Season of Song
In 2010 Art Song Canberra is presenting seven recitals of fine art song by an outstanding array of award-winning, highly-accomplished artists, many of them widely experienced on the world stage.
Background
Throughout its life Art Song Canberra has presented a series of six or seven vocal recitals each year. Among the many artists who have performed for the society are such noted Australian singers as Eleanor Houston, Michael Martin, Sally-Anne Russell, Warwick Fyfe, Christopher Allan, Angela Giblin, Louise Page and Christina Wilson as well as Susan Burghardt from the USA and Thomas Weinhappel from Vienna. Pianists have included Andrew Greene, Phillipa Candy, Alan Hicks, Anthony Smith, Vivienne Winther, Margaret Legge-Wilkinson, Nigel Butterley, Darryl Coote and the renowned British pianist Roy Howat.
The Season of Song has also provided opportunities for concert performance for dedicated and talented amateur singers. This format has met with considerable audience approval and Art Song Canberra has scheduled another such event in its Season of Song 2010.
Recital programs have ranged widely from such classics of the Lieder repertoire as song cycles of Schubert and Schumann to fine art song by contemporary composers such as the noted Australian Nigel Butterley.
Season of Song 2010
Season of Song 2010 will begin with a recital by distinguished Canberra artists Christina Wilson and Alan Hicks together with Sydney violist Robert Harris. In May, the second recital will be given by noted Canberra art song duo Angela Giblin and Margaret Legge-Wilkinson. Art Song Canberra Prizewinner (2008) Ben Connor will perform with Alan Hicks in June. In July, visiting German singers, soprano Tanya Aspelmeier and tenor Knut Schoch, will also be accompanied by Alan Hicks. Sally Wilson, originally from Melbourne but now Berlin-based for several years, will give a recital in August with pianist Mark Kruger, also a Berlin-based Australian. In October, Canberra sopranos Susan Ellis and Sarahlouise Owens will be accompanied by pianist Jee Lee. The Season will end with a recital in November by a group of highly talented singers who have developed their art under the guidance of Canberra’s teachers of singing, the next in a popular series of such concerts presented by Art Song Canberra.
Admission to the concerts includes a complimentary program and light refreshments:
In 2010: Full price $30; Seniors, Friends of ArtSound FM, Friends of Wesley Music (for concerts in the Wesley Music Centre) and Musica Viva subscribers $25; Members and pensioners $20; Full-time students $10.
For more extensive information on the concerts and the artists in 2010 click here. To download a pdf file containing this information or to download photographs of the artists of publication quality, see the press kit page.