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The Curlew
UK release date: 11/2006
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Simon Lepper was educated at King’s College Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music where he studied piano with Michael Dussek. Whilst a student he won every major award for piano accompaniment including the Gerald Moore Award and the accompanist prizes in the Kathleen Ferrier and Royal Over-Seas League Competition. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2005 and currently teaches chamber music and song accompaniment at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Simon Lepper’s recent performances with singers include those with Cora Burggraaf, Nicole Cabell, Karen Cargill, Allan Clayton, Ronan Collett, Lucy Crowe, Gillian Keith, Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, Andrew Kennedy, Stefan Loges, Sally Matthews, Robert Murray, Mark Padmore, Felicity Palmer, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, James Rutherford, Bryn Terfel, Adrian Thompson, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Watts and Roderick Williams. He has also partnered many instrumentalists including clarinettists Julian Bliss and Jorg Widmann, violinists Renaud Capuçon, Chlöe Hanslip, Jack Liebeck, Alexander Sitkovetsky and Carolin Widmann and cellists Daniel Müller-Schott and Gemma Rosefield.
Recordings include Debussy songs with the soprano Gillian Keith (Deux-Elles), Warlock songs with Andrew Kennedy (Landor Records), Rhian Samuel songs and cello works (Deux-Elles), A Garland for Presteigne with Gillian Keith (Metronome) and recordings of the Cello and Flute Syllabus for the Associated Board. Future releases include works by Feldman, Zimmerman, Xenakis and Schoenberg with the violinist Carolin Widmann (ECM) and Mahler and Brahms songs with Patricia Bardon (Landor).
Simon is an official accompanist for the BBC Singer of the World Rosenblatt Song Prize and Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and returns this summer to the Verbier Festival to co-ordinate and play for the vocal masterclasses.
Highlights of the coming seasons include performances of the Schubert song cycles with Mark Padmore; recitals with Sally Matthews at the Concertgebouw and Newbury Festival; a performance of Messiaen’s “Harawi” with Gweneth Ann Jeffers as part of the South Bank Messiaen Festival; recitals with Allan Clayton and Ronan Collett at the City of London Festival recorded for BBC Radio 3; performances with Carolin Widmann in Ettlingen and Berlin; recitals at the Wigmore Hall with Karen Cargill and Adrian Ward and a duet recital with Barbara Bonney and Angelika Kirschlager at the Verbier Festival. In May he continues his own series, “Spring Voices”, at the National Portrait Gallery featuring outstanding young singers from British Conservatoires.
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