Music for a Summer Evening
5:00pm, Sat, 6 Jun 2026
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Type of event: Performance Start time: 5:00pm End time: 6:30pm Ticket pricing/options: Admission £10 online, £12 on thedoor Tickets: 
Description: Join us for a recital of arias and lieder performed by our brilliant Choral Scholars, Sancia and Naveen, in support of the Queen's Park Singers Scholarship Fund. With refreshments and a chance to meet the scholars afterwards.
The recital also features pianist Reiko Kimura and QPS accompanist Dan Chappell.
Programme
Bellini Vaga luna che inargenti
Rossini La pastorella
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Rossini Ecco, ridente in cielo from The Barber of Seville
Mozart Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön from The Magic Flute
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Mozart Piano Sonata TBC
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Quilter Come away death
Fauré En Prière
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Schubert An den Mond
Schubert Lachen und Weinen
Handel Rejoice greatly from MessiahTenor Naveen Kanamarlapudi is a Queen’s Park Singers Choral Scholar, pursuing third-year undergraduate Vocal Studies at Trinity Laban, taught by Lynton Atkinson.
Sancia Previn Czecilia Divina is a Queen’s Park Singers Choral Scholar. Sa
ncia completed LTCL and ATCL diplomas with distinction in western vocals.
She was soloist in the Madras Musical Association choir and a violinist in the MMA symphony orchestra. Sancia was a part of the Chromatics, an ensemble specializing in opera arias and art songs, helmed by Augustine Paul. She has also done several vocal backing recordings in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and solo opera excerpts in film recordings with Yuvan Shankar Raja, A.R Rahaman and Thaman S.
Sancia is currently a student of Patricia Rozario, OBE and has been working with her in London, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. She has also won the title “Conbrio Hall of Fame 2023-First Runner up” in voice
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Notable performances include the Last Night of Proms with the BBC Symphony Chorus, D-Day 80
commemorations at the British Normandy Memorial as a scholar of London Youth Choir 23/24 and the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla as an Only Boys Aloud member. He has contributed to opera productions as a chorus member for Puccini's Turandot, Tosca and Mozart’s Magic Flute. Naveen is one of nine young singers selected for the 2025 Glyndebourne Academy. Also he contributes to Old Royal Naval College Chapel Services and was recently selected for the Philharmonia Chorus Student Scheme.
His recent solo recital includes Mozart's Un'aura amorosa at the Black British Classical Foundation Summer Concert.
Born in Japan, pianist Reiko Kimura received the Kreutzer Prize for excellence in her MA studies in Music. Inspired by a lifelong love for European classical music, she realised
her dream by coming to the UK with a Rotary Foundation scholarship to pursue advanced solo piano course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
After completing the concert recital diploma at Guildhall School, she worked there for ten years as an accompanist for string players mainly under Prof David Takeno, and performed with them in many concerts. She deepened her training through masterclasses with Gyorgy Kurtag and Andras Schiff at various places including Prussia Cove (IMS), and was mentored by Valeria Szervánszky, one of Kurtag’s closest and oldest students.
