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 Programme - 25 April 2008
Born in Austria, Daniela Lehner studied in Vienna, Salzburg and at the GSMD in London.
She has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Musikhalle Hamburg, De Singel Antwerp, the Klavier Festival Ruhr, Cologne Philharmonie, as well as the Aldeburgh Festival, Chichester Festival and Oxford Lieder Festival.
Daniela has performed in the Austrian Cultural Forum's New Artist Series and Yehudi Menuhin's Foundation Live Music Now, for the Kirckman Concert Society and was awarded the Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists by Making Music in 2007.
She has received full scholarships to study on the Ravinia Festival Young Artists Programme, Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme and the Music Academy of the West, California.
Prizes include a Georg Solti Scholarship, Johannes-Kepler Scholarship, the John Warner Memorial Award (Chichester), Prize of the Académie Musicale de Villecroze, First Prize in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition 2004 and a Borletti-Buitoni Award 2008.
She has recently participated in Graham Johnson's complete Schumann song recordings. Operatic roles include the title role in Mignon and Concepcion in L'Heure espagnole (GSMD) and Arsamenes in Handel's Serse (Cheltenham Festival). In January 2008 she made her Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut, singing the role of Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
She has performed live for Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 and will be one of the BBC’s “New Generation Artists” from 2008-2010. Upcoming concerts include recitals for BBC Radio 3, a concert for the Classical Opera Company, a recital for the Chichester Festival, concerts in Austria, a concert tour through North Wales, a Wigmore Hall recital and a recital with Mitsuko Uchida in the Philharmonie Berlin in 2009.
http://www.bbtrust.com/2008/awards/daniela_lehner.html
 Jose Luis Gayo, piano
Jose was born in Madrid, where he studied with Anatoli Povzon and Arpad Bodo, winning the "Padre Antonio Soler" prize for chamber music. He also has a degree in piano pedagogics of the Conservatorio Liceu Barcelona.
Jose has taken part in masterclasses with David Dubal, Radoslav Kvapil, Joseph Banowitz, Nelita True and Roger Vignoles. He has appeared in concert in France, Portugal, Spain and the UK (Steinway Hall, ACF London, St. James Piccadilly). Jose currently works as a Spanish coach for EMI Classics. Upcoming concerts include a concert at Hatchlands and recitals for "Making Music" and Yehudi Menuhin's "Live Music Now".
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