Magnificent Mozart!

 

Saturday 3^rd July, 7.45pm at St Paul’s Church, Grove Park Road, Chiswick

Tickets £20

 

Mozart’s Requiem and Solemn Vespers will be performed by the Brandenburg Sinfonia conducted by Brian Kay, and features soloists Julie Kennard soprano, Helen Attfield alto, Lucie Spickova alto, Ian Partridge tenor and Michael George bass with The Grove Park Festival Choir.

 

 

The Brandenburg Sinfonia is one of the most dynamically versatile musical organisations in the country.  It is renowned for its special quality of sound and poised vivacity in performance. The Orchestra performs regularly in the majority of the major venues across the country and in London at the Barbican Halls, Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Fairfield Hall and St John's Smith Square and is also in great demand abroad.

 

Versatile soprano Julie Kennard has always specialised in oratorio and she has appeared in all major UK concert halls and cathedrals and in many venues abroad. Recent performances have included Creation and The Kingdom with Guildford Choral Union, Brahms’ Requiem in Switzerland, Mozart’s Requiem and Vespers in the Queen Elizabeth Hall,  Hymnus Paradisi with the Bach Choir and a recital in St Stephen’s Festival, London of Berlioz’ Les nuits d’été , Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Dona Nobis Pacem with Vernon Handley and the RLPO.

 

Helen Attfield studied at The Royal Academy of Music where she won many awards.She has performed widely in oratorio and concerts including many performances on the South Bank and recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room.

 

 

Lucie Spickova was born in Prague and subsequently studied clarinet and piano at the Purcell School of Music, London, before going on to read Modern Languages at Oriel College, Oxford. She is currently in her first year at the Royal Academy of Music.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Partridge is one of Britain's leading lyric tenors. He is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and was awarded the CBE in 1992 for services to music. Recent highlights have included Mozart’s Requiem and Vespers at the  Queen Elizabeth Hall; Bach’s St Matthew Passion (London Handel Festival); Bach’s Magnificat in Norwich Cathedral; and On Wenlock Edge by Vaughan Williams at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael George, established as one of Britain's most versatile bass-baritones, was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge under Sir David Willcocks. He studied at the Royal College of Music, where he was a major prizewinner. He has appeared with all the leading UK orchestras and ensembles, has sung throughout Britain at all the major festivals and has performed extensively abroad.