Talented former King’s School singer Rebecca Lea will perform at the Buxton Fringe Festival on 13 July. Rebecca left King’s four years ago to take up a Choral Scholarship at Queen’s College, Oxford.
The talented 22-year-old has already appeared at London’s Riverside Studios in a production of Poulenc’s one woman opera, La Voix Humaine and she was recently awarded the Oxford Lieder Festival Scholarship for 2008-9.
Rebecca will perform alongside pianist Tom Wilkinson, former organ scholar at Queen’s and now working at St Paul’s school in London. Entitled ‘Crazed and In Love’, the recital features some of the most renowned composers of vocal love music and figures ranging from Schubert’s ‘Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel’, Tippett’s ‘Dancer’ and Auden’s grieving lover in Britten’s cabaret song ‘Stop all the Clocks’.
“I wanted to compile a programme which not only fitted together chronologically and stylistically but which grappled with all the different aspects of a particular theme,” said Rebecca. “Music captures the intense form our passions can sometimes take and this hour long programme explores the state of mind one gets caught up in when in love and the side effects it often brings.”
Rebecca is due to begin an MA in Text and Performance with Vocal Studies at RADA and King’s College London in September but still remembers her time at school with fondness: “I am very grateful not only to the music department at King’s for the excellent musical training I received there, but to the entire Foundation for the academic teaching and pastoral care which has stood me in good stead throughout my time at university.
‘Crazed and In Love’ is a Buxton Fringe Festival Event at Buxton Methodist Church on Sunday July 13 at 2.15pm. Tickets at £6/4 concessions can be obtained on the door or through the Buxton Opera House on 0845 127 2190.
