Winter/Spring 2019 Box Office 01738 621031 | horsecross.co.uk Welcome Contents Welcome to a vibrant spring programme in Perth Concert Hall Classical Visit Perth Theatre Café & Bar and Glassrooms and Perth Theatre. 4 – 13 Café at Perth Concert Hall for breakfast, lunch The year starts in sparkling style with Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s and pre-show meals, freshly prepared using Viennese Gala. Nicola Benedetti joins SCO for an evening of Mozart Dance only the finest local ingredients. in the Perth Concert Series which also brings BBC SSO and RSNO. 14 – 17 There is a full season of Lunchtime Concerts and Perth Piano Glassrooms Café Sundays. Open Mon - Sat: 10am - 4.30pm Join In 18 – 19 (Late on show nights) Little ones will enjoy Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants. Tel: 01738 477724 Family fun continues with our co-production with Little Angel Theatre of Prince Charming and whimsical adventure Kids and Families Perth Theatre Café and Bar Four Go Wild in Wellies. 20 Open Mon - Sat: 10am - 5pm* Claim 10% discount when booking three Perth produced theatre (Late on show nights) Musicals shows - Miss Julie, Gaslight and Lost at Sea. Visiting drama includes 21 Tel: 01738 477755 Glasgow Girls, Touching the Void and Turn of the Screw. There is an *kitchen closed 2:30pm - 5pm extensive studio theatre and dance programme including the military Theatre inspired 5 Soldiers. [email protected] 22 – 36 Barbara Dickson, Naturally 7, The Celtic Sessions featuring Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton, Breabach and The Elephant Sessions, and Music UB40 are just some of the great music acts coming up. Monday 36 – 47 Night Thing gigs feature Tommy Smith, Brian Kennedy, Kristin Hersh COME DINE WITH US and more. Laughs come from Jimeoin and local funnyman Bruce Youth Music WEDDINGS Fummey as well as Menopause the Musical and Girls’ Night OOT! 48 Celebrate your anniversary, birthday or special occasion The Manipulate Festival of visual theatre, puppetry and animation celebrate your day in style Comedy in one of our beautiful spaces. visits for the first time with new versions of Macbeth and at Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre Sleeping Beauty. 49 Get involved with our Join In activities or relax in our cafés Talks and Events and enjoy our contemporary art exhibitions. 50 – 51 Mike Griffiths Film Interim Chief Executive, Horsecross Arts 52 – 53 If you like what we do, support us today. Contemporary Art 54 – 55 Online www.horsecross.co.uk/donate At box office In person or call 01738 621031 Contact our experienced events team to find out more about Contact our experienced events team to discuss your ideas: Isata Kanneh-Mason Perth Piano Sundays page 7 our wedding packages. “it was just the most By post Development Team, Horsecross Arts, perfect day in a Box Office 01738 621031 MichaelaMichaela Anderson Anderson | 01738Wendy Stenberg 477732 | [email protected] Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, spectacular venue, [email protected] 01738 477732 01738 472707 Perth, PH1 5HZ Wendy Stenberg | 01738 472707 | [email protected] horsecross.co.uk [email protected] [email protected] our guests raved about it” Come Dine advert_Jul18.indd 1 12/07/2018 10:45:33 Fatma Said Song Recital Hebrides Ensemble Ailish Tynan, soprano Lunchtime Concerts Mon 18 Mar: 1pm Scotland's brilliant Hebrides Ensemble return Lieder by Schumann, Brahms & Dietrich 1pm | Perth Concert Hall with an eclectic programme which culminates in Fatma Said, soprano a performance of the chamber version of Ravel's Tickets: advance (until 12 noon on the day) £9; concessions £8 Joseph Middleton, piano gorgeous Chansons Madécasses with the After 12 noon on day of concert: £10; no concessions sparkling Ailish Tynan. Add soup and a sandwich for just £3.75 (book until 11am on the day) Egyptian soprano, Fatma Said, is one of the most exciting young artists of her generation. She has 'Tynan's Gretel was a delight, her sound bright not only distinguished herself in opera houses and fresh, and graced with passages of lyrical tenderness' Guardian and on concert stages, but also in a humanitarian capacity, regularly representing her home country as an ambassador for culture and education. Dunedin Consort 'the flawless radiant Fatma Said is a discovery’ Bach - Last Resort Frankfurter allgemeine Zeitung Mon 13 May: 1pm Amatis Piano Trio Adam Walker, flute Consone String Quartet Kuhnau Gott, sei mir gnädig James Baillieu, piano Graupner Magnificat Mon 21 Jan: 1pm Telemann Siehe, es hat überwunden der Löwe BBC Young Musician prize-winner and principal Mon 1 Apr: 1pm Bach Cantata 22 'Jesus nahm zu sich die Dietrich Piano Trio No 1 in C minor flute of the London Symphony Orchestra Adam Brahms Piano Trio No 2 Haydn String Quartet Op 77 No 1 in Zwölf' Walker is joined by one of today's foremost G major The first of a New Generation Artists series in accompanists in a charming programme. Beethoven String Quartet Op 74 'Harp' Dunedin Consort partnership with BBC Radio 3 brings a prize- John Butt, director winning piano trio playing beautiful romantic music. Anna Huntley Song Recital This sparkling young string quartet use gut strings and period instruments giving an insight into the When Bach applied for the position of Kantor at Aleksey Semenenko in Recital Mon 4 Mar: 1pm type of performances Beethoven would have Leipzig's Thomaskirche in 1722, he was only third choice for the post. Telemann turned the offer Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben heard of these two masterpieces. Their sell-out Mon 4 Feb: 1pm performance at the 2018 Lammermuir Festival down after some deliberation and Graupner was And songs by Brahms, Armstrong-Gibbs, not released from his post of Kapellmeister in Schumann/Brahms/ was a smash. Vaughan-Williams and Britten Hesse. 'Since we cannot get the best, then we will Dietrich FAE Violin Sonata 'impeccable - a group to watch' York News Schumann Three Romances Op 22 Anna Huntley, mezzo-soprano have to settle for average', the Council concluded, Brahms Violin Sonata No 2 in A Emma Abbate, piano as it handed the title to Bach. Join us as we step Hebrides Ensemble back in time and explore the programme that Bach Aleksey Semenenko, violin Anna Huntley is a wonderfully sincere and put together for this fateful application, a move Inna Firsova, piano communicative singer. Here she sings Schumann's Mon 6 May: 1pm that would shape the history of western music great song cycle of love and loss. The FAE Sonata is a fascinating freak with Rebecca Clarke Morpheus for centuries to come. movements by three major composers. The Judith Weir Nuits d'Afrique remainder of the programme includes works Andrei Ioniță and Florian Mitrea Jean Francaix String Trio by two great 19th century masters. Rosalie Burrel Early Light Recital Ravel Chansons Madécasses Adam Walker and Mon 11 Mar: 1pm James Baillieu Recital Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor Schumann Fantasiestucke Mon 11 Feb: 1pm Schumann Fünf Stücke im Volkston Schumann Romanzen for cello and piano Widor Suite Op 34 Schumann 3 Romances Op 94 Andre Ionita, cello Franck Sonata in A major for Flute and Florian Mitrea, piano Piano Lush and irresistible music for cello and piano performed by BBC New Generation Artists. 4 Classical Box Office 01738 621031 horsecross.co.uk Classical 5 Andrew Tyson Isata Kanneh-Mason Sun 17 Feb: 3pm Sun 14 Apr: 3pm Couperin Les Baricades Mistérieuses Chopin 24 Preludes Messaien Three movements from Vingt Regards Clara Schumann Piano Sonata sur l’Enfant Jésus Liszt Vallée d’Obermann The oldest member of the extraordinary Kanneh- Respighi Notturno Mason family Isata is a brilliant pianist in her own Chopin Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor right. She was in the Piano Category Final of the BBC Young Musician 2014, winning the Walter Todds Andrew Tyson returns following two previous Bursary for the most promising musician before sensational concerts in Perth which brought the the Grand Final and since then has been forging PertPerthhPianoPianoSunSundaysdays house down! Today offers a really extraordinary mix of a substantial solo career with recent performances music ranging from the baroque poise of Couperin to at King’s Place in London and at the Bath Festival. JanJan -- AprApr 20120199 || PertPerthh ConcertConcert HallHall the unforgettable emotional impact of Chopin’s great Her programme contrasts Chopin’s exhilarating B Minor Sonata. Andrew’s mercurial talent will bring etudes with Clara Schumann’s remarkable piano this to sparkling life. sonata. Clara was both a virtuoso pianist and a terrific composer in her own right. In another era she Peter Donohoe Mozart would not have been overshadowed by her husband. Piano Sonata Cycle III Peter Donohoe Mozart Sun 3 Mar: 3pm Piano Sonata Cycle IV Sonata No 15 in F major K533 ‘Music Box’ Sonata No 3 in B flat major K281 ‘Amoroso’ Sun 28 Apr: 3pm Sonata No 7 in C major K309 Sonata No 12 in F major K332 Sonata No 18 in D major ‘Hunt’ Sonata No 5 in G major K283 Peter Donohoe is one of the outstanding pianists Sonata in C major K545 ‘Sonata Semplice’ of the last 30 years. He has come late to a focus Sonata No 11 in A major K331 ‘Turkish’ SomeSome ofof thethe world’sworld’s finestfinest playersplayers visitvisit PerthPerth forfor thisthis on Mozart and his performances will offer insights Sonata in A minor K310 exceptionalexceptional seriesseries ofof pianopiano concertsconcerts onon aa SundaySunday afternoon.afternoon. informed by decades of performance at the highest The end of the journey! The fourth and final concert international level. in Peter Donohoe’s Mozart cycle will bring with it a sense of joy and fulfilment. This music is full of zest for life tinged with the pathos and wistfulness Richard Goode Steven Osborne Jeremy Denk which makes Mozart perhaps the best loved Sun 20 Jan: 3pm Sun 3 Feb: 3pm Sun 24 Mar: 3pm composer of all.