“Women in Song”
– including
Haydn: Arianna a Naxos
Robert Schumann: Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, op. 135
Clara Schumann: Various
Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons de Bilitis
Madeleine Dring: From Seven Shakespeare Songs
Helen Charlston won first prize in the 2018 London Handel
Singing Competition and was a finalist in the 2019 Grange Festival
International Singing Competition. She won the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize in
the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and is a BBC New Generation Artist. Helen was
a founder participant of the Rising Star of the Enlightenment programme,
working alongside the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She is a member of
Les Arts Florissants Young Artist Programme (Jardin des Voix) for 2021/22; and
is a 2018 City Music Foundation Artist.
Described as ‘an amazingly talented pianist’ by Musica,
Emma Abbate performs with many of the leading singers and instrumentalists of
her generation. Based in London, Emma is a professor at the Guildhall School of
Music & Drama, a staff coach at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and
has taught at the Verbier Festival Academy. Following her graduation from the
S. Pietro a Majella Conservatoire in Naples and an Advanced Diploma from the S.
Cecilia Conservatoire in Rome, Emma completed her studies at the Royal Academy
of Music, from where she graduated with distinction. She has been elected an
Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of her ‘significant
contribution’ thus far to the music profession.
