Damian Thantrey Baritone with
Malcolm
Martineau Piano
Wednesday 26th November 2008
Programme
Selection of Songs Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Rückert-Lieder Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Selection of Songs Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933)
Songs from Earth and Air and Rain & Before and After
Summer Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956)
Despite and Still Op. 41 Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)
Damian Thantrey
Baritone Damian Thantrey trained at the RCM with Margaret Kingsley. On leaving th e RCM, Damian received the Tagore Gold Medal and held the ills Williams Junior Fellowship during 1999-2000. He is continuing his studies with Paul Farrington.“ No praise can be excessive for Damian Thantrey whose singing was a tour de force of versatility”
The Sunday Telegraph
In 2007, Damian sang Pastore 2/Spirito 2 Orfeo for Opera North, Eisenstein Die Fledermaus on tour with Scottish Opera, The Duke of Rothsay La Jolie Fille de Perth for Chelsea Opera Group, The English Clerk Death in Venice at the Aldeburgh and Bregenz Festivals, a role he will sing again in 2009 at the Opéra de Lyon, as well as a serious of roles in new opera specialists Tete-a-Teteʼs Blind Date. Projects for 2008 include Chau Lin A Night at the Chinese Opera for Scottish Opera and Gong Gong Confucius Say for the Hackney Music development Trust. Future plans include La Cantatrice Chauve on tour in the UK, France and Austria with Tete-a-Tete.
Damianʼs other most recent operatic roles have been Marullo Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House, Flemish Deputy Don Carlos for Welsh National Opera, the Traveller Roles Death in Venice at the Theatre de Metz, Shaunard La Boheme for Scotttish Opera, and Sadik Der Stein der Weisen and Nardo La Finta Giardiniera for Garsington Opera. He has also sung Maximillian Candide for Graham Vickʼs Birmingham Opera, Baritone 1 The Martyrdom of St. Magnus and a concert performance of Dido & Aeneas at the Oslo Kammermusik Festival, Zurga Les Pecheurs des Perles for Chelsea Opera Group, The Messenger in Stravinskyʼs Oedipus Rex for Opera North and Count Almaviva The Marriage of Figaro for Stanley Hall Opera and Raymond Gubbayʼs Savoy Opera.
Damian has premiered over twenty new works, both operatic and in concert, including six roles in Tete-a-Tete/ENO studioʼs UK tour of Six Pack, five baritone roles in Shorts for Tete-a- Tete, The Young Man Babetteʼs (a newly commissioned work for the ROHʼsʼs education programme, Nitro a new composers project at the Lindbury Studio and John in the Almeida Operaʼs production of Deidre Gribbinʼs Hey Persephone! at the Aldeburgh Festival. Damian has a wide solo concert repertoire, most recently Dewi Sant for Harrow Choral Society, Messiah for the English Symphony Orchestra, and two performances of Mahlerʼs Ruckertlieder with the Salomon Orchestra. Other major performances have included Vaughan Williamsʼ Five Tudor Portraits with Vernon Handley/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (live broadcast on Radio 3), The Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall with Sir David Willcocks, Bachʼs Weinachtsoratorium at Kingʼs College, Cambridge and St. John Passion at St. Johnʼs Smith Square.
In recital, Damian has performed Wolfʼs Italienisches Liederbuch with Malcolm Martineau at St. Johnʼs, Smith Square and at the Oxford Lieder Festival, and made his Wigmore Hall song recital debut in 2003. He recently sang his first Winterreise and made a recital tour of Schumannʼs Dichterliebe with Pianist Peter Hewitt around the north of England and made his debut recital at the Purcell Room in the Fresh Series. Damian has premiered a number of song works, including two world premieres with the contemporary group the Paragon Ensemble. He has also sung concerts of John Adamsʼ The Wound Dresser with Camerata Scotland at the Deal Festival, in Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 2004 Damian sang at the Presteigne Festival, performing John Pickardʼs song cycle The Borders of Sleep and completed a UK tour with the Rambert Dance Company singing Mahlerʼs Songs of a Wayfarer, which he repeated in 2005 along with Kindertotenlieder.
Malcolm Martineau
Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music.'Never fully in the limelight, Martineau is nonetheless a real star.'
Carol Main, The Scotsman
Recognised as one of leading accompanists of his generation he has worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Olaf Bär, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Della Jones, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Magdalena Kozena, Solveig Kringelborn, Jonathan Lemalu, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Karita Mattila, Lisa Milne, Ann Murray, Anna Netrebko, Anne Sofie von Otter, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Michael Schade, Frederica von Stade, Bryn Terfel and Sarah Walker.
He has presented his own series at St Johns Smith Square (the complete songs of Debussy and Poulenc), the Wigmore Hall (a Britten series broadcast by the BBC) and at the Edinburgh Festival (the complete lieder of Hugo Wolf). He has appeared throughout Europe (including London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Opera House; La Scala, Milan; the Chatelet, Paris; the Liceu, Barcelona; Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein), North America (including in New York both Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall), Australia (including the Sydney Opera House) and at the AixenProvence, Vienna, Edinburgh, Schubertiade, Munich and Salzburg Festivals.
Current and forthcoming engagements include European recital tours with Magdalena Kozena, Dorothea Roeschmann, Simon Keenlyside, Michael Schade and Susan Graham and his own French song series at the Wigmore Hall.
Recording projects have included Schubert, Schumann and English song recitals with Bryn Terfel (for Deutsche Grammophon); Schubert and Strauss recitals with Simon Keenlyside (for EMI); recital recordings with Angela Gheorghiu and Barbara Bonney (for Decca), Magdalena Kozena (for DG), Della Jones (for Chandos), Susan Bullock (for Crear Classics), Solveig Kringelborn (for NMA); Amanda Roocroft (for Onyx); the complete Fauré songs with Sarah Walker and Tom Krause, the complete Britten Folk Songs for Hyperion, the complete Beethoven Folk Songs for Deutsche Grammophon.
He was a given an honorary doctorate at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2004.
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