festivals with his ensemble Arcangelo. Jonathan founded Arcangelo in 2010 and strives to perform high quality and specially created projects. He tours with them to exceptional halls and festivals such as Wigmore Hall where they had a Residency in the 16-17 season, Philharmonie Berlin, Vienna Musikverein, Salzburg Festival, and Carnegie Hall New York. Recent highlights include a European tour with Vilde Frang with concerts at Oslo Opera House and Tonhalle Zürich. Jonathan conducted Arcangelo for their BBC Proms debut at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2016. Arcangelo are busy and much in demand in the recording studio, partnering with fine soloists such as Iestyn Davies (their discs won the Recital Category at the 2012 and 2017 Gramophone Awards), Anna Prohaska, and Christopher Purves on Hyperion Records. Their Mozart disc with Vilde Frang on Warner Classics (2015) reached No. 1 in the UK specialist classical chart and received an Echo Klassik Concert Award. Together with ‘Scene!’ with Christiane Karg, Arcangelo’s disc Arias for Benucci with Matthew Rose was nominated for a 2016 International Opera Award and ‘Scene!’ received an Echo Klassik recital Award. Their most recent release is a disc of Odes by John Blow on Hyperion Records. 2017/18 sees return visits for Jonathan to Les Violons du Roy, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Glyndebourne Opera for Guilio Cesare. He makes his debut with Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege. Arcangelo programmes: Introduction

We are delighted to present our programmes from July 18 to August 19. Concentrating on the baroque and classical repertoire of Germany, Italy and France and Britain, we further explore historically informed interpretation on period instruments. These include the lute, gamba, harpsichord, violone, with strings using gut strings and period bows, played by expert musicians, many of whom have thriving solo or leader careers of their own. Most programmes feature prominent lyrical or instrumental soloists.

The programmes we present here vary in size with forces of around 5 to over 60, including choral work and opera. This reflects our passion which runs across different types of compositions, created in different periods and for different occasions and in different circumstances. In the following pages you will find the programme which we feel may be most interest to you, either due to your season or festival dates, or venue size, or perceived focus of musical interest. Please consider that many of our programmes so far came about through dialogue with artistic directors and festival managers. You may use the enclosed as inspiration rather than as a limitation to what we can present. We are open to, and interested in, developing creative thoughts together to formulate musical programmes that offer the audience interesting and appealing music at the highest performance quality.

To experience our sound from our seventeen discs so far, and a further one being launched in February 2018,, please click here: https://soundcloud.com/arcangelomusic/sets/arcangelo We are available for further discussion, and can tell you more about the programme detail, soloists, forces and casting as well as discuss dates. Alternatively we can discuss works that you are interested in and artistic ideas that you have in mind. The Programmes: July 2018 – August 2019 (1685-1759): HWV 68 09 - 10 September 2018

Jonathan Cohen relishes the opportunity to bring the Programme : chamber music ethos of Arcangelo to this score: Handel is known to have frequently written parts with particular George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): talented musicians in mind, and in this project, as always, Arcangelo will combine a group of carefully Theodora HWV 68 chosen young chamber musicians to bring a characteristic freshness and intensity to their interpretation. His respect for text, colour and orchestral textures together with a stellar cast of Iestyn Davies, Casting: , Anne Hallenberg, Benjamin Hulett and a specially assembled chorus will make this a performance 5 soloists: worthy of Lord Shaftesbury’s contemporary praise: Soprano: Louise Alder "I have heard the work three times and will venture to Counter tenor: pronounce it as finished, beautiful and labour'd a Tenor: Ben Hulett composition as ever Handel made." Alto: Ann Hallenberg Bass: Tarek Nazmi 5.4.3.2.1 strings, lute Organ / Harpsichord 2 Flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets Timpani Choir 6.4.4.6 Director: Jonathan Cohen

Delight and despair in the Classical era with Louise Alder and Gyula Orendt (tbc) 10-17 November 2018

Works of jubilation by Mozart and Haydn are contrasted Programme : with mourning music by both composers, with as soloists fast rising soprano Louise Alder and outstanding baritone Gyula Orendt who was discovered in Le nozze di W.A. Mozart (1756-1791): Figaro at Glyndebourne in 2016. Exsultate Jubilate K165, 15' Jonathan Cohen, Artistic Director (1732-1809): Nicolai Messe Hob: XXII:6, 30'

Interval

Joseph Haydn: Casting: Lamentation Symphony Hob I:26, 16'

Soloists: Louise Alder (soprano), Gyula Orendt (bass) W.A. Mozart: Strings 4.4.2.2.1 Grabmusik K42, 22' 2 oboe, 1 bassoon 2 horn 2nd organ Chorus: 3.3.3.3 Organ/harpsichord: Jonathan Cohen

The birth of the cantata: Porpora, Scarlatti and Handel 8-12 December 2018

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725): Scarlatti wrote hundreds of chamber Cantata "Piango, sospiro, e peno“, H.563, 10’ cantatas, many of which have yet to be performed and appreciated in the 21st century. He was one of the main George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): exponents of this elegant chamber form. Handel's duello amoroso and trio sonatas here are interestingly Sonata op.2 n°1 en si mineur, HWV 386b, 11’ contrasted with Scarlatti's cantatas and instrumental Andante - Allegro ma non troppo - Largo - Allegro works. Jonathan Cohen, Artistic Director Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725): Mentre sul carro aurato (Clori e Mirtillo), H. 419, 2’

Interval George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): "Mi palpita il cor" Cantata a voce sola con oboe HWV 132b. 13'

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)): Sonata No 2 in A Casting: minor for flute, 2 violins and bass continuo, 10’

Soprano George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Il Duello Counter tenor amoroso : Daliso ed Amarilli : Amarilli vezzosa, Cantata 2 violins a due con stromenti. HWV 82, 21’ Cello Encore: Lute Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725): Duetto "Ragione è Harpsichord / Organ: Jonathan Cohen il mio bel nome", extrait de "Venere, Amore e Ragione, Serenata à 3) 11

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: La descente d'Orfée aux enfers, and John Blow: Venus and Adonis with Anna Dennis and Samuel Boden 3– 7 April 2019 (not available on 5 April 19)

La descente d’Orphée aux enfers composed for Programme : Madamoiselle de Guise in 1686; this is contrasted with John Blow’s opera Venus and Adonis of 1683, the earliest known English opera, owing much to the French form Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704): and being a model for Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, in a La descente d'Orfee aux enfers H.488, 56’ performance that can be semi-staged and include dance. Jonathan Cohen, Artistic Director John Blow (1649-1708):

Venus and Adonis, 55’

Casting:

2 violin, 2 gamba, cello, bass, lute 2 flute 5 soloists, including Anna Dennis, Samuel Boden chorus of 8 including 2 of the soloists (total: 11 singers) Music with Dance, choreography by Alexandra Whitley: more details tba 13-23 June 2019

Programme to be announced soon “Delirio Amoroso”: Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Purcell, with soprano 3-31 August 2019

Handel's great cantata about the crazy and delirious Programme : nature of love is here paired with an instrumental first half of ambitious and slightly wacky music by Vivaldi, Telemann (1681-1767): Purcell and Telemann. Don Quixote Strings Suite 15’ strings, lute Jonathan Cohen, Artistic Director

Henry Purcell (1659-1695):

dances from The Fairy Queen 15’ strings, oboe, recorder, bassoon, lute

Interval

Casting: (1678-1741): Soprano soloist Violin concerto Grosso Mogul RV 208 16’ 4.3.2.2.1 strings (the leader also as soloist) 2 oboes 1 bassoon George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Lute Delirio Amoroso (with soprano) 36’

Harpsichord & organ: Jonathan Cohen

14 19-20 season programmes: to be announced soon Our Soloists Soloist – Louise Alder, Soprano

Soprano Louise Alder studied at the International Opera School where she was the inaugural Kiri Te Kanawa Scholar. She was awarded 2nd Prize in the 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Competition and is the recipient of Glyndebourne’s 2014 John Christie Award. She is a member of the Frankfurt Opera Ensemble where her roles this season include Le nozze di Figaro, Cleopatra and the title role in a new production of The Cunning Little Vixen. Her 2015/16 also includes the title role in L’incoronazione di Poppea with the Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr, Vaughan Williams’ Symphony no. 3 with the LSO and Sir Mark Elder, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor at the Proms with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov, her début with as Ilia in a new production of and her début for the Royal Opera as Euridice in Luigi Rossi’s Orpheus. Recent successes have included Sophie Der Rosenkavalier at the BBC Proms, Lucia The Rape of Lucretia at the Glyndebourne Festival, Rapunzel Into the Woods for the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and Gretel Hänsel und Gretel, Musetta La bohème and Silandra in Cesti’s L’Orontea for the Frankfurt Opera. Future seasons include further roles in Frankfurt, returns to the Glyndebourne Festival and Garsington Opera and her debut with the . Concert performances have taken her to the Aldeburgh, St Magnus and London Handel Festivals and as far afield as Munich, Budapest and Moscow. Highlights include Poulenc’s with the Hallé Orchestra and Cristian Macelaru and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony at the Edinburgh Festival with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Peter Oundjian, Louise is also a passionate recitalist, appearing at the Musikverein in Graz, the Brighton Festival, the Frankfurt Opera, Birmingham’s Barber Institute, the Holywell Music Room in Oxford and in the Perth Concert Hall with pianists Helmut Deutsch, Joseph Middleton, Gary Matthewman, John Paul Ekins and Matthew Fletcher.

Soloist - Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello

German/French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is renowned for his creativity and versatility, in his captivating performances of repertoire on both gut and modern strings. Awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2010, he performed the Schumann concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival. Since then, he has performed worldwide with orchestras such as Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Tokyo Symphony

Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and all the BBC Orchestras working with conductors Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Andrew Marcon amongst others. As a concerto soloist, highlights in 2016/17 and 2017/18 include performances with the Vienna Symphony Borggreve Orchestra on tour, the Deutsche Sinfonieorchester Berlin, NDR Orchestra in the opening weeks of the Elbphilharmonie, NDR Hanover, MDR Leipzig, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Chamber, the Australian Chamber Orchestra on tour in Europe and English Chamber Orchestra, amongst others. He returns to the BBC Scottish Symphony, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiano,

Credit: Credit: Marco Duisburg Philharmonic as artist-in-residence, SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Strasbourg Philharmonic and Basel Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 he was invited by Gidon Kremer to be Artistic Director of the Lockenhaus Festival and in 2014, Adam Fischer asked him to follow in his footsteps as Artistic Director of the Haydn Philharmonie, with whom he regularly performs at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Esterhazy Festival and will tour both China and Japan in the next seasons. In recital, Nicolas performs solo and with partners, Fazil Say and Alexander Lonquich. He will tour both Europe and the US in 2016/17 season and will visit Istanbul, London Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and New York amongst others. In Autumn 17, Nicolas will tour Australia extensively as part of a Musica Viva tour. As a chamber musician, Nicolas regularly plays with Janine Jansen, Vilde Frang, Pekka Kuusisto, Jonathan Cohen and the Quatuor Ébène performing regularly at Festivals including Salzburg Mozart and Summer festivals, Verbier, BBC Proms, Lucerne, Gstaad, Musikfest Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Utrecht and Stavanger Nicolas premieres new music and performs with composers like Thomas Ades, Jörg Widmann, Matthias Pintscher, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and Fazil Say. He has commissioned the pianist/composer Hauschka as part of this season as Artistic Director of ‘Viva Cello’ Festival in Liestal in 2016 inspired by a film script by Frederico Fellini To date his recordings of cello concerti by Joseph Haydn, and György Ligeti have been released worldwide. Future releases include a C P E Bach recording with Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen as well as a recording of Shostakovich and Weinberg concerti with DSO Berlin on Channel Classics, Strauss’s Don Quixote and a recital disc with Fazil Say. Nicolas was a BBC New Generation Artist 2010-2012 and a recipient of the “Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship” in 2009. He plays a violoncello by Giulio Cesare Gigli, Rome around 1760. Soloist - Thomas Bauer, Baritone

Thomas E. Bauer, who received his earliest musical training with the Regensburger Domspatzen (Cathedral Choir), studied at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich.

As a concert vocalist he is very much in international demand, having appeared with the Boston Symphony (), Concentus Musicus (Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Filarmonica della Scala (Zubin Mehta), Leipzig Gewandhaus (Herbert Blomstedt, and Sir ), Amsterdam Concertgebouw (Philippe Herreweghe), the National Symphony in Washington, DC (Ivan Fischer), NDR Symphony (Thomas Hengelbrock and Markus Stenz), Zurich Opera Orchestra (Adam Fischer), the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic (Masaaki Suzuki), the Hague Philharmonic (Jan Willem de Vriend) and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra (Sir Roger Norrington).

During the 2015-16 season he will sing Schubert’s “Lazarus” at Salzburg Festival, Beethoven’s “9th Symphony” with the Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic in Graz, Brahms’ “German Requiem” in Oslo with the Oslo Philharmonic, Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, Schoenberg’s “Jakobsleiter” with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester at the , artsong recitals featuring Bach transcriptions with pianist Kit Armstrong at Berlin Konzerthaus and in recital evenings for BR-Klassik Radio (Munich), a tour of recitals in Sweden with fortepianist Jos van Immerseel, and a series of vocal recitals featuring Schubert and Schumann in Japan, China and South Korea.

Thomas E. Bauer has premièred a great number of new compositions; he collaborates closely with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and was awarded the prestigious Schneider-Schott Music Prize.

On the opera stage, Bauer’ recent performance of the role of Stolziusunder the baton of Ingo Metzmacher in Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s “Die Soldaten” at La Scala in Milan was warmly received.

Thomas E. Bauer’s CD productions have received numerous awards, including the “Orphée d`Or” and “La Musica Korea” (for “Winterreise”), the “Stanley Sadie Handel Recording Prize” and “Gramophone Recording of the Month” (for Handel’s “ e ”), and the “German Echo Prize” (for Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”). OehmsClassics has released his recording of solo cantatas by J. S. Bach. Broadcast several times, Klaus Voswinckel’s tele film “Winterreise – Schubert in Siberia” relates Bauer’s adventurous recital tour with the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Thomas E. Bauer is the founder and director of the Kulturwald Festival in the Bavarian Forest. Soloist – Samuel Boden, Tenor

British tenor Samuel Boden began his career as a chef and then went on to study singing with John Wakefield at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2006 with First Class Honours. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Ricordi Opera Prize and the Derek Butler London Prize as well as awards from the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, the Samling Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Opera engagements include the title role of Cavalli’s L’Ormindo for the Royal Opera at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Fairy Queen for Theater St Gallen and Glyndebourne; Afimono The Return of Ulysses for at the Young Vic and Prologue and Quint The Turn of the Screw with The Koenig Ensemble in Mexico. He has sang Charpentier’s Actéon for Opéra de Dijon and Opéra de Lille and Hippolyte in concert with Ensemble Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon; Abaris Les Boréades in concert at the Aix-en-Provence Festival with Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski and The Indian Queen at Opéra Théâtre de Métropole, Metz.

On the concert platform Samuel has appeared at venues and festivals throughout Europe and Scandinavia with many highly- regarded period ensembles as well as symphony and chamber orchestras: Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh, Ex Cathedra / Jeffrey Skidmore, the Royal Northern Sinfonia /Thomas Zehetmair, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra/ Nicholas Kraemer, Les Arts Florissants / Jonathan Cohen, BBC Symphony Orchestra / John Storgards, Sakari Oramo and Giancarlo Guerro; Frankfurt Radio Orchestra / Haïm; Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe. A specialist in the French baroque haute-contre repertoire, Samuel is also sought after for his Monteverdi, Bach and Purcell as well as 20th C and contemporary repertoire. In recital he has appeared with The Young Songmaker’s Almanac at St John’s Smith Square and at Leeds Lieder Plus. His growing discography encompasses works by Monteverdi, Charpentier, Daniel Purcell, Rameau, Bach alongside Tansy Davies and Alec Roth on Hyperion, Erato, Archiv, OAE Released, Nimbus, Resonus Classics, NMC and Signum. This season Samuel reprises L’Ormindo with the Royal Opera, takes the role of Orphée in Gluck’s Orphée et Euridycewith Nationale Reisopera and appears with Le Concert d’Astrée, Arcangelo, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Les Musiciens du Louvre and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. Further ahead sees début appearances at the Salzburg Mozart Week / Minkowski and with the Wiener Akademie / Haselböck. Soloist – Ann Hallenberg, mezzo soprano

The Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg regularly appears in opera houses and festivals such as Teatro alla Scala Milan, Teatro la Fenice Venice, Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa, Madrid, Theater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Bordeaux, Opéra de Dijon, Opéra de Monaco, Théâtre de La Monnaie Brussels, Netherlands Opera Amsterdam, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Staatsoper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Norwegian National Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival and the Drottningholm Festival in Stockholm. She is highly sought after as a concert singer and she frequently appears in concert halls throughout Europe and North America. Ann Hallenberg regularly works with conductors such as , Stefano Aresi, Harry Bicket, Fabio Biondi, Ivor Bolton, Olof Boman, William Christie, Alan Curtis, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro De Marchi, Marcello Di Lisa, Richard Egarr, Laurence Equilbey, , Adam Fischer, Patrick Fournillier, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Jane Glover, Pablo González, Emmanuelle Haïm, Daniel Harding, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hengelbrock, Philippe Herreweghe, Michael Hofstetter, Paavo Järvi, Bernard Labadie, Louis Langrée, Vaclav Luks, Andrea Marcon, Diego Matheuz, Paul McCreesh, Nicholas McGegan, Riccardo Minasi, Marc Minkowski, Christopher Moulds, Riccardo Muti, , Sir Roger Norrington, Ian Page, Renato Palumbo, Sir , Evelino Pidò, Trevor Pinnock, Jérémie Rhorer, Christophe Rousset, Federico Maria Sardelli, Andreas Spering, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, David Stern, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Lothar Zagrosek and Alberto Zedda.

Her repertoire includes a large number of leading roles in by Rossini, Mozart, Gluck, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Purcell, Bizet and Massenet. Equally at home on the concert platform she has built an unusually vast concert repertoire that spans music from the early 17th Century works of Monteverdi and Cavalli, via Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mahler, Martin and Chausson up to contemporary works of Franz Waxman and Daniel Börtz. Soloist - Ben Hulett, Tenor

The young British tenor Benjamin Hulett studied Music as a choral scholar at New College, Oxford and Opera at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He was a soloist at the Hamburg State Opera from 2005 to 2009 and has achieved great success in lyric roles from Tamino (Die Zauberfloete) and Ferrando (Cosi fan Tutte) to Steuermann (Die Fliegende Hollaender) and Novice (Billy Budd). He made his debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich in Handel’s , at Theater an der Wien in the world premiere of Johannes Kalitzke‘s Die Besessennen, Baden Baden Festspielhaus in Salome, returning for Die Zauberflote, Salzburger Festspiele in Elektra, Buxton Opera Festival in Lortzing’s Der Wildschutz, Rossini’s La Pietra del Paragone at Opera Rennes, for Grange Park Opera as Ferrando and has returned to Hamburg as Tamino and Narraboth (Salome). He made his debuts with Opera North as Peter Quint (The Turn of The Screw), Berliner Staatsoper as Hippolyt in Henze’s Phaedra, Fenton in Falstaff for Opera Holland Park, in Sir Jonathan Miller’s St Matthew Passion at the National Theatre, Die Frau Ohne Schatten under Vladimir Jurowski in Amsterdam, the title role of J.C.Bach’s Lucio for Salzburg Mozartwochen under Bolton, Tamino Die Zauberflote with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Rattle and as Madwoman Curlew River for Rome Opera under James Conlon. As a concert performer he has worked with conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Andrew Davis, Phillippe Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood, Trevor Pinnock, Emmanuelle Haim, Markus Stenz, Ivor Bolton, Jeffrey Tate, Simone Young, Frans Brueggen, Jaap van Zweden and Fabio Biondi amongst others at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh Festival, Holland Festival, Musikfest Bremen and many other leading festivals and venues. Increasingly in demand as an interpreter of song, he has performed at Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, Buxton Festival, Leeds Lieder+, Oxford Lieder Festival, National Portrait Gallery, Henley Festival, Freie Akademie des Kunstes in Hamburg and the Hamburgische Staatsoper collaborating with pianists Andras Schiff, Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, Simone Young and Alexander Soddy. His growing discography includes Departures, his first solo recital disc including the world premiere of Giles Swayne's The Joys of Travel (Saphrane), Visions Fugitives (Les Illuminations live from the Gergiev Festival also on Saphrane), Britten songs with pianist Malcolm Martineau (Onyx), and Zumsteeg's Die Geisterinsel (Carus), (Maulbronn), The NMC Songbook (winner of Gramophone Award 2009) Songs Before Sleep by Richard Rodney Bennett (NMC), Gouvy's Iphigenie en Tauride (winner of the Orfee D’Or), the role of Paris The Judgement of Paris (Chandos) and Handel’s with Christian Curnyn (Chandos - winner of the BBC Music Magazine Award for Opera) Handel’s L’Allegro (Carus), Acis and Galatea (Nimbus), Wolf’s Spanisches Liederbuch (Oxford Lieder Live), Kalitzke’s Die Besessennen (Neos) and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis under Herreweghe. Future projects include Francois in Bernstein's A Quiet Place with under Kent Nagano, Gonzalve in Ravel's L'heure Espagnol for Rome Opera under Dutoit his first full recital at Wigmore Hall, and debuts for Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Soloist – Tim Mead, Counter tenor

Tim Mead is praised for the warmth of his voice and the virtuosity and stylistic elegance of his singing. He was a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, before continuing his vocal studies at the Royal College of Music. Recent operatic highlights include Endimione at Bayerische Staatsoper, the Voice of Apollo Death in Venice at English National Opera and De Nederlandse Opera, Angel 1/Boy in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin at Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse and at the Gulbenkian Lisbon, Julius Caesar at English National Opera and Eustazio at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

On the concert platform, he has recently sung Didymus Theodora with the English Concert, St Matthew Passion with De Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Messiah with Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Le Concert d’Astree, a solo recital with La Nuova Musica at the , and Britten Canticles at the Wigmore Hall.

Current and future engagements include Goffredo Rinaldo at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the world premiere of Theo Loevendie’s Spinoza at the Concetgebouw Amsterdam, Messiah with the Handel & Haydn Society and the Academy of Ancient Music, a solo recital in Rome, the title role in Philip Glass’ Akhnaten at Vlaamse Opera, title at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and his role debut as Oberon A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Bergen Opera.

23 Soloist – Lydia Teuscher, Soprano

Born in Freibug, Lydia Teuscher sings in recital, concert and opera worldwide. On the concert platform she has sung in recital in London, Cologne and Antwerp, in concert with Helmuth Rilling and the Bachakademie Stuttgart, the Hanover Band in Brighton and London, with the Gürzenich Orchester, Cologne and Markus Stenz, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington, with Double Bande and Rene Jacobs (with whom she has also recorded Telemann’s Brockes Messe), with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London and on a tour to Korea and Japan, and with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich and David Zinman. She has toured Canada with Bernard Labadie and has toured Europe with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque.

Other concert engagements include J.C Bach’s Lucio Silla with Ivor Bolton for the Salzburg Mozartwoche, Haydn’s Paukenmesse with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Labadie, Bach’s B Minor Mass with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, and Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm, as well as Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the Kölner Kammerorchester and a tour of Vivaldi and Bach Magnficats with .

On the opera stage she has appeared in Berlin, Munich, Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg as Pamina, in Glyndebourne as Hänsel, Cherubino and Susanna and in Dresden as Pamina, Susanna and Gretel.

24 Soloist – Katherine Watson, soprano

Katherine Watson graduated in 2008 from Trinity College, Cambridge where she was also a choral scholar. She has worked with a number of eminent conductors including Stephen Layton, Nicholas Kraemer, Stephen Cleobury, Jonathan Cohen, Paul Agnew, Emmanuelle Haïm, Harry Bickett, Sir Roger Norrington, Laurence Cummings and Philip Pickett. Concerts with Christie include Iphis (Paris, Moscow and Vienna) and Diana Actéon and 2nd Woman Dido and Aeneas (New York). For Haïm she has sung Cleopatra's arias from Giulio Cesare (Lille), a programme of Rameau arias (Frankfurt) and a Monteverdi Gala at the Festspielhaus, Baden Baden. Other recent concerts include Bach's Jauchzet Gott and Handel arias with Bickett and the English Concert, and with trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth at the Cheltenham Festival in 2012, as well as a concert of Handel, Bach and Mozart with James Gilchrist (Kraemer/Icelandic Symphony Orchestra) and Handel's Apollo e Dafne (Cohen/Carnegie Hall, New York). As a Classical Opera Young Artist she performed the roles of Barbarina, Celia Lucio Silla and Hyacinthus Apollo et Hyacinthus at Cadogan Hall. Oratorio work includes Handel Messiah and Bach Christmas Oratorio (on Radio 3 with the OAE and AAM) and Bach St John Passion, Haydn Nelson Mass and the Mozart Requiem (Layton), Bach B Minor Mass in Winchester cathedral, in Lincoln Cathedral, and Mozart Exsultate Jubilate in Westminster Abbey.

In addition to her work in baroque repertoire, Katherine has performed Mahler 4th Symphony, Lutosławsky Chantesfleurs et Chantesfables and Barber Knoxville – Summer of 1915 at St John's Smith Square (Keable/Kensington Symphony Orchestra), Symphonia Antarctica (Layton/City of London Sinfonia) and Britten Les Illuminations (Williams). As a recitalist, Katherine has performed Mozart and Schubert songs in the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, songs by Alma Mahler in Hungary, and Schumann, Strauss, Poulenc and Messiaen songs in recitals in the UK. Recent engagements include Apollo e Dafne with Arcangelo at Zanker Hall, New York, Messiah in Seville, with the Hallé orchestra at Bridgewater Hall (Howarth) and with Polyphony (Layton) at St John’s Smith Square, Scarlatti Christmas Cantata with Sir Roger Norrington, a programme of Monteverdi and a tour of Rameau arias in Asia (both with Haïm). Forthcoming engagements include a tour of the Christmas Oratorio with Rousset and of Rameau Grands Motets (Niquet and Christie). Engagements in2015 have included the title role in Handel Theodora in the Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Christie/Les Arts Florissants). 25 Contacts

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