JENEVORA WILLIAMS & STEPHEN GOSS

11.06.2001

Stephen Goss is lecturer in composition at the University of Surrey. Before joining the music department at Surrey, Steve was head of academic studies (and football coach) at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Recent commissions have included the orchestral song cycle Dreamchild for Jane Manning, Pooh for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and Looking Glass Ties for Allan Neave; a CD of his Carmen Fantasy was released by Hallmark in 1999. He holds a PhD from the University of London and his music is published in the UK, in Germany and in the USA.

As a guitarist, he has recorded on the Decca, Carlton and Conifer labels and and has toured extensively with the TETRA Guitar Quartet and various contemporary music ensembles. He has broadcast on BBC2, GMTV, BBC Radio 3, Radio 2 and Classic FM.

Jenevora Williams studied at Bristol University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has sung frequently for Welsh National Opera with roles in Cosi fan Tutte, The Magic Flute, Electra, Iphigenie and Idomeneo. Most recent operatic roles include Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro with Neath Opera and Euridice in Orpheus in the Underworld. 

Recordings include The Housewife in Britten's Gloriana and Kate in Pirates of Penzance, both with Sir Charles Mackerras and Welsh National Opera as well as Suky Tawdry in the Beggar’s Opera for Hyperion; she has made many TV and radio broadcasts.  

Jenevora is an established artist in the field of oratorio and appears regularly as a soloist all over the country. She has performed in all the major festivals and concert halls with leading orchestras such as the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. 

She works extensively with her husband, the guitarist Stephen Goss, giving concerts worldwide including recent tours of Holland and Italy as well as in the UK. They have recorded a CD of ‘Songs from Britain and America’. 

As well as her performing commitments, Jenevora is in great demand as a singing teacher. She teaches the choristers at St Paul’s Cathedral, at Surrey University and is teacher-in-residence on National Youth Choir courses. Her specialisation in the teaching of Treble voices has led to her being a consultant for recording companies such as Decca and Hyperion, and the Royal Opera House for their work involving child performers.

PROGRAMME


Henry Purcell
Music for a while
Sweeter then roses
If music be the food of love

 Mozart
Das Veilchen

Abendempfindung

 Schubert
Heidenröslein

Ave Maria

 Gilbert Biberian
Six Haiku

 John Cage
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

Folksong Settings Arr. Stephen Goss
Dafydd y garreg wen
I will give my love an apple
Arr. Benjamin Britten
O waly, waly
The Salley Gardens
Sailor-boy
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PROGRAMME


John Dowland
Come again! Sweet love doth now invite

Come heavy sleep

I saw my lady weep

 Stephen Goss
Under Milk Wood Songs
Polly Garter
Lily Smalls
Rosie Probert and Captain Cat

Oh, what’ll the neighbours say

Pretty Polly hums and longs

 Heitor Villa-Lobos
Prelude No.4 in E minor

 Charles E. Ives
The Side Show

Memories

a. very pleasant
b. rather sad
In the Alley

 Jerome Kern
All the things you are

George Gershwin
ey can’t take that away from me
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