Recitals Australia Presents
Leo French, Stephen King and Lincoln Brady
12:30pm August 7th
North Adelaide Baptist Church Hall – Tynte Street, North Adelaide
George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
Where’er You Walk
Antonio Caldara (1670 – 1736)
Come Raggio di Sol
Giuseppe Giordani (1730 – 1806)
Caro Mio Ben
Duncan Browne (1947 – 1993)
Salva Me
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Ave Maria
Becky Llewellyn
Two pieces for Viola and Voice (world premiere)
Instrumental
Lincoln Brady
Torquay, 1930 (~5′)
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
Gymnopédie No. 3
Voice
Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946)
Nana
Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924)
Chanson d’Amour
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 – 1687)
O Tranquille Sommeil
Erik Satie (1866 – 1925)
Je te Veux
Duration: 45 minutes
About Leo
Leo French is an Adelaide tenor commencing undergraduate studies in Classical Voice at the Royal Academy of Music in London in September 2026, having been offered a place in its highly-selective Bachelor of Music program. Leo has been a lay clerk in the St Peter’s Cathedral choir since 2023. He is a member of the National Youth Choir of Australia (2025–2026 seasons), and has performed with both the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the Adelaide Baroque Orchestra, including performances of Handel’s Messiah. He recently made his debut with the State Opera Chorus in Bellini’s Norma. Leo currently studies under Kyle Stegall.
About Stephen
Violist Stephen King is a chamber musician and creative who performed with the Australian String Quartet from 2012-21. Prior to this, he was a member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra from 2003. Stephen has always been passionate about new Australian music and recording it, projects with First Nations artists, innovative cross-artform collaborations and founding and building the ACO Emerging Artists program and ACO Collective.
Growing up in Canberra, Stephen studied the violin but as an architecture student fell for the darker world of the viola. From 1997 Stephen was violist of the Coolidge String Quartet in Washington D.C. He holds a Doctorate in Chamber Music, having worked closely with the Emerson and Guarneri Quartets. Stephen was also the Associate Principal Viola of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and member of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project while on the faculty of NEC Prep Division in Boston.
Stephen is currently Senior Lecturer in Viola and Chamber Music at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide University and teaches for the Open Music Academy. He is principal viola of the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra and violist of Ironwood ensemble. He has been a regular guest principal of the TSO, CSO and plays with the Auckland Philharmonia and AWO. In any spare moments Stephen designs and makes sculpted timber furniture and art.
About Lincoln
Lincoln Brady is a graduate of ‘Trinity College of Music, London’ and the ‘University of Adelaide’ in Guitar (Performance). He has performed on television (Channel 7 AM & Channel 44) and in many music festivals & concerts over the past 30 years as a soloist and in several ensembles.
Lincoln has taught Guitar and Music Theory since 1986 at Primary, Secondary and Tertiary levels in Sydney and in Adelaide. Many of his students have won places in music scholarships, advanced music programs and University Degree courses. Several of his current and former students have also won awards at the Adelaide Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and at the Adelaide Eisteddfod.
Lincoln has premiered several new works for guitar by leading overseas composers and many of his own compositions and arrangements are published in Europe and in America.