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After a busy end to the last year, 2012 is gearing up to be equally as interesting with projects such as the WOW (Women of the World) Festival at the Royal Festival Hall and performances at the Cambridge Early Music Festival with La Nuova Musica before getting into the studio to start a new recording of Handel and Vivaldi for Harmonia Mundi as part of their series with La Nuova Musica. As well as a new 'Outreach' project with the Bach Choir, there are concerts coming up in Norway with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Kraemer (Bach 'St. John Passion'), Monteverdi 'Vespers', Pergolesi 'Stabat Mater' and concerts with the Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr and Nederlands Kammerchor ('Messiah'), Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh ('The Fairy Queen' for the Spitalfields and Beaune Festivals), the Bach Choir (Bach 'B Minor Mass') and recording the 'Canticle of the Rose' (Joseph Phibbs) for NMC with the Navarra Quartet. Further ahead lies the long-awaited opera 'Under Milk Wood' by John Metcalfe for a Taliesin Arts and Companion Star, New York co-production (as Lily Smalls), which gets under way this year.
Last year ended as excitingly as it began with concerts at the Royal Festival Hall (the fantastically theatrical 'Messiah by Candlelight' in full 18th-century costume); Bach at the Colston Hall (with Mark Padmore) and appearing alongside Sir Willard White in the highly-acclaimed production by Patrick Kinmonth of Bach 'St. Matthew Passion' for 'Vocal Futures' (Suzi Digby) with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
In the autumn I was back at Glyndebourne - this time with the education department - for an outreach project with Glyndebourne and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Handel 'Rinaldo Reworked') and then to Madrid to work again with Paul McCreesh - as 'Amore' - with the Spanish National Orchestra for Gluck 'Orphee et Eurydice' at the Teatro Auditorio (with Ann Hallenburg as a glorious Orpheo and Carolyn Sampson as a gorgeous Euridice). The concert was broadcast live on Spanish National Radio. I was then on to Switzerland as soloist in the Lausanne Bach Festival in Bach 'St. Matthew Passion' (Gabrieli Consort). In the summer I was soloist in the Presteigne Festival (performing three world premieres and a BBC Radio 3 broadcast); soloist in The Three Choirs Festival, Worcester (Beethoven 'Mass in C' and Gala Concert with Sir Thomas Allen with the Philharmonia Orchestra). I also had two London venue debuts as soloist- at the Wigmore Hall (Bach 'Cantatas,' also on BBC Radio 3) with the Academy of Ancient Music and at St. John's, Smith Square for Cecilia McDowall's 60th birthday concert ('Radnor Songs') followed by an Aldeburgh Festival debut with La Nuova Musica (see a video clip here). The excitement at the start of the year involved two last-minute "step-ins" as soloist for the Gabrieli Consort's Spanish tour of 'Messiah' and as soloist in the annual Bach 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Royal Festival Hall with the Bach Choir and Florilegium conducted by David Hill (for BBC Radio 3).
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