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Festival and Guest Directors reveal a first glimpse of what to expect at the 2010 Jazz, Science and Music Festivals.

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Directors’ Picks

Welcome to Directors’ Picks, featuring the very first preview of the Cheltenham Festivals programme for 2010.

Our Festival Directors and Guest Directors are hard at work programming hundreds of outstanding events, but have taken time out from their hectic schedules to give a first glimpse of what’s planned for Cheltenham in 2010.

Members will be the first to know the full Festival programmes when tickets go on sale in the spring, but for now, I hope you enjoy this taste of what’s to come, and I look forward to seeing you at another year of Festivals designed to stimulate, challenge and delight.

Donna Renney Chief Executive, Cheltenham Festivals

In this edition of Directors’ Picks…

28 April – 3 May 2010 Members’ priority booking 15 – 21 February

‘Each time I go I enjoy it more… the whole town at Jazz Festival time has an addictively friendly vibe’ London Jazz Blog

Artistic Director Tony Dudley Evans and Guest Director Jamie Cullum reveal who’ll be appearing at the 15th Cheltenham Jazz Festival, in one of the most fantastic programmes to date.

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2010’s Jazz Festival will have more of a ‘Festival Feel’ than ever before. Jazz on the Square brings the action into Imperial Gardens with a 650 seat arena, food and drink stalls, jazz market and ‘Secret Garden’, and the fantastic Fringe will spread festival fever across town in the days leading up to the main event. Plus don’t miss Cheltenham Untapped, an unprecedented celebration of regional talent, taking place on Bank Holiday Monday.

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9 – 13 June 2010

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Members’ priority booking 22 – 28 March

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‘Unquestionably the leading Science Festival in the country’ Robert Winston

Festival Directors Mark Lythgoe and Kathy Sykes and Guest Directors Heston Blumenthal and Brian Cox reveal their plans for 2010 and this year’s theme… Decadence!

The Times Cheltenham Science Festival promises a feast of dynamic debate, inspiring intrigue, spectacular science and exciting experiments.

Join us to put your questions to and share ideas with the world’s leading thinkers and personalities as we consider the issues that affect us all.

‘Cheltenham Music Festival is now well known for its innovative programming and is full of surprises’ The Independent

Festival Director Meurig Bowen announces his third Festival programme, full of music that’s sure to excite, inspire and delight. This year, world renowned cellist Steven Isserlis joins us as Guest Director of our Schumann strand, marking the 200th anniversary of the great German composer’s birth.

From the intimacy of a solo piano in the Pittville Pump Room to an in your face blast of symphonic sound at the Town Hall, from big blockbuster favourites to the brand new, Cheltenham Music Festival is everything from edge of the seat to heart on sleeve.

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28 April – 3 May 2010

Welcome to the Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2010 is the fifteenth year of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, and we continue to support the best of British jazz, welcome international legends and explore how jazz links through to blues, world, club and pop music.

This year we also have an exciting partnership with the Norwegian Embassy, where we will be showcasing some of the most anticipated acts from a nation highly regarded for producing talented musicians.

We have teamed up with Yamaha to offer hands on workshops and we explore improvised jazz hosted by comedian Stewart Lee. I am particularly looking forward to US based artists Carla Bley, John Scofield and Cuong Vu, Norwegians Farmers Market, and Nikki Yeoh performing with John Surman. Take a look at my Directors’ Picks across the page.

Tony Dudley Evans Artistic Director

Jamie Cullum Platinum selling jazz artist and Guest Director I think Cheltenham’s one of the most interesting and forward-thinking jazz festivals in this country.

It’s a great honour to have been asked to come as Guest Director. It’s been really great to think about the kind of festival I’d like to come to as a music fan, and hopefully give people an even more diverse lineup than they’ve already got … hard to do, as it’s an amazing festival already!

For the 2010 line-up I am thrilled to welcome: FLY Trio Featuring three of the finest American jazz musicians, FLY are one of the most exciting trios on the US scene performing music with a deep rhythmical groove.

Fringe Magnetic Led by trumpeter Rory Simmons, the left-field ten piece features musicians from London’s innovative LOOP collective, as well as those from classical and folk traditions.

Battle of the Beats A club night with a difference, exploring beat and rhythm in three art forms: drums, beatboxing and turntables.

Beady Belle A Norwegian band that I know and love, having toured with them. They offer a blend of jazz, pop and electronic soundscapes led by beautiful vocals.

Silent Film – Live Score I love the idea of someone composing live to a silent movie ... so watch out for further announcements.

Of course, I’ll be performing a headline set too with tracks from my latest album, The Pursuit, plus some old favourites! I hope you enjoy this selection and the rest of the programme and look forward to seeing you around at the Festival.

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Tony’s Picks: Jamie Cullum

Carla Bley

Having launched his career with performances at Cheltenham in 2003 and 2004, Jamie returns to his favourite festival following the release of his new album, The Pursuit, in November.

One of the most distinctive composers in jazz, Carla Bley has continued to enchant and delight audiences in a career spanning over 50 years.

She performs with her Lost Chords Quartet, featuring British saxophonist Andy Sheppard, who are joined by special guest trumpeter Paolo Fresu.

John Scofield ‘Sco’ has collaborated with some of the world’s greatest performers, including Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus and Bill Frisell. A master of straight-ahead jazz, jam-band oriented grooves, souljazz, blues and funk, we thoroughly recommend you take the chance to see a masterful musician and jazz guitar icon at the top of his game.

Elaine Paige The first lady of musical theatre performs two showcase events, a gala evening at the Daffodil and a Town Hall headline performance. Famed for her countless successes in the West End, Elaine celebrates her love of classic jazz.

Farmers Market The music of Farmers Market is a mixture of Bulgarian folk music, jazz standards, popular music and humour. Farmers Market have become one of Norway’s most talked about live bands famed for bringing bags of energy and entertainment.

Nikki Yeoh & John Surman Renowned saxophonist John Surman performs a special commission by jazz pianist Nikki Yeoh and her excellent Trio Infinitum, featuring the Mondesir brothers on bass and drums.

Cuong Vu Creative jazz rock fusion from this excellent US based, Vietnamese born trumpet player who has performed with a range of artists from David Bowie to Pat Metheny.

This is sure to be one of the highlights of the Festival.

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BBC Concert Orchestra songs of Sinatra Joe Stilgoe charismatic pianist and singer Christine Tobin & Liam Noble Tapestry Unravelled Carole King reworked The Destroyers energetic crowd pleasers Family Breakfast Show fun and funky jazz for all Show stopping vocalists Elaine Paige queen of musical theatre Liane Carroll soulful vocalist and pianist Imelda May rockabilly blues sweetheart Jamie Cullum platinum selling jazz superstar Jazz Legends John Scofield legendary jazz guitarist Carla Bley distinctive jazz composer and pianist John Surman groundbreaking sax player Norway Beady Belle sexy sultry vocals Farmers Market mix of Bulgarian folk, jazz and humour Food delicate balance of sax, percussion and electronic soundscapes Best of British Kit Downes Trio melodic piano group Troyka energetic jazz fusion Curios classically influenced piano trio Trio VD powerful jazz-rock improvisations Empirical mesmerising acoustic jazz quartet Nikki Yeoh imaginative pianist & composer And so much more…

Battle of the Beats featuring Seb Rochford, Shlomo, DJ Food Eric Bibb acoustic blues singer songwriter Cuong Vu innovative rock influenced electro-jazz FLY Trio US dream team trio Stewart Lee’s Free Jazz Nights the finest free-improv Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show from BBC 6 Music Full line-up revealed to Members in February 2010

Members’ storytelling at the Secret Garden Evening session: see programme for details We live in a world full of stories – in newspapers and books, on TV and the web – but storytelling is something special. To share a story from one person to the next, unhampered by print or technology, is a talent that takes us back to our very beginnings.

Join us at this exclusive event, taking place in the intimate surroundings of the Festival’s ‘Secret Garden’, featuring a unique Jazz Festival twist and some very special storytelling guests.

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Welcome to The Times Cheltenham Science Festival Put simply, June’s Science Festival is the best place to hear about science in the UK. The quality of the speakers who come is outstanding, and year after year the most influential media people, engineers, scientists and policy makers – the ones who take real decisions that affect all our lives – return. It’s an event that’s placed in their calendar every single year, and one they know they can’t afford to miss.

Our audience is amazing too, and so diverse: from the dedicated enthusiasts who have been with us from the start, to people who just want to know more about the world around them and are discovering the Festival for the first time. We really value our audience – their enthusiasm, dedication and boundless curiosity – and try to meet and interact with everyone as much as we possibly can.

Join us to savour the unique festival atmosphere, full of hard hitting science, cutting edge debate, fun and frivolity – we look forward to seeing you there.

Mark Lythgoe and Kathy Sykes Festival Directors

This year, we’ve invited two Guest Directors to help programme some terrific events:

Brian Cox Professor of Particle Physics, University of Manchester As soon as you meet Brian you realise he’s more than a little special. His sharp dress sense and chiselled features hide a passion for science that he delivers with a warm, fun and open style.

He’s the kind of guy you’d just want to spend time with, and we’ve invited him as Guest Director as we want to share him with you! Brian’s going to be on our TV screens soon as he presents The Seven Wonders of the Solar System for BBC 2, a series full of incredible sights that paint a picture of our breathtaking solar system which we are only just beginning to understand. We’ll be hearing more about Brian’s amazing journey – and his own passion for science – in his series of specially programmed events for the Festival.

Heston Blumenthal Michelin-starred owner of The Fat Duck and culinary alchemist Heston is one of the most creative people we’ve ever met and, after appearing at four out of eight Festivals (including the very first) we’re thrilled he’ll be joining us this year as Guest Director.

Though not a scientist he has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Reading and is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Perhaps it is his unique understanding of science and his individual approach to it that makes this chef explore and use science as a creative inspiration in a highly artistic environment.

We work with all kinds of amazing people, but it’s fair to say that Heston really stands out. He’ll be programming two events this year, including a ‘Sweet Shop’ event involving a neuroscientist, Heston himself and some exquisite confectionary. They’ll be investigating the relationship between anticipation and taste, playing with our expectations. Full details will be in the programme, but we hope this gives you a taste (literally) of what’s to come!

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Kathy’s picks:

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Some of my favourite events are family ones, and anyone who witnessed TV’s Gastronuts feeding ice cream made of jelly fish and coriander to the audience last year will know why! We always make sure there’s a blend of amazing experiments, TV personalities and popular books in the family strand, where events often prove as popular with the parents as they do with the kids. This year, be sure to watch out for Punk Science: DO try this at home.

Chocolate’s the most amazing thing - it’s rare to find someone who doesn’t care about it. It’s the only material designed to melt in the mouth and getting that right, so it melts neither in your hand nor on the shelf but at the moment you put it in your mouth to dissolve into a hot mass of sugary goodness… that’s incredible. And of course, chocolate’s fascinating for what it does to the brain as well as the tastebuds - it’s not uncommon to hear people say they’d rather have chocolate than sex! Join us for a special event dedicated to the wonder of chocolate.

2010’s Festival theme: Decadence The dictionary describes decadence as ‘a luxurious self indulgence’ and I count it as a real decadence to have a job that I love to do. Things that we traditionally think of as decadent: food, entertainment and the opportunity to travel – that chance to experience things we’d never have dreamed of – just wouldn’t be possible without science. So our Decadence strand asks how and why science has provided us with time and freedom, as well as looking at the future modernity for our decadent lives. Join us at a whole series of events where we investigate Decadence and what it means to us.

FameLab I love FameLab, our annual competition that encourages scientists to share their passion with the public. I love the journey they make, starting nervously at the regional heats, progressing through the weekend masterclass to arrive at the final, where they’re so confident, presenting to an audience of 500.

The winners go on to amazing things, not least winning £10,000, but also appearing on TV, at Festivals around the world (including Cheltenham) and even being awarded an OBE! This year, you can catch the final of International FameLab where Mark and I will be judging the trailblazing finalists from thirteen countries – we look forward to seeing you there.

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‘I never thought science was for me but I have enjoyed the events, as much as I always expect to at the Literature Festival. This has both been a surprise and an unexpected pleasure.’

Audience Member 2009

Over 100 exciting events will be taking place this year … here are just some of the areas we’ll be exploring: Natural World Rarely out of the news, we’ll discuss the issues behind rising temperatures, green energy, food production and the changing world around us.

Big Questions From the first laser 50 years ago to the secrets of the LHC ‘Big Bang machine’, join us to consider the mysteries of the universe.

Health Secrets What’s the answer to perfect health – pills, plants, sleep or even animals?

Technological Wizardry From transport to robotics and even modifying the Earth’s environment, how will today’s engineers shape tomorrow’s world?

Food Future Could the UK be starving in 50 years?

Should we all become part time vegetarians?

And when is GM acceptable? Take part in a debate that affects us all.

Inside your Mind From survival to stress and the rise of lifestyle drugs, come and consider what sets us apart.

Alternative Science Light relief with cabaret, verse, quizzes and comedy – all with a Science Festival flavour.

Full line-up revealed to Members in March 2010

Members’ session at the Discover Zone See programme for details Free Rammed with fun experiments, enthusiastic scientists and brilliant exhibits, the free Discover Zone’s a highlight of the Festival. Escape the crowds with our Members’ only session … and don’t forget your membership card!

2 – 17 July 2010

Welcome to the Cheltenham Music Festival Three of the four big anniversary composers in 2010 were, shall we say, a little bit mentally unstable.

Renaissance Carlo Gesualdo killed his wife and her lover - and as a local aristocrat famously got away it. Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf fought terrible bouts of depression, and after suicide attempts both ended their days in asylums.

Cheery stuff? Not in itself - but a trigger to investigate more broadly how Music and the Mind inter-relate.

The Neuroscience of Music - joy and melancholy, goose-bumps and tears - this is what the 2010 Festival’s Sound Mind events will be all about, with talks, debate and films featuring alongside the music itself.

With over 80 events in 16 days, the 2010 Cheltenham Music Festival has its ears open for all sorts of wonderful music. In venues as old as Tewkesbury Abbey and as new as the Parabola Arts Centre, we take the audience on a journey that encompasses much more than just music.

With sounds spanning almost a whole millennium, it’s about the historical sweep of music across the centuries. With music and musicians from as far afield as Norway, Tibet, Italy, Australia and the USA, it’s about music’s extraordinary geographical reach around the globe. With opera arias and songs setting wonderful lyric poetry, the Festival brings words and music closely together. And with our Sound Mind series, it’s about science too.

Come and join us in all this richness.

Meurig Bowen Festival Director

Steven Isserlis One of the world’s great cellists and Guest Director of the Schumann Strand It is a great pleasure to be returning to the Cheltenham Music Festival this summer; and particularly exciting to be returning for the birthday party of one of my very favourite people – Robert Schumann. Our series will include a mixture of the familiar and the unusual, as befits a composer half of whose output is curiously neglected. To most musicians, Schumann is a ‘beloved friend’; if he has not always held quite the same position in the hearts of audiences (or at least of concert-promoters!), that is an aberration that hopefully will soon be swept into the void. Nice to think that we’ll be doing our bit at Cheltenham!

Schumann in Cheltenham highlights: Isserlis and friends Friday 9 July Pittville Pump Room Chamber music Isserlis & Festival Academy Orchestra Saturday 10 July Town Hall Cello Concerto, Rhenish Symphony Isserlis, Callow and friends Sunday 11 July Town Hall Brahms and the Schumanns

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Meurig’s picks: A Rodgers & Hammerstein Gala from the CBSO Saturday 3 July Town Hall If you came to our movie music night in 2009, or if you saw the MGM Musicals Prom on TV last summer, you’ll know what a treat you’re in for here.

John Wilson teams up again with musicals diva Kim Criswell to celebrate the partnership of Rodgers & Hammerstein - a path of songwriting gold they laid out together from 1943 with Oklahoma!, via South Pacific, The King and I and Carousel, to The Sound of Music in 1959. ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ indeed!

The Four Seasons with Alina Ibragimova and Andrew Motion Tuesday 6 July Town Hall Brilliant young violinist Alina Ibragimova - one of our Featured Artists in 2010 gives a white-hot account of Vivaldi’s beloved concertos with the European Union Chamber Orchestra. But this will be a Four Seasons with a difference, as we’ll hear readings of specially-commissioned poems by Andrew Motion to set the tone for each musical season. Venetian Vivaldi is followed by Tuscan Tchaikovsky, and his Souvenir de Florence.

Festival Academy Strings with Brett Dean Wednesday 7 July Pittville Pump Room Another Featured Artist in 2010 is Australian composer and viola player Brett Dean. He’s recently been awarded the Grawemeyer Award - regarded widely as contemporary music’s Nobel Prize - and his first opera premieres at the Sydney Opera House in March. One of his most compelling works, a study of renaissance composer (and double-murderer) Carlo Gesualdo, features here in a programme of music that reflects on the past - other composers include Britten, Grieg and Warlock.

Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers Thursday 8 July Tewkesbury Abbey Tewkesbury Abbey was already a few centuries old when Claudio Monteverdi composed - 400 years ago in 2010 - his magnificent ceremonial sequence in honour of the Virgin Mary. The Abbey will be a superb setting for this Italian renaissance masterpiece, performed here by a top-notch line-up of specialist singers and instrumentalists, including soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, tenor James Gilchrist and that 17th century ‘horn section’ of cornetts and sackbutts.

Pianist James Rhodes Tuesday 13 July Parabola Arts Centre Our wide range of concerts in Cheltenham Ladies College’s beautiful new performance space includes a rush-hour series of 60 minute concerts.

The first features James Rhodes, who is singlehandedly re-defining what kind of audience a young classical pianist can attract.

Look at his debut album or website to see what I mean!

But despite what Classic FM magazine describes as the ‘rock-star attitude’, there’s no dumbing-down, as his programme of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin will show.

The Tibetan Monks of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery Thursday 15 July Town Hall This performance of music, dance, extraordinary costumes and masks is the climax of the Tashi Lhunpo monks’ six-day residency in Cheltenham. Experiencing the ritual cacophony of their long horns (very long!) or entrancing mantras and chant is one thing. Attending one of their Tibetan Culture Workshops or witnessing the painstaking creation of a sand mandala draws you in even further to their remarkable world.

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Debussy Four Preludes Schumann Humoreske, Op.20 Schubert Sonata in B flat major D960

Sacconi String Quartet With jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock Alina Ibragimova & Cedric Tiberghien Schumann, Szymanowski & Brahms Alina Ibragimova’s Chiaroscuro String Quartet Haydn, Mozart & Schubert Bournemouth Symphony & Kirill Karabits Chopin & Tchaikovsky Schubert Ensemble Brahms’ Piano Quintet and a Joe Cutler premiere Festival Academy Soloists Schubert’s Trout Quintet and Brett Dean Michael Collins, Brett Dean & Huw Watkins Schumann, Brahms and Kurtag 10 – 17 July Counter-tenor Iestyn Davies & Fretwork Dowland, Purcell, Gesualdo, Elvis Costello Australian String Quartet & Brett Dean Bruckner and Brett Dean Henk Neven & Roger Vignoles Schumann’s Dichterliebe Fascinating Aida Dillie Keane’s outrageous cabaret trio Sarah Connolly & Malcolm Martineau Schumann and 20thcentury English song Freddy Kempf A 200th anniversary Chopin programme Philharmonia Orchestra, Festival Chorus & Alfie Boe A finale of opera arias and choruses Full line-up revealed to Members in April 2010

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‘She is an outstanding artist, one of the finest pianists now playing. Go, listen, and wonder how many better pianists there are alive in this country, or anywhere.’

The Daily Telegraph The first concert of the 2010 Cheltenham Music Festival is a very special one – not just because it’s given by one of the piano world’s greats, but because it’s exclusively on sale to Cheltenham Festivals Members.

Imogen Cooper first came to Cheltenham in 1973 as a masterclass student of Alfred Brendel. After many subsequent appearances we welcome her back in July 2010, shortly after her 60th birthday season, where we look forward to a performance of characteristic refinement and poise.

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Exciting projects, inspiring support At Cheltenham we have access to wonderful talent and expertise, and your generous support enables us to channel it into projects which inspire thousands of children and young people each year. A few highlights from 2009:

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Conservatoire musicians of the Festival Academy and students from the National Star College work together, under the guidance of the charismatic young conductor William Carslake, to create the music and songs to accompany a very special creative performance for the students’ end of year show.

Jazz musician Sid Peacock arranges music around a theme and leads rehearsals with bands from ten Gloucestershire secondary schools, culminating in a wonderful weekend of performances – check out this year’s ‘Heaven and Hell’ selection at the Festival.

Explosions, an Everest summiteer and Robert Winston in a lively science-packed day, hosted

by Cheltenham College Junior School, for thirty five budding young scientists and their teachers from local primary schools.

‘Sid’s laid-back style, combined with brilliant musicianship, quickly won these hard to please teenagers over.

The workshops were a great success with Sid taking the bands out of their comfort zone and into new creative territory.’

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