Oxford Lieder at Fairlight Hall: Joanna Harries & Sholto Kynoch
16 January 2022, 11:00 - 12:30
Concert
Martineau Lane
Fairlight
Nr Hastings
East Sussex
TN35 5DR
For the first concerts of 2022, we are delighted to welcome the mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries for a programme of Scandinavian and German song. She and Sholto Kynoch include Grieg's stunning, folk-infused cycle Haugtussa.
Joanna Harries is a 2021/22 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London. She was a choral scholar at the University of Cambridge and went on to train at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also co-founder of SongPath and led one of the wonderful SongPaths at the Botanic Garden at the 2021 Lieder Festival.
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Programme
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Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
Was weinst du, Blümlein (Op. 23 no.1) from Sechs Lieder aus Jucunde - Lorelei
- Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen (Op. 13 no.1) from Sechs Lieder
- Walzer
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Haugtussa (Op. 67)
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Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
Vid fönstret (Op. 20) from Fem sånger till dikter av Bo Bergman (Five songs to poems by Bo Bergman) - Till en ros (Op. 8 no.4)
- Jungfru blond och jungfru brunett, 'Miss Blonde and Miss Brunette' (Op. 26 no.4) from Visor och stämningar, 'Songs and Moods'
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Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847 - 1907)
Den vildene fugl (Op. 65 no.1) - Forsilde (Op. 65 no.2)
- Skjærer (Op. 52 no.6)
- Mot kveld (Op.42 no.7)
Joanna Harries
Joanna Harries
Mezzo-soprano
Born in New Zealand and raised in Wales, mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries is a 2021/22 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London. She was a choral scholar at Cambridge University and went on to train at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Alexander Gibson Opera Studio). A previous Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Handel House Talent artist and an Opera Prelude Young Artist, Joanna is also an Emerging Artist for the Royal Opera House’s “Opera Dots” programme for children. In o... Read Full Biography
Sholto Kynoch