'Carmen to Cabaret and everything in between' - a programme of familiar and beautiful arias and songs Alex Jones - Bass-baritone
Adrienne Black - piano
Concerts in Caversham are delighted to welcome back the irrepressible bass baritone Alex Jones. Accompanied by the sensitive accompanist, Adrienne Black, the programme should have something for absolutely everyone to enjoy. Alex will bring these arias and songs to life with drama, amazing musicianship and depth of tone and character to his wonderful bass voice.
The first half is Famous Operatic Arias plus Quilter and Ravel Songs:
Rossini - Barber of Seville - Largo Factotum, Offenbach - Allez pour te Liver Combat, Mozart - Marriage of Figaro - Non Piu Andrai, three beautiful Shakespeare Songs by Roger Quilter, Handel - O Ruddier Than the Cherry, Mozart - Don Giovanni - Madamina, Three Songs of Don Quixote by Ravel, Bizet - Carmen - Toreador Song - Votre Toast
The second half is Songs from the Shows:
Stephen Flaherty - The Streets of Dublin, Frank Loesser - Luck be a Lady, Rodgers and Hart - Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Kander and Ebb - Maybe this Time from Cabaret, Flanders and Swann - The Armadillo and Ill Wind, Ivor Novello - My Life Belongs to You and Waltz of My Heart, George and Ira Gershwin - Somebody Loves Me and By Strauss.
Alex Jones musical education began as a chorister at St John’s, Cambridge before attending Eton on a full music scholarship. Following a history degree at Kings College London as a choral scholar and a lay clerkship at Gloucester Cathedral, he went on to complete with distinction a Masters in Vocal Studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He now enjoys a varied career working across the UK and Europe with ensembles such as The Dunedin Consort, Britten Festival of Early Music and Orchestra of St John’s, performing works from Bach to Verdi. With Holland Park Opera he was Sciarrone in Tosca, and in Longhope Opera’s production of Don Pasquale sang the title role. This summer he reprised the role of Dr Dulcamara in Wild Arts performances of Donizetti’s L’elisir D’amore, culminating in a performance at Opera Holland Park and was also involved in this year’s Proms with the BBC chorus of Wales.He is a member of the vocal faculty at Bradfield College, has sung to great acclaim for Concerts in Caversham in our Christmas Concerts and also sang Ich Habe Genug last summer at Tim’s funeral in Douai Abbey.
Adrienne Black helped to found and is the Artistic Director for ‘Concerts in Caversham’. A prize-winning alumna of the Royal College of Music where she studied both harpsichord and piano, she has pursued a varied career at home and abroad as chamber musician, accompanist and harpsichordist, playing diverse repertoire from Lambert’s Rio Grande and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia to the complete Brandenburg Concertos by Bach with the Oxford Philharmonic in The Sheldonian. As an accompanist, Adrienne has played in masterclasses for some of this country’s leading soloists and teachers, often at the Royal College of Music where she is on the panel of professional accompanists. She has accompanied for winning performances in the BBC Young Musician of the Year and is currently Senior Piano Tutor and Accompanist at Bradfield College.
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