Concert at Bournemouth on Saturday 16 April 2011

"Henry Purcell, Divine Hymns and the Songs of England"

Saturday 16 April 2011 7.30pm
St.Ambrose Church-Bournemouth

Beatriz Lozano soprano

   Janet Kan  soprano

   Paul Gardner  pianist

AmusicUk Singers

Vida Forester, Elisa Franceschini, Andy Johnson, Lisa Axworthy, Nathan Dew

St.Ambrose Church

Artists

Beatriz Lozano soprano

Beatriz Lozano

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Beatriz Lozano is a soprano singer specialist in Italian vocal chamber music. She started her studies in Montevideo, and continued at Teatro Colón's Escuela Superior de Canto in Buenos Aires (Argentina), at Accademia Chigiana in Siena and Accademia Lirica in Osimo (Italy). She obtained the Diploma in Canto from "Gioacchino Rossini" Conservatory of Music in Pesaro (Italy) and further improved her liederistic repertoire, sacred music and romanze. She has performed, in Italy, in many communal theatres of the Regions Marche, Abruzzi and Tuscany, at Palazzo Venezia, Pantheon and Auditorium-Parco della Musica in Rome, in Ancona with Quirino Principe, the artistic councillor of Teatro alla Scala in Milan. She has also performed at Teatro Colón's "Salón Dorado" in Buenos Aires, at Teatro of Curitiba in Brasil, at Cabildo of Montevideo, Maison de l'Amèrique Latine in Paris and Bolivar Hall in London, England. She is involved in spreading South American's chamber music repertoire with the Argentine pianist Hugo Aisemberg. Her recitals at Montevideo, in Uruguay, Munich and Hannover in Germany, Milan, Rome, Florence, Bologna and Padua in Italy, at the Castle of Ljubljana in Slovenia and at Scala de San Telmo in Buenos Aires have found great favour with the public and the critics. She has been collaborating for several years with the pianist Nicoletta Latini and Mirta Herrera; she has been reviewing and executing the Italian nineteenth-century repertoire for song and guitar with the well-known guitarrist Massimo Agostinelli. She has recorded in Italy with Massimo Agostinelli for Classic Studio of Ancona, Master Studio of Sarnano and Bérben: Carlo Michele A.Sola "Favourite Songs", "Mozart-Matiegka Trascrizioni d'epoca" and "Gabriello Melia Works for voice and guitar". For Associazione G.Rossini di Roseto degli Abbruzzi in Italy she has recorded "Francesco Paolo Tosti Romanze per canto e pianoforte" with the pianist Manfredo Di Crescenzo. She has taught at Seminari Musicali Internazionali of Liviabella Music School in Macerata (Italy) and at Festival Musicale Savinese of Monte San Savino (Arezzo-Italy), at Anton Rubinstein School in Rome, for Festival Lirico de Montevideo (Uruguay), for AEH at Wildern Art School in U.K.
She writes for Revista Sinfónica and cooperates with the Uruguaian State's Radio SODRE. She teaches singing for "AmusicUk Group" in Southampton, England with the pianist Paul Gardner.

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www.beatrizlozano.com
http://www.myspace.com/beatriz_lozano#ixzz14K28jTqn
http://beatrizlozanosoprano.blogspot.com
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Janet Kan  soprano

Janet Kan, a masters graduate in the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama studied with a remarkable tutor, Catherine Harper and an excellent coach, Angela Livingstone.

Born in Sabah, Janet Kan began studying voice at the age of nine, initially under the guidance of  Vun Kui Xin and later with Annie Tsen and Poon Sook Peng. In 2007 she was accepted onto a Bachelor of Education (TESL) at the University of Malaysia, Sabah (UMS). She obtained the ATCL Diploma in voice from the Trinity Examination Board of London with a merit in 2007 and a distinction in Grade 8 from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) in 2003. During her studies she has also participated in master classes with tenor Lim Shieh-Yih in Singapore, Rachelle Gerodias from New York, James Gilchrist, Patricia McMahon and Elin Manahan Thomas in Cardiff.

 After her degree course in UMS, she was teaching in a secondary school as an English teacher in S.M. St. Patrick Tawau until August 2009.

 Janet has participated in many singing competitions. In 2000, she emerged as second runner-up in the Malaysia National Classical Song Singing Competition at Sabah state level. In 2003, she was the champion in the same competition. In 2005, she was the second runner-up this time at national level. She gained the second runner-up spot again at national level in Kuala Lumpur 2008. She was also a finalist in the Côr Meibion Pontypridd Prize, 2009. 

 She played the role of Une Pastourelle in Ravel’s L’Enfant et Les Sortileges with the RWCMD Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Jones. She also sang in The Fairy Queen as a Chinese woman during the RWCMD Opera Scene 2009.

 As well as giving solo performances, she is also teaching vocal lessons and giving individual singing lessons in church choirs. She was also elected as a judge for a range of singing competitions throughout Malaysia.

 You can find me on:

 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Janet-Kan-the-soprano/324704145795

http://janetkwy.blogspot.com/

http://amusicuk.blogspot.com/

Paul Gardner, pianist

Paul Gardner

Paul Gardner started learning the piano from an early age, having been introduced to the instrument by a friend of the family. In 1991 he and his brother Michael won a national piano competition, sponsored by Yamaha, playing a series of duets. The following year he gained a distinction for his Grade 8 piano exam, and has since gained both Honours and Masters degree qualifications in Music from Southampton University.
Paul mainly plays as an accompanist, and enjoys regularly accompanying students at the University of Southampton in concerts and their final recitals. He has also played a number of concertos with various local orchestras, including Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Southampton University Symphony Orchestra, as well as concertos by Ravel, Schumann, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov's 1st. He has also recently created a new web-based business where students can download accompaniment tracks to classical instrumental repertoire.

  AmusicUk Singers Group

AmusicUk Group was born in Southampton in 2009, under the direction of Italian-Uruguayan soprano Beatriz Lozano. Formed by a group of young British singers, the group has performed at the Hanger Farm Arts Centre in Totton, at the Central Baptist Church, at St.Michael 's Church, at Avenue St.Andrew's Church in Southampton and amongst the archeological ruins of the Teatro di Marcello in Rome, Italy.
Singers: Elisa Franceschini, April Luescher, Lisa Axworthy, Andy Johnson, Vida Forester, Nathan Dew.