9 Oct programme - London Symphony Orchestra

Simon Keenlyside
Baritone
Simon Keenlyside was born in
London. He made his operatic
debut with Hamburg State Opera
as Count Almaviva in Mozart’s The
Marriage of Figaro and has since
sung an extensive repertoire with
the world’s major opera companies
and festivals. He won an Olivier
Award in 2006 for both the title-role
in Billy Budd for English National
Opera and Winston in Lorin Maazel’s 1984 for the Royal Opera. His
future operatic plans include Posa in La Traviata, Renato in Verdi’s
Un ballo in maschera, the title roles in Rigoletto and Wozzeck, and
Germont Père in La Traviata at the Vienna State Opera; the title roles
in Eugene Onegin, Wozzeck and Don Giovanni at the Bayerische
Staatsoper, Munich; Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; and the
roles of Germont Père, Eugene Onegin, Wozzeck, Count Almaviva
and Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House.
Simon enjoys extensive concert work under the baton of many leading
conductors, appearing with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the
Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, the City of Birmingham and
London Symphony Orchestras, the Cleveland and Boston Symphony
Orchestras, and the Philharmonia Orchestra. A renowned recitalist,
Simon appears regularly in the world’s great recital venues, and has
recorded four recital discs with Malcolm Martineau, of Schubert,
Strauss, Brahms, and most recently, an English song disc to be released
this autumn, as well as a disc of Schumann Lieder with Graham
Johnson. He has also recorded Des Knaben Wunderhorn under Simon
Rattle, the title role in Don Giovanni under Claudio Abbado, Carmina
Burana under Christian Thielemann, Marcello in La Bohème under
Riccardo Chailly, the title role in Billy Budd under Richard Hickox and
Papageno in The Magic Flute under Charles Mackerras.
In 2007 he was given the ECHO Klassik award for Male Singer of the
Year, and in 2011, he was honoured with Musical America’s Vocalist
of the Year Award. Simon was made a CBE in 2003.
14 The Artists
Eltham College Choir
Trebles
Under the direction of Alastair
Tighe, the Eltham College Trebles
are drawn from the Junior and
Senior Schools of Eltham College
in South London. Eltham College
is an independent boys’ day
school, with a co-educational sixth
form, and was founded in 1842.
The College excels academically
and has an extensive extracurricular
programme, with music and music-making at the heart
of the College’s endeavours. The College Trebles are one of over 30
ensembles which rehearse and perform regularly both at the College
and elsewhere.
Recently Eltham’s musicians have been heard at the Barbican,
Royal Festival Hall, St Paul’s Cathedral, Cadogan Hall, St John’s,
Smith Square, Blackheath Halls, Eltham Palace and the Old Royal Naval
College, Greenwich. The Trebles have performed and recorded with
the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus,
under the direction of Valery Gergiev and Sir Colin Davis. They have
also performed in Basel and Paris with the Mariinsky Orchestra and
Chorus under the direction of Valery Gergiev, and performed with
the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle during the
orchestra’s residency in London earlier this year. They made their
debut at the BBC Proms this summer in a performance of Havergal
Brian’s Gothic Symphony.
Simon Keenlyside © Uwe Arens