Representing the Concordia Foundation.
Programme
Schubert – Heimliches Lieben
Liszt – Tre Sonetti di Petrarca
- Pace non trovo
- Benedetto sia l’giorno
- I vidi in terra
Liszt – Ihr Glocken von Marling
Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Shakespeare Songs
- Seals of Love
- the Cuckoo and the Owl
- Come to Dust
- O Mistress Mine
Performers
Dorset soprano Lizzie Holmes graduated with from the Royal College of Music (MPerf, Distincion) in 2014, prior to this she studied English Literature at Warwick University (BAhons). She is a Concordia Artist and is grateful to the ongoing support of The Carne Trust.
With her ‘enchanting and creamy soprano’ (Planet Hugill), performances include Mimi & Musetta La Bohème (Trafalgar Studios); title role The Coronation of Poppea (Ryedale Festival); lead in Hawes’ A King’s Ransom, premier (Into Opera, Britten Sinfonia); Despina Così fan tutte (Devon Opera); Miss Wordsworth, cover Albert Herring (Inaugural Grange Festival); Susanna The Marriage of Figaro (Bloomsbury Opera); La Bergère L’enfant et les sortilèges (RCMIOS), Florence in Burnside’s Journeying Boys (Britten Theatre); Madame Giry Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre, West End debut). Solo performances at St James’ Piccadilly, Bath Recitals, V&A. Lizzie founded Debut in 2015, their groundbreaking concert series was recently featured in Opera Now.
Future performances: Cunegonde Candide for Bernstein’s 100th (Menick Theatre, Cornwall); Amore Orpheus and Eurydice (Opera in the City Festival); Stephano, cover Roméo et Juliette (Grange Park Opera).
Lucy Colquhoun studied with Roger Vignoles at RCM winning all major accompaniment prizes including Joan Chissell Schumann Prize, Alisdair Graham Prize and Titanic Memoriam Prize (Lies Askonas Competition).
She was supported by the Kendall-Taylor Award, Douglas-and-Hilda-Simmonds-Award and Knights-of-the-Round-Table. She won the Richard Tickner Trust Award at the Somerset Song Prize. At RNCM, she won the RJ-Forbes-Prize for Accompaniment. She is a Britten-Pears-Young-Artist, Park-Lane-Group-Young-Artist and finalist in the Oxford-Lieder Competition (Peter Aisher, Julien Van Mellaerts).
Forthcoming performances: Durham University with Sir Thomas Allen, Oxford-Lieder Festival, Red House Aldeburgh, St-James’s-Piccadilly, National Gallery, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, RAH Elgar Room, British Music Society, Cheltenham Town Hall, Schubert Society, Grieg Society, Purcell-Room. She was a scholar at Franz Schubert Institute and worked closely with Joseph Horovitz, Paul Paterson and Gary Carpenter.
