DylanPerez
- Accompanist
About Dylan
Described as “sublime and completely intuitive” (The Sunday Times), pianist Dylan Perez is a recitalist, chamber musician and coach specialising in vocal repertoire. His recent and upcoming appearances include Wigmore Hall, Milton Court, Cadogan Hall, the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music, La Monnaie and the Copenhagen Opera Festival. Artists with whom he collaborates regularly include sopranos Mary Bevan and Soraya Mafi, mezzo-sopranos Jess Dandy, Ema Nikolovska and Kitty Whately and bass William Thomas. He enjoys a particularly fruitful performing relationship with his husband, renowned Scottish tenor Nicky Spence.
Dylan is the founder of re-sung, a London based song recital series that focuses on the connection between text and music, with special interest on creating new interpretations of masterworks and championing contemporary songs. In collaboration with Julien Van Mellaerts, he curates Opera in Song for Opera Holland Park – a song recital series that illuminates the operas, characters, and composers appearing during the summer season.
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BARBER The Complete Songs
CDMay 2022★★★★★ Dylan Perez’s pianism is consistently insightful without obtruding – a tall order for any accompanist – and his curating of the entire project is masterly...These two discs undoubtedly set a new benchmark in Barber’s vocal music, and every art song lover should have them.
- BBC Music Magazine
- 01 August 2022
Curated by Dylan Perez, whose playing throughout is sublime and profoundly intuitive, cycles such as Two Songs (with Barron), Hermit Songs (Bevan) and Despite and Still (Sedgewick) trace Barber’s remarkable assurance and growth as a composer for voice, with all of the soloists relishing the contrasts in his writing between sparkling light and levity and crepuscular shade. ★★★★★
- The Sunday Times
- 07 August 2022
One of the recording’s pleasures is the way the songs come to life through 10 different characters, but with Perez as a constant, eloquent presence (he plays on all the songs save Dover Beach). As a characterful overview of Barber’s songwriting – and equally as a snapshot of emerging vocal talent – this is a very rewarding collection
- The Guardian
- 05 May 2022
BRAHMS Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52 & 65
CDSep 2023This delectable recording makes a splendid case, if it were needed, for their worth. These four singers complement one another and blend effortlessly, seeming to share some crucial qualities: enjoyable tone powered by intelligent attention to the text, and wide-ranging emotional capacity encompassing high spirits and heartache alike.
- BBC Musiz Magazine
- 01 November 2023
