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Faure Requiem Parry Blest Pair of Sirens Bruckner Locus Iste
Stephen Cleobury, Tim Brown, Joseph Fort conductors Joseph Fort organist Rachel Bagnall soprano Julian Chou-Lambert baritone
Free admission. Music provided. Come and join student members of CUMS chorus to sing two great choral pieces Faure’s Requiem and Parry’s I was Glad with distinguished conductors Stephen Cleobury and Timothy Brown. Music will be provided.
www.cums.org.uk
KCMS’s first concert of the academic year is a FREE concert of chamber music in the atmospheric King’s Hall at 8:00pm on Sunday 12th October.
Benjamin Britten – The Ballad of Little Barnard and Lady Musgrave (choral scholars of the King’s College Choir accompanied by organ scholar Peter Stevens)
Lutoslawski – Epitaph In Memory Of Alan Richardson For Oboe And Piano – (Bethan White – oboe, Kate Whitley – piano)
Chopin – Nocturne tbc (James Keay – piano)
Stravinsky – Le Sacre du printemps piano four hands arrangement by the composer (Kate Whitley and Lydia Scadding- piano)
Schubert – Trout Quintet (Tom Kimber – piano, Guy Button – violin, Tom Hedges – viola, Donald Bennet – cello, Nick Bown – double bass)
CURS is pleased to invite you to the very special concert. Yuri Polubelov, world famous pianist, renowned interpreter of the contemporary music.
He gave concerts all over the world including Europe and the United States. His repertoire is includes all music of all epochs; one of his most outstanding characteristics is performing the contemporary music and the music of Viennese school; that is for he was renowned by many critics in Allgemaine Zeitung, New-York Times, etc.
!Now we are welcoming him in Cambridge!
Entrance fee: 3 pounds CURS members, 4 pounds CamRuss and concessions, 5 all guests.
The programme includes compositions by Alexander Knaifel’, Galina Ustvol’skaya, Valentin Sil’vestrov.
Followed by the wine reception.
Fitzwilliam College Music Society presents the 2008 Freshers’ Concert, featuring chamber music by Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Copland and Malcolm Arnold.
All welcome, admission free.
Website http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/music/index.jsp
For further details, contact the Director of Music, Francis Knights, on fk240@cam.ac.uk
Cordelia Williams gives a late night piano recital in King’s Great Hall, starting at 9:30pm. Entrance is FREE.
SAVADI – Prizewinners in the 2006 Early Music Network Young Artists Competition Kristine Jaunalksne (soprano) Ulrike Hofbauer (soprano) Marie Bournisien (Baroque harp)
Fairy tales, adventure novels, Hollywood movies – stories in their many guises are a part of the fabric of our cultural identity, exerting a formative influence on our thinking and our values. In this concert we will hear sacred and secular stories set by Carissimi, Strozzi, Merula, d’India and others.
From very different corners of Europe (France, Latvia and Germany) the members of Savadi bring a highly unusual and heart-stoppingly beautiful approach to this entrancing music.
Tickets £18 (students / unwaged £12) at the door or in advance from www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org
Curington – Conic (world premiere) Mozart – Violin Concerto no. 5 Beethoven – Symphony no. 5
Catherine Myerscough – violin soloist Mark Austin – conductor
This is the opening concert of the 2008/9 series marking the 120th aniversary of the society’s existence.
The Cambridge University Music Club is devoted to encouraging the appreciation and performance of chamber music at the highest level. It has a long and illustrious history since being founded in 1889, and past members have included such eminent figures as Ralph Vaughan-Williams and Sir David Willcocks.
Tickets: £7/5/3 (non-members), Free (CUMC members) Tickets and membership available at www.cuco.co.uk or buy tickets on the door.
CUOS IS RE-LAUNCHING!
For your chance to hear what the society has planned so far, become a member for FREE, sign-up for opera trips, vote in a new committee (or even stand yourself!) and make your contribution towards what CUOS achieves this year come along to our Re-Launch Party. Plenty of food and drink!
See www.cuos.org.uk.
Hugo Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch. Julia Sporsn (Soprano), Ronan Collett (Baritone) and Joseph Middleton (Piano) Friday 24th October, 8pm, Old Library, Pembroke College Cambridge Tickets £7 (£4 students) available from The Porters Lodge or on the door.
Julia Sporsen has been described by The Times as hugely impressive. She makes her ENO debut in Jenufa this season, while Ronan Collett is known to Pembroke audiences as one of the College’s most successful recent graduates. They are joined by College Musician Joseph Middleton winner of the Pianists Prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition.
Swedish soprano Julia Sporsn has a thrillingly powerful voice – a core of steel wrapped in a casing of velvet Warwick Thompson, Metro
a baritone of eloquent warmthThe Sunday Telegraph on Ronan Collett
the cream of the new generation The Times on Joseph Middleton
Organ creativity by renowned Soviet composer Mikael Tariverdiev (including his immensely famous ‘Chernobyl’) is introduced by the well-known organist Ekaterina Melnikova. Graduated from RAM and Moscow Conservatoire, she got many prestigious awards on competitions; Ekaterina is making transcriptions for organ, acting in movies; she has played with the most renowned musicians in the most famous concert halls (Tchaikovsky Hall, Cologne Cathedral, Westminster Abby, etc). See www.russiancambridge.org for details. Entrance fee: 6-8 pounds.
Stravinsky – Pulcinella Shostakovich – Symphony No. 14
Rory Macdonald – conductor Matthew Rose – bass Ilona Domnich – soprano
Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra (CUCO) begins its 2008/9 season with two vivid works from Russia. Stravinsky’s lively suite from his ballet Pulcinella contrasts with Shostakovich’s harrowing exploration of death.
Tickets: £14/10/3 (non-members), £8/1.50 (CUMC members) Tickets and membership available at www.cuco.co.uk/buytickets or on the door.
www.cuco.co.uk CUMC Founded 1889 CUMC Patron Sir David Wilcocks CUCO Patron John Rutter CBE
Great Russian Organist Ekaterina Melnikova can make organ dancing and singing, arranged tunes from the beloved movies like Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Space Odyssey’, Games Bond movies and Russian films. Compositions by Bach, Prokofiev and Borodin (Polovetzian dances) will also be performed. See www.russiancambridge for details. Entrance fee: 6-8 pounds.
Winning work in CUMS Composition Competition 2008-09 Walton Viola Concerto No. 1 Holst The Planets
Free pre-concert talk in the Concert Hall at 7pm given by Peter Stark
CUMS I Ladies of the CUMS Chorus Peter Stark conductor Rosie Ventris viola (winner of the Granta DFAS/CUMS Concerto Competition)
Tickets £10 (£8 conc) Students £5 on the door
Performed by Stuart King – clarinet, Naxto Molins – percussion, Sarah Nicolls – piano and Oliver Coates – cello.
The Camberwell Composers are five award-winning young composers,and include Anna Meredith whose work ‘frommers’ was just performed at the Last Night of the Proms.
See http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/music/new.html for more information
Highlights include Anna Meredith’s beat-based remix of Scotland the Brave and Mark Bowden’s hoist for pebbles with film. With feature animations and live projected drawing from animator Tony Comley and illustrator Eleanor Meredith. Tickets £10 / £5 students Box Office: www.adcticketing.com 01223 300085
The 2008-09 Thursday Evening Subscription series at Kettle’s Yard features musicians such as Alan Clayton, who has just sung the role Albert Herring at Glyndebourne, and Andreas Haefliger. Subscription tickets for Michaelmas Term have now sold out but if your college has bought a transferable subscription you will still be able to come. Ask your bursar or music director for information. Lent and Easter Term tickets can still be purchased.
For more information please see http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/music/subs.html
Cambridge Vaughan Williams Festival Day 1
Presented by Fitzwilliam College Music Society
Song Recital by Howard Wong (baritone) and Philip Collin (piano)
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel; ‘Tired’; Four Fredegond Shove Songs; The House of Life; Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring
Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Friday, 31st October 2008, 8-10pm
Tickets: £13 (£5 students)
For Tickets and further details, please contact: Francis Knights, Director of Music, Fitzwilliam College, email: tickets@rvwfest.org.uk
Cheques should be made payable to Fitzwilliam College Music Society and sent to: The Director of Music, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge CB3 0DG. A festival Weekend Saver Ticket (covering all events) costs £55
Cambridge Vaughan Williams Festival, Day 2
Lecture: “Vaughan Williams, the Progressive”, by Em Marshall
Tickets: £3 (£1 students)
Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Saturday, 1st November, 10.30-11.15am
Lecture: “Regeneration”, by Jeremy Dale Roberts
Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Saturday, 1st November, 11.30-12.45pm
Violin Recital by Rupert Luck (violin) and Daniel Swain (piano)
Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Saturday, 1st November, 2-3.30pm
Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata in A minor; Romanze and Pastorale; Six Studies in English Folksong; Holst: Five Pieces; Finzi (arr Ferguson): Introit; Parry: Violin Sonata in D major
Tickets: £10 (£4 students)
English Song Workshop
Howard Wong will be exploring English Art Songs with students of Fitzwilliam College in a masterclass workshop.
Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Saturday, 1st November, 4-5.30pm
Lecture: “Man of his time; man of our time”, by Diana McVeagh
Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Saturday, 1st November, 6.30-7.15pm
Evening Concert – Fitzwilliam Quartet
Fitzwilliam String Quartet, with Christopher Langdown (piano) and Peter Wilman (tenor)
Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No.2; On Wenlock Edge; Four Hymns; Philip Radcliffe: String Quartet in D major
Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Saturday, 1st November, 7.30-9.30pm
Tickets: £15 (£6 students)
Cheques should be made payable to “Fitzwilliam College Music Society” and sent to: The Director of Music, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge CB3 0DG. A festival Weekend Saver Ticket (covering all events) costs £55
We are delighted to start the second season of Chamber Music at Clare Hall – INTIMATE ENGAGEMENTS with Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside:
For Romantic poets and composers, the open road held infinite fascination. Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside put on sturdy walking boots and set out with poets Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman and Robert Louis Stevenson. Composers John Ireland, Gerald Finzi and Vaughan Williams prove a match for the German Lieder tradition obsessed with Das Wandern, while Roderick Williams’ own songs continue the genre, at the same time suggesting that hikers don’t have to leave their sense of humour at home.
Programme : Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Roderick Williams and Gerald Finzi
Tickets : £15 * £10 Clare Hall Members * £5 Students Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge CB3 9AL Tel. 01223 332368 alumni@clarehall.cam.ac.uk www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge Vaughan Williams Festival Day 3
Film: “The Passions of Vaughan Williams”, by John Bridcut
Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Sunday, 2nd November, 10.30-12.00am
Discussion forum
A distinguished panel, including Kiffer Finzi, Jeremy Dale Roberts, Diana McVeagh, Philip Lancaster, Em Marshall and others will discuss various aspects of Vaughan Williams’ life and music. Chaired by Francis Knights.
Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Sunday, 2nd November, 12.00am-1.00pm
Tickets: £5 (£2 students) cover both the Film and Forum
Choral concert
Fitzwilliam Chapel Choir, Howard Wong (baritone), Alex West (organ), conducted by Fergus Macleod and Kiffer Finzi.
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs: Mass in G
Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Sunday, 2nd November, 2.00-4.00pm
Website: http://www.rvwfest.org.uk/
Cheques should be made payable to Fitzwilliam College Music Society and sent to: The Director of Music, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge CB3 0DG. A festival Weekend Saver Ticket (covering all events) costs £55.
Strauss – Overture to Die Fledermaus Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor Sibelius – Symphony No. 2
Richard Uttley (piano), Carlos del Cueto (conductor)
Tickets: £10 full, £5 students and concessions 10% reduction for online bookings
Saturday 8th November 2008, 8pm, Trinity College Chapel
Tickets and details: http://www.beethovenensemble.com
Tickets: £10/£8/£3
Programme: Wagner Siegfried Idyll Finzi Clarinet Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”
Conductor: Daniel Hill Clarinet: Alice Gledhill
The opening concert in our 2008/9 Season perfectly captures the spirit of the year. The intimate opening of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, written to wake his wife on her birthday, will be intimate and tender awakening of Trinity Chapel an perfect acoustic for this music. Alice Gledhill, playing Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto, is one of the most talented and promising young musicians around, and we’re delighted to be able to perform this work with her. The concert concludes with Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, both triumphant and melancholic, performed with the raw energy and excitement that it demands, in a venue where every detail can be heard.
Alice completed her Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees at the Royal College of Music, studying under Richard Hosford and Michael Collins. She held a full Founder Scholarship for 4 years, becoming the Sir Arthur Bliss Scholar, supported by a South Square Trust Award in her Postgraduate year. During this time, Alice played in the Britten-Pears Young Artists programme for the Aldeburgh Festival, and took part in the London Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Academy.
Her recent professional engagements include playing principal clarinet with the English National Ballet, touring the country with Prokfievs The Snow Queen and performing in a Prom with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez. She has played on many live Radio 2 broadcasts of Friday Night is Music Night with the BBC Concert Orchestra, with artists ranging from Beverley Knight to Sir Willard White! She is also on the Extras List of the English National Opera, Bouremouth Symphony Orchestraand the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Other professional work includes Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Norway, European Chamber Opera, Opera UK and Worthing Symphony Orchestra.
Alice regularly plays clarinet and saxophone in the West End production of Les Miserables, played for the Trevor Nunn production of Porgy and Bess at the Savoy Theatre, London and has performed with the Showbiz Pops Orchestra and the London Metropolitan Orchestra, the session orchestra whose recent recordings include the film Stardust. She appeared as the solo clarinettist on the BBC4 documentary, Scouting for Boys presented by Ian Hislop.
Aside from playing, Alice is a keen music educator taking part in projects with the Royal Opera House, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra. She is the Orchestral Manager for the National Childrens Wind and Chamber Orchestras of Great Britain, runs Music Activity courses for Musicale Holidays, and enjoys teaching at Putney High School for Girls.
http://www.beethovenensemble.com
J. S. Bach
Cantata BWV 57 ‘Selig ist der Mann
Cantata BWV 104 ‘Du Hirte, Israel, hoere’
Motet BWV 226 ‘Der Geist hilft’
Arias ‘Von den Stricken meiner Suenden’ (St John Passion) ‘Mache dich, mein Herze, rein’ (St Matthew Passion) ‘Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn’ ihn’
The Cambridge Bach Players and Trinity College Music Society present an all-Bach programme featuring some of the great composer’s most beautiful music, including the newly discovered gem ‘Alles mit Gott’ for soprano and strings. Sung by a select chorus of the best singers in Cambridge including soloists Guy Hayward, Lucy Goddard, Chris Law, Natasha Goldberg and Lucy Cronin. Conducted by Michael Waldron and Samuel Hogarth.
£8 / £5 students / £3 TCMS members
“CURLEW RIVER”
Benjamin Britten, libretto by William Plomer.
Entrance FREE
The Pembroke College Music Society (PCMS) presents the first of Britten’s Church Parables to celebrate St. Cecilia’s Day and the installment of the new Pembroke College Chamber Organ with a semi-staged performance of this beautiful work based on the Japanese Noh drama “Sumidagawa” set to the backdrop of the mediaeval fenlands.
To be followed by drinks reception in the Thomas Gray Room.
Debussy, orch. Andre Caplet – Clair de Lune Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 Italian
Philip Dukes – director, viola Michael Davis – violin
Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra (CUCO) continues its 2008/9 season with Mozart’s exciting Sinfonia Concertante with former London Symphony Orchestra leader Michael Davis and celebrated viola virtuoso Philip Dukes. Mendelssohn’s colourful and atmospheric Italian Symphony follows.
Counterpoise present:
Strauss, The Castle by the Sea Hans Richter, Ghosts Before Breakfast (silent film with live music by Jean Hasse) Kagel, Old/New; MM51 Rushton, The Concoction of a Charlatan Poe, Shadow Goebbels, In the Basement Rushton, On the Edge
Alexandra Wood (violin) Deborah Calland (trumpet) Kyle Horch (saxophone) Helen Reid (piano)
An adventurous and ambitious exploration of the interaction between words, music and visuals. The programme explores supernatural motifs and also the concept of melodrama not only as a stage genre, but also in terms of its influence on opera and early silent film, examining the broader idea of the relationship between sound and image, spoken text and music.
On the Edge is a boldly innovative, cross-genre project bringing together elements of music, theatre and video. The story, set in the Swiss Jungfrau region, takes as its starting point the memoirs of Sir Arnold Lunn, the inventor of the slalom, and his recollection of his wifes near-fatal accident while climbing the Jungfrau. The scenario also weaves in the terrifying booming sounds that herald an avalanche, a light-hearted philosophical discussion of the purpose of sport and a Swiss folktale. The 35-minute piece alternates music and narration to create a work which, in the composers own words, will be ‘colourful, strange, multilayered and slightly absurd’.
Website www.counterpoise.org.uk
For tickets, contact the Director of Music at Fitzwilliam, Francis Knights, on fk240@cam.ac.uk
Delius Walk to the Paradise Garden Rautavaara Piano Concerto No. 1 Dvorak Symphony No. 9
CUMS II
Mark Biggins, Fergus Macleod conductors Kate Whitley piano
Frigyes Hidas Quintetto Concertante for Brass Quintet and Symphonic Band Martin Ellerby Paris Sketches Alfred Reed Russian Christmas Music Gillingham Apocalyptic Dreams
CUWO Prime Brass
Simon Thomas Jacobs conductor
Tickets £7 (£5 conc) Students £4 on the door
Concert at Impington village College for choir and Piano. Time: 19.30. November 28th 2008
Programme to include Palestrina Missa Hodie Christus natus est (double choir) and seasonal music. Cost of tickets (on door) £4 adult and £1 child. Further info from: M.Pumfrey 01223 276161
web site:www.cantus.org.uk email:info@cantus.org.uk
“MESSIAH”
G. F. Handel
The Pembroke College Music Soicety (PCMS) presents a performance of Handel’s oratorio “Messiah”.
This will be a bring-and-sing concert, meaning all are welcome to sing in the choir. Please bring a copy of the vocal score if you own one, although PCMS will have some copies available. There will be a rehearsal in the afternoon before the concert. For further details, please contact pembrokemusic@cusu.cam.ac.uk.
Elgar The Kingdom
Free pre-concert talk in Keynes Hall at 7pm
The Philharmonia Orchestra CUMS Chorus Kings Voices Choir of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury conductor Rachel Nicholls Soprano Louise Crane mezzo soprano Justin Lavender tenor Peter Savidge bass
Tickets £35, £30, £22
On sale from Cambridge Corn Exchange Box Office 01223 357851 from 1st September 2008
HANDEL / MILTON
As part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of John Milton’s birth, headed by Christ’s College, and in partnership with the Suffolk Villages Festival, Cambridge Early Music presents a performance of a rarely-heard Handel masterpiece. Milton’s ‘L’Allegro’ and ‘Il Penseroso’ provide the text of the first two sections, while Handel’s regular librettist Charles Jennens completed the set with ‘Il Moderato’. Extolling the pleasures of the English countryside, this secular oratorio contains some of Handel’s most beautiful and memorable music.
Philippa Hyde, Claire Tomlin – soprano Tom Raskin – tenor Jimmy Holliday – bass
Psalmody Essex Baroque Orchestra
Director: Peter Holman
Tickets £18 (students £12); Ante-Chapel £8
Advance booking on linktext
PRE-CONCERT TALK At 5.00pm Dr Jessica Martin will give a talk on “Voice, and Verse” – Milton’s Music. Trinity College Chapel, admission free.
Cantus Singers and Quintus Consort at Grantchester Parish Church conducted by Jeremy wong
Programme to include Palestrina Missa Hodie Christus natus est (double choir) and seasonal vocal and instrumental music. Cost of tickets not yet available.
Further information : Contact 01223 845512 web site:www.cantus.org.uk email:info@cantus.org.uk
Exciting new baroque group the Solomon Choir and Orchestra present:
Handel’s MESSIAH
Soprano: Sadhbh Dennedy Counter-tenor: Michal Czerniawski Tenor: Andrew Kennedy Bass: Benedict Nelson
Conducted by Jonathan Sells
Feedback from our debut concert: thank you for such a brilliant performance and for such enjoyable, challenging and stimulating music-making, and for drawing together such a great group of musicians
Tickets: £20, £12 (students and under 18), £10 (antechapel), £5 (under 16), all available from the Corn Exchange Box Office 01223 357 851
The Musical and Amicable Society is an ensemble of young soloists playing Baroque instruments, and well established as one of the leading period-instrument groups in this country. Their programme includes
Bach: Concerto for three violins Vivaldi: Concerto for four violins Telemann: Concerto for two violas Graun: Concerto for harpsichord
Tickets £18 (students/unwaged £12) available at the door or in advance from www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org
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Cambridge University Opera Society presents a stunning new production of Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece. Conducted by Carlos del Cueto, directed by Rosalind Parker, with Gareth John as Onegin, Joanna Songi as Tatyana & Sam Furness as Lensky. See www.onegin2009.co.uk for more details.
