Kate Royal

Performers

• Christopher Glynn, Piano
• Kate Royal, Soprano

Program

• WILLIAM BOLCOM "Waitin’"
• SCHUMANN "Jemand," Op. 25, No. 4
• WOLF "Die Kleine"
• LISZT "Es muss ein Wunderbares sein"
• DEBUSSY "Apparition"
• WOLF "O wär dein Haus durchsichtig"
• WOLF "Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens"
• SCHUBERT "Gretchen am Spinnrade," D.118
• SCHUBERT "Rastlose Liebe," D. 138
• TOSTI "Pour un baiser"
• CANTELOUBE "Tchut, tchut"
• BRIDGE "Love Went a'Riding"
• COPLAND "Pastorale"
• BEACH "Ah, Love But a Day"
• SCHUMANN "Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfrühling I," Op.25, No.11
• SCHUMANN "Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfrühling II," Op. 25, No. 12
• RAVEL "Chanson de la mariée"
• FAURÉ "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d’été," Op. 61, No. 7
• R. STRAUSS "Hochzeitlich Lied," Op. 37, No. 6
• DUPARC "Extase"
• BRAHMS "Am Sonntag Morgen zierlich angetan," Op. 49, No. 1
• SCHUBERT "Die Männer sind méchant," D. 866, No. 3
• SCHUBERT "Du liebst mich nicht," D. 756
• BRITTEN "O Waly, Waly"
• WOLF "Verschling’ der Abgrund"
• SIBELIUS "Was It a Dream?" Op. 37, No. 4
• HAHN "Infidélité"
• COPLAND "Heart, We Will Forget Him"
• HUGHES "I Will Walk With My Love"
• WILLIAM BOLCOM "Waitin’"
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  Encore:
• TRAD. "Danny Boy" (arr. Christopher Glynn)

Bios

• Christopher Glynn

  Christopher Glynn is recognized as an outstanding pianist and accompanist, performing regularly with many leading singers and instrumentalists in concerts, broadcasts, and recordings throughout Europe and around the world.

  Mr. Glynn was born in Leicester, England; studied music at New College, Oxford; and studied piano with John Streets in France, and Malcolm Martineau and Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music. His many awards include the 2001 Kathleen Ferrier Award and the 2003 Gerald Moore Award. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, a professor at the Royal College of Music, and also works with the Samling Foundation.

  Mr. Glynn has performed with many artists, including Sir Thomas Allen, Matthew Best, Claire Booth, Susan Bullock, Sine Bundgaard, Allan Clayton, Ronan Collett, Lucy Crowe, Michael George, Darren Jeffery, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Julie Kennard, Yvonne Kenny, Andrew Kennedy, Rufus Muller, Robert Murray, Ian Partridge, Derek Lee Ragin, Joan Rodgers, James Rutherford, Carolyn Sampson, Toby Spence, Andrew Staples, Bryn Terfel, Elin Manahan Thomas, Ailish Tynan, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers.

  Mr. Glynn made his debut at Wigmore Hall in 2001. He has also performed in the main concert halls throughout the UK and in major venues throughout Europe and in the Far East. He has made several recordings for the Hyperion, Erato, and Coro labels, as well as many live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, and other European radio and television stations.

  Recent and future engagements include recitals with Joan Rodgers, Ailish Tynan, Belinda Williams, Simona Mihai, and Ronan Collett at such venues as Wigmore Hall, The Sage Gateshead, Paris’s Louvre Museum, Prinzregententheater Munich, and Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore. He has made a number of recordings that include music by Panufnik and MacMillan with The Sixteen, vocal music of Reger with Consortium for Hyperion, and most recently a CD of songs for Signum Records that features works by Eric Whitacre.

  In 2010, Mr. Glynn became Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival.

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• Kate Royal

  Born in London, Kate Royal studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio. Her many awards include the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Award, the 2004 John Christie Award, and the 2007 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award.

  In concert, Ms. Royal has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Sir Simon Rattle, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart and the National Symphony Orchestra under Helmuth Rilling, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with Vasily Petrenko, the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Pablo Heras-Casado, Le Concert d’Astree with Emmanuelle Haïm, and the Berliner Philharmoniker under both William Christie and Sir Simon Rattle. She has also appeared in recital throughout Europe and North America.

  Ms. Royal has recorded Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Manchester Camerata and Schumann’s Liederkreis (for Hyperion Records) with Graham Johnson. In October 2006, she signed an exclusive contract with EMI Classics, for whom her first solo recordings were a musical portrait with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Edward Gardner, followed by 20th-century arias with the English National Opera Orchestra and Mr. Gardner. Her recital disc with Malcolm Martineau (A Lesson in Love) was released in February 2011.

  In opera, Ms. Royal has sung Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) for both the Glyndebourne Festival and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) for Glyndebourne on Tour and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; the Governess (The Turn of the Screw) for Glyndebourne on Tour; Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for both the Teatro Real, Madrid, and the Glyndebourne Festival; Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) for the English National Opera; Miranda (The Tempest) for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato for Opéra national de Paris; and Micaela (Carmen) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) for the Glyndebourne Festival.

  Ms. Royal’s concert engagements include both the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Sir Simon Rattle, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Robin Ticciati, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Adès, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala with Gustavo Dudamel, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. This spring, Ms. Royal makes her Metropolitan Opera debut as Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.

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