Concert
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Yvonne Fontane is an accomplished concert singer. Her concert engagements reach from the MOZART REQUIEM with the London Festival Orchestra under Ross Pople, TEHILLIM (Steve Reich) with the Dresdner Symphoniker, a live MAHLER AND BRAHMS RECITAL for BBC Radio 3 with Piers Lane and the VERDI REQUIEM with orchestras such as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Exeter Festival Chorus under Nigel Perrin and with the Northern Chamber Orchestra under Ian Thompson. She also sang a selection of MAHLER SONGS with the Orchestre National d'Île de France under Jonathan Darlington. Yvonne sang regularly in Opera Galas for Raymond Gubbay, Diva Opera and for The Chiemgau Festival in Germany with the Azerbajan State Orchestra and the Muenchner Symphoniker. She is a principal artist at London Festival Opera. Here, her performances have taken her to venues including La Fenice in Venice, the World Trade and Convention Centre and the Rebecca Cohn Hall in Halifax Nova Scotia, the Marin Drzic Theatre in Dubrovnic, the Buxton Opera House, the Lee Shau Kee Concert Hall in Hong Kong and the Harare Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe. In February 2018 she is performning with London Festival Opera at the Navrasa Duende Arts Festival in New Delhi. |
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Yvonne repeatedly had the opportunity to perform the music of Paul Patterson and to work together with the composer at the Hampstead and Highgate Festival in London. She joined the New London Orchestra under Ronald Corp for the composer's STABAT MATER, after having sung his MILLENIUM MASS with the Bournemouth Sinphonietta and the Exeter Festival Chorus under Nigel Perrin. |
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Other concert engangements have included the C MINOR MASS by Mozart with the Bournemouth Sinphonietta and the Exeter Festival Chorus under Nigel Perrin as well as with the Oxford Harmonia and Chorus under Robert Secret, Pergolesi's STABAT MATER and Vivaldi's GLORIA with the New London Symphonia, Dvorak's STABAT MATER with the Exeter Philharmonic Choir and the Sinfonietta and also a selection of Cabaret Songs at the Hampstead and Highgate Festival. |