PROGRAMME
Hugo Wolf - Auf einer Wanderung
Franz Schubert - Wanderer’s Nachtlied I” D. 224
Claude Debussy - Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire
Franz Liszt - Die Lorelei S. 273
Frank Bridge - Love went-a-riding
BIOGRAPHIES
CAROLINE TAYLOR - SOPRANO
Caroline Taylor recently graduated with Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music and currently studies with Louise Winter and Nicholas Powell.
A Concordia Foundation Artist and a former RNCM Songster and Leeds Lieder Young Artist, Caroline was the winner of the 2018 Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for Singing of Strauss (RNCM) and received joint First Prize in the 2019 Dean and Chadlington Singing Competition.
Operatic roles include Gina (Giannetta) and cover Adina/The Elixir of Love (King’s Head Theatre), Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi and the title role in Cendrillon (RNCM Opera), Helena/The Enchanted Island (British Youth Opera), Governess/The Turn of the Screw and She in Dring’s Cupboard Love (Byre Opera). In 2018, she created the role of Sara in Ben Kaye and Adam Gorb’s The Path to Heaven (Psappha).
Concert performances include Handel/Messiah (Chesterfield Philharmonic Choir), Brahms/Ein Deutsches Requiem (Chester Cathedral Nave Choir), Britten/Les Illuminations (Northern Ballet Sinfonia) and Mahler’s Symphonies No. 4 (Helix Ensemble) and No. 8 (Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra).
GUY MURGATROYD - PIANO
British Pianist Guy Murgatroyd enjoys an international reputation as one of a leading generation of pianists adaptable to many musical specialties including work as soloist, song pianist, répétiteur and musical director.
Initial studies were at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on a scholarship under Victor Sangiorgio and Pascal Nemirowski. During this time he was garlanded with every major award for piano accompaniment as well as academic tributes for the highest BMus degree marks in his class.
Further studies as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of music in London under Michael Dussek resulted in numerous additional awards for performances as an accompanist as well as a Master of Arts with Distinction. Since 2019 Guy has studied privately with the soprano, pianist and pedagogue Nina Rautio.
Guy is the Director of Music for independent London company Opera Rogue who have recently celebrated five star reviews for their 2019 production of Don Giovanni. He has also been a regular house pianist on both the Dartington International Summer School and the Abingdon Summer School for Solo Singers for a number of years.
