TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE OF MUSIC & DANCE
APR–JUL 2015
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WELCOME
What could be nicer than spending summer by the Thames? Well for me, it’s spending summer by the Thames while being entertained by some of the world’s brightest young dancers and musicians. The summer is festival season of course, and we’re presenting not one but two musical celebrations: the Royal Greenwich String Quartet Festival and the Inside Out Jazz Festival. We’re also offering a pair of theatrical wonders: Britten’s magical opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the frankly hilarious murder mystery musical Lucky Stiff. And there’s another dream pairing in our orchestral showcase at Cadogan Hall, as Paul Daniel conducts two pinnacles of late Romanticism: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 1 and Mahler’s Symphony No 5. In May, we welcome back our very own Transitions Dance Company after a three-month tour that has seen them perform across the UK and Europe: their triple bill of three dramatically contrasting works is simply unmissable. Then throughout June and July, we enjoy the thrill of discovering what our brilliantly talented dancers and choreographers have been working on all year, as they present a series of end-of-year showcase events that allow you to explore every possible space within and without our award-winning Laban Building. I hope you’ll enjoy discovering what we have to offer you, and that you’ll be able to join me for what promises to be a truly memorable summer programme. Professor Anthony Bowne Principal, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance To be kept informed of all forthcoming events join our free mailing list at trinitylaban.ac.uk/subscribe or call 020 8463 0100.
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CoLab Finale Feb 2015
KEY Over the following pages we list our vibrant range of performances and events. To help you find your way around this extensive programme, we have colour coded a number of similar events so you can find them more easily:
REGULAR CONCERTS CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES Free lunchtime concerts on Tuesdays and Fridays at The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College (ORNC).
ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES Free lunchtime concerts every Thursday at St Alfege Church.
BEATS IN THE BAR Free evening jazz sessions in a relaxed atmosphere, featuring guest artists alongside Trinity Laban jazz students.
CHAPEL CHOIR The Chapel Choir sings in support of Church of England services (to which all are welcome) on Sunday mornings and Monday evenings during term time at The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College (ORNC) and gives concert performances at other times. Refer to page 39 for details.
MASTERCLASSES AND WORKSHOPS A chance to watch Trinity Laban music students in action as they work with leading professionals to hone and develop their skills.
COMPETITIONS AND PRIZES Feel the excitement and suspense as musicians from Trinity Laban compete for a variety of awards.
CONTEMPORARY DANCE Laban Theatre hosts exciting international artists, student performance and youth dance platforms.
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PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
TUE 21 APR 14.00h
VIOLIN MASTERCLASS: TASMIN LITTLE THE BYRAM JEEJEEBHOY MASTERCLASS FOR VIOLIN AT TRINITY LABAN Tasmin Little, one of the world’s leading international violinists, launches our international masterclass series this season. Our public masterclasses provide a wonderful opportunity to hear our students perform to leading professionals, and witness as they work with them to hone and develop their skills.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED ALSO DON’T MISS: LSO BRASS MASTERCLASS – 27 & 30 APR, 5 & 7 MAY ALUMNI MASTERCLASS – 12 MAY PASCAL ROGÉ MASTERCLASS – 14 MAY
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24–25 APR 2015
FRI 24 APR 14.30– 15.30h
ROYAL GREENWICH STRING QUARTET FESTIVAL
TRINITY LABAN STRING ENSEMBLE WITH PURCELL SCHOOL String Ensemble joins forces with two Quartets from the Purcell School Programme to include the first movements from the Debussy and Brahms 2nd string quartets plus String Ensemble transcriptions of Aaron J Kernis’ sublime Musica Celestis, and Janáček’s Kreutzer Sonata, featuring the combined forces of the Trinity Laban String Ensemble and Purcell School Quartets.
Greenwich will once again resonate with the sound of strings as the festival returns over two days to celebrate the wonderful depth and breadth of the string quartet genre and Trinity Laban’s own chamber music programme.
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
Festival themes explore the strong links between the quartet repertoire and its use in film, and ‘Quartet Plus’, featuring repertoire for string quartet and additional performers.
MozART GROUP FAMILY FILM SCREENING
Full programme details available at trinitylaban.ac.uk/sqf FRI 24 APR 09.45 –12.45h
FRI 24 APR 13.05– 14.00h
TALK AND WORKSHOP: QUATUOR PRIMA VISTA
BENYOUNES AND PIATTI QUARTETS
Quatuor Prima Vista from Clermont-Ferrand in France open this year’s festival with a workshop for Trinity Laban quartets, which will include performances of pieces developed during Trinity Laban’s CoLab module in February.
Richard Carne Junior Fellows ‘Quartet Plus’ concert
THEATRE STUDIO, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
Trinity Laban’s current Richard Carne Junior Fellows join forces with the Benyounes Quartet, Junior Fellows from 2011–13, to perform Mendelssohn’s Octet. Continuing the film music strand running through this year’s festival, the Benyounes Quartet will also perform Gershwin’s An American in Paris and the Piatti Quartet will play Hermann’s Psycho Suite, arranged for string quartet by Richard Birchall.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
FRI 24 APR 16.00 –16.50h
A unique film screening for all the family, in which the music and not the words becomes the source of joy and laughter. Featuring a series of comic sketches by the MozART group, for whom nothing in classical music is sacred, and yet in which the music seems to emerge as all the more precious and beautiful.
FILM RATING: U | 45 MIN LECTURE THEATRE, NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
FRI 24 APR 17.15 – 18.15h
SAT 25 APR 10.00 – 13.00h
SAT 25 APR 17.00 – 19.15h
WIGMORE HALL PRIZEWINNERS
WIHAN QUARTET MASTERCLASS
TALK AND SILENT FILM SCREENING: NOSFERATU
Prizewinners from the Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition perform at the festival in this early evening recital. The performers will be announced at the beginning of April, following the competition final.
The Wihan Quartet, Quartet in Residence at Trinity Laban, works with students in this public masterclass.
with live accompaniment from Quatuor Prima Vista
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED (RETIRING COLLECTION) FRI 24 APR 19.45h
WIHAN QUARTET ‘PLUS’ CONCERT with cellist Olesya Sablina
STUART ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED SAT 25 APR 11.00 – 13.00h & 14.30 – 16.30h
RICHARD CARNE INTERCOLLEGIATE STRING QUARTET COMPETITION The string quartet “champions” from each of the UK Conservatoires compete for this year’s intercollegiate string quartet prize. Trinity Laban gratefully acknowledges the support of The Richard Carne Trust.
THEATRE STUDIO, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED SAT 25 APR 13.30 – 14.00h Boccherini String Quintet No 5 in E, Op 11 (G 275) Beethoven String Quartet in B flat major Op 18 No 6 Dvořák Quartet No 10 in E flat major Op 51 ‘Slavonic’ Trinity Laban’s Quartet in Residence, the Wihan Quartet, ‘one of the best quartets in the world today’ (International Record Review), performs Dvořák’s folk-tune infused ‘Slavonic’ quartet, Boccherini’s Quintet No 5, made famous in the 1955 film the Ladykillers, and Beethoven’s exuberant Quartet Op 18, No 6.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC £10, £5 CONCESSIONS
MUSIC FOR SILENT MOVIES Transform Programme Join young string players from our Transform and Junior Trinity programmes as they perform their own newly created music for silent movies. Under the direction of staff and students from Trinity Laban, the musicians have worked together over 6 weeks exploring silent movies and the techniques required for creating accompanying scores.
KING WILLIAM LECTURE THEATRE, KING WILLIAM COURT OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
Join us for a screening of the legendary silent film Nosferatu, featuring live musical accompaniment from Quatuor Prima Vista. Prima Vista has established an international reputation for its accompaniment of silent films, with original film scores composed by violist Baudime Jam. The screening of this vampire classic from 1922 promises to be one of the highlights of the festival. Preceding the screening, Baudime Jam will give a half hour talk entitled Making Music for Silent Movies.
KING WILLIAM LECTURE THEATRE, KING WILLIAM COURT OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE £10, £5 CONCESSIONS SAT 25 APR 20.15h
CARDUCCI QUARTET ‘PLUS’ CONCERT with guitarist Stefan Melovski Philip Glass Quartet No 3 ‘Mishima’ Boccherini Guitar Quintet in D major, G 448 ‘Fandango’ Shostakovich Quartet No 9 in E flat major
THE CHAPEL, ORNC £10, £5 CONCESSIONS
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THU 23 & FRI 24 APR 19.30h
BA2 CHOREOGRAPHY SHOW Second year undergraduate students present two programmes of diverse and original choreographic work. The shows may include site-specific pieces. As these can only be viewed by a limited number of people at a time, they will be shown on several occasions during the evening. Please ask at the box office for details when you arrive at the venue.
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
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FRI 1 MAY 18.00h
TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIDE-BY-SIDE Jonathan Tilbrook conductor R Strauss Don Juan, Op 20 R Strauss Tod und Verklärung Op 24 (Death and Transfiguration) Jonathan Tilbrook conducts orchestral students and professional teaching staff in a performance of Richard Strauss’ tone poems. Described by Karl Dahlhaus as fin-de-siécle (end of the century) Modernism, Don Juan redefined the parameters of musical potential, due to the work’s flamboyancy. The evocative Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), which portrays the death of an artist, completes the programme.
GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
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WED 27, THU 28 & FRI 29 MAY 19.30h
TRANSITIONS DANCE COMPANY TRIPLE BILL Progressive dance works from three world-class choreographers, commissioned for Transitions Dance Company. With a highly energised and technically challenging vocabulary, Bawren Tavaziva makes both pure, abstract work and dance theatre work accompanied by his own musical compositions; Zoi Dimitriou works with keen attention to space and tone, creating works which often have a personal and emotional signature; and Miguel Pereira surprises and subverts expectations with his unique take on performance and the body. The diverse programme celebrates the variety of the choreographers’ artistic intentions, and will delight both seasoned dance audiences and those new to contemporary dance.
LABAN THEATRE £12 (£8)
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SAT 6 JUN 14.30h
BA3 DEGREE SHOW See the next generation of dance artists present an exciting and challenging variety of theatre-based and site-specific works, films and installations throughout Laban Building. This finale of three years’ professional contemporary dance training and extensive independent choreographic research marks our 2015 graduates’ entry into the dance profession as innovative creators and skilled performers.
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
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THU 11 & FRI 12 JUN 14.30 & 19.30h
BA2 HISTORICAL PROJECT Second year undergraduate students perform works by choreographers who have made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary dance in the 20th century. Choreographies by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, Gaby Agis, Merce Cunningham, Wayne McGregor and Sasha Waltz. Choreographers subject to change.
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
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TUE 16 & WED 17 JUN 19.30h
BA1 PERFORMANCE PROJECT Year one undergraduate students are directed in four ensemble performances by choreographers Naomi Lefebvre Sell, Clare Baker, Sonia Rafferty and Zoi Dimitriou.
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
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FRI 19 & SAT 20 JUN 19.30h, SAT 20 JUN 14.30h, SUN 21 JUN 15.00h
LUCKY STIFF BA3 MUSICAL THEATRE Director: Sarah Redmond Musical Director: Tony Castro Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Music by Stephen Flaherty This amateur production is presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of NEW YORK.
Join our talented final year students at London’s Stratford Circus for this entertaining, offbeat and very funny murder mystery farce, based on the novel by Michael Butterworth, The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo. A classic musical comedy complete with slamming doors, mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair, this award winning musical promises an entertaining evening full of laughs, as our final year students present their graduate show.
STRATFORD CIRCUS £10 (£5) ALSO DON’T MISS: 4 – 6 JUN: PIRATES OF PENZANCE 11 – 13 JUN: SPEND, SPEND, SPEND
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Image from last year's production: City of Angels
MON 22– THU 25 JUN
INSIDE OUT JAZZ FESTIVAL 2015 Trinity Laban’s annual summer jazz festival features some of the UK’s very best young jazz musicians from our Jazz Department alongside celebrated international artists in performances and masterclasses. Peformances, masterclasses and workshops take place in a variety of settings, including London’s famous jazz club the Vortex, alongside events at King Charles Court. For further details as they are announced, visit: trinitylaban.ac.uk/insideout Events include: MON 22 JUN 20.00h
VORTEX JAZZ CLUB Featuring Trinity Laban’s Jazz Choir, directed by internationally acclaimed jazz choral director Pete Churchill, and Trinity Laban’s senior Jazz Ensemble, directed by award winning jazz flautist Gareth Lockrane.
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TUE 23 JUN 19.30h
TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Paul Daniel conductor Naufal Mukumi piano Mahler Symphony No 5 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 1 English conductor Paul Daniel, currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Director with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Galicia, has performed with leading orchestras throughout the world. Tonight he conducts Mahler’s magnificent Symphony No 5 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 1 with the Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra at London’s Cadogan Hall. From the opening trumpet solo and the funeral march, to the exquisite ten-minute Adagietto of the fourth movement, Mahler’s Symphony No 5 is grand in scale and depth and the excellent acoustic of Cadogan Hall, one of London’s leading concert halls, provides the perfect setting to hear these large orchestral forces. To complete the programme, rising star Naufal Mukimi performs Rachmaninoff’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No 1 following his winning performance in the Trinity Laban Soloists’ Competition this year.
CADOGAN HALL £12, £8, £5 STUDENTS/CHILDREN 020 7730 4500/CADOGANHALL.COM
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WED 24 & THU 25 JUN 19.30h
ONE YEAR PROGRAMMES END OF YEAR SHOWS Two evenings of performance celebrating and showcasing work from students on the One Year Programmes. The first evening showcases a selection of student-choreographed pieces ranging from solo work to group compositions. The second evening presents a mixed bill of three original works created for and with OYP students, by choreographers Lizzi Kew Ross, Gary Lambert and Rachel Lopez.
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
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WED 1 – SAT 4 JUL 19.00h SAT 4 JUL 14.00h
BRITTEN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Musical Director: Diego Masson Director: Olivia Fuchs Set and Costume Designer: Cordelia Chisholm Step into an enchanted world at Blackheath Halls this July, as Trinity Laban Opera presents Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare’s magical, comical tangle of love and mischief is brought to life by one of Britten’s most sparkling scores, featuring folk song, parody, and moments of riotous comedy and stunning beauty. Leading Trinity Laban Opera is a fantastic creative team, including conductor Diego Masson – one of the world’s leading exponents of 20th century music – and director Olivia Fuchs, whose 2005 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Royal Opera House won great acclaim. So join our talented young cast as they bring this wonderful opera to life, with a performance full of colour, fun and energy, all coated with a liberal sprinkling of fairy dust.
GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS £15 (£12)
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THU 2 & FRI 3 JUL 19.30h
BA3 COMMISSIONED WORK In preparation for their imminent careers as professional dance artists, final year students have experienced intensive periods of creative exploration and rehearsal with leading choreographers Lea Anderson, Charles Linehan, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Stephanie Schober and Matthias Sperling. The result is an exciting and challenging programme of five new works performed by skilful and versatile dancers nearing the completion of their training at Trinity Laban.
LABAN THEATRE ÂŁ6 (ÂŁ4)
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SAT 11 JUL 15.00 & 16.30h
CHILDREN’S CREATIVE DANCE CLASSES SUMMER SHOW MIXED BILL From toddlers to teenagers, expect a large cast of participants from our Children’s Creative Dance Classes, performing with enormous talent, energy and commitment. Please note that tickets will only be available through the Trinity Laban and Blackheath Halls Box Office. Due to high demand please ensure you book in advance, by phone or through our website, to avoid disappointment.
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
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DURING WEEKS OF 6 & 13 JUL
GRADUATE SCHOOL SHOWCASE INSTALLATIONS/SITE-SPECIFIC AND THEATRE PERFORMANCES Performance dates to be confirmed. Across two weeks, the Faculty of Dance presents new work from artists studying across the various Masters programmes. The work is experimental and investigative in nature, drawing upon collaborative and interdisciplinary practices, arising from choreographic and performance-making research. The students are working across media, using live performance, film and video, installation and documentary processes. The showcase is an unconventional series of events in different sites and spaces and does not follow traditional theatre programming. Audiences can expect to encounter work in a variety of performance settings. Please check trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson for performance dates and times.
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4) LAURIE GROVE FREE ENTRY
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SUN 12 JUL 19.00h
JUNIOR TRINITY PRIZEGIVING CONCERT Trinity Laban’s saturday music school for young people (DfE Centre for Advanced Training) presents its end-of-year celebration and Prizegiving ceremony in the prestigious ambience of Cadogan Hall. This showcase of large ensembles features more than two hundred students aged 10 –19 in choirs and orchestras including Intermediate Strings, Concertante, Symphony Orchestra, Wind Orchestra, Fast Fiddlers, Big Band, Equal Voice Choir and Four Part Choir, along with soloists selected from final year students. Come and hear a range of music, from the sacred to the light-hearted, performed by these exciting young musicians.
CADOGAN HALL £20, £15, £10, £6 CHILDREN UNDER 12 020 7730 4500 | CADOGANHALL.COM
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SAT 18 & SUN 19 JUL 19.30h
CAT END OF YEAR SHOW MIXED BILL Trinity Laban’s Centre for Advanced Training performs an exciting programme of diverse and dynamic dance at Laban Theatre. Each evening features vibrant group pieces by award winning guest choreographers and companies: Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Lee Smikle, Double Vision (Amanda Gough & Sonia Rafferty), Renaud Wiser, Bawren Tavaziva and additional selected student choreographies.
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
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FULL PERFORMANCE LISTINGS
TUE 7 APR 13.05h
WED 15 APR 13.10h
TUE 21 APR 14.00h
MAVERICK SAXOPHONE QUARTET CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
RAYA KOSTOVA, PIANO
VIOLIN MASTERCLASS: TASMIN LITTLE
With Hannah Peters, Harry Methley, Caitlin Jeffery and Daniel Gooch, including original repertoire and arrangements for four saxophones.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE WED 8 APR 18.00h
STEINWAY HALL CONCERT SERIES Solo piano recital given by Trinity Laban student Lan Hu as part of the prestigious Steinway Hall Concert Series.
STEINWAY HALL ADMISSION FREE THU 9 APR 13.05h
A performance of Haydn’s Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Hob XVI:52 and Schubert’s Four Impromptus, Op 90.
ST JAMES'S, PICCADILLY ADMISSION FREE THU 16 APR 13.05h
BEIBEI WANG, SOPRANO ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES A programme of arias and songs by Bellini, Rachmaninoff and Verdi.
TRINITY LABAN CHAMBER MUSICIANS ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE
Sophie Lusty, oboe, Julia Hart, violin, Madi Luimstra, viola, and Natalie Hancock, cello, share a concert with the Camilli String Quartet.
TRINITY LABAN CHAMBER MUSICIANS CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE TUE 14 APR 13.05h
BELLOT ENSEMBLE CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES This student-run early music ensemble performs a programme of baroque music, including cello and guitar concertos by Vivaldi. Featuring Huseyin Gundogdu, cello, and Ashley Blasse, guitar.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
Tasmin Little, one of the world’s leading international violinists visits to lead a public masterclass with our string students. See highlight feature: page 5
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED TUE 21 APR 18.30h
PHILIP JONES COMPETITION FINAL
TUE 21 APR 13.05h
Duo Carico (Edmund Taylor, violin and George Webster, piano), and Duo Realia (Kieran Burling, violin and Beatriz Carbonell, violin) present two programmes of music by Schumann, Prokofiev and Bartók.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
Hear Trinity Laban’s most talented brass ensembles (of up to ten players) performing a free choice programme, in a bid to win this sought after prize in memory of the late great trumpeter Philip Jones.
GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
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APR WED 22 APR 18.00h
THU 23 & FRI 24 APR 19.30h
FRI 24 – SAT 25 APR
GUITAR DEPARTMENT CONCERT
BA2 CHOREOGRAPHY SHOW
ROYAL GREENWICH STRING QUARTET FESTIVAL
A selection of music for solo guitar and guitar chamber music, led by Trinity Laban’s Head of Guitar Studies, Graham Devine.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE
Second year undergraduate students present two programmes of diverse and original choreographic work. The shows may include site-specific pieces. See highlight feature: page 8
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
THU 23 APR 13.05h
NAUFAL MUKUMI, PIANO ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES Naufal performs Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Op 57 ‘Appassionata’ and Scriabin’s 12 Etudes, Op 8.
Greenwich will once again resonate with the sound of strings as the Royal Greenwich String Quartet Festival returns over two days to celebrate the wonderful depth and breadth of the string quartet genre and Trinity Laban’s own chamber music programme. See highlight feature: page 6
FRI 24 APR 17.00h & 19.30h
POSTGRADUATE OPERA SCENES
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE
VARIOUS TICKET PRICES FRI 24 APR 18.00h
TRINITY LABAN HARPISTS SHOWCASE SERIES
Director Simon Iorio Music Directors Robert Bottriell and Kelvin Lim Trinity Laban postgraduate vocal students perform scenes from Ariane et Barbe-bleue (Dukas), The Bartered Bride (Smetana) and Flight (Jonathan Dove).
GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
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The French harpist Sylvain Blassel performs a concert with Trinity Laban harp students as part of this student showcase series. Programme to include Beethoven’s Bagatelles Op 126 for solo harp.
RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
MON 27 APR 10.00h
LSO BRASS MASTERCLASS PAUL MILNER, BASS TROMBONE The first of four masterclasses this season featuring principal brass players from the London Symphony Orchestra. Bass trombonist Paul Milner visits to lead a public masterclass.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE
TUE 28 APR 10.00h
strings as the RoyDOUBLE BASS String al Greenwich MASTERCLASS: Quartet Festival returns over two ENNO SENFTdays to celebrate the wonderful depth and breadth of the string quartet genre and Trinity Laban’s own chamber music programme.
MON 27 APR 19.45h
GUITAR DEPARTMENT SHOWCASE
Enno double ThisSenft, year,principal festival bassist with the London themes explore the Sinfonietta and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, visits to strong links between lead a public masterclass with the quartet repertoire our students.
and its use in film, and MACKERRAS ROOM, ‘Quartet KING CHARLESPlus’, COURT featuring repertoire for string ADMISSION FREE quartet and additional performers. TUE 28 APR 13.05h A lively showcase of solo and ensemble music for guitar. The concert will be led by Graham Devine, and will feature accomplished student ensemble, the Greenwich Guitar Quartet.
MICHAEL EDWARDS STUDIO THEATRE, CUTTY SARK £12.50, £7.50 UNDER 18S RMG BOX OFFICE ONLY: RMG.CO.UK/CUTTYSARK/STUDIO-THEATRE
EMMA WALKER, PIANO IEVA CAUNE, PIANO [Date] CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
FRI 24 APR 09.45 – Two fourth year undergraduate piano students perform repertoire 12.45h
TUE 28 APR 18.00h
THE ELISABETH SCHUMANN LIEDER COMPETITION Hear talented voice and piano duos perform three contrasted lieder with verbal introductions, in this closely contested competition.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE TUE 28 APR 19.30h
BEATS IN THE BAR Featuring BMus third year students performing in jazz combos.
RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED WED 29 APR 18.00h
GUITAR DEPARTMENT CONCERT A selection of music for solo guitar and guitar chamber music, led by Trinity Laban’s Head of Guitar Studies, Graham Devine.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE
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THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
QUATUOR PRIMA VISTA TUE 28 APR 15.15h
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Programme includeVista Schubert’s Quatuor to Prima Piano Sonata No 19, D958.
from Clermont-Ferrand SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL in France open this ADMISSION FREE year’s festival with a workshop for Trinity Laban quartets, which will include
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APR/MAY THU 30 APR 13.05h
THU 30 APR 19.30h
MON 4 MAY 19.30h
TRINITY LABAN CHAMBER CHOIR ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES
BEATS IN THE BAR
DANUSIA ADAMSKA, VIOLA
Featuring BMus third year students performing in jazz combos.
With Gosia Kuznicki, violin, and Michael Hampton, piano.
RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
Programme to include Mozart's String Duo No 1 in G major and Prokofiev's Suite from Romeo and Juliet.
FRI 1 MAY 13.05h
POLISH HEARTH CLUB £12 MEMBERS, £15 NON-MEMBERS (INCLUDES BUFFET AND WINE)
HARP DEPARTMENT SHOWCASE CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES Programme to include Mathias Shakespeare Songs, Britten Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, and Roger Carter Albatross (world premiere).
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE THU 30 APR 14.30h
LSO BRASS MASTERCLASS PATRICK HARRILD, TUBA
Trinity Laban’s talented harp students perform solo, duo and chamber repertoire.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
TUE 5 MAY 10.00h
JOHN HALFORD COMPETITION FINAL
FRI 1 MAY 18.00h
TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIDE BY SIDE Hear our talented piano students performing contemporary works, including new compositions for solo piano, in this competition for piano and composition students at Trinity Laban.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE
The second of four masterclasses this season featuring principal brass players from the London Symphony Orchestra. Tuba player Patrick Harrild visits to lead a public masterclass.
G15, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE
Jonathan Tilbrook conductor
TUE 5 MAY 13.05h
R Strauss Don Juan R Strauss Tod und Verklärung
GUITAR DEPARTMENT SHOWCASE CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
Jonathan Tilbrook conducts orchestral students and professional teaching staff in a performance of Richard Strauss’ tone poems. See highlight feature: page 9
GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
Led by acclaimed guitarist Graham Devine, Trinity Laban’s guitar department showcases its talent, with a concert of music for solo guitar and guitar chamber music.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
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TUE 5 MAY 14.00h
TUE 5 MAY 19.30h
THU 7 MAY 19.30h
MASTERCLASS: THE INFORMED PERFORMER
BEATS IN THE BAR
BEATS IN THE BAR
Featuring BMus first year students performing in jazz combos.
Featuring BMus second year students performing in jazz combos.
Cellist Sue Shepherd works with Trinity Laban students on Bach partitas, sonatas and suites.
STUART ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE TUE 5 MAY 15.00h
EVELYN ROTHWELL OBOE COMPETITION Trinity Laban’s oboists perform an unaccompanied Teleman Fantasia of their choice along with one of Ferling’s Op 31 solo studies, in this closely contested competition for oboe students.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE TUE 5 MAY 15.00h
LSO BRASS MASTERCLASS PHILIP COBB, TRUMPET
RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
WED 6 MAY 13.10h
GMTEN BRASS ENSEMBLE Programme to include music for brass dectet by Handel, SaintSaëns and John Williams.
ST JAMES’S, PICCADILLY ADMISSION FREE
FRI 8 MAY 13.05h
SAXOPHONE DEPARTMENT SHOWCASE CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
THU 7 MAY 13.05h
ROYAL GREENWICH BRASS BAND Royal Greenwich Brass Band, formed primarily of Trinity Laban brass students, performs a selection of brass band favourites, directed by Stephen Maw.
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE
Trinity Laban saxophone students perform a selection of solo, duo and ensemble repertoire.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
THU 7 MAY 15.00h
LSO BRASS MASTERCLASS DUDLEY BRIGHT, TENOR TROMBONE The third of four masterclasses this season featuring principal brass players from the London Symphony Orchestra. Trumpeter Philip Cobb visits to lead a public masterclass in the wonderful acoustic of The Chapel at the Old Royal Naval College.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
The final brass masterclass in our series this season featuring principal brass players from the London Symphony Orchestra. Trombone player Dudley Bright visits to lead a public masterclass in the wonderful acoustic of The Chapel at the Old Royal Naval College.
FRI 8 MAY 14.00h
LEONARD SMITH COMPETITION FINAL Hear string and piano duos compete for this prize by performing a sonata of their choice written after 1800.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
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MAY MON 11 MAY 14.00h
TUE 12 MAY 13.05h
TUE 12 MAY 15.00h
CELLO MASTERCLASS: RAFAEL WALLFISCH
ALUMNI CONCERT WITH VIOLINIST LANA TROTOVŠEK CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
THE VERNON ELLIOTT COMPETITION FINAL In this competition final, student bassoonists perform 15 minute programmes of their choice.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE TUE 12 MAY 19.30h
BEATS IN THE BAR Rafael Wallfisch, one of the world's most celebrated international cellists, visits to work with our students in a public masterclass.
STUART ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE MON 11 MAY 15.00h
GLADYS PUTTICK COMPETITION FINAL An afternoon of improvisation with our talented students. Performers compete by improvising on a choice of themes provided to them 30 minutes beforehand.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE TUE 12 MAY 10.00h
THE EARLY MUSIC COMPETITION FINAL Hear soloists and ensembles perform repertoire ranging from the Middle Ages to the Early Classical period, playing on modern and period instruments, but in a historically informed style.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE
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Slovenian-born, London-based alumnus Lana Trotovšek returns to Trinity Laban to perform a lunchtime concert and lead an afternoon masterclass (see entry below). Programme to include Brahms Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Tchaikovsky Meditation from Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op 42 and Frolov Concert Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
A showcase of combos from our jazz department.
RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED THU 14 MAY 10.00h
PIANO MASTERCLASS: PASCAL ROGÉ
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE TUE 12 MAY 15.00h
ALUMNI MASTERCLASS WITH VIOLINIST LANA TROTOVŠEK Alumnus Lana Trotovšek leads a public masterclass with Trinity Laban’s string students in the wonderful acoustic of The Chapel at the Old Royal Naval College.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
Distinguished Artist in Residence Pascal Rogé visits to lead a public masterclass with our most talented piano students.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE
THU 14 MAY 13.05h
FRI 15 MAY 14.30h
FRI 22 MAY 13.05h
TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONIC BRASS ENSEMBLE ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES
MASTERCLASS: THE INFORMED PERFORMER
TRINITY LABAN CHAMBER MUSICIANS CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
Symphonic Brass Ensemble performs the music of J S Bach, arranged for brass ensemble. Featuring Toccata and Fugue, Passacaglia and Fugue, Chaconne in D minor and Suite for Brass.
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE THU 14 MAY 19.30h
BEATS IN THE BAR Featuring the Trinity Laban Jazz Ensemble, directed by Malcolm Earle-Smith, plus student jazz combos.
RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED FRI 15 MAY 10.00h
THE HAROLD CLARKE WOODWIND COMPETITION FINAL Come and hear woodwind players perform a range of works for woodwind instruments in this hotly contested competition, featuring students from all years at Trinity Laban.
PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE FRI 15 MAY 13.05h
Baroque violinist Walter Reiter works with Trinity Laban students on Bach Partitas, Suites and Sonatas.
MACKERRAS ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE TUE 19 MAY 13.05h
HILARY CRONIN, SOPRANO EMMA LEWIS, MEZZO SOPRANO NICOLE JOHNSON, PIANO CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
Clara Fournillier, soprano, and Milda Fontanetti, soprano, with pianists Raya Kostova and Marzia Hudajarova, present a programme of songs by Duparc, Ravel, Debussy and Poulenc.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE SAT 23 MAY 17.30h
JUNIOR TRINITY CHAPEL CONCERT
A performance of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE THU 21 MAY 13.05h
RACHAEL UECKERMANN, PIANO, STEPHAN SOLOMONIDIS, PIANO ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES Programme to include Brahms' Six Pieces for Piano, Op 118.
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE
A performance of chamber and vocal music, including works for chamber orchestra with soloists selected from final year Junior Trinity students.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE TUE 26 MAY 13.05h
TRINITY LABAN SHOW CHOIR CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
Arrangements for percussion ensemble, directed by Mick Doran.
A visiting male voice choir from the USA, Rutgers University Glee Club, join forces with the Trinity Laban Show Choir for an exciting partnership. The concert will feature show stopping songs from Glee alongside other hit songs from the musicals.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
PERCUSSION DEPARTMENT SHOWCASE CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
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MAY/JUN WED 27 – FRI 29 MAY 19.30h
FRI 29 MAY 13.00h
TUE 2 JUN 13.05h
TRANSITIONS DANCE COMPANY TRIPLE BILL
TRINITY LABAN DOUBLING QUARTET
TRINITY LABAN VIOLAS CONCERT CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
Multi instrumentalists Ruth Hayes, Ruth Whybrow, Jess Tomlinson and Rhiannon Jeffreys present a range of original music and arrangements for this unique ensemble.
CHARLTON HOUSE ADMISSION FREE
Original music for massed violas by Ken Paige, Quim Miracle, Benjamin Dale and Simone Spagnolo.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE THU 4 JUN 13.05h
FRI 29 MAY 13.05h Progressive dance works which celebrate the variety in the work of Bawren Tavaziva, Miguel Pereira and Zoi Dimitriou. The diverse programme will delight both seasoned dance audiences and those new to contemporary dance. See highlight feature: page 10
LABAN THEATRE £12 (£8) THU 28 MAY 13.05h
GIULIA SEMERANO, PIANO CLAIRE SLEDD, VIOLIN IVANA PERANIC, CELLO CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES Programme to include Prokofiev's Cello Sonata in C major, Op 119 and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 67.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
PETER JOE BENNETT, GUITAR, FRI 29 MAY 18.00h STEFAN MELOVSKI, GUITAR PENTE ENSEMBLE ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES SHOWCASE SERIES Two final year undergraduate guitar students present an inventive programme of music for solo guitar and guitar duo.
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE
This month's recital at Blackheath Halls features an up and coming student wind quintet performing music by Danzi, Barber and Paquito D’Rivera.
RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED MON 1 JUN 19.30h
CORINNA HENTSCHEL, VIOLIN Programme to include music by Mozart and Korngold.
POLISH HEARTH CLUB £12 MEMBERS, £15 NON-MEMBERS (INCLUDES BUFFET AND WINE)
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GUY SHEPHERD, PIANO ORLANDO SHAMLOU, PIANO ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES Programme to include Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 7 in D major, Op 10 and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 11 in A minor, S244/11.
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE THU 4 – SAT 6 JUN 19.30h SAT 6 JUN 14.30h
PIRATES OF PENZANCE BA1 MUSICAL THEATRE Director: Helen Evans Musical Director: Candida Caldicott Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan Book and lyrics by W S Gilbert Orchestrations by Peter Murray, based on the D’Oyly Carte This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd. on behalf of R&H THEATRICALS
Trinity Laban’s first year Musical Theatre students present a fresh take on Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic comedy opera The Pirates of Penzance. The beauty and wit of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic score is suffused with a modern sensibility in this musical adaption, featuring all the famous songs such as I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General.
GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE BUT TICKETED
FRI 5 JUN 13.05h
THU 11 JUN 13.05h
NAOMI QUANT, SOPRANO LAURENCE PANTER, TENOR CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
ZARA JEALOUS, FLUTE ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES
Featuring Finzi's A Young Man's Exhortation, and arias from operas by Britten.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE SAT 6 JUN 14.30h
BA3 DEGREE SHOW
Programme to include CPE Bach's Hamburger Sonata in G major, Wq 133 and Jesús Guridi's Tirana, Homenaje A Sarasate.
THU 11 – SAT 13 JUN 19.30h SAT 13 JUN 14.30h
SPEND, SPEND, SPEND BA2 MUSICAL THEATRE
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE THU 11 & FRI 12 JUN 14.30 & 19.30h
BA2 HISTORICAL PROJECT Director: Karen Rabinowitz Musical Director: Verity Quade Book and lyrics by Steve Brown and Justin Greene Music by Steve Brown Based on the book by Viv Nicholson and Stephen Smith
An exciting and challenging variety of theatre-based and site-specific works, films and installations throughout Laban Building, the finale of three years' professional training and extensive choreographic research. See highlight feature: page 11
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4) TUE 9 JUN 13.05h
STEPHANIE CHEUNG, PIANO PABLO DELGADO, PIANO CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES Programme to include Liebermann's Gargoyles, Op 29, and De Falla's Fantasía Bética.
Second year undergraduate students perform works by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, Gaby Agis, Merce Cunningham, Wayne McGregor and Sasha Waltz. See highlight feature: page 12
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
This amateur production of Spend, Spend, Spend is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD.
Trinity Laban’s Musical Theatre students present Spend, Spend, Spend, a musical that is “blessed with heart, humour and irresistible humanity” (Daily Telegraph). Celebrating the rags-to-riches and back to rags story of Viv Nicholson – the working-class Yorkshire lass who, in 1961, won a fortune on the Football Pools – this exhilarating musical charts the tragedy, the comedy and the love story of her incredible journey that took her through five husbands, fast cars, bankruptcy and booze, until she woke up spent.
STRATFORD CIRCUS £10, £5 CONCESSIONS
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
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JUN FRI 12 JUN 13.00h
TUE 16 & WED 17 JUN 19.30h
THU 18 JUN 19.30h
EDGAR CARDOSO, PIANO
BA1 PERFORMANCE PROJECT
TRINITY LABAN CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Year one undergraduate students are directed in four ensemble performances by choreographers Naomi Lefebvre Sell, Clare Baker, Sonia Rafferty and Zoi Dimitriou.
Gerry Cornelius conductor
See highlight feature: page 13
Kodály Dances of Galánta
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C Minor, Op 17 ‘Little Russian’
THU 18 JUN 13.05h
Gerry Cornelius conducts a programme of ballet music and folk inspired works.
A programme of piano music by Chopin, de Falla and García Abril.
CHARLTON HOUSE ADMISSION FREE FRI 12 JUN 13.05h
ASHLEY BLASSE, GUITAR CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES A programme of solo guitar music by Villa-Lobos, Ferdinand Rebay, Carlos Guastavino and Lennox Berkeley.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE FRI 12 JUN 13.10h
KODO STRING QUARTET Programme to include Haydn’s String Quartet No 61 in D minor, Op 76 and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80.
ST JAMES’S, PICCADILLY ADMISSION FREE TUE 16 JUN 13.05h
STRING PROFESSOR’S CONCERT CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty, Op 66 (Intrada) Satie Parade
GUITAR DEPARTMENT SHOWCASE ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES
GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS £5
Led by acclaimed guitarist Graham Devine, Trinity Laban’s guitar department showcases its talent, with a concert of music for solo guitar and guitar chamber music.
ALUMNI CONCERT: SERAFINA STEER
FRI 19 JUN 18.00h
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE
Programme to include Janáček’s Violin Sonata, performed by Diana Cummings and Bach’s Chaconne, performed by Emmanuella Reiter.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
Alumni harpist Serafina Steer visits to work with our harp students and perform an early evening concert.
MACKERRAS ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE
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FRI 19 JUN 13.00h
MON 22 – THU 25 JUN
GREENWICH GUITAR QUARTET INSIDE OUT Expect new compositions, inventive JAZZ FESTIVAL 2015 arrangements and multi-genre
WED 24 & THU 25 JUN 19.30h
ONE YEAR PROGRAMMES END OF YEAR SHOWS
experimentation from this group of final year undergraduate guitarists.
REGENT HALL ADMISSION FREE FRI 19 JUN 13.05h
CLAIRE WICKES, FLUTE CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES Trinity Laban’s Richard Carne Junior Fellow performs her final concert for the academic year, with a programme of music for flute.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE
Trinity Laban’s annual summer jazz festival features some of the UK’s very best young jazz musicians from our Jazz Department alongside celebrated international artists. See highlight feature: page 15
TUE 23 JUN 13.05h FRI 19 – SAT 20 JUN 19.30h SAT 20 JUN 14.30h SUN 21 JUN 15.00h
LUCKY STIFF BA3 MUSICAL THEATRE
PENELOPE CHIN, PIANO XIAOYE YOU, PIANO CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES Programme to include Shchedrin's Basso Ostinato and Mendelssohn’s Variations sérieuses, Op 54.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE TUE 23 JUN 19.30h
Join our talented final year students at London’s Stratford Circus for this entertaining, off beat and very funny murder mystery farce. See highlight feature: page 14
STRATFORD CIRCUS £10, £5 CONCESSIONS
TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA English conductor Paul Daniel directs Mahler’s magnificent Symphony No 5 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 1 with the Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra and pianist Naufal Mukumi at London's Cadogan Hall. See highlight feature: page 16
Two evenings celebrating and showcasing work from students on the One Year Programmes. The first evening showcases a selection of student-choreographed pieces ranging from solo work to group compositions. The second evening presents three original works created for and with OYP students, by choreographers Lizzi Kew Ross, Gary Lambert and Rachel Lopez. See highlight feature: page 17
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4) THU 25 JUN 13.05h
SAXOPHONE DEPARTMENT SHOWCASE ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES Featuring solo, duo and ensemble performances by Trinity Laban saxophone students, directed by Gerard McCrystal.
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE
CADOGAN HALL £12, £8, £5 STUDENTS/CHILDREN 020 7730 4500 / CADOGANHALL.COM
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JUN/JUL FRI 26 JUN 13.05h
THU 2 JUL 13.05h
DURING WEEKS OF 6 & 13 JUL
GIULIA SEMERANO, PIANO YUHKA NAGAI, VIOLIN DANIEL VALLEJO, CLARINET CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
HARP DEPARTMENT SHOWCASE ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES
GRADUATE SCHOOL SHOWCASE INSTALLATIONS /SITE-SPECIFIC AND THEATRE PERFORMANCES
Programme to include Bartók's Contrasts and the premiere of Simone Spagnolo's Ellittico, di beffe e elegie.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE TUE 30 JUN 13.05h
STRING DEPARTMENT SHOWCASE, SIDE BY SIDE CHAPEL CONCERT SERIES
Trinity Laban’s talented harp students present a lunchtime concert of varied repertoire, featuring solo, duo and ensemble performances.
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE THU 2 & FRI 3 JUL 19.30h
BA3 COMMISSIONED WORK
Trinity Laban string students join forces with staff to perform Mendelssohn’s complete Octet and the first movement from Schubert’s Octet.
THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE WED 1 – SAT 4 JUL 19.00h SAT 4 JUL 14.00h
BRITTEN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
New work from artists studying across the Masters programmes that is experimental and drawing upon collaborative and interdisciplinary practices, arising from choreographic and performance-making research. The students are working across media, using live performance, film and video, installation and documentary processes.
Final year students have experienced intensive periods of creative exploration and rehearsal with leading choreographers Lea Anderson, Charles Linehan, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Stephanie Schober and Matthias Sperling. See highlight feature: page 20
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
Audiences can expect to encounter work in a variety of performance settings. Please check: trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson for performance times. See highlight feature: page 22
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4) LAURIE GROVE FREE ENTRY THU 9 JUL 13.05h
MASTERS STUDENT RECITAL ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES Trinity Laban presents Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Blackheath Halls.
Programme to be announced in May. Check our website for more details.
See highlight feature: page 18
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE
GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS £15, £12 CONCESSIONS
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SAT 11 JUL 15.00 & 16.30h
SAT 18 & SUN 19 JUL 19.30h
CHILDREN'S CREATIVE DANCE CLASSES SUMMER SHOW MIXED BILL
CAT END OF YEAR SHOW MIXED BILL
From toddlers to teenagers, expect a large cast of participants from our Children’s Creative Dance Classes, performing with enormous talent, energy and commitment.
Vibrant group pieces by award winning guest choreographers and companies: Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Lee Smikle, Double Vision (Amanda Gough & Sonia Rafferty), Renaud Wiser, Bawren Tavaziva and additional selected student choreographies. See highlight feature: page 25
Please note that tickets will only be available through the Trinity Laban Blackheath Halls Box Office.
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
Due to high demand please ensure you book in advance, by phone or through our website, to avoid disappointment.
THU 16, 23 & 30 JUL 13.05h
See highlight feature: page 21
MASTERS STUDENT RECITALS ST ALFEGE CONCERT SERIES
LABAN THEATRE £6 (£4)
Programmes to be announced in May. Check our website for more details.
SUN 12 JUL 19.00h
ST ALFEGE CHURCH ADMISSION FREE
CHAPEL CHOIR PERFORMANCES Trinity Laban is the only conservatoire to have its own Chapel Choir. It offers 12 choral scholars the opportunity of an Oxbridge-style choral education, leading several into the professional choral world via Genesis Sixteen, the Monteverdi Choir apprentice scheme, etc. In addition to the Choral Scholars, the Chapel Choir includes a number of other excellent singers. Directed by Ralph Allwood, the Chapel Choir sings during term time in support of the services of Choral Eucharist (Sundays at 11.00h) and Choral Evensong (Mondays at 18.30h) in the Chapel, Old Royal Naval College. In addition the Chapel Choir gives concert performances during the year with choral soloists chosen entirely from the Choir. For information on all Chapel Choir activities please visit our website: trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson
JUNIOR TRINITY PRIZEGIVING CONCERT Trinity Laban’s saturday music school for young people (DfE Centre for Advanced Training) presents its end-of-year celebration and Prizegiving ceremony in the prestigious ambience of Cadogan Hall. See highlight feature: page 24
CADOGAN HALL £20, £15, £10, £6 CHILDREN UNDER 12 020 7730 4500 / CADOGANHALL.COM
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ADDITIONAL EXTERNAL EVENTS Each season Trinity Laban students perform a wide range of concerts in the local community and further afield across the UK, including the following venues: Morden College: Sat 11 Apr 10.45h Sat 2 May 10.45h Sat 13 Jun 10.45h Faversham Assembly Rooms: Sat 16 May 10.45h Sat 6 Jun 10.45h St George the Martyr, Southwark: Thu 9 Apr 13.00h Thu 7 May 13.00h Wed 20 May 17.30h Thu 4 Jun 13.00h MacLaren Hall (Mandeville Place) Wed 10 Jun 18.00h Farnham Maltings Sat 16 May 13.00h Sat 13 Jun 13.00h The Bakehouse Theatre, Blackheath (Age Exchange Concerts) Fri 24 Apr 13.00h Fri 29 May 13.00h Fri 26 Jun 13.00h St George’s, Beckenham Sat 2 May 11.00h The Pound, Corsham Wed 20 May 13.00h
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TRINITY LABAN ALUMNI Trinity Laban is enormously proud of its alumni, many of whom go on to careers as artists, practitioners and leaders in music and dance both in the UK and overseas. If you are a graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the former Trinity College of Music or Laban Centre, make sure you are part of this international network of music and dance professionals by sharing your contact details with us. You will then receive news from Trinity Laban and the alumni community and get updates about events, benefits, offers and performances. For further information please contact the Alumni Office on: +44 (0)20 8305 9420 or alumni@trinitylaban.ac.uk or visit: trinitylaban.ac.uk/alumni
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DANCE, SING, PLAY, CHOREOGRAPH, COMPOSE, CREATE, REHEARSE, PERFORM, LEARN. From one off taster sessions to weekly classes, courses, creative arts projects and music/dance collaborations, Trinity Laban’s Learning and Participation programmes attract participants of all ages, whatever their background or ability.
FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
FOR ADULTS
Trinity Laban’s wide range of music and dance opportunities for children and young people extend from fun activities to intensive training. They include weekly dance and music classes, holiday courses and creative ensembles such as Animate Orchestra and our Youth Dance Company.
We run weekly term time dance and movement classes for adults, one off music projects for the local community, and music and dance groups for older people. These are open to all, regardless of ability, who wish to take part in dance or music activities for enjoyment.
CENTRES FOR ADVANCED TRAINING If you are an ambitious and talented young person, Trinity Laban can support you to develop your creative and performance skills through Junior Trinity (for musicians) or Trinity Laban CAT (for dancers). Both recruit by audition, offer excellent training that supports young people to maximise their potential and offer bursary support via the Government’s Music and Dance Scheme.
FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS From in school workshops with our experienced team to schools concerts and taster days at Trinity Laban, our offer for schools aims to enhance the curriculum. We also create bespoke programmes for school groups and offer professional development courses for teaching staff.
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SUMMER SCHOOLS Our summer schools for both musicians and dancers provide a rich and varied programme of intensive training. Courses are taught by members of the Trinity Laban staff faculty and others from further afield within the profession.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Trinity Laban’s professional development programme for music and dance artists, teachers, tutors and community practitioners provides relevant, flexible and high quality training both regionally and nationally. The programme ranges from one off workshops to accredited courses and postgraduate programmes. trinitylaban.ac.uk/takepart
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SCHOLARSHIPS FUND SUPPORTING EMERGING ARTISTS Scholarships offer an invaluable opportunity for the most talented music and dance students, who may otherwise be unable to sustain their studies, to continue to grow as artists with access to the highest quality of training. Contact Paula Mallottides, Head of Development, to find out more about how you can support our talented students: 020 8305 4490 p.mallottides@trinitylaban.ac.uk
The scholarship support in funding my studies has been integral to my success. I would not be at Trinity Laban without this scholarship and it is creating opportunities that I wouldn’t have been able to have before. Steve Street, BMus (Hons) Year 4
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BOOKING INFORMATION HOW TO BOOK
EVENTS AT OTHER VENUES
For any ticketed event at King Charles Court, Laban Theatre or Blackheath Halls:
Trinity Laban musicians perform at a wide range of venues around London and the UK. To book for ticketed performances at any of these venues please contact the relevant box office, as listed on the reverse of this guide.
ONLINE trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson
TELEPHONE 020 8463 0100 Mon – Fri, 10.00h –17.00h and at weekends for scheduled events only. Please note: a booking fee of £1.50 per transaction applies for phone and internet bookings. Tickets can be posted for a charge of 75p per transaction.
IN PERSON The Trinity Laban and Blackheath Halls Box Office is located at: Blackheath Halls 23 Lee Road Blackheath SE3 9RQ Mon – Fri, 10.00h – 17.00h and at weekends for scheduled events only. Tickets are usually available on the door at the venue on the night of a performance.
TICKET PRICES Ticket prices vary, please see individual event listings. Concession rates are available where indicated. For events at King Charles Court, Laban Theatre and Blackheath Halls, concession rates are available for young people under the age of 18, people aged 60 plus, students, job seeker allowance claimants, disabled patrons and their carers. For events at other venues, please check with the venue box office directly.
FREE EVENTS Please note that our free events are popular and may be oversubscribed. Free tickets are usually available at the door but when free events are listed as ticketed we recommend booking in advance to ensure a seat.
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HOW TO FIND US KING CHARLES COURT By Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Alight at Cutty Sark station. King Charles Court is only a short 5 minute walk away. The DLR and London Underground connect at Bank, Tower Gateway, Canary Wharf/Heron Quays and Stratford. By train Greenwich station is only a 10 min walk away, with frequent trains from London Bridge, Charing Cross and Waterloo East. On arrival at the station, turn left on the road towards town. By bus 177, 180, 188, 199, 286 and 386
LABAN THEATRE By Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Alight at Cutty Sark station. Laban Theatre is only a short 10 minute walk away. At Cutty Sark turn right out of the station and right again on to Creek Road. Take the second left after the bridge, Creekside and the Laban Building is on your left. By train Deptford and Greenwich stations are only a 10 min walk away and trains run frequently from Charing Cross and London Bridge.
By bus
By bus
47, 53, 89, 177, 188, 225 and 453.
54, 89, 108, 202, 380, 386, N53 and N108
BLACKHEATH HALLS
OTHER VENUES
By Docklands Light Railway (DLR)
To help you find our events at other venues around London, we have listed address details and contact information on the reverse of this guide.
The nearest DLR station is Lewisham. Connections to Blackheath Halls can be made by Train or Bus. By train Blackheath station is only a 2 min walk away, with frequent trains from Charing Cross, Victoria, Waterloo East and London Bridge towards Bexleyheath/Dartford. Come out of the station, cross the road, turn right and walk up the hill, the Halls will be on your left.
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188, 180 188, 199
177, 188, 180 188, 199
202, 54, 89, 108, N89
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OUR VENUES trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson Box Office: 020 8463 0100
BLACKHEATH HALLS
23 Lee Road Blackheath London SE3 9RQ
KING CHARLES COURT
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich London SE10 9JF
LABAN THEATRE
Laban Building Creekside Deptford London SE8 3DZ
KING WILLIAM LECTURE THEATRE
King William Court University of Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, SE10 9JF
MORDEN COLLEGE
19 St Germans Place Blackheath SE3 0PW mordencollege.org 020 8463 8330
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM Romney Road Greenwich SE10 9NF nmm.ac.uk 020 8858 4422
OLIVER'S JAZZ BAR
London SE14 6NH
9 Nevada Street Greenwich SE10 9JL oliversjazzbar.co.uk 020 8858 3693
BAKEHOUSE THEATRE
POLISH HEARTH CLUB
LAURIE GROVE
11 Blackheath Village London SE3 9LA age-exchange.org.uk
CADOGAN HALL
5 Sloane Terrace London SW1X 9DQ cadoganhall.com 020 7730 4500
CHARLTON HOUSE
Charlton Road London SE7 8RE charlton-house.org 020 8856 3951
CUTTY SARK
King William Walk Greenwich SE10 9HT rmg.co.uk/cuttysark 020 8858 3445
FARNHAM MALTINGS
Bridge Square Farnham GU9 7QR farnhammaltings.com 01252 718001
FAVERSHAM ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Preston Street Faversham ME13 8PG favershamassemblyrooms.org.uk
FOLLOW US ON:
55 Exhibition Road SW7 2PN ogniskopolskie.org.uk 020 7589 4670
REGENT HALL
275 Oxford Street W1C 2DJ regenthall.co.uk 020 7629 5424
THE POUND
Corsham Wiltshire SN13 9HX poundarts.org.uk 01249 701628
THE CHAPEL
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich SE10 9JF oldroyalnavalcollege.org 020 8269 4747
ST ANDREW-BY-THE-WARDROBE
St Andrew’s Hill & Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 5DE standrewbythewardrobe.net 020 7329 3632
ST GEORGE'S
High Street Beckenham BR3 1AX stgeorgesbeckenham.co.uk 020 8663 6996
ST JAMES’S CHURCH
197 Piccadilly W1J 9LL sjp.org.uk 020 7734 4511
STEINWAY HALL
4 Marylebone Lane London W1U 2DB steinway.co.uk 020 7487 3391
STRATFORD CIRCUS
Theatre Square, Stratford London E15 1BX stratford-circus.com 0844 357 2625
VORTEX JAZZ CLUB
11 Gillbett Square London N16 8AZ vortexjazz.co.uk 020 7254 4097
WALTHAM ABBEY
Highbridge Street Essex EN9 1DG walthamabbeychurch.co.uk 01992 767897
SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL
Montague Close London SE1 9DA cathedral.southwark.anglican.org 020 7367 6700
ST ALFEGE CHURCH
Greenwich Church Street London SE10 9BJ st-alfege.org 020 8691 8337
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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales. Company No: 51090. Registered Charity No: 309998 King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval College, London SE10 9JF Artists and Programmes are correct at time of going to press. We reserve the right to change artists and/or programmes without notice as necessary. Photography: Ludovic des Cognets, Laurent Compagnon, Nick Granito, Andy Holdsworth, James Keates, Belinda Lawley, Libor Makrlík, Laura Mtungwazi, Chris Nash, Jamie Simonds.