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Principal Partner National Radio Partner National Media Partner In 70 years ago, there was no greater act of looking to a post-war future JUST SOME OF THE AMAZING PERFORMERS than the establishment of a Music Festival. In COMING TO CHELTENHAM IN 2015 this anniversary year of both the end of WWII and the start of this Festival, we take a look at the kind of music that was being written during the war, and at its close: pieces by Britten, Copland, Major Partners Messiaen, Poulenc, Shostakovich and Strauss that are as strikingly different as they are indisputably great. Paris, that great cultural melting pot of the early 20th century and a city already emerging from wartime occupation in 1945, is another focus in this year’s festival — from the Montmartre ERIC WHITACRE ALINA IBRAGIMOVA JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS Festival Partners Associate Partners of Satie to Claire Martin’s cabaret programme, from a Joan of MT01 M02 M28 MT09 M43 M03 M13 M14 Arc silent film to wartime Messiaen. Music’s close links with both dance and film play large parts in this 2015 programme. Medieval music, Bernard Herrmann and Chopin are all live accompaniments to three wonderfully different films. We make a happy return to the Everyman OFFICIAL RAIL PARTNER Theatre for a mixed bill of ballet, and the remarkable Princess Hall at Cheltenham Ladies’ College plays host to a tango show with Ksenija Sidorova and a disco-inspired commission by Messier-Bugatti-Dowty EDWARD GARDNER GABRIELA MONTERO SARAH CONNOLLY Graham Fitkin. M05 MT08 M43 M27 M17 Individual Supporters Trusts and Societies Media Partners Blockbuster symphonies by Mahler and Rachmaninov… 20 world premieres... Mendelssohn on period instruments… Aquarius Group Sir Michael and Lady McWilliam Quenington Sculpture Trust it’s all very diverse. Enticing for me, and I hope for you too. Dora and Jack Black John Mumford and Penny McCracken Alan Cadbury Trust Celia and Andrew Curran Penny Wright and Andrew Neubauer The George Cadbury Trust Meurig Bowen Michael and Felicia Crystal Neil and Ann Parrack The Grace Fry Charitable Trust Festival Director Elizabeth Jacobs The Chairman’s Friends The Hinrichsen Foundation Lawrence Wallace and Richard Linenthal Diana Woolley The Holst Foundation In-Kind Partner Marketing Partner Graham and Eileen Lockwood 70th Festival Appeal Donors The Reed Foundation Mary Mackenzie, Richard Walton and Friends The Helena Oldacre Trust £5 TICKETS Under 30? Try the Festival at a great price: LAURA MVULA KSENIJA SIDOROVA MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN see cheltenhamfestivals.com/under30 for details. M28 M40 M06 Sir Peter and Lady Marychurch We would also like to thank all our individual Royal Philharmonic Society FOR UNDER 30s Beryl Calver-Jones and Gerry Mattock supporters who have chosen to remain anonymous

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REVISITING 1945 DANCE LIVING SOUNDS Music written in a time of war From a mixed-bill of The brand new... and of new beginnings classical ballet to a Rambert John Hawkins Stranger, Lover, Dancer M07 R Strauss Metamorphosen M12 choreographer’s take on tango Rolf Hind Tiger’s Nest for gamelan, pianos and Britten Holy Sonnets of John Donne M36 New English Ballet Theatre M22 percussion M15 Four Sea Interludes M02 Kathryn Tickell & The Side M39 Rejoice in the Lamb M42 Tango Stories M40 Joe Cutler & Thomas Strønen new works for M18 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time M36 Nine Daies Wonder M41 Emulsion Sinfonietta Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus M31 FILM Graham Fitkin’s Disco M44 Matthew Martin Sonatina for trumpet & organ M19 Copland Appalachian Spring M02 Hywel Davies & Nicholas Morrish Rarity new works Film screenings made even more Poulenc Figure Humaine M20 M20 powerful with live performance for Kokoro and Canticum Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2 M38 soundtracks Peter Wiegold new work for Genesis Sixteen M21 Tippett Spirituals from A Child of Our Time M42 Psycho Live!/Britten Sinfonia M12 Charlotte Bray one-act opera Entanglement M25 Howells Collegium Regale M42 Magic Piano & The Chopin Shorts MF02 GREAT NIGHTS OUOUTT Jonathan Dove songs for mezzo Kitty Whately M33 Finzi Lo, the full, final sacrifice M42 Joan of Arc/The Orlando Consort M32 BBC Concert Orchestra M02 Graham Fitkin new work for the Fitkin ensemble M44 CBSO/Gardner/Osborne M05 And 12 premieres by this year’s Cheltenham CHAMBER MUSIC PARIS The King’s Singers M08 Composer Academy participants M21 M24 HIGHLIGHTS Psycho Live! M12 City of Love and Lights Arcanto Quartet M03 Mahler 3/Connolly M17 And the quite new... An American in Paris M02 Marc-André Hamelin M06 M02 M02 Erik Satie: The Velvet Gentleman M09 Festival Proms in association with Music by John Adams , Eric Whitacre Queyras & Melnikov M14 M28 , Marc-André Hamelin M06 , Poulenc Figure Humaine M20 Mahan Esfahani M23 Richard Causton M15 , Iain Ballamy/Trish New English Ballet Theatre M22 New Zealand S.Q./Julian Bliss M26 Eric Whitacre Singers M28 Clowes/Callum Gourlay/Chris Mayo/Luke Styles Eric Whitacre Singers M28 Gabriela Montero M27 Messiaen Vingt Regards M31 M18 , Thomas Hyde M25 , John Psathas & Jack M30 April in Paris Claire Martin M30 April in Paris/Claire Martin Body M26 , Peter Gabriel & Laura Mvula M28 , Boris Giltburg and friends M37 Faure La Bonne Chanson M33 Frank Sinatra’s Close to You M35 Florentine Mulsant M29 , Timothy Salter M38 Radio 3 New Generation Artists M10 Ravel/Debussy/Franck M37 Academy of Ancient Music/Gardner M43 M29 M33

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“Quick-fire hilarity set to extracts from great FAMILY DAY composers makes for a perfect union, as highly entertaining as it is original” **** The Stage Garden Bar, Imperial Gardens 12noon-6pm FREE, no ticket required MF04

Come on down to Imperial Gardens for a very special family fun day – all for free! Cheltenham Music Festival will bring the square to life with live music, a BBQ, sweet treats, arts & crafts and fun for the whole family. Expect special guests from the Festival, local choirs, the thrilling CSS Taiko Drummers and the world-class Flowers Band – with popular tunes and MAESTRO’S MUSIC MAGIC PIANO & movie themes! Look out for the beautiful pianos, created by SCHOOL THE CHOPIN SHORTS JAMES MAYHEW renowned artist Polly Alakija and local children. PAINTS MUSSORGSKY’S The Painted Pianos project is supported by Nicholas Baragwanath maestro CLASSICAL MAYHEM PRESENT Dinara Klinton piano PICTURES DECOMPOSED! Pillar Room, Town Hall 2-3pm Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Ladies’ £5 Ideal for ages 7+ MF05 Flowers Band College 11am-12noon Children’s author, illustrator and Katie stories Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Ladies’ James Mayhew narrator £8 (£5 children) Ideal for ages 4+ MF02 creator James Mayhew brings a musical gallery to School on a Saturday? No way! But did you know thatat College 11am-12.15pm and illustrator life before your eyes! being a student in an 18th century singing school £8 (£5 children) Ideal for ages 7+ MF01 involved everything from angel wings and donkey Anna hides in an old piano, which transforms into a With live accompaniment by the Flowers Town Hall 11am-12.15pm skins to stocks and fishing rods? Come and take a magical flying machine and whisks her into the air! Band, one of the finest brass bands in the land, Ingenious, slapstick classical fun, following a sold out £12 (£6 children) Ideal for ages 5+ MF03 seat in Maestro Nick’s classroom for an afternoon Fat hamsters, an inky adventure and a mouse that the fantastical creatures and landscapes of run at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe and learn to sing like an 18th century superstar! wants to be a ballet dancer: in this collection of short Mussorgsky’s magical Pictures at an Exhibition John Williams Indiana Jones and the No musical experience necessary. Fate has deemed fit to reunite dysfunctional twins: films from award-winning animators, gifted young take on a lifefe of thetheirir own withwith the hehelplp of JamJames’es Temple of Doom 5’ Will, a failing orchestral conductor and control freak, pianist and Royal College of Music graduate Dinara paintbrush.. and Igor his smelly doppelganger. In close proximity Klinton performs a live soundtrackck ooff CChopinhoppin etuetudestuudesd Holst ‘Mars’ from The Planets 5’ after ten years, the combination of their polar against a unique and colourful setting.etting.ngg Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition 30’ personalities spells trouble. Can Will overcome his Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King 4’ own ego and turn his life around to save his brother THE CLIFFORD TAYLOR from turning into a total gaming Zombie? Young Artist Series

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THE OPENING NIGHT AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

THE FESTIVAL GUIDE Festival Proms in association with 30 JUNE - 11 JULY 2015 BBC Concert Orchestra Martin James Bartlett piano Ben Gernon conductor Eric Whitacre conductor *

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SHOSTAKOVICH 15 Acting as a kind of embedded cultural tour guide John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine 5’ will be writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson FESTIVAL LUNCH Copland Appalachian Spring 23’ – putting all this extraordinary music in context, Carducci Quartet Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue 15’ introducing each concert and sharing thoughts WITH SPECIAL GUEST Stephen Johnson THE FESTIVAL Britten Four Sea Interludes 15’ with the Carduccis themselves. All in the stunning ERIC WHITACRE surroundings of the Tithe Barn at Syde Manor, ten GUIDE Eric Whitacre Water Night 5’ * Tithe Barn, Syde Manor M01 Stravinsky Berceuse and Finale from The 10am – 6pm both days miles south of Cheltenham, with interval drinks Your souvenir event-by-event Ellenborough Park and meals served in a beautiful garden marquee. 1-3.15pm MT01 Firebird 8’ £180 (includes four concert tickets, companion to the Cheltenham Music A feast of Parisian/American music and other Guests will be seated at 1.30pm Gershwin An American in Paris 18’ two lunches, all interval refreshments and Supported by Sir Michael and Lady McWilliam Festival: over 100 pages packed with orchestral masterpieces open the 2015 Cheltenham Stephen Johnson as musical tour guide) £35. Ticket includes a set two-course lunch with feature articles, notes on the music Music Festival. George Gershwin’s lively and a glass of prosecco on arrival. affectionate portrait An American in Paris will be Composers often save their most intimate and Q&A-style biographical profiles heard together with his jazz-influenced Rhapsody After a superb lunch in Ellenborough Park, thoughts for the string quartet. Other than of all the artists and composers at in Blue, featuring 18-year-old BBC Young Musician enjoy hearing from Grammy-winning Beethoven, perhaps no composer has put so this year’s Festival. winner Martin James Bartlett. much of himself into his quartets as Dmitri composer and conductor Eric Whitacre, in Alongside popular works by Copland, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Spanning his entire career, from Add to your basket when booking conversation with Meurig Bowen. Britten, this concert also features one of the Festival’s the 1930s to the 1970s, Shostakovich’s 15 string your tickets, and collect at your first featured artists, Eric Whitacre, conducting the quartets reflect profoundly on the difficulties of Festival event. orchestral version of one of his most popular pieces, life in Soviet Russia, on war and the holocaust. Official Hotel of the Pump Room Series Water Night.

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TALK: NAPOLEON, EDWARD GARDNER, ARCANTO BEETHOVEN AND STEVEN OSBORNE QUARTET WATERLOO AND THE CBSO Oval Room, Antje Weithaas violin Festival Proms in association with Daniel Sepec violin 10-10.40am £5 MT02 Tabea Zimmermann viola City of Birmingham Symphony Jean-Guihen Queyras cello From Beethoven’s Eroica to Wellington’s Orchestra Victory, the relationship between music Steven Osborne piano Pittville Pump Room and politics in the Napoleonic era is EdwardE Gardner conductor 11am-1pm more common than you might think. £30 £24 £18 M03 The University of Warwick’s Dr Katherine Broadcast TownT Hall live on Hambridge explores the political and 7.307 -9.45pm BBC Radio 3 Beethoven Quartet No 11 in F musical responses to Waterloo across £40£ £35 £18 £12 M05 minor, Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ 21’ Europe. Smetana Quartet No 1 in E HaydnH Representation of Chaos from The minor ‘From My Life’ 27’ CreationC 5’ Schumann Quartet No 1 in A FESTIVAL EVENSONG MozartM Piano Concerto in C minor, K 491 30’ minor, Op. 41/1 27’ Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 60’ Each a distinguished soloist in their Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum In the realm of big-impact orchestral experiences, own right, the Arcanto Quartet Rachmaninov’s second symphony has it all: high have together given powerful Simon Bell director drama, heart-stopping emotion, a torrent of luscious performances in the world’s major melodies and momentous surges that will pin you venues: from Carnegie Hall to the Chapel to the back of your seat. Within the warm-sounding Berlin Philharmonie. For their debut 5.30-6.15pm glow of the Town Hall, the chance to envelop yourself Cheltenham appearance they FREE, no ticket required M04 in this orchestral experience is not to be missed. “Absolutely stunning perform Beethoven’s groundbreaking Serioso quartet, and Smetana’s Prior to a tour of the Netherlands, Tewkesbury Steven Osborne, returning to Cheltenham after his virtuosity and depth” moving From My Life: touching Abbey Schola Cantorum’s evensong includes stunning recital in 2014, performs one of Mozart’s Washington Post sketches that express his romantic Stanford’s Evening Canticles in A and two most celebrated piano concertos; and the CBSO ideals and emotional pain brought motets that Howells wrote in Cheltenham in is conducted by one of the most admired British about by his crippling deafness. 1940, Like as the hart and O pray for the peace artists of his generation, Gloucester-raised conductor of Jerusalem. Edward Gardner.

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This special programme from one of the world’s most “With Mr Hamelin, VARIETIES OF VIOLS THE KING’S SINGERS treasured vocal ensembles celebrates 150 years of fearlessness is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Presented with The something more” Pillar Room, Town Hall 5.30-6.30pm 150 YEARS OF King’s Singers’ customary charm, the eccentric genius of Lewis Carroll’s classic is told through a programme £8 MT03 The New York Times ALICE’S ADVENTURES that journeys from madrigals and partsongs to Ligeti’s As with all things, in music-making it is important IN WONDERLAND nonsense song The Lobster Quadrille and Cy Coleman’s to have the right tools for the job. In this The Rhythm of Life. Composers and arrangers featured include Dowland, Morley, Josquin, Striggio, Weelkes, lecture-recital, the University of Huddersfield’s Festival Proms in association with “It’s not a question of Satie’s relevance; Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Stanford, Quilter, Bob Chilcott, John Bryan and the Rose Consort of Viols play he’s indispensable” John Cage Howard Goodall and Paul Simon. three different sets of ‘viols’ – fretted, bowed The King’s Singers Extracts from Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, interspersed instruments from the renaissance and baroque Guest reader tba ERIK SATIE: THE MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN periods – exploring how each set’s contrasting throughout the programme, will be read by a guest actor to be announced. VELVET GENTLEMAN SOLO CELLO AT tones are ideal for different kinds of music. Town Hall 7-9pm Marc-André Hamelin piano QUENINGTON £30 £25 £15 £12 M08 Concert sponsored by Anne Lovett piano Recorded for Pittville Pump Room broadcast on Actor tba BBC Radio 3 Jessie Ann Richardson cello 11am-1pm Max Hoehn director £28 £23 £16 M06 St Swithin’s Church, THE CLIFFORD TAYLOR Devised by Meurig Bowen Quenington 3-4.20pm Young Artist Series Mozart Sonata in D Major, K 576 15’ Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Ladies’ £12 (unreserved) M07 Debussy Images, Book II 14’ College 9.30-10.45pm Marc-André Hamelin Pavane Variée Cellist of the Piatti Quartet and a current member of £18 M09 (UK premiere) 6’ the Countess of Munster Musical Trust’s Young Artists Marc-André Hamelin Variations on a Theme Scheme, Jessie Ann Richardson performs a selection Erik Satie’s 150th birthday is in 2016 – but this by Paganini (UK premiere) 10’ of beautiful works for solo cello by Bach and Walton ‘theatrecital’ (a dramatised piano recital, a play Schubert Four Impromptus, D 935 40’ alongside the premiere of a new work dedicated to with a lot of music in it) is a mainstay of the 2015 her: Stranger, Lover, Dancer by John Hawkins. Festival’s Parisian focus. Directed by rising star Max A welcome return to the Pittville Pump Room by Hoehn, winner of the 2015 Independent Opera French-Canadian super-virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin. Supported by Quenington Sculpture Trust Director Fellowship, The Velvet Gentleman brings Alongside his signature legendary technique and together the autobiographical musings of an ageing breadth of repertoire, Hamelin has started composing Satie with a broad selection of his piano music. showpieces in the tradition of his virtuoso, early 20th The Quenington Sculpture Garden is open this year From the early Gnossiennes and Gymnopedies to century predecessors. Expect to be dazzled by two (admission £4). Tea and cake will be served in the the more whimsical and experimental miniatures sets of his own variations – one on a medieval theme, garden after the concert, with a chance to meet the of later years, they are played here by Anne Lovett the other on a theme of Paganini, no less. artist and have CDs signed. See page 41 for more details about the sculpture exhibition Fresh Air. – like Satie himself, a composer-pianist from Supported by Graham and Eileen Lockwood Normandy.

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PSYCHO LIVE! Featured Festival artist Jean-Guihen Queyras MEDITERRANEAN explores the hypnotic and spellbinding music Festival Proms in association with VOYAGE of Algeria and the Mediterranean. Bijan and Keyvan Chemirani – two masters of the zarb, Britten Sinfonia the most important percussion instrument of Chemirani Brothers zarb Thomas Gould violin/director * Persia – and lyra player Sokratis Sinopoulos join Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Queyras in an eclectic programme: music that Anthony Gabriele conductor Jean-Guihen Queyras cello explores the acrobatic and percussive rhythms of the Chemirani brothers alongside Queyras’ Town Hall 6.30-9.20pm Pittville Pump Room 9-10.15pm improvisation on Mediterranean melodies £30 £25 M12 £20 £15 M13 remembered from his youth in Algeria. Richard Strauss Metamorphosen for 23 solo Traditional, contemporary and improvised strings 25’ * DANISH STRING QUARTET programme inspired by the music of Hitchcock/Herrmann Psycho 109’ BBC RADIO 3 NEW GENERATION ARTISTS Algeria and the Mediterranean. Strauss’ Metamorphosen runs from 6.30pm to 7pm. Recorded for Pittville Pump Room broadcast on The screening of Psycho starts at 7.30pm. 11am-1pm BBC Radio 3 Film screening certificate 15. £24 £18 £12 M10 A film screening with a difference. For one night only the Town Hall becomes a grand cinema, showing Mendelssohn Capriccio and Fugue Op. 81 11’ one of the greatest thrillers of all time with Bernard Beethoven Quartet Op. 74 ‘The Harp’ 30’ Herrmann’s iconic score played live by one of the UK’s Nielsen Quartet No 2 in F minor 30’ finest orchestras. Herrmann created one of the most Selection of Danish folk music arrangements 10’ memorable soundtracks in cinema history – music of such nagging, edge-of-seat intensity that it lifted As the Danish String Quartet have described Hitchcock’s film to a higher level of impact altogether. themselves, your ‘friendly neighbourhood string Preceding this special screening is one of the great quartet with above average amounts of beard’ concert classics for string orchestra: Richard Strauss’ present a programme packed full of colour and heartfelt mourning for the wartime destruction of verve. Always virtuosic and with a joyful style, their German culture. Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Nielsen are rounded off with a taste of their 2014 critically-acclaimed album of Concert sponsored by folksong arrangements, Wood Works. Supported by Mary Mackenzie, Richard Walton and Friends Supported by Celia and Andrew Curran

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“Quick-fire hilarity set to extracts from great composers makes for a QUEYRAS FROM JAVA TO THE perfect union, as highly entertaining & MELNIKOV HIMALAYA as it is original” **** The Stage Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Zubin Kanga, Richard Uttley piano Alexander Melnikov piano Joby Burgess percussion Isabelle Carré, Robert Campion Pittville Pump Room gamelan solo 11am-1pm Cheltenham Community Gamelan £28 £23 £16 M14 Players Southbank Gamelan Players Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston 18’ ROLF HIND Beethoven Cello Sonata No 3 in A Town Hall 2-3.15pm £15 M15 major, Op. 69 26’ Webern 3 Kleine Stücke, Op. 11 3’ Rolf Hind Tiger’s Nest (premiere) 18’ Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G Richard Causton Concerto for Solo minor, Op. 19 35’ Percussion and Gamelan 17’ Plus traditional Gamelan music 30’ FAMILY Two outstanding soloists join forces for a EVENT programme that casts piano and cello as This concert marks the 10th anniversary of equal – and accomplished – partners. Cheltenham’s very own Gamelan – a Javanese The duo released recordings of the orchestra of tuned gongs, metallophones and complete Beethoven cello and piano drums. Alongside Richard Causton’s concerto, CLASSICAL MAYHEM PRESENT works in late-2014, and this spirited sonata commissioned by the Festival in 2001, you’ll will be a particular treat. witness the enthralling spectacle of traditional DECOMPOSED! Indonesian music, and hear a new commission from Rolf Hind: inspired by recent travels in Bhutan, Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Ladies’ the Tiger’s Nest Monastery and the sounds of bells, JOBY BURGESS College 11am-12.15pm “Queyras and Melnikov wind and water that fill the Himalayan air. £8 (£5 children) Ideal for ages 7+ MF01 sustained the intimacy of Rolf Hind co-commissioned with the Southbank the music with playing of Centre and with the support of Ingenious, slapstick classical fun, following a sold out extraordinary refinement” run at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe. The Guardian See pages 8-9 for more information.

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The 2013 performance of Shostakovich’s 5th symphony by Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra was CHAPEL: SUNDAY one of the most highly-charged, thrilling experiences MORNING in Cheltenham’s recent past: a tough act to follow for these virtuoso musicians from one of the world’s top specialist music schools in Manchester. But with Jason Evans trumpet Mahler’s gigantic third symphony – six movements, Julie Cooper soprano 160 performers, a world of emotion – the impact of Matthew Martin organ this monumental work is bound to be even more memorable. Gloucestershire-resident queen of Dean Close School Chapel 11am-1pm mezzo-sopranos, Sarah Connolly, joins massed local £15 M19 choral forces for this very special Town Hall event. Supported by Diana Woolley Programme to include: and The Oldham Foundation J.S. Bach Aria from Cantata BWV 51 MAHLER’S 3RD Handel Eternal Source of Light Divine; SYMPHONY Let the bright Seraphim Gowers An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary; Festival Proms in association with TRISH CLOWES & LUKE STYLES PRESENT Toccata EMULSION Matthew Martin Sonatina in memoriam Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra SINFONIETTA Patrick Gowers (premiere) Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Vierne Carillon de Westminster Ladies of Cheltenham Bach Choir FEATURING FOOD Anton Heiller Zwei geistliche Gesänge Cheltenham Youth Choir Stephen Threlfall conductor Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Ladies’ The brainchild of jazz saxophonist Trish Only in his early twenties, but already Principal College 9.45-11pm Clowes, Emulsion brings together performers Trumpet of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Jason Evans joins two Dean Close School alumni to Town Hall THE CLIFFORD TAYLOR £15 M18 from the classical and jazz worlds of showcase the brand new Chapel organ, installed 7.30 -9.15pm Young Artist Series contemporary performance to thrilling and MAGIC PIANO & by the Worcester organ-builders Nicholson in late £30 £25 £20 £15 £12 M17 Iain Ballamy The Man Who Knew Just original effect. Joined by Norwegian Jazz duo THE CHOPIN SHORTS Enough Food (Thomas Strønen & Iain Ballamy), and 2014. Matthew Martin premieres his new Sonatina for organ and trumpet, and soprano Julie Cooper Mahler Symphony No 3 99’ Trish Clowes Apple Boy premiering two new works, this is a must for FAMILY fans of the cutting edge. Dinara Klinton piano EVENT – who was so impressive singing Pärt with The Joe Cutler new work (premiere) Hilliard Ensemble in Tewkesbury Abbey last year Joe Cutler commissioned with the support of Calum Gourlay 12 Goats and Tigers Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Ladies’ – sings sparkling and sublime music by Bach and Chris Mayo Birchfield Close College 11am-12noon Handel. Thomas Strønen new work (premiere) £8 (£5 children) Ideal for ages 4+ MF02 Luke Styles Chasing the Nose Matthew Martin commission supported by Graham and Eileen Lockwood See pages 8-9 for more information.

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CHAPEL: SUNDAY NEW ENGLISH BALLET AFTERNOON THEATRE

Kokoro with Canticum Chamber Choir Gildas Quartet Mark Forkgen conductor Anne Lovett piano Andrew Harvey violin Chapel 3-5pm Everyman Theatre 8-10pm £15 M20 £30 £25 £18 £15 M22

Hywel Davies new work for choir Tangents (Mussorgsky extracts from Pictures and ensemble (premiere) 35’ at an Exhibition) 11’ Nicholas Morrish Rarity new work COMPOSER Toca (Villa Lobos Etudes) 7’ for ensemble (premiere) 15’ ACADEMY Orbital Motion (Philip Glass Violin Concerto, Poulenc Figure Humaine 19’ SHOWCASE 1 abridged) 21’ Mad Women (Greenwood/Richard) 10’ Kokoro, an ensemble drawn from the The Kreutzer Sonata (Beethoven Kreutzer Genesis Sixteen Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Sonata, Janácˇek String Quartet No 1) 40’ joins forces with London chamber choir Canticum. Alongside a premiere from 2014 Cheltenham College Chapel Following three highly successful seasons in London’s RPS Composition Prize winner Nicholas 5.30-6.30pm West End, New English Ballet Theatre heads to The Morrish Rarity, a new cantata by Hywel FREE, ticket required M21 Everyman for a major Cheltenham Music Festival Davies takes the voices of WWI poets debut. Setting out to emulate Diaghilev’s all- and writers as its source. Hywel’s music Genesis Sixteen is a specially selected embracing approach to the creation of new work, is gentle, poised and wistful – making group of young musicians tipped they present a stunning mix of ballets from the for a fine pairing with the rich, beguiling for careers as professional chamber UK’s top choreographic talents, featuring music by harmonies of Poulenc’s 1943 hymn to singers and coached by members Mussorgsky, Villa Lobos, Philip Glass, Beethoven freedom for occupied France. of The Sixteen. They present five and Janáček. Rarity supported by new works developed at this year’s Composer Academy alongside a Susan commission from the Academy’s Bradshaw director, Peter Wiegold. Composers’ Fund Supported by John Mumford and Penny McCracken Image: NEBT’s The Kreutzer Sonata

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“Dashingly eloquent, dizzyingly skilled, Esfahani makes the harpsichord seem MAHAN ESFAHANI THE 20TH CENTURY an instrument reborn” HARPSICHORD REVIVAL The Times Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Christopher D. Lewis/Laurie Pittville Pump Room Recorded for broadcast on Stras harpsichord BBC Radio 3 11am-1pm Kate Hawnt reader £24 £18 £12 M23 Pittville Pump Room 2-3.20pm Couperin Pièces en G 17’ £5 MT05 W.F. Bach Sonata in E flat 13’ D. Scarlatti 5 sonatas 20’ In this lecture-recital, Christopher D. Lewis, Kate Martinu˚ Deux pieces pour clavecin 6’ Hawnt and colleagues from the University of Maconchy Notebook for Harpsichord 9’ Southampton explore the surprising history of J.S. Bach Chromatic Fantasia and the harpsichord – including its 1930s European CHAMBER OPERA Fugue, BWV 903 13’ revival – and trace the different incarnations of this intriguing instrument. DOUBLE BILL Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani is a force of nature – a dazzlingly George Vass conductor persuasive advocate for his instrument, as Richard Williams director Nova Music Opera brings together a pair of compelling in performance as he is in his contemporary chamber operas by Charlotte Bray witty, between-pieces commentary. The first Nova Music Opera featuring singers Kirsty Hopkins, Howard and Thomas Hyde about two misunderstood harpsichordist to have a BBC Prom to himself COMPOSER ACADEMY MEET THE COMPOSERS characters from modern British history. In the sixtieth in 2011, and with a recent Gramophone Cook, Greg Tassell, Howard Quilla Croft, anniversary year of her controversial execution, the award to his name, Esfahani’s star shines ever SHOWCASE 2 Damian Thantry end of Ruth Ellis’ life is examined in Charlotte Bray’s Circle Bar, Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham brighter. His Pittville recital will be performed work Entanglement. Thomas Hyde’s That Man Stephen on a modern 2013 copy (Huw Saunders) of Emulsion Quartet Ladies’ College 7.15-7.45pm Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Ladies’ Ward, premiered to great reviews in 2008, charts the an early 18th century German instrument, FREE, ticket required MT06 College 8-10pm demise of one of the more tragic characters involved beautifully fashioned out of a single, English Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Ladies’ £20 M25 in the Profumo scandal of the early 1960s. walnut tree. Composers Charlotte Bray and Thomas Hyde College 6-7pm FREE, ticket required M24 give a brief introduction to tonight’s operas along Supported by The Aquarius Group Entanglement (premiere) 45’ In association with Nova Music Opera and the with other members of the production. Seven new works, developed at the Composer Charlotte Bray composer Presteigne Festival Academy during the first week of the Festival, will Amy Rosenthal librettist be presented by a quartet of players drawn from That Man Stephen Ward 50’ Staying for the Harpsichord talk this afternoon? Trish Clowes’ genre-defying Emulsion Sinfonietta. Throughout the Festival you can enjoy a lunch or afternoon tea at Pittville Pump Room, including a sandwich selection, Thomas Hyde composer homemade scones and cakes, from £6.50 per person. See cheltenhamfestivals.com for more information. Supported by John Mumford David Norris librettist and Penny McCracken and supported by an anonymous donor

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With the beauty of his music, his charisma and the extraordinary global reach of his GABRIELA MONTERO online ‘virtual choirs’, London-resident American composer Eric Whitacre has become a phenomenon in recent years. Gabriela Montero piano Inspired by a visit to Gloucester Cathedral, Whitacre’s specially created musical Pittville Pump Room 6-7.50pm sequence moves, as the shadows gather in £26 £21 £15 M27 this great building, from light to darkness. His handpicked professional choir is joined Schubert Four Impromptus, D 899 32’ here by one of Whitacre’s newest musical Schumann Fantasie in C, Op. 17 30’ friends, singer Laura Mvula. Improvisations based on themes from Supported by Diana Woolley the audience 20’ ERIC WHITACRE

For Gabriela Montero, ‘improvisation is SINGERS BRAHMS CLARINET such a huge part of who I am, it is the most QUINTET natural and spontaneous way I can express Eric Whitacre conductor myself’. In addition to a top-flight recital with special guest Laura Mvula and concerto career on both sides of the New Zealand String Quartet Atlantic, the Venezuelan-American pianist Gloucester Cathedral 8.30-10.30pm Julian Bliss clarinet has an extraordinary ability to improvise in £35 £30 £22 £18 £14 (unreserved) M28 any number of styles: from baroque to high- Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm romantic and jazz, and based on themes Programme includes: £28 £23 £16 M26 suggested by the audience. After substantial Eric Whitacre Sleep; Lux Aurumque; offerings of Schubert and Schumann, it will Sainte-Chapelle; Nox Aurumque John Psathas Manos, Unbridled 6’ be such a privilege to witness her virtuosic Duruflé Ubi caritas et amor and heartfelt creations in the heat of the Haydn String Quartet No 42 in C, Op. 54/2 20’ Dufay Ave maris stella Pittville moment. Jack Body Three Transcriptions 11’ Peter Gabriel Blood of Eden (arr. Whitacre) Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 34’ Supported by Neil and Ann Parrack Laura Mvula Father, Father; She; Sing to the moon After a taste of new music from their compatriots Jack Body and John Psathas, the New Zealand String “It was a dazzling feat of pure Quartet join forces with British clarinettist Julian Bliss. Renowned for the sensitivity and refinement of their inspiration. Throughout the hall, playing, the pairing is sure to bring to life the autumnal jaws dropped” moods of Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet. The Independent Supported by Elizabeth Jacobs

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Condemned unseen in France on its release, vilified SCHUBERT & DVORˇÁK PRE-CONCERT TALK by the Catholic authorities and even banned outright MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS BBC RADIO 3 NEW GENERATION ARTISTS APRIL IN PARIS in , Carl Theodor Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne DINNER WITH CLAIRE MARTIN d’Arc is widely recognised as a silent masterpiece, Tewkesbury Abbey Parish Hall regularly appearing in lists of the top ten greatest Armida Quartet & HER TRIO 5.30-6.15pm films ever made. Lise Berthaud viola FREE, ticket required MT07 Inspired by Dreyer’s vision, the award-winning Claire Martin singer Pittville Pump Room Recorded for Orlando Consort present an entirely new, carefully broadcast on James Pearson piano ‘Wildness & Wonder, Dazzlement & Darkness’ – crafted soundtrack of music from the era in which 11am-1pm BBC Radio 3 Calum Gourlay bass award winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts the film is set. The intricate beauty of 15th century £24 £18 £12 M29 Matt Skelton drums explores the idea of mystery in God and the arts, works by Binchois and Dufay, together with animated considering these themes in poetry and literature motets and haunting plainsong, amplify the poignant Schubert String Quartet in G major, D 887 40’ Cheltenham Ladies’ College Princess Hall and reflecting on his own journey in response to depiction of medieval France and provide a unique Florentine Mulsant Vocalise for solo viola 7’ the Messiaen 2015 project with Cordelia Williams. and highly evocative accompaniment to this Dvorˇák String Quintet No 3 in E flat, Op. 97 32’ Bar open from 7pm SILENT CINEMA AND Dinner served at 7.30pm MEDIEVAL MUSIC: landmark film. The second concert featuring Radio 3 New Generation Performance 9-10.15pm This tour has been supported by Arts Council England, Artists sees the return of viola player Lise Berthaud £60. Ticket includes three course VINGT REGARDS VOICES APPEARED the National Centre for Early Music and Eureka Films. alongside the Berlin-based Armida Quartet. After set menu and coffee. M30 Schubert’s final string quartet and a short solo work Cordelia Williams piano The Orlando Consort: Widely regarded as the First Lady of British written especially for Berthaud by French composer Michael Symmons Roberts speaker Matthew Venner countertenor Florentine Mulsant, the performers join for Dvořák’s jazz, Claire Martin celebrates with her trio that most romantic of cities, Paris. With a Mark Dobell tenor sprightly Quintet – matching in exuberance his ‘American’ Tewkesbury Abbey 6.30-7.30pm £12 M31 Angus Smith tenor Quartet, and written in the same summer of 1893 when whirl of French glitz, glamour and nostalgia, she performs songs that Edith Piaf made her Donald Greig baritone staying with Czech cousins in Spillville, Iowa. Messiaen Selection from Vingt Regards sur own – ‘La Vie en Rose’ and ‘Non, je ne regrette Robert MacDonald bass Supported by Sir Peter and Lady Marychurch rien’ – alongside numbers by Michel Legrand, l’Enfant-Jésus Jacques Brel, Cole Porter’s ‘I love Paris’, Joni Tewkesbury Abbey 8.30-10.15pm Messiaen wrote Vingt Regards in occupied Paris, 1944, Mitchell’s ‘Free Man in Paris’ and, of course, yet the music is suffused with themes of love, colour £20 £15 £10 M32 Vernon Duke’s ‘April in Paris’. and silence, embracing the full breadth of human experience and the complexities of his own deep La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928) 96’ Catholic faith. This ‘son et lumière’ performance combines a selection of the most reverent and dazzling of the Vingt Regards with poetry readings by Michael “So extraordinary and otherworldly is this Symmons Roberts and Sophie Hacker’s projected, film’s power, you could believe you were illuminated paintings, all commissioned by Cordelia watching the actual trial of Joan of Arc” Williams in response to this powerful work. The Guardian

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In his centenary year, Sinatra’s 1956 album Close SCHUMANN, FAURÉ & DOVE FRANK SINATRA’S to You is recreated with this stellar line-up of BBC RADIO 3 NEW GENERATION ARTISTS CLOSE TO YOU Ronnie Scott’s regulars, the Tippett Quartet and John Wilson Orchestra vocal frontman Matt Ford. Nelson Riddle’s inclusion of the Hollywood Armida Quartet Matthew Ford singer String Quartet in his matchless arrangements Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano Tippett Quartet created a glowing impressionistic canvas for the Pavel Kolesnikov piano James Pearson piano artistry of Sinatra. They appear here in Callum Simon Lepper piano Calum Gourlay bass Au’s painstaking transcriptions, alongside Matt Skelton drums arrangements of other Sinatra classics Pittville Pump Room Recorded for for the unique sonorities of this broadcast on Hugh Webb harp 11am-1pm BBC Radio 3 ensemble. FROM DONNE TO THE Callum Au trombone £24 £18 £12 M33 END OF TIME Howard McGill woodwinds Jonathan Dove songs (premiere) 10’ “Here is a poet of the keyboard” The Guardian Benjamin Baker violin Fauré La bonne chanson 22’ Cheltenham Ladies’ College Princess Hall Schumann Lied ohne Ende; Arabeske 10’ 7.30 -9.30pm Julian Bliss clarinet (premium tables with sharing platters Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44 28’ £24 Bartholomew LaFollette cello GLOUCESTERSHIRE also available) Richard Uttley piano Two outstanding young soloists come together with YOUNG MUSICIANS £18 £12 M35 James Gilchrist tenor the Armida Quartet. First, Fauré with the ‘rich and Anna Tilbrook piano luminous mezzo’ (La Croix) Kitty Whately, who also Close to You reinvented and other Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra gives the premiere of a new set of songs by Jonathan Sinatra classics Pittville Pump Room 9.30-10.45pm Rebecca McNaught cello Dove – a composer who has been likened to Britten £24 £18 £12 M36 for the clarity of his vocal writing. Pavel Kolesnikov Winner of Gloucestershire Young and the Armida Quartet bring the concert to a Musician of the Year tba Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne 25’ rousing close with Schumann’s exuberant Quintet. Glyn Oxley conductor Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time 48’ C F USI ES M T IV M A A L

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AFTERNOON PIANO TRIO KATHRYN TICKELL & THE SIDE Trio Aquilon

Tithe Barn, Syde Manor 4-5.15pm Kathryn Tickell Northumbrian £15 M38 pipes, fiddle Ruth Wall harp Timothy Salter Trefoil 10’ Amy Thatcher accordion, clog Haydn Piano Trio No 39 in G Major ‘Gypsy dancing Rondo’ Hob. XV/25 15’ Louisa Tuck cello Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2 in E minor 24’ Pittville Pump Room 7-9pm Shostakovich’s second Piano Trio, written in 1944 £20 £15 M39 in the midst of WWII, roams through agitation, mournfulness and eerie tension, yet remains a Evocative slow airs that could break your beautiful homage to the loss of a dear friend. It is heart move seamlessly into life-affirming performed in the stunning surroundings of Syde jigs and reels; Amy storms into a clog FESTIVAL LUNCH Manor’s restored tithe barn by Trio Aquilon alongside dance; Kathryn’s dizzying rapid-fire WITH SPECIAL GUEST Haydn’s playful trio and a work by Timothy Salter, piping contrasts with the richness of the EDWARD GARDNER commissioned by the ensemble in 2013. cello and Ruth’s sparkling harp playing melds it all together. A very special evening is in store in the company Cheltenham favourite Boris Giltburg returns Ellenborough Park BORIS GILTBURG again, this time with illustrious compatriots. The of 2013 BBC Folk Awards 1-3.15pm IPO Richter Quartet is the official quartet of the ‘Musician of the Year’ AND FRIENDS Guests will be seated at 1.30pm Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, founded at the Kathryn Tickell and her £35. Ticket includes a set two-course lunch Spoleto Festival in 2006. Together, they perform folk-classical ensemble Boris Giltburg piano with a glass of prosecco on arrival. MT08 three giants of the French chamber music The Side. IPO Richter Quartet repertoire, and round off the 2015 Festival’s focus After a superb lunch in Ellenborough Park, on musical Paris. Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm enjoy hearing from conductor Edward Gardner, £30 £24 £18 M37 in conversation with Meurig Bowen, including, no doubt, about his musical upbringing as a Gloucester Cathedral Chorister. Ravel Piano Trio in A minor 27’ “Blissfully intuitive Debussy String Quartet in G minor 25’ and empathetic mix of Franck Piano Quintet in F minor 39’ Supported by Michael and Felicia Crystal Official Hotel of the Pittville Pump Room Series styles... Magnificent” fRoots

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“She has the ability to steal NINE DAIES WONDER IS SINGING GOOD a musical heart” FOR YOU? Daily Telegraph on Ksenija Sidorova Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments Drawing Room, Town Hall 2-3.30pm £5 MT09 Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm The same team that ‘wired up’ Melvyn Tan during £24 £18 £12 M41 his 2012 Cheltenham recital are extending their experiments this year with both audience and In 1600 Will Kemp, one of the leading actors in performers in Gloucester Cathedral on Tuesday Shakespeare’s company, danced his way from 7 July (M28). This session is your chance to London to Norwich in nine days, entertaining hear about their findings, and to ask: what can an adoring public en route. With dancer Steven we learn about singing’s effect on health and Player, the Society of Strange and Ancient wellbeing through things like saliva samples and Instruments celebrates Kemp’s account of the electrocardiogram data? journey with raucous dance tunes and more Richard Morrison of The Times chairs the session, refined music of the Elizabethan age – all Created for the Riga Festival in Latvia last year, this which features Eric Whitacre alongside Aaron performed on period instruments that you won’t very special Tango project brings together two Williamon and Daisy Fancourt from the Royal see in the Pump Room too often! trios of dancers and musicians, and the talents of College of Music’s Centre for Performance. Rambert dancer/choreographer Kirill Burlov and Supported by The Alan Cadbury Trust the stunning accordionist Ksenija Sidorova. The musical sequence alone is ravishing, including JAMES MAYHEW PAINTS classic Argentinian tangos by Carlos Gardel, MUSSORGSKY’S PICTURES FAMILY DAY TANGO STORIES Enrique Mario Francini and Mariano Mores, nuevo tango by Piazzolla, and some surprises from the Flowers Band Garden Bar, Imperial Gardens Ksenija Sidorova accordion Latvian tango scene too. James Mayhew narrator and illustrator 12noon-6pm Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Burlov’s tango-infused choreography adds a whole FREE, no ticket required MF04 Aizhana Nurkenova piano extra layer of sultry narrative: two women and a Town Hall 11am-12.15pm man in a tangle of love, desire and jealousy. Dejota¯ji Ieva Ra¯cene, Evelı¯na £12 (£6 children) Ideal for ages 5+ MF03 See pages 8-9 for more information. Godunova, Kirill Burlov dancers FAMILY Supported by The Chairman’s Friends EVENT Programme to include FAMILY Cheltenham Ladies’ College Princess Hall Holst ‘Mars’ from The Planets 5’ EVENT 9.30-10.45pm Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition 30’ £24 (premium tables with sharing platters also available) £18 £12 M40 See pages 8-9 for more information.

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FAMILY The 9-piece Fitkin Band treads the blurred line EVENT MAESTRO’S Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture 10’ FITKIN BAND between classical and jazz in exuberant fashion. Combining piano, percussion, guitars, electric harps MUSIC SCHOOL Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 26’ and brass section, this composer-led ensemble is Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 ‘Scottish’ 40’ Fitkin Band characterised by infectious rhythms and a toe- Nicholas Baragwanath maestro plus special guest singers tapping-groove kind of minimalism. The perfect ‘The finest period orchestra in the world’ setting, then, for Fitkin’s latest work – a 1970s disco- (Classic FM) join forces with ‘one of the most Pillar Room, Town Hall 2-3pm Cheltenham Ladies’ College Princess Hall inspired piece that welcomes three guest vocalists richly talented and expressive of violinists’ (The £5 Ideal for ages 7+ MF05 8.30-10pm (think soul diva and Bee Gees style countertenors). Guardian) under the baton of featured artist £20 (premium tables with sharing platters also available) AN ALL-MENDELSSOHN Edward Gardner for a don’t-miss Town Hall finale. See pages 8-9 for more information. £15 £10 M44 “I want to create a liberated work, with FINALE Indulge in this all-Mendelssohn programme a hint of warmth, funk and embracing featuring some of his best-loved works: evocative Works by Graham Fitkin, including a attitude… with a mirror ball” of Ancient Music sonic landscapes, luscious melodies and masterful substantial new work, ‘Disco’ (premiere) CRAFT SECRETS OF contrasts amidst fiery drama and soothing calm. Graham Fitkin CATHEDRAL CHOIR Alina Ibragimova violin THE 18TH-CENTURY Edward Gardner conductor Supported by MUSICIAN Jonathan Hope organ Adrian Partington conductor Town Hall 6-8pm £35 £30 £18 £12 M43 Pillar Room, Town Hall 3.30-5pm £5 MT10 Gloucester Cathedral 3-4.15pm £12 M42 Nicholas Baragwanath and Annika Forkert from the University of Nottingham explore the Britten Festival Te Deum 5’ 18th-century musical techniques that would Howells Magnificat and Nunc dimittis : have been taught to the likes of Haydn, Bellini Collegium Regale 9’ and Farinelli. In this interactive workshop Britten Rejoice in the Lamb 16’ learn some tricks of the trade, some secrets of Howells Paean 7’ the schoolroom, and some surprising hidden Jackson Impromptu, Op. 5 5’ meanings to famous melodies. Tippett Spirituals from A Child of Our Time 13’ Finzi Lo, the full, final sacrifice 14’

Some extraordinary British choral masterpieces were created during World War Two. Gloucester Cathedral Choir’s programme focuses entirely on music from the period 1939-46: from Tippett’s oratorio to Howells’ ‘Coll Graham Fitkin’s new work is commissioned by Cheltenham Music Festival, Swansea Festival and Glasgow Reg’ evening canticles, alongside Britten and Finzi’s Music, and was made possible with funding through Beyond Borders from PRS for Music Foundation, remarkable, extended motets. Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Wales.

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Exhibitions can be viewed before and after events All walks begin at 3pm and last a little over an in the relevant venue. hour. Walks are taken at a gentle pace, but please come prepared for inclement weather and with ELIZABETH JACOBS appropriate footwear. All walks are free, but a ticket is required and places are strictly limited. Apse, Pittville Pump Room For information about each walk, visit Long-standing behind-the-scenes photographer cheltenhamfestivals.com/festival-plus of the Festival, Elizabeth Jacobs displays her pick Walks are presented by of musicians in rehearsal during the 2014 Festival. Cheltenham Civic Society FROZEN MOTION LANSDOWN: ITS ARCHITECTURE AND Pillar Room, CHARACTERS Photographer Jim Markland extends his permanent Town Hall exhibition to include a Wednesday 1 July, digital display of recent tango, ballet and site- departing Christ Church MW01 specific dance photography – including some surprising settings and striking poses. Jim will also PLEASURE PALACES OF be running a day-long photography workshop, FRESH AIR 2015 CHELTENHAM where participants will have the opportunity to work with professional dancers, on Saturday 11 Sunday 14 June - Sunday 5 July Saturday 4 July, July in Cheltenham Ladies’ College. Go online for Quenington Old Rectory, Cirencester, GL7 5BN departing Town Hall Steps MW02 further details. Gardens are open 10am-5pm daily £4, U17 FREE, refreshments available CHELTENHAM? SPA!

The 12th edition of this biennale sculpture Wednesday 8 July, exhibition in its spectacular outdoor setting. departing Queen’s Hotel MW03 Exhibits from a wide range of international artists and fresh new talent, created in an GREEN FIELD SIGHTS - ONCE array of materials, are available to purchase for as little as £50. A very special garden visit. Saturday 11 July 2015, www.freshairsculpture.com departing Town Hall steps MW04

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FRICTION: SING WE AT PLEASURE! THE BEAUTIFUL MAID OPERA OUTDOORS THE MINIATURE MUSEUM OF THE MILL GLOUCESTERSHIRE YOUTH OF MUSEUMS Saturday 4 July, 7.30pm OPERA PROJECT St Peter’s Church, GL53 0QJ Saturday 11 July, 4pm 12th June – 1st September 2015 £10 (U16 free) Bethesda Church, GL50 2AP Sunday 12 July, 4pm Ellenborough Park Holst Birthplace Museum Tickets on the door or from TIC Free admission. Donations invited to Cheltenham Ladies’ College Garden MindSong and Musical Brain Normal Admission fee to Museum applies Musica Vera FREE entry with retiring collection Southam Road Cheltenham Refreshments available ‘The Friction Project: a Miniature Museum (David Dewar conductor) Handel Acis & Galatea Gloucestershire GL52 3NJ UK of Museums’ is produced by Flow Major Pipework John Cox tenor Contemporary Arts. The project presents (Terry Hobbs conductor) Leon Coates piano GYOP is a new initiative to enable a unique interactive artwork created by teenagers to experience the joys of www.ellenboroughpark.com Madrigals and folk songs of the British Franz Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin Tara Downs and Bart Sabel, in the form of baroque opera both as singers and Isles from local chamber choir and early Piano music by Mozart and Haydn instrumentalists, directed by Warwick an interactive Edwardian desk. music consort. www.holstmuseum.org.uk Cole and Edward Derbyshire. Bring your THE BARD IN BREDON picnics and seating and revel in ‘the MR JAMES’ GARDEN AT SUDELEY CASTLE pleasures of the plains’! Saturday 11 July, 7.30pm Bredon Village Hall, GL20 7QN LILLIPUT CONCERTS £14 (£7 students, U15 free) MUSIC FOR TINY PEOPLE HORNS CALLING... Tickets on the door or from 01684 772272

Christ Church Cheltenham, GL50 2JH Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra Monday 13 July, 10.30am Suggested donation of £5 on the door Rhiannon Symonds trombone* St Andrew’s Church, GL50 1SP David Curtis conductor £5-£10 Tickets available from June 16 at Wednesday 1 July 2pm MR JAMES’ GARDEN http://buytickets.at/lilliputconcerts The Early Horn AT SUDELEY CASTLE Finzi Love’s Labour’s Lost Suite Ideal for ages 0-3, but older siblings From the woods to the concert platform Walton Two pieces from Henry V welcome Thursday 9 - Saturday 11 July, 8pm daily Mendelssohn Music from Friday 3 July 2pm Topaz Flute & Harp Duo The Romantic Horn Inspired by the gardens of Las Pozas in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Horn Quartet Men With Horns Mexico, created by the legendary British Ole Olsen Trombone Concerto in F* Lilliput Concerts are classical concerts Wednesday 8 July 2pm philanthropist and surrealist Edward for adults and babies/toddlers to The Twentieth Century and James, pianist Ann Martin-Davis, mezzo- enjoy together: 40 minutes of top Beyond soprano Susan Legg and harpist Angel quality music followed by equally high Presented by Laura Morris Padilla perform contemporary classical quality refreshments in a relaxed and works with stunning accompanying comfortable environment. Find us on: Mexican artworks.

42 43 EDUCATION Box Office 0844 880 8094 cheltenhamfestivals.com/music COMPOSER ACADEMY

TEN PIECES AND US 3RD CHELTENHAM TAKE READ ALL To find out more and to take part in any of these opportunities, go to cheltenhamfestivals.com/take-part COMPOSER ACADEMY PART Cheltenham Music Festival is proud to be ABOUT IT supporting this exciting BBC-led initiative. GOING FOR Thursday 2 - Tuesday 7 July INVITE THE FESTIVAL BRING YOUR PUPILS YEAR-ROUND We are a Ten Pieces Champion, and every A SONG Emulsion Quartet INTO YOUR SCHOOL TO THE FESTIVAL OPPORTUNITIES element of this year’s Education programme Genesis Sixteen MUSIC WORKSHOPS IN SCHOOLS CONCERT FOR SCHOOLS AND GAMELAN WORKSHOPS will feature some of the superb compositions We are delighted to be collaborating with Peter Wiegold director ENGAGING, INSPIRING, INTERACTIVE MUSIC EXPLORERS (KS2) FOR SCHOOLS that make up the Ten Pieces repertoire. young composer The Music Festival’s education programme The third edition of Cheltenham and musical director June 2015, from £25/workshop, most suitable for KS2 Friday 3 July, Cheltenham Town Hall Year-round, Pittville Pump Room, aims to inspire the performers, composers, Composer Academy will invite Michael Betteridge on Concert: 10.30-11.30am prices from £75/workshop producers and audiences of the future. 12 successful applicants to Dominic Harlan a community music Music Explorers: 11.45am & 12.45pm We have a proven track record of opening have their work developed and Pianist, presenter and music educator Dominic Gamelan project in Only £1 per pupil up the world of classical music through a publicly performed by one of the Harlan will lead vocal music workshops in which An ensemble of tuned bronze percussion in Cheltenham. Working range of creative media, and this reflects the lead ensembles over the course children write lyrics, compose melodies and Flowers Band instruments from Indonesia, and a versatile tool with two local groups, ambitions of Ten Pieces. of the week. perform music from a range of genres. Carducci String Quartet for music education at all levels. The simplicity Michael will encourage Find out more at James Mayhew James Mayhew narrator and illustrator of the playing technique makes the instruments and empower them to Up to 15 further ‘observer composers’ will be invited to attend from instantly accessible to children and adults, cheltenhamfestivals.com/take-part explore music, discover shortlisted applicants, having a chance to participate in a workshop of some Explore the power, beauty and emotion in a piece Experience exhilarating whatever their level of musical ability. So why not their voice, reflect of their sketches, and attend the full timetable of premiere performances of music, and give your pupils the opportunity to contrasts in style and genre, bring your pupils to a workshop to explore new on their experiences, and professional development sessions. New in 2015 will be the addition develop their listening, music appreciation, and and watch artist James sounds, make music, and have fun at the same and compose songs of ring-fenced places as observer composers and a tailored workshop for illustration skills. Mayhew paint the stories time? inspired by and composers aged 16, 17, and 18 who are members of the South West Music behind the music. After responding to specific School programme. the Concert pupils can get “This was a fantastic experience for our sites that are important their hands on a range of Join the Academy for two public showcases of the work created, the first pupils, not only in the use of this musical EDUCATION PARTNERS to them. orchestral instruments, with with Genesis Sixteen in the beautiful Cheltenham College Chapel (M21); the expert guidance provided equipment, but the way the session was You can follow the second with Trish Clowes’ Emulsion Quartet in Cheltenham Ladies’ College by specialists, and every taught; they were playing as a group & groups’ progress on Parabola Arts Centre (M24). teacher will be able to take able to produce music” our website, and then An open call for application will run in March and April. away a pack of information Teacher, The Milestone School see them perform the See cheltenhamfestivals.com/composer-academy for more details. about making and learning songs in Hesters Way music in Gloucestershire. And over-18s can join the Community Gamelan The George Cadbury Trust at the sites they have Players any time to play this beautiful music. The Grace Fry Charitable Trust chosen and as part Supported by funding from Make Music Gloucestershire, the county’s music education hub The Reed Foundation of the Music Festival The Steel Charitable Trust More information at Family Day on Saturday 70th Festival Appeal Donors 11 July (see pages 8-9). Supported by The Marychurch Fellowship and Beryl Calver-Jones and cheltenhamfestivals.com/gamelan Gerry Mattock

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