Michael Lafferty Baritone

Voice 2022 – Art Song Division

Semifinalist
André Bachand Award for the Best Performance of a Canadian Work

 

Voice 2022

 

Baritone

 

2022: British baritone Michael Lafferty is set to make his Montréal debut at Voice 2022. Based in London, UK, he is currently a student of opera at the renowned Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He made his operatic debut as Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia, and soon added to his repertoire enviable baritone roles like Figaro in The Barber of Seville and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. In 2021 Lafferty sang under Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Salzburg Festival, and joined the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for Handel’s Messiah.

He recently took first prize in the Freda Parry Foundation Competition, the Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition, and the Guildhall English Song Prize.

 

Training 

2020: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Master’s Degree

2018-2020: Hanns Eisler Hochschule, Bachelor’s Degree

Principal Teachers

• David Pollard
• Thomas Quasthoff
• Matthew Rose

Prizes and Awards

• 2021: 1^st Prize, AESS Patricia Routledge English Song Competition
• 2021: 1^st Prize, Guildhall English Song Competition
• 2017: 1^st Prize, Freda Parry Scholarship Competition
• 2018: 2^nd Prize, Hurn Court Opera Competition

 

Programme

FIRST ROUND

GERALD FINZI The Phantom
(Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15)

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Love bade me welcome
(Five Mystical Songs)

FRANZ SCHUBERT Der Einsame, Op. 41, D. 800

GODFREY RIDOUT (arr.) Ah! Si mon moine voulait danser

 

SEMIFINAL

EDVARD GRIEG Gruß
(Sechs Lieder, Op. 48) 

SERGEI RACHMANINOV Chera mï vstretilis
(15 Romances, Op. 26)

HEALEY WILLAN Ae Fond Kiss
(Songs of the British Isles)

MALCOLM FORSYTH Chanson du petit cordonnier • Chanson de la grenouillère
(Three Métis Folk Songs from Saskatchewan)

GABRIEL FAURÉ La lune blanche luit dans les bois
(La bonne chanson, Op. 61)

FRANCIS POULENC L’Anguille • Carte postale • Avant le cinéma • 1904
(Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, FP. 58)

 

Website

 

 

Pianist: Cole Knutson

 

Michael Lafferty is generously sponsored by Nicole Poliquin

 

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