PERFORMANCE CANCELLED
“The growing synergy between tenor Andrew Goodwin and pianist Daniel de Borah has been one of the most exciting developments on the Australian performance scene in recent years.”
- Limelight Magazine, Huntington Estate Music Festival 2013
Hailed for their communicative and penetrating interpretations across a wide range of song repertoire, Andrew Goodwin (tenor) and Daniel de Borah (piano) have captivated audiences across Australia and beyond since their initial collaborations in 2006. Both are graduates of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory where they formed a close bond during their years of study. They share a love of the Russian song tradition which, alongside 19th century German lieder, forms the core of their programs.
The duo represents an important part of their respective artistic profiles, and together they have appeared at major venues and festivals in the UK and Australia including the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville, Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre, and the Canberra International, Huntington Estate, Coriole and Port Fairy Spring Music Festivals. Andrew and Daniel have also recorded numerous song cycles and recitals for ABC Classic FM.
Program
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Die Lotosblume, Op.25 No.7
Widmung, Op.25 No.1
Du bist wie eine Blume, Op.25 No.24
Dichterliebe, Op.48
Andrew Goodwin
Andrew Goodwin has appeared with opera companies in Europe, the UK, Asia and Australia, including the Bolshoi Opera, Gran Theatre Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, La Scala Milan, Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera and Sydney Chamber Opera.
He has performed with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, Moscow and Melbourne Chamber Orchestras, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and given recitals with pianist Daniel de Borah at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder, Port Fairy and Canberra International Music Festivals.
In 2019 Andrew returns to the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Melbourne Bach Choir, the Canberra International and Huntington Music Festivals, as well as continuing his recital collaborations with Daniel De Borah.
Recent engagements have included the Evangelist in the St. John Passion for Canberra International Music Festival and in the St. Matthew Pasion for Melbourne Bach Choir, The Last Days of Socrates (Dean) and Mozart’s Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento with SSO, the title role in Hasse’s Artaxerxes (Pinchgut), Messiah (QSO and MSO),Nadir in The Pearlfishers for State Opera of South Australia, L’Enfance du Christ (Berlioz) and Mozart’s Requiem (MSO), Rossini Stabat Mater, Bach B Minor Mass (Sydney Philharmonia), Biographica and Rape of Lucretia with the Sydney Chamber Opera, Bach’s Magnificat and The Rake’s Progress (title role) for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra; Lyle Chan’s My Dear Benjamin (QSO); Britten’s Serenade for Tenor and Horn (Adelaide and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras); Egeo in Cavalli’s Giasone and Florival in Grétry’s L’amant jaloux (Pinchgut Opera); and the Adam Chamber Music and Huntington Festivals, and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville.
Daniel de Borah
Daniel de Borah is widely recognised as one of Australia’s foremost musicians, consistently praised for the grace, finesse and imaginative intelligence of his performances. His busy performance schedule finds him equally at home as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician.
Since his prize-winning appearances at the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, Daniel has given recitals on four continents and toured extensively throughout the United Kingdom and Australia. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Auckland Symphony Orchestras.
Daniel’s festival appearances have included the Musica Viva Festival, Adelaide Festival, Huntington Estate Music Festival and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. He has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with many leading soloists including Vadim Gluzman, Baiba Skride, Li-Wei Qin, Nicolas Altstaedt, Umberto Clerici, Roderick Williams and Andrew Goodwin. Daniel is a founding member of Ensemble Q, ensemble-in-residence at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University since 2017.
During his studies Daniel won numerous awards including 3rd Prizes at the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, the 2001 Tbilisi International Piano Competition and the 2000 Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam Competition in Poland. In 2005 he was selected for representation by the Young Classical Artists Trust, London. Daniel is also a past winner of the Australian National Piano Award and the Royal Overseas League Piano Award in London.
Born in Melbourne in 1981, Daniel studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, the St. Petersburg State Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Music, London. His teachers have included Zsuzsa Esztó, Mira Jevtic, Nina Seryogina, Tatyana Sarkissova and Alexander Satz. Daniel now lives in Brisbane where he serves on the faculty of the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.