Biographies & programs
28.5.24
17:00
Anna Graf
Russia
Wan-Yen Li
Taiwan
Program
Franz Schubert
Auf dem See D 543 (Goethe) - 1R
Mio ben ricordati D 688 (Metastasio)
Verklärung D 59 (Pope/Herder)
Der Musensohn D 764 (Goethe)
Giacchino Rossini
Soirées musicales
La promessa "Ch ́io mai vi possa amare" (Metastasio)
Franz Liszt
Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S 270
1. Pace non trovo
2. Benedetto sia l´giorno - 1R
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op.25
1. Widmung (Friedrich Rückert)
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch
39. Weint nicht, ihr Äuglein (Lope de Vega/Heyse)
Mathilde Kralik von Meyerswalden
Jugend Lieder
1. Morgengesang (Shakespeare)
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
1. L ́invitation au voyage (Charles Baudelaire)
4. Extase (Lahor) - 1R
Edvard Grieg
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall (Walter v. der Vogenweide)
Ein Schwan Op. 25, Nr. 2 (Henrik Ibsen)
Ivor Gurney
Five Elizabethan Songs
3. Under the Greenwood Tree (Shakespeare) - 1R
Erich W. Korngold
Four Shakespeare Songs, Op.31
4. When birds do sing
Richard Strauss
Drei Lieder der Ophelia, Op.67 (Shakespeare/Simrock)
1. Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb
2. Guten Morgen, 's ist Sankt Valentinstag
Media
Anna Graf
Soprano
Year of birth:
1991
Anna Graf is a graduate of the Univesity of Music and Theater Cologne and the Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini in Florence. She is a prizewinner of the 31st International Singing Competition of the Rheinsberg Chamber Opera in 2022, where she sang the title role in La Semele o Sia La richiesta fatale by J. A. Hasse. From December 2019 until the end of the 2020/21 season she was a member of the young ensemble at the Aachen Theater. In June 2023, Anna Graf made her debut in the role of Controller in Jonathan Dove's opera Flight.
Anna Graf's particular passion is the art song genre. In 2022 she recorded her first CD “Fragments of a Childhood”. In 2023 she was a scholarship holder of the LiedAcademy LiedBasel.
Wan-Yen Li
Pianist
Wan Yen Li was born in Taiwan. After completing her master's degree in song design with Prof. Ulrich Eisenlohr and new piano music with Prof. Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the HfMT Cologne, she is currently studying piano solo at the HfMDK Frankfurt with Prof. Florian Hölscher and the concert exam program in song design with Prof. Stefan Irmer at the HfMT Cologne.
In 2021 she was best piano accompanist at the Brigitte Kempen Competition. In 2022 she was accepted into the Richard Wagner Association Cologne scholarship and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now funding program. In 2023-2024 you will receive the Heidelberg Spring Song Academy funding program. As an accompanist she works with numerous choirs, including: the WDR Radio Choir and Rodenkirchener KammerChor.