RECITAL SERIES 2024-2025

Our 111th Season!

Matinée Musicale Cincinnati 2024-2025 Season Brochure

Only 2 recitals left of our season!

Don't miss out on spectacular tenor Lawrence Brownlee and the amazing pianist Martin James Bartlett !

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PAST RECITALS

Sunday, March 9 , 2025

5 PM (Note Changed Time & Daylight Savings Time)

Memorial Hall | OTR

Lawrence Brownlee, Tenor

Donald Lee III, Piano

Sensuous and soaring tenor

Lawrence Brownlee is a leading figure in opera, both as a singer on the world’s top stages and as a voice for activism and diversity in the industry. He has been hailed as “one of the world’s leading bel canto stars” (The Guardian), captivating audiences and critics around the world. He is a fixture at leading international opera houses and major orchestra halls. Named “Male Singer of the Year” by both the International Opera Awards (2017) and Bachtrack, he has been featured on PBS, NPR, Sirius Radio, American Public Media and other national outlets.

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PROGRAM

Sunday, April 6, 2025

5 PM (Note Changed Time)

Memorial Hall | OTR

Martin James Bartlett, Piano

Plays with a maturity and elegance far beyond his years

British pianist Martin James Bartlett, known for his fearless technique, was the inaugural recipient of the Prix Serdang in 2022. In 2021, he was awarded the Queen Mother Rosebowl by HRH Prince (now King) Charles and, in 2020, won the Virtu(al)oso Global Piano Competition by Piano Cleveland. From 2020 to 2022, Bartlett was the RCM Benjamin Britten Piano Fellow, and made his play-direct and conducting debut with the London Mozart Players at the Cheltenham and Ryedale festivals in 2022. In 2019, Bartlett earned first place at the 2019 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and, in 2018, won second prize and the Audience Award at the Kissingen Piano Olympiad.

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Past Recitals

Sunday, December 1, 2024

5 PM

Memorial Hall | OTR

Isabel Leonard, Mezzo-Soprano

John Arida, Piano

Heralded regular at the Metropolitan Opera

Isabel Leonard continues to thrill audiences both in the opera house and on the concert stage. In repertoire that spans from Vivaldi to Mozart to Nico Muhly, she has performed at prominent international venues such as the Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, Salzburg Festival, Carnegie Hall, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Metropolitan Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others.

PHOTOS

Sunday, October 13, 2024

3 PM

Memorial Hall | OTR

The Hanick Hawley Duo

Conor Hanick, piano, and Richie Hawley, Clarinet

Explore boundary-pushing music, both new and old

Through collaboration with some of music’s leading composers and integration of this work with the classic music of the genre, the Hanick Hawley Duo seeks to reinvigorate the repertoire for clarinet and piano. Having met as faculty members at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West, Conor Hanick, piano, and Richie Hawley, clarinet, perform regularly at its renowned summer festival and school.

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