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Connecting people through music Wigmore Hall Learning gives people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities opportunities to take part in creative musicmaking. We lead a wide range of innovative projects and events, both in the community and at Wigmore Hall, for children, families, schools, young people and adults. We are passionate about the impact music can have on our lives and on our society, and three core values lie at the heart of our programme: creativity, collaboration and equality. These are values which reflect the spirit of chamber music, and this inspires all that we do: making music together as an ensemble, with every voice heard and equally valued.
Sense of Home This year’s festival reflects on Wigmore Hall as a place many call home, and invites you to explore what ‘home’ means to you pages 4–5
Families We offer interactive workshops and concerts for families, ranging from relaxed concerts for parents or carers with babies under 1, to creative music workshops and concerts for the whole family pages 6–9
Schools Alongside our extensive programme in schools, we also offer concerts and training at Wigmore Hall page 10
Young People We lead projects for, by and with young people, as well as a free ticket scheme and events at Wigmore Hall pages 12–14
Community Our programme takes place across the community, from hospitals to residential care homes, and also includes events for children, young people and adults at Wigmore Hall page 15
Pathways We are passionate about supporting the next generation of musicians and leaders, and offer a range of events to provide a platform for emerging artists page 16
Behind the Music We offer a range of study events giving audiences the chance to go behind the music through talks, masterclasses, study groups and singing workshops pages 18–19
This year’s Wigmore Hall Learning festival celebrates the diversity and multicultural melting pot that is London and the borough of Westminster, reflects on Wigmore Hall as a place many call home, and invites you to explore what ‘home’ means to you…
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Monday 18 February 7.30pm
Monday 18 February from 6.00pm
Learning Gala Concert: Home Sweet Home
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Ailish Tynan soprano Benjamin Appl baritone Iain Burnside piano Three admired artists – an Irish soprano, a German baritone and a Scottish accompanist – take part in this multi-themed selection of songs from Germany, the UK and the USA, as the central celebration of this year’s Wigmore Hall Learning festival, Sense of Home. The concert follows the themes of Where the Heart Is, On the Road Again, Family Values and Bricks and Mortar, featuring songs from composers including Elgar, Brahms, Ives and Bernstein, as well as contemporary composers such as John White and Seóirse Bodley. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
We invite you to explore our collective home from home, an immersive sound/art experience created by people from across the Wigmore Hall Learning programme. Led by music technologist Gawain Hewitt, the Bechstein Room will be transformed through objects and sounds that reflect and celebrate all the people we work with across London. Join us from 6.00pm and again in the interval during the evening concert. Free (no ticket required)
Tuesday 12 – Tuesday 26 February 2019 Big Sing! Tuesday 12 February see page 15 for more information Bechstein Sessions: Diphonon Duo Tuesday 12 February see page 16 for more information For Crying Out Loud! Thursday 14 February see page 6 for more information Family Concert: Nicola Benedetti Saturday 16 February see page 8 for more information Home from Home Monday 18 February see opposite page for more information Learning Gala Concert: Home Sweet Home Monday 18 February see opposite page for more information Family Sounds Wednesday 20 February see page 7 for more information Relaxed Concert: Soraya Mafi Thursday 21 February see page 15 for more information Family Day: Lullabies Friday 22 February see page 9 for more information Schools Concert: Nicola Benedetti Tuesday 26 February see page 10 for more information
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Families
For Crying Out Loud!
Interactive workshops and concerts for families, from relaxed concerts for parents or carers with babies under 1, to creative music workshops and concerts for the whole family.
Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment. Parents-to-be are also warmly welcomed.
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Friday 18 January 11.00am – 11.45am, repeated 12.30pm – 1.15pm Louise Ayrton violin Sergio Bucheli lute Charlotte La Thrope soprano Alice Trocellier viol
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Thursday 14 February 11.00am – 11.45am, repeated 12.30pm – 1.15pm
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Adults £8.50 (babies come free!) In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music
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Chamber Tots Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, presented by music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever alongside emerging chamber ensembles. Friday 11 January 10.15am (1-2 years) & 11.45am (3-5 years)
Family Sounds
Under the Sea
Thursday 24 January 10.15am (1-2 years) & 11.45am (3-5 years)
Friday 1 March 12.30pm (1-2 years) & 2.00pm (3-5 years)
Grandparent Wednesday 20 February 10.00am – 11.30am, repeated 1.00pm – 2.30pm
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‘The Chamber Tots mornings are wonderful and something so special to introduce the young to the pleasures of music.’
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Join us for this music-making workshop for children aged 0-5 and their parents or carers, which offers the opportunity to create a brand new piece together. Workshop leaders Esther Sheridan and Gawain Hewitt lead us in a sound exploration encompassing singing, instrumental play and multi-sensory composition. Font 2 Children £7 Adults £5
Under the Sea
Thursday 7 March 10.15am (1-2 years) & 11.45am (3-5 years)
On the Farm
Friday 29 March 10.15am (1-2 years) & 11.45am (3-5 years) Children £7 Adults £5 All workshops are approximately 1 hour in duration Maximum 3 child, 2 adult tickets per booking for each event
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Join music leader Hannah Opstad and the Royal Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble, the Bloomsbury Quartet, on a marvellous music-making adventure. Take your seat in your very own chamber ensemble, create your own brand new pieces of music and perform together on the Wigmore Hall stage. Children £10 Adults £15
Saturday 16 February 3.00pm – 4.00pm
Family Concert: Nicola Benedetti For ages 5 plus
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Join world-renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti and presenter Lucy Drever for an interactive concert inspired by landscapes, stories and people from across the UK. We invite you to discover a song about home, and to explore works by composers who were so inspired by their home that they wrote music to tell the story of their favourite places. Font 2 Children £10 Adults £12
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Saturday 16 March 11.00am – 12 noon
Family Day: Lullabies
Family Concert: Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space
For ages 5 plus Join music leader and sound artist Duncan Chapman, along with South Asian arts organisation Manasamitra, to take part in a musical workshop, share your memories of lullabies, and create night time sounds and songs. Finish the day with an immersive and restful performance from The Lullaby Project, a musical exploration of night time sounds interspersed with lullabies from India, and featuring your very own pieces from the day. Font 2 Children £10 Adults £15
For ages 4 plus Music-loving dog and cat, Stan and Mabel, are back! And this time they’re joined by a whole carnival of animals as they escape from the School for Wild and Dangerous Animals in search of a safe place to call their home. Polly Ives and Ensemble 360 present another lively concert for families, featuring a brand new illustrated story by Jason Chapman with original music by Music in the Round’s Children’s Composer in Residence Paul Rissmann. Children £10 Adults £12
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‘Superb musicianship, evocative visuals, lovely engagement with children in the audience’ Audience member
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Schools Schools concerts at Wigmore Hall to complement our extensive programme taking place in schools across London. Tuesday 26 February 11.00am – 12 noon, repeated 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Key Stage 2 Schools Concert: Nicola Benedetti Join world-renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti and presenter Lucy Drever for an interactive concert inspired by landscapes, stories and people from across the UK. We invite you to discover a song about home, and to explore works by composers who were so inspired by their home that they wrote music to tell the story of their favourite places. Font 2 Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)
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Friday 15 March 11.00am – 12 noon
EYFS and Key Stage 1 Schools Concert: Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space Music-loving dog and cat, Stan and Mabel, are back! And this time they’re joined by a whole carnival of animals as they escape from the School for Wild and Dangerous Animals in search of a safe place to call their home. Polly Ives and Ensemble 360 present another lively concert for Early Years Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1 children and their teachers, featuring a brand new illustrated story by Jason Chapman with original music by Music in the Round’s Children’s Composer in Residence Paul Rissmann. Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)
IN THE COMMUNITY...
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We are delighted to be embarking on the next phase of our Partner Schools Programme from September 2018 until July 2021 with three partner Music Education Hubs and three schools: Chestnuts Primary School and Haringey Music Service St Mary’s Catholic Primary School and Havering Music School Weald Rise Primary School and Harrow Music Service We are working in partnership to make their schools musical places, co-creating a programme of opportunities which meets their needs and places music at the heart of their ethos, and empowering them to become culturally engaged, proactive schools. With the Hubs, we’ll share the learning and activity across the boroughs, developing music leadership across the local areas.
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Young People Projects by and for young people, and a free ticket scheme for concerts at Wigmore Hall. Monday 18 February 11.00am – 3.30pm Tuesday 19 February 11.00am – 3.30pm
Musical Portraits Band We invite young people with Autism Spectrum Conditions to be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite. Free (application required) This project is only open to previous Musical Portraits participants. For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Charlotte Cunningham at Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email charlotte@turtlekeyarts.org.uk. In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts
Chamber Zone Free concert tickets for young people and school groups Wigmore Hall and CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust have been offering free tickets to young people since 1999. This year we are delighted to offer 2,000 free tickets to young people aged 8 – 25 and school groups, as well as free pre-concert workshops for schools. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone for full details. Supported by the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust
‘ [My son] enjoyed the friendly interactions – he doesn’t have friends at school, so this is a big plus. He said the project “allowed me to meet new people”.’ Parent, Musical Portraits participant
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YOUNG PEOPLE • 13 Chamber Zone forthcoming concerts… Friday 11 January 7.30pm
Anne Schwanewilms & Malcolm Martineau
Friday 18 January 7.30pm Christian Zacharias Lecture-Recital Tuesday 22 January 1.00pm
François Le Roux & Olivier Godin
Wednesday 23 January 7.30pm Pekka Kuusisto, Atte Kilpeläinen, Tomas Djupsjöbacka & Jukka Huitila Thursday 24 January 7.30pm
Ailish Tynan, Benjamin Appl, Anna Huntley, William Thomas & Graham Johnson
Monday 28 January 1.00pm
Simon Höfele & Frank Dupree
Monday 28 January 7.30pm Sofia Fomina, Rodion Pogossov, Oleksiy Palchykov & Iain Burnside
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Sunday 3 February 3.00pm
James Newby & Joseph Middleton
Sunday 3 February 7.30pm
Goldner Quartet & Piers Lane
Tuesday 5 February 7.30pm
Escher String Quartet
Wednesday 6 February 7.30pm
Britten Sinfonia
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Stile Antico
Monday 18 February 7.30pm
Ailish Tynan, Benjamin Appl & Iain Burnside
Friday 22 February 7.30pm
Elias String Quartet
Tuesday 26 February 7.30pm
Quatuor Zaïde
Friday 1 March 7.30pm Sofia Mchedlishvili, Andrey Zhilikhovsky & Iain Burnside Saturday 9 March 7.30pm
Elias String Quartet
Saturday 16 March 7.30pm
Heath Quartet
Friday 22 March 7.30pm
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Thursday 21 February 11.00am – 12 noon
Relaxed Concert: Soraya Mafi
Events for young people and adults at Wigmore Hall and across the community, from hospitals to residential care homes.
This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides an opportunity to explore music in an informal environment. Join soprano Soraya Mafi for a concert exploring our festival theme of home, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee afterwards.
Tuesday 12 February 10.00am – 2.30pm
There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and house lights remain up. Audience members can move in and out of the auditorium as they wish, and there is a designated quiet area.
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As part of our Sense of Home festival we invite you to join vocal leader Charles MacDougall to explore a range of repertoire before having a Big Sing! together on the Wigmore Hall stage. The event features special guest soloists as well as Singing with Friends, our community choir for families living with dementia. As part of the day, we will also offer a Dementia Friends session for those who would like to find out more.
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Pathways
A range of events to provide a platform for emerging artists, supporting the journeys of the next generation of musicians and leaders. Tuesday 12 February 6.15pm – 7.05pm
Bechstein Sessions: Diphonon Duo Michael Iskas viola Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade accordion Join us for the latest of the Bechstein Sessions, a series of informal performances in the Bechstein Bar. We welcome the Diphonon Duo, a dynamic viola and accordion duo which last year was the Royal Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble, to perform a range of pieces inspired by our festival theme of Sense of Home. £5Font 2
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Wednesday 13 March 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Side by Side The Prince Consort and Students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama The Prince Consort is renowned for its imaginative programming, world-class performances and its original approach to commissioning new works. The ensemble is also passionate about supporting the development of the next generation of singers and pianists. For this project, members of the ensemble have worked with students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama towards this performance, in which the students and ensemble perform side by side. £5
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FELLOWSHIP ENSEMBLE Each year we appoint a Fellowship Ensemble in partnership with Open Academy, the learning and participation department at Royal Academy of Music. This offers ensembles who are no longer full time students a bespoke programme consisting of training days, practical experience and mentoring tailored to their interests and development needs. It provides the ensemble involved with the understanding, skills and experience to cultivate work in this field in the future. We're delighted that our ensemble for the 2018/19 season will be the Bloomsbury Quartet. In partnership with Royal Academy of Music
'Being on the Fellowship allowed us to develop some of the strengths that we already had as a quintet before starting the year. We were able to strengthen our performances as an ensemble through regular performance opportunities in a variety of different concert situations. This has given us a stronger understanding of how to create engaging and enjoyable performances suitable to the audience and performance context.' Cavendish Winds, Royal Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble 2016/17
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Behind the Music A range of study events giving audiences the chance to go behind the music through talks, masterclasses, study groups and singing workshops.
Thursday 3 January 3.00pm – 6.00pm Tuesday 8 January 3.00pm – 6.00pm Friday 11 January 3.00pm – 6.00pm
Wigmore Study Group: Schumann Song ‘Sometimes it seems as though I am embarking on completely new paths in music,’ Schumann wrote, during his famous Liederjahr in 1840. He had spent a decade devoting himself to the piano, before his legal battle to marry Clara Wieck against her father’s wishes led to months of feeling too troubled to compose. Turning to song began a period of intense creativity: ‘I want to sing myself to death like a nightingale.’ Come and explore Schumann’s wonderful song cycles in three afternoons presented by composer Julian Philips, with pianist Laura Roberts and specialist guest speakers and student performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
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Pre-Concert Talk Writer, researcher and presenter Katy Hamilton explores the life, chamber music and songs of Franz Schubert as part of our celebrations of the composer’s birthday. £5 Tuesday 12 February 10.00am – 2.30pm
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BEHIND THE MUSIC • 19 Thursday 14 February 4.45pm – 6.00pm Thursday 21 February 4.45pm – 6.00pm Thursday 28 February 4.45pm – 6.00pm Thursday 7 March 4.45pm – 6.00pm
Introduction to Music: Schubert Composers are often defined by a genre that seems to most suit their musical character; with Mozart it is opera, Beethoven the symphony, and with Franz Schubert it is song. Schubert was not the first Lieder composer but he arguably made the greatest contribution, and in doing so became a trailblazer for Romanticism.
As part of our Sense of Home festival we invite you to join vocal leader Charles MacDougall to explore a range of repertoire before having a Big Sing! together on the Wigmore Hall stage. The event features special guest soloists as well as Singing with Friends, our community choir for families living with dementia. As part of the day, we will also offer a Dementia Friends session for those who would like to find out more.
Join Roy Stratford as we explore Schubert’s experimentation with new and daring harmonies and development of radical and unconventional musical structures. We also explore how Schubert’s music exemplifies Romantic ideas, perhaps the most compelling of which is the idea of the wanderer; in Alfred Brendel’s words, ‘in his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker.’
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Series ticket price £33
We welcome families living with dementia to join us for this event – for more information contact the Learning department 2 on Font 020 7258 8246 or learning@wigmore-hall.org.uk
Thursday 28 March 1.00pm – 4.00pm
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Steven Isserlis Masterclass Acclaimed British cellist, Steven Isserlis, distinguished for his diverse repertoire, distinctive sound with his use of gut strings, and command of phrasing, hosts a masterclass with students from London colleges. £10 concs £8
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We would like to thank the following for their support of the Wigmore Hall Learning programme. Their involvement is greatly appreciated and essential in continuing our work. Donors and Sponsors Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne Arts Council England CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust Charities Advisory Trust The Elton Family The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation Dr C Endersby and Prof. D Cowan OBE The Harbour Foundation The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation The Howard de Walden Estate In memory of Cherry Johnson Mark Le Fanu The Linbury Trust The Loveday Charitable Trust
Julia MacRae Selina and David Marks George Meyer Michael Watson Charitable Trust Milton Damerel Trust Valerie O’Connor Victoria and Simon Robey The Sampimon Trust Julia Schottlander SE Franklin Charitable Trust No 3 Spencer Hart Charitable Trust The Tertis Foundation in memory of Lillian Tertis The Three Monkies Trust William & Alex de Winton and several anonymous donors
Partners Central London Clinical Commissioning Group Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group Haringey Music Service Harrow Music Service Havering Music School Jewish Care London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Tower Hamlets Arts Music and Education Service Tri-borough Music Hub Westminster City Council West London Clinical Commissioning Group
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