Recital by Pawel Piotrowski and Rebecca Warren

Rebecca Warren is a répétiteur and collaborative pianist from Ireland and has recently completed the two-year répétiteur masters programme in the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She holds an MMus, MA, BA and Diploma in music performance and has worked extensively in the operatic field. Having been répétiteur with the inaugural Irish National Opera Studio 2018/2019, Rebecca was awarded the prestigious Next Generation Artist Award by the Arts Council Ireland in 2020, which enabled her to pursue her répétiteur studies further at RCS. She was répétiteur with the Wexford Factory 2022/2023, a young artist programme run by Wexford Festival Opera, where this year she was elevated to the position of Musical Director for one of their pocket opera productions: Donizetti’s La fille du régiment.

Collaborations, concerts and recital tours with singers and instrumentalists have brought her to the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg and the UK. She is also a trained classical violinist and has performed professionally with chamber and symphony orchestras throughout Ireland and the UK. Passionate about the performance and promotion of Irish contemporary music, Rebecca established Crescent Festival of Irish Contemporary Music in 2019, and works regularly with composers to workshop and promote their new compositions. She specialises in Italian, French and German sung repertoire and is a highly sought-after opera coach.

Recently awarded the James H Geddes Award for Répétiteurs by the Ye Cronies Club Glasgow, Rebecca has worked as répétiteur on several operatic productions including most recently: La ciociara, Lalla Roukh and La fille du régiment (Wexford Festival Opera), The Land of Might-Have-Been (Buxton International Festival and Norwich Theatre), Aida, Madama Butterfly and Die Zauberflöte (Irish National Opera), Le nozze di Figaro (Saluzzo Opera Academy), Les enfants terribles, L'étoile, A Feast in Time of Plague, Mozart e Salieri and Four Sisters (RCS).

Paweł is studying on the RCS Masters Opera Course where he is taught by Julian Tovey. He is a recipient of a scholarship from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Paweł graduated from the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2022.

His roles include Niegus The Merry Widow, Tevye The Fiddler on the Roof, and Jakób Flis Bardos Krakowiacy i Górale, and he also appeared in pieces by the contemporary composer, Salija. His oratorio repertoire includes Messiah Handel and St. John’s Passion Bach. Pawel enjoys song repertoire, and has sung songs by a wide variety of composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Szymanowski, Tchaikowsky, and Moniuszko. Recently, he debuted at the Fringe festival in Edinburgh with a Cadenza chorus, singing The Voices of Our Ancestors by Thea Musgrave, and Vespers by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. He is looking forward to his second year of studies at RCS, where he will perform two contemporary operas, The Medium Menotti and Three Decembers Heggie, and further in the year, Cendrillon Massenet. Apart from singing, he is a Murder Mystery actor, and loves hiking and cooking.

The recital will include:

Schumann - Dichterliebe I-VII, Der Arme Peter

Schubert - Erlkönig

Quilter - 5 Shakespeare songs

Karłowicz - Zaczarowana królewna (The Enchanted Princess), Nie płacz nade mną (Weep Not Over Me), Na spokojnym, ciemnym morzu (On the calm, dark sea) 

Korngold - Mein Sehnen

Wagner - O, du mein Holder