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Dichterliebe

Schumann's best known song cycle

Part of the Free Saturday Lunchtime Recital at Holy Trinity Church Coventry 2018 Series

Add to my Calendar 25-08-2018 13:00 25-08-2018 15:00 36 Dichterliebe Wesley Biggs  Wesley Biggs is a Masters graduate of the Royal College of Music and former Britten-Pears Young Artist (2017). He enjoys a varied repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, in opera, oratorio, on the concert platform and in recital. Recent opera appearances include Colas and Buff in a double bill production of Bastien und Bastienne & Der Schauspieldirektor (Pop-up Opera Summer Tour 2018), Tobit, Tobias and the Angel (Nottingham Cathedral Music Festival 2018) Belcore, L’elisir d’amore and Marcello, La Bohème (Arcadian Opera) and The Jailer, Tosca (Nevill Holt Opera Festival 2017). Wesley enjoys a busy oratorio schedule and recent engagements have included: Elijah (Shrewsbury Cantata), Verdi’s Requiem (Loughborough Endowed School’s Music), Ein Deutsches Requiem (English Chamber Choir) and his symphonic debut at Eton College in Beethovens 9th Symphony (Windsor and Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra). Antoine Mitchell  Antoine Mitchell studied at Trinity College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. He won the RAM Club Prize awarded by the then Principal Sir Anthony Lewis and Ernest Read Conducting Prize and Diploma di Merito in Siena and in 1994 was awarded ARAM by the Academy. He owes debts of gratitude to all his teachers but especially John Gardner his composition teacher, Maurice Miles, Meredith Davies and his piano teacher George Rogers at the Academy, Franco Ferrara, Paul Badura Skoda and Carlo Maria Giulini in Siena. He was Chief Conductor of the Lublin State Philharmonic in Poland, the Essex Youth Orchestra, Essex Symphony and Southend Symphony orchestras, and guest conductor with the Cairo Symphony, Orquesta de la Communidad de Madrid, Czestochowa Philharmonic, Estonian Radio Symphony, CSFR Czech State Philharmonic and was director of the Festival de Primavera Andres Segocia in Madrid. He has also conducted seasons at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon.   Inspiring concerts given in a beautiful setting, raising funds for the Holy Trinity Pipe Organ Appeal Holy Trinity Church, Broadgate, Coventry, CV1 5EX holytrinitycoventry.org.uk 02476 220418 Holy Trinity Church, Coventry DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Holy Trinity Church
5A Priory Row
Coventry
West Midlands
CV1 5EX
England

Programme

Robert Schumann – Waldszenen, Op.82: Eintritt
Robert Schumann – Waldszenen, Op.82: Herberge
Robert Schumann – Waldszenen, Op.82: Abschied (Farewell)
Robert Schumann – Dichterliebe, Op.48

Performers

Wesley Biggs – baritone
 Antoine Mitchell – piano

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Programme Note

Wesley Biggs 

Wesley Biggs is a Masters graduate of the Royal College of Music and former Britten-Pears Young Artist (2017). He enjoys a varied repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, in opera, oratorio, on the concert platform and in recital. Recent opera appearances include Colas and Buff in a double bill production of Bastien und Bastienne & Der Schauspieldirektor (Pop-up Opera Summer Tour 2018), Tobit, Tobias and the Angel (Nottingham Cathedral Music Festival 2018) Belcore, L’elisir d’amore and Marcello, La Bohème (Arcadian Opera) and The Jailer, Tosca (Nevill Holt Opera Festival 2017). Wesley enjoys a busy oratorio schedule and recent engagements have included: Elijah (Shrewsbury Cantata), Verdi’s Requiem (Loughborough Endowed School’s Music), Ein Deutsches Requiem (English Chamber Choir) and his symphonic debut at Eton College in Beethovens 9th Symphony (Windsor and Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra).

Antoine Mitchell 

Antoine Mitchell studied at Trinity College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. He won the RAM Club Prize awarded by the then Principal Sir Anthony Lewis and Ernest Read Conducting Prize and Diploma di Merito in Siena and in 1994 was awarded ARAM by the Academy. He owes debts of gratitude to all his teachers but especially John Gardner his composition teacher, Maurice Miles, Meredith Davies and his piano teacher George Rogers at the Academy, Franco Ferrara, Paul Badura Skoda and Carlo Maria Giulini in Siena. He was Chief Conductor of the Lublin State Philharmonic in Poland, the Essex Youth Orchestra, Essex Symphony and Southend Symphony orchestras, and guest conductor with the Cairo Symphony, Orquesta de la Communidad de Madrid, Czestochowa Philharmonic, Estonian Radio Symphony, CSFR Czech State Philharmonic and was director of the Festival de Primavera Andres Segocia in Madrid. He has also conducted seasons at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon.

 

Inspiring concerts given in a beautiful setting, raising funds for the

Holy Trinity Pipe Organ Appeal

Holy Trinity Church, Broadgate, Coventry, CV1 5EX

holytrinitycoventry.org.uk 02476 220418

Wesley Biggs

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