Baritone soloist (Archangel Raphael and Adam)
St Andrew’s Church, Burgess Hill, Suffolk
A concert performance of Haydn’s master work, the Creation. Kieran will be singing both the solo baritone roles: Archangel Raphael, and Adam (the first man).
Burgess Hill Choral Society
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
Baritone soloist – Bach Cantata 182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
Charity Concert in aid of Macmillan: Masterpieces by J. S. Bach
Jesu, meine Freude
Orchestral Suite No.2
Cantata 182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
Stephen Jones conductor
Timothy Morgan counter-tenor
Joel Williams tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
Hertfordshire Baroque Soloists
Diane Terry leader | Siu Peasgood flute
Rogers Covey-Crump continuo
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)
Repertoire:
Barber – Dover Beach
Butterworth – Love Blows as the Wind Blows
Performed with string quartet
St. Anne’s Church, Lewes, East Sussex
Three singers from the Royal College of Music collaborate with the wonderful string players of Ensemble Reza (www.ensemblereza.com), in a programme of Holst, Vaughan Williams, Barber, Rebecca Clarke and Butterworth, including Dover Beach and On Wenlock Edge.
Kieran Rayner – Baritone
Lucy Colquhoun – Piano
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Gesänge des Harfners (D478)
1. Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt
2. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß
3. An die Türen will ich schleichen
Der Musensohn (D764)
Ganymed (D544)
Wanderers Nachtlied II (D768)
Willkommen und Abschied (D767)
Kieran and Lucy will perform a recital of Schubert songs with Goethe texts, centred around the moving 3-song cycle Gesänge des Harfners (The Harpist’s songs).
https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/663
Thames Philharmonic Choir
Louise Fuller soprano
Rosanna Cooper alto
Thomas Erlank tenor
Kieran Rayner bass
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Sweelinck: Hodie Christus Natus Est
Bryan Kelly: Abingdon Carols
Gabrieli: Hodie Christus Natus Est
Handel: Christmas music – Messiah
Thames Philharmonic Choir
Thames Festival Orchestra
Conductor: John Bate
Tickets: £20, £16, £5 (restricted view)
Concessions: £18, £14.50
Kingston Parish Church, Market Place, Kingston, KT1 1JP
7:30pm | 17 December 2016 | Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall
Theodora: Jennifer Coleman
Didymus: Feargal Mostyn-Williams
Irene: Polly Leech
Valens: Kieran Rayner
Septimus: Ben Smith
Join the RCM Oratorio Society for this concert setting of Handel’s Theodora performed with baroque orchestra.
The narrative of this 1750 oratorio follows the journey of one Christian woman’s path to martyrdom, and her quest for virtue in a time of Roman tyranny. Moved by her purity, the Roman soldier Didymus falls in love with Theodora, and betrays his own people trying to save her.
This compelling tale is one of Handel’s finest works – the composer himself ranked the final chorus of Act II ‘He saw the lovely youth’ far beyond The Messiah‘s famous ‘Hallelujah’. Do not miss what promises to be an evening of beautiful music and moving drama.
Image credit: Laura Loach