ACADEMY OF MITREA & VADUVA CITY OF SINFONIA St Matthew Passion Thursday 20th March at St Edmundsbury Cathedral ANCIENT MUSIC PIANO DUO Saturday 5th April 7.30pm Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge £23/£19 (£21/£17conc) Under 25s £5 Britten Sinfonia Sunday 23rd February 7.30pm Wednesday 26th March 1pm £23/£19 (£21/£17 conc) Under 25s £5 £8 / Under 25s £5 Matthew Barley, St John Passion BACH AND ITALY Royal Academy of Music students play music by Ravel, AC Jobim & V de Moraes Ela e Carioca (arr. Barley) Saturday 29th March at The Apex Poulenc & Stravinsky. AC Jobim Sabia Bury Bach Choir Richard Tognetti, Director & Astor Piazzolla Milonga del Angel (arr. Barley) Suffolk Baroque Players P Jobim, R Bastos Mantequeira Range (arr. Barley) Vivaldi Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, Chico Barque Beatriz In March 2014 we are delighted to offer an opportunity to bassoon, strings & continuo RV562 RED PRIEST AC Jobim Aguas de Marco (arr. Barley) enjoy the two surviving Passions. Tickets for both go on sale Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.3 Sir John Tavener The Protecting Veil soon at The Apex Box Office – 01284 758000. Pisendel Concerto Grosso No. 1 in E-flat major Friday 28th March 8pm Vivaldi L’Estro Armonico Op. 3 No. 10 for £16 (£14 conc) Under 25s £5 Wow… what a programme! The first half takes us on a four , strings & continuo wonderful journey around South America including Matthew Veracini Ouverture No. 5 in B-flat Barley’s arrangements of music by the Brazilian Antonio SPECIAL CLASSICAL Bach Concerto for Three Violins BWV1064 Carlos Jobim and the Argentinian founder of Nuevo Tango, Vivaldi Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, Astor Piazzolla. The second half is devoted to John Tavener’s PROGRAMME OFFERS bassoon, strings & continuo RV569 wonderful ‘Protecting Veil’ which helped him to become a household name in the 1990s. Don’t miss it! Why not take advantage of our special Classical programme Richard Tognetti is director of the Australian Chamber discounts? Orchestra and has established an international reputation for his compelling performances and this concert marks his • Book tickets for all four lunchtime concerts and debut with the AAM. Escher & pay for only three • Book tickets for the concerts by Aurora Orchestra, Academy Benjamin Grosvenor of Ancient Music, Orchestra of St Paul’s and City of London Sinfonia and receive a 10% discount BERNADEL STRING QUARTET Wednesday 16th April 7.30pm • Book for 5 or more evening classical concerts from the £18/£15 (£16/£13cons) Under 25s £5 programme at The Apex for a 15% discount Wednesday 26th February 1pm £8 / Under 25s £5 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-Flat Major Op. 12 REMEMBER UNDER 25s TICKET PRICES FOR ALL CONCERTS Mendelssohn Andante and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14 IN THE PROGRAMME ARE JUST £5. Royal Academy of Music students play Haydn’s Quartet Schubert Impromptu in G flat D899 No.3 For details of all concessions please contact the Box Office op.76, No.3 and Bartok’s 2nd Quartet. Gounod/Liszt Valse de Faust or see www.theapex.co.uk Dvorak Piano Quintet

NIGHTMARE IN VENICE: A BAROQUE FANTASY The performed at the Apex not long OCTOBER 2013 – APRIL 2014 JANINA FIALKOWSKA Led by genius recorder player Piers Adams, Red Priest is the after we had first opened; it was brilliant and we have been TO BOOK TICKETS: only early music group in the world to have been compared looking forward to inviting them back ever since. Benjamin Thursday 6th March, 7.30pm in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Grosvenor performed here in Autumn 2012 just as he was 01284 758000 £18/£15 (£16/£13conc) Under 25s £5 Brothers, Spike Jones and the Cirque du Soleil. winning a whole pile of awards; it was also an extremely memorable performance and enjoyed by a large audience. www.theapex.co.uk CLASSICAL Grieg 6 Lyric pieces ‘outrageous yet compulsive’, Both the Escher Quartet and Benjamin Grosvenor were BBC Schubert Sonata in E flat major D568 ‘wholly irreverent and highly enlightened’, New Generation Artists from 2010 to 2012 and to have them The Apex, Charter Square, Chopin A selection of Mazurkas & ‘completely wild and deeply imaginative’, playing together at the Apex is a real treat. Bury St Edmunds IP33 3FD MUSIC Ballade No. 4 Enjoy an evening of magic and fantasy that kicks off with DON’T FORGET! BOOK TICKETS AT Beloved the world over for her exquisite pianism, Janina Vivaldi’s Nightmare Concerto (La Notte) and continues with If you join our online community – you will be one of the first has enchanted audiences for over thirty years. She is baroque music by the likes of Bach, Purcell and Tartini. to know who is playing at the venue, receiving priority on sale THEAPEX.CO.UK particularly distinguished as one of the great interpreters emails, special offers and competitions. 01284 758000 of the piano works of Chopin and Mozart, with her most This is one of the Apex’s unbuttoned concerts where you Register at www.theapex.co.uk recent release, ‘Chopin Recital 2’ winning the BBC Music can enjoy high quality classical music with a more relaxed, The Apex, 1 Charter Square Magazine’s Best Instrumental CD Award 2013. informal feel and the bar open. Orchestral concerts in association with Orchestras Live Bury St Edmunds IP33 3FD

APEXCLASSICAL2013.indd 1 5/7/13 15:21:13 INTRODUCTION ROSS SCANLON & AURORA ORCHESTRA THE MIKADO TASMIN LITTLE & It has been a real pleasure putting this classical season CHAD VINDIN Friday 22nd November 7.30pm MARTIN ROSCOE together with a mix of old favourites, new faces and great £25/£19 (£23/£17conc) Under 25s £5 music throughout. There’s a lot on so do take advantage of Tuesday 29th October 1pm Thursday 23rd January 7.30pm the season offers. £8 / Under 25s £5 Co-Opera Co. have been regular visitors to The Apex and £18/£15 (£16/£13 conc) Under 25s £5 their innovative productions of Carmen and The Magic As part of this season we are particularly pleased to be Tenor Ross Scanlon, from the Royal Academy of Music, performs Flute have brought them great critical acclaim both in the Schubert Sonata in D major D. 384 putting on a series of lunchtime concerts featuring talented Handel, Coates, Dunhill, Tchaikovsky, Denza and Strauss. national press and from audience members and we are Beethoven Sonata in G major Op. 96 musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. The Academy’s looking forward to their return with Gilbert and Sullivan’s Schubert Sonatina in A minor D. 885 visits to the Bury Festival each year have always been The Mikado. Beethoven Sonata in F major Op. 24 ‘Spring’ popular and excellent concerts and it is exciting to see young musicians at the start of their musical careers. EVGENIA RUBINOVA Get ready to meet the three little maids fresh from school It’s a great pleasure to be inviting Tasmin Little and Martin and The Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko, the frightful Katisha, Roscoe to perform together. Tasmin Little has played with the simply gorgeous Yum Yum, and the poor love struck many of the world’s greatest orchestras in a career that has Nanki Poo plus a host of other wonderful characters created taken her to every continent of the world. Martin Roscoe is VENTI WIND QUINTET by that master of comedy William S Gilbert. Add Sir Arthur unarguably one of the UK’s best loved pianists; renowned Sullivan into the mix and it is no wonder that their gloriously for his versatility at the keyboard, Martin is equally at home Tuesday 8th October 1pm funny Japanese fantasy has become the world’s favourite in concerto, recital and chamber performances. £8 / Under 25s £5 Friday 15th November 7.30pm Gilbert and Sullivan opera.Co-Opera Co. can promise you an £21/£18 (£19/£16 conc) Under 25s £5 evening filled with marvellous music, sung and played by a Royal Academy of Music students play wind music by Ibert, young and vibrant company whose sole aim is to enchant, Nielsen, Mozart, Francaix. EARTH SONG enthral and entertain their audiences. ORCHESTRA OF ST PAUL’S With Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Jane Irwin Mezzo Soprano ‘Whether you are an incurable opera lover or an innocent Friday 7th February 7.30pm Andrew Staples Tenor opera virgin – Co-Opera Co. has something for you – a fresh, £18/£15 (£16/£13 conc) Under 25s £5 Nicholas Collon Conductor youthful take on beloved operatic gems’ – Opera Now FAIRY TALES Britten (arr Imogen Holst) Rejoice in the Lamb Ben Palmer Conductor Mahler (arr Glen Cortese) Das Lied von der Erde JOHN WILLIAMS Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel: Prelude For I will consider Aurora Orchestra’s ‘Earth Song’. (arr. Ben Palmer) For it pertains to the manifold colours of life. Ravel Mother Goose Suite Monday 4th November 7.30pm For it wreathes with elegant quickness among dreams, fears, (arr. Wolfgang Renz) £18/£15 (£16/£13 conc) Under 25s £5 beauty and darkness. Solfa Carlile New work, to be inspired by fairy tales For it features the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and Sibelius En Saga (original septet version) Beethoven Sonata Op. 106 ‘Hammerklaviersonate’ singer/director Andrew Staples. Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Prokofiev 10 Piano Pieces Op. 12 For together they will semi-stage Britten’s jubilant Rejoice in (arr. Iain Farrington) Rachmaninov 3 Moments Musicaux from Op. 16 the Lamb. (No. 2, 5 & 4) For it sings praise for all living things, from the mouse to the The Orchestra of St Paul’s, one of London’s most dynamic lion to the flowers to the cat Jeoffry. and versatile chamber orchestras, invites you on a magical Friday 18th October, 7.30pm Evgenia Rubinova wowed the audience at the Bury Festival For its poetry was written by Christopher Smart in 1759 while journey through musical myths, legends and fairy tales, all £18/£15 (£16/£13 conc) Under 25s £5 soon after her Silver Medal success at the 2003 Leeds confined to an asylum. Tuesday 26th November, 7.30pm in sparkling arrangements for small orchestra. international piano Competition and we are delighted that we For there too will be heard Das Lied von der Erde. £23/£19 (£21/£17conc) Under 25s £5 Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5 have been able to tempt her back. Since her Leeds success For Mahler’s great work is a hymn to earth, wine, spring, the Opening with Humperdinck’s prelude to the opera Hansel Verdi String Quartet in E minor she has gone on to give recitals and play with top orchestras leaves and mortality. Widely regarded as a foremost ambassador of the guitar, and Gretel, you’ll hear Ravel’s depictions of Sleeping Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 around the world including with the London Philharmonic For its poetry is drawn from the Tang Dynasty of the eighth John Williams needs little introduction. He is well known for Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Beauty and the Beast in his Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. century. his collaborations with other musicians, most notably those Mother Goose Suite, and Sibelius’s ravishing tone poem, No strangers to Bury St Edmunds, the award–winning For 浩歌待明月 with Julian Bream, , Andre Previn, Cleo Laine, En Saga. There’s a new work by OSP’s Composer-in- Sacconi Quartet is recognised as one of the UK’s leading ‘Rubinova had the audience on the edge of the seat!’ (For ‘wildly singing I waited for the moon to rise’.) John Dankworth and Daniel Barenboim. He has performed Residence, Solfa Carlile, about the Irish legend of Dagda’s string quartets and is celebrated for its creativity, energy – The Guardian For by listening to all these I have found out electricity. in Bury a few times in recent years both as a soloist and as a Harp, and the concert concludes with The Sorcerer’s and integrity of interpretation. They celebrated their 10th For Aurora can tread to all the measures upon the musick. duo with John Etheridge and most recently Richard Harvey. Apprentice by Dukas, made famous by the Disney film anniversary last year and we’ve been following them since ‘Rubinova has spark engendered by real personality and For it can play for its life. For this concert the programme will include works by Bach, Fantasia. their early days and so it goes without saying that we’re musical imagination. A performance which took off and left For it can sing. Albeniz, Sculthorpe, Goss, Hand, Koehne, Barrios and also looking forward to welcoming them back to Bury. everything else behind’ – The Independent After Christopher Smart his own compositions.

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