Young Artist Platform Audition Recitals
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5 – 7 April YOUNG ARTIST PLATFORM AUDITION RECITALS Sessions I, II, III 11am – 5.30pm Adjudication 5.45pm – 6pm Saturday 6 April 2019 Jacqueline du Pré Music Building Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. (Mary Webb) Please turn the page quietly Welcome to the Oxford Lieder Spring Weekend of Song We are delighted to welcome you to this special weekend of song. The focus of the weekend is the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, where some truly exceptional emerging musicians vie to become our ‘ambassadors for song’. Around their audition recitals, there is an exciting trio of evening concerts, a fascinating study day and illuminating masterclass, and the conviviality of evening meals with other audience members. SATURDAY 6 APRIL Jacqueline du Pré Music Building 11am – 5.45pm: Young Artist Platform 2019 Auditions; six 40-minute recitals given by exceptional young duos, adjudicated by Katarina Karnéus, Julius Drake and John Mark Ainsley. YOUNG ARTIST PLATFORM AUDITION SCHEDULE 11am – 12.30pm: Session I Olivia Warburton & Keval Shah ; Fabian Langguth & Camille Lemonnier 1.45pm – 3.15pm: Session II Claire Ward & Guy Murgatroyd ; Lotte Betts-Dean & Joseph Havlat 4pm – 5.30pm: Session III Ted Black & Rachel Fright ; Ema Nikolovska & Gary Beecher 5.45pm – 6pm: Adjudication From 5.45pm: Dinner at Cuttlefish, 36 St Clement’s Street 8pm: Franz Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin SUNDAY 7 APRIL Holywell Music Room 1.30pm: Young Artist Platform Masterclass given by John Mark Ainsley From 6pm: Dinner at the Vaults and Garden Café 7.30pm: ‘Goethe: A Life in Songs’, Christopher Maltman baritone & Graham Johnson piano Out of consideration to performers and other audience members, please turn the pages of this programme as quietly as possible, and only after the song is completely finished. Please ensure mobile phones are silenced OXFORD LIEDER YOUNG ARTIST PLATFORM Oxford Lieder is committed to finding and nurturing outstanding new talent, and to this end the Young Artist Platform was introduced in 2011. This year, Oxford Lieder is looking for two outstanding singer- pianist duos to be exemplary ambassadors for song. Each winning duo will be offered the following: • A recital at the 2019 Oxford Lieder Festival • Recitals at UK music clubs, venues & festivals • A residency at the Two Moors Festival • A masterclass with an eminent Oxford Lieder Festival artist • The opportunity for involvement in Oxford Lieder’s learning and participation work YOUNG ARTIST PLATFORM WINNERS 2018 Harriet Burns soprano & Michael Pandya piano Jessica Dandy contralto & Dylan PereZ piano 2017 Peter Harris tenor & Hamish Brown piano Michael Mofidian bass-baritone & Keval Shah piano 2016 Suzanne Fischer soprano & Panaretos KyriatZidis piano Lorena Paz Nieto soprano & Johan Barnoin piano 2015 Nicholas Mogg baritone & Jâms Coleman piano Josep-Ramon Olivé baritone & Ben-San Lau piano 2013 Rosalind Coad soprano & Gregory Drott piano Kangmin Justin Kim counter-tenor & Sachika Taniyama piano Alessandro Fisher tenor & Ricardo Gosalbo piano 2012 Lucy Hall soprano & Gavin Roberts piano Alison Rose soprano & Matthew Fletcher piano Rozanna Madylus mezzo-soprano & Finnegan Downie Dear piano 2011 Sonia Grané soprano & Edwige Herchenroder piano Victor Sicard baritone & Anna Cardona piano Oxford Lieder is extremely grateful to the following Trusts and Foundations for their invaluable support of the Young Artist Platform as part of Oxford Lieder’s Young Performers Programme. The Derrill Allatt Foundation, The Batchworth Trust, The John S Cohen Foundation, Mr & Mrs J.A. Pye’s Charitable Settlement, Jean Meikle Music Trust, The Adrian SwireNature's Charitable music Trust, is never Trufflehunter, over; her silences The are Kirby pauses, Laing not conclusions. Foundation (Mary Webb) Please turn the page quietly 11.00: Olivia Warburton & Keval Shah MeZZo-soprano OLIVIA WARBURTON studies on the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music with Caitlin Hulcup, Yvonne Howard and Jonathan Papp. She is grateful for the support of the Norman Ayrton Scholarship and the Charlotte Fraser Foundation. She was a recent prizewinner in the 1st International Haydn Singing Competition in Austria and has won prizes for outstanding achievement at the Academy. Recent operatic roles include the title role in L'enfant et les sortilèges and Ino in Semele for Royal Academy Opera, the title role in Teseo for the London Handel Festival and Dido in Dido and Aeneas at both the RAM and The Grange Festival. This season’s highlights include the role of Ernando in Venceslao for the London and Hallé Handel Festivals, Fox in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen as well as song recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Oxford Lieder Festival. Olivia is a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Samling Artist, a member of the RAM’s Song Circle, a soloist for the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series and a graduate of both the Hochschule für Musik und TanZ, Köln (Erasmus), and the Internationale Sommerakademie at the Mozarteum, SalZburg. Praised by The Observer for his ‘exceptional… deft and responsive’ playing, the young British-Indian pianist KEVAL SHAH performs extensively as a song accompanist and chamber musician, with a recital schedule taking him across the UK and Europe. He has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Queen EliZabeth Hall, and St John’s, Smith Square, as well as the Aldeburgh, Leeds Lieder, Oxford Lieder and Heidelberger Frühling Festivals. He has made several live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, and his first commercial recording with bass-baritone Michael Mofidian, performing rare Tchaikovsky songs and fragments, is due for release in 2019 on the Decca Classics label. Recent competition successes include winning the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform in 2017, the pianist’s prize at the Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition, and the 2018 Vivian Langrish Memorial Trust PriZe. For the 2018/19 season, Keval is artist-in-residence at Burgh House, where he will curate a series of concerts celebrating the artistic legacy of the house and its occupants. This season also sees Keval enter the second year of a large-scale project to perform the complete songs of Hugo Wolf, with performances of the Italienisches Liederbuch and the Goethe Lieder. Other highlights include recitals at Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival and Buxton International Festivals. Keval studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, graduating from both institutions with distinction, and from the Academy with the prestigious DipRAM in 2017. He is the 2018/19 Shinn Fellow at the Royal Academy. Programme Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) An Chloë, K524 Johann Georg Jacobi (1740 - 1814) ***** Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979) The Seal Man John Masefield (1878 - 1967) ***** Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) Nuit d'Etoiles, L4 Théodore de Banville (1823 - 1819) Fantoches, L80 Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896) ***** Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903) An eine Äolsharfe, no.11 Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875) Begegnung, no.8 Eduard Mörike Nimmersatte Liebe, no.9 Eduard Mörike Schlafendes Jesuskind, No.25 Eduard Mörike ***** Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) The Little Horses Traditional ***** Herbert Hughes (1882 - 1937) Kitty My Love Anonymous Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. (Mary Webb) Please turn the page quietly Text & Translations AN CHLOË TO CHLOË Mozart / Jacobi English Translation © Richard Stokes Wenn die Lieb’ aus deinen blauen, When love looks out of your blue, Hellen, offnen Augen sieht, Bright and open eyes, Und vor Lust, hineinzuschauen, And the joy of gazing into them Mir’s im Herzen klopft und glüht; Causes my heart to throb and glow; Und ich halte dich und küsse And I hold you and kiss Deine Rosenwangen warm, Your rosy cheeks warm, Liebes Mädchen, und ich schließe Sweet girl and clasp Zitternd dich in meinem Arm, You trembling in my arms, Mädchen, Mädchen, und ich drücke Sweet girl, sweet girl, and press Dich an meinen Busen fest, You firmly to my breast, Der im letzten Augenblicke Where until my dying moment Sterbend nur dich von sich läßt; I shall hold you tight – Den berauschten Blick umschattet My ecstatic gaze is blurred Eine düst’re Wolke mir; By a sombre cloud; Und ich sitze dann ermattet, And I sit then exhausted, Aber selig neben dir. But blissful, by your side. ***** THE SEAL MAN Clarke / Masefield And he came by her cabin to the west of the road, calling. There was a strong love came up in her at that, and she put down her sewing on the table, and "Mother," she says, "There's no lock, and no key, and no bolt, and no door. There's no iron, nor no stone, nor anything at all will keep me this night from the man I love." And she went out into the moonlight to him, there by the bush where the flow'rs is pretty, beyond the river. And he says to her: "You are all of the beauty of the world, will you come where I go, over the waves of the sea?" And she says to him: "My treasure and my strength," she says, "I would follow you on the frozen hills, my feet bleeding." Then they went down into the sea together, and the moon made a track on the sea, and they walked down it; it was like a flame before them. There was no fear at all on her; only a great love like the love of the Old Ones, that was stronger than the touch of the fool. She had a little white throat, and little cheeks like flowers, and she went down into the sea with her man, who wasn't a man at all. She was drowned, of course. It's like he never thought that she wouldn't bear the sea like himself. She was drowned, drowned. ***** NUIT D'ETOILES NIGHT OF STARS Debussy / Banville English Translation © Richard Stokes Nuit d’étoiles, Night of stars, Sous tes voiles, Beneath your veils, Sous ta brise et tes parfums, beneath yoru breeze and fragrance, Triste lyre Sad lyre Qui soupire, That sighs, Je rêve aux amours défunts.