LCM Lunchtime Concert featuring Harriet Burn (singer) - Vestry Hall …

"Brilliant and rich, comfortable even in stratospheric heights" (BBC Music Magazine), British soprano Harriet Burns is in demand for her "polished, witty, expressive and sweet toned" (the Times) singing both in recital and on stage. An acclaimed interpreter of song, Harriet has performed at Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Oxford International Song Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, International Lied Festival Zeist, Ryedale Festival and de Singel with pianists including James Baillieu, Imogen Cooper, Christopher Glynn, Graham Johnson, Sholto Kynoch, Malcolm Martineau, Joseph Middleton, Ian Tindale and Michael Pandya. 

On the operatic stage, roles include the title role in Susanna (cover, Opera North, Handel) Berta (cover, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini) for West Green House Opera, King Harald's Saga (Judith Weir) for Waterperry Opera, Sifare (cover, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Mozart) and Oriana (cover, Amadigi, Handel) for Garsington Opera. In concert, she has sung Thea Musgrave Songs for a Winter's Evening with the Southbank Sinfonia and Gabriella Teychenné, Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Dixit Dominus with Nicholas McGegan and the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead, Strauss Four Last Songs with the Oxford Millennium Orchestra, and Handel Messiah with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.  

Harriet is a laureate of numerous international competitions. Successes include 2nd prize and German Lied Award at 2022 Concours Musical International de Montréal (Art Song division), 2nd prize at the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition, the Compulsory Song Prize and Recital Prize at the International Vocal Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch and 1st prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards at the Wigmore Hall. In 2023 was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Let the bright Seraphim Handel

PROGRAMME

Geheimnis D49 Schubert

Amalia D195 Schubert

Die Männer sind méchant D866 Schubert

Lachen und weinen D777 Schubert

An Silvia D891 Schubert

Seligkeit D433 Schubert

Endless pleasure Handel

Selections from Myrthen Schumann

Widmung 

Jemand 

 Die Lotosblume

Lied der Suleika 

 Die Hochländer-Witwe 

Aus den östlichen Rosen 

Sprig of thyme trad arr. Grainger

Selections from On This Island Britten

Seascape 

Nocturne 

O waly waly trad arr. Britten

As it is plenty