Spring Diary 2018 by Royal Academy of Music

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SPRING PROGRAMME

Patron HM The Queen President HRH The Duchess of Gloucester GCVO Principal Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood

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CHROMA

I mo gen C o o p er

Jonathan Dove

Philippe Graffin

Stephen Hough

Steven Isserlis

Nash Ensemble

Ev an Par ker

Claude-Michel Schönberg

Colin Currie

Helmut Deutsch

Kit Downes

Manfred Eicher

Simon Halsey

G ar et h H a n c o c k

Oliver Knussen

Rachel Podger

Gwilym Simcock

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Mischa Maisky

Dav i d R us s e l l J ac v an S t e e n

Sir Mark Elder |

Jasper Høiby

Andrew Marriner

Martin Schmeding |

Wim Van Hasselt

T H E P R I N C I PA Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; S W E LC O M E Welcome to Spring at the Academy. This is a particularly exciting term for us as it heralds a new era. For over two years, the Academy has been undergoing major building works, and many of our concerts and productions have taken place at iconic external venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, Ambika P3, Royal Festival Hall and Hackney Empire. Now, finally, we are coming home to our own utterly transformed Theatre and a wonderful New Recital Hall. These world-class performance spaces reflect the educational and artistic ambitions of the Academy across the broadest range of styles and genres. From early opera to all forms of contemporary musical theatre and jazz, we now have facilities in the heart of the building which match the quality and potential of our students. The first major production in the highly anticipated new Theatre will be Jonathan Doveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flight, conducted by our Director of Opera, Gareth Hancock, and featuring the outstanding students of Royal Academy Opera. And, of course, we will also be presenting our usual wealth and variety of performances and events, where you can hear Academy students work with some of the finest and most established names in the profession. With our vibrant new performance spaces and our elegant accessible entrance, we look forward to welcoming everyone, of all ages, to the Academy to enjoy our Spring programme. See you here very soon!

PROFESSOR JONATHAN FREEMAN-ATTWOOD

AC A D E M Y E V E N T S E R I E S

SPRING

Tuesday and Thursday Series

Jazz@30

JANUARY

Our popular series of lunchtime concerts of music for small ensembles and soloists, on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Alumni Network Extra

Friday Series Large-scale Friday Series performances in the Duke’s Hall

Bach Cantatas In collaboration with the Kohn Foundation

Strings at Home Strings at Home events with our distinguished professors of strings

30 years of jazz at the Academy

Alumni Network Extra events

JAZZ

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PROGRAMME

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WEDNESDAY, 1–2pm

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JANUARY THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Drop-in Lunchtime London Tour Metropolitan Brass 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.

JANUARY TUESDAY, 7pm

Organ Recital

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Emily Mitchell and Tom Freeman-Attwood trumpet Ben Hulme horn Benny Vernon trombone Stuart Beard tuba Joakim Agnas Tango Jan Bach Laudes Bo Nilsson Wendepunkt André Previn Four Outings for Brass

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

JANUARY

Louis Vierne Organ Symphony No 3 in F sharp minor, Op 28 René Vierne Pastorale and Intermezzo from 12 Pièces de différents caractères, de la Méthode pour orgue-harmonium Louis Vierne Scherzetto and Madrigal from 24 Pièces en style libre, Op 31

Schubert Octet

THURSDAY, 7pm

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Djumash Poulsen and Roberts Balanas violin Madeleine Pickering viola Charlotte Kaslin cello Salvador Morera Ortells double bass James Gilbert clarinet Angharad Thomas bassoon Oliver Davis horn Schubert Octet in F, D 803

JANUARY FRIDAY, 7pm

Piano Recital Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Chiyan Wong piano Liszt Réminiscences de Simon Boccanegra, S 438 Bach/Busoni arr Chiyan Wong Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Busoni In der Art eines Choralvorspiels from Drei Albumblätter, BV 289 A new arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations complemented by late works by Busoni and Liszt.

JANUARY TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Scandinavian and Italian Art Song Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Hannah Poulsom mezzo-soprano Alex Aldren tenor Thormod Rønning Kvam piano Respighi Stornellatrice; Notte; Nebbie Grieg Haugtussa, Op 67 (excerpts); Notturno, Op 54 No 4; Six Songs, Op 25 Sibelius Var det en dröm?; Svarta rosor; Säv, säv, susa; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte

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JANUARY

Austin Nelson

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JAZZ

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TUESDAY, 7.30pm

JANUARY FRIDAY, 1.05pm

Academy Big Band

Pierre-Laurent Aimard directs the Academy Soloists Ensemble

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £10 (concessions £8) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details Nick Smart director Dave Douglas trumpet Evan Parker saxophone

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

The Academy is pleased to welcome back its inaugural International Jazz Artist in Residence, trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas, joined by one of the godfathers of European improvised music, saxophonist Evan Parker.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard director

Dave Douglas is one of the most influential jazz musicians in the world today. Since 1993 he has released more than 50 recordings and created a composition catalogue that exceeds 400 works. His unique contributions to improvised music have garnered distinguished recognition, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Aaron Copland Award and, most recently, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s Jazz NEXT grant and Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music.

Mozart Serenade in C minor, K 388/384a Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat, Op 19 Distinguished pianist and Visiting Professor of Music Pierre-Laurent Aimard makes a welcome return as director and soloist in Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto. Mozart’s Serenade in C minor for eight wind instruments was written in 1782–83 and is often known as ‘Nacht Musik’. Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto, written just a few years later, in 1787–89, but not published and performed in its final version until 1795, provided an important display piece for Beethoven as a soloist during his early years in Vienna.

This performance is the culmination of a three-day residency working with students at the Academy. The concert focuses on some of Douglas’s large ensemble music, interspersed with smaller group interludes, and features the UK premiere of Eight Elements of Change.

JANUARY

Guitar Masterclass

Soundbox

Bukolika Piano Trio

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

Venue: Museum Strings Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online

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

WEDNESDAY, 6.30–9.30pm

With Fabio Zanon, leading international soloist and Visiting Professor of Guitar at the Academy.

THURSDAY, 12.30–2pm

Soundbox is a series of events inspired by the Academy’s Museum and collections. Presented by Peter Sheppard Skærved, violinist and Viotti lecturer, each event explores the historical and contemporary relationships between performers, composers, instruments and instrument makers. A different inspirational and illuminating experience every time.

THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Anna Szałucka piano Roma Tic violin Joanna Gutowska cello Ravel Sonatine Messiaen Thème et variations Debussy Cello Sonata Oswaldo González Calligrammes Marco Borggreve

JANUARY

J A N UA RY

FRIDAY, 10.30–11.15am

Academy Tots Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Child £5, adult £3 from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults per booking Inquisitive tots and parents are invited to this interactive session designed for children aged 2–4 to discover instruments and explore making music as a group, led by Open Academy fellows and the Museum Team.

JANUARY FRIDAY, 2.30–4pm

Music and Art: The Pastoral and the Classical Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online Art historian Clare Hornsby, in conversation with Daniel-Ben Pienaar, explores notions of anxiety and nostalgia in the paintings of Antoine Watteau, narrative images of music making, the fashion for the exotic and the breaking down of courtly conventions across both the visual arts and music in the 18th century, with reference to Mozart and Jacques-Louis David.

JANUARY

FRIDAY, 7pm

Composers’ Project: Mallet Quartets Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Colin Currie directs a concert of six new pieces for mallet quartet by postgraduate composers.

SUNDAY, 3pm

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle at Wigmore Hall

JANUARY 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; see page 44 for full details

Venue: Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Director: John Gilhooly, The Wigmore Hall Trust. Registered Charity No 1024838. Tickets: £15 from Wigmore Hall Box Office. How to book: In person 7 days a week: 10am–8.30pm. Days without an evening concert: 10am–5pm. No advance booking in the half-hour prior to a concert. Telephone 020 7935 2141 7 days a week: 10am–7pm. Days without an evening concert: 10am–5pm. £3 administration fee. Online www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. £2 administration fee. Disabled Access and Facilities For full details please call 020 7935 2141 or email access@wigmore-hall.org.uk.

Join us for the first concert of the 10th and final year of the Academy’s Bach Cantata Series. ‘The perfect Sunday lunch for any Bach lover.’ The Times

Iain Ledingham director Madeleine Easton leader Leslie Bickle soprano Hannah Bennett mezzo-soprano Emanuel Heitz tenor Richard Walshe bass-baritone JS Bach Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115 JS Bach Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende, BWV 90 JS Bach Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120 JS Bach completed Timothy Jones Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied!, BWV 190 (opening chorus) Performed on modern instruments.

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Belinda Lawley

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Benjamin Ealovega

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Meinir Wyn Roberts soprano Patrick Terry countertenor Hiroshi Amako tenor Richard Walshe bass-baritone Zuzanna Basińska and Keval Shah piano Programme to include: Schubert Gondelfahrer, D 808 Schumann Zwei Venetianische Lieder from Myrthen, Op 25 Mendelssohn Venetianisches Gondellied, Op 57 No 5 Head St Mark’s Square Massenet Souvenir de Venise Gounod Venise Glinka Venetian Night Rossini La regata veneziana; La gita in gondola; I marinai Tosti Venetian Song A celebration of Venice in songs, duets and quartets. Singers and pianists from the Academy present a programme of melodic beauty, vivid emotions and expressive contrasts.

J A N UA RY

TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Piano Recital Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Ignas Maknickas and Bo Lyu piano Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60 Alvidas Remesa Stigmata Chopin Piano Sonata in B minor, Op 58

JANUARY

The Henry Wood Lectures: My Trumpet and Me

Joan Chissell Schumann Lieder Prize: Final

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

The Academy’s Head of Brass, distinguished trumpeter Mark David, discusses his life and career with Professor Raymond Holden.

Including the Rex Stephens Prize for Accompanists. Founded in memory of Joan Chissell, revered critic and Schumann authority, and Rex Stephens, former Academy professor of accompaniment. Selected students perform a recital of Lieder lasting 25–30 minutes, including works by Schumann.

JANUARY TUESDAY, 6pm

JANUARY TUESDAY, 2.30–3.30pm

Musical Tours: JANUARY WEDNESDAY, 6.30–9.30pm Square and Grand Guitar Masterclass Fortepianos — David Josefowitz Recital Hall Battle of Inventions Venue: Tickets: Free, no tickets required Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online Honorary Research Fellow Dr Elena Vorotko explores the contrasts in sound and construction between British and Viennese early fortepianos. The breakthrough inventions that enabled the development of the piano will be demonstrated through music by JC Bach, Scarlatti, Clementi, Cramer, Field, Haydn and Beethoven.

With David Russell, Visiting Professor of Guitar at the Academy.

JANUARY THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Guitar Recital

FRIDAY, 7.30pm

Oliver Knussen conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £10 (concessions £8) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details Oliver Knussen conductor Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op 36 Stravinsky Funeral Song, Op 5 Stravinsky Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1945 version)

JANUARY FRIDAY, 10am–1pm

Harp Masterclass Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Oliver Knussen, the Academy’s Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture alongside three works by fellow Russian Stravinsky. The Funeral Song, written in memory of Rimsky-Korsakov, was composed in 1908; tragically, the original score was lost after the first performance, but the orchestral parts were found at the St Petersburg Conservatory in 2015. The last of Stravinsky’s orchestral compositions, Variations, is another tribute work, dedicated to the composer’s close friend, English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. The concert finishes with the 1945 Suite from the ballet The Firebird, which follows hero of Slavic folklore Prince Ivan into the magical realm of Koschei the Immortal.

With Sylvain Blassel, harp professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon and conducting professor at the Conservatoire de Rennes, known for his daring transcriptions of piano works for the harp.

JANUARY

Bradley Johnson and Vitor Moraes Sandes guitar

HL Hammond Prize

Award-winning postgraduate guitarists present three seminal works from the classical guitar’s 20th-century repertoire.

JANUARY

THURSDAY, 6pm

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

Lennox Berkeley Theme and Variations, Op 77 Smith Brindle El Polifemo de Oro Villa-Lobos 12 Études

FRIDAY, 6pm

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required For verse speaking — in exploration of the musicality of language. Open to Musical Theatre and Vocal Faculty students.

Mark Allan BBC

JANUARY

J A N UA RY/ F E B RUA RY

JANUARY

English Song Recital

Trumpet Masterclass

Mica Comberti Prize

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

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

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

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

Charlotte La Thrope soprano Susannah Bedford mezzo-soprano Katie Wong and Adam Cigman-Mark piano

A prize for the performance of any complete work by JS Bach for violin, viola or viola da gamba.

Students present their own choice of keyboard work by JS Bach. This prize is generously sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Musicians in memory of the distinguished English pianist and Academy alumna Harriet Cohen. A second prize is awarded as the Harold Samuel Prize.

Jonathan Dove All You Who Sleep Tonight Smyth The Clown; Possession Frankel I had a dove; Faery Song Adam Cigman-Mark Recension Day Bridge Come to me in my dreams Novello We’ll gather lilacs

With international trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts, who also leads the Academy Symphonic Brass in a concert in the Duke’s Hall on Thursday 1 February (see page 13).

JANUARY MONDAY, 10am

Worshipful Company of Musicians Harriet Cohen Bach Prize

JANUARY TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Choral Conducting Day

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

The Academy’s choral conducting students work with the BBC Singers and one of the country’s leading choral conductors and pedagogues, Paul Brough, on music from the Romantic and modern eras.

Jacob Brown and Matthew Farthing percussion Sam Becker double bass Plínio Fernandes guitar Charlie Woof-Byrne piano Oscar Gormley vocals Sim Canetty-Clarke

10.30am–1pm: Masterclass 2–3.45pm: Masterclass 4pm: Concert

TUESDAY, 7pm

RAM Club Prize Winner’s Recital: Jacob Brown

TUESDAY, from 10.30am

JANUARY WEDNESDAY, 10am

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

TUESDAY, 2–5pm

Nils Frahm Hammers Jacob Brown What for Now? Eric Brown Zeitgeist Eric Clapton arr Jacob Brown Little Man, You’ve Had a Busy Day Gary Burton/Keith Jarrett In Your Quiet Place Trad Guantanamera Messiaen arr Jacob Brown Prelude No 6: Bells of Anguish and Tears of Farewell Trad The Downfall of Paris Radiohead Codex

WEDNESDAY, 7.30pm

Academy Song Circle: Schubertiade

FEBRUARY THURSDAY, 12.30–2pm

Soundbox Venue: Museum Strings Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online

FEBRUARY THURSDAY, 7pm

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

Jeroen Berwaerts conductor

Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover, conducts a programme of original works and arrangements for brass ensemble spanning five centuries.

FEBRUARY THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

Schwanengesang

The Academy Song Circle presents a programme of Lieder composed in 1815, when the 18-year-old Schubert’s love affair with Therese Grob ended. This was also the time that the composer escaped the drudgery of his father’s school by going to live with his friend Franz von Schober. During this year he dedicated a volume of his Lieder to Goethe and composed no fewer than 100 songs, including such masterpieces as the first version of Goethe’s ‘An den Mond’, ‘An Schwager Kronos’, ‘Erlkönig’ and ‘Nähe des Geliebten’.

Michael Rakotoarivony baritone Teodora Oprișor piano

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

Purcell Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary Tobias Broström Distant Horizons Ligeti arr Elgar Howarth Mysteries of the Macabre Henze Ragtimes and Habaneras Björk Dancer in the Dark Overture Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Suite from The Threepenny Opera)

Peter Kallo

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Schubert Schwanengesang, D 957

F E B RUA RY

FEBRUARY FRIDAY, 10.30–11.15am

FEBRUARY FRIDAY, 2.30–4pm

Proto-Chopin and the Polonaise Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online Presented on instruments of Chopin’s time, this lecture-recital by Otis Beasley explores pianistic and compositional development in the composer’s early polonaises, together with examples by his teachers and associates.

FEBRUARY FRIDAY, 7pm

‘A Crowd of Twisted Things’: New Works for Ensemble and Voice

FEBRUARY

Organ Masterclass

Cello Masterclass

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

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £5 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

FEBRUARY MONDAY, 10am–1pm

With Martin Schmeding, organ professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig, who works with students on music by Max Reger.

We are delighted to welcome the distinguished and world-acclaimed cellist Mischa Maisky to the Academy. As the only cellist to have studied with both Rostropovich and Piatigorsky, he brings rich treasures of knowledge and experience to benefit our cello students.

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Isabella Gellis La lune ne garde aucune rancune Thomas Gibbs Cantato Mitchell Keely Les images des espaces louangés Zhenyan Li 34 Philip Raskovic Restoring Sleep Joshua Hickin think of David Rose Lastingham Crypt Kristupas Bubnelis Lieder A programme of new works for solo voice with mixed ensemble. This concert showcases a variety of approaches to songwriting from the Academy’s third-year undergraduate composers, with settings of texts varied in theme, content and language, with instrumental forces ranging from a single player to large ensemble with live electronics.

FEBRUARY MONDAY, 10am

Jonathan Myall Piccolo Prize Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required A prize for solo piccolo, generously sponsored by Jonathan Myall. Set repertoire to be announced.

Hideki Shiozawa

Initiated by composition student Isabella Gellis, many of the varied instrumentations and poetic and literary themes relate to her piece, La lune ne garde aucune rancune, which is a setting of TS Eliot’s Rhapsody on a Windy Night, from which the event’s title is quoted.

MONDAY, 6–9pm

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FEBRUARY MONDAY, 7.30pm

Guitar Chamber Music Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details JS Bach French Suite No 5 in G, BWV 816 Dušan Bogdanović Talisman Castelnuovo-Tedesco Sonatina, Op 205 Falla Siete canciones populares españolas Fossa Trio, Op 18 No 3 Françaix Sonata Phillip Houghton Suite of Six Trios Stephen Goss Park of Idols Plus selected songs by Britten, Giuliani, Schubert and Tippett

TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Talisman Trio Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Andrei Iliushkin piano André Pereira violin Charlotte Kaslin cello Mozart Piano Trio in E, K 542 Brahms Piano Trio in C, Op 87

FEBRUARY

TUESDAY, 7pm

WEDNESDAY, 1.10pm

WEDNESDAY, 1–2pm

Drop-in Lunchtime Freshers’ Cello Ensemble Tour

Composers’ Project: Tritium Trio Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Academy fellows the Tritium Trio give a recital of six brand new works written especially for them by postgraduate composition students.

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

Venue: St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL Tickets: Free, no tickets required

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

First-year undergraduate cellists, under the guidance of the Academy’s Alfredo Piatti Chair of Cello, Josephine Knight, go on a journey through the soundworld of massed cellos, from Klengel’s Hymnus for 12 cellos, through fresh arrangements of classic works by JS Bach and Barber, to a unique sample of the soundtrack from the film Mission Impossible.

FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Seldom Sene Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Directed by Anna Stegmann and Caroline Ritchie, the Academy recorder and viol consorts present a programme of instrumental fantasias and In nomines from Taverner to Purcell.

TUESDAY, 6–9pm

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

7&8

With Visiting Professor of Piano Imogen Cooper, regarded as one of the finest interpreters of Classical and Romantic repertoire. Sim Canetty-Clarke

Academy students present a programme featuring a variety of musical genres and instrumental ensembles involving the classical guitar.

FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY, 6pm THURSDAY, 6pm

JAZZ

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Academy Jazz Festival: Alumni Artists JAZZ

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall @30 Tickets: £5 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details To mark the ongoing celebrations of the jazz course’s 30th anniversary, this year’s Academy Jazz Festival welcomes back a selection of distinguished alumni to lead ensemble projects. The bands will feature music connected to these artists, performed by the artists themselves alongside Academy students. This year’s guests are Nathaniel Facey, Gwilym Simcock, Kit Downes, Jasper Høiby, Graeme Blevins and Paul Booth.

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Academy Symphonic Wind Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Keith Bragg conductor Mozart arr Timothy Jones Don Giovanni (excerpts) Enescu Dixtuor, Op 14 Ravel arr Philip White Oiseaux tristes and Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs

FEBRUARY

Lorenza Borrani directs Haydn

Flute Masterclass

An Audience with Manfred Eicher

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online

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

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £5 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

label in 1969, it is our honour to acknowledge the contribution this legendary producer has made with the presentation of Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music.

ECM Records has become one of the iconic labels of contemporary music, defining sound and aesthetic for generations in jazz, improvised, classical and contemporary music. As we approach 50 years since Manfred Eicher founded his Edition of Contemporary Music

In an interview with the Academy’s Deputy Principal and Dean, Mark Racz, Eicher discusses his life’s work with the label and some of the many artists he has worked alongside in his career, which now spans the production of more than a thousand recordings.

Lorenza Borrani director Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists Kirkman Quartet Haydn String Quartet to be announced Haydn Symphony No 83 in G minor, ‘La poule’

FEBRUARY

FRIDAY, 6pm

MONDAY, 10am–1pm

Lorenza Borrani, eminent soloist and leader of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists present the results of their workshop on Haydn’s Symphony No 83, the second in the series of six ‘Paris’ symphonies popularly known as ‘The Hen’. This nickname derives from the ‘clucking’ effect heard in the opening movement, which reminded listeners of the jerky head motions of a walking hen. The performance will also feature one of Haydn’s string quartets, prepared in an earlier workshop led by Borrani.

MONDAY, 7pm

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

FEBRUARY MONDAY, 2–5pm

Historical Performance Masterclass Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Menno van Delft, professor of harpsichord and clavichord at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and one of the world’s foremost early keyboard specialists. Marco Borggreve

Keith Bragg, Head of Woodwind, presents a programme featuring new arrangements by Academy staff — excerpts from Mozart’s Don Giovanni by the Deputy Principal (Programmes and Research), Professor Timothy Jones, and two movements from Ravel’s Miroirs by the Awards and International Projects Manager, Philip White. The centrepiece of the programme is the wind dectet by Romanian composer George Enescu.

FEBRUARY

Richard Schroeder/ECM Records

FRIDAY, 1.05pm

Werner Kmetitsch

FEBRUARY

BRITISH CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES This year’s Spring Chamber Music Series throws a spotlight on British music from the 20th and 21st centuries. We present original pieces and new realisations by 13 living composers and Academy links permeate all concerts, with works by distinguished alumni, Visiting Professors, professors and current students. Challenges, delights and unexpected insights await performers and audiences alike.

FEBRUARY

Moriarty Winds

Tritium Trio

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

Amy Yule flute Amy Roberts oboe Matthew Wilsher clarinet Joel Roberts horn Angharad Thomas bassoon

Joseph Havlat piano Jernej Albreht clarinet Lydia Hillerudh cello

FEBRUARY TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Gareth Moorcroft Realisation for wind quintet Richard Rodney Bennett Concerto for Wind Quintet Harrison Birtwistle Refrains and Choruses Oliver Knussen Three Little Fantasies Arnold Three Shanties, Op 4

THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Michael Finnissy Possession (du condamné) McCabe Sonata for clarinet, cello and piano Howard Skempton Lullaby Ireland Trio in D minor

THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Vaughan Williams and Warlock Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge Warlock The Curlew

FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY TUESDAY, 1.05pm

TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Academy Composers

British Oboe

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

Bowen Horn Quartet Bax Elegiac Trio Berkeley Sonatina, Op 13 Freya Waley-Cohen We Phoenician Sailors

Britten Phantasy Quartet, Op 2 Judith Weir The Bagpiper’s String Trio Helen Grime Oboe Quartet Rubbra Oboe Sonata, Op 100

FEBRUARY

MARCH THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Trios Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Morgan Hayes after Byrd Elemental 9 Huw Watkins Horn Trio Thea Musgrave Pierrot Philip Cashian Horn Trio

MARCH TUESDAY, 7.30pm

Nobility, Nostalgia and Innovation Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

MARCH THURSDAY, 1.05pm

String Quartets Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Edmund Finnis Realisation for string quartet Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No 10 Tippett String Quartet No 2

Parry 12 Short Pieces (excerpts) Bridge Piano Trio No 2 Elgar Piano Quintet, Op 84 A selection from Parry’s Short Pieces for violin and piano and Elgar’s Piano Quintet frame Bridge’s Second Piano Trio. Uniquely among composers of the time, Bridge incorporated the harmonic principles of the Second Viennese School into his essentially English soundworld to produce one of the pinnacles of British chamber music.

F E B RUA RY

WEDNESDAY, 7.30pm

Academy Song Circle: Valentine Concert Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details A recital to celebrate Valentine’s Day, including songs and duets in English, French and German which explore the theme of love in a variety of moods: flirtatious, sentimental, sad, bitter and, of course, romantic.

FEBRUARY

British Chamber Music: Tritium Trio

THURSDAY, 6–9pm

Double Bass Masterclass

THURSDAY, 12.30–2pm

Soundbox Venue: Museum Strings Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online Soundbox is a series of events inspired by the Academy’s Museum and collections. Presented by Peter Sheppard Skærved, violinist and Viotti lecturer, each event explores the historical and contemporary relationships between performers, composers, instruments and instrument makers. A different inspirational and illuminating experience every time. 22

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

An evening of chamber music by Dvořák, Mozart and Efrem Podgaits, as well as Václav Trojan’s beautifully descriptive and poetic The Emperor’s Nightingale for violin, guitar and classical accordion.

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

Mariel Kolmschot

Jac van Steen conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

FEBRUARY

The Academy is proud to welcome back alumna Alexandra Scott to work with our growing faculty of double bass students. Her remarkable career trajectory, as well as her record as an enterprising and effective educator, make her an inspiration to all students.

FEBRUARY

FRIDAY, 1.05pm

THURSDAY, 7.30pm

Accordion Chamber Music: The Emperor’s Nightingale

See pages 20–21 for full details.

FEBRUARY

THURSDAY, 1.05pm

Jac van Steen conductor Sibelius Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island from Lemminkäinen Suite, Op 22 Sibelius Symphony No 2 in D, Op 43

FEBRUARY

Jac van Steen, pre-eminent Dutch maestro and Principal Guest Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra, returns to the Academy for an allSibelius programme, beginning with the first movement of the Lemminkäinen Suite, which was originally conceived as a Wagnerianscale mythological opera but ended up as a four-movement orchestral work. Written in the final decade of the 19th century, the first of these four sections follows the hero’s journey to an island, where he seduces many women before fleeing the wrath of the native men. Sibelius’s Second Symphony, written after the turn of the century in the wake of the popular Finlandia, was described by the composer as ‘a confession of the soul’.

FRIDAY, 10.30–11.15am

Simon van Boxtel

FEBRUARY

F E B RUA RY

FEBRUARY

FRIDAY, 2.30–5.30pm

Violin Masterclass

Trumpet Masterclass

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £5 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With John Wallace, Head of Brass at the Academy from 1993 to 2001 and former Principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, who works with Academy students on solo trumpet repertoire.

Marco Borggreve

With Philippe Graffin, violin professor at the Paris and Brussels conservatoires, highly respected interpreter of quintessential repertoire and champion of lesser-known gems.

FEBRUARY

Double Bass Prize

Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantatas

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

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £15 (concessions £12) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

FEBRUARY FRIDAY, 6pm

Adjudicated by Alexandra Scott, who also gives a masterclass on Thursday 15 February (see page 22). Competitors present a programme of their own choice for double bass.

SUNDAY, 12 noon

Jane Glover director Rachel Podger leader Eleanor Broomfield soprano Patrick Terry countertenor Hiroshi Amako tenor Nicholas Mogg baritone

JS Bach Erwünschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184 JS Bach Magnificat, BWV 243

changing many details in the instrumentation and ornamentation of the vocal writing, and omitting the Christmas interpolations. It is this latter version We welcome the return of Jane Glover, the that you will hear today, alongside the cantata Academy’s Felix Mendelssohn Emeritus Professor Erwünschtes Freudenlicht. Its music draws on an of Music and former Director of Opera, to conduct earlier secular cantata, striking a pastoral note the perennial favourite, Bach’s Magnificat, perfectly in keeping with its new liturgical text. composed in its original version for Christmas Day 1723. A decade later, for the Feast of the Visitation Performed on historical instruments. in July 1733, Bach thoroughly revised this masterpiece, transposing it from E flat to D major,

FEBRUARY FRIDAY, 6.30–9pm

Cello Masterclass In his inaugural masterclass as the Marquis de Corberon Visiting Professor of Cello at the Academy, Steven Isserlis shares his wealth of musicianship and stimulating artistry with cello students in an inspiring journey through significant cello repertoire.

Jim Beere

Satoshi Aoyagi

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £5 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

F E B RUA RY

David Martin/ Florence Hooton Cello Concerto Prize Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Academy cellists perform their own choice of repertoire. Both the preliminary and final rounds will be held on the same day. Please check www.ram.ac.uk/events for timings.

FEBRUARY

MONDAY, 1.30–4.30pm

Horn Masterclass Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Alberto Menéndez Escribano, Principal Horn of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

FEBRUARY TUESDAY, 1.05pm

British Chamber Music: Oboe See pages 20–21 for full details.

Venue: Museum Strings Gallery Tickets: Limited free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online 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, including the magnificent 1709 Viotti ex-Bruce Stradivari violin.

FEBRUARY

Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award and Webb Award for Accompanists

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Simon Halsey, chorus master of the London Symphony Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orfeó Català, Barcelona.

FEBRUARY

WEDNESDAY, 10am–1pm

THURSDAY, 2–5pm

Historical Performance Masterclass

Vocal Masterclass Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Susan Bullock CBE, international dramatic soprano and Marjorie Thomas Visiting Professor of Singing at the Academy. This is a Sterndale Bennett masterclass.

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

The final round of the highly prestigious Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award for postgraduate vocal students at the Academy. The award, created to celebrate the great British tenor Richard Lewis (1914–1990), is generously endowed by the Richard Lewis Trust and the eminent pathologist Dr Jean Shanks. A major award for the best accompanist is donated by Brenda Webb, a close friend and admirer of Richard Lewis.

TUESDAY, 2–4.30pm

Choral Conducting Masterclass

FEBRUARY

TUESDAY, 2.30pm

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

MONDAY, 12.30–1.30pm

From Cremona to London: Specialist Curator’s Tour

FEBRUARY

With Rachel Podger, leading violinist and director and Micaela Comberti Chair of Baroque Violin, who works with Academy students on Baroque chamber music.

FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY, 7pm

Organ Recital Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Louis Vierne Organ Symphony No 4 in G minor, Op 32 René Vierne Offertoire and Prélude en forme de canon from 12 Pièces de différents caractères, de la Méthode pour orgue-harmonium Louis Vierne Canon and Choral from 24 Pièces en style libre, Op 31

Christina Raphaëlle

MONDAY, 10am

Royal Academy of Music collections

FEBRUARY

F E B RUA RY

FEBRUARY THURSDAY, 1.05pm

British Chamber Music: Vaughan Williams and Warlock See pages 20–21 for full details.

THURSDAY, 7pm

Composers’ Project: CHROMA Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Award-winning ensemble CHROMA return for a concert of new works by Academy postgraduate composers for clarinet, horn and string trio.

FEBRUARY

FRIDAY, 2–5pm

FRIDAY, 7.30pm

Horn Masterclass

Harp Recital

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

Academy students work with Marie-Luise Neunecker on solo repertoire for the horn.

Sasha Boldachev harp

FEBRUARY FRIDAY, 5pm

Nancy Nuttall Early Music Prize Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Generously supported by Nancy Nuttall, for historically informed performances of pre-1800 chamber music.

FEBRUARY FRIDAY, 10am

Leila Bull Oboe Prize Venue: Henry Wood Room Tickets: Free, no tickets required A prize for solo oboe. Set repertoire to be announced.

Programme to include works by Chopin, Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Eurythmics and Nirvana Eminent Russian-Swiss harpist, composer and improviser Sasha Boldachev makes his London debut on the concert harp and electric Delta harp in this recital sponsored by Salvi Harps.

FEBRUARY

SUNDAY, from 11am

SUNDAY, 11am

London Cello Strings Society: Bella Vivaldi Performance Venue: Duke’s Hall Prize Day Tickets: see below

Venue: Various venues around the Academy Tickets: Free, no tickets required

11am–4pm: Masterclasses Tickets available from www.londoncellos.org

Winifred Small Prize for Violin Set repertoire: Kreisler Recitativo and ScherzoCaprice, Op 6

4.45pm: Afternoon concert with Academy String Orchestra Free, no tickets required

FEBRUARY MONDAY, 6.30–9.30pm

Trumpet Masterclass Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Wim Van Hasselt, international trumpet soloist and chamber musician, and trumpet professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany.

Theodore Holland Prize for Viola Set repertoire: Stravinsky Elegy for solo viola

7pm: All-Vivaldi evening concert Tickets available from www.londoncellos.org

May Mukle/Douglas Cameron Cello Sonata Prize Set repertoire: Bridge Cello Sonata, H 125

Bella Vivaldi, an exploration of Vivaldi’s music for the cello, reveals a fresh and unusual approach, using ornamentation, colourful instrumentation and imaginative interpretations which cellist Roel Dieltiens and his Ensemble Explorations (organ, harpsichord, lute, guitar and double bass) have made famous through their award-winning performances and recordings. Daytime classes with the artists will offer young players a fresh perspective on these much-loved works.

The day comprises three separate prizes, which will take place concurrently. Please note the start times for each competition will vary. For further information, email prizes@ram.ac.uk or visit www.ram.ac.uk/events.

Beluga

FEBRUARY

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Marco Borggreve

FNEOV B RUA EMB RY ER

FEBRUARY TUESDAY, 1.05pm

British Chamber Music: Academy Composers See pages 20–21 for full details.

FEBRUARY TUESDAY, 2.30–3.30pm

Ancestral Voices: At Home with Chopin Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online Based on the findings of Roy Howat in his forthcoming editions of Chopin’s etudes, this lecture-recital explores interpretative and editorial issues, which can be harder to intuit on modern instruments that vary considerably in touch, attack and voicing from those that Chopin used. Using the Museum’s Érard and Pleyel pianos from Chopin’s time, Roy Howat and Dr Elena Vorotko demonstrate how the characteristics of these instruments throw light on Chopin’s treatment of dynamics, articulation and pedal, and also on controversial matters of tempo.

M A RC H Shirley Suarez

F E B RUA RY/ M A RC H FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY, 6–9pm

Piano Accompaniment Masterclasses: Helmut Deutsch in Residence

MARCH

Soundbox

Guitar Premieres

Academy Tots

Venue: Museum Strings Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Child £5, adult £3 from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults per booking

MARCH THURSDAY, 12.30–2pm

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Austrian pianist Helmut Deutsch, one of the most successful and in-demand song recital accompanists in the world.

MARCH THURSDAY, 1.05pm

MARCH THURSDAY, 10am–1pm

MARCH FRIDAY, 10am–1pm

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

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

See above.

British Chamber Music: Trios

THURSDAY, 7pm

Johann Stuckenbruck conductor Vitor Moraes Sandes, Hugh Millington, Emmanuel Sowicz and Giacomo Susani guitar Singer to be announced Marek Pasieczny Tate Sonata Mario Ferraro Songs from a Distant Land Timothy Bowers Five Interludes; Guitar Concerto

FRIDAY, 10.30–11.15am

Inquisitive tots and parents are invited to this interactive session designed for children aged 2–4 to discover instruments and explore making music as a group, led by Open Academy fellows and the Museum Team.

An entire programme of premieres, including world premieres of works by Mario Ferraro and Timothy Bowers, commissioned by the Academy’s Guitar Department. Through its collaboration with composers from the UK, Brazil and Poland the Academy maintains its long-term commitment to developing and showcasing major new repertoire for the guitar.

See pages 20–21 for full details.

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MARCH

FRIDAY, 1.05pm

FRIDAY, 2.30–4pm

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra

Listening to Recordings: The Kolisch Quartet and the Second Viennese School

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online

Sir Mark Elder conductor Shostakovich Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65

Professor Neil Heyde, in conversation with Daniel-Ben Pienaar, examines the remarkable recorded legacy of the Kolisch Quartet as a twoway window on the 19th and 20th centuries.

FRIDAY, 7.30pm

Academy Big Band: Duke Ellington’s Fabulous 1941 Band Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £10 (concessions £8) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details Keith Nichols director

The Academy Big Band, directed by Keith Nichols, performs pieces recorded by the Duke Ellington Orchestra of the early 40s, featuring arrangements by Duke Ellington and the young Billy Strayhorn, including Harlem Air Shaft, Concerto for Cootie, Perdido and Take the A Train. A ‘prologue’ of Ellington’s compositions from the late 30s demonstrates the lead-up to the classic 1941 Blanton Band, named after bass player Jimmy Blanton.

Benjamin Ealovega

Sir Mark Elder, Music Director of the Hallé Orchestra and Barbirolli Chair of Conducting at the Academy, returns to conduct Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony following the highly acclaimed performance of the composer’s Fifth here in December 2016. Written in 1943 in the ‘tragic’ key of C minor, many critics argue that the optimism of the work’s conclusion sets it apart from previous symphonies in that key by such composers as Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler.

MARCH

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MARCH

SUNDAY, 5pm

Premier Flautist Series: Rowland Sutherland

MARCH

MONDAY, 6–8pm

TUESDAY, 7.30pm

Piano Masterclass

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £15 (British Flute Society members/ concessions £10) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online With celebrated British pianist and Visiting Professor of Piano Stephen Hough.

See pages 20–21 for full details.

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

MARCH

Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize

Nicola Spencer

MARCH MONDAY, 7pm

Composers’ Project: Recorders Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required A concert of new works for recorder, with composition students creating pieces for this neglected instrument in contemporary repertoire.

MARCH TUESDAY, 1.05pm

Piano Four-Hands Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

THURSDAY, 1.05pm

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

WEDNESDAY, 9.30am

The British Flute Society presents a one-hour recital by Rowland Sutherland, whose broad career demonstrates a particular interest in contemporary music and jazz flute, followed by a Q & A session.

MARCH

Drop-in Lunchtime British Chamber Tour Music: String Venue: Museum Ground Floor Quartets

MARCH

Programme to include works by William Grant Still, Adolphus Hailstork, Robert Dick, Cecilia McDowall, Wil Offermans, Justinian Tamusuza and Bruce Stark

WEDNESDAY, 1–2pm

British Chamber Music: Nobility, Nostalgia and Innovation

Rowland Sutherland flute Mary Dullea piano

MARCH

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Students compete for a clarinet prize generously given by Buffet Crampon. The winner will give a recital at the Academy in 2018–19. Set repertoire to be announced.

MARCH WEDNESDAY, 6pm

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

THURSDAY, 6.30–9.30pm

Guitar Masterclass Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required With German guitarist and musicologist Tilman Hoppstock.

Academy jazz students mark the culmination of their small ensemble projects. Students perform a set of music on which they have been working with a variety of distinguished visiting musicians.

Alexandra Balog and Mihály Berecz piano Ravel Ma mère l’Oye Stravinsky Le sacre du printemps

M A RC H Marian Delyth

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MARCH THURSDAY, 7pm

Composers’ Project: The Hermes Experiment

MARCH

FRIDAY, 6.30pm

Ronald William White Prize

Royal Academy Opera: Flight

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

Venue: Theatre Tickets: £15–£30 (concessions £5 off) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

For the performance of a musical theatre song with dramatic content.

Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Gillian Clarke, winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2010, reads from her new collection, Zoology, interspersed with new settings of her poems by Academy postgraduate composers, performed by The Hermes Experiment.

Gareth Hancock conductor Martin Duncan director Francis O’Connor designer Jake Wiltshire lighting designer Mandy Demetriou movement director

MARCH MONDAY, 2–5pm

Violin Masterclass

Jonathan Dove Flight Fasten your seatbelt and prepare for take-off with our new Theatre’s inaugural production: Jonathan Dove’s Flight. After his romping success with Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers, Royal Academy Opera is delighted to welcome back director Martin Duncan, with designs by Francis O’Connor. This iconic score, which has found worldwide acclaim since its 1998 Glyndebourne Tour premiere, brilliantly sets the rich libretto by April De Angelis with the themes explored as relevant now as they were 20 years ago. The production is conducted by Director of Opera Gareth Hancock, who worked on the original Richard Jones production.

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

MARCH FRIDAY, 10am–1pm

MARCH FRIDAY, 10am

With renowned violinist and pedagogue Pavel Vernikov, who brings his visionary and engaging approach to violin study to the Academy.

Choral Conducting Harold Craxton Masterclass Prize Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Choral conducting students work on classic German repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries with the Academy’s Visiting Professor of Choral Conducting and Head of Choral Conducting at the Leipzig Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Roland Börger.

A prize for chamber ensembles with piano. Students are asked to prepare their own choice of complete piano ensemble works.

Further performances: Thursday 15 March, 7pm Saturday 17 March, 2pm and 7pm

Ekin Büyükşahin

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

MONDAY, 7pm

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Composers’ Project: Violin and Piano Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Michael Foyle and Huw Watkins give a recital of six new pieces for violin and piano written especially for them.

MARCH TUESDAY, 1.05pm

MARCH

Academy Song Exchange

Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required

Brahms Zwei Gesänge, Op 91 Bridge Three Songs for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano Schumann Myrthen, Op 25 (excerpts)

Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder, Op 138 Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer, Op 52

MARCH WEDNESDAY, 1.05pm

Gareth Wood Rhapsody for cello and four harps Saint-Saëns Fantaisie for violin and harp, Op 124 Bantock Hamabdil for cello and harp Richard Bissill Sirens for violin and four harps

MARCH WEDNESDAY, 3–5.30pm

Vocal Masterclass Venue: New Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Jonathan Dove works with Academy singers on his aria and song repertoire.

MARCH

THURSDAY, 1.05pm

THURSDAY, 7pm

Royal Academy Opera: Jonathan Dove’s Flight

The second of two recitals bringing together students from Weimar and the Academy.

MARCH FRIDAY, 10.30–11.15am

Academy Tots

See page 37.

Venue: Museum Piano Gallery Tickets: Child £5, adult £3 from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults per booking

MARCH

Singers and instrumentalists from the Academy and the Hochschule für Musik, Weimar, embark on a collaboration that will culminate in recitals in Weimar in June. This first phase consists of two lunchtime concerts in the New Recital Hall.

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

FRIDAY, 10am

Nicholas Blake Woodwind Ensemble Prize

MARCH FRIDAY, 10.30am

Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free, no tickets required Set repertoire: Mozart String Quartet in C, K 465, ‘Dissonance’ or Mozart String Quartet in D, K 499, ‘Hoffmeister’ Generously supported by the family of Wolfe Wolfinsohn, this prize is open to all student string quartets at the Academy.

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

MARCH

A prize for woodwind instrumental ensembles. Students are asked to prepare a 15-minute recital of their own choice.

Clarinet Masterclass

FRIDAY, 6–9pm

Venue: Henry Wood Room Tickets: Free, no tickets required With Andrew Marriner, Principal Clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra and Visiting Professor of Clarinet at the Academy. Benjamin Ealovega

MONDAY, 7pm

Andrew Palmer

MARCH

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FRIDAY, 6–9pm

FRIDAY, 7.30pm

Musical Theatre Masterclass with Claude-Michel Schönberg Venue: David Josefowitz Recital Hall Tickets: Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online

MARCH

Visiting Professor of Musical Theatre ClaudeMichel Schönberg works with the Academy’s Musical Theatre Company on a selection of his repertoire. Best known for his collaborations with

lyricist Alain Boublil, Schönberg’s most popular stage shows include La Révolution Française, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, The Pirate Queen and Marguerite.

Oliver Knussen conducts the Academy Manson Ensemble Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £10 (concessions £8) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details Oliver Knussen conductor Cage Five Wolpe Chamber Piece No 2 William Marsey new work Harrison Birtwistle Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum Feldman Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety; Routine Investigations Varèse Intégrales

The Academy’s Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, Oliver Knussen, conducts a varied programme of 20th- and 21stcentury repertoire, including pieces by Visiting Professor of Composition Harrison Birtwistle and postgraduate composition student William Marsey.

SATURDAY, 2pm

Royal Academy Opera: Jonathan Dove’s Flight See page 37.

MARCH SATURDAY, 3.45pm

Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra Venue: St Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, London NW1 3PH Tickets: Free, no tickets required Thomas Blunt conductor See www.ram.ac.uk/events for full details.

MARCH SATURDAY, 7pm

Royal Academy Opera: Jonathan Dove’s Flight See page 37.

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M A RC H /A P R I L

MARCH

Nash Ensemble Side by Side: The French Connection at Wigmore Hall

Composers’ Platform

Venue: Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Tickets: £3 from Wigmore Hall Box Office. See page 9 for booking details

Venue: IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London SE1 7LG Tickets: £7 from www.iklectikartlab.com and on the door

MARCH TUESDAY, 5.30pm

A wide-ranging programme of brand new works by student composers.

This event is linked to the evening concert at 7.30pm at Wigmore Hall; see www.wigmore-hall.org.uk for further details.

MARCH SUNDAY, 12 noon

MARCH SUNDAY, 6.30pm

Royal Academy of Music/ Kohn Foundation Bach Cantatas

Jazz Composers’ Big Band

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £15 (concessions £12) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

Pete Churchill director

Iain Ledingham director Margaret Faultless leader Charlotte La Thrope soprano Julia Martínez Sánchez mezzo-soprano Aaron Godfrey-Mayes tenor Kevin Leighton

Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Debussy Première rhapsodie for clarinet and piano Poulenc Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone Milhaud La cheminée du roi René Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

An introductory talk by writer and broadcaster Gillian Moore MBE, Director of Music at Southbank Centre, followed by a concert of French and Russian chamber works where Academy students play side by side with members of the Nash Ensemble.

TUESDAY, 7pm

JS Bach Ein ungefärbt Gemüte, BWV 24 JS Bach Sie werden euch in den Bann tun I, BWV 44 JS Bach Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134 Performed on modern instruments.

Venue: Duke’s Hall Tickets: £10 (concessions £8) from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details

The Academy’s Jazz Department has been steadily turning out some of the most acclaimed young composers currently shaping the contemporary scene. The celebrated jazz composition course culminates with the final-year students composing for big band. This concert features premiere performances of these works under the direction of the Academy’s Professor of Jazz Composition, Pete Churchill. In association with the Worshipful Company of Musicians, the Academy is proud to host the presentation, and performances of the winning pieces, of the 2018 Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition and the Eddie Harvey Jazz Arranger Award.

MARCH WEDNESDAY, 12.30–1.30pm

The Spencer Collection: Curator’s Tour Venue: Museum Ground Floor Tickets: Limited free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office; see page 44 for full details. These tickets will not be available online Join archivist and co-curator of the exhibition, Barbara Diana, who gives a final guided tour of The Spencer Collection exhibition, which explores the extraordinary collection of lutenist and guitarist Robert Spencer. This is a last chance to see the exhibition and the accompanying film, which features Spencer’s friends and collaborators.

APRIL WEDNESDAY, 1–2pm

Drop-in Lunchtime Tour 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.

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Most events are free, with no tickets required.

The Royal Academy of Music is a full-time educational institution. Every day during term-time, our students work intensively with their tutors, professors, Visiting Professors and other experts.

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

PATRONS’ PRIORITY BOOKING Priority booking day for Patrons for all ticketed events: Monday 11 December. Open 10am–4pm, by telephone and in person.

GENERAL BOOKING

www.ram.ac.uk/events at any time Online from 10am on Tuesday 12 December. Please note that events that are free, but with tickets required, cannot be booked online.

Telephone 020 7873 7300 or in person 10am–4pm, Monday–Friday. Open for bookings by telephone and in person from 10am on Monday 8 January for all ticketed events. The Academy has a telephone queuing system: your call will be answered as soon as the previous customer’s transaction has been completed.

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 Academy’s programme of masterclasses is kindly supported by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust and the American Society for the Royal Academy of Music.

Bach Cantatas, www.ram.ac.uk/bach 2018 performances are on sale online now. Booking by telephone and in person will resume on Monday 8 January. 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.

Filming and Photography Many of our events are filmed and/or photographed for the Academy’s archive and promotional purposes. No unauthorised photography or recording is permitted.

COMPETITIONS 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: telephone 020 7873 7308 or email prizes@ram.ac.uk.

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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 Thursday 29 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).

HIRE OUR MUSICIANS To hire Academy performers for your events, please contact the External Bookings Manager: telephone 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 telephone 020 7873 7433. SOCIAL MEDIA facebook.com/royalacademyofmusic twitter.com/RoyalAcadMusic instagram.com/royalacademyofmusic

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 The front of the Academy has recently been re-landscaped to incorporate permanent ramped access to the Main Entrance Hall. We are proud that we can offer appropriate access to all parts of the Main Building and the York Gate Building, where our friendly staff will welcome you and provide further assistance and directions if/when required. Access to all performance venues at the Academy is now step-free.

Alumni can join the Academy’s worldwide Alumni Network, which provides an extensive social network across many platforms, hosts events across the UK, and offers professional networking support for those who have left. Alumni Network Extra event: Friday 16 March, 7.30pm Oliver Knussen conducts the Academy Manson Ensemble (see page 41) 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.

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; telephone 020 7873 7400 or visit www.ram.ac.uk/academy-chimes.

B O O K I N G /AC A D E M Y I N F O R M AT I O N â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; I N S P I R I N G P E O P L E â&#x20AC;&#x2122; S E AT C A M PA I G N A special chance to name your own seat in our new Theatre 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, 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: telephone 020 7873 7421 email development@ram.ac.uk