Event 8: Leeds Lieder + From Europe to America – A Day of Song

Tickets: Book for individual events, or come to everything and enjoy the whole day for just £55 (£45 unwaged/disabled). Students and young people – tickets just £5 (free where stated)

 

10.30am – 11.30am

Tickets £11, £9 unwaged/disabled, £5 students and young people

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Adriana Festeu (mezzo soprano) Nico de Villiers (piano)

Dvo?ák, Korngold and Enescu Romanian-born Adriana Festeu is one of this country’s most promising young singers.  Her programme ranges from Dvo?ák’s much loved Gypsy Songs to works by her compatriot, Enescu.

“… attractive dark mezzo tone and incisive delivery” Musical Criticism (2009)

Pre-concert talk by David Hoult, 9.45am in LT1.  Admission free.

 

10.00am – 3.00pm in the Rehearsal Hall

Admission free, ticket required

Composers + Poets Forum

Student composers from universities in our region have joined forces with five poets to create completely new songs.  Be a fly on the wall as they workshop them with a forum of experts.

Note: You may dip in and out of the Forum but please keep your ticket with you at all times.

 

12.00pm – 12.45pm

Tickets £8, £6 unwaged/disabled, £5 students and young people

Dame Margaret Price Remembered

Introduced by John Pryce-Jones

To celebrate the art of the late Dame Margaret Price, one of the world’s greatest sopranos, we play recordings, many unavailable commercially, including songs by Schubert and Strauss. Presented by a colleague from her days at Welsh National Opera, John Pryce-Jones.

1.15pm – 1.45pm               

Pre-concert talk by Graham Hearn

 

2.00pm – 3.00pm

Tickets £11, £9 unwaged/disabled, £5 students and young people

Back to the Future – 20^th century American Song

Sarah Leonard (soprano) Stephen Gutman (piano)

Barber, Ives, Cage, Bolcom, Sondheim

American song from the immensely lyrical Barber, via the eccentric Charles Ives and John Cage’s extended vocal techniques which were so fashionable in the 1960s to the sharp wit and irony of Bolcom and Sondheim, presented by two of today’s leading exponents of contemporary repertoire.

Sarah Leonard: “… one of Britain’s most respected and versatile sopranos…”

 

3.30pm – 4.30pm

Tickets £8, £6 unwaged/disabled, £5 students and young people

Songs under the Magnifying Glass – the journey from paper to performance

Nico de Villiers (coach/pianist) Katie Connor (soprano) Andrew McAllister (tenor)

A privileged opportunity to hear two talented students working on songs from the German and English repertoire with an exceptionally gifted and perceptive vocal coach and accompanist.

“[I] am impressed with … his ability to communicate important concepts to singers.” Barbara Bonney

 

5.00pm – 5.45pm

Tickets £5, £4 unwaged/disabled, Free students and young people

Composers + Poets Showcase

The world première of the new songs created by our composer + poet duos performed by young singers and pianists from the participating universities.

 

7.30pm – 9.00pm

Tickets £20, £18 unwaged/disabled, £5 students and young people

Dichterliebe and the English Romantics 

Benedict Nelson (baritone) Gary Matthewman (piano)

Schumann: Dichterliebe and songs by Quilter, Finzi, Parry and Stanford

British baritone Benedict Nelson, one of the most exciting singers of his generation, sings Schumann’s great masterpiece and some of the songs from the great flowering of English song in the 20^th century.

“Benedict Nelson's superbly rich baritone stole the show.” The Guardian 2009

Gary Matthewman: “movingly perceptive” The Times

 Pre-concert talk by George Kennaway, 6.45pm in LT1.  Admission free.