Saturday 12th May 2007, 7:30 p.m.
St Matthew’s Church, Durham Road, Raynes Park SW20
Brahms, Academic Festival Overture
Strauss, Four Last Songs
Mozart, Concert Aria Bella Mia Fiamma K528
Tchaikovsky, Symphony no 3
Soprano: Sally Harrison
Guest Conductor: Nicholas Collon
Tickets £12.00, Concessions £9.00,
Children (up to the age of twelve) Free of Charge
Nicholas Collon is the Principal Conductor of Aurora Orchestra. A violist, pianist
and organist by training, Nicholas studied music as an organ scholar at Clare College,
Cambridge, graduating in 2004. Whilst at Cambridge, he conducted a critically acclaimed
performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Cambridge University Baroque Ensemble,
in which Anthony Rolfe Johnson sang the Evangelist role. Conducting engagements in
London have included concerts with the Haydn, Tallis and Kensington Chamber Orchestras,
and masterclasses with the BBC Singers, with whom he was runner-
He will conduct The Magic Flute with the Choir and Orchestra of London in Bethlehem and Ramallah in April 2007 (directed by Sam West) which will be the first ever staged opera on the West Bank. Other work for the 2007 season includes concerts with the Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, and the Salomon Orchestra.
Sally Harrison’s current engagements include Pat Nixon (Nixon in China for the Greek National Opera), La Musica (L’Orfeo for the English Bach Festival Trust, Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro for the Classical Opera Company, La Folie / Platée at The Megaron, Athens, the Mozart Mass in C Minor at the Parco della Musica, Rome, and A Sea Symphony for the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, as well as a wide range of concerts throughout the UK.
"The vibrancy of the other voices -
Photo: Andrès Landino
