19 & 21 April programme PDF - London Symphony Orchestra

Lucy Hall
Four Bridesmaids (soprano)
Lucy Hall is a 25 year-old soprano
from Nottinghamshire. She is
currently a scholar on the Opera
Course at the Guildhall School,
under the tutelage of Susan
McCulloch. In 2010, Lucy was
awarded a first class honours
degree from the Guildhall and
won the Dove Memorial Prize
for being the highest marked
graduate of 2010 across any discipline; she also won the Ann Wyburd
Prize for best lieder. Last month she was awarded a finalist prize in
the 2012 Handel Singing Competition.
Lucy enjoys a varied career and performs in oratorio, opera and
song recitals across the UK. She has performed in venues including
the Royal Albert Hall (Songs of Praise Big Party) Barbican Centre and
The Bridgewater Hall, and has worked with orchestras such as the
Hallé, Royal Philharmonic and BBC Concert, as well as with members
of the London Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of Edward
Rushton’s oratorio Cicadas.
Lucy is the recipient of a number of awards. Last year she was
awarded the Southwell Choral Society Bursary, Peggy Oldham Award,
and an Ian Fleming Charitable Trust Award. In 2011, she won the
Best Song Prize in the National Mozart Singing Competition, a
Countess of Munster award, a Sybil Tutton award and the highest
prize at the Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust awards.
Recent performance highlights include the role of Barbarina in
The Marriage of Figaro for British Youth Opera and Handel Messiah at
Arundel Cathedral and Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall. Future plans
include covering the role of Sandrina in Mozart La finta giardiniera for
the Festival d’Aix 2012, and performing the role in Luxembourg and
Toulon in 2013. She will record and tour Mozart Requiem with Festival
d’Ambronnay in September and next year embarks on a tour of Israel
singing the part of Michal in Saul.
Malcolm Sinclair
Narrator
Malcolm trained at Hull University
and the Bristol Old Vic School.
His career began in the major
UK regional theatres, his parts
including Hamlet, Benedick, Peer
Gynt and others. At the Royal
Shakespeare Company he has
played Horatio and Buckingham;
at the National Theatre he
originated roles in David Hare’s
Racing Demon and The Power of Yes, starred in Alan Bennett’s Habit
of Art as Benjamin Britten, and won the Clarence Derwent Award
for his performance in House/Garden written and directed by Alan
Ayckbourn. At the Donmar Warehouse he was nominated for an
Olivier for Privates on Parade. In the West End he has appeared in My
Fair Lady, By Jeeves, Journey’s End, What the Butler Saw, Cressida,
Hay Fever and Ivanov. He is returning to the National in the summer in
Shaw’s The Doctors’ Dilemma.
On television his appearances include Midsomer Murders, Foyle’s
War, Poirot, Judge John Deed and many more. He played Freddie
Fisher in five series of Pie in the Sky. In the autumn he will be seen
in Parade’s End, Henry V and the new series of Silk. His films include
Casino Royale and V for Vendetta.
For the Boston Symphony he performed Shakespeare to Mendelssohn’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream music under Seiji Ozawa, and
Schoenberg’s A Survivor in Warsaw under Mariss Jansons, which he
repeated with the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall. He has performed
Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale for the BBC under Thomas Adès at St
John’s, Smith Square, and with the Nash Ensemble under Lionel
Friend for the Istanbul Festival. In Liverpool he was the Orator in
Bliss’s Morning Heroes under Vernon Handley. He has performed a
programme of the work of Ivor Gurney with Jan Carey and Ian and
Jennifer Partridge. Most recently he has read the letters of Janáček
in a programme with Sheffield’s Ensemble 360, which includes the
composer’s Intimate Letters Quartet.
Malcolm is President of British Equity, the trade union for performers.
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