What's On Lent 2015

WHAT’S ON

at the Faculty of Music Lent Term 2015 Volume 2, No. 2

© Patrick Harrison

CONTENTS Academy of Ancient Music 3 Endellion String Quartet 4 Britten Sinfonia 5 Cambridge University Lunchtime Concert Series 7 Cambridge University Musical Society 8 Lecture / Recital 10 Practising Performance Series 11 Humanitas Visiting Professorships 12 Instrumental Awards Scheme 14 Cambridge University Opera Society 15 Kettle’s Yard 16 Cambridge University Music Outreach 17 Composers’ Workshops at the Faculty of Music 18 Faculty of Music Colloquia 20 College Events 23 Events Listings by date 28

Faculty of Music University of Cambridge 11 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DP W: mus.cam.ac.uk E: facultyevents@mus.cam.ac.uk Cover image: © Sir Cam

This brochure is published by the Faculty of Music and its main purpose is to promote Faculty events. If you think your event should be included in next term’s brochure, please email facultyevents@music.cam.ac.uk with details of your event. All event information for next term’s brochure must be submitted to the editor, Sarah Williams, by Friday 13 March 2015.

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ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC

The Baroque Trumpet with Tine Thing Helseth Free pre-concert talk at 6.30pm Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet David Blackadder, trumpet Bach Sinfonias from Cantatas 29, 150 and 31 Biber Sonata No. 10 in G minor Corelli Sonata a quattro Vivaldi Concerto in C major for two trumpets Telemann Concerto in D major for three trumpets In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the art of trumpet playing was dominated by a small number of fearless virtuoso performers. Exploiting the super-high “clarino” register, these flamboyant trailblazers secured lucrative jobs at Europe’s wealthiest courts, inspiring court and civic composers to write ever more astonishing music for them.

Norwegian sensation Tine Thing Helseth makes her AAM debut alongside AAM principal David Blackadder in a programme that celebrates the power and glory of the baroque trumpet in works from across Europe.

TICKETS: £14–£27 (£3 for AAMplify members).

Available from www.cornex.co.uk, tel: 01223 357851.

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Monday, 16 February 2015 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

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THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET © Eric Richmond

Andrew Watkinson, violin Ralph de Souza, violin Garfield Jackson, viola David Waterman, cello

Wednesday, 11 February 2015 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall Haydn String Quartet Op. 20 No. 5 Sibelius String Quartet Op. 56 (‘Voces Intimae’) Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No. 3 Tonight’s outer works are linked by their breathtaking fugal finales, but what a contrast between them! This Haydn quartet also contains a perfectly beautiful slow movement. ‘Voces Intimae’ is Sibelius’s only mature chamber music composition but its restless energy and startling harmonic world make it quite as gripping as his better-known symphonic output.

Wednesday, 18 March 2015 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Wednesday, 21 January 2015 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Oliver Schnyder, guest pianist

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3 Janáček String Quartet No. 1 (‘Kreutzer Sonata’) Schubert String Quartet in G, D. 887

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 6 Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 Op. 15 Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44

Schubert’s Quartet in G is on a superhuman scale.

Its titanic struggle between major and minor, and hope and despair, creates awe-inspiring music. In comparison the first of Janáček’s two quartets is brief. But with his unique tonality and idiom, and the introduction of ‘stream of consciousness’ music, he also sparked a musical revolution.

In this concert we introduce the mercurial young Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder to our audience. The Schumann Piano Quintet is a perennial favourite for its celebratory energy and glorious tunes. Fauré’s Op. 15 is equally loved (if a little less well known) for its youthful verve and melody. We start with an early Beethoven quartet which perfectly links his Classical roots to his Romantic aspirations.

TICKETS: @26, £24 (OAP), £12 (registered disabled), £5 (students and under 16s). Tickets over £10 will incur a £2.50 booking fee, and those under £10 will incur a £1.50 fee. Available from Cambridge Corn Exchange and City Centre Box Office, 2 Wheeler Street, Cambridge. Box Office tel: 01223 357851; email: boxoffice@cambridge.gov.uk; www.cornex. co.uk

The Endellion String Quartet is represented by Hazard Chase hazardchase.co.uk

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BRITTEN SINFONIA Tuesday, 13 January 2015 1.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

At Lunch 2 2014–15 Jacqueline Shave, violin Caroline Dearnley, cello Huw Watkins, piano Kaija Saariaho Nocturne Debussy Sonata for cello and piano Kaija Saariaho Light and Matter (world première tour) Fauré Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120 All composers are dreamers. Kaija Saariaho conjures sonic images of magnetic power through her music. Fauré and Debussy’s power of suggestion and gift of lyricism, colour and rhythm result in sound worlds that are both luminous and dazzling.

In this programme we hear one of Debussy’s finest chamber works and Fauré’s profound Piano Trio alongside Saariaho’s Nocturne for solo violin and a new piano trio commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.

Sunday, 18 January 2015 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Sarah Connolly in America Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Shave, violin/director Carter Elegy for Strings Rodney Bennett A History of the Thé Dansant Copland Appalachian Spring Crawford Seeger Andante for Strings Copland Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson American music is something of a giant melting pot, an exhilarating blend of wide open spaces, dance rhythms, traditional hymn tunes, and jazz, with

composers so often taking something of what was happening across the pond in Europe and carving out an identity of their own. Aaron Copland is for some listeners the father of American music, his ballet Appalachian Spring conjuring up a sound world to which so many other composers aspired, yet his admiration for the poet Emily Dickinson brings out a more intimate side to his writing, performed tonight by the acclaimed mezzo Sarah Connolly. Adding their voices to the American map tonight are the visionaries Elliott Carter and Ruth Crawford Seeger and surrogate New Yorker, Richard Rodney Bennett.

6.30pm: In Conversation Sarah Connolly discusses the programme.

Saturday, 7 February 2015 4.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Family Concert: I Want My Hat Back Hannah Conway, composer/presenter The bear's hat is gone and he wants it back!

Following its premiere at the BBC Proms join Britten Sinfonia and presenter Hannah Conway for this interactive family concert based on Jon Klassen's charming picture book, I Want My Hat Back.

Featuring music by Debussy, Beethoven, Elgar and Gershwin plus songs to sing along to, this colourful performance is a perfect introduction to orchestral music for the young.

Suitable for children aged 3–7 Concert duration is approximately 60 minutes

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Tuesday, 10 February 2015 1.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

At Lunch 3 2014–15 Jacqueline Shave and Miranda Dale, violins Clare Finnimore and Catherine Musker, violas Caroline Dearnley, cello Beethoven String Quintet in C major, Op. 29: ‘The Storm’ Ben Comeau (Winner of Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop) New work (world première tour) Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet

a natural way whether it be new or old styles, high culture or popular culture, western or non-western music. In this hour-long concert we hear a new work from Roukens co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall alongside music by Lou Harrison and Shostakovich.

Friday 3 April, 2015 7.30pm, King’s College Chapel James MacMillan, conductor Britten Sinfonia Voices

James MacMillan St Luke Passion

Vaughan Williams’ Phantasy for string quintet, which displays his distinctive and expressive style, was dedicated to William Wilson Cobbett, whose famous competition encouraged young composers to write chamber music. Winner of our own Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop, Ben Comeau’s work receives its première and we hear Beethoven’s transitional and tumultuous quintet ‘The Storm’.

Tuesday, 10 March 2015 1.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

At Lunch 4 2014–15 Thomas Gould, violin Huw Watkins, piano Caroline Dearnley, cello Owen Gunnell, percussion Lou Harrison Varied Trio for violin, piano and percussion Joey Roukens New work (world première tour) Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67 Joey Roukens has emerged as one of finest young composers on the Dutch music scene. His works are examples of different genres of music coexisting in

Britten Sinfonia continues its close relationship with Scottish composer James MacMillan with Easter performances of his St Luke Passion, which takes as its starting point the passage in the Gospel of Luke describing the suffering and death of Jesus.

James’s musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music. In writing his Passion MacMillan said “Bach’s music proves that the Passion of Christ has deep beginnings and profound resonance, even for modern man: he opened up a window on the divine love affair with humanity. The greatest calling for an artist, in any age, is to do the same.”

EVENING CONCERT TICKETS: £30, £25, £15.

Available from Cambridge Corn Exchange: box office 01223 357851; website: www.cornex.co.uk AT LUNCH TICKETS: £9, (£6 for 2014–15 subscribers to Britten Sinfonia’s Cambridge evening concert series), £3 (students and under 18s).

Available from tel: 01223 357851; web: www. brittensinfonia.com

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS Tuesday, 20 January 2015 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Tuesday, 24 February 2015 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Where the Lemon Trees Blow:

Contrapunctus: polyphony from Bach to jazz

Charbel Mattar, bass-baritone Martin Ennis, piano

Ben Comeau, piano

Wolf Michelangelo-Lieder Ibert Chansons de Don Quichotte Songs by Liszt and Duparc

An exploration of polyphony and improvisation through the works of J.S. Bach and jazz musicians such as George Gershwin, John Coltrane & Charlie Parker.

Tuesday, 27 January 2015 1.10pm, St John’s College Divinity School

Tuesday, 3 March 2015 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

All Roads Lead to Rome

Instrumental Awards Scheme

Songs written in celebration of the South

Baroque sonatas and concerti by Corelli, Geminiani and Muffat Cambridge University Collegium Musicum Margaret Faultless, director Tuesday, 3 February 2015 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

CUMS Concerto Competition Final 2015

Performances by the CUMS Concerto Competition finalists Tuesday, 17 February 2015 1.10pm, Lee Hall at Wolfson College Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano Keval Shah, piano Robert Schumann Maria Stuart Lieder, Gesänge der Elisabeth Kulmann, Frauenliebe und -leben

Performances by musicians from the Cambridge University Instrumental Award Scheme.

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY Saturday, 17 January 2015 8.00pm, King’s College Chapel

Cambridge University Chamber Choir Martin Ennis, conductor

Howard Shelley conducts Dvořák and Brahms

Bach Magnificat, BWV 243 Bach Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 and works by Schein and Giovanni Gabrieli (celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Sacrae Symphoniae of 1615)

Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra Members of CUMS Symphony Orchestra The Choirs of Clare, Gonville & Caius, Jesus and Selwyn Colleges Members of CUMS Chorus and Cambridge University Chamber Choir Howard Shelley (1), conductor Elinor Rolfe Johnson (2), soprano Jonathan Sells (3), bass Tim Brown, chorus-master Dvořák Symphony No. 8 Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem TICKETS: £35, £30, £20 (students: £4 reduction of above prices), available from ADC box office tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com Some £5 tickets will be available on the door, subject to availability Friday, 6 February 2015 8.00pm, St John’s College Chapel Saturday, 7 February 2015 8.00pm, Girton College Great Hall

The Lion and the Lance: From Venice to Leipzig Cambridge University Collegium Musicum Historic Woodwind of the Royal Academy of Music, London Margaret Faultless, director Historic Brass of the Combined Conservatoires Jeremy West, director

A musical journey that takes us from St Mark’s in Venice, where many of the posthumously published masterpieces of Giovanni Gabrieli were first performed, via the Salzburg of Heinrich Biber, to Leipzig, where both Johann Hermann Schein and Johann Sebastian Bach served as Cantor of the Thomaskirche. The programme, performed by many of the finest ‘early’ musicians in the country, celebrates the 400th anniversary of Gabrieli’s Sacrae Symphoniae and Schein’s Cymbalum Sionium, both of which were published in 1615. The programme concludes with two of Bach’s timeless masterpieces.

TICKETS: £15, £5 students. Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com Saturday, 21 February 2015 4.30pm, Trinity College Chapel

Oxford and Cambridge Wind Orchestras Varsity Concert Programme to include: James Swearingen Novena Philip Sparke Year of the Dragon Adam Gorb Awayday Benedict Kearns, conductor TICKETS: £10, £8 concessions, £5 students.

Available from ADC box office tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

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Thursday, 26 February 2015 1.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Thursday, 5 March 2015 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra Schools Concert

CUMS Concert Orchestra perform Gounod, Gershwin and Bizet

James Swearingen Novena Murray Gold, Ron Grainer (arr. Matthew Kemp) Doctor Who Music Adam Gorb Awayday Charles Ives Variations on ‘America’ Arr. John Higgins Disney at the Movies

Benedict Kearns, conductor

Gounod Funeral march of a marionette Gershwin Piano Concerto in F major Gounod Judex from ‘Mors et Vita’ Bizet Carmen: Suite No. 1 and Habanera

Lucy Morris, conductor Julien Cohen, piano (CUMS Concerto Competition prize-winner)

A varied and playful programme aimed at sparking the imagination of children; pieces will be displayed in a colourful projected presentation.

TICKETS: £10, £8 concessions, £5 students.

Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

Open to schools by invitation – if your school would like to attend please contact Megan Wilson at mw618@cam.ac.uk. The concert welcomes homeschooled children.

Friday, 6 March 2015 8.00pm, King’s College Chapel

Saturday, 28 February 2015 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

CUCO perform with Stephen Kovacevich, conducted by Christopher Seaman Mendelssohn The Hebrides ‘Fingal’s Cave’ Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Christopher Seaman, conductor Stephen Kovacevich (4), piano TICKETS: £20, £14, £10 (concessions £2 reduction), £5 students. Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

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CUMS Chorus performs Vaughan Williams East Anglia Chamber Orchestra CUMS Chorus

Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony Frederick Septimus Kelly Elegy for harp and strings (in memoriam Rupert Brooke)

Stephen Cleobury, conductor Jane Irwin, soprano Duncan Rock, baritone

TICKETS: £30, £20, £15 (students £4 reduction or £5 on the door). Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

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LECTURE / RECITAL Saturday, 7 March 2015 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Thursday, 26 February 2015 7.30pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

CUMS Symphony Orchestra performs Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky

Richard Casey: Lecture/Recital

Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 ‘Pathétique’ Joel Sandelson (CUMS Brenda Charters Conducting Scholar), conductor Eleanor Kornas (CUMS Concerto Competition joint-winner), piano TICKETS: £20, £14, £10 (concessions £2 reduction), £5 students. Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing. com Saturday, 14 March 2015 5.30pm, King’s College Chapel

King’s Foundation Concert Haydn Trumpet Concerto Haydn Paukenmesse

The King’s Men and former Choral Scholars Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra

Stephen Cleobury, conductor John Wallace, trumpet TICKETS: £35, £30, £25, £15. Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

Richard Casey (piano) was born in Manchester in 1966 and started playing the piano at the age of seven. After graduating in Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, he studied piano at the Royal Northern College of Music with Marjorie Clementi and Martin Roscoe. In 1997 Richard won first prize in the British Contemporary Piano Competition, an achievement which attracted a series of solo engagements in the UK and abroad. Based in Manchester, Richard complements his solo career with a strong commitment to chamber music.

Since 1994 he has been pianist with the New Music Players and has performed frequently as a guest with the London Sinfonietta, the Composers’ Ensemble, Lontano and Liverpool-based Ensemble 10:10. Richard is also a founder-member of the Manchester-based contemporary music ensemble Psappha. Since 1991 he has performed over 200 works with the group throughout the UK and in tours of Spain, Holland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Australia and the USA. Recent projects have included working with the Richard Alston Dance Company in Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrushka, collaboration with radical improvisation group Bark! and an invitation from Pierre Boulez to join the Ensemble Intercontemporain in a performance of his Sur Incises in Carnegie Hall, New York. In this lecture/ recital, Richard will be performing music by Jonathan Harvey, Ed Hughes, Martyn Harry and Ligeti.

TICKETS: Admission free

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PRACTISING PERFORMANCE SERIES

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The Faculty’s Practising Performance Series is open to students of all years of the undergraduate music course as well as masters and doctoral students, indeed anyone with an interest in performance. Because space is limited, please email Margaret Faultless (mf413@cam.ac.uk) if you are not a Faculty member and wish to attend.

Wednesday, 11 February 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Wednesday, 25 February 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Talking about Music

Conducting Workshop

with Verity Sharp (1)

with Nicholas Cleobury (2)

The well-known BBC broadcaster and performer will discuss how to talk about music to audiences - in concerts, on radio and TV. The workshop will enable students to develop their own style of presentation.

Conductor Nicholas Cleobury will workshop Beethoven’s Overture ‘Coriolan’ with a group of student conductors.

A familiar voice on BBC Radio 3 for many years, Verity Sharp is well known for her eclectic musical taste. She has produced and presented numerous editions of the award-winning Late Junction, which mixes up everything from classical to electronic music, folk, world and jazz. She has presented countless concerts for radio both onstage and off, as well as fronted BBC2’s Culture Show and the BBC Proms. As a foundation student at Dartington College of Arts she explored improvisation and performance practice as well as being introduced to Indian ragas, African drumming and the Japanese shakuhachi. This opened her eyes to the wider power of music as a communication tool, which is still where her true interest lies. She holds a BA Honours Degree in Music from the University of York where her main areas of study were the cello and composition. More recently she has become fascinated with the indigenous music of England and has been learning traditional music and song by ear. She has also recently been appointed Creative Director of Superstrings, a local music charity that champions string playing and creates platforms for young people to experience the huge benefits of collective music making.

Nicholas Cleobury is Artistic Director of Mid Wales Opera, Principal Conductor of the John Armitage Memorial (JAM), Principal Conductor and Founder Director of Sounds New and Principal Conductor of the Oxford Bach Choir. He is Founder Laureate of the Britten Sinfonia.

Noted in particular as an orchestral and choral conductor, Cleobury has conducted all the major orchestras in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Singapore, South Africa and beyond, and choirs including the Swedish and Danish Radio Choirs, the Berkshire Choral Festival (UK and USA) and numerous major choirs in the UK, including the Royal and Huddersfield Choral Societies and the BBC Singers.

For more information about either of these Practising Performance workshops or to conduct on 25 February, please contact Maggie Faultless (Director of Performance Studies).

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HUMANITAS VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both Universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. © Felix Broede

Thursday, 15 January 2015 5.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

On Chopin

Murray Perahia in conversation with John Rink TICKETS: free of charge; no booking required Tuesday, 20 January 2015 2.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Open Rehearsal with the Doric String Quartet TICKETS: free of charge; no booking required

Murray Perahia Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music 2015 In a career spanning forty years, Murray Perahia has become one of the most sought-after and cherished pianists of our time. Recognised worldwide as a musician of rare musical sensitivity, he performs in all of the major international music centres and with the world’s leading orchestras. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and regularly tours with them with performances throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and South East Asia.

Wednesday, 14 January 2015 5.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

On Performing the Classics Illustrated lecture

TICKETS: free of charge; no booking required

Tuesday, 20 January 2015 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Doric String Quartet Haydn Quartet in G, Op. 76 No. 1 Bartok Quartet No. 6 Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op. 130, with Grosse Fuge Alex Redington, violin Jonathan Stone, violin Helene Clement, viola John Myerscough, cello TICKETS: £25, £12 and £5 for students. Available from Cambridge Corn Exchange: box office 01223 357851; website: www.cornex.co.uk

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the Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo), Méphistophélès (Faust), the four villains (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Boris Ismailov (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) and Moses (Moses und Aron). He created the roles of Green Knight (Gawain) and The Minotaur for Harrison Birtwistle at The Royal Opera House.

Monday, 23 February 2015 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Michelangelo in Song Featuring Britten’s song cycle, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo.

TICKETS: free of charge; no booking required Wednesday, 25 February 2015 5.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

The Construction of the Role of Wotan Sir John Tomlinson Humanitas Visiting Professor in Vocal Music 2015 Born in Lancashire, Tomlinson read civil engineering at Manchester University and studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music. He made his Bayreuth Festival debut in 1988 as Wotan (Der Ring des Nibelungen) under Barenboim, and sang at Bayreuth every year from 1988 to 2006. He has sung for English National Opera, at most of the leading opera houses in Europe, for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and for the Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, Munich and Glyndebourne festivals. Along with the main Wagner roles for bass and bass-baritone, his repertory has included Boris Godunov, Bluebeard, Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier), Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande), Claggart (Billy Budd), Philip II and

Illustrated lecture by Sir John Tomlinson in conversation with Patrick Carnegy.

TICKETS: free of charge; no booking required Friday, 27 February 2015 5.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

The Construction of the Role of the Minotaur Sir John Tomlinson in conversation with composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle.

TICKETS: free of charge; no booking required

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INSTRUMENTAL AWARDS SCHEME The Instrumental Awards for Chamber Music Scheme (IAS) was set up to enable gifted players reach a high standard of performance in chamber music, auditioning for coveted places at the beginning of each academic year. They are coached regularly throughout the year by some of the very best professional chamber musicians including James Boyd, Celia Nicklin, Andrew West and the Endellion String Quartet, and have recently taken part in masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Richard Egarr, the Schubert Ensemble and Angela Hewitt.

Our Award holders will present varied programmes of chamber works in the following recitals during Lent Term 2015.

Saturday, 24 January 2015 8.00pm, Jesus College Chapel

Monday, 2 February 2015 8.30pm, Old Combination Room at Trinity College

Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music

Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music

Students from the IAS present a programme of chamber works.

Students from the IAS present a programme of chamber works.

TICKETS: Admission free.

TICKETS: Admission free.

Sunday, 25 January 2015 9.00pm, Pembroke College, Old Library

Tuesday, 10 February 2015 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music

Showcase Concert: Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music

Students from the IAS present a programme of chamber works.

The finest groups from the IAS this academic year present a varied programme of chamber works. For repertoire information, please see: www.mus.cam. ac.uk

TICKETS: Admission free.

Saturday, 31 January 2015 1.15pm, Bateman Auditorium at Gonville & Caius College

Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Students from the IAS present a programme of chamber works.

TICKETS: Admission free.

TICKETS: £10, £8 (concessions), £3 (students), available in advance from showcase.concert.tickets@ gmail.com

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OPERA SOCIETY Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 February 2015 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall Saturday, 21 February 2015 1.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin with a libretto by the composer Sunday, 1 March 2015 9.00pm, Old Library at Emmanuel College

Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Students from the IAS present a programme of chamber works.

TICKETS: £2, available on the door Wednesday, 4 March, 2015 1.15pm, St John’s College Divinity School

Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Students from the IAS present a programme of chamber works.

TICKETS: Admission free.

Sunday, 8 March 2015 1.10pm, Gallery 3 at Fitzwilliam Museum

Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Students from the IAS present a programme of chamber works.

TICKETS: Admission free.

It’s 1820 and freedom is on the horizon in Russia.

Lensky, a young romantic filled with revolutionary zeal, is making a habit of travelling out to the country to court his beloved Olga. But on one such visit, he brings a friend, Onegin, and Olga’s obsessively romantic sister, Tatyana, falls madly in love with the stranger.

She writes him an impassioned letter, but Onegin refuses her advances, and his rash behaviour leads to accusations of foul play between him and Olga.

Lensky, furious and righteous, challenges Onegin to a pistol duel, and all too soon, Onegin’s recklessness brings his life crashing down.

Featuring a fantastically talented cast and orchestra, Tchaikovsky’s celebrated lyric opera will be fully staged in modern English with a translation by David Lloyd-Jones.

TICKETS: £22, £16, £14, £13; concessions £18, £13, £10, £9; students £15, £10, £8, £7. Available from ADC box office tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

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KETTLE’S YARD Sunday, 18 January 2015 12.15pm, Kettle’s Yard

“profoundly radical and inventive”, The Sound Projector.

Nash Ensemble

The duo of internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg and upcoming violinist Aisha Orazbayeva perform György Kurtág’s masterpiece Kafka Fragments – 40 tiny pieces based on writings

by Franz Kafka.

“The Nash are chamber music royalty”, The Sunday Times.

Mark-Anthony Turnage Slide Stride for piano and string quartet Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Richard Causton Piano Quintet (Kettle’s Yard Commission) Shostakovich Piano Quintet Thursday, 22 January 2015 8.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

Shiva Feshareki portrait concert A new commission by Shiva Feshareki, whose music has been described as “exuberantly irreverent”, The Times, in response to The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay, as well as a showcase of her works for ensemble and turntables.

Thursday, 29 January 2015 8.00pm, Kettle’s Yard Laura van der Heijden, cello Tom Poster, piano Beethoven, Schubert, Graham Fitkin, Poulenc Sold Out Thursday, 19 February 2015 8.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

Kafka Fragments Aisha Orazbayeva, violin Lore Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano

Thursday, 5 February 2015 8.00pm, Kettle’s Yard Jonathan Plowright, piano Bach / Busoni Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm der Heiden Heiland’ BWV659 Bach / Busoni Chorale Prelude ‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ BWV639 Brahms Six pieces, Op. 118 Liszt Funerailles, S173 / 7 Brahms Variations on a Hungarian Melody, Op. 21 No. 2 Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9 Thursday, 12 February 2015 8.00pm, Kettle’s Yard Mark Padmore, tenor James Baillieu, piano Schubert Winterreise Sold Out Thursday, 26 February 2015 8.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

Heath String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 76 No. 6 Tippett String Quartet No. 1 Dvořák String Quartet in G major, Op. 106

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MUSIC OUTREACH Thursday, 5 March 2015 8.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

Sunday, 8 March 2015 3.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Orbis Piano Trio The Jim and Helen Ede concert

Creating My Cambridge – Singing History

Kettle’s Yard ensemble in residence, 2014–15 Beethoven Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1, ‘Ghost Trio’ Rachmaninov Trio Elegiaque No. 1 Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65 Thursday, 12 March 2015 8.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

New Rhythms The première of a newly commissioned dance and music work by choreographer Malgorzata Dzierzon and composer Kate Whitley, in response to New Rhythms: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Thursday, 23 April 2015 8.00pm, Kettle’s Yard The Multi-Story Orchestra The Michael Harrison Concert “forget fusty concert halls, the future of music is emerging in a municipal car park”, The Times.

Works including Grisey’s seminal Periodes from Les Espaces Acoustiques performed by The Multi-Story Orchestra, who are based in a disused car park in Peckham, conducted by Christopher Stark.

TICKETS: Tickets for all Kettle’s Yard events are available from +44 (0)1223 748 100 or kettlesyard.co.uk/music

All performances in this concert devised by Historyworks in partnership with CaMEO on the theme of ‘Creating My Cambridge’ will be about Cambridge’s people and places, past and present, giving voice to local primary school singers, musicians, poets, rappers, storytellers and composers. The organisers will be inviting participation to join in songs based on a newly commissioned poem by Michael Rosen about the Fitzwilliam Lions, a freedom rap about the Cambridge abolitionist Equiano, and some funny lyrics written by the Horrible Histories songwriter about the Elizabethan philanthropist, Thomas Hobson of Conduit fame. We will be asking primary school children to get creative with sounds and words for an astonishing concert of new compositions and performances, all pinned on historical sources which will be described in film and animations during the entertaining programme of pieces.

For more information about the ‘Creating My Cambridge – Singing History’ project, please go to historyworks.tv TICKETS: Admission free

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COMPOSERS’ WORKSHOPS AT THE FACULTY OF MUSIC

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The Faculty’s series of Composers’ Workshops is open to students of all years of the undergraduate music course as well as masters and doctoral students, indeed anyone with an interest in the creation of new music.

Because space is limited, please email John Hopkins (jeh40@cam.ac.uk) if you are not a Faculty member and wish to attend.

Tuesday, 20 January 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Richard Causton (1) and John Hopkins (2) In this session we will discuss various aspects of compositional technique.

Tuesday, 27 January 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Robert Saxton (3) Professor of Composition at Oxford, Robert Saxton is one of the most widely recognised composers of his generation. After early encouragement and advice from Benjamin Britten, he studied with Elizabeth Lutyens and at St. Catharine’s College with Robin Holloway. Later he also had some lessons with Luciano Berio. Before taking up the Oxford post, Robert was Head of Composition at the Guildhall and then at the Royal Academy of Music. Particularly interested in large-scale harmonic and structural issues, Robert will discuss aspects of his own music in these contexts.

Tuesday, 3 February 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Joseph Phibbs (4) Joseph Phibbs was born in London and studied at The Purcell School, King’s College London (BMus, First Class Honours; MMus) and Cornell University

(DMA). His teachers have included Param Vir, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and Steven Stucky. In 2013 he signed an exclusive contract with Ricordi London, as well as an agreement with Boosey and Hawkes, who publish much of his choral music. Rivers to the Sea, his largest orchestral work to date, was premiered to widespread critical acclaim in 2012 by the Philharmonia Orchestra (cond. Salonen) and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from the Royal Festival Hall. It has since been performed extensively both in the UK and abroad, and recently won the orchestral category of the 2013 British Composer Awards.

Tuesday, 10 February 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Anthony Payne (5) Composer, writer, lecturer and broadcaster Anthony Payne was born in London and educated at Dulwich College and Durham University. His extensive list of compositions includes three major commissions for the BBC Proms: The Spirit’s Harvest (1985), Time’s Arrow (1990) – recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis for NMC – and Visions and Journeys (2002), which was voted by BBC Radio 3 listeners as the winner of the Audience Award in the 2003 British Composer Awards. He is also in demand as a teacher and lecturer, and has been Visiting Professor at Mills College, California and Composition Tutor at the New South Wales Conservatorium, Australia, to name but a few; he holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Birmingham and Kingston, and was recently made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. His wideranging musical knowledge makes him a popular and frequent broadcaster for the BBC.

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Tuesday, 17 February 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

M.Phil. Composers This session features work by the current crop of students studying for the MPhil in Composition at Cambridge. As was the case last year, there are six people working for the Masters degree, including Rhiannon Randle and Joy Lisney who were both finalists in June 2014.

Tuesday, 24 February 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Lu Pei Lu Pei is Professor of Music at Shanghai University, and is briefly visiting this country to participate in this workshop. He got his Doctor of Music Arts from the University of Michigan, USA; Master of Music Arts from the University of Louisville, USA. Dr. Lu has composed for diverse genres and groups. The Washington Post claims “Lu Pei’s music is extremely smart, colorful, delectable and kinetic...”

Tuesday, 3 March 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

James Clarke (6) James Clarke’s compositions number over ninety works for forces such as symphony orchestra, ensembles, voices or solo musicians. They include the String Quartet, written for the Arditti Quartet, commissioned jointly by the Huddersfield Festival and Ars Musica, Brussels; Final Dance, written for Klangforum Wien, commissioned by Southwest German Radio for the Donaueschinger Musiktage; Landschaft mit Glockenturm II, for seventeen European and Chinese instruments, commissioned by the Viennese organisation ‘Asian Culture Link’;

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by Harold Pinter, commissioned by the BBC and first broadcast in 2005. James Clarke has been a visiting professor at universities in various countries, including Azerbaijan, where he was appointed an honorary Professor of Music at the Baku Music Academy; Russia, at the Moscow Conservatoire, and Sweden, at the University of Malmö. He has led composition courses at the Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari, Finland, where he was featured composer, and at the Festival junger Künstler Bayreuth.

Tuesday, 10 March 2015 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Kim Ashton (7) Composer, conductor, teacher, gardener, baroque oboist. In Kim Ashton’s music zen calm meets zen violence, while the sounds of nature mix with the sweet strains of hardcore modernism. After graduating from Cambridge with a prize-winning double-starred first in music, Kim won a scholarship to study oboe at the Royal Academy of Music.

However, after a residency conducting the National Symphony Orchestra of Myanmar, composition took over and in 2014 he was awarded his PhD in composition at King’s College London (where he studied with Silvina Milstein and George Benjamin).

Recent work includes pieces for the OAE, the LSO, and Ensemble InterContemporain, while his music theatre piece Tonseisha was performed at this summer’s Tete a Tete Festival with Arts Council funding.

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FACULTY OF MUSIC COLLOQUIA

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The Colloquium series is the main opportunity for members of the Faculty, researchers from other departments, and the general public to come together and hear papers on all aspects of music research, given by distinguished speakers from the UK and abroad. Colloquia are held on Wednesday evenings in the Recital Room of the Faculty of Music, West Road. Admission is free and all are welcome. Please arrive at 4.50pm for a 5.00pm start. Papers are followed by a discussion and a drinks reception with the speaker.

Wednesday, 21 January 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Wednesday, 28 January 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Prof Steven Connor (1)

Prof Richard Wistreich (2)

‘To the ear a great compassion: listening, counting and number’

‘An anatomy and physiognomy of early modern singing’

Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is a writer, critic and broadcaster, who has published books on Dickens, Beckett, Joyce and postmodernism, as well as on topics such as ventriloquism, skin, flies, and air. His most recent books are Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things (2011), A Philosophy of Sport (2011), Beyond Words: Sobbing, Humming and Other Vocalizations (2014) and Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination (2014). He has a continuing interest in sound and voice, and is currently writing a book about numbers and words. His website at www.stevenconnor.com includes lectures, broadcasts, unpublished work and work in progress.

Richard Wistreich is Professor of Music and Director of Research at the Royal College of Music.

His wide-ranging research interests are focused primarily on the cultural and social history of musicmaking in early-modern Europe. His book Warrior, Courtier, Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance was published in 2007 (Ashgate), as was The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi (CUP), co-edited with John Whenham; currently he is co-editor, with Iain Fenlon, of The Cambridge History of SixteenthCentury Music (CUP). His wider research interests embrace the history and culture of performance in all ages, the pedagogy and practice of singing, and other related topics. Richard is also an internationally renowned performer of both early and contemporary music: he has made concert, radio and television appearances worldwide, and recorded more than 100 CDs of music ranging from award-winning albums of twelfth century organum, to many new works commissioned for the ensemble Red Byrd, and including celebrated discs of Monteverdi and Purcell.

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Wednesday, 4 February 2015 5.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Wednesday, 11 February 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Prof Robert Pascall (3)

Dr Kariann Goldschmitt (4)

‘Recapturing Brahms’s performances of Bach’s Cantatas’

‘From the “Jet Set” to intrigue: bossa nova and the 1960s international spy thriller’

Features the first UK performances of Brahms’s arrangements of movements from Bach’s Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, performed by the Faculty of Music Bach Ensemble, directed by Dr Martin Ennis.

Kariann Goldschmitt is lecturer in music at University of Cambridge. She received her PhD in musicology from UCLA and her MA in Music: Critical Studies/ Experimental Practices from UCSD. She has previously taught at New College of Florida, Ringling College of Art and Design, and was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Non-Western Music at Colby College. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the relationship between Brazilian popular music and the global cultural industries. She has published in Popular Music and Society, Luso-Brazilian Review, and the Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies among others.

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Robert Pascall is Emeritus Professor in Music at the University of Nottingham. He has written historical and analytical studies of music from Bach to Schoenberg, with special interest in Brahms. He was Vice-Chair of the new Brahms Complete Edition 1991–2011, and is now on its Advisory Board. For this Edition he has edited the symphonies, including Brahms’s own arrangements of them for two pianos, four hands, and for one piano, four hands. He is Corresponding Director of the American Brahms Society. He has worked on historically informed performance of Brahms’s orchestral music with Thomas Dausgaard, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Charles Mackerras and Sir Roger Norrington, among others.

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Wednesday, 18 February 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Dr Björn Heile (5)

(University of Glasgow) ‘Aesthetic and socio-political considerations and the failure of their integration in Mauricio Kagel’s work post-1968’ Björn Heile is Reader in Music and Head of Music at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Music of Mauricio Kagel (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), the editor of The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), co-editor (with Martin Iddon) of Mauricio Kagel bei den Darmstädter

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Ferienkursen für Neue Musik: Eine Dokumentation (Hofheim: Wolke, 2009) and co-editor (with Peter Elsdon and Jenny Doctor) of Watching Jazz: Encountering Jazz Performance on Screen (OUP, forthcoming). He is currently preparing a large collaborative research project on the performance practice of Mauricio Kagel’s experimental music.

Friday, 6 March 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Prof Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (6)

(Universidade Nova de Lisboa) ‘Envisioning Portugal: music and nation’ Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco is Professor of Ethnomusicology, Director of the Instituto de Etnomusicologia at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and since 2013 President of the International Council for Traditional Music. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, and has been visiting professor at Columbia, Princeton, and Chicago Universities. She has carried out field research in Portugal, Egypt, and Oman, and published on cultural politics, musical nationalism, identity, music media, modernity, and music and conflict. Recent publications include the four-volume Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX (editor, Lisbon, 2010); Music and Conflict (co-editor with John O’Connell and author of the Epilogue, Urbana, 2010); and Traditional Arts in Southern Arabia: Music and Society in Sohar, Sultante of Oman (with Dieter Christensen, Berlin, 2009).

Wednesday, 11 March 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Prof Mary Hunter (7) (Bowdoin College)

‘“It goes like this”: agency and the rhetoric of classical music performance’ Mary Hunter is a musicologist with interests in eighteenth-century opera, the history and ideology of performance, and music in culture. She is the author of The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna (Princeton, 1999), which won the American Musicological Society’s Kinkeldey Prize, and Mozart’s Operas: A Companion (Yale, 2008). She is the co-editor, with James Webster, of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna (Cambridge, 1997) and, with Richard Will, of Engaging Haydn: Culture, Context and Criticism (Cambridge, 2012). She has been the editor of the Journal of Musicological Research, the Cambridge Opera Journal, and AMS Studies in Music. The author of many articles in such journals as The Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, and Cambridge Opera Journal, and in many edited collections, she is currently working on a project about the ideology of performance in classical music culture.

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COLLEGE EVENTS Friday, 23 January 2015 8.00pm, The Old Library at Pembroke College Sarah Connolly, mezzo soprano Joseph Middleton, piano Mahler Rückert Lieder Schubert Ellens Gesänge Elgar Sea Pictures Copland Emily Dickinson Poems Sarah Connolly CBE has recently been described in The Independent as ‘She is unrivalled: simply the best, most exciting, most galvanising performer we have today...it was perfection.’ In 2015 she will return to New York’s Lincoln Centre to give a recital with Joseph Middleton. One of the few British artists to appear at this prestigious venue, we are thrilled that they will perform their programme in Pembroke beforehand.

TICKETS: £15, £10 (college members), £5 (students), available from www.pem.cam.ac.uk/the-college/ pembroke-past-and-present/music/sir-arthur-blisssong-series/tickets, from the Porters’ Lodge or on the door on the night Saturday, 24 January 2015 2.00pm (to be confirmed), The Old Library at Pembroke College

Sarah Connolly Masterclass Last year Pembroke College founded the ‘Pembroke College Lieder Scheme’ which gave four of the finest singer/pianist duos in Cambridge the opportunity to receive regular coaching from Joseph Middleton as well as invited guest performers John Mark Ainsley, Joan Rodgers and Amanda Roocroft. We were delighted that following participation in the scheme singers gained highly competitive entrance

scholarships for postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. This year the scheme has attracted another fine crop of aspiring Lieder duos. They have already received coaching from Joseph and Roderick Williams. In this masterclass they will benefit from study with one of the world’s foremost recitalists and pedagogues, Sarah Connolly.

TICKETS: Admission free Saturday, 24 January 2015 7.30pm, SCR at Trinity Hall

DIchterliebe James Gilchrist, tenor Anna Tilbrook, Piano Schumann Liederkreis, Op. 24 Mendelssohn Auf Flügeln des Gesanges Mendelssohn Schlafloser Augenleuchte Mendelssohn Keine von der Erde Schönen Mendelssohn Schilflied Schubert Ganymed Schubert Auf dem See Schubert Geistes-Gruß Schubert Der Musensohn Schumann Dichterliebe, Op. 48 TICKETS: £15, £10 (concessions), £5 (students), available from tel: 01223 332550; email: arts@ trinhall.cam.ac.uk

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Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral.

Andrew Reid was a pupil of Peter Hurford and David Sanger. Among his many achievements was a performance of the complete organ works of J.S. Bach in one 25-hour recital in 1994.

TICKETS: Admission free, retiring collection Monday, 2 February 2015 6.30pm, St John’s College Chapel

Evensong with St John’s Voices Friday, 30 January 2015 6.30pm, Queen’s Building at Emmanuel College

Burnaby recital by The Cavaleri Quartet

Graham Walker, director

This evensong will include the first performance of Child by Timothy Watts, featuring Julian Hwand on violin.

TICKETS: Admission free.

Martyn Jackson, violin Ciaran McCabe, violin Ann Beilby, viola Rowena Calvert, cello Mark-Anthony Turnage Contusion Mozart Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421 TICKETS: Admission free and unticketed Sunday, 1 February 2015 2.30pm, Girton College Chapel

Andrew Reid, Director of the Royal School of Church Music

Friday, 6 February 2015 2.30pm and 6.00pm, St Catharine’s College Chapel

A programme of organ music ranging from the French Baroque (Nicolas de Grigny) to the present day (James MacMillan) via masterpieces by J.S. Bach, Jehan Alain and Olivier Messiaen. Prior to taking up his current position, Andrew Reid was Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral; before that, he served in a number of assistant posts, including both

London Bulgarian Choir: workshop and concert The London Bulgarian Choir was founded in 2000

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legendary Philip Koutev Bulgarian National Folk Ensemble in Sofia. The choir brings its repertoire of traditional Bulgarian songs to every type of musical venue, and has been involved in a diverse array of work, from classical and jazz collaborations to working on the soundtrack to a computer game. The concert will be preceded by a participatory workshop for singers of all backgrounds, led by Dessi.

TICKETS: Workshop free; concerts £6, £4 (concessions), £2 students.

Saturday, 7 February 2015 8.00pm, Trinity College Chapel

A Night on Bald Mountain: Russian Orchestral Music with TCCO An evening of Russian music with the Trinity College Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Oscar Osicki.

Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade TICKETS: £8 adults, £5 students and free for TCMS members.

Wednesday, 11 – Saturday, 14 February 2015 1.10pm and 8.00pm, St John’s College Divinity School and St John’s College Chapel

St John’s College Music Festival The St John’s College Music Festival runs over four days and comprises eight concerts and seven premières, including a new work by Robin Holloway.

For the full festival programme, see www.joh.cam. ac.uk/st-johns-college-music-festival-programme

Saturday, 21 February 2015 8.00pm, Jesus College Chapel

An Evening in Hamburg Renowned French harpsichordist, Jean-Christophe Dijoux (pictured above), plays music by J.S. Bach, Johann Mattheson and others on the celebrated Bruce Kennedy double-manual harpsichord after a 1728 instrument by Christian Zell.

Part of the Piccola Accademia di Montisi Jesus College series.

TICKETS: £5, £2 (students), available on the door or reserve in advance on 01223 339699 or choir@jesus. cam.ac.uk

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Sunday, 22 February 2015 2.30pm, Girton College Chapel

Thursday, 12 March 2015 7.30pm, Trinity Hall

Carissimi’s Jephthe and works by Purcell

Friday, 13 March 2015 2.00pm and 7.30pm, Trinity Hall

A programme of sacred music performed by Girton College Chapel Choir (directed by Andrew Kennedy) and an instrumental ensemble led by Margaret Faultless. The centre-piece is Carissimi’s Jephthe, one of the most celebrated seventeeth-century oratorios. Based on a story from the Book of Judges, Jephthe tells the tale of an Old Testament prophet who sacrificed his daughter in fulfilment of a vow.

Set against this are several shorter pieces by another seventeeth-century master, Henry Purcell.

Trinity Hall Music Society presents

Cabaret Rees Webster, musical director TICKETS: £5, available from ap799@cam.ac.uk Friday, 13 March 2015 1.00pm, Trinity College Chapel

TICKETS: Admission free, retiring collection Friday, 27 February – Sunday, 1 March 2015 8.00pm, Pavilion Room at Hughes Hall

Porcelain and Pink

TICKETS: £10, £6 (concessions); available from ADC Ticketing

Stephen Layton, conductor Join Trinity College Choir for a recital of music from their forthcoming trip to Switzerland.

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After sell-out performances of Kate Waring's Are Women People? in March, Hughes Hall is again delighted to host the same team for the world premiere of the comic chamber opera's companion piece, Porcelain and Pink, with text by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Don't miss this Key Works production!

Trinity College Choir lunchtime concert

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Nänie, a poem by Schiller, set to music by Brahms, is a lament on the inevitability of death. This is followed by Simaku’s setting of Yeats’s poem, in similar vein, lamenting the passing of the world.

The music is sung by the soprano soloist and accompanied by strings. Rossini composed the Stabat Mater when he had finished writing operas.

The music, scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra, combines solemnity, devotion, drama and delightful melodies.

Thursday, 19 March 2015 7.30pm, Jesus College Chapel

Bach Motets The choirs of Jesus College Chapel Benjamin Morris and Bertie Baigent, directors Mark Williams, organ A concert of motets by J.S. Bach, including music by John Tavener and Alexander L’Estrange.

TICKETS: £12, £8 (students) sighted; £8, £4 (students) unsighted. Ticket price includes interval refreshments.

Wednesday, 1 April 2015 7.30pm, King’s College Chapel

Rossini: Stabat Mater Rachel Nicholls, soprano Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano Henry Waddington, bass Philharmonia Chorus BBC Concert Orchestra

TICKETS: £40, £30, £22, £15 (£5 student standby) are available from the Shop at King’s. Email: shop@ kings.cam.ac.uk; telephone 01223 769340.

Saturday 4 April 2015 6.30pm, King’s College Chapel

Bach St John Passion Ben Johnson, Evangelist Christopher Purves, Christus Mary Bevan, soprano Robin Blaze, countertenor Ed Lyon, tenor Ashley Riches, bass King’s College Choir Academy of Ancient Music Stephen Cleobury, conductor Bach tells the Passion story according to St John in a way that is both intimate and dramatic.

Distinguished soloists join King’s College Choir and the Academy of Ancient Music for this performance.

TICKETS: £50, £40, £30, £22 (students, unsighted £5) available from the Shop at King’s. Email: shop@ kings.cam.ac.uk; telephone 01223 769340.

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Britten Sinfonia At Lunch 2 Murray Perahia: Illustrated Lecture Murray Perahia: In Conversation Howard Shelly conducts Dvořák and Brahms Nash Ensemble Britten Sinfonia: Sarah Connolly Murray Perahia: Open Rehearsal Where the Lemon Trees Blow: songs Composers' Workshop: Causton & Hopkins Murray Perahia: Concert with Doric String Quartet Colloquium: Prof Steven Connor Endellion String Quartet Shiva Feshareki portait concert Sarah Connolly & Joseph Middleton Sarah Connolly Masterclass (tbc) James Gilchrist: Dichterliebe Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music All Roads Lead to Rome: baroque sonatas Composers' Workshop: Robert Saxton Colloquium: Prof Richard Wistreich Laura van der Heijden & Tom Poster Burnaby Recital by The Cavaleri Quartet Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music

Andrew Reid Recital Evensong with St John's Voices Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Composers' Workshop: Joseph Phibbs CUMS Concerto Competition Final Colloquium: Prof Robert Pascall Jonathan Plowright London Bulgarian Choir workshop London Bulgarian Choir concert The Lion and the Lance: from Venice to Leipzig Britten Sinfonia Family Concert The Lion and the Lance: from Venice to Leipzig TCCO: A Night on Bald Mountain Britten Sinfonia At Lunch 3 Composers' Workshop: Anthony Payne Showcase Concert: Instrumental Awards Scheme St John's College Music Festival Verity Sharp: Talking about Music Colloquium: Dr Kariann Goldschmitt Endellion String Quartet Mark Padmore & James Baillieu AAM: The Baroque Trumpet Schubert songs Composers' Workshop: M.Phil. Composers

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Colloquium: Dr Björn Heile Kafka Fragments CUOS: Eugene Onegin CUOS: Eugene Onegin CUOS: Eugene Onegin Oxford and Cambridge Wind Orchestras An Evening in Hamburg CUOS: Eugene Onegin Carissimi's Jephthe and works by Purcell Sir John Tomlinson: Michelangelo in Song Contrapunctus: polyphony from Bach to jazz Composers' Workshop: Lu Pei Nicholas Cleobury: Conducting Workshop Sir John Tomlinson: Construction of Wotan CUWO Schools Concert Richard Casey: Lecture/Recital Heath String Quartet Sir John Tomlinson: Role of Minotaur Porcelain and Pink CUCO perform with Stephen Kovacevich Porcelain and Pink Porcelain and Pink Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Composers' Workshop: James Clarke Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Orbis Piano Trio CUMS Concert Orchestra Colloquium: Prof Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Blanco CUMS Chorus performs Vaughan Williams CUMS Symphony Orchestra Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music Creating My Cambridge – Singing History Britten Sinfonia At Lunch 4 Composers' Workshop: Kim Ashton Colloquium: Prof Mary Hunter THMS: Cabaret New Rhythms Trinity College Choir THMS: Cabaret THMS: Cabaret King's Foundation Concert Endellion String Quartet Bach Motets King's Easter Festival 2015 MacMillan: St Luke Passion Bach St John Passion Multi-story Orchestra

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