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                                  February 2011 Concert

 

 

Friday 11th February 2011 at 7.30pm

Wood Green School

Woodstock Road Witney OX28 1DX

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QUENTIN HAYES - baritone

 

LYNDALL DAWSON - piano

 

Recital entitled

 

'Particularly inclement weather'

The recital will include the Finzi Song cycle 'Earth and Air and Rain'

(words by Hardy) and songs by Rossini, Respighi, Debussy and Schubert

to name but a few!

Quentin’s career in opera began with Welsh National Opera. Since then he has sung in many varied places including St.Petersburg, Rio de Janiero, Trondheim(Norway), Accra(Ghana) and Leon(Nicaragua).

In 1993 he was winner of the VARA Dutch Radio Prize at the Belveredere Competition, Vienna, as a result of which he has worked extensively in Europe (namely Germany, Holland and Belgium). This last season he has sung Achilles (Achilles et Penthésilea) in Montpellier, Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Dublin and Sonora( La Fanciulla del West) for Grange Park Opera (Hampshire).

He has appeared frequently at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam where works have included Britten’s War Requiem, Elijah, Where the Wild Things are, Les Troyens and Messiaen’s St. Francoise d’Assise. He is due to return there next year for Ades’ The Tempest.

For the past nine years he has been a principal artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where roles have included Ping (Turandot), Herald (Lohengrin), Schaunard(La Bohème), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes) and in September this year Happy (La Fanciulla del West).


Lyndall works as a repetiteur and accompanist for many UK companies, including English Touring Opera, Opera Holland Park, European Chamber Opera, Grange Park Opera and Buxton Festival Opera.

In recent years Lyndall has received sponsorship and awards from the Friends of Covent Garden, the Brandenburg Sinfonia, Tillett Trust, Australian Musica Foundation, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Australia Council for the Arts, Freedman Foundation and the Australian Opera & Arts Support Group.

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