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Hannah Morley (mezzo-soprano)

Hannah Morley (mezzo-soprano)

RBC Musicians

Date and time
23 Sep 2024 (1:05pm - 2:00pm)
Location

Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

Free - booking required

Booking Information

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Mezzo-soprano Hannah Morley

Hannah Morley mezzo-soprano
Michael Rose piano

Fauré Chanson d'amour
Chaminade Ma première lettre
Debussy Beau soir
Debussy Nuits d’étoiles
Koechlin Ephiphanie
Vaughan Williams Four last songs
Elgar There are seven that pull the thread
Elgar Pleading
Grieg Sechs Lieder Op.48

Mezzo-Soprano Hannah Morley is about to complete her studies for an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal and Operatic Performance at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She studies with Louise Crane and is generously supported by the Conservatoire’s Scholarship Scheme.

Hannah is a Britten Pears Young Artist (2024-2025), a Leeds Lieder Young Artist (2022), and an Emerging Artist for Clonter Opera Theatre (2022).

Hannah is the winner of several prizes including, The Edward Brooks English Song Prize, The Edward Brooks Lieder Prize, The Stuart Cameron-Smith French Song Prize, The Elizabeth Rollason Award, The Ashleyan Opera Prize the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Singing Prize and The Gil Rodriguez Scholarship award (Opéra de Baugé).

Notable operatic roles include Filipyevna in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Hampstead Garden Opera), The Gingerbread Witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (RBC), Madame de la Haltière in Massenet’s Cendrillon (RBC). Mercédès in Bizet’s Carmen (St.Pauls Opera), The Book of Fate/Old Woman in Dove’s The Enchanted Pig (RBC), Marthe Schwerlein Faust (Arcadian Opera), and Madge Williams in Stephen Mcneff’s Banished (RBC).

Michael Rose is a versatile British pianist, and collaborator, a recent graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama repetiteur course after having achieved a First Class undergraduate degree in Piano Performance at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire studying with Mikhail Kazakevich.

At RBC, Michael cultivated a passion for opera, assisting in the preparation of the spring 2022 production of Banished by Stephen McNeff and the Summer 2022 production of Les arts florissants by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Before this, he was repetiteur for the 2021 production of Coraline’by Mark-Anthony Turnage and has also participated in playing for operatic scenes.

At Guildhall, Michael was repetiteur for the Spring 2023 production of Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie and was assistant conductor for the spring 2024 première of A Star Next to the Moon by Stephen McNeff and the summer 2024 production of Alcina by Handel. Michael has also worked with Cumbria Opera Group for their 2021 double-bill of Samuel Barber’s Hand of Bridge and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti as well as Birmingham Opera Company with their production of Hanns Eisler’s The Decision.

Running time approx. 55 minutes

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