Dartington International Summer School and Festival 27 Jul – 24 Aug 2019 , Devon Contents Welcome

Welcome 1 The Summer School of Music was originally established at the suggestion of William Course Passes 2 Glock at Bryanston School in 1948. It quickly Accommodation and Catering 3 became a meeting ground for those hungry to explore a new musical landscape. The Summer Week 1 6 School moved to Dartington in 1953 and has flourished here as a cornerstone of the musical Week 2 14 Four weeks of shared calendar ever since. Week 3 22 music making, learning Throughout its 70-year history, the Summer It’s been my great pleasure to be the Artistic Week 4 30 and listening, from early School has been blessed with a faculty of music to classical to jazz. Director of Dartington International Summer the very best performers, teachers, creators Advanced Courses and Chamber Music 38 School and Festival for the last five years; I bid and innovators, who give generously of their Courses for all ages and farewell to you all with a four-week programme time, expertise and artistry. They inspire all Booking, Bursaries and Volunteering 39 abilities, accompanied by brimming with vitality, daring, and joy. Play who share a love of music: young musicians jazz; create new music; sing Handel or Britten in The Dartington Estate 40 over 100 public concerts, at the start of their careers, enthusiastic a choir; thrill to The Rite of Spring. Experience set against the backdrop amateurs, families, and professional musicians Concert Diary 42 everything from to samba, opera to and artists. Broad backgrounds and a shared of a medieval estate in film. Hear Alfred Brendel talking about music, passion define the Summer School community. Support Us 44 the heart of Devon. participate in ’s anarchic Musicircus, study with the great , or take Contact Us 45 folk sessions with Emily Portman. There are “For musicians, there is nothing poetry and mixed media courses, installations quite like Dartington Hall. The and lectures. Dartington Summer School hosts word ‘unique’ is overworked, but in over one hundred public concerts throughout August. Visit the gardens; immerse yourself in this case it probably does apply.” their calm beauty, in the ancient shimmer of FINANCIAL TIMES the buildings, from morning to late night. Some of the world’s most celebrated and generous musicians, writers and thinkers will be here, listening to one another in the Great Hall, experiencing Dartington with you.

I’m proud to have been part of the Summer School’s rich history. I invite you to share the four weeks with us, filled with music, warmth @DartingtonArts and creativity.

Joanna MacGregor www.dartington.org/summerschool Artistic Director

1 Course Passes Accommodation and Catering

Each week of Summer School features more A preliminary outline of the concert programme For participants taking up a Courses and Medieval Courtyard than 30 courses, encompassing a wide range can be found at the back of this brochure. Concerts Pass, we offer a selection of The setting of our 14th-century Medieval of styles, disciplines and abilities. Courses A dedicated concerts brochure with confirmed residential options, suited to a wide range of Courtyard makes for a unique accommodation run for 6 days (Sunday – Friday), most lasting listings will be published in the spring as budgets. Full Board Accommodation Packages experience. Rooms are styled to embrace modern for 1 session (90 mins) per day. There are 4 individual concert tickets are released for sale. are priced per week for one person. A second fashions as well as the heritage of Dartington sessions in a day, allowing each participant to person sharing a deluxe, double or twin room Hall. Due to the age of the buildings, rooms vary build a timetable personalised to them. While need only book a Catering Package. in size and bathroom facilities, though most Courses and Concerts Pass - £460 some courses are taught aurally and open to bedrooms are en suite. A Private bathroom Check-in is from 3pm on the first Saturday all, the majority of classes require a minimum is used by one room only and is a separate Allows the holder to participate in up to four courses of your week, with check-out by 10am standard of Grade 5 to participate. There is no and to attend all concerts during their chosen week. locked area located next to or opposite the the following Saturday. An overview of our selection process or audition when booking, Courses are selected when making a booking; concerts bedroom. A Shared bathroom follows the do not need to be booked. This pass can be booked on accommodation is included here; for pictures other than for the Advanced Courses, which same arrangement but is shared with one its own or paired with an accommodation package. and further descriptions please see the require the submission of supporting materials. Book online or call the Summer School office. other bedroom. Location: Central Summer School website. The course programme of each week is led by a Our Catering Package includes all meals Higher Close feature Big Choir work – performed in the final Individual Course Pass - £120 from Saturday dinner through to breakfast Our Higher Close accommodation comprises Friday night concert – alongside choral classes, the following Saturday. The daily menu three blocks, which were the halls of residence instrumental and vocal workshops, ensemble From 29 May a selection of remaining course spaces comprises cooked and continental breakfast, for the former Dartington College of Arts. The projects, and our Chamber Music programme. will be released to book on an individual basis. An Individual Course Pass allows the holder to follow one a light lunch, and a three course evening single bedrooms in Higher Close are furnished This brochure will offer you an overview of the course for all 6 sessions in a week. No concerts are meal. All food is prepared using fresh, seasonal in a simple and functional style. Bathroom scheduled courses, along with their tutors, included. Call the Summer School office from 29 May and local ingredients. Vegetarian options are facilities are located on each floor and are themes and repertoire. For detailed information for latest availability. offered as standard and most specialist diets shared between 12 rooms. Location: Central on a particular course’s structure, suggested can be catered for. Catering Packages are also level and required music, please see our website Day Observer Pass - £10 available to campers and non-residents. Foxhole listings or call the Summer School office. Foxhole is the former home of Dartington’s Most participants attend the Summer School Visit the Summer School for a day to observe the experimental free school. The single rooms at various courses being taught. The majority of classes Full Board Accommodation Packages on a Courses and Concerts Pass. This pass will be open to observers and the Summer School Foxhole are basic but serviceable. Bathroom office will advise on any exceptions. No concerts are enables the holder to participate in up to four Courtyard Deluxe en Suite £1,515 facilities are located on each floor and are courses and attend all concerts during their included. Sold in person during the festival. shared between 10 rooms. A limited number chosen week of the festival. It is also possible Courtyard Double or Twin en Suite £1,340 of twin rooms are available; please contact the to book an Individual Course, a Day Observer Students and under 18s receive a 25% discount on all office for availability. Location: 15 minute walk Courtyard Single en Suite £1,193 Pass, and concert tickets separately. course passes, under 12s receive 50%. from main campus Courtyard Double Private £1,144 Campsite Courtyard Single Private £1,000 We offer pitches for tents and caravans on a Courtyard Single Shared £829 level field with power and water. Bathroom and kitchen facilities are available nearby. Catering Higher Close Single £563 not included. Location: 10 minute walk from main campus Foxhole Single £325

Catering Package £325

Campsite Pitch £35

2 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 3 Session 1: 9.15 - 10.45am Session 2: 11.15am - 12.45pm Session 3: 2.00 - 3.30pm Session 4: 3.30 - 5.00pm Session 1: 9.15 - 10.45am Session 2: 11.15am - 12.45pm Session 3: 2.00 - 3.30pm Session 4: 3.30 - 5.00pm

Week 1 Week 3

The Big Choir: Vocal Masterclass Vocal Ensembles The Big Choir Plus The Big Choir: Scenes from Annie Chamber Choir The Big Choir Plus A Venetian Vespers Saint Nicolas Get Your Gun & Calamity Jane Sing Tallis Improve your with Stile Antico Sight-Singing Vocal Masterclass Vocal Workshop

Vocal Workshop Vocal Workshop Advanced Opera Course: The Turn of the Screw

Chamber Ensemble Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Advanced Conducting Workshop Piano Workshop Piano Masterclass Piano Workshop Dartington Piano Advanced Renaissance Reeds, & , & Singers: Concerto Competition Wind Band Recorders, Brass & Strings Masterclasses Renaissance Polyphony String Orchestra & Cello Violin, Viola & Music for Two Pianos & Lute Ensembles Introduction to Early Workshop Masterclasses Cello Workshops & Piano Duet Keyboard Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Formal Chamber Music Consorts Brazilian Music and Song In The Heart of Rhythm Wind Masterclasses Wind Ensemble Wind Chamber Music Wind Workshop Samba Dance Creative Writing: Collages and Variations Creative Writing: Arabic Poetry and History

Advanced Composition: Remembering the Future Middle Eastern & Bach’s Week 4 Instrumental Music Art of Fugue The Big Choir: Gospel Choir Chamber Choir The Big Choir Plus Beethoven, Tippett Middle Eastern Singing Middle Eastern Music & Song & Alberga

Week 2 Vocal Workshop Vocal Masterclass Songs of the Jazz Age: The War and After The Big Choir: Vocal Masterclass Improve Your The Big Choir Plus Handel’s Saul Sight-Singing Advanced Opera Course: The Turn of the Screw (2nd week)

Folk Choir Chamber Choir Advanced Conducting (2nd week)

Vocal Workshop Vocal Workshop Advanced Composition

Advanced Opera Course: Agrippina Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Formal Chamber Music

Advanced Baroque Orchestra, including Instrumental Masterclasses Improvising to Film Site Specific Installations

Chamber Ensemble Piano, Violin & Chamber Music Chamber Music Piano Workshop Celebrating Tango: Piano Workshop Workshop Cello Workshops The Passion of Piazzolla

Introduction Harpsichord Workshop Piano Workshop: Baroque Introduction to Jazz Jazz Instrumental Open Jazz Ensembles Big Band to Fortepiano Dance & Chopin Mazurkas Workshops: Piano, Saxophone, Double Bass Recorder Workshop Recorder Ensemble & Drums

Music from Playing for Dancing Folk Collective Brass Warm-Up Session Workshop Brass Ensemble Jive Dance Northumberland and the Borders Open Composition Trombone & Violin, Viola Low Brass Workshop & Cello Workshops Creative Writing: Poetry of Place Creative Conversations Creative Reading

Participants may build their own timetable, choosing up to four courses per week (one from each session), leaving free time as desired. Courses that run across multiple sessions must be followed for their full duration.

4 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 5 Choral and Vocal Courses The Big Choir: A Venetian Vespers ANDREW GRIFFITHS SESSION 1 Week 1 Vocal Masterclass EMMA KIRKBY SESSION 2 Sing Tallis with Stile Antico WILL DAWES AND STILE ANTICO SESSION 2 Vocal Ensembles STILE ANTICO SESSION 3 Improve Your Sight-Singing RHIANNON EVANS SESSION 3 27 July–3 August Middle Eastern Singing MERIT ARIANE SESSION 3 Vocal Workshop NICHOLAS CLAPTON SESSION 3 OR 4 The Big Choir Plus GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 4 Venice and the sea; Bach’s Art of Fugue; Terry Riley Instrumental Courses and Moondog Advanced Renaissance Wind Band THE CITY MUSICK SESSION 1 Chamber Ensemble Workshop RHIANNON EVANS SESSION 1 Wind Masterclasses ATÉA QUINTET SESSION 1 Lute and Lute Ensembles DAVID MILLER SESSIONS 1 & 2 Viol Consorts FRETWORK SESSIONS 1, 2 & 3 Renaissance Reeds, Recorders, Brass & Strings WILLIAM LYONS, NICHOLAS SESSION 2 PERRY AND RICHARD THOMAS Middle Eastern Instrumental Music JON BANKS SESSION 3 Cornett Masterclass GAWAIN GLENTON SESSION 3 Sackbut Masterclass EMILY WHITE SESSION 3 Introduction to Early Keyboard Music JANE CHAPMAN SESSION 3 Harpsichord Workshop JANE CHAPMAN SESSION 4 Moondog and Bach’s Art of Fugue JOANNA MACGREGOR SESSION 4 Wind Ensemble QUENTIN POOLE SESSION 3 Wind Chamber Music QUENTIN POOLE AND ATÉA QUINTET SESSION 3 Wind Workshop ATÉA QUINTET SESSION 4 Middle Eastern Music and Song MERIT ARIANE AND JON BANKS SESSION 4 Cornetts, Sackbuts and Singers: GAWAIN GLENTON AND EMILY WHITE SESSION 4 Renaissance Polyphony Chamber Music RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE WILLIAMS SESSIONS 2, 3 & 4 Our first week is inspired by Venice, and the wildness of the sea.Andrew Griffiths AND ENSEMBLE MERIDIANA conducts a glittering Venetian Vespers for Dartington Choir; Stile Antico direct vocal Terry Riley’s In C RICHARD BOOTHBY 30 & 31 JULY, music written for female monarchs and the Queen of Heaven. Alice Oswald presents 6.30–7.30PM Nobody, her long poem inspired by the Odyssey, with William Tillyer’s swirling, abstract paintings. Improvisation, Words and Composition There are classes for viol players, lutenists, harpsichordists, reeds and recorders, and early brass, with Fretwork, David Miller, Jane Chapman, The City Musick and Ensemble Advanced Composition: Remembering the Future STEVIE WISHART SESSIONS 1 & 2 Meridiana. The Atéa Quintet, Quentin Poole and Rhiannon Evans direct a full wind and Creative Writing: Collages and Variations CAROLINE BERGVALL SESSIONS 1 & 2 chamber music programme. Creative Writing: Arabic Poetry and History TAMIM AL-BARGHOUTI SESSIONS 3 & 4 Middle Eastern music and song is directed by Merit Ariane and Jon Banks; the brilliant Tamim al-Barghouti returns, along with award-winning performance poet Caroline Bergvall. Stevie Wishart establishes her new Advanced Composition course for early More Than Music instruments, and Joanna MacGregor brings Bach’s last work, The Art of Fugue, together Yoga JUSTIN DALTON 7.45–8.30AM with choreographer Wayne McGregor, and two cult figures of the 1960s - Moondog and Talk: Bach Forms WAYNE MCGREGOR 30 AUG 5.15PM his amazing canons, and Terry Riley’s In C. Nobody: a new Odyssey ALICE OSWALD, WILLIAM TILLYER 31 AUG 7.45PM AND JOANNA MACGREGOR

6 Stile Antico Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 7 Choral and Vocal Courses Improve Your Sight-Singing Instrumental Courses A Mass fit for a Queen: Sing Tallis with Stile Antico RHIANNON EVANS Do you struggle with the demanding The Big Choir: A Venetian Vespers WILL DAWES AND STILE ANTICO Advanced Renaissance Wind Band multi-tasking activity that is sight-singing? ANDREW GRIFFITHS THE CITY MUSICK A chamber choir course exploring Is recognising rhythms, pitching intervals The Feast of the Ascension (Fèsta de ła Sènsa) Renaissance gems, aimed at both confident and reading the text all at once a daunting William Lyons and the ever-popular City Musick was, and remains, a major public celebration of and less confident singers, we will work on challenge? This course is open to all, especially members return for their ensemble course. Venice’s glory. It culminates in the renewal of lots of material, without the pressure of singers who are not fluent readers, and anyone This year we will focus on music for cornetts, the ritual marriage between the city and the sea, a performance, and the singers from Stile wishing to brush up on their sight-singing skills. , dulcians and trombones from the as a symbolic gold ring is thrown into the lagoon. Antico will join in with the participants. varied and exciting repertoire of the civic and SESSION 3 Andrew Griffiths has assembled a mouthwatering Directed by bass Will Dawes (Director of court bands in Renaissance . We’ll also ‘fantasy’ Vespers for Dartington, bringing together Chapel Music, Somerville College Oxford), be preparing music for Friday’s Venetian Feast music from Monteverdi’s later publications our main focus is the extraordinary Missa of the Ascension, as well as the legendary with sumptuous - including Giovanni Puer natus est nobis by , Middle Eastern Singing Medieval Tavern Night. Tutors will be available, Gabrieli and Giovanni Croce - reflecting both a work composed to celebrate the then- MERIT ARIANE by informal arrangement, to give additional the religious and political pomp of this lavish thought pregnancy of Mary Tudor. To coaching sessions on a one-to-one or ensemble A wonderful opportunity to explore vocal festival. We are creating a booklet of these represent her husband, Philip II of , basis: useful for addressing technical issues repertoire with the celebrated singer and works for the course; please see the Music we’ll be looking at wonderful Marian and exploring repertoire. This is an Advanced composer Merit Ariane. We’ll be looking at Supplies page on the website for information. by the Spanish composers Selected course; please see the website for music from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Victoria, Guerrero, and Alonso Lobo. application details. SESSION 1 Andalusia, and understanding the myriad Scores will be available to buy at the interconnections between the Middle East SESSION 1 beginning of the course for £10. and Mediterranean. You’ll learn to express SESSION 2 yourself through colour and ornamentation, reaching the ecstatic core of the music. Chamber Ensemble Workshop Suitable for classically trained singers, as RHIANNON EVANS Vocal Ensembles: Music for well as those interested in world music. Start the day with a fun-filled ensemble play- Queens of Earth and Heaven SESSION 3 through of Venetian Renaissance and Baroque STILE ANTICO repertoire. We’ll be exploring the 16th-century Emma Kirkby A wonderful chance to study Renaissance Vocal Workshop polychoral style, and its influence on other repertoire written in honour of female continental composers of the time. All strings monarchs around Europe, as well as the NICHOLAS CLAPTON and non-transposing wind instruments are vast treasury of music written in praise welcome; the pitch will be A440. Vocal Masterclass The irrepressibly witty and wise teacher and of the Virgin Mary. Aimed at experienced countertenor Nicholas Clapton encourages his SESSION 1 EMMA KIRKBY choral and consort singers, participants participants to perform a wide repertoire, working will be divided into small groups, with “I feel lucky that my career was characterised both technically and interpretatively. Singers the aim of most people singing on their from the start by ensemble singing, especially can choose between two sessions. own line. Tutors will work on developing with my first love, the lute; so we’ll have ensemble skills as well as exploring new SESSION 3 OR 4 a joint session with David Miller’s class repertoire. Less experienced singers, or of accomplished lute and players those looking to build confidence in sight- early on. This year, as well as our favourite reading, might prefer to attend the Tallis area, the lute songs of and his The Big Choir Plus course directed by Will Dawes and Stile colleagues, there will be special emphasis on GAVIN ROBERTS Antico. Scores will be available to buy at Italy’s ‘Secunda prattica’, which offered singers the beginning of the course for £10. Additional coaching and rehearsal for The Big such opportunities for passionate utterance, Choir repertoire this week, with our wonderful in the monodies,duets and ensembles of SESSION 3 choir repetiteur Gavin Roberts. For those less Caccini,`D’India, Barbara Strozzi and others”. familiar with the repertoire, a really useful This is an Advanced Selected course; please Stile Antico’s time at Dartington is generously session to revisit the morning’s work. see the website for application details. supported by an anonymous donor. SESSION 4 SESSION 2

8 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 9 Lute and Lute Ensembles led by qanun and santouri player Jon Banks. Harpsichord Workshop Terry Riley’s In C Intermediate instrumentalists from all DAVID MILLER JANE CHAPMAN RICHARD BOOTHBY backgrounds are welcome; reading music David Miller’s course provides a unique is essential for melody players, but less so A class concentrating on style, touch and Suitable for advanced players, a chance to opportunity for advanced and experienced for percussionists. Ranging from high-energy technique, where students explore the colourful work on Terry Riley’s minimalist masterpiece players of early plucked instruments to develop dances and courtly repertory to extended harpsichord music of the Renaissance and In C on early instruments, in two informal their accompanying and continuo skills, whilst meditative compositions in complex early Baroque. Please see the Music Supplies sessions. There’ll be an opportunity to perform recreating the lush and sumptuous qualities rhythmic cycles, there’ll be plenty of scope page on our website for suggested repertoire. in Thursday’s late-night concert, paired with of a large 17th-century continuo group, with to improvise. We’ll include music of the Sufi Moondog’s jazzy canons. SESSION 4 , archlutes, chitarroni and guitars. There’ll tradition, alongside Eastern Mediterranean 30 & 31 JULY, 6.30-7.30PM be opportunities to collaborate with singers forms such as the sirto and longa. from Emma Kirkby’s class, as well as perform SESSION 3 in concerts towards the end of the week. Moondog and Bach’s Art of Fugue JOANNA MACGREGOR Wind Masterclasses SESSIONS 1 & 2 ATÉA QUINTET Cornett Masterclass Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor leads a fascinating workshop, open to all instrumentalists, Alena Walentin (flute), Philip Haworth (oboe), GAWAIN GLENTON Viol Consorts pairing Bach’s mysterious last work The Art of Anna Hashimoto (clarinet) and Ashley Myall An extra session for advanced cornett players. Fugue with Moondog’s amazing canons. The (bassoon) offer masterclasses for advanced FRETWORK Students are encouraged to bring solo or blind composer and performer (a.k.a. Louis wind players. Improve your technique, hone Members of the groundbreaking viol consort ensemble pieces. We’ll look at Cantar polito e Hardin) was a cult figure in the 1960s, living on your performance skills, and discover new Fretwork supervise and lead tuition at all levels. bene - what it meant to perform ‘cleanly and a street corner in New York. His strict canons repertoire! This course is aimed at players Their repertoire will include English, French, Italian well’ in Monteverdi’s time - as well as ensemble mesh jazz, Renaissance motets, Bach and Native of Grade 8 level and above. and German music of the 16th and 17th centuries. diminution, the art of improvising. American rhythms, and his ebullient pieces – SESSION 1 Bumbo, Dog Trot, Bird’s Lament, Heath on the SESSIONS 1, 2 & 3 SESSION 3 Heather – were much admired by Stravinsky, Bob Dylan and Charlie Parker. Each day we’ll look at Wind Ensemble Renaissance Reeds, Recorders, Sackbut Masterclass The Art of Fugue, play through some Moondog, Brass and Strings and discover how canonic writing works. We’ll QUENTIN POOLE EMILY WHITE aim to perform a couple of pieces in Thursday’s A great opportunity to enjoy and improve WILLIAM LYONS, NICHOLAS PERRY late night concert. An extra session for advanced sackbut players. ensemble playing, with excellent varied AND RICHARD THOMAS We’ll concentrate on playing vocally, as well as SESSION 4 repertoire tailored to the participants. Grade Group and individual tuition with members quietly; ornamentation and intonation. Students 6 standard or above is ideal; there’ll be an of The City Musick, on shawms, crumhorns, are encouraged to bring solo or ensemble pieces. informal performance on Friday afternoon. dulcian, rackett, recorders, early violin, SESSION 3 SESSION 1 cornetts, sackbuts, and renaissance percussion. We’ll be covering a broad repertoire of dance, theatre, court and civic music from Introduction to Early Wind Chamber Music the 15th to 17th centuries. Tutors will be Keyboard Music available, by informal arrangement, to give QUENTIN POOLE AND ATÉA QUINTET additional coaching sessions on a one-to- JANE CHAPMAN Open to all modern wind players and pianists one or ensemble basis: useful for addressing Jane Chapman studied with Ton Koopman in for daily coaching in organised ensembles; technical issues and exploring repertoire. Amsterdam, and is now professor at the Royal repertoire will be suggested in advance. Pre- SESSION 2 College of Music; she’s one of the most innovative, formed groups are also welcome. This course stylish and imaginative harpsichordists around. will be organised as a formal chamber music Aimed at both pianists and harpsichordists, this session; please see page 38 for relevant details. course will examine Bach’s music and the rich Middle Eastern Instrumental Music SESSION 3 early keyboard collections of England, France and JON BANKS Italy. Please see the Music Supplies page on our Exploring instrumental music from Egypt, website for suggested repertoire. Syria and Turkey, this is an introduction SESSION 3 to one of the most varied musical traditions

10 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 11 Middle Eastern Music and Song an advantage; instrumentalists may be asked Improvisation, Words Creative Writing: to play in a range of clefs. The course will JON BANKS AND MERIT ARIANE Arabic Poetry and History culminate in a private informal play-through and Composition TAMIM AL-BARGHOUTI Merit and Jon will teach you to sing and play a during the final class. wide range of repertoire from Egypt, Lebanon, The charismatic Palestinian poet and activist SESSION 4 Advanced Composition: Syria, Iraq and ancient Andalusia. You’ll learn Remembering the Future Tamim al-Barghouti returns to Dartington. He’s about performance conventions and styles, a dazzling performer and thinker, capable of and gain an insight into modes, rhythms, Wind Workshop STEVIE WISHART attracting hundreds of thousands of people to ornamentation and improvisation. We’ll also his poetry readings. His creative writing course An Advanced Composition course for composers explore the connections between Middle Eastern ATÉA QUINTET draws on centuries-old traditions of Arabic inspired to write new music for early instruments. and Western music, and apply these ideas to poetry, inextricably entwined with the politics The dynamic Atéa Quintet offer an Stevie Wishart guides sessions between composers, the more-familiar early European repertoire. and history of the Middle East. Tamim also ensemble wind session, suitable for players tutors and performers throughout the week, collaborates with musicians this week. SESSION 4 of all abilities. Working on technique and examining a broad palate of sounds – including ensemble skills, the course will be flexible to the theorbo, viola da gamba, viola d’amore, SESSIONS 3 & 4 suit the needs of the group and also involve hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord, sackbut and cornett Cornetts, Sackbuts and Singers: areas such as rhythm and intonation. – and their notation. From the Middle Ages to Renaissance Polyphony the Baroque, performers and composers were SESSION 4 expected to collaborate far more actively in the More Than Music GAWAIN GLENTON AND EMILY WHITE compositional process, through performance ‘Among the marvellous things I saw and observed Chamber Music practice and improvisation. We’ll aim to perform in the city of Bologna, nothing gave me greater some of the created music at the end of the Yoga pleasure than the divine musical ensembles of RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE WILLIAMS week, in the Masterclass Concert. This is an JUSTIN DALTON diverse nuns’ Giacomo Vincenti (1606) AND ENSEMBLE MERIDIANA Advanced Selected course; please see the website for application details. This course, based on the gentle, fluid Scaravelli A course for singers and instrumentalists - The chamber music programme, open to approach to yoga, is suitable for participants of sackbuts, cornetts, strings, Renaissance and instrumentalists and singers, will offer one daily SESSIONS 1 & 2 all ages and abilities. Yoga is practised by many early Baroque wind instruments - using the formally-organised session. You will be allocated musicians; it’s a great way to loosen up the historic doubling of voices with instruments. a group in advance in one of the sessions you body before the day’s music making. We’ll be looking at the Vespers by one of the have signed up to: which session is dependent Creative Writing: most famous women in Europe, the Venetian on how we can best accommodate you with Collages and Variations 7.45-8.30AM composer Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, and at other players. Chamber music can also be CAROLINE BERGVALL music dedicated to nuns in 17th-century Italy. arranged informally during other sessions once Vocal range is SATB - men are very welcome! you arrive. See page 38 for more details. The award-winning French-Norwegian writer Talk: Bach Forms Caroline Bergvall is also a multimedia artist Singers of all voice ranges are suitable, but SESSIONS 2, 3 & 4 WAYNE MCGREGOR AND JOANNA MACGREGOR and vocal performer, working across artforms the confidence to sing one to a part may be and languages. Her work develops through choreographer Wayne McGregor exploring material traces, literary documents demonstrates how Bach’s elliptical The Art of and linguistic detail, sites and histories, Fugue inspired his recent ballet Bach Forms. hidden or forgotten knowledges. Her larger Caroline Bergvall 30 AUGUST 5.15PM performances are developed with other artists. For this course she proposes to explore old and new forms of textual variations (collage, permutation, alliterations, patterns,..) to Performance: Nobody create pieces based on change and movement. ALICE OSWALD, WILLIAM TILLYER Caroline will be collaborating with musicians in AND JOANNA MACGREGOR performance this week. The award-winning poet presents her long SESSIONS 1 & 2 poem Nobody - based on Homer’s Odyssey - in collaboration with William Tillyer’s magnificent abstract paintings. With music by Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor. 31 AUGUST 7.45PM

12 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 13 Choral and Vocal Courses The Big Choir: Handel’s Saul LAURENCE CUMMINGS SESSION 1 Advanced Opera Course: Agrippina ROBERT HOWARTH, RICHARD WILLIAMS, SESSIONS 1. 2, Week 2 LISA HOWARTH, HILARY SUMMERS AND 3 & 4 ANDREW WATTS Vocal Masterclass HILARY SUMMERS SESSION 2 Improve Your Sight-Singing RHIANNON EVANS SESSION 3 3–10 August Vocal Workshop ANDREW WATTS SESSION 3 OR 4 Chamber Choir LAURENCE CUMMINGS SESSION 3 Music and Politics; Baroque, The Big Choir Plus GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 4 Folk, and Creative Writing Instrumental Courses Advanced Baroque Orchestra ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD, ROBERT HOWARTH, SESSIONS 1, 2, RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE AND ANDY WATTS 3 & 4 Chamber Ensemble Workshop RHIANNON EVANS SESSION 1 Introduction to Fortepiano STEVEN DEVINE SESSION 2 Recorder Workshop JILL KEMP SESSION 2 Piano, Violin and Cello Workshops BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO SESSION 2 Recorder Ensembles JILL KEMP SESSION 3 Baroque Violin Masterclass ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD SESSION 3 Baroque Cello Masterclass RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE SESSION 3 Baroque Bassoon Masterclass ANDY WATTS SESSION 3 Baroque Oboe Masterclass SESSION 3 Natural Trumpet RICHARD THOMAS SESSION 3 Harpsichord Workshop STEVEN DEVINE SESSION 3 Piano Workshop: Baroque Dance JOANNA MACGREGOR SESSION 4 and Chopin Mazurkas Chamber Music RHIANNON EVANS, BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO SESSIONS 2, 3 & 4 AND CLAIRE WILLIAMS

Folk, Poetry and Literature Courses Music from Northumberland and the Borders ALISTAIR ANDERSON SESSION 1 Week 2 dazzles with music and politics, alongside folk music, Shakespeare and Ovid. Creative Writing: Poetry of Place KATRINA PORTEOUS SESSIONS 1 & 2 Laurence Cummings directs the Dartington Choir in Handel’s Saul, a wildly exciting Folk Choir HARBOTTLE & JONAS SESSION 2 oratorio with witches, mad kings, battles and huge choruses. Robert Howarth and Richard Playing for Dancing ALISTAIR ANDERSON SESSION 2 Williams direct Handel’s opera Agrippina, a show-stopping satire on Nero’s scheming Creative Conversations JAMES RUNCIE SESSION 3 court, with the original Tiger Mother. The gorgeous contralto Hilary Summers lends her Folk Collective EMILY PORTMAN, ALEXIS BENNETT, SESSIONS 3 & 4 warmth and wisdom to the vocal masterclass; stylish Andrew Watts directs vocal workshops. AND HARBOTTLE & JONAS There’ll be masterclasses and workshops with Richard Tunnicliffe, Andy Watts, Bukolika Creative Reading: Shakespeare’s Sonnets JAMES RUNCIE SESSION 4 Piano Trio and Jill Kemp; Steven Devine runs early keyboard classes, and Joanna MacGregor a piano workshop on Baroque dance and Chopin Mazurkas. More Than Music There’s a full week of folk courses led by renowned teacher Alistair Anderson, folk singer, Tai Chi Qigong JOE SALMON 8–8.30AM songwriter and concertina player Emily Portman, and fiddlerAlexis Bennett; Harbottle A Musical Argument JAMES RUNCIE 6 AUG 5.15PM & Jonas direct Dartington’s Folk Choir. James Runcie leads Creative Conversations, and examines the complete Shakespeare Sonnets; Katrina Porteous creates the poetry of place; we’ll read Ovid late night. All this and our traditional ceilidh, too!

14 Emily Portman Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 15 Choral and Vocal Courses will bring superb mentorship to this class. Chamber Choir Instrumental Courses This is an Advanced Selected course; please LAURENCE CUMMINGS see the website for application details. Laurence Cummings conducts richly textured The Big Choir: Handel’s Saul SESSION 2 Advanced Baroque Orchestra vocal music. His course includes Vaughan LAURENCE CUMMINGS ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD, ROBERT HOWARTH, Williams’ Serenade to Music, and two RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE AND ANDY WATTS Glyndebourne and ENO conductor Laurence Improve Your Sight-Singing Shakespeare settings of If Music be the Food Cummings returns to direct the Big Choir in of Love, by Purcell/Tippet and Paul Ayres. The Advanced Baroque Orchestra, led by Adrian Handel’s Saul, a wildly exciting oratorio with RHIANNON EVANS The Chamber Choir is aimed at experienced Butterfield, one of Europe’s most celebrated witches, mad kings and huge choruses. Laurence singers, and there will be an informal concert masters, works towards two Handel Do you struggle with the demanding multi- is one of the most thrilling exponents of historical performance on Friday afternoon. performances: Agrippina conducted by Robert tasking activity that is sight-singing? Is practice; his music making has been described as Howarth, and Saul, conducted by Laurence recognising rhythms, pitching intervals SESSION 3 ‘both witty and compassionate.’ Don’t miss this Cummings. There are opportunities for strings, and reading the text all at once a daunting wonderful chance to explore Handel’s visercal, flutes/recorders, oboes, bassoons, , challenge? This course is open to all, especially powerful work with him. We’ll be using the trombones, , percussion and keyboard singers who are not fluent readers, and anyone Barenreiter edition. Laurence Cummings players, and daily tuition with our stellar array wishing to brush up on their sight-singing skills. of Baroque teachers. A very busy schedule, SESSION 1 SESSION 3 but thrilling! Students will require their own Baroque instruments. This is an Advanced Advanced Opera Course: Agrippina Selected course; please see the website for Vocal Workshop application details. ROBERT HOWARTH, RICHARD WILLIAMS, ANDREW WATTS SESSION 1, 2, 3 & 4 (SESSION 3 FOR LISA HOWARTH, HILARY SUMMERS AND MASTERCLASSES OR SECTIONALS) ANDREW WATTS The wonderful countertenor Andrew Watts – acclaimed performer, and voice teacher at the Robert Howarth and Richard Williams direct Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Handel’s opera Agrippina: a coruscating, show- Chamber Ensemble Workshop – will improve your vocal stopping satire on Nero’s scheming court, with technique and performance skills in a relaxed, RHIANNON EVANS the original Tiger Mother. There are virtuosic supportive and informative atmosphere. Singers arias, dramatic recitatives and ensemble work, Start the day with a fun-filled ensemble of all abilities can choose between two sessions. as well as humour and drama. Coached by playthrough. We’ll be exploring Handel’s Andrew Watts and Lisa Howarth, Agrippina SESSION 3 OR 4 ensemble repertoire, including some of his will be performed with the Dartington Baroque Concerti Grossi and movements from the Orchestra in the Great Hall. This is an Advanced Water Music and Music for the Royal Selected course; please see the website for Fireworks. All strings and non-transposing Andrew Watts application details. wind instruments welcome; pitch will be A440. SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 SESSION 1

Vocal Masterclass Introduction to Fortepiano HILARY SUMMERS STEVEN DEVINE We’re hugely privileged to welcome back The Big Choir Plus One of the busiest and most experienced the marvelous contralto Hilary Summers keyboard players and music directors around, to Dartington. Hilary is internationally GAVIN ROBERTS Steven Devine leads keyboard players in an acclaimed in the world of Baroque opera, exploration of the solo music of CPE Bach, Additional coaching and rehearsal for The Big working with such luminaries as William Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and others, and Choir repertoire this week, with our wonderful Christie, Christopher Hogwood and Deborah how the fortepiano enhances our understanding choir repetiteur Gavin Roberts. For those less Warner; she has also collaborated with major and interpretation of this great music. familiar with the repertoire, a really useful figures in contemporary music, including session to revisit the morning’s work. SESSION 2 and Michael Nyman. Above all, Hilary’s warmth, experience and personality SESSION 4

16 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 17 an open class for players with experience of Recorder Workshop Recorder Ensembles Jill Kemp the harpsichord covering the full range of solo JILL KEMP JILL KEMP repertoire for the instrument. Open to all recorder players, these classes An ensemble session for all recorder players. SESSION 3 cover breathing, coordination, extended Please bring any sizes of recorder you may techniques, ornamentation and any other have, for an energetic and lively class covering areas or repertoire that students would like to group repertoire from the last five centuries. Piano Workshop: Baroque Dance cover. This session will focus on solo repertoire, SESSION 3 and Chopin Mazurkas from the 16th to 21st centuries. Please bring a treble at A440 and solo repertoire you would JOANNA MACGREGOR like to work on. There will be a harpsichordist/ An open course led by Artistic Director pianist available to accompany the sessions. Baroque Violin Masterclass and Head of Piano at the Royal Academy ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD SESSION 2 of Music, Joanna MacGregor, examining The brilliant violinist Adrian Butterfield, multiple approaches to Baroque dance director of the London Handel Players and movements and Chopin muzurkas. Students Piano, Violin and Cello Workshops Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College are invited to bring any dance movement by of Music, gives masterclasses focusing on all Bach, Scarlatti or Handel, and one or more BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO Baroque Oboe Masterclass technical and stylistic aspects of solo Baroque Chopin mazurkas. We’ll also discuss historical The fine young Bukolika Piano Trio hails violin-playing. This class is part of the Baroque Daily masterclasses from an acclaimed performances, editions and performance practices. from Poland, and is an ensemble known for orchestra, an Advanced Selected course; please orchestral and solo oboist, providing group Please see the website for suggested repertoire. their intensely expressive music making see the website for application details. and solo tuition coaching, as well as orchestral SESSION 3 and exceptional virtuosity. Roma Tic (violin), repertoire. We will be preparing the dazzling SESSION 3 Joanna Gutowska (cello) and Anna Szałucka oboe parts in Handel’s Agrippina and Saul, for (piano) have performed worldwide, and made performances in the Great Hall. This class is Chamber Music their Radio 3 debut in 2017. Their workshop Baroque Cello Masterclass: part of the Baroque orchestra, an advanced sessions will be lively and informal; they offer The Art of Continuo Playing selected course; please see the website for RHIANNON EVANS, BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO players of all abilities a relaxed and supportive application details. AND CLAIRE WILLIAMS workshop environment, in separate classes. RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE SESSION 3 The chamber music programme, open to SESSION 2 Richard Tunnicliffe focuses on the subtleties instrumentalists and singers, will offer one and complexities of continuo playing - the daily formally-organised session. You will be harmonic and rhythmic basis of Baroque style. Natural Trumpet allocated a group in advance in one of the This class is part of the Baroque orchestra, sessions you have signed up to, which session RICHARD THOMAS an Advanced Selected course; please see the is dependant how we can best accommodate website for application details. The supremely gifted performer and teacher you with other players. Chamber music can also Richard Thomas directs a class providing group be arranged informally during other sessions SESSION 3 and solo tuition coaching, as well as orchestral once you arrive. See page 38 for more details. repertoire. There’ll be concerts of Handel’s SESSIONS 2, 3 & 4 Agrippina and Saul in the Great Hall. This class Baroque Bassoon Masterclass is part of the Baroque orchestra, an Advanced ANDY WATTS Selected course; please see the website for application details. Andy Watts, professor of Historical Performance at the and principal SESSION 3 “The festival […] blurs the usual bassoon of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, gives a lively, illuminating class divide between professional on technique and expression in solo and chamber Harpsichord Workshop and amateur. It is a cultural repertoire, and prepares wind players for Handel’s STEVEN DEVINE democracy, peculiarly English Saul and Agrippina. This class is part of the Baroque orchestra, an Advanced Selected course; Steven is harpsichordist with the Orchestra of in its way.” please see the website for application details. the Age of Enlightenment and a soloist with THE NEW YORK TIMES many recordings to his name. Here he leads SESSION 3

18 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 19 Folk, Poetry and my Brother, is released in early 2019. They’ll sessions later in the week, coaching can be More Than Music be rehearsing our popular Folk Choir in sea arranged with Alexis once you’re here. Literature Courses shanties and sea-inspired songs - all delivered with their inimitable, contemporary twist - for a Tai Chi Qigong performance in the Great Hall on Friday afternoon. Creative Conversations Three Hundred Years: Music from JOE SALMON SESSION 2 JAMES RUNCIE Northumberland and the Borders An early morning class, designed to relax A daily series of conversations about creativity the body and focus the mind. A dynamic ALISTAIR ANDERSON Playing for Dancing and the nature of storytelling – from starting to form of moving meditation, Tai Chi Qigong is We’re delighted that Alistair Anderson write and the structure of stories, to discussions accessible to people of all ages and ideal for - master of the English concertina and ALISTAIR ANDERSON about the nature of inspiration, the importance musicians, bringing great benefits for good Northumbrian pipes, founder of Folkworks and of practice and the development of character practice and performance in the day ahead. The legendary English concertina player Alistair the first traditional music degree course at (both imagined and real). James Runcie guides Anderson leads this course on playing tunes for 8 - 8.30AM Newcastle University - will be teaching all week you through a series of approaches to the dancing, which will culminate in performing some at Dartington. Alistair’s instrumental course creative life. No experience necessary. numbers as part of our vibrant, end-of-week will cover fiddle and pipe repertoires from the Ceilidh. The course will work on understanding SESSION 3 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including the Talk: A Musical Argument how the pulse of the music relates to the dance, explosion of fiddlers around Tyneside and the JAMES RUNCIE and how the way you play lifts the dancers. piping traditions of the South Northumbrian We’ll look at phrasing and dynamics, and how Creative Reading: In this illustrated talk with Joanna MacGregor, Coal Field. Alistair will also introduce you to that energises the dancers while maintaining James Runcie explores the links between the music of the shepherd musicians he knew Shakespeare’s Sonnets the interest of those just listening - and indeed the classical principles of rhetoric and the well and played with for years, as well as JAMES RUNCIE the musicians themselves. construction of a fugue, with particular reference music from the current scene. A creative reading course with the writer to Aristotle, Cicero, Bach and Beethoven. SESSION 2 SESSION 1 James Runcie. Each day we study, and then 6 AUGUST 5.15PM read, a group of sonnets with a particular Folk Collective theme – beauty, love, time, memory, age Creative Writing: Poetry of Place and immortality - in order to gain a deeper EMILY PORTMAN, ALEXIS BENNETT appreciation of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. KATRINA PORTEOUS AND HARBOTTLE & JONAS SESSION 4 Katrina Porteous was born in Scotland and lives This year we have a fantastic team of acclaimed on the Northumberland coast; we’re thrilled folk tutors and performers at Dartington: fiddler she’s coming back to Dartington. Her course will Alexis Bennett; contemporary folk duo Harbottle connect to the physicality of landscape through & Jonas; and Emily Portman, one of the most sound, and there will be a couple of sessions beguiling and poetic presences in today’s folk collaborating in words and music with folk scene. There’ll be an opportunity to work on fiddler Alexis Bennett. Through listening and traditional tunes, and songs with accompaniment, writing we’ll explore the voices – natural and for both evening sessions in the White Hart and human – that lead us towards ‘a sense of place’. Friday’s performance in the Great Hall. SESSIONS 1 & 2 SESSIONS 3 & 4

Folk Choir Folk Surgery HARBOTTLE & JONAS ALEXIS BENNETT The stunning young folk duo Harbottle & Jonas The gifted fiddler and composer Alexis Bennett wowed audiences and participants with their will be available for one-to-one tuition late teaching, performances, and folk sessions in afternoon and early evening, from Sunday the White Hart last year, and we’re delighted to to Tuesday. Open to all those wanting some welcome them back. Receiving plaudits from folk private coaching on their own material, or on royalty Jon Boden and Seth Lakeman as well as tunes they’d like to play in the White Hart folk Harbottle & Jonas national press, their latest album, The Sea is

20 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 21 Choral and Vocal Courses The Big Choir: Saint Nicolas STEUART BEDFORD SESSION 1 Week 3 Chamber Choir GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 2 Advanced Opera Course: The Turn of the Screw TOM RANDLE AND JONATHAN SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 PALMER LAKELAND Vocal Masterclass TOM RANDLE SESSION 2 Vocal Workshop SARAH GABRIEL SESSION 3 10–17 August The Big Choir Plus GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 4 Saint Nicolas with Steuart Bedford; Conducting, Music Theatre Alfred Brendel, Škampa Quartet and Latin American Music and Calamity Jane Advanced Conducting TIMOTHY REDMOND AND GRAEME JENKINS SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Scenes from Annie Get Your Gun RICHARD WILLIAMS, SARAH GABRIEL SESSION 2 and Calamity Jane AND SARA VAN BEERS Brazilian Music and Song ADRIANO ADEWALE AND SESSION 3 CARLOS MALTA In the Heart of Rhythm ADRIANO ADEWALE AND SESSION 4 CARLOS MALTA Samba Dance CAROLINA ADEWALE SESSION 4

Instrumental Courses String Orchestra LEIGH O’HARA WITH ADRIAN BRENDEL SESSION 1 AND THOMAS GOULD Piano Workshop FLORIAN MITREA SESSION 1 OR 3 Violin Masterclass THOMAS GOULD SESSION 2 Cello Masterclass ADRIAN BRENDEL SESSION 2 Piano Masterclass JOANNA MACGREGOR SESSION 2 Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops ŠKAMPA QUARTET SESSION 3 Dartington Piano Concerto Competition JOANNA MACGREGOR SESSION 4 AND TIMOTHY REDMOND Music for Two Pianos and Piano Duet FLORIAN MITREA SESSION 4 Chamber Music LEIGH O’HARA, ŠKAMPA QUARTET SESSIONS 2, 3 & 4 AND TRIO OPAL

A Britten-themed week: the great Steuart Bedford rehearses Britten’s joyful cantata More Than Music Saint Nicolas, and brilliant American tenor Tom Randle coaches young singers in The Turn of the Screw. Sarah Gabriel directs her new play A House on Middagh Street, Tai Chi Qigong JOE SALMON 8–8.30AM where Britten lived with WH Auden, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee; the Advanced On Playing Mozart ALFRED BRENDEL 13 AUG 5.15PM Conducting Course opens with a soaring programme of youthful Mozart and Britten. My Musical Life ALFRED BRENDEL 14 AUG 5.15PM A House on Middagh Street SARAH GABRIEL 14 AUG 10PM Week 3 is rich for pianists – with lectures from the legendary Alfred Brendel, our Dartington Piano Concerto Competition, and classes with Joanna MacGregor and Florian Mitrea - and string lovers, with the wonderful Škampa Quartet, cellist Adrian Brendel, violinist Thomas Gould, and Trio Opal. Calamity Jane and Annie Get your Gun fire up the week;Latin rhythm blazes with Brazilian flautistCarlos Malta and the much- loved Adriano Adewale, who unveils his new percussion concerto. Don’t forget your dancing shoes for the Samba Party…

22 Joanna MacGregor Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 23 Choral and Vocal Courses Advanced Opera: The Big Choir Plus Tom Randle The Turn of the Screw GAVIN ROBERTS TOM RANDLE AND JONATHAN Additional coaching and rehearsal for The Big The Big Choir: Saint Nicolas PALMER LAKELAND Choir repertoire this week, with our wonderful STEUART BEDFORD The great American tenor Tom Randle, who choir repetiteur Gavin Roberts. For those less We’re delighted to welcome the eminent will sing the role of Peter Quint, coaches familiar with the repertoire, a really useful conductor Steuart Bedford. He will conduct singers throughout this two-week Advanced session to revisit the morning’s work. Benjamin Britten’s joyful cantata Saint Nicolas, Opera course; Jonathan Palmer Lakeland SESSION 4 premiered in the opening concert of the first (Tanglewood, Georg Solti Academia) acts as Aldeburgh Festival in June 1948. Steuart was repetiteur and coach. Britten’s ensemble a close collaborator with Britten, conducting masterpiece will receive two semi-staged the first performance of Death in Venice in performances in the Great Hall on 21 and 24 1973 and the historic Grimes on the Beach in August. As an extra performance opportunity, Conducting, Music Theatre 2013. Having such an expert guiding us - and there will be an Opera Gala programme on 15 and Latin American Music the marvellous Tom Randle singing the role of August. This is an Advanced Selected course; Saint Nicolas – will lift Dartington’s Big Choir please see the website for application details. to new heights! We’ll be using the Boosey & SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Hawkes edition. Advanced Conducting TIMOTHY REDMOND AND GRAEME JENKINS SESSION 1 Vocal Masterclass Two weeks of intense study, for the first week with Timothy Redmond, guest conductor TOM RANDLE Chamber Choir with the London Symphony Orchestra and We’re privileged to welcome the superb Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Professor GAVIN ROBERTS operatic tenor Tom Randle to direct this week’s of Conducting at the Guildhall School of Music. Gavin Roberts coaches Britten’s Five Flower vocal masterclass. Tom has international For the second week, we welcome Graeme Songs, originally written for the 25th wedding performing experience, from Renaissance and Jenkins back to Dartington. He’s known for anniversary of Dartington’s founders, Dorothy Baroque music through to contemporary song Vocal Workshop his enormous breadth of experience: with and Leonard Elmhirst. The Chamber Choir is and opera, in great opera houses: Théâtre des Glyndebourne, Opera Australia, Vienna State aimed at experienced choral singers, and you Champs Elysées, Royal Opera House London, SARAH GABRIEL Opera and Covent Garden, and as Music will be required to prepare the music in advance. Staatsoper Berlin, Netherlands Opera and Los Director of Dallas Opera. As at home in Mozart or Britten opera as she Angeles Opera. He welcomes a wide variety of SESSION 2 is in music theatre, Sarah Gabriel made her Working with the Dartington Festival Orchestra, repertoire. This is an Advanced Selected course; European debut as Eliza in My Fair Lady at the in the first week students will prepare Britten’s please see our website for application details. Théâtre du Châtelet, opposite Alex Jennings. Young Apollo and Variations on a Theme of SESSION 2 Her vocal class is open to all singers. Sarah is Frank Bridge Op.10, and Mozart’s Symphony particularly interested in being authentically No. 29 in A major K.201 and Concerto in E yourself onstage, and in how to express your flat K.271 Jeunehomme, with outstanding individuality. You can see her in action on 14 young pianists for the third Dartington Piano Steuart Bedford August, in her immersive performance A House Concerto Competition. on Middagh Street. The second week presents a fantastic SESSION 3 opportunity to prepare and perform Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, with Tom Randle and students from the Advanced Opera Course, as well as Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. This is “An unprecedented opportunity an Advanced Selected course; please see the to practise live performance website for application details. and learn from professionals” SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 THE GUARDIAN

24 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 25 Scenes from Annie Get Your In the Heart of Rhythm Instrumental Courses Adrian Brendel Gun and Calamity Jane ADRIANO ADEWALE AND CARLOS MALTA RICHARD WILLIAMS, SARAH GABRIEL In the Heart of Rhythm is open to everybody – AND SARA VAN BEERS String Orchestra percussionists, instrumentalists, singers, and LEIGH O’HARA WITH ADRIAN BRENDEL A boisterous journey through the world of those who don’t play an instrument – and will AND THOMAS GOULD musical theatre, open to singers of all abilities be based on Afro-Brazilian rhythms such as and ages. The course will focus on two iconic, samba, ijexa and forro. Playing on conventional Leigh O’Hara directs this workshop for all witty musicals, both set in the Wild West, looking and non-conventional instruments, exploring string players, with the hugely popular Adrian at chorus, solo numbers and ensemble scenes; rhythmic games, vocal and body percussion, Brendel and Thomas Gould. We’ll be working on we’ll also rehearse simple choreography, it’ll be a fun and challenging way of making Britten’s Simple Symphony, Elgar’s Elegy and joined by a small group of gifted students from music. On Friday night there’ll be a short, Sospiri and Holst’s St Paul’s Suite. There’ll be a Drama Centre London. There will be an informal joyful performance, just before a Samba party. final performance on Friday lunchtime. performance on Friday afternoon. SESSION 4 SESSION 1 SESSION 2 Samba Dance Violin Masterclass Brazilian Music and Song CAROLINA ADEWALE THOMAS GOULD ADRIANO ADEWALE AND CARLOS MALTA A fun, relaxed course led by the inspiring Described as ‘staggeringly virtuosic’ by The Adriano Adewale is a master percussionist Carolina Adewale: we’ll be mixing the Brazilian Guardian and ‘a soloist of rare refinement’ from Brazil, feted all over the world for his dance styles of samba, forro and ijexa with by The Sunday Times, Thomas Gould is one Africa-inflected jazz and sensational virtuosity. participants’ own creativity. Mixing easy-to- of the brightest young violinists around. Together with the Brazilian flautist and follow moves with more challenging steps, His masterclass will cover core repertoire composer Carlos Malta (who has played with Carolina welcomes participants of all levels to and contemporary works; don’t miss his Hermeto Pascoal, Pat Methany, Gil Evans), prepare for Friday night’s samba celebration. performances throughout the week. This is he will guide and inspire you in the popular Bring water, and wear comfortable trainers. an Advanced Selected course; please see the Brazilian tradition, looking at songs, melodies website for application details. SESSION 4 and instrumental accompaniments. SESSION 2 SESSION 3 Cello Masterclass Adriano Adewale ADRIAN BRENDEL One of the most versatile and original cellists Piano Masterclass of his generation, Adrian Brendel has travelled the world as soloist, collaborator and teacher. JOANNA MACGREGOR A fine classical and romantic player, his discovery Joanna MacGregor, Artistic Director of of contemporary music as a teenager opened a Dartington International Summer School and new and vital avenue he continues to explore, Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music, alongside his passion for jazz and world music. runs this year’s piano masterclass. Joanna is Adrian will coach advanced students in all known as one of the world’s most innovative areas of cello repertoire, including concertos. musicians, performing in more than eighty This is an Advanced Selected course; please countries and working with countless eminent see the website for application details. conductors and orchestras. She welcomes SESSION 2 all repertoire, particularly Beethoven and Schubert sonatas, and 20th- and 21st-century repertoire. This is an Advanced Selected course; please see the website for application details. SESSION 2

26 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 27 Piano Workshop Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops Sarah Gabriel and Richard Williams FLORIAN MITREA ŠKAMPA QUARTET The Rumanian pianist Florian Mitrea is always Helena Jiříkovská and Adéla Štajnochrová a huge hit at Summer School as a performer (violin), Radim Sedmidubský (viola) and Lukáš and teacher, and returns to run the Piano Polák (cello), of the internationally acclaimed Workshop. Florian will guide pianists in a Škampa Quartet, offer string players of all relaxed and friendly atmosphere. He will coach abilities a friendly and supportive workshop anything from Bach to Bartók, but particularly environment, in separate instrumental classes. likes the Viennese school of Haydn, Mozart and SESSION 3 Beethoven. You’ll be able to choose between two different sessions. SESSION 1 OR 3 Dartington Piano Concerto Competition Music for Two Pianos JOANNA MACGREGOR and Piano Duet AND TIMOTHY REDMOND Selected pianists will have the chance to FLORIAN MITREA rehearse concerto movements each day with The talented Rumanian pianist Florian Mitrea Dartington Festival Orchestra and conductors returns to guide you through four-hand and on the Advanced Conducting course, under the two-piano repertoire. You are welcome to come guidance and coaching of Joanna MacGregor as a pre-formed duo, or be prepared to pair up. and Timothy Redmond. This year’s repertoire is Chamber Music Talks: Alfred Brendel There will be a range of four-hand and two- Mozart’s Concerto in E flat K.271 Jeunehomme, piano repertoire on sale in the music shop, and and Britten’s Young Apollo: you are welcome to LEIGH O’HARA, ŠKAMPA QUARTET We’re thrilled that Alfred Brendel, one of the available through the Summer School library. prepare both pieces. Pianists will be chosen to AND TRIO OPAL greatest pianists of all time, is returning to the perform in the orchestral concert on 16 August. Summer School to talk about Mozart, and his SESSION 3 The chamber music programme, open to This is an Advanced Selected course; please life’s work. Alfred’s talks are as warm and witty instrumentalists and singers, will offer one see the website for application details. as they are enlightening. formally-organised session each day in SESSION 4 Session 4. Chamber music can also be 13 AUGUST 5.15PM: ON PLAYING MOZART arranged informally in the other sessions. 14 AUGUST 5.15PM: MY MUSICAL LIFE Please see page 38 for more details. Škampa Quartet SESSIONS 2, 3 & 4 Performance: A House on Middagh Street SARAH GABRIEL AND ACTORS FROM More Than Music DRAMA CENTRE LONDON Premiered at Aldeburgh Festival and written by Sarah Gabriel, A House on Middagh Street Tai Chi Qigong is set in Brooklyn where Benjamin Britten, WH Auden, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee JOE SALMON lived during the Second World War. Novels, An early morning class, designed to relax the operas and poems were written, but the body and focus the mind. For more details see washing up never got done. page 21. With music by Copland, Gershwin and Britten, 8–8.30AM and ‘guest appearances’ by Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Aaron Copland, Igor and Vera Stravinsky, Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill. 14 AUGUST 10PM

28 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 29 Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses The Big Choir: Beethoven, Tippett and Alberga STEPHEN BARLOW SESSION 1 Week 4 Chamber Choir STEPHEN BARLOW SESSION 2 Gospel Choir CAROL PEMBERTON AND CELIA SESSION 2 WICKHAM-ANDERSON Advanced Opera Course: The Turn of the Screw TOM RANDLE, JONATHAN PALMER LAKELAND SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 AND GRAEME JENKINS 17–24 August Vocal Workshop SARAH GABRIEL SESSION 3 Songs of the Jazz Age: The War and After SARAH GABRIEL AND RICHARD WILLIAMS SESSION 4 Turn of the Screw; Harrison The Big Choir Plus GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 4 Birtwistle, John Cage, Jazz and The Rite of Spring Conducting, Composition, Film and Site Specific Courses Advanced Conducting GRAEME JENKINS SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Advanced Composition HARRISON BIRTWISTLE SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Improvising to Film NEIL BRAND SESSIONS 1 & 2 Open Composition STEPHEN PRATT SESSION 2 Site Specific Installations DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA SESSIONS 3 & 4

Jazz and Brass Courses Introduction to Jazz STEVE DUMMER SESSION 1 Brass Warm-Up Session PAUL ARCHIBALD, ERIC VLOEIMANS SESSION 1 AND BRETT BAKER Trumpet Workshop PAUL ARCHIBALD AND ERIC VLOEIMANS SESSION 2 Trombone and Low Brass Workshop BRETT BAKER SESSION 2 Jazz Piano and Keyboards Workshop STEVE LODDER SESSION 2 Saxophone Workshop MARK LOCKHART SESSION 2 Double Bass Workshop ALEC DANKWORTH SESSION 2 Jazz Drumming and Percussion Workshop SESSION 3 Open Jazz Ensemble , ERIC VLOEIMANS, STEVE SESSION 3 LODDER, ALEC DANKWORTH & MARTIN FRANCE Brass Ensemble PAUL ARCHIBALD AND BRETT BAKER SESSION 3 Big Band STEVE DUMMER SESSION 4

The 2019 Summer School & Festival reaches a climax with Britten’s chilling opera The Turn Piano and Instrumental Courses of the Screw starring Tom Randle, The Passion of Piazzolla, and John Cage’s joyfully anarchic Musicircus. The week explodes with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Piano Workshop FLORIAN MITREA SESSION 1 OR 4 Celebrating Tango: The Passion of Piazzolla JOANNA MACGREGOR SESSION 3 Stephen Barlow conducts Dartington Choir, and the great Harrison Birtwistle celebrates Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops GILDAS QUARTET SESSION 3 his 85th birthday; Neil Brand directs his popular Improvising to Film course, alongside Chamber Music ANNA SZAŁUCKA, GILDAS QUARTET SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 popular returning courses by the Dead Rat Orchestra and Black Voices. Jazzers Eric AND TRITIUM TRIO Vloeimans, Mark Lockhart, Steve Lodder, Alec Dankworth and Martin France work alongside Paul Archibald and Brett Baker’s brass courses and Steve Dummer’s Big Band. Sing in Songs from the Jazz Age with Sarah Gabriel and Richard Williams; experience More Than Music vibrant tuition from Florian Mitrea, Gildas Quartet, Trio Tritium and Anna Szałucka. Yoga JUSTIN DALTON 7.45–8.30AM End the summer on a creative high; be inspired by these daring artists, and their Jive KEVAN KENNEDY SESSION 4 dazzling music. John Cage’s Musicircus JOANNA MACGREGOR AND 22 AUG 5.15PM ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE!

30 Harrison Birtwistle Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 31 Choral, Vocal Advanced Opera: The Turn of the Screw Carol Pemberton and and Opera Courses Celia Wickham-Anderson TOM RANDLE AND GRAEME JENKINS The second week of this two-week course The Big Choir: Eleanor Alberga, directed by Tom Randle, leading to two Tippett’s Spirituals and semi-staged performances of Britten’s chilling Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy The Turn of the Screw on 21 and 24 August. See page 24 for full details. STEPHEN BARLOW SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 The fantastic conductor Stephen Barlow comes for the first time, to conduct a very special occasion – Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor’s Vocal Workshop last concert for the Summer School. There’s a world premiere for choir and piano by Eleanor SARAH GABRIEL Alberga, with words by Alice Oswald; Tippett’s As at home in Mozart or Britten opera as she amazing settings of spirituals from A Child is in music theatre, Sarah Gabriel made her of Our Time, for choir and orchestra; and European debut as Eliza in My Fair Lady at the Beethoven’s joyful Choral Fantasy - his tryout Théâtre du Châtelet, opposite Alex Jennings. for Ode to Joy - for piano, soloists, choir and Her vocal class is open to all singers. Sarah is orchestra. particularly interested in being authentically SESSION 1 yourself onstage, and in how to express your Songs of the Jazz Age: Conducting, Composition, individuality. You can see her in action in her The War and After recital on 22 August. Film and Site Specific SARAH GABRIEL AND RICHARD WILLIAMS Chamber Choir SESSION 3 Courses As war engulfed Europe the popular music STEPHEN BARLOW of the period became defiant, romantic, and Stephen Barlow rehearses repertoire to patriotic. We’ll be looking at songs originally Advanced Conducting complement our programme this week, with sung by popular British artists - Gracie Fields, gorgeous English music by Vaughan Williams, Vera Lyn, and Noel Coward - and their French GRAEME JENKINS Frank Bridge and Parry. The Chamber Choir is counterparts Charles Trenet, Maurice Chavalier The second week of the Advanced Conducting aimed at experienced choral singers. and Edith Piaf. We’ll also explore work by Bing course, culminating in The Turn of the Screw Crosby, Frank Sinatra, The Andrews Sisters SESSION 2 and The Rite of Spring – see page 25 for details. and Memphis Minnie, as well as the writers Hemmingway, Tennessee Williams, Orwell, and SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 the post-war existentialists Sartre, Camus and Gospel Choir Beckett. The music will be given historical context CAROL PEMBERTON AND through film, poetry and prose. This workshop Advanced Composition CELIA WICKHAM-ANDERSON open to all singers, actors and writers. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Uplifting, harmonious, soul-stirring, challenging SESSION 4 We’re extraordinarily lucky to have one of the and fun all describe the power and appeal of the world’s greatest living composers, Sir Harrison Gospel Choir sessions, led by Carol Pemberton Birtwistle, joining us this year in Dartington. A and Celia Wickham-Anderson of the internationally- The Big Choir Plus leading European figure in contemporary music, acclaimed a cappella group Black Voices. The GAVIN ROBERTS his seminal works have combined a modernist workshops will cover a range of black music aesthetic with emotional impact; he takes his traditions that influence and shape what today Additional coaching and rehearsal for The Big inspiration from contemporary art, and rituals we call Black Gospel. Black Voices perform on 17 Choir repertoire this week, with our wonderful of classical mythology and pre-history. This August, and there will be an informal performance choir repetiteur Gavin Roberts. For those less immersive course focuses on creating new for participants on the final Friday. familiar with the repertoire, a really useful music for the Gildas Quartet, the outstanding session to revisit the morning’s work. SESSION 2 Stephen Barlow young clarinet trio Tritium Trio, and trumpeter SESSION 4

32 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 33 Lucy Humphris, for performances at the end technology. This course will use found objects, Trumpet Workshop Saxophone Workshop of the week. We’ll also be celebrating Harry’s old instruments and analogue systems to PAUL ARCHIBALD AND ERIC VLOEIMANS MARK LOCKHEART 85th birthday, in a special concert. This is create mixed-media installations all over the an Advanced Selected course; please see the estate, culminating in a promenade at the end Our trumpet class is open to trumpeters of Mark Lockheart offers one-to-one and website for application details. of the week. all music backgrounds. Paul Archibald is ensemble tuition to all saxophonists. Mark is one of UK’s busiest orchestral trumpeters, one of jazz’s greatest collaborators, and his SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 SESSIONS 3 & 4 regularly working with , London characteristic sense of lyricism, alongside very Philharmonic and his own English Brass personal use of rhythms from Asia, Africa and Ensemble. Amsterdam-based Eric Vloeimans South America, will be inspiring for young and Improvising to Film is one of the coolest trumpeters in jazz. You’ll older saxophonists alike. NEIL BRAND be learning music techniques in a variety of SESSION 2 styles, and be working on repertoire ranging One of the world’s foremost exponents of live film from Mark Anthony Turnage and Georges music, Neil Brand is known for his compelling Enescu to improv. There’ll be a chance to presentations on television and radio. This perform informally at the end of the week. Double Bass Workshop course offers composers, pianists and other ALEC DANKWORTH instrumentalists a great opportunity to study SESSION 2 selected silent classic films, discussing the art Alec Dankworth is one of the most stylish, of improvisation and ‘reading’ a film. We’ll create imaginative jazz bassists around, and we’re new music around excerpts of film; as part of this Trombone and delighted he’s coming to Dartington. Part course, participants will informally showcase their Low Brass Workshop of an amazing jazz dynasty – mother Cleo work in the Barn Cinema at the end of the week. Laine, father and sister BRETT BAKER Jacqui Dankworth – Alec has worked with SESSIONS 1 & 2 Mark Lockheart Brett Baker is one of the world’s top an extraordinary list of artists including Van trombonists and educators, working with Morrison, Stéphane Grappelli, Abdullah Ibrahim, Open Composition musicians and groups as diverse as Black and The Dave Brubeck Quartet. He’ll be coaching Dyke Band, Grimethorpe Colliery Band and and inspiring jazz bassists at all levels. STEPHEN PRATT Goldfrapp. He’s passionate about teaching the Jazz and Brass Courses SESSION 2 trombone, and is the director of the Singapore Liverpool-born Stephen Pratt’s first orchestral and Thailand Low Brass Festivals. As well as work was premiered by and the Introduction to Jazz coaching, he’ll be encouraging you to perform RLPO; since then he’s been an in-demand Jazz Drumming and and collaborate with the trumpet and jazz composer and conductor, well-known as STEVE DUMMER faculty all week. Percussion Workshop a broadcaster on Radio 3’s Hear and Now. Conductor, composer and clarinettist Steve MARTIN FRANCE This class is designed for people who like SESSION 2 Dummer directs a lively, enjoyable class composing in all styles, as well as those Martin France has worked with the finest especially for newcomers to jazz, or those with who enjoy arranging and songwriting, with and most creative musicians in the world - a classical background who want to brush up expert guidance in a friendly, collaborative Jazz Piano and including , , Dave their skills. atmosphere. Students will showcase their work Keyboards Workshop Holland and Nils-Petter Molvaer - as well as in an informal concert at the end of the week. SESSION 1 many classical orchestras. His class is open STEVE LODDER to all drummers and percussionists who’d SESSION 2 Steve Lodder is a leading jazz pianist, synth like to hone their jazz skills. player and teacher, working with some Brass Warm-up Session SESSION 2 of the coolest names in jazz. His course Site Specific Installations PAUL ARCHIBALD, ERIC VLOEIMANS is open to intermediate jazz pianists and AND BRETT BAKER DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA keyboard players who wish to develop their The essential morning ritual: a warm-up improvisation skills. Dead Rat Orchestra are adventurers, adrift session for brass players, taken in turn by three in a sea of sound and possibility. They’ve SESSION 2 “One of the world’s great very different brass tutors. A great way to start gained a reputation as one of the most your day by focusing on breathing and the summer music schools” innovative ensembles on the UK music scene fundamentals of technique. - raw, elemental and poignant, with a love of THE TELEGRAPH idiosyncratic folk traditions and antiquated SESSION 1

34 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 35 Open Jazz Ensemble Big Band relaxed and friendly atmosphere. He will coach Chamber Music anything from Bach to Bartók, but particularly MARK LOCKHEART, ERIC VLOEIMANS, STEVE DUMMER ANNA SZAŁUCKA, GILDAS QUARTET likes the Viennese school of Haydn, Mozart and STEVE LODDER, ALEC DANKWORTH AND AND TRITIUM TRIO Steve Dummer will be rehearsing the Beethoven. You’ll be able to choose between MARTIN FRANCE Dartington Big Band for the final Friday night two different sessions. The chamber music programme, open to Our fantastic jazz tutors focus on improvisation, bash, with solos from the great jazz trumpeter instrumentalists and singers, will offer one formally- SESSION 1 OR 4 collaboration and creativity, creating smaller Eric Vloeimans. The repertoire will range from organised session each day in Session 1. Chamber jazz ensembles to work together. Jazz students big band standards to more contemporary music can also be arranged informally in the other will also be performing in our regular late night jazz pieces. Absolutely unmissable fun, this sessions. Please see page 38 for more details. Jazz Jam in the White Hart on Thursday night. workshop is for saxes, brass and rhythm Florian Mitrea SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 instruments. SESSION 3 SESSION 4 Brass Ensemble More Than Music PAUL ARCHIBALD AND BRETT BAKER Piano and A chance to work together on great brass Yoga repertoire for trumpets, horns and trombones, Instrumental Courses with two of the UK’s top brass players and JUSTIN DALTON teachers. We’ll be working on Paul Patterson’s This course, based on the gentle, fluid Scaravelli Count Down, Richard Rodney Bennett’s Flowers Piano Workshop approach to yoga, is suitable for participants of of the Forest and Paul Lovatt-Cooper’s The FLORIAN MITREA all ages and abilities. Yoga is practised by many Hampshire Suite, for an informal performance musicians; it’s a great way to loosen up the on Friday lunchtime. There’ll be opportunities The Rumanian pianist Florian Mitrea is always body before the day’s music making. to play in the beautiful outdoor spaces of a huge hit at Summer School as a performer Dartington too – weather permitting! and teacher, and returns to run the Piano 7.45–8.30AM Workshop. Florian will guide pianists in a SESSION 3 Celebrating Tango: Dance: Jive The Passion of Piazzolla KEVAN KENNEDY Gildas Quartet JOANNA MACGREGOR Everyone is invited to get ready for the final Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor Big Band party on Friday night by learning celebrates Astor Piazzolla. Open to pianists the cool jazz movements of Jive, taught by and instrumentalists of all backgrounds, we’ll this experienced tutor. be looking at his wonderfully evocative tangos, SESSION 4 milongas and etude-tangos. There’ll be a suggested repertoire list on the Music Supplies page of our website. Performance: John Cage’s Musicircus SESSION 3 JOANNA MACGREGOR AND ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops Joanna MacGregor invites you to take part in Cage’s great anarchic happening in the GILDAS QUARTET Great Hall, first performed in 1967. Everyone Christopher Jones and Gemma Sharples is asked to perform simultaneously: music, (violin), Kay Stephen (viola) and Anna Menzies dance, speaking, and art. It can be Cage, Satie, (cello) lead individual instrumental classes improvised music, or new work inspired by for string players in a friendly and supportive Cage. Don’t miss this glorious community workshop environment. event – roll up, roll up, the circus is coming! SESSION 3 22 AUGUST 5.15PM

36 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 37 Advanced Courses Booking and Volunteering and Chamber Music

Advanced Courses these ensembles will meet for one designated session each day, when coaching from our artists The Summer School prides itself on offering will be available. Pre-formed ensembles are high-quality, intensive training for music welcome during this session. As formal sessions students, graduates, and music professionals. are pre-arranged, we ask that everyone signing Advanced courses, as marked in descriptions, up to one is committed to that session for the are subject to an application process which week, and that the chosen repertoire is prepared includes the submission of recordings and in advance. All applicants to these sessions must other supporting materials. Guidelines on the submit a Chamber Music Booking Form by 3 June required materials and application process in order to be placed in a group. In Weeks 1 and can be found on the Summer School website. 2, in order to make up the best ensembles, we will The first wave of applications are open until create formal groups across all chamber music 27 March, at which point all applications, sessions, and you will be put in an ensemble in bursary and standard, will be reviewed by one of the sessions you have booked. In weeks 3 the course tutors. If you are interested in an and 4, we have defined one session in the day in Advanced Course, we advise that you apply which formal groups will be organised. Booking Bursaries before this deadline to ensure that your Informal Bookings can be made on our website Finance should not be a barrier to attending application is considered. Our informal Chamber Music sessions are dartington.org/summerschool or by telephone the Summer School. Bursaries are available After this initial allocation, we will reopen arranged during the festival. You will need to +44 (0)1803 837080. Payments can be made to students and recent graduates for specific applications for any remaining places. Most meet the Chamber Music organiser, who helps by debit or credit card with no charge, via bank courses; please see our website for full details courses attract significantly more applicants create ensembles, at the start of the week. transfer, or by cheque. of our bursary offers. The deadline for bursary than we can accommodate, and most will draw Coaching from the chamber music faculty applications is 27 March. their full intake of students from the first wave is available for some of these sessions. The Payment Plans of submissions. flexibility of this arrangement is particularly Bookings made before 29 April can choose Young People suited to those musicians who may not be to pay either the full fee upfront, or an initial Chamber Music able to practice in advance of the festival, instalment of 50% followed by the remaining The Summer School is for people of all ages. who might not want to commit to a piece or balance no later than 14 May. Any bookings We are pleased to welcome unaccompanied Chamber Music runs in every week of the group for the full week, or first-time attendees after 29 April will be due the full fee upfront. young people aged 16 to 18, although we do festival, in two formats: formal sessions, with cautious of overloading their schedule. not provide any pastoral supervision for these a set ensemble and pre-arranged repertoire Although groups are allocated once on site, Booking Terms and Conditions participants. Anyone under the age of 16 (you can come as a pre formed ensemble or we still ask that you book your place, as this All bookings are non-refundable after 14 May. must be accompanied by a responsible adult we will create a group for you), or informal allows us to monitor numbers and make the We advise all participants to take out holiday at all times. ad-hoc sessions, drawn together from required provisions of spaces and tutors. insurance which includes cancellation cover interested players once everyone is on site. equal to or greater than the full cost of their All participants selecting a Chamber Music booking. Any booking cancelled before 14 Volunteer session in their booking must complete May is subject to a cancellation fee of 10% of There are various volunteer roles available at a dedicated Chamber Music form with the total booking value. Any changes to your the Summer School. Some roles are full-time information on their playing level, ensemble booking after initial payment will be subject production commitments, others are part-time experience and preferred repertoire. to course and accommodation availability. in exchange for a festival pass. For full details of volunteering opportunities and application Formal All details in this brochure are correct at time forms, please see our website. All volunteers For formal Chamber Music sessions the course of going to press. Changes in circumstances must be aged 18 or over. Application deadline leaders will create ensembles and put members after publication may impact on the accuracy for volunteers is 1 May. in contact with each other in advance of the of the information. Tutors and performers festival to discuss repertoire. During the festival subject to change.

38 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 39 The The New Dartington Dartington Estate Project:

Dartington International Summer School & A Manifesto Festival is the flagship arts event of The Dartington Hall Trust, based on the Dartington estate in South Devon. It’s around three hours from London on the This extraordinary project is now being reinvigorated train, has good links to local and national airports, for the 21st Century. Our 1,200 acre estate will and sits just beyond the end of the M5 motorway. become a place of radical experimentation, a model of rural regeneration, and a centre for progressive In 1925, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst purchased ideas and innovation. We will welcome visitors and the neglected 14th-century Dartington estate. build a living and working community. The Elmhirsts were pioneers, inspired by many innovative thinkers of the time – and through Over the next 5–7 years: Dorothy’s inherited wealth, exceptionally well-off. • Our events programme will attract people from They poured their resources into the “Dartington around the world to participate in arts, culture, Experiment” – restoring the estate buildings learning and making, and actively encourage and setting up a host of farming, forestry and experimentation and debate. educational projects. • Our buildings will house artists, designers, Through Dartington they explored how a place could makers, researchers, educators, social change the world. Important British institutions – entrepreneurs, health practitioners and more. including the NHS and the Arts Council – emerged, As we repurpose and renovate our architecturally and Dartington rapidly became a magnet for artists, important buildings and build pioneering new architects, writers, philosophers and musicians from homes and communities, we will rewrite the around the world. rulebook in the way we develop our estate The Elmhirsts understood that the world and sensitively, sustainably and inventively. its people are complex. There are many sides to • Our land and woods will be a source of inspiration every story and to every human being. We need – building on Dartington Hall’s reputation at environments that encourage our whole being to the vanguard of biodiversity. Already one of the flourish, in connection with nature and each other. most agriculturally diverse country estates in the Their experiment was formalised in 1932 with the UK, we will expand food production across the creation of The Dartington Hall Trust, a charity estate and continue to push the boundaries of founded by the Elmhirst’s to serve as custodians agricultural and forestry innovation. of Dartington and their vision. • Our learning and social justice programmes will reflect our long history of progressive thinking and activism. We will continue to deliver ‘learning by doing’ for all ages. We will also use our “Art is always a bringing together: a Learning Labs to experiment with new models of higher education and life-long learning. synthesis; and that is why we need it so desperately in this age of division...” With your help we will create the Dartington we have all been waiting for. DOROTHY ELMHIRST, IN A PAPER ENTITLED ‘THE ARTS Find out more: www.dartington.org/future AT DARTINGTON’, FOR THE TRUSTEES MEETING IN 1950

40 41 Concerts and Events

Wed 31 Jul 5.15pm Wed 07 Aug 10pm Sun 11 Aug 10pm Wed 14 Aug 10pm Sun 18 Aug 7.45pm Wed 21 Aug 10pm Emma Kirkby’s Birthday Folk Session in Archive Film from Sarah Gabriel: A House Jazzworks Jazz Jam in the Week 1 Concert, with Nicholas the White Hart Dartington: Joseph Havlat on Middagh Street White Hart Clapton and student singers

Wed 31 Jul 7.45pm Sun 04 Aug 7.45pm Thu 08 Aug 5.15pm Mon 12 Aug 5.15pm Thu 15 Aug 5.15pm Sun 18 Aug 10pm Thu 22 Aug 5.15pm Alice Oswald, Folk: Emily Portman Folk: Alistair Anderson Trio Opal Piano recital: Dead Rat Orchestra John Cage’s Musicircus William Tillyer, Joanna Joseph Havlat MacGregor: Nobody

Sat 27 Jul 7.45pm Wed 31 Jul 10pm Sun 04 Aug 10pm Thu 08 Aug 7.45pm Thu 15 Aug 7.45pm Mon 19 Aug 5.15pm Thu 22 Aug 6.30pm Stile Antico: Breaking Caroline Bergvall: Poetry, Andrew Watts Baroque Opera: Dartington Festival Lotte Betts-Dean Site Specific Installations: the Habit Music and Multimedia and Gavin Roberts Handel’s Agrippina Orchestra: Mozart and Joseph Havlat: Dead Rat Orchestra and Britten Messaien’s Harawi and students

Sun 28 Jul 5.15pm Thu 01 Aug 5.15pm Mon 05 Aug 5.15pm Thu 08 Aug 10pm Mon 12 Aug 7.45pm Thu 15 Aug 10pm Mon 19 Aug 7.45pm Thu 22 Aug 8pm Harpsichord Recital: Stile Antico and Friends The Virtuoso Recorder: Late Night Ovid Adriano Adewale, Carlos Opera Gala with Jonathan Gildas Quartet Film with Music: Jane Chapman Jill Kemp with Alice Oswald Malta and Friends Palmer Lakeland Neil Brand’s Orchestral Oliver Twist

Sun 28 Jul 7.45pm Thu 01 Aug 7.45pm Mon 05 Aug 7.45pm Fri 09 Aug 5.15pm Mon 12 Aug 10pm Fri 16 Aug 1pm Mon 19 Aug 10pm Thu 22 Aug 10pm Ensemble Meridiana The City Musick Bukolika Piano Trio As I Walked Out Piano recital: David Gray String Orchestra Songs of the Jazz Age A New Zealand Partita: One Morning Stephen De Pledge

Sun 28 Jul 10pm Thu 01 Aug 10pm Mon 05 Aug 10pm Tue 13 Aug 5.15pm Fri 16 Aug 4pm Fri 23 Aug 1pm Merit Ariane & Friends Moondog and Terry Fortepiano Recital: Alfred Brendel: Scenes from Annie Brass Ensemble Riley’s In C Steven Devine On Playing Mozart Get Your Gun and Calamity Jane

Mon 29 Jul 5.15pm Fri 02 Aug 5.15pm Tue 06 Aug 5.15pm Fri 09 Aug 7.45pm Fri 16 Aug 5.15pm Tue 20 Aug 5.15pm Fri 23 Aug 3pm/5.15pm Atéa Wind Quintet Masterclass Concert James Runcie: Handel’s Saul with Masterclass Concert Happy Birthday Harry Film with Music/ A Musical Argument Laurence Cummings New Chamber Music

Mon 29 Jul 7.45pm Fri 02 Aug 7.45pm Tue 06 Aug 7.45pm Fri 09 Aug 11pm Tue 13 Aug 7.45pm Fri 16 Aug 7.45pm Tue 20 Aug 7.45pm Viol Consorts: Fretwork A Venetian Vespers Joanna MacGregor: Ceilidh Thomas Gould and Saint Nicolas with Steuart Eric Vloeimans, Joanna with Andrew Griffiths Mussorgsky and Florian Mitrea Bedford; Adriano Adewale’s MacGregor and Matthew Beethoven’s Farewell new percussion concerto Fairclough: Film with Music

Mon 29 Jul 10pm Fri 02 Aug 10pm Fri 16 Aug 10pm Tue 20 Aug 10pm Fri 23 Aug 7.30pm Tamim al-Barghouti, Medieval Tavern Night In the Heart of Rhythm Late Night Brass Music Beethoven, Alberga, Stevie Wishart and Week 3 Ensemble/Samba Dance Tippett with Stephen Jon Banks Barlow and Joanna MacGregor/The Rite Tue 30 Jul 5.15pm Tue 06 Aug 10pm Sat 10 Aug 7.45pm Tue 13 Aug 10pm of Spring Bach Forms: Wayne Folk: Harbottle Škampa Quartet: Škampa Quartet and McGregor and Joanna Week 2 & Jonas Beethoven, Janáček Adrian Brendel Week 4 MacGregor and Dvořák

Tue 30 Jul 7.45pm Sat 03 Aug 7.45pm Wed 07 Aug 5.15pm Sun 11 Aug 5.15pm Wed 14 Aug 5.15pm Sat 17 Aug 7.45pm Wed 21 Aug 5.15pm Fri 23 Aug 11pm Gawain Glenton Great Baroque Richard Tunnicliffe Piano Recital: Alfred Brendel: Black Voices Joanna MacGregor: The Dartington Big Band and In Echo Sonatas directed by and Friends Florian Mitrea My Musical Life Passion of Piazzolla with Steve Dummer Robert Howarth

Tue 30 Jul 10pm Sun 04 Aug 5.15pm Wed 07 Aug 7.45pm Sun 11 Aug 7.45pm Wed 14 Aug 7.45pm Sun 18 Aug 5.15pm Wed 21 Aug 7.45pm Sat 24 Aug 7.30pm Joanna MacGregor plays Katrina Porteous and Hilary Summers and Tom Randle: Janáček’s Diary Adrian Brendel and 4 Hands: Mother Goose Britten’s The Turn Britten’s The Turn Bach’s The Art of Fugue Alexis Bennett Joanna MacGregor of One Who Disappeared Joanna MacGregor and The Rite of Spring of the Screw of the Screw

42 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Enquiries and telephone booking: +44 (0)1803 847080 43 Thank you to our current supporters Contact Us Support Us Patrons: Sue Anderson, Vivien Aylmer, Isla The Summer School administration and Baring, Ian Chown, Michael Cosgrave, Richard booking office is open year-round, and Creed, Ros Flinn, Peter & Jean Gell, John Hacker, the team can be reached Monday to The Friends and Patrons Programme is an invitation to those who love the Carmel Hart, Jim Haworth, Richard Heseltine, Friday, from 9am to 5pm. Jenny Hobbs, Judith Jackson, Timothy Lloyd, Dartington International Summer School to ensure it continues to flourish. Telephone Val Marriott, Mirhane McLaren-Howard, Catharine +44 (0)1803 847080 Meek, John Messenger, Jonathan & Gillian Pickering, Frances Ruck Keene, David Sigall, Email Gillian Taylor, Andrew Ward, Susan Weil [email protected] For over 70 years, young musicians, celebrated The Friends and Patrons programme is Trusts and Foundations: The Barbara Whatmore Post virtuosos and passionate amateurs have come managed by the Dartington Hall Trust. Charitable Trust, Dartington International Dartington International Summer together to learn from each other, create and Summer School Foundation, The Derek Hill School & Festival For more details visit the Summer School perform new work, interpret gems from the Foundation, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Dartington Hall website or email [email protected] classical, folk, jazz, and modern repertoires, as The Elmgrant Trust, The Eversley Charitable Trust, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL soloists, in ensembles, in choirs and orchestras, The Exeter & District Classical Music Trust, The firing new works and artistic partnerships Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, The Helen Roll which resonate far beyond the Festival. Charity, The Hinrichsen Foundation, The John S Cohen Foundation, The Radcliffe Trust, RVW Trust, Here are just some of the ways you can A gift in your will is one of the Tait Memorial Trust, PRS for Music Foundation The Summer School support us: greatest gifts you can give. The following families or individuals have also Team Are: Legacies have played a key role • Join as a Friend or Patron given an endowment or legacy specifically Joanna MacGregor to support the Summer School: Walter Blue, Artistic Director in the Summer School’s past and • Sponsor a Concert Elizabeth Clough, Else and Leonard Cross, Charles are critical to its future. Amy Bere Davis, Robert Eliot, George Ellis, Alfred Ensor, • Support a Bursary Student Executive Director (Arts) Richard Gardner, William Glock, Lucille Graham, Gavin Henderson, Christopher Kite, Andras Emily Hoare Milhaly, Busenhart Morgan Evans, Clifton Parker, Programme Manager

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44 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summerschool Dartington International Summer School and Festival 27 Jul – 24 Aug 2019 Dartington Hall, Devon

Dartington International Summer School @DartingtonArts Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL www.dartington.org/summerschool [email protected] +44 (0)1803 847080

DARTINGTON INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IS A PROGRAMME OF THE DARTINGTON HALL TRUST WHICH IS REGISTERED IN ENGLAND AS A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND A REGISTERED CHARITY. COMPANY NO. 1485560. CHARITY NO. 279756. REGISTERED OFFICE: THE ELMHIRST CENTRE, DARTINGTON HALL, TOTNES, TQ9 6EL. Thank you to our current supporters Contact Us Contents Patrons: Sue Anderson, Vivien Aylmer, Isla The Summer School administration and Baring, Ian Chown, Michael Cosgrave, Richard booking office is open year-round, and Creed, Ros Flinn, Peter & Jean Gell, John Hacker, the team can be reached Monday to Carmel Hart, Jim Haworth, Richard Heseltine, Friday, from 9am to 5pm. Welcome 1 Jenny Hobbs, Judith Jackson, Timothy Lloyd, Telephone Val Marriott, Mirhane McLaren-Howard, Catharine +44 (0)1803 847080 Course Passes 2 Meek, John Messenger, Jonathan & Gillian Pickering, Frances Ruck Keene, David Sigall, Email Accommodation and Catering 3 Gillian Taylor, Andrew Ward, Susan Weil [email protected]

Week 1 6 Trusts and Foundations: The Barbara Whatmore Post Charitable Trust, Dartington International Dartington International Summer Week 2 14 Summer School Foundation, The Derek Hill School & Festival Four weeks of shared Foundation, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Dartington Hall Week 3 22 music making, learning The Elmgrant Trust, The Eversley Charitable Trust, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL The Exeter & District Classical Music Trust, The Week 4 30 and listening, from early Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, The Helen Roll music to classical to jazz. Charity, The Hinrichsen Foundation, The John S Advanced Courses and Chamber Music 38 Cohen Foundation, The Radcliffe Trust, RVW Trust, Courses for all ages and Tait Memorial Trust, PRS for Music Foundation The Summer School Booking, Bursaries and Volunteering 39 abilities, accompanied by The following families or individuals have also Team Are: The Dartington Estate 40 over 100 public concerts, given an endowment or legacy specifically Joanna MacGregor to support the Summer School: Walter Blue, Artistic Director

set against the backdrop Elizabeth Clough, Else and Leonard Cross, Charles Concert Diary 42 Amy Bere Davis, Robert Eliot, George Ellis, Alfred Ensor, of a medieval estate in Executive Director (Arts) Support Us 44 Richard Gardner, William Glock, Lucille Graham, the heart of Devon. Gavin Henderson, Christopher Kite, Andras Emily Hoare Contact Us 45 Milhaly, Busenhart Morgan Evans, Clifton Parker, Programme Manager

Pamela Parkinson, Ernest Rainer, Esther Salaman, Rachel Wilkinson William and Judith Scheide Fund, Louisa Schmidt, Programme Coordinator Jenny Wood Jack Hill Bookings & Participant Liaison Officer

Catherine Gledhill Accessibility Marketing Manager

Please advise us when booking of any access Will Kemp requirements and assistance needed. Whilst most Marketing Assistant Dartington spaces are wheelchair accessible, there are some historic areas in the Medieval Courtyard that are not. The Summer School office aims to ensure that courses are scheduled to accessible spaces as required. For All Press and PR Enquiries Contact: Photography Damson Communications Photography used in this brochure is subject to +44 (0)20 7812 0645 copyright and has been provided by: Kate Mount, [email protected] Aubrey Simpson, Marco Borggreve, Tom Martin, Hanya Chlala, Robert Workman, Bibi Basch, Elly Lucas, Alex Hemingway and Hanya Chlala. Brochure Design: www.atworkportfolio.co.uk