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Rebecca Clarke Song Competition - Applications
Jonathan Eyers
SINGER
Jonathan Eyers
NATIONALITY:
New Zealander
PIANIST
Ilan Kurtser
PIANIST TO BE CONSIDERED FOR PRIZE?
Yes
SINGER BIOGRAPHY:
Jonathan Eyers is a baritone from the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, based in London, UK.
Recent operatic experience includes Fiorello Il barbiere di Siviglia (Glyndebourne), King Eight Songs for a Mad King (MadSong Ensemble), Masetto Don Giovanni (Waterperry), Pirate King The Pirates of Penzance (Tarantara UK Tour), Papageno Die Zauberflöte (Nevill Holt Festival), Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia (Charles Court Opera), Perückenmacher and Harlekin (cover) Ariadne auf Naxos (Garsington Opera), Captain Corcoran (cover) HMS Pinafore (English National Opera), Don Lopes L’isola d’Alcina and Bonafede Il mondo della luna (Bampton Classical Opera).
Jonathan was a finalist and prizewinner at the 2025 Cesti Competition, and was awarded Third Prize at the 2024 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition. He is an Oxford Song Young Artist, a City Music Foundation Artist, a Britten-Pears Young Artist, and a founding member of Whānau Voices. He has performed at the Oxford International Song, London Song, Aldeburgh, Glasperlenspiel, and Edinburgh International Festivals.
Jonathan trained as a Young Artist on the Global Talent Programme at the National Opera Studio, and graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the University of Waikato.
APPLICATION VIDEO 1:
for a garden, 07/09/24
APPLICATION VIDEO 2:
Nightingale, 11/09/24
SEMI-FINAL AND FINAL PROGRAMME PROPOSED:
Semi-final:
Hoad - For a garden 2’00
Clarke - God made a tree 2’25
Smyth - Requies 3’40
Clarke - Return to Spring 2’00
Final:
Clarke - Eight O Clock 2’25
Clarke - Tiger 4’20
Beamish - Nightingale 3’30
Clarke - June Twilight 2’40
Herbert - The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2’20
White - The Throstle 2’45
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