June 2021
Saturday 19th June – Pre-concert talk with Professor Natasha Loges
Head of Postgraduate Programmes and Professor of Musicology at the Royal College of Music Natasha Loges will illuminate Graham Johnson’s fresh take on the tradition song recital.
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Saturday 19th June – “If Fiordiligi and Dorabella had been Lieder singers”
A typically wide-ranging programme, tonight’s recital is based on the plot of Cosi fan tutte (and containing numerous Mozartian echoes), Johnson has devised a programme of Lieder, English songs and duets.
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Sunday 20th June – Study Event with Dr Katy Hamilton
Dr Katy Hamilton, a regular researcher and presenter for Wigmore Hall, the Southbank Centre and Salzburg Festival leads our Young Artists through the birth of the piano accompanied song.
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Sunday 20th June – James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook
Gilchrist and Tilbrook have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration for well over 20 years, with many award-winning recordings to their name. Today’s programme is typically wide-ranging and includes Schubert’s first song cycle, the ambitious Einsamkeit.
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Sunday 20th June – Festival Masterclass IV with Anna Tilbrook and James Gilchrist
Join us for our final Festival Masterclass and presentation of the Leeds Lieder/Schubert Institute of Great Britain Song Prize with Anna Tilbrook and James Gilchrist.
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Sunday 20th June – Pre-concert Talk with Hannah Kendall
In 2015, Hannah won the Women of the Future Award for Arts and Culture. We are thrilled that she has written this year’s Leeds Lieder Commission. Hear her introduce this new song cycle, written especially for Williams, Sampson and Middleton.
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Sunday 20th June – Closing Festival Recital
Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton tackle the knotty issue of gender politics in song head-on with a wide-ranging programme from across Europe and spanning centuries in their search for answers, inviting the audience to contribute, join the debate and encourage them on the journey.
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