Lunchtime Music
Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
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Michael Rose piano
Mozart Sonata in C major, K. 330
Scarlatti Sonata in B minor, K.87
Scarlatti Sonata in E major, K. 380
Abigail Baylis soprano
Michael Rose piano
Parry My heart is like a singing bird
Poulenc Fiancailles pour rire
Grieg Zur Rosenzeit
Grieg Ein Traum
The popular Lunchtime Music series resumes with an hour-long concert of music for piano and voice. A genteel sonata by Mozart is followed by two from Scarlatti – the first introspective, the second a playful classic. Then, pianist Michael Rose is joined by soprano Abigail Baylis for a selection of songs of love and longing, a betrothal for fun, heartbreak and a dream come true.
Michael Rose (pictured) is a versatile British pianist and répétiteur, a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s répétiteur course, following a First-Class degree in Piano Performance from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he studied with Mikhail Kazakevich.
He has cultivated a deep passion for opera, working extensively as a répétiteur, assistant conductor, and music director across the UK. Operatic credits include Banished, Coraline, Les arts florissants, Albert Herring (RBC); Dead Man Walking, A Star Next to the Moon, Alcina, Savitri, Opera Makers, (GSMD); Trouble in Tahiti, A Hand of Bridge (Cumbria Opera); The Decision, Woman.life.song, New Year (Birmingham Opera) and The Quest (LYO).
Originally from Saltaire, soprano Abigail Baylis is passionate about opera. Her role experience includes: Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring, Britten, RBC), Cousin (Madame Butterfly, Puccini, CBSO), Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck, RBC), Adelaide (The Enchanted Pig, Jonathan Dove, RBC), Pepík (Cunning Little Vixen, Janáček, RBA), Spirit Number Five (Cendrillon, Massenet, RBC).
Abigail is an avid oratorio singer with her repertoire including Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Haydn’s Nelson Mass.
Competition successes include, first place in the 2024 Edward Brooks Lieder Prize, finalist in the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Ambache Prize 2022, Edward Brooks English Song Prize 2022 and the inaugural Birmingham Festival Choral Society Oratorio Prize 2023.
Abigail began her singing journey in the Opera North Children’s Choir and is currently studying for her postgraduate degree at RBC and is tutored by Catherine Benson.
Running time approx. 55 minutes