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‘Schubertiade’
A new departure for us, this week we present a programme entirely devoted to the music of Schubert (with a little Beethoven for good measure!)
Stella Pendrous – Piano
Timothy Dean – Piano
Matthew McKinney – Tenor
We will be performing some of Schubert’s music for piano with four hands, including the profound and beautiful Fantasy in F minor. We are particularly excited to welcome the young Scottish tenor, Matthew McKinney.
Stella Pendrous studied at Chethams’s School of Music, at Gennevilliers Conservatory, Paris, and privately in London with Valeria Szervansky. She read English and completed an MPhil in Medieval Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Stella has performed piano concertos by Liszt, Mozart, Chopin and Clara Schumann, with the St Mary’s Sinfonia, Cornwall Concert Orchestra, Symphoni Kernow, Penzance Camerata, Truro Sinfonia and Truro Symphony Orchestra. A versatile artist, she has performed extensively as soloist on cruise liners, accompanied the Richard Alston Dance Company and toured Europe as ‘silent – movie pianist’ with the Bash Street Theatre Company, in addition to many solo recitals. She plays for Kevos, works regularly at the Minack Theatre and teaches at Truro School.
Hailed for his ‘gorgeous lyric voice’, Scottish tenor Matthew McKinney is quickly establishing a reputation for his nuanced artistry, innate musicality and expressive performance across opera, song and concert. Winner of the 2024 Kathleen Ferrier Award main prize, Matthew makes a principal debut at Glyndebourne this season in the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage’s The Railway Children, followed by a debut with English National Opera in the spring. In recital, he appears with Malcolm Martineau, Roelof Temmingh, and Dearbhla Collins, and on the concert stage, he performs the Evangelist in St. John’s Passion in Paisley Abbey and Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Ayr, Scotland.
Highlights of recent seasons include his debut at Carnegie Hall as a song studio artist, Beethoven’s An Die Ferne Geliebte as part of the newly compiled work Do Not Take My Story for a Fairy Tale for English Touring Opera, Bach’s St Matthew Passion for Dunedin Consort, cover Bardolfo Falstaff for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and Luigino Il viaggio a Reims and Rustighello Lucrezia Borgia in new productions for English Touring Opera. Other roles include Tsar The Snow Maiden, Damon Acis & Galatea (Ryedale Festival) and Henrik A Little Night Music (Opera North, Buxton International Festival).
