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Haydn - Nelson Mass Sunday December 6th, 2009 (Peter Kelly and John Bispham by kind permission of Orchestra led by Susan Johnson |
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Emma Peaurt / soprano Emma Peaurt was born in Darlington and grew up in North Wales. After reading music at Durham University she completed postgraduate studies at the RNCM where she studied with Barbara Robotham. She now studies with Pat Hay. A finalist in the AESS English Song Competition 2006 and the Russell Shepherd Memorial Competition 2004 she won the Kate Snape Scholarship 2006, overall singing prize and Recital prize Mrs Sunderland Music Festival 2005 and the Manchester Welsh Society Prize 2004. Emma has appeared with Opera North at the Leeds Fuse Festival 2006, the RNCM Baroque Ensemble and the RNCM Wind Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall. Recently she worked in the chorus of Scottish Opera in their productions of Dve Vdovy, Falstaff and Lucia di Lammermoor; had coaching with David Harper, Stephen Mould and Andrew Greene at Opera Australia, Sydney and with Derek Clark at Scottish Opera. She has also taken part in masterclasses with Jane Eaglen and Lynne Dawson. In recent operatic performances she has been seen as Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) for RNCM/Richmondshire Subscription Concert Series; Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) for St John’s Opera Company and Josephine (HMS Pinafore) for St Helens Gilbert & Sullivan Society. She also took part in The Lover’s Recantation by Thomas Arne as part of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Works she has performed as an oratorio soloist include: Mozart’s C minor mass for Bolton Choral Union; Handel’s Samson for the Penrith Singers; Bach’s St John Passion for Leicester Bach Choir; Poulenc’s Gloria & Rutter’s Requiem; Haydn’s Creation, Jenkins The Armed Man, Tippett’s 5 Negro Spirituals from A child of our Time at the Bridgewater Hall for the Hallé Choir, Handel’s Messiah, Rutter’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem and Haydn’s Nelson Mass. She combines this with working in the Oran duo with the pianist Andrew Dunlop giving recitals at Wrexham Arts Festival, Durham University, Wesley Chapel Harrogate, Heaton Hall, St Ann’s Church Manchester, Bury Parish Church and Gallery Oldham. Emma has recently started working with the Baroque trio Consort 1700 for recitals in Harlech and at Leeds Cathedral. Future engagements include chorus for a Naxos recording of Tom Jones; Creation for St Asaph Choral Society; Messiah for Elm Hall Drive Methodist Church and recitals at Leeds and Ripon Cathedrals.
Marion Ramsay / mezzo-soprano Marion Ramsay lives in Glasgow and has studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama under Pat MacMahon since completing her B.Mus degree at the Ian Tomlin School of Music, Napier University in 2007. She achieved second place in the Hugh S. Roberton Scottish Song Competition at the RSAMD in December 2008 and has twice gained the Lieder Prize in the Glasgow Music Festival, as well as coming second in the Oratorio Class. Marion has extensive experience of both opera and oratorio. At the RSAMD she sung in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel (The Mother), Handel's Serse (Arsamene), Verdi's Falstaff (Meg), Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (Bianca), Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (Marcellina), Bizet's Carmen (Carmen) and Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges (Tête Vide). She also sang in Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Girl of Mahagonny) in the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival and has sung with Opera Camerata Edinburgh, Old St. Paul's Reduced Opera Company and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (as Melissa in Princess Ida). Oratorio performances include Handel's Messiah (Glasgow Cathedral Choral Society and St. Helen's Choral Society), Bach's Magnificat and Handel's Judas Maccabeus (Glasgow Cathedral Choir), Elgar's Music Makers (Manchester Philharmonic Choir), Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia (Edinburgh Bach Choir) and Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb and Mozart's Coronation Mass (St. Helen's Choral Society). Marion was also the alto soloist in the Kilmallie Singers performance of Haydn's Nelson Mass in April 2009.
Peter Kelly / tenor Born in Dublin, Peter appeared in plays in the Peacock Theatre and the Andrews Lane Theatre in Dublin and the Royal Court Theatre in London’s West End at a young age. In 1996 as a boy soprano he recorded his solo album ‘Let there be Peace’. A BMus graduate of the DIT Conservatory of Music in Dublin where he studied under Mary Brennan and Trudi Carberry, Peter has just completed a postgraduate degree at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester studying under David Maxwell Anderson. In 2005 Peter was invited to give a recital in the Mansion House, Dublin, where he was awarded the John McCormack Bursary from the John McCormack Society of Ireland. Part of his recital was filmed and included in the special features section of the John McCormack: Icon of an Age DVD released in 2007. Other awards won have included the Thomas Moore Cup for Moore’s Melodies, the Percy Whitehead Cup for English Song and the William T. Watt Trophy for Tenors. He performed for several seasons in the chorus of Opera Ireland including operas such as Jenufa, Tosca, Rigoletto, The Magic Flute and Orfeo for productions in both the Gaiety Theatre, Ireland and the Stats Oper, Wiesbaden, Germany. Opera roles Peter has performed in extracts include: Bardolfo in Falstaff, Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo and Tamino in The Magic Flute in the National Concert Hall Dublin, and the roles of Lindoro in l’Italianna in Algiers, Lysander in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Lurcanio in Ariodante, Monsieur in The Dancing Master, Gerald in Lakme, Missail in Boris Godunov, Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte and Le Chevalier in Dialogues des Carmelites at the RNCM Opera Theatre, Manchester. Complete roles he has performed include: Don Curzio in The Marriage of Figaro in 2005 and 2006 and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni in 2006 for Opera Ireland’s ‘Bite Size’ productions in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. The role of Belmonte in Mozart’s Die Entfurung aus dem Serail with Opera Loki in France and in Hertfordshire, UK in 2006 and the role of le Remendado in Bizet’s Carmen at the Mananan International Opera Festival in the Isle of Man in 2007. Peter's oratorio performances have included: Bach’s Magnificat and Cantatas 61 and 67, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Gounod’s Messe Solennelle, Handel's Dixit Dominus and Messiah, Haydn's Creation Mass and Paukenmesse, Mendelssohn’s St. Paul and Hymn of Praise, Mozart’s Requiem and Missa Brevis, Schubert’s Masses In A flat and G, John Stainer’s Crucifixion and Ariel Ramirez’ Missa Criolla in venues throughout the UK and Ireland. Peter regularly sings for weddings and corporate events. Peter Kelly appears by kind permission of the Royal Northern College of Music www.rncm.ac.uk
John Bispham / bass baritone Originally a clarinettist, John studied musicology and musical composition at the University of Birmingham. Following this, he worked as an English teacher and, later, as an anthropology/music psychology PhD research student in Cambridge. Highlights from this period include a commissioned composition for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) and publications in Music Perception; Journal of Human Evolution; Evolutionary Anthropology; and Musicae Scientiae. Whilst at Cambridge John studied singing privately with Felicity Cook and has recently completed two years of postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (RNCM) studying with Peter Wilson. During his second year at RNCM he worked as a chorus member at Opera North for their production of Don Carlos. Opera credits include Sam (Un Ballo in Maschera); Olin Blitch (Susannah); Don Inigo Gomez (L'Heure Espagnole); Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale); Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro); Dikoj (Katya Kabanova); Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia); Colline (La Boheme); as well as excerpts as Masetto (Don Giovanni); Schaunard (La Boheme); Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg); and Boris (Boris Godunov). Concert work includes Peter Maxwell-Davies' Sea Elegy in the presence of the composer; Haydn’s Creation; Rossini’s Messe Solennelle; Beethoven’s Mass in C; Bach's Magnificat; Mozart’s Requiem; Schubert’s Mass in Ab; Handel’s Messiah and Verdi’s Requiem. Further interests include piano, cycling, and coffee. John Bispham appears by kind permission of the Royal Northern College of Music www.rncm.ac.uk |
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