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We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays

Kettle’s Yard will be closed for the festive period between 24 December 2024 – 1 January 2025 inclusive. We will open as normal from 2 January 2025.

Alessandro Fisher©️Nick Rutter
Music

Alessandro Fisher, tenor, and Simon Lepper, piano

14 November 2024, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm)

Join us in the Kettle’s Yard house for a Chamber Music concert with Alessandro Fisher, tenor and Simon Lepper, piano.

This event has passed. £24 (£5 students), booking required

Programme

Michael Head, Over the Rim of the Moon; The Ships of Arcady; Beloved; A Blackbird Singing; Nocturne

Gabriel Fauré, Le papillon et la fleur Op.1, No.1; Green Op.58, No. 3; La rose Op.51, No.4; Fleur jetée Op.39 No.2

Francis Poulenc, Tel jour, telle nuit

Franz Schubert, Der Wanderer an den Mond D.870; Wandrers Nachtlied D.224

Robert Schumann, Wanderung, Op.35, No.7

Clara Schumann, Der Wanderer; Der Wanderer in der Sägemühle

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Songs of Travel: The Vagabond, Let Beauty Awake, The Roadside Fire, Youth and Love, In Dreams, The Infinite Shining Heavens, Whither Must I Wander, Bright is the Ring of Words, I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

 

About the Musicians

Alessandro Fisher

Alessandro was a member of the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme between 2018 and 2021. An Associate Artist of The Mozartists, he won First Prize at the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, and in 2022 he received an award from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. He made his Salzburg Festival debut as Lucano in Monteverdi’s ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea’ and his operatic engagements have further included roles at Garsington Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and the Royal Opera, London. His first solo album with pianist Anna Tilbrook was released by Rubicon Records in February 2024. Entitled ‘A Gardener’s World’ it was taken from a live performance at the Wigmore Hall, and features songs in 6 languages, inspired by blooms from around the world.

 

Simon Lepper

Simon read music at King’s College, Cambridge before studying piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music and later with Ruben Lifschitz at the Fondation Royaumont.  He is Assistant Head of Keyboard (collaborative piano) and a vocal repertoire coach at the Royal College of Music, London. Since 2003 he has been an official accompanist for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. He has given masterclasses at the Mozarteum, Fondation Royaumont, Samling Foundation, Oxford International Song Festival and La Chappelle, Belgium.

Simon Lepper ©️Cris Solimeno