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
Benjamien Lycke (music) / Mien Bogaert (words): Stream of Consciousness, Sea of Blood
Role: The President
Alex Paxton (music and words): Bel and the Dragon
Role: The King
Kenichi Ikuno Sekiguchi (music and words): 76 Days
Role: Fear
Lionel Friend coductor
Bill Bankes-Jones director
Sarah Booth designer
Following the success of Hogarth’s Stages in 2014, don’t miss this opportunity to hear a series of six brand-new mini operas created by RCM composers and performed by outstanding RCM singers.
Based on the theme of crime and punishment, marking 150 years since the publication of Dostoyevsky’s famous novel, each opera packs a punch in just fifteen minutes.
We are fortunate to welcome both Bill Bankes-Jones, inspirational founder of Tête à Tête, and Lionel Friend, celebrated conductor and Musical Director of British Youth Opera, to help us bring these daring contemporary new interpretations to life on the Britten Theatre stage.
Produced by the Royal College of Music in association with Tête à Tête
Please note that some of the operas contain adult themes
Benjamien Lycke (music) / Mien Bogaert (words): Stream of Consciousness, Sea of Blood
Role: The President
Alex Paxton (music and words): Bel and the Dragon
Role: The King
Kenichi Ikuno Sekiguchi (music and words): 76 Days
Role: Fear
Lionel Friend coductor
Bill Bankes-Jones director
Sarah Booth designer
Following the success of Hogarth’s Stages in 2014, don’t miss this opportunity to hear a series of six brand-new mini operas created by RCM composers and performed by outstanding RCM singers.
Based on the theme of crime and punishment, marking 150 years since the publication of Dostoyevsky’s famous novel, each opera packs a punch in just fifteen minutes.
We are fortunate to welcome both Bill Bankes-Jones, inspirational founder of Tête à Tête, and Lionel Friend, celebrated conductor and Musical Director of British Youth Opera, to help us bring these daring contemporary new interpretations to life on the Britten Theatre stage.
Produced by the Royal College of Music in association with Tête à Tête
Please note that some of the operas contain adult themes
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.
British Youth Opera: English Eccentrics
By Malcolm Williamson
Libretto by Geoffrey Dunn based on the book by Edith Sitwell
Roles: Dr Katterfelto, Lord Rokeby, Alderman Birch, Lord Rothschild, Mr Worrall and Etienne
In this rarely performed chamber piece we meet hermits, quacks, mariners, indefatigable travellers, and men of learning. Peopled with – as the title suggests – the most absurd of English eccentricity, this is a glorious gallery of the extremes of human nature, portrayed with humour, sympathy, knowledge, and love.
British Youth Opera: English Eccentrics
By Malcolm Williamson
Libretto by Geoffrey Dunn based on the book by Edith Sitwell
Roles: Dr Katterfelto, Lord Rokeby, Alderman Birch, Lord Rothschild, Mr Worrall and Etienne
In this rarely performed chamber piece we meet hermits, quacks, mariners, indefatigable travellers, and men of learning. Peopled with – as the title suggests – the most absurd of English eccentricity, this is a glorious gallery of the extremes of human nature, portrayed with humour, sympathy, knowledge, and love.
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
Role: Nardo
The Royal College of Music International Opera School presents Mozart’s early comic opera La finta giardiniera, sung in Italian and conducted by Michael Rosewell.
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/seasonhighlights/giardiniera/
Role: Nardo
The Royal College of Music International Opera School presents Mozart’s early comic opera La finta giardiniera, sung in Italian and conducted by Michael Rosewell.
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/seasonhighlights/giardiniera/
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
The Chichester Singers
Haydn – Creation
Conductor: Jonathan Wilcocks
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music
Director: John Copley
Conductor: Christopher Middleton
A selection of scenes from Britten operas, featuring the students of the RCM International Opera School.
Kieran will feature in one scene:
Britten: Albert Herring – Extract from Act II ” You oughtn’t to whistle, I told you that, Sid!”
Sid: Kieran Rayner
Nancy: Ashlyn Timms
Albert: Richard Pinkstone
The London Handel Festival in conjunction with the Royal College of Music International Opera School present Handel’s early opera, Faramondo. Kieran will play Gustavo, the main baritone role.
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London
Conductor: Laurence Cummings
Director: William Relton
The London Handel Festival in conjunction with the Royal College of Music International Opera School present Handel’s early opera, Faramondo. Kieran will play Gustavo, the main baritone role.
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London
Conductor: Laurence Cummings
Director: William Relton
JS Bach – St Matthew Passion
31 March 2017, 7.00pm
Southwark Cathedral
Nonsuch Singers are thrilled to be performing JS Bach’s sacred oratorio, the St Matthew Passion, this season.
The concert celebrates the 40th anniversary of the founding of the choir, and will take place at Southwark Cathedral on Friday 31 March 2017, conducted by Nonsuch Singers’ Musical Director, Tom Bullard.
It features Nicholas Mulroy as the Evangelist, as well as soloists Kieran Rayner, Anna Cavaliero, Timothy Morgan, and Julien van Mallaerts.
The ripieno choir is provided by Eltham College Boys’ Choir, and the Nonsuch Baroque Players, led by Lucy Russell and drawn from the finest professional Baroque players of this repertoire, rounds out the musical cast.
Burgess Hill Choral Society
Kieran will sing the baritone solos in Handel’s masterpiece, The Messiah.
United Reformed Church
Junction Road
Burgess Hill
West Sussex
RH15 0JS
COME AND SING – ORFF’S CARMINA BURANA
SOLOISTS:
Josephine Goddard – Soprano
Richard Pinkstone – Tenor
Kieran Rayner – Baritone
Mayfield Festival Choir invite you to a day of medieval debauchery as seen through the eyes of the Turbulent Thirties.
This event marks the 80th anniversary of the first performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. The music of this scenic cantata is known just as well for its accompaniment of the 1970s Old Spice advertisement (the octogenarian Orff must have been so proud!) as for its many appearances in concert halls around the world. The 11th-13th century poems are about wealth, eating, drinking, gambling, and lust – timeless subjects indeed. The virtuoso choir writing is complemented by three solo voices, all of whom push the envelope with their peculiarly high vocal ranges. And in this performance, the 1956 instrumentation will be used: authorized by the composer, in this version two pianos are joined by six percussionists. The sounds are raw and orgiastic; the percussive sound of the grand pianos is matched by six percussionists playing for all they’re worth: an electrifying soundworld that is both primitive and sophisticated at the same time.
Kieran Rayner – Baritone
Lucy Colquhoun – Piano
Kieran will sing an afternoon concert of operatic arias, in one of the smaller rooms at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall. Join him for afternoon tea and some gorgeous music! More details, including programme, to follow.
The Royal College of Music International Opera School presents a hilarious French comedy double bill: Chabrier’s Une Éducation Manquée and Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias.
Kieran will play three roles:
Le Mari (Poulenc lead role) on 30 June / 4 July
Pausanias (Chabrier) and Le Directeur (Poulenc) on 28 June / 3 July
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London
Conductor: Michael Rosewell
Director: Stephen Unwin
The Royal College of Music International Opera School presents a hilarious French comedy double bill: Chabrier’s Une Éducation Manquée and Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias.
Kieran will play three roles:
Le Mari (Poulenc lead role) on 30 June / 4 July
Pausanias (Chabrier) and Le Directeur (Poulenc) on 28 June / 3 July
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London
Conductor: Michael Rosewell
Director: Stephen Unwin
The Royal College of Music International Opera School presents a hilarious French comedy double bill: Chabrier’s Une Éducation Manquée and Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias.
Kieran will play three roles:
Le Mari (Poulenc lead role) on 30 June / 4 July
Pausanias (Chabrier) and Le Directeur (Poulenc) on 28 June / 3 July
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London
Conductor: Michael Rosewell
Director: Stephen Unwin
The Royal College of Music International Opera School presents a hilarious French comedy double bill: Chabrier’s Une Éducation Manquée and Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias.
Kieran will play three roles:
Le Mari (Poulenc lead role) on 30 June / 4 July
Pausanias (Chabrier) and Le Directeur (Poulenc) on 28 June / 3 July
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London
Conductor: Michael Rosewell
Director: Stephen Unwin
For most of the month of July, Kieran will be attending the highly prestigious Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt, Germany, run by Edith Wiens. This gives twelve emerging artists the opportunity to spend all of July working with top-level teachers and coaches, making professional recordings, performing with a superb orchestra, and singing for European and American agents and casting directors.
Kieran will be making his debut at the prestigious Wigmore Hall, singing in the final of the Maureen Lehane Competition. He will sing a programme of Handel, Wishart, Bizet and Wolf, accompanied by João Araújo.
http://www.epsomchoral.org.uk/concerts.shtml
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Princes Risborough Music Society
and
Marlow Choral Society
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
SOLOISTS:
Soprano – Josephine Goddard
Tenor – Richard Pinkstone
Baritone – Kieran Rayner
Kieran Rayner will be featuring as the Forester in The RCM International Opera School’s autumn production of Janáček’s tragi-comic opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
Michael Rosewell conductor
Daniel Slater director
Alex Berry designer
Hannah Wolfe costume designer
Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen
English translation by Norman Tucker
An enchanted forest comes to life in a wooded glen on a summer afternoon. A clever Vixen is captured by a Forester, but she outwits him and escapes. As the story unfolds, she encounters many woodland animals along the way before finding love with a Fox and having cubs of her own. But her dealings with the Forester are far from over – he sets a trap, but then realises the splendour of nature all around him in a life-affirming final scene.
Exploring the cycles of life and nature, Janáček combines dance, folk music and sensuous orchestral interludes in this beguiling and thought-provoking opera.
Tickets: £10, £20, £30, £40, £50
Kieran Rayner will be featuring as the Forester in The RCM International Opera School’s autumn production of Janáček’s tragi-comic opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
Michael Rosewell conductor
Daniel Slater director
Alex Berry designer
Hannah Wolfe costume designer
Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen
English translation by Norman Tucker
An enchanted forest comes to life in a wooded glen on a summer afternoon. A clever Vixen is captured by a Forester, but she outwits him and escapes. As the story unfolds, she encounters many woodland animals along the way before finding love with a Fox and having cubs of her own. But her dealings with the Forester are far from over – he sets a trap, but then realises the splendour of nature all around him in a life-affirming final scene.
Exploring the cycles of life and nature, Janáček combines dance, folk music and sensuous orchestral interludes in this beguiling and thought-provoking opera.
Tickets: £10, £20, £30, £40, £50
Kieran Rayner will be featuring as the Forester in The RCM International Opera School’s autumn production of Janáček’s tragi-comic opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
Michael Rosewell conductor
Daniel Slater director
Alex Berry designer
Hannah Wolfe costume designer
Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen
English translation by Norman Tucker
An enchanted forest comes to life in a wooded glen on a summer afternoon. A clever Vixen is captured by a Forester, but she outwits him and escapes. As the story unfolds, she encounters many woodland animals along the way before finding love with a Fox and having cubs of her own. But her dealings with the Forester are far from over – he sets a trap, but then realises the splendour of nature all around him in a life-affirming final scene.
Exploring the cycles of life and nature, Janáček combines dance, folk music and sensuous orchestral interludes in this beguiling and thought-provoking opera.
Tickets: £10, £20, £30, £40, £50
Kieran Rayner will be featuring as the Forester in The RCM International Opera School’s autumn production of Janáček’s tragi-comic opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
Michael Rosewell conductor
Daniel Slater director
Alex Berry designer
Hannah Wolfe costume designer
Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen
English translation by Norman Tucker
An enchanted forest comes to life in a wooded glen on a summer afternoon. A clever Vixen is captured by a Forester, but she outwits him and escapes. As the story unfolds, she encounters many woodland animals along the way before finding love with a Fox and having cubs of her own. But her dealings with the Forester are far from over – he sets a trap, but then realises the splendour of nature all around him in a life-affirming final scene.
Exploring the cycles of life and nature, Janáček combines dance, folk music and sensuous orchestral interludes in this beguiling and thought-provoking opera.
Tickets: £10, £20, £30, £40, £50
Samling Masterclass and Concert
Saturday 9 December 2017
1.30pm – 4.30pm and 5.15pm – 6.00pm
Sage Two, Sage Gateshead
Led by internationally renowned soprano Joan Rodgers CBE, Italian baritone Claudio Desderi and award-winning pianist James Baillieu, the climax of Samling’s prestigious Artist Programme week sees eight new Samling Artists share what they have learned in masterclass followed by a short concert.
Louise Fuller, soprano
Claire Lees, soprano
Gemma Summerfield, soprano
Olivia Warburton, mezzo-soprano
Kieran Rayner, baritone
Benson Wilson, baritone
Alastair Chivers, piano
Adam McDonagh, piano
Samling Masterclass and Concert
Saturday 9 December 2017
1.30pm – 4.30pm and 5.15pm – 6.00pm
Sage Two, Sage Gateshead
Led by internationally renowned soprano Joan Rodgers CBE, Italian baritone Claudio Desderi and award-winning pianist James Baillieu, the climax of Samling’s prestigious Artist Programme week sees eight new Samling Artists share what they have learned in masterclass followed by a short concert.
Louise Fuller, soprano
Claire Lees, soprano
Catriona Hewitson, soprano
Olivia Warburton, mezzo-soprano
Kieran Rayner, baritone
Benson Wilson, baritone
Alastair Chivers, piano
Adam McDonagh, piano
Kieran will be singing solos in this year’s Christmas Gala Concert for the Josephine Baker Trust, which organises and supports hundreds of oratorio and choral concerts all around the UK every year.
More details to follow.
Kieran Rayner will be featuring as Demetrius in The RCM International Opera School’s spring production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Michael Rosewell conductor
Liam Steel director
Tickets: £10, £20, £30, £40, £50
Kieran Rayner will be featuring as Demetrius in The RCM International Opera School’s spring production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Michael Rosewell conductor
Liam Steel director
Tickets: £10, £20, £30, £40, £50
Epsom Choral Society, accompanied by the Regent Sinfonia orchestra and six professional soloists and directed by Julian Collings are to perform Handel’s great oratorio “Israel in Egypt”. Kieran will sing one of the bass roles.
Kieran features as the title role in Mendelssohn’s epic oratorio Elijah.
Collegium Laureatum
Guildhall, Cambridge
Elijah: Kieran Rayner
Soprano: Zoë Freedman
Mezzo-soprano: Beth Moxon
Tenor: Richard Pinkstone
Britten–Pears Baroque Orchestra
Singers of the Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme
Christian Curnyn conductor
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Handel Theodora 180’
Kieran will feature as a Britten Pears Young Artist in the first course of 2018, Handel’s Theodora. Renowned British Handelians Sarah Connolly and Christian Curnyn prepare this dramatic oratorio in masterclasses before presenting a concert performance as part of Snape Maltings’ Easter Weekend programme.
‘Find anything exciting happening in period opera in the UK and [Christian] Curnyn will be involved’ says The Spectator. True, Handel’s Theodora is technically an oratorio rather than an opera, but the inspiration, characterisation and sheer emotional power of this tale of martyrdom and loyalty in the early Church give it a sense of drama that sweeps all before it. Ceaselessly inventive, its scenes of meditative contemplation of love and faith contain some of Handel’s most ravishing music.
Brandenburg Choral Festival
St. Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square
Christopher Herrick – Conductor
Natasha Day – Soprano
Polly Leech – Mezzo-soprano
Joel Williams – Tenor
Kieran Rayner – Baritone
Twickenham Choral Society
The Brandenburg Choral Festival presents Mozart’s master oratorio in one of central London’s most beautiful venues.
Kieran will feature as the title role in Mendelssohn’s epic oratorio Elijah.
Burgess Hill Choral Society
Elijah: Kieran Rayner
Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera
As an Alvarez Young Artist, Kieran will play the following roles in Garsington Opera’s upcoming 2018 season:
Diener: Strauss Capriccio
Remo (cover) & Young Honeymooner: David Sawer The Skating Rink
Chorus: Mozart Die Zauberflöte
Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera
As an Alvarez Young Artist, Kieran will play the following roles in Garsington Opera’s upcoming 2018 season:
Diener: Strauss Capriccio
Remo (cover) & Young Honeymooner: David Sawer The Skating Rink
Chorus: Mozart Die Zauberflöte
Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera
As an Alvarez Young Artist, Kieran will play the following roles in Garsington Opera’s upcoming 2018 season:
Diener: Strauss Capriccio
Remo (cover) & Young Honeymooner: David Sawer The Skating Rink
Chorus: Mozart Die Zauberflöte
Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera
As an Alvarez Young Artist, Kieran will play the following roles in Garsington Opera’s upcoming 2018 season:
Diener: Strauss Capriccio
Remo (cover) & Young Honeymooner: David Sawer The Skating Rink
Chorus: Mozart Die Zauberflöte
Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera
As an Alvarez Young Artist, Kieran will play the following roles in Garsington Opera’s upcoming 2018 season:
Diener: Strauss Capriccio
Remo (cover) & Young Honeymooner: David Sawer The Skating Rink
Chorus: Mozart Die Zauberflöte
Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera
As an Alvarez Young Artist, Kieran will play the following roles in Garsington Opera’s upcoming 2018 season:
Diener: Strauss Capriccio
Remo (cover) & Young Honeymooner: David Sawer The Skating Rink
Chorus: Mozart Die Zauberflöte
Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera
As an Alvarez Young Artist, Kieran will play the following roles in Garsington Opera’s upcoming 2018 season:
Diener: Strauss Capriccio
Remo (cover) & Young Honeymooner: David Sawer The Skating Rink
Chorus: Mozart Die Zauberflöte
Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera
As an Alvarez Young Artist, Kieran will play the following roles in Garsington Opera’s upcoming 2018 season:
Diener: Strauss Capriccio
Remo (cover) & Young Honeymooner: David Sawer The Skating Rink
Chorus: Mozart Die Zauberflöte