Representing the Royal Norther College of Music

Programme

Bridge – Come to me in my dreams
Bridge – Go not Happy Day
Bridge – Love went a riding
Britten – Last Rose of Summer
Granados – Three Songs
Tost – L’ultima Canzone
Tost – Serenade
Tost – Ideale
Tost – Ed ecco il sogno
Bizet – Seguidille from Carmen
Rossini – Ah quel giorno ognor rammento from Semiramide

Performer

Hanna-Liisa Kirchin Mezzo Soprano
Philip Mountford Piano

British mezzo soprano Hanna-Liisa Kirchin trained at the National Opera Studio, ENO Opera Works and the Royal Northern College of Music, and studies with Nelly Miricioiu. Recent engagements include Arsace (Cover) in Partenope (English National Opera), The Mayors Wife Jenufa (Grange Park Opera), Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice (Longborough Festival Opera) and a return to the
Reisopera as Flora in a new production of La Traviata. The 2016 season included Fidalma Il Matrimonio Segreto (Dutch National Opera), Wowkle La Fanciulla del West (Grange Park Opera) and Ruggiero Alcina (Longborough Festival Opera). 2015 included a world premiere of Nigel
Osborne’s “Bosnian Voices” with the Liverpool 10/10 ensemble, and Ensemble in Monteverdi’s Orfeo (Bayerische Staatsoper). Awards include a Miriam Licette Scholarship & the RNCM Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Prize. She was a Jette Parker Young Artist finalist in both 2014/15, and a 2015 Les Azuriales Young Artist.

Described by Opera Now as ‘excellent and highly accomplished,’ Philip Mountford has established
a distinguished career as a collaborative pianist.
Recent engagements include appearances at the Southbank Centre (Purcell Room) and Wigmore
Hall and Kings Place. Festival appearances include Buxton, Newbury and Ludlow. Philip has been privileged to work with many distinguished artists, notably mezzo soprano Rosalind Plowright whom he regularly partners in recital, Sergei Leiferkus, Nelly Miricioiu and Marianne
Cornetti. Philip studied with Marlene Fleet and later at Trinity College of Music with Christine Croshaw.
In recent years, Philip has been involved in performing anthology programmes of poetry, prose and music with some of the country’s leading actors including Dame Siân Phillips, Edward Fox, Virginia McKenna, Dame Dorothy Tutin and Sir John Mortimer. Recordings include the world premiere of Walter Leigh’s ‘Music For Three Pianos’ (Tremula Records) and a recently released song recital disc, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ with Rosalind
Plowright (Roméo Records).