An Evening of Song and Opera

	An Evening of Song and Opera Featuring opera scenes and arias by Mozart, Donizetti, Tchaikovsky, and Gilbert and Sullivan; as well as songs by John Dowland Sunday, July 26th 2009, 7:15 pm Jennifer Tatnall (soprano) Dominick Felix (tenor) Dionysios Kyropoulos (bass) with Timothy Lewis Thornton (piano) Toby Friend (guitar) Admission Free St. Philip's Church Avondale Square London SE1 5PD View Larger Map
	Programme: I saw my lady weep (Dowland) Can she excuse my wrongs (Dowland) Ich gehe, doch rate ich dir (Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail) Lenski's Aria (Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin) Wer hungrig bei der Tafel sitzt (Mozart, Zaide) Vedrai carino (Mozart, Don Giovanni) Voglio dire (Donizetti, L' Elisir d' Amore) Piano Sonata No 59 in Eb Major - 1st Movement, Allegro (Haydn) Soll ich dich Teurer (Mozart, Die Zauberflöte) Flow my tears (Dowland) Humour say what mak'st thou here (Dowland) INTERMISSION Dalla sua pace (Mozart, Don Giovanni) No. 1 and No. 2 Duettino (Mozart, Marriage of Figaro) Dominick's aria Spiegarti (Mozart, Idomeneo) Duet (Gilbert and Sullivan) Nun, liebes Weibchen (Mozart, Der Stein der Weisen) Dominick's Aria Cosa sento (Mozart, Nozze di Figaro) Running time: Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes including 15 minutes intermission.
	Biographies:
	From left to right: Dominick Felix (tenor), Dionysios Kyropoulos (bass) and Jennifer Tatnall (soprano)
	Jennifer Tatnall studies with Guildhall vocal tutor Kate Paterson and with Peter Crockford at City Opera. For City Opera this year her roles include Despina (Cosi Fan Tutte), 1st Witch (Dido and Aeneas), Gianetta (L’Elisir d’Amore) and Angelica (Orlando) in their staged opera scenes. She performed with professional company Mantissa Opera as a young artist for 3 years before taking a more substantial role in their concerts and operas. Her main fully staged role was Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), and in opera highlights, her roles include Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Josephine (HMS Pinafore), Patience (Patience) and Pitti-sing (Mikado). Exciting full roles for Mantissa in 2009/2010 to include Frasquita (Carmen) and Despina (Cosi Fan Tutte). Jennie has also played the role of Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) for the University of Sussex Opera Society and First Spirit (Die Zauberflöte) for Village Opera. She was also a soloist with the Brompton Music Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah. Dominick Felix has appeared in Jonathan Dove’s Tobias and the Angel and in Alternative Opera’s The Bat’s Revenge. He is a member of the Philharmonia Chorus; recent performances include Elijah for the Welsh Proms, Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony No.3 and the world premiere recording of Frederic Chaslin’s Wuthering Heights. Dominick studies with Adrian Thompson and has been admitted to the Guildhall school of Music and Drama for Vocal Studies in autumn 09. Dionysios Kyropoulos was born in Veria, Greece. He started studying singing at the Filippos Nakas Conservatoire in Athens, and acting in the Theatre of Changes drama school. He has sung with The Athens Singers in Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and has performed as a soloist in the oratorio Kosmas o Aitolos by Mimis Plessas. In 2007 he was awarded a scholarship by Panos4Life Society to continue his music studies abroad, and having come to London, he is now studying with Robert Dean. He is also a student on the City Opera course this year at City Lit, for which his roles include Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), Zoroastro (Orlando), Colline (La Boheme) and Sergeant (Pirates of Pezance). Dionysios has been touring with the Unexpected Opera company in the Barber of Savile Row, and is currently preparing to sing in the Longborough Festival Opera production of La Boheme this summer. For more information and updated biography please visit: www.kyropoulos.com
	Timothy Lewis Thornton grew up in West Somerset, where he was taught piano by Keith Jones and, briefly, by Kenneth Weir. In 2004 he was Young Recitalist in the 40th Exmoor Music Festival. In 2005 he attended Uppingham National Young Pianist Week and was selected as one of four laureates for a London recital; the following year he returned to Uppingham as Composer in Residence, and workshopped his piece Two Aubades and a Lullaby with the Gould Trio. Timothy began a music degree at Pembroke College, Cambridge, but pursued other interests (among them bookbinding, crossword-setting, and running a small poetry press); since then he has continued to give solo and chamber concerts and work with singers, accompanying and coaching. He recently acted as repetiteur for a production of Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen conducted by Tom Seligman.
		Toby Friend started playing guitar at fifteen, taking a particular interest in Spanish and Latin-American music. As well as classical guitar, he has performed with acoustic and electric guitar for classical and popular music concerts. Toby is also a French horn player and has studied at Junior Guildhall and toured with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland in England, Holland and Germany. Currently, Toby is writing and recording music for Wheal Prosper, a jazz-rock duet formed of electric guitar and drums.