Young Artist Auditions (Session 2)
19 April 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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 2
12noon Erin O'Rourke (soprano) & Xinyue Zhou (piano)
12.30pm Benoît Déchelotte (baritone) & Sarah Murer (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
- Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918)
- Elle était descendue au bas de la prairie (1914) from Clairières dans le ciel
- Elle est gravement gaie (1914) from Clairières dans le ciel
- Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme (1914) from Clairières dans le ciel
- Halfdan Kjerulf (1815 - 1868)
- Synnøves Sang
- Ture Rangström (1884 - 1947)
- Afskedet
- En Gammal Dansrytm
- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- Solveigs Sang (Solveig's Song) (1867) from Peer Gynt
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- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
- Let Beauty awake (1904) from Songs of Travel (1904)
- Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956)
- As I lay in the early sun Op. 13b from Oh Fair to See (song cycle)
- Jacques Ibert (1890 - 1962)
- iii. Cette grande chambre from La verdure dorée
- Guy Ropartz (1864 - 1962)
- i. Pour vivre longuement... from Les heures propices
- Viktor Ullmann (1898 - 1944)
- 2. Betrunken from Liederbuch des Hafis
- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- Schwung (1928) from Gesänge des Orients
- Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
- Schlafend trägt man mich in mein Heimatland (Der Glühende) (1910) from Vier Gesänge
- Nun ich der Riesen Stärksten überwand (Der Glühende) (1910) from Vier Gesänge
- Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský (1881 - 1958)
- 5. Nôžka, 'The little foot' from Slzy a úsmevy
- Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
- ii. Nyár, 'Summer' from Five Songs
- Georges Enescu (1881 - 1955)
- vi. Changeons propos from Sept chansons de Clément Marot
