Saturday 19 June, 1.00 –2.00pm
Victoria Hall, Leeds Town Hall

LUNCHTIME RECITAL
Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton piano

Tickets*: £16.50, £14.30 (conc) FREE (U26/students)
Livestream Tickets*: £11

Programme to include:
Kate Soper So Dawn Chromatically Descends to Day
Rosephanye Powell A Winter Twilight
Howard Swanson Night Song
Hale Smith March Moon
Errollyn Wallen About Here
Schubert An den Mond D193
Wallen London’s Burning
Schubert Die Götter Griechenlands
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Tomislav Zografski Marika Moma Ubava
Clara Schumann Volkslied
Zografski Taga
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Judith Weir Songs from the Exotic
Danika Lorèn The Sex Lives of Vegetables

Anyone who attended the Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala at Wigmore Hall a few years ago will have had their socks knocked off by the young Macedonian mezzo Ema Nikolovska. Now a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Kathleen Ferrier Award Winner, and member of the Berlin Staatsopera International Studio, Ema makes her hotly anticipated Leeds Lieder début in a typically wide-ranging recital: a cornucopia of sounds that the audience is less likely to have been exposed to. Creating dialogues between living composers and Lieder, creating a space for poetry which is surrealistic or aleatoric (as in the songs of Cage and León), the recital is an adventure across Ema’s contact with the British, Canadian, American and Germanic music communities. The audience is invited to see what happens when these different eras and styles have a chance to speak to one another in the space of an hour.

*all ticket prices are inclusive of a Box Office booking fee.