Irish soprano Ailish Tynan won the 2003 Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Ailish was a member of the prestigious Vilar Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and a BBC New Generation Artist, where she recorded and performed prolifically with the BBC orchestras and in recital.

Described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘in a class of his own’ James Baillieu is one of the leading song and chamber music pianists of his generation. He has given solo and chamber recitals throughout the world and collaborates with a wide range of singers and instrumentalists including Benjamin Appl, Jamie Barton, Ian Bostridge, Allan Clayton, Annette Dasch, Lise Davidsen, the Elias and Heath Quartets, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Timothy Ridout, Adam Walker, and Pretty Yende. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Ulster Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, and the Wiener Kammersymphonie.

Programme:

Wolf:
Gleich und gleich
Ganymed
Blumengruss
Kennst du das Land

Strauss:
Zueignung
Cäcilie
Heimliche Aufforderung
Befreit
Morgen

Poulenc:
Fiançailles pour rire :
La Dame d’André
Dans l’herbe
Il vole
Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant
Violon
Fleurs

Hahn:
Venezia Chansons en dialecte Venetien
Sopra l’acqua indormenzada
La barcheta
L’avertimento
La biondina in gondoleta
Che peca

Bridge:
Goldenhair

Barber:
Solitary Hotel
Nuvoletta

Edmund Pendleton:
Bid adieu