Cambridge University Musical Society 2011–12 Cambridge University

Design and pre-press: Peter Ducker mistd / Printed in the Ely Cathedral Ely Box office for concert at concert at office for Box Cambridge Corn Exchange Office Box Street, CB2 3QB Cambridge Wheeler 357851 01223 Tel: Online: www.cambridge.gov.uk/boxoffice Office Box Cathedral and Ely 9.30am–4pm) 01353 660349 (Mon-Sat Tel: Email: [email protected] Online: tickets.elycathedral.org Society Musical Cambridge University Concert Hall Road West Cambridge CB3 9DP Road, 11 West www.cums.org.uk Jesus , and for on 17 March King’s College Chapel King’s College on 27 April 2012 on 27 April West Road Concert Hall Road West St John’s College Chapel College St John’s and King’s Foundation Concert King’s Foundation CUMS Chorus concert Wagner Insight Day Wagner Booking information www.cums.org.uk visit our website, recommend you We as as well booking, about information the latest for Road West concerts at our online booking system for Concert Hall. concerts in office for Box Chapel College the 365110 01223 Tel: Email: [email protected] Online: www.cums.org.uk office for Box 2012 and King’s Shop at 13 King’s Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1SP 01223 769342 Tel: Email: [email protected] all other concerts in office for Box Cambridge Corn Exchange Office Box Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QB Wheeler 01223 357851 Tel: Online: www.cambridge.gov.uk/boxoffice CUMS•brochure 2011.4_PND 27/09/2011 12:20 Page 24 Page 12:20 27/09/2011 2011.4_PND CUMS•brochure CUMS•brochure 2011.4_PND 05/09/2011 11:00 Page 2

Cambridge University Musical Society Season 2011–12

Page Date Concert Venue 6 Fri 23 Sep 2011, 4pm Alumni weekend ‘Come & Sing’ King’s College Chapel 6 Sat 22 Oct 2011, 8pm Season Launch: CU Chamber Orchestra and CU Chamber Choir West Road Concert Hall 2011–12 promises to be another vintage year of music- with Raphael Wallfisch. The Cambridge University 7 Fri 28 Oct 2011, 7.30pm Festival of Ideas Concert King’s College Chapel making at Cambridge. Lunchtime Concerts continue to bring chamber music of This year we are delighted to welcome to the CUMS the highest quality to West Road Concert Hall on 7 Sat 29 Oct 2011, 8pm Martin Yates conducts CUMS Symphony Orchestra West Road Concert Hall family the Cambridge University Chamber Choir – a Tuesday lunchtimes – admission free! 8 Fri 25 Nov 2011, 8pm Sir Roger Norrington conducts Mozart and Haydn West Road Concert Hall superb, small choir bringing together Cambridge’s finest This year we showcase the best of Cambridge music- 9 Sat 26 Nov 2011, 7.30pm Stephen Cleobury conducts Verdi Requiem Ely Cathedral choral scholars. Highlights include a six-concert tour of making in with concerts at the homes of Bob and 9 Tue 29 Nov 2011, 8pm CU Wind Orchestra West Road Concert Hall Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Israel Camerata, and Elisabeth Boas and of Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis – turn to USA performances at Yale and in New York. page 18 for more information. CUCO ends the year with 9 Sat 3 Dec 2011, 8pm Harry Ogg conducts CUMS Symphony Orchestra West Road Concert Hall In November our Principal Guest Conductor Sir Roger a week-long residency at the Orpheus and Bacchus 10 Sat 28 Jan 2012, 8.15pm Sir Mark Elder conducts Wagner and Debussy King’s College Chapel Norrington launches our new recording programme, Festival in the heart of the Bordeaux countryside, around 12 Sat 25 Feb 2012, 8pm CUMS Chorus and Prime Brass Jesus College Chapel conducting CUCO in a CD of music by Haydn and which we are able to offer up to 24 guests a summer 13 Sat 3 Mar 2012, 8pm CUMS Symphony Orchestra performs Shostakovich No.7 West Road Concert Hall Mozart. He is joined this year by two fellow alumni holiday of glorious music, fine wine and good company 13 Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8pm CU Chamber Choir & CU Collegium Musicum perform conductors: Sir Mark Elder, Music Director of the Hallé on the luxurious Domaine Le Faure estate. Turn to page St Matthew Passion St John’s College Chapel Orchestra, returns for the first time to conduct part of 20 to find out more. 13 Sat 10 Mar 2012, 8pm Peter Stark conducts CU Chamber Orchestra West Road Concert Hall Wagner’s Parsifal; and Graeme Jenkins, Music Director I would like to thank the many people whose of , conducts the May Week Concert. involvement with CUMS makes so ambitious a season 14 Mon 12 Mar 2012 CU Wind Orchestra Schools Concert West Road Concert Hall The CUMS Chorus goes from strength to strength possible: our volunteers, our conductors and our generous 14 Sat 17 Mar 2012, 5.30pm King’s College Foundation Concert King’s College Chapel under Stephen Cleobury’s leadership. Forthcoming supporters. But in particular I would like to thank the 15 Fri 27 Apr 2012, 7.30pm CUMS Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra King’s College Chapel highlights include Verdi’s Requiem at Ely Cathedral, a wonderful young musicians of Cambridge University for 15 Sat 5 May 2012, 8pm CU Chamber Orchestra performs Mendelsshon and Beethoven West Road Concert Hall gala concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and a tour all that they do to enrich the life of the University, the to Paris with Prime Brass. The CUMS Symphony region, and the world beyond. The future of classical 16 Thu 10 May 2012, 8pm CU Wind Orchestra and CUMS Concert Orchestra West Road Concert Hall Orchestra looks forward to highlights with its Principal music is in good hands! 16 Sat 16 Jun 2012, 8pm Graeme Jenkins conducts CUMS Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Martin Yates including Shostakovich’s Simon Fairclough CUMS Chorus King’s College Chapel monumental Symphony No.7 and Elgar’s Cello Concerto Chairman, Cambridge University Musical Society

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Cambridge University Lunchtime Concerts

After a highly successful first season, the Cambridge Tuesday 8 November Tuesday 31 January Tuesday 13 March 1pm – 2pm University Lunchtime Concerts return to West Road Song-cycles by Jeremy Thurlow and Misha Mullov- Leighton Fantasia Contrappuntistica and works by Bach britten sinfonia performs music by Luke Bedford Concert Hall with an exciting and diverse programme of Abbado, with Catherine Harrison, soprano and Hindemith, with Lliam Paterson, piano and Franck Piano Quintet (tickets prices start at £3) music ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Messaien and John Adams. Performances take place on Tuesday Tuesday 15 November 1pm – 2pm Tuesday 7 February lunchtimes during Full Term, and admission is free. britten sinfonia performs works by Strauss and Mozart Symphony No. 29 and Strauss Oboe Concerto with Easter Term 2012 You can also enjoy a delicious sandwich lunch at the Charlie Piper, as well as Bruch Septet (tickets prices start Will Ball, oboe, and the cuco chamber ensemble Tuesday 1 May 1pm – 2pm britten sinfonia concert hall coffee shop in the foyer prior to the concert, at £3) and Will Cole, conductor performs music by Warlock and making CULC the perfect way to spend a relaxing Jonathan Dove, and Vaughan Williams Ten Blake Songs Tuesday lunchtime in the middle of a busy week. Tuesday 22 November Tuesday 14 February 1.10pm – 2.15pm (tickets prices start at £3) All concerts 1.10pm – 1.55pm unless stated. Poulenc Banalités and Debussy Fêtes Galantes, with Performances by the finalists of the CUMS Concerto Nicholas Mogg, baritone, and Harry Ogg, piano Competition Tuesday 8 May Michaelmas Term 2011 Mendelssohn Octet with the cuco string ensemble Tuesday 18 October Tuesday 29 November Tuesday 21 February Tuesday 15 May Violin sonatas by Janácˇek and Debussy, with Konrad Messaien Visions de l’Amen, with Freddie Brown and Schubert Quartettsatz and Mozart Clarinet Quintet, with Lecture-recital on the piano works of Chopin with John Wagstyl, violin, and Harry Ogg, piano Rosie Breckon, pianos Oliver Pashley, clarinet Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies at the Faculty of Music Tuesday 25 October Lent Term 2012 Tuesday 28 February Quintets for piano and winds by Mozart and Beethoven, Chamber music by Handel and Corelli, with Tuesday 17 January Full programme details will be announced on our with the cuco wind ensemble cu collegium musicum Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, with Raphaela Papadakis, website shortly before each concert soprano (www.cums.org.uk) Tuesday 1 November Tuesday 6 March John Adams Gnarly Buttons and Son of a Chamber George Artavanis, piano, and a presentation of works by Tuesday 24 January 1pm – 2pm Symphony, with Joe Shiner, clarinet, and the new music Oliver Weeks, CUMS Composer-in-Residence britten sinfonia performs trios by Handel, Poulenc ensemble and Stephen Craigen, conductor and André Previn (tickets prices start at £3)

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Cambridge University Chamber Choir at the Friday 28 October 2011 Michaelmas Term 2011 at 7.30pm Festival of Ideas king’s college chapel A guide to the history of classical music hosted by Sara Mohr-Pietsch Tickets: register for your free ticket Friday 23 September 2011 from BBC Radio 3, with contributions from the Cambridge University Alumni weekend ‘Come & Sing’ online at comms.group.cam.ac.uk/ 4pm–10.30pm Chamber Choir, directed by Mark Williams, and leading instrumentalists Fauré Requiem king’s college chapel from the University. festivalofideas/ or telephone – 01223 766766 Cambridge University Alumni Chorus Tickets £12 singers (£15 with music) East Anglia Chamber Orchestra £5 audience for 9.30pm performance Elgar Cello Concerto Saturday 29 October 2011 Stephen Cleobury conductor at 8pm For further details and tickets Lili Boulanger D’une soir Triste Raphaela Papadakis soprano west road concert hall contact CUMS Box Office 01223 Elgar Cello Concerto Matthew Sandy tenor 365110, [email protected] Ravel La Valse Tickets £16 (£13 concessions), Ashley Riches bass Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919 version) £5 students CUMS Symphony Season Launch Concert Saturday 22 October 2011 Orchestra Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music at 8pm west road concert hall Mozart Concerto for two pianos Martin Yates conductor Raphael Wallfisch cello Stravinsky Symphony in C Tickets £16 (£13 concessions), Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra £5 students Cambridge University Chamber Choir Peter Ash conductor Tom Poster piano Cordelia Williams piano © Benjamin Ealovega © Eric Richmond © Hanya Chlala © Hanya Peter Ash Tom Poster Cordelia Williams Raphael Wallfisch Martin Yates

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great conductor series Friday 25 November 2011 Verdi Requiem Saturday 26 November 2011 at 8pm at 7.30pm Sir Roger Norrington conducts Mozart and Haydn west road concert hall CUMS Chorus ely cathedral Mozart Symphony No.38 ‘Prague’ East Anglia Chamber Orchestra Mozart Violin Concerto No.5 Tickets £16 (£13 concessions), Stephen Cleobury conductor Tickets £32, £26, £20, £8 Haydn Symphony No.101 ‘The Clock’ £5 students Rachel Nicholls soprano Students: £4 reduction of above prices and £5 on the door, subject to Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra Sir Roger Norrington will Madeleine Shaw mezzo-soprano

© Gerald Place availability subsequently conduct CUCO in a Justin Lavender tenor Stephen Cleobury Sir Roger Norrington conductor studio recording of this programme. Jamie Hall bass Charlie Siem violin Cambridge University Wind Orchestra Tuesday 29 November 2011 Timothy Jackson Passacaglia at 8pm west road concert hall Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite Arutunian Trumpet Concerto Tickets £10 (£8 concessions), Copland Fanfare for the Common Man £3 students Nia Llewelyn Jones conductor Matt Letts trumpet

Grieg Piano Concerto Saturday 3 December 2011 Oliver Weeks (CUMS Composer-in-Residence) at 8pm west road concert hall New Work (premiere) Grieg Piano Concerto Tickets £16 (£13 concessions), Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 ‘Pathethique’ £5 students CUMS Symphony Orchestra Harry Ogg © Manfred Esser

© Mario Testino Harry Ogg conductor (CUMS Brenda Charters Conducting Scholar) Sir Roger Norrington Charlie Siem John Chen piano (CUMS Concerto Competition prizewinner)

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Lent Term 2012

Wagner Insight Day Saturday 28 January 2012 12.30pm – 5pm This is a rare chance to meet Sir Mark Elder and attend his final king’s college chapel and rehearsal in King’s College Chapel before the evening’s performance. keynes hall, king’s college There will also be a fascinating talk by Wagner specialists John Deathridge and Robin Holloway, chaired by David Trippett, who will Tickets £7, £3 Students help us to discover Wagner’s masterpiece Parsifal. We recommend you book early as tickets are very limited in number. Joan Rodgersb Robert Haywardc

great conductor series Saturday 28 January 2012 at 8.15pm Sir Mark Elder conducts Wagner and Debussy king’s college chapel Debussy La Damoiselle élue Wagner Parsifal (Act III) Tickets £32, £26, £20, £10 Students: £4 reduction of above Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra prices and £5 on the door, subject to CUMS Symphony Orchestra availability Cambridge University Chamber Choir and Cambridge College Choirs Victoria Simmondsd Sir Mark Elder conductor Joan Rodgers soprano Picture credits: Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano aClive Barda bAnne-Marie Le Blé Simon O’Neill tenor c Sir Mark Eldera Fritz Curzon Robert Hayward bass-baritone dTom Gibson Robert Lloyd bass eLes Campbell Simon O’Neill f Robert Lloyde fLisa Kohler 10 Ⅵ cums 2011‒2012 CUMS•brochure 2011.4_PND 05/09/2011 11:00 Page 12

CUMS Chorus and Prime Brass Saturday 25 February 2012 Shostakovich Symphony No.7 Saturday 3 March 2012 at 8pm at 8pm Paul Patterson Paris Fanfare jesus college chapel Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.1 west road concert hall Parry I Was Glad Shostakovich Symphony No.7 Vaughan Williams Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge Tickets £12, £5 unsighted, Tickets £16 (£13 concessions), CUMS Symphony Orchestra Walton Coronation Te Deum £5 students £5 students Wayne Marshall Psalm 150 Martin Yates conductor Paul Patterson Magnificat Josie Robertson violin (CUMS Concerto Competition prizewinner) Stephen Cleobury conductor Alexander Berry organist Cambridge University Chamber Choir Friday 9 March 2012 JS Bach St Matthew Passion at 8pm st john’s college chapel Soloists and chorus of the Cambridge University Chamber Choir Cambridge University Collegium Musicum Tickets £20, £15, £5 unsighted Students: £4 reduction of above Tim Brown director prices and £5 on the Margaret Faultless leader, co-director door, subject to availability Stefan Kennedy evangelist

Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra Saturday 10 March 2012 Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn at 8pm west road concert hall Copland Clarinet Concerto Schubert Symphony No.9 Tickets £16 (£13 concessions), Peter Stark conductor £5 students Joseph Shiner clarinet (winner of the CUMS Concerto Competition) Sponsored by CAM Decorative and Fine Arts Society

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CUMS Concert for Schools Monday 12 March 2012 west road concert hall Easter Term 2012 Cambridge University Wind Orchestra Open to schools by invitation – if Will Cole conductor your school would like to attend Friday 27 April 2012 please contact Simon Smart at Gala Charity Concert A varied programme aimed at sparking the imagination of children. at 7.30pm [email protected] Bruckner Motets Music worksheets and teacher guidance notes will be provided. king’s college chapel Strauss Oboe Concerto Verdi Pater Noster Tickets £60, £50, £40, £25 King’s College Foundation Concert Saturday 17 March 2012 Puccini Messa di Gloria Students: £5 on the door, subject to Parry I Was Glad at 5.30pm king s college chapel availability Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 ’ Philharmonia Orchestra Elgar Coronation Ode King’s College Choir Tickets £30, £25, £18 CUMS Chorus King’s College Choir and former Choir members Students: £5 on the door, subject to Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra availability Stephen Cleobury conductor Nicholas Daniel oboe Stephen Cleobury conductor Tom Poster piano Nicholas Daniel

Mendelssohn and Beethoven Saturday 5 May 2012 Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream at 8pm west road concert hall Beethoven Violin Concerto Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’ Tickets £16 (£13 concessions), Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra £5 students Stephanie Gonley director and violin

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Sir Richard Armstrong conducts Elgar The Dream of Gerontius with Cambridge College Choirs, CUMS Symphony Orchestra and Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra, January 2011. Strauss Waltzes Thursday 10 May 2012 at 8pm Cambridge University Wind Orchestra west road concert hall CUMS Concert Orchestra Tickets £10 (£8 concessions), Ennio Morricone Moment for Morricone £3 students Gershwin Strike Up the Band Bernstein Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story’ J Strauss Waltzes | Roses from the South | Künsterleben | On the Beautiful Blue Danube Will Cole & Nia Llewelyn Jones conductors

great conductor series Saturday 16 June 2012 May Week Concert at 8pm king’s college chapel Debussy La Mer Berlioz Te Deum Tickets £32, £26, £20 Students: £4 reduction of above prices CUMS Symphony Orchestra and £5 on the door, subject to CUMS Chorus availability Sawston Village College Choir © Karen Almond © Karen Graeme Jenkins conductor Graeme Jenkins Christopher Gillett Christopher Gillett tenor Ralph Woodward chorus master, organist

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CUMS Concert Orchestra London Recitals Formally CUMS II, this is the Society’s second symphony This season we are holding two exclusive chamber music orchestra. The orchestra performs popular symphonic recitals in London to bring the Society’s work to a wider works, and is led by some of the University’s best young audience and to provide performance opportunities for conductors and soloists. This season, the orchestra will our talented young artists. perform three concerts at West Road Concert Hall including a joint concert with the Cambridge University Chamber concert and supper, Tuesday 8 November Wind Orchestra in the Easter Term. (see page 16) 2011, 7pm This evening is generously hosted by Mr and Mrs Bob Thursday 1 December 2011 at 8pm Boas at their stunning Robert Adam home just off Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture and Symphony No.3 and Portland Place in central London. The evening will begin Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No.3 with Julian Azkoul, with a sparkling wine reception, after which Cambridge’s violin, and Will Cole, conductor finest young musicians will perform in the spectacular drawing room. An optional two-course supper with the Wednesday 14 March 2012 at 8pm musicians will follow. Tickets are very limited in number Beethoven Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus and and will cost £40 per person for the concert and drinks Symphony No.7 and R Strauss Horn Concerto No.2 with reception or £75 per person with supper. Stephen Craigen, horn, and Nia Llewelyn Jones conductor Choral and chamber music concert and supper, Tickets £10 (£8 concessions), Monday 12 March 2012, 7pm £3 students This evening is generously hosted by Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis in South Kensington. The evening will begin with a sparkling wine reception, after which the Cambridge University Chamber Choir and other Cambridge musicians will perform in the music room. A two-course buffet supper with the musicians will follow. Tickets are very limited in number and will cost £50 per person.

Tickets are available online at www.cums.org.uk or from

Chloe Davidson at [email protected] or 01223 248945. Woodwark Stephen Craigen (CUMS Concerto Jerome Competition Prizewinner). Photo by

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International tours enjoying luxurious accommodation and fine food in the heart of the Bordeaux countryside? The Cambridge Cambridge University Musical Society St Matthew Passion in Israel with the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra will be in residence at the University Chamber Choir and Israel Camerata Orpheus & Bacchus Festival at Domaine Le Faure, near 17–27 March 2012 Gensac, from 30 June–6 July. Ian Christians (Clare 1962) Cambridge University Chamber Choir will join the Israel CUMS is one of the oldest and most distinguished Orchestra; and a Great Conductors series was launched with invites up to 24 guests to join him at his beautiful Camerata – Israel’s leading chamber orchestra – for six university music societies in the world. It offers a world- the objective of exposing CUMS members to a succession of eighteenth-century estate, which includes three performances of JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion in class musical education for members of the University and world-class visiting conductors. In February 2010 CUMS swimming pools, tennis court, croquet lawn, a private 16- Jerusalem, Haifa, Rohovat and Tel Aviv. local residents, nurturing the great musicians of the future entered another new phase of its development when it acre valley and a music salon containing Alfred Brendel’s and providing performing opportunities for over 500 merged with the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra old Steinway. Concert programmes will include CUMS Chorus and Prime Brass in Paris Cambridge musicians every year. and Cambridge University Music Club. In October 2010 the Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’ and Beethoven 10–13 April 2012 The Society has played a pivotal role in British musical Society launched the Cambridge University Lunchtime Violin Concerto with violinist Jerome Woodwark. Following the success of recent tours to Prague, Tuscany life for almost 170 years. It has educated such luminaries as Concerts – a new series of weekly chamber recitals at West In the words of The Times, ‘I have been as close as I am and Tallinn, the Chorus will join forces with Prime Brass Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Road Concert Hall showcasing the University’s finest musical ever likely to get to having been on visiting terms with for a programme of English music conducted by Stephen Edward Gardner, Christopher Hogwood and Robin Ticciati, talent. In 2011 it took on the Cambridge University Chamber the Margrave of Brandenburg, the Esterhazys, and other Cleobury at Notre Dame, Saint Eustache and the has given world or UK premieres of works by Brahms, Choir. CUMS continues to provide opportunities for the aristocratic musical patrons of the past. Thanks to Ian American Cathedral in Paris. Holloway, Lutoslawski, Maxwell Davies, Rutter, Saxton and University’s finest student soloists and conductors by Christians, a modern-day benefactor, I have enjoyed the Vaughan Williams, and has exposed successive generations awarding conducting scholarships and concerto prizes, and it extraordinary privilege of hearing world class classical Cambridge University Chamber Choir in the United of Cambridge musicians to visiting conductors and soloists actively encourages new music by running a composition musicians playing in a private salon for an audience States, 21–26 June 2012 including Britten, Dvorak, Kodaly, Menuhin and competition and premiering at least one new work each year. numbered in tens, not hundreds, and seated on The Cambridge University Chamber Choir will make its Tchaikovsky. Since the 1870s, CUMS has enjoyed the Recent highlights have included the world premiere of comfortable sofas and easy chairs rather than in rows of USA debut representing Europe at a world festival of leadership of several of Britain’s finest musicians, The Sorcerer’s Mirror, a major new CUMS commission from concert hall seating. For immediacy and intimacy this has choral music at Yale University, New Haven. Further including Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir , Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Andrew Motion; the to be as good as musical holidaymaking can possibly get.’ concerts in the New York area are planned. Sir Philip Ledger, and, from 1983 to 2009, Stephen opening concert of the 2009 City of London Festival; tours to Cleobury. Prague and Tuscany; choral concerts with Stephen Cleobury, More information about all our tours will be available in Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra in In 2009 Stephen Cleobury assumed the new role of the Philharmonia Orchestra and soloists including Bryn October at www.cums.org.uk. Bordeaux, France, 30 June – 6 July 2012 Principal Conductor, CUMS Chorus, and Sir Roger Terfel in Cambridge and at the Royal Albert Hall; Mahler’s Why not spend your summer holiday enjoying music Norrington was appointed as Principal Guest Conductor. monumental Symphony No.8 at Ely Cathedral under Stephen from Cambridge’s finest young musicians, exploring the Martin Yates, ‘one of the most exciting and versatile British Cleobury; Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with Sir Roger wines of some of France’s foremost chateaux and conductors of his generation’ in the words of The Times, Norrington and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Sir joined the team as Principal Conductor, CUMS Symphony Richard Armstrong.

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Join the CUMS Supporters’ Circle CUMS Supporters and Funders For more information about CUMS, our concerts, booking tickets, receiving our e- newsletters or getting involved, please see our website: www.cums.org.uk Since it was founded in 1843, CUMS has provided unique ● acknowledgement in CUMS concert programmes and on ACE Foundation Our newly-designed website is always up- opportunities for successive generations of Cambridge the website CAM Decorative and Fine Arts Society to-date with the latest Society news, events musicians. It has immeasurably enriched the cultural life ● invitations to drinks at each performance at West Road and contact information. Alternatively, you of the University and City, and, having launched many of Concert Hall Christ’s College can contact individual Society ensembles: the biggest careers in classical music, it has played a ● an invitation to the annual CUMS Garden Party Clare Hall pivotal role in the musical world beyond. ● regular updates on key CUMS projects and events CUMS Fund Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra – CUMS receives no core funding from the University, Jonathan Dumbrill ([email protected]) Benefactor: £250–£499 per annum CUMS Supporters’ Circle and income from ticket sales does not meet the full cost Donald Wort Fund CUMS Symphony Orchestra – Chloe of delivering a world-class musical education. The CUMS Principal Benefactor: £500–£999 per annum Davidson ([email protected]) Supporters’ Circle has been established to address this Gonville and Caius College All of the above, plus opportunities to sit in on selected CUMS Chorus – Caroline Goulder pressing financial need. Homerton College ([email protected]) rehearsals All those who value Cambridge’s splendid musical Jesus College Cambridge University Chamber Choir – heritage, and who want the University to provide The Stanford Circle: £1,000–£2,499 per annum King’s College Nicholas Mogg ([email protected]) opportunities for the finest young musicians of the The Vaughan Williams Circle: £2,500+ per annum Newnham College Cambridge University Lunchtime Concerts – twenty-first century, are invited to join the CUMS Will Cole ([email protected]) Supporters’ Circle. Membership of the Circle is through All of the above, plus the opportunity to be recognised as Pembroke College Cambridge University Wind Orchestra – Ned annual donation to CUMS. There are six levels of the supporter of a specific activity each season. Sidney Sussex College Booker ([email protected]) donation: St John’s College CUMS Concert Orchestra – Sarah Yetman To become a Member of the CUMS Supporters’ Circle, Trinity College ([email protected]) Friend: £50–£99 per annum please contact Christine Skeen, Secretary, CUMS Supporters’ Circle, Cambridge University, 11 West Road, Faculty of Music Donor: £100–£249 per annum Front cover photo: Josie Robertson (CUMS Cambridge, CB3 9DP. University of Cambridge Societies Syndicate Concerto Competition Prizewinner) by Friends and Donors enjoy West Road Concert Hall Jerome Woodwark ● contributing membership of the Society, entitling them You will become part of an extraordinary musical Wolfson College Rehearsal and performance photos by to priority booking for performances tradition. Francis Knights

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Design and pre-press: Peter Ducker mistd / Printed in the United Kingdom Ely Cathedral Ely Box office for concert at concert at office for Box Cambridge Corn Exchange Office Box Street, CB2 3QB Cambridge Wheeler 357851 01223 Tel: Online: www.cambridge.gov.uk/boxoffice Office Box Cathedral and Ely 9.30am–4pm) 01353 660349 (Mon-Sat Tel: Email: [email protected] Online: tickets.elycathedral.org Society Musical Cambridge University Concert Hall Road West Cambridge CB3 9DP Road, 11 West www.cums.org.uk Jesus , and for on 17 March King’s College Chapel King’s College on 27 April 2012 on 27 April West Road Concert Hall Road West St John’s College Chapel College St John’s and King’s Foundation Concert King’s Foundation CUMS Chorus concert

Wagner Insight Day Wagner 2012 and King’s Shop at 13 King’s Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1SP 01223 769342 Tel: Email: [email protected] all other concerts in office for Box Cambridge Corn Exchange Office Box Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QB Wheeler 01223 357851 Tel: Online: www.cambridge.gov.uk/boxoffice Booking information www.cums.org.uk visit our website, recommend you We as as well booking, about information the latest for Road West concerts at our online booking system for Concert Hall. concerts in office for Box Chapel College the 365110 01223 Tel: Email: [email protected] Online: www.cums.org.uk office for Box CUMS•brochure 2011.4_PND 27/09/2011 12:20 Page 24 Page 12:20 27/09/2011 2011.4_PND CUMS•brochure