Who is the internationally renowned solo violinist and recording artist (born in 1954) who performed at the Edward Boyle Memorial Concert 1983 along with an English mezzo-soprano born in 1933 and best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer?
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Vanya Milanova Vanya Milanova was born on January the 12th 1954. She is an internationally renowned solo violinist and recording artist. She is noted for being a female breakthrough artist in a male dominated field. Her beauty of tone, technical ability and having an unusually large repertoire have been much commentated on in press reviews. She has made a lasting impact on violin performing through being the very first woman to record the entire 24 Paganini caprices in a primarily male field for the Simax Label, Oslo, 1985. She performed works which were often only attributed to male soloists. Bulgarian born, Vanya Milanova was a child prodigy, having performed her first paid concert at the age of three. She studied at the Music School in Sofia and the State Music Academy in Sofia in the class of Peter Arnaudov and later at the Guildhall School of Music in London where she studied with pedagogue Yfrah Neaman OBE. Before turning 20 years of age she had already won prizes at many of the major competitions: Tchaikovsky, Queen Elizabeth and Paganini. She has played with some of the best orchestras in England, France, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, South America and South Africa. She has made frequent recordings with the BBC – London and Manchester, Norwegian Label Simax and the Italian Label Real Sound. and has played at the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Opera House for the Edward Boyle Memorial Concert 1983 attended by Her Royal Majesty the Queen in aid of the Edward Boyle Memorial Trust, featuring Vanya Milanova, the Amadeus String Quartet, Murray Perahia, Kathryn Scott and Dame Janet Baker). Vanya Milanova has been awarded 'Freedom of the City Award' in her native Bulgaria for her outstanding contribution to music and popularising classical music to a younger generation. Alongside being a performing and recording artist, She was violin professor at Bilkent University, Turkey and at various other institutions where she disseminated her style to a new generation of young violinists.
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Janet Baker Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.
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John Harding (violinist) John Harding (born 1950) Hon DMus Newcastle is an internationally renowned violinist. He has travelled the world as a soloist, teacher, concertmaster, chamber musician, conductor and recording artist.
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Susanne Rydén Susanne Ingegerd Rydén (born 2 October 1962) is a Swedish soprano who has been called "Sweden's most renowned singer". She specializes in early music and has performed across Europe and abroad.
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Nell Rankin Nell Rankin (January 3, 1924 – January 13, 2005) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Although a successful opera singer internationally, she spent most of her career at the Metropolitan Opera where she worked from 1951-76. She was particularly admired for her portrayals of Amneris in Verdi's "Aida" and the title role in Bizet's "Carmen". "Opera News" said, "Her full, generous tone and bold phrasing, especially in the Italian repertory, were unique among American mezzos of her generation.
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Catherine King (mezzo-soprano) Catherine King is an English mezzo-soprano, best known for her performances and recordings of mediaeval, renaissance and baroque music and also very active in performing classical oratorio, opera and contemporary music. She is the only female member of Gothic Voices and has made over 30 recordings.
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Ada Adini Ada Adini (1855 – February 1924) was an American operatic soprano who had an active international career from 1876 up into the first decade of the 20th century. She possessed a large, expressive voice which enabled her to sing a broad range of roles that extended from the coloratura soprano repertoire to dramatic soprano parts. She made five recordings with Fonotipia Records in Paris in 1905.
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Measha Brueggergosman Measha Brueggergosman (born Measha Gosman; June 28, 1977) is a Canadian soprano who performs both as an opera singer and concert artist. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards. Her recordings of both classical and popular music have also received awards.
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Helmut Kretschmar Helmut Kretschmar (born 3 February 1928) is a German classical tenor who spent most of his career performing in concerts and recitals with major orchestras and at important music festivals internationally. Although he focused his career mainly within the concert repertoire, Kretschmar did appear two times on the opera stage, notably singing in the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses und Aron" in 1954. Possessing a rich and warm lyric tenor voice, Kretschmar excelled in the concert repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, and Felix Mendelssohn. Also an admired interpreter of Lieder, Kretschmar performed and recorded a number of works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Hugo Wolf.
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Eunice Alberts Eunice Alberts (1927–2012) was an American contralto who had an active career as a concert soloist and opera singer during the 1950s through the 1980s. She began her career as a concert soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the young age of 19 and quickly became a lauded oratorio singer during the late 1940s and the early 1950s. She began her opera career with the New York City Opera in 1951. She went on to have a successful opera career with companies throughout the United States, ultimately forging a strong partnership with Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston that lasted from 1961 to 1988. She notably sang in a number of United States premieres in Boston and appeared in a few world premieres in New York City. Although Alberts made a number of impressive achievements in the field of opera, her legacy remains in the numerous appearances and recordings she made with major symphony orchestras in the United States. She was particularly successful as a soloist in the great choral works of J.S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Martina Arroyo Martina Arroyo (born February 2, 1936) is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success, and is viewed as part of an instrumental group of performers who helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world.
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Anne Sharp Anne Sharp (24 October 1916 – 25 August 2011) was a Scottish coloratura soprano particularly associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.
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Lotte Lehmann Charlotte "Lotte" Lehmann (February 27, 1888 – August 26, 1976) was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart, and Massenet. The Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier", Sieglinde in "Die Walküre" and the title-role in "Fidelio" are considered her greatest roles. During her long career, Lehmann also made more than five hundred recordings. Her performances in the world of Lieder are considered among the best ever recorded.
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Nadine Secunde Nadine Secunde (born 21 December 1953) is an American operatic soprano. She studied and performed in Germany, singing at the Bayreuth Festival the leading parts of Elsa in "Lohengrin" and Sieglinde in "Die Walküre", and made an international career. A specialist for the works of Wagner and Richard Strauss, she has also performed contemporary operas.
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Frances Alda Frances Alda (31 May 1879– 18 September 1952) was a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised operatic soprano. She achieved fame during the first three decades of the 20th century due to her outstanding singing voice, fine technique and colourful personality, as well as her frequent onstage partnerships at the New York Metropolitan Opera with Enrico Caruso.
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Eileen Sharp Eileen Nora Sharp (20 September 1900 – 25 March 1958) was an English singer and actress probably best known as the principal mezzo-soprano with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1923 to 1925. For a few years after that, she continued to act in the West End and on tour, but she left the stage after marrying in 1928, making some radio and television appearances in the 1930s.
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Sarah Connolly Dame Sarah Patricia Connolly DBE (born 13 June 1963) is an English mezzo-soprano. Although best known for her baroque and classical roles, Connolly has a wide-ranging repertoire which has included works by Wagner as well as various 20th-century composers. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to music.
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Barbara Dever Barbara Dever (born December 25, 1951) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer who has appeared with Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Nello Santi and James Levine.
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Irene Eisinger Irene Eisinger (8 December 19038 April 1994) was a German and British opera singer and film actress. Her career was closely linked to the foundation and the early years of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
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Roy Goodman Roy Goodman (born 26 January 1951) is an English conductor and violinist, specialising in the performance and direction of early music. He became internationally famous as the 12-year-old boy treble soloist in the March 1963 recording of Allegri's "Miserere" with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, under David Willcocks.
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Evelyn Tubb Evelyn Tubb is a soprano, and long-time member of The Consort of Musicke and one of the world's greatest early music specialists, known for her innovative and original performances.
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Maria Maksakova Sr. Maria Petrovna Maksakova (Мария Петровна Максакова, née: Sidorova; April 8, 1902, Astrakhan, Russian Empire – August 11, 1974, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet opera singer, mezzo-soprano, a leading soloist in the Bolshoi Theater (1923–1953), who enjoyed great success in the 1920s and 1930s, in the times often referred to as the golden age of Soviet opera. Maria Maksakova, the three times laureate of the Stalin's Prize (1946, 1949, 1951), was designated as a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971. The actress Lyudmila Maksakova is her daughter; singer and TV presenter Maria Maksakova Jr. her granddaughter.