Michael Pandya & Andrew Hamilton

Andrew Hamilton baritone
Michael Pandya piano

Michael Pandya

Michael Pandya is a British pianist and conductor, increasingly sought-after as a performer and vocal coach in the UK and Europe. He is a BBC New Generation Artist 2023-25.

A former young artist at the Bayerische Staatsoper, he has appeared on the performance stage alongside many high-calibre established and emerging musicians including Bryn Terfel, Nadine Sierra, Graham Johnson, Željko Lučić, Jonathan Lemalu, Robin Tritschler, Michael Nagy, Ema Nikolovska, Freddie de Tommaso, Harriet Burns, William Thomas, Andrew Hamilton and Leo Popplewell.

As a song pianist, Michael has been awarded several prestigious prizes including the Pianist Prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition, at the Gerald Moore Award, at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, and at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards.

Andrew Hamilton

British baritone player Andrew Hamilton is currently a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper. In the upcoming 2023/24 Season, Andrew will sing Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas as well as appearing as Morales in Carmen, and in Wozzeck under the baton of General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski. Highlights for the 2022/23 season in Munich included Schaunard in La bohème conducted by Juraj Valcuha; Ottokar in Der Freischütz conducted by Lothar Koenigs; and Marcellus/Spieler 3 in Brett Dean’s Hamlet conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

Featuring five songs from Schoenberg’s Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Op. 15

Prologue
Henri Duparc La vie Antérieure

My Garden, my Paradise
Arnold Schoenberg Unterm Schutz von dichten Blättergründen
Claude Debussy L’échellonement des haies
Hugo Wolf Gesang Weylas

I walk with one who loves me
Arnold Schoenberg Da meine Lippen reglos sind und brennen
Richard Strauss Freundliche Vision
Roger Quilter I Arise from Dreams of Thee

It cannot be silenced
Arnold Schoenberg Streng ist uns das Glück und spröde
Sergei Rachmaninov What Happiness

PAUSE (10 minutes)

Your Song rang out
Cécile Chaminade Viens, mon bien-aimé
Samuel Barber Nocturne
Frank Bridge Adoration
Richard Strauss Als mir dein Lied erklang

Omens and Shadows
Charles Ives Premonitions
Arnold Schoenberg Wenn sich bei heiliger Ruh
Cheryl Frances-Hoad Star Falling (solo piano)

A Fading Kiss
Johanna Müller-Hermann Der letzte Abend
Arnold Schoenberg Wir bevölkerten die abend-düstern Lauben
Ernest Chausson Le temps des lilas

Epilogue
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Sky above the Roof

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