AUTUMN 2020 CONCERTS AND EVENTS CONTENTS WELCOME TO AUTUMN 3 WELCOME 4 WHAT’S ON TERM AT THE ACADEMY 32 MASTERCLASSES 34 DONORS 36 ABOUT THE ACADEMY In this most challenging and unexpected of times, I am deeply inspired by the way Academy students, staff and alumni have embraced the digital landscape. It has been an opportunity to adapt, learn and develop new ways of working that Christodoulou Chris will see us emerge from the pandemic stronger than ever.
This term, I’m delighted to announce This term, we will be livestreaming our full that we are livestreaming our Autumn Season on YouTube. We have always programme of events. prided ourselves on being a global community of musicians, so the prospect of reaching old and new audiences around Visit RAM.AC.UK/EVENTS the world with an ambitious programme for event listings and links to watch each of online content is a thrilling one. performance live on our YouTube channel While there is no substitute for playing in the presence of an audience, we are and for 30 days afterwards. very excited by the possibilities that livestreaming offers. As we prepare to enter our third century, we have never Subscribe today at been more confident in our ability to youtube.com/RoyalAcademyofMusic shape the future of music. I remain grateful for your support of our wonderful community and hope to be able to welcome you back into the building in the not-too-distant future. Programmes may be subject to change or cancellation in line with the latest coronavirus guidance. Please check our website Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE for the most up-to-date information.
2 3 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER SUN 4 OCT, 12 NOON BACH THE FRI 25 SEPT, 1PM THURS 1 OCT, 1PM SAINSBURY ROYAL AMETZA QUARTET EUROPEAN: ACADEMY SOLOISTS LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL BACH AND LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DUKE’S HALL Madeleine Pickering and Laura Rickard THE CREATION violin Clio Gould director Lucas Levin viola Julie Park viola OF MODERN Garwyn Linnell cello Britten Lachrymae, Op 48a Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op 20 EUROPE – Nuno da Rocha Diptych No 5, Hob III:35, ‘Sun’ Shostakovich arr Barshai Chamber Britten String Quartet No 3, Op 94 CENTRAL Symphony in C minor, Op 110a Clio Gould and the Sainsbury EUROPE Royal Academy Soloists present Britten’s variations on songs by John Dowland, featuring viola soloist Julie Park, and a new piece by PhD composition student Nuno da Rocha. Rudolf Barshai’s
transcription of Shostakovich’s TheresaPewal String Quartet No 8 in C minor for string orchestra, which opens with LIVESTREAMED FROM THE Shostakovich’s signature D-S-C-H DUKE’S HALL We are delighted to bring ‘Bach the motif, completes the programme. European’ back to our audiences after Rachel Podger director missing four concerts earlier in the year, Laurence Cummings harpsichord including one with Laurence Cummings as director. In this programme, he Zelenka Hipocondrie à 7 concertanti appears as solo harpsichordist for in A, ZWV 187 Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No 5, JS Bach Widerstehe doch der Sünde, written for Christian Ludwig, Margrave BWV 54 of Brandenburg-Schwedt. Bach’s music Muffat Sonata No 5 in G from is presented alongside pieces by leading Armonico tributo contemporaries in Central Europe, JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Zelenka and Muffat. in D, BWV 1050 Performed on historical instruments. Roscoe Rutter
4 5 OCTOBER FRI 9 OCT, 1PM ACADEMY MON 5 OCT, 6.30PM THURS 8 OCT, 1PM NEW WORKS FOR ORGAN DELIUS AND ELGAR SYMPHONIC LIVESTREAMED FROM THE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DUKE’S HALL DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL BRASS
LIVESTREAMED FROM THE As part of the Academy’s 200 PIECES Daniel Stroud violin DUKE’S HALL Bicentenary project, organ students Timothy Rumsey piano perform new commissions Type by Robin Delius Violin Sonata No 3 Jeroen Berwaerts director Haigh and Manual by Morgan Hayes Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor, Op 82 alongside works by JS Bach and Böhm. Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Bernstein arr Eric Crees West Side Story – Suite
TUES 6 OCT, 1PM Turn up the volume for this rousing HER LULLABY programme of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Crees’s superb LIVESTREAMED FROM THE arrangement of the much-loved West DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL Side Story. Academy brass students perform under the direction of Jeroen Julie Park viola Berwaerts, trumpet professor at the Michel Xie piano Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and Professor in Bridge Two pieces for viola and piano Residence at the Academy. Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op 70 200 PIECES Martin Suckling Her Lullaby (world premiere) Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op 73
200 PIECES
As part of our Bicentenary celebrations, we’ve commissioned 200 composers to write 200 works for solo instrument or voice. Tsuyoshi Tachibana Tsuyoshi
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TUES 13 OCT, FROM 10.30AM LIVESTREAMED FROM THE 3pm LIVESTREAMED FROM THE ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL Songeun Choi piano DUKE’S HALL AUTUMN 10.30am Sophie Hinson violin 6.30pm Garwyn Linnell cello Hattie Butterworth cello Beethoven 250+: The Natural World Xiaowen Shang piano George Fu conductor/piano Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor, PIANO Julian Chan piano Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C, Op 119 Op 1 No 3 Festival Contemporary Ensemble FESTIVAL: Webern Three Little Pieces, Op 11 Ireland Piano Trio No 3 Beethoven Cello Sonata in C, Op 102 Beethoven Piano Sonata in D, Op 28, BEETHOVEN No 1 4.30pm ‘Pastorale’ Trio Mazzolini: Ravel arr Roques Daphnis et Chloé 11.30am Harry Rylance piano Suite No 2 250+ Alina Vorobyeva clarinet Jack Greed violin Tansy Davies Nature María Espino Codes violin Yurie Lee cello Anastasia Matkovskaia piano Head of Piano Joanna MacGregor CBE Edmund Finnis Five Trios Ben Finlay cello introduces a day celebrating Beethoven’s Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Op 1 No 1 250th anniversary. His vivacious chamber Khachaturian Trio for clarinet, music sits alongside works by Prokofiev, violin and piano 5.30pm Khachaturian, Ireland and Dobrinka Beethoven Trio in B flat, Op 11 Kevin Suherman piano Tabakova, and two pinnacles of solo Beethoven arr Liszt Symphony No 3 virtuosity are also featured: the Diabelli 1pm in E flat, Op 55, ‘Eroica’ Variations and Liszt’s transcription of the Ariel Lanyi piano ‘Eroica’ Symphony. Beethoven 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op 120
2.15pm Erik Fauss viola Nicolas Ventura piano Beethoven Notturno in D, Op 42 Dobrinka Tabakova Suite in Jazz Style
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THURS 15 OCT, 1PM MON 19 OCT, 11.30AM TUES 20 OCT, 1PM THURS 22 OCT, 1PM FRANCK’S VIOLIN SONATA SCHUMANN: FAMILY MERA HORN TRIO KAVINSKY TRIO PORTRAITS I LIVESTREAMED FROM THE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL Serin Baek violin Mera Horn Trio: Rob Burton saxophone Junyan Chen piano XinRu Chen traces the lineage George Strivens horn Millicent McFall piano between Schumann and Stockhausen, Julian Chan piano Amalia Young violin Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Schoenberg and Jörg Widmann, Isobel Howard violin capriccioso in A minor, Op 28 Michael Zev Gordon Fragments from with illustrations from Schumann’s Franck Violin Sonata in A Koechlin Quatre petites pièces, Op 32 a Diary Kinderszenen, Op 15, Fantasiestücke, 200 PIECES Òscar Colomina i Bosch 200 PIECES Brian Elias Arioso for solo Op 12, and Kreisleriana, Op 16. new work for solo violin (world premiere) baritone saxophone (world premiere) 200 PIECES Victoria Borisova-Ollas 200 PIECES Thomas Simaku RAM 200 FRI 16 OCT, 1PM Magnolia in the Rain (world premiere) for solo piano (world premiere) ACADEMY SYMPHONIC TUES 20 OCT, 11.30AM Brahms Horn Trio, Op 40 200 PIECES Martin Butler A Darkling WIND SCHUMANN: FAMILY Plain for solo violin (world premiere) PORTRAITS II Marc Eychenne Cantilène et Danse LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DUKE’S HALL LIVESTREAMED FROM THE ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL Keith Bragg conductor XinRu Chen continues her cycle with Mozart arr Timothy Jones Serenade the premiere of Geoffrey King’s Family from Le nozze di Figaro Portraits (200 PIECES), coupled with Mozart Serenade in C minor, K 388 Schumann’s ebullient masterpiece, Head of Woodwind Keith Bragg Carnaval, Op 9. conducts an all-Mozart programme, including a new arrangement for wind quintet of music from Le nozze di Figaro by our Deputy Principal, Timothy Jones.
10 11 FRI 23 OCT, 7.30PM OCTOBER JOHN WILSON TUES 27 OCT, 1PM THURS 29 OCT, 6PM CONDUCTS W1 BRASS ROYAL ACADEMY LIVESTREAMED FROM THE OPERA SCENES THE ACADEMY DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL LIVESTREAMED FROM THE SUSIE SAINSBURY THEATRE SYMPHONY James Nash and Shannon Harper trumpet Roc Fargas i Castells and Ed Johan Stone horn ORCHESTRA Liebrecht conductors Hannah Stell trombone Louise Bakker director LIVESTREAMED FROM THE Christopher Barron tuba DUKE’S HALL Under the musical guidance of Head Susato arr Urban Agnas Danserye Suite of Opera Brenda Hurley and the (excerpts) John Wilson conductor Repetiteur Fellows, Royal Academy Anders Hillborg Brass Quintet Opera presents a varied programme Finzi Clarinet Concerto, Op 31 Jan Bach Laudes of scenes. An integral part of the RAO Strauss Metamorphosen training programme, the focus of opera scenes is on combining singing John Wilson, conductor of the with movement and stagecraft. Sinfonia of London and founder of the THURS 29 OCT, 1PM John Wilson Orchestra, returns to work PROKOFIEV’S VIOLIN SONATA with the strings section of the Academy LIVESTREAMED FROM THE Symphony Orchestra on a concert DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL featuring Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto – perhaps his best-known work – and Naori Takahashi violin Strauss’s Metamorphosen for Michel Xie piano 23 solo strings. Prokofiev Five Melodies, Op 35 ProkofievViolin Sonata in F minor, Op 80 Roscoe Rutter Sim Canetty-Clarke Sim
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FRI 30 OCT COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE: MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE
11.30AM-1PM 6.30PM SUN 1 NOV, 12 NOON IN CONVERSATION ACADEMY MANSON ENSEMBLE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE BACH THE ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL DUKE’S HALL EUROPEAN: Writer and broadcaster Paul Morley Christopher Austin conductor interviews Mark-Anthony Turnage, one tbc viola BACH AND of Britain’s most celebrated composers. Daniel Go cello Mark-Anthony Turnage Release; Eulogy THE GERMAN Grace-Evangeline Mason The Beauty
of Decay (world premiere) LITURGY Harte Benjamin Mark-Anthony Turnage Kai A concert to celebrate Mark-Anthony LIVESTREAMED FROM THE Eamonn Dougan, Associate Conductor Turnage’s 60th birthday – the climax of DUKE’S HALL of The Sixteen, Founding Director this week’s residency in the Composition of Britten Sinfonia Voices and Music Department. Release was composed Eamonn Dougan director Director of the Thomas Tallis Society, for the BBC Two series Sound on Film leads Academy students in this all-Bach and begins by quoting the haunting aria JS Bach Am Abend aber desselbigen programme. The Prelude and Fugue in ‘We only love’ from Greek, Turnage’s Sabbats, BWV 42 E flat from the Clavier-Übung III – often first opera. Eulogy is a plangent song JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in E flat, nicknamed ‘St Anne’ – is sandwiched without words for viola, composed BWV 552 between two sacred Leipzig cantatas: for Lawrence Power and the Nash JS Bach Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, first Ensemble. A classic of the modern cello BWV 135 performed in June 1724, and Am Abend repertoire, Kai was written in memory aber desselbigen Sabbats, written for of Kai Scheffler, Principal Cello and the first Sunday after Easter the founding member of Ensemble Modern. following year. A new work by Academy PhD composer Grace-Evangeline Mason completes Performed on historical instruments. the programme. Philip GatwardPhilip
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FRI 6 NOV, 1PM TUES 3 NOV, 1PM MON 9 NOV, 6.30PM SYLVA WINDS TRIOS, DUOS, SOLOS TREVOR LIVESTREAMED FROM THE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE PINNOCK DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL Yi-Hsuan Chen flute Jack Greed violin CONDUCTS Drake Gritton oboe Neil Heyde and Yurie Lee cello Rowan Jones clarinet James Gilbert clarinet THE Guylaine Eckersley bassoon Harry Rylance piano Zoë Tweed horn 200 PIECES Richard Beaudoin ACADEMY Luís Tinoco Autumn Wind Reproducció for solo cello Martin Butler Down-Hollow Winds (world premiere) CHAMBER 200 PIECES Jō Kondō Boukoliasmos Jonathan Harvey Trio for violin, clarinet for solo bassoon (world premiere) and piano ORCHESTRA 200 PIECES Joshua Hickin Song 200 PIECES Gareth Moorcraft new work Just Before Autumn for solo flute for solo clarinet (world premiere) (world premiere) 200 PIECES Julian Anderson Sky Piece Ligeti Six Bagatelles for wind quintet for solo cello (world premiere)
Gerard Collett Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
THURS 5 NOV, 1PM LIVESTREAMED FROM THE ACCORDION CHAMBER MUSIC TUES 10 NOV, 1PM DUKE’S HALL HILL ENSEMBLE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL LIVESTREAMED FROM THE Trevor Pinnock conductor DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL Haydn Symphony No 83 in G minor, Mirko Škarica accordion Hob I:83, ‘La poule’ Bridget O’Donnell violin Programme to include: Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat, K 543 Julia Doukakis viola Martin Lohse Cinque momenti mobile Benjamin Michaels cello Trevor Pinnock, Principal Guest Graciane Finzi Impression Tango Conductor of the Academy Chamber David Gorton Tähtelä, Place of the Stars Beethoven String Trio in G, Op 9 No 1 Orchestra, conducts one of Mozart’s 200 PIECES Cheryl Frances-Hoad Martinů String Trio No 1, H 136 late symphonies alongside the second 29 Rue d’Astorg for solo accordion of Haydn’s Paris symphonies. Popularly A concert of chamber music with known as ‘The Hen’, the work’s nickname classical accordion. refers to the jerky ‘clucking’ theme in the first movement.
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TUES 10 NOV, 6.30PM WED 11 NOV, 6.30PM THURS 12 NOV, 1PM FRI 13 NOV, 11.30AM DIFFERENT REALITIES BRASS, REEDS AND WIND HARP CHAMBER MUSIC VIOLA, VIOLA LIVESTREAMED FROM THE STREAMED FROM THE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL DUKE’S HALL DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
Laura Rickard violin Roc Fargas i Castells conductor Esther Beyer and Zsuzsanna Szilágyi harp Cameron Howe, Wenhan Jiang, Miguel Sobrinho viola Flávio Albino Rodrigues accordion Lucas Levin and Daichi Yoshimura viola Damase Trio, Op 1 James Gilbert clarinet 200 PIECES Erika Fox new work for solo 200 PIECES Christopher Mayo new work A morning of music and discussion led Benjamin Michaels and Shannon Ross trumpet (world premiere) for solo harp (world premiere) by the Principal Viola of the London cello 200 PIECES Howard Skempton new 200 PIECES Skaila Kanga Beyond the Sinfonietta, Paul Silverthorne, including Michel Xie piano work for solo accordion (world premiere) Clouds for solo harp (world premiere) three new works for solo viola 200 PIECES Timothy Salter Writhe for Gerhard Nonet Roussel Sérénade, Op 30 (200 PIECES): Elogia by Sohrab Uduman solo cello (world premiere) 200 PIECES Joseph Howard new work (world premiere), Amorphia by Jesse Lutosławski Bucolics for viola and cello for solo trombone (world premiere) Jones, and Etude by Robert Fokkens 200 PIECES John Casken From One 200 PIECES Claudia Molitor She Keeps (world premiere), as well as George Thread for solo viola (world premiere) Walking Over Paper for solo accordion THURS 12 NOV, 6.30PM Benjamin’s Viola, Viola. 200 PIECES Charlotte Bray Different (world premiere) PIZZICA Realities for solo cello (world premiere) Sofia Gubaidulina Trio for three trumpets LIVESTREAMED FROM THE Bartók Contrasts ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
Bianca Beng harp Isabelle Haile soprano Bradley Johnson guitar 200 PIECES Louise Drewett Pizzica for solo harp (world premiere) Stravinsky Three Songs from William Shakespeare 200 PIECES Vic Hoyland For Ariel for solo high voice (world premiere) 200 PIECES Gary Carpenter The Benefit of Hindsight for solo guitar (world premiere) Grace-Evangeline Mason Kite Song Stravinsky Epitaphium
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FRI 13 NOV, 1PM FRI 13 NOV, 6.30PM TUES 17 NOV, 1PM MOONS AND ANEMONES LANTANA TRIO SEPTURA: LIVESTREAMED FROM THE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE
REVIVAL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL Emma Baird and Emily Earl violin Elena Blanco Junquera violin LIVESTREAMED FROM THE Formed of principal brass players Hayley Mitchell and Guillermo Inis Oírr Asano viola DUKE’S HALL from London’s major orchestras, Ramasasa clarinet George Wilkes cello the Academy’s Ensemble in Residence, Julian Chan piano Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Op 9 Finzi arr Matthew Knight God is gone up Septura, performs side by side with Marcus Dawson baritone No 3 Lucy Callen new work (world premiere) Academy students in a programme on Ives Largo for violin, clarinet and piano, David Matthews String Trio No 1, Op 48 Prokofiev arr Simon Cox Suite, Op 12 the theme of revival, featuring Finzi’s Op 73 Gabrieli Canzon II a 4 from Canzoni joyous celebration of the Resurrection, 200 PIECES Rhian Samuel Moon per sonare con ogni sorte di stromenti Prokofiev’s early neoclassical suite, over Maenefa for solo baritone (1608); Canzon IV a 6 from Canzoni e Gabrieli and the golden age of brass, (world premiere) THURS 19 NOV, 1PM sonate (1615) Ravel’s awakening of Sleeping Beauty 200 PIECES Hilary Tann Moon Full, Low A CELEBRATION OF Gabrieli arr Simon Cox Sancta Maria and a brand-new piece for brass septet Tide for solo clarinet (world premiere) RACHMANINOV’S SONGS Ravel arr Matthew Knight The Enchanted by Academy composition student Ives selected songs Garden from Mother Goose Lucy Callen. LIVESTREAMED FROM THE 200 PIECES Geoffrey King on pause DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL for solo violin (world premiere) 200 PIECES Emma-Ruth Richards Kaitlyn Bourne and Phoebe Smith Red Anemones for solo soprano soprano (world premiere) Magnus Walker tenor Milhaud Suite for violin, clarinet Aron Goldin piano and piano Rachmaninov selected songs Matthew Lloyd
20 21 FRI 20 ‑ SAT 21 NOV, 7PM NOVEMBER ROYAL MON 23 NOV, 7.30PM TUES 24 NOV, 1PM REMEMBERING THE STRING QUINTETS ACADEMY ROSÉ QUARTET LIVESTREAMED FROM THE OPERA: LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL A MIDSUMMER Clova Quartet: Bernstein Piano Trio Gabriel Bilbao and Rodrigo Checa Lorite XinRu Chen and Yuchong Wu piano violin NIGHT’S Hill Ensemble Edgar Francis viola Hugh Mackay cello Brahms Piano Trio in B, Op 8 DREAM with Harry Atkinson double bass Schoenberg Three Piano Pieces, Op 11; Verklärte Nacht, Op 4 Boccherini String Quintet in D, Op 39 No 3, G 339 An evening of chamber music based on 200 PIECES Laurence Crane new work programmes performed by the Rosé
Martin Castro for solo double bass (world premiere) Quartet, founded by violinist Arnold Dvořák String Quintet No 2 in G, Op 77 Rosé. The quartet gave the premiere of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht at the Vienna Musikverein in 1902. TUES 24 NOV, 6.30PM STREAMED FROM THE bittersweet comedy, he caught this sense NEW WORKS FOR ORGAN SUSIE SAINSBURY THEATRE of existential despair with characteristic LIVESTREAMED FROM THE subtlety and an unforgettable DUKE’S HALL Sian Edwards conductor soundworld. Yet he found inspiration, Christopher Luscombe director too, in the intoxicating power of young As part of the Academy’s 200 PIECES Simon Higlett designer love and in the hilarious amateur Bicentenary project, students give the theatricals that are also at the heart of Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream premieres of Morgen by Morgan Hayes this extraordinary work. and a new work by Nuno da Rocha ‘The seasons alter … And this same The opera, written in a burst of creative alongside earlier works from the progeny of evils comes from our debate, energy in the summer of 1960, is an organ repertoire. from our dissension.’ endlessly fascinating kaleidoscope of A Midsummer Night’s Dream imagines colours and moods. It is perhaps the a world in crisis – the universe turned reconciliation and harmony that emerge upside down by forces beyond our in place of the expected apocalypse that control. When Benjamin Britten will be particularly welcome in our own fashioned his opera from Shakespeare’s troubled times.
22 23 NOVEMBER Benjamin Ealovega Benjamin WED 25 NOV, 6.30PM FRI 27 NOV, 7.30PM COMPOSERS’ PLATFORM GUITAR CHAMBER MUSIC LIVESTREAMED FROM THE LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
Programme to include: A wide-ranging programme of brand- Castelnuovo-Tedesco The Well- new works by student composers. Tempered Guitars (excerpts) Piazzolla Café 1930 from Histoire du tango THURS 26 NOV, 1PM Sérgio Assad Jobiniana No 1 TRIO MAZZOLINI Petit Toccata Tom Armstrong To the Measures Fall LIVESTREAMED FROM THE Academy guitarists collaborate with DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL instrumentalists from other departments to present a varied programme of Harry Rylance piano chamber music with guitar. Jack Greed violin Yurie Lee cello FRI 27 NOV, 1PM Tom Coult Chronophage Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 2 in EDWARD GARDNER C minor, Op 66 CONDUCTS THE Trio Mazzolini was formed in 2019. Its members are all recent Academy ACADEMY SYMPHONY graduates and are now Chamber Music Fellows. ORCHESTRA STREAMED FROM THE While new social distancing rules DUKE’S HALL present many challenges to our music making, they are also an opportunity Edward Gardner conductor to delve into the rich repertoire of works for smaller ensembles. Today’s John Adams Chamber Symphony programme includes works by two of Harrison Birtwistle In Broken Images our visiting professors, John Adams and Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1, Harrison Birtwistle, alongside the single- Op 9 movement Chamber Symphony that inspired Adams’s work of the same name.
24 25 NOVEMBER SUN 29 NOV, 6PM LIVESTREAMED FROM THE MUSICAL SUSIE SAINSBURY THEATRE SUN 29 NOV, 12 NOON Matt Ryan director THEATRE Enjoy an inspiring evening of musical BACH THE theatre repertoire in this specially devised COMPANY: performance by the Royal Academy EUROPEAN: ‘TELL ‘EM Musical Theatre Company. SAXON KINGS THINGS LIVESTREAMED FROM THE DUKE’S HALL THEY DON’T Iain Ledingham director KNOW’ Handel My heart is inditing, HWV 261; Let thy hand be strengthened, HWV 259 JS Bach Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215 Handel Zadok the Priest, HWV 258 Brenner Marc
Join us for the final ‘Bach the European’ concert of 2020, which juxtaposes ceremonial music written for Saxon kings by Bach and Handel. Hear dramatic vocal and orchestral forces that demonstrate the prestige and power of the monarchy. Bach’s Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen was written in 1734 to celebrate the crowning of King Augustus III of Poland, who was also Elector of Saxony. Handel’s anthems for King George II were performed at the coronation in October 1727. Performed on modern instruments.
Please note: this programme may be subject to change, depending on social distancing measures required at the time.
26 27 JAZZ TUES 6 OCT, 8PM ACADEMY BIG BAND
LIVESTREAMED FROM THE Academy fellow and saxophone SUSIE SAINSBURY THEATRE professor, jazz legend Stan Sulzmann, presents a cross-section of music from Nick Smart director his latest projects, including brand-new Stan Sulzmann saxophone compositions written during the summer lockdown. In a career spanning more than five decades, Stan has been at the forefront of jazz innovation and collaboration in the UK, Europe and beyond. Widely recognised as the godfather of modern tenor saxophone playing, he has played for Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Mike Gibbs, Paul McCartney and countless others.
The Academy’s Jazz Department has produced an incredible array of versatile, creative jazz musicians since its foundation in 1987. See the Nick Smart Nick
stars of tomorrow in livestreamed performances. Johnson Michael
28 29 JAZZ Drew Gardner THURS 22 OCT, 6PM JAZZ TUES 27 OCT, 6PM THURS 29 OCT, 6PM ENSEMBLES TUES 24 NOV, 6PM WED 25 NOV, 6PM LIVESTREAMED FROM THE THURS 26 NOV, 6PM CONCERT ROOM
Academy jazz students mark the culmination of their small-ensemble projects, performing music on which they have been working with a variety of distinguished visiting musicians.
THURS 12 NOV, 8PM On the eve of the 2020 EFG London Jazz Festival, we are excited to kick off ACADEMY celebrations with our own launch concert celebrating women in jazz. The Academy Jazz Department has been proud to BIG BAND: present many spectacular collaborations for the London Jazz Festival in CELEBRATING previous years, including memorable performances at Cadogan Hall and WOMEN Southbank Centre with artists Norma Winstone, John Hollenbeck’s Claudia IN JAZZ Quintet, South African vocal legend Tutu Puoane and more. Tonight, Academy LIVESTREAMED FROM THE professor Nikki Iles presents a concert DUKE’S HALL featuring some of her own acclaimed large ensemble music and other pieces Nikki Iles director by some of the best female big band
Michael Johnson Michael composers from around the world.
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ANNE-SOPHIE JEROEN NEIL IMOGEN BERTRAND BERWAERTS BRAND COOPER
LUCY LAURENCE JAMES TILMAN CROWE CUMMINGS EHNES HOPPSTOCK
JONATHAN JOSEPHINE JULIANA ALFRED KELLY KNIGHT KOCH MELICHAR
The musicians featured here are just some of the leading artists who will work with Academy students in masterclasses this term. These events will be taking place behind closed doors, but Academy patrons GUSTAVO BOŽO ASHAN TOBY NÚÑEZ PARADŽIK PILLAI SPENCE will receive exclusive access to filmed highlights. Roscoe Rutter
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