This summer's highlight for me will be when I go to Germany to sing at the Klassik Festival Momentum Stolberg! www.festival-momentum.de/enFinally ready to tell you what I will present:
J. Brahms: Volkslieder
Mein MĂ€del hat einen Rosemund
In stiller Nacht
Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr
Da unten im Tale
R. Schumann: Dichterliebe op. 48
I. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
II. Aus meinen TrĂ€nen sprieĂen
III. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
IV. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh
V. Ich will meine Seele tauchen
IX. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
X. Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen
XI. Ein JĂŒngling liebt ein MĂ€dchen
B. Britten: Folk Songs
Sailor-boy
I will give my love an apple
The brisk young widow
At the mid hour of night
The plough boy
O Waly, Waly
Trio: âThe stream in the valleyâ
At the concert you can also hear concert pianist and artistic director Patricia Buzari and cellist Brendan Goh, and actually all three of us will join for the final piece :)
Get your tickets here: www.eventim.de/artist/festival-momentum/?affiliateâŠ
PS If you are thinking of going, you can also hear me in action at the "Young Artists go classic" competition on the day before: www.facebook.com/events/381834392594575/
Hi,
So, today it's finally here! hyperurl.co/LightDivineLast year I didn't think I would get the chance to do another recording as a treble, but then trumpeter Mark Bennett and violist Lazar Miletic with his MiN Ensemble wanted it otherwise...Amazing how it happened, at just the right time :) Go ahead and enjoy a disc full of handpicked (by Mark) baroque vocal and instrumental pieces by Rameau, Handel, Albinoni and Rittler!
It's on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Presto Classical and so on, links here: hyperurl.co/LightDivineBest wishes from Aksel
Hi!
In case you live in the New York City area: Next week, on Sunday Jan 7 at 4pm, I will sing in North America for the first time! www.facebook.com/events/1709227595850859/Together with my voice coach Marianne Lewis and accompanist Sean Lewis, I will give the final presentation at the Winter Workshop of the National Association of Teachers of Singing at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. I will sing several songs with my new baritone voice and share the journey from treble :)
The event is open to the public for $10 general admission seating and can be purchased at the door. Hope to see many of you there!
Aksel Rykkvin is an award-winning Norwegian baritone studying at the Royal Academy of Music 2022-26. He was placed third in the Joan Chissell/Rex Stephens Schumann Lieder Prize 2023, won the Joyce Budd Second Prize and the Norma Procter Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers 2023 and Most Promising Young Singer at the Somerset Song Prize 2024. Aksel and duo partner pianist Zany Denyer were âLeeds Lieder Young Artistsâ in 2024.
Aksel had an illustrious career as the 'world's premier boy soprano' (Swedish Radio P2). Aksel received rave reviews for his début album recorded with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the age of twelve. Both his solo albums reached the UK Classical chart top 10. He has performed as a treble soloist and later as a baritone at numerous concerts, operas, festivals, on radio and TV in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Austria and Germany.