Forthcoming events

THE SIR ARTHUR BLISS SONG SERIES - Schubert: The Song Cycles

RECITAL 2: Monday 13th February 2012 at 8pm

RECITAL 3: Sunday 19th February 2012 at 9pm

Joseph Middleton will be accompanying all three recitalists. All the recitals will take place in The Old Library, Pembroke College.

Tickets £15 (£5 students)Tickets available from the Porter's Lodge or on the door or reserved in advance here.

Winterreise Benjamin Appl -baritone

Mentored by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone Benjamin Appl has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Akedemie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He was awarded the Audience Prize at Thomas Quasthoff's Das Lied Competition and has given recitals at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and at St John's, Smith Square for Graham Johnson's Young Songmakers' Almanac.
'a highly lyric baritone' Opernwelt

Schwanengesang Matthew Rose -bass

A regular guest at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, La Scala Milan and the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Matthew Rose is also an acclaimed recitalist, performing at the Wigmore Hall and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. His discography encompasses work with the world's finest orchestras on labels including Sony, Virgin and EMI and with such conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Antonio Pappano, Richard Hickox, Sir Mark Elder, Daniel Harding, Christopher Hogwood and Sir Charles Mackerras.
'This young artist is already great, and will be greater' The Spectator

Joseph Middleton - piano

Pembroke College's resident musician Joseph Middleton is one of the UK's leading young accompanists. He appears regularly at the Wigmore Hall and in broadcasts for BBC Radio 3. Recent concerts have taken him to the Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Brighton, Edinburgh, Ravinia Chicago and Toronto Festivals. He has recorded CDs with Dame Felicity Lott and Amanda Roocroft and has given recitals with Sir Thomas Allen, Ann Murray, Joan Rodgers, Christopher Maltman and Mark Padmore amongst others.
'Middleton is as classy a Lieder pianist as can be found anywhere in the world.' Bachtrack