Baritone soloist
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Royal College of Music, London
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Katie Coventry mezzo-soprano
Peter Aisher tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
RCM Symphony Orchestra
R Strauss Le bourgeois gentilhomme op 60
Stravinsky Pulcinella
2016 Rod Williams Memorial Concert
Principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski returns to the RCM for Stravinsky’s lively ballet music Pulcinella. Featuring the exceptional voices of RCM singers Katie Coventry, Peter Aisher and Kieran Rayner, the RCM Symphony Orchestra brings to life the tale of the eponymous ladies’ man.
Pre-concert talk: Join RCM professor Pande Shahov for an introduction to the evening’s concert at 6.30pm.
This event will be streamed live online at www.rcm.ac.uk/live
Please join me for my final Masters of Performance recital at the RCM, the culmination of 2 years of study! Joining me will be the excellent Leanne Singh-Levett (piano) and Laura Balboa (violin). It will be in the Recital Hall, 5pm Tuesday 7 June – as it is an exam, please do arrive a little early if you can.
Alongside some of my current favourite songs and arias, the recital will also feature a piece by RCM composition graduate and fellow Kiwi Andrew Baldwin, a hauntingly beautiful musical setting of a letter home from an ANZAC soldier during World War I. Andrew’s piece was one of the winners of the Gallipoli Songs Competition in 2014, to mark the centenary of WWI – do come along to hear our rendition of it.
Hope to see you there!
Kieran Rayner Baritone
Leanne Singh-Levett Piano
Laura Balboa Garcia Violin
Dreams, Visions, and Restless Nights
Restless, Relentless Lovers
Handel – Tu sei il cor (Giulio Cesare)
Donizetti – Come Paride vezzoso (L’Elisir D’Amore)
Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Trad. – Hine E Hine
Bennett – The Mouse & the Bumblebee
SHORT INTERVAL
Eternal Rest
Andrew Baldwin – Dawn, May 11 1915 (with Laura Balboa, Violin)
Mendelssohn – For the mountains shall depart (Elijah)
Finzi – Channel Firing
Lost in Dreams
Korngold – Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen (Die Tote Stadt)
Massenet – Vision Fugitive (Hérodiade)