February 2024

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Wanstead Village Directory
Listen and learn
In the 36th of a series of articles, David Bird from the Redbridge Music
Society introduces mezzo-soprano Annabel Kennedy and pianist
Daniel Peter Silcock, who will be performing in Wanstead this month
Two main aims of Redbridge Music
Society, now in its 75th season, are
to bring high-quality, live chamber
recitals to the people of Redbridge and
to support and promote young talented
musicians. This month, Annabel Kennedy,
accompanied by Daniel Peter Silcock, will
give a recital with the theme A Sundial of
Love, which will include works by Richard
Strauss, Mahler, Brahms, Grieg, Vaughan
Williams, Eric Coates and others.
Annabel Kennedy recently graduated from
the Royal College of Music’s International
Opera Studio as a Siow-Furniss Scholar. She is
a Samling Artist, a Britten-Pears Young Artist
for 2022–2023, a Making Music PDGYA Young
Artist, a Glyndebourne Jerwood Young Artist
for 2023 and a Garsington Alveraz Young Artist
for 2024.
Annabel has already sung in many operas,
including Die Zauberflöte, Hänsel und Gretel,
Orpheus in the Underworld, Don Giovanni, Der
Rosenkavalier, La Traviata and A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. Her concert highlights
include a solo debut at London’s Cadogan
and Wigmore Halls. Annabel’s many awards
include first prizes in the Royal Over-Seas
League music competition, the Ashburnham
English Song Awards, the Dame Patricia
Routledge National English Song Competition
and second prize in the Maureen Lehane Vocal
Awards Competition at Wigmore Hall.
Daniel Peter Silcock studied at the Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland, where he was
awarded MMus (distinction) and BMus
(first-class) degrees in piano performance.
Currently, he is a scholarship student
at the Royal Academy of Music and is
already recognised as a distinguished song
accompanist.
Annabel Kennedy
Daniel Peter Silcock
Daniel has won a number of prizes for song
accompaniment, including the Marjorie
Thomas Art of Song Prize and the Major
Van Someren-Godfrey Prize. He has also
received the A Ramsay Calder Debussy Prize,
second prize in the Roma International Piano
Competition in 2019 and the Franz Schubert
Institute UK prize.
Daniel has performed in prestigious venues,
such as the Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh’s Usher
Hall, the Caird Hall in Dundee and St James’s
Church, Piccadilly. This year, he returns to
the Wigmore Hall with the Royal Academy
of Music Song Circle, performing with tenor
Samuel Stopford, and in January, took part in
Renée Fleming’s SongStudio at Carnegie Hall.
Please come and support these very talented
young musicians.
Annabel and Daniel will perform at
Wanstead Library on 13 February from
8pm (tickets on the door; visitors: £12;
members: £8). Call 07380 606 767.
Redbridge Music Society is supported by
Vision RCL and affiliated to Making Music.
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