2nd August 2012 - 12.30 Lunchtime Concert

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Claire Price, soprano
Edita Zurauskeite-Durrant, mezzo-soprano
Peter Bailey, piano

   Programme


Duet: Panis Angelicus  Cesar Franck (1822-1890)

Soprano: The Ring
                 He, the Best of All,
  from A Woman's Life and Love  Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Mezzo: Le Violette  Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

Piano solo: Peter Bailey

Duet: Evening Prayer
  from Hansel and Gretel  Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)

Mezzo: Sposa son disprezzata (I am wife and I am scorned) 
  from La Merope Geminiano Giacomelli (1692-1740)
                   
Soprano: Somewhere
  from West Side Story  Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Mezzo: Se tu m’ami, se sospiri (If thou lov'st me)
  Giovanni Pergolesi (1710-1736)

Duet: Lord,  what love have I unto Thy law
  William Croft (1678-1727)

Organ (Graham Davies): Passacaglia in d minor
  Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

Duet: Give Ear Unto Me  Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)

Duet: Ave Maria  Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
 

Claire Price, soprano

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Claire started singing seriously about 30 years ago with various choirs in Surrey. She soon took on solo work and early in her career sang the soprano solo in Schubert’s Mass in G and Haydn’s Creation. On tour with Ashtead Choral Society she sang the solos in performances of the Faure and Mozart Requiems, the Vivaldi Gloria, Finzi's In Terra Pax and the Monteverdi Gloria.  Back at home she was in demand for weddings, singing excerpts from the Bach Magnificat, Delibes' Lakme,  Schubert's Ave Maria and the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria.

Other performances have included both the Sorceress and Belinda in Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, soprano in the Haydn Passion and Handel’s Messiah, Gianetta in The Gondoliers and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance.  Claire now has a wide repertoire spanning not only the classic and romantic choral works of the 17th to 19th centuries, but also works by more contemporary composers such as Finzi and Jongen. 

Claire also enjoys singing lighter popular music by artists including Barbra Streisand and Chris de Burgh as well as extracts from musicals by Lloyd Webber, Bernstein, and Schoenberg.

Edita Zurauskeite-Durrant, mezzo-soprano

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Mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant  was born in Lithuania where she studied music and singing at the Lithuanian Academy Of Music and Theatre.  As a member of the Kavnas Opera company she performed roles including  Marcellina (Fidelio), Gianetta (L’Élisir d’Amore), Amina (La Traviata) and Maddalena (Rigoletto).  Performances in Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Ireland and Britain have included recitals, oratorios, as well as solos in many religious services.  She has performed the Mozart Requiem, Cherubini’s Requiem and much of the traditional oratorio repertoire.

Edita was vocal coach for a festival chorus in Lithuania whose appearances included the Choir Music Festival in Limburg (Germany) in 1993, Stuttgart (1994) and the Cork Choral Festival (Ireland) in 1995.

From 1995 to 1998 Edita undertook voice training under the tutelage of Piero Mattei (London) and Aldona Vilcci (USA).

In 1997 Edita gave a lunchtime recital in the parish church of St Olave, Hart Street, in the City of London and in the same year she sang a concert in Bristol Cathedral. She was awarded first prize at the North London Music Festival in 1998.

Edita recently relaunched her singing career by giving a well-received concert in Leatherhead Parish Church and is again winning festival prizes.

Peter Bailey, piano

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Peter Bailey trained at the Royal College of Music where he won several college prizes. He is an accomplished pianist who has performed throughout Europe with touring companies including Cameo Opera, Opera d’Amici and Barrandov Opera.

Peter is the Music Director of Pavilion Opera with which he has toured Britain, Europe, Japan and the Philippines. He regularly accompanies the Jubilate Choir and is also a visiting coach/accompanist at Morley College, London.

This summer he has performed in Worcester Cathedral and in Sandringham House while on tour with Pavilion Opera as well as The Hilton, Cobham, in a gala opera night with local group Opera D'Amici.