Two Young Musicians Performing in Afternoon Concert

Tenor Robert Folkes and pianist Daniel Silcock

Tenor Robert Folkes and pianist Daniel Silcock
Tenor Robert Folkes and pianist Daniel Silcock

January 28, 2024

The next afternoon concert at St. Nicholas Church will be given by Robert Folkes and Daniel Silcock.

It takes place at 3pm on Sunday 18 February with tickets priced at £10 on the door or £5 for students. You can stay afterwards for tea and cake with all proceeds going to support emerging local young musicians at St Nicholas Church.

Robert Folkes is a tenor in his final year of studying for a masters in singing at the Royal Academy of Music with Richard Berkeley-Steele and Anna Tilbrook, where he recently won the Michael Head Song Prize.

During his studies Robert has sung arias in cantatas for the Academy Bach in Leipzig series under the baton of Masaaki Suzuki, Iain Ledingham, Eamonn Dougan, Rachel Podger and Peter Whelan.

He has performed scenes from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore as Nemorino and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte as Tamino, as well as chorus roles for the academy productions of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress and Handel’s Ariodante. June 2024 he will be performing for Grange Park Opera’s productions of Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and Donizetti’s La fille du Regiment.

Before the academy, Robert was a chorister at Salisbury cathedral and studied music at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge. He then was a scholar at St Martins-in-the-Fields and still sings in Westminster Cathedral and across many London choirs. Robert also plays jazz trumpet and is studying with Nick Smart at the academy.

Daniel Peter Silcock is a Scottish pianist, currently on a scholarship studying with Joseph Middleton at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was recently awarded the Marjorie Thomas Art of Song Prize.

He was a Young Artist in Reneé Fleming’s SongStudio 2024 at Carnegie Hall. He was awarded the Franz Schubert Institute UK prize as a Leeds Lieder Young Artist alongside Charles Cunliffe in 2023. Daniel also accompanied Annabel Kennedy at the ROSL Gold Medal Final 2023 held at Wigmore Hall.

As a soloist, Daniel found particular affinity with the French repertoire, winning prizes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he previously studied and made his concerto debut.

Daniel‘s studies have been generously supported by Dewar Arts Awards, the Caird Trust, and Help Musicians UK.

St Nicholas Church is at Church Street, Chiswick, W4 2PJ.

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