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P09 P22 P20 Fri 04 Sep Mon 28 Sep Sat 03 Oct Doors 7pm 1.15pm Fri 02 Oct 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall JIM ADKINS MONDAY RNCM Studio Theatre Jimmy Eat World’s RECITAL SERIES LADY MAISERY LESBIAN AND frontman Jim Adkins visits Maurice Ravel Valses With their boundary-pushing subject Manchester for an intimate GAY CHORUS nobles et sentimentales matter and continued exploration acoustic performance as 15TH ANNIVERSARY of ‘diddling’ (look it up…) Lady part of his first ever solo Rachel Fright CONCERT WITH THE Maisery showcase brand new material tour. BRIGHTON GAY MEN’S Claude Debussy Rapsodie from their forthcoming album. Tickets £17.50 advance Dave Heath Out of the Cool CHORUS Tickets £12 FS Promoted by SJM Concerts Vykintas Civas saxophone Tickets £9 Promoted by MLGC Birute Stundziaite piano Free admission, no ticket Mon 21 Sep required 7.30pm Sun 04 Oct RNCM Concert Hall 7.30pm RNCM Theatre RALPH Thu 01 Oct 1.15pm BRITISH KIRSHBAUM Fri 25 Sep RNCM Concert Hall 7.30pm ASSOCIATION (cello) RNCM Concert Hall JAMES RNCM OF CAMPBELL RNCM STRING CONCERT BARBERSHOP (clarinet) ORCHESTRA SINGERS ORCHESTRA Moonlight CLUB NIGHT MARTIN Henry Purcell Suite from and Storm from Peter Tickets £12 The Fairy Queen ROSCOE (piano) Grimes Promoted by The British Association Gerald Finzi Romance in Benjamin Britten Sinfonia of Barbershop Singers Trio E flat major Op 11 da Requiem Op 20 in B flat major Op 11 for Felix Mendelssohn String clarinet, cello and piano Symphony No 7 in D minor MWV N 7 Clark Rundell, Carlos Clarinet Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Ágreda Arango conductors Mon 05 Oct Sonata No 2 in E flat major Souvenir de Florence Op 70 Free admission, no ticket 1.15pm Op 120 required Carole Nash Recital Room Ludwig van Beethoven Andrew Watkinson director Cello Sonata in A major Tickets £12 FS MONDAY Op 69 Johannes Brahms Trio in A RECITAL minor Op 114 for clarinet, Thu 01 Oct SERIES cello and piano Doors 7pm RNCM Concert Hall Herbert Howells Clarinet Tickets £25 Sonata Promoted by Manchester Chamber Concerts Society SIMPLY DYLAN Emily Wilson clarinet Groundpig’s John O’Connell Lydia Lallement piano + gets to the heart of the Richard Rodney Bennett 6.30pm of Bob Dylan in ‘a Songs Before Sleep Forman Lecture Theatre show that every Dylan fan PRE-CONCERT TALK should see.’ Neil Balfour bass-baritone Free admission to ticket Tickets £19.50 advance James Hendry piano holders No concessions Promoted by SJM Concerts & John Free admission, no ticket O’Connell required 04 05 06

‘There’s nothing in the world that can match this concert, because of the sheer amount of incredible artists all together in one room. And we’re so lucky to be working with the BBC Phil, Hallé, Manchester Camerata and Sir Mark Elder. I don’t think you would see it anywhere else, it’s unique and special and a fitting tribute to Michael.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director

of the RNCM and on the Board Sir Mark Elder, Sir Andrew Mon 05 Oct of the RNCM (and RMCM before Serenade to Music conductors 7.30pm Davis it) for 40 years, and was Moonlight RNCM Concert Hall Benjamin Britten Giselle Allen, Lee Bisset, Vice-President of the Hallé and Storm from Peter Grimes Susan Bullock, Rebecca Evans, Concerts Society. Haydn Wood Roses of Picardy Marie McLaughlin, ( ) The Last soprano MICHAEL Tonight’s orchestra features Trad arr Britten Joan Rodgers Rose of Summer Susan Bickley, Alice Coote,

07 musicians from the Hallé, Ich bin der KENNEDY BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Gustav Mahler Kathryn Rudge, Wendy Dawn MEMORIAL CONCERT Welt abhanden gekommen from Camerata and RNCM. Thompson, Kathleen Smales This concert is a memorial to Rückert-Lieder mezzo-soprano Michael Kennedy CBE who died Overture to La Richard Wagner Wahn! Wahn! Richard Berkeley Steele, in December 2014. Michael was Forza del Destino Überall Wahn! from Die Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts, Paul a music critic and writer of Georges Bizet Duet from The Meistersinger von Nürnberg Nilon, Christopher Turner note and a key figure in the Pearl Fishers Edward Elgar Three Variations tenor musical life of the city. W A Mozart Soave sia il vento from Enigma Variations Op 36 Alan Opie, Philip Smith, He produced biographies on a from Così fan tutte Richard Strauss Final Trio Roderick Williams baritone number of composers, as well Edward Elgar Romance for from Der Rosenkavalier Op 59 John Tomlinson bass as books on the history of bassoon and orchestra Laurence Perkins bassoon key Manchester institutions Richard Wagner Winterstürme Petroc Trelawny compere and Du bist der Lenz from Die including the Hallé and the Tickets £20 RNCM. Michael was a Companion Walküre

Any proceeds from the concert will go to the Michael Kennedy Memorial Fund which will support RNCM students through bursaries and scholarships. Anyone wishing to make a donation to the Fund can contact Daniel Porter-Jones at [email protected] or on 0161 907 5392. Thu 08 Oct Fri 09 Oct Doors 7pm 1.15pm RNCM Theatre Carole Nash Recital Room PORT ISAAC’S FRIDAY FISHERMAN’S CHAMBER FRIENDS SERIES Hailing from the North KALLIOPE CLARINETS Cornwall coast, and all Rob Buckland having actually served as Synchronicity fishermen, lifeboatmen or Pierre Max Dubois Quatuor coastguards at some point Daniel Lim Pandora’s in their lives, this nine- Dilemma strong line-up presents Lenny Sayers For Four a rousing evening of shanties and Cornish folk Free admission, no ticket songs. required Tickets £21.50 advance No concessions Wed 07 Oct Promoted by The Gig Cartel 7.30pm RNCM Theatre

EVAN CHRISTOPHER’S Thu 08 Oct 7.30pm DJANGO À LA CRÉOLE RNCM Concert Hall To create their totally unique sound, Django à la Créole took the hot Gypsy swing pioneered by BRAND NEW ORCHESTRA guitar legend Django Reinhardt and threw the Carlos Ágreda Arango, Adam Kornas, cool Creole rhythms of New Orleans into the mix Harish Shankar conductors with additional nods to Brazil, Cuba and the Thu 08 Oct Caribbean. Clarinettist Evan Christopher stirs 1.15pm Our Brand New Orchestra concerts give a the musical melting pot and serves up the vibe RNCM Concert Hall fascinating insight into the creative process of his home town, New Orleans. of composing, conducting and performing at the RNCM BRASS RNCM. This is a wonderful showcase for RNCM Experience more musical tales from New Orleans BAND Composition students and a chance to hear brand when Leroy Jones (11 November) visits. See p26 new pieces before they are performed anywhere for details. Claudio S Grafulla else. Tickets £17 £14 FS Washington Grays John Ansell Plymouth Hoe ‘The responsibility and future rests with young, + (A Nautical Overture) exciting and visionary musicians. The RNCM lives Cornet and breathes this world.’ Colin Towns 6.30pm Ronald Binge Carillon Carole Nash Recital Room Free admission, no ticket required Howard Snell Postcard LEARN MORE Pre-concert talk from Mexico + Evan Christopher explains the prominence of Wilfred Heaton Oh The 6.30pm the clarinet in New Orleans music and Django Blessed Lord Carole Nash Recital Room Reinhardt’s connections to the ‘Birthplace of (arr Rimmer) – Rebirth of the Jazz’. SPOTLIGHT La Belle Époque Les Préludes Performer-Composer Free admission, no ticket required Richard Evans, Sam Free admission, no ticket required Hairsine conductors Free admission, no ticket required 8 9 Fri 09 Oct 7.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre NAMVULA One of the few Zambian artists performing Tue 13-Sat 17 Oct in Europe, Namvula fuses the folk and urban 7.30pm traditions of her homeland with London’s Sat 17 Oct eclectic music scene, as well as referencing her 2.30pm Scottish roots. Her music transports listeners RNCM Studio Theatre into different worlds, whilst staying firmly rooted in African soil, skipping back and forth THE BEST across borders and languages, in her poetic and uplifting live performances. LITTLE The next gig in our Making Tracks series WHOREHOUSE features Hungarian folk renegades Söndörgö and takes place on 12 November. See p27 for details. IN TEXAS Tickets £10 opening night, Tickets £15 FS £13 all other performances Mon 12 Oct Tue 13 Oct Concessions Saturday matinee only 7.30pm 7.30pm Promoted by South Manchester AOS RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Theatre Sat 10-Sun 11 Oct Sun 11 Oct Mon 12 Oct 5pm 7.30pm 1.15pm ESCHER CHEADLE RNCM Venues RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room QUARTET HULME Thu 15 Oct PETER FRANK 1.15pm BRITISH DEAN MONDAY SCHOOL RNCM Concert Hall MEMORIAL CONCERT AND KATIE ASSOCIATION FRIEDMAN RECITAL Felix Mendelssohn String RNCM OF The prolific singer/ SERIES Quartet No 4 in E minor DERHAM songwriter re-visits songs Op 44 No 2 CONCERT Stanley Friedman Solus FEELING GOOD MUSIC BARBERSHOP from a career spanning Alexander Zemlinsky Tickets £12 ORCHESTRA three decades including Illiam Quane trumpet SINGERS String Quartet No 3 Op 19 No concessions Carl Nielsen Prelude to Lydia and Lucky Stars. QUARTET Claude Debussy La Johannes Brahms String Promoted by Music in Hospitals Act II from Saul and David PRELIMINARIES Tickets £25 cathédrale engloutie from Quartet No 2 in A minor Jean Sibelius Symphony No Préludes Book 1 Op 51 Free admission, no ticket Promoted by Concerts INC 3 in C major Op 52 Martin Butler On the required Tickets £25 Mark Heron, Thiago Santos rocks Promoted by Manchester Chamber Promoted by The British Association conductors Concerts Society of Barbershop Singers Liga Korne piano Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket required required 10 11 ‘Colin Towns’ sound is strong and his language unique. He brings all his experience and insight in film and theatre creating a stunning new album Drama with some of the finest jazz musicians around.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti, Thu 15 Oct Artistic Director 7.30pm RNCM Theatre COLIN TOWNS MASK ORCHESTRA DRAMA Theatre is the inspiration for Colin Towns Mask Orchestra’s new album DRAMA, a recording that features fresh re-workings of scores plus original music from Towns’ extensive writing for the stage. For this live presentation of DRAMA, a stellar line-up of jazz musicians will Fri 16 Oct 8pm perform music written for a mind- RNCM Concert Hall blowing array of plays from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Equus and Macbeth, to contemporary work POWERPLANT including Copenhagen, The Cripple From Steve Reich’s My Name Is (which uses a of Inishmaan and Terry Johnson’s live tape loop to sample the audience) to new Hysteria. music by Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory and Gabriel ‘My experience in theatre has been Thu 15 Oct Prokofiev, experimental trio Powerplant will simply life-changing… It’s this world 7.30pm propel you into a world where minimalism and that I have developed and brought RNCM Concert Hall electronica collide. to the band… Every musician in the With percussion and electronics provided by Joby Mask Orchestra is a fellow traveller AN EVENING Burgess, sound design by Matthew Fairclough and and explorer, moving through the WITH JUDY visuals by Kathy Hinde, the trio is heavy on ideas and drama. My compositions are live sampling, with traces of , simply maps and the musicians are COLLINS Michael Haneke and even vintage soda bottles. the magicians who turn them into 3D PLUS SPECIAL GUEST Famous for their visually innovative, multi- kaleidoscopes.’ ARI HEST media performances, Powerplant ‘is a must for Colin Towns, CD liner note for DRAMA Singer/songwriter Judy anyone surfing the sine waves and all things Tickets £20 £18 FS Collins has inspired electronica.’ Think contemporary music meets art audiences with her installation… + sublime vocals, boldly Tickets £15 FS 6.30pm vulnerable song-writing Forman Lecture Theatre and commitment to social + LEARN MORE Pre-concert talk activism. Tonight 6.30pm Colin Towns gives his personal she performs in this Carole Nash Recital Room insight into his latest project in fundraiser for Band on SPOTLIGHT Michaelbrailey – Emotive conversation with Mike Hall. the Wall. electronic music, performed live Free admission, no ticket required Tickets £22.50 Free admission, no ticket required No concessions Promoted by Band on the Wall 12 13 Sat 17 Oct Sun 18 Oct Tue 20 Oct 12.30pm 6pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall JUNIOR RNCM MANCHESTER THE LITTLE MATCH FORMAL CHAMBER CONCERT CHOIR GIRL PASSION The Little Match Girl Passion combines Hans A showcase performance ONE EQUAL MUSIC Christian Andersen’s tragic short story with featuring talented Manchester Chamber Choir J S Bach’s setting of the St Matthew Passion to soloists from Junior RNCM. and organist Michael dramatic effect, with imaginative staging that Free admission, no ticket Wynne, conducted by the fuses music, sonic art and multi-media in a required Choir’s new Principal highly creative way. Conductor Jonathan Lo, present some of Britain’s Written by David Lang, this Pulitzer Prize- favourite choral music, winning piece is a modern, innovative work that Sat 17 Oct including works by Byrd, uses vocal ensemble and percussion to bring the 7.30pm Parry, Vaughan Williams heart-breaking tale of the little match girl RNCM Concert Hall and Britten. to life. Although it packs a potent emotional punch, it avoids sentimentality. Sun 18 Oct Jonathan Lo conductor 7.30pm Cryptic has an established reputation for Tickets £15 creating memorable experiences that engage and RNCM Theatre Promoted by Manchester Chamber Choir inspire their audiences and is ‘an extraordinary DONOVAN and innovative company.’ Folk/rock/pop poet Donovan See the video trailer at takes up a two night www.cryptic.org.uk/little-match-girl-passion residency at the RNCM to Mon 19 Oct 1.15pm Tickets £15 mark his five decades in FS Carole Nash Recital Room the music business on this Retrospective tour. MONDAY Tickets £25 No concessions RECITAL Promoted by Meadowlight Services SERIES Wed 21 Oct Thu 22 Oct Thu 22 Oct Music to include: 7.30pm 1.15pm 7.30pm Ástor Piazzolla (arr RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Vehmanen) Histoire du Tango CONSERVATOIRES RNCM CHETHAM’S Cressida McKay Frith flute UK CONCERT CONCERT SYMPHONY Steaphanaidh Chaimbeul A showcase of performances ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA harp from all RNCM Schools of C P E Bach Symphony No 1 Einojuhani Rautavaara Free admission, no ticket study taking place as in G Major Wq 182 Cantus Articus Op 61 required part of the annual CUK Joseph Haydn Symphony No Sergei Rachmaninov Piano conference being hosted 102 in B flat major Hob Concerto No 1 in F sharp by the RNCM. I:102 minor Op 1 Free admission, no ticket Jean Sibelius Symphony Mark Stringer, Adam required No 5 in E flat major Op 82 Kornas conductors

Free admission, no ticket Franz Anton Krager conductor required Henry Cash piano Tickets £18 £14 Promoted by Chetham’s School of Music 14 15 Sat 24 Oct Sun 25 Oct 7.30pm 11am-4pm Thu 22 Oct RNCM Venues 7.30pm RNCM Theatre RNCM Theatre JOSS ARNOTT DANCE RNCM FAMILY DAY PAUL MASON MANCHESTER SCIENCE FESTIVAL Following the publication 5I0 Join us as we boldly go where no Family Day of his new book, has gone before… PostCapitalism: A TRIPLE-BILL FEAT Guide to Our Future, Spark your curiosity with a day of fun and broadcaster Paul Mason DAME EVELYN GLENNIE interactive activities that explore the will be in conversation In a brand new triple-bill, Joss Arnott Dance connections between science and sound in with Katy Shaw, Principal demonstrate the athleticism and breath-taking partnership with Manchester Science Festival. Lecturer in Contemporary choreography that has made the company one of the For full details, visit Literature at Leeds most exciting voices in British contemporary dance. www.rncm.ac.uk/autumnfamilyday Beckett University. For the final piece, Wide Awakening, five dancers are By the way, there’s a festive Family Day Tickets £10 £8 joined on stage by Grammy Award-winning Dame Evelyn taking place on 13 December. See p40 for Promoted by Manchester Literature Glennie, creating thundering percussions perfectly details. Festival matching the heart-pounding movement of the dancers. Tickets £5 adults. Admission for children is The triple-bill also includes solo V and 24, a free, by ticket only, accompanied by an adult. quartet inspired by Alexander McQueen’s recent V & A Suitable for ages 5 and above exhibition Savage Beauty. Fri 23 Oct Promoted by RNCM in association with Manchester Science 8pm See trailers at www.jossarnottdance.com Festival Carole Nash Recital Room Tickets £15 FS TOM LEARN MORE WITH MANCHESTER MCCONVILLE SCIENCE FESTIVAL Name-checked as Seth Play, create and experiment with your Lakeman’s biggest scientific side as Manchester Science Festival influence, the‘ Geordie brings together a unique blend of art, make- Fiddler’ plays an it workshops, performances and big experiences intimate Manchester show. for all ages across . Tickets £13 For more information on Manchester Science Promoted by Tom McConville Festival, please visit www.manchestersciencefestival.com Manchester Science Festival is proudly produced by the Museum of Science and Industry.

‘This project allows you to free yourself and watch and see something visceral rather than something that is programmed and static. The freedom and energy of contemporary dance means that there are no boundaries and the soundworld can be exploited even further.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director 16 17 Mon 26 Oct 1.15pm Carole Nash Recital Room Tue 27 Oct 7.30pm MONDAY RNCM Theatre RECITAL SERIES THE TIGER Francis Poulenc Clarinet LILLIES Sonata in B flat major FP LOVE FOR SALE 184 The Tiger Lillies put Cole Porter in Qiran Chen clarinet a blender with two scoops of macabre Xingua Xu piano pre-war Berlin, a dash of acoustic Alexander Scriabin Valse punk and a splash of romance. And in A flat major Op 38; out pours a mad cocktail of delight Fantasie in B minor Op 28 and delirium. Lee Jae Phang piano You’re going to sleep well after Free admission, no ticket this. Or not at all… required Commissioned and produced by Opera North Projects Supported by The Emerald Foundation and Sir John Fisher Foundation Tue 27 Oct Tickets £15 FS 6pm Carole Nash Recital Room Thu 29 Oct 7.30pm PETER RNCM Theatre WARLOCK BIRTHDAY BELLA HARDY CONCERT Bella Hardy bares her soul on her latest release, With the RNCM students perform Dawn. This album isn’t just her pieces by the British latest collection of songs – composer Warlock to it’s an account of one year of celebrate his 121st Bella’s life. Where previously anniversary. Hardy had adapted and explored Tickets £10 traditional folk ballads and fables to tell her stories, the stories that inspired these songs are her own – be it good or bad, happy or sad. These are songs written on the road, full of displacement, longing and contemplation. The result? ‘Nothing short of a masterpiece.’ The Sunday Times Tickets £15 FS

18 19 Thu 29 Oct 7pm RNCM Concert Hall PETER DONOHOE THE COMPLETE SCRIABIN PIANO SONATAS 7pm Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 6 Sonata No 4 in F sharp major Op 30 Sonata No 9 ‘Black Mass’ Op 68 Sonata No 5 Op 53

20 8.15pm Sonata No 2 in G sharp minor Op 19 ‘Fantasie-Sonata’ Sonata No 6 Op 62 Sonata No 7 Op 64 ‘White Mass’ Sonata No 8 Op 66 9.30pm Sonata No 3 in F sharp minor Op 23 Sonata No 10 Op 70 Tickets £17 £14 FS Proceeds from this concert will be donated to the RNCM Peter Donohoe Prize Fund. + 6pm Carole Nash Recital Room LEARN MORE Pre-concert talk Peter Donohoe gives an introductory talk prior to this evening’s concert. Free admission, no ticket required

Fri 30 Oct 7.30pm ‘Colour is timbres, sound, tone, the RNCM Concert Hall different effects on the instruments, the juxtaposition and blending of it all. The way Scriabin treats RNCM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA colour in his orchestration and his Claude Debussy La Mer instrumentation is like he has a Maurice Ravel in G major palette of colours and he’s painting Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune rather than writing notes.’ Alexander Scriabin Le poème de l’extase Op 54 Dr Michelle Castelletti, En Shao, Manoj Kamps conductors Artistic Director David Gibson piano Imagine that you can see sound or hear colour. For tonight’s featured composers, the link between colour and music is incredibly special. CLAUDE DEBUSSY ON MUSIC AND ART L’après-midi d’un faune stands out as a milestone in contemporary ‘Collect impressions. Don’t be in 21 music. It cemented Debussy’s mature compositional voice and displayed a hurry to write them down. Because an exotic array of orchestral colours which went on to influence his that’s something music can do better musical palette. Similarly, La Mer was way ahead of its time. It uses than painting: it can centralise descriptive musical devices and colours to suggest the wind, the waves variations of colour and light within and the ambience of the sea. a single picture.’ Ravel’s ability to inject his work with dazzling colour and vivid images is evident in his Piano Concerto. And in Le poème de l’extase, we see DEFINITION OF SYNAESTHESIA that for Scriabin, music was much more than just notes and sound. He saw musical tones as colours and he longed to connect all of the senses in ‘The subjective sensation of a sense his work. other than the one being stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke Tickets £17 £14 FS sensations of colour.’ Promoted by RNCM in association with Manchester Science Festival www.dictionary.com + 6pm Forman Lecture Theatre DID YOU KNOW? LEARN MORE Forum Plus Barbara Kelly, Michelle Castelletti, David Famous synaesthetes include Olivier

Horne and Kenneth Smith discuss the music in tonight’s concert, with a Messiaen, Leonard Bernstein and Duke

special emphasis on the influence of synaesthesia in Scriabin’s music. Ellington (whose work is featured in Free admission, no ticket required our RNCM Big Band concert on 31 October). IT’S ALL ABOUT THE COLOUR THE ABOUT ALL IT’S ‘I think of myself as an actor who speaks through the Wed 04 Nov violin, and when I encounter a new piece I have to find Doors 7pm the right tone of voice, the right way to ‘speak’.’ RNCM Theatre Christian Tetzlaff TOM ROBINSON AND BAND Songwriter and BBC Radio 6 Music broadcaster Tom Robinson showcases material from his new album – his first release in 20 years. Tickets £20 advance No concessions Promoted by The Gig Cartel Sat 31 Oct 7.30pm RNCM Theatre ‘Over the past 20 Fri 06 Nov years I have seen 7.30pm RNCM BIG BAND jazz at the RNCM RNCM Concert Hall TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN move from ‘something music students do MANCHESTER director Mike Hall in the evening for Fri 06 Nov fun’ to become a rich CAMERATA ‘Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all 7.30pm source of learning THE SECOND CHANCE the eyes in the back of my head, my brain waves in his Carole Nash Recital Room head, and his in mine.’ So said Duke Ellington about and performance Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky the man who played such a pivotal role in his career. opportunity. The Variations on a Rococo MASTERCLASS WITH RNCM Big Band is the Theme Op 33 To mark the centenary of Strayhorn’s birth, the RNCM flagship ensemble Terra Big Band celebrates with an evening of classic songs Giovanni Sollima CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF which has supported con Variazioni (première) shaped by this incredibly gifted arranger/composer/ (violin) and represented this pianist/lyricist. He was just 24 when he joined the Giovanni Sollima CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND transformation… Each Violoncelles, Vibrez! Duke Ellington Band and he made a rapid assimilation concert is usually INTERNATIONAL MASTERCLASS of Ellington’s style and technique. In fact it was Giovanni Sollima enhanced by working often difficult to discern where one’s style ended director, cello Christian Tetzlaff is famous for his deep with guest artists and the other’s began. Take the ‘A’ Train marked Hannah Roberts cello musical empathy and this is a unique from the very top of Strayhorn’s breakthrough as a composer – it became opportunity to witness the creative process, the profession. Our Tickets £35 £28 £20 £12 a massive hit and Ellington made it his orchestra’s as a world-renowned musician works with our students get a huge Promoted by Manchester Camerata signature tune. students to develop their technique and buzz from playing + understanding of the music chosen for this By the way, there’s another swinging RNCM Big Band these shows and 6.30pm masterclass. concert on 9 December when we pay tribute to Frank the stylistic and RNCM Concert Hall Tickets £8 Sinatra. See p38 for details. technical challenges Supported by Christopher Rowland Masterclass Fund help to equip them PRE-CONCERT Tickets £18 £15 FS for the demands of PERFORMANCE + + the commercial music Free admission, no ticket 6.30pm 6.30pm world.’ required RNCM Studio Theatre RNCM Studio Theatre Mike Hall, SPOTLIGHT Shostakovich’s String SPOTLIGHT Electric Sufi – The music of jazz, oud RNCM Big Band Director Quartet No 3 in F major Op 73 – Performed and vocal master Dhafer Youssef by the Vornicu Quartet Free admission, no ticket required Free admission, no ticket required

22 23 ‘We thoroughly enjoyed the Session Orchestra show last Saturday night. The level of talent was absolutely outstanding… All of the singers had amazing voices and were note perfect throughout the evening. The musicians were fantastic and not only did they sound great but they looked like they were having a brilliant time too. The two percussion guys at the back of the stage were a joy to watch and made us all want to join in with their party.’ Sun 08 Nov RNCM Session Orchestra audience member RNCM SAXOPHONE DAY One of the most popular events we stage here during the year, RNCM Saxophone Day is a major happening in the sax Sat 07 Nov calendar. We throw open our doors and 7.30pm welcome players of all ages and abilities RNCM Concert Hall and present a day jam-packed with participatory workshops and concerts. As is tradition, we kick off the proceedings CHORAL with the now legendary Massed Saxophone Orchestra and this year there’s also a SOCIETY concert by the Apollo Saxophone Quartet. Leonard Bernstein But you don’t have to be a sax supremo Chichester Psalms to get something out of the day. You Howard Goodall Eternal can simply enjoy watching the brilliant Light: A Requiem performances and take the opportunity to interact with our guests to find out Matthew Hamilton something you always wanted to know about conductor the saxophone but were afraid to ask… Tickets £17 For full details, please see Promoted by Salford Choral Society www.rncm.ac.uk/saxophoneday

7.30pm Sat 07 Nov RNCM Theatre 7.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre KRZYSZTOF URBANSKI AND URBAN JAZZ Sat 07 Nov PATSY REID 7pm ‘A glorious musician SOCIETY RNCM Theatre playing with soul and integrity.’ That’s how + JEAN-CHARLES RNCM SESSION Froots described RNCM RICHARD alumna Patsy Reid. This The Sax Day finale features a fascinating ORCHESTRA talented fiddle player double-bill. French musical adventurer + SUPPORT has collaborated with Jean-Charles Richard opens the show, a plethora of artists ‘Playing with Once again, it’s time for our mightily popular taking us through a sumptuous soundscape, including Kathryn Tickell, as he performs a set for solo saxophone. 200 saxophones in RNCM Session Orchestra to take command of our Kylie Minogue and Bella the new Concert Theatre stage. This time, you’ll be able to Hardy (who incidentally The second set features Krzysztof Hall was a truly hear songs by John Lennon, Chaka Khan, Paloma plays here on 29 October). Urbanski who moved to the UK in 2010 and inspiring moment. Faith, Beyoncé and many more. formed Urban Jazz Society, working with I feel inspired Tickets £12 FS Our Session Orchestra has become a runaway innovative musicians Stuart McCallum, to explore the success, with regular sell-out concerts and a + Martin Longhawn, Sam Vicary and Sam possibilities of Gardner. Together they create a fresh large and loyal following who love the creative 6.30pm the saxophone and style of jazz, incorporating elements of energy on stage. Carole Nash Recital Room practice until I hip hop, urban and R&B. So catch them reach the RNCM So if you haven’t experienced the RNCM Session SPOTLIGHT Le Chéile – now, they’re going to be massive… for further study; Orchestra in all its glory, why not come along Contemporary traditional a goal I wish to and see what all the fuss is about? music and song from Tickets £15 achieve in the Scotland, Ireland and Day Ticket £34 PS The Session Orchestra will be on stage at 8pm. near future.’ Wales Early Booking Discount £28 Tickets £12 FS Free admission, no ticket Sponsored by Henri Selmer Paris and Julius Keilwerth Saxophone Day required attender, 2014 24 25 Mon 09 Nov Mon 09 Nov Tue 10 Nov Thu 12 Nov Fri 13 Nov Sat 14 Nov 1.15pm 7.30pm 8pm 1.15pm 1.15pm 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Studio Theatre RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall MONDAY JAMES DECONTAMI- RNCM WIND FRIDAY RECITAL GILCHRIST NATION 4 ENSEMBLE CHAMBER CHORAL SERIES (tenor) FANTASY AND Ernest Tomlinson SERIES SOCIETY ARTIFICIAL Divertimento Erich Wolfgang Korngold DOWDING QUARTET Giuseppe Verdi Requiem ANNA LANDSCAPES Richard Rodney Bennett Lieder des Abschieds Reflections on a 16th Maurice Ravel String Tickets £15 Op 14 TILLBROOK Oliver Coates cello, Century Tune Quartet in F major Promoted by Altrincham Choral electronics Society Joseph Gawley baritone (piano) Jean Françaix Sept danses Free admission, no ticket Jingle Lau piano Robert Schumann Imagine that the Royal d’après le ballet ’Les required Liederkreis Op 39 Academy of Arts has Malheurs de Sophie Norbert Burgmüller Duo ’ Ralph Vaughan Williams been sold off and is for piano and clarinet Tim Reynish, Matt Weites Sun 15 Nov Songs of Travel now a privately owned Op 15 conductors 7pm luxury estate. Alongside Edward German Romance Robert Schumann Fri 13 Nov RNCM Concert Hall Dichterliebe Op 48 Laurence Lek’s video Free admission, no ticket From 6.30pm Fung Yat Shan clarinet game simulation of required RNCM Studio Theatre Tickets 25 Pun Yau Kit piano £ this imagined future, Promoted by Manchester Chamber Free admission, no ticket Concerts Society Oliver Coates performs SPOTLIGHT CHORAL required his soundtrack to this TRIPLE-BILL SOCIETY dystopian audio-visual Thu 12 Nov ITALIAN GALA work plus other music 7.30pm Tonight, our Spotlight reacting to fantastical RNCM Studio Theatre triple-bill series turns Programme to include and distorted landscapes. to our School of Wind, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, SÖNDÖRGÖ Brass and Percussion, Verdi’s Stabat Mater and Tickets £8 FS Söndörgo bring a vigorous which presents an evening other opera choruses. virtuosity to their of thought-provoking, Tickets £15 fresh interpretations fun and energetic new Promoted by Oldham Choral Society of Hungarian . and recent works, with a ‘Forget all the violin particular focus on the Wed 11 Nov saxophone. 8pm saturated Hungarian music Mon 16 Nov RNCM Theatre you’re used to… Söndörgo… 6.30pm In Dreams – An 1.15pm set everything you know Exploration of the Carole Nash Recital Room about Hungarian music on Abstract LEROY JONES, IAN fire.’ Central 7.10pm CYON – Music for MONDAY SHAW AND LIZZIE BALL Another gig in our Making Saxophone Quartet RECITAL Tracks series features 7.50pm CrossPollination Join Leroy Jones and friends for a red hot night Zambian musician Namvula – A Collaboration from The SERIES of New Orleans swing with some fiery soul and bebop and takes place on Aether Quintet Als Luise die thrown in for good measure. The highly respected jazz W A Mozart 9 October. See p10 for Briefe K 520; Ridente la trumpeter is a regular at New Orleans’ Preservation Free admission, no ticket details. calma K 152 Hall (a venue entrenched in the history of this required Benjamin Britten On this musical city) and a featured performer in the Harry Tickets £15 FS Island Connick Jr Orchestra. He’ll be joined by his own quintet plus British guests – singer Ian Shaw and Rachel Abbott soprano cutting-edge violinist Lizzie Ball. James Hendry piano Experience more musical tales from New Orleans when Felix Mendelssohn Django à la Créole (7 October) visits. See p8 for Variations sérieuses details. in D minor Op 54 Tickets £21 FS Bethany Crockett piano Free admission, no ticket required 26 27 ‘I have had the honour… to sing with this incredible band. Music is such a healing and inspirational part of the universe, and to share the power of the love with these amazing souls is such a rewarding experience. The amount of love in the room between all the amazing musicians and the wonderful audience is palpable and I feel richer spiritually for being invited to be part of it.’ Lianne Carroll, musician

Tue 17 Nov 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall HUMAN REVOLUTION

ORCHESTRA Friday 20 Nov WITH ROBIN EUBANKS 7.30pm The 19-piece Human Revolution Orchestra RNCM Concert Hall Mon 16 Nov reflects the rich and vibrant stories of 8pm the individual players who have emerged WONDERLAND RNCM Concert Hall from the UK jazz scene. Tonight, the band will be joined by Grammy Award-winning US Matthew Trusler violin trombonist Robin Eubanks who has played Ashley Wass piano RICKY ROSS tba narrator THE LYRIC BOOK LIVE with everyone – from Art Blakey to Talking UK TOUR 2015 Heads. Lose yourself down the rabbit hole... FS Ricky Ross re-visits his Tickets £18 £15 Louis de Bernières brings to life the 12 30 year song-writing back chapters of Alice in Wonderland in the year catalogue from Deacon Blue of its 150th anniversary with a brand new to the present day. narrative to link the stories. There are also 12 new musical works to reflect each Tickets £24.50 Thu 19 Nov Thu 19 Nov of the chapters written by cutting-edge No concessions 1.15pm 8pm composers including Mark-Anthony Turnage and Promoted by Chas Cole for CMP RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Entertainment in association with Howard Blake. Asgard RNCM SHOW OF Wonderland drags Alice into the 21st century with a mixture of live music, storytelling CONCERT HANDS and visuals. WITH MIRANDA Wed 18 Nov ORCHESTRA Read more about the Wonderland project and 7.30pm SYKES Gioachino Rossini the work of the Lenny Trusler Foundation at Carole Nash Recital Room Overture to The Barber of Show of Hands are one www.wonderland150.com Seville of the strongest forces Tickets £15 FS SIR JOHN Giacomo Puccini in acoustic music, a BARBIROLLI Intermezzo from Manon ‘people’s band’ whose + Lescaut songs voice the hopes, 6.30pm CELLO PRIZE Georges Bizet Carmen fears and life stories RNCM Studio Theatre Cello students from Suite of people both past and SPOTLIGHT Gruesome Tales and Squeaky the RNCM compete for present. Mark Shanahan, Edmon Levon Scales – Music for wind quintet and narrator this prestigious prize. conductors Tickets £22.50 FS Tonight’s adjudicator is Promoted by Simon Heginbotham Free admission, no ticket required Simon Turner. Free admission, no ticket required Tickets £8 28 29 Sat 21 Nov Mon 23 Nov 7.30pm 1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room ST GEORGE’S MONDAY SINGERS RECITAL WITH CHETHAM’S SERIES CHAMBER Claude Debussy Pour le ORCHESTRA piano L 95 W A Mozart Great Mass Xinghua Xu piano in C minor K 427; Flute

Concerto No 2 in D major Ástor Piazzolla Le Grand Tue 24 Nov 7.30pm K 314; Serenade for Tango RNCM Concert Hall Wed 25 Nov Orchestra No 6 in D major Megan Rolf cello 7.30pm K 239 Louis Perera piano ORLANDO CONSORT RNCM Concert Hall Tickets £16 Free admission, no ticket LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC (1928) Promoted by St George’s Singers required QUATUOR Condemned unseen in France on its release, vilified by the Catholic authorities and even DIOTIMA Mon 23 Nov banned outright in , Carl Theodor WITH CHRISTOPHER Sun 22 Nov Doors 7pm Dreyer’s silent masterpiece regularly appears REDGATE (oboe) 3pm RNCM Concert Hall in lists of the top 10 greatest films ever Anton Webern Five RNCM Concert Hall made. movements Op 5 MERCURY REV Inspired by Dreyer’s vision, the award- Fabrice Fitch MANCHESTER SUPPORT NICOLE ATKINS winning Orlando Consort presents an entirely Agricologies CAMERATA After a seven year gap since their new soundtrack from the era in which the Brian Ferneyhough GUZZO MEETS last album, US-alt legends Mercury Rev film is set. The intricate beauty of 15th Schatten aus Wasser und MONTERO are back with a new release, The Light century works by Binchois and Dufay amplify Stein for oboe quintet in You. The band’s Jonathan Donohue the poignant depiction of medieval France and Brian Ferneyhough Arvo Pärt Fratres explains the decision to record again: provide a highly evocative accompaniment to Adagissimo Paul Desenne The Two ‘it was one of those otherworldly life this landmark film. Anton Schoenberg String Seasons (of the Caribbean sequences, when everything you think Quartet No 4 Tropics) ‘So extraordinary and otherworldly is this is solid turns molten… but also, when Benjamin Britten film’s power, you could believe you were Known for their bold something is worth saying, it can take Variations on a Theme of watching the actual trial of Joan of Arc.’ explorations of a long time to say it, rather than Frank Bridge Op 10 The Guardian contemporary repertoire, just blurt it out.’ the cutting-edge quartet W A Mozart Piano Concerto This tour has been supported by Arts Council performs pieces by Brian No 14 in E flat major K 449 Tickets £22.50 advance England, the National Centre for Early Music No concessions Ferneyhough, preceded by a Gabriela Montero and Eureka Films. Promoted by SJM Concerts Improvisations (audience discussion featuring the Tickets £14 FS requests) composer himself. + S Giovanni Guzzo Tickets £17 £14 F violin, director 6.30pm + Gabriela Montero Forman Lecture Theatre 6.15pm piano, director Donald LEARN MORE Pre-concert talk RNCM Studio Theatre Grieg from The Orlando Consort tells the Tickets £35 £28 £20 £12 LEARN MORE Forum Promoted by Manchester Camerata story of how this project came to life. Free admission, no ticket required Plus Brian Ferneyhough, + Lois Fitch, Fabrice Fitch 2pm and Christopher Redgate RNCM Concert Hall discuss the music in PRE-CONCERT tonight’s concert. PERFORMANCE Free admission, no ticket required Free admission, no ticket required 30 31 Thu 26 - Fri 27 Nov Thu 26 Nov IN FOCUS: 5.15pm ROBERT SAXTON Carole Nash Recital Room Our In Focus series continues FORUM PLUS: to embrace the work of living Thu 26 Nov Fri 27 Nov Mon 30 Nov composers, offering a rare SAXTON IN 1.15pm 7.30pm 1.15pm opportunity to delve into their CONVERSATION RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room music and mind. To include performances of: This Autumn it’s the turn of Robert Saxton Cello Sonata BRASSAMATAZZ ROOF ST MONDAY British composer Robert Saxton, on Themes of Walton John Miller director PETERSBURG RECITAL who visits us for three concerts Robert Saxton Paraphrase on This début concert by Celebrating their 50th over two days. Join us as Mozart’s Idomeneo for wind SERIES the RNCM’s new ensemble anniversary, Manchester’s the celebrated writer talks octet Lucy Pankhurst New work of saxophones, brass and own Kalinka Balalaika about the thoughts, beliefs, Robert Saxton talks to Clark percussion includes first Orchestra performs a Gillian Blair saxophone motivations and stories behind Rundell about his life and performances by RNCM selection of traditional Hayley Parkes piano his music. music. composers Lucy Armstrong melodies and pieces by Nick Seymour Bolts Down ‘This music… had a mystery, and Tom Harrold, plus Russian composers. All Free admission, no ticket Rob Buckland (arr Seymour/ delicacy and depth which made light, upbeat music funds raised go to assist required McPhilemy) Altostratus you want to hear it again specially arranged for homeless children in St Mark Summer (arr Seymour/ immediately.’ The Guardian’s this ensemble. Petersburg. McPhilemy) Julie-O review of one of Saxton’s pieces 7.30pm Free admission, no ticket Tickets £6.50 earlier this year. Nick Seymour, Emma RNCM Concert Hall required Promoted by ROOF St Petersburg Charity McPhilemy saxophone RNCM NEW Free admission, no ticket ENSEMBLE required Septet Thu 26 - Sat 28 Nov 7pm Sat 28 Nov Alexander Symcox New work RNCM Studio Theatre 7.30pm Robert Saxton The Sentinel RNCM Concert Hall of the Rainbow Mon 30 Nov 7.30pm Robert Saxton Processions OPERA SERIA KAIROS 4TET Carole Nash Recital Room and Dances Giuseppe Verdi Fronted by sax player Adam Dan Ryan New work Il trovatore Waldmann (who has worked THE HELEN Robert Saxton Chamber Tickets £19 with Mark Ronson, Alicia Symphony Promoted by Opera Seria PORTHOUSE Keys and others) Kairos Mark Heron, Tom Goff, Chloe 4tet are fast becoming a PAGANINI van Soeterstede conductors cornerstone of the British PRIZE Free admission, no ticket jazz scene. The band, also RNCM violinists and viola required featuring Jasper Høiby, Jon Scott and Cinematic players compete for Orchestra’s pianist Ivo this prestigious annual Fri 27 Nov Neame, will introduce some prize, which tonight 1.15pm electronic elements when is adjudicated by Levon Carole Nash Recital Room they showcase material Chilingirian. from their forthcoming Tickets £8 LUNCHTIME album. CONCERT Tickets £15 FS Robert Saxton From Distant + Shore RNCM Café Bar Alexander Proudlock New work ‘Robert Saxton is a very interesting POST-CONCERT Robert Saxton Echoes of a character, he’s not simply a composer, glass bead game SPOTLIGHT Milestones he’s a philosopher and a writer… you can Jazz Quartet – A Night talk to him about anything, his knowledge Free admission, no ticket of Bebop and Ballads of philosophy and his own philosophical required Free admission, no ticket mind is incredible.’ For full details, visit required Dr Michelle Castelletti, www.rncm.ac.uk/saxton Artistic Director 32 33 Wed 02, Fri 04, Mon 07, Thu 10, Sat 12 Dec 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Sun 06 Dec 3pm RNCM Theatre STREET SCENE KURT WEILL Clark Rundell conductor Harish Shankar assistant conductor director

34 Stefan Janski Jonathan Ainscough assistant director Kate Ford set and costume designer Nick Ware lighting designer Kevin Thraves chorus master Bethan Rhys Wiliam choreographer Clement Rawling sound designer RNCM Opera Orchestra RNCM Chorus See full cast information at www.rncm.ac.uk/streetscene

‘My friends and I had a wonderful experience seeing your current opera. The singing was excellent and the stage setting perfect. Another triumph for the College. Manchester is lucky to have such a wonderful College of Music bringing forth great talent. Thank you.’ L’elisir d’amore audience member 35

24 hours in the life of Opera is a huge part of Weill’s ‘Broadway opera’ Tickets £34 £28 £21 a New York City tenement the RNCM’s DNA. We’ve blends arias, show tunes, (weekdays) block during an oppressively been producing original, dance numbers, jazz, blues £36 £30 £23 (weekends) FS hot 1946 Summer. Street critically-acclaimed and dramatic dialogue and + Scene is an emotionally- productions for over 40 has been compared to Puccini charged portrait of family years and they present a shaking hands with George Fri 04 Dec and communal life among the unique and very special Gershwin. Weill said his 6.15pm multi-ethnic working class opportunity to see our mission was to ‘find the Forman Lecture Theatre inhabitants of the Big singers on the brink of inherent poetry in these LEARN MORE Forum Plus Apple. Centred on a ‘domino their professional careers. people and to blend my music Douglas Jarman and Barbara effect’ of life-changing with the stark realism of Kelly discuss Weill’s exile With this production of events for the characters, Langston Hughes’ play.’ from Europe to America, Street Scene in particular, it gets to the heart of the and how Weill takes on an the set design ensures that This production will be sung tensions, despair, hopes, American identity in Street there are no secrets and in English. and dreams of this melting- Scene. that there is nowhere for pot community with events This performance is funded the characters to hide. Free admission, no ticket building to a tragedy of in part by the Kurt Weill So the audience can truly required epic proportions… Foundation for Music, Inc., engage with the action on New York NY stage. Thu 03 Dec Sat 05 Dec Mon 07 Dec 1.15pm 7.30pm 1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall DECK THE RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM STRING AND RNCM MONDAY WIND ORCHESTRAS CONCERT CHRISTIAN RECITAL Felix Mendelssohn Capriccio and Fugue UNION CAROL SERIES Op 81 SERVICE Eugène Ysaÿe Sonata No 4 Catherine Yates director HALL in E minor for solo violin Join us for an evening of Op 27 ‘Fritz Kreisler’ Ralph Vaughan Williams Toccata Marziale classic carols presented John McCabe Canyons WITH by the RNCM Christian Lisa Meschi violin Union. Mark Heron, Sam Hairsine conductors Franz Liszt Hungarian Free admission, no ticket required Tickets £5 Rhapsody No 3 in B flat Promoted by University of major S 244/3 BOUGHS Manchester Christian Union, Béla Bartók Two Romanian Manchester Metropolitan University Dances Op 8a Christian Union, RNCM Christian Thu 03 Dec OF Union Kiana Shafiei piano 7.30pm Free admission, no ticket Carole Nash Recital Room required HOLLY Sun 06 Dec SPECIAL VIRTUOSI 10am, 1pm and 3.30pm

RNCM Concert Hall Mon 07 Dec AUTUMN CONCERT 7.30pm Tickets £7 RNCM Concert Hall Promoted by Special Virtuosi CIC MUSIC NICHOLAS SERVICE DANIEL Fri 04 Dec WINTER CONCERT AND THE 1.15pm Tickets £9 Carole Nash Recital Room Promoted by Trafford Music Service BRITTEN OBOE QUARTET FRIDAY CHAMBER Benjamin Britten Phantasy SERIES Quartet Op 2 NOVUS BRASS QUARTET Lennox Berkeley String Trio Op 19 Candide Leonard Bernstein (arr Thomas) Ernest John Moeran Overture Fantasy Quartet Hosanna Calling Jonathan Bates W A Mozart Adagio for cor Django Bates (arr Daniel Thomas) My anglais and trio K 580a First Scooter from Travel Cartoons for Oliver Knussen Cantata the Blind Op 15 String Dmitri Shostakovich (arr Quane) W A Mozart Oboe Quartet Quartet No 7 in F sharp minor Op 108 K 370 Trad Manx (arr Quane) Ellan Vannin Tickets £25 Free admission, no ticket required Promoted by Manchester Chamber Concerts Society

36 37 Wed 09 Dec ‘This was amazing, brilliant. Please, 7.30pm please, please put this on again. And RNCM Theatre more Swing era jazz from this band. RNCM BIG BAND They are incredible.’ RNCM Big Band’s Benny Goodman Night WITH MATT FORD audience member SIMPLY FRANK Matt Ford vocals Mike Hall director This year’s festive Big Band bonanza salutes the Chairman of the Board on what would have been his 100th birthday (well that’s actually on Fri 11 Dec 12 December…) 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Our Christmas Big Band shows are notoriously good fun and a great RNCM CHAMBER night out. This evening’s special ORCHESTRA guest Matt Ford has certainly Thu 10 Dec earned his Big Band spurs – he 1.15pm Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2 works regularly with the John Wilson RNCM Concert Hall in D minor Op 40 Orchestra, he’s no stranger to the W A Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat BBC Proms and he has also guested RNCM major K 191 with the Syd Lawrence Orchestra and W A Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in BBC Big Band. BAROQUE E flat major K 297b So bring your family and friends - or ENSEMBLE Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 25 your own Rat Pack – and get ready to Arcangelo Corelli Concerto party. Grosso No 8 in G minor Op 6 Mark Heron conductor One final thing, if you’re a fan of ‘Christmas Concerto’ Yun Li piano Swing, then you might also like our Alessandro Scarlatti Alejandra Rojas bassoon Big Band tribute to Billy Strayhorn Christmas Cantata Amy Roberts, Marcus Norman, Hannah Caldecott, Samuel Brough wind quartet that takes place on 31 October. conductor Roger Hamilton Lee Jae Phang piano See p22 for details. Charlotte Trepass soprano This concert is dedicated to the memory Tickets £18 £15 FS Free admission, no ticket of Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912- required + 2014). Dame Kathleen sadly passed away RNCM Café Bar last August. She was an Oxford-educated POST-CONCERT SPOTLIGHT mathematician of international renown, Tuba Slap – Tasty tunes and funky a keen educationalist, and a prominent beats Sat 12 Dec public figure in Manchester life. Dame Kathleen holds a very special place in Free admission, no ticket required 10.15am RNCM Venues the history of the RNCM. As Chairman of the Joint Committee, in 1972 she led the JUNIOR RNCM merger of the Northern School of Music with the Royal Manchester College of PERFORMANCE Music, creating the RNCM as we know it DAY today. Performance Day profiles Tickets £15 FS the work of the full range + of Junior RNCM ensembles, 6.30pm from the Symphony Orchestra RNCM Studio Theatre and Vocal Ensemble to the Foundation Section SPOTLIGHT Mozart’s Quintet in A and Brass Band. For full major for Clarinet and Strings K 581 details, contact the Junior Free admission, no ticket required RNCM on 0161 907 5264. Free admission, no ticket required 38 39 Coming Fri 22 - Fri 29 Jan Fri 04 - Sun 06 Soon NEW MUSIC Mar NORTH WEST RNCM Sun 10 Jan The biennial New Music CHAMBER RNCM Concert Hall North West festival Sun 13 Dec returns this January, MUSIC 11am-4pm RNCM featuring eight days of FESTIVAL RNCM Venues STRINGS music by living composers SONGS WITHOUT from across the North WORDS RNCM CHRIST MAS FESTIVAL West. We are privileged The 2016 RNCM Chamber FAMILY DAY RNCM CONCERT to be joined by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, with Music Festival takes Come and join us in our Winter ORCHESTRA its inspiration from Wonderland for a day of magical festive an intense focus on his Programme to include: music over three days, Mendelssohn’s Songs activities, interactive workshops and Gustav Mahler Adagietto Without Words, with works musical treats. Meet The Snowman, Santa plus there’s an opening from Symphony No 5 weekend curated by Larry by Mendelssohn, Schumann and his Elves and embrace the Christmas Johannes Brahms Double and Strauss forming the spirit! Goves, and performances Concerto in A minor Op 102 from the BBC Philharmonic, backbone of this year’s programme, performed by For full details, visit Alpesh Chauhan, Psappha, the RNCM guest artists including www.rncm.ac.uk/christmasfamilyday Henk Guittart conductors Symphony Orchestra and New the Elias, Michelangelo Alexander Sitkovetsky Ensemble, Vaganza, The By the way, there’s an Autumn Family Day and Talich Quartets, violin Vonnegut Collective, Solem taking place on 25 October. See p17 for together with students Leonard Elschenbroich Quartet, Trio Atem and details. from the RNCM and from cello more. Tickets £5 adults. Admission for music schools across the children is free, by ticket only, UK. accompanied by an adult. Wed 16 Dec Suitable for ages 3 and above. Tue 19 Jan Fri 26 Feb 3pm 7.30pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Wed 09, Fri 11, CHRIST MAS ALEXANDRA RALPH Tue 15, and Thu 17 Mar CHAMBER DARIESCU KIRSHBAUM 7pm CONCERT Thu 17 Dec Sat 19 Dec (piano) RNCM Theatre Doors 7pm 7.30pm 70TH WITH THE BBC RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Felix Mendelssohn Sun 13 and Variations sérieuses BIRTHDAY PHILHARMONIC in D minor Op 54 Sat 19 Mar ONLY MEN SALFORD CONCERT 3pm Celebrate the festive Gabriel Fauré Ludwig van Beethoven RNCM Theatre season with a chamber ALOUD CHORAL 3 Préludes Op 103 Cello Sonata No 1 in concert of light music Join one of the UK’s SOCIETY Frédéric Chopin Prelude F major Op 5 No 1; Cello performed by an ensemble COSÌ FAN foremost vocal ensembles, in C sharp minor Op 45 Sonata No 4 in C major from the BBC Philharmonic. George Frideric Handel hot from the release of Karol Szymanowski 3 Op 102 No 1; 12 Variations TUTTE Before the performance, Messiah their latest album On The Preludes Op 1 in G major WoO45; Cello W A MOZART General Manager Simon Road when they’ll perform Tickets £17 Frédéric Chopin Polonaise Sonata No 5 in D major Roger Hamilton conductor Webb will look back at a whole selection box Promoted by Salford Choral Society Op 53 Op 102 No 2 Thomas Guthrie director the orchestra’s year and of music ranging from Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky its plans for 2016, before traditional Christmas (arr Pletnev) Nutcracker Ralph Kirshbaum cello answering questions from favourites to rock and pop Suite Shai Wosner piano the audience. classics. Frédéric Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor Op 31 Tickets £10 or £8.50 for Tickets £27.50 advance RNCM Friends. See p42 for No concessions details. Promoted by Senbla Ltd 40 41 Get Involved Learning and Outreach

We’re inviting you to Take Your Seat Wed 16 Dec To find out more about Looking for join the RNCM ensemble. 3pm any of our projects Leave a lasting legacy contact Fiona Stuart musicians? Producing world-class RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Engage is the in the newly refurbished on or The RNCM s Professional artists, operating as CHRIST MAS CHAMBER Royal Northern College 0161 907 5281 ’ Concert Hall by naming a Engagements team co- a leading international CONCERT WITH THE of Music’s learning and communityoutreach@rncm. seat. For more information or visit ordinates a large number conservatoire and BBC PHILHARMONIC participation programme, ac.uk www.rncm. please visit our Take of engagements on behalf inspiring communities and the training ground ac.uk/communityoutreach Your Seat page at www. 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The RNCM has a wide Our Venues The RNCM STUDIO THEATRE There are refreshment Concert Bar selection of excellent is a flexible black box facilities available at purpose-built spaces to The RNCM CONCERT HALL space which has an the RNCM with the Café, The Concert Bar is open hire for every type of has a variety of flexible audience capacity of up to Brodsky Restaurant and from 5pm until 11pm. event, performance or options for your event 140 seats. The space is Bar and the Concert Bar Brodsky and the Concert conference. Following a with layouts including 445 equipped with projector, offering a range of fresh, Bar are Cask Marque £7.1 million refurbishment capacity seating on Level screen and a flexible home cooked and locally accredited. During project completed in One, 610 capacity seating lighting rig, suitable sourced food from just a vacations the Concert Bar November 2014, our largest with our new Balcony and for a variety of events coffee and a pastry to a opens one hour prior to spaces have now been Oglesby Balcony open, or and can be configured in a three course meal. the performance time. revitalised with excellent even up to 730 capacity variety of set-ups. back of house facilities seating with a reduced Brodsky Please note the above and the latest technical stage size for amplified The opening times are during CAROLE NASH RECITAL Brodsky is open from 11am set−up including a new bands and small ensembles is a stunning shoebox term time only and all ROOM with last food orders at lighting rig and sound (NB – please speak to our venue which has up to food items and menus are 7pm on performance nights. equipment. For dates and Events Manager for further 110 seats in a Theatre subject to availability. We recommend that you rates please contact our details about the 730 Style configuration. The Outside of term time and reserve a table in Brodsky Events Manager, Paul layout). room has a wonderful at weekends, opening hours should you wish to make Cobban on acoustic making it a great are dependent upon the 0161 907 5289 a booking for Afternoon or The RNCM THEATRE boasts venue for small-scale performance programme. [email protected] Tea or pre-opera dining. or for full venue one of the largest black performances as well as For full details of menus Please reserve your table information and technical box stages in Manchester being a beautiful room for and opening hours please by calling 0161 907 5353 specifications please visit with ample wing space, conferences and catering call 0161 907 5353 or 5252 or 5252. www.rncm.ac.uk/hire orchestra pit, lighting receptions. or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/ box area and space for brodsky or www.rncm.ac.uk/ Café a sound desk in addition The FORMAN LECTURE THEATRE cafeandbar to the seated capacity. has a 150 capacity and The Café is open from 8am There are 607 seats in the has been completely until the interval on Hospitality at Theatre with an option to updated following the performance nights. the RNCM place additional audience refurbishment project. The RNCM can also provide seating over the orchestra It comes equipped with catering for social pit, taking the total projector, screen and is functions, events, maximum capacity to 657 ideal for pre-concert dinners, training events, seats. talks, discussions and meetings and conferences presentations. in our venues. Please contact our Conference and For full venue Catering Team on 0161 907 information and technical 5353 or hospitality@rncm. specifications please visit ac.uk for further details. www.rncm.ac.uk/hire

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