Wednesday November 13th 7.30 pm
Asia Jiménez Antón de Vez (violin) Sten Heinoja (piano)
Beethoven: Romance in F major Op 50
Ravel: Violin sonata no 2 “Blues”
Beethoven: Sonata in G major Op 30 no 3
Samuel Queen (baritone) Audrey Hyland (piano)
Schubert: 3 lieder
Mahler: Ruckert Lieder
Quilter: 3 Shakespeare songs
Britten: 2 excerpts from ‘ Billy Budd'
Admission free with retiring collection. No tickets issued beforehand
Asia Jiménez Antón de Vez from Barcelona has had the pleasure of working regularly with great masters such as Ivry Gitlis. Asia has given recitals in Europe and Asia and has had the opportunity of playing in halls such as La Fenice Theatre in Venice, Palau de la Música in Barcelona or the National Theatre in Shanghai. Supported by the Albert Cooper Trust, she is regularly invited to play in festivals around the world and had the pleasure to take part in Daniel Rowland's latest CD recorded at Champs Hill. Asia plays on a Gennaro Gagliano kindly loaned by a private benefactor.
Sten Heinoja is one of the most outstanding younger generation Estonian pianists. Since winning the VII Estonian National piano competition and the music competition Classical Starts broadcasted on National TV his career has taken him across the world, performing with the most outstanding soloists and orchestras from China and America. His collaborations include working with conductors Paavo Järvi, James Feddeck, Alexey Izmirliev and Albert Vermeulen amongst others.
Samuel Queen was born in London, and read English at Cambridge University, where he was awarded the Sir Rudolph Peters Prize for Music, before training at the Royal Academy Opera Course, where he won prizes for opera, Lieder and English Song. His operatic appearances include the Mozart baritone roles, Blazes in Maxwell Davies's The Lighthouse (RAO), Le Fauteuil in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges (BBCSO/Denève) and Schaunard. He covered the role of Don Alfonso for Garsington Opera in 2015. Equally at home in concerts and song recitals, Sam made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2014, singing Lieder by Schumann and Schubert. Concert experience includes many of the major oratorios, and he is becoming known for his performances of Christus in Bach's Passions, and the Requiems of Fauré, Brahms and Duruflé. Samuel also maintains a busy private teaching studio, and is committed to music education projects.
Audrey Hyland studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, winning all the major prizes for accompaniment and chamber music. She joined the staff at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1999 and has been awarded an honourary ARAM in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the opera department. She heads the RAM's prestigious Song Circle. Audrey also coaches at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, and is a guest coach for Samling Foundation masterclasses and Solti repetiteur course in Italy. She has given masterclasses in Sweden, Denmark and in London and her career as an accompanist has taken her all around the world.
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