Song Recital
Ziad
Nehme, Tenor
François Salignat, Piano
Assembly
Hall
Wednesday 12th of May 2010
7 pm
program
Robert
Schumann (1810 – 1856)
Liederkreis,
op. 24
1.
Morgens
steh’ ich auf und frage
2.
Es
treibt mich hin, es treibt mich her
3.
Ich
wandelte under den Bäumen
4.
Lieb’
Liebchen
5.
Schöne
Wiege meiner Leiden
6.
Warte,
warte, wilder Schiffmann
7.
Berg
und Burgen schau’n herunter
8.
Anfangs
wollt’ ich fast verzagen
9.
Mit Myrthen und
Rosen
Die
beiden Grenadier, op. 49
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Intermission, 10 minutes ---------
Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
Canticle I for High Voice and Piano, op. 40,
My Beloved is Mine
W.A. Mozart, (1756 – 1791)
Two French Songs
Oiseaux, si tous les ans, K308
Dans un bois solitaire et sombre,
K308
Three German Songs
Abendsempfindung,
K523
Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte,
K520
Trennungslied,
K519
From Idomeneo, K366: Torna la pace al core
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The
Performers
Ziad Nehme,
Tenor,
is from Tripoli, Lebanon. He attended the Lebanese National Conservatory of
Music in Beirut and studied singing with Prof. Kevork Karametelian. He graduated
with honors in Voice and then completed the masters’ in opera at the Mozarteum
in Salzburg. Since November 2008, Ziad has been a member of the International
Opera Studio at the Hamburg State Opera, and continues his vocal studies with
countertenor Andrew Watts.
Ziad is equally at
home on the operatic and the concert platform; performances have taken him to
major performance venues in Europe, as well as the Middle East and his native
Lebanon. Concerts have included solos in Haydn's Great Organ Mass, Mozart's
Solemn Vespers, Credo Mass and Coronation Mass, Schubert's E-Flat Major Mass,
Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Magnificat, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy.
Recitals have included Schubert's Winterreise with pianist Vartan Agopian
in Beirut and Schönberg’s Brettl Lieder in Hamburg.
Ziad's operatic roles have included
Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at the Al-Ain, UAE, Festival, Basilio (Le
nozze di Figaro) at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and Nerone in Handel's
Agrippina in Hamburg. As a member of the International Opera Studio, Ziad
is currently performing roles at the Hamburg State Opera, including Balthasar
Zorn (Die Meistersinger), St-Brioche (Die Lustige Witwe),
Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Albazar
(Il Turco in Italia), Hotel Porter (Death in Venice), Scribe
(Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina),
Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor), Albazar
(Il Turco in Italia), and Spoletta (Tosca).
He has appeared as a soloist with the
Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra, The Mozarteum Orchestra (Salzburg), The
Lehar Orchestra (Bad Ischl), The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and The Hamburg
Philharmonic Orchestra, and has performed under such notable conductors as
Simone Young, Michael Schonwandt, Vince Mendoza, Alessandro De Marchi, Stefan
Soltesz and Dennis Russell Davies. Ziad is an
alumnus of the American University of Beirut, and graduated in 2006 with an MS
in Mathematics.
François Salignat,
pianist, studied in France,
winning two first prizes in Lyon and Rueil-Malmaison, and completing a master’s
in mathematics, François Salignat began a postgraduate course at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama in 2004, where he received the master’s degree in
2005, and a fellowship in 2006-2007. At Guildhall, he studied with with Gordon
Bak, Graham Johnson, Iain Burnside, Malcolm Martineau, Rudolf Jansen and Martin
Katz. He is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears program in Aldeburgh, and
participated in Graham Johnson’s Young Songmakers’ Almanach program. In 2005
and 2006, Salignat won both the Birmingham Accompanist of the Year and the
Gerald Moore awards.
He has performed as a collaborative pianist at St-Luke’s,
St-Martin-in-the-Fields, St John Smith’s square, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall,
and at the City of London and Chester festivals. His performance of the complete
Duparc songs with Katherine Broderick and Marc Scoffoni has been recorded for
the UK’s Performance Channel, and he is presently involved in a recording of the
songs of Otto Klemperer.
As a soloist and chamber musician he performs in Europe in various ensembles,
from duos to chamber orchestras, including the European Union Youth Orchestra
and Vladimir Askhenazi, with whom he has toured in 2006 in Strauss’ Le
Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg. François
recently performed Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto with the Knighton Chamber
Orchestra in Leicester, and Mozart’s 25th piano concerto in Aix-en-Provence.
After completing his opera coaching studies at the National Opera Studio in
2007, he worked with leading British opera companies, and is now a répétiteur
at the Staatsoper Hamburg, and senior vocal coach at the Guildhall school. A
strong advocate of contemporary repertoire, he has worked with composers such as
John McCabe, Menachem Wiesenberg, Peter Maxwell-Davies and James McMillan.
Future projects include Schumann’s piano concerto in Leicester, solo recitals in
Hamburg and France and a recording of Honegger’s piano music for Peyrolle
Records.
