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The Somerset series with a big agenda |
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Saturday 14 January, 7.30 pm Jennifer France soprano perform songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf inspired by Goethe’s West-Östlicher Divan and The Divan of the 14th-century Persian poet Hafiz. Sanaz Sotoudeh, who is herself of Persian-Jewish descent, embarked on a project to study and perform the chamber music and song inspired by ‘The Divan’ poetry while working with Julius Drake at the Royal Academy of Music. Beginning in the summer of 2011 she now collaborates with Daniel Barenboim’s ‘West-Eastern Divan’ Orchestra. Jennifer France is currently a graduate student at the RAM in opera with an award from the Countess of Munster Trust, having earlier graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music. Last season she performed at Buxton Opera Festival and the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival. She was a finalist in the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform Competition. Stuart Jackson was a choral scholar at Oxford University (Christ Church) and is now studying at the RAM on a full scholarship. He is the Second Przie winner at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition 2011, winner of the Oxford Lieder Prize and was the Peter Moore Foundation scholar for 2010. Martin Häßler, winner of the first prize at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin (Junior), second prize at Thomas Quasthoff’s Das Lied International Song Competition and the Best Singer’s Award at the Gerald Moore Competition, is currently continuing his vocal studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on full scholarship.
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