Andrew Kennedy
soprano
tenor
Sally Matthews was the winner of the 1999 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, was a member of the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, and was part of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. She currently studies with Paul Farringdon. Plans for this season and beyond include the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Blanche in Les Dialogues des carmélites at the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Netherlands Opera; and Jenůfa at La Monnaie, Brussels. Concert appearances include The Turn of the Screw with the London Symphony Orchestra; Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes with the Orchestra dell’Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Sir Antonio Pappano in Rome; Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle; Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; and Beethoven’s Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph ll with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Past highlights have included the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Sifare in Mitridate and Anne Truelove in The Rake’s Progress at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Cavalli’s La Calisto and Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland in Munich; the Governess in The Turn of the Screw at the Theater an der Wien; and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Vienna Staatsoper. Concert appearances have included Brahms’s Requiem with Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Strauss’s Four Last Songs with Robin Ticciati and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra; Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Berlin Philharmonic; and Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi with the London Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding. Sally has also appeared in recital at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; La Monnaie, Brussels; and Wigmore Hall, London. 8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Sally Matthews
Andrew Kennedy studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and the Royal College of Music in London. He was a member of the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. Highlights in his operatic career have included Tamino in The Magic Flute (English National Opera); Jaquino in Fidelio (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress (La Scala, La Monnaie, and Opéra de Lyon); Vere in Billy Budd and Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw (Houston Grand Opera); Tito in La clemenza di Tito (Opéra de Lyon); Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville (Welsh National Opera); and Ferrando in Così fan tutte (Turin). In concert, Andrew’s many appearances include Mozart’s Requiem with the LSO/Sir Colin Davis (recorded for LSO Live); Orfeo in Haydn’s Orfeo e Euridice (Boston Handel and Haydn Society/Norrington); Tobia in Il ritorna di Tobia (OAE/Norrington); Mozart’s Requiem and Young Man in Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane (LPO/Jurowski); Finzi’s Intimations of Immortality (BBCSO/Daniel); Mozart’s Mass in C minor (Hallé/Elder); Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Netherlands Philharmonic/Sir Colin Davis); Elgar’s The Spirit of England at the Last Night of the 2007 BBC Proms; Handel’s Il trionfo with the Gabrieli Consort; Britten’s Nocturne (BBC National Orchestra of Wales), Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (CBSO, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/BBC National Orchestra of Wales and at the BBC Proms with the Nash Ensemble/Edward Gardner) and Les Illuminations (Edinburgh International Festival/Scottish Ensemble and with the Orchestre de Picardie); and Handel’s Messiah (Tonhalle Zürich). The 2012/13 season includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Philharmonia Orchestra); Bliss’s The Beatitudes (BBC Philharmonic); Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Helsinki Philharmonic); Handel’s Messiah (Opéra de Lyon); The Barber of Seville (English National Opera); Quint in The Turn of the Screw (LSO); Tamino in The Magic Flute (Toulon); and Belfiore in La finta giardiniera (Buxton Festival).