Lunchtime Concert Series

Abraham Singer (Bass Baritone)

Timothy End (Piano)

Tuesday 9 August, 2011 1.00pm Royal Over-Seas League Series

Suggested donation £3.50

St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JJ Tel: 020 7766 1100 www.smitf.org

If you are unable to stay for the whole of the concert please leave during the applause. Smoking and the consumption of food and drink are not allowed in this church. Members of the audience are kindly requested to switch off mobile phones and alarms on digital watches. Photography, audio or video recording are not permitted.

Programme Kindertotenlieder Gustav Mahler (‘Songs of the Death of Children’ settings of the poems of Friedrich Rückert)

Songs of Travel Vaughan Williams

1. The Vagabond 2. Let Beauty Awake 3. The Roadside Fire 4. Youth and Love 5. In Dreams 6. The Infinite Shining Heavens 7. Whither Must I Wander 8. Bright is the Ring of Words 9. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

The Performers

Abraham Singer was born in Sydney and studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of

Music. At this early stage of his career, he has been fortunate to gain solo performance

experience in opera, oratorio and lieder both in Australia and Germany. From 2001-2006

Mr Singer studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he held a number of

scholarships from the University of Sydney. While a student, he was invited to sing the

main role of Melibeo in the Australian premiere of La Fedeltá Premiata under the baton of

Maestro Imre Pallo. He also performed the roles of Buonafede in Il Mondo della Luna and

Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro. "A wonder for someone so young. Solid of sound, powerful of

ambience which left me wondering if the Con had imported him from the wider world to

grace this production."Opera Opera

At the beginning of 2005, Mr Singer received an exchange scholarship to study at the

Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg, Germany. He was also awarded a Baden

Württenburg Stipendium für Musik along with other national and international

scholarships. Engagements include Bass soloist in Rossini's Miserere and Stabat Mater and

Stavinsky's Mass, all in Freiburg, Germany in 2005. In 2006 he was fortunate to receive a

BBM Ltd. Scholarship and also a Helpmann Award enabling him to study in London. 2006

also saw the performances of the St. John Passion; Raphael and Adam in The Creation;

Simon in The Seasons; Mozart's Requiem; and the Australian Premiere of Beethoven's

Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, all in Sydney.

Tomothy End, who was awarded the Musicians Benevolent Fund Accompanist’s Award at

the 2011 Ferrier Competition, was also awarded the Parnell Award for an Accompanist at

the 2010 ROSL Music Competition. In November the same year he won the Gerald Moore

Award for Piano Accompaniment. Recent engagements include a song recital in London

with bass Sir John Tomlinson and a lunchtime recital at St. James Piccadilly with Jonathan

McGovern. He also made his Park Lane Group debut at Purcell Room earlier this year.

Timothy is on the Making Music Artists and Live Music Now schemes. Forthcoming

engagements include recitals in London and Edinburgh with bass-baritone Abraham Singer

and at Wigmore Hall with Jonathan McGovern and in May 2011 he will be performing for

the Queen at Buckingham Palace as part of the Commonwealth Youth Soloists.

St Martin-in-the-Fields has welcomed talented musicians to this central London platform for over 50 years - from highly acclaimed young soloists, to choirs from all over the world; from promising new ensembles, to established professionals. This tradition is supported by the generosity of our performers as well as our audiences. Whilst these concerts are free to all, for those able to give, a suggested donation of £3.50 would be greatly appreciated to help fund all aspects of the work at St Martin’s.

Tuesday 9 August 7.30pm Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble Martinü – Sextet Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht op 4 Dvořák – Sextet in A op 48 Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble Tickets: £18 £15 £10 Thursday 11 August 7.30pm Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Candlelight Mozart – Salzburg Symphony No 3 Pachelbel – Canon Vivaldi – ‘Spring’ from Four Seasons Vivaldi - Sinfonia ‘Alla Rustica’ Purcell – Chacony Bach – Air ‘on the G String’ Handel – ‘Air’ from Water Music Purcell – Fairy Queen Suite Mozart – Eine Kleine Nacthmusik Belmont Ensemble of London Peter G Dyson Conductor Tickets: £22 £18 £14 £10 £8 Friday 12 August 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert Smetana – Two Pieces From my Homeland Dvořák – Romantic Pieces op 75 Grieg – Violin Sonata No 2 in G Michael Trainor Violin Lynn Carter Piano

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