The London Song Festival is excited to announce that Sophie Daneman will be giving the Lieder Masterclass on the 28th October 2017. The masterclass is public and will be held in two sessions, beginning at 2pm and 6pm, and a prize of £500, kindly donated by the Schubert Society, and a trophey retained by the Schubert Society, will be presented to the winner.

TIckets to watch each session are priced at £15/£10 (plus processing fees) or watch both for £25 (plus processing fees)

Interested in applying to sing in this masterclass? Further details for applicants and online application forms are available at www.londonsongfestival.org.

Artist Biography:

Sophie Daneman studied at the Guildhall School of Music with Johanna Peters and has established an international reputation in a wide-ranging repertoire. An accomplished recitalist, Sophie Daneman has appeared at many of the world’s major recital venues, including the Wigmore Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Musikverein Vienna, and Carnegie Hall.

Her opera engagements have included Rodelinda in the Netherlands, Arianna, Cleopatra Giulio Cesare and Dalila Samson (Göttingen Handel Festival), and an acclaimed Mélisande for the Opéra Comique. She has sung Servilia La Clemenza di Tito (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra), Euridice L’Anima del Filosofo (Opéra de Lausanne), Euridice L’Orfeo and Dido and Aeneas (Bavarian State Opera), Phèdre Hippolyte et Aricie (Nederlandse Reisopera), title role Theodora with William Christie in New York, Paris and Salzburg, and Bernstein’s Wonderful Town and Susanna Le nozze di Figaro for Grange Park Opera. Sophie also appeared in the staged productions of Tod Machover’s Skellig at the Sage Gateshead.

Sophie has toured extensively with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, as well as performing with Sir Neville Marriner, Gérard Lesne, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Phillipe Herreweghe, Ivor Bolton and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. She has sung Handel’s Apollo e Dafne at the Maggio Musicale, L’Allegro with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and has appeared with the Halle Handel Festival, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rias Kammerchor, and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent concert engagements include recitals for the BBC and appearances with De Doelen Rotterdam, William Walton’s Façade alongside Ian Bostridge and the Roma Sinfonietta Ensemble, the Lufthansa Baroque Festival and with Tafelmusik in Toronto, Schoenberg’s Quartet Op. 10 with the Tokyo String Quartet in Valencia and Madrid, a joint recital at Temple Church with Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake and settings of Goethe and Schiller at the Oxford Lieder Festival.Recent and upcoming highlights include a recital and masterclass at the Oxford Lieder Festival, a recording project of seventeenth-century music entitled Masque of Moments with Theatre of the Ayre for Linn Records, further performances with Le Jardin des Voix and assisting Stephen Langridge on his production of Theodora for Théâtre des Champs Élysées. Upcoming engagements include Handel’s Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington a recording of a new song cycle The Thought Machine by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and further directing work with Le Jardin des Voix, the young artist academy of Les Arts Florissants.