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New Jette Parker Young Artists Announced for 2019/20 Season Monday 18 March 2019 New Jette Parker Young Artists Announced for 2019/20 Season The Royal Opera House is delighted to announce the five singers and one stage director who will join the Jette Parker Young Artists (JPYA) Programme in September 2019, selected from more than 508 applicants from 61 countries across the globe: • South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha • British mezzo-soprano Stephanie Wake-Edwards • Tongan/New Zealand tenor Filipe Manu • Uruguayan tenor Andrés Presno • South Korean bass-baritone ByeongMin Gil • British director Isabelle Kettle The process for the selection of the Jette Parker Young Artists began in August 2018. Seventy-six singers were selected for live audition. Twenty-seven singers progressed to the second round, involving a one-to-one coaching session with David Gowland, JPYA Artistic Director, and a panel audition with David Gowland, ROH Director of Casting Peter Mario Katona, senior répétiteur Mark Packwood, Australian soprano Yvonne Kenny and Elaine Kidd, Head of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. The final shortlist of ten singers auditioned on the Royal Opera House’s main stage with the decision-making panel joined by Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera, Oliver Mears, Director of Opera, and The Royal Opera’s Head of Music Richard Hetherington. For all Royal Opera House press releases visit www.roh.org.uk/for/press-and-media Oliver Mears, Director of Opera, The Royal Opera said: ‘The Royal Opera House has always sought to provide the best opportunities for new voices, directors and for talented young singers, especially those from backgrounds that don’t offer them access to skilled musical training and support. I am proud to say that the 2019/20 intake of Jette Parker Young Artists are truly a cut above, both in the quality of their music making, and in the diversity of their backgrounds. We warmly welcome our new intake of singers, and are determined to support and drive forward their talent while giving them the best opportunities that the Royal Opera House can provide. I look forward to working with each of them over the coming years.’ The new Young Artists will join the five singers and four music staff who continue on the Programme into their second year: baritone Germán E Alcántara, bass- baritone Michael Mofidian, countertenor Patrick Terry, soprano Yaritza Véliz, mezzo-soprano Hongni Wu and well as music staff: opera conductor/répétiteur Patrick Milne, opera conductor/répétiteur Edmund Whitehead, ballet conductor Jonathan Lo and ballet conductor Thomas Payne. BIOGRAPHIES Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha: Soprano South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha completed her PGDip at the University of Cape Town, and her BTech in Vocal Art (Performance) at Tshwane University of Technology. Student experience includes Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), chorus in Faust, La Cenerentola and Falstaff and Mozart’s Coronation Mass at TUT. Competition successes include First Prize in the Phillip H. Moore Music Competition, First Prize and Best South African Song (final 2017, semi-final 2018) in the ATKV Singing Competition, First Prize and best singer in the second round of the classical category in Pretoria (2018) and Audience Second Prize (2017) in the UNISA International Voice Competition. She won the Encouragement Award in the Deborah Voigt International Competition. She was a Young Artist with Cape Town Opera for two years, singing First Lady in Die Zauberflöte (with UCT), Mother of Mandela in Mandela Trilogy and Serena in Porgy and Bess (on tour in South Korea). For the remainder of the 2018/19 Season she Page 2 of 7 joins British director Anthony Almeida, South African baritone Chuma Sijeqa and South African tenor Thando Mjandana, as a Link Artist on the JPYAP. Stephanie Wake-Edwards: Mezzo-soprano British mezzo-soprano Stephanie Wake-Edwards graduated from the University of York with a BA in Sociology with Social Psychology and studied for a Masters Degree in Opera at the Royal Academy of Music. She won a special award from Mark Minkowski in his Concours Bordeaux Médoc Lyrique, and Second Prize in the Isabel Jay Competition, and has received support from the RAM and various charities and foundations. She sang Third Noble Orphan (Der Rosenkavalier) and joined the Glyndebourne Chorus for Saul, Vanessa and Madama Butterfly at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 2018. She returns there as a Jerwood Young Artist this summer. Other opera engagements include Mrs Noye (Noye’s Fludde) for English Martyrs’ Leicester, Dido (Dido and Aeneas) for Leicester MusicFest, Old Woman, Book of Fate and Mrs Northwind (The Enchanted Pig), Arnalta (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Third Lady (The Magic Flute) for Hampstead Garden Opera, Florence Pike (Albert Herring) and Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia) for Aspect Opera and Auntie (Peter Grimes) for Dartington International Festival. Filipe Manu: Tenor Tongan/New Zealand tenor Filipe Manu studied at the University of Waikato with Dame Malvina Major. He is an alumnus of the New Zealand Opera School. He has been a Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist with New Zealand Opera and was selected for the inaugural Dame Malvina Major Opera programme and the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Singers’ Development programme. He is currently a Masters student on the Opera Course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he is the Independent Opera Scholar and the Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers’ Scholar. He is also a Samling Artist. Competition highlights include winning the IFAC Handa-Australian Singing Competition and being runner-up in New Zealand’s Lexus Song Quest, in which he was named the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Most Promising Singer. Opera appearances include Rinuccio (Gianni Page 3 of 7 Schicchi) for Auckland Opera Factory, Pilade (Oreste) and Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) for Auckland Opera Studio, Tebaldo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) for Days Bay Opera, Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) in abridged versions for New Zealand Opera and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Guildhall School. Notable concert appearances include La Damnation de Faust with the LSO under Simon Rattle, Messiah with NZSO under Nicholas McGegan and Pulcinella with the London Schools’ Symphony Orchestra. He makes his Royal Opera debut in the 2018/19 Season as Hippolyt in Phaedra. Andrés Presno: Tenor Uruguayan tenor Andrés Presno studied at Escuela Departamental de Canto Lirico and at Escuela Nacional de Arte Lirico del SODRE. He is continuing his studies at Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Yvonne Kenny on a scholarship with the support of Centro Cultural de Música (Uruguay) and as a Guildhall Scholar. He is also a Samling Artist. Opera appearances include Messenger (Aida), Parpignol (La bohème), Remendado (Carmen), Cassio (Otello), Giuseppini (El dúo de la Africana), Gastone de Letorières (La traviata), Ricardo (La del Manojo de Rosas) and Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) at SODRE, chorus and solo roles at the Punta Classics Festival and Dr Caius (Falstaff) and Edmondo (Manon Lescaut) at Teatro Solis in Montevideo. He also participated in the recital Faust Visions in the SODRE chamber music season. ByeongMin Gil: Bass-baritone South Korean bass-baritone ByeongMin Gil studied at Seoul National University College of Music. He attended the Oxford Lieder Festival residential course. Competition successes include First Prize in the Opera Crown International Opera Competition in Tbilisi, Otto Edelmann International Competition in Vienna, Monte Carlo Voice Masters, Toulouse International Singing Competition and Korean National Opera Competition, and Second Prize in the Viotti International Opera Singing Competition. Opera appearances include Monterone (Rigoletto) at the Maggio Page 4 of 7 Musicale, Florence. He has given recitals at YeongSan Art Hall, Kukje Art Hall in Seoul and the Oxford Lieder Festival. Isabelle Kettle: Stage Director British stage director Isabelle Kettle graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts with an MFA in Theatre Directing. She has collaborated with artists from many disciplines including film, poetry, visual art and dance. Her opera experience includes directing for PopUp Opera at the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn Festival and an upcoming production of Dido and Aeneas at the Queille Festival. Previous projects in New York and London include Melis Aker’s Manar, Sophocles’ Antigone and Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal. She has also staged adaptations of Shakespeare’s King Lear (Lear’s Daughters) and As You Like It (Arden Creatures) with Footfall, the theatre company she co-founded in 2014. ENDS NOTES TO EDITORS 1. For further information or interview requests please contact Jolene Dyke 2. For images or press ticket requests please contact Hannah Last About the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme supports the artistic development of young professional singers, conductors, directors and répétiteurs. The Young Artists are an international group of outstanding professionals at the start of their careers who have undertaken formal training and may have already worked with professional companies. They are salaried employees of the Royal Opera House, who work here full-time over two years. Page 5 of 7 The Young Artists work on productions for The Royal Opera and Royal Ballet, singing small roles and covering larger roles, or joining the music or directing staff for productions. They also receive coaching in all opera
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