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Jonathan Lemalu (baritone) January 24, 2005 PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia Jonathan Lemalu, a New Zealand born Samoan, is already among the very forefront of today's young generation of singers. He graduated from a Postgraduate Diploma Course in Advanced Performance on the London Royal Schools Opera Course at the Royal College of Music and was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier award and the recipient of the 2002 Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Young Artist of the Year. Already in great demand in opera and on the concert platform, he has performed at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Mozart's Requiem) and at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven's Symphony No.9) under Conlon. At the Edinburgh Festival he has appeared in Les Troyens under Runnicles, and in Maria Stuarda and Jeptha under Mackerras. |
| Recent engagements include La
Damnation de Faust and Peter Grimes with the London Symphony Orchestra
under Sir Colin Davis in London and New York, La Damnation de Faust with
the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Dutoit, and the world premiere of
Harbison's Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Bernard
Haitink in Boston and New York. He has made his debuts with the English
National Opera as Don Basilio (The Barber of Seville), Opera Australia as
Leporello (Don Giovanni), the Bayerische Staatsoper as the Ghost of Samuel
(Saul), at Glyndebourne Festival opera as Neptune (Idomeneo) - and where
he returned as Papageno - and at the Royal Opera House as Zoroastro
(Orlando).
Equally at home on the recital platform, he has given recitals throughout Europe and North America, taking him to Cologne, Athens, Birmingham, Amsterdam, Salzburg, Brussels, Baden-Baden, Vienna, Montreal, Vancouver, Atlanta, San Francisco, Washington, to New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Wigmore Hall and to the Munich and Edinburgh Festivals. His EMI debut recital disc was awarded the Gramophone Magazine Debut Artist of the Year award. He is a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme and a recipient of a 2003 Borletti-Buitoni Trust award. | |
 | Malcolm Martineau (piano) Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music. He has presented his own series at St John's Smith Square (the complete songs of Debussy and Poulenc), the Wigmore Hall (a Britten series broadcast by the BBC) and at the Edinburgh Festival (the complete lieder of Hugo Wolf). He has appeared throughout Europe (including La Scala, Milan; the Chatelet, Paris; the Liceu, Barcelona; Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein), North America (including in New York both Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall), Australia (including the Sydney Opera House) and at the Aix?en?Provence, Vienna, Edinburgh, Schubertiade, Munich and Salzburg Festivals. Recent recording projects have included Schubert, Schumann and English song recitals with Bryn Terfel (for Deutsche Grammophon), Schubert and Strauss recitals with Simon Keenlyside (for EMI), recital records with Angela Gheorghiu and Barbara Bonney (for Decca), Magdalena Kozena (for DG) and Della Jones (for Chandos), the complete Faure songs with Sarah Walker and Tom Krause, the complete Britten Folk Songs for Hyperion, and the complete Beethoven Folk Songs for Deutsche Grammophon. |
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Malcolm Martineau has accompanied many of the world's leading singers and instrumentalists, notably Dame Janet Baker, Sarah Walker, Della Jones, Frederica von Stade, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Hampson, Angela Gheorghiu, Olaf Bar, Karita Mattila, Solveig Kringelborn, Michael Schade and Ian Bostridge. His current and future recitals include appearances with Amanda Roocroft, Barbara Bonney, Joan Rodgers, Michael Schade, Sir Thomas Allen, Ann Murray, Susan Graham, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Jonathan Lemalu, Simon Keenlyside, Magdalena Kozena and Bryn Terfel. | |