UoB Music Autumn 2014

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BARBER CONCERTS DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM MUSIC SOCIETY

Birmingham International Piano Festival 2015

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HOW TO GET INVOLVED

The Autumn term at the University is always our busiest, and this year is no exception. We start off with 'Music in the Making' on 28 September, a day aimed at those of you who are interested in getting involved in University Music. With around 400 participants each year, this day promises to be a highlight in our Autumn calendar.

It has been an exciting Summer as we have watched our new pipe organ being constructed and tested in the Elgar Concert Hall. We celebrate its launch with a weeklong festival (14-21 November) which includes two world premiere performances and features City Organist Thomas Trotter and University Organist Henry Fairs alongside various University ensembles.

We continue to present some of the UK’s finest recitalists in the early stage of their careers in the Barber Lunchtime series, whilst the Barber Evening Concerts this term feature two of the UK’s most prolific artists, Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) and John Lill (piano), as well as an evening with Nova Music Opera, when they perform two newly commissioned chamber operas (page 7). We are also expanding our current programme of events and are delighted to announce the launch of Birmingham International Piano Festival 2015 (page 16), a three day festival featuring some of Europe’s finest pianists and the European Union Chamber Orchestra, with support from Yamaha, which will take place next March.

We hope you enjoy the concerts on offer and will support both the Organ Festival and Birmingham International Piano Festival alongside our regular series of events.

Jo Sweet Head of University Music and Concerts

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• For all unauditioned ensembles you simply turn up for the first rehearsal. For details of first rehearsals please contact us.

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM The University of Birmingham has a lively and varied music-making scene based in the Bramall Music Building, alongside the professional concerts held in The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. The following Music Society and Music Department ensembles rehearse regularly and perform throughout the year, both on campus and further afield: Instrumental groups Big Band* Brass Band Chamber Orchestra* Chamber Ensembles (various) Early Music Ensembles (various) Gamelan Ensemble New Music Ensemble* Philharmonic Orchestra* Saxophone Ensemble Symphony Orchestra* Wind Band Orchestral Repetoire Ensemble*

Choral groups Birmingham University Singers* Chamber Choirs (SATB & SSA) Early Modern Vocal Ensemble* Projects Choir* University Camerata* University Chorus University Women’s Choir* Electroacoustic groups BEAST BEER Laptop Ensemble *auditioned groups

• Auditions take place during week one of University term time (29 September onwards).

To sign up for an audition please visit the Music Society stall in the Bramall Music Building during Welcome Week (22-26 September).

• Membership of the Music Society is required if you participate in an ensemble run by the society.

This is just £20 per year (or £15 if you sign up before the end of week 3).

• Music Society and Department of Music ensembles are open to everyone: staff, students and the wider community.

Further information: www.birmingham.ac.uk/music www.uobmusicsociety.org twitter: @UoBUMS www.facebook.com/UoBUMS Instrumental groups Christina Homes University Music Administrator c.holmes@bham.ac.uk Choral groups Charlie-Rose Terry Choral Music Coordinator c.terry@bham.ac.uk

Sunday 28 September 10.30am-5.30pm Department of Music

Music in the Making Come along for a day of music-making in the Elgar Concert Hall and find out about the many University ensembles and choirs that you can join!

10.30am - 1.30pm Come and play Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony With its rousing, memorable melodies and utilising the full force of the orchestra, Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony is the ideal piece to kick off the new academic year. Daniele Rosina, Director of Orchestral Studies, leads a session for mass orchestra with organist Nicholas Wearne. Bring along your instrument and experience this popular work for yourself!

2.30pm - 5.30pm Come and sing choruses from Messiah Singers of all abilities are welcome for our afternoon session as Simon Halsey, Director of Choral Activities, takes a rehearsal focusing on the ever-popular choruses from Messiah. If you have your own score then please bring it along – a score will be provided otherwise.

PLAY! SAINT-SAËNS ‘ORGAN’ SYMPHONY

SING! CHORUSES FROM MESSIAH

Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building Admission: Free - advance registration required.

Please email musicboxoffice@contacts.bham.ac.uk

by Wednesday 24 September to book your place.

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October Friday 3 October 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

Friday 10 October 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

Wednesday 15 October 7.30pm Barber Evening Concert

Friday 17 October 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

Incus Ensemble

Peter Moore trombone Robert Thompson piano

Sir Thomas Allen baritone Joseph Middleton piano

Hallé Soloists

Handel Concerto in F minor Stojowski Fantaisie Pryor Thoughts of Love

Schumann Märchenerzählungen, Op. 132 Kurtág Hommage à R. Schumann, Op. 15/d Bruch Two movements from Acht Stücke, Op. 83

Brahms Denn es gehet dem Menschen Wenn ich mit Menschen

At the age of 12, Peter Moore became the youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. As well as his new role as co-principal of the London Symphony Orchestra, he maintains a busy performing and recording schedule after success in the Wind section of last year’s ROSL competition. Robert is a multi-prizewinning accompanist and pianist in his own right who has performed to audiences worldwide.

Two members of the YCAT scheme, Peter and Robert bring to the Barber an exciting programme which pushes the boundaries of trombone recital repertoire.

The newly-formed Incus Ensemble make their Barber debut as a trio in a varied programme. The jagged Hommage to Robert Schumann is framed by two contrasting German works, including Schumann’s last creative outburst of ‘Fairytales’ for this unusual grouping of instruments.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

Schubert Winterreise, D. 911, Op. 89 Sir Thomas Allen joins us on his farewell tour of the UK, rounding off an incredible career on the world’s recital and opera circuits. Sure to be a popular concert, Allen and his duo partner, firm Barber favourite and University alumnus Joseph Middleton, will perform Schubert’s fabled Winterreise in its entirety. Don’t miss this final opportunity to hear one of the world’s pre-eminent baritones in the intimate setting of the Barber Concert Hall.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: £18, £15 concessions, £12 Barber Friends, £5 students. Available from the Barber Institute reception on 0121 414 7333 Tickets available online at www.musicmaniauk.com

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Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

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Lyn Fletcher and Sarah Ewins violins Tim Pooley viola Nicholas Trygstad cello Andrew Tyson piano Beethoven Variations: ‘Ich bin der schneider Kakadu’, Op. 121a Schumann Piano Quintet, Op. 44 Beethoven’s early ‘Kakadu’ variations and Schumann’s exuberant piano quintet complement each other beautifully in this concert by principal players of the Hallé orchestra and award-winning young pianist Andrew Tyson.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free Photo: Christian Steiner

Jack McNeill clarinet Rose Redgrave viola David Quigley piano

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Friday 31 October 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

Saturday 1 November 7.30pm Barber Evening Concert

Presteigne Festival Tour

Crossing Borders: Music's journey between Italy and France

Nova Music Opera

Kate Romano clarinet Richard Uttley piano Lutosławski Dance Preludes Daniel Kidane Spear John McCabe January Sonatina

Matthew Taylor Humoreskes, Op. 5 Brahms Sonata in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1

Elizabeth Dobbin soprano Anne Marie Dragosits harpsichord

Presteigne Festival’s annual city tour returns to the Barber bringing two rising stars and a varied programme including three living composers and some favourites of the clarinet and piano repertoire. Daniel Kidane's new work, Spear, was commissioned in association with the Royal Philharmonic Society for the 2014 Presteigne Festival.

The complexion of music in the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries was coloured and defined by the competing national music styles of France and Italy. This programme explores the two competing affects, tracing the journey of the fiery, extrovert Italian style to Paris, where a very different musical language was in vogue, and ultimately ending with their harmonious co-existence in the eighteenth century and beyond. Australian-born soprano Elizabeth Dobbin is joined by fellow Baroque specialist Anne Marie Dragosits for this performance.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

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United by a common theme of misadventure, but distinct enough to engage and excite on many levels, these chamber operas make perfect performing partners.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: £20, £17 concessions, £15 Barber Friends, £5 students. Available from the Barber Institute reception on 0121 414 7333. Tickets are available online at www.musicmaniauk.com

Nova Music Opera Airborne is a joint commission between Nova Music and the Presteigne Festival, supported by the RVW Trust, the Bevis Foundation and the Arts Council of Wales.

Prometheus Drown'd

Double Bill

Friday 24 October 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

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Airborne

Stephen McNeff composer Richard Williams librettist, director George Vass conductor Clare McCaldin Jane Christopher Good Trelawny Nova Music Ensemble

Cecilia McDowall composer Andy Rashleigh librettist Richard Williams director George Vass conductor Donna Lennard Alice Henry Manning Johnny

Prometheus Drown'd is a chilling exploration of the strange circumstances surrounding the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1822 at Livorno in Tuscany. Richard Williams has reworked the libretto from contemporary sources, using journals and diaries, and incorporating a number of Shelley’s own writings.

In Airborne we move to the Great War, where we meet Johnny, a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, and Alice, a nurse in the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. The opera reflects their parallel experiences on 1 July 1916, allowing them to interact and sing and dance together as their minds go back to the high spots of their deepening love affair; both anticipate and then witness the tragic debacle that was the Battle of the Somme.

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November Friday 7 November 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

Wednesday 12 November 7.30pm Barber Evening Concert

Total Brass

John Lill piano

Robert Smith and Darren Moore trumpets Elise Campbell horn Ross Learmonth trombone Matthew Blunt tuba

James Maynard Fanfare Eric Ewazen Colchester Fantasy Ryan Latimer Hornscale Attrib. Henry VIII, arr. Stephen Roberts Pastime with Good Company

Vaughan Williams, arr. Paul Von Hoff Loch Lomond Timothy Wilson Avidity

Total Brass make a welcome return to the Barber with a British themed programme as part of their appointment as a University of Birmingham Ensemble in Residence for 2014-15. This award winning brass quintet, Chamber Music Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music 2013-14, Park Lane Group Artists for 2013-14, and winners of the Worshipful Company of Musicians Brass Ensemble Prize, formed four years ago whilst studying at the Royal Academy of Music. All five members have carved busy freelance careers and work with many of the UK’s leading orchestras.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

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Mozart Sonata in F, K332 Schumann Fantasy in C, Op. 17 Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Beethoven Sonata in F minor, Op. 57, ‘Appassionata’

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Friday 14 November 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

King Edward’s School and King Edward VI High School for Girls

Birmingham International Piano Festival 2015

King Edward’s School and King Edward VI High School for Girls give their annual concert in the Barber Concert Hall presenting a selection of their talented students.

Both schools have the enviable reputation of producing some of the UK’s finest young classical musicians, many of whom go on to study solo and orchestral performance at leading music colleges.

Described as the leading pianist of his generation, John Lill joins us for a technically challenging programme of key works for solo piano from the turning point of the Classical and Romantic periods.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

Lill has enjoyed an enviable career, from his beginnings as an eighteen year old performing Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto under Sir Adrian Boult whilst at the Royal College of Music, to most recently performing the complete cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas at the Cadogan and Bridgewater halls in celebration of this, his seventieth birthday year.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: £18, £15 concessions, £12 Barber Friends, £5 students. Available from the Barber Institute reception on 0121 414 7333 Tickets available online at www.musicmaniauk.com

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Saturday 15 November 7.30pm Department of Music

Thomas Trotter organ with Birmingham University Singers

Henry Fairs organ

Simon Halsey conductor J S Bach Concerto for solo organ No. 2 in A minor (after Vivaldi), BWV 593 Anon.

Four 16th Century pieces: La Shy Myze - Belle et jeune fleur de quinze ans - Upon La Mi RE - Saltarelle

Birmingham City Organist, Thomas Trotter, gives the inaugural concert on the newly commissioned Garnier pipe organ installed in the Elgar Concert Hall this summer. Thomas is joined by Simon Halsey and Birmingham University Singers for this performance of Duruflé’s nine-movement Requiem, a work strongly influenced

by Gregorian chant, a deep appreciation for the liturgy, and which features both solo baritone and mezzo soprano. The first half of the concert acts as an opportunity to hear the organ in all its glory, including a performance of J S Bach’s Concerto for solo organ No. 2, and an arrangement of Vivaldi’s a double violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 3, No. 8.

Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building Admission: £15, £10 concessions, £5 students

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Lionel Rogg Six versets on Psalm 92 Mendelssohn, arr. W T Best Overture to St Paul Duruflé Requiem

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C P E Bach Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (W. 119/7) Scheidemann FLAGEOLET Dic nobis Maria 2' Franz Danksagmüller Estampie (performed on meantone organ) J S Bach Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art Schumann Four Sketches, Op. 58 QUINT Graham Fitkin Wedding 3' J S Bach Toccata and Fugue in F, BWV 540 Hereford-born organist Henry Fairs is a leading light amongst a new generation of artists shaping the future of the organ as a solo/ recital instrument, as demonstrated in this eclectic programme. He is Head of Organ Studies at Birmingham Conservatoire and Organist to the University of Birmingham. He has been a prize-winner in a number of international organ competitions including Paris, St Albans and Chartres. Since winning First Prize and Special Prize at the Odense International Organ Competition (Denmark), his concert career has taken him to the major European centres of organ music and to America, performing solo recitals, broadcasts (BBC, BR, MDR, Danish Radio) and concertos on both historic and modern instruments.

Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building Admission: £15, £10 concessions, £5 students

Friday 21 November 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

Friday 21 November 7.30pm University of Birmingham Music Society

Henry Fairs chamber organ David Hatcher viola da gamba

Organ Festival Finale

Henry Fairs and David Hatcher give an all-Bach recital in this, the most intimate performance in our organ festival, and giving the first public concert with our Snetzler chamber organ (1775-6) in over twenty years. The organ was used by the Smithsonian Institute as a reference instrument for the restoration of its Snetzler organ (1761).

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

‘Fairs emerges as a top-notch performer. His registrations, tempos, and sensitivity to subtle nuances in phrasing and articulation are superb.’

American Record Guide

University Philharmonic Orchestra Birmingham Symphonic Brass University Women’s Choir BEAST Daniele Rosina conductor Henry Fairs organ Stephen Roberts Rosace (world premiere) Scott Wilson Take care... because you’re worth it (world premiere) Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’ We conclude a week of concerts and talks for the University Organ Festival with two world premieres and a rousing performance of Saint-Saëns's evocative ‘Organ’ Symphony. Henry Fairs joins the Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonic Brass ensemble, BEAST and University Women’s Choir for this exciting finale to the festival.

Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building Admission: £15, £10 concessions, £5 students

ORGAN FESTIVAL TICKETS Organ Festival tickets may be purchased on the door or by using the booking form on page 20.

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November/December Friday 28 November 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

Friday 28 November 7.30pm University of Birmingham Music Society

In the Silence of the Secret Night

University Big Band

Jonathan McGovern baritone James Baillieu piano

Lluis Mather director

Programme includes: Strauss Ständchen Tchaikovsky Don Juan’s Serenade Britten Vigil

The University of Birmingham Music Society Big Band return to the Elgar Concert Hall with their director Lluis Mather. Performing a combination of contemporary jazz orchestra works and popular big band music, this ensemble calls on talented musicians from across the University.

Brahms Über die Heide Schoenberg Warnung Roussel Bachelier de Salamanque

Jonathan McGovern and James Baillieu present ‘In the Silence of the Secret Night’, an engaging recital taking inspiration from night time romances, the night sky, and dreams and sleep. In addition to the works listed above, the programme will conclude with its eponymous work by Rachmaninoff.

Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building Admission: £10, £8 concessions, £3 students Tickets may be purchased on the door or by using the booking form on page 20

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‘What makes him special?

A beautifully focused and warmly virile voice... great musical sensitivity... and an instantly winning and communicative personality.’

The Telegraph

Photo: Benjamin Ealovega

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

Sunday 30 November 3pm University of Birmingham Music Society

Friday 5 December 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

Eternal Light: Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus

Navarra Quartet with Alexander Boyd piano

Daniele Rosina, Simon Halsey and Julian Wilkins conductors Gaynor Keeble mezzo Lauren Morris soprano Christopher Gillett tenor Peter Brooks baritone E' lgar With Proud Thanksgiving Sospiri Prelude and ‘Angel’s Farewell’ from The Dream of Gerontius Howard Goodall Eternal Light: A Requiem

The University of Birmingham Music Society gives its annual concert in Town Hall (Birmingham) with a programme that reflects on the Great War. The programme includes three works by the University’s first Professor of Music, Edward Elgar. The orchestra perform Sospiri, a work premiered in London in 1914, and Prelude and ‘Angel’s Farewell’ from The Dream of Gerontius. They are then joined by the University Chorus for With Proud Thanksgiving, written in 1920 with text from Laurence Binyon’s poem ‘For the Fallen’. The poem was published in The Times on 21st September 1914, with the opening stanza: ‘With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free.’

The second half of the concert moves us to contemporary composer Howard Goodall and his requiem Eternal Light. Goodall’s work focuses on providing ‘solace for the living that mourn’, and as such he combines select phrases from the traditional Latin requiem with English poems spanning 500 years.

Magnus Johnson violin Simone van der Giessen violin Marije Johnston viola Brian O’Kane cello Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81 In the twelve years since its formation the Navarra Quartet has performed at major venues across the world and at many international festivals. They return to the Barber, this time with University piano tutor and seasoned international performer Alexander Boyd.

Dvořák’s second piano quintet, a work lasting forty minutes, was written in 1887. This rich and stately work will be performed in this concert by some of the UK’s most gifted chamber musicians.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

Please note that we are unable to admit latecomers for this performance.

Town Hall, Birmingham Admission: £15, £10 concessions, £5 students, plus transaction fee Box Office: 0121 345 0603 or www.thsh.co.uk

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December Saturday 6 December 7.30pm University of Birmingham Music Society

Sunday 7 December 3pm University of Birmingham Music Society

Monday 8 December 6pm Chaplaincy/Department of Music

Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 December Department of Music

Wind Band and Saxophone Ensemble

Best of British: University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs

University Carol Service

Birmingham University Singers

The University of Birmingham Music Society Wind Band, one of the largest ensembles at the University, present a diverse selection of music for this powerful combination of woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. They are joined by the Saxophone Ensemble who perform in the first half of this concert with a programme that includes arrangements of Moon River, Singin’ in the Rain and Top Hat, plus Roger May’s Simon’s Mangrove Groove Programme includes: Vaughan Williams Prelude to 49th Parallel Peter Graham Windows of the World

Rossano Galente Transcendent Journey Richard Saucedo A Guide Along the Pathway

Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building Admission: £10, £8 concessions, £3 students Tickets may be purchased on the door or by using the booking form on page 20

Stuart Birnie brass band director Jack Apperley and Claire Hughes chamber choir conductors The University Chamber Choirs join the Brass Band in a concert celebrating the best of British composers with music spanning five centuries. With stirring choral works interspersed with a selection of rousing music from that most British of ensembles, the brass band, this concert promises to be an enjoyable evening for all. Under the direction of their newly appointed professional director, Stuart Birnie, the band are joined on stage by the chamber choirs for the finale of this concert, Arthur Sullivan’s enduringly popular The Lost Chord.

Birmingham University Singers Simon Halsey conductor A traditional service of carols and readings led by the University Chaplaincy, and seasonal music performed by Birmingham University Singers.

Great Hall, Aston Webb Building Admission: Free

Paul Rodmell conductor Saturday 6.30pm: Nine Lessons and Carols Sunday 10am: Choral Eucharist 3pm: Choral Evensong St Michael’s Church, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8TG Admission: Free

Programme includes: James MacMillan O Radiant Dawn Elgar Owls An Epitaph Gibbons This is the Record of John

Tavener Hymn to the Mother of God Vaughan Williams The Turtle Dove Sullivan The Lost Chord

Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building Admission: £10, £8 concessions, £3 students Tickets may be purchased on the door or by using the booking form on page 20

Friday 12 December 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert

University Women’s Choir Simon Halsey conductor Winners of the ‘Female Choir’ category at this years’ International Eisteddfod, Llangollen, the University Women’s Choir perform in the Barber Lunchtime series under Professor Simon Halsey. Their programme will feature a selection of chamber music written for female voices with a festive accent.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

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Cropper Welsh Roscoe Trio

Francesco Piemontesi

Back to Basie Orchestra

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat, Op. 110 Maximilian Schnaus New work Robert Schumann Kreisleriana, Op. 16 Scarlatti Sonatas Mendelssohn Songs without Words

Paying homage to the great American Jazz composer and pianist, Count Basie, the Back to Basie Orchestra features top London session musicians and jazz soloists all dedicated to playing the music of Count Basie's orchestra of the 1950s and 1960s.

The band captures the sound and spirit of the legendary ‘Swingin’ Machine’.

Nikolai Demidenko and the European Chamber Orchestra

Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa piano Schubert Allegro in A minor, ‘Lebenssturme’, D. 947 Brahms Three Hungarian Dances Robert Keeley Bondi Breaks Sibelius Adagio ‘Rakkaalle Ainolle’ Ravel La Valse Barber Concert Hall Admission: Free

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Peter Cropper violin Moray Welsh cello Martin Roscoe piano Haydn Piano Trio in C, Hob XV/27 Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 Beethoven Piano Trio Op. 97, ‘Archduke’ Barber Concert Hall Admission: £20, £15 Barber Friends, £10 students ‘…playing with a torrential passion that was an immediate reminder of the virtues of seasoned musicianship. Three more experienced and insightful players it would be hard to find…’ The Sunday Times

Since rising to international prominence with prizes at several major competitions, Swiss-Italian pianist Francesco Piemontesi has given critically accliamed performances at international festivals, in the world’s finest concert halls, and with many of the world's leading orchestras.

Barber Concert Hall Admission: £20, £15 Barber Friends, £10 students

Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building Admission: £20, £10 students

Peter Hoffman director Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K414 Bach Piano Concerto in F minor, BWV1056 Haydn Symphony No. 59 in A, 'Fire' Recognised as one of the world’s leading pianists Nikolai Demidenko’s passionate virtuosity and musicianship have brought him acclaim from critics, conductors, and audiences alike. This concert with the European Union Chamber Orchestra puts Demidenko at the centre of a programme which highlight not only his own inimitable prowess, but also that of the European Union Chamber Orchestra and its director, Peter Hoffman.

Elgar Concert Hall Admission: £25, £15 students

Book for Cropper/Welsh/Roscoe Trio, Piemontesi and the EUCO/Demidenko together and receive a reduced rate of £50, £40 Barber Friends, £30 students

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Incus Ensemble Peter Moore, Robert Thompson Sir Thomas Allen, Joseph Middleton Hallé Soloists Presteigne Festival Tour Crossing Borders

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1.10pm Navarra Quartet, Alexander Boyd 7.30pm Wind Band and Saxophone Ensemble 7.30pm Best of British

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6pm University Carol Service 1.10pm University Women’s Choir see p15 Birmingham University Singers

Great Hall, UoB Barber Institute Tenbury Wells

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Birmingham International Piano Festival 2015

In its inaugural year Birmingham International Piano Festival brings some of the world’s finest pianists to the City of Birmingham over three days, and showcases the piano, not only as a solo instrument, but also for its role in chamber music and jazz.

See page 16 for the full programme. birminghampianofestival.com

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March 6-8th 2015

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