M H A I R I L A W S O N
Whether you are a promoter looking for photos and biographical details or a concert-goer perhaps seeking discography information, I hope you find something of interest here!
I've had a blissful summer with Adrian, my husband, and James, our three-year-old boy in Scotland. We climbed hills and mountains, went to the Edinburgh Festival and the Rolling Hills Folk Festival in Melrose, and even took part in a some of the events at the Kinloch Rannoch Highland Games. It's now, however, good to get back to the glorious grindstone of being a singer.
This autumn is a maelstrom of music-learning for several different programmes. LOTS of Lieder by Schubert, Schumann and Spohr, an opera by Vivaldi and a lovely pile of songs by Robert Burns. I'll be recording with the baroque virtuosi 'la Serenissima' their 'Venice by Night' programme which includes arias from Vivaldi's 'Montezuma' and 'l'Olimpiade', Venetian canzoni da batello and a fiery Lotti motet.
Okay, I'd better go and do some practice now, so, as ever, if you are coming to any of my performances, please do clap loudly!
So, if you get to any of my forthcoming performances, please do clap loudly and come and say hello at the end!'
With best wishes
Mhairi Lawson xx
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UpComing Events
List of upcoming gigs in 2011 and early 2012
November 16 - Faculty Artists recital with Eugene Asti (piano) and Jane Booth (clarinet) Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Schubert, Spohr and Mendelssohn.
November 24 -' Venice by Night' with La Serenissima, Horsecross Hall, Perth
December 1 - Bach Christmas Oratorio, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Edinburgh Queen's Hall
December 2 - Bach Christmas Oratorio, SCO, Glasgow City Hall
December 10 - Handel, Israel in Egypt, Winchester Cathedral
December 17th - Handel, Messiah, Pamplona
January 24 - Songs of Scotland: Traditional Roots and Classical Salon, with Mairi Campbell, Jan Waterfield, Adrian Chandler and Su-a Lee, The Horsecross Hall, Perth
January 28 - Vivaldi 'Gloria', Northern Sinfonia, The Sage, Gateshead
February 2 -' Venice by Night', Cadogan Hall, London
February 12 -' Venice by Night', Vinehall School, East Sussex
March 13 -18 Eilat Festival, Israel, Vivaldi's ' l'Olimpiade', and Mozart's Mass in c minor
April 20 - RTE National Symphony Orchestra Dublin, Brahms German Requiem
April 29 - 'Venice by Night', Kelvinhall, Glasgow
May 19 - ' l'Olimpiade' Lufthansa Festival, London
May 26 - Early Opera Company, Lufthansa Festival, London
May 30 - ' l'Olimpiade' Bath Abbey
June 2 - Handel 'Acis and Galatea', Gabrieli Consort and Players
June 15/16 - la Serenissima, Gregynog, Wales
July 11 and 21- 'l'Olimpiade', Buxton Festival (matinees)
July 12 - 'Venice by Night' Southhampton University
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