Carmen to Cabaret - and everything in between
Alex Jones - Bass-baritone, Adrienne Black - piano
The programme will include famous operatic arias by Rossini, Mozart, Bizet (Carmen) and Offenbach interspersed with songs by Ravel and Roger Quilter.
A fun second half of light music - Tom Lehrer, Flanders and Swan, and Gershwin - with some familiar musical theatre numbers for good measure - will have something for everyone to enjoy.
Alex Jones
Alex’s musical education began as a chorister at St John’s, Cambridge before attending Eton on a full music scholarship. Following a history degree at Kings College London as a choral scholar and a lay clerkship at Gloucester Cathedral, he went on to complete with distinction a Masters in Vocal Studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
He now enjoys a varied career working across the UK and Europe with ensembles such as The Dunedin Consort, Britten Festival of Early Music and Orchestra of St John’s, performing works from Bach to Verdi. With Holland Park Opera he was Sciarrone in Tosca, and in Longhope Opera’s production of Don Pasquale sang the title role. This summer he reprised the role of Dr Dulcamara in Wild Arts performances of Donizetti’s L’elisir D’amore, culminating in a performance at Opera Holland Park and was also involved in this year’s Proms with the BBC chorus of Wales.
He is a member of the vocal faculty at Bradfield College, has sung for Concerts in Caversham in our Christmas Concerts and also sang Ich Habe Genug last summer at Tim’s funeral in Douai Abbey.
Adrienne Black
Adrienne Black helped to found and is the Artistic Director for ‘Concerts in Caversham’. A prize-winning alumna of the Royal College of Music where she studied both harpsichord and piano, she has pursued a varied career at home and abroad as chamber musician, accompanist and harpsichordist, playing diverse repertoire from Lambert’s Rio Grande and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia to the complete Brandenburg Concertos by Bach with the Oxford Philharmonic.
As an accompanist Adrienne has played in masterclasses for some of this country’s leading soloists and teachers, often at the Royal College of Music where she is on the panel of professional accompanists
Adrienne has accompanied for winning performances in the BBC Young Musician of the Year and is currently Senior Piano Tutor and Accompanist at Bradfield College.
Box Office and bar open from 6.45pm.
Tickets: 16-24 £18 / 25-59 £26 / 60+ £24 / Under-16s free