Lunchtime Recital - Kaishun Ypsilantis (piano), Quito Clothier (tenor)

Programme:

TBC

Free Entry. No ticket required. Retiring collection - suggestion £5

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Biographies:

Quito Clothier is a 26 year old tenor from Hampshire, England. He is currently studying under Patricia Rozario OBE at the Royal College of Music where he is generously supported by the St Matthias Trust and the William Gibbs Religious & Educational Trust.

This summer he will be covering Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ at the Grange Festival, where he made his debut in 2025 as Gastone (Cover) in Verdi’s La Traviata with the BSO/Richard Farnes and as Chorus in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus with the BSO/Paul Daniel. Last year he also performed the role of Mr Pasek in the RCM Opera Studio’s autumn production of Janàcek’s ‘Cunning Little Vixen’ and was the winner of the Sarah Harrison Prize at the HCO Singer of the Year Competition and a finalist in the AESS National English Song Competition.

Other operatic roles performed include Monsieur Triquet (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin) and Ismaele (Verdi’s Nabucco). Quito was previously a choral scholar at St- Martin-in-the-Fields and St. James’s Piccadilly, and his concert repertoire is increasingly vast, with performed works as a soloist varying from works like Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle, to Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass.

Kaishun Ypsilan is a collaborative pianist who frequently works with singers and instrumentalists. She recently graduated with distintion in Collaborative Piano (Master of Performance) from the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Simon Lepper, Roger Vignoles, Julian Jacobson and Howard Williams.

Praised by her teachers for her instuinctive musicianship, professional artistry and reliability, Kaishun has worked on opera productions including scenes from Imeneo and Fidelio at the BriJen Theatre, and she frequently supports young musicians in exams and competitions. In addition,she is the recipient of the Vocal Accompaniment Award of the Basel International Piano Accompanists Competition 2025 (Japan). She is a registered external accompanist at the RCM and a member of the College’s Professional Engagement Service.

Regularly engaged for concerts and events at distinguished venues, her recent performances include appearances at St James’s Church Sussex Gardens, Westminster Libraries and Archives, the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Lauderdale House and St James’s Church Piccadilly.

Presented in association with Royal College of Music.