Young Artist Auditions (Session 1)
19 April 2024, 10:30am - 11:30am
Over two days of audition recitals, eighteen exceptional emerging professional duos from around the UK will seek to become Oxford Song Young Artists. The standard is tremendously high, and this is a chance to hear the stars of the future, with a rich variety of repertoire and interpretations. Each audition session lasts for one hour and includes two 25-minute duo performances. Dip in for one or two, or immerse yourself in them all!
Audition Recital Session 1
10.30am Myrna Tennant (mezzo-soprano) & Aleksandra Myslek (piano)
11.00am Bethan Terry (soprano) & Francesca Lauri (piano)
Oxford Song Young Artist Programme
The Oxford Song Young Artist Programme offers a range of high-quality training and performance opportunities for exceptional singer-pianist duos in the early stages of their careers. At the end of the Spring Song weekend, eight selected duos will be offered fully funded places on October’s Mastercourse, as well as professional engagements for Oxford Song and with our partners both nationally and internationally, culminating in showcase recitals at the 2025 Festival.
Our Young Artist Programme is generously supported by Jerwood Foundation and other charitable trusts and foundations.
Programme
- Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
- Sanglots (1940) FP 107 no.5 from Banalités
- Granville Bantock (1868 - 1946)
- Song to the seals
- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Var det en dröm? (1902) Op. 37 no.4
- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- Ich liebe dich
- John Ireland (1879 - 1962)
- Earth's Call (1918)
- Jake Heggie (1961)
- A route to the sky
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- Amy Beach (1867 - 1944)
- Three Browning Songs (1899)
- Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
- Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen (1840) Op. 37 no.2 (Op. 12 no.1) from Zwölf Gedichte aus „Liebesfrühling“
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Seit ich ihn gesehen (1840) Op. 42 no.1 11–12.vii.1840 from Frauenliebe und -leben
- Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
- v. Sanglots (from 'Banalités', FP 107)
- Madeleine Dring (1923 - 1977)
- 3. Separation (1848) from Four Night Songs
- Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
- Calypso from Cabaret Songs