26 November 2022
Concert Programme
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
Karl Loewe:
Interval
Rebecca Clarke: The Sailey Gardens
William Denis Brown: To Gratiana Dancing and Singing
Dilys Elwyn - Edwards: The Cloths of Heaven
Roger Quilter: Go Lovely Rose
Robert Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 39
Karl Loewe:
- Der Hirt auf der Brücke
- Die Uhr
- Die Wandeinde Glocke
- Der Kornet
Interval
Rebecca Clarke: The Sailey Gardens
William Denis Brown: To Gratiana Dancing and Singing
Dilys Elwyn - Edwards: The Cloths of Heaven
Roger Quilter: Go Lovely Rose
Robert Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 39
About Nicholas Mogg
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Winner of the 2017 Royal Over-Seas League Singers Section, Nicholas Mogg recently completed his studies on the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham, having previously read music at Clare College, Cambridge where he was a choral scholar. In 2018, he received a Young Artist Development Award through the Glyndebourne New Generation Programme, supporting his time at the National Opera Studio. He is a member of the International Opera Studio at the Staatsoper Hamburg.
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He is an Oxford Lieder Young Artist, a Samling Artist, a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Park Lane Group Young Artist, a Live Music Now Artist, and a Drake Calleja Scholar. Nicholas won the 2017 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award, and in 2015 won the Joan Chissell Schumann Lieder Prize, the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, and the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform. He is grateful for the support of the Baroness de Turckheim Award, the Thompson Family Charitable Trust Award, and the Norman Ayrton Scholarship.
Operatic roles to date include among others Aeneas Dido and Aeneas for English Touring Opera, Dandini La Cenerentola for West Green House Opera, Hausknecht Der Rosenkavalier for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Don Giovanni Don Giovanni, Steward Flight, Peachum Die Dreigroschenoper, Jupiter Orphée aux Enfers at Hackney Empire, Melisso Alcina all for Royal Academy Opera.
Nicholas sang at the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival in 2014, the Bavarian State Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2015, and was an Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera in 2016.
Nicholas has appeared as a soloist at the Barbican Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Palau de la Música Catalana, Bozar Brussels, KKL Luzern, and the Philharmonie de Paris with conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Daniel Reuss and Sir Roger Norrington. He has established a successful duo partnership with pianist Jâms Coleman, and together they have performed recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder Festival, Two Moors Festival, Roman River Festival, and the Ryedale Festival.
Recent and future engagements include performances of Mass in B minor with the Orchestra of the 18th Century at the Concertgebouw and his debut CD recording of music by Carl Loewe with Jâms Coleman. In the 2021/22 season at Staatsoper Hamburg, he will sing a staged combination of Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben and Schönberg’s Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Il Sargente Manon Lescaut, Baron Dauphol La Traviata, Il Commissario Imperiale Madama Butterfly, L’Officier Dialogue des Carmélites, and two world premieres: La Luna by Lorenzo Romano and Unser kleines Scheißkaff - Fucking Åmål.
Operatic roles to date include among others Aeneas Dido and Aeneas for English Touring Opera, Dandini La Cenerentola for West Green House Opera, Hausknecht Der Rosenkavalier for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Don Giovanni Don Giovanni, Steward Flight, Peachum Die Dreigroschenoper, Jupiter Orphée aux Enfers at Hackney Empire, Melisso Alcina all for Royal Academy Opera.
Nicholas sang at the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival in 2014, the Bavarian State Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2015, and was an Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera in 2016.
Nicholas has appeared as a soloist at the Barbican Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Palau de la Música Catalana, Bozar Brussels, KKL Luzern, and the Philharmonie de Paris with conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Daniel Reuss and Sir Roger Norrington. He has established a successful duo partnership with pianist Jâms Coleman, and together they have performed recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder Festival, Two Moors Festival, Roman River Festival, and the Ryedale Festival.
Recent and future engagements include performances of Mass in B minor with the Orchestra of the 18th Century at the Concertgebouw and his debut CD recording of music by Carl Loewe with Jâms Coleman. In the 2021/22 season at Staatsoper Hamburg, he will sing a staged combination of Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben and Schönberg’s Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Il Sargente Manon Lescaut, Baron Dauphol La Traviata, Il Commissario Imperiale Madama Butterfly, L’Officier Dialogue des Carmélites, and two world premieres: La Luna by Lorenzo Romano and Unser kleines Scheißkaff - Fucking Åmål.
About Jâms Coleman
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From Anglesey, North Wales, Jâms Coleman is a pianist who enjoys a rich and varied musical life performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist.
In 2022, Jâms looks forward to collaborating with BBC NOW, and Britten Sinfonia; instrumentalists David Adams, Hélène Clément, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Ben Goldscheider, Laura van der Heijden, Steffan Morris, John Myerscough, Alice Neary, Amy Norrington, Elliot Perks, Robert Plane, Timothy Ridout, Colin Scobie, Jonathan Stone, and Maria Włoszczowska; singers Gwilym Bowen, Helen Charlston, Anna Dennis, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Nicholas Mogg, and Nardus Williams, and Yuriy Yurchuk; and the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. |
Previous chamber-music engagements include performances in the UK and across Europe with instrumentalists David Adams, Jamal Aliyev, Margaret Faultless, Laura van der Heijden, Luke Hsu, Rebecca Jones, Peter Moore, Steffan Morris, Alice Neary, and Timothy Ridout. Recent highlights include giving a recital at Wigmore Hall with Laura van der Heijden as a launch for their CD with Chandos Records.
As a vocal accompanist, he enjoys collaborating with many singers and his engagements include recitals with James Gilchrist, Andrew Kennedy, Michael Mofidian, Nicholas Mogg, Nicholas Mulroy, Robert Murray, James Newby, Sir Bryn Terfel, Sir John Tomlinson, Ailish Tynan, and Elizabeth Watts. Recent recital highlights include performing with Sir Bryn Terfel in a Radio 3 broadcast from St David’s Hall in Cardiff, and recitals at the Oxford Lieder Festival with Elizabeth Watts, Felix Kemp, and Michael Mofidian.
Recordings include a disc of Czech and Hungarian music for Chandos Records with cellist Laura van der Heijden and a disc of Loewe lieder for Champs Hill with baritone Nicholas Mogg.
Jâms also enjoys working as a concerto soloist and performances include Beethoven’s Third, Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos, and concertos by Brahms, Chopin, Ireland, and Mozart.
Jâms read Music at Girton College, Cambridge, where he was also a choral scholar. In 2016 he graduated with a masters from the Royal Academy of Music where he then stayed on as a Fellow. In 2018 he was the Artistic Director of a concert series based in St Clement Danes Church in central London which featured twenty-four lunchtime concerts and five evening concerts.
As a vocal accompanist, he enjoys collaborating with many singers and his engagements include recitals with James Gilchrist, Andrew Kennedy, Michael Mofidian, Nicholas Mogg, Nicholas Mulroy, Robert Murray, James Newby, Sir Bryn Terfel, Sir John Tomlinson, Ailish Tynan, and Elizabeth Watts. Recent recital highlights include performing with Sir Bryn Terfel in a Radio 3 broadcast from St David’s Hall in Cardiff, and recitals at the Oxford Lieder Festival with Elizabeth Watts, Felix Kemp, and Michael Mofidian.
Recordings include a disc of Czech and Hungarian music for Chandos Records with cellist Laura van der Heijden and a disc of Loewe lieder for Champs Hill with baritone Nicholas Mogg.
Jâms also enjoys working as a concerto soloist and performances include Beethoven’s Third, Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos, and concertos by Brahms, Chopin, Ireland, and Mozart.
Jâms read Music at Girton College, Cambridge, where he was also a choral scholar. In 2016 he graduated with a masters from the Royal Academy of Music where he then stayed on as a Fellow. In 2018 he was the Artistic Director of a concert series based in St Clement Danes Church in central London which featured twenty-four lunchtime concerts and five evening concerts.
Nicholas Mogg and Jâms Coleman
Mozart, Hai già vinta la causa! Le Nozze di Figaro |
Bridge Sonata in D minor for cello and piano i Allegro ben moderato |
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