Biographies & programs
27.5.24
17:20
Lisa Newill-Smith
USA
David Wishart
UK/Scotland
Program
Franz Schubert
Auf dem See D 543 (Goethe) - 1R
Ständchen D 889 (Shakespeare)
Franz Liszt
Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S 270
1. Pace non trovo - 1R
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op.25
1. Widmung (Rückert)
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch
4. Die ihr schwebet um diese Palmen (Lope de Vega/Geibel)
39. Weint nicht, ihr Äuglein (Lope de Vega/Heyse)
Goethe-Lieder
27. Die Spröde
Anna Teichmüller
Erdenkindleins Wiegenlied Op.7 No.1 (Carl Hauptmann)
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
9. Chanson triste (Lahor) - 1R
Erich W. Korngold
Four Shakespeare Songs, Op. 31
1. Desdemona‘s Song
2. Under the Greenwood Tree
4. When Birds Do Sing - 1R
Ivor Gurney
Five Elizabethan Songs
4. Sleep (Fletscher)
Richard Strauss
Drei Lieder der Ophelia, Op.67 (Shakespeare/Simrock)
2. Guten Morgen, ´s ist Sankt Valentinstag
3. Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss
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Lisa Newill-Smith
Soprano
Year of birth:
1989
Soprano Lisa Newill-Smith is a passionate interpreter of contemporary music and music by female composers. In 2023/24 there are concerts in Milan and in the Theater Vorpommern on the program. In 2022/23 she sang works by Ullmann and Oliveros with PHØNIX16 at Märzmusik and a chamber concert with Theater Vorpommern. She has become a semi-finalist in the John Cage Award 2023.
In 2021/22 Lisa sang in the Louvre and at the Xenakis Festival at ATONAL Berlin with Phoenix16. She has performed Capriccio by Rylan Gleave and sang in the John Cage Workshop. Her other world premieres include Queen Gwenevere (Merlin, Beal), Young Woman (Absolved Passions, Wishart), Mauer Broadcast (Bielawa) and Winter Sun (Wishart).
Opera highlights include Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Echo, Gretel and Helene.
David Wishart
Pianist
David Wishart is a pianist, composer and conductor who has been working in Germany since 2014. In 2019 he was musical assistant at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the premiere of Czernowin's Heart Chamber. He has been working at the Vorpommern Theater since 2020. He has a passion for unconventional music making. At the Theater Vorpommern he has arranged several pieces, including Talk to me (2022), in which “David Wishart alternates as musical director and accompanist between piano and keyboard, sensitively and stylistically presenting the variety of different motifs.” (Opernglas). He also often performs with his partner, Lisa Newill-Smith, including on her project Women Who Composed, which explores rarely performed music by female composers.