Harriet Burns Soprano

Harriet Burns
United Kingdom
25/12/1989

Voice 2022 – Art Song Division

Laureate – Maureen Forrester Second Prize
German Lied Award

 

Voice 2022

Competitors 2022

 

soprano

 

2022: British soprano Harriet Burns is quickly making a name for herself as a song interpreter. She has given recitals at the venerable Wigmore Hall, as well as the Oxford Lieder Festival and the International Lied Festival Zeist. She has collaborated with acclaimed pianists Malcolm Martineau and Graham Johnson, and she sings on two of Johnson’s multi-volume recordings for Hyperion, The Songs of Brahms.

Harriet Burns’ took Second Prize at the Wigmore Hall/ Independent Opera International Song Competition and the Song and Recital Prizes at the International Vocal Competition’s-Hertogenbosch.

Based in London, Burns is a vocal coach and voice teacher, and is on staff at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

 

Training 

2015-2018: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Master’s Degree

2018-2020: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Artist Diploma

Principal Teachers

  • Professor Susan McCulloch (Artist Masters, 2015-2018)
  • Professor Yvonne Kenny (Opera School, Artist Diploma, 2018-2020)

Prizes and Awards

  • Second Prize, Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition
  • Song and Recital Prizes, International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch

 

Programme

FIRST ROUND

CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
(Songs of Faith, Op. 97)

ERNEST CHAUSSON Dans la forêt du charme et de l’enchantement
(2 Mélodies, Op. 36)

HANS PFITZNER Ich fürcht’ nit Gespenster
(Alte Weisen, Op. 33)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY Claire de lune
(Fêtes galantes I)

FRANZ SCHUBERT Ellens Gesänge II, D. 838

FRANZ SCHUBERT Die Männer sind méchant!
(4 Refrainlieder, Op. 95, D. 866)

 

SEMIFINAL

ROBERT SCHUMANN Singet nicht in Trauertönen, Op. 98

FRANZ SCHUBERT Atys, D. 585

GABRIEL FAURÉ L’absent
(Trois chansons, Op. 5)

JUDITH WEIR Seranilla de la Zarzuela
(A Spanish Liederbooklet)

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Tournoiement (Songe d’opium)
(Mélodies persanes, Op. 26)

JAMES K WRIGHT Quilled Sonnet

CHARLES GOUNOD Au rossignol, CG. 332

JOHANNES BRAHMS Och Moder, ich well in Ding han
(49 Deutches Volkslieder, WoO. 33)

 

FINAL

JOSEPH HAYDN The Mermaid’s Song, Hob. XXVIa:25

ANDRÉ CAPLET Le corbeau et le renard
(Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine)

LEE HOIBY Jabberwocky

RICHARD STRAUSS Muttertändelei
(3 Gesänge älterer deutscher Dichter, Op. 43)

WILHELM STENHAMMAR Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte
(Idyll och epigram, Op. 4)

FRANZ SCHUBERT Das Zügenglöcklein, D. 871

JUDITH WEIR Lady Isobel and the Elf-Knight
(Scotch Minstrelsy)

JAMES MACMILLAN Ballad
(Three Soutar Settings)

ANTONIN DVORAK O byl to krásny, zlaty sen
(Four Songs, Op. 2)

HUGO WOLF Waldmädchen
(Eichendorff-Lieder)

 

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Pianist: Ian Tindale

 

Harriet Burns is generously sponsored by Nathalie Pratte

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