London Bel Canto Festival
London Bel Canto Festival & Academy
London Bel Canto Festival & Academy
2022 Cancelled
2022 Cancelled
London Bel Canto Festival
2022 Cancelled
London Bel Canto Festival
2022 Cancelled
The London Bel Canto Festival Academy draws on the greatest performers and maestri from around the world. Join us in celebrating the best of what bel canto has to offer you as a performer and to the public by applying to study with our international faculty.
Singing Lessons
Singing Lessons
All students will receive daily singing lessons or coaching by the major teachers Bruce Ford, Ken Querns-Langley and other vocal faculty members. You will be able to sit in on lessons and coaching of other singers with their permission. It is expected that you will participate in master classes unless you are excused for a private lesson. Repertoire should be submitted in advance with your application. You will be expected to work exclusively on this repertoire.
Performances and Master Classes
Performances and Master Classes
Master classes have been given by the most celebrated international faculty Bruce Ford, Aprile Millo, Nelly Miricioiu, Ken Querns Langley and Maestro David Parry. For 2018 we were very honoured to have Aprile Millo as a visiting master who gave private lessons and a master class. Every student will be given the opportunity to sing in a public performance, recital and/or master class according to their level. Performances will include solo aria and ensemble singing. Both public and private master classes will be offered, and everyone will have the opportunity to participate in the Young Artist's Concert, but solos will only be offered to those that attain the highest performance level judged by the faculty.
Repertoire Coaching and Language
Repertoire Coaching and Language
Theatricality and Performance Practice
Theatricality and Performance Practice
There will be different classes on theatrical interpretation and movement. Students will be able to hone their performance skills in classes with each other. There will also be courses on historical performance practice, bel canto history, and concepts in bel canto pedagogy including registration, breath management, vocal resonation strategies, and more.
Festival Performances
Festival Performances
This could be your chance to have a professional debut recital in London!
This could be your chance to have a professional debut recital in London!
Performances
Performances
Recitals and Concerts will be available for wonderful venues in London and will be open to the public. They will be fully ticketed events and will offer the emerging artists the opportunity to demonstrate their skills for an appreciative audience. The repertoire will be chosen by the performer and is not limited to bel canto, but should be chosen according to the individual's voice from the greater song and performance repertoire. Recitals are very personal and should represent the individual performers as well as inform the audience about your chosen repertoire. You will be required to list your proposed recital repertoire for the application.
Master Classes
Master Classes
As part of the academy, there will be both public and private master classes. The public master classes will take place during the festival itself and will occur alongside the recitals. While it may not be advantageous for a singer to take part in a master class the day of their recital, they may be chosen to take part in one on an alternate date if they wish. Master classes have been given by world-renowned artists Bruce Ford, Nelly Miricioiu, Aprile Millo, Maestro David Parry, and the founder of the festival Ken Querns Langley. Artists are confirmed each year.
Instructors
Instructors
Below is a list of instructors both principle and master class, click on the names or the links above for fuller biographies.
Below is a list of instructors both principle and master class, click on the names or the links above for fuller biographies.
Harriet Lawson
Harriet Lawson
Vocal Coach
Vocal Coach
Maestro collaboratore di sala, Italian coach, Cembalista, Maestro al piano, Répétiteur, Vocal coach
Ente Autonomo Teatro Verdi di Trieste
Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Théâtre de l’Opéra de Bordeaux
Radio Suisse
Rossini Opera Festival
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Teatro Piccolo “Giorgio Strehler” di Milano
Festival de Radio France Montpellier.
Britten Pears School, Aldeburgh
Docente e maestro al piano/cembalo “The Actor – Singer” ai masterclass della fondazione Walton a Ischia dal 1988-1999
Docente Solti Peretti Masterclass per maestri collaboratori
Docente Academia D'Arte Lirica di Osimo 1998- present day
Bruce Ford
Bruce Ford
Master Singing Teacher
Master Singing Teacher
American tenor Bruce Ford is acknowledged internationally as one of the finest singers of his generation. His exceptionally demanding repertoire is highlighted by many of the most challenging Mozart and bel canto roles, which have brought him consistent acclaim throughout North America and Europe. Numerous major opera houses have revived unjustly neglected works especially for him.
K E Querns Langley
K E Querns Langley
Singing Teacher
Singing Teacher
Ken is bel canto specialist tenor and a doctoral research scholar in Historical Performance Practice at the Royal College of Music London. He has 15 years teaching experience and has students in operas and conservatoires around the world. He regularly presents his academic research at conferences and based on his research he is expected to publish a bel canto singing treatise after his doctorate.
Roberto Bertuzzi
Roberto Bertuzzi
Italian Repertoire Coach
Italian Repertoire Coach
Janus Araghipour
Janus Araghipour
Repertoire Coach
Repertoire Coach
Janus' playing is both masterful and moving. He is at once sensitive and powerful while eliciting the finest sonority from each note.
Janus has an innate musicality that transcends instruments and inspires the finest singing. His attention to details with the vocal line and uncompromising perfectionism ensures that each voice reaches its potential.
Maestro David Parry
Maestro David Parry
Conductor (2017)
Conductor (2017)
David Parry is acknowledged as an inspirational champion of operatic, concert and symphonic repertoire across a vast range. He has been responsible for the re-appraisal of countless lesser-known compositions in a series of multi-award-winning productions and recordings, featuring some of the world’s finest singers.
Aprile Millo
Aprile Millo
2018
Very Honoured
Visiting Master Classes
Very Honoured
Visiting Master Classes
Mme. Millo has sung over 180 performances of 15 different roles at her artistic home the Metropolitan Opera. Outside of New York, Mme. Millo has triumphed in the theaters of Frankfurt, Barcelona, Parma, Rome, Bologna, Torino, the Arena di Verona, the Baths of Caracalla, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Paris, Orange, Moscow, Rio de Janero, Sao Paolo, Sanitago, Colon - Buenos Aires and of course La Scala, Milano and many more.
Nelly Miricioiu-Kirk
Nelly Miricioiu-Kirk
Spotlight Master Class (2017-9)
Nelly is one of the most versatile artists of our day. Her repertoire extends from Mozart and bel canto to Verdi, Puccini and verismo, to modern Italian opera such as Respighi and Zandonai, taking in French and Russian composers too. As Rodney Milnes wrote in Opera Magazine "this extraordinary diva can sing anything and sing it well ".
Gerhard Gall
Gerhard Gall
German Language Coach
German Language Coach
As a German language coach, Gerhard he has worked with singers of the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Bayreuther Festspiele, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Cardiff/Welsh International Academy of Voice, and the National Opera Studio, London.
Jack Sain
Jack Sain
Director & Acting Coach
Director & Acting Coach
Jack trained at LAMDA and Oxford University, and was the Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse, where he assisted Kwame Kwei-Armah, Josie Rourke, Lyndsey Turner, Blanche McIntyre and Polly Findlay. He was an associate on Killer Joe (Orlando Bloom, West End), directed the revival of the Pulitzer winning How I Learned to Drive at Southwark Playhouse, Four Play for Old Vic New Voices (Richard Madden, Jeremy Irvine), Kander and Ebb and Maury Yeston shows at Mountview, Much Ado About Nothing for the Chiltern Shakespeare, shows for Edinburgh Fringe, Oxford Playhouse, the Arcola, Theatre503 and so on.