8. Fantastical Worlds: Ema Nikolovska & Gary Beecher
12 October 2019, 17:30 - 18:20
Recital
Holywell St
Oxford
OX1 3BN
Ema Nikolovska and Gary Beecher are winners of this year’s Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, which attracts the very best emerging talent. In their showcase recital, they explore spells and enchantments, with music by Sibelius, Medtner, Liszt, Alison Bauld and Donald Swann, and including texts by Shakespeare and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Programme
Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998)
Songs for Ariel
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Alison Bauld (b. 1944)
Cry, cock-a-doodle-doo -
Nikolai Medtner (1880 - 1951)
Voron, 'The Raven' (Op. 52) from 7 Songs on Poems by Pushkin -
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Sud'ba, 'Fate' (Op. 21) from Twelve Romances -
Alison Bauld (b. 1944)
Witches' Song -
Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
Lorelei -
Alison Bauld (b. 1944)
Titania's Song -
Pauline Viardot (1821 - 1910)
Nixe Binsefuß -
Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011)
Jabberwocky -
Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)
A Green Lowland of Pianos (Op. 45 no. 2) -
Jake Heggie (b. 1961)
The Haughty Snail King
Ema Nikolovska
Ema Nikolovska
mezzo-soprano
Born in Macedonia, Ema Nikolovska grew up in Toronto where she studied voice with Helga Tucker and completed an undergraduate degree in violin at The Glenn Gould School with Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman. She received her Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (with Professors Susan McCulloch and Rudolf Piernay) where she won the Guildhall Wigmore Prize, and is currently on the Opera Course. In 2019 Ema was selected as a BBC New Generation Artist, won the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and was sel... Read Full Biography
Gary Beecher
Gary Beecher
Pianist
Irish pianist Gary Beecher has been hailed by the Belfast Telegraph as a "subtle, sophisticated player" with "a maturity of both technique and interpretive outlook’. A versatile pianist, Gary enjoys a varied musical life performing as a vocal accompanist, chamber musician and solo pianist. Gary has recently been awarded a Masters in Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied with Julius Drake and Charles Owen. Gary is currently a Junior Fellow and staff accompanist at GSMD. Gary com... Read Full BiographyHave you also considered...
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