Judith Bingham
Biographie Judith Bingham
Chamber Domaine is at the cutting edge of music making in the 21st century. Its excellence and dynamism have received widespread acclaim both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Under its artistic director, Thomas Kemp, the ensemble has become renowned for its virtuosity and its ambitious and distinctive programming that range from the Baroque through to the Contemporary. Chamber Domaine focus on instrumental chamber music and song in programmes that illuminate the music of today with the music of three centuries: the ensemble brings passion and commitment to a diverse repertoire that makes music come alive whilst placing it into its cultural context. The ensemble are committed to performing and recording contemporary music and give world premieres by leading composers including Judith Bingham at the City of London Festival, Piers Hellawell at the Cheltenham International Festival and Arvo Pärt at the Edinburgh Festival. The ensemble has a commission from the brilliant young composer, Matthew Sergeant for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and a major work for soprano and chamber orchestra by Judith Bingham for her sixtieth birthday.
Yeree Suh - Soprano
The Korean soprano, Yeree Suh, commenced her training at the National University in Seoul before furthering her studies in Europe at Berlin’s Universität der Künste (studying with Professor Harald Stamm and graduating with distinction), with Regina Werner-Dietrich in Leipzig and with Gerd Türk at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
In 2003, Yeree Suh made her professional debut with René Jacobs at the Innsbrucker Festwochen as Ninfa in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a role she repeated at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in 2004 and at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 2007.
A prolific concert performer, Yeree Suh has performed together with Andreas Spering (Haydn’s L’isola disabitata/Silvia and Georg Frideric Handel’s Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno/La Belezza); with Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra (G.F. Handel’s Apollo e Dafne); with Philippe Herreweghe (Felix Mendelssohn’s Ein Sommernachtstraum); with Ton Koopman and the DSO (Heinrich Schütz’ Die sieben Worte); with René Jacobs (Monteverdi’s Madrigali); with both Frieder Bernius and Masaaki Suzuki (G.F. Handel’s Messiah); with the Münchner Symphoniker (Orff’s Carmina Burana and Gretel in the Prinzregenten Theater Munich), and with the Freiburg Bachorchester (Bruckner’s F-Moll Messe).
Judith Bingham - Composer
Judith Bingham was born in Nottingham in 1952, and grew up in Mansfield and Sheffield. After making considerable self-taught progress in composition while still a schoolgirl, she attended the Royal Academy of Music (1970–73), where her teachers were Malcolm MacDonald, Eric Fenby Alan Bush and John Hall (composition), and Jean Austin-Dobson (singing). In 1972 she was awarded the Academy's ‘Principal's Prize for Composition’ for the ‘Fires of London’-influenced chamber-piece Maelstrom. After obtaining her Performer's Certificate, she continued her composition studies privately with Hans Keller (1974–80), and took singing lessons from Eric Vietheer and David Mason. In 1976 she was selected for the BBC's ‘Young Composers' Forum’ on the strength of two scores: The Divine Image (1976) for harpsichord, and The Fourth Universe (1976) for mezzo-soprano and harpsichord.
