Royal Academy of Music Autumn Events 2017 by Royal Academy of Music

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THE WORLD’S MOST TALENTED YOUNG MUSICIANS WORKING WITH: William Bennett | Bine Katrine Bryndorf | Semyon Bychkov | Colin Carr | Pete Churchill Laurence Cummings

Sir Mark Elder

Ning Feng

Catrin Finch

Edward Gardner

Clio Gould | Gareth Hancock | Dave Hassell | Philippe Herreweghe | Gintaras Januševičius A ng e l i k a K i rc h sc c hla ge r Matthew McDonald

Ga rth Knox

Andrew Marriner

Oliver Knus s en

London Sinf o n i et t a

James Newton Howard

Andrew Norman

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T H E P R I N C I PA L’ S W E LC O M E Welcome to Autumn at the Academy. The start of the academic year is always an exciting time for us. In addition to our new students, this year we also have a new front to our premises. As you will see when you visit us, the recently renovated entrance makes the building more accessible, while restoring some of the original features of the fine Edwardian architecture. This has made it not only more historic, but also more modern and inviting. This combination of past and present permeates our concert programme this season, and on the following pages you will find performances and events across a multitude of genres and styles. Performing is the lifeblood of the Academy, which is why our alumni fill the concert halls, opera houses, theatres and recording studios of the world. Students take part in nearly 500 performances every year, collaborating with some of the finest and most established names in the profession. When you come to an Academy performance, you will hear some of the world’s most talented young musicians as they embark on a lifetime of music. We welcome all our music-loving friends and supporters, and look forward to seeing you here at the Academy in the coming months.

PROFESSOR JONATHAN FREEMAN-ATTWOOD

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SEPTEMBER SUNDAY, 4pm

SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY, 1-2pm

Academy at Neresheim

Drop-in Lunchtime Tours

Venue: Neresheim Abbey, Germany Tickets: available from Tourist-Information, Haupstr.20, 73450 Neresheim, Germany. tel +49 7234 8149 or email tourist@neresheim.de

Venue: Museum Ground Floor Tickets: Free, no tickets required. Maximum of 20 people; places on a ﬁrst-come, ﬁrst-served basis

Patrick Russill conductor Academy Chamber Choir Andrzej Malitowski, James Orford and Marko Sever organ

Join this free tour of the Museum which takes you around all three of the galleries. Meet in the Ground Floor Gallery.

Programme to include: works by Michael Haydn, Ritter, Becker, Wesley, Parry and Howells The concluding highlight of the annual collaboration between Neresheim Abbey and the Academy — a week-long residency participating in the daily liturgies of this historic Benedictine monastery with its stunning eighteenth-century Baroque church and superb 1792 Holzhey organ. This concert presents choral and organ masterpieces, both neglected and well-known, from the English and German repertoire of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER THURSDAY, from 10am

Historical Performance Open Day Venue: Henry Wood Room Tickets: Free, no tickets required Margaret Faultless, Head of Historical Performance, welcomes prospective students to observe and participate in a variety of classes and events, giving a real taste of life at the Academy.

SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, from 10am

Piano Open Day

SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY, 6-7.30pm

Redefining the Flute and Guitar Duo Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free, no tickets required A lecture-recital by flautist Noémi Győri introducing her Classical Flute and Guitar Project, which aims to redefine the flute and guitar duo through creating exciting new repertoire. A chance to listen to masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven performed with guitarist Katalin Koltai, as well as learning about the origins of the duo, peeking into the musical laboratory of transcription-making and experiencing original repertoire by Antonio Nava presented on a nineteenth-century flute and a spectacular Panormo guitar from the Academy’s Spencer Collection.

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Professor Joanna MacGregor, Head of Piano, gives a masterclass followed by a discussion about piano studies at the Academy. Followed by a concert by piano accompaniment students and their collaborative partners (1.30-2.30pm), introduced by Michael Dussek, Head of Piano Accompaniment.

SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, 6-7.30pm

The Fall of the House of Usher: Silent Film with Organ Improvisation

SEPTEMBER TUESDAY, from 10am

Jazz Open Day Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required. For further information please email jazz@ram.ac.uk

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Academy lecturer Robert Sholl introduces James Sibley Watson’s short silent film The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), made with Melville Webber and based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Through discussing the film’s surrealist context alongside literature on organ improvisation to films in the 1920s, Robert explains his approach to improvisation: how much is decided beforehand, and how much is left to chance? The event culminates with a screening of the short film with live improvisation.

SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY, 10am-1pm

10am: Introductory talk by the Academy’s Head of Jazz Programmes, Nick Smart 11am: Guided tour of the building 11.30am-1pm: Open repertoire/improvisation session 2-5pm: Open Academy Big Band rehearsal Come and hear about the BMus and Master’s programmes, meet some of the teaching staff and students and hear them in action. The Academy’s internationally renowned Jazz Department is a welcoming environment that trains young jazz musicians to the highest professional levels. By nurturing performance and composition together the course focuses on the students’ own artistic and professional development, while balancing musical traditions alongside the contemporary inﬂuences embraced by the jazz scene today. The afternoon concludes with an open rehearsal for the Academy Big Band concert on Wednesday 11 October, led by Gordon Campbell.

SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY, 6.30pm

Flute Masterclass

Pavarotti Prize

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

With Emily Beynon, Visiting Professor of Flute at the Academy and Principal Flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam.

Final-year Royal Academy Opera students sing contrasting pieces from mainstream operatic repertoire. The prize of £7,000 is generously donated by Joseph and Jill Karaviotis.

SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER THURSDAY, from 10am

Strings Open Day Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required For further information please email strings@ram.ac.uk A day in the life of the Strings Department, including interviews with current students, student performances and lesson observation with members of the distinguished faculty of professors, as well as a showcase concert at 1.05pm. Masterclasses for all instruments will take place in the afternoon and there will also be a chamber music forum with members of the Doric String Quartet, the Academy’s Teaching Quartet in Association. Masterclasses with: Philippe Honoré violin James Sleigh viola Hannah Roberts cello Graham Mitchell double bass

SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, from 10am

SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, 1.05pm

Woodwind Open Day

Academy Symphonic Wind

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required For further information please email woodwind@ram.ac.uk

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

This introduction to the Woodwind Department will give prospective students the opportunity to see current students in action. The day will begin with a presentation from Head of Woodwind Keith Bragg followed by a tour of the building, an open rehearsal and a question and answer session. The Academy Symphonic Wind concert at 1.05pm in the Duke’s Hall will provide the centrepiece to the day’s events; see right.

Keith Bragg conductor Programme: Janáček Mládí Dvořák Serenade in D minor, op.44 Head of Woodwind Keith Bragg conducts the Academy Symphonic Wind in an all-Czech programme of popular pieces for wind ensemble.

SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, 2.30-4pm

Instruments and Ideas: What is a Violin? Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; these tickets will not be available online Peter Sheppard Skærved explores a 1685 Stradivarius violin from the collection of the Royal Northern College of Music. This type of small violin is often labelled a ‘piccolo violin’. What is it really? What can we learn from it? What works best on it today? With thanks to the Royal Northern College of Music for the loan of the instrument for this event.

SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER MONDAY, 6pm

Fixers, Finances, Friends, Foes and Faux pas Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required In her inaugural lecture the Academy’s Head of Strings, Professor Jo Cole, takes us on a guided tour through the professional pitfalls and essential protocols for performing musicians.

SEPTEMBER TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Tritium Trio: Song and Sonority Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Joseph Havlat piano Jernej Albreht clarinet Lydia Hillerudh cello Programme: Leighton Fantasy on an American Hymn Tune Joseph Havlat new work Magnus Lindberg Clarinet Trio A concert given by 2017/18 Academy Chamber Music Fellows.

SEPTEMBER TUESDAY, 2-5pm

Organ Masterclass Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Bine Katrine Bryndorf, acclaimed Danish organist and Visiting Professor of Organ at the Academy.

SEPTEMBER TUESDAY, 7pm

Academy Song Circle: Finzi Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY, 2-5pm

Flute Masterclass Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With William Bennett, international soloist and Academy professor.

SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY, 6.30pm

Cello Unwrapped: The Cello Makers Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG Tickets: £20 online from www.kingsplace.co.uk/cello

Edward Ross tenor Nicholas Mogg baritone Richard Walshe bass-baritone Zuzanna Basińska and Alim Beisembayev piano James Gilbert clarinet Programme: Finzi I Said to Love, op.19b Earth and Air and Rain, op.15 (excerpts) To a Poet, op.13a (excerpts) A Young Man’s Exhortation, op.14 (excerpts) Five Bagatelles, op.23 A celebration of composer Gerald Finzi, who was a professor at the Academy from 1930 to 1933. Tonight’s event will begin with a presentation to the Academy of a new bust of Finzi, commissioned by the Finzi Trust from awardwinning artist Jemma Pearson, renowned for her sculptures of Elgar and Darwin.

As part of the ninth edition of Kings Place’s award-winning Unwrapped series, leading Swedish cellist and Academy professor Mats Lidström reveals the special qualities of the great cellos of the Academy’s collection through music spanning three centuries, with commentary from renowned maker and instrument expert John Dilworth.

SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER THURSDAY, from 10am

Vocal Faculty and RAO Open Day Venue: Various venues around the Academy Tickets: Free, no tickets required For further information please email voice@ram.ac.uk Potential students of the Vocal Faculty or Royal Academy Opera (RAO) are invited to attend a typical teaching Thursday, with classes open to observers. The day begins with an introductory session with Kate Paterson, Head of Vocal Studies, at 10am in the Henry Wood Room.

SEPTEMBER THURSDAY, 12.30-2pm

Soundbox Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free, no tickets required Soundbox is a series of events inspired by the Academy’s Museum and collections. Presented by Peter Sheppard Skærved, violinist and Viotti Lecturer, the events explore the historical and contemporary relationships between performers, composers, instruments and instrument-makers.

SEPTEMBER THURSDAY, 7pm

Geikō: Western Classical Music and Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Music Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Kazuki Sawa conductor Programme to include:

SEPTEMBER THURSDAY, 6.30-9.30pm

Guitar Masterclass Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With renowned Italian guitarist Oscar Ghiglia. For many years a professor at the Musik-Akademie Basel and for the summer course at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Oscar has enjoyed a distinguished performing career worldwide and has recorded for the Angel and Nonesuch record labels.

Debussy Petite suite, Ravel Ma mère l’oye, Poulenc Piano Sonata, Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves In the latest in a series of collaborative projects between the Academy and Tokyo University of the Arts, Geikō (the Music High School Attached to the Faculty of Music) presents a programme of Western Classical and Japanese music. This full-time vocational school is the only music high school in Japan that provides specialist training in both traditional Japanese and Western instruments.

SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, from 10am

Guitar Open Day Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required. For further information please email guitar@ram.ac.uk 10am: Introductory talk by the Academy’s Head of Guitar, Michael Lewin 10.45am-12.45pm: Masterclass with internationally renowned guitarist Oscar Ghiglia 1.05-1.45pm: Student concert 2.15-3pm: Interview with Oscar Ghiglia

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SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, from 3pm

OC TOBER MONDAY, 6-8.45pm

OC TOBER TUESDAY, 6-9pm

Brass Open Day

Clarinet Masterclass Viola Masterclass

Venue: Various venues around the Academy Tickets: Free, no tickets required. For further information please email brass@ram.ac.uk

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

With Robert Plane, Principal Clarinet of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

With Garth Knox, Visiting Professor of Viola at the Academy, who explores the viola literature with his inimitable insight.

The Academy’s Brass Department presents an insight into studying at the Academy for prospective students. The afternoon begins with an introduction from Head of Brass Mark David in the Duke’s Hall. The day will conclude with a performance of Baroque brass music in the Duke’s Hall at 7pm; see below.

OC TOBER MONDAY, 7pm

Organ Recital Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, 7pm

Battles Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required John Hutchins conductor A concert of Baroque music presenting repertoire associated with heroic battles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Composers of the day played their part in battle by rallying national identity and morale, or simply by celebrating the great Empiric power. Featuring natural trumpets, drums, strings and voice, the concert concludes with a live battle. Not for the faint-hearted!

Andrzej Malitowski organ James Orford and Marko Sever harmonium Programme: Louis Vierne Organ Symphony no.1 in D minor, op.14 24 Pièces en style libre (excerpts)

OC TOBER WEDNESDAY, 1-2pm

Drop-in Lunchtime Tours Venue: Museum Ground Floor Tickets: Free, no tickets required. Maximum of 20 people; places on a ﬁrst-come, ﬁrst-served basis Join this free tour of the Museum, which takes you around all three of the galleries. Meet in the Ground Floor Gallery.

OC TOBER TUESDAY, 1.05-2pm

Ancestral Voices: Scarlatti – 260 years later Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; these tickets will not be available online Honorary Research Fellow Dr Elena Vorotko continues her captivating series in the Academy’s Museum. This event looks at the effect of Scarlatti’s music over his contemporaries, as well as composers in succeeding centuries. Discussion and performance will range from Clementi and Czerny to Brahms and Ravel, to see just how far Scarlatti’s inﬂuence has spread.

OC TOBER THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Accordion Recital Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Academy students perform solo and chamber music works featuring classical accordion.

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OC TOBER THURSDAY, from 2.30pm

OC TOBER FRIDAY, 1.05pm

Accordion Open Day

Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required. For further information please email accordion@ram.ac.uk

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Head of Accordion Owen Murray gives a talk on the Accordion Department, career possibilities and repertoire development to prospective students. Young accordionists will also have the opportunity to play and receive advice on how to further their development. Anyone wishing to play should email the above address. Teachers are also welcome, and everyone attending is invited to the Accordion Recital in the David Josefowitz Recital Hall at 1.05pm; see opposite.

Clio Gould director Programme: Schnittke Moz-Art à la Haydn Stravinsky Concerto in E flat, ‘Dumbarton Oaks’ Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite Directed by Clio Gould, the Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists comprises the finest young string players from the Academy. Today they are joined by woodwind and brass students in a programme which demonstrates the influence of the great Baroque and Classical masters on Soviet composers Schnittke and Stravinsky.

Schnittke’s unabashedly comical Moz-Art à la Haydn is based on an unﬁnished fragment by Mozart and includes various historical references, including Haydn’s ‘Farewell’ Symphony. Stravinsky’s Concerto in E ﬂat was inspired by Bach’s Brandenburg concertos and takes its name from the estate in Washington DC owned by Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, who commissioned the work for their thirtieth wedding anniversary. The concert concludes with the Suite from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, the ballet based on an eighteenth-century play whose main character originates from commedia dell’arte. The work features musical themes by Pergolesi expertly adapted and manipulated by Stravinsky for the twentieth century.

OC TOBER FRIDAY, 1-4pm

Berlin in London: Double Bass Masterclass Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Matthew McDonald, Principal Double Bass of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

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OC TOBER FRIDAY, 6pm

The Barbirolli Lectures: Sir Mark Elder at 70 Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £5 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/ events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details In the third and ﬁnal interview to mark his seventieth birthday, Sir Mark Elder discusses his approach to masterworks by Russian, French, Scandinavian, Czech and British composers with Professor Raymond Holden.

OC TOBER SUNDAY, 12 noon

Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantatas Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £15 (concessions £12) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/ bach available now, tel 020 7873 7300 reopening Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details Iain Ledingham director Margaret Faultless leader Soloists to be announced Programme: JS Bach Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196 Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17 Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181 Performed on historical instruments.

OC TOBER TUESDAY, 10am-1pm

Piano Masterclass Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With esteemed Lithuanian pianist Gintaras Januševičius.

OC TOBER TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Piano Recital: Granados and More Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Antoine Préat and Yuanfan Yang piano Granados El amor y la muerte; El fandango de candil Yuanfan Yang new work Ravel Alborada del gracioso; Gaspard de la nuit

OC TOBER TUESDAY, 3pm

English Song Prizes Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

OC TOBER SUNDAY, 10.30am-1pm

Berlin in London: Viola Masterclass Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Máté Szűcs, Principal Viola of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, who works with advanced viola students.

Comprising the Major van Someren-Godfery and Michael Head prizes. Students give an English song recital. This prize will continue at 10am on Wednesday 11 October.

WEDNESDAY, 10am

English Song Prizes Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required See above.

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OC TOBER WEDNESDAY, 7pm

OC TOBER THURSDAY, 12.30-2pm

Guitar Lecture-Recital: Antonio de Torres – Soundbox Venue: Museum Piano Gallery A Bicentennial Tribute Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Arcas Fantasia sobre ‘El paño o sea punto e la habana’; Tárrega Four Mazurkas; Granados transc. Llobet Danza española no.5, ‘Andaluza’; Cano El delirio; Albéniz transc. Llobet Cantos de España, op.232 no.4, ‘Córdoba’; Torre Bermeja (Serenata), op.92 no.12; Manjón Leyenda; Llobet Cuatro canciones populares catalanas; Variaciones sobre un tema de Sor Two hundred years after the birth of the great Spanish luthier Antonio de Torres, his unique contribution to the historical development of the guitar is reappraised by scholar and guitarist Luigi Attademo, who performs on an original Torres guitar, and Italian luthier Gabriele Lodi.

WEDNESDAY, 7.30pm

OC TOBER THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Academy Big Band

Gordon Campbell conductor

Soundbox is a series of events inspired by the Academy’s Museum and collections. Presented by Peter Sheppard Skærved, violinist and Viotti Lecturer, the events explore the historical and contemporary relationships between performers, composers, instruments and instrument-makers.

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Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details

Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Delving into the realms of the great swing bands of the 1930s and 1940s, Academy students explore the music of such legends as Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, as well as some of the lesser-known material of Glenn Miller, including the classic Everybody Loves My Baby, recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios during the Second World War. Other great arrangers being showcased tonight include Sy Oliver, who contributed so many memorable charts to the Dorsey band, and Bill Finegan, staff arranger at the height of the Miller period and later with the bands of Dorsey and Mel Lewis. Other tunes featured are Finegan’s intricate The Continental and Benny Goodman’s classic King Porter Stomp. Directed by revered trombonist and jazz professor Gordon Campbell, who is internationally renowned for his expertise on the music of this era and Principal Trombone with the BBC Big Band and John Wilson Orchestra.

Charlotte La Thrope soprano Victoire Bunel mezzo-soprano Louise Ayrton violin, Alice Trocellier viola da gamba Julie Pumir harpsichord/organ Programme: François Couperin Seconde leçons de ténèbres; Troisième leçons de ténèbres Rafael Marino Arcaro Psalm 102 Robert Laidlow Moonfall Rameau Cinquième concert

OC TOBER FRIDAY, 6pm

Jazz Ensembles Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required The popular Academy jazz ensemble concerts mark the culmination of the small ensemble projects of the jazz course. Students perform a set of music on which they have been working with a variety of distinguished visiting musicians. 13

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OCTOBER FRIDAY, 7.30pm

Semyon Bychkov conducts Mahler’s Ninth Symphony Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/ events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details Semyon Bychkov conductor Mahler Symphony no.9 Following the epic performance of Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony in June at the Royal Festival Hall, the Academy’s Klemperer Chair of Conducting, Semyon Bychkov, returns to conduct the Academy Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony in the Duke’s Hall. It was the composer’s last complete symphony before he died at the age of ﬁfty, and is often considered both his farewell and his most deeply personal score.

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OC TOBER MONDAY, 12.30-1.30pm

From Cremona to London: A Curator’s Tour Venue: Museum Strings Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; these tickets will not be available online. Maximum of 15 people In this specialist guided tour the Museum’s Curator of Instruments, Barbara Meyer, explores the secrets and wonders of the Academy’s stringed instrument collection. We intend for this event to be British Sign Language interpreted. Please contact us at museumandcollections@ram.ac.uk in advance for further details

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OC TOBER TUESDAY, 1.05pm

OC TOBER TUESDAY, 6-9pm

Clarinet, Viola and Piano

Trombone Masterclass

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Venue: Henry Wood Room Tickets: Free, no tickets required

James Gilbert clarinet Miguel Sobrinho viola Alim Beisembayev piano

With Jörgen van Rijen, Principal Trombone of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, and Visiting Professor of Trombone at the Academy.

Programme: Mozart Trio in E ﬂat, K.498, ‘Kegelstatt’ Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann, op.15d Schumann Märchenerzählungen, op.132

OCTOBER MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, 4-6pm and 7pm

Colin Carr and the Bach Cello Suites Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required 4-6pm: Masterclass 7pm: Performance Monday 16 October: JS Bach Suite no.3 in C, BWV 1009; Suite no.5 in C minor, BWV 1011 Tuesday 17 October: JS Bach Suite no.2 in D minor, BWV 1008; Suite no.4 in E ﬂat, BWV 1010 Wednesday 18 October: JS Bach Suite no.1 in G, BWV 1007; Suite no.6 in D, BWV 1012 In celebration of twenty years of inspiring teaching at the Academy, Visiting Professor of Cello Colin Carr shares his refreshing and exhilarating approach to Bach’s cello suites in an intensive three-day mix of teaching and performing. His live recorded performance of the complete suites at Wigmore Hall in 2013 was described in Gramophone as ‘a masterclass in musical restraint and altruism’ and ‘the living breathing manifestation of a lifetime of study’.

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OCTOBER WEDNESDAY, 7pm

The Spencer Collection: English Originals Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required At the heart of the current Museum exhibition from the archive of Robert Spencer’s extensive collection of music and objects from across Europe is the music of seventeenth-century England. This programme explores lute songs, consort music and the explosion of theatrical repertoire after the Restoration, many from original prints or copies, which formed the bedrock of Spencer’s distinguished performing career. Directed by Elizabeth Kenny, the Academy’s professor of lute and theorbo and leading expert on the English masque, and featuring performances by Academy professor and acclaimed countertenor Michael Chance.

OC TOBER THURSDAY, 1.05pm

OC TOBER THURSDAY, 6pm

Cello Quartet

Jazz Ensembles

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Joanna Gutowska, Charlotte Kaslin, Joel Siepmann and Joseph Donmall cello

The popular Academy jazz ensemble concerts mark the culmination of the small ensemble projects of the jazz course. Students perform a set of music on which they have been working with a variety of distinguished visiting musicians. See www.ram.ac.uk/events for full details.

Werner Cello Quartet, op.6 Tansman Deux mouvements pour quatre violoncelles Schumann arr. Klemm Cello Concerto, op.129

OC TOBER THURSDAY, 7pm

Radovan Vlatković directs the Academy Symphonic Wind and Horn Ensemble Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Radovan Vlatković director Frøhlich Horn Nonet: March and Hunt Klein Divertimento for wind octet Strauss Suite in B ﬂat, op.4 Eminent Croatian horn soloist and International Visiting Professor of Horn at the Academy Radovan Vlatković directs Academy woodwind and horn students in a varied programme culminating in Richard Strauss’s Suite in B ﬂat for thirteen wind instruments..

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OC TOBER FRIDAY, 10am

Lilian Davies Prize Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Competitors perform any Beethoven piano sonata or set of variations.

OC TOBER FRIDAY, 7pm

Academy Symphonic Brass: ‘Enigma’ Variations Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Jörgen van Rijen conductor

OC TOBER FRIDAY, 10.30-11.15am

Academy Tots Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Child £5, adult £3 from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults per booking Come and discover the exciting world of instruments at the Royal Academy of Music. Inquisitive tots and parents are invited to this interactive session designed for children aged 2–4. In this journey through the inspiring Piano Gallery at the Academy’s Museum, we will discover instruments and explore making music as a group, led by Open Academy Fellows and the Museum Team. Please bring your singing voices and listening ears!

Programme: Elgar arr. Steven Verhelst Theme from ‘Enigma’ Variations JS Bach arr. Robert Madeson Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 Rautavaara A Requiem in Our Time Beethoven Sonata in C minor, op.13, ‘Pathétique’: Adagio cantabile Elgar arr. Steven Verhelst ‘Enigma’ Variations The main theme of Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations was not the theme initially planned for the piece; the composer claimed he had a famous melody in his head, created a countermelody to it and this became the main theme of the work. He never uncovered which melody he had in mind originally — this is the ‘enigma’! Over the years there has been much speculation about the original theme. Principal Trombone of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, and Visiting Professor of Trombone Jörgen van Rijen explores some of the possible solutions to the ‘enigma’ in a programme which culminates in an arrangement of the full work by Steven Verhelst..

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OC TOBER SUNDAY, from 10.30am

OC TOBER MONDAY, 10am

Conducting Open Day

Isobel Jay Prize

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required. For further information please email conducting@ram.ac.uk

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

10.30am–1.30pm: Two-Piano Workshop 2.30–5.30pm: Orchestral Workshop This is a chance for prospective students and anyone interested in the art of conducting to come and see how the Academy trains its postgraduate conducting students to meet the many and varied challenges of a conducting career. Following an introduction by Head of Conducting Sian Edwards, Academy conducting students demonstrate how they prepare scores and develop their skills. The music featured will include Brahms’s Variations on a Theme of Haydn and Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. There will also be an opportunity for participants to conduct a variation of their choice from Brahms’s work at the end of the morning session; please email the address above if you want to take part. Slots are limited and are on a ﬁrst-come, ﬁrst-served basis.

A prize for sopranos and mezzo-sopranos. Students are asked to prepare an operatic scena or other dramatic aria of their choice.

OC TOBER MONDAY, 6pm

OC TOBER MONDAY, from 6.30pm

Musical Theatre Open Evening Venue: Various venues around the Academy Tickets: To book your free place please email mth@ram.ac.uk A chance for prospective students to visit the Musical Theatre company, observe some classes and participate in a question and answer session with current students and staff, including Head of Musical Theatre Daniel Bowling. Please note that this is an organised programme rather than a drop-in session and places need to be booked in advance.

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OC TOBER TUESDAY, 1.05pm

OC TOBER WEDNESDAY, 10am-1pm

Telemann Chamber Music

Guitar Masterclass

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With David Russell, Visiting Professor of Guitar at the Academy.

The Historical Performance department present a recital of chamber music by Georg Philipp Telemann, on the 250th anniversary of his death, in a culmination of workshops that have taken place during 2017. Telemann’s immense capacity for invention is demonstrated through the great variety of styles in the music, which uses wonderfully imaginative and colourful instrumental combinations.

OC TOBER TUESDAY, 3-6pm

Vocal Masterclass Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £5 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Wednesday 29 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details

OC TOBER WEDNESDAY, from 2pm

Harp Open Day Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required. For information email harp@ram.ac.uk This day for prospective students, hosted by Head of Harp Karen Vaughan, includes discussions with harp tutors and a maintenance workshop by ‘The Harp Doctor’ Billy Hornby. There will be an opportunity to talk to current students and an exhibition of music and accessories by the department’s main sponsor, Holywell Music. The day ends with a recital by recent graduates at 6pm.

With Angelika Kirchschlager, Visiting Professor of Singing at the Academy and world-renowned mezzo-soprano.

OC TOBER THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Violin Sonatas Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Courtenay Cleary violin, Ariel Lanyi piano Programme: Bartók Violin Sonata no.2, Sz.76 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, op.47, ‘Kreutzer’

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OC TOBER THURSDAY, 1.05pm

The Barbirolli Lectures: The Principal’s Interview – Oliver Knussen Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £5 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details Esteemed composer and conductor, and the Academy’s Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, Oliver Knussen, discusses his life and career with the Academy’s Principal, Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood.

OC TOBER FRIDAY, from 2pm

John Solomon Brass Prize Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Competitors present a programme of their own choice for solo brass. Sponsored by Courtois Musical Instruments.

OC TOBER FRIDAY, 2.30-4pm

Listening to Recordings: Schubert’s ‘Great’ Symphony Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; these tickets will not be available online A termly event series considering signiﬁcant recordings. In this episode, Daniel-Ben Pienaar and Professor Raymond Holden discuss interpretations of Schubert’s Symphony no.9 in C, focusing speciﬁcally on Wilhelm Furtwängler’s inspired version of this monumental masterpiece.

OC TOBER MONDAY, from 10am

J & J Brough Flute Prize Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Competitors present a programme of their own choice for ﬂute.

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OC TOBER MONDAY, 12.30-1.30pm

Piano without Forte: A Curator’s Tour Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; these tickets will not be available online. Maximum of 15 people Historic Keyboard Instruments Curator Oliver Sandig gives a specialist guided tour of the Academy Museum’s historic keyboard collection, providing an insight into how the instrument has developed over 300 years. This tour will have a particular focus on the clavichord. Enjoy a rare chance to both hear and see inside our historical keyboards.

OC TOBER TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Trio Opal Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Yi-Shing Cheng piano Eriko Nagayama violin Joel Siepmann cello Programme: Beethoven Piano Trio in E ﬂat, op.70 no.2 Brahms Piano Trio in C minor, op.101

OC TOBER TUESDAY, 6pm

NOVEMBER THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Unﬁnished Mozart

The Realm of Night

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

In his inaugural lecture, the Academy’s Deputy Principal (Programmes and Research), Professor Timothy Jones, discusses Mozart’s fragments in the context of his stylistic developments.

Simon Holt Shadow Realm Britten Suite for Harp, op.83 Martinů Chamber Music no.1

NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY, 1-2pm

NOVEMBER THURSDAY, 12.30-2pm

From the rich lyricism of Martinů’s Chamber Music no.1 to the dark world of Simon Holt’s Shadow Realm, this programme of chamber music with harp takes us from the late 1950s to the early 1980s.

NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 10.30-11.15am

Academy Tots Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Child £5, adult £3 from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults per booking Come and discover the exciting world of instruments at the Royal Academy of Music. Inquisitive tots and parents are invited to this interactive session designed for children aged 2-4. In this journey through the inspiring Piano Gallery at the Academy’s Museum, we will discover instruments and explore making music as a group, led by Open Academy Fellows and the Museum Team. Please bring your singing voices and listening ears!

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NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 7.30pm

James Newton Howard: Three Decades of Music for Hollywood Venue: Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP Tickets: £29–£75 from the Royal Albert Hall: www.royalalberthall.com, tel 020 7589 8212 James Newton Howard conductor Academy Symphony Orchestra Crouch End Festival Chorus Award-winning Hollywood composer James Newton Howard presents the premiere of his ﬁrst ever ‘greatest hits’ show at the Royal Albert Hall. Three Decades of Music for Hollywood celebrates his many Tinseltown triumphs, unforgettable music from The Dark Knight, The Hunger Games series, blockbusters including The Sixth Sense and Peter Jackson’s King Kong, rom-coms Pretty Woman and My Best Friend’s Wedding, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The Academy Symphony Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus perform James Newton Howard’s greatest scores, conducted by the composer himself, matched with clips and montages from the movies. James Newton Howard will also tell stories from his incredible life working with many of the most famous names in ﬁlm and music.

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NOVEMBER SATURDAY, 10.30am-1.30pm

Historical Performance Masterclass Venue: Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; tickets not available online Eminent Bachian Philippe Herreweghe leads a masterclass for instrumentalists and vocalists on Baroque repertoire. Part of a weekend of activities involving Herreweghe; on Sunday 5 November he directs one of our esteemed Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantatas performances and is presented with the coveted Bach Prize; see below.

NOVEMBER SUNDAY, 12 noon

Philippe Herreweghe director Margaret Faultless leader Soloists to be announced Programme: JS Bach Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht, BWV 105 Mass in A, BWV 234 Brightness and darkness are juxtaposed in this concert, conducted by the distinguished Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe. Prior to the performance, Philippe Herreweghe will be presented with the Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, sponsored by the Kohn Foundation, which is awarded annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the performance and/or scholarly study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Performed on historical instruments. 23

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NOVEMBER TUESDAY, 1.05pm

NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY, 7pm

Schumann’s Myrthen

Academy String Orchestra

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Oksana Lepska soprano Cameron Mitchell tenor Andrei Iliushkin piano

Jo Cole conductor

Programme: Schumann Myrthen, op.25

NOVEMBER TUESDAY, 2.30-5.30pm

Clarinet Masterclass

Programme to include: Copland Quiet City; Hoe Down from Rodeo Head of Strings Jo Cole conducts the Academy String Orchestra, formed of the new ﬁrst-year string students. See www.ram.ac.uk/events for details.

NOVEMBER THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Piano Recital: Folk and Fairytales

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

With Andrew Marriner, Principal Clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra and Visiting Professor of Clarinet at the Academy.

Frederic Bager and Teresa de la Escalera piano

NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY, 10am

Sterndale Bennett Prize Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Competitors present recitals of piano music composed between 1830 and 1860 of their own choice.

Programme: Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses, op.54 Granados Quejas, o la maja y el ruiseñor Bartók Suite, op.14 Prokoﬁev Tales of an Old Grandmother, op.31 Chopin Waltz in F minor, op.70 no.2 Polonaise in F sharp minor, op.44

NOVEMBER THURSDAY, 2.30-5.30pm

Harp Masterclass Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Catrin Finch, Visiting Professor of Harp at the Academy, former harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales and international recording artist.

NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 2.30-4pm

Music and Art: A Sense of Pride and Joy Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; these tickets will not be available online The ﬁrst in a new termly event series on the relationship between music and visual art, featuring pieces from the Academy Museum’s collections. When the Mozart family visited London in 1765, adverts described Wolfgang and his sister Nannerl as ‘prodigies of Nature’. This event will consider artistic responses to the idea of musical genius by exploring images of British infant pianists, including portraits hanging in the Duke’s Hall. Covering a span from 1770 to 1840, themes will include the relationship between the family and the artist, the use of imagery in concert promotion and the quest for royal patronage. The event will also provide a rare opportunity to hear works composed by or associated with these young children.

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NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 7.30pm

Edward Gardner conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details Edward Gardner conductor Adrian Brendle piano Tippett Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Edward Gardner, Sir Charles Mackerras Chair of Conducting at the Academy and Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, returns to the Academy to conduct a programme framed by works inspired by dance music. The first work in the concert features a set of four dances from Tippett’s opera The Midsummer Marriage, which is consciously modelled on Mozart’s The Magic Flute and follows the marriages of two couples from different social classes. Rhapsody in Blue, which combines classical and jazz influences, established Gershwin’s reputation as a composer and has become a staple of the American repertoire. The programme concludes with Rachmaninov’s final work, the Symphonic Dances, written in America, where the composer lived for over twenty years following the First World War, and indulging in nostalgia for the Russia he had once known.

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NOVEMBER SUNDAY, 7.30pm

EFG London Jazz Festival: The Traveller’s Tale Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG Tickets: from www.kingsplace.co.uk Part of the Jazz Department’s legacy has been the celebration of our own British jazz artists and landmark albums. John Surman, one of the most celebrated of all the British jazz musicians from the classic era, established himself as a solo artist in the late 1960s, and in 1971 teamed up with Canadian saxophonist and composer John Warren. They held an ambition to record a brass project, realised in the 1980s, and in 1993 performed The Traveller’s Tale for a live recording. Tonight the suite is performed with brass players from the Academy’s Jazz Department alongside original band members Chris Laurence on bass and John Marshall on drums. The performance is conducted by John Warren and features John Surman on saxophones and clarinet.

NOVEMBER MONDAY, 1-2pm

Musical Tours: In the Beginning was the Key Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; these tickets will not be available online. Maximum of 15 people Let Dr Elena Vorotko take you on a musical journey through our Piano Gallery, discovering the sounds of the oldest keyboards on display. The Dolmetsch clavichord and the Italian polygonal virginal reveal their characters in the music that was written for them. Find yourself travelling back in time with the sounds of Frescobaldi, Purcell, Couperin, Bach and Mozart.

NOVEMBER TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Wind Quintet Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Mina Middleton ﬂute Eleanor Sullivan oboe James Gilbert clarinet Lily Frascina horn Phillip Pike bassoon Nielsen Wind Quintet, op.43 Ligeti Six Bagatelles Barber Summer Music, op.31

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NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY, 10am-1pm

NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 10am-1pm

Flute Masterclass

Violin Masterclass

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

With William Bennett,international soloist and Academy professor.

With distinguished violin professor Michael Frischenschlager, Rektor Emeritus of the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien and President of the International Fritz Kreisler Competition.

NOVEMBER

NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 2-5pm

Bassoon Masterclass Venue: York Gate 151 Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Jonathan Davies, Visiting Professor of Bassoon at the Academy and Principal Bassoon of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Tyburn Trio Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Henry Kennedy clarinet Charlotte Kaslin cello Andrei Iliushkin piano Beethoven Trio in B ﬂat, op.11 Zemlinsky Trio in D minor, op.3

NOVEMBER THURSDAY, 7pm

Composers’ Platform Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required A wide-ranging programme of new works by Academy composers.

NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 10.30-11.15am

NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 7pm

Academy Flute Ensemble Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Kate Hill conducts Academy ﬂute students in a programme of original works and arrangements.

Come and discover the exciting world of instruments at the Royal Academy of Music. Inquisitive tots and parents are invited to this interactive session designed for children aged 2–4. In this journey through the inspiring Piano Gallery at the Academy’s Museum, we will discover instruments and explore making music as a group, led by Open Academy Fellows and the Museum Team. Please bring your singing voices and listening ears!

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NOVEMBER SUNDAY, 4pm

Academy Big Band at the EFG London Jazz Festival Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details. Pete Churchill director As part of the Academy’s Jazz @ 30 celebrations, the Academy Big Band presents the music of our internationally regarded Professor of Jazz Composition, Pete Churchill, whose career as a pianist, composer and educator spans almost thirty-ﬁve years at the highest levels of the jazz scene and conservatoire education. Pete has taught a staggering proportion of the leading names in jazz over several of the previous generations and his generosity as a teacher and musical breadth as a composer are legendary. Alongside a brand new suite commissioned for this evening, there will be a sample of his early writing for such contemporary jazz orchestras as the BBC Big Band. The London Vocal Project, which has been directed by Pete since it was formed ten years ago, will join the celebrations.

Alumni Network extra

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NOVEMBER MONDAY, from 2pm

Doctoral Symposium and Open Day Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required. For further information please email research@ram.ac.uk The Academy’s doctoral programme provides a collaborative environment for musicians to share and critique working practices, and a framework for developing long-term projects that will drive distinctive careers. It also offers a research and development engine for the Academy’s taught programmes. This event highlights a small selection of current and recently completed projects encompassing aspects of artistry and professional development, engagement with tradition and exploration of creative processes. The symposium will begin with an introduction to the programme and its raison d’être, and will conclude with a round table and open discussion in which the audience will be invited to participate.

NOVEMBER MONDAY, 6.30pm

NOVEMBER TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Wilfrid Parry Prize: Final

Harp Chamber Music

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Finalists perform their choice of a complete sonata by Brahms for strings and piano.

Programme: Frankel Sonata ebraica for cello and harp Lowell Liebermann Sonata for ﬂute and harp Christopher Gunning Beach Scenes of Brazil for harp quartet

NOVEMBER MONDAY, 7pm

Organ Recital Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Benjamin Newlove, James Orford and Marko Sever organ Andrzej Malitowski and Jamie Rogers harmonium Programme: Louis Vierne Organ Symphony no.2 in E minor, op.20 René Vierne works for harmonium

NOVEMBER TUESDAY, 10.30am-1pm

Piano Masterclass Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Steven Osborne, Visiting Professor of Piano at the Academy.

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NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY, 7pm

Royal Academy Opera: Don Giovanni Venue: Round Chapel, Lower Clapton Road (at junction with Glenarm Road), Hackney, London E5 0NP Tickets: £20 (concessions £15) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details. Gareth Hancock conductor Christopher Cowell director Bridget Kimak designer Royal Academy Opera Royal Academy Sinfonia Mozart Don Giovanni, K.527 Christopher Cowell directs this thoughtprovoking new interpretation of Mozart’s masterpiece, Don Giovanni, as Royal Academy Opera returns to Hackney’s historic Round Chapel. Further performances: Thursday 23rd November 7pm Friday 24th November 7pm Saturday 25th November 7pm

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NOVEMBER THURSDAY, 12.30-2pm

NOVEMBER THURSDAY, 6pm

Soundbox

Jazz Ensembles

Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Retracings

Programme: Carter Retracing II, III, IV and V John Woolrich Favola in Musica II Lassus arr. Philip Cashian Duos nos.16, 18 and 20 Crawford Seeger Suite for Wind Quintet Soﬁa Gubaidulina Trio for three trumpets Four late miniatures by Elliott Carter frame a programme of re-imagined Monteverdi and Lassus, Gubaidulina’s brilliant Trio for three trumpets and the much-neglected Suite for Wind Quintet by Ruth Crawford Seeger.

NOVEMBER THURSDAY, 7pm

Royal Academy Opera: Don Giovanni See Wednesday 22 November.

NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 7pm

Royal Academy Opera: Don Giovanni

NOVEMBER

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

See Wednesday 22 November.

NOVEMBER THURSDAY, 7pm

Laurence Cummings directs the Academy Baroque Ensemble Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Laurence Cummings director Programme to include: JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto no.6 in B ﬂat, BWV 1051 Handel Concerto grosso in B ﬂat, op.6 no.7 Renowned harpsichordist and director Laurence Cummings returns to direct the Academy Baroque Ensemble in a colourful programme of concertos from across Europe, featuring a variety of soloists from the Historical Performance Department and showcasing the Academy’s own period instrument ensemble. 31

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NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 7pm

APITOS!: Salsa Night for Dave Hassell Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required The Academy’s Timpani and Percussion and Jazz departments join forces for this concert of Cuban and Brazilian music. The event celebrates the seventieth birthday of one of the pioneers of Latin music education in this country, drummer and percussionist Dave Hassell, who has been at the forefront of the music scene in the UK for decades and has taught many leading names in the business, as well as being a long-term professor at the Academy. To commemorate this milestone students will present a set of music by Dave’s legendary band, APITOS!

NOVEMBER SATURDAY, 7pm

NOVEMBER TUESDAY, 3pm and WEDNESDAY, 7pm

Royal Academy Opera: Don Giovanni

Composer in Residence: Andrew Norman

See Wednesday 22 November.

Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Tuesday 28 November: NOVEMBER

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall

TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Andrew Norman, winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award 2016, visits the Academy as Composer in Residence for an interview with Paul Morley.

Guitar Recital: Preludes and Fugues

Wednesday 29 November: Venue: Duke’s Hall

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Tim Weiss conductor

Emmanuel Sowicz and Giacomo Susani guitar

Programme: Matthew Olyver new work Andrew Norman Unstuck; Try; In Transition

Programme: JS Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E ﬂat, BWV 998 Adagio and Fugue from Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001 Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847 Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in D, op.87 no.5 Castelnuovo-Tedesco Preludes and Fugues, op.199 nos.4 and 7 Award-winning student guitarists present a contrapuntal feast of solos and duos from the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

28/29

A programme of music by Andrew Norman conducted by fellow American and recipient of the Adventurous Programming Award from the League of American Orchestras, Tim Weiss of Oberlin College, who has appeared as guest conductor with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Britten Sinfonia. The concert will open with a new commission from Academy composition student Matthew Olyver.

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NOVEMBER TUESDAY, 6pm

29/30

NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, 6pm

Jazz Ensembles

Royal Academy Opera Scenes

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Venue: Rudolf Steiner Theatre, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details

NOVEMBER

Royal Academy Opera is delighted to welcome Ashley Dean to direct our latest offering of operatic scenes. Our talented trio of Répétiteur Fellows will take musical charge of the evening, which is an opportunity for those singers not involved in Don Giovanni to develop their stagecraft, with the core focus and emphasis on acting and dramatic relationships, rather than typically expensive production values.

WEDNESDAY, 10am-1pm

Violin Masterclass Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Internationally acclaimed violin soloist, major competition winner and Academy alumnus Ning Feng shares his inspiring artistry with our students.

DECEMBER FRIDAY, 1.05pm

Septura Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Schütz arr. Simon Cox Das Wort ward Fleisch JS Bach arr. Matthew Knight Christmas Suite Handel arr. Simon Cox Messiah (excerpts) Tchaikovsky arr. Matthew Knight The Nutcracker Suite Septura, Ensemble in Residence at the Academy, formed of principal brass players from London’s major orchestras, have redeﬁned brass chamber music through the uniquely expressive sound of the brass septet by creating a canon of transcriptions, arrangements and new commissions for this conﬁguration. Today they perform side by side with Academy brass students.

DECEMBER

DECEMBER FRIDAY, 6pm

Carols by Candlelight Venue: St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT Tickets: £10 including post-concert refreshments (limited availability) or £5 for the service only from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Wednesday 19 July, tel 020 7873 7300 from Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details Celebrate the musical majesty of Christmas with the entire Academy family at this annual festive event.

DECEMBER SATURDAY, 3.45pm

Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Richard Dickins conductor Programme: Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon: Overture Respighi Pines of Rome Gounod Ballet Music from Faust

DECEMBER SUNDAY, 12 noon

Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantatas Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £15 (concessions £12) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/bach available now, tel 020 7873 7300 reopening Monday 4 September; see page 36 for full details Iain Ledingham director Margaret Faultless leader Soloists to be announced Programme: JS Bach Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130; Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn!, BWV 132; Christen ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63 Performed on modern instruments.

DECEMBER SATURDAY, 3pm and 7.30pm

Musical Theatre Company Concert Venue: Shaw Theatre, 100–110 Euston Road, London NW1 2AJ Tickets: £15 (concessions £12.50) from Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.co.uk, tel 0844 844 0444 (standard call charges apply + 7p/min) The Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company presents its annual Autumn Term concert. Kickstart the Christmas season with the sensational voices of the Musical Theatre Company accompanied by Academy musicians.

DECEMBER

DECEMBER WEDNESDAY, 7.30pm

Academy Manson Ensemble with London Sinfonietta Venue: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX Tickets: £15–£25 (concessions 50% off) from Southbank Centre: www.southbankcentre.co.uk, tel 020 3879 9555; booking fees apply Oliver Knussen conductor Academy Manson Ensemble London Sinfonietta Stockhausen Zodiac for orchestra Stockhausen Trans for orchestra and tape Oliver Knussen, the Academy’s Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, conducts an all-Stockhausen programme culminating in Trans (1971), a magniﬁcent and fascinating orchestral work which came to the composer in a dream. As much a piece of theatre as it is music, the entirety of it is played behind a mesh gauze, so that the eerie sounds seem to appear and fade away as if in a dream themselves. This project is the most recent collaboration in a series of side-by-side concerts and mentorship experience for senior Academy students with London Sinfonietta, which began in 2002. This is the third in a biennial series of large-scale Stockhausen performances at Royal Festival Hall.

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MASTERCLASSES

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COMPETITIONS

2017 performances are on sale online now. Booking by telephone and in person will resume on Monday 4 September. 2018 Bach Cantatas will go on sale (online, by phone and in person) on Tuesday 10 October, with Patrons’ priority booking day on Monday 9 October. Tickets can be collected during Box Office hours, or from 45 minutes before the performance. Doors open 30 minutes before the performance. Detailed information on attending events, step-free access, travelling to the Academy and more is available at www.ram.ac.uk/events or call the Box Office.

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Most of our work takes place out of the public eye, in an environment that enables our students to explore their individual creative identities. Our masterclasses give you insights into these thought processes, and into the sophisticated technical details that must be perfectly executed to make a performance complete. We are delighted to share them with you, but please note that they do not normally include opportunities for audience participation.

The public are welcome to attend Academy competitions. All details are subject to change, so please visit www.ram.ac.uk/events or contact the Prizes Administrator before travelling: tel 020 7873 7308, email prizes@ram.ac.uk.

VISIT OUR MUSEUM Explore unique instruments, manuscripts and art, and discover behind-the-scenes stories from the Academy, the UK’s oldest conservatoire. • • • • • •

Three themed galleries Temporary exhibitions Guided tours Keyboard demonstrations Special events and lecture-recitals Events for families and children’s trails

The Museum is open weekdays 11.30am–5.30pm and Saturdays 12 noon–4pm (closed December and public holidays). Our current temporary exhibition, The Spencer Collection: A Musical Banquet, is open until Saturday 31 March 2018. The exhibition celebrates Robert Spencer’s important part in the early music revival and his wondrous collection of artefacts held at our Museum. The Spencer Collection is a feast for the senses, particularly rich in the development of plucked string instruments and the early guitar. See a lute from 1585 that may have provided entertainment at a Tudor banquet, and a Panormo guitar from 1848 that was perhaps the favourite instrument of an accomplished young lady. Pique your curiosity with guitar songs printed on playing cards, and with one of only two surviving examples of the handwriting of the great English Renaissance musician John Dowland (1563–1626). Admission is free. More information about the Museum, its collections and activities is available at www.ram.ac.uk/museum. On the ground ﬂoor of the Museum, the Academy Chimes shop has a wide range of printed music, books and accessories, as well as Academy-themed gifts. Open weekdays 9am–5.30pm and Saturdays 9am–4pm; tel 020 7873 7400. www.ram.ac.uk/academy-chimes

HIRE OUR MUSICIANS To hire Academy performers for your events, please contact the External Bookings Manager: tel 020 7873 7304 or email externalbookings@ram.ac.uk.

KEEP IN TOUCH To receive Academy event updates by post or email, please send your contact details to publicity@ram.ac.uk or tel 020 7873 7433. SOCIAL MEDIA facebook.com/royalacademyofmusic twitter.com/RoyalAcadMusic instagram.com/royalacademyofmusic snapchat.com/add/royalacadmusic

HOW TO FIND US

ALUMNI NETWORK

The Academy stands at the edge of Marylebone Village on Marylebone Road, a few minutes’ walk from either Baker Street or Regent’s Park tube station.

www.ram.ac.uk/alumni

STEP-FREE ACCESS Museum and York Gate rooms: ramped access via the side entrance. David Josefowitz Recital Hall: there is ramped access via the side entrance to the Museum and wheelchairs can be easily accommodated. Duke’s Hall and Henry Wood Room: wheelchair access is also through the side entrance to the Museum.

The Alumni Network provides all former students of the Academy with a wide-ranging professional support service and social network, whether they graduated many decades ago or within the last few years. Alumni can keep in touch via our Online Alumni Portal and social media groups, and enjoy many exclusive beneﬁts, including an Alumni Card. Alumni Network Extra Event Sunday 19 November 4pm Academy Big Band at the EFG London Jazz Festival We look forward to welcoming alumni of all generations at our new series of mini-reunion events, featuring exclusive post-performance social opportunities to meet and greet performers, conductors, associate artists, staff and each other.

B O O K I N G /AC A D E M Y I N F O R M AT I O N ‘ I N S P I R I N G P E O P L E ’ S E AT C A M PA I G N A special chance to name your own seat in our new Theatre and Recital Hall or pay homage to someone who has inspired you.

We are inviting you to make a gift to name a seat in our dazzling new Theatre and Recital Hall, which will open in early 2018. The seat could bear your name, or you could dedicate it to someone who has inspired you. Perhaps your mentor or teacher? A living legend or a musician who ﬂourished many generations ago? A friend or family member? Every donation will have a huge impact on the inspiring young musicians and their inspirational teachers who make the Academy so special. To ﬁnd out more, visit:

www.ram.ac.uk/inspiring or contact us: tel 020 7873 7334 email development@ram.ac.uk

BUILDING MUSICAL FUTURES J O I N O U R PAT R O N S ‘Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of ﬁre.’ G U S TAV M A H L E R We have a proud tradition of philanthropy at the Royal Academy of Music. The foresight and generosity of our supporters over the years has shaped us into the world-class conservatoire that we are today. Your generous support is both a tribute to our past and a vote of conﬁdence in the exciting future of the Academy and our talented young artists. To put it quite simply, you help to transform the lives of our young musicians who will go on to shape the world of music for many years to come. Our community of donors gives to a variety of programmes, from scholarships for young artists to the creation of a stunning new Theatre. We thank you for being a part of the Academy and for your dedication to its success. To learn more about our philanthropic programme and how you can become involved please contact Kate Birch, Philanthropy Manager: kbirch@ram.ac.uk / 020 7873 7421

‘This support makes my studies possible and I don’t take a single day for granted.’ A C A D E MY S T U D E N T

Patron HM The Queen President HRH The Duchess of Gloucester GCVO Principal Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood facebook.com/royalacademyofmusic twitter.com/RoyalAcadMusic instagram.com/royalacademyofmusic Sign up to email alerts at www.ram.ac.uk/sign-upÂ Registered Charity No. 310007

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