Prize winners to put on concert in Warwick

LEAMINGTON Music Prize winners Di Wu and Anna Jeffers will give a concert at the Bridge House Theatre in Warwick on Wednesday.

Di Wu and Anna Jeffers, who will be accompanied by Jonathan French, have put together an exciting and varied programme for the concert.

Anna Jeffers, a Welsh mezzo soprano who has just returned from singing in the Wexford Festival, will perform arias from Bizet’s Carmen and Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers, plus songs by Mozart, Purcell, Schubert and Rodrigo.

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She is currently taking part in a Welsh National Opera project, a community opera Nine Stories High, based in Wrexham.

In the next five minute soap opera, she is the landlady in a pub.

Anna has sung at Longborough Opera and won numerous prizes in Birmingham including the Reginald Vincent Lieder Prize and the Edward Brooks English Song Prize.

Di Wu will play solo works by Scarlatti, Liszt, Rachmaninov and Granados and will finish with the virtuoso Paraphrase on Themes from Rigoletto by Liszt, which she played when winning her prize.

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She started playing the piano aged seven and studied in her native China until coming to Birmingham Conservatoire last year.

Since winning the Leamington Music Prize, Di has won the Beryl Chempin Beethoven Prize which is dedicated to the widow of the pianist Denis Matthews, who was born in Coventry and went to Arnold Lodge School in Leamington and then Warwick School.

Tickets for the concert are available at the Bridge House Theatre’s box office.

Call 776438 or visit www.bridgehousetheatre.co.uk