CAMILLA TILLING Soprano

MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE GREAT PERFORMERS 2016 SERIES CAMILLA TILLING LOVE AND LIFE Soprano CAMILLA TILLING WITH LEIGH HARROLD (PIANO) “Singing with vocal refinement, 8 APRIL 2016, ELISABETH MURDOCH HALL musical intelligence and… Melbourne Recital Centre welcomes back soprano Camilla Tilling for her second recital as part of the Great generosity of spirit.” Performers series. She is one of those sopranos who showcases the purity of sound and phrasing, complemented by her warm personality and enthralling stage presence - perfect for interpreting operatic character roles as well as more intimate song cycles. In her 2013 Australian debut, Camilla’s performance The Boston Globe was seen as “vivacious” for lighter repertoire, as well as bringing “subtlety, contrast and crackling emotion” to more emotional vivid pieces. She has an incredible art in storytelling make every performance a spellbinding experience. Tilling has made a speciality of the late-Romanticism of Richard Strauss, bringing a disarming freshness and bloom to some of the most voluptuous lieder in the catalogue, and her recordings of Schubert and Strauss have brought her wide acclaim and audiences around the world. For her only Melbourne solo concert this year, Tilling performs Schumann’s great song cycle, Frauenliebe und –leben, a woman’s journey from the first flush of love through marriage and finally the death of her beloved. One of the most personal of cycles, Schumann’s music yearns for an artist with great emotional candour, who can embody youthful passion and mature grief. Since her acclaimed 1999 debut as Corinna in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims at New York City Opera, Swedish soprano Love reigns in Berlioz’s cycle Nuits d’été – but love is always just out of reach. The cheerfully poignant Camilla Tilling has appeared on the stages of the world’s masterpiece gets a rare performance in its original version for soprano and piano to open an evening most prominent opera houses and concert halls, and in celebrating love and longing. To close the program are the even more luscious Seven Early Songs of Alban regular collaborations with the greatest orchestras and Berg, where voice soars over a surreally beautiful harmonic landscape. conductors. Current season highlights include Berg’s Seven Early Tilling comes from Linköping, a small town in a rural area of central Sweden, approximately half way Songs with the London Symphony Orchestra led by between Stockholm and Gothenburg. She says that as a child: “I loved to make sound - I loved to sing - I Francois Xavier Roth and Schumann’s Faustszenen with could do it for hours”. Now equally at home in opera, concert performances and recitals around the world, the NDR Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Hengelbrock. here is the chance to experience the consummate performer in person. She performs Brahms’s A German Requiem with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and with the orchestra of Joining Tilling is one of Melbourne’s busiest and sought-after pianists, Leigh Harrold, winner of the Adelaide Teatro alla Scala, both conducted by Bernard Haitink, Critics’ Circle prize for Best Emerging Artist of 2005. Performing as both a solo artist and associate artist, and also with the New York Philharmonic led by Leigh is currently recording Robert Muczynski’s complete piano sonatas for ABC Classics after conducting an Christoph von Dohnányi. Consistently in demand for extensive USA tour presening lecture recitals on the composer. concert appearances, Ms. Tilling’s recent highlights include Strauss’s Four Last Songs at the Salzburg Festival with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Dohnányi, and PROGRAM DETAILS: EVENT BOOKING DETAILS: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Berlin’s Waldbühne with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. Hector Berlioz Les nuits d’été, Op.7 (Summer Nights) Friday 8 April 2016 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Robert Schumann Frauenliebe und -Leben, Op.42 Melbourne Recital Centre, Among Ms. Tilling’s many recordings are three recital (Woman’s Love and Life) Cnr Southbank Blvd and Sturt Sts discs with Paul Rivinius on the BIS label; the most recent, Southbank I Skogen, released in the summer of 2015, is dedicated to Alban Berg Seven Early Songs songs from Nordic composers. She appears on Die Duration: 1 hour 50 min (inc. interval) Schöpfung with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Tickets: from $50 - $115 Orchestra, led by Haitink, and Mozart’s Mass in C mi- Camilla Tilling will also be performing Berg’s Seven Early Songs Subscription packages: start from $204 nor, with Paul McCreesh. She performs the role of Ilia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph Transaction and delivery fees may apply. in Mozart’s Idomeneo on DVD from the Teatro alla Scala von Dohnányi on the 14 - 16 April 2016. Booking: melbournerecital.com.au or 03 9699 3333 conducted by Daniel Harding. CONTACT Pia Johnson, Publicist : [email protected], 0413 450 951.

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