Brangwyn Hall Brochure Autumn / Winter 2012

Events Programme www.brangwynhall.co.uk

Calendar August 23 – 25 Swansea Bay Beer Festival September 21

Ice Cool Kids Charity Ball

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Dunvant Male Voice Choir

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Welsh National Wedding Fayre

October 5

Swansea Festival Lecture

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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Stephen Hough – Piano Recital

13

London Philharmonic Orchestra

15

Wayne Marshall – Organ Recital

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Neal Davies – Song Recital

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BBC Singers

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St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

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Morriston Orpheus Choir – Elvis’ Imperials

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November 3

Festival of Remembrance

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Thai Cultural Day

14

Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls

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Swansea Sparkle

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Wedding Fayre Awards

22

Swansea Bay Tourism Awards

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Pontarddulais Male Voice Choir

December 1

Swansea Philharmonic Choir

7

Sports Awards

15

The Messiah

16

Salvation Army Concert

21

Dunvant Male Voice Choir

22

Christmas Candlelight Concert

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23 – 25 August

21 September, 7.30pm

Swansea Bay Beer Festival

Ice Cool Kids Las Vegas Ball

Back for the 6th year at the Brangwyn Hall, the CAMRA Beer Festival will have over 100 real ales and over 20 ciders and perries. Live bands will also be performing.

Ice Cool Kids is a local charity raising money to take a group of local special needs children skiing.

These children have a variety of conditions some of which are life threatening.

Through skiing their self esteem and confidence grows.

Tickets: available on the door. No advance tickets.

Cost: £5 or £3 for CAMRA members.

Tickets: £45 01639 862713

07970 680616 www.swansea camra.org.uk

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29 September, 7.30pm

30 September, 11am

Dunvant Male Voice Choir

Welsh National Wedding Fayre

Dunvant Male Voice Choir presents the thirty third annual patrons concert.

The ever-popular National Welsh Wedding Fayre returns to the Brangwyn Hall, hosted

by JR Events. With over 100 stands, stunning cat-walk shows, designer sale-rails and so much more.

Exclusive Debenhams goodybags on arrival too!

Getting married? You simply can’t miss this.

Featuring: The Three Welsh Tenors Soprano Angharad Morgan Musical Director Jonathan Rogers Joint Choir Accompanists Hywel Evans and D Huw Rees Tickets: £10 - £16 01792 207528

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Tickets: Free entry, no booking required.

Free VIP passes from: www.welshwedding fayre.co.uk

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5 October, 7.30pm

6 October, 7.30pm

Swansea Festival Lecture

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

A showing of Patrick Hannan’s film for HTV Wales: A Proper Job – a look at the life and music of composer Daniel Jones, following which Dr.Lyn Davies previews his forthcoming book celebrating the centenary of the composer’s birth and his Symphony No 11 being performed on 6 October.

Daniel Jones Symphony No.11 (In memoriam George Froom Tyler) Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor Vaughan Williams Symphony No.2 (A London Symphony) Conductor Owain Arwel Hughes Cello Julian Lloyd Webber

Tickets: Free entry but tickets required.

01792 475715 www.swansea festival.org

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Tickets: £20, £15, £12 01792 475715 www.swansea festival.org

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9 October, 7.30pm

13 October, 7.30pm

Piano Recital – Stephen Hough

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Chopin 2 Nocturnes Op.27 Brahms Sonata No.3 in F minor Stephen Hough Sonata No.2 (notturno luninoso) – World première (Commissioned by the Swansea Festival and Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham) Schumann Carnaval Op.9

Prokofiev Symphony No.1 (Classical) Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor Sibelius Symphony No.2 in D Conductor Vassily Sinaisky Violin Chloe Hanslip

Tickets: £15 (unreserved) 01792 475715 www.swansea festival.org

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Tickets: £25, £18, £15 01792 475715 www.swansea festival.org

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15 October, 7.30pm

16 October, 7.30pm

Organ Recital – Wayne Marshall

Song Recital – Neal Davies

Resident organist at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and acclaimed international recitalist, Wayne Marshall includes in his programme Vierne's Second Symphony, widely acknowledged as his finest, works by César Franck, Franz Schmidt and a five-movement improvisation on familiar Welsh folksongs.

John Ireland Five Poems of Thomas Hardy Ibert Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte Finzi Let us garlands bring (Shakespeare settings) Schumann Liederkreis Op.39 (Eichendorff) Wolf Fussreise, Verborgenheit, Gebet, Anakreon’s Grab, Der Rattenfänger Baritone Neal Davies Piano James Southall

Pre-performance talk 6.30pm Tickets: £12 unreserved 01792 475715 www.swansea festival.org

Pre-performance talk 6.30pm Tickets: £15 unreserved 01792 475715 www.swansea festival.org

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19 October, 7.30pm

20 October, 7.30pm

BBC Singers

St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

David Hill Conductor Iain Farrington Organ In celebration of HM the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, a musical journey through five centuries of choral music written by Masters of the Music for key royal occasions.

Beginning and ending with settings of Psalm 122, I was glad, by Purcell and Parry, the programme includes works by Byrd, Mendelssohn, Prince Albert, Elgar, Britten, Walton and Mathias.

Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919) Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 in E minor Conductor Vladimir Altschuler Piano Freddy Kempf Tickets: £25, £18, £15 01792 475715 www.swansea festival.org

Tickets: £17 unreserved 01792 475715 www.swansea festival.org

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26 October, 7.30pm

3 November, 7.00pm

Morriston Orpheus Choir – Elvis’ Imperials

Festival of Remembrance

Elvis in Swansea?

Share the legacy of Elvis ballads and gospels with the Morriston Orpheus Choir and, from the USA, Elvis’ Imperials – who performed with Elvis on stage and in studio.

Tickets: £19, £24 and £29

The City and County of Swansea and the Royal British Legion commemorate armed forces personnel, past and present, who have defended and continue to defend the British Isles and the Commonwealth.

Tickets: Free Entry 01792 635432

01792 637300 www.ticketsource.co.uk/ brangwynhall

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10 November, 6pm

14 November, 7.00pm

Thai Cultural Day

Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls

The ticket price includes a traditional Thai buffet, served between 6pm and 8pm. The Thai culture is then celebrated with classical orchestra and dance. There will also be demonstrations of fruit and vegetable carving.

This event is hosted by the Thai Cultural Association.

Tickets: £15 Available from: poraneejames@ yahoo.com www.ticketsource.co.uk/ brangwynhall 07866 337798 01792 637300

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Winning awards for ‘Best Live Act’ and ‘Hardest Working Artist’ folk/punk singer/songwriter Frank Turner debuts in Swansea with his band the Sleeping Souls and special guests on a fast-selling UK tour.

Tickets: £18 in advance. www.kililive.com

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17 November, 11am

18 November, 6.30pm

Swansea Sparkle

The Welsh National Wedding Awards

Tawe Butterflies and South Wales Police present a fun-packed transgender and public integration day with information stalls, demonstrations, dance and live music with the Swinging Blue Jeans topping the bill.

Evening entertainment starts at 6pm. See www.tawebutterflies.co.uk for more information.

Tickets: Free, no booking required.

After the huge success of the 2011 awards, this fantastic event returns to recognise the businesses within the Welsh wedding industry.

It’s a glitzy evening hosted

by Mike Doyle with live entertainment including Britains Got Talent finalist Jamie Pugh. With an open invitation to all, the ticket price includes a 3 course meal, the ceremony itself and all entertainment.

Tickets: £49.50, or £400 per table of 10. www.welshnational weddingawards.co.uk

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22 November, 7.00pm

24 November, 7.00pm

Swansea Bay Tourism Awards

Pontarddulais Male Voice Choir

Swansea Bay Tourism Awards 2012 – celebrating the quality and innovation of Swansea Bay’s Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Industry. The host for this glamorous award ceremony is Badger from The Wave.

Pontarddulais Male Choir Annual Concert with special guest artist Dennis O’Neill

01792 403339

Tickets: £10 or £15 Antony Bidder 01792 874349 Lyn Anthony 01792 884279 Or any chorister.

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1 December, 7.30pm

7 December, 7.00pm

Swansea Philharmonic Choir

Sports Awards

Daniel Jones – Country Beyond the Stars Puccini Messa Di Gloria Tenor Richard Allen Baritone Owen Webb Chamber Orchestra of Wales Conductor Clive John Tickets: £10, £12 or £15 01792 475715

The Active Swansea Sports Awards are dedicated to recognising and honouring the talented Swansea athletes and clubs over the past 12 months, from elite to the very grass-roots.

They also reward the contribution of coaches and volunteers who dedicate their time to improving the delivery of sport across the city.

01792 635452

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15 December, 7.30pm

16 December, 6.00pm

The Messiah

Salvation Army Concert

Enjoy this festive favourite which is the 73rd annual performance of Handel’s masterpiece at the Brangwyn Hall. Performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Wales Chorale and featuring the Chamber Orchestra of Wales.

Taking part with the band, choir, children and timbrelists of Swansea Citadel will be the choir of Ysgol y Strade, finalists in this year’s Songs of Praise Choir of the Year competition.

Conductor Alwyn Humphreys Soprano Ros Evans Mezzo Soprano Kate Woolveridge Tenor Robyn Lyn Baritone Gary Griffiths

Tickets: £3 01792 475715

Tickets: £13.00 01792 637300 www.ticketsource.co.uk/ brangwynhall www.brangwynhall.co.uk

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21 December, 7.30pm

22 December, 7.30pm

Dunvant Male Voice Choir

Christmas Candlelight Concert

Dunvant Male Voice Choir presents the 24th Annual Christmas Concert.

In a hall lit by flickering candles, Alwyn Humphreys sets the mood for this festive favourite by introducing a programme of music for this special time of year.

Featuring: The Hywel Girls’ Choir and Hywel Boy Singers.

Musical Director Jonathan Rogers Choir Accompanists Hywel Evans and D Huw Rees Joint Tickets: £8 - £12 01792 522144

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The Chamber Orchestra of Wales will be joined by soprano Roz Evans as soloist and the Chamber Orchestra of Wales Chorale.

Tickets: £11.50 reserved 01792 637300 www.ticketsource.co.uk/ brangwynhall

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Coming soon

Weddings

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

The Brangwyn Hall is the perfect place to hold your wedding.

1 January, 7.30pm

There is a choice of halls and rooms offering intimacy or grandeur with space for up to 500 guests.

Tickets: TBC 01792 475715 www.brangwynhall.co.uk

Rhydian Live in Concert & Support 15 February, 7.30pm Tickets: ÂŁ22.50 01792 637300 www.brangwynhall.co.uk

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Licensed for weddings and civil ceremonies there’s a choice of menus to suit all tastes and budgets with friendly, helpful staff that will make sure that your special day is perfect.

Feel free to get in touch and arrange a visit to discuss your plans and to look around.

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Conferences Whether you are looking to host a large conference, training day, team-building activities, exhibition or corporate entertainment, there’s a range of room sizes to accommodate your needs.

Rooms range from small committee rooms which hold up to 16 delegates boardroom style, to the Brangwyn Hall itself which can seat up to 1070 people theatre style.

The promenade of Swansea Bay is just minutes from the Brangwyn Hall offering your delegates a welcome break from a busy conference schedule.

To contact the Brangwyn Hall call 01792 635432 or e-mail brangwyn.hall@swansea.gov.uk

Sponsorship & Advertising Opportunities For details on the array of sponsorship and advertising opportunities at the City and County of Swansea contact 01792 635457

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Getting Here Parking Limited on-street parking available.

Bus Visit www.traveline-cymru.info or telephone 0871 200 2233 for timetables and advice on getting to the Brangwyn Hall by bus.

Train Visit www.arrivatrainswales.co.uk or ring Train Tracker on 0871 200 4950 for train times.

Contact Us Brangwyn Hall Guildhall, Swansea SA1 4PE. 01792 635432 brangwyn.hall@swansea.gov.uk All information correct at time of going to print.

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