Mary Bevan, Allan Clayton, Graham J Lloyd, Carducci String Quartet
Biography Mary Bevan, Allan Clayton, Graham J Lloyd, Carducci String Quartet
Mary Bevan
Praised by Opera for her “dramatic wit and vocal control”, British soprano Mary Bevan is internationally renowned in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras and ensembles around the world. She is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist award and UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent in music and was awarded a MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2019.
In the 2019/20 season, Bevan makes her role debut as Eurydice in a new production of Orpheus in the Underworld for English National Opera, performs Sifare in Mozart Mitridate for Garsington Opera, reprises the role of Rose Maurrant in Weill Street Scene for Opera de Monte Carlo, and tours as Diana Iphigenie en Tauride with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. On the concert platform, Bevan will appear this season with The Hallé, The Handel and Haydn Society, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the CBSO and the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla.
Recent operatic highlights for Bevan include her Royal Danish Opera debut as Bellezza Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Rose Maurrant Street Scene at the Teatro Real, Madrid, the title role in Turnage’s new opera Coraline for the Royal Opera at the Barbican, Zerlina Don Giovanni for English National Opera, and Merab Saul for the Adelaide Festival. At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bevan created the role of Lila in David Bruce The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, and also performed the roles of Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro and the title role in Rossi Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
On the concert platform, recent highlights include appearences with the BBC Symphony, BBC Concert Orchestra at the Proms, and with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO in the world premiere of Roxanna Panufnik’s Faithful Journey. She joined the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as Mary in Sally Beamish The Judas Passion; performed Bach Christmas Oratorio on tour in Australia with the Choir of London and Australian Chamber Orchestra; and Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music. She also headlined a tour of Asia with The English Concert and Harry Bicket and made her Carnegie Hall debut with the ensemble as Dalinda in Handel Ariodante. In 2020 she will make her debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Bevan’s discography includes her art song album Voyages with pianist Joseph Middleton and Handel's Queens with London Early Opera, both released by Signum Records, Mendelssohn songs for Champs Hill Records, Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth and Handel: Ode for St Cecilia’s Day with Ludus Baroque, and Vaughan Williams Symphony No.3 and Schubert Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic. In autumn 2019 Signum will release her second disc with Joseph Middleton including Lieder by Schubert, Haydn and Wolf.
Allan Clayton
is established as one of the most exciting and sought after singers of his generation. He studied at St John’s College, Cambridge and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. An Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and former BBC New Generation Artist from 2007-09, his awards include “The Queen’s Commendation for Excellence” and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship.
Allan garnered huge praise as the lead role in Brett Dean’s Hamlet, which had its world premiere at Glyndebourne in June 2017. During 2017, Allan also sang the role of David in Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. At the beginning of the 2017-18 season he will sing Lensky in Eugene Onegin for his debut at Frankfurt Opera, and Ferdinand in Miranda for Opera Comique. Allan returns to Komische Opera Berlin in 2018 for Handel’s Semele, and also returns to Glyndebourne for Handel’s Saul.
