Beethoven Cycle
Sale Chamber Orchestra have completed their performances of the complete cycle of Beethoven Symphonies at Sale's new concert venue The Robert Bolt Theatre at Sale Waterside with the finale at the Royal Northern College of Music.
All the concerts will be conducted by Sale Chamber Orchestra Principal Conductor Philip Mackenzie
2004 November 6th - Beethoven Symphonies No.s 1, 2, and 3 (Eroica) Robert Bolt Theatre, Sale
2005 January 22nd - Beethoven Symphonies No.s 4 and 5, Robert Bolt Theatre, Sale
2005 March 26th - Beethoven Symphonies No.s 6 (Pastoral) and 7, Robert Bolt Theatre, Sale
2005 June 18th - Beethoven Symphonies No.s 8 and 9 (Choral), Haden Freeman Concert Hall, Royal Northern College of Music
Tickets for Sale Waterside 0161 832 1100 or www.ticketline.co.uk
Tickets for Brown Shipley Concert Hall at Royal Northern Box Office 0161 907 5555
For the performance of Beethoven's Choral Symphony the Orchestra will be joined by:-
Manchester Bach Choir
Manchester Philharmonic Choir
Burnley Choral Society
and soloists:-
Soprano KATE BRIAN is 24 and born in Prescot Merseyside. At 13 she entered the RNCM Junior School were she studied with Sarah Castle with whom she continued to train when in 1998 she began her undergraduate studies at the RNCM. She graduated in 2002 and is currently a postgraduate, studying with Caroline Crawshaw.
After singing the chorus of La Nozze di figaro and Die Zauberflote, in 2001 she covered the role of the Stepmother in Sondheim’s Into the Woods, and in 2002 the principle role of Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades which led to a tour of Berkshire schools with the RNCM outreach project based on the opera. In the spring 2003 opera season Kate sang Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni a role which she was to recreate later that year at the Rydale Festival. Opera excerpts have included Governess The turn of the Screw, Sieglinde Die Walkure, Lady Machbeth Macbeth, Maria Daughter of the Regiment, Alice Ford Falstaff and Violetta Act 3 La Traviata.
Outside the RNCM she has sung the role of Maria West Side Story Liverpool Playhouse, The Plaintiff Trial by Jury City Opera, Suor Angelica Suor Angelica for Opera Femina, Donna Anna Don Giovanni Ryedale festival and Mimi La Boheme Mananan International Festival Opera. She worked with Buxton Opera company at the 2001 2002 and 2003 festivals, appearing at Buxton and Eastbourne and Sang the role of Princess Ida Princess Ida (Sullivan) with the National Festival Orchestra.
Performances with Manchester Camerata, on BBC and Granada TV and with many Choral societies nationwide have added to Kate’s experience.
In 2002 she was the recipient of the Dame Eva Turner Award, in 2003 she was awarded the Amanda Roocroft scholarship and a major scholarship from the Peter Moores Foundation which supports her continuing studies.
Recent and forth coming engagements include a broadcast for Radio 3 from Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and Suor Angelica in Puccini’s Suor Angelica for the RNCM’s forthcoming opera season.
Mezzo Soprano JEANETTE AGER began her singing studies at the age of 12 and was awarded an Exhibition to study at the Royal Academy of Music where she won numerous prizes. She is now continuing her studies with Linda Esther Gray.
Jeanette has won the Gold Medal in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition, the Richard Tauber Prize for Singing and an award from the Tillett Trust Young Artist Platform.
As a soloist, Jeanette's concert and oratorio work has included: recitals and other appearances at the Wigmore Hall; Handel’s Messiah at St David’s Hall, Cardiff; Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Tippett’s Child of our Time at Salisbury Cathedral; Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Barbican Concert Hall and the Missa Solemnis at York Minster, Truro and Exeter Cathedrals. In addition to performances at many of the leading venues in the United Kingdom, Jeanette's concert work has taken her to Bermuda, the Czech Republic and Spain.
Her operatic work has included solo roles for Kent Opera, Broomhill Opera and Diva Opera, with whom she has performed Cherubino in England, the Channel Islands and France. Recently she performed as one of the Apprentices in the Royal Opera's production of Wagner's Meistersinger at Covent Garden.
As a soloist, Jeanette has recorded for Hyperion, Deutsche Grammophon and Philips. Most recently she has recorded Haydn's Stabat Mater at Christchurch, Oxford.
Tenor CHRISTOPHER TURNER is 22 years old and is originally from Birmingham. He started his musical education at the University of Hull, under the vocal tuition of Pauline Alder and Judith Hartley. Here he successfully gained a Bachelor of Music (HONS) with a First Class Distinction in Advanced Performance, along with numerous prizes to include the Andrew Brown Memorial Prize and the Ouseley Scholarship. He now studies at The Royal Northern College of Music, and his current vocal tutor is Barbara Robotham.
He has performed on the Oratorio platform frequently throughout the UK and in selected parts of Europe. This has given him an extensive range in oratorio, including; J. S. Bachs Magnificat in D, Handel’s Acis & Galatea, Come ye Sons of Art Away, Messiah (including Mozart’s Edition), Dettingen Te Deum, Haydn’s Creation, Schubert’s Mass in G & Mass in Eb, Coleridge Taylor’s Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb & Canticle – Abraham & Isaac. Future Oratorio engagements include a performance of the Rachmaninov Vespers in the Cheltenham Music Festival with Huddersfield Choral Society, under the baton of Martyn Brabbins.
On the Opera platform his first lead role was Aeneas in Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. He recently performed the principal role of Sellem in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in the RNCM’s 2004 production. Performances within the RNCM have also enabled him to perform in the following opera excerpts, La Favorita, Il Re Pastore and The Bartered Bride. He has recently performed the role of the Centurion in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens production of Charles Dibdin’s, The Ephesian Matron in June 2004. His most recent operatic performance was the role of Don Ramiro in the RNCM’s 2005 production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola. He is due to perform that same role in Rydale Festival this summer, under the baton of Malcolm Layfield.
Since arriving at the college Christopher has performed numerous times, but his most recent achievements to date are being recipient of the following prizes; The Michael and Joyce Kennedy Prize for singing Strauss and The Frederick Cox Prize, and winning an all expenses paid recital in London, during September 2005. This will be sponsored by Operaplus, a course which Christopher completed this August 2004.
In his short time at the college, Christopher has had the fortunate opportunity of working with the following conductors; Dr James Eastham, Dr Graham Sadler, Malcolm Layfield, Tecwyn Evans and Martyn Brabbins. Recent Masterclasses have involved him working with the following international performers; Amanda Roocroft, Sarah Walker and Graham Johnson. Recent productions have involved him to working with; Stefan Janski (RNCM), Jack Edwards (Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens) and Ronny Lauwers (Professor of Opera & Character studies, Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music).
His most recent performance was Donizetti’s Pia de Tolomei which involved him working with international performers such as Bruce Ford and Majella Cullagh. David Parry was conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, in which he sang the role of Carciere.
Christopher would like to take this opportunity to thank The Peter Moores Foundation for its generous support in form of a Major Scholarship, which helps his continuing education.
Bass-Baritone JONATHAN PUGSLEY. Born in 1978, he was brought up in Dorset where he began his musical education. He is currently a post graduate student at the Royal Northern College of Music having completed his undergraduate there studying with Patrick McGuigan.
Since beginning his studies at the RNCM he taken the role of the Major Domo in TchaikovskY’s Queen of Spades. Jonathan has also performed the roles Count Tomsky in the Queen of Spades and the title role in Verdi’s Falstaff for the RNCM Education workshop series, around Manchester and the South East. Most recently he performed the role of Nick Shadow in the RNCM’s of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.
Outside of College Jonathan has performed the role of Achillas in Handel’s Julius Caesar for the Yorke Trust in Norfolk and the role of the Page in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Northern Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox. He also premiered the roles of Sottile and Tartato in Detlev Glanert’s opera Enigma in the 28th Cantiere, Montepulcciano as well as Lucciano Chailly’s monologue Il libro dei reclami. He has also sung the role of Zaccaria in Verdi’s Nabucco with Preston Opera.
Jonathan appears regularly throughout the UK as an oratorio soloist and recitalist. Most recently he has performed Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Strauss’ Kraemerspiegel and Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel. He also won the opportunity to sing Mahler’s Rückert Lieder with the RNCM’s Repertoire Orchestra. Oratorio performances have included Handel’s Messiah and Samson Haydn’s Creation and Seasons, Bach’s B Minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio and Requiems by Mozart, Durrufle and Brahms as well as Mendelssohn’s St. Paul.
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