Heritage Coast U3A sponsored recital

SAMPLING AND GLIMPSING BEHIND THE CLASSICAL VOICE

Karin Thyselius (soprano) & Michael Brownlee Walker (piano)

Saturday 5 April

7.30 pm

Tickets £7.50 from Lyme TIC 01297 442138

“Glimpses behind the classical voice”, features Karin Thyselius (soprano) from Sweden, and Michael Brownlee Walker (piano) (from Zimbabwe) at the Marine Theatre Lyme Regis on Saturday 5 April at 7.30pm.   “This is a unique and tuneful event of significance for all who have a general interest in classical music, and the arts of song and accompaniment more specifically,” said Richard Whitfield the U3A Chair and impresario.

The outstanding young musicians will entertain Heritage Coast U3A members and ticketed guests. However tickets are also available via the Tourist Information Office 01297 442138 at £7.50 for non members of the U3A.The programme has a variety of elements, with accessible oratorio pieces, songs and opera arias. Composers include Handel, Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, Grieg, Sibelius,Verdi and Puccini. . “The Marine Theatre is delighted to host this event for the U3A” said Margie Barbour the Artistic Director, “It’s an opportunity to offer more excellent classical music to the growing audience that is being developed by our popular Concerts in the South West programme.”

Interview questions of general interest will be posed to both artistes between the music sections by U3A Chairman, Richard Whitfield, who, as a poet, has worked with Karin and Michael in a range of recitals under the banner of Gracenotes during the last 3 years. There will also be an opportunity for audience questions.

A rare chance to hear and engage with two fine London-based musiciansThis is a U3A event but tickets are available to non-members for £7.50Karin Thyselius was born in Stockholm in 1974, growing up in Sweden.  London-based since 1977, and a Masters graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she studied with Jessica Glynn (Cash), and is now with Janice Chapman.  Karin has worked with many well-known singers including Sarah Walker, Emma Kirkby, Edith Wiens and Elly Ameling, and has served under a range of conductors including Richard Hickox and Sir Colin Davies.  She has received many competition successes, including the Robert Schumann International Singing Competition held in Germany in 2004 in which she was a finalist.  In opera Karin has performed throughout Europe, most recently with Diva, Grange Park and Clonter Opera.  She is a fluent linguist, interested in meditation, with a deep love of poetry that partly evolved from her work at the Franz Schubert Institute in Austra in 2003.

Michael Brownlee Walker was born in Zimbabwe in 1978, and began learning the piano twelve years later.  After being awarded the Graham Johnson Trophy for accompaniment at the Zimbabwe College of Music, in 1996 he moved to London to study piano with Leslie Howard, and conducting with the late Lawrence Leonard at Morley College.  In 2001 he graduated from Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music where among his teachers were Ka-Kit Tam, Paul Janes and Margaret Fingerhut. In 2003 he received an award from the Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Trust in recognition for his work in the field of accompaniment, and others from the Admiral Feteris, John Wakeford and Golsoncott foundations.  Again London-based, Michael teaches piano privately, and at the London Oratory School.  He is active as a pianist, accompanist, coach and composer-arranger working mainly with singers, but also has a successful piano duo with Leslie Howard.