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presents

  Lenneke Ruiten & Finghin Collins

         Sunday 24 October 2010

     Bantry House 8pm

Clara Wieck-Schumann (1819-1896): Sechs Lieder op. 13           
Ich stand in dunklen Träumen (H.Heine)
Sie liebten sich beide (H.Heine)
Liebeszauber (E.Geibel)
Der Mond kommt still gegangen (E.Geibel)
Ich hab’ in deinem Auge (F.Rückert)
Die stille Lotosblume (E.Geibel)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): Cabaret Songs, Text:  W.H. Auden       
Tell me the truth about love
Funeral blues
Johnny
Calypso

Interval

F. Schubert (1797-1828) Songs
Frühlingsglaube (Uhland)
Gretchen am Spinnrade (Goethe)
Die Forelle (Schubart)

C. Debussy (1862-1918): Songs from Cahier Vasnier             
Clair de lune (P. Verlaine)
Jane (Ch.M.L. de Lisle)
Musique (P. Bourget)
Regret (P. Bourget)
Pantomime (P. Verlaine)

V. Bellini (1801 – 1835) Sei Ariette per Marianna Pollini
Malinconia, Ninfa gentile
Vanne, o rosa fortunata
Bella Nice, che d’amore
Almen se non poss’io
Per pieta, bell’idol mio
Ma rendi pur content

One of Ireland's most successful musicians, Dubliner Finghin Collins studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O'Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet. Winner of the RTE Musician of the Future Competition in 1994 and the Classical Category at the National Entertainment Awards in 1998, he went on to achieve major international success by taking first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1999. Since then he has developed a flourishing international career that takes him all over Europe, the United States and the Far East.

The soprano Lenneke Ruiten studied voice with Maria Rondel and Meinard Kraak in the Hague and went on to study opera at the Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich.  She also had singing and interpretation lessons from Elly Ameling, Robert Holl, Hans Hotter, Robert Tear and Walter Berry. In 2002 Lenneke won five prizes at the International Vocal Competition in ’s-Hertogenbosch, including the first prize and the audience prize.

Online Booking is now closed - Tickets available to buy on the door at Bantry House from 7:30pm

Tickets €20.00 / €12.00 Students