Lukas Kargl: Baritone
Jennie-Helen Moston: Piano
Austrian baritone Lukas Kargl received his MMus with Distinction in 2006 from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and completed his studies on the GSMD Opera Course in 2008, under the tutelage of Rudolf Piernay.
Competition success and prizes include reaching the semi-finals in the Hugo Wolf Academy International Competition in the Art of Lied, Stuttgart (2007), the Patrick Libby Prize, London (2007) and the Youngsters of Arts Prize, St. Pölten (2005).
Lukas has given solo recitals and performances in festivals and concert halls throughout Europe, including in London, Oxford, Munich, Vienna, Graz, Pescara, Bratislava and Brezice. His operatic roles have included Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, the Count in R. Strauss’ Capriccio, Bobinet in Offenbach’s La vie parisienne and Don Parmenione in Rossini’s L’occasione fa il ladro (all GSMD productions). In Vienna, his roles included Badger/Priest in Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen (Schlosstheater Schönbrunn); Lorenzo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Neue Studiobühne); Sam in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (conducted by Denis O’Sullivan in the Musikverein); Dancairo in Bizet’s Carmen (Schlossfestspiele Zwingenberg).
Future engagements include Brahms’ ‘Requiem’ at Holy Trinity Sloane Square and Guglielmo in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at Clonter Opera UK in 2009.
Jennie-Helen Moston (piano) returns to the Wooburn Festival after a gap of 3 years. Jennie-Helen was born in Marlow in 1981 and studied at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester going on to St John’s College, Cambridge where she read music. She graduated in 2004 and completed her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Charles Owen. She has won the Cunard-Carpathia Memorial Award for Piano Accompaniment and was a beneficiary of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.
Jennie-Helen has a busy concert schedule performing with instrumentalists and singers while also appearing as a solo pianist. She has performed extensively across the UK and abroad, including venues in Canada, Switzerland and South Africa. More recently she travelled to Boston, San Francisco and New York to give solo recitals for the Cambridge University Society, the Johnian Society USA. Competition successes include winning the Accompanist Prize at the Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition in London, and was awarded the Cunard Prize at the English Song Award Competition in 2006 and 2007 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Jennie-Helen has recently appeared at St John’s, Smith Square
Entrance: Free, with retiring collection for the artists.
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