Biographies & programs
28.5.24
17:40
Theano Papadaki
Greece
Thomas Eeckhout
Belgium
Program
Franz Schubert
An Sylvia D 891 (Shakespeare) - 1R
Vedi quanto t´adoro D 510 (Metastasio) - 1R
Ludwig van Beethoven
Vier Ariette und ein Duett, Op.82
4. Arietta assai seriosa "L’amante impaziente" (Metastasio)
Gioacchino Rossini
Péches de vieillesse
Ariette ancienne "Que le jour me dure! (Rousseau)
Franz Liszt
Oh, quand je dors D 282 (Hugo)
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op.25
7. Die Lotosblume" (Heine)
Hugo Wolf
Goethe-Lieder
26. Die Spröde
27. Die Bekehrte
Edvard Grieg
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall Op. 48, Nr.4 (Walther von der Vogelweide)
Anna Teichmüller
Erdenkindleins Wiegenlied Op.7 Nr.1 (Carl Hauptmann)
Im Dämmer der Nacht Op.8, Nr.2 (Carl Hauptmann)
Reynaldo Hahn
A Chloris (de Viau)
Emile Paladilhe
Psyché (Corneille) - 1R
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
5. Phidelé (Leconte de Lisle)
Ivor Gurney
Five Elizabethan Songs
4. Sleep (Fletscher)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Four Shakespeare Songs, Op. 31
3. Blow, blow, thou winter wind - 1R
Richard Strauss
Drei Lieder der Ophelia Op. 67 (Shakespeare/Simrock)
1. Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb
2. Guten Morgen, ´s ist Sankt Valentinstag
3. Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss
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Theano Papadaki
Sopran
Year of birth:
1991
Born and raised in Crete, Greece, Theano Papadaki is a versatile soprano working across a range of genres, from Early Music to Contemporary, Art Song to Cabaret.
In July 2022 she graduated with a Master’s in Performance from the Vocal Department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Before coming to London, Theano graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a Master’s in Musicology and Music Education, specialising in the research, analysis, and performance of Early Music and holds Diplomas in Modern and Baroque Violin (Paris Conservatoire) and Singing (Athens Conservatoire).
In 2023/24 she joins the Monteverdi Choir as a soloist for the Project Journey Through Monteverdi's Italy, filming sacred and secular music. She is also part of their Apprentices scheme, for international tours of Bach's B Minor Mass, Berlioz's Les Troyens and Handel'sL'Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Theano has appeared in concerts curated by Julius Drake at Milton Court Concert Hall, performing Ravel’s Shéhérazade and songs by Samuel Barber. In March 2022, she participated in the performance of Énumérations by Georges Aperghis at the Onassis Foundation, Athens.
Opera scenes roles include : Blanche (A. Previn Streetcar named Desire), Gretel (E. Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel), Countess (Thea Musgrave The Voice of Ariadne), Phèdre (Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie), Romilda (Handel Serse), Polissena (Handel Radamisto), Calisto (Cavalli La Calisto), Phaedra (Cavalli L’Egisto), and Adina (Donizetti L’elisir d’amore) (GSMD); Norina (Donizetti Don Pasquale), Ilia (Mozart Idomeneo), Despina (Mozart Così fan tutte) and Giulietta (Bellini I Capuleti e I Montecchi) (Athens Conservatoire). Her work with GSMD’s Historical Performance department includes Couperin Troisième lesson de tenebres and Quatre versets, Charpentier Miserere, Cavalieri Lamentations, and works by Schütz and Bach.
Theano has sung in masterclasses with Barbara Hannigan (Musikkollegium Winterthur, Switzerland) Richard Hetherington, Julia Bullock, Kamal Khan, Adrian Kelly, Carlos Conde, Emma Kirkby, Romina Basso and Christian Curnyn and Jack LiVigni amongst others.
She is particularly interested in performing music written for voice and a string quartet or other form of chamber music ensemble and is keen to explore the dialogue between Early and Contemporary Music (a capella or chamber music).
Thomas Eeckhout
Pianist
Thomas Eeckhout (°1992, Belgium) started studying piano at the age of eight at the music academy in Gent with Rolande Spanoghe. At the age of eighteen, he started his studies with Levente Kende, Nikolaas Kende and Heidi Hendrickx at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, where he also took courses in pianoforte with Piet Kuijken and vocal accompaniment with Lucienne Van Deyck and Jozef De Beenhouwer.
In 2015, he accompanied the choir of the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, performing Ein Deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms. In 2016, he graduated with great distinction.
In 2019, soprano Lisa Willems and he were finalists in the Paola Salomon-Lindbergcompetition in Berlin.
In September 2020, he commenced postgraduate studies in piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Caroline Palmer and Bretton Brown. In his first year at Guildhall, he won the Piano Accompanist Prize. In September 2022, he graduated with great distinction and became a junior Fellow. Together with baritone George Robarts he won the second prize in the John Kerr competition.
Over the past few years, Thomas has played song recitals at venues such as Oxford Lieder, La Monnaie and the Queen Elizabeth Chapel, and has participated in masterclasses and projects led by Julia Bullock, Anne Sofie von Otter, Sir Thomas Allen, Julius Drake and Iain Burnside.
Thomas also has a great passion for teaching children, both privately and in music academies.