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RNCM September - December 2015 15 / 09-12 EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE P18 P26 P10 P25 P15 P08 P12 P29 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 MANCHESTER 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 piano 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 Benjamin Britten 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 Ludwig van Beethoven 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 Johannes Brahms 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 music 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 Ralph Vaughan Williams 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 Giuseppe Verdi 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 Franz Liszt (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.