Brush Up Your Mozart

Audition Aria Workshops at the Omnibus Theatre

Supported by The Carne Trust

DATES

Wednesday 14 April 1.30pm - 5.30pm
Wednesday 21 April 10am - 2pm
Wednesday 28 April 1.30pm - 5.30pm

Auditioning can be nerve-racking at the best of times, let alone after the year that we have had! For many singers emerging from lockdown, the prospect of an audition panel may feel too daunting at the moment. That’s why DEBUT is putting together a string of safe-space workshops to ‘brush up our Mozart’ (Kiss Me Kate fans, that one’s for you!), dust off our audition arias and to remind ourselves that auditions aren’t really that scary (if we’re well prepared). That, instead, they present the perfect opportunity to showcase our unique voice as artists.. and some kick-ass music!

Workshops led by renowned conductor & coach Peter Selwyn and facilitated by DEBUT’s founder, soprano Lizzie Holmes

Peter Selwyn

CONDUCTOR & COACH

Now a Professor at the Royal College of Music and Guest Coach on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Peter is also in demand as course leader at various summer schools including Dartington and New London Music Society.

Peter studied Modern Languages at Cambridge and piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music. He has conducted around 50 operas, including Peter Grimes, Rigoletto, Traviata, Boheme, Carmen, Hänsel und Gretel, Iphigenie en Tauride, Orfeo and the major Mozart operas at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, where he spent 6 years as Head of Music and Kapellmeister. Other opera engagements abroad include Salome for the Singapore Lyric Opera. For UK companies he has conducted Carmen (WNO), Fidelio, Romeo et Juliette (Opera North), Jenufa, Cenerentola, The Emperor of Atlantis (ETO), Hänsel und Gretel, La Rondine (Opera Holland Park), Madam Butterfly, Die Zauberflöte (European Chamber Opera), Rape of Lucretia (European Opera Centre), Treemonisha (Pegasus Opera) and Don Giovanni (Pimlico Opera). As symphonic conductor he has worked with the Wiener Symphoniker, Nürnberger Philharmoniker and the Orchestra dell’ Teatro Comunale di Bologna, as well as with numerous UK orchestras including City of London Sinfonia, Orchestras of Opera North and WNO and the Southbank Sinfonia.

As assistant conductor he worked for three seasons on the centenary Ring Cycle at Bayreuth, on Death in Venice at the Aldeburgh and Bregenz Festivals, at Glyndebourne and at the Hamburg, Strasbourg and Oslo opera houses. He began his career on the music staff at ENO before moving to the ROH, where he continues to work as a guest. He is co-founder and an Artistic Director of the Internationales Kammermusikfestival Nürnberg for whom he has conducted Rape of Lucretia, Turn of the Screw, Owen Wingrave, Noye´s Fludde, Dido and Aeneas, Soldier´s Tale and two world premieres - das babylonexperiment by Matthew King and Schau nicht zurück, Orfeo by Stefan Hakenberg.