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If any composer could scribble down a masterpiece while playing a game of skittles, it’s Mozart! Well, that’s the legend, anyway. His ‘skittle alley’ Trio is a delight and one of three spirited showcases for our Principal Clarinet Timothy Orpen and his RSNO colleagues. Plus, if we can’t hear Mozart himself play his Piano Concerto No12, then the superb British pianist Paul Lewis has got to be the next best thing.
MOZART Clarinet Trio in E flat Major K498 Kegelstatt-Trio [20’] MICHAEL J MURRAY Psycho-Scherzo [4’] SCOTCH SCOTCH SCOTCH SNAPS SNAPS SNAPS WORLD PREMIERE SCOTCH SCOTCH SCOTCH WEBER Clarinet Quintet in B flat Major Op34 J182 [27’] SNAPS SNAPS SNAPS MOZART Piano Concerto No12 in A Major K414 (385p) for piano and string quintet [26’] Paul Lewis Piano Timothy Orpen Clarinet Adrian Wilson Oboe RSNO Chamber Ensemble RECORDED AT THE RSNO CENTRE, GLASGOW Broadcast Fri 23 Apr 2021, 7.30pm
This performance has been recorded for the RSNO Archive. Supported by the Iain and Pamela Sinclair Legacy.
Jack Hunter Director Diego Almazán Camera Supervisor Juan Martos Camera Operator Wilfred Magnusson Video Editor Andrew Trinick Producer (Piano Concerto) Dean Craven Producer Hedd Morfett-Jones Sound Supervisor
Next Digital Season Concert
BARBER VIOLIN CONCERTO Recorded at the RSNO Centre, Glasgow Broadcast date: Fri 30 April 2021, 7.30pm
Craig Armstrong Stac Lee from The Lost Songs of St Kilda Barber Violin Concerto Brahms Symphony No4 Angus Webster Conductor Maya Iwabuchi Violin
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Welcome to the second concert in our Spring/ Summer Digital Season, for which we return to the more intimate setting of the New Auditorium for a chamber concert featuring RSNO musicians alongside the wonderful pianist Paul Lewis in music by Mozart, Weber and Michael J Murray. Michael’s compositional style is very different from the others but perhaps the common denominator is the virtuosic demands they all place on the performers. It’s a particular challenge for a wind soloist to play alone, with little chance to catch breath or rest lips, and the world premiere performance of Psycho-Scherzo is an uncompromising test of endurance and technique for RSNO Principal Oboe Adrian Wilson. We are grateful to the John Ellerman Foundation for their support of this piece through our Scotch Snaps series. While Adrian has been with the Orchestra for a number of years, Timothy Orpen joined us as Principal Clarinet shortly after the first lockdown began. The previous incumbent,
John Cushing, had been with the RSNO for 35 years and the search to find his successor took seven years, but when you hear Tim’s playing, I’m sure you’ll agree it was worth the wait. Paul’s performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto was a highlight of our first Digital Season, but we didn’t want to miss the chance of pairing him up with our string players for some chamber music too. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No12 is an early work that lends itself perfectly to a chamber music performance. Although the original orchestration had a fuller string section with a small complement of wind players, it was common practice in the 18th century for a work also to be performed a quattro – with a string quartet. The addition of a double bass for today’s performance helps to balance the sound a modern Steinway produces. I hope you enjoy the concert.
Alistair Mackie CHIEF EXECUTIVE
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Clarinet Trio in E flat Major K498 Kegelstatt-Trio Andante Menuetto Rondeaux: Allegretto Playing skittles, an early form of bowling, in a Kegelstatt or skittle alley was one of Mozart’s favourite pastimes. Indeed, ever adept at multitasking, on the manuscript of a set of horn duets, he wrote: ‘composed Vienna 27 July 1786 while playing skittles’. Somehow, in the 19th-century cataloguing of Mozart’s works, the nickname became inadvertently attached to this Clarinet Trio instead, and the name has stuck.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
FIRST PERFORMED Vienna, 1786 DURATION 20 minutes Timothy Orpen Clarinet Tom Dunn Viola Aaron Shorr Piano
The Trio is, as the great Mozart scholar Alfred Einstein notes, ‘a work of intimate friendship and love’. It was written for one of the convivial Wednesday soirées at the home of Mozart’s friend Gottfried von Jacquin, whose brother Franziska was one of Mozart’s most talented piano pupils. Another friend, and fellow Mason, was the brilliant clarinettist Anton Stadler, for whom Mozart wrote his Clarinet Quintet and Clarinet Concerto. And so it was that this endearing Trio, with its rather unique combination of instruments, was first performed at the Jacquin home with Franziska playing the piano, Mozart the viola and Stadler the clarinet. It is a splendid example of the very best of chamber music – a perfectly balanced conversation among equals. © Mark Fielding
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Psycho-Scherzo Michael J Murray (Born 1981)
WORLD PREMIERE DURATION 4 minutes Adrian Wilson Oboe When working on sketches for polyrhythmic ideas for monophonic instruments, a street performer who I had seen some years ago on the streets of Glasgow came to mind. Known as ‘The Silent Raver’, he would dance to music only he could hear, inspiring me to create a work of psychotic energy – someone dancing to two dances at the same time in their own head. Using a jig and a salsa at the same time gives an impression of a split personality, emphasising the idea of the manic dance. © Michael J Murray
Michael J Murray Composer Michael J Murray is a self-taught composer and a mentee of Sir James MacMillan, from whom he was awarded the commission of a guitar concerto for the Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe, given its world premiere at the 2017 Cumnock Tryst music festival and its North American premiere in March 2019. He has had invitations to compose for Hebrides Ensemble and Drake Music Scotland’s Digital Orchestra, and also the opportunity to compose a sonata for the classical guitarist Christopher Parkening.
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Clarinet Quintet in B flat Major Op34 J182 The pair met in March 1811 when Weber visited Munich, where Baermann played in the court orchestra. In many ways the story of what happened next is the exact fore-mirroring of what took place 70 years later when Johannes Brahms met and heard clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld and was inspired by Mühlfeld’s ‘nightingale’ tone to compose a succession of late masterpieces, including his own Clarinet Quintet.
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
FIRST PERFORMED Prague, 1815 DURATION 27 minutes Timothy Orpen Clarinet Maya Iwabuchi Violin Sharon Roffman Violin Tom Dunn Viola Aleksei Kiseliov Cello Allegro Fantasia Menuetto: Capriccio presto Rondo: Allegro giocoso Carl Maria von Weber wrote his Clarinet Quintet in his mid-20s, inspired by one very particular clarinettist – Heinrich Baermann, just two years older than Weber and his very particular instrument.
Baermann was likewise celebrated for his unusually beautiful, warm and rich tone – ‘which has not the slightest strain nor shrill to it’, reported the Leipzig Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1818, while remarking that this wasn’t the case for a great many clarinettists – which sent Weber into a composing frenzy. By the end of 1811 he had already written Baermann a concertino, two concertos and a set of variations, and had begun work on the Clarinet Quintet (although he didn’t complete it until the day before its 1815 premiere). As for Baermann’s instrument, this was a newly developed ten-key clarinet that allowed both for better high notes and for smoother leaps between high- and low-register notes. Weber capitalised on this innovation across the Quintet’s four movements. Take, for instance, the clarinet’s initial high, slowly crescendoing B flat, building on the quartet’s opening succession of elegant little swells. After a gently mournful Fantasia slow movement, a perky Menuetto joyously milks the new clarinet’s capacity for silky-smooth rapid passagework, before the merry Rondo finale sees the clarinet whooshing up yet more silky runs as the strings gallop crisply underneath, its virtuosity reaching fresh heights as they all tumble towards the triumphant conclusion. © Charlotte Gardner
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Piano Concerto No12 in A Major K414 (385p) for piano and string quintet Allegro Andante Allegretto On settling permanently in Vienna, one of Mozart’s first tasks was to compose a set of new piano concertos. As he explained in a letter to his father in December 1782: These concertos are in fact something intermediate between too difficult and too easy – they are very brilliant – fall pleasantly on the ear – without of course becoming vapid – here and there only connoisseurs can derive satisfaction – but in such a way that the non-connoisseur will be pleased without knowing why.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
FIRST PERFORMED Vienna, 1783 DURATION 26 minutes Paul Lewis Piano Sharon Roffman Violin Emily Davis Violin Tom Dunn Viola Aleksei Kiseliov Cello Ana Cordova Double Bass
Three concertos (Nos11, 12 and 13) were offered for sale on 15 January 1783 in the Wiener Zeitung: Herr Kapellmeister Mozart announces herewith to the highly respected public the issuance of three newly completed piano concertos. These 3 concertos, which can be performed with a large orchestra including wind instruments, or only a quattro, that is with 2 violins, 1 viola and violoncello, will be available at the beginning of April to those who have subscribed for them (they will be beautifully copied and revised by him personally). In the Piano Concerto No12, which more than the others in the set suggests the intimacy of chamber music – and which in this performance also includes a double bass – the spirited outer movements frame a more deeply felt Andante. © Mark Fielding
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Paul Lewis PIANO Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony, NHK Symphony Tokyo, New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Cleveland, Tonhalle Zürich, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Philharmonia and Mahler Chamber orchestras.
Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide, and consolidated his reputation as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the central European classical repertoire. His numerous awards have included the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year, two Edison awards, three Gramophone awards, the Diapason d’Or de l’Année, the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana and the South Bank Show Classical Music award. He holds honorary degrees from Liverpool Edge Hill and Southampton universities, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Paul works regularly as soloist with the world’s great orchestras, including the Berlin
Paul’s recital career takes him to venues such as London’s Royal Festival Hall, New York’s Alice Tully and Carnegie halls, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Berlin Philharmonie and Konzerthaus. He is also a frequent guest at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals, including Tanglewood, Ravinia, Schubertiade, Edinburgh, Salzburg, Lucerne and the BBC Proms, where in 2010 he became the first person to play a complete Beethoven piano concerto cycle in a single season. His multi-award-winning discography for Harmonia Mundi includes the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, concertos and the Diabelli Variations, Liszt’s B Minor Sonata and other late works, all of Schubert’s major piano works from the last six years of his life, including the three song cycles with tenor Mark Padmore, solo works by Schumann and Mussorgsky, and the Brahms D Minor Piano Concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding. Paul studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before going on to study privately with Alfred Brendel. He is co-Artistic Director of Midsummer Music, an annual chamber music festival held in Buckinghamshire.
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Timothy Orpen CLARINET Timothy has been the Principal Clarinet of the RSNO since 2020. Prior to joining the RSNO he was principal clarinet with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for five years, and before that spent three years as principal clarinet of Royal Northern Sinfonia. He is a founder member and principal of the Aurora Orchestra, with whom he continues to perform regularly. Timothy has performed and broadcast concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Aurora Orchestra, with conductors including Sir David Willcocks, Nicholas Collon and Barry Wordsworth. As a chamber musician he has performed across the Far East, USA, Australia and Europe, with artists including Lars Vogt, Anthony Marwood, Sir Antonio Pappano, Melvyn Tan and Pascal Rogé. He has also collaborated with the Klezmer group She’koyokh and given many world premieres, including pieces written for him by Luke Styles, Graham Ross and Aaron Holloway-Nahum. As a guest principal, Timothy has performed with all the major London orchestras. Timothy is a previous overall winner of the Royal Over-Seas League competition and has been featured many times as a soloist on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. After spending his early years in Australia, he studied at the Royal Academy in London and the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Adrian Wilson OBOE regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall and at UK music festivals. He has also been principal oboe of Ireland’s RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Adrian has worked as a guest principal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Psappha and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
Adrian has been the Principal Oboe of the RSNO since 2014. His early studies were at the Junior Royal Academy of Music in London. During this time he was twice a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and was principal oboe of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He went on to read Mathematics and Music at the University of Birmingham, followed by a Postgraduate Performance course at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where he studied the oboe with George Caird and Jonathan Kelly. He returned to the RAM to learn with Douglas Boyd and Celia Nicklin, winning numerous prizes and becoming principal oboe of the European Union Youth Orchestra. In 2002 he was appointed principal oboe of Southbank Sinfonia and continued his studies with Alexei Ogrintchouk in Rotterdam and Paris. In addition to being Principal Oboe of the RSNO, Adrian is the oboist with the flexible chamber group Ensemble 360, who appear
Adrian’s concerto performances include Mozart’s Oboe Concerto and Vaughan Williams’ Oboe Concerto with the RSNO, Donizetti’s Oboe Concertino, Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante and Ennio Morricone’s Gabriel’s Oboe with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the world premiere of John Joubert’s Oboe Concerto at the Lichfield Festival, and J S Bach’s Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin with Bradley Creswick and Northern Sinfonia and Nicola Benedetti and Ensemble 360.
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Maya Iwabuchi
Sharon Roffman
Maya has been Leader of the RSNO since 2011.
Sharon has been Leader of the RSNO since 2018.
VIOLIN
She began violin lessons at the age of two. Since her first concert at the age of five, Maya has enjoyed an international career as a solo violinist, chamber musician and orchestral leader. Highlights as soloist include appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra, and she has appeared at renowned music festivals such as the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh, Bath and Chichester, and the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove in Cornwall. A committed chamber musician, Maya has been a member of Mobius Ensemble since 2004, and she has also collaborated with artists such as Steven Isserlis and Gil Shaham. She has been regularly invited to lead the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra de Cadaqués (Catalonia) and John Wilson Orchestra. After 18 years, she ended her tenure as Leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2012.
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She has appeared as guest leader of orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, as a chamber musician has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Brentano, Shanghai, Avalon and Miami quartets, and was a member of the critically acclaimed contemporary music ensemble counter) induction. Sharon is the founder and artistic director of ClassNotes, a chamber music ensemble dedicated to introducing students to classical music through interdisciplinary school residencies and performances. Sharon is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she was a student of Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein.
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Emily Davis
Tom Dunn
Emily has been the Associate Leader of the RSNO since 2019.
Tom has been the Principal Viola of the RSNO since 2014.
She has been engaged as a guest concertmaster with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ Symphony Orchestra. From 2014 to 2016 she was principal first violin with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and from 2016 to 2018 she was associate concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. For two years, she was concertmaster of the European Union Youth Orchestra.
He was born in Yorkshire and studied on the Joint Course at Manchester University and the Royal Northern College of Music. Since then he has held co-principal viola positions with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Mozart Players, and from 2011 to 2014 was principal viola in the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Tom has also appeared as guest principal viola with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, London Philharmonic Orchestra, English Baroque Soloists, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
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Emily’s notable solo highlights include Arvo Pärt’s Fratres with Vasily Petrenko at the Pärnu Festival in Estonia, the Cuban premiere of The Lark Ascending in Havana Cathedral, Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante in the Gothenburg Konserthuset and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons at the Bergen International Festival. Emily was a founding member of the Artesian String Quartet from 2009 to 2016. She is a violin tutor for the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain and a teacher at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh.
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A keen chamber musician, Tom was a member of the Quince Quartet and the London Bridge Ensemble, and has also collaborated with the Gould Piano Trio, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Scottish Ensemble and Ensemble 360. His chamber music recordings include music by Vaughan Williams, Frank Bridge and Mozart for Chandos and Dutton.
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Aleksei Kiseliov
Ana Cordova
Aleksei has been the Principal Cello of the RSNO since 2011.
Ana has been the Principal Double Bass of the RSNO since 2014.
Born in Belarus, he began his musical studies when he was five at the Republican Music College. He was eight when he gave his first public recital. He developed his work as a soloist, performing with the State Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of Belarus. He won the international competition Music of Hope and later in 1997, at the age of 12, he was a prize-winner at the Tchaikovsky International Youth Competition.
She was born in Soria, Spain, where she studied under Professor Karen Martirossian. In 2007 she moved to London to study both as an undergraduate and postgraduate with Professor Rinat Ibragimov at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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In 2000 Aleksei began studying with Tilman Wick in Hanover and three years later moved to London to study with Jerome Pernoo at the Royal College of Music. From 2007 he studied with Raphael Wallfisch while on the Artist Diploma course at the RCM. Later he had a year of lessons with Natalie Clein at Trinity Laban. In 2008 and 2009 Aleksei directed his own music festival, Melodrama, in London and Minsk. He teaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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Ana has played as guest principal double bass with many British orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Northern Sinfonia and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as many others around the world. In 2014 she joined the Strings Department of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as a Lecturer in Double Bass. Her passion for teaching has taken her to orchestras and colleges from Madrid to Santiago. She is a former teacher at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and Purcell School in London.
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Aaron Shorr PIANO
Since settling in the UK in 1984, Aaron has established an international career as soloist, chamber musician and educator. As well as appearing as soloist at London’s South Bank in over 30 concertos, he has toured extensively as a recitalist and chamber musician. Aaron’s recordings of Beethoven with duo partner Peter Sheppard Skaerved have won wide acclaim. His research on composers in Beethoven’s inner circle has yielded modern recording premieres of works by Mayseder, Ries and Archduke Rudolph, as well as an unknown chamber version of Beethoven’s Third Symphony. Aaron studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. He was a professor and researcher at the RAM from 1992. In 2011 he became Artistic Director and Chair of the Jury for the Scottish International Piano Competition. In 2006 Aaron was appointed Head of Keyboard at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2013 he was awarded a Professorship and from 2013 to 2015 also served as Acting Director of Music.
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Supporting the RSNO I am honoured and extremely proud to be Music Director of the RSNO. It is through the continued generosity of you, our friends, donors and supporters, that we can continue to achieve and realise the most ambitious goals of the Orchestra. The absence of live performance and the separation of musicians from the stage make these difficult times for all. It has reinforced for us all how vital music is in helping us overcome hardship, fear and loneliness. The creativity and dedication shown by RSNO musicians in recent months has been incredible. This is despite the pattern of our working lives being dramatically
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RSNO Conductors’ Circle The RSNO Conductors’ Circle is an inspirational group of individual supporters at the heart of the RSNO’s Individual Giving programme. Our members’ annual philanthropic gifts enable us to realise the Orchestra’s most ambitious goals. Conductors’ Circle members support inspirational concert performances for our audiences alongside transformational education programmes in communities across Scotland, via our ground-breaking initiative Music for Life. The relationship between the RSNO and Conductors’ Circle members involves exceptional levels of access to all aspects of Orchestra life. We design bespoke private events tailored to individual interests and passions, providing insight into the artistic process and bringing our supporters further into the RSNO family. Members of the Conductors’ Circle benefit from an intimate and long-lasting connection with the RSNO Artistic Team and particularly with RSNO Music Director Thomas Søndergård, Principal Guest Conductor Elim Chan and the many
renowned guest Conductors we are privileged to welcome to the RSNO each year. The RSNO is very grateful for the continued support of its Conductors’ Circle: Ardgowan Charitable Trust Geoff and Mary Ball Sir Ewan and Lady Brown Ian and Evelyn Crombie Carol Grigor and the Trustees of Dunard Fund Gavin and Kate Gemmell Kenneth and Julia Greig Ms Chris Grace Hartness Kat Heathcote and Iain Macneil Bruce and Caroline Minto David and Alix Stevenson Eric and Karen Young We would also like to thank those generous donors who wish to remain anonymous. For more information on Individual Giving and becoming part of the Conductors’ Circle please contact Jenny McNeely at jenny.mcneely@rsno.org.uk
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Charitable Trusts and Foundations Charitable trusts and foundations have a long and illustrious history of supporting the RSNO, both on the concert platform and through our Learning and Engagement programmes in the community. Grants and awards of all sizes are greatly appreciated, and range from one-off donations for specific projects through to large-scale support over a number of years, including support of the acclaimed RSNO Junior Chorus and our flagship educational project, the National Schools Concert Programme. We are fortunate in having developed long-term relationships with a number of trusts who have sustained their invaluable support over many years, enabling a significant amount of our work and mission to go ahead each year that otherwise would simply not happen. Our 2020:21 Season of concerts and Learning and Engagement programmes is generously supported by the following trusts and foundations: Aberbrothock Skea Charitable Trust Aberdeen Endowments Trust Alexander Moncur Charitable Trust Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Balgay Children’s Society Boshier-Hinton Foundation Cruden Foundation David and June Gordon Memorial Trust D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunclay Charitable Trust Educational Institute of Scotland Ettrick Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable Trust Forteviot Charitable Trust Gannochy Trust Garrick Charitable Trust Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust Hugh Fraser Foundation Idlewild Trust James Wood Bequest Fund Jean & Roger Miller’s Charitable Trust Jennie S Gordon Memorial Foundation John Ellerman Foundation John Mather Charitable Trust John Scott Trust Fund J T H Charitable Trust Leche Trust Leng Charitable Trust McGlashan Charitable Trust MEB Charitable Trust Meikle Foundation Michael Tippett Musical Foundation Mickel Fund Murdoch Forrest Charitable Trust Nancie Massey Charitable Trust Noël Coward Foundation Northwood Charitable Trust PF Charitable Trust Privy Purse Charitable Trust PRS Foundation R J Larg Family Trust Robertson Trust
Ronald Miller Foundation Russell Trust RVW Trust Scott-Davidson Charitable Trust Solti Foundation Stevenston Trust Tay Charitable Trust Tillyloss Trust Trades House of Glasgow W A Cargill Fund Walter Craig Charitable Trust Walter Scott Giving Group Wavendon Foundation William Syson Foundation Witherby Publishing Group Charitable Trust We are also grateful to a number of trusts that wish to stay anonymous. If you would like more information about our work and how you can make a difference, please contact Ajda Šubelj, Head of Trusts and Projects, at ajda.subelj@rsno.org.uk
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RSNO Circle The Circle is a vital part of the RSNO family. Our community of music-lovers inspire and support us. Supporting us by joining the Circle will help us to bring music to so many people, from our Learning and Engagement programmes to our brand-new digital performances. As part of our community and family, we will keep in touch with our exclusive magazine Inner Circle, our Circle member webpage and invitations to special events throughout the year. To find out more about joining the Circle please visit rsno.org.uk/circle or get in touch with our Individual Giving and Partnerships Officer, Kirsten Reid, RSNO, 19 Killermont Street, Glasgow G2 3NX Email: kirsten.reid@rsno.org.uk To all our existing Circle members, thank you. Thank you for your unwavering support that allows us to continue sharing the joy of music. Virtuoso
Ms Catherine Y Alexander Mrs A M Bennett Dame Susan and Mr John Bruce Mrs Stina Bruce-Jones Stephen and Morny Carter Philip and Mary Contini Sir Sandy and Lady Crombie Gavin and Kate Gemmell Dr M I and Mrs C R Gordon Scott and Frieda Grier Iain MacNeil and Kat Heathcote Miss A McGrory Miss M Michie Mr James Miller CBE Meta Ramsay Mr George Ritchie Mr P Rollinson Mr and Mrs W Semple Mr Ian Taft Claire and Mark Urquhart Raymond and Brenda Williamson Mr Hedley G Wright
Symphony
Ronnie and Evelyne Anderson Mr Alan and Mrs Carolyn Bonnyman Mr John Brownlie Miss L Buist Mr and Mrs J K Burleigh Mr J L Donaldson Mr I Gow Mr J D Home Mrs J Kennedy Mrs A Lamont Mr I C MacNicol Professor J and Mrs S Mavor Mrs A McQueen Morag Millar Mr Miller Graham and Elizabeth Morton Mr and Mrs David Robinson Mr D Rogerson Mrs Ann M Stephen Mr Alistair M and Mrs Mandy Struthers Mr and Mrs M Whelan Mrs A Wolfson
Concerto
Dr K Chapman and Ms S Adam Mr A Alstead Miss D Blackie Mr L Borwick Neil and Karin Bowman Dr C M Bronte-Stewart Dr F L Brown Mr and Mrs Burnside Ms H Calvert Mr A Campbell Sir Graeme and Lady Catto Mr R Cavanagh Myk Cichla Dr J Coleiro Mr and Mrs B H Cross Christine and Jo Danbolt Mr P Davidson Mr J Diamond Miss C Dixon-Carter OBE Mr S Dunn Mr C Ffoulkes Mrs E Gibb Mr and Mrs M Gilbert Professor J R and Mrs C M Gray Mr W Gray Mrs S Hawthorn Richard and Linda Holden Mr N Jack Mr and Mrs S G Kay Mr and Mrs W Kean Mrs M King Norman and Christine Lessels Mr Alistair Mackie Mr D MacPherson Mr R G Madden Mr S Marwick Mr and Mrs G McAllister Ms M McDougall Mr E and Mrs S McGeachan Mr Rod McLoughlin Mrs B Morinaud Mr A Morrison Mrs A C Morrison Dr and Mrs D Mowle Mr and Mrs D Pirie Ms A and Miss I Reeve
Miss L E Robertson Ross family Dr and Mrs G K Simpson Mr and Mrs A Stewart Mrs M Stirling Mr G Stronach Dr G R Sutherland Mr I Szymanski Professor D E M Taylor Mr and Dr Tom Thomson Mr J B and Mrs M B Watson Mr and Mrs D Weetman Mrs Wigglesworth Mr and Mrs Zuckert
Sonata
Ms S Ace Mr K Allen Mrs P Anderson Ms D Baines Mr O Balfour Mr N Barton Dr A D Beattie Professor G Beeston Mrs H Benzie Lord and Lady Borthwick Rev P Boylan John Bradshaw and Shiona Mackie Lady J Bute Miss S M Carlyon Mrs H S Chalmers Mr T Cole and Mrs J Leslie-Cole Lady Coulsfield Adam and Lesley Cumming Ms K Cunningham Mr F Dalziel and Mrs S Walsh Dr J K and Mrs E E Davidson Mr and Mrs K B Dietz Mrs C Donald Jane Donald and Lee Knifton Ms P Dow Mrs P du Feu Mr John Duffy Mr and Mrs M Dunbar Mr R M Duncan Brigadier and Mrs C C Dunphie Mrs E Egan
Mr R Ellis Miss L Emslie Mr R B Erskine Dr E Evans Mr D Fraser Mr D and Mrs A Fraser Mr D Frew Ms J Gardner Dr P and Dr K Gaskell Mr W G Geddes Mrs M Gibson Mr D Gibson Mrs M Gillan Mr R M Godfrey Dr J A Graham and Mrs H M Graham Professor and Mrs A R Grieve Mr and Mrs G Y Haig Lord and Lady Hamilton Dr P J Harper Dr N Harrison Mr and Mrs R J Hart Mr D Hartman Ms V Harvey Dr and Mrs P Heywood Bobby and Rhona Hogg Mr R Horne Mr and Mrs F Howell Mrs A S Hunter Professor R N Ibbett Mr A Kilpatrick Professor and Mrs E W Laing Mr J P Lawson Mr and Mrs J Lawson Mr R M Love Dr D A Lunt Mrs Lesley P Lyon Mr and Mrs R MacCormick Mr and Mrs MacGillivray Lady Lucinda L Mackay Dr A K and Mrs J C Martin Mr and Mrs J Martin Mr and Mrs D H Marwick Ms S McArthur Mr G McCormack Mrs L McCormick Mrs M McDonald Mr M McGarvie
Mrs C McGowan-Smyth Dr A H McKee Mr Patrick McKeever Mr G McKeown Ms H L McLaren Mrs E McLean Ms Fiona McLeod Mr and Mrs B Mellon Mr and Mrs I Mills Mrs P Molyneaux Mr R Morley Mr B Morrison Mr K M Murray Mr B and Mrs C Nelson Mr and Mrs K O’Hare Professor Stephen Osborne and Frank Osborne Mr and Mrs K Osborne Dr G Osbourne Ms S Park Mr R Parry Mr J Paterson Misses J and M Penman Mr I Percival Dr M Porteous Mr J W Pottinger Miss J A Raiker Mr W Ramage Mr M Rattray Ms F Reith Mrs D A Riley Dr and Mrs D Robb Mrs E Robertson Mr I Robertson Mr H and Mrs J Robson Ms A Robson Mrs E K Ross Mrs S Scott Mrs J Shanks Mr J A Shipley Dr M J and Mrs J A Shirreffs Dr Colin and Mrs Kathleen Sinclair Mr M J Smith Mrs E Smith Mr M A Snider Dr and Mrs B Stack Mrs Lorna Statham
Mrs T Stevenson Rev N and Mr R Stewart Mrs R F Stewart Mr and Mrs Struthers Mr and Mrs B Tait Dr and Mrs T Thomson Mr C Turnbull Dr S Tweedie Dr Morag Ward Mr W Watters Dr and Mrs T Weakley Mrs V Wells Mr G West Miss M Whitelaw Dr and Mrs D T Williams Mr D Woolgar Mr R Young
Thank you to all our members of the Circle, including those who wish to remain anonymous. Every one of you makes a real difference.
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CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Jenny McNeely
Her Majesty The Queen
Alistair Mackie Nicola Shephard
Graham Ramage
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
HEAD OF INDIVIDUAL GIVING AND PARTNERSHIPS GRAPHICS AND NEW MEDIA DESIGNER
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INDIVIDUAL GIVING AND PARTNERSHIPS OFFICER
RSNO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CONCERTS AND ENGAGEMENT
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Bill Chandler
Sam Stone
CHAIR
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John Heasley
Michael Cameron
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Liz Wallace
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Rosie Kenneally
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Jack Hunter
Richard Payne
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Christine Walker
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