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DTSTART:20141009T121000Z
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SUMMARY:Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Shakespeare à la Russe:
  Voice and Piano
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DESCRIPTION:Frédéric Albou (bass-baritone) Michelle Assay (piano)\n\nprog
 ramme to include:\nSonnet Settings by Shostakovich\, Weinberg\, Kabalevs
 ky and Sviridov\n\nRussian composers have a long and distinguished histo
 ry of engagement with Shakespeare. Today the fine French bass-baritone F
 rédéric Albou is joined by pianist Michelle Assay in settings of the Bar
 d’s sonnets by Soviet composers Shostakovich\, Weinberg\, Kabalevsky and
  Sviridov.\n\n\nFrédéric Albou (bass-baritone) \nA passionate and intens
 e singing actor\, the Parisian bass-baritone Frédéric Albou’s exceptiona
 lly diverse repertoire encompasses Ancient Greek music (with Ensemble Ké
 rylos)\, Renaissance polyphony (with the Huelgas Ensemble)\, baroque mus
 ic (with the Concert Spirituel)\, bel canto opera (Handel\, Pergolesi\, 
 Mozart\, Rossini)\, romantic opera (roles such as Sparafucile\, Amonasro
 \, Wotan\, Zurga\, Gremin\, Count des Grieux)\, modern opera (Kurt Weill
 \, Benjamin Britten\, Hans Werner Henze\, Carlisle Floyd\, John Adams an
 d Christophe Belletante whose Tristan was recently revived with Albou in
  the title role)\, Lieder (e.g. Schubert’s Winterreise)\, songs in vario
 us languages (notably romances by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov\, as well 
 as the little known Vladimir Enke) and sacred music. As a soloist his pr
 imary focus is on premieres and neglected scores and composers. \n\n\nMi
 chelle Assay was born in Tehran and studied in Kiev at the Tchaikovsky A
 cademy\, graduating with a Master’s degree in piano performance\, musico
 logy\, pedagogy and criticism. After a year in Canada\, working mainly a
 s actress and piano teacher/performer\, she returned to Europe to work w
 ith Carine Gutlerner at the Erik Satie Conservatoire in Paris\, where sh
 e obtained her DE (Diplôme d’Etat) and was laureate at international com
 petitions. At Manchester University she has been performing with Quatuor
  Danel and in piano duo/duet with David Fanning. Her multi-cultural back
 ground is reflected in the breadth of her taste and repertoire\, and in 
 her innovative approach to teaching. \nMichelle Assay is currently study
 ing at the Sorbonne\, where she completed her MPhil with a dissertation 
 on Mieczys?aw Weinberg’s relationship with Shostakovich\, and where she 
 is now working on a doctoral study on the topic of Hamlet in Russian Mus
 ic and Visual Arts. As well as the Sorbonne\, Michelle Assay is a PhD ca
 ndidate at the University of Sheffield\, Russian and Slavonic Studies. S
 he is also collaborating with David Fanning on a biography of Weinberg a
 nd on a major survey of the Symphony in the Soviet Union.\n
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall\, Martin Harris Centre for Music and
  Drama\, Manchester
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