“Small Performing Arts Event of the Year 2023”
(seventh annual Greater London Enterprise Awards)
Masterclass and Schubert Song Prize
Saturday 4th November 2023, 10:30am and 2pm
Lancaster Hall Hotel, 35 Craven Terrace, London W2 3EL (nearest tube, Paddington)
The 2023 London Song Festival masterclass is given by the internationally acclaimed soprano Lucy Crowe. It is open to voice and piano duos age 32 and under, selected by audition, who are asked to present two Lieder, at least one of which must be by Schubert. Masterclass participants also compete for the Schubert Song Prize.
Important dates:
Friday 13th October – deadline for applications
Saturday 21st October– Auditions
Saturday 4th November – Masterclass and Schubert Song Prize
The masterclass is open to voice and piano duos age 32 and under.
The auditions are free to enter, but each successful duo will be required to pay a £50 fee to participate in the masterclass.
Applications can be sent by submitting the attached form: APPLICATION FORM
The masterclass is open to the public, tickets available here (please note that tickets for the morning and afternoon session are sold separately)
Biography
Born in Staffordshire, Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is a Fellow. She was made an OBE in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours.
With repertoire ranging from Purcell, Handel and Mozart to Donizetti’s Adina and Verdi’s Gilda she has sung with opera companies & orchestras throughout the world, including the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival, English National Opera, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera, Metropolitan Opera New York, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Haïm, Oramo and Nelsons, The Berlin Philharmonic/Harding and Nelsons, Vienna Philharmonic/Nelsons, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Egarr, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin, the Monteverdi Orchestra/Gardiner, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
Recent opera appearances include her debut at Dutch National Opera in the title role Rodelinda, Poppea Agrippina at the Royal Opera House, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera and Pamina Die Zauberflöte at the Liceu Barcelona. In the 2022/23 season Lucy returns to the Royal Opera House for Musetta La Boheme.
Highlights in concert this season include a European tour of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, which is also performed at the BBC Proms, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Dunedin Consort, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest and with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (BRSO), concerts of Haydn and Schubert arias also with the BRSO, Morgana Alcina with the Les Violons du Roy in Quebec and Montreal, and her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra for concerts of selected Mozart arias.
In recital she has appeared at the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Mostly Mozart and Salzburg Festivals and the BBC Proms. Lucy has a vast discography. Her debut disc for Linn records featuring Berg, Strauss, and Schoenberg was released in the summer of 2021. Lucy received a Grammy nomination in 2021 for Best Opera Recording for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony Orchestra/ Sir Simon Rattle.