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Lunchtime Music

Lunchtime Music

RBC Musicians

Date and time
30 Sep 2024 (1:05pm - 2:00pm)
Location

Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

Free - booking required

Booking Information

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Baritone Matthew Pandya

Matthew Pandya baritone
Yeeching Lau piano

Hahn A Chloris
Liszt Pace non trovo
Holst Vedic Hyms (First Group)
Finzi It was a lover and his lass
Korngold Hey, Robin!
Quilter Hey, ho, the Wind and the Rain

Elliot Gaston Ross percussion

Programme tbc

Matthew Pandya  (pictured) is a baritone based in Birmingham. Originally from Coventry, Matthew graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2023 with a degree in French and Music and is midway through an MMus in Vocal Performance at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he recently performed the role of Pandolfe in a production of Massenet’s Cendrillon.

Matthew has a wide range of experience, singing regularly as part of the choir at Saint Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, as well as being an Ex Cathedra Student Scholar and a former member of the renowned Genesis Sixteen programme. In addition, he sings with the CBSO Chorus, performing at venues such as Symphony Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and Monte Carlo’s Grimaldi Forum, including recent solos in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.

Outside of classical singing, Matthew is a keen linguist, an avid sports fan and a national youth barbershop champion with Ami Quartet.

24-year-old Hong Kong pianist, Yeeching Lau is active as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician. She was invited by the British Isles Music Festival to perform as a soloist and chamber pianist in 2023. She worked on Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's 2024 spring opera, Cendrillon and the summer opera, Hansel and Gretel as repetiteur, and she is the winner of the Edward Brooks Lieder Accompanist Prize in 2024. In the June 2024 she worked as repetiteur for the Birmingham Opera Company.

Her performance engagements included concerts at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, St Stephen Walbrook, Shenstone Library in the UK and Guangzhou Mufeng Concert Hall and Dalian Urban Music Centre in China. Her competition successes include first prizes in the Delia Hall Accompanist Prize for Pianists in 2022, the Sixth Star & Torch Art Talent Competitions and the 6th Asia Music Competition.

Running time approx. 55 minutes

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