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Miah Persson, soprano with Malcolm Martineau, piano | International Artist Series

Wednesday, March 29, 7:30PM

Ordway Concert Hall

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Soprano Miah Persson will make her debut in the Schubert Club’s International Artist Series on March 29 and 30. With a voice “clear and lithe” and “a great sensitivity to the text” (The New York Times), acclaimed Swedish soprano Miah Persson creates “spine-tingling moments of vocal splendour” (Edinburgh Spotlight). She will be joined by Malcolm Martineau—one of the world’s leading collaborative pianists and favorite among Schubert Club audiences. This program will primarily feature the works of Robert Schumann. 

Please note: Due to illness, Florian Boesch will be unable to perform on this program as originally scheduled. We send our best wishes to Mr. Boesch. The revised program is below. 

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Miah Persson

Miah Persson, sopranoInternationally renowned Swedish soprano Miah Persson has worked all over the world as both recitalist and concert artist as well as on the operatic stage. Early career highlights include her concert debut at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez, her opera debut in Salzburg in 2004 as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier under Semyon Bychkov, Sifare in Mitridate under Marc Minkowski in Salzburg, her celebrated debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the Glyndebourne Festival, and her acclaimed debut at San Francisco Opera as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, a role she also went on to sing for her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2009.

[expand title=”Continue Reading”] Miah has performed Gretel in Hansel und Gretel, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte and, most recently, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera; Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Don Giovanni at Covent Garden; the title role in L’Incoronazione di Poppea at La Scala; Fiordiligi, Sophie and Susanna at the Vienna State Opera; The Governess in The Turn of the Screw, Fiordiligi, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress at the Glyndebourne Festival; Donna Elvira at the Theatre Champs Elysees; Fiordiligi at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, New National Theatre Tokyo, Bayerische Staatsoper, in Stockholm and in concerts and for a Deutsche Grammophon recording at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte on a concert tour of Europe with the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, conducted by Rene Jacobs; and Countess in concerts of Figaro with the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Berlin and New York.

In concert Miah has appeared with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich, the Accademia Santa Cecilia, Simon Bolivar Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel in Salzburg and for the Proms in London (televised and broadcast by the BBC), Strauss’s Four Last Songs with Montreal Symphony Orchestra, a tour of South America with Budapest Festival Orchestra singing Mahler 4 and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, Mozart and Gluck arias with Hamburger Symphoniker, Mozart Concert Arias at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Mahler 2 with the New York Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Bach’s B Minor Mass at La Fenice, Mahler 2 and Mahler 4 and Mozart Arias with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Peer Gynt at the Grafenegg Festival and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, as well as recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Schubertiade, and at the Tonhalle Zurich.

Miah Persson’s recordings include Händel’s Rinaldo (as Almirena) under René Jacobs (Hmc), Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Ivor Bolton (Oehmsclassics), Bach: Magnificat with the Collegium Japan Orchestra (BIS), and John Fernström’s Songs of the sea with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (BIS). Miah Persson can be heard as duet partner of Bryn Terfel in his in September 2006 released CD Tutto Mozart! Bryn Terfel sings concert and opera arias (Deutsche Grammophon). In November 2006 Mozart’s: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (Deutsche Grammophon) was released as a complete edition on DVD, produced by Salzburger Festspiele, with Musicens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski conducting. In March 2007 Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte the Glyndebourne Festival’s Nicholas Hytner production with Iván Fischer conducting, was released (Naxos). In January 2008 the Gesamtaufnahme of Haydn’s Schöpfung (in English) with the Gabrieli Consort & Players of London under Paul MCCreesh was released at Archiv Pro (Universal). In March 2008 the DVD of David McVicar’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Antonio Pappano with Miah Persson as Susanna was published by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Miah is also featured on the Opus Arte release of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea recorded live at Liceu Barcelona in 2009.

Miah’s solo records include Soul & Landscape with Roger Vignoles (Hyperion), Mozart: Un moto di gioia: Opera and Concert Arias (BIS) with Sebastian Weigle conducting the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Portraits – songs by Clara and Robert Schumann (BIS) with pianist Joseph Breinl.

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Malcolm Martineau

Malcolm Martineau, pianoMalcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music.

[expand title=”Continue Reading”]Recognized as one of the 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, Sarah Walker and Bryn Terfel.

He has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall (a Britten and a Poulenc series and Decade by Decade – 100 years of German Song 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 Aix en Provence, Vienna, Edinburgh, Schubertiade, Munich and Salzburg Festivals.

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; the complete Poulenc songs for Signum; and Britten Song Cycles as well as Schubert’s Winterreise with Florian Boesch for Onyx.

He was a given an honorary doctorate at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2004, and appointed International Fellow of Accompaniment in 2009. Malcolm was the Artistic Director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder+ Festival.[/expand]

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 10:30am
Thursday, March 30, 2017, 7:30pm
Ordway Concert Hall
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[icon color=”Accent-Color” size=”small” image=”icon-music”] Revised Program:

Edvard GRIEG (1843–1907)
Six Songs, Op. 48
     Gruss
     Dereinst, Gedanke mein
     Lauf der Welt
     Die verschwiegene Nachtigall
     Zur Rosenzeit
     Ein Traum

Robert SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
Frauenliebe und –leben, Op. 42
     Seit ich ihn gesehen
     Er, der Herrlichste von allen
     Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht glauben
     Du Ring an meinem Finger
     Helft mir, ihr Schwestern
     Süßer Freund, du blickest
     An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust
     Nun hast du mir der ersten Schmerz getan

INTERMISSION

SCHUMANN
Gesanges Erwachen
“Mondnacht” from Liederkreis, Op. 39
From Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79
     Schneeglöckchen
     Er Ist’s

“Träumerei” from Kinderszenen, Op. 15
     (piano solo)

From Zwölf Gedichte aus “Liebesfrühling,” Op. 37
     Der Himmel hat eine Traene geweint
     Er ist gekommen (by Clara Schumann)
     O ihr Herren
     Liebst du um Schönheit (by Clara Schumann)

Clara SCHUMANN (1819–1896) Lorelei

Robert SCHUMANN
Liebeslied
Nachtlied, Op. 96, No. 1
“Die Sennin” from Sechs Gedichte und Requiem,
Op. 90

From Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, Op. 135
     Abschied von der Welt
     Gebet

Concert is estimated to be approximately 2 hours with one intermission.

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More info:

[icon color=”Accent-Color” size=”small” image=”icon-globe”] Miah Persson’s Website

[icon color=”Accent-Color” size=”small” image=”icon-twitter”] Malcolm Martineau on Twitter

[icon color=”Accent-Color” size=”small” image=”icon-globe”] Malcolm Martineau’s Website

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[testimonial_slider] [testimonial name=”The Sunday Times” quote=”In an opening Schubert set, Persson, for all the natural brightness of her voice, achieves the right aching heaviness in Lied der Mignon, and a beguiling sense of gentle repose in Du Bist die Ruh. She then turns to Grieg’s six Op. 48 songs, mixing charm, depth and romantic ardour. A final Sibelius group, written to texts in Persson’s native Swedish, consolidates all that has gone before.” id=”t1″] [testimonial name=”The Independent” quote=”Boesch doesn’t just sing this music, he inhabits it to the hilt. His voice has a thrilling edge, and he colours his lines with delicate artistry, yet his approach is as natural as conversation, never going for effects for their own sake, or inflating the importance of trifles which some of these songs indubitably are.” id=”t2″ [testimonial name=”Herald Scotland” quote=”This is a great disc from a wonderful singer, but is the greater for the exquisitely-sensitive pianism of Malcolm Martineau, whose dynamic shading and heart-stopping timing lie at the core of these magical performances and re-define the words ‘accompaniment’ and ‘collaboration.'” id=”t3″] [/testimonial_slider]

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