John Heuzenroeder
Announcing the winner of the 1996 City of Melbourne Song Recital Award, the judges described John Heuzenroeder's performance as one which struck them ‘as having a most unusual sense of style – a performance you know you will long remember.’
John studied his Bachelor of Music (Performance) with Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has won numerous singing competitions and has performed with the Victoria State Opera and Opera Australia. John has also performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on various occasions, and regularly in oratorio performances in Melbourne. John Heuzenroeder also enjoys singing a variety of artsong including 20th century composers such as Britten and Poulenc. This is his debut recital disc.
John is accompanied on this disc by Jennifer Marten-Smith, who was admitted into the University of Tasmania, aged sixteen. Although she was the youngest student, she won the Clarice Viney Prize for the 'best pianist in all courses' for each of the three years of her course. In 1986 Jennifer made her debut with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. In 1993 she was awarded the North Forest Products Young Achiever of the Year Award for the Arts. She has worked as a repetiteur with the Australian Opera (now Opera Australia), State Opera of South Australia and the Victoria State Opera. She has been heard in live performance on ABC-FM and at the Melbourne International Festival. During 1997, Jennifer will perform Mozart's Lodron Concerto for Three Pianos and Orchestra and Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
John Heuzenroeder is featured on the following titles
John Heuzenroeder sings Mozart
Tenor John Heuzenroeder, winner of the 1996 City of Melbourne Song Recital Award, joins pianist Jennifer Marten-Smith in a recital of Mozart songs both celebrated and rarely heard.
Performing as Les Six
The vocal group Les Six were formed specifically to perform mediaeval and renaissance repertoire in authentic style.
Hæc Dies
Easter at Notre Dame, Paris, c.1220. Music for Easter Sunday Mass as it may have been heard at Notre Dame early in the thirteenth century: chant propers, a complete ordinary cycle in two-part Leoninus-style settings, and three-part organum in the style of Perotin.
A Florentine Annunciation - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 4
The Music of the Fourteenth Century series presents some of the earliest and most significant polyphonic settings of late-medieval lyric poetry. This volume offers music for the Feast of the Annunciation, performed by Les Six.
John Heuzenroeder is a member of
Les Six
The vocal group Les Six were formed specifically to perform mediaeval and renaissance repertoire in authentic style.