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Wednesday 12 DECEMBER 2007 7.30pm
Gabriele
Viviani
Simon
BARITONE
Lepper
PIANIST
A RECITAL OF SONGS AND ARIAS
ST. JOHN’S, SMITH SQUARE
Gabriele
Simon
Viviani
Lepper
BARITONE
PIANIST
Recital programme
12th December 2007 7.30 pm
-- St. John’s Smith Square
First Part
Se vuol ballare...
Non più andrai
Hai già vinta la causa...
Tutto è disposto...
Aprite un po'quegli occhi
Le Nozze di Figaro
Deh, vieni alla finestra
Fin ch'han dal vino
Don Giovanni
W. A. Mozart
Second Part
Il fervido desiderio
Dolente imagine di Fille mia
Vaga luna che inargenti
Tre arie da Camera
Ah! per sempre...Bel sogno beato
I Puritani
Cruda, funesta smania
Lucia di Lammermoor
G. Donizetti
Si corre dal notaio
Gianni Schicchi
G. Puccini
Per me giunto è il dì supremo...
Io morrò, ma lieto in core
Don Carlos
G. Verdi
V. Bellini
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Gabriele
Viviani
BARITONE
Gabriele Viviani was born in Lucca, Italy
and studied music there under Graziano
Polidori with whom he continues to
study. At the same time, he studied the
oboe and singing at the Conservatorio
“L. Boccherini” in Lucca with Marco
Boccassini and Fiovanni Dagnino.
He achieved great success with his
portrayal of Marcello at the Teatro Carlo
Felice, Genoa and most recently received
critical acclaim there as Paolo in Verdi’s
Simon Boccanegra. He also sang Belcore
at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and
Enrico at the Teatro Comunale in Cagliari.
Gabriele has competed in numerous
international competitions and was the
winner of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
Mozart Competition where he sang the
roles of Don Giovanni and Figaro. He was
also the winner of the Mascagni prize at
the Cascina Lirica Competition, and was
a special prize and scholarship winner at
the Toti dal Monte Competition in
Treviso. As a result of this, he attended a
Masterclass with famed mezzo-soprano
Regina Resnik and shortly after debuted
as Valentin in Gounod’s Faust under the
direction of Peter Maag.
Recently he has obtained great success
singing the role of Sharpless in Madama
Butterfly in Genoa, Tokyo and Milan’s
La Scala, as well as in Donizetti’s La
Favorite and performing Le Villi in
Genoa.
Gabriele has received great acclaim for
his roles, including Belcore in L’elisir
d’amore and Malatesta in Don Pasquale.
He has also performed as Marcello in La
Bohème, Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata
and Enrico in Donizetti’s Lucia di
Lammermoor in Rome, Palermo and
Tokyo.
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His future engagements include La
Traviata and Don Carlo in Frankfurt,
La Traviata in Hamburg, L’elisir
d’amore and a new production of La
Bohème in San Francisco, Don
Pasquale in Turin and Manon Lescaut
in Genoa and Rome. Also, he will sing
Marcello in La Bohème at the Arena di
Verona, La Bohème at the Puccini
Festival in Torre del Lago and L’elisir
d’amore at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Simon
Lepper
PIANIST
Simon Lepper was born in Kent and
educated at King's College Cambridge
and the Royal Academy of Music,
London where he studied with Michael
Dussek. He obtained a Dip.RAM, the
highest award for postgraduate study, and
was subsequently awarded the Hodgson
Fellowship. He became an Associate of
the Royal Academy of Music in 2005 and
currently teaches at the RAM Junior
Department and Royal Welsh College of
Music and Drama. His Competition
successes include the Gerald Moore
Award and the accompanist prizes in the
Kathleen Ferrier, Maggie Teyte, Richard
Tauber and Royal Over-Seas League
Competitions.
Simon's recent and future performances
with singers include recitals with Cora
Burggraaf, Nicole Cabell, Karen Cargill,
Ronan Collett, Lucy Crowe, Gillian
Keith, Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, Andrew
Kennedy, Sally Matthews, Robert
Murray, Mark Padmore, Felicity Palmer,
Kate Royal, James Rutherford, Bryn
Terfel, Adrian Thompson, Ailish Tynan,
Elizabeth Watts and Roderick Williams.
Simon is frequently heard on BBC Radio
3. Broadcasts have included recitals live
from the Wigmore Hall with Andrew
Kennedy, Sally Matthews, Ailish Tynan
and James Rutherford with Karen Cargill,
Sally Matthews, Robert Murray, James
Rutherford and Hyunah Yu for the Voices
series, Die Schöne Mullerin with Jared Holt
and a recital of English Song with Roderick
Williams. This season for the BBC he has
given a recital with Roderick Williams at
the Royal Scottish Academy and
recorded Hugh Wood's Song Cycle on texts
by Robert Graves written for him and
Andrew Kennedy.
Simon has recorded a CD of Debussy's
early songs with the soprano Gillian Keith
on the Deux-Elles label and a disc of
Warlock songs with Andrew Kennedy for
Landor Records, which was released in
November 2006. He has also recorded a
CD with violinist Carolin Widmann of
Works by Feldman, Zimmerman, Xenakis and
Schoenberg for ECM Records.
Recent engagements have included
recitals with Carolin Widmann at the
Cologne
Philharmonie,
Mozarteum
Salzburg and Heidelberg Spring Festival,
performances of Winterreise with Mark
Padmore and a recital for the Rosenblatt
Recital Series with Cardiff Singer of the
World, Nicole Cabell.
Future performances include a BBC
recital with Ronan Collett for the City of
London Festival, recitals in Holland with
Cora Burggraaf, in Warsaw with Mark
Padmore, in Ischia with Felicity Palmer
and with Sally Matthews, James
Rutherford and Elizabeth Watts. In
April he began his own series, ‘Spring
Voices’, at the National Portrait Gallery
featuring outstanding young singers from
British Conservatoires.
Simon is an official accompanist for the
BBC Singer of the World Rosenblatt
Song Prize and will return to the Verbier
Festival this summer to co-ordinate and
play for the vocal masterclasses given by
Thomas Quasthoff and Teresa Berganza.
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