EMA NIKOLOVSKA

POST-PERFORMANCE TALKBACK

Acclaimed for her expressive abilities and vast repertoire, this Canadian-Macedonian mezzo-soprano is gaining a reputation as “one to watch”. She was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2019-2022 and won first prize at the International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize (Kathleen Ferrier Awards), and was a prize winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions. In 2022, she became the recipient of a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. A prolific recitalist, Ema has performed at the Pierre Boulez Saal and Konzerthaus Berlin, and at London’s Wigmore Hall. She will be accompanied by Canadian pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin, “a musician-pianist: fluent, multi-faceted and tonally seductive” (BBC Music Magazine).

Franz Schubert

Im Frühling D. 882
Dass sie hier gewesen D. 775
Herbst D. 945
Der Unglückliche D. 713

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Seasons, Op. 37b

VI. June

Margaret Bonds

Songs of the Seasons

Poème d’Automne
Winter Moon
Young Love in Spring
Summer Storm

Claude Debussy

Images oubliées, L.87

I. Lent

Ariettes Oubliées, L. 60

I. C’est l’extase langoureuse
II. Il pleure dans mon coeur
III. L’ombre des arbres
IV. Chevaux de Bois
V. Green (Aquarelle I)
VI. Spleen (Aquarelle II)

Nikolai Medtner

Twilight, Op. 24 No. 4
Sleeplessness, Op. 37 No. 1

Nicolas Slonimsky

Five Advertising Songs

Utica Sheets and Pillowcases
Pillsbury Bran Muffins
Vauv Nose Powder
Children Cry for Castoria
Make This a Day of Pepsodent

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