|
|
|
|
|
|
Biography
Male Soprano Cenk Karaferya is a recent graduate of Trinity College of Music where he studied voice with Teresa Cahill, Robert Aldwinckle, and Timothy-Travers Brown. His most recent operatic engagements include David in Handel’s Saul for Katarina Kyrka (SE), 1st Witch and Spirit in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas for Opera de Bauge (FR), and the title role in Handel’s Rinaldo for In Vivo Chamber Opera (UK). He made his Greenwich Early Music Festival debut with Handel’s Dixit Dominus under the baton of conductor Philip Thorby and the TCM Early Music Ensemble and Orchestra, where he gained a rave review from Erwin Hosi in classicalsource.com. He also acclaimed high praise from Janet Street-Porter in her The Independent on Sunday column for his highly anticipated Handel House recitals. Past season he opened the Handel and the Castrati Exhibition at the Handel House with a program devoted to the soprano castrato Carestini, he then was joined by the baroque ensemble Fleuri to repeat the program in Lauderdale House. On BBC Radio World Service he was featured on a program about the Handel and the Castrati Exhibition. He also took part in a masterclass given by Emma Kirkby in the London Handel Festival. In May he returned to Handel House to perform arias sung originally by Farinelli accompanied by historian Patricia Howard. Mr. Karaferya then appeared in Kurt Weill’s musical masterpiece The Threepenny Opera. Current season highlights include an appearance with the Southampton Choral Society performing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Heroes and Heroines concert with Fleuri in the London Handel Festival and Soler’s newly rediscovered work Stabat Mater in the Istanbul Baroque Week.
Mail Cenk!
Email
|
