We are Chamber Music We are Opera and Song We are Popular Music Our Chamber Music Festival goes to the city Again in Manchester Cathedral, we will be Following its success at the Royal Albert Hall and Welcome centre (10-12 Jan) using Manchester Cathedral taking the magic and mystery of Orpheus with here at the RNCM last term, the RNCM Session as our hub, and featuring the Academy of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (28 Mar), which Orchestra returns with an exciting eclectic Ancient Music, the Talich Quartet and The will also be performed alongside his witty programme (25 Apr). Staff-led Vulgar Display Band of Instruments together with our staff The Drunkard Cured (L’ivrogne corrigé) in our give us their take on extreme metal (12 Feb). to the and students, to explore ‘The Art of Bach’. exclusive double-bill in the intimacy of our Our faithful lunchtime concert followers need not worry about the temporary closure of our Studio Theatre (18, 20, 22 and 27 Mar). Opera We are Folk and World Spring Concert Hall. These concerts will be as frequent, Scenes are back (21, 24, 28 and 31 Jan), as Fusing Latin American and traditional Celtic diverse and delightful as ever, in fantastic venues entertaining as ever. Yet another exciting venture folk, Salsa Celtica appear on the RNCM stage such as the Holden Art Gallery, St Ann’s is the one with the Royal Exchange Theatre for (7 Mar), followed by loud, proud acoustic season at Church and the Martin Harris Centre, featuring an extra-indulgent Day of Song (27 Apr) where Bellowhead–founding members, Spiers & the RNCM Chamber Ensemble with Stravinsky’s we will be taking you with us through the lush Boden on their last tour as a duo (20 Mar), The Soldier’s Tale, as well as a feast of other atmosphere of the Secession and travelling from while the award-winning folk band Melrose ensembles: Harp, Saxophone, Percussion and country to country by song throughout the day. Quartet perform in the Carole Nash Recital the RNCM Guitar, and our String and Wind Orchestras. We are also thrilled to welcome YCAT again for Room (28 Mar). Exquisite Manchester Chamber Concerts Society an evening of Lieder (10 Mar). programming runs across the Spring (27 Jan, Junior RNCM takes pride of place in an Open 24 Feb, 31 Mar) and Spotlights spice up our An exciting outward-facing Day (8 Feb) as well as in its eagerly awaited programme, giving everyone a glimpse into what We are Jazz and Big Band term where RNCM Live our students are up to, this year, for the first time, Our ever-growing partnership with Serious Formal Concert (1 Mar). We reach out to more experimenting with triple-bill shows (17 Jan). shows exciting collaborations coming up young people with our Youth Perform project, takes to the road far more with the fabulous Penguin Cafe (21 Feb) and this time with the biggest musical hit in Berlin of than ever before, and We are Brass the astonishing Naturally 7 (28 Feb) just the 1920s with the Brecht/Weill collaboration, Our ever popular Festival of Brass (26 Jan) coming out of their tour with Michael Bublé. The Threepenny Opera (23–26 Apr). where partnerships and kicks off at The Bridgewater Hall, celebrating Tord Gustavsen Ensemble return (15 Mar) the golden age for brass band music featuring showcasing their new ECM release Extended I must thank my Performance and Programming collaborations foster, our own RNCM students (both Senior as well as Circle. Our very own Big Band takes to the team, all the Heads of Schools and Course grow and thrive. Junior) and our guest bands: Fairey, Brighouse stage, this time featuring Tim Garland and the Leaders and Directors as well as our partners and Rastrick, Black Dyke and Foden’s. music of Chick Corea (22 Mar). and funders for their invaluable input and support to create this colourful programme, We are Classical Music We are Contemporary always ensuring the student experience is at the Back at The Bridgewater Hall (26 Mar), we We are thrilled to be collaborating with heart of everything we do. perform two monumental works: Messiaen’s Icebreaker again, this year featuring the blistering Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum spectacle that is Kraftwerk (6 Feb). For the first We are RNCM. We are MUSIC. and Tippett’s masterpiece in its brand new time ever, FutureEverything and RNCM team up edition: A Child of Our Time. Manchester to create the most exciting sonic art festival to Cathedral’s beautiful setting hosts our delicate date to come to the RNCM, with live installations, yet exuberant concert given by the RNCM mirrors, structures, choral performances, lasers, Chamber Orchestra (30 Jan). A rich array optics, animation, screens, illusions and anything of recitals by our RNCM International Artist that would trigger anyone’s imagination (29 Diploma students across the coming months Mar–1 Apr). Our student composers and includes the Zelkova Quartet (14 Jan), pianist conductors are, as ever, crucial to our remit, Yasmin Rowe (24 Jan), bassoonist Alejandra with Brand New Orchestra (23 Jan) and our Rojas (31 Jan), cellist Mikhail Nemtsov (7 Feb) Composers Concert at the end of term (27 Mar). and flautistHelen Wilson (14 Feb). The Holy We also welcome Manchester Camerata for a Name Church will also be home to two of Composers Project (21 Jan). A highlight of the our performances this year, including a superb Spring programme is the John McCabe festival Dr Michelle Castelletti – Artistic Director programme with our Chamber Choir (26 Feb). (15 and 16 Feb), featuring his entire oeuvres No RNCM Live programme is complete for piano, alongside a significant overview of without our extraordinary Masterclass series: his chamber music, culminating in the special John Harle (28 Jan), Frans Helmerson (7 Feb) Sunday evening concert with the Kreutzer and Olaf Bär (11 Feb). Quartet, Aaron Shorr and Linda Merrick.
2 3 FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTS We are transforming RNCM on THURSDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS 23 January RNCM Guitars the road… The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art your Concert Hall 6 February RNCM Chamber Ensemble As the redevelopment of the RNCM Concert The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art Hall begins we will lose the use of the space The RNCM Concert Hall is being transformed There are many ways that you can support the until October 2014. So, we’ve been exploring 13 February RNCM Chamber Ensemble into a bigger, better and more comfortable campaign and we really need your help. Manchester to locate interesting alternative The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art venue, providing Manchester with an exciting • Name a seat in the Concert Hall for yourself venues for some of our programmed events. We 27 February RNCM Harp Ensemble new space for performers and audiences alike. or a music loving friend are committed to providing our students with The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art ‘Your RNCM’ is all about preserving your much- playing opportunities and aim to provide the • Sponsor a bar, or two, of music from the 13 March RNCM Percussion Ensemble loved Concert Hall and bringing it into the 21st same level and diversity of performances for Opening Gala in the new Concert Hall The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art century, to ensure that we can continue to bring our audiences. Events that are happening away fantastic concerts to the City and provide an • Become a Friend or Benefactor of the RNCM from the RNCM are listed below and there’s a 20 March RNCM String & Wind Orchestras exceptional performance space for our students. and get closer to the work of the College in map on the inside back cover to indicate the The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art the process (see page 34) locations. Join our ‘Your RNCM’ Campaign Champions 27 March RNCM Saxophone Ensemble – who include Professor Brian Cox, Lang Lang, • Donate in person, online at 10-12 January The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art Alison Balsom and Sarah Connolly – to help rncm.ac.uk/yourrncm, or by texting Manchester Cathedral, St Ann’s Church, MONDAY RECITAL SERIES us raise the £2 million needed to complete the 'RNCM01 £5' to 70070 Chetham’s School of Music (details p6) Concert Hall transformation. 27 January Monday Recital Series To find out about the latest campaign news and RNCM Chamber Music Festival Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre events, and more about how you can help, visit 26 January rncm.ac.uk/yourrncm or call 0161 907 5338. 3 February Monday Recital Series The Bridgewater Hall (details p9) Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre RNCM Festival of Brass 10 February Monday Recital Series 30 January Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre Manchester Cathedral (details p10) 24 February Monday Recital Series RNCM Chamber Orchestra Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre
26 February 3 March Monday Recital Series Holy Name Church, Oxford Road (details p17) Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre RNCM Chamber Choir 10 March Monday Recital Series Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre 21 March Holy Name Church, Oxford Road (details p25) 17 March Monday Recital Series RNCM Organ Recital Prize Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre 24 March Monday Recital Series 26 March Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre The Bridgewater Hall (details p26) RNCM Symphony Orchestra, Chorus FRIDAY CHAMBER SERIES & Chamber Choir 7 March Friday Chamber Series St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Street 28 March 14 March Friday Chamber Series Manchester Cathedral (details p23) St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Street Orfeo ed Euridice (concert 21 March Friday Chamber Series performance) St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Street 27 April Royal Exchange Theatre (details p32) Full details can be found in this brochure and at RNCM Day of Song www.rncm.ac.uk. We’ll list the Summer season events that are taking place elsewhere in the next events brochure. 4 5 Friday 10 – Sunday 12 January HIGHLIGHTS Monday 13 January Friday 17 January Manchester Cathedral, St Ann’s Church, Friday 10 January 1.15pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, From 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Chetham’s School of Music Martin Harris Centre 7.30pm Manchester Cathedral Spotlight Triple-Bill THE ART OF BACH The Band of Instruments Monday Recital Series An exciting evening of free concerts, all devised RNCM CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL featuring Roger Hamilton and Ludwig van Beethoven Duo in E flat major and performed by RNCM students. WoO 32 ‘Eyeglass’ This year’s RNCM Chamber Music Festival Lynne Dawson 6.30pm Fields Quartet – Barber, Britten, is devoted to the music of one of the most viola Music to include: Christina Bean Brand New influential composers of all time, Johann cello J S Bach Trio Sonata in C major BWV 529 Lorna Davis 7.15pm Changing Landscapes – Music for Sebastian Bach. For the first time ever, we bring C P E Bach Trio Sonata in C minor H 579 Claude Debussy Musique; Romance-Silence Chamber Choir Inspired by Nature the Festival to the centre of Manchester, with ‘Sanguineus et Melancholicus’ ineffable; Aimons-nous et dormons concerts taking place in Manchester Cathedral 8pm Ensemble 124 – Aaron Copland’s J S Bach Trio Sonata in D minor BWV 527 Richard Strauss Du meines Herzens Krönelein; and St Ann’s Church, religious buildings akin to Appalachian Spring J S Bach Wedding Cantata BWV 202 Ich schwebe; Die erwachte Rose; Junghexenlied those in which Bach’s music itself would have ‘Weichet nur betrübte Schatten’ Free admission, no ticket required first been heard. The Art of Fugue is at the very Catriona Hewitson soprano Promoted by RNCM heart of this year’s Festival and we present all Roger Hamilton director, harpsichord, organ Tim Kennedy piano six Brandenburg Concertos as well as featuring Lynne Dawson soprano Free admission, no ticket required music by Bach’s extraordinary extended Promoted by RNCM Tuesday 21 and Friday 31 January Tickets £17 7pm RNCM Theatre family. Special guest performers include the Concessions available Academy of Ancient Music, the Talich Quartet, Friday 24 and Tuesday 28 January Tuesday 14 January Roger Hamilton’s The Band of Instruments, the 7pm RNCM Studio Theatre Gould and Sitkovetsky Piano Trios, Manchester Saturday 11 January 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Cathedral Choir and tutors from the RNCM and 7.30pm Manchester Cathedral RNCM Opera Scenes Chetham’s School of Music. Zelkova Quartet RNCM International Artist Diploma RNCM students from the School of Vocal Studies Full details and a downloadable leaflet are available at Academy of Ancient Music and Opera perform selected excerpts drawn www.rncm.ac.uk/chamberfestival The Musical Offering Chamber Music Recital from a wide variety of operas. J S Bach Sonata in F minor for violin and Frank Bridge Three Idylls Free admission, by ticket only harpsichord BWV 1018 Benjamin Britten String Quartet No 2 in Promoted by RNCM J C F Bach Sonata for flute and harpsichord C major Op 36 No 3 in F major Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major C P E Bach Quartet in A minor H 537 Op 20 No1 J S Bach The Musical Offering The Zelkova Quartet has many international Mahan Esfahani director, harpsichord awards under its belt and has recently gained entry into the European Chamber Music Tickets £17 Academy, allowing its members the opportunity
Concessions available Quartet Zelkova to study at conservatoires around Europe with some of the world’s finest chamber musicians. Sunday 12 January Recent performances include recitals at St Martin 7.30pm Manchester Cathedral -in-the-Fields and St John’s Smith Square. It has also played at Huddersfield Contemporary Talich Quartet Music Festival and is a regular at the RNCM The Art of Fugue Chamber Music Festival. J S Bach The Art of Fugue Tickets £10 Concessions available Jan Talich, Roman Patočka violin www.zelkovaquartet.co.uk Vladimír Bukač viola Promoted by RNCM Petr Prause cello Tickets £17 Concessions available
Festival Ticket £102 Friday Ticket £30 Saturday Ticket £45 Sunday Ticket £38 Supported by The Albert and Eugenie Frost Trust Promoted by RNCM in association with Manchester Cathedral, St Ann's Church and Chetham's School of Music 6 7 Tuesday 21 January Sunday 26 January 3.45pm The Bridgewater Hall 10am – 5pm RNCM Studio 7 The Bridgewater Hall Brighouse and Rastrick Manchester Camerata RNCM FESTIVAL OF BRASS Band Composers’ Project Workshop Classics for Brass: A Century of Yasmin Rowe Yasmin Creativity Wilfred Heaton Glory! Glory! Clark Rundell conductor Dean Goffin Rhapsody in Brass Tansy Davies composer, mentor Our 2014 RNCM Festival of Brass takes place in Paul McGhee Kjeden (UK première) Free admission, by ticket only the grand setting of The Bridgewater Hall, and Edward Elgar Severn Suite www.manchestercamerata.co.uk celebrates the period between the two World Ian Porthouse conductor Promoted by Manchester Camerata Wars that has often been called a golden age David Thornton euphonium for brass band music. The Festival’s featured guest bands – Fairey, Brighouse and Rastrick, Tickets £15 Thursday 23 January Concessions available Black Dyke and Foden’s – all played a major 1.15pm The Holden Gallery, role in establishing the core repertoire through Manchester School of Art their legendary performances and recordings. 7.30pm The Bridgewater Hall RNCM Guitars We also welcome a line-up of spectacular soloists in Roger Webster, David Childs, Richard Black Dyke Band, Foden’s Craig Ogden director Marshall and David Thornton. RNCM guitarists present an eclectic programme Full details and a downloadable leaflet are available at Band and RNCM Brass of solo and chamber music highlighting the www.rncm.ac.uk/festivalofbrass Ensemble wonderful versatility of the guitar and the Music to include: diversity of its repertoire. HIGHLIGHTS Richard Strauss Festmusik der Stadt Wien Free admission, no ticket required Arthur Butterworth Passacaglia on a Theme by Promoted by RNCM 11am The Bridgewater Hall Friday 24 January Brahms 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room The Fairey Band Simon Dobson Journey of the Lone Wolf (world première) Thursday 23 January Arthur Bliss Kenilworth Yasmin Rowe Eric Ball Kensington Concerto 8pm RNCM Theatre Ernest Tomlinson Cornet Concerto Pablo de Sarasate (arr Howard Snell) RNCM International Artist Diploma Elgar Howarth In Memorian RK Zigeunerweisen Op 20 RNCM Brand New Piano Recital Eric Ball Journey into Freedom Howard Snell Oration Orchestra Joseph Haydn Variations in F minor Garry Cutt conductor Hob XVII:6 Nicholas Childs, Howard Snell conductors Piero Lombardi Iglesias, Daniel Parkinson, Roger Webster cornet Sergei Prokofiev Sonata No 6 in A major Richard Marshall cornet Jan Wierzba conductors Tickets £15 David Childs euphonium Op 82 Concessions available An opportunity to hear new works for symphony Leoš Janáček Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 Tickets £20 £15 orchestra by RNCM composition students in this ‘From the Street’ Concessions available workshop performance. Alexander Scriabin Nocturne for the left hand 1.30pm The Bridgewater Hall Free admission, no ticket required Op 9 No 2 Day Ticket £50 Promoted by RNCM Frédéric Chopin Nocturne in C minor Op 48 Supported by Besson and Antoine Courtois, Paris RNCM Brass Band Promoted by RNCM No 1 Gustav Holst A Moorside Suite Frédéric Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor Joseph Horovitz Euphonium Concerto Op 52 Philip Wilby Shadow Songs Yasmin Rowe performs the first of four solo John McCabe Cloudcatcher Fells recitals this term by students on our International David Childs euphonium Artist Diploma (IAD) course. Yasmin is the winner of many competitions including the EPTA Tickets £15 Concessions available UK and Moray International Piano Competitions. She also performs regularly at venues such as St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall and The Bridgewater Hall. Yasmin is The Oglesby Charitable Trust Scholar. Tickets £10 Concessions available www.y-squared.com Promoted by RNCM
8 9 Monday 27 January Thursday 30 January Friday 31 January Monday 3 February 1.15pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin 7.30pm Manchester Cathedral 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Harris Centre RNCM Chamber Orchestra Alejandra Rojas Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Monday Recital Series Jacques Ibert Hommage à Mozart RNCM International Artist Diploma Webber George Gershwin Lullaby for Strings Bassoon Recital Henri Tomasi Evocations for solo oboe Cellists Julian Lloyd Webber and his wife Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No 31 Camille Saint-Saëns Sonata Op 168 Jiaxin, accompanied by pianist Pam Chowhan, Helen Clinton oboe in D major K 297/300a ‘Paris’ Roger Boutry Interferences I present A Tale of Two Cellos, a concert featuring Jacob Ter Veldhuis May This Bliss Never End Jacques Ibert Flute Concerto Giuseppe Verdi Overture I Masnadieri new performances of duets for two cellos with Jacob Ter Veldhuis The Garden of Love Maurice Ravel Ma Mère L'Oye (Mother Goose Antonio Vivaldi La Notte (The Night) piano, as well as music by Vivaldi, Arvo Pärt, Suite) Gillian Blair saxophone Antonio Torriani Divertimento on Lucia di Dvořák, Bach, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns and Zofia Jakubiel-Smith piano Matthew Wood conductor Lammermoor Schumann. Amy Yule flute Free admission, no ticket required Alejandra Rojas bassoon Tickets £25 Promoted by RNCM Tonight, the RNCM Chamber Orchestra Benjamin Powell piano No concessions performs in the beautiful surroundings of Harvey Davies harpsichord Promoted by Senbla Monday 27 January Manchester Cathedral. The programme Our second IAD recital features Venezuelan + includes Mozart’s so-called ‘Paris’ Symphony, 7.30pm RNCM Theatre bassoonist Alejandro Rojas. Alejandra was 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room written when the 22-year-old composer was born in Caracas and from an early age was Spotlight: Northern Cello Quartet Isabelle van Keulen (violin/ unsuccessfully job hunting in the city. Also involved in El Sistema, going on to attend the Free admission, no ticket required viola) and Kathryn Stott featured is Ibert’s lighthearted but technically Simón Bolívar Conservatory. In 2008, she was challenging Flute Concerto, a piece that evokes part of the bassoon section for the Simón Bolívar Tuesday 4 February (piano) the sights and sounds of a bustling Summer Youth Orchestra European Tour conducted by 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Manchester Chamber Concerts evening in the French capital as well as one of Gustavo Dudamel. After meeting Stefano Canuti Society Ravel's most exqusite creations. at a woodwind festival in Caracas, Alejandra The Frederic Cox Award for Tickets £15 decided to move to Spain to study with him, Graham Fitkin Bolt Concessions available winning a scholarship to the Aragón Superior Singing Ottorino Respighi Sonata for violin and piano Promoted by RNCM Conservatory in Zaragoza. She also regularly Arvo Pärt Fratres This is the first of three major RNCM vocal plays First Bassoon with the Goya Symphony Dmitri Shostakovich Sonata for viola and competitions this Spring, offering an opportunity Orchestra. piano Op 147 to spot the stars of tomorrow. Previous winners Tickets £10 include Simon Keenlyside, Amanda Roocroft and Tickets £22 £11 Concessions available Kathryn Rudge. This evening’s adjudicator is the Concessions available Promoted by RNCM www.chamberconcerts.org celebrated singer, Rosalind Plowright. Promoted by MCCS Tickets £10 + Harle John Monday 3 February Concessions available 1.15pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Promoted by RNCM 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Pre-concert talk: Kathryn Stott in conversation with Martin Harris Centre + composer Graham Fitkin about his virtuoso violin work Bolt 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Free admission to ticket holders Monday Recital Series Spotlight: The Gaius Ensemble – An Evening with J S Bach Excerpts from Partita No 1 in B minor William Byrd Free admission, no ticket required Tuesday 28 January BWV 1002 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Henri Wieniawski Legende Op 17 Adriana Lucia Cristea violin Thursday 6 February Masterclass Greta Gasser piano 1.15pm The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art with John Harle Sergei Prokofiev Excerpts from Piano Sonata The internationally acclaimed saxophonist, No 6 in A major Op 82 RNCM Chamber Ensemble composer, and record producer, with Jeremy So piano performances taking him to the Last Night of Igor Stravinsky Eight Instrumental Miniatures Free admission, no ticket required Anthony Gilbert Dark Singing Dancing Light the BBC Proms and film/TV credits including Promoted by RNCM Silent Witness, works with RNCM saxophone Anthony Gilbert Beastly Jingles students and opens the floor to questions from Steffan Morris, Daniel Parkinson, the audience. Jan Wierzba conductors Tickets £9 Free admission, no ticket required Concessions available Promoted by RNCM Promoted by RNCM 10 11 Icebreaker Friday 7 February Monday 10 February 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room 1.15pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre Mikhail Nemtsov RNCM International Artist Diploma Monday Recital Series Cello Recital Joaquín Rodrigo Fandango from Tres Piezas Españolas Gaspar Cassadó Suite for solo cello Pierre Petit Toccata Benjamin Britten Sonata in C major Op 65 Alexander Glazunov Chant du ménestrel James Girling, Bradley Johnson guitars (Minstrel’s Song) Op 71 Frank Bridge Three Songs Alexander Glazunov Sérénade Espagnole Benjamin Britten Selected songs from A Charm Op 20 No 2 of Lullabies Sergei Rachmaninov Sonata in G minor Op 19 Michaela Parry mezzo-soprano Mikhail Nemtsov cello James Hendry piano Elena Nemtsova piano Emily Pond viola Our third IAD solo recital features St Petersburg- Free admission, no ticket required born cellist Mikhail Nemtsov. RNCM Gold Promoted by RNCM Medal winner Mikhail has enjoyed great success Thursday 6 February Thursday 6 February in several international competitions and has appeared as soloist with orchestras including Tuesday 11 February 8pm RNCM Theatre 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room the London Philharmonia and European Union 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Icebreaker performs a Piano Duo Prize Chamber Orchestra. Mikhail is The Haworth Trust Scholar. The Helen Porthouse Daniel Herscovitch adjudicates this evening’s reworking of Kraftwerk’s Tickets £10 Paganini Prize competition featuring selected piano duos who Concessions available RNCM violinists and viola players compete for music by J Peter Schwalm, each perform a varied 30 minute programme. Promoted by RNCM this prestigious annual prize, which tonight is with film by Sophie Tickets £7 Concessions available adjudicated by RNCM alumna Adi Brett whose Clements and Toby Cornish Promoted by RNCM Saturday 8 February positions include Joint Leader of Manchester Camerata and violinist of the Manchester Piano Following their highly successful Apollo tour From 10.30am Various venues Trio. that visited the RNCM in 2010, Icebreaker are Friday 7 February turning their focus on another contemporary icon Junior RNCM Open Day Tickets £7 5.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre Concessions available - Kraftwerk. Since their formation in 1970 the An opportunity to visit the Junior RNCM, meet Promoted by RNCM German group’s output has revolutionised music Chamber Music Masterclass current staff, students and parents and listen to and influenced scores of musicians. the Juniors perform. For full details contact the + with Frans Helmerson For this project, composer, producer and sound- Junior RNCM on 0161 907 5264. 6.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre scapist J Peter Schwalm re-imagines tracks Christopher Rowland International Free admission, no ticket required Spotlight: Nouveau and Strings – Vivaldi Guitar Masterclass Promoted by RNCM Concerti from a range of Kraftwerk albums to show off Free admission, no ticket required the group’s many different sounds - from early The RNCM International Chair in Chamber acoustic tracks to the by now iconic synthesised Music and cellist with the world famous tunes. Michelangelo Quartet works with RNCM Tuesday 11 February Visual artists Sophie Clements and Toby chamber groups in this masterclass. 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Olaf Bär Cornish create a new video work for this Tickets £5 piece. A purposeful departure from the high- Concessions available Masterclass with Olaf Bär tech graphics of the current Kraftwerk shows, Supported by Christopher Rowland International The German baritone Olaf Bär, one of the Masterclass Fund Clements and Cornish re-present Kraftwerk’s Promoted by RNCM world’s foremost interpreters of Lieder whose vision in the language of an earlier era of avant career has spanned performances in the garde film that wondered in the new aesthetics greatest recital halls and opera houses, works of technological and industrial innovation. A with RNCM singers in tonight’s masterclass. nostalgic vision of a ‘future’ now passed, and a Tickets £9 modern reworking of a lost utopian dream. Concessions available Tickets £18 £15 Promoted by RNCM Concessions available www.icebreakerkraftwerk.co.uk Promoted by RNCM in association with Third Ear
12 13 Wednesday 12 February Saturday 15 – Sunday 16 February Saturday 15 February 7.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre 8pm RNCM Studio Theatre LANDSCAPES OF THE Vulgar Display MIND: THE MUSIC OF Sansho Dayu Part 2: You Suffer A screening of the 1954 Japanese film Helen Wilson Helen JOHN McCABE Following 2012’s Tournament Roadkill RNCM Sansho Dayu, directed by the renowned Kenji appearance, new music-cum-extreme metal A two-day festival celebrating the 75th birthday Mizoguch. This film is the source of inspiration ensemble Vulgar Display returns for a further of one of Britain’s most respected composers. for McCabe’s quintet The Woman by the Sea. bout of musical transgression. The perceived John McCabe’s life is a musical journey which is Free admission, no ticket required gentility and sophistication of a classical piano vibrant, optimistic, explosive; his orchestrations trio is once again pitted against the brutality of a vivid and vast palette of colours and timbres; heavily distorted, down-tuned electric guitar and and his rhythms exciting, restless and striking. Sunday 16 February percussion battery with a view to emphasising His paintbrush then portrays beautiful broad 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room their incompatibility and not overcoming it. melodies, lyricism and a distinct harmonic Several of the North West’s leading composers language. All concerts will be introduced by Kreutzer Quartet have written new works especially for the Professor George Odam, the author of the book with Linda Merrick and Aaron Shorr Landscapes of the Mind, and we are lucky that event, including Gary Carpenter, Larry Goves, John McCabe Maze Dances; Caravan; this festival takes place in the presence of the Mauricio Pauly and Nina Whiteman. The Woman by the Sea; Fauvel’s Rondeaux; composer himself. Tickets £10 La Donna Concessions available Full details and a downloadable leaflet are available from Promoted by RNCM www.rncm.ac.uk/mccabefestival Peter Sheppard Skærved, Friday 14 February Mihailo Trandafilovski violin + 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Morgan Goff viola 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room HIGHLIGHTS Neil Heyde cello Spotlight: Booth St Brass – Dances of the New World Helen Wilson Linda Merrick clarinet Free admission, no ticket required Saturday 15 February Aaron Shorr piano RNCM International Artist Diploma 2pm and 6pm Carole Nash Recital Room A portrait of John McCabe’s chamber music, Flute Recital Sunday 16 February Thursday 13 February featuring La Donna, a work which was Thea Musgrave Orfeo I 11am and 3pm Carole Nash Recital Room 1.15pm The Holden Gallery, commissioned by Linda Merrick and the Kreutzer Franz Schubert Variations on ‘Trockne Blumen’ Manchester School of Art Quartet, to whom it is also dedicated. Professor André Jolivet Chant de Linos Piano Marathon George Odam will give a pre-concert talk at Paul Taffanel Fantaisie sur le Freischutz RNCM Chamber Ensemble A series of four concerts featuring McCabe’s 7pm with insights into John McCabe and his Kenneth Hesketh Entanglements (world entire catalogue of works for piano, performed Igor Stravinsky The Solidier’s Tale music. première) by tutors and students from the RNCM, The Sergei Prokofiev Sonata in D major Op 94 Tickets £17 Libretto by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz University of Manchester and Chetham’s School Concessions available Alpesh Chauhan, Yoon-Jee Kim, Wilbur Lin Helen Wilson flute of Music. Jonathan Scott piano conductors Free admission, no ticket required Promoted by RNCM Free admission, no ticket required Our final IAD recital of the term features flautist Promoted by RNCM Helen Wilson. Back in 2006, Helen was Saturday 15 February woodwind finalist in the BBC Young Musician 4.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room of the Year competition and since then, she has gone on to win many more awards and Sunday 16 February competitions. This year, she has been shortlisted 1.15pm Carole Nash Recital Room for the Park Lane Group Concert Series and continues to perform as a soloist, orchestral Chamber Music Concerts player and chamber musician with the Tempest Two concerts featuring Rounds for Brass Quintet, Flute Trio. Oboe Quartet, Pueblo for solo double bass and Tickets £10 the evocative Silver Nocturnes for baritone and Concessions available string quartet. RNCM student composers also www.helenwilsonflute.moonfruit.com write new works inspired by The Woman by the Promoted by RNCM Sea. + Free admission, no ticket required 6.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre Spotlight: Françaix and Poulenc Trios – Music for oboe, bassoon and piano Free admission, no ticket required 14 15 Monday 24 February Wednesday 26 February
Penguin Cafe Penguin 1.15pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, 5pm Holy Name Church, Oxford Road Martin Harris Centre RNCM Chamber Choir Monday Recital Series Thomas Tallis Lamentations Part I Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro assai from James MacMillan Tenebrae Responsories Violin Sonata in G major Op 30 No 3 Thomas Tallis Lamentations Part II Ernest Bloch Nigun (Improvisation) James Burton conductor Corey Wickens violin For this late afternoon performance by the Charles Barsaga piano RNCM Chamber Choir, we visit another striking Richard Wagner Excerpts from Wesendonck Manchester location for the first time. The Lieder majestic setting of the Holy Name Church will Lauren Lea Fielder soprano form the backdrop for an evening of glorious James Hendry piano sacred music, based on Holy Week texts. James MacMillan’s deeply moving Tenebrae Free admission, no ticket required Promoted by RNCM Responsories will be framed by Thomas Tallis’s Thursday 20 February Friday 21 February most celebrated works, the melancholy and 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room 8pm RNCM Theatre heartfelt Lamentations of Jeremiah. The RNCM Monday 24 February Chamber Choir gave its début performance at European Chamber Music Penguin Cafe 7.30pm RNCM Theatre the 2011 RNCM Day of Song and has since appeared with Manchester Camerata and the Penguin Cafe will release their new album The Academy (ECMA) Showcase Auryn Quartet and Hallé. Red Book in mid-February. The second release The RNCM is the sole UK member of the ECMA from the freshly re-imagined Penguin Cafe is Julian Bliss (clarinet) Free admission, no ticket required and each year hosts a session of lectures, Promoted by RNCM the culmination of two years’ work that has masterclasses and lessons for the very best of Manchester Chamber Concerts seen Arthur Jeffes - son of original composer Europe’s young chamber ensembles. This is your Society and Penguin Cafe Orchestra founder Simon chance to hear the finest young talent in Europe Jeffes - investigate whole new areas of sound Krzysztof Penderecki String Quartet No 3 during this intensive period of study. and vibrancy, alongside his eclectic collection of ‘Leaves of an unwritten diary’ Free admission, no ticket required musicians and characters, marking an ambitious Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F major Promoted by RNCM extension from their début A Matter of Life. Op 77 No 2 Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor ‘Penguin Cafe continues to occupy a unique Op 115 Thursday 20 February place in music: nothing else has ever Tickets £22 £11 sounded quite like it. Eccentric, charming, 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Concessions available accommodating, surprising, seductive, warm, www.chamberconcerts.org The Lock In reliable, modest and unforgettable: it’s a true Promoted by MCCS friend…’ (Brian Eno) Featuring live music by The Demon + Barbers Tickets £19.50 Concessions available 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room The Lock In is a clash of dance cultures set in an www.penguincafe.com Spotlight: Moravian Quartet – Folk and Czech String old English pub with live music by BBC Radio Promoted by RNCM in association with Serious Quartets 2 Folk Award-winning powerhouse The Demon Free admission, no ticket required Barbers. Fast-paced and innovative, the show Thursday 27 February brings together some of the UK’s top clog, sword 1.15pm The Holden Gallery, and morris dancers with their counterparts from Manchester School of Art the worlds of B-boying, popping and krump. Tickets £16.50 RNCM Harp Ensemble Concessions available www.thelockindanceshow.co.uk Andres Izmaylov Toward the Sun Promoted by Breaking Tradition Ltd Gareth Glyn Cwlwm Can Catherine Kontz Flyways Trad A Celtic Connection Lecuona (arr Sparnon) Malaguena Eira Lynn Jones director Free admission, no ticket required Promoted by RNCM
16 17 Naturally 7 Naturally Salsa Celtica Salsa
Friday 28 February Saturday 1 March Wednesday 5 March Friday 7 March 8pm RNCM Theatre 12.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room 7.30pm RNCM Theatre 8pm RNCM Theatre Naturally 7 Junior RNCM Formal The Joyce and Michael Salsa Celtica Manchester-born founding brothers Roger and Concert Kennedy Award for the Combining some of Scotland and Ireland’s Warren Thomas bring their internationally leading Celtic musicians with a stellar group A varied and exciting programme featuring successful group on tour. Naturally 7 take classic Singing of Strauss of international salsa musicians, Salsa Celtica students of the Junior RNCM. close-harmony style to stratospheric new heights, Senior students from the RNCM School of Vocal is a stunning combination of virtuosity and mixing beatboxing with rap, soul, pop and jazz. Free admission, no ticket required Studies and Opera compete in the finals of energy. The group’s unique synthesis has been Promoted by RNCM Building on the heritage of gospel with a style The Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the rapturously received around the globe, from the described as 'vocal play', the group performs Singing of Strauss, singing Lieder or arias by village halls of Scotland to the world’s greatest its own original material as well as its inventive Monday 3 March Richard Strauss. This year’s adjudicating panel music festivals. arrangements - which incorporate scratching, 1.15pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, is chaired by the celebrated soprano, Dame With their long awaited new studio album to be drum kit, harmonica, brass, electric guitars and Martin Harris Centre Josephine Barstow. released at the start of the year, 2014 is going bass all produced, naturally, with the human Tickets £10 to be a huge year for Salsa Celtica - there has voice. Monday Recital Series Concessions available never been a better time to catch one of the Promoted by RNCM This is a vocal group in a league of its own, and Nikolai Kapustin Concert Etude Op 40 No 8 world’s most exciting groups perform live. their fresh use of the voice and astonishingly Maurice Ravel Une barque sur l’océan from + Tickets £17.50 Concessions available versatile talent have garnered diverse fans Miroirs 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room www.salsaceltica.com Spotlight: Holst’s Savitri – A Simple Tale of Death and including Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Jay Leno and Rachel Fok piano Promoted by RNCM Brian Eno. Love Giovanni Bottesini Grand Duo Concertante for Free admission, no ticket required Tickets £19.50 + violin and double bass Concessions available 10pm RNCM Café Bar Promoted by RNCM in association with Serious You Zou violin Friday 7 March Spotlight: Candela Salsa Band – A Night of Cuban Dance Music Mengjiao Zhang double bass 1.15pm St Ann’s Church, St Ann's Street + Free admission, no ticket required Feixue Li piano 7pm Carole Nash Recital Room Spotlight: From Monk to Funk – Music for Barbershop Free admission, no ticket required Friday Chamber Series Sextet Promoted by RNCM RNCM Chamber Ensemble with Free admission, no ticket required Pavel Fischer Antonín Dvořák Terzetto in C major for two violins and viola Op 74 Free admission, no ticket required Promoted by RNCM
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Pearse and James Baillieu Ensemble Gustavsen Tord YCAT Series Concert 2 Programme to include: Robert Schumann 5 Lieder Op 40; Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op 135 And songs by Frank Bridge, Charles Stanford, Rebecca Clarke, Benjamin Britten, George Wednesday 12 March Saturday 15 March Gershwin, Cole Porter and Noel Coward 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room 8pm RNCM Theatre Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Morgan Pearse baritone Norman George Tord Gustavsen Ensemble James Baillieu piano Violin Scholarship Tord Gustavsen piano Tore Brunborg saxophones Three of the Young Classical Artists Trust’s rising This competitive award, open to all RNCM Mats Eilertsen double bass stars join forces for the second in our 2013/4 violinists, sees finalists present a movement Jarle Vespestad drums series of YCAT concerts. The trio will perform from a classical sonata, two pieces by Fritz Schumann’s Five Lieder, songs set to poems Kreisler and an orchestral solo. This reflects We’re delighted to welcome Tord Gustavsen by Hans Christian Andersen which Schumann the repertoire performed by violinist Norman back to the RNCM to showcase his new ECM dedicated to the poet, plus the composer’s George, whose friends have donated this prize release Extended Circle. This time playing in a Sunday 9 March last ever work for solo voice, some of the most in his memory. This evening’s adjudicator is quartet format, Tord’s new material is pointing 11am – 5pm Various venues poignant music based on the subject of Mary the eminent recitalist, chamber musician and forwards in musical openness and creativity, Queen of Scots. Permanent Guest Leader with the Hallé, violinist while at the same time clearly picking up the Piano Trio Day Tickets £12 Paul Barritt. quietness and grounded sensuality of the hugely Concessions available successful trio albums. It includes several pure Piano Trios from specialist music schools, Tickets £7 Promoted by RNCM and YCAT Concessions available trio pieces, and is embracing anew the almost UK conservatoires and local schools spend Promoted by RNCM minimalistic simplicity and striking Nordic- a day immersed in the art of the piano trio Caribbean-Gospel-Impressionist-Bluesy touch that with masterclasses, talks and performances, Tuesday 11 March so many people came to love in Gustavsen’s presented by the Piano Trio Society. Featured 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Thursday 13 March début album. artists include Peter Cropper, who gives an 1.15pm The Holden Gallery, ‘A trilogy [that] could be the most essential afternoon masterclass. For the full schedule, visit The Elizabeth Harwood Manchester School of Art the RNCM website. jazz document of the last ten years. Sublime.’ Memorial Award for Singers (The Independent) Free admission, no ticket required RNCM Percussion Ensemble The Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award Tickets £18 £16 £14 Promoted by the Piano Trio Society in association with Aurel Hollo Jose/beFORe JOHN 5 RNCM was founded in memory of the much-loved Concessions available John Cage/Lou Harrison Double Music Yorkshire soprano and provides support for www.tordgustavsen.com William Kraft Percussion Quartet (UK première) Promoted by RNCM an outstanding final year singer. Tonight’s Stephen Whibley Kora Song Monday 10 March adjudicating panel includes the celebrated + 1.15pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, soprano, Susan Bullock. Simone Rebello director Martin Harris Centre 7pm Carole Nash Recital Room Tickets £10 Free admission, no ticket required Spotlight: Gravity Percussion Duo – Looking into Skylight Concessions available Promoted by RNCM Free admission, no ticket required Monday Recital Series Promoted by RNCM Leigh Howard Stevens Rhythmic Caprice for marimba Friday 14 March Compagnie Kahlua Ceci n’est pas une balle 1.15pm St Ann’s Church, St Ann's Street Delia Stevens percussion Friday Chamber Series Chick Corea (arr Jackson) Children’s Songs RNCM Chamber Ensemble with Andy Scott Three Letter Word Peter Cropper saxophone Michael Jackson Johannes Brahms Horn Trio in E flat major piano Chris Illingworth Op 40 Free admission, no ticket required Free admission, no ticket required Promoted by RNCM Promoted by RNCM 20 21 Sunday 16 March is lost – but then touched by his lament, Amore gives up the drink and allows his niece to marry Friday 28 March 3pm RNCM Studio Theatre restores Euridice to life and the opera ends in Cléon. When Mathurin has signed the marriage 7.30pm Manchester Cathedral celebration. contract, they remove their masks. Lucas on the Tuesday 18*, Thursday 20, Saturday 22*^ other hand, has made no promises and resumes and Thursday 27* March The theme of the underworld, gods, demons Orfeo ed Euridice his habitual ways. This comedy was written 7pm RNCM Studio Theatre and furies is also prevalent in The Drunkard Christoph Willibald Gluck just two years before the advent of Orfeo and Cured (L’ivrogne corrigé) which completes Concert Performance despite its light-hearted tone, the work includes The Drunkard Cured this Gluck double-bill. The drunkard Mathurin strong intimations of the masterpiece that was to Heather Lowe Orfeo wants his niece Colette to marry his drinking (L’ivrogne corrigé) follow. Joanna Norman Euridice partner Lucas. But Colette is in love with Cléon Catriona Hewitson Amore and Orfeo ed Euridice and together with Mathurin’s wife Mathurine, Orfeo ed Euridice will be sung in Italian with they devise a plot to scupper these plans. They English surtitles. The Drunkard Cured will be Roger Hamilton conductor Christoph Willibald Gluck disguise themselves as Pluto and two furies performed in Roger Hamilton's brand new RNCM Opera Orchestra (wearing masks), so that when Mathurin and English translation. RNCM Chorus The Drunkard Cured Lucas awaken from their drunken stupor, they Tickets £20 As we have a very limited number of seats Lucas Richard Moore, James Fisher* believe they are in hell. Cléon, in the role of Concessions available available for our Gluck opera double-bill in Seamus Begg, Michael Jones* Mathurin Pluto, offers Mathurin clemency if he Promoted by RNCM the RNCM Studio Theatre, we are delighted to Lauren Lea Fielder, Elizabeth Humphries* present an additional concert performance of Mathurine Orfeo ed Euridice in the dramatic surroundings Catrin Woodruff, Meinir Wyn Roberts* of Manchester Cathedral. Colette Tickets £20 Adam Temple-Smith, Timothy Langston* Concessions available Cléon (Pluto) www.manchestercathedral.org Promoted by RNCM Orfeo ed Euridice Heather Lowe, Sophie Dicks* Orfeo + Joanna Norman, Sarah Foubert* Euridice 6pm Manchester Cathedral Catriona Hewitson, Linda Harvey* Amore Pre-performance talk: Roger Hamilton gives an insight into Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, with musical illustrations performed by RNCM students. Roger Hamilton conductor Marco Bellasi^ assistant conductor Free admission for ticket holders only Stefan Janski director David Cockayne set and costume designer Paul Botham lighting designer Kevin Thraves chorus master Bethan Rhys Wiliam choreographer Antonio Tilli Italian language coach RNCM Opera Orchestra RNCM Chorus
Our Spring opera promises a very different experience when we present a fully-staged Gluck double-bill in the intimate setting of the RNCM Studio Theatre. Orfeo ed Euridice is probably the composer’s most exhilarating work, with eruptions of emotion that gain potency from the poise with which they are expressed. Orfeo is mourning the death of his wife Euridice. Zeus is so struck by his grief that he allows him to reclaim her from Hades. If, through the power of music, he can persuade Pluto to release her, he may guide her back to Earth, but he must not look upon her until they have crossed back into the land of the living. Orfeo succeeds in his task until Euridice, unable to understand his strange behaviour, claims she would rather be dead than be so spurned by him. He turns to look at her and she 22 23 Monday 17 March Thursday 20 March Saturday 22 March 1.15pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, 1.15pm The Holden Gallery, Garland Tim 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Martin Harris Centre Manchester School of Art RNCM Big Band Monday Recital Series RNCM String and with Tim Garland Felix Mendelssohn Zweistimmige Lieder Op 63 Wind Orchestras Tim Garland director, saxophones Sarah Foubert soprano Arnold Schoenberg Theme and Variations The first RNCM Big Band show of the year Richard Moore baritone Op 43 features Grammy Award-winning composer, Tim Kennedy piano Edvard Grieg Holberg Suite globe-trotting saxophonist and RNCM Fellow Franz Schubert Fantasie in F minor D 940 Mark Heron, Chris Hoyle conductors Tim Garland. Tim is the creative nucleus behind Chiahu Lee, Shaun Motiani piano Free admission, no ticket required Lighthouse, Storms/Nocturnes and Acoustic Promoted by RNCM Free admission, no ticket required Triangle but he first forged an international Promoted by RNCM reputation working with Chick Corea and Bill Bruford and he is a core member of Chick’s Thursday 20 March latest band, The Vigil. Tonight’s gig features Wednesday 19 March 8pm RNCM Theatre some of Corea’s recent big band arrangements Doors 7pm RNCM Theatre as well as a celebration of Tim’s own writing Spiers & Boden skills as he fronts our Big Band for the evening. Andy McKee Described by The Guardian as ‘the finest Expect some surprises, including a decidedly Thursday 20 March instrumental duo on the traditional scene’ and gospel twist ending! Andy McKee is one of the world’s finest acoustic 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room guitar soloists. He gives his music life through twice winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Tickets £18 £16 £14 altered tunings, syncopated rhythm and guitar for Best Duo, Spiers & Boden have made the Special Virtuosi Concessions available taps. Andy’s textural use of polyphonic tones genre of spontaneous, punky English folk very www.timgarland.com Promoted by RNCM and his unique multi-layering approach means much their own stomping ground. Loud, proud, This evening’s concert includes orchestral and whilst he alone plucks, strums, taps the strings and with just a few acoustic instruments, they chamber pieces as well as solo performances + create a multitude of textures upon which they from the Special Virtuosi students. and body, he creates the illusion of a full band 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room accompaniment. present traditional stories and dance music, Tickets £6 Spotlight: Apes Grapes Trio – Chromatographic and this has propelled them onto the main Concessions available explorations for guitar, bass, percussion and electronics Tickets £18.50 in advance, or £21 on the door Promoted by Special Virtuosi CIC Concessions available stages of major events including WOMAD and Free admission, no ticket required www.andymckee.com Cambridge Folk Festival. Promoted by Midnight Mango You may also know John (Spiers) and Jon Friday 21 March Monday 24 March 1.15pm St Ann’s Church, St Ann's Street (Boden) as founding members of the big band 1.15pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Wednesday 19 March folk phenomenon Bellowhead, or through Martin Harris Centre 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room their long-term collaboration with Eliza Carthy Friday Chamber Series as The Rat Catchers – they performed on her RNCM Chamber Ensemble with Monday Recital Series RNCM Chopin Prize Nationwide Mercury Prize nominated album Chris Swann Anglicana. Béla Bartók Piano Sonata BB 88 RNCM pianists and pupils from Chetham’s Frantisek Skroup Clarinet Trio in E flat major Ryan Drucker piano School of Music compete for this prestigious Tickets £17 Op 27 Concessions available Richard Rodney Bennett Excerpts from prize dedicated to the playing of Chopin, which www.spiersandboden.com Free admission, no ticket required is adjudicated tonight by Anthony Hewitt. Promoted by RNCM Promoted by RNCM Soprano Saxophone Sonata Selection of Romanian Folk Dances Tickets £7 Béla Bartók Concessions available Melina Zeleniuc saxophone Promoted by RNCM Friday 21 March James Vaughan piano 7.30pm Holy Name Church, Oxford Road Free admission, no ticket required RNCM Organ Recital Prize Promoted by RNCM RNCM student organists each present a 30 minute recital encompassing a wide range of styles and repertoire in the finals of this
Spiers & Boden Spiers prestigious prize which tonight is adjudicated by international organist and Head of Keyboard at Eton College, David Goode. Tickets £7 Concessions available Promoted by RNCM 24 25 Wednesday 26 March As Europe slipped towards fascism, Michael 7.30pm The Bridgewater Hall Tippett felt the urge to protest in music – to
show solidarity with those downtrodden by Quartet Melrose RNCM Symphony poverty and prejudice. A Child of Our Time was the composer’s response to the infamous Orchestra, Chorus and Kristallnacht pogrom against the Jews in 1938 Chamber Choir and was his first major statement as an artist. Olivier Messiaen Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Taking Bach’s Passions and Handel’s Messiah Mortuorum* as his models, Tippett ended each of his sections Michael Tippett A Child of Our Time (first with his own arrangements of African American performance of new edition) spirituals, heightening the intensity of the piece, tonight performed by the RNCM Symphony Clark Rundell conductor Chorus and soloists. Mark Heron* conductor Joseph Cullen chorus master ‘The world turns on its dark side’ proclaims the opening movement of Tippett’s masterpiece, but Crashing gongs, ringing tubular bells and it remains a work of hope and optimism. explosive brass together with birdsong bring us to our second Bridgewater Hall concert this year The new edition of A Child of Our Time is with one of Messiaen’s most monumental works, performed by permission of Schott Music Ltd. commissioned to commemorate the dead of two Tickets £17 £14 Thursday 27 March Friday 28 March World Wars, however, written by Messiaen not Concessions available 1.15pm The Holden Gallery, 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room to focus on the horrors of combat, but on the Promoted by RNCM Manchester School of Art transcendence of death through the Resurrection. + Melrose Quartet Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum (I Await RNCM Saxophone Multi-award-winning folk duo Nancy Kerr and the Resurrection of the Dead) has an overriding 5.30pm Barbirolli Room In conversation with: Professor Richard Wistriech James Fagan join highly accomplished English feeling of mystery with its dramatic bursts Orchestra discusses Tippett and his works in more detail with writer, folk duo Richard and Jess Arrowsmith to form of sound and silence being applied in both Rob Buckland, Andy Scott directors broadcaster and filmmaker Dennis Marks, musicologist the Melrose Quartet. Nominated for Best abstract blocks and delicate touches of colour. Professor David Clarke and contributions by Tippett's own Artistic and Personal Manager, Meirion Bowen. The popular and innovative RNCM Saxophone Group at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014, Following the interval, we enter Tippett’s Free admission, no ticket required Orchestra, featuring all 20 of the RNCM’s their material ranges from rousing traditional powerful message of hope and optimism saxophone students, performs a wide range English folk songs and their own instrumental against war and oppression with his ‘oratorio of + of engaging, accessible and sometimes arrangements, to complex interwoven vocal contemplation’, A Child of Our Time. 6.30pm Stalls Foyer unexpected repertoire, directed by Rob Buckland harmony. With Nancy and Jess on fiddles, Pre-concert performance: This performance brings and Andy Scott. Richard on melodeons and James on his together singers from across the region and sees the Free admission, no ticket required trademark guitar-shaped bouzouki they let culmination of a choral project run by RNCM Outreach Promoted by RNCM fly with hair-raising sets of jigs, polkas and which focuses on A Child of Our Time hornpipes. Free admission, no ticket required Thursday 27 March ‘Splendidly balanced. Life-affirming energy. 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room An absolutely magnificent achievement.’ Living Tradition Magazine RNCM Composers Concert Tickets £12 Concessions available Adam Gorb, RNCM Head of Composition, www.melrosequartet.co.uk introduces this concert of new and recently Promoted by RNCM premièred works written by RNCM composers, performed by their fellow students. Tickets £7 Concessions available Promoted by RNCM
26 27 Saturday 29 March – Tuesday 1 April Saturday 29 March Sunday 30 March 7.30pm RNCM Theatre 7pm Carole Nash Recital Room 2pm RNCM Theatre FutureEverything Festival Martin Messier: Projectors Tools for Unknown Futures Longplayer: Choral Miwa Matrayek (world première) We are thrilled to be partnering up with Performance and Listening ‘This World Made Itself’ Martin Messier’s work constantly redefines FutureEverything Festival to create one of the Post Installation Plus Zoomwooz Live Cinema the frontiers of Musique Concrète by creating most exciting live programmes to date to come sounds with everyday objects, such as alarm Longplayer is a 1,000 year-long musical Miwa Matrayek's work blurs the line between to the RNCM, with live installations, mirrors, clocks, pens, self-conceived machines and composition which will continue to play without the real and unreal through live works that structures, choral performances, lasers, optics, sewing machines. At the very centre of this repetition until the last moment of 2999. We integrate animation, performance, and video animation, screens and illusions. A feast for the dialogue between sounds and objects is the invite you to take part in a discussion with installation. Zoomwooz is a live cinema imagination, FutureEverything has been hailed desire to push the everyday imaginary a little composer Jem Finer. Sections of the work will be performance which presents the memories, by The Guardian as one of the top ten ideas further, to magnify these entities by giving them performed by voices from The Joyful Company of dreams, frustrations and weaknesses that exist festivals in the world. a voice and by reinventing their function. Singers and Manchester Chamber Choir. within and shape human society, using live- camera and hundreds of small hand painted Tickets £12.50 Free admission, by ticket only paper models and live acting. The performance Concessions available 4 – 8pm throughout the festival Presented by FutureEverything and RNCM. Supported by Presented by FutureEverything and RNCM. Supported by RNCM Studio Theatre ECAS, a European Commission Culture Fund project. invites a live audience to view the making of ECAS, a European Commission Culture Fund project. a film, while simultaneously witnessing the
Emmanuel Biard performance itself. 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Tickets £9.50 Tuesday 1 April and David Leonard Concessions available (under 16s free) 7.30pm RNCM Theatre The Hall Presented by Presented by FutureEverything and RNCM. Supported by ECAS, a European Commission Culture Fund project. Lighting designer and live visual artist Emmanuel Evian Christ (Live) Tim Hecker (Live) Biard (EMN) and engineer David Leonard Plus special guest Julianna Barwick This theatre performance will see Evian Christ première an installation piece commissioned present his work live for the first time in a more 6.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre Taking heavily processed sounds of pianos, by FutureEverything and the RNCM, built formal concert setting, alongside a line-up synthesisers, woodwind instruments and church specifically for the RNCM Studio Theatre. of specially invited international guests and The Hall (Live) organs, Hecker and Julianna create dense Free admission, no ticket required collaborators. Featuring Evian Christ and special soundscapes, conjuring images of tectonic Presented by FutureEverything and RNCM. Supported by guests plates shifting and crashing beneath turbulent ECAS, a European Commission Culture Fund project. Tickets £12.50 weather systems, complete with storms, aurora Concessions available The piece features mirrors, mechanics, lasers, Presented by FutureEverything and RNCM. Supported by borealis, and towering clouds. ECAS, a European Commission Culture Fund project. vacuum pumps, optics and new structures. The Hall is an investigation into the sensation of how Tickets £14.50 scale and distance are perceived and judged by Concessions available Presented by FutureEverything and RNCM. Supported by the human brain. It invites the audience to place ECAS, a European Commission Culture Fund project. themselves into the path of the light beams, into the void of this collimated reflection loop, framed by a thin wall of light. Full FutureEverything festival programme: www.futureeverything.org Free admission, by ticket only Presented by FutureEverything and RNCM. Supported by ECAS, a European Commission Culture Fund project.
28 29 Friday 25 April 8pm RNCM Theatre Pacifica Quartet Pacifica RNCM Session Orchestra
Agnes Obel Agnes Andy Stott director After sell-out shows at the Liverpool Echo Arena, Birmingham 02 Academy, the Duke of Edinburgh World Fellowship Ball and the Royal Albert Hall, the RNCM Session Orchestra returns for an evening of high energy popular music. The 40-piece orchestra and vocalists perform an eclectic mix of music conceived for the larger symphonic palette, including hits by Stevie Wonder, U2, Paloma Faith, Jocelyn Brown, Michael McDonald and Toto. Monday 31 March Tuesday 15 April 7.30pm RNCM Theatre 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Tickets £10 Concessions available Pacifica Quartet Brasy Promoted by RNCM Manchester Chamber Concerts Five man Brasy have thrilled audiences across Society Europe over the last three years with their Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major spellbinding arrangements of songs and sea Op 76 No 4 ‘Sunrise’ shanties, performed in both English and their Thursday 17 April Benjamin Britten String Quartet No 2 in native Polish. Doors 7pm RNCM Theatre C major Op 36 Tickets £10 Johannes Brahms String Quartet in C minor Concessions available Agnes Obel Op 51 No 1 Promoted by Brasy Widely hailed for her poignant lyrics and Tickets £22 £11 haunting melodies, Danish singer-songwriter Concessions available Agnes Obel presents songs from her repertoire. www.chamberconcerts.org Tickets £17.50 Promoted by MCCS No concessions Orchestra RNCM Session + Promoted by Metropolis Music 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Pre-concert talk: David Horne discusses the ideas Wednesday 23 – Saturday 26 April surrounding tonight’s programme Free admission to ticket holders 7.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre Saturday 26 April 2pm RNCM Studio Theatre Saturday 12 April 8pm RNCM Theatre The Threepenny Opera Aly Bain & Phil RNCM Youth Perform Music by Kurt Weill Cunningham Text by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth World-renowned Shetland fiddler and musical Hauptmann, after John Gay's The Beggar's director of the BBC Transatlantic Sessions Aly Opera
Bain and accordion virtuoso Phil Cunningham Bain & Phil Cunningham Aly English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein are considered two of the great names in Caroline Clegg director Scottish traditional music. Their authenticity and Daniel Parkinson musical director panache, exquisite precision and style has taken Stuart Bartles lighting design the vibrant music of the Highlands and Islands around the world. A departure from the typical music drama, this intense work irresistibly erodes the self-deluding Tickets £16 Concessions available niceties of capitalist society. Promoted by SaltaireLive Tickets £10 Concessions available Promoted by RNCM 30 31 Sunday 27 April 2 – 2.45pm The Front Room 6 – 7.30pm Theatre Royal Exchange Theatre, St Ann’s Square Coming Soon La Belle Époque Fin de Siècle Friday 16 May RNCM DAY OF SONG France was in the midst of the Dreyfus affair and Programme to include: RNCM Theatre Fin de Siècle: The Voice of Europe at many artists became involved politically. ‘Enfant Edward Elgar Sea Pictures the end of the 19th century prodigue’ Debussy was inspired by Liszt and Gustav Mahler Songs from Des Knaben RNCM Symphony Orchestra Wagner, and this concert includes some of his Wunderhorn Walk through the streets of La Belle Époque and more capricious pieces, Les Fêtes Galantes and Hugo Wolf Songs from Italienisches Programme to include: join us to discover Parisian lifestyle, Viennese Melodies, together with songs with Ravel and his Liederbuch Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 Waltzes, Germanic and Austro-Hungarian great teacher, Fauré. in D major Op 19 Secession, Italian Verismo and Drawing Room The final concert of the day brings together Jean Sibelius Symphony No 2 in D major Op 43 and Salon music in Victorian England through Tickets £7.50 the cream of song from the 1890s from across Art Song and the world of the chanson, Lieder, Concessions available Europe, from the distinctive, passionate voice and Neapolitan songs and arias of the 1890s, of Elgar in Sea Pictures to Mahler’s charming Saturday 14 June performed by RNCM singers in the unique settings of German folk poetry known as Des Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, 3 – 3.45pm The Studio surroundings of the Royal Exchange Theatre. Knaben Wunderhorn and much more, all Martin Harris Centre Between concerts, the foyers will resound with Austria-Hungary and the brought to life by RNCM singers on the set of sounds from across the Atlantic, from the early the Royal Exchange Theatre’s new production RNCM Gold Medal years of Tin Pan Alley to songs from the ‘King Lands of the Bohemian of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing. Competition of Ragtime’, Scott Joplin. Dr Francis Toase Crown Tickets £15 A chance to hear the next generation of star introduces each concert by setting the political performers as RNCM students compete for the Austria-Hungary was one of the world’s great scene, and the closing concert of the day draws Day Ticket £40 much-coveted RNCM Gold Medal. together the finest repertoire from this gloriously powers with Vienna as the centre for an Promoted by RNCM in association with Royal Exchange rich period of music-making. enormously talented group of artists, composers, Theatre poets and philosophers. Following in the wake Wednesday 25 June – Friday 4 July Full details and a downloadable leaflet are available at Capitol Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan www.rncm.ac.uk/dayofsong of such giants as Schubert, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, this concert features the songs of University Mahler, Wolf and Zemlinsky. Company 11.30am – 12.15pm Theatre Tickets £7.50 Concessions available Stephen Sondheim Victorian England A run of eight of performances of Sondheim’s A wonderful mixture of both old and new filled brilliant musical comedy Company, centred 4.30 – 5.15pm The Front Room the Concert Halls in Victorian England. This around the life of Bobby, a bachelor in his 30s concert features songs by Edward Elgar, Charles Risorgimento: who’s reluctant to settle down. Villiers Stanford and Lisa Lehman, together with sounds of the emerging new society, in The Rise of the New Friday 27 June music portrayed by Edward German and Arthur 19th century Italy saw the birth of both The Bridgewater Hall Somervell. Puccini and Verdi and such operas as Tickets £7.50 Otello, La Bohème, Aida, and La Traviata, RNCM Symphony Orchestra Concessions available while the salons resounded to the strains of Programme to include: Neapolitan song. With unification only Piotr Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 recent in the memory, old loyalities remained 12.30 – 1.15pm The Studio in B flat minor Op 23 while new movements surfaced. This concert Junge Lieder explores the songs of Tosti, Verdi and Mascagni. Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 July Towards the end of the 19th century, German Imperial War Museum North Tickets £7.50 politics became progressively more chaotic. Concessions available Meanwhile, Wagner had changed the course IWMN Project of opera, while German song composers mixed Joining The First World War Centenary the Classical and the Romantic. This concert Partnership network, the RNCM collaborates includes the four songs of Opus 27 by Richard with Imperial War Museum North to create Strauss, written for his wife on the occasion of a poignant, moving experience of live music, their marriage, the Junge Lieder by Humperdinck drama, visuals and more, together with a and songs by Wolf and Mahler. celebration of peace, as well as snippets of Tickets £7.50 social life and of the role dance halls played in Concessions available keeping morale up. On sale April 2014 32 33 Give the gift of Upcoming Friends’ Events RNCM Outreach Looking for a venue? Friday 10 January 12pm The Outreach team engages with the The RNCM offers excellent purpose-built spaces music and support Molton Brown, St Ann’s Square, M2 7EF RNCM’s wider community through a year- to hire for all aspects of performances and Molton Brown Pamper Session round programme of events. In addition we conferencing. also design bespoke projects for a range of Start the RNCM Chamber Music Festival with The RNCM Theatre seats up to 657 and boasts Your RNCM community groups and are always happy to a little relaxation at Molton Brown’s store in St one of the largest stages in Manchester. discuss new ideas. Our Youth Perform musical Ann’s Square. Friends can enjoy a free treatment Whether someone is a regular or occasional theatre group runs on Wednesday evening and visitor, a fan of opera or jazz, make them such as a hand and arm massage, a glass of The RNCM Concert Hall offers various layout is a low-cost, non-audition group for all young more than just a member of the audience. bubbly and cupcakes, a goodie bag worth £20 options, giving a flexible seating capacity people of secondary school age. Friends Membership makes an excellent gift for and a £10 voucher to spend in store during your of between 450 and 750. It is a unique visit. octagonal performance space and contains music lovers of all ages and over the next year To find out about any of our projects contact a Hradetsky Four Manual Concert Organ. membership subscriptions will help support Your Tickets £15 Holly Marland or Fiona Stuart on 0161 907 RNCM in transforming the RNCM Concert Hall. To book tickets contact the Box Office on 0161 907 5555 5281 or [email protected], or For more information on this £2 million project The RNCM Studio Theatre seats up to 120 (please book before Thursday 2 January) visit www.rncm.ac.uk/communityoutreach. see page 4. and flexible seating offers a variety of set RNCM Outreach is grateful for the support of ups including theatre-style and in the round. From just £2.50 a month RNCM Friends can the Eric and Margaret Kinder Charitable Trust, receive these great benefits: Sunday 16 February 5pm Backstage Trust and the BBC Performing Arts The Carole Nash Recital Room seats up • Save money with ticket and dining discounts Carole Nash Mezzanine Fund. to 100 and is suitable for small-scale at the Box Office and in Brodsky restaurant performances, conferences and catering Meet the Artistic Director and her receptions. • Get closer to RNCM life with invitations to team External Performances exclusive events and opportunities to attend The Lecture Theatre seats 150 and is ideal opera dress rehearsals Dr Michelle Castelletti joined the RNCM in July RNCM ensembles and soloists regularly perform 2013. As the RNCM’s new Artistic Director, at venues and in high-profile concert series for pre-concert talks, discussions and presentations. • Keep up to date with RNCM News and Michelle and her team ensure the RNCM throughout the UK and for a wide range of season events guide programmes diverse events that appeal to promoters from music societies and clubs to The Lecture Theatre and Concert Hall are closed ‘Receiving RNCM Friends membership was audiences across the North West. This is your orchestras, opera companies and individuals. for refurbishment from January – October 2014, a wonderful surprise as a Christmas present! chance to find out more about how events are Look out for regular concert series in St Ann’s however, all other spaces are still available for We have attended many of the events at the programmed, hear a bit more about Michelle Church in the city centre, Emmanuel Church in hire. For further details please contact our Events RNCM over the years and have always been and her team and ask any questions. Didsbury and, as part of our association with Manager Tom Besford on 0161 907 5289 or extremely impressed with the very high quality of Tickets £4 [email protected] performance by such talented students. Friends Music for Health, in the Central Manchester To book tickets contact the Box Office on 0161 907 5555 membership is an ideal way of giving something Hospitals concert series. RNCM can also provide catering for social more by way of appreciation to the College functions, events, dinners or conferences in and its faculty. What was originally a gift will these venues and a range of smaller spaces. certainly become an annual renewal.’ Looking for musicians? Thursday 13 and Friday 14 March 7pm Contact Jonathan Whittle on 0161 907 5258 or Barry & Yolanta Buxton, RNCM Friends The RNCM’s Professional Engagements team [email protected] for further details. Opera Previews co-ordinates a large number of engagements on Christoph Willibald Gluck The Drunkard Cured, behalf of music societies, clubs, companies and Membership starts from as little as £2.50 a (l’ivrogne corrigé) and Orfeo ed Euridice month and you can join as an Individual, Joint individuals throughout the year. Performances or Corporate member. Roger Hamilton conductor range from formal recitals, soloists for choral societies and for concertos, through to For more information on purchasing a Be one of the first to see the RNCM’s latest background music for weddings and events, and membership for yourself or as a gift please opera production. This term we present Gluck’s contact Kate Findlay, Friends Administrator on beautiful Orfeo ed Euridice and The Drunkard incorporate a wide range of styles from classical 0161 907 5338, e-mail [email protected] or Cured in the intimate settings of our Studio to jazz. Contact Abi Collins on 0161 907 5352 visit www.rncm.ac.uk/friends Theatre. or [email protected] for further details. Tickets £12.50 for Bronze members, free to Silver members and above Become a Benefactor To book tickets contact the Box Office on 0161 907 5555 Artistic Proposals There are opportunities to support through the We are always interested to hear your RNCM Benefactors scheme and philanthropic suggestions for future programming. gifts at these levels may support an individual If you have an artistic proposal you student with a bursary or a specific area of would like us to consider, please email academic or capital need. Richard Collins, Programming Manager, For more information please call 0161 907 at [email protected] 5392, email [email protected] or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/benefactors
34 35 Opera Pre-Event Dining Concessions Concessions are available for events where the RNCM In conjunction with our Gluck opera double-bill Eating and Booking is the promoter. For all other events please contact the in March (March 16 at 3pm and March 18/20/22/27 Box Office for precise details of concessions as they at 7pm), we are offering a delicious 3-course pre-event vary according to the event promoter. All concessions dinner/lunch for just £20. Menu choices are listed are subject to availability and it is advisable to book Drinking at below. Table are available from 5pm for evening Information well in advance to ensure the seats you require are performances (12.30pm for lunch). To book, please call available. Please note that proof of concession will be 0161 907 5353/5252 or email [email protected] Booking online required. For further details please check with the Box the RNCM Office or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/discounts www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on Starters Ticket Exchange & Refunds Booking by phone Exchanges may only be made under current There are refreshment facilities available at the RNCM guidelines. Contact the Box Office or visit www.rncm. with the Café, Brodsky Restaurant and the Concert Bar Cream of Porcini Mushroom Soup 0161 907 5555 ac.uk/exchanges for full details. Refunds are only offering a range of fresh, home cooked and locally With a hint of tarragon made in the case of a cancelled performance. sourced food from just a coffee and a pastry to a three- course meal. Prawn, Crayfish and Cucumber Salad Booking in person or by post With a sweet mango mayo Box Office, RNCM, 124 Oxford Road, Group Discounts Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more for all During the refurbishment of the Concert Hall, opening Manchester M13 9RD events promoted by the RNCM. For more information times will vary, so it is advisable to double check our Parisienne of Chilled Melon contact the Box Office or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/groups website for opening times on a particular day. Steeped with port and cranberry syrup Booking Fees During term time Monday to Friday, the Café is open A Rich Duck Liver Pate A booking fee of £1 per ticket applies to most Flexible Series from 8am until 6.30pm and Brodsky is open from Scented with brandy with toasted Brioche and transactions. No booking fee applies to tickets bought Save 15% or more on your tickets by creating your own 11am until 3pm for food and drinks. On performance homemade fruit chutney in person at the Box Office using cash or a debit card. flexible series. Simply choose at least 3 concerts you’d nights, Brodsky is open between 5pm and 7.30pm for like to attend (marked with ). dining. The Concert Bar is open from 6pm until 11pm. Payment Sonic Card Student Discounts Please call 0161 907 5353 or 5252 for full details of Main Courses Payment can be made by cash, Mastercard, Buy tickets for events marked for just £3. Sign menus and opening hours, particularly for performance Visa or Maestro. up at the Sonic Card desk from 1 hour before any nights. Breast of Chicken featured concert or at www.soniccard.co.uk With cranberries and apricot stuffing and a red wine Enquiries by email All food items and menus are subject to availability. gravy [email protected] Email & Mailing List Roast Topside of Beef Keep in touch with events at the RNCM by joining our free mailing list for regular updates. Sign up at www. With Yorkshire pudding and a creamy peppercorn Seating Plans rncm.ac.uk/mailinglist or contact the Box Office for gravy details. Poached Scottish Salmon RNCM Theatre On a bed of asparagus and green beans in a PIT SEATS RNCM Historic Instrument chardonnay and dill sauce Collection Stilton and Leek Lattice The RNCM Historic Instrument Collection is located With a mushroom and white wine cream sauce in the basement of the Library part of the College building (to the left of the main entrance on Booth Street West). It can be accessed using the staircase behind the Box Office or by the lift situated opposite the RNCM Library. Spring 2014 opening hours are Puddings 12 - 1pm before every lunchtime concert and Served in the Interval 6 - 7.15pm where the symbol appears.
Rich Chocolate Torte Artists and programmes are correct at the time of going With raspberries and fresh cream to press and we reserve the right to change artists and/or programmes without notice if necessary. A Trio of Mini Tarts We aim to deliver a quality events programme with With Chantilly cream and fruit coulis efficient and courteous service. If you have any comments Box Office opening hours please contact Head of Marketing & Communications, RNCM, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9RD. Fresh Fruit Salad September - June 11am - 6pm Monday to Saturday Lancashire, Mature Cheddar and Stilton (later on performance nights) Sunday 1 hour before performances Cheese (closed on non-performance Sundays) Served with a caramelised onion confit and rustic For full terms and conditions visit bloomer bread www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on/terms or contact the Box Office. Coffee and chocolates
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36 37 Access External Venues Spring 2014 All public spaces and facilities are accessible to wheelchair users (via lifts). As the redevelopment of the RNCM Concert Hall begins we will lose the use of the space until October Large print and audio 2014. So, we’ve been exploring Manchester to locate interesting alternative venues for some of our versions of this brochure programmed events. Here’s a list of our host venues and on the facing page, a map to indicate their are available from locations.
0161 907 5555 or The Bridgewater Hall Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS [email protected] Phone: 0844 907 9000 Guide dogs are welcome, please inform the Box Office www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk when booking your ticket. The RNCM Concert Hall and RNCM Theatre are fitted with hearing assistance Chetham’s School of Music systems and receivers (available from the Front of Long Millgate, Manchester M3 1SB House team on request). Receivers can be used in Phone: 0161 834 9644 conjunction with a standard hearing aid in the ‘T’ www.chethams.com position or an earpiece provided. The RNCM Studio Theatre, Carole Nash Recital Room and RNCM Lecture Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Theatre are fitted with induction loops (hearing aids The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama should be switched to the ‘T’ position). Free parking is The University of Manchester available for disabled patrons, reserve your space with Bridgeford Street, Manchester, M13 9PL reception on 0161 907 5300. Please contact the Box Phone: 0161 275 8951 Office or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/access for detailed www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre/cosmo access information. The Holden Gallery Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan How to find us University, Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street The RNCM is located on the corner of Oxford Road Manchester, M15 6BR and Booth Street West. Oxford Road connects the Phone: 0161 247 1346 RNCM by bus to the City Centre, Piccadilly and www.holdengallery.mmu.ac.uk Victoria train stations. Oxford Road station is a 10 minute walk away. Go to www.tfgm.com for details of (NB disabled access to the Holden Gallery is limited. There public transport in the Greater Manchester area. is no level access to the Gallery within the Grosvenor Building directly. There is however a lift in the new Art School building, which is connected via the flying tunnel to Parking the Grosvenor Building.) (1) The RNCM car park is located next to the College Holy Name Church in the basement of the Sir Charles Groves Hall 339 Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PG of Residence, off Rosamund Street West. Open Phone: 0161 273 2435 from 5pm weekday evenings and anytime over www.holyname.info weekends and bank holidays, costing £3 (payable on entry). Closes at 11.30pm. Manchester Cathedral (2) The University of Manchester Booth Street car park Victoria Street, Manchester M3 1SX is situated off Booth Street West. Open Phone: 0161 833 2220 6am - midnight. www.manchestercathedral.org Pedestrian Zone Pedestrian Zone (3) The Aquatics Centre car park is situated off Booth Highway Highway Street East. Open 6am - 11pm. Royal Exchange Theatre St Ann's Square, Manchester, M2 7DH CS Chetham's School of Music Chetham's School of Music Chet �������� Phone: 0161 833 9833 MC Manchester Cathedral ������������������� MC ���������� �������� Manchester Cathedral ����������� ����������� ��������� �������������������� ������������ www.royalexchange.co.uk ����������� �����������
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