Join us on Friday, January 8 at 7:30 pm for a performance by baritone George Clark and pianist Pierre-Nicolas Colombat. Their program will include songs by Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler, Maurice Ravel, and an arrangement of Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life.
Program
The program will be announced soon.
About the Artists
George Clark
British baritone George Clark was born in 1996. Growing up in Cornwall, he began singing as a chorister at Truro Cathedral, later holding a bass choral scholarship. From 2015 to 2018, he sang as a bass choral scholar at York Minster and graduated from the University of York with First-Class Honours in Music.
George graduated with a Master’s degree in Music from the Robert Schumann Hochschule in April 2024 under the tutelage of Prof. Konrad Jarnot. He has received Lied masterclasses from Robert Holl, Elly Ameling, Roderick Williams, Ian Burnside and Hans Eijsackers at the 2022 International Lied Festival Zeist in the Netherlands.
Highlights of past concert engagements include Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti in Satu Mare (Romania), Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with symphony orchestra at the Orchesterzentrum in Dortmund, and a joint performance of Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf.
Operatic roles include Marcello (La Bohème, Puccini), Il Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart) and L’Horloge comtoise / Le Chat (L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Ravel) for RSH Opera productions; Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia, Britten) for Aspect Opera in York; and L’Arbre (L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Ravel) and Drebednev (Paradise Moscow, Shostakovich) for the University of York Opera Society.
Since September 2024, he has been an Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, in the class of Sophie Koch and Stéphane Degout. He is currently based in Düsseldorf.
Pierre-Nicolas Colombat
Pianist Pierre-Nicolas Colombat’s musical activities include performance, research, writing, recording, and community organizing. He and his duo partner Vinicius Costa received prizes in both of the competitions in which they participated (Bollinger/Wigmore Hall Competition 2022 and IVC 2023). OperaWire praised his tight partnership and brilliant programming with soprano Meredith Wohlgemuth on the occasion of his Carnegie Hall debut in 2021. He regularly performs in international art song festivals and competitions (Hugo Wolf International Lied Competition, Renée Fleming’s Carnegie Hall Song Studio, LIEDBasel, Source Song Festival, Brigitte Fassbaender’s masterclasses with the International Hugo Wolf Akademie). In 2024, alongside his longtime friend Elias Dagher (with whom he also hosted the Boston Community Studio Class), he founded the Boston Text and Tone Festival which centers language as the common ground for performers of all levels and audiences to experience the rich expressive worlds that are created when text and music intertwine.
Pierre-Nicolas believes restructuring the distribution of and access to digitally released music is one of the greatest problems facing modern musicians. Efforts to address this have included limited circulation experiments (Across Artists Collaborative Collective, 2020-21), private collectable digit releases as well as subscription based research/writing (Wagner’s Nightmare Limited Digital album), and developing guérilla streaming practices with Henri Colombat (Sept fois cis, 2024). His writing on music includes his Doctoral Dissertation (Music and Modern Power: A performer’s tracing of virtuosity and systems of musical value, Boston University 2021), his Masterarbeit which includes a Marxist analysis of methods/media involved in the historical dissemination of music (Lied and the de-fetishization of music as a commodity, MAB 2023), further essays, and concert reviews for the Boston Music Intelligencer and Sinfonieorchester Basel.
His experience in opera began with collaborations with the Guerilla Opera company and rehearsal pianist engagements with Promenade Opera Company in Boston. He has also been on staff as pianist at Boston University and Boston Conservatory. Presently he continues his work as correpetiteur in productions with the Theatre Basel and the FHNW Musik Akademie Basel as well as other freelance work in Switzerland. He began his musical studies in Chicago (DePaul University, BM), continued in Boston (New England Conservatory, MM, and Boston University, DMA), and eventually moved to Basel, Switzerland (Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel, Specialized Masters in Liedgestaltung) to pursue his love of languages and the vocal literature.
About the Concert
The performance begins at 7:30 pm. If you like, come an hour earlier for our pre-concert discussion (afternoon concerts only). After the performance, you’ll have an opportunity to meet the artist(s) and learn about their backgrounds and career plans.
The address of the venue is 103 North Road, Wakefield, Rhode Island 02879. Driving time from Providence, Newport, Westerly, and southeastern Connecticut is under an hour, and Amtrak’s Kingston Station is only five miles away.
The suggested contribution for this concert is $40 per person, collected at the door. We accept cash, personal checks, and cards. Checks should be payable to “Core Memory Music”. All contributions go directly to our performing artists. To make your contribution in advance, click here.
Children under 18 are welcome to join us free of charge.
If you’d like to attend this concert, send us an email with the full name of each person in your party and we’ll confirm your reservation. If you can’t attend the concert, we invite you to listen to the audio livestream (no reservation required).