January – March 2017
Early Years Families Schools Young People Community Behind the Music WELCOME CALENDAR OF E VENT S January – March 2017 Welcome to the Spring 2017 Series! We’re excited to present a wealth of events across our programme, starting the year with the first in a very special series of talks Fri 6 Jan Artists in Conversation Page 18 by master pianist Alfred Brendel. Sat 7 Jan Alfred Brendel Lecture 18 For families, The Sixteen and puppeteers from Box Tale Soup perform their own Tue 10 Jan Chamber Tots 4 retelling of The Fairy Queen, and we’re off to the newly refurbished Handel & Hendrix Thu 12 Jan Introduction to Music commences 19 museum to explore two musicians separated by 200 years and just one wall! Sat 14 Jan Family Concert: The Fairy Queen 6 For our Community programme, we launch our first event as part of Disabled Access Day, as well as a brand new choir for people living with dementia and their friends, families and carers. Tue 17 Jan Choir for families living with dementia commences 16 Sat 21 Jan Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas 19 We’re also delighted to welcome the Donald Grant Quartet and former Wigmore Hall Trainee Music Leader Lucy Drever for a Key Stage 1 Schools Concert which delves into the stories and landscapes Wed 25 Jan Chamber Tots 4 that influence Scottish folk music. Thu 2 Feb For Crying Out Loud! 4 We hope you enjoy the series, and look forward to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall. Sat 4 Feb Family Day: Handel and Hendrix 7 Daisy Swift Sun 5 Feb Takács Quartet Masterclass 20 Head of Learning Tue 14 Feb Chamber Tots 4 Musical Portraits Band commences 12 Sat 18 Feb Chamber Tots 4 Wed 22 Feb Sir András Schiff Masterclass 20
We would like to thank the Donors and Sponsors Partners Thu 23 Feb National Young String Quartet Weekend commences 12 following for their support of The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust Milton Damerel Trust Central London Clinical the Wigmore Hall Learning Arts Council England Valerie O’Connor Commissioning Group Sat 25 Feb Pre-Concert Talk 20 programme. Their involvement CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust Spencer Hart Charitable Trust Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Wed 1 Mar Pre-Concert Performance 12 is greatly appreciated and Charities Advisory Trust The Peter Stebbings Memorial Commissioning Group essential in continuing our The Harold Hyam Wingate Charity Haringey Music Service Sat 11 Mar Relaxed Concert 17 work. Foundation Stuart and Bianca Roden Havering Music School The Howard de Walden Estate The Sampimon Trust Jewish Care Pre-Concert Talk 20 Hyde Park Place Estate Charity SE Franklin Charitable Trust No 3 Tower Hamlets Arts Music and Wed 15 Mar Chamber Tots 4 John Lyon’s Charity The Stewarts Law Foundation Education Service Tri-borough Music Hub The Wigmore Hall Trust The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation The Tertis Foundation in memory of Sat 18 Mar CAVATINA Family Concert 7 Registered Charity Number: 1024838 London Stock Exchange Group Lillian Tertis Westminster Adult Services Royal Patron HRH The Duke of Kent KG Foundation And several anonymous donors West London Clinical Fri 24 Mar Schools Concert: Folk Up North 8 Commissioning Group George Meyer Wigmore Study Group commences 21 Michael Watson Charitable Trust Sat 25 Mar Artists in Conversation 21 Tue 28 Mar For Crying Out Loud! 4 Early Years 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 our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders For Crying Out Loud! alongside emerging chamber ensembles. First Time Booker Offer: Not booked for Hear outstanding performances by Chamber Tots before? Buy your tickets for half musicians from the Royal Academy price, either by phone or in person. of Music, in these concerts presented In Space especially for parents or carers and their Tuesday 10 January babies under one to enjoy together in a 10.15am (1 – 2 years) & 11.45am (3 – 5 years) relaxed and accommodating environment. Wednesday 15 March Thursday 2 February 10.15am (1 – 2 years) & 11.45am (3 – 5 years) 11.00am – 11.45am 12.30pm – 1.15pm On the Farm Wednesday 25 January Tuesday 28 March 12.30pm (1 – 2 years) & 2.00pm (3 – 5 years) 11.00am – 11.45am 12.30pm – 1.15pm Tuesday 14 February 10.15am (1 – 2 years) & 11.45am (3 – 5 years) £7.50 per adult (babies come free!) In the Forest In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music Saturday 18 February 10.15am (1 – 2 years) & 11.45am (3 – 5 years) All workshops are 1 hour in duration Maximum 3 child, 2 adult tickets per booking Children £5 Adults £3
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Saturday 14 January Saturday 4 February Saturday 18 March 11.00am – 12 noon 10.30am – 3.30pm 11.00am – 12 noon Family Concert: The Fairy Queen Family Day: CAVATINA Family Concert: For ages 6 plus Handel and Hendrix Piatti Quartet Noel Byrne & Antonia Christophers actors For ages 5 plus Katy Hill soprano For ages 5 plus Stuart Young bass Explore the musical worlds of George Frideric Join the award-winning Piatti Quartet, one of David Miller archlute Handel and Jimi Hendrix with the help of the UK’s most exciting young string quartets, for an interactive family concert which explores Deep in the forest, fairies await... Handel & Hendrix in London Composer in Residence Hunter Coblentz, and guitarist the wonderful world of chamber music, featuring Join puppetry and physical theatre group, Jack Ross. Visit the rooms they lived in and works by some of the best-loved composers of all Box Tale Soup, and members of world-renowned discover what inspired them before creating time, including Haydn, Ravel and Beethoven. choir The Sixteen to discover Shakespeare’s your own music, rounding off the day with a Children £8 Adults £10 enchanting tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream. performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Be transported to a world of magic and mishap in which the story is brought to life through puppetry, In partnership with Handel & Hendrix in London theatre and music from Henry Purcell’s Children £10 Adults £15 The Fairy Queen. Photograph © Box Tale Soup A Fairy Queen resource pack, featuring creative CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for activities inspired by the story and characters, is bringing chamber music to young people and young available via the Wigmore Hall website. people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall. Children £8 Adults £10
6 7 Schools Chamber Zone Free concert tickets and pre-concert workshops for school groups – for more Friday 24 March 11.00am – 12 noon information about workshops contact the Learning department on Key Stage 1 Schools Concert: [email protected] or 020 7258 8240. Folk Up North See pages 14 – 15 for forthcoming concerts. Join the Donald Grant Quartet and presenter Lucy Drever for a concert exploring Scottish folk music. We delve into exciting and notorious Juice, Photograph @ Morag Galloway stories, and explore how the unique Scottish landscape influences its music. Designed to support, complement and extend the Key Stage 1 curriculum, bookers also receive a teachers’ resource pack ahead of the concert. Summer Preview: Dates for your Diary £3.50 Tuesday 25 April 11.00am – 12 noon Wednesday 12 July 11.00am – 12 noon Please book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240 SEN Schools Concert: Juice Key Stage 2 Schools Concert: Explore the voice alongside vocal ensemble Juice and presenter Sam Glazer in a dynamic My Iris and engaging concert. Expect a wide range of This is Trish Clowes’s jazz organ quartet with a classical, contemporary and folk music, with lots twist! Come and experience music that conjures Photograph © Simon Jay Price of audience participation in both singing and vivid colour and imagery, with links to literature body percussion. This concert is ideal for SEN and history, in this concert presented by Pete students of all ages and bookers will receive Letanka. Trish’s pieces juxtapose startling a teachers’ resource pack in advance of the melodies and ethereal whispers with intricate concert. textures and earthy grooves. This is the perfect way to celebrate the end of the school year.
8 9 In the Community… Workshops and Our Partner Schools Programme is a new approach to working with schools; in partnership Training with our four partner music education hubs we are collaborating with four primary schools Bring Wigmore Hall Learning to your classroom keen to develop their cultural offer, co-creating with interactive workshops linked to concerts. a programme of opportunities over a three-year Workshops are available for all key stages and we period which meets their needs and supports work closely with your school to tailor the session them to place music at the heart of their ethos. in order to meet the needs of your pupils and your scheme of work. In 2016, 180 pupils in Year 2 and Year 5 from Risley Avenue Primary School in Haringey took We offer workshops linked to: part in Connecting Tunes, a creative composition • Chamber Zone concerts (free) project working with composer and music leader See pages 14 –15 for forthcoming concerts Kerry Andrew and the Heath Quartet. • Schools concerts (there is a charge for these Inspired by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, workshops, but they are free to SEN settings Kerry, alongside participating children and their and subsidised for state schools) families, collected childhood songs from around the world, using them to compose a new piece – featuring seven different languages – called Songchants, which the pupils performed at Wigmore Hall alongside the Heath Quartet. Early Years Training Sessions in your setting Wigmore Hall Learning can design bespoke early years music training sessions to meet the needs of your nursery, centre or school. For more information, email [email protected] or call 020 7528 8240.
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10 11 Young People National Young String Tuesday 14 & Wednesday 15 February Quartet Weekend 11.00am – 3.30pm Thursday 23 – Sunday 26 February Musical Portraits Band Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester For young people with Autistic Spectrum This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Disorders the National Young String Quartet Weekend, which provides world-class coaching from We invite young people with Autism Spectrum chamber music experts such as the Carducci Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the String Quartet, as well as workshops and National Portrait Gallery, and to create their performance opportunities. own works of art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside Wigmore Hall Learning The Weekend is open to school age and Associate Artists Ignite. For more information, conservatoire level quartets. If you play in a string and to apply for a place, contact Ceri Black at quartet and would like to take part in this unique Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email event, email [email protected] for [email protected]. more information. Free (application required) In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery Wednesday 1 March 5.45pm – 6.45pm and Turtle Key Arts Pre-Concert Performance Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the National Young String Quartet Weekend with a performance given by quartets that took part this year. Free (ticket required)
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12 13 Chamber Zone Free concert tickets for 8 – 25 year-olds and school groups. Your ticket gets you a free ice cream and free programme for the concert! School groups can also take part in free pre- Friday 27 January 7.30pm Monday 13 February 1.00pm Tuesday 7 March 7.30pm concert workshops – see page 11 for details. Alice Coote & Julius Drake Kathryn Rudge, James Baillieu & Alisa Weilerstein & Inon Barnatan Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone Nico Muhly, Dominick Argento, Schumann Gary Pomeroy Beethoven, Barber, Britten for full details. Howells, Quilter, Denis Browne, Gurney, Bridge Supported by the CAVATINA Chamber Sunday 29 January 3.00pm Saturday 25 March 1.00pm Sunday 19 February 3.00pm Music Trust Tim Mead & James Baillieu Thomas Adès, Nicolas Hodges & Programme to include Howells, Vaughan Louise Alder & Gary Matthewman Calder Quartet Williams, Britten Sibelius, Huw Watkins, Debussy, Puccini, Verdi Thomas Adès, Lutosławski, Walton
Tuesday 31 January 7.30pm Sunday 19 February 7.30pm Monday 27 March 7.30pm Gould Piano Trio Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Polina Leschenko Schubert Szymanowski, Fauré, Françaix, Antheil Webern, Schumann, Bartók, Ravel
Forthcoming concerts… Thursday 2 February 7.30pm Thursday 23 February 7.30pm Elizabeth Watts & Malcolm Martineau Artemis Quartet & Maria João Pires Friday 6 January 7.30pm Schubert Beethoven, Bartók, Schumann Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith Monday 6 February 7.30pm Saturday 25 February 1.00pm Monday 9 January 7.30pm Takács Quartet JACK Quartet Danish String Quartet Beethoven Xenakis Haydn, Schnittke, Beethoven Wednesday 8 February 1.00pm Sunday 26 February 3.00pm Saturday 14 January 7.30pm Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Phan & Myra Huang Vienna Piano Trio Stravinsky, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Oliver Programme to include Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, Haydn, Ravel, Brahms Knussen, Ravel Beethoven
Wednesday 1 March 7.30pm Monday 23 January 1.00pm Sunday 12 February 7.30pm Photograph © www.benjaminharte.co.uk Roderick Williams & Roger Vignoles Belcea Quartet Carducci String Quartet Fauré, Caplet, Honegger, Poulenc Shostakovich, Schubert Haydn, Shostakovich, Webern, Beethoven
Photograph: www.benjaminharte.co.uk 14 15 Photograph © www.benjaminharte.co.uk Saturday 11 March Community 3.00pm – 4.00pm In the Community… We believe that dementia should not stop people from continuing to pursue activities Starting Tuesday 17 January Disabled Access Day: and interests they have enjoyed their 10.30am – 12.30pm Relaxed Concert whole life, or from trying new things. With This relaxed concert is open to everyone and the right support people can live well with A new choir at Wigmore Hall provides a special opportunity to explore music dementia, and Wigmore Hall is committed in an informal environment. Join presenter to this goal: helping to build a dementia- For families living with dementia Lucy Drever and Open Academy / Wigmore friendly society and enabling people living Music for Life, our programme for people Hall Learning Fellowship Ensemble Cavendish with dementia to access high-quality, life- living with dementia and their carers, has been Winds, find out about our 115 years of history, enriching musical experiences. providing creative musical opportunities in care and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the concert. homes since 1993. The Music for Life programme Music for Life is a pioneering programme now incorporates growing strands of work for Free (ticket required) that brings together professional people with dementia still living at home. musicians, care staff, and people living with dementia through participatory As part of building our dementia-friendly music sessions. Activity takes place in community, we are very excited to be creating residential homes, extra care settings and a new choir, taking place on Tuesday mornings, day centres, engaging people who can be which will be open to people living with dementia If you are, or someone you know is, interested in isolated and disempowered as a result of and their families, friends or carers. Together joining the choir, please call Hermione Jones on the advanced stage of their dementia. members of the choir, led by singer and music 020 7258 8246 or email leader Isabelle Adams, will decide on the [email protected]. Over the course of eight weeks, specially music that they learn, as well as the group’s trained musicians use improvisation to For more information on Music for Life name, and we will invite family and friends to create music alongside people living with see page 17. informal performances. The choir will also be dementia and their care staff. Through an opportunity to meet new people, including In partnership with Westminster Arts creative communication, participants members of Wigmore Hall staff. are given freedom and space to express themselves and make their own musical choices. Music for Life aims to enhance the quality of life of its participants and demonstrate to care staff the emotional, social and physical potential of people in their care.
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Saturday 7 January 2.30pm – 3.45pm Introduction to Music Thursday 12 January 4.45pm – 6.00pm Alfred Brendel Lecture: Thursday 19 January 4.45pm – 6.00pm Thursday 26 January 4.45pm – 6.00pm Schubert’s Last Sonatas Thursday 2 February 4.45pm – 6.00pm There are, within the output of some composers, triads of compositions that bring certain classes of works to a conclusion. Schubert’s final three The 48: piano sonatas belong to the handful of such peak Bach’s Well –Tempered Clavier achievements. It took a long time until players The idea of two books of preludes and fugues, and audiences discovered these pieces. What each moving through all the keys, both major and had kept them away from us until a few decades minor, may sound unpromising at first but begin ago? What are their distinguishing features? What to listen or play and you encounter a universe happens when great composers create a number of wonders. Bach achieves in this music a of works next to one another? And are these wonderful synthesis of highly cultivated technique Photograph © Barbara Rigon Photograph © www.benjaminharte.co.uk works, conceived so close to Schubert’s death, and direct emotional utterance, the variety of documents of a musical farewell? styles and expression is simply breath-taking. Friday 6 January 6.00pm – 6.45pm Saturday 21 January 10.00am – 3.30pm Join master pianist Alfred Brendel to explore this Join Roy Stratford to explore the techniques fascinating topic. of Bach’s extraordinary craft, from double and Artists in Conversation £20 triple fugue to invertible counterpoint, and unlock Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas Vijay Iyer, Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Artist in a musical treasure that will never cease to delight. Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for Residence, discusses his residency and life as a Series ticket price £30 adults exploring Henry Purcell’s well-loved opera performer with journalist and broadcaster Kevin Dido and Aeneas. Get to know the music from LeGendre ahead of the evening concert. the inside, develop your singing skills and finish £4 the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £25 Concessions £19
18 19 Photograph © Benjamin Ealovega Photograph © Brian Voce Sunday 5 February 7.30pm – 9.30pm Wigmore Study Group Takács Quartet Masterclass Friday 24 March 3.00pm – 6.00pm In his book about Beethoven’s sixteen string Wednesday 29 March 3.00pm – 6.00pm quartets, the Takács Quartet’s first violinist Friday 31 March 3.00pm – 6.00pm Edward Dusinberre describes the exhilaration and spiritual rewards of performing these great works. He and his colleagues pass on their experience Haydn Piano Trios Explore some of Haydn’s unjustly neglected and insights into Beethoven’s art to two masterpieces in three afternoons devoted to his postgraduate student ensembles in a masterclass piano trios. Reflecting Haydn’s mature genius, certain to enlighten and inspire. these works are full of his finest keyboard writing, £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 improvisatory in style, both playful and profound. Haydn’s piano trios were dedicated to several Wednesday 22 February 7.30pm – 9.30pm Saturday 25 February 6.00pm – 6.45pm of the most talented female pianists of his day, demanding exceptional artistry and skill. Saturday 25 March 6.00pm – 6.45pm Sir András Schiff Masterclass Xenakis Day: Pre-Concert Talk Composer Julian Philips investigates these Sir András Schiff’s eloquence as a teacher Join Tom Service in an exploration of the unique wonderful works with pianist Laura Roberts, Artists in Conversation and profound insights as a thinker about music sound world of Iannis Xenakis before hearing guest speakers and students from the Guildhall As part of a day celebrating his work, Thomas make his masterclass sessions irresistible to works for strings and piano in the evening School of Music & Drama. Adès is joined by Wigmore Hall Director John participants and audiences alike. For each of his concert. Series ticket price £60 Gilhooly to discuss his inspiration and life as three masterclasses, which run throughout the £4 Includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the a composer. season, an outstanding young musician chosen evening concert by the Eggner Piano Trio on £4 by Sir András himself explores repertoire featured 31 March. in the previous evening’s concert. Saturday 11 March 6.00pm – 6.45pm £20 Pre-Concert Talk Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano technician Peter Salisbury and composer Julian Anderson discuss the ways in which a repertoire, an instrument and an acoustic are inextricably linked, as well as the relationship between Wigmore Hall and an old Bechstein concert grand in terms of history, aesthetics and artistry. £4
20 21 Car Parking Disabled Access and Facilities Booking Information There is limited street parking after 6.30pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted Public booking opens on Online Bookings areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Tuesday 8 November Online booking is available 24 hours a day, Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze (booking for schools concerts already open) 7 days a week, and you can select your own seat. Lane, all of which are less than a five-minute walk Charter Mark from ‘Attitude is Everything’. We recommend early booking for Chamber from the Hall. Booking Fee Tots and Behind the Music events. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Schools concerts and events with a ticket price of Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore event Wigmore Hall Box Office more than £4 incur a £1 booking fee. participants and ticket-buyers a 50% discount on 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP their parking when using the Cavendish Square Tickets for Children and Concessions (Q Park Oxford Street) car park. Please contact Tel: 020 7935 2141 Where a concession ticket price is listed these Box Office or visit our website for further details. For full details on access and facilities Online Booking: are available to students, senior citizens and the contact us on [email protected] Facilities for Families www.wigmore-hall.org.uk unemployed. A child is anyone under the age of 16. or 020 7935 2141. There is space to leave buggies and scooters as Box Office Hours Restaurant well as baby-changing. Map 7 days a week: 10.00am – 8.30pm Full information about restaurant opening hours can be found at Wigmore Hall is proud to meet the Family Arts Days without an evening concert: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by Standards, reflecting its commitment to offering 10.00am – 5.00pm calling 020 7258 8292. family-friendly events and spaces. No advance booking during the 30 minutes Table reservations can be made by calling the prior to performance. Box Office on 020 7935 2141. Telephone Bookings Transport 7 days a week: 10.00am – 7.00pm Tubes: The closest underground stations are Bond This brochure is available in alternative Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford Circus Days without an evening concert: (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines). formats. Please contact the Box Office 10.00am – 5.00pm Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford if this would be of assistance to you. Postal Bookings Street. Telephone: 020 7935 2141 Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Email: [email protected] Hall with the amount left open but stating an upper limit. Tickets will then be sent by post. Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.
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