What's on at the Faculty of Music Lent term 2014

WHAT’S ON

at the Faculty of Music Lent Term 2014 Volume 1, No. 2

CONTENTS Endellion String Quartet 3 Academy of Ancient Music 4 Britten Sinfonia 6 Practising Performance Series 8 Cambridge International Piano Series 9 Cambridge University Opera Society 10 Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra 10 Cambridge University Musical Theatre Company 10 Cambridge University Lunchtime Concerts 11 Faculty of Music University of Cambridge 11 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DP W: mus.cam.ac.uk E: facultyevents@mus.cam.ac.uk

Cambridge University Musical Society 12 Instrumental Awards Scheme 13 Kettle’s Yard New Music Series 14 Workshops 15 Composers’ Workshops at the Faculty of Music 16 New Music 17 Music Outreach at Cambridge 18 Faculty of Music Colloquia 19 Event Listings by Date 20

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 the final day of this term.

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35th Anniversary Season 22nd Season as ‘Quartet in Residence’, University of Cambridge

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET

Wednesday 12 February 2014 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Wednesday 23 April 2014 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

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

Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op. 55 No. 3 Bartók String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114 TBC Quintet with Cambridge University Student

Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 55 No. 2 (‘Razor’) Schumann String Quartet in A, Op. 41 No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 (‘Razumovsky’) Richard offered a kingdom for a horse and, in a similarly desperate plight, the fastidious and unshaven Haydn is said to have offered a quartet for a razor: an equally princely gift! Schumann’s Quartet is one of the great Romantic pieces in the repertoire with a sublime slow movement at its heart. Beethoven’s Second Quartet, dedicated to Prince Razumovsky, also has a very great slow movement whose serenity contrasts with the nervous energy which suffuses much of the rest of the piece.

The last of Haydn’s three Op. 55 quartets opens this concert, which continues with the last of Bartók’s quartets. In this late period of exile in the USA, Bartók reverts to a more immediately accessible and expressive style which is startlingly communicative and strong.

The unknown quantity is the ever-popular performance of a quintet in collaboration with one of the many extremely talented Cambridge University students – often not even from the Music Faculty! This has always been a particularly exciting and revealing event.

TICKETS: £24, £22 (OAP), £16 (Restricted view) £12 (Child, Student, Reg. disabled) available from: Cambridge Corn Exchange and City Centre Box Office, 2 Wheeler Street, Cambridge CB2 3QB. Box office tel: 01223 357851; email: boxoffice@cambridge. gov.uk; online: cornex.co.uk/boxoffice. NB: A £1 booking fee will be added to all ticket prices.

Wednesday 12 March 2014 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall Eric Richmond

Mozart String Quintet in C, K. 515 Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 25 Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K. 516 (with David Adams, viola) Britten’s Quartet reveals extraordinary new colours and quartet textures. It is sandwiched between two of Mozart’s greatest late masterpieces. The extra viola seems to have inspired Mozart to an unprecedented warmth, depth and intimacy expressed with an ease and mastery unusual even for him. The G minor Quintet explores a world of intense inner pain, dissolved only in the last movement; the C major is full of joy, wit and invention.

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

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Wednesday 26 February 2014 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Tognetti directs Vivaldi, Bach and the World’s Finest Orchestra Vivaldi Concerto in D major for violin, two oboes, and two horns (c.1711) JF Fasch Concerto in D minor for lute (date unknown) Pisendel Concerto Grosso No.1 in E flat major (c.1730) Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for four violins Op. 3 No.10 ‘L’Estro Armonico’ (1711) Veracini Ouverture No. 5 in B flat major (c.1717) JS Bach Concerto in D major for three violins (c.1730) Vivaldi Concerto in F major for violin, two oboes, two horns and bassoon (c.1711) Richard Tognetti, director & violin (1) Dresden’s court orchestra in the eighteenth century was renowned as the finest in the world, inspiring composers from across Europe with its outstanding ability and unique sound. Violinist Richard Tognetti, director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, makes his AAM debut in a concert celebrating the musical culture surrounding this remarkable group. Antonio Vivaldi, already known for his violin works, used the Dresden musicians to explore new orchestral colours, combining winds and strings in ground-breaking ways.

As well as dedicating concertos ‘per l’orchestra di Dresda’, the group inspired his most popular works – the spirited ‘L’Estro Armonico’ (‘harmonic inspiration’).

JS Bach, a few miles away in Leipzig, turned his hand to writing for multiple solo instruments after hearing these concertos. The group also attracted the finest players of the day, and violinists Veracini and Pisendel proved their worthiness to lead the orchestra by composing and performing concertos and overtures.

Free AAM Explore pre-concert talk at 6.30pm with Richard Tognetti, hosted by Sara Mohr-Pietsch (BBC Radio 3).

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TICKETS £14–£27 (£3 for AAMplify members) available from Cambridge Corn Exchange. Box office tel: 01223 357851; email: boxoffice@cambridge. gov.uk; online: cornex.co.uk/boxoffice or from aam.co.uk/Cambridge Monday 24 March 2014 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Kirchschlager sings Arias and Lieder

by Haydn and Mozart JC Bach Grand Overture in B flat major (c.1782) Mozart Lieder ‘Abendempfindung’ (1787), ‘Das Veilchen’ (1785) and ‘Als Luise die Briefe’ (1787) WFE Bach Sinfonia in C major (c.1798) Haydn Scena di Berenice (1795) JCF Bach Concerto in E flat major for fortepiano and obbligato viola (c.1790) Mozart Concert arias ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te’ (1786), ‘Alma grande e nobil core’ (1789) and ‘Al desio di chi t’adora’ (1789) Richard Egarr, director & fortepiano Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano (2) Jane Rogers, viola Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager joins us for a performance of the recital and operatic music for which she has gained worldwide admiration.

Kirchschlager sings a rich selection of vocal music, beginning with three Mozart lieder whose intimate introspection would inspire Schumann and Schubert.

Mozart and Haydn also explored the colourful potential of opera, and – alongside three Mozart concert arias – at the heart of the programme stands Haydn’s remarkable Scena di Berenice, a ten-minute operatic scene telling a tragic tale of lost love. Haydn wrote this masterpiece for a London audience, and music by two generations of Bachs with connections to the capital intersperses the programme. The night begins with an Overture by the ‘London Bach’, Johann Christian, followed by a rare chance to hear the Concerto for fortepiano and viola by his brother JCF. Wilhelm

Saturday 19 April 2014 7.00pm, King’s College Chapel

Friedrich Ernst (grandson of Johann Sebastian) was the last of the Bach dynasty to take up composing – and was a passing acquaintance of Robert Schumann, who was so influenced by Mozart and Haydn.

Handel, Israel in Egypt (1756)

Free AAM Explore pre-concert talk at 6.30pm, hosted

by Sandy Burnett (writer and broadcaster).

Stephen Cleobury, conductor Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

TICKETS £14–£27 (£3 for AAMplify members) available from Cambridge Corn Exchange. Box office tel: 01223 357851; email: boxoffice@cambridge. gov.uk; online: cornex.co.uk/boxoffice or from aam.co.uk/Cambridge

From Bach’s German church we move to London’s Haymarket Theatre, where in 1739 Handel presented his new oratorio Israel in Egypt. Initially a box office disaster, it reached the popularity of Messiah after he revised the work shortly before his death. Using Old Testament texts narrating the flight of the Israelites, Handel’s vivid musical palette is put to stunning use depicting events including the parting of the Red Sea and the joyful ending to the journey.

Easter at King’s: Bach and Handel with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Tuesday 15 April 2014 6.30pm, King’s College Chapel

JS Bach, St Matthew Passion (1727) Stephen Cleobury, conductor Andrew Kennedy, Evangelist Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Holy Week performances from the AAM and Choir of King’s College have become a central part of Cambridge’s cultural calendar. We continue our collaboration in 2014 with two very different settings of timeless Biblical tales. JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion is a monument of Western art. Combining moments of intense introspection with ravishing arias and jubilant choruses, it presents a profound meditation on the events of Good Friday – and on universal humanity, suffering and love. Two performances in 2013 sold out quickly; we strongly advise early booking.

TICKETS £25–£60 (£5 unsighted seats on door) available from The Shop at King’s, 13 King’s Parade.

Tel: 01223 769340.

BRITTEN SINFONIA

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Saturday 1 February 2014 2.00pm and 4.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Family Concert – Songs of No Man’s Land Rus Pearson, presenter Join presenter Rus Pearson and members of Britten Sinfonia on a journey from the east of England to the trenches of northern France. This event explores with sensitivity the themes surrounding the Great War of friendship, loss, horror and remembrance and includes classic chamber repertoire, especially commissioned music by Tim Watts, and songs to learn and sing along to.

This is a concert for children commemorating the start of World War I through stories and songs. It is suitable for children aged 7+.

Tuesday 11 February 2014 1.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

At Lunch 2 Roderick Williams Red Herring Blues Schubert Der Tanz, D826 Schubert Trinklied, D75 Roderick Williams New Work (world premiere tour) Schubert An die Sonne, D439 Schumann Auf einer Burg Schubert Schicksalslenker, D763 Schumann Mondnacht Schubert Lebenslust, D609 Schubert Trinklied, D183 Roderick Williams, baritone (1) Tom Poster, piano Joy Farrall, clarinet Britten Sinfonia Voices Eamonn Dougann, Britten Sinfonia Voices Director Britten Sinfonia Voices make their At Lunch debut in a programme centred on the part songs of Schubert, one

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of the acknowledged masters of music for the voice.

Baritone Roderick Williams enhances the programme with a new work commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.

Thursday 13 February 2014 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Imogen Cooper and Britten Sinfonia Winds Mark Simpson New Work (World premiere tour) Beethoven Quintet in E flat for piano and winds, Op. 16 Mozart Serenade No. 10 for winds in Bb major, K361 "Gran Partita" Imogen Cooper, piano/director (2) Britten Sinfonia’s celebrated wind section, including oboist Nicholas Daniel, takes centre stage in a concert which includes Mozart’s Gran Partita – a towering masterpiece of the wind repertoire. Pianist Imogen Cooper joins the musicians for Beethoven’s piano and wind quintet alongside BBC Young Musician of the Year and composer, Mark Simpson, who has been specially commissioned to write a new work scored for the same forces as the Gran Partita.

Monday 3 March 2014 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Patricia Kopatchinskaja directs Brahms arr. Paul Angerer Chorale Preludes, Op. 122 Tigran Mansurian Four Serious Songs after Brahms Bartók Romanian Dances Janáček arr. Richard Tognetti String Quartet No. 1, Kreutzer Sonata Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin/director (3) Explosive, barefoot and unpredictable! It quickly becomes apparent when you hear Moldovan violinist

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja perform that there is only one thing of importance to her: the music. In Patricia’s debut directing Britten Sinfonia she performs a distinctly Eastern European folk-flavoured programme including Bartók’s Romanian folk melodies, string arrangements of Brahms and Janáček masterpieces and Tigran Mansurian’s violin concerto inspired by the four biblical songs of Brahms.

Tuesday 18 March 2014 1.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

At Lunch 3 William Cole (Winner of University of Cambridge Composers' Workshop) New Work (world premiere tour) Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op. 20 Jacqueline Shave, violin Clare Finnimore, viola Caroline Dearnley, cello Stephen Williams, double bass Joy Farrall, clarinet Sarah Burnett, bassoon Stephen Bell, horn Beethoven’s youthful and light-hearted Septet is almost like an extra symphony containing all the engaging melodies and orchestral genius that pervade his musical output. Jacqueline Shave, Britten Sinfonia’s Leader

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directs this programme which also includes the premiere of a new work by William Cole, the 2013 winner of the University of Cambridge Composers’ Workshop.

Wednesday 16 April 2014 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Bach, St John Passion Julia Doyle, soprano Iestyn Davies, countertenor (4) Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist Jeremy Budd, tenor Matthew Brook, bass Eamonn Dougan, Pilate/Britten Sinfonia Voices Director Jacqueline Shave, violin/director Britten Sinfonia Voices Composed for Good Friday vespers in 1724 Bach’s masterpiece perfectly balances the theatrical with the devotional. In this performance, which will showcase the technical precision and musical beauty of this sacred oratorio, Britten Sinfonia is joined by a stellar line-up of soloists and its acclaimed professional choir, Britten Sinfonia Voices.

TICKETS: available from the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Box office tel: 01223 357851; email: boxoffice@cambridge.gov.uk; online: cornex. co.uk/boxoffice.

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PRACTISING PERFORMANCE SERIES Tuesday 14 January 2014 1.30pm–3.00pm, 3.30pm–6.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Side by Side with the Academy of Ancient Music Members of the Cambridge University Collegium Musicum (1) work alongside the Academy of Ancient Music under their Music Director Richard Egarr, exploring Handel's Concerti Grossi. This event is part of the Faculty's Practising Performance series.

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Music. Roy regularly tours worldwide, with a large concert repertoire. His recordings include the piano music of Debussy, Chabrier and Fauré, and various CDs of chamber music.

Cambridge Tuning Abstracts A series of talks by Ross W. Duffin Monday 20 January 2014 5.00pm, Cudworth Room, Faculty of Music How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and why you should care)

TICKETS: Open to the public, free entry.

Saturday 1 March 2014 9.30am, West Road Concert Hall

Roy Howat: French Repertoire Masterclass This masterclass is presented by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) and the Faculty of Music’s ‘Practising Performance’ Series, which is co-ordinated by Margaret Faultless (Director of Performance Studies) and John Rink (Professor of Musical Performance Studies). During the masterclass Roy Howat will work with a number of musicians from the Cambridge Faculty of Music, who are members of the Faculty of Music/Royal Academy of Music Performance Scheme.

Roy Howat (2) came up to King’s College as a Music Scholar in 1979, and stayed on to complete a doctorate, which eventually became the influential book Debussy in proportion. His first two years in Cambridge were spent under the Professorship of Robin Orr, from whom he later commissioned, and took on tour, Robin’s major work for piano, Three Lyric Pieces. Roy is now Keyboard Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music: among his many publications are critical editions of music by Debussy, Fauré and Chabrier, and the recent book The Art of French Piano

Intonation has a default system, equal temperament, which is thought to have a kind of Darwinian authority.

This has made it easy to ignore historical and musical evidence that equal temperament is not what composers from Bach to Debussy were using, both for keyboard and for other instruments and voices. How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and why you should care) was judged by the Guardian as ‘enjoyably pugnacious’, and by Fanfare as ‘the most subversive book on a musical subject’. Judge for yourself as Duffin (3) introduces his ‘elegantly argued’ book.

Monday 27 January 2014 5.00pm, Cudworth Room, Faculty of Music Just Intonation in Renaissance Theory and Practice A system of tuning where all intervals are acoustically pure has been seen by some as an eternal and natural aspiration and by others as not only unachievable but actually undesirable. Virtually all early theorists endorse pure intervals but one modern expert called them ‘boring’ and ‘insipid’ and their attempted use ‘insane’.

Come hear the truth about Just Intonation: whether it is possible in spite of all the complications, and whether it’s a desirable goal.

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CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES Opera Omnia

Monday 10 February 2014 5.00pm, Cudworth Room, Faculty of Music Commas, Split Keys, and other Delights of Unequal Keyboard Tuning The comma has caused considerable grief over the centuries because it’s the reason that keyboards can’t use pure intervals. The modern piano actually has no pure intervals. Efforts to deal with the comma have created sometimes ingenious, sometimes comical designs for keyboards and for tuning systems within the limits of our twelve-note octave. This talk explains the choices that were made to find a system that balanced competing demands of serviceability and beauty, and puts the choice of temperament for Cambridge’s newest organ into a musical and historical context.

Monday 17 February 2014 5.00pm, Cudworth Room, Faculty of Music Propriety and Justness: Harmonic Intonation in the Eighteenth Century Claims by some writers/musicians in the eighteenth century that they were tuning in Just Intonation find echoes among musicians today, especially among string quartets and brass ensembles. The complications of that claim are little understood, and the historical and musical evidence deserves close scrutiny. Tartini and the Mozarts – father and son – are all contributors to a lively discussion about what was really happening, and what should be happening in eighteenth-century ensemble tuning.

Wednesday 29th January 2014 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Benjamin Grosvenor Mendelssohn Andante and Rondo capriccioso Op. 14 Schubert Impromptu No.3 in G flat Op. 90 D.899 Schumann Humoreske in B flat Op. 20 Mompou Paisajes: La fuente y la campana, El lago and Carros de Galicia Medtner Two Fairy Tales: Op. 51 No. 3 and Op. 14 No. 2 (March of the Paladin) Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Gounod/Liszt Valse de Faust Benjamin Grosvenor won ‘BBC Young Musician of the Year’ (piano) when he was 11, and at 12 made his début at the Royal Albert Hall. In 2011 he became both the first British pianist in 60 years to be signed up by Decca and the youngest-ever soloist to appear on the opening night of the Proms. Recognised for his electrifying performances, Benjamin’s eclectic programme ranges from the early Romantic masters to the waltzes of Ravel and Gounod/Liszt via the exquisite miniatures of Mompou and Medtner.

TICKETS: £21, £19 (OAP), £15 (Restricted View) £12 (Child, Student, Registered Disabled) plus £1 booking fee, available from: Cambridge Corn Exchange Tel: 01223 357851; email: boxoffice@cambridge.gov. uk; online: cornex.co.uk/boxoffice

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OPERA SOCIETY

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Friday 7th–Saturday 8th February 2014 8.00pm, Trinity College Chapel

Friday 28 February 2014 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Britten Curlew River

Repertoire to be confirmed.

CUOS are delighted to announce a venture into something we have never tried before. In staging this production of Britten's Curlew River we will be working with a very small all-male cast and using stylised theatre. We are particularly excited about this unique upcoming production and we hope you are too!

Mike Buchanan, trombone Ben Glassberg and Benedict Collins-Rice, conductors TICKETS: £12, £8 (concessions), £5 (students/ children) available on the door.

TICKETS: £8/£5 available from adcticketing.com Thursday 20–Saturday 22 February 2014 7.45pm, West Road Concert Hall

Mozart Don Giovanni Director, Emma Wilkinson Producer, Tamsin Lim Musical Director, Patrick Milne Assistant Musical Director, Hugo Popplewell Based on the legend of Don Juan, Mozart's opera is neither a comedy nor a melodrama but a mixture of the two. The promiscuous nature of Giovanni is comically contrasted with the fumbling character of Leporello whilst the steely character of Donna Elvira, a woman overcome by vengeance, complements the softer nature of Donna Anna, a woman weakened by grief. Mozart's masterpiece draws together a wide range of characters in a convoluted plot in a work that has become one of the most performed operas worldwide.

TICKETS: £13–£20, £11–£18 (concessions), £7–£14 (students/ children) available from adcticketing.com

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY Tuesday 18–Saturday 22 February 2014 9.30pm, Corpus Christi College Playroom

Science! The Musical

by Andrew Goldman Cambridge University Musical Theatre Company Janice is a new PhD student in a social psychology lab who has just had her first abstract accepted to a conference. Unfortunately, she has not written the paper yet. In just four short weeks before the conference, she must learn about interdisciplinarity, statistics, the real world and the science of love. This brand new musical is a parallel dissertation on the foibles of the social sciences.

TICKETS: £6 / £5 from corpusplayroom.com

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

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The Cambridge University Lunchtime Concerts showcase the young and emerging student talent, performing music ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Messiaen and John Adams. Performances take place on Tuesday lunchtimes in West Road Concert Hall during Full Term. You can also enjoy a delicious sandwich lunch at West Road Concert Hall coffee shop prior to each concert, making CULC the perfect way to spend a relaxing Tuesday lunchtime.

Admission is free to these concerts, unless specified.

Tuesday 21 January 2014 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Tuesday 18 February 2014 1.10pm, Fitzwilliam Museum

Like Father, Like Son A celebration of the music of J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, performed by a baroque ensemble directed by Joe Davies.

La Nuit, Le Froid, La Solitude A diverse programme of choral music performed by the Cambridge University Chamber Choir and Nicholas Mulroy, conductor.

Tuesday 28 January 2014 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Tuesday 25 February 2014 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Works for two pianos and piano four-hands by Lutosławski, Corigliano, Bolcom and Piazzolla, performed by Andrew Goldman and Jiaxi Liu.

A blend of contemporary and classical works, performed by Michael Buchanan, trombone and Elliot Laum, piano.

Tuesday 4 February 2014 1.10pm, The Divinity School, St John's College

Tuesday 4 March 2014 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

The Concerto Grosso and the Birth of the Orchestra The Cambridge University Collegium Musicum (1) perform a programme of Handel and Vivaldi, directed

by Margaret Faultless.

Performances by the finalists of the CUMS Concerto Competition.

Vivaldi Nisi Dominus RV 608 – Gloria Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 4 Vivaldi Concerto for two cellos in G minor Vivaldi Concerto from L'Estro Armonico

The first ever lunchtime recital by the newly formed Cambridge University Percussion Ensemble.

Tuesday 11 February 2014 1.00pm, West Road Concert Hall Britten Sinfonia Voices perform a selection of Schubert Songs and a new work by Roderick Williams.

(Ticket prices start at £3. To purchase tickets please visit brittensinfonia.com)

Tuesday 11 March 2014 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Tuesday 18 March 2014 1.00pm, West Road Concert Hall Britten Sinfonia perform the Beethoven Septet and a new piece by William Cole, winner of the University of Cambridge Composers’ Workshop.

(Ticket prices start at £3. To purchase tickets please visit brittensinfonia.com)

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Saturday 18 January 2014 8:00pm, King's College Chapel

Sunday 1 March 2014 8:00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Nicholas Collon conducts A Child of Our Time

Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra

Vaughan Williams The Cloud Capp’d Towers Vaughan Williams Symphony No.6 Tippett A Child of Our Time

Boyce Symphony No.5 Mozart Piano Concerto No.22 Handel Water Music

Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra Members of CUMS Symphony Orchestra The Choirs of Clare, Gonville & Caius, Jesus and Selwyn Colleges Nicholas Collon, conductor Sophie Bevan, soprano Catherine Hopper, mezzo-soprano Robert Murray, tenor Henry Waddington, bass Graham Ross, chorus master

Andrew Arthur, conductor (2) Gavin Roberts, piano (3)

TICKETS £35, £30, £20 (students: £4 reduction and £5 on the door, subject to availability). Booking: adcticketing.com Sunday 23 February 2014 8:00pm, West Road Concert Hall

CUMS Chorus performs Handel, Rameau and Bach Handel Dixit Dominus Rameau Quam Dilecta J S Bach Cantata 196 CUMS Chorus Ralph Woodward, conductor (1) Rachel Ambrose Evans, soprano Camilla Seale, soprano Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano SJ Senanayake, tenor Michael Mofidian, bass TICKETS £20, £14, £10 (concessions: £2 reduction), £5 students. Booking: adcticketing.com

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TICKETS: £20, £14, £10 (concessions: £2 reduction), £5 students. Booking: adcticketing.com Thursday 6 March 2014 West Road Concert Hall

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra Schools Concert Quintin Beer, conductor A varied programme aimed at sparking the imagination of children. Music worksheets and teacher guidance notes will be provided.

Open to schools by invitation – if your school would like to attend please contact Ned Booker at epb24@ cam.ac.uk. The concert is also open to home-schooled children.

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INSTRUMENTAL AWARDS SCHEME

Saturday 8 March 2014 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Thursday 27 February 2014 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Carlos Izcaray conducts CUMS Symphony Orchestra

Instrumental Awards Scheme Showcase Concert

Verdi Overture to La Forza Del Destino Sibelius Violin Concerto Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements

The very best student chamber musicians present a varied programme of chamber works for the annual Instrumental Awards Scheme Showcase Concert.

Carlos Izcaray, conductor (4) Virginie Robilliard, violin (5) TICKETS: £20, £14, £10 (concessions: £2 reduction), £5 students. Booking: adcticketing.com

The Instrumental Awards for Chamber Music Scheme was set up to enable gifted players to reach a high standard of performance in chamber music. They are coached throughout the year by some of the very best chamber musicians including James Boyd, Celia Nicklin, Andrew West and the Endellion String Quartet.

Tuesday 11 March 2014 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

TICKETS: £10, £3 (students) available on the door or email: showcase.concert.tickets@gmail.com

CUMS Concert Orchestra Cambridge University Musical Society’s second symphony orchestra Beethoven Ruins of Athens Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 Schoenberg Accompaniment to a Film Scene Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No.2 Benedict Collins-Rice, conductor Jâms Coleman (CUMS Concerto Competition prizewinner), piano (6) TICKETS: £10 (£8 concessions), £3 students.

Booking: adcticketing.com

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KETTLE’S YARD NEW MUSIC SERIES This 2014 New Music Series has been devised by the new Kettle’s Yard New Music Associate, University Lecturer in Composition Richard Causton, and it launches on 26th January with visit by Chroma, one of the country’s leading contemporary music ensembles.

All new music concerts begin at 12.15pm, with coffee served in the gallery from 11.45am.

Sunday 26 January 2014 12.15pm, Kettle’s Yard

Chroma Ensemble Donatoni Arpège Richard Causton Phoenix Castiglioni Tropi Andrew Thomas New Work (commissioned by Kettle’s Yard – world première) Vacchi Dai calanchi di sabbiuno (UK première) Chroma is one of the most dynamic new music ensembles working in the UK at the moment and this programme presents an Italian programme with the UK première of Fabio Vacchi’s hauntingly beautiful Dai calanchi di sabbiuno, an elegy to the victims of a wartime massacre in Bologna. Richard Causton’s (1) Phoenix (the recipient of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award) is programmed alongside works by one of his teachers and one of his students: a brand new work from Cambridge alumnus Andrew Thomas and Arpège

by Franco Donatoni, one of the leading lights in post war Italian music.

Sunday 16th February 2014 12.15pm. Kettle’s Yard

A Garland for Michael Harrison Anton Lukoszevieze, cello (2) Mark Knoop, piano

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John Woolrich New Work Camberwell Composers Collective refrain 1 Richard Baker New Work Camberwell Composers Collective refrain 2 Kenneth Hesketh New Work Camberwell Composers Collective refrain 3 Anton Lukoszevieze New Work Camberwell Composers Collective refrain 4 Stephen Montague New Work Camberwell Composers Collective refrain 5 This concert presents the world premières of new works especially written as tributes to the late Michael Harrison by each of the composers he appointed as Kettle’s Yard New Music Associates, to be played by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze (also formerly a Kettle’s Yard New Music Associate).

Sunday 2nd March 2014 12.15pm, Kettle’s Yard

Solo Recital Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano (3) Luigi Dallapiccola Quaderno musicale di Annalibera Jeremy Dale Roberts Oggetti: omaggio a Morandi John Hopkins Disjunct Variations Edwin Roxburgh Studies Castiglioni Come io passo l’estate Jeremy Dale Roberts’ Oggetti for piano (an homage to the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi) is presented alongside music by Morandi’s contemporary Luigi Dallapiccola in a programme which presents interlaced anthologies of piano music. The brilliant series of Studies by Dallapiccola’s pupil Edwin Roxburgh is featured alongside music by Cambridge-based John Hopkins and Niccolò Castiglioni’s colourfully eccentric suite whose title translates as ‘How I Spend my Summer’.

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WORKSHOPS Sunday 27th April 2014 12.15pm, Kettle’s Yard

Thursday 6 February 2014 7.00pm, St Catharine’s College Chapel

Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin Roderick Chadwick, piano

Gospel Choir Workshop and Gospel Compline service Alexander Douglas (4), gospel choir director, composer and arranger.

Richard Causton Seven States of Rain Donatoni Ciglio III Priaulx Rainier Elegy Jeremy Thurlow Primavera Kate Honey New Work commissioned by Kettle’s Yard (world première) Jeremy Dale Roberts Capriccio Castiglioni Undici danze per la bella Verena

At 9.30pm, a short service will follow the workshop.

For more information contact Edward Wickham (eaw37@cam.ac.uk) or Monique Ingalls (mmi23@ cam.ac.uk), Saturday 8 March 2014 10.30am–5.00 pm, Pembroke College Chapel

This concert brings together British and Italian music for violin and piano performed by Peter Sheppard Skaerved (lead violin in the Kreutzer Quartet) and pianist Roderick Chadwick. A substantial new work from Kate Honey (who graduated from Cambridge in June 2013) is complemented with music two other Cambridge-based composers, Jeremy Thurlow and Richard Causton, whose evocation of the British weather, Seven States of Rain, was the recipient of a British Composer Award. This is also a rare opportunity to hear the beautiful Capriccio by Causton’s teacher, Jeremy Dale Roberts.

Monteverdi Vespers: Workshop Day with Andrew Parrott, Margaret Faultless and Jeremy West The MMus Choral Studies course plays host to a practical study day on Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, coached by three of the world's leading authorities on the piece. The day will include conducting, coaching and discussion of the challenges of putting together a modern performance of the work.

Observers are welcome.

TICKETS: £8 (£5 students); online kettlesyard.co.uk/ music; or call 01223 748100 Kettle’s Yard is funded by: The Radcliffe Trust Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust The Holst Foundation PRS for Music Foundation Dr Shirley Ellis The Michael Harrison concert is supported by the Friends of Kettle’s Yard

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COMPOSERS’ WORKSHOPS AT THE FACULTY OF MUSIC 1

The Faculty’s series of Composers’ Workshops is open to students of all years of the undergraduate course as well as masters and doctoral students, indeed to anyone with an interest in the creation of new music. Because space is limited please email John Hopkins (jeh@cam.ac.uk) if you are not a Faculty member and wish to attend.

Tuesday 21 January 2014 2.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Alexander Goehr Alexander Goehr (1), one of Britain’s most distinguished composers, was the son of the Schoenberg pupil and conductor Walter Goehr, and came to this country in 1933. He studied with Richard Hall at the Royal Manchester College of Music (where together with Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and John Ogdon he formed the New Music Manchester Group) and with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod in Paris. In 1975 he was appointed to the Chair of the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, where he remains Emeritus Professor.

Tuesday 28 January 2014 2.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Jeremy Thurlow Jeremy Thurlow (2) is a composer, writer and pianist. His music has been described as ‘seductive, innovative, full of freshness’ by Henri Dutilleux. In 2007 he won the George Butterworth Award for new composition. Jeremy is Director of Music at Robinson College, and teaches Composition and Analysis at the Music Faculty.

Tuesday 4 February 2014 2.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Chris Fox and Sarah Hawkins 1 Christopher Fox studied at the universities of Liverpool, Southampton and York, where his teachers included Hugh Wood and Jonathan Harvey. He is currently Professor in Music at Brunel University, a post he took

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Sarah Hawkins is Director of Research in Speech and Music Science and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. She has broad interests in how humans communicate using sound-based systems. Her particular specialism is in the acoustics and perception of speech.

This session, and the follow-up on the 18 February, will be a project centred on writing music for people with hearing impairments.

Tuesday 11 February 2014 2.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

John Hopkins John Hopkins (3) is Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Faculty of Music, and also a Fellow and Director of Studies at Homerton College. He studied with David Wynne, Alun Hoddinott and Arnold Whittall at Cardiff, and also at the Dartington Summer Schools with Peter Maxwell Davies. His work has been commissioned and performed by such bodies as the BBC, the Nash Ensemble, the BCMG, the Fires of London, the King’s Lynn and Huddersfield Festivals. Disjunct Variations for piano solo was premiered in 2012 in Montevallo, Alabama.

Tuesday 18 February 2014 2.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Chris Fox and Sarah Hawkins 2 This is the second session centred on a project for writing music for people with hearing impairments. For further details, see February 4th.

Tuesday 25 February 2014 2.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Cheryl Frances-Hoad Cheryl Frances-Hoad (4) received her musical education at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Gonville and Caius

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College (University of Cambridge) and Kings College London. She was Music Fellow at Rambert Dance from 2012–2013, and from 2010–12 was the first DARE Cultural Fellow in the Opera Related Arts in association with Opera North and the University of Leeds. In 2011 Cheryl was awarded a PRS Women Make Music award to write a new brass quintet for Onyx Brass, which was toured around as part of the Music in the Round season.

Friday 14 February 2014 7.30pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Tuesday 4 March 2014 2.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

A showcase of world premieres by current Cambridge students: Henry Tozer’s new work for voice and large ensemble ushers the listener into an extraordinary soundworld of microtonal tunings and extended vocal techniques, while Chris Norman’s epic Fantasy unleashes a torrent of pianistic dynamism. Chris Mortlock and Tom Ainge present works for solo piano and for two pianos and the programme is completed with a new work by Gregor Forbes, now in his final undergraduate year: Orlando, or, The Multiplicity of Being presents us with a meditation on themes from Virginia Woolf’s novel.

Trevor Wishart Trevor Wishart (5) has contributed to composing with digital audio media, both fixed and interactive. He has also written extensively on the topic of what he terms “sonic art,” and contributed to the design and implementation of software tools used in the creation of digital music; notably, the Composers Desktop Project. Although mainly a freelance composer, he holds an honorary position at the University of York.

He was appointed as Composer-in-Residence at the University of Durham in 2006, and then at the University of Oxford Faculty of Music in 2010–11, supported by the Leverhulme Trust.

Tuesday 11 March 2014 2.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Julian Anderson Julian Anderson’s (6) teachers have included John Lambert, Alexander Goehr and Tristan Murail. He has been composer in residence to Sinfonia 21, the CBSO, the Cleveland Orchestra, and currently the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Between 2002 and 2010 he directed the Philharmonia's Music of Today series. As composer, he has received commissions from such bodies as the BBC, the Nash Ensemble, the Cheltenham Festival, the London Sinfonietta, and the Asko Ensemble.

Henry Tozer Entering the Charnel Grounds Christopher Norman Fantasy for solo piano Tom Ainge New work for two pianos Christopher Mortlock New work for piano Gregor Forbes Orlando, or, The Multiplicity of Being

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MUSIC OUTREACH AT CAMBRIDGE Wednesday 19 & Friday 28 February 2014 Friday 7 & Thursday 13 March 2014 Faculty of Music

Taster Days An opportunity for students in years 11 and 12 to visit the Faculty and find out a little more about studying Music at Cambridge. The day includes a choice of lectures and activities, a tour of Cambridge and the opportunity to meet current music students, as well as a free lunch!

There will be a pre-concert talk and 7.00pm and the concert will begin at 7.30pm TICKETS are free but must be prebooked as spaces are limited.

Monday 17 March 2014 1.00pm (schools matinee) and 6.00pm (family performance), West Road Concert Hall

Icarus Ben Glassberg, conductor

Dates, further information and details of how to apply for a place can be found on the website: outreach. mus.cam.ac.uk Monday 10 March 2014 4.00pm–6.00pm, The Divinity School, St John’s College

‘Structures and Patterns’ in Music – a composition workshop for GCSE students Exploring the creative potential of structures and patterns in musical composition encountered in music

by Sweelinck and Ligeti. Students will learn about the expressive world and technical possibilities of the harpsichord, including some unexpected extended techniques, working towards a collective composition taking inspiration from elements of variation technique and their connections with the natural world.

Monday 10 March 2014 7.00pm, The Divinity School, St John’s College Jane Chapman juxtaposes Ligeti’s iconoclastic harpsichord works with variations by Sweelinck and the premiere of a new work by Tim Watts, inspired by the Natural History Museum’s dodo skeleton. Jane will explore the creative potential of structures and patterns in these old and new works, shedding light on the connections between them.

What if Icarus travelled not to the sun but to a black hole? This 60-minute concert features a mesmerising adaptation of Icarus at the Edge of Time, Brian Greene’s book for children performed by Cambridge University Music Society Symphony Orchestra. A reimagining of the Greek myth, which brings Einstein’s concepts of relativity to visceral, emotional life, it features an original score by Philip Glass, script adapted

by Greene and David Henry Hwang, and film created and directed by Al + Al. Presented as part of the University of Cambridge Science Festival 2014.

TICKETS: This is a free event, but booking is essential, at outreach.mus.cam.ac.uk/events

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The weekly Colloquia present thought-provoking and engaging research papers covering an eclectic mix of topics and musical styles. They provide stimulating opportunities to hear and discuss the latest research by distinguished scholars and musicians from the UK and abroad.

Speakers in Lent Term include Simon Frith, Tovey Chair of Music at the University of Edinburgh, who is wellknown for his research on popular music; distinguished harpsichordist Davitt Moroney who has promised to speak on Anne-Madeleine Guédon de Presles, a fascinating composer, and the most prolific woman composer of airs of the Ancien Régime; the internationally-respected music analyst Mario Baroni; plus two of our own Faculty, Martin Ennis and Griff Rollefson.

Colloquia are held on Wednesday evenings in the Recital Room of the Faculty of Music, West Road. Please arrive at 4.50pm for a 5.00pm start. Papers are followed by discussion and a drinks reception with the speaker.

Admission is free and open to the general public. All are welcome to attend. If you would like to be included in our email list and receive abstracts and speaker biographies, please speak to one of the student coordinators, Ian Dickson, Sheila Guymer, or Jiaxi Liu. Wednesday 22 January 2014 5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Wednesday 19 February 2014 5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Dr Elisabeth Giselbrecht (1)

Dr Charles Wilson

Walk the Line: Printing and selling music in the age of confessionalisation

Immer neu? Negotiating the ‘Contemporary’ in Contemporary Concert Music

Wednesday 29 January 2014 5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Wednesday 26 February 2014 5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Dr Griff Rollefson (2)

Dr Martin Ennis

Hip Hop as Postcolonial Critique in the UK: Juice Aleem’s ‘Mastery of Form’ and ‘Deformation of Mastery’

‘The stretchèd metre of an antique song’: some thoughts on Brahms and metre

(Universität Salzburg, Austria)

(Girton College, Cambridge, UK)

Wednesday 5 February 2014 5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Professor Mario Baroni (3)

(University of Cardiff, Wales)

(Girton College, Cambridge, UK)

Wednesday 5 March 2014 5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Professor Simon Frith

(University of Edinburgh, UK)

(Università di Bologna, Italy)

Wednesday 12 February 2014 5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Professor Davitt Moroney (4)

(University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Wednesday 12 March 2014 5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Dr Philip Fine

(University of Buckingham, UK) What makes for a clear singer? Factors underlying the intelligibility of sung text

EVENTS LISTING EVENT VENUE JANUARY 14 1.30 & 3.30pm 18 8.00pm 20 5.00pm 21 1.10pm 21 2.00pm 22 5.00pm 26 12.15pm 27 5.00pm 28 1.10pm 28 2.00pm 29 5.00pm 29 7.30pm FEBRUARY 1 2.00 & 4.00pm 4 1.10pm 4 2.00pm 5 6 7 8 10 11 11 12 12 13 14 16 17 18

5.00pm 7.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 5.00pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 5.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 12.15pm 5.00pm 1.10pm

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Side by Side with AAM Nicholas Collon - A Child of Our Time Talk - Ross Duffin Lunchtime Concert - Bach Composers' Workshop - Alexander Goehr Colloquium - Dr Elizabeth Giselbrecht Chroma Ensemble Talk - Ross Duffin Lunchtime Concert - Works for two pianos Composers' Workshop - Jeremy Thurlow Colloquium - Dr Griff Rollefson CIPS - Benjamin Grosvenor

West Road Concert Hall King's College Chapel Cudworth Room, Faculty of Music West Road Concert Hall Recital Room, Faculty of Music Recital Room, Faculty of Music Kettle's Yard Cudworth Room, Faculty of Music West Road Concert Hall Recital Room, Faculty of Music Recital Room, Faculty of Music West Road Concert Hall

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Britten Sinfonia - Songs of No Man's Land Lunchtime Concert - The Concerto Grosso Composers' Workshop - Chris Fox and Sarah Hawkins Colloquium - Professor Mario Baroni Gospel Choir Workshop and Compline CUOS - Curlew River CUOS - Curlew River Talk - Ross Duffin Britten Sinfonia - At Lunch 2 Composers' Workshop - John Hopkins Colloquium - Professor Davitt Moroney Endellion String Quartet Britten Sinfonia - Imogen Cooper Cambridge University New Music Ensemble A Garland for Michael Harrison Talk - Ross Duffin Lunchtime Concert - Choral music Composers' Workshop - Chris Fox and Sarah Hawkins Science! The Musical Colloquium - Dr Charles Wilson Science! The Musical CUOS - Don Giovanni Science! The Musical CUOS - Don Giovanni Science! The Musical CUOS - Don Giovanni Science! The Musical

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CUMS Chorus - Handel, Rameau and Bach Lunchtime Concert - Trombone and Piano Composers' Workshop - Cheryl FrancesHoad AAM - Tognetti Directs Bach, Vivaldi Colloquium - Dr Martin Ennis Instrumental Awards Scheme Showcase Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra

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Roy Howat Masterclass Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra Hiroaki Takenouchi, Piano Britten Sinfonia - Patricia Kopatchinskaja Lunchtime Concert - CUMS Concerto Competition Composers' Workshop - Trevor Wishart Colloquium - Professor Simon Frith Monteverdi Vespers: Workshop Day Carlos Izcaray - CUMS Symphony Orchestra GCSE Composition Workshop Ligeti's harpsichord works Lunchtime Concert - Percussion Ensemble Composers' Workshop - Julian Anderson CUMS Concert Orchestra Colloquium - Dr Philip Fine Endellion String Quartet Icarus Britten Sinfonia - At Lunch 3 AAM - Kirchschlager sings Arias and Lieder

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AAM - St Matthew Passion Britten Sinfonia - St John Passion AAM - Israel in Egypt Endellion String Quartet New Music, Violin and Piano