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John Christie Award50th Anniversary Celebration

THE MUSICIANS’ COMPANY

Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music

Monday 12th October 2015

7.00 pm

Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music

Monday 12th October 2015, 7.00 pm

Louise Alder soprano

Marie Arnet soprano

Nikola Hillebrand soprano

Lyuba Petrova soprano

Duncan Rock baritone

Kate Royal soprano

Simon Lepper piano

Duncan Williams piano

Royal College of Music String Sextet

The Cataleya Wind Quintet

Introduced by Ryland Davies

“I knew when I stepped onto the stage of the Britten Theatre for my audition, that the Royal College of Music would be top of my wish list” Louise Alder, RCM graduate and recipient of the 2014 Glyndebourne Festival Opera John Christie Award

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T H E MUSICI A NS ’ COM PA N Y

The Worshipful Company of Musicians has, for over 500 years, been a guiding light and supportive arm to the music profession in all its guises.

It is testament to the various custodians throughout the centuries that they have enabled the organisation to continue to help build the careers of generations of exceptionally talented artists, by awarding a substantial range of annual awards, scholarships and prestigious medals which helps smooth the transition from study to a professional career.

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of The John Christie Award, one of the Company’s most revered honours which has been bestowed on some of the most celebrated opera stars of recent times. Wide-ranging support stretches across numerous disciplines including Classical Music, Jazz, Pop, Brass Band and Military Schools Music, making the company one of the most inclusive organisations in the UK.

Our Yeomen Programme delivers a 5-year period of performance opportunity, inviting each individual award winner to be considered for appearances at British festivals and concert halls in a range of high profile concerts. In 2015 alone our Yeomen gave 89 performances in the UK, enabling them to raise their profile on their journey to becoming respected professional artists.

Our Yeomen are also invited to support our extensive Outreach programme, which presents music in deprived inner-London primary schools to those who have no music provision. We are proud that in 2015, 35 of our award winners made 85 visits to schools, reaching 4,283 children, meaning that 33 children have learnt from a Musicians’ Company award winner on every school day and our goal is to build on this achievement year on year.

If you would like to hear more about our campaign to help young people enjoy the benefits of music or the support we give to our talented award winners, or if indeed you wish to support our Yeomen and join us at our events please visit our website at www.wcom.org.uk or contact our Clerk – Hugh Lloyd at [email protected] – we would be most grateful to hear from you.


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PA ST W I N N ER S

Awards in 2003-2014 were part-funded by the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Trust

1965 Ryland Davies1966 Richard Van Allan1967 Jill Gomez1968 Jill Gomez1969 no award1970 Teresa Cahill & Yvonne Fuller1971 Anthony Roden1972 Ian Caley1973 Linda Esther Gray & John Tomlinson1974 Elizabeth Gale & Anthony Rolfe Johnson1975 Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Alan Watt1976 John Rawnsley1977 Kate Flowers1978 Fiona Kimm1979 Keith Lewis1980 Christopher Blades1981 Helen Walker1982 Glen Winslade1983 John Hall1984 Louise Winter1985 Anna Steiger1986 Peter Rose1987 Alastair Miles1988 Robert Poulton1989 Alison Hagley & Gerald Finley1990 Sarah Pring & Christopher Ventris

1991 Andrew Slater1992 Edith Pritchard1993 Julie Unwin1994 Howard Quilla Croft1995 no award1996 Lisa Milne1997 Linda Tuvas1998 Daniel Borowski1999 Darcy B’leiker2000 Sarah Fox2001 Marie Arnet2002 Alfie Boe2003 Lubya Petrova2004 Kate Royal2005 Clare Ormshaw2006 Matthew Rose2007 Peter Gijsbertsen2008 Allan Clayton2009 Natasha Jouhl2010 Duncan Rock2011 David Butt Philip2012 Katherine Watson2013 Ulyana Aleksyuk2014 Louise Alder2015 Nikola Hillebrand

Awarded annually to a singer nominated by GlyndebourneSince 1965, the Worshipful Company of Musicians has been funding the John Christie Award, which was established in memory of Glyndebourne’s founder. Over the years the award, which is given to the young performer considered by Glyndebourne to have shown the most promise during the season, has been won by singer after singer who has gone on to international renown.

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London Music Masters Congratulates the Musicians’ Company for supporting exceptional musical talent for 50 years through the John Christie Award! London Music Masters (LMM) provides performance and career development opportunities for highly-talented young violinists from around the world through its innovative LMM Awards.

LMM Award Holders are given performance opportunities such as concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and recitals at Wigmore Hall. In addition, they have new works commissioned for them by outstanding young composers. LMM Award Holders become role models inspiring and working alongside the 650 children who participate in LMM’s award-winning inner-city schools music education programme. As they work alongside and inspire the next generation, the Award Holders are opening doors into the world of music to those who might not otherwise have access.

Save the Date: Tänze by Gavin Higgins Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra and 70 primary school children from LMM schools. Commissioned by London Music Masters

Friday 23 October 2015, 6pm | Royal Festival Hall Free Admission. No Advance Booking. For more information email [email protected]

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LMM Award Holder Alexandra Soumm performing to students at an LMM school

“I used the John Christie award specifically for voice lessons in New York, which set me on a secure path in my singing. It was a perfectly timed support at a crucial moment in my early career. I am very grateful.”

Gerald Finley (John Christie Award 1989)

“The prestigious John Christie Award is not only a great honour to win, but something that has enabled me to continue my vocal studies through lessons with my teacher and coachings with several brilliant coaches on the vast amount of repertoire I am learning at this beginning stage of my career. I have also used the award to finance German lessons in order to set me up for life in Germany and my new job at Frankfurt Opera House, and also for Czech coaching on the role of Vixen for a new production of The Cunning Little Vixen at Frankfurt Opera in April next year.”

Louise Alder (John Christie Award Winner 2014)

“Glyndebourne were very good to me in my early years as a soloist - those years when no one gives you work because you have no experience and you can’t get experience until you have some work! I sang my first roles professionally on the Tour in 71 and 72, and then in 73 was awarded money for further study from the John Christie fund. It was invaluable at the time and enabled me to work intensively with Rupert Bruce-Lockhart, my teacher in those years, with whom I was making great progress. The process of learning to be a good singer takes years, and can be elusive; often two steps forward and one step back; you need all the help you can get, and I will always remember Glyndebourne’s belief in me during those early years.”

Sir John Tomlinson (John Christie Award Winner 1973)


M E S S AGE S

With thanks...


ACK NOW LEDGEM EN T S

The Musicians’ Company is very grateful to all those that have contributed to make this evening possible:

Glyndebourne

Royal College of Music

All the past winners of the John Christie Award who have given their services this evening and to Simon Lepper and Duncan Williams our accompanists

All those whose contributions have helped to endow the John Christie Award for the future:

Brunswick Group

Sir Anthony Cleaver

Kevin Knott

Victoria Robey OBE

Guy Willner

Charles Alexander

Primrose Arnander

Kathleen Duncan OBE

Richard Salter QC

Sir John Baker

Lady Brewer OBE

Paul Cleaver

Sir Vernon Ellis

Alderman Sir Roger Gifford

Michael Hockney MBE

Lord Lloyd of Berwick

Hon Richard Lyttelton

Ian Odgers

Sir Richard Stilgoe OBE

Matthew Tobin

Sir Win Bischoff

Paul Campion

John S. Cohen Foundation

Lady MacGregor

Sir Martin Smith

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Introduced by Ryland Davies

Accompanists: Simon Lepper and Duncan Williams

Cataleya Quintet Mozart (arr. Wendt) Le nozze di Figaro Overture Se vuol balare Non piu andrai Voi che sapete Finale Act 3

Kate Royal Mozart Porgi amor Act 2 Le nozze di Figaro

Kate Royal Mozart Letter Duet Act 3 Le nozze di Figaro& Louise Alder

Nikola Hillebrand Schumann Myrthen op 25: Die Lotosblume Lied der Braut I Lied der Braut II Der Nussbaum Marie Arnet Emil Sjögren songs from Op. 12; Du schaust mich an mit stummen Fragen Jahrlang möcht’ ich so Dich halten

Lyuba Petrova Bellini O Quante volte I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Marie Arnet Gounod Jewel Song Faust

Interval

RCM String Sextet Richard Strauss Prelude to Capriccio Op 85 Kate Royal Richard Strauss Morgen Mahler Um Mitternacht Louise Alder Millöcke Ich schenk mein Herz Die Dubarry Frank Bridge: Goldenhair When most I wink Love went a riding Duncan Rock Britten Look through the port Billy Budd Lyuba Petrova Handel Da tempeste il legno infranto Guilio Cesare Nikola Hillebrand Johann Strauss Spiel ich die Unschuld Die Fledermaus vom Lande

Louise Alder is a graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera School where she was the inaugural Kiri Te Kanawa Scholar. She was awarded 2nd Prize in the 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Competition and is the recipient of Glyndebourne’s 2014 John Christie Award.

She is a member of the Frankfurt Opera Ensemble where her roles this season include Susanna Le nozze di Figaro and the title role in a new production of The Cunning Little Vixen. Her 2015/16 also includes the title role in L’incoronazione di Poppea with the Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr, her début with Garsington Opera as Ilia in a new production of Idomeneo and her début for the Royal Opera as Euridice in Luigi Rossi’s Orpheus.

She has also sung Lucia The Rape of Lucretia at the Glyndebourne Festival; Gretel Hänsel und Gretel, Silandra in Cesti’s L’Orontea and Musetta La bohème for the Frankfurt Opera; Clomiri Imeneo for the London Handel Festival and Rapunzel Into the Woods for the Théâtre du Châtelet.

Highlights on the concert platform have included Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy at the Edinburgh Festival with the RSNO and Peter Oundjian, Sophie Der Rosenkavalier with the Glyndebourne Festival at the BBC Proms with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Robin Ticciati, Zelidie in the British premiere of Rameau’s Zaïs with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Jonathan Williams and Mozart Concert Arias with Classical Opera and Ian Page. Her performances have also taken her to the Aldeburgh, St Magnus and London Handel Festivals and as far afield as Munich, Budapest and Moscow.

Louise is also a passionate recitalist, appearing at the Musikverein in Graz, the Brighton Festival, the Frankfurt Opera, Birmingham’s Barber Institute, the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall, the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, the Crush Bar at the Royal Opera House, the Holywell Music Room in Oxford and in the Perth Concert Hall with pianists Helmut Deutsch, Joseph Middleton, Gary Matthewman, John Paul Ekins and Matthew Fletcher.

Louise AlderMarie Arnet was born in Sweden and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the National Opera Studio.

Marie made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival stepping in at the last minute as Susanna Le nozze di Figaro and went on to sing Diane Iphigénie en Aulide, Ilia in Idomeneo (conducted by Sir Simon Rattle), and Drusilla L’incoronazione di Poppea for Glyndebourne. She has sung the role of Mélisande Pelléas et Mélisande in Palermo, Glyndebourne and at La Scala, Ilia Idomeneo for Hamburg State Opera and Xenia Boris Godunov, and Ginevra Ariodante at the Liceu in Barcelona.

Concert repertoire includes Bach’s St John Passion and Mass in B Minor, Mahler 2nd and 4th Symphonies, the Brahms and Fauré Requiems, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Creation and Bruckner’s Te Deum. She appeared in Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ at the Three Choirs Festival, Mozart’s Requiem with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and for the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Colin Davis in London and New York, A Child of Our Time and Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the Orquesta Radio Televisión in Madrid, Handel’s Solomon, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on tour with Les Arts Florissants, and Brahms’ German Requiem at the BBC Proms with James Conlon.

Marie won critical acclaim in the title role in David Pountney’s production of Lulu for Welsh National Opera with whom she also performed Wendy in Richard Ayres opera Peter Pan. She sang two concert performances of Zais with Les Talens Lyriques, Cheshire Cat Alice in Wonderland with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Barbican in London. This season she returns to WNO as Susanna in a new commission, Figaro Gets a Divorce, and sings Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress in a co-production with Caen, Reims, Rouen & Limoges.

Marie Arnet

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Nikola Hillebrand was born in 1993 in Recklinghausen and is currently studying at Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Prof. Fenna Kügel- Seifried. She is the winner of the 48th Jugend musiziert Competition (1st Prize, 2011) and the Soroptimist International Club Fünfseenland Award 2012 for vocal and outstanding artistic performance commitment, and has attended masterclasses with Susanne Kelling and Fenna Kügel-Seifried.

On August 30th, Nikola was announced to be the 2015 recipient of the prestigious John Christie Award.

Her operatic engagements include Barbarina (Cuvilliés Theater), Hannchen, Anna Reich and Susanna (HMT München). Other roles performed include Belinda, Papagena, and Marzelline in a new production of Fidelio at Theater Bonn.

Nikola was an Elf in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream conducted by Ivor Bolton at the 2013 Salzburg Festival.

In December 2014, she made her début in Hamburg Laeiszhalle and Berlin Konzerthaus with Klassische Philharmonie Bonn with a program of Mozart and Bach. Her further concert repertory also includes Handel Messiah, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate, Pergolesi w and Rossini Petite Messe Solenelle as well as Lieder by Schumann, Schubert, Strauss, Wolf, Mozart and Debussy. She has been invited to give her first Lied Recital at the Schumannhaus in Bonn with a program of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Strauss in September.

In July 2015, Nikola made her Glyndebourne début as Blonde in a new production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail by David McVicar, conducted by Robin Ticciati.

Nikola sang Blonde in a concert version of Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Le Cercle de l´Harmonie under the baton of Jérémie Rhorer in September in Bremen. Another role début in 2016 will be Queen of the Night at Theater Bonn.

Nikola HillebrandRussian-American soprano Lyuba Petrova made her Glyndebourne Festival debut as Adele in Die Fledermaus in 2003 and returned to perform Louisa in Betrothal in a Monastery in 2006.

She made her hugely successful Metropolitan Opera debut as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos and has returned for numerous roles including Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Norina in Don Pasquale, Sophie in Werther, Nannetta in Falstaff, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Lyuba played the Queen of the Night in the 2006 film of The Magic Flute directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Other performances include the title role in Manon at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and in Lucia di Lammermoor with Washington National Opera, Austin Opera and Opera Lyra; Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Glimmerglass Opera Festival, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with Opéra National de Paris, Dallas Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera and Pittsburgh Opera; Angelica in Orlando at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Juliet in Roméo et Juliet with Nederlandse Opera; Elvira in I puritani with Palm Beach Opera and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Dallas Opera; and Oscar in Un ballo in maschera with Houston Grand Opera. Lyuba joined the Spoleto Festival USA for the title role of Lakme, Despina in Cosi fan tutte and further performances of Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. She performed Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Violetta in Traviata in South Korea and returned to Japan for Despina in Cosi fan tutte.

On the concert stage Ms. Petrova has performed with some of the world’s finest orchestras under the batons of James Levine, Julius Rudel, Vladimir Jurowski, Jose Serebrier and Donald Runnicles.

Lyuba Petrova

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Baritone Duncan Rock studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and subsequently at the National Opera Studio.

Fast establishing himself as an outstanding young singer and performer he was a Jerwood Young Artist at the Glyndebourne Festival and the recipient of the 2010 John Christie Award. He was also the winner of the 2012 Chilcott Award - the inaugural award from the Susan Chilcott Scholarship to support a ‘major young artist with the potential to make an international impact’.

His engagements in the 2015/16 season include Marcello in a new production of La bohème at the English National Opera, Belcore L’elisir d’amore for Opera North, Billy Bigelow Carousel in his début for the Houston Grand Opera and Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Glyndebourne Festival.

He has sung also Tarquinius The Rape of Lucretia for the Deutsche Oper, Berlin and at the Glyndebourne Festival; the title role in Don Giovanni for the Boston Lyric Opera and the Welsh National Opera; Papageno The Magic Flute for the English National Opera; Billy Bigelow for the Théâtre du Châtelet; Marullo Rigoletto at Covent Garden and English Clerk & Guide Death in Venice for the Teatro Réal in Madrid. Future seasons see him return to the Covent Garden, the Teatro Réal in Madrid and make his début at the Metropolitan Opera.

Highlights on the concert platform include appearances at the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis and Sakari Oramo, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with David Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra with Valery Gergiev and Donald Runnicles

Duncan Rock Born in London, Kate Royal studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio. Awards include the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Award, the 2004 John Christie Award, and the 2007 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award.

In concert she has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras including: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Sir Simon Rattle (BBC Proms and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden), Edinburgh Festival/Sir Charles Mackerras, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vassily Petrenko, Orchestra of La Scala Milan/Myung-Whun Chung, Los Angeles Philharmonic/Pablo Heras-Casado, Boston Symphony/Thomas Adès, New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Alan Gilbert, Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst, Le Concert d’Astree/Emanuelle Haïm, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Robin Ticciati, Philharmonia/Esa-Pekka Salonen, BBC Symphony/Jiri Belohlavek, London Philharmonic/Vladimir Jurowski and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding (Baltic Sea Festival and BBC Proms) and both the Berlin Philharmonic and the Orchestra of Bavarian Radio under Rattle. She has appeared in recital throughout Europe and North America.

In opera she has sung Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Micaela (Carmen), Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) for the Glyndebourne Festival; Pamina for the Baden-Baden Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic and Rattle, the Lucerne Festival with Harding, and the Royal Opera; Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) and Governess (The Turn of the Screw) for Glyndebourne on Tour; Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for Teatro Real, Madrid and Glyndebourne Festival; Poppea for English National Opera; Miranda (Ades’ The Tempest) for the Royal Opera; Handel’s L’Allegro for the Paris Opera; and Countess Almaviva for the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Euridice, returning for Micaela.

She has recorded Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Manchester Camerata, and Schumann’s Liederkreis with Graham Johnson for Hyperion and has an exclusive contract with EMI Classics for whom recordings include a musical portrait with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Edward Gardner, 20th century arias (“Midsummer Night”) with the ENO Orchestra/Gardner, and a solo recital disc with Malcolm Martineau (“A Lesson in Love”).

Kate Royal

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Simon read music at King’s College Cambridge. He is a professor of piano accompaniment at the Royal College of Music, London where he also co-ordinates the piano accompaniment course. He is an official accompanist for BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and the Rosenblatt Recital Series.

Recent performance highlights included an invitation from the Wigmore Hall, London to present a three concert project on the songs of Joseph Marx; a recital tour with baritone Stéphane Degout which included the Ravinia and Edinburgh Festivals; his debut at Carnegie Hall, New York with mezzo Karen Cargill; a performance with Mark Padmore of Schubert Winterreise at the Schubertiade, Hohenhems, Austria; recitals with Angelika Kirchschlager at La Monnaie, Brussels and at the Wigmore Hall where appearances also have included recitals with Christopher Maltman, Elizabeth Watts, Stephan Loges, Sophie Bevan, Christopher Purves and Lawrence Zazzo, Future highlights included performances and recordings with BBC New Generation Artists Kitty Whately, Benjamin Appl and Ilker Arcayurek and recitals with Sally Matthews at La Monnaie and in New York.

Simon has also appeared at the Wigmore Hall with violinist Carolin Widmann, with whom he has given recitals in Amsterdam, Paris, Salzburg, Cologne and Madrid and recorded for ECM - Phantasy of Spring, contemporary works, including Feldman, Zimmerman and Xenakis – which received a Diapason d’Or and the German Critics Award. More recently he recorded a disc of Brahms, Schubert and Beethoven with violinist Ji-Hae Park (Universal records).

Vocal recordings include Warlock Songs with Andrew Kennedy (Landor), 2 volumes of Debussy Songs with Gillian Keith (Deux-Elles), the complete CW Orr Songs with Mark Stone (Stone Records) and a disc of Gustav and Alma Mahler songs with Karen Cargill (Linn records). Future releases include a song recital disc recorded at Aldeburgh with Dame Felicity Palmer.www.simonlepper.com

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Simon Lepper

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Duncan studied at the Royal College of Music and subse-quently offered the position of Trainee Répétiteur at English National Opera under the tutelage of Sir Mark Elder. He then became a full time member of the music staff of Opera North and again at English National Opera. Since 1997 he has been working freelance for all the major international festivals in-cluding Salzburg and Glyndebourne. Duncan has had a close relationship with the latter where he specialises in 19th and 20th century German Czech repertoire. He has collaborated with numerous internationally renowned conductors including Robin Ticciati, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Kazushi Ono, Jiří Bělohlávek, Sir Charles Mackerras and Vladimir Jurowski.

He held a teaching position at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for many years and is in demand for auditions for all the major opera houses. He lives in Scotland.

Duncan Williams

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In the 51 years since making his operatic debut, Ryland Davies has firmly established himself as one of the most versatile and best loved of British tenors. At the start of his career, Ryland’s beautiful lyric tenor made him a mainstay in the major opera houses of the world, most notably Glyndebourne, Covent Garden, The Metropolitan Opera in New York and Salzburg.

Born in South Wales, Ryland studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and was made a Fellow of the College in 1971. He became a member of the Glyndebourne chorus and in 1965 was the first recipient of the John Christie Award. Ryland made his debut with Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1965 as the Major Domo Der Rosenkavalier, and went on to perform many roles including Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Ferrando Cosi fan tutte, Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Lensky Eugene Onegin and Flamand Capriccio. He made his operatic debut in 1964 as Count Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia (WNO) and his ROH debut in 1969 where his many roles have included Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, Ferrando, Ernesto Don Pasquale, Fenton Falstaff and Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 1970 as Cassio Otello and his American debut in San Francisco the same year as Ferrando, a role that also marked his debut at the Met in 1975. Since then, Ryland has regularly performed in many greatest opera halls around the world, singing the character roles that have since become his speciality.

Ryland now teaches the singers of the future as a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and with the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid.

Ryland DaviesPierre Frapier violinEunsley Park violinLisa Bucknell violaBryony Gibson-Cornish violaYoon-Kyung Cho celloTimothee Botbol cello

The group is made up of students on the RCM’s Artist Diploma course.

Royal College of Music String Sextet

Diego Aceña fluteAlasdair Hill oboePablo Ortiz French hornSophie Robertshaw bassoonAdrian Somogyi clarinet

Having met originally as Masters Scholars at the Royal College of Music, the Cataleya Quintet was formed in 2011. Their international and diverse musical education from the UK, Europe and the USA produces a musical connection which creates a unique and ambitiously driven wind quintet. From the start of their career at the College, they frequently performed within the RCM in a variety of public performances which included showcases of Quintets by Francaix, and of Poulenc’s Sextet in RCM’s Britten Theatre. Soon after forming, they were invited to perform at the Southbank Centre and in the Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall, and had their debut performance and interview on Spanish National Radio (RNE). Cataleya was awarded the 2013 Boconnoc Music Award from the Royal College of Music where they thoroughly enjoyed their residency at the Boconnoc Estate, and shortly after were announced as Park Lane Group Finalists for 2013-2014. They have had bookings for recitals in venues such as The Purcell Room, St-Martins-in-the-Fields and St John’s Smith Square, Regent Hall and Lincoln’s Inn, and continue to give performances and mentoring sessions within the Royal College of Music.

The Cataleya Quintet

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