Ferrier Song Prize Winners

Angela Bic

Soprano

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Robin Davis

Pianist

Robin Davis is currently the solo repetiteur at the Dortmund opera house in Germany. He studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek and Tessa Nicholson at the RAM in London, subsequently graduating with a DipRAM and staying a further year as Meaker Fellow. During his time there, he won the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier accompanists award and, together with soprano Angela Bic, first prize in the 2007 Euriade Song-Duo competition in Holland.

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Angela Bic – soprano
Winner of the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier Awards Song Prize

Robin Davis – piano
Winner of the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier Awards Musicians Benevolent Fund Accompanist’s Prize

The duo of Angela Bic and Robin Davis gave a memorable lunchtime recital at the 2008 Lieder Festival, and in 2009 they won the Song Prize and Accompanists’ Prize at the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Awards. They present a carefully thought out programme of songs celebrating the anniversaries of Schumann, Wolf and Mahler, also including songs by Schubert and Strauss.

This programme lasts one hour without interval.

Generously supported by the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Fund

Programme:

Robert Schumann: Aufträge

Gustav Mahler: Frühlingsmorgen
Robert Schumann: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
Hugo Wolf: Im Frühling
Robert Schumann: Frühlingsnacht

Robert Schumann: Du bist wie eine Blume
Richard Strauss: Die Georgine

Robert Schumann: Waldesgespräch
Hugo Wolf: Nachtzauber
Robert Schumann: Muttertraum

Gustav Mahler: Liebst du um Schönheit
Hugo Wolf: Bitt’ ihn, o Mutter
Arnold Schönberg: Jane Grey

Franz Schubert: Der Neugierige
Franz Schubert: Ungeduld
Richard Strauss: Geduld
Hugo Wolf: Gebet