Mozart Requiem by candlelight

Bass-baritone, Lancelot Nomura, will be one of the soloists performing Mozart's Requiem on Friday 27 March at 7.00pm at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square, London WC2.

 

Lancelot will perform alongside the Joyful Company of Singers and the Brandenburg Sinfonia for a programme of magnificent Mozart including:

 

Mozart - Te Deum in C
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart - Requiem

 

Bass-baritone Lancelot Nomura currently studies on the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music with Janice Chapman and Ingrid Surgenor.  He was recently awarded the Opera Prize at the National Mozart Singing Competition and other recent operatic highlights include performing in Billy Budd with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, and playing the roles of Collatinus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (Royal Academy Opera), Zuniga in Bizet’s Carmen (Woodhouse Opera), and Le Roi in Massenet’s Cendrillon (Royal Academy Opera).

In the Summer 2014 season he played the role of Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Westminster Opera), and he was also invited to join the Georg Solti Accademia, the Verbier Festival Academy and the Opéra Les Azuriales Young Artist Programme.

Lancelot went to Rugby School where he held a Music Scholarship as a cellist, following which he completed his undergraduate studies at Oxford University, where he was a Scholar at Christ Church College.

Lancelot is also in demand as an oratorio and concert soloist of which recent and future highlights include performances of the Verdi Requiem, the Mozart Requiem, Bach’s St John Passion, and Handel’s Messiah, as well as a successful solo recital series, including performances in London, Oxford and Tokyo (being of half Japanese heritage).

 

Tickets:  £30 (premium), £26, £22, £18, £13, £9

 

Box office:  phone 020 7766 1100 or online at www.smitf.org/music/bcf

The concert forms part of the annual Brandenburg Choral Festival - for details of the Spring Series programme visit www.brandenburg.org.uk.