Retro-Pop Musical Duo Bielfield & Glen performs a Visual Spectacular in an East Coast Tour from Canberra to Cairns. Performing at the Cairns Civic Theatre on Saturday, 30 August.

Sydney, NSW - Juilliard-trained artists Kyle Bielfield and Lachlan Glen are on their way Down Under for their first Australian tour. The singer-pianist duo - Bielfield & Glen - debuted high on the Billboard charts last year with their album Stopping By and, soon after, took the U.S. by storm in an album release tour that received gleaming reviews from music enthusiasts and critics alike throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada.

The two musicians met as fellow students at the world’s top conservatory, The Juilliard School in New York City, where they trained together in the Masters program for two years. “Several colleagues of mine had raved to me about Lachlan when I first got to Juilliard, so when we met in the elevator one day I asked him if he would play with me for the school’s Honors Recital competition,” recalls Kyle, born and bred in Miami, FL. Lachlan, an Aussie originally from Camden, NSW, agreed to perform in the competition with Kyle which led to the pair winning the contest and performing a recital together at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, one of NYC’s premier music venues.

Soon after, the pair had signed their first record deal and were on their way to Nashville, TN where they laid down the tracks for the album that was to become one of the biggest hits of the year in the classical music world. “We recorded from around 10pm-4am over a period of a week or so, sharing a hotel room (but not a bed) and actually getting to know each other, finally,” Lachlan reminisces. The
24-year-old entrepreneur, now working primarily at the renowned Metropolitan Opera in NYC as a pianist and assistant conductor, continues, “Little did we know we’d be spending almost every waking second of every day in each other’s company over the next 18 months - first with the promotion for the album, then a performance at Wigmore Hall in London, then the album release tour, then a concert in my hometown of Camden in December which was, essentially, where the discussions for this Australian tour started.”

For their much-anticipated east coast tour, entitled Ambrosia ‘14 (named after one of their original songs which will be premiered on the road), Bielfield & Glen will be presenting a production that is as stimulating to the eyes as it is to the ears, with newly developed visuals accompanying reimagined folk, pop and classical hits.

“We do some funky covers of favourite songs by Simon & Garfunkel, Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra,
Fleetwood Mac, Dolly Parton and others, and also a couple of our own tunes,” says Kyle, a star in his own right, having sung around the globe with companies such as the Metropolitan Opera and at venues including the iconic Carnegie Hall. “The show essentially rediscovers the tale of The Wizard of
Oz, travelling through common human themes from love and adventure to heartbreak, comfort and, ultimately, hope.”

Kyle and Lachlan will be bringing their new show to twelve venues from Canberra to Cairns from August 3rd - September 14th, including the Metro Theatre and City Recital Hall Angel Place in Sydney and the WIN Entertainment Centre in Wollongong.


WHEN: Saturday, 30 August – 8pm
WHERE: Cairns Civic Theatre
TICKETS: One Price $53.40

BOOKINGS: www.ticketlink.com.au  or phone 1300 855 835


QUOTES ABOUT BIELFIELD & GLEN:

“Outstanding vocal soloist…singing superbly and acting with intensity” – The New York Times on Kyle Bielfield

“Add another singer to the list of champions of American art song” – WCLV Classical 104.9FM
“The finest pianist of his generation” – Voce di Meche on Lachlan Glen

“Makes you fall in love with music all over again” - New England Public Radio on “Stopping By” album

“Their partnership produces one of the most rewarding explorations of this under-served repertory....This disc is but the beginning of an exquisite journey, and the plentiful enticements of this recording inspire the hope that many sequels stand beyond.” - Voix des Arts on “Stopping By” album

“A dazzling journey into the world of American melody” - Forum Opera on “Stopping By” album

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Miami native KYLE BIELFIELD has been hailed by the New York Times as an “outstanding vocal soloist...singing superbly and acting with intensity.” Mr. Bielfield is the quintessential American tenor whose career spans from opera to art song. Mr. Bielfield has performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Merkin Hall in New York. Recent engagements include a Metropolitan Opera workshop of a new opera, entitled The Sorrows of Frederick, by composer Scott Wheeler and librettist Romulus Linney, and a production of Curlew River with Ballet Opera Pantomime in Montréal. He is currently preparing to make his French baroque opera debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

A graduate of The Juilliard School, (M.M. ’13), and New York University, (B.M. ’09), Mr. Bielfield has won several awards, including the Juilliard Honors Recital in Alice Tully Hall. He has performed in productions and galas with New York City Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, New York Festival of Song,
American Lyric Theater, Center City Opera, The Florida Grand Opera, and Juilliard Opera.
Mr. Bielfield has premiered several new works, including Colin Matthew’s concert piece No Man’s Land in Alice Tully Hall for the 2013 Focus! Festival. Other premieres include collaborations with American Opera Projects and Center City Opera, where he performed the role of Yale Freshman in Gregory Spears’ Paul’s Case. Other new works include a production of The Golden Ticket with ALT at Lincoln Center, and a workshop of Car Crash Opera in association with NYU and New York City Opera.

Mr. Bielfield has received acclaim for concert performances with the New York Festival of Song, esteemed oratorio conductors Kent Tritle and Steven Fox, world-renowned pianists Brian Zeger and Stever Blier and a host of collaborators and organizations nationally and internationally.

He is a co-founder and performer in retro-pop duo Bielfield & Glen, whose recently-released album
Stopping By (Delos Productions) debuted at #5 on the iTunes New & Noteworthy Classical Charts and #24 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart. The album release and initial performances for the release tour received gleaming reviews and endorsements from venerable music purveyors, including Arkivmusic and multiple National Public Radio affiliates. One national reviewer writes, "Their partnership produces one of the most rewarding explorations of this under-served repertory....This disc is but the beginning of an exquisite journey, and the plentiful enticements of this recording inspire the hope that many sequels stand beyond.”

Mr. Bielfield's opera roles include The Madwoman in Curlew River, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Dorvil in
La scala di seta, Le Chevalier Danois in Gluck's Armide, Le Théière in L’enfant et les sortilèges, Pluto in Orpheus in the Underworld, and Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos.

No stranger to charitable, cause-based performance, Mr. Bielfield has participated in many community music projects. Most recently, with the Weill-Cornell Music and Medicine Initiative, he appeared as the tenor soloist in Mozart's Requiem, conducted by David Leibowitz at St. Bartholomew's Church. The initiative's performance raised over $10,000 to secure medical care for uninsured New Yorkers.

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Australian artist LACHLAN GLEN (b.1989) has gained international recognition as an entertainer, pianist, conductor and vocal coach. His recent engagements have included performances in Sydney,
London, New York, Vienna, Berlin, Dresden and Basel and other cities throughout Australia, Europe and the United States, at venues such as Wigmore Hall (London), Carnegie Hall (NYC) and Alice Tully Hall (NYC).

Along with tenor Kyle Bielfield, Mr. Glen is a co-founder and performer in Bielfield & Glen, an entertainment duo positioned to become a pioneering fixture in the music industry. Bielfield & Glen have recently given strongly supported and well-received performances in Sydney, London, Montreal, New York, New Jersey, Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, with upcoming shows in various US states (including a debut at Carnegie Hall) and an extensive Australian tour.

Bielfield & Glen's recently-released album Stopping By debuted at #5 on the iTunes New & Noteworthy Classical Charts and #24 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart. The album release and initial performances for the release tour have garnered gleaming reviews and endorsements from venerable music purveyors including Arkivmusic and multiple National Public Radio affiliates. One national reviewer writes, "Their partnership produces one of the most rewarding explorations of this under-served repertory....This disc is but the beginning of an exquisite journey, and the plentiful enticements of this recording inspire the hope that many sequels stand beyond.”

As an assistant conductor, vocal coach, accompanist and rehearsal pianist, Mr. Glen has worked with
James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Richard Bonynge, Emmanuel Villaume, Stephen Lord, Renata Scotto,
Carol Vaness, Piotr Becza?a, Gerald Finley, Rufus Wainwright and Roger Bart (The Producers,
Hercules), and has served on the faculties of the Castleton Festival (VA), the Chautauqua Institution (NY) and the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (Neumarkt, Germany).

In his career as a solo pianist, he has performed with various ensembles throughout Australia, Europe and the U.S. including the Wiener Residenzorchester, the Rutgers Sinfonia, the GRAMMY awardwinning Rutgers University Wind Ensemble and the Fisher's Ghost Youth Orchestra in works ranging from Liszt's Concerto No. 1 in E-flat to David Gillingham's Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Wind Orchestra. A 6th Prize and Audience Choice Award winner at the Southern Highlands International Piano Competition (2009), he was also the winner of the Rutgers University Undergraduate Concerto Competition, the Rutgers University Chamber Music Competition, the 2010 Visual and Performing Arts Achievement Award (Golden Key International Honour Society) and 3rd Prize recipient in the Werner Baer Memorial Competition (2008).

With an avid interest in contemporary music, Mr. Glen has worked with several composers in the creation of new works, most recently including The Master, a new opera by Alberto Caruso with libretto by Colm Tóibín. He also works regularly with Canadian pop singer Rufus Wainwright and coedited the sheet music for Wainwright's album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu for publication (Schott, 2012).

Mr. Glen is the Founder and co-Artistic Director of Schubert & Co., a 2012-'13 NYC festival that presented the complete solo lieder of Franz Schubert in a series of 35 recitals. Schubert & Co. was the first presentation of these works in New York in a single season, and featured such internationally acclaimed stars as Malcolm Martineau and Brian Zeger.

Born in Sydney, Australia, an early interest in composition resulted in several national awards and performance of his orchestral work Daintree Overture at the inaugural Aurora Contemporary Music Festival 2006 (Matthew Hindson, Artistic Director). Always an entrepreneur at heart, he founded a successful baking business at age 13 while simultaneously pursuing studies on the viola and performing as orchestral keyboardist and percussionist with the Penrith Symphony Orchestra and the Fisher's Ghost Youth Orchestra.

A graduate of The Juilliard School (M.M. '13) and Rutgers University (B.M., Mason Gross School of the Arts, '11), Mr. Glen is currently a pianist/coach in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera.

An avid culinary and literary amateur, he also enjoys writing and has been a regular contributor to The Juilliard Journal.

30th Aug 2014
8pm Duration One hour 45 minutes
Interval 8.35pm - 8.55pm

To book tickets click link here: http://www.cairnscivictheatre.com.au/whats-on/bielfield-and-glen-tour