Die Forellen

Philippa Boyle - Soprano
Carris Jones – Mezzo-Soprano
Julian Forbes - Tenor
Thomas Faulkner  - Bass
William Vann - Piano


Songs by Haydn, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms.


Who are Die Forellen?

The Soprano:-




Philippa was a choral scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, where she read Classics.  With Clare Choir she toured Japan, Hong Kong, America and all over Europe, and made a number of recordings, collaborating with such orchestras as the Freiburg Barockorchester and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and such conductors as Ivor Bolton, Rene Jacobs, Nicholas Kraemer and Richard Egarr.
She appeared as a soloist on several of Clare Choir's recordings, and in many concerts, including Poulenc Gloria and Handel Messiah under Christopher Robinson; Bach Mass in B Minor under Stephen Cleobury; Mozart, Faure and Rutter Requiems under John Rutter; Janacek's Rikadla under Peter Stark, Rutter's Mass of the Children under John Rutter for the Oundle International Music Festival and under John Scott in St Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York and Filia in Carissimi's Jephthe under Ivor Bolton in the Innsbruck Early Music Festival, for which she received coaching from Ann Murray and Catharine Bott.  She has also worked with Patricia Rosario, thanks to a scholarship to Dartington International Summer School.
Whilst at Cambridge she made her operatic debut aged 19 singing the role of Anne Truelove in Stravinsky's the Rake's Progress for Cambridge University Opera Society, and represented Cambridge University as a soprano soloist in a ground-breaking development tour to Malaysia and Burma.  After graduating, Philippa moved to Rome, where she is now following a postgraduate course in singing at Il Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She studies with David Ciavarella and Elvira Spica.
Recent solo engagements have included Handel's Messiah for Paul Brough and the Hanover Band, Vivaldi's Stabat Mater and Gloria, and Haydn's Nelson Mass and Mozart's Vesperae Solemnes de Confessore.  Most recently she joined soprano Catherine Bott in Bach's Mass in B Minor in Chichester Cathedral.  In Italy she has performed scenes from Verdi's Rigoletto (Gilda), Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore (Adina) and Don Pasquale (Norina), and Bellini's la Sonnambula (Amina), and concerts in Poggio Mirteto, Rome and Velletri.  She also sings frequently at the Anglican Church of Rome, All Saints.
Future engagements include Handel's Ode to Saint Cecilia at il Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Rome, an artistic collaboration with Italian artist Lorenzo Simonetti in April, and a new production of Monteverdi's Orfeo in Gijon and the Asturias in July 2009.


The pianist:-


William Vann www.williamvann.com, is establishing himself at the forefront of the current generation of young British accompanists. He graduated with a distinction in the Postgraduate Piano Accompaniment Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music in 2007, having studied with Malcolm Martineau and Colin Stone, and in September 2008 won the prestigious Gerald Moore Award, judged by a panel headed by Graham Johnson. He is also a past winner of the Sir Henry Richardson Scholarship for accompanists; his work and studies are supported by the Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Trust.

Born in Bedford, he was a Chorister of King's College, Cambridge, a Music Scholar at Bedford School and a Choral Exhibitioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied Law and was awarded the first prize in a competition to compose a piece for the Queen's Jubliee on behalf of the University.
Recent performances have included Dvořák with the Nephele Ensemble at St David's Cardiff, evening recitals at St John's, Smith Square and St George's, Bristol playing a programme which included the first performance of eight pieces by Joseph Atkins, a staged performance of Schubert's Winterreise at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a reconstruction of Mendelssohn's time spent with Queen Victoria in Trinity Chapel, Oxford and a guest appearance at the Hereford Summer School. He performed in the final of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards at Wigmore Hall in April 2007 and has been a Britten-Pears Young Artist for two consecutive years.
He has played in masterclasses given by Michael Dussek, Graham Johnson, Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, Robin Bowman, Andrew West, Sue McCulloch, Sarah Walker, Richard Jackson, Richard Stokes, Robert Tear, and James Bowman. He was the official accompanist for the 2007 and 2008 Hampshire Singer of the Year.
Forthcoming appearances include recitals with James Gilchrist at St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, where he is Director of Music and a tour of Wales and the North-West of England with the Nephele Ensemble.


The Bass:-


Thomas Faulkner was a choral scholar in the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and then a lay clerk in the choir of St John's College under David Hill. With these choirs he toured extensively in Europe and South Africa, and made many CD recordings on which he frequently performed as a soloist. With the choirs English Voices and Choir of the Enlightenment he has worked with Ivan Fischer, Ivor Bolton, Sir Simon Rattle, and Rene Jacobs.
He sings regularly with early music consorts such as Stile Antico and The Clerks' Group, and frequently performs in the UK as an oratorio soloist, especially in the baroque and classical repertoire.
Operatic performances have included leading roles in several new works by young English composers, most recently King Saul in Sam Hogarth's David and Goliath. Other recent and upcoming roles include Elviro ( Serse ), Prince Gremin ( Eugene Onegin ), Charon ( Orfeo ) and Dr P. ( The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat ).

The Tenor:-

Julian Forbes was born in Buckinghamshire, educated in Manchester and studied Modern Languages at Cambridge University. Following a two-year period spent working in the record industry he has recently commenced an MA in vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music under Philip Doghan. Concert engagements include Mozart Requiem at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Handel Israel in Egypt at the Sheldonian Theatre and a programme of Bach contemporaries at the Cambridge Early Music Festival. Opera roles to date include Acis (Handel Acis and Galatea), Tempo (Handel Il Trionfo del Tempo) and Don Curzio (Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro) As an ensemble singers he is active with Ex Cathedra and the Grammy-nominated Stile Antico; with members of the National Youth Chamber Choir, Laudibus, he appears on recordings on the Delphian label devoted to the music of Richard Allain, Giles Swayne and Ralf Vaughan Williams. Future engagements include Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch and Schubert Schwanengesang at the R.A.M. and Bach Johannes-Passion at the Snape Maltings with the Britten-Pears Chamber Choir.

The Mezzo-Soprano:-

Carris Jones graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2008 with the Bennett of Lincoln scholarship and a DipRam, the Academy’s highest performance award. Prior to taking up her place at the Royal Academy, she was a choral scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she read History.
 
Her extensive experience on the oratorio platform includes performances across the UK of Mendelssohn Elijah, Mozart Requiem and Coronation Mass, Bach B minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio, Handel Messiah, Beethoven Mass in C and Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music. She is a keen recitalist and has performed songs by Haydn and Schumann at the Conway Hall and Holywell Music Room, Oxford, and Fauré’s Chanson d’Ève in Cambridge. She has also appeared with David Owen Norris and his vocal group The Works.

In 2004 Carris made her operatic debut as Auntie Peter Grimes, and in the Academy opera scenes has performed the roles of Madame Larina Onegin, Nancy Martha, Meg Page Falstaff and Mère Marie Dialogues des Carmélites. She has also participated in masterclasses with Susan McCulloch, Robin Bowman, Patricia McMahon and Sally Burgess.
 
Carris also has a busy schedule of ensemble work, singing with the Gabrieli Consort, the Kings Consort and Tenebrae. She has performed at the BBC Proms under Bernard Haitink and at the Royal Festival Hall under Daniel Harding. She is a founder member of Stile Antico, an unconducted early music vocal ensemble whose debut CD was nominated for a Grammy award. With them she has also toured Europe, the Far East and Australia with Sting as part of his Dowland lute song project, Songs from the Labyrinth.