Winter Words

Kieran Carrel (tenor) Richard Gowers (piano)

Franz Schubert - Winterreise D911 (songs 1-12)
Benjamin Britten - Winter Words op 52

Kieran Carrel and Richard Gowers were 2019 Leeds Lieder Young Artists and awarded the inaugural Leeds Lieder/Schubert Institute UK Song Prize.

German tenor Kieran Carrel studied in Cologne with Christoph Prégardien, before moving to continue his education at London’s Royal Academy of Music with Neil Mackie. Between 2019 and 2021 Kieran is performing with the Oper Theater Bonn. A passionate exponent of lieder, Kieran frequently appears in recital across Europe and the UK.

Richard Gowers is a British pianist. He performs extensively as a song accompanist and chamber pianist, conductor and organist. In 2017-19 he held a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Michael Dussek and Joseph Middleton and won prizes for song accompaniment and chamber music. He has given many performances at Wigmore Hall, most recently in the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards with Stephanie Wake-Edwards, and the finals of the 2019 Wigmore Hall Song Competition with Kieran Carrel.

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds
Admission Free