Young Musicians Development Scheme


Saturday 5th November 2005 at 3pm - £12.50 (students £6.25)

 
Kate Royal (Soprano)
& Simon Lepper
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Mozart
Chi sa, chi sa qual sia, K.582
Mozart
E Susanna non vien ... Dove Sono (Marriage of Figaro)
Schumann
Six songs op.90
Strauss

Ständchen; Die Nacht; Morgen
Hahn
3 melodies: A Chloris; Le Printemps; Quand je fus pris au pavillon
Ravel
Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques (Five Popular Greek Melodies)
Massenet
Adieu nôtre petite table
Gounod
Je veux vivre
Bridge
O that it were so; Come to me in my dreams; Love went a-riding

Born in London, Kate Royal was a pupil at Talbot Heath School, Bournemouth. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio. Awards include a Boise Foundation scholarship, Bruce Millar Award, Countess of Munster Trust Award, Sybil Tutton Award, Clonter Prize 2002 and the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Award.

Concert performances include Wagner’s Das Rheingold with Sir Simon Rattle (BBC Proms and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden), Mendelssohn’s Der Onkel aus Boston with the Bach Akademie Stuttgart under Helmut Rilling (also recorded). She appears in recital in London, Brussels and Cologne and will make her US debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington and Helmuth Rilling.

In opera she has sung Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) for the Glyndebourne Festival and Iris (Semele) for Scottish Opera. Future engagements include First Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for the Glyndebourne Festival, Helena at the Teatro Real Madrid, Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) and the Governess (The Turn of the Screw) for Glyndebourne on Tour, Countess Almaviva in a new production for the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Miranda (Ades’ The Tempest) in her debut for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

 

Simon Lepper was born in Kent and educated at King’s College Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, London where he studied with Michael Dussek. He obtained a Dip.RAM, the highest award for postgraduate study, and was subsequently awarded the Hodgson Fellowship.

This year he became an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Competition successes include the 2000 Gerald Moore Award and the accompanist prizes in the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier Competition, 2000 Maggie Teyte Song Competition and the 1999 Royal Overseas League Competition.


Simon works with many of the leading young singers of his generation.

Performances have included recitals in leading British festivals and venues. Simon has appeared on Radio 2, Classic FM, BBC Wales and Japanese television. He frequently performs on BBC Radio 3.

Simon performed last season in China, France, New Zealand and Switzerland. He also toured the Baltic states with London Winds and the baritone Stephan Loges. Simon is an official accompanist for the BBC Singer of the World in Cardiff Competition.

Kate and Simon bring us a wide-ranging recital, all the way from famous operatic arias from “The Marriage of Figaro”, “Manon” and “Roméo et Juliette” to some of the finest examples of French, German and English Lieder and song.

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