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Born in Macedonia, Ema Nikolovska grew up in Toronto where she studied voice with Helga Tucker and violin at The Glenn Gould School. She received her Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and completed the Opera Course in 2020. In 2019 Ema was selected as a BBC New Generation Artist and was a prize-winner at the YCAT International Auditions held at Wigmore Hall. She also won 1st Prize at the International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards. On the concert platform, she takes the role of Tangia in Gluck’s Le Cinesi with Les Musiciens du Louvre, and gives recitals at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Wigmore Hall, Heidelberger-Frühling Festival, Salzburg Mozartwoche, Schubertíada Barcelona and Berlin Konzerthaus. She collaborates with Malcolm Martineau, Wolfram Rieger, Sir Andràs Schiff and Barry Shiffman, among many others.
Sought after as a song accompanist and chamber musician, Jonathan Ware has appeared at major venues across Europe including the Théâtre des Champs-Elysée, Berlin Staatsoper, Bordeaux Opera and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He has performed at Wigmore Hall with Elsa Dreisig, Robin Tritschler and Timothy Ridout (viola), and in the United States, where he gave recitals at Carnegie Hall with Golda Schulz, the Kennedy Center with Brenda Rae, and the University of California with Luca Pisaroni. Other highlights included the release of recordings with Elsa Dreisig for Warner, Ludwig Mittelhammer for Berlin Classics and Bayerisches Rundfunk, and Sharon Carty for Genuin. Texas born, Jonathan now resides in Berlin where he teaches at the Hochschule ‘Hanns Eisler’ and Barenboim-Said Academy. He regularly attends the Verbier Festival Academy and Samling Institute as mentor. In 2014 he was a prize winner at the YCAT International Auditions.
Program Notes:
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PROGRAM
Johannes Brahms
0:18 Wie Melodien zieht es mir, Op. 105, No. 1
2:26 Lerchengesang, Op. 70, No. 2
5:27 Der Gang zum Liebchen, Op. 48, No. 1
6:49 Ständchen, Op. 106, No. 1
Amy Beach
8:36 Ich sagte nicht
Three Browning Songs, Op. 44
11:09 The Year’s at the Spring
12:09 Ah Love but a Day!
15:49 I Send my Heart up to Thee
Claude Debussy
Trois chansons de Bilitis
18:44 La flûte de Pan
21:49 La Chevelure
25:40 Le Tombeau des naïades
Hugo Wolf
28:52 Nachtzauber
33:18 Nimmersatte Liebe
35:23 Auf einer Wanderung
Maurice Ravel
Histoires Naturelles
38:42 Le Paon
43:44 Le Grillon
47:27 Le Cygne
50:40 Le Martin-Pêcheur
54:14 La Pintade
A huge thank you to our sponsors:
Season Sponsor: The Peak Group of Companies
Series Sponsors: RBC Foundation, The Estate of Edwina and Paul Heller
Additional Support: Province of British Columbia
This concert was produced in association with Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT), and recorded at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.
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1 июн 2021
