Early Evening Music - English Song Recital

Programme

Alicia Hernández Huebra, piano; Maximilian Catalano, baritone; Eva Stone-Barney, mezzo-soprano; Kayla Raschke, soprano

Head – Limehouse Reach

Ireland – We´ll to the woods

Parry – Looking backwards

Finzi – Too Short Time

Butterworth – Loveliest of trees

Maximilian Catalano, baritone;

Vaughan Williams – Four Last Songs

I. Procris

II. Tired

III. Hands, Eyes, and Heart

IV. Menelaus

Eva Stone-Barney, mezzo-soprano;

Howells – King David

Britten – The Foggy Foggy Dew

Maximilian Catalano, baritone

Beach – Three Browning Songs

I. The Year´s at the spring

II. Ah, Love, but a day!

III. I send my heart up to thee

Kayla Raschke, soprano

Smith Moore – Love, let the wind cry

Price – The Glory of her day was in her face

Price – Hold Fast To Dreams

Smith Moore – Come Down Angels

Biographies

Alicia Hernández Huebra (Madrid, 2000) completed her Bachelor's Degree at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid under Maestro Iván Cítera. She is a member of the Madrid Youth Orchestra and Choir and has accompanied the children's choir Menudos Cantantes since 2021.

In 2023, she was selected as a répétiteur for the third edition of the Teatro Real Young Artist Programme Crescendo, receiving guidance from pianists Patricia Barton and Carmen Santoro. She accompanied masterclasses by Martin Winkler, Sabina Puértolas, and Jacques Imbrailo and worked as répétiteur for Amahl and the Night Visitors in the Teatro Real Junior season. In July 2024, she was répétiteur for The Marriage of Figaro at the Berlin Opera Academy, playing the harpsichord for the recitatives under conductor Tom Seligman and stage director Caterina Panti Liberovici. In December 2024, she was Musical Director and Pianist for the Winter Opera Scenes at Goodenough College.

She is currently in her second year of a Master’s in Piano Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, studying with Andrew West and Sam Armstrong. She has accompanied masterclasses by Dominic Wheeler and Gerald Finley and collaborates regularly with pianists such as Iain Burnside and Graham Johnson, being an active member of his Song Guild. She also accompanies voice and drama lessons for professors John Ramster and Yvonne Kenny.

Alicia was awarded Second Prize in the Jubilee Accompaniment Prize 2025 and was selected as one of six répétiteurs for the upcoming edition of the Solti Academy in April 2025.

Maximilian Catalano is a British/Italian baritone studying a Master's at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of David Pollard. Having completed a degree in International Relations and Politics from Cardiff University, he decided to audition at conservatoires to pursue a career in classical singing. Since then he has performed in recitals organised by Alistair McGowan, Dylan Perez, Iain Burnside and Graham Johnson. Have a deep love of English song, Max maintains relations with choral societies in Tring, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hillingdon - hoping to help promote music in his local area. He was also a finalist of the Dorothy Richardson English song Competition.

In 2024 Maximilian made his operatic debut with Aylesbury Opera's 'La Bohème' as Schaunard. He then joined Dorset Opera Festival to help debut Paul Carr's 'Under the Greenwood Tree'. Maximilian has also performed in the Guildhall Opera School production of 'Die Fledermaus' and in Regent's Opera's 'Götterdämmerung".

Maximilian has also had the honour of participating in the Indian debut of Haydn's 'The Creation' as the bass soloist. This was performed with the Madras Guild of performing arts and the Gustav Mahler Orchestra of Colombo.

This summer Maximilian will be joining Opera Holland Park chorus for their production of ' The Flying Dutchman' and then partaking in the Waterperry Young Artists Programme.

Eva Stone-Barney is a mezzo-soprano from Montreal, Canada. She is currently on the Artist Masters course in Vocal Studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with Samantha Malk. Previously, Eva earned degrees in both vocal studies and musicology from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, and the University of Toronto.

Eva started her time off at Guildhall with a bang, as part of the opera course’s Autumn production of Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. Her summer season was spent at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, where she sang the role of New Ofglen in Poul Rouders’ The Handmaid’s Tale, and workshopped various new operas.Previous opera credits include the North American stage premieres of both Joseph Haydn’s L’anima del filosofo (University of Toronto/McGill HP) and Henekh Kon’s Bas Sheve (Ashkenaz Festival, Toronto); Joseph Bologne’s L’amant anonyme (Opera McGill); Verdi’s Un Giorno di Regno (Opera McGill); and Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Opera da Camera).Eva’s studies are generously supported by both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the London Goodenough Association of Canada.

In 2023, Eva was awarded a Canadian Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M) from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada for her research on the classical vocal recital. She was named an RBC Emerging Artist Fellow by the Association for Opera in Canada in 2021.

Kayla Raschke is an American soprano currently in her second year of postgraduate study at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. At Guildhall, she has been seen in the role of The Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte and in the chorus of Die Fledermaus. Other notable roles include Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor (Austrian American Mozart Academy), Valentin in La Chanson de Fortunio (Sinfonietta Bel Canto), Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (Varna International Music Academy), Una Conversa in Suor Angelica (Varna International Music Academy), Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief (Wheaton College), and the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro (Wheaton College).

Kayla was a finalist for the 2023 Opera Grand Rapids VanderLaan Prize, a finalist in the 2023 Musicians Club of Women Competition, and the winner of the Wheaton College Concerto Competition as well as the Ben Heppner Prize in 2022. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Wheaton College in Illinois. In addition to operatic repertoire, Kayla is passionate about musical theatre and American art song.

Presented in association with Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Entry

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