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26 October - 2 November 2018

Donna Anna - Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart

Medieval Hall, Salisbury, England

Musical director: Phillip Thomas and Stage director: Richard Studer Festvial Celebrate Voice

Saturday 1 December 2018

20h00 - Wurzburg, Germany - Concert Series "Buchen in Concert"

Mélodies françaises, duets by Schumann and Chausson, La Damoiselle Elue by Debussy, with Bettina von Hindte, dramatic soprano

Saturday 15 December 2018

17h30 - Festival de musique sacrée - Eglise Sainte Claude - Carros Village

with l'ensemble Musiques en Jeux, direction: Alain Joutard

Jazz Mass by Bob Chilcott and traditional spirituals

Tous les concerts sont GRATUITS mais sur réservation dans la limite des places disponibles.
Réservation : 04 89 22 24 53 - culture@ville-carros.fr
Les réservations non retirées 15 minutes avant le début du concert seront annulées.

Saturday 5 January 2019

16h - "de Paris à New York City" - Concert du Nouvel An - Expressions XX et I

Théâtre Alexandre III, 19 Boulevard Alexandre III, 06400 Cannes

Poulenc, Kosma/Prevert, Nacio Brown, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill with Marika Hofmyer, pianist

https://expressions-vingt-et-un.jimdo.com/

Sunday 6 January 2019

15h - Hommage à Maria Callas - Concert du Nouvel An

Centre culturel d'Aups - 96 Chemin des Prés, 83630 Aups

extraits de La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, Carmen, La Bohème, Tosca

with Stéphane Eliot, orgue symphonique - Tomo Rozmann, violoncelle

concert offert par la Mairie d'Aups

Sunday 27 January 2019

17h - Salle Fuon Pench - 12 Avenue du Dr Faraut, 06670 Levens

Musique américiane d'aujourd'hui et hier - with Hsia-Jung Chang, pianist

5 April 2018

20h30 Théâtre Georges Brassens, Saint Laurent du Var, France

"Syrinx, la Flûte de Pan" - musique inspirée par la mythologie

Debussy, Fauré, Hüe, Gaubert, Ravel

Paula Thomas, flûte traversière and Aurélie Ellul-Ricci, harpe

AGENDA

La Provence - 20 août 2018 Concert magique au château

Dernièrement, le trio Syrinx composé d’Amy Blake (soprano), Paula Thomas (flûte traversière), Georges-Henri Ducreux (piano) a donné un concert au château. Un concert original qui sortait des sentiers battus avec un répertoire composé en majorité de mélodies françaises. La diction impeccable du texte de Gabriel Mourey sur le dieu Pan lu par Amy Blake, tandis que résonnait l’air de flûte de Syrinx fut un des moments forts de cette soirée.

PRESS

GALLERY

Amy Christianna Blake

soprano

Hailed for her “beautiful singing” and “tremendous power and stage presence” by The New York Times, Amy Christianna Blake combines a rich expressive soprano voice with dynamic interpretation. Her exciting and moving performances of a diverse operatic and concert repertoire have firmly established her as one of today's most promising artists. For her artistry as a recitalist, she has received high acclaim. “Ms. Blake sang with such inner conviction, eloquence, passion and elegance that she brought the house down.” (New Music Connoisseur).

ABOUT

Recently, Amy sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Celebrate Voice in Salisbury, England, Violetta in La Traviata at the National Opera of Varna, Bulgaria (conductor Stefano Seghadoni). She was La Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro for Opus Opéra (conductor Nicolas Krüger), Musetta in La Bohème and the First Lady in Die Zauberflőte for Opera Panamà. She sang Elena in Paride ed Elena by Gluck for the Caramoor Opera Festival, (conductor Will Crutchfield), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte for Natchez Opera Festival. She was chosen to create Juana la Loca III for the the world premiere of Rage d'Amour for Tanglewood Music Center (conductor Stefan Asbury). She sang Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier in Graz, Austria for AIMS (conductor Cornelius Eberhardt).

Amy has sung numerous soprano solos in oratorios, including Handel Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Vesperae solennes de confessore and C minor Mass, Saint Saëns L'Oratorio de Noël (conductor Michel Piquemal), Dvořak Stabat Mater and Te Deum (conductor Alain Joutard), Mendelssohn's Hör mein Bitten (conductor Wolfgang Doerner), Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder, Brahms Requiem and Liebeslieder Waltzer, Berlioz Les Nuits d'été and excerpts from West Side Story.

Equally at home on the concert stage, Amy has given recitals for Festivals Ninon Vallin and Liszt Côte d'Azur, the concert series Monaco Musique de Chambre, in New York City at Merkin Hall and Symphony Space and the Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway.

A passionate contemporary music lover, she has created numerous works, many of which were written for her, by composers including Paul Brantley, Hampson Sisler, David Eddelman, Jean-Pierre Nouvel, Yuka Takechi and Robert Zuidam. Amy had the great honor to be Resident Artist at the renowned Fondation Royaumont. She was selected for Les Saisons de la Voix by pianist, Jeff Cohen.

Holder of Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University, she also studied at the Bel Canto Institute with Jane Klaviter at the Metropolitan Opera, Tanglewood Music Center, Des Moines Metro Opera and the Centre d'Art Lyrique de la Méditerranée. She has participated in masterclasses with Renata Scotto, Licia Albanese, Lucy Shelton, Phyllis Curtin, Cheryl Studer and Elly Ameling. She was awarded a study grant for the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation and was finalist for the American Artists Center at the Lyric Opera Center of Chicago.

Having grown up in West Texas, Amy now resides on the Côte d'Azur and continues to study with Jane Highfield, Phillip Thomas, Françoise Ogéas and Dalton Baldwin.

CONTACT

info@amyblakesoprano.com

VIDEOS

Clifton Record review - March 2, 2015

Simone Wichers-Voss