PERFORMANCES ON 29 AND 30 AUGUST, 2.00PM

Garden Concerts 2020

Jerwood Young Artists

For us in the performing arts world it’s been like an assault course, each barrier more demanding than the last, as we battled to find a way back to live performance. So, it is with the greatest joy that we have arrived at this moment, finally together again to experience high calibre music making. Not digital, not analogue: the real thing.

Open Gardens is a positive response to all the things we are not yet able to do, to find a responsible, appropriately distanced, and above all, safe way of performing to a live audience, after the longest close down of performing arts since the 17th century. We have worked hard and fast, improvising, shifting our emphasis with every new piece of information, new guidance… The adventure has been all-hands-on-deck, requiring ingenuity and adaptability.

Glyndebourne has a long-term commitment to talent development, whether through our understudy programme, the Glyndebourne Academy, or our Youth Opera. For the last ten years the Jerwood Young Artists Programme has provided

training and opportunity for gifted young singers in our Chorus. A look back at the names gives us an idea of the great success of the programme. Covid-19 has been devastating for the whole performing arts community, but it is particularly challenging for young singers at the start of their careers, so when we decided to extend our Open Gardens season, we wanted to find an opportunity to celebrate the scheme, and give these young singers a chance to perform again.

Today we want to salute Jerwood Arts for their visionary commitment to young singers, and for a positive collaboration with Glyndebourne over the last decade.

Thank you too, dear public, for your support over this difficult time – your gifts and donations have given invaluable support to our freelance artists and staff whose livelihoods were threatened by our planned Festival’s cancellation. Thanks for being here today to share this optimistic moment with us.

Stephen Langridge Artistic Director

JERWOOD ARTS is the leading independent funder dedicated to supporting UK artists, curators and producers to develop and thrive. We enable transformative opportunities for individuals across art forms, supporting imaginative awards, fellowships, programmes, commissions and collaborations. We present new work and bring people from across the arts together in the galleries at Jerwood Space, London, as well as across the UK. jerwoodarts.org

It’s been an extremely challenging last few months for everybody.

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Welcome (back) to Glyndebourne!

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It provides the opportunity to work with conductors, directors and alongside leading singers – so it is a keenly sought after engagement. Each year we receive between 600 and 700 applications to join the Chorus; we audition up to 250 singers and for Festival 2020 there were only 36 places available. It makes for a chorus of exceptional quality in musical and vocal capability.

For the past ten years we have been able to nurture these exceptional singers with the generous and stimulating support of Jerwood Arts and highlight our shared vision of promoting excellence in emerging talent. Each year I identify four singers who demonstrate the potential to achieve solo careers – and they become a Jerwood Young Artist. Alongside their work as choristers they are able to receive substantial professional development as aspiring soloists with opportunities to perform small roles, understudy larger roles with a full five weeks of

production rehearsals – culminating in a performance of a complete opera to an invited audience of management, staff, agents and friends. If a principal singer cancels, they know they will be on stage performing in their place. This additional work has to be achieved alongside chorus music and production rehearsals for the six operas in the Festival. It instils an organised work ethic and confidence that will set them up for life; these opportunities at such an early stage in their development

Since Glyndebourne was founded in 1934, joining the Glyndebourne Chorus has been an important milestone for young singers after their studies at music conservatoires. For many, after completing their training in opera departments, it is their first professional experience of operatic life at the highest artistic level.

A career catalyst for Jerwood Young Artists

are vital in equipping them for an international career on the opera stage.

Becoming a Jerwood Young Artist marks the start of an association with Glyndebourne and can be the catalyst for important career development, with the opportunity to perform larger roles on the Tour and then gravitate to roles in the Festival at a later stage. Many previous young artists have become well-known opera singers and developed flourishing international careers such as Duncan Rock, Natalia Tanasii, Marta Fontanals- Simmons, Stuart Jackson, James Newby, Rosie Aldridge.

The 2020 Festival would have seen previous artists David Butt Philip in the role of Florestan and Thomas Atkins as Jaquino in our new production of Fidelio; Thomas Atkins as Tamino, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno and William Thomas as Second Armed Man on Tour in The Magic Flute. Festival 2021 will include David Butt Philip, Stuart Jackson, Huw Montague Rendall, William Thomas; Tour 2021 will feature Nardus Williams, Sam Carl, Rosie Aldridge, Frederick Jones – clear illustration of the Glyndebourne and Jerwood partnership bearing fruit!

Steven Naylor Director of Artistic Administration

A career catalyst for Jerwood Young Artists continued

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ProgrammeSingersGEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL GIULIO CESARE 

Da tempeste il legno infranto Madison Nonoa-Horsefield

GIACOMO PUCCINI

LA RONDINE Parigi! È la città dei desideri Frederick Jones

CHARLES GOUNOD

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

Que-fais tu, blanche tourterelle? Emma Kerr

RICHARD WAGNER

DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG

Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein John Findon

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

THEODORA

As with rosy steps the morn… Emma Kerr

FRANCESCO CILEA

L’ARLESIANA

È la solita storia del pastore Frederick Jones

ANDRÉ PREVIN

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

I Want Magic Madison Nonoa-Horsefield

FRANZ LEHÁR

LAND DES LÄCHELNS

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz John Findon

Madison Nonoa-Horsefield Soprano

Emma Kerr Mezzo-Soprano

Frederick Jones Tenor

John Findon Tenor

PianoMatthew Fletcher

John FindonTenor

Previously for Glyndebourne Officer/Ariadne auf Naxos, (Cover) Major Domo to Faninal/Der Rosenkavalier, (Cover) First Armed Man, (Cover) First Priest/Die Zauberflöte, Jerwood Young Artist (GF); Player 2/Hamlet (GF, GT); Matteo Borsa/Rigoletto (GT)

Recent engagements Second Jew/Salome, Monostatos/Die Zauberflöte (ON); (Cover) Sergeant Johnny Strong, (Cover) Writer/Jack the Ripper, The Witch/Hansel and Gretel, Remendado/Carmen, Gamekeeper/Rusalka (ENO)

Forthcoming engagements Young Guard/King Priam (ENO); First Armed Man, First Priest/Die Zauberflöte (GT, GF); (Cover) Florestan/Fidelio (Garsington)

He studied at RCS under Kathleen McKellar Ferguson and is a graduate of GSMD Opera Course where he was taught by John Evans and supported by Help Musicians UK and the Worshipful Company of Musicians. In 2019 he became a Harewood Artist with ENO.

John was a Jerwood Young Artist in 2017.

Biographies

Matthew FletcherPiano

Frederick JonesTenor

Previously for Glyndebourne Matthew has been on the music staff at Glyndebourne since 2012 and has worked on a huge variety of repertoire, from Handel and Mozart to Strauss, Janáček and several world premieres.

He has a varied career as an accompanist and répétiteur. His performances have been broadcast live on BBC radio and television, Sky Arts and Classic FM, and have taken him to major UK venues and festivals, including Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings, Oxford Lieder, Cheltenham Festival and the BBC Proms. He has collaborated with artists such as Danielle de Niese, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Thomas Allen, Brindley Sherratt and Sally Matthews, and has worked as an assistant conductor at the Linbury Theatre (ROH). He has performed as a pianist and harpsichordist with the LPO, RPO and OAE and his competition successes include the accompanist prizes at Das Lied 2019 and the 2014 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. He is in demand as a repertoire coach, working with established operatic stars such as Jonas Kauffman and John Tomlinson as well as the Jerwood Young Artists at Glyndebourne and the Jette Parker Young Artists at ROH. He is on the teaching staff at RAM. He read music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was organ scholar. He then studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek and Pascal Nemirovsky at RAM, where he was made an Associate in 2016.

Previously for Glyndebourne A Herald/Rinaldo (GF)

Recent engagements Jaquino/Fidelio (Fidelio Orchestra); Lysander/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ferrando/Così fan tutte, Charles/The Long Christmas Dinner (GSMD); Ensemble Soloist/Candide (LSO); Tom Rakewell/The Rake’s Progress (BYO); Gherardo/Gianni Schicchi (London Schools Symphony Orchestra); Torero/Ainadamar (The New Zealand Festival)

The British born New Zealand tenor was a 2019/2020 Young artist at the National Opera Studio, a 2019 Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne and is a recent graduate of the Opera Course at GSMD. He completed a BMus in Performance Voice at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music in 2012 and graduated with distinction the following year with a Postgraduate Diploma in Operatic Performance. He completed a Master of Arts in Advanced Vocal Studies, again with distinction, at the Wales International Academy of Voice, studying under Dennis O’Neill. He also attended the Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto, and the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School. In 2016, he placed first in the Wellington Dame Malvina Major Foundation Aria Competition and the New Zealand Aria Competition, and was a semi-finalist in the IFAC Australian Singing Competition.

Frederick was a Jerwood Young Artist in 2019.

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Biographies

Madison Nonoa-HorsefieldSoprano

Previously for Glyndebourne Siren 1/Rinaldo (GF)

Forthcoming engagements Wigmore Hall debut

The New Zealand soprano is a recent graduate of the prestigious opera course at GSMD, a former Young Artist with New Zealand Opera and the recipient of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Most Promising Singer award in the Lexus Song Quest. She was selected as a 2020 Britten-Pears Young Artist for the Aldeburgh Festival and will make her Wigmore recital debut this November as a 2019/2020 Samling Young Artist. Roles performed include Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, Despina/Così fan tutte, Almirena/Rinaldo, Giulietta/I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Tytania/A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has been a soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and was recently a cover soloist for the London Philharmonia at Festival Hall. She acknowledges the ongoing support and encouragement of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dame Malvina Major Foundations.

Madison is a Jerwood Young Artist for 2020 and 2021.

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Emma KerrMezzo-Soprano

Previously for Glyndebourne Flora Bervoix/La traviata, (Cover) Prince Charming/Cendrillon (GT); (Cover) Croûte-au-pot/Mesdames de la Halle, Siren 2/Rinaldo, (Cover) Second Wood Nymph/Rusalka, Un pâtre/L’enfant et les sortilèges, (Cover) Mercédès/Carmen (GF)

Recent engagements Shadow Marnie 3/Marnie, (Cover) Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro (ENO); Frau Grubach, Washerwoman/The Trial, Second Wood Nymph/Rusalka, Dorabella/Così fan tutte, (Cover) Stewardess/Flight, (Cover) Ariodante/Ariodante, (Cover) Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Highlights Tour (SO)

Born in Edinburgh, she was a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist 2015-2017. She was a Jerwood Young Artist with Glyndebourne, having graduated with distinction from the Guildhall Opera Course in 2015. She is a Samling Artist 2016 and in 2017 was awarded the Audience Prize in the Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Award.

Emma was a Jerwood Young Artist in 2015.

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Thank you to all Glyndebourne staff. Without your dedication throughout this crisis, these live performances would not be possible.

Photography: Sam StephensonDesign: Fenton + Partners