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IN ASSOCIATION WITH
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WELCOME Having joined the wonderful Hallé family last September, I am delighted, in spite of these extraordinary times, that the orchestra has been able to perform together once again. As we continue to find ourselves in periods of uncertainty, I want to reassure everyone that the best interests of the musicians and staff at the Hallé are at the centre of everything we do. With concert halls currently closed and live audiences sadly excluded, we are thrilled, in association with our partners at The Bridgewater Hall and our own Hallé St Peter’s, to be able to bring you a Winter Season of nine unique concerts. These specially curated performances have been filmed and recorded to the very highest quality for you to watch at home at your leisure. Although for me nothing beats the live experience, this exciting filmed format enables us to adventure into new ways of presenting the orchestra and enhancing the music. The diverse array of repertoire on offer will be complemented by introductions, interviews and insights from our family of Hallé conductors and special guest artists. The Hallé exists to play for you, our audiences, and the support of so many of you during this pandemic has been an inspiration and literally kept us going. We are deeply grateful. On behalf of us all here at the Hallé, thank you for your continued support and we hope that you enjoy this illuminating and life-enhancing series of events.
David Butcher Hallé Chief Executive
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STRAVINSKY’S THE SOLDIER’S TALE BROADCAST FROM LOCATIONS IN MANCHESTER
SPONSORED BY
It is due to the generosity of our sponsors, patrons and every loyal supporter who has been so understanding over the past 12 months that we are able to perform this concert. Arts Council England, the Greater Manchester Authorities and the City of Manchester have all been steadfast in their support and have our sincerest thanks. The Hallé is deeply grateful to our partners in The Bridgewater Hall, without whose collaboration these streamed concerts would not be possible.
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IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882–1971)
THE SOLDIER’S TALE ‘TO BE READ, PLAYED AND DANCED’ TEXT BY C. F. RAMUZ • TRANSLATION BY JEREMY SAMS A new filmed production for the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death.
Richard Katz narrator Martins Imhangbe soldier Mark Lockyer devil Faith Prendergast princess Peter Liang leader/violin Billy Cole double bass Sergio Castelló López clarinet Emily Hultmark bassoon Gareth Small trumpet Katy Jones trombone David Hext percussion Sir Mark Elder conductor Annabel Arden and Femi Elufowoju Jr co-directors Dominic Best film director George Johnson-Leigh designer Gemma Dixon film producer
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A TALE FOR TODAY
It’s something that can happen when you engage imaginatively with a work that is timeless, but also has great resonance for us now. Mysteriously, things fall into your lap. I was in contact with a cousin of mine who makes documentary films and who sent me a remarkable story about an African American composer, bandleader and soldier called Lieutenant James Reese Europe. He was born in 1881 and died in 1919. Lt Europe was as famous as Duke Ellington in his day, a major figure in American music; and he led the military band of the 369th Infantry Regiment (also known as the Harlem Hellfighters). He had to campaign to get this all-black regiment permission to fight in the First World War. Once in France, they fought with the French and became notorious: they did not yield a single prisoner or a yard of ground. They endured 191 days under fire and suffered the heaviest losses of any American regiment. Lt Europe travelled over 2,000 miles with the band in France, playing jazz and ragtime to huge acclaim. Coincidence? Serendipity? Whatever you call it, as we spoke about it, Femi and I became certain that this story was a way to bring the figure of Stravinsky’s soldier closer to audiences today, whilst at the same time honouring a remarkable piece of black history. Even his name seemed to resonate with where we are now. EUROPE: a black American soldier/musician called Europe. Since we have remained faithful to Stravinsky’s score and Ramuz’s text (in Jeremy Sams’s vibrant translation), we have no room to tell the story of Lt Europe. We have just lightly placed a clue, at the beginning and the end of the piece, hoping to stimulate people’s curiosity. It is our homage to the many black soldiers who fought in that war, and subsequent wars, who have been forgotten or erased from the history of soldiering.
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Lieutenant James Reese Europe. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
During the preparation phase of the Hallé’s filmed production of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, I and my Co-Director, Femi Elufowoju Jr, had an unexpected experience that we’d like to share.
Martins Imhangbe © Hallé Concerts Society
The Soldier’s Tale was created just over a hundred years ago, in 1918 in Switzerland, isolated in the middle of a Europe at war. The artists worked in improvised, under-funded circumstances: Stravinsky was cut off from any source of income so he collaborated with the Swiss writer Charles Ferdinand (C. F.) Ramuz and a group of local friends to make a small-scale work that they could tour easily. It was an experiment in form and a huge and brilliant departure from large-scale compositions for Stravinsky. The first tour was cancelled because of the 1918–19 ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic (another strange coincidence for us) but subsequently the piece became one of the most enduringly popular of Stravinsky’s works. So, alongside a black musician/soldier and a pandemic, the third chord that struck a resonance with us was what a local (almost isolated) production this had originally been. It was made with whoever was there and able and willing in Switzerland in wartime. One of the key characters in our film is the city of Manchester in lockdown … and the immediate environment of The Bridgewater Hall. We knew we wanted to make a kind of hybrid film, which would capture the fun and surreal aspects of the story and honour its ‘poor theatre’ beginnings. We switch from filmic locations to the orchestra playing on an empty stage, almost in dustsheets, in an empty concert hall. 8 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21
Whether or not you believe in the Devil, the story of a man who sells his soul for money is universal. We haven’t drawn inspiration from James Europe to emphasise the jazz elements of the score but to cast a fresh look at an archetype at a particular moment in history. Like us, our Soldier cannot escape his fate. He is betrayed time and again by his human desires. His story seems particularly timely now, when many of the illusions that have sustained us have been stripped away. Annabel Arden © 2021
FILMING THE TALE A dark Russian folk fable of a Soldier, a Devil and a Princess – devised ‘to be read, played and danced’, and set to some of Stravinsky’s most entertaining and affecting music – The Soldier’s Tale is a timeless story with a moral base that touches on the themes of power, greed, temptation and desire.
Peter Liang © Hallé Concerts Society
Created specially for film, and going far beyond standard methods of performancecapture, this vibrant and fresh take on the work constitutes an unusual visual and sonic hybrid, combining location, both on and off the stage, with music and action.
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The fantastical story is brought to life and delivered through an array of locations, film effects and camera techniques. We’ve set it in the heart of Manchester, embracing a rich variety of known and lesser-known locations: out along the city’s low, long waterways such as the Rochdale Canal, where the Soldier finds himself endlessly marching, or at the River Tib crossing point, where he finds a moment’s repose by the water’s edge, along with the geese and pigeons. At the end of Part One, the Soldier has a reflective moment – he has earned millions but has just realised that, in fact, he has nothing of true value. For this scene, we chose the very top level of the Q-Park First Street car park. It not only has wonderful panoramic views of Manchester, but by shooting at night we hoped to underline the surreal nature of the scene and the Soldier’s own sense of isolation.
Martins Imhangbe © Hallé Concerts Society
There is another scene in which the Soldier battles the Devil in a card game. The location for this heated duel … the undercroft of The Bridgewater Hall. An industrial-looking space, with the building’s famous gigantic earthquake springs, it is perfect for filming, as it not only has a very distinctive atmosphere but is very quiet.
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Faith Prendergast © Hallé Concerts Society
We used another famous Manchester institution, the Peveril of the Peak pub, known as ‘The Pev’, as the backdrop for another encounter between the Devil and the Soldier. Here the script describes a bucolic idyll of a country inn, with bees buzzing and chaffinches singing in the trees. That we were shooting in mid-March in an empty urban street only helped to counterpoint the down-beaten mental state of the Soldier. It’s a witty piece, where the camera plays with characters that appear and disappear or are dynamically transported from one space to another. Cinema cameras and lenses are up close and fluid to really connect with the action, the actors sometimes confiding to the camera directly, sharing their inner thoughts. Some scenes are shot with hand-held cameras to capture the slippery machinations of the Devil, and others are filmed using steadicam. At the heart of the piece is Stravinsky’s hugely accessible and enjoyable score, and for this production we’ve made a special recording, with cameras in amongst the players to really immerse the audience in the music. Dominic Best © 2021
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THE STORY BEHIND THE TALE Composers aren’t supposed to have to eat, pay mortgages or clothe their children. Even today, we’re faintly scandalised when they come right out and state what is often the single biggest spur to inspiration (and the driving force behind composers from J. S. Bach to Richard Strauss): hard cash. Igor Stravinsky, though, was never one to pull his punches. It was late 1917, and he was sitting out the Great War at Morges in neutral Switzerland with his wife Katya and their four children: I was also in a position of the utmost pecuniary difficulty. The Communist Revolution, which had just triumphed in Russia, deprived me of the last resources which had still from time to time been reaching me from my country, and I found myself, so to speak, face to face with nothing, in a foreign land and right in the middle of the war. It was imperative to find some way of ensuring a tolerable existence for my family. But at least he wasn’t alone. Together with a little group of equally cash-strapped fellow artists – the conductor Ernest Ansermet, the writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and the painter René Auberjonois – he conceived the idea of ‘a little travelling theatre, easy to transport from place to place and to show even in small localities’. A patron was found – the businessman Werner Reinhart from Winterthur. Ramuz and Stravinsky began adapting a series of Russian folk tales by Alexander Afanasyev into a theatre piece ‘to be read, played and danced’. Since this was a time of war and revolution, this tale of an off-duty soldier who sells his fiddle to the Devil seemed both timeless and uncannily timely. Rehearsals seem to have been lively affairs. Stravinsky and his collaborators had to draw upon locally available resources and performers, and the main roles were given to students from Lausanne University. Jean Villard-Gilles, then only 20, spoke the part of the Devil; years later he remembered the experience: Stravinsky and Ramuz were in charge of the daily rehearsals – the former always in a frenzy of enthusiasm, inventiveness, joy, indignation, headache; leaping on the piano as if it were a dangerous foe that had to be subdued by a bout of fisticuffs, then bounding onto the stage, swallowing glasses of kirsch whose after-effects had to be combatted with the aid of aspirin; the latter calm, attentive, friendly … Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) was premiered at the Théâtre Municipal in Lausanne on 28 September 1918. Stravinsky had written for the biggest orchestra they could afford: a clarinet, a bassoon, a cornet, a trombone, a violin, a double bass and a percussionist. And the staging could hardly have been much more basic. In front of Auberjonois’s backcloth, the narrator sat on a barrel next to a table with a carafe of white wine and a glass (the shores of Lake Geneva produce cheap and plentiful 12 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21
STRAVINSKY George Grantham Bain Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chasselas blanc). A year later, Stravinsky stripped it down still further to create a suite comprising five of the original 11 musical numbers, rescored for just three players (clarinet, violin and piano). It was a special ‘thank you’ to Herr Reinhart, an excellent amateur clarinettist, who had ended up paying for the whole thing. Stravinsky declared himself ‘completely satisfied’ with the premiere: ‘I have never since seen a performance that has satisfied me to the same degree,’ he later commented. The plan was to take the show on a Swiss tour, but a threat, more deadly even than war, was already closing in, and the theatre shut down the next day as the 1918 influenza pandemic took hold. Stravinsky, Ansermet, Auberjonois and several of the instrumentalists all contracted the illness in the next few weeks. They recovered, but the tour didn’t. Yet Stravinsky’s music still does a wonderfully wry and entertaining job of conjuring up that strange, fever-dream moment in European history: tunes that sound like folk dances, set to neon-lit harmonies; fairy-tale figures dancing jerkily to ragtimes and tangos; empty stomachs firing the creative imagination. And through it all – as the clarinet squeals, the fiddle scrapes, the drums rattle ominously and the narrator unfolds his sinister story – the unsettling feeling that maybe the Devil really does have the best tunes. Sitting comfortably? You won’t be … Richard Bratby © 2021 ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 13
IGOR STRAVINSKY: A LIFE IN DATES 1882 Born on 17 June at Oranienbaum, a summer resort on the Gulf of Finland west of St Petersburg, in a dacha rented by his father Fyodor, a leading bass at the Maryinsky Opera. 1890 Meets his cousin and future wife, Katya (Yekaterina) Nossenko, at her family’s estate in Ukraine. 1892 Starts school in St Petersburg after private tuition at home. Begins piano lessons. Sees his first opera: the 50th-anniversary performance of Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila at the Maryinsky. 1895 His parents take him on his first trip abroad, to Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt. 1901 Begins law studies at St Petersburg University, alongside private music theory lessons. 1902 Visits Rimsky-Korsakov to show him his compositions. Death of his father. 1903 Starts his first large-scale work, a piano sonata. 1905 Begins regular weekly lessons with Rimsky-Korsakov.
Igor Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and his family, 1908 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1906 Marries Katya Nossenko.
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1907 The erotic song-cycle The Faun and the Shepherdess and parts of the Symphony in E flat are given semi-private performances by the Imperial Court Orchestra. 1908 Death of Rimsky-Korsakov. Composes Funeral Song (in Rimsky’s memory), Scherzo Fantastique and Fireworks. 1909 After hearing the Scherzo fantastique and Fireworks, Serge Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballets Russes, asks Stravinsky to create some Chopin orchestrations for Les Sylphides, then commissions him to compose The Firebird ballet after other, more senior, composers decline. 1910 First visit to Paris for the triumphant Ballets Russes premiere of The Firebird. Meets Debussy and Ravel.
1912 Sees Wagner’s Die Meistersinger and Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival. First visit to Venice. Visits St Petersburg, his last visit there for 50 years. Meets Schoenberg in Berlin and hears Pierrot lunaire. 1913 First visit to London. The Rite of Spring’s Paris premiere (choreography by Nijinsky) provokes a legendary riot. Five days later he is hospitalised with typhoid fever. 1914 The opera The Nightingale premiered in Paris by Ballets Russes. Outbreak of WWI. Spends the war years in Switzerland. 1915 Meets the Futurists Marinetti and Russolo on visits to Rome and Milan. Meets the Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz. Conducts The Firebird in Geneva and Paris. 1916 Visits Spain with Ballets Russes. Completes the farmyard burlesque Renard. 1917 Meets Picasso in Rome. Completes first version of the Russian wedding ballet Les Noces. Bolshevik Revolution in Russia results in the confiscation of his property and his decision not to return. 1918 The Soldier’s Tale premiered in Lausanne but the ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic scuppers a planned Swiss tour. 1920 Pulcinella premiered in Paris by Ballets Russes. Moves from Switzerland to Paris. Composes Symphonies of Wind Instruments (based on a memorial tribute to Debussy). ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 15
Stravinsky & Vaslav Nijinsky as Petrushka Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1911 Petrushka premiered in Paris by Ballets Russes starring Vaslav Nijinsky. Starts composing The Rite of Spring.
1921 Begins affair with the (married) dancer Vera de Bosset. Moves family to Biarritz, but rents a studio in Paris. Begins the comic opera Mavra. 1922 Vera separates from her husband. Renard and Mavra premiered in Paris by Ballets Russes. 1923 Les Noces premiered in Paris by Ballets Russes. Meets Busoni and Kandinsky in Weimar. For the first time, conducts a whole concert of his works. 1924 Premieres Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments in Paris and also performs it in Denmark, Poland, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Marseilles. Moves family from Biarritz to Nice. 1925 First US concert tour. First recording contract. 1926 Conducts The Rite of Spring for the first time. Rejoins the Orthodox communion. First air flight (from Paris to Croydon). 1927 Opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (text by Jean Cocteau) premiered in Paris by Ballets Russes. Makes UK broadcast debut performing Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments in London. 1928 Ballet Apollon musagète premiered in Washington DC, then given European premiere in Paris by Ballets Russes with choreography by George Balanchine. Records Petrushka and Firebird. 1929
Death of Diaghilev. Records The Rite of Spring.
1930
Symphony of Psalms premiered in Brussels.
1931 Moves family from Nice to Voreppe, near Grenoble. Conducts premiere of Violin Concerto in Berlin. 1932 Concert tour with violinist Samuel Dushkin, for whom he’d composed the Concerto. 1933
Hitler becomes German Chancellor.
1934 Perséphone (a balletic ‘mélodrame’ with text by André Gide) premiered in Paris by the Ida Rubinstein company. Becomes French citizen. Moves family from Voreppe to Paris. 1935 US tour with Dushkin. Publishes autobiography Chroniques de ma vie. Premieres Concerto for Two Pianos with son Soulima. Meets Mussolini in Rome. Katya, suffering advanced stages of TB, spends time in Sancellemoz sanatorium. 1936 South American tour.
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1937 Jeu de cartes premiered in New York by American Ballet (choreography by Balanchine). 1938 Dumbarton Oaks concerto premiered in Washington DC. Stravinsky included in Nazi exhibition of ‘Degenerate Music’ in Düsseldorf. Daughter Lyudmilla dies from TB. 1939 Wife Katya dies from TB. Stravinsky himself spends five months being treated for TB in Sancellemoz sanatorium, during which time he writes his Harvard lectures. Death of his mother. Moves to USA three weeks after outbreak of WWII. 1940 Vera follows him to USA and they get married. Applies for US citizenship. Settles in Beverly Hills. Symphony in C premiered in Chicago. The Rite of Spring is included (heavily adapted) in Disney’s Fantasia. 1941 Moves to West Hollywood. Mixes mainly with fellow émigrés, including the musicians Joseph Szigeti, Arthur Rubinstein and Sergey Rachmaninov, as well as Mahler’s widow Alma and her husband Franz Werfel, and the writer Thomas Mann. Death of his brother Yury in Leningrad (St Petersburg). 1942 Writes Circus Polka for a ballet of circus elephants. 1943 Works on various aborted film projects. 1944 Composes Scherzo à la russe for Paul Whiteman’s jazz band and Scènes de Ballet for a Broadway dance-revue.
1946 Symphony in Three Movements premiered by New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Ebony Concerto premiered by Woody Herman and his jazz band.
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Signatures of Igor and Vera Stravinsky in a visitors’ book Valérie Mignault, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1945 End of WWII. Igor and Vera become US citizens.
1947 Begins correspondence with 23-year-old Robert Craft, who will become his musical assistant, secretary and memoirist. Begins collaboration with W. H. Auden on Hogarth-inspired opera The Rake’s Progress. 1948 Orpheus ballet premiered in New York (choreography by Balanchine). 1951 Conducts premiere of The Rake’s Progress in Venice. Concerts in Italy and Germany, where he hears music by the European avant-garde, including Boulez. 1952 Hears Craft conduct chamber works by Schoenberg and Webern in Los Angeles. Hears Berg’s Wozzeck and Boulez’s Structures in Paris, and conducts a tableau vivant version of Oedipus Rex with Jean Cocteau as Speaker. 1953 Meets Dylan Thomas in hopes of collaborating on an opera, but the poet dies six months later. 1954 In Memoriam Dylan Thomas premiered in Los Angeles. European tour. Awarded gold medal by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London. 1956 Conducts premiere of Canticum sacrum in St Mark’s, Venice. Suffers a stroke while conducting the Symphony in C in Berlin. 1957 European tour. Visits Dartington Summer School in the UK. Publication of Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (edited by Craft). Agon (a 12-tone ballet for 12 dancers) premiered in New York (choreography by Balanchine). 1958 Conducts Threni: id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae in Venice. 1959
Tours to Japan and conducts at the Edinburgh Festival
1960 Tours to South America and Italy, where he’s carried out of his hotel during a Venice flood. Writes Monumentum pro Gesualdo, A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer and Cantata. 1961 Extensive world tour, covering Europe, eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 1962 Dinner with President Kennedy at the White House. Biblical drama The Flood is premiered on CBS Television. Tours to South Africa and Europe, where he celebrates his 80th birthday in Hamburg. Tours to Israel and USSR, his first return there since 1914. 1963 Assassination of President Kennedy. 1964 Sacred ballad Abraham and Isaac premiered in Jerusalem. Composes Elegy for JFK and Variations Aldous Huxley in Memoriam.
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Stravinsky, 1962 Brazilian National Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1965 Composes Introitus T. S. Eliot in Memoriam. European tour. 1966 Requiem Canticles premiered in Princeton. Advised by doctor to stop conducting tours. Composes a setting of Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-Cat for soprano and piano. 1967 Last appearance as a conductor. Hospitalised twice with bleeding ulcers and a thrombosis. 1969 Moves from Hollywood to New York. Transcribes two Preludes and Fugues from Bach ‘48’ for strings and woodwind. 1970 Despite extreme physical decline, spends the summer at Evian on the French shore of Lake Geneva, where he is visited by family members. 1971 Dies on 6 April in New York, where a funeral service is held before his body is flown to Venice and buried on the island of San Michele.
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STRAVINKSY’S THE SOLDIER’S TALE RECORDED MARCH 2021 IN LOCATIONS IN MANCHESTER FILM PRODUCTION BY
Maestro Broadcasting PRODUCTION CO-DIRECTED BY
Annabel Arden Femi Elufowoju Jr FILM DIRECTOR
Dominic Best FILM PRODUCER
Gemma Dixon MUSIC DIRECTOR
Sir Mark Elder MUSIC PRODUCER AND SOUND SUPERVISOR
Steve Portnoi SOUND RECORDIST
Tony Wass BOOM OPERATOR
LIGHTING OPERATOR
HALLÉ GFX DESIGNER
Ed Brookes
Sam Goodwin
Peter Naish
DESIGNER
RUNNERS
DUBBING EDITOR
George Johnson-Leigh
Ralph Jeffreys Edward Cittanova Alice McIlwraith
Ian Watson
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Jim Ashcroft CAMERA OPERATOR
Jake Mcallister
HALLÉ DIGITAL MANAGER
Bill Lam
DUBBING MIXER
Tudor Davies EDITOR AND COLOURIST
Perry Bellisario
L’HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT Music by Igor Stravinsky Libretto by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz English translation by Jeremy Sams By arrangement with CHESTER MUSIC LTD acting on Behalf of itself and SCHOTT MUSIC GMBH & CO KG
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Image © Benjamin Ealovega
SIR MARK ELDER CONDUCTOR Sir Mark Elder has been Music Director of the Hallé since September 2000. He was Music Director of English National Opera (1979–93), Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1992–5) and Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in the USA (1989– 94). He is currently a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and has also held positions as Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Mozart Players. He has worked with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra. Until Covid’s intervention last year, he had appeared almost every year at the BBC Proms since 1975, including on the internationally televised Last Nights in 1987 and 2006, and with the Hallé every year since 2003. He works regularly in the major international opera houses, including Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opéra, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Glyndebourne. He was the first English conductor of a new production at Bayreuth and has also guestconducted in Amsterdam, Berlin, Bregenz, Geneva, Munich and Zurich. His large discography ranges from Verdi, Strauss and Wagner to contemporary music. Among his many acclaimed releases on the Hallé’s own CD label are Gramophone Award-winning recordings of The Dream of Gerontius, Götterdämmerung and Elgar’s Violin Concerto, while The Apostles was voted BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Year 2013; the recent release of Siegfried completed the Hallé’s Ring cycle on disc. As Artistic Director of Opera Rara (2012–19), his recordings included a multi-awardwinning release of Donizetti’s Les Martyrs and an International Opera Award-winning set of Rossini’s Semiramide. He has presented television films on the life and music of Verdi for the BBC and on Donizetti for German TV, co-presented BBC Four’s four-part series Symphony, fronted BBC Two’s Maestro at the Opera and, in 2015, presented BBC Four’s Sunday-evening series of symphony performances from the Proms. In March 2020 Sir Mark Elder returned from Pittsburgh to prepare the Hallé for Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony, but the concerts were not able to take place, as life within the performing arts came to an extraordinarily abrupt halt. Lockdown gave Sir Mark the chance to spend time with his family – especially his new granddaughter ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 21
– to study unfamiliar music, read voraciously and exercise in the glorious spring weather. As restrictions continued to change, a variety of different opportunities began to arise, including live-streamed digital performances and concerts welcoming smaller, socially distanced audiences. Sir Mark is looking forward to the return of audiences to The Bridgewater Hall in the Hallé's Summer Season. As well as his commitment to the Hallé, recent and future work includes conducting the OAE at Glyndebourne, as well as concerts with the London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Britten Sinfonia.
Sir Mark Elder and Mark Lockyer © Hallé Concerts Society
Sir Mark Elder was appointed a Companion of Honour in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours, knighted in 2008 and awarded the CBE in 1989. He won an Olivier Award in 1991 for his work at ENO and in 2006 was named Conductor of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society, of which he is now also an Honorary Member.
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RICHARD KATZ NARRATOR Richard Katz is an Associate Artist at Shakespeare’s Globe and has, for many years, also been an integral member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and Théâtre de Complicité. He has performed and devised many shows for these and other leading companies in a theatre career spanning well over two decades, during which he has performed in over 20 countries across five continents. He also writes comedy for radio. He has worked with such leading directors as Simon McBurney, Robert Icke, Marianne Elliott, Michael Boyd, Rupert Goold, Gregory Doran, Paul Hunter, David Farr, Phelim McDermott, Mike Alfreds and Matthew Warchus.
Peter Liang and Richard Katz © Hallé Concerts Society
Notable stage credits include the title role in Peer Gynt, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale (RSC), Shostakovich in The Noise of Time (Complicité), Polonius in Hamlet and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), the title role in The Hanging Man (Improbable), Narrator in The Lorax (Old Vic), Ali Baba in The Arabian Nights (Young Vic), Friedrich Muller in War Horse (National Theatre/West End) and The Prince in Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith). TV appearances include London Burning (LWT), The Omid Djalili Show (BBC), Black Books (C4) and Poirot (ITV). Film credits include Dance of a Killer, Guardians of the Galaxy and Enigma.
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MARTINS IMHANGBE SOLDIER
Martins Imhangbe, Faith Prendergast and Mark Lockyer © Hallé Concerts Society
Martins Imhangbe trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. His theatre credits include the title role in Othello (English Touring Theatre), Death of a Salesman (Young Vic, directed by Marianne Elliott & Miranda Cromwell), Richard II (Almeida Theatre, directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins), An Adventure (Bush Theatre, directed by Madani Younis), Absolute Hell (National Theatre, directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins), Barber Shop Chronicles (tour, directed by Bijan Sheibani), The Royale (Bush Theatre, directed by Madani Younis), Luce (Southwark Playhouse, directed by Simon Dormandy), Octagon (Arcola Theatre, directed by Nadia Latif), The Skriker (Manchester Royal Exchange, directed by Sarah Frankcom), Lionboy (Complicité, directed by Clive Mendus & James Yeatman), Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree) and Das Ding (New Diorama). He has also featured in the film The Last British Execution (directed by Iain Cash) and in the Netflix TV series Bridgerton.
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MARK LOCKYER DEVIL Mark Lockyer is a British actor with a breadth of experience in theatre, film and television. His screen work includes Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as well as the acclaimed British musical crime drama London Road, starring Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy and directed by Rufus Norris. More recently he played Carl Pryce in the BBC’s popular Holby City and previous television work includes Maxwell directed by Colin Barr and The Fall of Rome for the BBC. His theatre career, which spans over 30 years, has involved working with the RSC and performing at many theatres including the Royal Court, Old Vic, Almeida Theatre, Young Vic, Bristol Old Vic and Hampstead Theatre. In association with the Young Vic, he took his one-man autobiographical show Living with the Lights On on tour in the UK and abroad. Previous theatre credits include Vernon God Little (Young Vic, directed by Rufus Norris), Ghetto (National Theatre, directed by Nicholas Hytner) and Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe, directed by and starring Mark Rylance).
FAITH PRENDERGAST PRINCESS Faith Prendergast began dancing at the age of three at a local dance school in Colorado, USA. She practised many forms of dance while growing up, including ballet, tap, flamenco, hip hop, jazz and modern. At the age of about 14, she took an interest in contemporary dance and improvisation and, after completing high school, went on to study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance under the direction of Summer Lee Rhatigan. It was while living in San Francisco that she was exposed to world-class dance teachers and was able to watch quality performances from companies touring from Europe. From there, she went on to study at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, earning a First Class BA (Hons). Since completing her studies, she has gone on to freelance in the UK, working with companies and choreographers including Ballo Arthur Pita, Protein Dance, Stacked Wonky, Sweetshop Revolution, Joel O’Donoghue, Leila McMillan and Viv Wood. She has also helped to found Margate Movement Artists, a group of movers in Margate dedicated to bring dance to the region. ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 25
ANNABEL ARDEN CO-DIRECTOR Annabel Arden’s career encompasses opera, theatre and broadcasting, as well as acting and devising new work. In 1983 she was a co-founder of Théâtre de Complicité. In the UK, she has directed Cafe Kafka and The Commission (Royal Opera House); Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’elisir d’amore, Gianni Schicchi and The Miserly Knight (Glyndebourne); The Rake’s Progress (English National Opera); Carmen (Grange Festival); and La bohème (Welsh National Opera). She has also enjoyed a long association with Opera North, for whom she has directed Andrea Chénier, Osud, L’enfant et les sortilèges, La traviata, Die Zauberflöte, The Cunning Little Vixen, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and concert stagings of Turandot and Aida. Abroad, she has directed Turandot in Lisbon, The Cunning Little Vixen in Barcelona, L’elisir d’amore in Houston, Beethoven’s Leonore in New York, London and Salzburg, Faust in Lucerne and Der Zwerg in Florence and Turin. She has directed plays for the National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida Theatre, BBC and Sydney Theatre Company, as well as Complicité, of which she remains an associate artist. In the 2020/21 season she will make her debut at the Schaubühne, Berlin, co-directing a new adaptation of Kleist’s novella Michael Kohlhaas. Future plans include a return to Glyndebourne and new opera productions in Montpellier, Malmö and Copenhagen.
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FEMI ELUFOWOJU JR CO-DIRECTOR British-Nigerian director and actor Femi Elufowoju Jr will direct his first opera, a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, for Opera North in the 2021/22 season. In 1996 he won a Regional Theatre Young Director Award from Channel 4 and the Cameron Mackintosh Foundation to train as a theatre director at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. A year later, he became the first theatre director of African descent to establish a national touring company in the UK: Tiata Fahodzi. He artistically led the company for 13 years, directing and presenting more than 30 plays, including his production of Oladipo Agboluaje’s Iya-Ile: The First Wife (nominated for an Olivier Award). He has since served as an Associate at the Almeida
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Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Royal Court Theatre. Recent theatre directing credits include an adaptation of The Little Prince by Inua Ellams, which previewed in London in January 2020 and should have toured to the 2020 Edinburgh International Festival and Tempe, Arizona, and his own ‘radical new reimagining’ of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie for the Watford Palace and Arcola theatres in 2019. In 2018 he won Best Director in the Off West End Awards (Offies) for his Arcola staging of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives. He regularly directs radio drama for the BBC.
DOMINIC BEST FILM DIRECTOR Dominic Best is an award-winning film director with an international reputation for making films that open eyes and ears to new ways of experiencing opera, dance, music and arts. After training at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, he sang as a professional tenor until 1998, when he joined BBC Classical Music Television, where he developed his skills as a director and producer of documentary and performance on film. His collaborations embrace artists from every genre, including the musicians Antonio Pappano, Mstislav Rostropovich, Joyce DiDonato and Sheku KannehMason, and the choreographers Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon, Siobhan Davies, Cathy Marston and Akram Khan. For over 20 years he has established lasting partnerships with companies such as the Royal Opera, Royal Ballet, Rambert Dance, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival and Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet, as well as a host of UK and international performing groups including the Vienna Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Venice Baroque Orchestra and English Concert. During this pandemic year his films have broken ground by bringing new filming techniques to performance, including This House Is Full of Music, a portrait of the Kanneh-Mason family (BBC One), and a feature film of Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw (OperaGlass Works/ Marquee TV).
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GEORGE JOHNSON-LEIGH DESIGNER
Faith Prendergast © Hallé Concerts Society
George Johnson-Leigh trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, achieving a First Class BA (Hons) in Theatre and Performance Design. As a joint winner (with director Karolina Sofulak) of the 10th European Opera-Directing Prize, his reward was designing Opera Holland Park’s 2019 production of Manon Lescaut. Other credits include set, lighting and costume designs for Vanda (Teatr Łaźnia Nowa, Kraków), My Night with Reg (The Lowry), Dido and Aeneas & Trouble in Tahiti (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Beyond Shame (Derby Theatre), The Original Chinese Conjuror (Northern Opera Group), Pirates Revisited! (Opera North Youth Company); set and costume designs for All the Places We Could Travel and Influence (both Derby Theatre) and Who Cares? (The Lowry); set designs for The Seven Deadly Sins (Opera North), Snow White in the Seven Months of Lockdown (Charles Court Opera and King’s Head Theatre); lighting designs for The Mountain and Other Tales of She Transformed (Leeds International Festival), Plurality of Abhinaya (Lakeside Arts), Recreation (ARC Stockton), S/HE (The Place); associate designer for Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Trial by Jury, Osud, Trouble in Tahiti (Opera North), Story of Our Youth (National Youth Theatre); and assistant designer for I masnadieri (La Scala, Milan), Faust (Teatr Wielki Poznań), Jenůfa (Santa Fe Opera) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (National Youth Theatre).
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Mark Lockyer © Hallé Concerts Society
GEMMA DIXON FILM PRODUCER For over 20 years Gemma Dixon has worked across the UK’s broadcast industry on the widest variety of programmes – from drama and royal events to live sport and entertainment shows. A classically trained singer, pianist and violinist, she specialises in all aspects of classical music, theatre and events broadcasting for TV, digital, online and cinema transmission. She has thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with the Hallé to produce and deliver its online Winter Season. Other regular clients include the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet, Shakespeare’s Globe, Glyndebourne Festival, Opera North, BBC Events, BBC Proms and multiple orchestras and arts companies across the UK. In response to the rapidly developing online environment, she established Maestro Broadcasting, set up to meet the growing requirements of performing groups and ensembles. Drawing on extensive production experience, the company provides full broadcast solutions to the performing arts, specialising in high-quality performance coverage, hybrid capture and producing innovative films such as The Soldier’s Tale.
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THE HALLÉ The Hallé, numbered amongst the world’s top symphonic ensembles, continues to seek ways to enhance and refresh what it undertakes, with aspirations to provide leadership through performance standards, education, understanding and training. 2020–21 sees the Hallé embarking upon its very first digital season. During its 163year history, the organisation has weathered many storms – from two world wars to financial crises, volcanic ash clouds and now a global pandemic – and not being allowed to work and make music with immediate effect in March 2020 was truly devastating for its passionate players and staff. To be able to return to the stages of The Bridgewater Hall and Hallé St Peter’s to once again make music for loyal and supportive audiences has the feeling of a true renaissance. Founded by Sir Charles Hallé in Manchester, the Hallé gave its first concert in the city’s Free Trade Hall on 30 January 1858. Following the death of Sir Charles, the orchestra continued to develop under the guidance of such distinguished figures as Dr Hans Richter, Sir Hamilton Harty and Sir John Barbirolli. Mark Elder cbe became Music Director in 2000. He was knighted by the Queen in 2008 for services to music and appointed a Companion of Honour in 2017. In 2011 he was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
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The Hallé has received many awards, notably from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the South Bank Awards, for its work in the concert hall and celebrated
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collaborations with other orchestras and Manchester organisations. The Hallé has a distinguished history of acclaimed performances, both in Manchester and around Britain, as well as televised concerts, frequent radio broadcasts and international tours. Since launching its own recording label in 2003, a number of the Hallé’s recordings have won prestigious awards, including five Gramophone Awards, two Diapasons d’Or and a BBC Music Magazine Award. Hallé St Peter’s provides a home for the Hallé’s rehearsals and recordings, its choirs and Youth Orchestra, as well as a space for education workshops and small performances. Originally opened by the Hallé’s Patron HRH The Countess of Wessex in 2013, the facility is concentrated around a restored, Grade II-listed former church in the resurgent area of Ancoats, Manchester. A three-storey extension, The Oglesby Centre, was opened in November 2019 and includes a number of new practice rooms and performance spaces, as well as Hallé Kitchen, home to independent Café Cotton at Hallé St Peter’s. Hallé St Peter’s, and nearby sister venue Hallé at St Michael’s, are both versatile venues, suitable for a wide variety of events from weddings and parties to meetings and conferences. Over a quarter of a million people heard the Hallé live in the year up to April 2020 and more than 65,000 of those were inspired by the Hallé’s pioneering education programme. Working across the whole community – from schools to universities, care homes to prisons – to bring music in its broadest terms to those who may not attend the concert hall, the programme releases creativity and raises aspirations through very accessible and practical projects. The Hallé is a registered charity. ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 31
≥ FOR YOUTH 2021
The Hallé’s FREE online concert for Primary Schools is available now on YouTube.
Watch now
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≥ SUMMER SEASON 2021 CONCERTS AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER CH CBE
A season of six concerts performed live in The Bridgewater Hall. Three of the concerts will also be available at thehalle.vhx.tv Visit www.halle.co.uk/summer-2021 for full details.
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≥ CHAIR ENDOWMENTS The Chair Endowment programme is an opportunity for you to be associated with one of our players and link your name with a position in the Orchestra. Your gift will help us to ensure the Hallé continues to develop artistically, attracting and retaining musicians of the highest quality. The key to a successful orchestra is the quality of the individual players. At the Hallé we are fortunate to have some of the country’s most gifted musicians whose talent and commitment help keep the Hallé among the finest orchestras in the world. Find out more at www.halle.co.uk/chair-endowments
MUSIC DIRECTOR, SIR MARK ELDER CH CBE
FIRST VIOLINS SARAH EWINS
SECOND VIOLINS PRINCIPAL
Mr Martin McMillan OBE and Mrs Pat McMillan
Elaine and Neville Blond Charitable Trust
Patrick and Tricia McDermott
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, DAVID BUTCHER
TIBERIU BUTA
Karen Farquhar
Hamish and Sophie Forsyth LEADER
Penny Moore GUEST LEADER, PAUL BARRITT
in memory of Geoffrey Robinson ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR, DELYANA LAZAROVA
PZ Cussons, Sir Mark and Lady Elder, The Garrick Charitable Trust CHORAL DIRECTOR, MATTHEW HAMILTON
In memory of Alison WilkieDavies
Dr Anne R Fuller
PAULETTE BAYLEY ROSEMARY ATTREE
John Geddes
in memory of the late Marie and Jack Levy
PETER LIANG
CAROLINE ABBOTT
Jennifer MacPherson
Peter and Mary Jones
ALISON HUNT
JULIA HANSON
Mrs Vivienne Blackburn for Michael
Lou Page
HELEN BRIDGES
in loving memory of Michael Hall
ZOE COLMAN
Professor Chris Klingenberg POSITION VACANT
JOHN PURTON HANNAH SMITH
Patrick and Tricia McDermott
In loving memory of Kaye Tazaki, from his family and the Hallé
Sincere thanks also to all those who have made general donations to the Chair Endowment programme during the recent months.
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VIOLAS TIMOTHY POOLEY
FLUTE AMY YULE
TRUMPETS GARETH SMALL
Dr Susan M Brown
Mr Peter Heath
Shared Trust
JULIAN MOTTRAM
In loving memory of John Pickstone MARTIN SCHÄFER
David and Beryl Emery PIERO GASPARINI
Mrs Jane Fairclough GEMMA DUNNE
KENNETH BROWN PICCOLO JOANNE BODDINGTON
in memory of Ronald Marlowe OBOE STÉPHANE RANCOURT
The Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund
In memory of Diz Shirley, and happy days at Chipping Campden
VIRGINIA SHAW
CHRIS EMERSON
COR ANGLAIS TOM DAVEY
Bolton Opus Group CELLOS NICHOLAS TRYGSTAD
Martin and Sandra Stone SIMON TURNER
In memory of Mrs G E Whitehead DAVID PETRI
K and S Coen
Alison Wilkinson
In loving memory of Douglas Crawford CLARINET SERGIO CASTELLÓ-LÓPEZ
The Hallé Choir
CLARE ROWE
Nina Harris JONATHAN PETHER
Charlotte Westwood POSITION VACANT
In loving memory of Dorothy Hall DOUBLE BASSES POSITION VACANT
Edmundson Electrical Ltd YI XIN HAN
Shared Trust BASSOONS POSITION VACANT
Penny Moore TROMBONE KATY JONES
Sylvia Kendal in memory of Ivor Rowe TIMPANI JOHN ABENDSTERN
In memory of Alan and Vivian Glass PERCUSSION DAVID HEXT
Rosemary Whitesman RICCARDO LORENZO PARMIGIANI ERIKA ÖHMAN
Mrs R Russell in loving memory of her husband, Jim Russell RBA; Michael Eagles
In memory of Miss Amy Alexandra Morris
HALLÉ YOUTH ORCHESTRA BASSOONS
ELENA COMELLI
PERCUSSION
Anonymous
I and E Brett Karen Brown
HORNS
in memory of Arthur Bevan and Enid Roper LAWRENCE ROGERS
in memory of C K Andrews
In memory of Stella and Harold Millington
RICHARD BOURN
BEATRICE SCHIRMER
ANDREW MAHER
Joyce Kennedy in loving memory of Michael
Mr CR and Mrs E Anslow MATTHEW HEAD
NATASHA ARMSTRONG
In loving memory of Nora Dawson
John and Pat Garside
TOM OSBORNE
Michael Eagles BASS CLARINET JAMES MUIRHEAD
JANE HALLETT
Professor Sir Netar Mallick
Shared Trust
Shared Trust
Mr C R and Mrs E Anslow
CELLOS
The Holland-Frickes Mr John Summers WIND AND STRINGS
The English-Speaking Union, Mid Cheshire Branch Anonymous HALLÉ YOUTH CHOIR SOPRANOS AND ALTOS
Mr and Mrs Smith HALLÉ CHOIR
Jane Hampson ALTOS
Chris Hughes
RACHEL MEERLOO
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The Hallé’s new Apple playlist.
World-class recordings of the Hallé performing music by Wagner, Mahler, Debussy, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Sibelius.
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An exciting resource for schools from the Hallé Words by Tony Mitton • Music by Steve Pickett Goddess Gaia, a brand new 20-minute animated cantata from the Hallé, explores the beauty and fragility of the natural world and takes us on a thought-provoking journey around the globe, warning us about the danger of human greed on the environment A complete classroom resource for teachers, including three videos with opportunities for children to participate through singing and classroom percussion; audio files, creative music project, written teacher information and a comprehensive curriculum pack with suggestions and activities for a wide range of cross-curricular learning, including science, geography, art, citizenship, literacy, maths, DT and dance. Aimed at KS2 but all resources can be adapted to suit the needs of individual classes.
www.halle.co.uk/gaia
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≥ ST PETER’S ANCOATS, MANCHESTER
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Situated at the heart of the resurgent area of Ancoats, Hallé St Peter’s provides a home for the Hallé’s rehearsals and recordings, its choirs and Youth Orchestra, as well as a space for education workshops and small performances. Originally opened by the Hallé’s Patron HRH The Countess of Wessex in 2013, the facility is concentrated around a restored, Grade II listed, former church. A threestorey extension, The Oglesby Centre, was opened in November 2019 and includes a number of new practice rooms and performance spaces. The Hallé Kitchen space is now home to Café Cotton at Hallé St Peter’s. This independent café, restaurant and bar is open to the general public seven days a week offering great coffee, delicious homemade food and cakes for takeaway. Follow Hallé St Peter’s (@hallestpeters) for our latest opening times and information.
EVENTS AT HALLÉ ST PETER’S Hallé St Peter’s is a versatile venue suitable for a wide variety of events. The elegant interior provides a beautiful backdrop for weddings, parties, corporate events, meetings, conferences, receptions and more. Hallé at St Michael’s, our nearby sister venue, also provides stylish space for events. Enquiries are welcome for weddings, conferences and events. E-mail venues@halle.co.uk.
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≥ PATRON PROGRAMME By joining the Hallé Patron programme you can become part of a family of supporters who are helping to shape the future of the Hallé. Patrons have access to unique opportunities to experience many different facets of the Hallé alongside musicians, performers and fellow supporters in recognition of their regular support. Find out more at www.halle.co.uk/become-a-patron
CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE John and Margaret Allen Dr Anne R Fuller Pat Kendall-Taylor Professor Chris Klingenberg Patrick and Tricia McDermott David and Mary McKeith Dr and Mrs Ian McKinlay OBE Penny Moore, for Terry, who loved the Hallé Dr Sambrook Christine and David Walmsley In memory of Lynne In memory of Alfred and Brenda Burley
MAESTOSO Brian and Valerie Bailey Dr Susan M Brown Mr David A Budgett Mr and Mrs J. Davnall Valerie and Peter Dicken Mrs Juliet Gibbs Andrew Hay and Nicola Kitching Mark Kenrick Jennifer MacPherson John Nickson and Simon Rew Martin and Sandra Stone John and Pat Turner Judi Winterson and David Hoyle
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CRESCENDO Mr C. R. and Mrs E. Anslow Mr Jon and Dr Carol Ashley Mr Edward Astle Carole and David Baume Mr John Biggins Audrey and Richard Binch David and Maggie Blackburn Mrs Vivienne Blackburn Clair Boyes Dr Christopher Brookes J. R. Bushell (Bolton) Ltd Laura and Peter Carstensen Dr and Mrs Michael and Diana Cavanagh Lawrence David Cody and in memory of Mr and Mrs L. J. Cody Mr Julian Craddock Philip Crookall Mr A Fowell Mr and Mrs J. Fox Mr Richard Garnett Chris and Karen Halicki Miss Lynne Hamilton Dr Andrew Hardman David Haworth Mr John Hopwood and Dr Julia Morrison
Chris Hughes, to mark 42 years with the Hallé Choir Mr Kenneth Kay Mr Michael Leach Mr Colin Lomax David and Jane Murphy Sir Charles Nightingale Mrs Kathy Noble Mr John D Owens Mr D Pritchard Mr Martin Rayner AC and CJ Riddington T. G. Roberts Mrs Jackie Roberts Mr and Mrs R. J. W. Rogers Judith and Patrick Rutter Sheila Rydz and in memory of Simeon Rydz John and Susan Schultz Mr P D Senn Mr David Shipley Mrs Marian Smith and in memory of Colin Smith OBE Mrs E. G. Tonge Joy White Professor and Mrs Philip Wiles David and Veronica Yates In memory of Brenda Owens
INTERMEZZO
SCHERZO
Dr D Yvonne Aplin Joan Ball Tony Bates Professor Tony Berry Mr K A Bevan Mrs Margaret Bradshaw Mrs P Cate Monica and Mick Clark Pamela Craig Sarah Crouch Mr Anthony Doust Mr Micheal Dowling Chris Dumigan Dr George A Eccleston Rev’d and Mrs J F Ellis Mrs A Fitzpatrick Charlie Fleischmann Ann Flowerday Jeremy and Gillian French Mrs Ruth Gooddie Mr and Mrs R Green Mr John Hannah Mrs Bessie Harper Callum Harvey Mr and Mrs D Hawkes Peter and Audrey Hewer Mr Simon Hutchence Mrs Wendy Jeffs Professor Nicholas and Dr Mary Jones Mr J G Knox Mr and Mrs B H Lawrence Mr and Mrs R W Lee Mel Littler Mr Alan Lowe Mr T Marsden John and Mary McPeake Stephen and Jacqueline Miley Mrs Alison Milford Gordon and Jess Minton Miss Maire Morton Mr and Mrs J P Platt Malcolm and Morag Ranson Mr Michael Redhead Canon C Roberts Joan and Graham Rogers Dr T and P E Schur Phil Thornley Mr John Turner Mrs M Warrener Mr J C White Professor Richard Whitley Mr John Wildman Jack and Elizabeth Wimpenny Joan Wood In loving memory of Helen Brave In memory of Albert Mesriee
Gill and Barrie Adams Mr Peter Adamson Mr Timothy R Ades Dr Katherine M Adler Mr Roger Ainsworth Vin Allerton Dr P J Alvey Mr Barry J Ball Dr Peter Barberis Mr Michael Barley Mrs J E Baxendale Mr Paul K Berry Mr Steve Best Mr D J Bird Mr Stuart Bishop Dr Howard Booth Ms Annie Bracken Arnold and Brenda Bradshaw Philip Broughton Mr Dean Brown Karen Brown Miss S R Brown Peter Burgess Barbara and Anthony Butcher Miss Christine Bywater Miss Christine S Catherall Mrs B Y Chubb Mrs Kathleen Cleary Mrs Gina Collison Mr David Cooke Mr H C Cowen Mrs Frances Critchley Mr John Critchley TD Mrs J D Darwent Dr D Dawson Mr and Mrs B A DeSousa Mrs Joyce Dewhurst Mrs Marie Dixon Ann and Donald Docker Mr Paul Durham Mrs D Dyer Mr E Alan Eaves Miss E Evans David Farrow Dr Larissa Fast Miss Charlotte Fitzgerald Mr George Fletcher Mr Alan Freeman Dr Tim Gartside Mrs Elaine M Gavin Mr Adrian Gerrard Mrs J Gill Mrs Mary Glynn Mr Christopher Grafham Mr and Mrs S R Lancelyn Green Mrs Caroline Greenwood Mr John D Gregory
Dr R Gregory Mr J B Haddow Dr I M Hall Paul and Amanda Hamblyn Mr C W Hampson Mrs Thora Harnden Brian and Bridget Harris Mr Simon Harrison Mrs J M Hartley Mrs Dorothy Heaton Mr Cliff Heckle Donald and Carolyn Henderson Mrs G Hewitt Miss Pauline Hickey Mr and Mrs J M Hill Peter and Charlotte Hill Mr J M Hindshaw Mrs Dorothy Holt Mrs Janet Holwill Dr W Hoyle Mr H Hughes and Mrs F Hughes David Humphries Mrs Glynys Hunter Dr Steven Hurst Joyce Hytner Mr Howard Johnson Mrs Jean Johnson Alma Jones, and in memory of Frank David and Fae Jones Christine and Michael Jones Mr Trefor Jones Miss Brunhilde Kay Mr and Mrs Rex Keen Lynne and Martin Kemp Ian Leonard Jennifer and Paul Lingwood Mr Harry Lipson Mrs Dorothea Livesey Virginia and Peter Lloyd Mr and Mrs M and A Losse Mr Kevin Lyons Mr F P S and Mrs D A B Marriott Dr and Mrs P J Marriott Mr P Marsh and Ms H M Bennett Mrs C Mason Dr Michael Mattison Mrs E McCrone Mrs Angela McMenemy Mrs Bernice Meagher Dr David Miers Mr David Milner Mr Jeff Milner Dr Brian Molyneaux Mr Peter Moorhouse Ms Kathleen Morris
Miss Jean Motler Mr P K Murphy Mr David Odling Professor Damian O’Doherty William and Janet Ollier Mr John Peaker Dr John Pearson Reverend David Peters David and Elizabeth Pioli Mr Victor Potapczuk Professor James Powell OBE Dr R E Price Mrs Jean Proud Mr D Radley Mr Peter Ramsden Mrs Beryl Ratcliffe Angus and Jenny Reynolds Mr Paul Reynolds David and Elly Roberts Mrs A Rose David and Maggie Rowlands Mrs Susan Rowlands Professor Michael G Rusbridge Mrs J Ryner Martin and Gail Sanderson Mr and Mrs John and Jackie Say Mrs Jan Schofield Mr James A Scott Mr Simon Shelbourn Mr C and Mrs T Shepherd Mr Michael Shiels Charles and Helen Smith Mr and Mrs C Smith Mr Roger Smith Mr Alan Spier Mr and Mrs R T Stafford Mr Frank Stoner and Mrs Margaret Dudley-Stoner Mrs Carla Suter Mrs Norma Swan Mrs M E Thompson Mr John Thomson Mrs Jean Tracy Mrs Jackie Tucker Tom Uprichard Mrs Barbara Upton Mr Peter and the late Mrs Diana van der Feltz Derek Vernon Jeffery and Judith Wainwright Mr Brian Walker Mr R B Walsh F T Walters Mrs Anne Ward Mr George Watson John and Christine Weller
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Mrs Lynn Wharton Mr Peter R White J Christopher Whitehead Mr A Whittaker Mr Thomas Williams Mr C F Winter Barry Wood Hilary and the late Noel Woodhead Mrs Ann Woolliscroft Dr J M Worth D and M Wright Dr David Yorke A music lover In memory of my parents In memory of Margaret Brailsford In memory of O Calvert In memory of Mr Tom Chadwick In memory of Liz Glynn In memory of D S Goodes In memory of Dr D B Jones In memory of Mrs M McDonald In memory of Patsy Pringle In memory of Dr Barbara Smith In memory of John Wallace Tonge
ALLEGRO Mr A C Abbas Mrs Brenda Ackroyd Mr Chris Adams and Professor Rosemary Lucas Mr Paul Adkins Mr Paul Ager Mr Richard Alliss Mohammed Amin Voxra Andersen Mr G Aspey Mrs Barbara Aspin Mrs Barbara Austin Ms Elaine Bagley Mrs P Barlow John Barnard Mr C Barton Dr A J Basey Mr and Mrs Melvyn Bathgate Mr and Mrs S Beckett John Begg Ms Rowena BeightonDykes Mrs Lois Beldon Mr P Beresford Mr I C Berridge Mr G N Berry Mr R Berryman Ms Rosemary Betterton
Mr David Bimson Mr A Birch Mrs A Birch Mrs Christine Bird Michael S Birkett Mr Robin Bissell Mrs Diane Blackburn Marilyn Booth Mrs Marjorie Boothby MBE Mr John M J Bowden Mr Alan Brant Mr Roger Brentnall John Bridgman Mrs Susan Briggs Mr David Britnor Mr and Mrs Andrew Brochwicz-Lewinski Ms Patricia Brock Mrs Gwyneth Brown Miss V Brown Mr Ian Brownlee Mr A Budworth Mrs Sarah Bunting Mr and Mrs P Burns Dr Kathy Burton Mrs Pauline Bushnell Peter Callon Mr Gerard Cambridge Ms Shirley Campbell Mr Geoffrey Carter Mrs Pamela Carter Mr J K Chadwick Mr William Chadwick Austin Chambers Mrs J Chambers Ms K Chapple Mrs Margaret L Chatfield Mr Eric Chilton VKF Ciaputa Mrs Betty Clee Mrs Anne Clegg Mrs C Connor Mr Michael Connor Mrs Olive Cook Mr D Cooper Mr Geoffrey D Copage James Coppock Mrs Joyce Cotgrave Mrs Barbara Cotterill Mr Richard and Mrs Karen Cowley Mr David Cresswell Mrs Margaret R Croker Mr and Mrs J B and Sylvia Crummett Dr C S Cundy Hilary and Adrian Curtis Mr Alan Dagger Mr Gerard Dale Jennifer Dale Mrs Jackie Dalingwater
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Ms Maria Davies Mr G J Davison Mr Alan Dean Anne and John Dempsey Mrs Wendy Dewey Mr and Mrs I Disley Professor Alexander Donnachie Mrs M Downing Helen Drew Miss Margaret Dunn Ms Louise Durose Dr S Dymock Mr Barry Eastwood Mrs Stella Eberlein R Ellershaw Mr M Ellis Mr and Mrs K Else Mr Peter English Mrs J M Evans Mrs Christine Everett Ms Julie M Fallon Ms N E Farrell Mr Steven Farrell Mrs Margaret Faulkner Mrs Cynthia Fenton Steven Fidler Mr Howard Fisher Mrs P Fitzgerald Raymond and Eileen Flint Mr R Foster Ms Wendy Foulger Mrs Augusta Fox Mr Charles R Fox Mr J W Fox Miriam and Michael Fox David and Sylvia Francis Mr R F Fry David and Joyce Fuller Miss A M Furphy Mrs E Galloway Peter Gannon John Gardner Eileen Goodwin in memory of Jack Mrs F B Grant Mr T Greene Andy Greenwell Ms Joy Greenwood Pamela Greenwood Mr Stephen Gregory Mr J C B Gregson Mr A L Griffith Mrs Audrey Griffiths John Groarke Mr J F Austin Hall James Hallows Mrs Eveline Hamilton Mrs Sheila Hardy Mrs Helen Harrington Dr W David Harrison Mrs Judith Harrop
Mr David Hartley Peter and Susan Haslehurst Tony Hayter Mrs Susan Heard Mr R Heaton Mrs P A Hemstock Dr Kenneth Henderson Mr John Herod Mr Thomas A Heyes Mr and Mrs G D Heyward Dr Pamela Hobson Mr Alex Hodgeon Mr Paul Holder Mr Derek Hollingsworth Dr Michael J Holloway Mr and Mrs M Holmes Mr R Holmes Miss Jeanne Holt Mr Brian Hooley Mrs Ann Hooper Mrs M Horan Mr John David Howard Mrs C M Hughes Mr J G B Hunter Mrs Jacqueline Hurdle John Hytner Miss Susan Ingham Mrs Helen Margaret Ireland Dr Melanie Isherwood Mr Paul Jabore Bridget Jackson Mrs J A Jackson Mrs I J Jackson Mr John Jackson Mr M D Jackson Mrs Pauline Jackson Mrs Emma Jacobs Miss Hilary Jarvis Dr K Jeffery Mrs Christine Jenkinson Mr Mark Johnson Mr R Johnson Mrs A Johnstone Mrs A Jones Mrs J M Jones Mr Fred Jones Shirley Jones Mr D J Kay Mrs Angela Kendrick Mr Andrew Kennaugh Jack Kirby Miss B Knight Dr W F Knox Mr Rainer Kolbeck Mrs Pat Kundi Dr Louis Kushnick Mr and Mrs Vivian Labaton Mrs Lillian Langshaw Dr Hugh Laverty Mrs Alison Lawrence
Mr and Mrs E Layland David and Pam Leaver Charles Ledigo Mr R Lee Mr Graham J Lees Mrs S Leete Mr Howard Leigh Mrs S Lewis Mrs Susan G Lewis Mrs A Leyland Mr John Liles Mrs Anne Livesey Pam and Gordon Lorimer Mrs Barbara Lowe Mr C A Lowe Dr Marion E Mackay Mr David MacKley Mrs Sarah C Maddock Mrs Barbara Maitra Mr D F Mardon Mrs B Marples Dr and Mrs Martin Mr Michael Martindale Mrs Dianne Massey Mr M D Masters Mrs Wendy Maunders Mrs Anne McCormack Mr J McCrory Mr J McGough Mrs T R McGough Mr Brian McGrath Mrs Sylvia McKellar Mrs Hinda Meggit Mr John Meriton Miss Audrey Messenger Dr John P Miller Mr Roger Miller Mr Robert Millington Mr Andrew C Mitchell Mr Tim Mitchell Miss G Mobb Anthony and Linda Mooney Mrs Gillian Moorhouse Mrs Jennifer Moorhouse Dr Richard Morgan Mr S J Morley Dr M G Mortimer Mr and Mrs Muir Mr A Murray Mr V Murray Dr Granville Neath Mr and Mrs A Newton Mr Peter Newton Mr Edward Nicholls Mr and Mrs Jonathan Noble Mr Thomas Nuhse Mrs L O’Connor Mr Stephen O’Hagan Mr Stephen Oliver-Watts Mr Martin Olley Mrs M Owen
Mr Michael Owen Mrs Christine Owens Graham and Dorothy Palmer Mr and Mrs K Parker Mr R K Parker Mrs Rosemary Parsons Mrs Ann Patterson Mrs M Pattinson Mr Alan Pearson Mrs Pauline Pedlar Mr J D Perry Mary Pexton R and E Philburn Dr Max Pilotti Mr John Piper Mr M Pittam Mr J Platt Mrs Lynne Powell Mr Lee Price Mrs Frances Prince Mrs Jean Pugh Mrs Jennifer Rae Mrs Sheila Ramsay Mr Stuart Ramsden Mr and Mrs Alan K Rawson Mr Paul Raynor Dr Redford Mrs M Redmond Miss Karen Redmore Mrs Susan Renshaw Mrs A Richardson Mrs S Rigby Mrs Christina Roberts Elizabeth and Hugh Roberts Mrs Winifred Robertson Mrs Doreen Robinson Mrs Kathleen Robson Mr Mark Robson Mr Colin Rogers Valerie and Howard Rogerson Mr Philip Roper Mrs J A Round Mr J Roundell Mr Raymond Rouse Miss P Rowland Mr C Rudd Miss S M Salmon Mr Peter Sampson Mr J B Sangster Mr Gerald Francis Schultz Mrs Margaret Scott Mr Robert Scott Mrs Carol Selby Alison Sellars Mr Andrew Senior Mr Maurice Setton Mr Christopher Sharp Mr David J Shearing
Mr S W Shone Mrs Eileen Short Mr P Sidwell Mr Chris Simon Mrs J K Slack Dr A J and Mrs J M Smith Mrs Anne Smith Mr Lionel Smith Dr J Spangler Mr M Spoors Mrs Joyce Stafford Mrs C M Stead Mrs P Steed Mrs Jane Stephens Mr Paddy Stephenson Mr J R Stuart Mrs Sally Sturt Mrs C Summerfield J B and J W Sutcliffe Miss Sykes-Howden Dr D P M Symmons Mr J P Syner Mr T Tarpey Mr J Taylor Mrs J Taylor Mrs Lesley Taylor Mr M Taylor Rosemary and Roger Taylor Mr D F Thickbroom Jim and Stella Thomas Michael Thomas Mrs S K Thomas Miss Marie Thompson Mr Philip Thompson Mr Terence P Thornton Mrs J Tims Mr D Allan Townsend Mr and Mrs P Trickett Mr and Mrs Brian Tuffery Mrs J Turner Mrs Barbara Twiney Mr W W Wagstaff Mr Angus Walker Mr P R Walker Mrs Sylvia Walker Mr W A Walker Mr John Ward Dr Stephen Ward Mrs and Mr Susan and Michael Warrington Mr and Mrs J M Watson Mr and Mrs Bill Webb Miss Judith Weller Mrs Pamela Wells Mr Robert Wensley Mr Werbel Mrs A G Whaley Mr P N Whitaker Mrs H Whitehead Eric Whittaker Mrs Petronella Whittle
Mrs L Wilkinson Professor Arthur Williams Mr and Mrs A J Williams Mrs Margaret Williams Mrs H J Williamson Mr A Willows Mrs Margaret Wilson Mr Stephen Wilson Mrs Kathleen Winterbottom Ms Janet Wolff Mr and Mrs Chris Wolstenholme Mrs Margot Wood Mr and Mrs S Wood Dr Zoe and Roderick Woodhead Mr Terry Woodhouse Mr T Woolfenden Miss A F W Woolley Mr Norton Wragg Dr M Wren Anna Wright Mrs Helen Wright Mr Keith Wright Mr Angus Yeaman A Music Lover In memory of Roger Bogg In memory of Margaret Cooke In memory of Mr and Mrs G W Dawson In memory of my gifted grandfather, Peter Hunt esq. In memory of Mr G E Huggins In memory of Bill and Florrie Mathews In Memory of Derek Michael Melluish OBE In memory of Dr Nathan and Mrs Shlosberg In memory of Ian Michael (Mick) Othick
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MANY THANKS TO ...
HOLDERS OF THE HALLE SILVER MEDAL FOR PHILANTHROPY Stewart Grimshaw Michael and Jean Oglesby Terry and Penny Moore Arthur Reynolds Jurgen Maier
2058 FOUNDATION PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS Manchester Airport Mr Martin McMillan obe and Mrs Pat McMillan The Oglesby Charitable Trust Fred Nash and Carole Nash obe Tiger Developments CIM Investment Management Ltd DLA Piper LLP Rothschild MAJOR BENEFACTORS Peter Heath David and Mary McKeith Brother (UK) Ltd PZ Cussons plc Nigel Warr David Wertheim and Family Kirby Laing Foundation Kobler Trust Martin and Jacqueline West The 2058 Foundation is a restricted fund of the Hallé Concerts Society established in the Hallé’s 150th Anniversary year to support specific artistic and education projects.
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SUPPORTERS OF THE OGLESBY CENTRE AT HALLÉ ST PETER’S The Oglesby Charitable Trust The Monument Trust The Dunard Fund The Foyle Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation Granada Foundation The Kirby Laing Foundation Victoria Wood Foundation The Wolfson Foundation and all those who supported The Oglesby Challenge and those who wish to remain anonymous
AMERICAN PATRONS Carol E. Domina Caroline Firestone Rita Z. Mehos Christa Percopa Arthur Reynolds Annette Vass
LONDON PATRONS Joyce Hytner John Nickson and Simon Rew
THE HALLÉ WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING TRUSTS FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT The Monument Trust The Oglesby Charitable Trust Esmée Fairbairn Foundation The Foyle Foundation Granada Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation The Kirby Laing Foundation The Liz And Terry Bramall Foundation The Victoria Wood Foundation The Wolfson Foundation The Zochonis Charitable Trust Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation The Ann Susman Charitable Trust The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust The Band Trust The Boltini Trust Boshier Hinton Foundation Church Burgesses Educational Foundation D’oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund The Gladys Jones Charitable Trust The Grand Trust CIO The Harding Trust The Derek Hill Foundation John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Irving Memorial Trust Land & Co. Foundation The Leche Trust Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust McLay Dementia Trust The N Smith Charitable Settlement Paul Hamlyn Foundation Peter Cunningham Memorial Fund Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust The Pilkington General Charity PRS for Music Foundation The Radcliffe Trust The Rainbow Dickinson Trust The Rix_Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation RUSI (The Royal United Services Institute) Schroder Charity Trust The Sobell Trust Sir George Martin Trust Sale Mayoral Fund The Thriplow Charitable Trust
HALLÉ FAMILY OF BENEFACTORS Mrs A. Alford Mr C. K. Andrews Mr and Mrs Black In Memory of Rabbi Felix Carlebach from his family, friends and supporters Pamela Cate Mr Peter Copping Miss Rebecca Louise Finch Mrs Vivian Glass Mr Harry Johnson Mr A. and the late Mrs A. Johnson Kenneth Kay Mr C. H. Pooley Brian and Glenna Robson Bernadette Rudman Mr and Mrs R. P. Shepherd JP DL Lynne and Bob Spencer Mr and Mrs Brian Tetlow
and others who wish to remain anonymous
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≥ SEASON SPONSORS Diamond Partner
Major Sponsor
With thanks to Manchester Airports Group for 30 years of support.
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Many thanks to our family of Workplace Choirs
HALLÉ BUSINESS CLUB PLATINUM
GOLD
Brother Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Manchester Airport PZ Cussons plc Rothschild & Co
CBRE Ltd./The Towers Business Park SILVER
Beaverbrooks Bruntwood Cazenove Capital
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≥ CONCERTS SOCIETY PATRON HRH The Countess of Wessex gcvo VICE PRESIDENTS A. Martin McMillan obe Edward Pysden BOARD ELECTED DIRECTORS David McKeith [CHAIRMAN] Sharon Amesu Alex Connock Darren Drabble Tim Edge Juergen Maier cbe Linda Merrick John Phillips cbe Merryl Webster Aileen Wiswell mbe NOMINATED DIRECTORS GREATER MANCHESTER COMBINED AUTHORITY
Eamonn Boylan Councillor Janet Emsley MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL
Councillor Azra Ali CHIEF EXECUTIVE David Butcher FINANCE DIRECTOR Ruth Harkin ORCHESTRAL NOMINEE Caroline Abbott MUSIC DIRECTOR Sir Mark Elder ch cbe PERMANENT GUEST LEADER Paul Barritt ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR, POPS Stephen Bell ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Delyana Lazarova
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE David Butcher * Alison Lever Isabelle Orford FINANCE Ruth Harkin * Matthew Wyatt Lourdes Román VENUES Martin Glynn * Tyrone Holt Everett Parry † Edward Cittanova David Roberts ARTISTIC PLANNING Anna Hirst * Louise Hamilton Andrea Stafford Sue Voysey CONCERTS DEPARTMENT Stuart Kempster * † Lois Boa ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT Chris Lewis Jenny Espin LIBRARY Louise Brimicombe Alice McIlwraith STAGE MANAGEMENT Dan Gobey Lawrie Bebb
HALLÉ CONNECT EDUCATION Steve Pickett * Joanna Brockbank Hayley Parkes HALLÉ CONNECT ENSEMBLES Naomi Benn * Jo Pink Isabelle Orford Verity Riley CHORAL LEADERSHIP NETWORK Anna Stutfield SPONSORSHIP AND FUNDRAISING Kath Russell * Eleanor Roberts Susanna Caudwell Amy Adebola Charlie Widdicombe COMMUNICATIONS Andy Ryans * † Peter Naish † Liz Barras Harriet Hall Anna Shinkfield DIGITAL Bill Lam Riley Bramley-Dymond ARCHIVE Eleanor Roberts Stuart Robinson † † 20 years service * HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
GENERAL ENQUIRIES info@halle.co.uk www.halle.co.uk
CHORAL DIRECTOR Matthew Hamilton YOUTH CHOIRS DIRECTOR Stuart Overington CHILDREN’S CHOIR DIRECTOR Shirley Court COMPOSER EMERITUS Colin Matthews ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Henning Kraggerud
The Hallé Concerts Society is a Registered Charity No. 223882
Thank you for your support. The Hallé, now more than ever, relies on the generosity of all our supporters. To see how you can help, visit
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