Upcoming events
The Diary of One who Disappeared
Presented by WIGMORE HALL and BBC
Tenor: Nicky Spence
Mezzo Soprano: Jess Dandy
Piano: Julius Drake
Soprano I: Eleanor Neate
Soprano II: Leila Alexander
Alto: Shakira Tsindos
Janáček - Moravian Folksongs | The Diary of One who Disappeared
With an increasingly high profile in opera as well as concert and recital work, the Scottish Nicky Spence is a rising star on the musical scene. Joined by pianist Julius Drake, and mezzo-soprano Jessica Dandy, they perform Janácek’s song cycle closely associated with his obsessional love for Kamila Stösslová.
Monday 16 November 2020, Lunchtime Concert Series
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore St, Marylebone, London W1U 2BP
For tickets and more information visit
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/
Little England: a New Opera (Cancelled)
This concert has been cancelled due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Composed and produced by Mark Bowler
Libretto and directed by Gareth Mattey
Nathan Mercieca, Jack
Shakira Tsindos, Jill
Joël Terrin, Miniaturist
Jack and Jill have prepared a little educational entertainment for us. They pull back the curtain to reveal a lone monster out on the moors, obsessed with his little miniatures, who needs to be taught a lesson. But are their intentions so pure? Who is the Miniaturist? And who is the real monster here?
'Little England' is a new chamber opera from Mark Bowler and Gareth Mattey being performed later this year on the 8th June 2020 in the Milton Court Studio Theatre, focusing on the buried violence that underpins so much of English history, tradition and folklore.
Monday 8th June 2020, 7:30pm
Studio Theatre, Milton Court, Barbican
The songs of jonathan dove (cancelled)
This concert has been cancelled due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Presented by GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA
Led by Lana Bode
Anna Gregg, soprano
Emma Jones, soprano
Chloe Todd, soprano
Simone Ibbett-Brown, mezzo soprano
Shakira Tsindos, mezzo soprano
George Curnow, tenor
George Reynolds, baritone
Joe Chalmers, baritone
Achinoam Keisar, piano
Serena Lee, piano
Gryté Navardauskaité, piano
Saino Tanizaki, piano
This project will explore songs for voice and piano by the celebrated contemporary British composer Jonathan Dove. Duos will work with contemporary song coach Lana Bode and participate in exploring Dove’s song writing.
Shakira and Serena perform the first four pieces in Dove’s All The Future Days cycle.
Wednesday 20th May 2020, 6:00pm
Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
This performance is unticketed and free to attend.
Hansel and gretel (cancelled)
This concert has been cancelled due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Presented by CRAMPHORN THEATRE
Directed by Simone Ibbett-Brown
Shakira Tsindos, Hansel
Kayleigh McEvoy, Gretel
Jonathan Eyers, Father
Further cast to be announced.
A childhood classic complete with sweets, mystery and family, follow the journey of Hansel and Gretel as they find their way home.
Wednesday 20th May 2020, 1:00pm
Cramphorn Theatre, Fairfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1JG
Tickets available in April 2020.
Lunchtime recital at st stephen's (cancelled)
This concert has been cancelled due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Presented by ST STEPHEN WALBROOK
Shakira Tsindos, mezzo soprano
Matthew Gemmill, piano
Explore the world of German lieder, French chansons and English song sprinkled with Dvorak’s czech classics in this intimate lunchtime concert.
Tuesday 28th April 2020, 12:30pm
St Stephen Walbrook, 39 Walbrook London EC4N 8BN
For further information visit https://ststephenwalbrook.net/
Oxford lieder mastercourse finale (cancelled)
This concert has been cancelled due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Presented by OXFORD LIEDER
Introduced by Joan Rodgers
Shakira Tsindos, mezzo soprano
Emelia Noack-Wilkinson, piano
The final concert of the Mastercourse, given by the nine duos who have been studying intensively all week, is always a very special event: a chance to witness the results of their hard work and the input of the various tutors.
There will be a 90-minute supper interval.
Saturday 4th April 2020, 6pm
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3BN
For further information and tickets visit https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk
don giovanni
Presented by MERRY OPERA
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Directed by John Ramster
Musical direction by Laurence Panter
Tom Humphreys, Don Giovanni
Matthew Quirk, Leporello
Sophie Levi, Donna Anna
Florian Panzieri, Don Ottavio
Catherine Backhouse, Donna Elvira
Shakira Tsindos, Zerlina
John Ieuan Jones, Masetto
Tom Bennett, Commendatore
Judgement Day for Don Giovanni, the world’s greatest lover. A supernatural comedy-thriller occurring in breakneck real time; beginning with murder, ending with a statue coming to dinner & a hellish sentence passed on the legendary seducer; the epic downfall of a man who always knows what we need, always makes us happy, but eventually realises he is out of time. Polarising audiences for centuries, startlingly modern yet a dinosaur, can Don Giovanni still make us love him as he hurtles through his final hours?
Directed by international opera director John Ramster, with music direction by Laurence Panter.
Sunday 2nd Feb 2020, matinee
Kenton Theatre, New Street, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire RG9 2BP
Friday 7th Feb 2020, 7:30pm
The Hazlitt Theatre, Earl Street, Maidstone, ME14 1PL
Sunday 16th Feb 2020, 8:00pm [SOLD OUT]
The Wetherspoon Opera House Pub, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1RT
Thursday 20th Feb 2020, 7:30pm
Castle Theatre, Castle Way, Wellingborough, NN8 1XA
Wednesday 26th Feb 2020, evening
Stamford Arts Centre, 27 St Mary's Street, Stamford, PE9 2DL
Saturday 29th Feb 2020, 7:30pm
The Marina Theatre, Marina, Lowestoft, NR32 1HH
Friday 6th Mar 2020, 7:30pm
The Astor Theatre, Stanhope Rd, Deal, CT14 6AB
Friday 13th Mar 2020, 8:00pm
The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LU
Friday 20th Mar 2020, evening* [CANCELLED]
Petersfield Festival Hall, Petersfield, GU31 4EA
Sunday 22nd Mar 2020, 7:45pm* [CANCELLED]
The Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame, OX9 2DP
*These performances have been cancelled due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For tickets and more information visit https://www.merryopera.co.uk/
Echoes of Europe
Shakira Tsindos, mezzo soprano
Stephanie Stampoulos, cello
Andrea Katz, piano
Reflections of our time in Europe all packed into one concert. Join Shakira, Stephanie and Andrea as we wade through songs sung and played in Europe during our studies in Manchester, London and Vienna.
Saturday 21st December 2019, 19:30
Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese Street, Brunswick
For further information and tickets visit www.trybooking.com/BGKRI
Sunday 22nd December 2019, 15:00 (SOLD OUT)
City Apartment, Mackenzie street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
This concert has sold out, to be including in the waitlist visit https://www.trybooking.com/
Stories of Sweet Visions: Song & Chamber Music by Julian Philips
Presented by GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA
Holly Brown, Soprano
Shakira Tsindos, Mezzo Soprano
Liam Bonthrone, Tenor
James Newby, Baritone
Oliver Wass, Harp
Mithras, Piano Trio
A programme of song and chamber works celebrating the music of Guildhall School’s Head of Composition, Professor Julian Philips, in his 50th birthday year.
A distinguished ensemble of Guildhall School students and alumni will perform these works in the superb acoustics of Milton Court Concert Hall.
Programme to include:
Coronach for mezzo-soprano and viola
Barcarola for solo piano*
Love Songs for Mary Joyce for tenor and piano
Turning Fifty for baritone and cello*
Winter Music for solo harp
Cantos de Sonho for soprano, tenor and piano trio
* world premieres
Monday 25th November, 19:00
Milton Court Concert Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
For further information and tickets visit https://www.barbican.org.uk
Clara Schumann – The Complete Songs
Presented by GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA, SONGS AT SIX
Led by EUGENE ASTI
Marie Cayeux, soprano
Jessica Smith, soprano
Shakira Tsindos, mezzo soprano
Joël Terrin, baritone
Jia Huang, baritone
Claire Habbershaw, piano
Aoife Moran, piano
Emelie Noack-Wilkinson
Postgraduate singers and pianists perform Clara Schumann’s complete songs to mark the bicentenary of her birth, in a concert devised and directed by Eugene Asti.
Tuesday 12 November 2019, 6pm
Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
This performance is unticketed and free to attend.
Generation
Presented by HERA
Composed by Sabrina Mahfouz & Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian
Directed by Toria Banks
Music Direction by Lana Bode
Donna Bateman, Soprano
Shakira Tsindos, Mezzo Soprano
Linda Hirst, Mezzo Soprano
Three womxn. A Boomer, a Millennial and the one in the middle.
What do they have to teach each other? Or to forgive each other for?
Featuring a brand new mini opera by playwright, poet and spoken word artist Sabrina Mahfouz and composer Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, alongside unheard dramatic music by womxn from the last 400 years - GENERATION is about womxn and age, what the young owe their elders, and what they’ve been left with. An honest conversation in words and music about time and whether it makes us wiser, or kinder.
Friday 18th October 2019, 19:30
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York, YO10 5DD
For further information and tickets visit https://yorkconcerts.ticketsolve.com/
Echoes of Dead Voices
Written and narrated by Angela Ransley
Shakira Tsindos, Mezzo Soprano
Sasha Grynyuk, Piano
ECHOES OF DEAD VOICES tells the fascinating story of the beginning of recorded sound, initially in France and leading to the invention of Edison’s phonograph in America in the 1880s. Efforts were made to capture the celebrated figures of the day and we will hear leading actor HENRY IRVING, a performance by JOHANNES BRAHMS, Lord TENNYSON reading The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, and The Lost Chord by Arthur Sullivan, thought to be the first recording made in England. Due to the technical limitations of the time, each recording lasts no more than two minutes. We will hear each piece performed live by rising actors and musicians.
This is an original production devised and narrated by pianist and teacher ANGELA RANSLEY making full use of the superb audio-visual facilities at Foyles. Our event offers a unique insight into this technological breakthrough that permeates our lives today.
A fundraising event for World Sight Day in aid of Sightsavers.
Sunday 6th October, 15:15
Level 6, Foyles Bookshop, 113-117 Charing Cross Road WC2 0DT
For tickets and more information visit https://www.eventbrite.com.au/
Reverium
Presented by GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA
Musical Direction by Elizabeth Marcus
Directed by John Ramster
A glimpse into the dream world, John Ramster directs a pastiche of characters who slip in and out of consciousness, questioning the truth and fragility of reality.
As HÄNSEL in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel
As ALESSANDRO in Handel’s Tolomeo
Wednesday 10 July 2019, 6pm
Milton Court Studio Theatre Guildhall School of Music and Drama
This performance is unticketed and free to attend.
