Lunchtime Concert: Hugh Cutting (countertenor) & George Ireland (piano)
Join us for Howdenshire Music’s sixth lunchtime concert of the year, featuring BBC New Generation Artist Hugh Cutting and award-winning pianist George Ireland!
“The fast-rising countertenor Hugh Cutting undoubtedly has an exceptional voice: lustrous and rounded, with power in reserve and immaculate intonation” – The Times
“Spectacular, sensitive and vivid accompaniment” – The Latest
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Programme: MORPHEUS
Burgon This Lunar Beauty
Cavalli ‘Erne e solinghe cime’ from La Calisto
Purcell ‘One charming night’ from The Fairy Queen
Britten ‘My gentle Puck… ‘ from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Howells Goddess of Night
Britten ‘I know a bank’ from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Schubert Erlkönig
Rodney Bennett ‘Baby baby’ from Songs Before Sleep
Britten ‘This is thy negligence…’ from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Debussy Chansons de Bilitis
Rodney Bennett Dream Songs
Bolcom Song of Black Max
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Hugh Cutting is a graduate of the Royal College of Music where he was a member of the International Opera Studio. On graduating, he was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal, presented by King Charles III. In the autumn of 2021, Hugh became the first countertenor to win the Kathleen Ferrier Award and to become a BBC New Generation Artist (2022-24).
During his first professional season in 2022/23 Hugh made his debut at Opernhaus Zürich singing Monteverdi, made his debut at Wigmore Hall, and sang Bach’s St Matthew Passion at Carnegie Hall with Bernard Labadie and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, marking his U.S. debut. In the 2024/25 season he makes his debut at La Scala Milan singing Corindo in Cesti’s Orontea, makes his U.S. opera debut in the title role of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, his Australian debut singing Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare for Pinchgut Opera and Unulfo in Handel’s Rodelinda at the Garsington Festival.
George Ireland is in demand as a recital partner with some of the finest singers of his generation. From a working-class, non-musical home, he began to play the piano from scratch, self-taught at the age of 14. He is now 29 and recently graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music.
George accompanied soprano Oksana Lepska’s winning recitals at the 2022 National Mozart Competition in London, and the Kathleen Ferrier Award-winning recitals of countertenor Hugh Cutting and soprano Jessica Cale in 2021 and 2020. With Hugh Cutting he has enjoyed live performances on Radio 3’s In Tune, recording at BBC’s Maida Vale Studios, a greatly-acclaimed recital at the Brighton Festival and a recital on the harpsichord at the Theatre Grévin in Paris.
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Advance booking for this concert is optional but recommended.
Event Details
Doors Open at 12:40PM
From 1:00PM to 2:00PM
Location
Howden Minster, East Yorkshire, DN14 7BS
