Biographies & programs
28.5.24
14:50
Rory Green
England
George Needham
England
Program
Franz Schubert
Im Frühling, D 882 (Ernst Schulze) - 1R
Der entsühnte Orest D 699 (Johann Mayrhofer)
Ludwig v. Beethoven
Vier Arietten und ein Duett, Op.82
3. Arietta buffa "L’amante impaziente" (Pietro Metastasio)
4. Arietta assai seriosa "L’amante impaziente" (Pietro Metastasio)
Franz Liszt
Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S 270
3. Vidi in Terra angelici costumi - 1R
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op.25
1. Widmung (Friedrich Rückert)
17. Leis’ Rudern hier, mein Gondolier! (Moore/Freiligrath)
18. Wenn durch die Piazzetta (Moore/Freiligrath)
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
5. Phidylé (Leconte de Lisle) - 1R
Emile Paladilhe
Psyché (Pierre Corneille)
Edvard Grieg
Ein Schwan op.25 Nr.2 (Henrik Ibsen)
Roger Quilter
Three Shakespeare Songs, Op.6 (William Shakespeare)
2. Blow, blow thou winter wind! - 1R
Ivor Gurney
Five Elizabethan Songs
3. Under the greenwood tree (William Shakespeare)
4. Sleep (John Fletcher)
Gerald Finzi
Let Us Garlands Bring, Op.18 (William Shakespeare)
5. It Was a Lover and His Lass
Media
Rory Green
Baritone
Year of birth:
1996
Rory Green is a british-Irish baritone based in Berlin, Germany. Rory is an alumnus of the University of Oxford and the Hochschule für Musik 'Hanns Eisler' where his teachers were Thomas Quasthoff and Christine Schäfer. In the past year, he has sung in the world premieres of three operas: Peter Eötvös' Sleepless at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, German Alonso's Lovelease at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Daniel Behle's Hopfen und Malz at the Brandenburger Theater. He also jumped into a production of Luigi Nono's Io, Frammento Da Prometeo at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater. Rory Is a passionate Lied-Singer and has focused on the Lied genre throughout his development.
George Needham
Pianist
George Needham has been studying in the master's program in Prof. Matthias Kirschnereit's class at the Rostock University of Music and Theater since October 2020. He is supported by the Ad Infinitum Foundation. From the age of 16 until completing his studies at Oxford University, he studied with Sam Armstrong in London. He also studied at the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden (near Vienna). Collaborating with singers led to him being named Leeds Lieder Festival Young Artist 2019 and Britten-Pears Young Artist 2020. He won the Best Accompanist award at the 2018 AESS Courtney Kenny Song Competition.