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MARIA HEGELE

German mezzo-soprano Maria Hegele is studying at the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio under the tutelage of Dinah Harris. She previously graduated from the Mozarteum Salzburg, having completed her studies under Barbara Bonney. Maria?s operatic roles include Conception, Lisetta, Nicklausse, Hermia and Cherubino. She has participated in Masterclasses with Dame Sarah Connolly, Ann Murray, Wolfgang Holzmair and Brigitte Fassbaender. She?s a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Heidelberger Frühling Young Artist and is an Imogen Cooper Music Trust Scholar. Furthermore, she is grateful to be a Siow Furniss Scholar, with generous support from both the Basil Coleman Opera Award and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben Hamburg.

HAMISH BROWN
Hamish Brown performs as a vocal accompanist, chamber musician, orchestral pianist and soloist. He is currently a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music. He was awarded the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme Prize at the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition. As a former Oxford Lieder Young Artist, he has performed at St John?s Smith Square, Oxford Lieder Festival, Internationaal Lied Festival Zeist, and Heidelberger Frühling. Hamish read music at the University of Manchester, continuing with postgraduate studies under Simon Lepper and Roger Vignoles at the Royal College of Music, graduating with Distinction.

PROGRAMME

Robert Schumann (1810 ? 56) 6 songs from Dichterliebe op 48 (1840)
Clara Schumann (1819 ? 96) Die Lorelei (1843)
Robert Schumann Herzeleid from Sechs Gesänge op 107 (1851)
Robert Schumann Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint op 37 (1841)
Robert Schumann 5 songs from Liederkreis op 39 (1840)

Gabriel Fauré (1845 ? 1924)
Le papillon et la fleur (1869)
Au bord de l?eau (1875)
Mandoline (1891)

Claude Debussy (1862 ? 1918) 3 chansons de Bilitis (1897)

Maurice Ravel (1875?1937) Oh! La pitoyable aventure from L'heure espagnol (1911)

Francis Poulenc (1899 ? 1963)
Montparnasse (1945)
Hôtel (1940)
Violon (1939)

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30 Pavilion Road,

Knightsbridge,

London,

Greater London,

England,

SW1X 0HJ.