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About Dylan
Pianist Dylan Perez is in demand as a recitalist, chamber musician and coach specialising in vocal repertoire.
Born in the USA, Dylan began his studies at the University of Michigan with Louis Nagel and Martin Katz before moving to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, from where he graduated in 2018 with Distinction. Whilst at the GSMD he worked with Eugene Asti, Andrew West, Iain Burnside, Julius Drake, and Pamela Lidiard. From 2019/20 he was the Lord and Lady Lurgan Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music.
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 in creating new interpretations of masterworks and championing contemporary songs. In collaboration with Julien Van Mellaerts, for Opera Holland Park Dylan curates Opera in Song – a song recital series that illuminates the operas, characters, and composers appearing during the summer season.
Awards include the Gerald Moore Prize for Accompanists, the Paul Hamburger Prize for Accompaniment and the Accompanist’s Prize at the Bampton Young Singers Competition. He has participated in many international competitions including the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition and the Das Lied International Song Competition.
Dylan has been a Britten-Pears Young Artist, an Oxford Lieder Festival Young Artist and he is an alumnus of the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien. He is also a laureate of the Académie Royaumont in association with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
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Olivia Boen & Dylan Perez | Undine Smith Moore: Love Let the Wind Cry
Olivia Boen and Dylan Perez perform Undine Smith Moore's 'Love Let the Wind Cry' as part of the 2021 Oxford Lieder Festival. Credit: OxfordSong
PlayingDylan Perez & Ted Black Ravel: Manteau de Fleurs
Credit: Ted Black & Dylan Perez
PlayingDylan Perez and Jess Dandy perform Berlioz “Le Spectre de la rose”
Credit: Bobby Williams, sound & video
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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