SCO 2015/16 Season Brochure – St Andrews

ST ANDREWS 2015/16

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HOW SPLENDIDLY ALERT THE YOUNGER HALL ORCHESTRAL PLAYING IS: THE SCOTTISH OCTOBER 2015 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA MUST to APRIL 2016 BE ONE OF THE FINEST ENSEMBLES Tickets: 01334 475 000 OF ITS KIND www.byretheatre.com IN THE WORLD and Music Centre, Younger Hall TODAY www.sco.org.uk BBC Music Magazine

REMARKABLE PERFORMANCES

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

YOUR ORCHESTRA The Scottish Chamber Orchestra brings music to the people of St Andrews and beyond through memorable concerts with the world’s most miraculous soloists and conductors, interactive workshops, and inspiring masterclasses, recitals, individual coaching and schools projects.

ORCHESTRA IN RESIDENCE The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is Orchestra in Residence at the University of St Andrews.

Initiatives through this partnership help to inspire people of all ages, and to develop and nurture talent in school pupils, university students and staff. It also includes the St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra (StAFCO) which gives people of all ages and abilities the opportunity to participate in making music.

The SCO is a truly important part of the life of St Andrews, and it belongs to you...

––––– The SCO would also like to thank Local Authorities, Corporate Partners, Patrons, Subscribers, 250 Society Members and many trusts and foundations.

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REMARKABLE PERFORMANCES

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HOW SPLENDIDLY ALERT THE ORCHESTRAL PLAYING IS: THE SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA MUST BE ONE OF THE FINEST ENSEMBLES OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD TODAY

THE ST ANDREWS & FIFE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA Younger Hall, St Andrews

Wednesday evenings during term time 7.15pm – 9.30pm The St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra meets weekly to make and perform music! There are no auditions and all players are welcome, from adult learners to advanced musicians and those who haven’t played for years.

Members have the rare opportunity to play alongside and receive coaching from professional SCO musicians in a relaxed, low-pressure environment.

The music includes works performed by the SCO in its concert visits to the Younger Hall and there are informal concerts to show off everyone’s hard work, but the main idea is to meet up, play and have fun.

––––– For further details on how to take part, visit www.st-andrews.ac.uk/music, phone 01334 462226 or call in to the University Music Centre.

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VERY INSPIRING! I NEVER THOUGHT I’D EVER HAVE THE CHANCE TO PERFORM ALONGSIDE SCO MUSICIANS. –––––

LOVELY TO MEET PEOPLE OF ALL AGES ENJOYING MAKING MUSIC TOGETHER WITHOUT THE PRESSURE OF AN AUDITION!

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Giving everyone in Scotland the chance to listen. –– In the end, making music is all about the people, whether performers and creators or audiences and participants. Everything the SCO does is, above all, about the joy and enrichment of life through music.

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SIBELIUS+ NIELSEN 150

Wednesday 28 October 2015 7.30pm

Tuomas Hannikainen conducts

Sibelius MAIDEN IN THE TOWER PEKKA KUUSISTO, A VIOLINIST WHOSE RARE GIFT IS TO BECOME RATHER THAN PERFORM THE MUSIC HE PLAYS, MADE LIGHT WORK OF THE FINELY SPUN FIGURATIONS THAT FILTER THROUGH INTO THE DAPPLED ORCHESTRAL TEXTURES. The Guardian

WENNÄKOSKI New Work (c.12’) SCO Commission: World Premiere NIELSEN Violin Concerto (34’) SIBELIUS arr HANNIKAINEN The Maiden in the Tower: Orchestral Suite UK Premiere (38’) ––––– TUOMAS HANNIKAINEN – Conductor PEKKA KUUSISTO – Violin Just as Brahms and Sibelius did in their concertos, Danish composer Carl Nielsen combines genuine gravitas with luminous virtuosity to present the violin “in the best light, that is, rich in content, popular and dazzling.” These gorgeous melodies are augmented by a treasure from Sibelius’ only opera The Maiden in the Tower, from which an orchestral suite has been arranged by tonight’s conductor.

To complete this programme is the world premiere performance of distinguished Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski’s tribute to the work of Jean Sibelius, which celebrates the 150th anniversary of his birth.

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SIBELIUS INSIGHTS: 6.30pm Composer Lotta Wennäkoski discusses the influence of Jean Sibelius on her new work.

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STEVEN ISSERLIS plays

FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI plays

SCHUMANN CELLO CONCERTO

MOZART PIANO CONCERTO

Wednesday 25 November 2015 7.30pm

Wednesday 3 February 2016 7.30pm BEETHOVEN Overture, Coriolan (08’) MOZART Piano Concerto No 25 in C, K503 (30’) BEETHOVEN Overture, Prometheus (05’) MOZART Piano Concerto No 26 in D ‘Coronation’, K537 (28’) ––––– ANDREW MANZE – Conductor FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI – Piano

DVORÁK Legends from Op 59 (​17’) SCHUMANN Cello Concerto (25’) KURTÁG Movement for Viola and Orchestra (12’) MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 ‘Scottish’ (40’) ––––– ROBIN TICCIATI – Conductor STEVEN ISSERLIS – Cello JANE ATKINS – Viola Renowned British cellist Steven Isserlis has a profound and enduring love for Schumann’s music, and the hugely expressive Cello Concerto, by turns poetic and stormy, is an ideal match for Isserlis’ sensitive yet powerful playing. Principal Conductor Robin Ticciati shapes the programme with the high emotions of two more Romantic masterpieces. Mendelssohn’s evocative ‘Scottish’ Symphony was inspired by a visit to Edinburgh’s Holyrood Abbey, while Dvořák’s colourful Legends tell vivid stories in sound. SCO Principal Viola Jane Atkins presents György Kurtág’s brief, Bartók-inspired Movement for Viola and Orchestra.

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SCHUMANN INSIGHTS: 6.30pm Steven Isserlis and journalist Tom Service explore Schumann’s Cello Concerto.

Refinement and poetry combine with incisive power in the remarkable playing of young Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi. He joins the SCO for two contrasting piano concertos by Mozart: the grand, songful No 25 in C Major and the brilliant, witty ‘Coronation’ Concerto, No 26 in D. Conductor Andrew Manze, considered one of the world’s leading specialists in historical performance, prefaces the concertos with two of Beethoven’s most powerful overtures: the dramatic Coriolan and the arresting, energetic overture to The Creatures of Prometheus.

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MOZART INSIGHTS: 6.30pm Francesco Piemontesi discusses Mozart’s late piano concertos.

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WHEN PERFORMING MOZART, FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI THINKS METICULOUSLY ABOUT MATTERS OF EXPRESSION AND COLOUR. HE POSSESSES THE NATURAL ARTISTIC STIMULUS TO BE ABLE TO CONVEY HIS INTERPRETATIVE IDEAS WITH EAR-CATCHING SPONTANEITY.

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Wednesday 2 March 2016 7.30pm

Llyr Williams plays

BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO No 4 FEAST YOURSELVES ON THE CONCERTOS FROM JANICZEK AND WILLIAMS, AS AN EVENING BECOMES NOT ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL IN FRONT OF THE SCORE, BUT TWO EQUAL MINDS STRIVING FOR THE MEANING BEHIND THESE WONDERFUL CONCERTOS. Robin Ticciati

CPE BACH Symphony in G, Wq183/4 (11’) MOZART Violin Concerto No 2 in D, K211 (21’) Rondo in C, K373 (06’) BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4 (34’) ––––– ALEXANDER JANICZEK – Director / Violin LLYR WILLIAMS – Piano SCO Associate Artist Alexander Janiczek is widely respected for his deeply felt musicianship and intellectual insights, while Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams has been acclaimed worldwide for his searching, sometimes provocative performances of Beethoven.

Together they continue their survey of Mozart and Beethoven concertos with the SCO, performing Mozart’s vivacious Second Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s sublime Fourth Piano Concerto, the most lyrical of his keyboard concertos.

Janiczek opens the concert with a seldom heard but sparkling early Symphony by CPE Bach, JS Bach’s most pioneering son.

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Alexandre Bloch Conductor ––

EARLY EVENING RECITALS SCO musicians in recital as part of the University Music Centre’s concert programme. These concerts take place at The Byre Theatre at 5.30pm –––––

Wednesday 18 November 2015 5.30pm HARRY JOHNSTONE – French Horn –––––

Wednesday 17 February 2016 5.30pm JANE ATKINS – Viola ALISON GREEN – Bassoon ––––– Ticket prices: £9 / £7 seniors / £5 students.

Available from the Byre Theatre, the University Music Centre or at the door.

BIZET SYMPHONY in C Wednesday 13 April 2016 7.30pm STRAVINSKY Concerto in E-flat ‘Dumbarton Oaks’ (12’) SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No 2 (18’) RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte (6’)

For further details visit www.st-andrews.ac.uk/music, phone 01334 462226 or call in to the University Music Centre at the Younger Hall.

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BIZET Symphony in C (27’) ––––– ALEXANDRE BLOCH – Conductor ANIKA VAVIC – Piano

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Music to amuse, entertain and inspire: young French conductor Alexandre Bloch’s sparkling concert shows four composers at their most jovial in beautifully crafted works full of wit and ingenuity.

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Bizet wrote his exuberant Symphony in C at the age of just 17, and it clearly displays his youthful high spirits. Serbian pianist Anika Vavić is the soloist in Shostakovich’s warm-hearted Second Piano Concerto, full of rich melody and even a joke at the expense of his son, the Concerto’s first soloist. Bloch opens his concert with the intimate invention of Stravinsky’s zesty, Bach-inspired ‘Dumbarton Oaks’ Concerto.

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LARGE PRINT, BRAILLE AND TALKING NOTES VERSIONS OF THIS BROCHURE ARE AVAILABLE. CALL 0131 557 6802 –––––

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TICKET PRICES

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All single tickets, including discounts, are on sale from 11 May 2015. Subscriptions are taken from 18 March 2015. Priority booking closes 24 April 2015.

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Tickets: £9, Concessions: £7, U26: £5 –––––

TICKET DISCOUNTS

The Byre Theatre Box Office sells tickets and processes subscriptions for all SCO concerts in St Andrews.

Senior Citizens – £2 off standard prices.

Under 26s, students and unemployed people – £6 for any ticket (stalls only).

Under 16s – Free if accompanied by a paying adult.

Maximum of 2 free children’s tickets per adult ticket.

Additional children £5 each.

People with a disability – 50% off full price tickets for people with a disability and, where one is required, 50% off for their carer.

Group discounts – Groups of 6 or more save 20% off full price tickets.

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School groups – Teachers and/or accompanying adults go free when bringing a school group. For more information, contact SCO Marketing on 0131 557 6802 or info@sco.org.uk

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Please note: all discounts are subject to availability. We regret that tickets are non-refundable. Every effort is made to ensure that all information is correct at time of going to press. The SCO does, however, reserve the right to change dates, artists or programmes if necessary.

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PLAY YOUR PART There are many ways in which you can support the work of the SCO and help us bring live classical music to people of all ages throughout Scotland. We invite individuals to become SCO Patrons, join the SCO 250 Society, or to consider making a gift to the Orchestra in their will. We offer companies a range of sponsorship and in-kind support opportunities as well as bespoke corporate hospitality packages.

For further information on how you can support the SCO, visit www.sco.org.uk or contact the Development & Sponsorship Department on 0131 478 8344 or sponsorship@sco.org.uk.

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SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay Patron Robin Ticciati Principal Conductor Emmanuel Krivine Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Swensen Conductor Emeritus Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Composer Laureate Martin Suckling Associate Composer Karen Cargill Associate Artist Richard Egarr Associate Artist Alexander Janiczek Associate Artist Donald MacDonald CBE Life President Colin Buchan Chairman Roy McEwan OBE Chief Executive

4 Royal Terrace Edinburgh EH7 5AB telephone: 0131 557 6800 email: info@sco.org.uk www.sco.org.uk

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ST ANDREWS 2015/16 Wednesday 28 Oct 7.30pm

Wednesday 25 Nov 7.30pm

Sibelius + Nielsen 150

SCHUMANN CELLO CONCERTO

Wednesday 3 Feb 7.30pm

Wednesday 2 March 7.30pm

MOZART PIANO CONCERTO No 25

BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO No 4

MAIDEN IN THE TOWER

Wednesday 13 April 7.30pm

BIZET SYMPHONY in C