Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano, Ilan Kurtser piano

Lunchtime Recital - Kathleen Ferrier Award Winners + BBC New Generation Artist Recital

Saturday 30 April 2022

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Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston triumphed in the most recent Kathleen Ferrier Awards, walking away with the Song Prize, while alumnus of the Leeds Lieder Young Artist scheme pianist Ilan Kurtser won the coveted Accompanist’s Prize.

The Ferrier Award joins others on Helen’s mantelpiece – she is a current BBC New Generation Artist, winner of the 2018 Handel Singing Competition and Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In addition to her growing reputation as a fine early music singer, she received widespread praise for her recent Isolation Songbook. A creative response to a time of chaos and change, it was originally conceived as an open call-for-scores to composers and lyricists to respond creatively to lockdown, the resulting 15 new songs are by turns witty and melancholic, brash and joyful. Helen intersperses these songs with songs about nature by Brahms, Clara Schumann, Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky.

This event will also be streamed live. Watch live on YouTube 

Leeds Lieder Festival 2022 event.

Price

£15

Unwaged/Disabled
£13

U26s/Students
Free

Start time
1pm

Duration
1 hour

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Programme

Brahms – ‘Ständchen op.106/1’
Shostakovich – ‘Son’ (from Spanish Songs)
Copland – ‘Nature, the gentlest mother’
Brahms – ‘Feldeinsamkeit’
Clara Schumann – ‘Sechs Lieder (op.13)’
Nathan James Dearden – ‘the way we go’*
Joshua Borin – ‘Nature is Returning’*
Vaughan Williams – Four Last Songs
Tchaikovsky – ‘Moi genij moi angel moi drug’
;Nyet tolka tot kto znal’
Clara Schumann – ‘Die gute Nacht die ich dir sage’
Stephen Bick – ‘On his blindness’*

*From the Isolation Songbook

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