with pianists Tetsu Mashiko and Jonathan Ellis
Royal Northern College of Music, YMF Showcase, November 2003
![[Victoria Lambourn]](images/2003sc/lambourn200.jpg)
Victoria Lambourn (soprano) is currently undertaking an MMus degree at the Royal Northern College of Music, having completed a BMus with Honours at the RNCM in June 2003. Her tutor is Barbara Robotham.
Born in Brisbane, Australia, Victoria began piano lessons at the age of three and cello at the age of four, at the age of ten winning a scholarship to study cello at the Queensland Conservatorium Music School, where she later also studied composition, piano and singing. She began formal singing lessons at the age of thirteen and at fifteen performed the role of Dido in Dido and Aeneas. Upon leaving school, she entered the Queensland Conservatorium to study voice, where she won the first year prize in the Margaret Nickson Competition.
Victoria transferred to the RNCM in 2000 where she has taken part in a number of opera productions and excerpts. She has appeared with the Hallé Orchestra when she sang the soprano part in Janacek's The Diary of the One Who Disappeared. With the RNCM's New Ensemble she has sung Webern's Fünf geistliche Lieder in the RNCM's Dancing on a Volcano Festival and Ravel's Trios Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé. She has also performed in the RNCM's SchubertFest, MendelssohnFest and Australian Resonances Festival. In 2003 she was awarded the RNCM's W. Holmes and Saville Prize for Lieder. In October 2003 she performed Mahler's Fourth Symphony with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra, a work she will perform again in November 2003 for Stockport Symphony Orchestra. Future engagements include Schubert's Mass in A flat in China.
![[Marcos Carvalho]](images/2003sc/carvalho200.jpg)
Marcos Carvalho (bass) began his musical studies in Brazil and received his BMus degree from São Paulo State University.
He has won The Vitae Foundation Schol-arship twice, which enabled him to work with the Brazilian bass-baritone Edilson Costa, and in 1999, he won second prize in the Carlos Gomes Vocal Competition in Campinas, Brazil.
Marcos worked in the Opera Chorus of the São Paulo Municipal Theatre for five years, gaining valuable experience singing many operatic roles such as Zuniga in Bizet's Carmen with the tenor Luis Lima, Marchese di Calatrava in Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Il Dottore in Verdi's La Traviata with Renato Bruson.
In 2001 he joined the Royal Northern College of Music to study with Patrick McGuigan and was awarded first prize in the Bessie Cronshaw Song Cycle Competition. He performed the role of Leporello in the 2003 RNCM Spring production of Mozart's Don Giovanni and, in June 2003, he graduated from his Postgraduate Diploma Course with Distinction. Marcos Carvalho is grateful to The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for its support of his studies.
Tetsu Mashiko (piano) was born in Japan, attending Utsunomiya University in Tochigi Prefecture in Japan and graduating with a degree in music. He then went on to teach music in a high school for two years. In September 2002, he came to Manchester to study at the Royal Northern College of Music. Having completed a years's postgraduate study at the College he is now a Junior Fellow, studying accompaniment with John Wilson.
Since coming to the RNCM, Tetsu has performed in a variety of different contexts in partnership with fellow students. Recent engagements include performances for Holmes Chapel Music Society and for the Friends of Walton Hall.
Jonathan Ellis started learning the piano at the age of three. From the age of 11 onwards, he studied at Wells Cathedral School, during which time he passed his ARCM performance diploma, and then moved on to the joint music course of the Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester University, where he studied with John Gough. He achieved a first class degree from both institutions, in addition to winning the Performance Prize at Manchester University in his final year there, and being awarded the PPRNCM Performance Diploma in his final year at the RNCM.
After this, he pursued private study for three years, learning with Paul Roberts. In 2001, he returned to the RNCM to study for postgraduate diplomas in Piano Accompaniment and Chamber Music (with a regular trio of clarinet, cello and piano), both of which have now been achieved.
Jonathan has competed as a soloist in several international piano competitions, and also won prizes in internal college competitions as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician - including the two most important chamber music prizes of the RNCM, the Granada and Hirsch Prizes, and the RNCM's Beethoven Prize as a solo pianist. The latter success qualified him to enter the Intercollegiate Beethoven Piano Competition in London, at which he won the Audience Prize.