- Jane Irwin sings Schubert, Schumann and Britten at Pollok House Arts Society, Glasgow, Scotland

Jane Irwin,Soprano
Julia Lynch, Piano

Wednesday 18th January 2012

"Her voice had a warm, velvet texture that heartened the more grief-stricken passages…"
Kevin Rogers on St Matthew Passion

Programme

Lieder Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
     Seligkeit
     Ellen’s Zweiter Gesang
     Du bist die Ruh
     Ganymed
     An die Musik
     Lied der Mignon
     Gretchen am Spinnrade
     Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren
Liederkreis Opus 39 Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Banalities Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
Cabaret Songs Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)

Jane Irwin

Jane Irwin studied at Lancaster University and at the Royal Northern College of Music. As a concert and recital singer she has appeared regularly in Britain, Europe and America. In 2002 she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under Mariss Jansons. She has sung for the BBC Proms, at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Berlin Festival, the Concertgebouw and the Musikverein. She has worked with the Berlin Symphony, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre de Paris, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, San Diego Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle, Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra and with conductors including Myung Whun Chung, Günther Herbig, Semyon Bychkov, Ivor Bolton, Andrew Davis, Libor Pesek, Donald Runnicles, Antonio Pappano, Sakari Oramo, Mark Elder, Matthias Bamert, Trevor Pinnock, Petr Altrichter, Paul Daniel, Joseph Swensen, Sir Richard Armstrong and Jakov Kreizberg. She has given recitals at the Châtelet, Paris, London, Edinburgh, Geneva, Aix-en-Provence and Japan.

She made her debut at the ROH in a new production of Götterdämmerung/Second Norn under Bernard Haitink returning in 2003 to sing Suzuki/Madam Butterfly. She has sung in Die Walküre at Bayreuth, and Brangäne/Tristan und Isolde for San Francisco Opera and English National Opera, Mère Marie/Dialogues des Carmélites for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and appears regularly with Scottish Opera in roles including Waltraute/Götterdämmerung and Anezka in The Two Widows by Smetana at the Edinburgh Festival.

Recent and future engagements include concerts with Manchester Camerata, Northern Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, Orchestre National de Lyon as well as Bartok Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in Valencia and Madrid and a recital at Pollok House. She has just completed several performances of Brangäne in a new production of Tristan und Isolde for the Deutsche Opera Berlin conducted by Donald Runnicles and directed by Graham Vick, to be reprised in 2013.

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Julia Lynch

Born in Dublin, but raised in Aberdeen, Julia began piano lessons at the age of four. Studying with Denis Matthews and David Parkhouse at the North East Scotland Music School. In 1982 Julia won a scholarship to study piano at the RSAMD in Glasgow with Laurence Glover. Whilst a student at the academy, she won all the available prizes for piano solo, accompaniment and chamber music. Having gained her B.A. and completed a year of postgraduate study, Julia joined the staff of the academy as vocal coach, a post she still holds. Julia is one of the busiest accompanists in the country, appearing in recital with many distinguished artists. Concerts have taken her all over the world, with recitals in London, Tokyo and Geneva as well as appearances at the Proms, the Edinburgh Festival and Cardiff Singer of the World. She appears as orchestra pianist with the BBC SSO, the RSNO and SCO, and broadcasts and records regularly. In 2008 she was invited to the Bayreuth Wagner Festival as the first female music assistant.

Along with Malcolm Martineau and Tom Allen, Julia is proud to be associated with the Samling Foundation, furthering the talents of a new generation of singers.