SF Performances Presents: Ilker Arcayurek, Tenor & Simon Lepper, Piano

The Guardian puts Ilker Arcayurek "in a class all his own" for his gilded tone, dramatic flexibility and captivating presence. "He is a very stylish singer" (Bachtrack). Simon Lepper is an authoritative and polished pianist who is the perfect counterpart to Arcayurek's radiant technique, "his playing flowing and just on the right side of understatement" (The Guardian).

Born in Istanbul and raised in Vienna, tenor Ilker Arcayurek has emerged as one of the most exciting and versatile vocal artists in recent years-hailed by the press for his "golden tenor" (Opera Now Magazine) . He is a winner of the International Art Song Competition of Germany's Hugo Wolf Academy, a finalist of the 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World and was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Simon Lepper read music at King's College, Cambridge before studying piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music and later with Ruben Lifschitz at the Fondation Royaumont. He is a currently professor of collaborative piano and a vocal repertoire coach at the Royal College of Music, London where he also in charge of the collaborative piano course. Since 2003 he has been an official accompanist for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.

All SCHUBERT program:
Fischerweise, D. 881
Liebhaber in allen Gestalten, D. 558
An Silvia, D. 891
Alinde, D. 904
Wilkommen und Abschied, D. 767
Dass sie hier gewesen, D. 775
Du bist die Ruh, D. 776
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D. 774
Auf der Brucke, D. 853
Die Sterne, D. 939
Bei dir allein, D. 866
Lachen und Weinen, D. 777
Der Wanderer, D. 489
Der Ungluckliche, D. 713b
Die Gotter Griechenlands, D. 677
Du liebst mich nicht, D. 759
An die Freunde, D. 654
Des Fischers Liebesgluck, D. 933

$65/55/45.

Presented by San Francisco Performances