“Russian bass-baritone Mikhail Timoshenko has won first prize at this year’s Wigmore Hall / Independent Opera International Song Competition After four days of rounds before a jury comprised of eminent performers including Iain Burnside and Dame Felicity Lott, 25-year-old Timoshenko was awarded the £10,000 first prize. He performed with his duo partner, Bulgarian pianist Elitsa Desseva. Winner Mikhail Timoshenko studied at the Mednogorsk Conservatoire and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. He has won top prizes in several other competitions, including first prize at the Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne Competition in Graz and the Hugo Wolf Competition in Stuttgart.”
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“What a relief to shelter from the sweltering heat and spend an hour with music of such radiance and beauty from a husband and wife dream team . A moving mixture of Schubert ‘Winterreise’ and Vaughan Williams ‘Songs of Travel’ . The programme is titled ‘Journey 100’, commemorating the 100thy anniversary of the birth of the German baritone Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau (1925- 2012) who was an enormously influential artist and for many ,his voice epitomises a refined lyrical ,articulate manner of performance through which the poetry shines.”
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“Mikhail Timoshenko,...with impeccable legato technique, tremendous stylistic versatility, superb command of German, French, English and, one assumes, Russian…and Elitsa Desseva’s beatboxing in Moritz Eggert’s Sprich Sheherazade showcased the kind of modern art song that shows there is life in this form beyond the I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-Britten school of composition.”...”
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