Sally Matthews, Karen Cargill & Simon Lepper

Sally Matthews

Soprano

Sally Matthews was the winner of the 1999 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She studied with Cynthia Jolly and Johanna Peters and completed the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2000. She was a member of The Royal Opera Young Artist programme from 2001 to 2003 and currently studies with Paul Farrington.

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Karen Cargill

Mezzo-Soprano

Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, the  University of Toronto and the National Opera Studio in London and was the joint winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier Award.

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Simon Lepper

Pianist

Simon read music at King’s College Cambridge and studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music. He has recently been appointed professor of piano accompaniment at the Royal College of Music and is the official accompanist for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize.

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This concert is generously supported by Jesus College & The Kohn Foundation

In the first event of our year-round programme, we are delighted to welcome a trio of exceptional artists in a programme of solos and duets that they will also repeat at Wigmore Hall and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. The Universtiy Church provides a stunning backdrop for a memorable evening of song.

PROGRAMME:

Purcell/Britten
Sound the trumpet
Fairest Isle
Lost is my quiet for ever
Music for a while
What can we poor females do?

Mendelssohn
Ich wollt, mein liebe ergösse
Abschiedslied der Zugvögel
Gruss
Auf Flügeln des Gesanges
Nachtlied
Herbstlied
Neue Liebe
Volkslied
Maiglöckchen

INTERVAL
 
Johannes Brahms
Es träumte mir
Klosterfräulein
Die Schwestern
Phänomen
Dein blaues Auge
Die Boten der Liebe

Charles Gounod
D’un coeur qui t’aime

Ernest Chausson
La Nuit

Saint Saëns
El Desdichado

Jules Massenet
Revons, c’est l’heure

Gabriel Fauré
Tarentelle