Extra Performance in the Iris Axon Concert Series
Featuring the French soprano Clara Barbier Serrano with pianist Joanna Kacperek
Picture: Clara Barbier Serrano
October 18, 2023
There is an extra event in the Iris Concert Series this month with a performance by French soprano Clara Barbier Serrano.
She will be accompanied by pianist Joanna Kacperek at 4pm on Saturday 21 October at Acton Hill Church.
Clara Barbier Serrano is currently an Oxford Lieder Young Artist, part of the Académie Jaroussky’s Jeunes Talents scheme, as well as taking an Artist Diploma in contemporary music and creation at the Conservatoire de Paris. She graduated from the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio in 2022 with Alison Wells, where she received the first Andrea Bocelli Foundation – Community Jameel Scholarship. She completed her Bachelor in vocal performance at the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig.
Born in Montpellier, Clara played the violin, and studied music theory and languages before specialising in singing. She is a laureate of the Concours de Béziers and concours de Gordes, the Vrienden van het Lied award in the International Lied Duo competition and 2nd prize of the Lies Askonas competition.
The programme for the concert is as follows:
Hugo Wolf, Der Knabe und das Immlein (E. Mörike)
Marguerite Canal, « Les trois Princesses », La Flûte de jade, n° 4 (F. Toussaint)
Claude Debussy, Coquetterie posthume (T. Gautier)
Richard Strauss, Frühlingsgedränge, op. 26/1 (N. Lenau)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Dans un bois solitaire, K. 308 (A. Houdard de la Motte)
Gérard Pesson, N’allez pas au bois (M. Ravel)
Édouard Lalo, Dieu qui sourit et nous donne (V. Hugo)
Frank Bridge, Golden hair (J. Joyce)
Robert Schumann, Warnung, op. 119 (G. Pfarrius)
Ingeborg von Bronsart, Loreley (H. Heine)
Isabelle Aboulker, L’Inconstante (C. Cros)
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Gustav Mahler, « Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? », Des Knaben Wundernhorn (A. von Arnim-C. Brentano)
Franz Schubert :
Versunken, D. 715 (J. W. von Goethe)
Delfine, D. 857/2 (W. von Schütz)
Robert Schumann:« Liebeslied », Lieder und Gesänge, op. 51/5 (J.W. Goethe)
Richard Strauss, Amor (C. Brentano)
Samuel Barber, Nuvoletta (J. Joyce)
Alberto Ginastera :
Canción al árbol del olvido (S. F. Valdés)
« Gato », Canciones populares Argentinas, op. 10/5
The founder and organiser of the series Jane Schopf says, "I do hope you will able to join us for this very special concert."
Iris Axon Concert Series Schedule 2023/24
2023
November 5th Lewis Kingsley – piano
December 3rd Neus Perris Ferrer - piano
2004
January 7th Amber Emson – violin
February 4th Evgeny Soifertis - piano
March 3rd Alice Jones (cello),Tara Clifford (piano)
April 7th Joanna Kacperek –piano
May 5th Stavroula Thoma – piano
June 2nd Lance Mok – piano
July 7th Susie Gibbons – soprano
Now in its seventeenth year, the Iris Axon Concert Series is an annual season of short (60-70 minute) monthly recitals on Sunday afternoons at the Acton Hill Church. The series was started by Music Director Jane Schopf in 2004 to provide a venue for young musicians starting on their professional careers, many of whom have subsequently enjoyed international success in competitions and on the concert platform. The series has continued to grow and now attracts established international artists as well.
Originally called the Acton Classical Music Concert Series, it was re-named in 2009 in memory of one of its most loyal supporters, Iris Axon, who made possible the purchase of a concert grand, handmade by Clive Pinkham.
The church is deemed ideal for concerts as it has the largest unsupported wooden barrel-vault ceiling in London which brings out the middle harmonics, creating a luxuriously warm sound.
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