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The Teddington Society presents an online recital series, in aid of the beloved local Landmark Arts Centre, featuring pianist Simone Alessandro Tavoni and tenor Alexander Jeffries, with special guest John Holland-Avery, baritone.
The Landmark has struggled, like so many other institutions, over the Covid period, and we would like to do all we can to see it remains open to the community for many years to come. Vincenzo Bellini
Sogno d’infanzia Vaga luna che in argenti L’abbandono Franz Schubert Impromptu No.3 Op.90 Giuseppe Martucci Melodia Op.21 No.2 Claude Debussy Ballade Frederic Chopin Rondo Op.13 Vincenzo Bellini Malinconia Bella Nice Almen se non poss’io Ma rendi pur contento Per pieta |
Alexander's website
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Australian born, London based tenor Alexander Jeffries has been very musical from a young age, performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival in California, and St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, before the age of 18. Alexander studied voice at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in Australia, and then the City Lit in London. Recent roles include Alfredo (Verdi, La Traviata, Teddington Opera), El Remendado (Bizet, Carmen, Brent Opera West Hampstead), Ismaele (Verdi, Nabucco, Brent Opera West Hampstead), Lionel (Flotow, Martha, Brent Opera West Hampstead), Alfred (J. Strauss, Die Fledermaus, Opera Integra), Rinuccio and Gherardo (Puccini, Gianni Schicchi, City Lit Opera), Oberon (Purcell, The Fairy Queen, City Lit Opera) and l’Arithmétique/The Frog (Ravel, L’enfant et les Sortilèges, City Lit Opera).
In 2019 Alexander founded the Teddington Opera Company, with the patronage of the Teddington Society in London. Working with conductor Sonia Ben-Santamaria, their goal is to bring world class opera to the beautiful theatres in south west London. Unfortunately, as for so many others, the current pandemic has halted these plans, but they will hopefully be back with a new full production of L’Elisir d’Amore in 2022.
In 2019 Alexander founded the Teddington Opera Company, with the patronage of the Teddington Society in London. Working with conductor Sonia Ben-Santamaria, their goal is to bring world class opera to the beautiful theatres in south west London. Unfortunately, as for so many others, the current pandemic has halted these plans, but they will hopefully be back with a new full production of L’Elisir d’Amore in 2022.
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The Italian pianist Simone Alessandro Tavoni has given recitals internationally, including in the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Hungary, France, Spain, Malta, Estonia, Greece and across Italy. He was awarded a place on the BBC Pathway scheme during the 2015/2016 academic year and through this, he has had the opportunity to rehearse and perform as an orchestral pianist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and some of these performances have been played by BBC Radio 3. In 2019 Simone was a Park Lane Group Artist, a Keyboard Charitable Trust Artist and received the Luciano and Giancarla Berti full-ride scholarship to attend the Aspen Music Festival and School studying with renowned Professor Fabio Bidini.
He has featured as a soloist with the East London Symphony Orchestra, the Kensington Chamber Orchestra, the Ashod Symphony Orchestra, the Alion Baltic Symphony Orchestra, and the Luigi Cherubini Symphony Orchestra. Performance venues have included the Liszt House (Budapest, Hungary), the Florence Conservatory Concert Hall (Florence, Italy), the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall, the Brunel University, St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Regent Hall, St James’ Piccadilly, Winchester Cathedral (UK), Petit Palau in Barcelona (Spain), The Talliin Philarmonia and Glehn Castle (Talliin, Estonia), the Hausmusik of Aarhus and the Italian institute of culture in Copenhagen (Denmark). He is also a regular guest artist at the En Blanc Et Noir Piano Festival in Lagrasse (France) and of the Aegean international art festival in Heraklion (Crete). During a recent recital in Spain his recording was broadcast by the Canal du sur (Almeria, Spain). After graduating from the Giacomo Puccini Conservatoire in La Spezia, Liguria (Italy) when he was 18, where he studied the piano under Marco Podestà, he moved to Florence to study at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatoire, continuing piano studies with Giuseppe Fricelli, and studying composition with Rosario Mirigliano. Winner of numerous national competitions in Italy, he also had the opportunity to participate in an exchange programme in Budapest on a full scholarship at the Franz Liszt Academy studying with Professors Kesckes Balazs and Rita Wagner. In 2014, he moved to London to study on the Master of Performance programme at the Royal College of Music with Professor Andrew Ball. After winning a second exchange bursary in Autumn 2015, he pursued his studies for one term at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany with Dr Peter Nagy. He has received masterclasses by Dmitri Bashkirov, Fabio Bidini, Aldo Ciccolini, Zoltan Kocsis, Antonio Pompa Baldi and Malcolm Bilson. Simone has been generously supported by the Talent Unlimited organisation and by the Henry Wood Trust at Royal college of Music. During the 2018/2019 academic year he obtained an Advanced Diploma course at Trinity Laban Conservatoire with professors Deniz Gelenbe and Peter Tuite, supported by a scholarship, and selected as an Alfred Kitchin and Trinity College London Scholar. Simone is currently performing, closely assisted and supported by Prince Dr Donatus von Hohenzollern. |
Other concerts in this series
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Wednesday 28 April 2021, 6pm
Mozart and Beethoven songs, arias and piano works |
Wednesday 12 May 2021, 6pm
Opera classics |