Вт 1 Июнь 2010
Выступление
A Fairytale Evening
PUSHKIN CLUB PROGRAMME
Язык: английский
An exploration of Russian folk stories, with music and dramatic reading. Professional actors and musicians come together to invoke the world of the Russian fairytale.
Charlotte Pyke and Tessa Grobel combine a love of music and story-telling to bring you an evening dedicated to the colour and atmosphere of Russian folklore, with music and singing enhancing the narrative.
Biographies
Charlotte Pyke read Russian and English and Manchester University, before training as an actor at The St Petersburg Academy of Dramatic Art, and LAMDA. Amongst other theatre work she appeared in Philistines and Burnt by the Sun at the National Theatre, and has appeared on television in Spooks, Holby City, Heartbeat and The Bill.
She has done literal translations of several Russian plays, including The Government Inspector (N. Gogol) and Philistines (M. Gorky) for the National Theatre, and Enemies (M. Gorky), The Suicide (N. Erdmann) and The Bath-House (V. Mayakovsky) for the Almeida Theatre. She also translated Uncle Vanya and The Seagull, both to be staged at the Arcola Theatre.
Tessa Grobel studied English and Music at Leeds University where she was the University Orchestra’s pianist and performed in venues around Leeds, including Ripon Cathedral.
She completed a postgraduate course in piano accompaniment at The Royal Academy of Music and has had a busy performing schedule since then. Recent performances include the Leeds Contempory Music Festival (recorded for the BBC), St James’ Piccadilly, a performance with Nicola Benedetti and Mendelssonn’s Piano concerto No 2.
As a Bluthner Piano Artist with her duo partner Maya Sapone, she has performed at The Lansdowne, St James, Piccadilly, The Opera House, Jersey and Festival Chateau De La Follie, Brussels.
In addition to her performances Tessa set up the organization ‘Music In Offices’, and directs the Liberation Music Agency, which puts on classical music festivals. In May 2009 it was the Jersey Liberation Music Festival, and in July 2010 it will be the inaugural Surrey Hills Music Festival, where she will perform with her piano duo partner Wu Qian, and opera singer Lucy Crowe.
Tilly Gaunt
Tilly is currently appearing in The Count of Monte Cristo, directed by Alan Lane, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. She could recently be seen playing Wendy in Peter Pan, and as Nora in A Doll’s House, both for Northern Stage. Theatre credits include Noises Off, on tour & in the West End, Ruby Moon at Northern Stage, Twelfth Night at the Nuffield theatre, Memory of Water at Guildford/Nuffield, and The Real Thing, Lovers and War. TV credits include several episodes of Holby City, The Bill, People Like Us and the BBC comedy Moonmonkeys.
Laura Piper
Laura recently played Jane Fairfax in the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. Before that she played Cressida to great acclaim in Troilus and Cressida at the Globe theatre. Other theatre work includes Don Juan in Soho at the Donmar Warehouse, Blackwater at the Finborough Theatre, The Pot Of Broth at the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
Other TV work includes Spooks, Silent Witness, IT Crowd, Omagh, Last Van Helsing, Holby City, The Bill and a regular part in the series Hex.
Film credits include Isle of Dogs, Headrush and Reign of Fire.
Maya Sapone
A versatile performer with exceptional vocal flexibility and improvisational skills, Maya Sapone is an opera singer with an international background which embraces the culture of three continents: Africa, Europe and Asia.
Maya performs both in the UK and internationally. Her area of activity ranges from opera to world music, from classical to contemporary, film music, improvisation and experimental theatre.
Born in Gabon (West Africa) to a Thai mother and an Italian civil-engineer father, Maya was raised in a multicultural environment and lived in several African countries, in Italy and in the US. After graduating from Trinity College of Music in London, Maya obtained further vocal training in Italy and Spain.
An artist of Blüthner Piano, Music in Offices and a permanent member of Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre, Maya is also one of Voicelab’s vocal talents and a graduate of Pulse, Southbank Centre’s special training course for professional singers directed by Mary King.
Maya’s critically acclaimed performance of “MEDOUSA, a miniature opera” directed by Jacek Ludwig Scarso at the Tête a Tête Opera Festival 2009, Riverside Studios, has received an excellent 4 Star review from THE TIMES which described her as “Fabulously Hot-Blooded”.
Further engagements include Elastic Theatre’s new dance-opera production at the Riverside Studios; collaboration with City University and Brazilian composer Mario Ferraro on his research project on Contemporary Opera; performances with ILAMS – The Iberian and Latin American Music Society including ‘Songs to Die for’ – a new project on Latin American art music in collaboration with leading Iberian pianist Helen Glaisher-Hernández.
