By -


Coloratura soprano sings Belinda with the Bury Bach Choir

Lyric coloratura soprano Tali Ketzef will make her first appearance with the Bury Bach Choir on 15 June at The Apex, singing the major role of Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, which we are performing in concert format.

Tali was born and lives in Israel and has been singing since she was a child. She studied vocal performance at the Buchmann-Mehta Academy in Tel-Aviv and was a member of the Israeli Opera Studio. Tali won first prize at the International Vocal Arts Institute's Competition in 2015, the Bucholz prize (2016), the Besser award (2017) and the Berkovich award (2019).

Her operatic repertoire includes Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Gilda in Rigoletto, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Violetta in La Traviata and Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites. Tali debuted at the Israeli Opera in 2016 with the roles of Clorinda (La Cenerentola) and Contessa Ceprano (Rigoletto).

‘Dido and Aeneas is a very special opera for me’, says Tali. ‘Singing Belinda was my first operatic experience and I am always so happy to return to this beautiful and beloved opera which is a milestone in opera history.’

Later in 2019-20 Tali will sing the roles of Sister Rose in Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Berta in Barbiere di Siviglia and Zecha in Rechter’s Shitz. She will also perform the title role in Handel’s Alcina with the Israeli Barrocade Ensemble.

Tali has been working with and mentored by the Choir’s Co-President, Graeme Danby, and says she is ‘thrilled and honoured to be singing Belinda in England for the first time, for me the most important role in this magnificent piece - the narrator of this heartbreaking story’.

She also says she ‘can’t wait to share the stage with such a group of talented artists and I’m especially excited to hear the Bury Bach Choir’. The feeling is entirely mutual, we can’t wait to meet and hear Tali in what is shaping up to be a wonderful finale to our concert season.

Tickets for the concert, priced from £15, can be purchased through the choir's website www.burybachchoir.co.uk, by visiting the Apex Box Office, or by calling the Apex on 01284 758000.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

By -
Image
Christopher Moore – Piano four hands secondo Christopher started his musical career when he was very young: ‘my grandmother played piano, organ and violin and sat me on her knee at the piano as a baby to get me interested!’ He started piano lessons when he was eight, oboe at eleven and organ at thirteen. He worked for a firm of organ builders for a year after school and then read music at Durham University, where he played the organ a lot.    Christopher taught in schools and churches in Dorset, London and Sussex before moving to Cambridge in 1986 to take up the post of Director of Music at Great St Mary’s. This was a great challenge, he says, ‘but I enjoyed it, I built up the choirs, had a new organ, very supportive vicars, a lot of autonomy and a lot of fun! It became quite a centre for music and still is’. In 1998 Christopher moved to Sudbury while he was working as an examiner for the ABRSM, ‘because I fell in love with a beautiful old house which I had great fun re
Read more
By -
Image
Videntes Stellam  – a carol by Chelsea Haward At our Christmas concert at Lavenham church on 14 December the Bury Bach Choir will sing a carol written by one of our own members, soprano Chelsea Haward.   Videntes Stellam  (seeing the star) is an ethereally beautiful depiction of the Magi bringing their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrhh to the baby Jesus. Chelsea, who was born and bred in Bury St Edmunds, read music at the University of Edinburgh for four years and followed her BMus (Hons) with an MA in Applied Psychology of Music at Leeds University, focusing on background music and how it affects cognitive performance. She has been in the choir for four years, since returning to Bury to teach piano and continue composing. ‘When I’m composing music’, Chelsea says, ‘I always use the words as my inspiration – I’m fascinated by etymology and different languages and how they link together, and how you can portray their meaning in music’. She wrote her first music, a pian
Read more
By -
Image
The Glory of Bach at Christmas For our Christmas concert this year, on 16 December at the beautiful church in Lavenham, we are performing four parts (I, II, III and VI) of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio . We will be joined by the period instruments of the Suffolk Baroque Players and four outstanding soloists: soprano Fae Evelyn, mezzo-soprano Valerie Reid, tenor Anthony Gregory and baritone Tom Asher. The Christmas Oratorio is a joyful experience, the perfect way to begin the celebration of Christmas. Bach designed the six parts (or cantatas) of the Christmas Oratorio to be performed at specific church services in Leipzig during the Christmas and New Year period of 1734/5. The work follows the familiar Christmas story in a glorious sequence of chorales, arias and powerful choruses. Part I, for the first day of Christmas, relates Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem, and the joy of the birth of Jesus. Part II, for the second day of Christmas, tells of the angels’ announcem
Read more