Concert Details
| Title: | Lunchtime Concert St Leonard's Church Seaford. Mehreen Shah, Soprano. Nicola Grunberg, Piano |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 7 May 2016, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | MEHREEN SHAH, SOPRANO Mehreen has been singing for fifteen years and in that time has participated in numerous concerts and venues. She graduated from Bath Spa University in 2011, gaining the highest mark in her year for her final Recital. Highlights while at University include solos in Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music at Bath Guildhall, Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time at Bath Abbey, and Thomas Arne’s Cantata The Morning at the Roman Bath Pump Rooms. In 2010 she made her operatic debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and in 2011 played Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Mehreen is a member of the semi-professional choir The Orlando Singers, and has performed in numerous venues including Wells Cathedral and Highcliffe Castle, plus services at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where she performed the treble solo in Vaughan Williams’ Motet O Taste and See. She was also a soloist at the premiere performance of David Everett’s Requiem at Wareham in May 2013. Her most recent solo performances include Handel’s Messiah at Beaulieu Abbey, and in March 2015 she sang with the Central Band of the Royal Air Force, performing songs from the Second World War and from the ‘Last Night of the Proms’. She is currently preparing for a series of Recitals next year. NICOLA GRUNBERG, PIANO Nicola started piano lessons at the age of five. She spent some years as Fanny Waterman’s pupil before going to the Royal College of Music where her teachers were Lamar Crowson and Kendal Taylor. After graduating from College she continued her studies with Professor Enrique Barenboim in Israel. She has performed extensively as soloist, chamber musician and accompanist, appearing in all major venues in London and throughout the UK. She was married to the distinguished violist Cecil Aronowitz, and in 1976 they gave the first British performance of Shostakovich’s last work, the Sonata for Viola and Piano, at the Aldeburgh Festival in the presence of the composer’s widow. She has worked as official accompanist at the Britten-Pears School, the Mayer-Lismann Opera Centre in London, Stowe Opera, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as well as for competitions, auditions, exams and diplomas. For many years she taught at the Purcell School of Music in London, and privately has taught at all levels from beginners to diploma standard. In October 2014 Nicola was a member of the jury at the first Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition which was held at the Birmingham Conservatoire. PROGRAMME Alma grande e nobil core - Mozart Die Junge Nonne - Schubert Enfant, si j'etais roi - Liszt Ebben? Ne andro lontana - Catalani Chanson triste - Duparc Laudamus te - Mozart The Jewel Song - Gounod Zueignung - Strauss Johnny - Britten Quando m'en vo - Puccini |
| Tickets: | Free Admission with a retiring Collection. Concert lasts approximately an hour. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
