Activities

Saturday 28 August

Time: 21.00 h

EMA NIKOLOVSKA, mezzosoprano
WOLFRAM RIEGER, piano

Songs by Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Milhaud, Berg, Poulenc, Weir & Naske

REPERTOIRE

Franz Schubert
Der Schmetterling, D. 633
Das Lied im Grünen, D. 917
Die Rose, D. 745
Der Blumen Schmerz, D. 731

Johannes Brahms
Sapphische Ode, op. 94/4

Robert Schumann
Röselein, Röselein!, op. 89/6

Darius Milhaud
Catalogue de fleurs, op. 60

Alban Berg
Vier Lieder, op. 2

Francis Poulenc
Tel jour, telle nuit, FP. 86

Judith Weir
A Spanish Liederbooklet (selection)
Ständchen

Elisabeth Naske
Zwei Elefanten, die sich gut kannten (selection)

EMA NIKOLOVSKA, mezzosoprano
Canadian-Macedonian mezzo Ema Nikolovska studied voice with Helga Tucker in Toronto, and completed the Opera Course and Master at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama; she also completed a Bachelors degree in violin performance from The glenn Gould School. Ema is a BBC New Generation Artist; Awards include 2nd Prize at the Helmut Deutsch Liedwettbewerb, the Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize and the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize. At Guildhall Opera Ema's roles included Celia (La fedeltà premiata, Haydn), Sister Edgar (Lliam Paterson, The Angel Esmeralda) and Dido (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell). In the 20/21 season, Ema joins the Internationale Opernstudio of the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden, as a scholarship holder of the Liz Mohn Kuktur- und Muskstiftung.

WOLFRAM RIEGER, piano
Wolfram Rieger studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Erik Werber and Helmut Deutsch, and attended several masterclasses with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He began teaching at the Munich Hochschule in 1991 while still a student. In 1998 he became a professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin and regularly holds masterclasses throughout Europe and Japan. He is frequently invited to important venues and festivals around the world, such as the Feldkirch and Vilabertran Schubertiades, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London's Wigmore Hall, and the Vienna Musikverein. He has accompanied Brigitte Fassbaender, Barbara Bonney, Juliane Banse, Michelle Breedt, Thomas Hampson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Matthias Goerne and Thomas Quasthoff, among others.