BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1446@poonamusic.com DTSTART:20180220T133000Z DTEND:20180220T133000Z DTSTAMP:20180219T112231Z URL:https://poonamusic.com/events/benjamin-appl-baritone-simon-lepper-pian o/ SUMMARY:Benjamin Appl\, baritone and Simon Lepper\, piano DESCRIPTION:In a programme of Schubert : Nacht und Träume\, An den Mond\, Gondelfahrer (Mayrhofer) D 808\, Wanderers Nachtlied II (Goethe) D 768\; M ozart : Abendempfindung\; Schumann : Mein schöner Stern\, Venezianisches Gondellied II (Moore) Op. 25 No. 18\, Venezianisches Gondellied I (Moore) Op. 25 No. 17\; Mendelssohn : Neue Liebe\; Strauss : Ständchen (Schack) O p. 17 No. 2\, Wagner : Träume (Wesendonck) WWV 91 No. 3\, Schönberg : Wa rum bist du aufgewacht (Pfau)\, Mahler : Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen a nd Grieg: Sechs Deutsche Lieder Op. 48  \;\n\nIn association with Goet he Institute\n\nDescribed as ‘the current front-runner in the new genera tion of Lieder singers’ (Gramophone Magazine\, UK)\, Benjamin Appl is ce lebrated by audiences and critics in recital\, concerts and opera. \;T he German baritone was a \;BBC New Generation Artist and an ECHO Risin g Star artist for the 2015/16 season\, appearing in recital at major Europ ean venues. \;He became an exclusive SONY Classical recording artist i n May 2016 and won the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award in 2016.H is first solo album for Sony Classical\; \;’Heimat’\, was released in March 2017 and contains German and English songs.\n\nHe trained as a c horister at the renowned Regensburger Domspatzen and continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and graduated fro\, the Guildhall School of Music &\; Drama in London. He had the fortune to b e mentored by one of the greatest singers\, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.\n\nA n established recitalist\, he has performed at Carnegie Hall\, the Ravinia \, Rheingau and Oxford Lieder festivals\, deSingel Antwerp\, Heidelberger Frühling\, and with Graham Johnson at the KlavierFestival Ruhr. He is a r egular recitalist at the Wigmore Hall and at the Schubertiade Hohenems and Schwarzenberg. He works closely together with pianists including \;Gr aham Johnson\, Malcolm Martineau\, Helmut Deutsch\, James Baillieu and Mar tin Stadtfeld.\n\nHis discography includes Mendelssohn and Schumann duets with Ann Murray (DBE)\, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau\; his debut solo disc “Stunden\, Tage\, Ewigkeiten” accompanied by James Baillieu\, whi ch was released in April 2016 on Champs Hill records\; and a live recordin g of Schubert lieder with Graham Johnson for Wigmore Hall Live label.  \;\n\n[caption id="attachment_8235" align="alignleft" width="243"] Simon L epper[/caption]\n\nSimon Lepper read music at King’s College Cambridge. He is a professor of piano accompaniment at the Royal College of Music\, L ondon where he also co-ordinates the piano accompaniment course. Since 200 3 he has been \;an official accompanist for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.\n\nSimon is a professor of piano accompaniment and vocal repertoire coach at the Royal College of Music\, London where he als o co-ordinates the piano accompaniment course. As an adjudicator\, he has been on the panel for the Royal Overseas League\, Kathleen Ferrier\, Maggi e Teyte and Maureen Lehane competitions as well as for the prelimary round of the Wigmore Hall International Song competition. He has adjudicated vo cal and piano accompaniment competitions for several British Conservatoire s including the Royal Academy of Music \;and Trinity Laban. Masterclas ses he has given include those for the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and Samling Foundation \;as well as at the univeristies of Cambridge\, Manchester and Cardiff.  \;\n\nSimon has also appeared at the Wigmore Hall with violinist Carolin Widmann\, with whom he has given recitals in Amsterdam\, Paris\, Salzburg\, Cologne and Madrid and recorded for ECM - Phantasy of Spring\, contemporary works\, including Feldman\, Zimmerman and Xenakis – which received a Diapason d’Or and the German Critics Award. More re cently he recorded a disc of Brahms\, Schubert and Beethoven with violinis t Ji-Hae Park (Universal records).\n\n​This season\, he will give a Euro pean tour with Stéphane Degout including performances at the opera houses of Dijon\, La Monnaie\, Lausanne and Lyon as well as the Wigmore Hall. He will present an all Schubert programme with Ilker Arcayürek in Barcelona \, Zürich and at the Wigmore hall where further appearances include recit als with Karen Cargill and Morgan Pearse. With Benjamin Appl he will tour to India including recitals in Mumbai and Chennai.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://poonamusic.com/pms_wp/wp-content/uploads /2018/01/Portrait_Sony_Lars_Borges-website_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Vocal Recitals LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India GEO:18.5198845;73.87824479999995 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Mazda Hall:geo:18.51 98845,73.87824479999995 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR