When I found out that I needed to select and perform four folk songs this year as part of my course I knew that I
Tag: Classical Singing
This is a folk song of Scottish origin of which there are innumerable versions. The modern lyrics ‘the Water is Wide’ was named by Cecil
I have written previously about Richard Strauss on my blog as I find many of his songs to be full of romance and the beauty
This past ‘reading week’ at the Conservatoire I have been putting the final touches to my essay on Wagner and just wanted to relax and
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) had been regarded as brilliant pianist predicted by his teacher to become one of the finest in Europe. Unfortunately he suffered an
I have previously written about one of my favourite songs: Rusalka’s “Mesicku na nebi hlubokem,” (Song to the Moon) from the Opera by Antonín Dvořák
Over the summer I was lucky enough to record the songs that I had been working on over the past couple of years. I wanted
It has been a hectic four weeks since the start of term and I’m enjoying being back at the Conservatoire and trying to plan the
When I first started singing I had no idea where my love for this beautiful art would take me, I only knew that the
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