Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska, Wigmore Hall's artist in residence, and pianist Jonathan Biss gave an all-Schubert recital there on Thursday 17 September 2026.
Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska, Wigmore Hall’s artist in residence, gave an all-Schubert recital at Wigmore Hall in Marylebone on Thursday 17 September 2026. Pianist Jonathan Biss, who has recorded all 32 Beethoven sonatas, joined her.
Nikolovska was born in Skopje, raised in Toronto and lives in Berlin. She trained as a violinist before she trained as a singer, at the Glenn Gould School, then Guildhall and the Opera Studio of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Her repertoire moves from Neuwirth, Saariaho and Boulez to Rameau and Jacquet de la Guerre. She was a new-generation artist for three years, and took the Borletti-Buitoni Trust award in 2022.
Biss was born in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1980 to two violinists. He teaches, has written two books about his Beethoven recordings, and runs the Marlboro festival jointly with Mitsuko Uchida.
The first half gathered early songs, among them “Erntelied”, “An den Mond” and “Die Sommernacht”, and ended on “Leichenfantasie”. The second drew on Schwanengesang, including “Das Fischermädchen”, “Die Stadt” and “Der Doppelgänger”.
The encores were “Abschied von der Erde”, a deathbed scene, and “Du bist die Ruh”.