Lunchtime Concert: Louise de Ricolfis & Christina Koti, voice & piano

TUE 18 OCT 13.05

Take time out this lunchtime for a performance by Trinity Laban student voice and piano duo Louise de Ricolfis & Christina Koti in the beautiful surroundings of the Old Royal Naval College Chapel.

Bizet
20 Mélodies, Op.21
i. Chanson d'avril
iii. Vieille chanson
ix. Pastorale
vii. Vous ne priez pas

Fauré
Trois mélodies, Op. 7
i. Après un rêve
Trois mélodies, Op.23
i. Les berceaux

Poulenc
Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin
i. Le garçon de liège
ii. Au-delà
iii. Aux officiers de la garde blanche

Chaminade
Ma première lettre

Poulenc
Les chemins de l'amour

Messager
L’amour masqué
J’ai deux amants

Christina Maria Koti is a London-based Greek pianist currently pursuing an MMus in Piano Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance with the Trinity College of Music scholarship. Christina Maria holds a Piano Diploma with Distinction from the Dodekanesian Conservatoire of Greece, and has graduated from the University of Glasgow with a first class honours Bachelor of Music degree. She has taken part in international music festivals and competitions such as the Gnessin Academy Summer Festival, the Concorso International Pianistico citta Villafranca di Verona, the Glasgow Music Festival, and the Dinu Lipatti International Piano Competition. She has appeared in collaborative piano recitals and concerts in the UK, France, Italy, Russia, and Greece. Christina Maria has participated in masterclasses with Pascal Rogé, Paul Roberts, Aaron Shorr, Natalia Mihailidou, Petras Geniusas, Dimitris Toufexis, Martino Tirimo and Tatiana Svistunova. She is passionate about art song and is currently a SongEasel Young Artist with her duo partner, baritone Jared Andrew Michaud, with whom she won first prize in the 4rth International SGMS Lieder Duo Competition 2022, and the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Duo Competition 2022, and she has also been a finalists for the Lillian Ash French Song Duo Competition and the London Song Festival’s British Art Song Competition and masterclass with Dame Sarah Connolly. Christina Maria is supported by Help Musicians UK (Young Talents Fund).

Louise de Ricolfis is a young soprano both at ease in Opera and the art of recital. Her soprano voice is particularly suited for Mozart and Handel roles. This year, she was Serpetta in "La Finta Giardiniera" (Mozart) and Mélisande in "Pélléas et Mélisande" (Debussy), both as part of Trinity Laban Posstgraduate Opera Scenes. She created a show « Jeu de dames » (staged by Armelle de Frondeville), with mezzo-soprano Paloma Camarasa around opera duets, in an attempt to demistify Opera and performed in "Les Universités Populaires de Fontenay-sous-Bois" (France), in October 2021. A keen melodist, she was one of the finalists in the English Song Prize (Trinity Laban) as a duo with pianist Varvara Tarasova (adjudicator : Nicky Spence). While studying at New College, Oxford (2017-2018), Louise regularly performed in recital with pianist Karl Lutchmayer. Louise worked with different stage directors in France: Yves Coudray, Nicolas Slawny and Armelle de Frondeville. She worked in Master class with Sébastien Daucé, conductor of "Ensemble Correspondances", baryton Vincent Le Texier (2021) and Maestro Ubaldo Fabbri (2022). A Master in Law graduate, Louise is dedicating herself fully to her passion for singing since 2019. She started her musical education at the Conservatoire de Vincennes in France with soprano Noémie Legendre (2014-2019) and obtained her D.E.M. (Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales) in Sophie Fournier's class in 2021. She moved to London in September 2021 and now studies with soprano Sophie Grimmer and coach Sebastian Wybrew at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She obtained a Graduate Diploma from Trinity Laban in July 2022 and will continue on the MMus in September 2022 as a Kathleen Roberts Scholar.

Old Royal Naval College Chapel
Admission free, no ticket required