Friday 1 May 2026
6pm
Silk Street Music Hall
Keith Bonnington Prize
graciously supported by Robert Byford
in memory of Keith Bonnington
adjudicated by Rebecca Evans CBE & Robert Lewis
with thanks to Harriet Burns and Ashok Gupta for adjudicating the preliminary round.
Programme
William Prasetyo | tenor
Alex Dakin | piano
George Frideric Handel
‘Empio, per farti guerra’
from Tamerlano HWV18
Gerald Finzi
‘Let me enjoy the earth’
No 1 from Till Earth Outwears Op 19a
Giuseppe Verdi
‘Lunge da lei…De’ miei bollenti spiriti’
from La traviata
Indonesian Traditional
‘Kampuang Nan Jauh di Mato’
arranged by Daniel Adipradhana
Francis Poulenc
Deux Poemes de Louis Aragon FP 122
I. C
II. Fêtes galantes
Kelan Lynch | countertenor
Alicia Hernández Huebra | piano
Ludwig van Beethoven
‘Adelaide’ Op 46
Benjamin Britten
‘I Know a Bank’
from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Op 64
Mark Bowler
‘Pentaplex’
Franz Schubert
‘Nacht und Träume’ D827
Tokio Ueno | baritone
Mark Zang | piano
Kiyoshi Nobutoki
‘Tanzania-no’ (‘丹沢の’)
Gaetano Donizetti
‘Bella siccome un angelo’
from Don Pasquale
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
‘Hai già vinta la causa!... Vedrò mentr’io sospiro’
from Le nozze di Figaro K492
Roger Quilter
‘Come away, death’
No 1 from Three Shakespeare Songs Op 6
Carlos Guastavino
‘La rosa y el sauce’
Manuel de Falla
‘Polo’
No 7 from Siete cançiones populares españolas
Tobias Campos Santiñaque | tenor
Yau Cheng | piano
Pablo Luna
‘Paxarín, tú que vuelas’
from La pícara molinera
William Bolcom
‘New York Lights’
from A View from the Bridge
Giuseppe Verdi
‘Lunge da lei…De’ miei bollenti spiriti’
from La traviata
Alberto Favero
‘Te quiero’
Please remain in your seats following the final performance. There will be a short deliberation before the results announcement.
Forthcoming Events
Vocal Scenes
6 May 2026
Milton Court Concert Hall
Directed by Jonathan Lakeland and Rebecca Meltzer, Vocal students present a selection of semi-staged scenes with piano accompaniment, including extracts of works by Beethoven, Mozart, Offenbach and Smetana.
Introduction to Opera
11 & 13 May 2026
Silk Street Music Hall
A semi-staged performance of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, in an arrangement by Linnhe Robertson. Led by Linnhe Robertson and John Ramster, and performed in French.
Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors Vocal Prize
12 May 2026
Silk Street Music Hall
Finalists present a 15-minute programme of contrasting works in this annual vocal prize, generously supported by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors.
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