Concert 5: The Life and Loves of Sara Teasdale - Friday 14th November, 7pm
Kristin Dauphinais - mezzo-soprano
Nigel Foster - piano

A recital exploring the life and loves of the American poet Sara Teasdale, illustrated with songs setting her poetry by Amy Beach, John Duke, Richard Pearson Thomas, George Crumb, Lori Laitman, Simon Sargon, Martha Helen Schmidt and others, and a world premiere by Zachary James Bramble. Kristin Dauphinais is travelling to London from Tucson Arizona specially for this concert, which is a repeat of a programme Kristin and Nigel performed to great acclaim as part of the Desert Song Festival in Arizona in January this year.

Kristin Dauphinais has sung in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, China and Australia as well as across her native America. She sang the role of Ottone in the American professional première of Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa for the 2007 Arizona Vivaldi Festival. She has sung in Carneggie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), the Opera Festival San Luis Potosì in Mexico and the Saarburger Serenaden, International Chamber Music Festival in Saarburg, Germany.
Nigel Foster has performed at Wigmore Hall, the South Bank Centre, Barbican Centre, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Crush Bar) and across Europe as well as in North and South America, Japan, Malaysia and New Zealand, playing for singers including Roderick Williams, Dame Sarah Connolly, Nicky Spence, Nadine Benjamin, Kate Royal, Lotte Betts-Dean, James Gilchrist, Julien Van Mellaerts, Ashley Riches, Simon Wallfisch, Louise Winter, and Elizabeth Llewellyn.