September 20th 2003 Professional Concert

We regret to announce that Iris Benesch is unable to appear owing to illness.

Susan Legg and Colin Peters will appear in a revised programme, which will include piano duets.

Susan Legg mezzo-soprano
Colin Peters piano
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Susan Legg studied at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio. After winning the National Mozart Singing Competition, she joined Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and sang for the Walton Trust in Ischia, Italy. Susan was awarded the Richard Tauber Schubert Society Prize and was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Competition and the Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna. She has sung in the Bayreuth and Wexford Festivals, recorded with the BBC Singers, and performed Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) for the Britten-Pears School, Aldburgh. Susan has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, St. John's, Smith Square and the Purcell Room, and has made an acclaimed CD for ASV Records of the works of Witold Lutoslawski. This will be her third appearance at the Music Club where she is ever popular.

Colin Peters is a gold medallist at the Trinity College of Music. He made his performing debut in a weekly series of piano recitals over a period of two years where he was fulfilling his National Service commitments. He studied at the universities of Nottingham and London, where he took a PhD, and with Vivian Langrish (Royal Academy of Music), before embarking on a career in higher education, where he contributed to and edited a number of books. He also continued as a soloist and accompanist, working regularly with principals from Glyndebourne and Kent Opera. He is currently a freelance pianist, teacher, examiner and adjudicator and his work has included extensive tours of Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Southern Africa, Cyprus and many parts of Europe.