Iris Korfker - Soprano - Talamello Group

Talamello Opera Group

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The Talamello Opera Group

We would like to welcome you to join us for a great night of Favourite Opera Classics and we are delighted to introduce Daniel Giulianini, a very talented up and coming Italian baritone, for his first performance in the UK.

We all met through a summer bel canto opera course in Novafeltria, near Rimini, and have named our group after the tiny village of Talamello up on the hill above us there.

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PERFORMERS:

Daniel Giulianini - Baritone Track 2
Daniel Guilianini, 23 year old Italian baritone, is currently studying at the Cesena Conservatoire near Ravenna, while taking lessons privately with Angel Bertacchi and Ubaldo Fabbri. Formerly he studied with William Matteuzzi. Daniel was adopted from a Bulgarian orphanage by Italian parents at the age of 6 and started singing from a very early age. He attended the Forli Musical Lycée, where he studied classical singing, and for a short while the trombone.

He has won various regional competitions and in 2008 was First Runner Up in the national young opera singers' competition, Serata d'Onore,on prime time Saturday evening TV, on the major TV channel RAI Uno.

Operatic roles have been Morales in Carmen at the Teatro Rossini di Lugo, near Ravenna and Halyin Italiana in Algeria, at the Teatro Communale, Piacenza. He has sung in manyconcerts in local theatres in the Ravenna/Bologna region. In addition to the classical repertoire, he sings Neapolitain songs and is much in demand for festas and charity events.

	Iris Korfker - Soprano Visit my Biography and Recording Samples
	We are delighted to announce that we are now also joined by the Soprano Natasha Day in this concert. Natasha Day - Soprano website Track 3 Born in 1986, Natasha Day studied singing in her hometown of Edinburgh and in Paris. She won a scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music, from where she graduated with First Class Honors. She has just completed the Postgraduate course at the same institution, studying with Janis Kelly. Recent opera roles include Fiordiligi (Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte) in France, Elvira (Don Giovanni, concert performance), Musetta (Puccini's La Boheme), Galatea (Handel's Acis and Galatea) and Gabrielle (Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne). In the RCM Opera Scenes, she played Cleopatra (Handel's Giulio Cesare), Lucia (Britten's Rape of Lucretia), The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Adina (Donizetti's L'Elisir D'Amore). She recently finished her first project with English National Opera - a workshop on Nico Muhly's Two Boys. 'Her talent shone. She has an exquisite purity of tone and an abundance of colour in the lower registers, and is definitely a singer to watch' - The Scotsman Alicia Gurney - Mezzo-Soprano Track 4 Alicia Gurney studies with Margaret Humphrey Clark. Over the past two years she has completed the Birkbeck Certificates of Higher Education in Concert Singing and Opera, performing roles including Idamante from Mozart's Idomeneo, Hänsel from Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and Helen from Tippett's King Priam. She has also sung in masterclasses with Richard Jackson, Lillian Watson and Michael Pilkington and holds the DipABRSM in Singing. In 2010 she won 2nd prize in the Association of English Singers and Speakers' Courtney Kenny Competition. Recent engagements have included solo recitals of English, French and German song in London and the South of England, participation in a memorial concert at the Wigmore Hall and a performance of Dido and Aeneas. She also sings regularly at St Simon Zelotes' Church in Chelsea and with several professional and semi-professional choirs including the Herschel Singers, the Syred Consort and Convivium Singers. Alicia has a BA in English and a MA in Medieval Studies, specialising in the troubadours of 12th century Occitania.
	Renato Cordeiro - Tenor Renato Cordeiro was born in Curitiba (Brazil) and started his singing studies with tenor Joao Luiz Cardoso performing in the Lyric Chorus of Teatro Guaira before coming to London. In 2004 he began his studies at Trinity College of Music under the supervision of John Wakefield and Mary Hill. In 2009 started a master degree in performance at Trinity College of Music now under the supervision of Ameral Gunson and Helen York. In London he has performed, Edgardo in Lucia de Lammermoor (Opera Viva - 2010), Sailor in Dido and Aeneas (Clemens non Papa consort - 2010), Satyavan in Savitri by Holst (Freeze Frame Opera - 2009), Linda da Chamounix - Chorus under the direction of Sir Mark Elder (Royal Opera House 2009, The Tenor in Belle Canto's Opera Hour Tales of Love and Lies Show case (Edinburgh - Fringe Festival - 2009), Elvino in La Sonnambula (Brent Opera- 2008) Nemorino L'elixir d'Amore (West London Opera-2008), Gerardo Gianni Schicchi (City lit Opera Group- 2007),He has participated in the summer course Lingua del Canto in Novafeltria (Italy) and regularly commutes there to continue his study of the Bel Canto repertoire with Ubaldo Fabbri. Next engagements include Ernesto in Don Pasquale in May 2010 for Opera Viva and Nemorino in The Elixir of Love for Southgate Opera in June 2010.
	Borja Gómez-Ferrer - Tenor was born in Madrid and began his musical studies in the Jesuist School choir under Don Cesar Sanchez. While practicing professionally as a lawyer, he studied singing under the tuition of Mercedes Díaz Chopite, David Mason and Julián García León and also attended classes and courses with Carmen Bustamante, Ian Baar, Adrian Thompson, Robin Bowman and Joseph Frakstein. In 2007 he was awarded a scholarship by Trinity College of Music to study a Masters programme. His principal teachers are Alison Wells and Mary Hill. During his postgraduate studies Borja has been chosen to take part in the TCM Mentor Scheme at the Royal Opera House and to perform in masterclasses with Robert Tear, Ian Page and Rosalind Plowright. He has also received significant tuition from Kelvin Lim, Ubaldo Fabbri, David Barrell and Raul Baglietto. Concert experience includes Handel's Judas Maccabeus (London Handel Festival under Laurence Cummings) Telemann´s Lukas Passion (Alcalá de Henares Cathedral), Bach Johannes Passion under Richard Egarr, Mendelssohn´s 2nd symphony and Schumann´s Dichterliebe (Barcelona Festival).Operatic performances include Ragazzi Chorus Linda di Chamounix performed at the Royal Opera House, Chorus La Gioconda with Holland Park Opera, Aeneas Dido and Aeneas at the National Auditorium of Madrid, Gomatz (cover) Zaide at St John's Smith Square and Blackheath Halls; Spoletta in Tosca, Basilio/Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro and Cassio in Otello with Candlelight Opera and Fracasso La finta semplice with Opera Petit. He has also performed the operatic roles of Don Ottavio, Tamino, Nemorino (Tarazona Lyric Festival) and Lysander, Rodolfo, Orfeo, Belmonte, Ferrando, Orombello, Fenton and Bacchus (TCM Opera Scenes).
	Timothy Short - Pianist Timothy grew up in Bedfordshire and was provided with a solid youth music scene which granted him with fantastic experience at an early age. By 17, Timothy had performed 3 major concerti with several local orchestras and gained a place at the Royal College of Music. Whilst studying with John Blakely, head of piano accompaniment, Timothy learned his true passion for collaborative piano and working with singers. Timothy now works alongside 3 opera companies as a repetiteur and coach whilst maintaining a busy accompanying career. Timothy has just returned from St Petersburg after a lecture recital series. He is looking forward to a relaxing cruise alongside "Incanto", a vocal quartet, to southern Italy as well as opera rehearsals in France in July and a concerto performance in November in the equally exotic Milton Keynes. Timothy is also training towards a commercial pilots licence and hopes one day to become the world's first flying pianist.