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P09P24 P16 P38 P33 Thu 27 - Sat 29 Apr 7.30pm RNCM Theatre SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Wed 26 Apr Thu 27 Apr Fri 28 Apr RNCM YOUNG COMPANY 6pm 1.15pm 7.30pm Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room Green Songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed THE RNCM STRING ROSAMOND Based on the classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer fi lm, by special CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE PRIZE arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc. Music Published by EMI, all rights administered by Sony/ PIANO Antonín Dvořák Serenade for RNCM student composers ATV Music Publishing LLC Strings in E major Op 22 collaborate with creative Members of the RNCM’s Caroline Clegg director writing students from Contemporary Piano Class Ruth Rogers director Josh Barnett assistant director Manchester Metropolitan perform a selection of Free admission, no ticket Alex Robinson musical director University to create new short works for piano. required Mariyka Bolubasz choreographer works in this prize with Julie Parker lighting designer Free admission, no ticket an adjudication panel required including Michael Symmons The Gene Kelly classic Singin’ in the Rain Fri 28 Apr Roberts, Professor of earned the top spot in the AFI’s 100 Years Poetry at MMU, and Adam of Musicals list and, in 2007, was ranked 1.15pm Gorb, Head of Composition as the fi fth greatest motion picture of all RNCM Concert Hall Thu 27 Apr at the RNCM. time. Adapted for the stage in 1983, this 7.30pm delightful musical captures the waning KREUTZER Tickets £7 RNCM Concert Hall days of the silent screen era as they give BRAND NEW STRING way to new-fangled talkies. With The Jazz QUARTET Singer première making Hollywood frantic, ORCHESTRA Sat 29 Apr the studios are forced to suddenly change WITH LINDA MERRICK all the movie-making rules at once, to Sergej Bolkhovets, Diogo (clarinet) 7.30pm Costa, Sam Hairsine RNCM Concert Hall accommodate sound. In doing so, they conductors Adam Gorb Gravity (world leave silent pictures - and some of their première) FODEN’S BAND stars – behind. When Monumental Studios Our Brand New Orchestra Michael Finnissy Clarinet turns silent The Dueling Cavalier into showcases the work of RNCM + THE WALLACE Liederkreis (world COLLECTION The Dancing Cavalier, a musical picture, Composition students, première) in order to stay relevant, they are allowing our audience Mihailo Trandafi lovski Star The multi-award winning faced with a problem: their star, Lina to experiment and to Factory Foden’s Band are joined Lamont, can’t sing, and can’t even really hear brand new works Paul Pellay .....void- for the evening by talk. Lina’s voice sounds like nails on before they are performed scattered distances..... special guests, The a blackboard. Enter Kathy Selden, an anywhere else. (world première) Wallace Collection. aspiring actress whose dulcet tones are Led by John Wallace, Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket able to cover Lina Lamont’s, calling into renowned international required required question what it means to act, how credit trumpet soloist, + is distributed, and what it means to get a + composer, conductor and fair shake in the movie business. 6.30pm former Principal of the 2.30pm With its brilliant choreography and iconic Carole Nash Recital Room Royal Conservatoire of Forman Lecture Theatre songs, Singin’ in the Rain is the perfect SPOTLIGHT: Citizens Scotland. LEARN MORE: Forum showcase for our musical theatre group, of Nowhere - A chamber Plus - The concert’s Tickets £15 RNCM Young Company. It includes some of opera in one act by Anna featured composers discuss Promoted by Foden’s Band the best-loved comedy routines, dance Appleby their new works. + numbers, and love songs ever written, and Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket 6.30pm the show-stopping dance number, Singin’ in required required Carole Nash Recital Room the Rain. SPOTLIGHT: Around the Tickets £12 World in 30 Minutes – A This amateur production is presented by arrangement with trek across the Globe for Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorised Brass Quintet performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe www.mtishows.co.uk Free admission, no ticket required 45 Sun 30 Apr RNCM DAY OF SONG FOLK CONNECTIONS This year’s RNCM Day of Song showcases folk connections in song through a series of colourful and vibrant recitals. Many of the great composers of the past and present have been infl uenced by folk song, connecting music with place, expressing a people’s identity and cultural heritage. We are delighted to feature a complete performance of Luciano Berio’s rarely heard Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble, Joseph Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne, and folk song arrangements by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten. Thomas Schulze, RNCM tutor in Lieder, will give an insightful masterclass on settings by Mahler and Strauss of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, then in the evening we fi nish with an exciting concert featuring the RNCM Chamber Choir and RNCM ArkEnsemble in Gypsy Songs by Dvořák and Brahms. Join us for a day of enchanting storytelling... For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/dayofsong

4.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room MY LOVE AND I SONGS OF THE BRITISH ISLES Programme to include: Songs by Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter and James MacMillan Benjamin Britten’s colourful folk song arrangements take centre stage in a recital celebrating the traditional music of the British Isles. Tickets £6

7pm RNCM Concert Hall FOLK CONNECTIONS RNCM CHAMBER CHOIR AND RNCM ARKENSEMBLE Programme to include: Béla Bartók Four Hungarian Folk Songs Johannes Brahms (arr Lucy Armstrong) Selections from Zigeunerlieder Op 103 Manuel de Falla (arr Rob Buckland) Siete Canciones Populares Españolas Antonín Dvořák Zigeunermelodien Op 55 Gustav Holst Four Choral Folk Songs from Op 36 The spectacular fi nale features the wonderful RNCM Chamber Choir and the vibrant ArkEnsemble, a recently created student group comprising wind, brass and percussion, identifi able by its spirit of adventure and fun as modelled by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Repertoire will include choral folk songs by Holst and Bartók, songs of a distinctly Spanish fl avour by Manuel de Falla, and a celebration of Bohemia in Gypsy Songs by Dvořák and Brahms. Tickets £10

Day Ticket £25

67 Wed 03 May The Tangomotion dancers and musicians have previously 7.30pm appeared in the hit West End RNCM Theatre show Midnight Tango, BBC TANGOMOTION Strictly Come Dancing, The One Show, Zingzillas, ITV Surprise Sat 06 May TANGO SIEMPRE Surprise, Radio 3 In Tune and at 12.30pm From virtuoso displays of the Classic Brit Awards. RNCM Concert Hall traditional tango dance in Tickets £18 £15 FS stunning costumes to the + JUNIOR RNCM exquisite sounds of 1930s Buenos Aires and the powerful Nuevo 6pm FORMAL Tango music of Astor Piazzolla, RNCM Theatre CONCERT Tangomotion is a breathtaking PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK A showcase performance journey into the heart of Tango Free admission, no ticket featuring talented Argentino. required soloists from Junior RNCM. Tangomotion features new + Free admission, no ticket choreography created for this 6.30pm required 2017 tour by world-class tango RNCM Concourse dancers Alexandra Wood, Guillermo Torrens, Paula Duarte and Richard SPOTLIGHT: Tango Invention Manuel, with new original music – Music by Piazzolla and Bach plus tango classics from the Free admission, no ticket acclaimed Tango Siempre quartet. required

Tue 02 May Wed 03 May Thu 04 May Fri 05 May I have ever played, and 7.30pm 7pm 7.30pm I usually end up with 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room a keyboard covered by RNCM Concert Hall INCANTIA DUO PIANO WATER AND blood.’ RNCM Sibelius’ love of nature Victor Macedo Pinto RECITAL PRIZE AIR is well documented and the Ficções do Interlúdio SYMPHONY RNCM pianists compete Programme to include: Finnish landscape often (UK première) for this solo recital Eyvind Gulbrandsen Water ORCHESTRA served as a backdrop to Frank Bridge Selection of prize, adjudicated by Leon and Air Witold Lutosławski Funeral inspire his work. This songs is evident in his Fifth McCawley. RNCM students perform Music in memory of Béla António Fragoso Nocturno Symphony which completes Tickets £7 a new work for fl ute, Bartók for solo piano this evening. It is a clarinet, saxophone, harp Béla Bartók Piano Concerto Ethel Smyth Three songs stunning example of and guitar that they No 2 in G major Sz 95 Jean Sibelius Five songs the composer’s ability have created through a Jean Sibelius Symphony No Op 37 to develop a symphonic Thu 04 May series of residencies 5 in E fl at major Op 82 Chloe Latchmore mezzo- movement from a single 1.15pm with the composer Eyvind Manoj Kamps conductor soprano idea. In fact, a couple RNCM Concert Hall Gulbrandsen in partnership Sitong Meng piano Daria Bitsiuk piano of his ideas (from this with Moving Classics Tonight’s programme was Incantia Duo was formed in RNCM work alone) have been (European Network for New chosen by our Junior 2013 by Chloe Latchmore appropriated by artists as PERCUSSION Music). This Manchester Fellow in Conducting Manoj and Daria Bitsiuk, both diverse as John Coltrane performance follows the Kamps, for what will be award-winning RNCM ENSEMBLE and Gorillaz. world première in Hull as his fi nal assessment. alumnae. This poetic Tickets £17 £14 FS Stewart Copeland The Gene part of the Hull City of Bartok’s Piano Concerto programme includes a UK Pool Culture programme. The will be performed by + première of Macedo Pinto’s Mark Ford Head Talk concert will also feature Sitong Meng, one of the 6pm Ficções do Interlúdio Giovanni Sollima a selection of other winners of our Concerto Carole Nash Recital Room and a Nocturne by António Millennium Bug works performed by RNCM Competition, and András Fragoso, which is widely SPOTLIGHT: Candlelight Stephen Whibley Monsoon students. Schiff said of this regarded as one of the Vespers – Rachmaninov’s Simone Rebello director Free admission, by ticket challenging work: ‘For most remarkable works by All Night Vigil by only the piano player, it’s a the immensely talented Free admission, no ticket candlelight fi nger-breaking piece. It young Portuguese composer. required Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union is probably the single Free admission, no ticket Tickets £12 FS Promoted by RNCM in association most diff icult piece that required Promoted by RNCM and Northern with Moving Classics and Curated Lusofonia 89Place Sun 07 May 2.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM WIND, RNCM WIND BRASS AND ORCHESTRA PERCUSSION DAY Edward Gregson Festivo Join us as we open the doors to our Gary Carpenter Runcorn Bridge School of Wind, Brass and Percussion Martin Ellerby Neapolitan Serenade to inspire both teenage players and Adam Gorb Yiddish Dances amateur players of all ages who Mark Heron conductor are interested in experiencing how Laura Jellicoe fl ute we teach, learn and perform at the RNCM. The day will both educate Tickets £6 and entertain, with massed playing sessions, open interactive classes 6.30pm taken by RNCM staff who will show RNCM Concert Hall you how to get the best from your playing, plus concerts showing the RNCM very best of our student life. ARKENSEMBLE AND Bring your instruments and join in the Massed Playing Sessions – RNCM BRASS BAND there will be parts for players of Ray Farr Intrada – Ein’ Feste Burg all levels from Grade 3 upwards – James Curnow Concertpiece for where you will be guided by RNCM Cornet staff and students. In the Creative Kenny Baker Virtuosity Instrumental Workshops you can ask Ottorino Respighi (arr Howard questions, bring something to play, Snell) Roman Festivals or just observe. In the second half Plus music by Steve Martland, Peter of the day, you can relax and enjoy Maxwell Davies, Barbara Thompson a choice of short performances, and Moondog including the Lancashire Youth Band, Rob Buckland, Nicholas Childs Junior RNCM Brass Band and concerts conductors by RNCM students and specially Richard Marshall cornet invited guest soloists. Tickets £10 We hope you can join us for a fun day of playing, listening and learning! Buy tickets for the 2.30pm and 6.30pm concerts and pay just £12

All other events are free admission, no ticket required. Sign up is required for the Massed Playing Sessions and Creative Instrumental Workshops. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/wbpday

10 11 Mon 08 May Thu 18 May 8pm 6-8pm RNCM Concert Hall Reading Room, Manchester DECONTAMINATION #10 Wed 17 May Central Library 7.30pm SONGS OF RNCM Theatre JULIET THE MOURNING, BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO MOON MUSIC OF A LIVE INSTALLATION Over the last two decades, pianist Brad Mehldau FOR THE READING SUPPRESSION has forged a unique path which embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical ROOM Emily Hall Extracts from romanticism and pop allure. His unquestionable Frank Merrick was a Rest leadership across idioms has grown as he has pianist and tutor at the Peter Ablinger Instrumente transformed the paradigm of jazz and classical Royal Manchester College und Rauschen (various) performance – performing both solos and with of Music. A staunch For the latest event his great trio (Larry Grenadier, bass, and Jeff opponent to the war eff ort, in our Decontamination Ballard, drums). he was imprisoned during contemporary music series, Showcasing his diversity and undeniable voice, the First World War, we re-locate all of the Mehldau has also had notable collaborations leaving his wife Hope action to our Concert Hall with Pat Metheny, Anne Sofi e von Otter and Renée Squires to look after his stage – so the audience Fleming. With his rigorous intellect feeding pupils in his absence. will actually join the an inspired range of expression and intensity, Two new works written by musicians on stage to Mehldau leaves his worldwide audience eager for RNCM composers Philippos create a unique, immersive his next foray. Rousiamanis and Deane artistic experience. Smith feature excerpts of To begin this hour-long The trio will be playing music from their latest letters that Frank and event, three female RNCM album, Blues and Ballad, released on Nonesuch. Hope exchanged during Fri 12 May singers will perform Tickets £25 their years apart. Written Promoted by Serious in association with RNCM 7.30pm extracts from Emily Hall’s especially for the Reading Rest RNCM Theatre (a secular requiem Room and an ensemble of originally performed by singers, cellists, and folk trio Lady Maisery). RNCM JAZZ COLLECTIVE singing glasses, the work Then it’s time for some Mike Hall director explores themes of loss of Peter Ablinger’s work, Tonight, the RNCM Jazz Collective cuts loose on and intimacy through these when we explore pieces for six Big Band standards (King Porter Stomp, One poignant letters, as the instruments and noise. O’Clock Jump, Take the ‘A’ Train, Manteca, All of two pieces are performed Me, Chelsea Bridge) alongside new works by RNCM Decontamination #10 independently and then composers, inspired by these classic tunes. We will be creatively lit gradually combined as the asked six of our students to create their own, and capacity will be evening progresses. modern refl ections on these brilliant pieces and limited due to the set Letters, programmes, tonight will be the fi rst outing for their work. up on stage. articles and other If you’re a Big Band fan, then you’ll love our Tickets £8 FS materials uncovered during RNCM Big Band tribute to Jaco Pastorius featuring the RNCM’s research into bass legend Laurence Cottle on 28 Jun. See p29 for Manchester’s musical life details. in the First World War Tickets £10 FS will be on display. + Tonight’s programme takes place as part of 9.30pm Manchester After Hours. RNCM Café Bar Free admission, no ticket SPOTLIGHT: The Rusty Crumpets – The required Ambiguous Folk Show: music for the modern folk band Promoted by RNCM in association Free admission, no ticket required with Manchester Central Library 12 13 Sat 20 May Fri 26 May Fri 02 Jun From 12.30pm 7.30pm 2pm Various Venues Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Theatre JUNIOR RNCM AUREA STRING WITH YOU NEW MUSIC QUARTET CONCERT DAY RNCM INTERNATIONAL We asked our students to ARTIST DIPLOMA explain their thinking New Music Day showcases RECITAL behind the With You the work of Junior RNCM concert and they came composition students, Ludwig van Beethoven up with the following with concerts featuring String Quartet in G major rationale: solos and chamber works Op 18 No 2 as well as pieces written Felix Mendelssohn String ‘This is a unique concert for the Junior RNCM New Quartet in F minor Op 80 programmed by us, the Music Ensemble. For full Béla Bartók String Quartet students of the RNCM, in details, please contact No 1 in A minor recognition of all those Sun 28 May who support the College. the Junior RNCM on 0161 Tickets £10 FS 7.30pm The involvement of donors 907 5264. RNCM Theatre is crucial in enabling us Free admission, no ticket to study at this world- required RON SEXSMITH class institution and each Sat 27 May AND BAND of us who performs in this 7.30pm An acclaimed singer-songwriter with concert has been awarded RNCM Concert Hall Sun 21 May a fragile, understated voice and a either a scholarship or a 4pm TUBULAR BELLS + knack for penning minimalist, intimate bursary. RNCM Theatre songs, Ron Sexsmith returns to the This is our opportunity to MARY CASIO RNCM to showcase his new album, The thank the many individuals ANI FEATURING TUBULAR BRASS Last Rider. from the Principal’s MRU-MRU AND HANNAH PEEL Tickets £27.50 advance Circle, Trusts, Mike Oldfi eld’s classic album Promoted by The Gig Cartel Foundations and Annual If you like a bit of Tubular Bells, performed live Appeal whose contributions culture and are a fan of by Tubular Brass – a 28-piece to the Student Awards Fund comedic cabaret, then look brass band featuring some of have enabled us to pursue no further than Poland’s the UK’s fi nest players and our love of music. If you very own satirical presenting a new score by have ever made a donation comedy trio Ani Mru-Mru acclaimed composer, conductor to the College, bought a (translation - ‘don’t say and arranger Sandy Smith. Plus ticket or told a friend a word’). a special performance of Mary about our work, we hope Ani Mru-Mru are regular Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia by you can join us for this and very welcome guests electronic artist and composer very special afternoon.’ among Britain’s large Hannah Peel that combines This concert is open to Polish community, having synthesisers and brass to everyone, so please come performed many shows stunning eff ect. and join us for this across the UK. The Tickets £18.50 wonderful event. fantastic three from the Promoted in association with the PRS Free admission, by ticket Polish city of Lublin have Foundation, Arts Council England and Root been touring the world Music only since 1999 and are one of the most popular groups on the Polish comedy scene. Please note this show will be performed in Polish. Tickets £26.50 No concessions Promoted by Kabareton 14 15 Fri 02 Jun Sun 04 Jun Tue 06 Jun Wed 07 Jun From 6.30pm Doors 7pm 5pm 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Theatre RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room SPOTLIGHT THEA RNCM RNCM TRIPLE-BILL GILMORE SYMPHONY COMPOSERS BRAHMS AND FRIENDS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CHORUS CONCERT A celebration of the Thea Gilmore releases Franz Liszt Salve regina Adam Gorb, RNCM Head of musical and personal her 18th album, The S 66 Composition, introduces friendships between Counterweight, in May Franz Liszt Ave verum this concert of new and Brahms, Schumann and 2017 on Cooking Vinyl corpus S 44 recently premièred works, clarinettist Richard Records. She writes all Franz Liszt Missa choralis written by RNCM composers Mühlfeld. her own material and Bruce S 10 and performed by their Springsteen has cited her 6.30pm Stuart Overington fellow students. as one of his favourite Johannes Brahms – conductor Free admission, no ticket Clarinet Trio in A minor songwriters. Free admission, no ticket required Op 114 Her last two albums have required 7.10pm made the Top 40, with the single Lover Came Looking + Robert Schumann – For Me named a coveted Piano Trio No 3 in G minor 6.30pm Thu 08 Jun Radio 2 Single of the Op 110 Carole Nash Recital Room 1.15pm Week. SPOTLIGHT: Visions de RNCM Concert Hall 7.50pm Tonight she appears with l’Amen – Messiaen’s suite Johannes Brahms – her live band, featuring for two pianos RNCM Clarinet Quintet in husband and producer Nigel B minor Op 115 Free admission, no ticket GUITARS Stonier on guitar and required Rory Russell director Free admission, no ticket keyboard, as part of a required small UK tour. RNCM guitarists under the tutorship of Craig Tickets £27.50, £24.50 Wed 07 Jun Ogden give this end of No concessions 7.30pm Promoted by Edge Street Live RNCM Concert Hall year showcase, including a range of chamber music THE JOYCE and guitar ensemble repertoire. Sat 03 Jun Tonight he’ll be showcasing his latest AND MICHAEL album Nonagram in quartet format (sax/ Mon 05 Jun Free admission, no ticket 7.30pm vocals, drums, bass and piano). This 7.30pm KENNEDY required RNCM Theatre body of work is inspired by maths and Carole Nash Recital Room AWARD FOR SOWETO KINCH geometry but grounded by groove and VIOLA PRIZE soul. So expect scalding hot, hard THE SINGING QUARTET bop, jazz/hip-hop grooves spiced with RNCM viola players compete OF STRAUSS NONAGRAM free-fl owing fi ery lyrics like you’ve for this annual prize, adjudicated by Louise Senior students from the Soweto Kinch is a multi award- never heard before… Lansdown. RNCM School of Vocal winning saxophonist, MC and composer ‘Hip-hop militant and exploratory jazz Studies and Opera compete specialising in a trademark style of astronaut’ Rochester City Newspaper Tickets £7 in the fi nals of this jazz, rap and spoken word unlike that Tickets £18 £15 FS prestigious annual award, of any other performer in the world. each singing a programme + Revered among both musicians and of Lieder or arias by rappers alike, he has amassed two MOBO 6.30pm Richard Strauss. This Awards, a BBC Rising Star and Jazz Carole Nash Recital Room year’s adjudicating panel Instrumentalist Award, a nomination SPOTLIGHT: Good Vibes – Revealing will include pianist and for the Mercury Award and he hosts his the soundworld of the vibraphone Lieder accompanist Graham own weekly show on BBC Radio 3, Jazz Johnson OBE. Planet. Free admission, no ticket required Tickets £10 FS 16 17 Thu 08 – Fri 09 Jun IN FOCUS: PAUL PATTERSON The RNCM’s Summer In Focus turns to one of our resident tutors in composition Paul Patterson, in two days of events which delve deep into the colourful world in which his music inhabits. The diversity and inclusivity of his work is impressive. His phenomenally successful Little Red Riding Hood (recently performed in our Young Explorers Concert Series) and several scores for Hammer House of Horror (we’ll be screening one during the Festival) brought his music to a new and much larger audience. A former student of Richard Rodney Bennett, Patterson’s refreshingly open-minded voice is renowned for its humorous and satirical edge, whilst never alienating the listener. We also explore his aff inity with one of the instruments with which he is closely associated in our all-harp lunchtime concert, as well as presenting works for wind, brass and ensemble that span fi ve decades of composition. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/patterson

Thu 08 Jun Fri 09 Jun 6pm 1.15pm Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room FORUM PLUS LUNCHTIME CONCERT Adam Gorb in conversation with Paul Paul Patterson Lizards for solo harp; Patterson. Canonic Lullaby for fl ute and harp; Spirals for solo harp Lucy Hale New work for solo harp 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall 6pm RNCM NEW ENSEMBLE Carole Nash Recital Room Paul Patterson Diversions for saxophone quartet; The Sorriest Cow of Capricorn EVENING CONCERT for soprano and piano; At the Still Paul Patterson Conversations for clarinet Point; Cracowian Counterpoints and piano; Westerly Winds for wind Jonathan Bates New work quintet; Mean Time for brass quintet Mark Heron, Alex Robinson, Orr Guy Isabel Benito Gutiérrez New work for wind conductors quintet

9.30pm All events are free admission, no ticket Forman Lecture Theatre required FILM SCREENING: HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR – ‘RUDE AWAKENING’ Cert: Directed by Peter Sasdy / Music by Paul Patterson

18 19 Thu 15, Tue 20, Fri 23 Jun 6pm RNCM Theatre RNCM OPERA SCENES RNCM singers further their on-stage experience in these performances of excerpts drawn from a wide Sat 10 Jun variety of operas. These 7pm free concerts are a great RNCM Theatre introduction to the world Photo: Alex Smith RNCM Photographic Society of opera as the singers RNCM SESSION dip in and out of diff erent ORCHESTRA Fri 09 Jun Sun 11 Jun repertoire to demonstrate SUPPORT: OLLIE WEST 7.30pm 7.30pm their versatility. RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room Thu 15 Jun BAND 7.30pm Free admission, no ticket required Andy Stott director AN EVENING VIRTUALLY RNCM Concert Hall Once again, it’s time for WITH REALITY003 STEVEN ISSERLIS (cello) the RNCM Session Orchestra Vitalij a Glovackytė to plant their fl ag on our ARUNDHATI J S Bach Suite No 1 in G major BWV 1007 Sunday for 11 recycled Fri 16 Jun Theatre stage. For this György Kurtág In memoriam Ferenc Wilheim ROY telephone vibration From 6.30pm Summer date, there are György Kurtág Pilinszky János: Gérard de Nerval Tickets £12 or £28 for motors, objects and violin Carole Nash Recital Room some new names in the mix Benjamin Britten Suite No 3 Op 87 ticket and a signed copy MICHAELBRAILEY …without my – you’ll be able to hear György Kurtág Az hit SPOTLIGHT of The Ministry of Utmost wings… for solo piano and tunes by Sia, Jess Glynne, J S Bach Suite No 6 in D major BWV 1012 Happiness audiovisual electronics TRIPLE-BILL Billy Joel and Jill Scott, Steven Isserlis is one of the top cellists in the Islam Shabana New work as well as nods to Michael Promoted by Manchester Literature world and a fascinating character to boot. He is FLUTE DUOS Festival (world première) Bublé, Chic, Jamie Cullum, on record as saying that since the age of 10, he The fl ute is one of the Alvin Lucier Self- Sting, Chaka Khan and many has never taken more than three consecutive days oldest instruments and one Portrait for fl ute and wind more… away from the cello, concluding that ‘it’s like of the most versatile. anemometer Sat 10 Jun breathing for me.’ This Spotlight Triple-Bill Our Session Orchestra Jonathan Green Piano and 7.30pm is an exciting opportunity gigs are also an amazing Lamp For this rare solo performance, Steven will RNCM Concert Hall to hear three fl ute duos showcase for other student Kaj Duncan David Computer perform three of Bach’s enigmatic Cello Suites, performing a creative groups and tonight we MANCHESTER Music (UK première) interspersed with three miniatures by his close welcome the Ollie West friend György Kurtág. The two men spend hours programme curated by the We’re delighted to host Band in the support slot. BEETHOVEN on the phone discussing music: a piece by Kurtág students. the third concert in They’ll be recording their that lasts two minutes might warrant a discussion 6.30pm ORCHESTRA the VIRTUALLYREALITY set as part of their of several hours. ‘He is a bit of a father fi gure Fable Duo – Folk and series curated by RNCM Portraits live album SUMMER CONCERT to me, but he is a hard taskmaster. He wants fusion: a fable for fl ute composition student project. Alexander Borodin Overture every note right.’ and marimba Michael Brailey, in from Prince Igor PS The Session Orchestra collaboration with Tickets £20 £18 FS 7.10pm Felix Mendelssohn Violin will be on stage at 8pm Australian visual + Flute and Harp – music Concerto in E minor Op 64 F artist Liam Bosecke who by Piazzolla, Andriessen, Tickets £15 S Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 6.30pm will create warped, 3D Cras and Ibert Symphony No 5 in E minor Carole Nash Recital Room rendered artworks for each Op 64 SPOTLIGHT: CELLISSIMO! - An Evening of 7.50pm performance. Frank Lennon conductor Cello Chamber Music Shri Krishna - A Read more about the Free admission, no ticket required Meditation Tickets £10 project at www. No concessions Free admission, no ticket virtuallyrealityevents.com Promoted by Manchester Beethoven required Orchestra Tickets £8 FS 20 21 Sun 18 Jun with vivid, lush orchestral colours and includes nods to traditional Russian 2pm folksong. RNCM YOUNG Also featured are the electrifying dances EXPLORERS CONCERT from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story and Copland’s highly evocative Fanfare SYMPHONIC DANCES for the Common Man, an iconic tune that Sat 17 Jun music they truly love. There will also Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man has been heavily used in American culture be the opportunity to hear new works for Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from (it was the wake up music on two Space RNCM GOLD MEDAL piano trio written by four selected RNCM West Side Story Shuttle missions and was performed at composers. Igor Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919) Barack Obama’s Inaugural Celebration in COMPETITION 2009.) This is a chance to see the stars of the Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra The RNCM’s star performers and composers future on the cusp of their professional Tom Newall conductor Our Young Explorers concerts are family- compete for an RNCM Gold Medal, the careers. We would love you to come along For the latest in our RNCM Young friendly ‘relaxed’ performances and are College’s most prestigious annual award, to support our students and be part of Explorers Concert Series, we’ve put a brilliant way to introduce children to in a full day of performances in front this exciting process… and to see if you together an energy-fuelled, instantly live classical music. of a distinguished panel from across the agree with the judges?! recognisable programme that will no doubt For full details, please see music industry. For a full schedule including details ring a few bells! www.rncm.ac.uk/youngexplorers Ten performers give a 30-minute free of performers and programmes when it Stravinsky’s The Firebird is based Suitable for ages 8 and above choice programme throughout the day, becomes available, please visit on the Russian fairytale of a magical Tickets £12, under 16s £5 so it is a great opportunity to hear www.rncm.ac.uk/goldmedal glowing bird that can be both a blessing Family ticket (4 people) £30 our most talented students playing the Free admission, no ticket required and a curse to its owner. The piece was praised for its ‘riot of rich colour and fantastic movement.’ It is bursting 22 23 425 24

Fri 23 Jun The St John Passion is deeply personal, inspiring and questioning in equal parts. For all its ferocity and the sorrow of the Good 7.30pm Friday story, the biggest joy of the piece is that it’s a truly RNCM Concert Hall optimistic work, anticipating the resurrection with music suff used ST JOHN PASSION with light and hope. J S BACH An intimate ensemble of RNCM soloists, choir and chamber orchestra will bring Bach’s most emotional and dramatic Passion RNCM Chamber Orchestra to life under the baton of David Hill, one of the UK’s foremost RNCM Chamber Choir choral conductors, Musical Director of the Bach Choir and David Hill conductor Principal Conductor of the BBC Singers. They will be joined by Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist Nicholas Mulroy taking the role of the Evangelist. The Observer’s First performed in Leipzig on Good Friday 1724, the St John Fiona Maddocks said in a recent review: ‘Nicholas Mulroy is Passion is a remarkably powerful work which conveys the story of now an Evangelist of choice, dramatic yet never over-involved, Jesus’ last hours, as told by St John, with startling immediacy. engaged reporter rather than partisan witness.’ Some striking arias provide individual responses to the events – Tickets £17 £14 FS such as the dilemma faced by Pilate – but arguably the greatest + music is found in the crowd scenes, in which Bach’s writing creates an astonishing sense of cruelty and confusion. 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Regarded as a powerhouse among oratorios, this intensely sacred work is famous for its sheer beauty and power. It opens with SPOTLIGHT: Silenzio!... Abbiamo un piano – Masterpieces for an impassioned cry to God, written in the plain language of an two pianos by the Thundering Duo earnest witness and full of restlessness and desire. Between this Free admission, no ticket required opening and the fi nal, magnifi cent chorus, we are called to face up to some of the most basic questions in life, all in the form of an urgent, unsentimental story. Sat 24 Jun RNCM PIANO DAY FOLK INFLUENCES This year’s Piano Day focuses on the many stirring folk infl uences that exist in piano literature, with programmes from the Hungarian masters Liszt and Bartók, American classics from Barber, Copland and Rzewski, followed by the popular Slavonic Dances of Dvořák, all performed by students from the RNCM, Junior RNCM and Chetham’s School of Music. The day culminates in a tour de force by pianist Leslie Howard, renowned for his 99 CD recording project of the complete works of Liszt, who will contrast the Hungarian virtuoso with a comprehensive selection of popular folk settings by the Australian composer Percy Grainger. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/pianoday

7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall LESLIE HOWARD Franz Liszt Romancero espagnol S 695c Franz Liszt Glanes de Woronince S 249 Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 19 in D minor S 244 Percy Grainger Selection of British and Danish folk music settings Tickets £17 £14 Day Ticket £25

26 27 Wed 28 Jun 6.30pm RNCM Theatre RNCM BIG BAND WITH LAURENCE COTTLE (bass) PORTRAIT OF JACO SUPPORT: ARTEPHIS Sun 25 Jun Our Summer Big Band show is something very special indeed as Laurence 8pm Cottle collaborates with our students to pay tribute to the legendary RNCM Concert Hall American bassist Jaco Pastorius on the 30th anniversary of his death. Laurence fi rst became aware of Pastorius via his 1976 eponymous album. He RICK had started out playing trad jazz trombone, switched to bass, then his WAKEMAN discovery of Jaco’s album had a profound eff ect on Laurence: ‘hearing that PIANO PORTRAITS fi rst album completely changed the way I approached the instrument.’ IN CONCERT Best known for his work with Weather Report, Pastorius revolutionised how Currently celebrating the bass guitar is played. He was one of the fi rst to present the bass as his 50th year as a melodic lead instrument, a rare occurrence in the bass world where most a professional Sun 25 Jun 4pm Mon 26 Jun just try to keep things simple and solid, and this is what set him apart from other players. For many (including Cottle) he was one of the most musician, keyboard Mon 26 Jun* 7.30pm 7.30pm infl uential bass guitarists ever, during his prolifi c but all too short player, songwriter and (*SOLD OUT, RETURNS ONLY) Carole Nash Recital Room career. The two men actually met in 1979 at Pastorius’ last gig with broadcaster, Rick Wakeman RNCM Theatre ‘I just used to listen and be in recently made chart SCHUBERT Weather Report, of which Laurence said: WIGAN MUSIC SERVICE awe’. history when his Piano PRIZE Portraits album became the Having transcribed and played Pastorius’ music for most of his professional GORDON Pianists from the RNCM fi rst solo piano album to life, Cottle is a commanding presence on fretless (bass) himself, evoking compete for this annual enter the UK’s Top 10. GOODWIN’S Pastorius’ signature sound with punchy, syncopated basslines. He has a prize, centred on the mind-blowing CV, having worked with the likes of Brian Eno, Eric Clapton, Initially inspired by the BIG PHAT works of Franz Schubert. unprecedented reaction to Black Sabbath, Clark Tracey and numerous others. BAND Tickets £7 his performance of David Tonight’s gig will include Laurence’s Big Band arrangements of Pastorius Gordon Goodwin’s Big Bowie’s Life On Mars on classics including The Chicken, Liberty City, Three Views of a Secret and Phat Band is one of the BBC Radio 2 in early 2016 Weather Report’s Birdland. most exciting large jazz following the singer’s ensembles on the planet. Wed 28 Jun PS The Big Band will be on stage at 7.30pm. death, Piano Portraits Populated by L.A.’s fi nest 7.30pm Tickets £18 £15 FS features instrumental players, they take the Carole Nash Recital Room versions of hits Rick big band tradition into originally performed on. the new millennium with STRINGBOXES Space Oddity, Morning a contemporary, highly STRINGS UNRAVELLED Has Broken and Wondrous original sound featuring Holly Marland kora, voice Stories as well as others Goodwin’s witty, hard- Michael Cretu double bass specifi cally chosen for swinging compositions in their wonderful melodies, Rediscovering ancient a veritable grab bag of including Stairway To melodies within styles: swing, Latin, Heaven, Help! and Eleanor contemporary and world blues, classical, rock and Rigby. He has also added music, this unique and more. a selection of some of his exhilarating programme favourite classical pieces Wigan Jazz Club is includes adaptations of including Berceuse, Clair delighted to welcome works by Monteverdi and de Lune and Swan Lake. Gordon and his crew to Dowland, traditional launch the 32nd Wigan Romanian and West African Ticket £35 No concessions International Jazz pieces plus original works Promoted by Kilimanjaro Festival. including Cretu’s Sonata Tickets £32 for double bass solo and No concessions world premières of new Promoted by Wigan Music Service compositions by Cretu and (in partnership with Wigan Marland. International Jazz Festival) Sponsored by Yamaha Tickets £12 FS Laurence and Jaco circa late 1970s 28 29 Thu 29 Jun 7.30pm The Bridgewater Hall RNCM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Modest Mussorgsky (arr Rimsky-Korsakov) Prelude: Dawn over the Moscow River; Dance of the Persian Maidens from Khovanshchina Sergei Prokofi ev Violin Concerto No 1 in D major Op 19 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74 ‘Pathétique’ Juanjo Mena, Manoj Kamps conductors Erkki Louko violin For our annual end of year RNCM Symphony Orchestra concert we return to The Bridgewater Hall for an evening of high drama and emotion under the baton of Juanjo Mena. In a series of letters, Tchaikovsky described his Sixth Symphony as ‘the best thing I ever composed or shall compose.’ Just three weeks after he conducted the world première, the composer was dead, and debate has raged ever since about how events unfolded and the meaning of this monumental piece. Certainly the most controversial of his works, with the Sixth, Tchaikovsky introduced a radically new concept of the symphonic journey and set the stage for a new century of bleak requiems, no longer following Beethoven’s model of ‘light over darkness’. However it is not a musical suicide note, a piece written by a composer who was dying or the product of a musician who was terminally depressed about his compositional powers or personal life. It is a vindication of Tchaikovsky’s powers as a composer. It is about death itself - the fact that we are made of fl esh and blood and that we will all die - and its fi nal image is of musical, emotional and physical collapse. Of all of his works, this symphony spans both extremes of the emotional spectrum to the greatest extent. A graceful dance is followed by a sombre mood, there is pathos but also an odd fl ash of frivolity. Its distorted references to fanfares, waltzes and marches suggest a collection of deathbed memories and thus it lays bare a devastating psychological drama as a life comes to an end. Alongside the contributions by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky, tonight’s programme is completed by Prokofi ev’s First Violin Concerto, performed by one of our Concerto Competition winners, Erkki Louko. Tickets £18 £15 FS

30 31 Thu 29 Jun, Sat 01, Thu 06, Thu 13, Sat 15 Jul 8pm Stage 1, Old Granada Studios, Manchester, UK ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) Fri 30 Jun Fri 30 Jun Sat 01 Jul New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.. 2pm 7.30pm From 10.15am Orchestrated & conducted by Joe Duddell RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Various Venues World première RNCM CHRISTOPHER JUNIOR RNCM New Order take over Stage 1 of Manchester’s iconic Old Granada Studios for this special series of intimate shows, created in collaboration with two CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND PERFORMANCE close associates: visual artist Liam Gillick, who has previously presented ROWLAND CELEBRATION DAY solo exhibitions at venues such as Tate Britain and MoMA in New York; and composer-arranger Joe Duddell, a fellow son of Manchester and a frequent Performance Day profi les CHAMBER CONCERT collaborator with the band. the work of the full range Programme to include: ENSEMBLE OF of Junior RNCM ensembles, For New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.., the group will be deconstructing, Maurice Ravel Piano Trio including Symphony rethinking and rebuilding a wealth of material from throughout their career: THE YEAR in A minor Orchestra, Brass Band and familiar and obscure, old and new. To perform it live, they’ll be joined by We celebrate the legacy of Felix Mendelssohn String Foundation Section as well a 12-strong synthesiser ensemble from the Royal Northern College of Music, Dr Christopher Rowland, Quartet No 2 in A minor as Wind, Vocal, Percussion with Joe Duddell providing the orchestrations. architect of the RNCM’s Op 13 and Jazz Ensembles. For world-class Chamber Music Inspired by this reinvention of the band’s catalogue, Liam Gillick will be Elias String Quartet full details, contact the department with the transforming the historic Stage 1 into an immersive environment, creating Manchester Piano Trio Junior RNCM on 0161 907 10th annual award for a stage set that reacts dynamically to the music. MIF17 – so it goes… Apollo Saxophone Quartet 5264. chamber music excellence Curated by Dave Haslam & Mark Beasley This celebration concert Commissioned by Manchester International Festival and Wiener Festwochen. within the College, as Free admission, no ticket is performed by the RNCM’s Produced by Manchester International Festival. prize-winning student required senior Chamber Music More information and tickets at www.mif.co.uk ensembles compete for department staff who all the prestigious title Photo: New Order at Old Granada Studios, Manchester, UK February 2017 © Donald Christie benefi tted from studying of Christopher Rowland at the RNCM during Chamber Ensemble of the Sat 01 Jul Christopher Rowland’s Year with a panel chaired 7.30pm tenure as Head of Chamber by former Head of School RNCM Concert Hall Music. Rob Buckland of Keyboard Studies, Renna appears with the Apollo MANCHESTER Kellaway. Saxophone Quartet, Jeremy WIND Tickets £10 FS Young with the Manchester Piano Trio and Donald ORCHESTRA Grant with the Elias Samuel R Hazo Ride String Quartet. Geoff rey Poole Sailing With Tickets £10 FS Archangels Peter Meechan Three SPECIAL TICKET OFFER – buy Stories - Three Worlds tickets for the 2pm and Krzysztof Penderecki 7.30pm events for £15 Pittsburgh Overture Philip Sparke Land of the Long White Cloud Leoš Janáček Sinfonietta Ralph Corrigan conductor Manchester Wind Orchestra are joined by RNCM euphonium student and friend of the band, Melvin Tay, for an exciting and varied concert. Tickets £12 Promoted by Manchester Wind Orchestra

32 33 Sun 09 Jul Thu 13 Jul Sat 15 Jul Thu 06 - Sat 08 Jul 7pm 7.15pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM STUDENTFEST BURY MUSIC THE JAZZ EXPRESSIVO This July, join us to explore unchartered territory as RNCM students take over the SERVICE TICKET CHORUS College to present a jam-packed programme BURY MUSIC CENTRE A JOURNEY WITH THE SPOTLIGHT ON of events, aka StudentFest. Every single FESTIVAL SERIES: GIANTS OF JAZZ BROADWAY element of this unique event has been SENIOR ENSEMBLES Nu Civilisation Orchestra With songs from classic planned and managed by our students – Peter Edwards conductor Gustav Mahler Fourth Broadway to contemporary from programming, to marketing to event movement from Symphony No Join Nu Civilisation hits there is sure to be management and everything else such a large- 1 in D major ‘Stürmisch Orchestra and up to 60 something for everyone scale event entails. bewegt’ young music stars of to enjoy in this show as This will be an amazing snapshot into the Karl Jenkins The Armed Man the future from local Espressivo Chorus perform future of the music scene as the ideas and Bury Youth Orchestra Manchester schools with a live ensemble. experiments that begin in our practice rooms Gemma Price conductor and colleges for a Tickets £12 will be brought to life and presented for spectacular show to mark Bury Youth Concert Band No concessions the fi rst time. With innovation at its core, the centenary year of the Promoted by Espressivo Chorus Ltd Steven Sandiford conductor the festival will feature a diverse spectrum birth of six Giants of of musical concepts: from gospel to folk Bury Saxophone Quartet Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald, music, big band to string quartet. We’re Ruth Parry conductor Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo confi dent that there’s something for every Bury Wind Ensemble Santamaria, Thelonious Sun 16 Jul musical taste at StudentFest… Jonathan Jones conductor Monk, Tadd Dameron and 3pm RNCM Concert Hall Read more at www.rncm.ac.uk/studentfest Tickets £8 Buddy Rich. Their music Promoted by Bury Music Service and spirit will gain new life and renewed WIGAN YOUTH energy through the BRASS BAND stellar performances of 20TH ANNIVERSARY Mon 10, Tue 11, almost 600 young people CONCERT Wed 12 Jul taking part in The Jazz Hundreds of young brass 7pm Ticket nationwide music musicians have graduated RNCM Concert Hall programme. from the Wigan Music Tickets £5 Service brass department ONE No concessions Promoted by One Education and the Wigan Youth Brass EDUCATION Band. This concert marking MUSIC SHOWCASE 2017 20 years of the Wigan One Education Music Fri 14 Jul Youth Brass Band will see Showcase is a series of 7.30pm the current membership concerts, supported by RNCM Concert Hall celebrating with ex- MyHub (Manchester Music members and staff as well Hub), demonstrating a WIGAN YOUTH the next generation of great variety of musical ORCHESTRA young musicians learning styles and high standards in the band’s training Leonard Bernstein Mambo achieved by young people ensembles. from Symphonic Dances in Manchester schools, Tickets £6 (West Side Story) academies and at the One Promoted by Wigan Music Service Edward Elgar Cello Education music centres. Sponsored by Friends of Wigan Youth Concerto in E minor Op 85 Brass Band Tickets £5 Hector Berlioz Symphonie Promoted by One Education Fantastique Sponsored by MyHub Richard Waldock conductor Rosalie Curlett cello Tickets £7 Photo: Alex Smith RNCM Photographic Society Promoted by Wigan Youth Orchestra 34 35 Sun 16 - Sun 23 Jul Mon 17 Jul 7pm LONDON MASTER RNCM Concert Hall CLASSES STAR ALUMNI Sun 23 Jul Wed 26 Jul SUMMER MASTER COURSE 8pm 7.30pm 2017 CONCERT RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall TUTORS: To include: David Maxwell Anderson (tenor) and Anna MAGIC VOICES PALESTINE Jennifer Larmore voice Fedorova (piano) MOVIES AND MUSICALS Gyorgy Pauk violin JAZZ Hannah Roberts cello Tickets £12 Magic Voices presents NAI BARGHOUTI, Norma Fisher piano songs from musicals and MOHAMED NAJEM Benjamin Zander conducting movies from the last 50 Tue 18 Jul years, featuring soloists AND FRIENDS 7pm This unique course, now in its and a live band. Moving seamlessly between 29th year, will off er daily Carole Nash Recital Room Arabic music and jazz, public masterclasses and Tickets £20 TALK WITH No concessions two of the most exciting concerts. Hear extraordinary Promoted by Magic Voices musicians to emerge from international singers, JENNIFER the cultural renaissance violinists, cellists, pianists in Palestine join the and conductors from every LARMORE + stage to raise funds for part of the world, including UNICEF in Syria. international prize-winners SHOWCASE Tickets £15 and many young soloists, Promoted by NiNi Productions already well-known on concert CONCERT I platforms and in opera houses Tickets £5 across the world, working with distinguished performers. Wed 19, Thu 20, For further information and to purchase tickets for the daily Fri 21 Jul 7pm masterclasses (£10 per day) and Carole Nash Recital Room evening concerts, please visit www.rncm.ac.uk/ SHOWCASE londonmasterclasses Promoted by London Master Classes CONCERTS II, III AND IV Sun 16 Jul Tickets £5 8pm RNCM Concert Hall Sat 22 Jul BENJAMIN 7pm RNCM Concert Hall ZANDER Sat 19 Aug EXPERIENCING THE ART OF YOUNG 10am POSSIBILITY MASTER Various Venues Find yourself startled by new perspectives on leadership CONCERT HAND IN HAND FESTIVAL and awakening possibility in STARS OF THE FUTURE UK AND IRELAND LGBT+ CHOIR FESTIVAL others in this journey through Tickets £12 Manchester Lesbian and Gay Chorus host this unique stories, music and concepts. festival of events throughout the city, over the weekend With over 8.5 million views of 18 - 20 Aug. Featuring LGBT+ choirs from across the on TEDx online, this is not a Sun 23 Jul UK and Ireland, themed in partnership with the People’s 7pm speech, it is an experience! History Museum exhibition Never Going Underground. RNCM Theatre Tickets £20 Tickets £12 GRAND FINALE No concessions Promoted by Hand in Hand (Manchester) Ltd on behalf of Manchester Lesbian Tickets £12 and Gay Chorus Sponsored by Big Lottery Fund and Manchester Pride 36 37 Fri 04 Aug 7.30pm RNCM Theatre JOSHUA REDMAN: STILL DREAMING SOLE UK PERFORMANCE Joshua Redman soprano and tenor saxophones Ron Miles trumpet Scott Colley double bass Brian Blade drums World-renowned saxophonist Joshua Redman’s new group, the Still Dreaming quartet, features three of the most imaginative voices in contemporary jazz. Together they’ll interpret Old and New Dreams, a renowned 1970/80s band of Ornette Coleman alumni, that included Joshua’s father, Dewey Redman, along with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell. Their repertoire of Coleman compositions and original works was honest, uninhibited and engagingly unpredictable. With his all-star group, Joshua fulfi ls his birthright, explores his heritage and adds a new perspective to this historic material. The close personal connection will make this UK debut an especially memorable performance. Tickets £25 No concessions Promoted by RNCM and manchester jazz festival + 6.15pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM/mjf introduces: MIGHTY STRANGER - A powerful new jazz quartet featuring multi- instrumentalist and singer Caitlin Laing that blends original concepts and established traditions to deliver unique sets of genre-crossing music. Free admission, by ticket only

manchester jazz festival 38 39 FRENCH Thu 19 Oct Wed 06, Fri 08, 7.30pm Tue 12, Thu 14 CONNECTIONS RNCM Concert Hall Next year, we’ll be Dec 7.30pm celebrating the music of BENJAMIN Sun 10, Sat 16 Dec France and its impact GROSVENOR 3pm across the world. Spanning September through to July, (piano) CENDRILLON this year-long festival Programme to include: (CINDERELLA) will have French music Claude Debussy (arr at its heart albeit with Borwick/Copeland) L’après JULES MASSENET a truly international midi d’un faune Martin André conductor fl avour, as we explore past Maurice Ravel Gaspard de Olivia Fuchs director and present connections la nuit On sale now with France and its Tickets from £21 great cultural centre www.rncm.ac.uk/cinderella Paris – a magnet and an inspiration for musicians Fri 20 Oct all over the world. As 7.30pm ever, RNCM students will RNCM Theatre Sat 13 - Sun 14 be at the very forefront of the programme, and UTE LEMPER Jan later in the year we The world renowned join together with the chanteuse performs the RNCM Paris Conservatoire as chansons of Jacques Brel STRINGS a future generation of and Edith Piaf on a international musicians musical journey via Paris, FESTIVAL performs side by side to Berlin and Argentina. A sumptuous programme of music for strings recreate the concert life On sale now of wartime past. exploring cross-Channel Tickets from £27.50 connections between the Here are a few dates UK and France. for your diary, and we’ll be adding much more at www.rncm.ac.uk/ Fri 03 Nov frenchconnections over the 7.30pm coming weeks and months… RNCM Concert Hall Liberty Living is home to 19,500 students across nineteen UK cities including Manchester where we have three student residences; Sir RNCM Charles Groves Hall next to the RNCM, Liberty Point next to Manchester SYMPHONY Piccadilly train station and the 34 storey Liberty Heights in the city ORCHESTRA centre. We are delighted to sponsor a scheme to enable all of our Clark Rundell conductor Manchester-based students access to £3 tickets to key RNCM performances throughout 2016/17. For more information on how to book a £3 ticket, Liberty Living students should visit www.rncm.ac.uk/libertyliving, contact the RNCM box off ice on 0161 907 5555 or speak to their reception team.

‘It is a great location because we are close to the city centre and so close to campus. It is really nice to share a fl at with people who have the same interests. I feel at ease here.’ Ines, RNCM student and Sir Charles Groves Hall resident

40 coming soon Ways to save money at the RNCM There are lots of ways to save money when you visit the RNCM, depending on the frequency of your visits, the size of your party and which benefi ts are important to you. We’ve From the excitement of school outlined a few options below… children composing and performing their own opera, to Family Days and the invaluable work of Music for Health in hospitals and care homes, RNCM Engage reaches out to our regional communities and individuals, spreading the message that music Become a member connects; that it can enrich, For £30 a year for individual Members and £50 for joint comfort, inspire, challenge, Members. Benefi ts include: channel, educate… whoever you are. For more information please visit • Receive news and electronic updates from the RNCM www.rncm.ac.uk/engage • Advanced electronic notice of upcoming performances • Priority booking for selected performances • 15% discount on selected performances Learning and • £15 opera tickets (one per Member, per opera run). Participation Where the opera production is double-cast, Members will be able to book an additional £15 ticket to see The Learning and Participation team the alternative cast. delivers events including an annual • Save 10% on food purchases in our restaurant Brodsky Children’s Opera Project, Family Days, our Young Explorers Concert For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/members or Series and RNCM Young Company, our contact our Box Off ice on 0161 907 5555. musical theatre group, a low-cost, non-audition group for all young people of secondary school age. In addition the team designs bespoke projects for a range of community groups. Contact Book a Flexible Series Fiona Stuart on 0161 907 5281 or [email protected] • Save 15% or more on your tickets by creating your own Flexible Series. Just choose the 3+ concerts you would like to attend marked with F S in this brochure. The RNCM Learning and Participation • The more you book, the more money you save. Book 3-5 concerts and save 15%, book 6-9 team is grateful for the support concerts and save 20% and book 10+ concerts and save 25%. of the Eric and Margaret Kinder • There are no booking fees for events purchased as part of a Flexible package. Charitable Trust, the Lauriston WITH YOU we can enhance For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/fl exi and to book a Flexible Series package contact Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, The the cultural life of Manchester our Box Off ice on 0161 907 5555. Patron’s Fund and the Zochonis Trust. WITH YOU we can support The Sir John Manduell the next generation of musicians Become a Group Booker Research Forum Series at For events that are promoted by the RNCM, we have generous discounts available depending on the size of your group. For example: the RNCM WITH YOU we can ensure all Our Research Forums are FREE and Groups of 10-29 save 15% Groups of 30-49 save 20% Groups of 50+ save 25% our students fulfil their potential open to the public with no ticket • Group organisers can claim an additional free ticket required; RNCM staff and guest • There are no booking fees on group bookings speakers give presentations on an aspect of their work - whether it’s For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/groups and to make a group booking, contact our musicological, creative, educational, THE RNCM Box Off ice on 0161 907 5555. music-psychological or other kinds SOUNDS BETTER For school groups of 10+ we also have a limited number of seats available for events of research. The talks last about 45 promoted by the RNCM. To receive regular updates about school events and special off ers visit minutes and then the fl oor is open for www.rncm.ac.uk/signup questions and discussion. Read more about these sessions at www.rncm.ac.uk/researchforums Just a quick reminder that concessions are available for events promoted by the RNCM. For more information visit our website at For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/discounts RNCM Historic Instrument And to keep in touch with news about performances at the RNCM and to hear about special www.rncm.ac.uk/withyou off ers etc, sign up to receive our events e-newsletter at www.rncm.ac.uk/signup Collection Summer 2017 opening hours at www.rncm.ac.uk/instrumentcollection 42 43 Looking for a Venue or Musicians? Eating and Drinking at the RNCM

There are refreshment Brodsky Café facilities available at the RNCM with the Café, Brodsky is our restaurant The Café is open from 8am Brodsky Restaurant and here at the RNCM. Whether until the interval on Bar and the Concert Bar you are attending a performance nights. off ering a range of fresh, concert, a conference home cooked and locally or just visiting our Concert Bar sourced food from just a facilities, come in for a The Concert Bar is open coff ee and a pastry to a bite to eat from a quick from 5pm until 11pm. three course meal. lunch to a three course meal. We also off er a wide During vacations the range of wines, beers, Concert Bar opens one hour spirits, real ales and prior to the performance soft drinks. time. Interval Drinks can be ordered at the Concert We are open from 11am Bar and in Brodsky. Monday to Friday and 5pm Saturday with last All food items and food orders at 7pm on menus are subject to availability. Outside The RNCM has a wide The RNCM THEATRE boasts For Conference enquiries performance nights (and of term time and at selection of excellent one of the largest theatre please contact our 7.30pm for concerts with weekends, opening hours purpose-built spaces to stages in Manchester with Conference and Catering an 8pm start time.) are dependent upon the hire for every type of ample wing space, orchestra Team on 0161 907 5353 or We recommend that you performance programme. event, performance or pit, lighting box area [email protected] reserve a table in Brodsky conference. Following a and space for a sound The RNCM also has a number by calling 0161 907 5353 For full details of menus £7.1 million refurbishment desk in addition to the of smaller spaces for or 5252. Brodsky is closed and opening hours please project completed in seated capacity. There are conferences including our during vacation periods call 0161 907 5353 November 2014, our largest 607 seats in the Theatre 110-seater Carole Nash and on Sundays. or 5252 or visit spaces have now been with an option to place Recital Room and 60-seater www.rncm.ac.uk/brodsky or revitalised with excellent additional audience seating Conference Room. www.rncm.ac.uk/cafeandbar back of house facilities over the orchestra pit, and the latest technical taking the total maximum Looking for set−up including a new capacity to 657 seats. Musicians lighting rig and sound Hospitality at The RNCM’s Professional equipment. The FORMAN LECTURE THEATRE Engagements team the RNCM has a 150 capacity and co-ordinates a large has been completely The RNCM can also provide number of engagements Venues for Hire updated following the catering for social from weddings to corporate refurbishment project. functions, events, and The RNCM CONCERT HALL has a events, on behalf of It comes equipped with private dinners. You can variety of fl exible options music societies, clubs, projector, screen and is even hire Brodsky our for your event with layouts companies and individuals. ideal for pre-concert Restaurant outside of term including 445 capacity Contact the Professional talks, discussions, time. seating on Level One, 610 Engagements Team on presentations and capacity seating with our 0161 907 5352 or screenings. Please contact our new Balcony and Oglesby [email protected] Conference and Catering Balcony open, or even up to for further details. For performance enquiries Team on 0161 907 5353 or 730 capacity seating with please contact our Events [email protected] for a reduced stage size for Manager, Paul Cobban on further details. amplifi ed bands and small 0161 907 5289 or ensembles (NB – please [email protected] speak to our Events Manager or for full venue for further details about information and technical the 730 layout). specifi cations please visit www.rncm.ac.uk/hire 44 45 Booking Information and Getting Here

Save Money! Concessions Sonic Manchester future as a result of the RNCM Concert Hall Lower Hall city-wide Bus Priority For events promoted by Upper Hall There are several ways that Scheme. For more detailed the RNCM, concessions are Balcony you can save money when you Sonic Manchester is a free information and a map of available to under 18s, Oglesby Balcony visit the RNCM – either as scheme for students run by how to fi nd us please visit students, over 60s and Platform Seats a group booker or via our the RNCM, The Bridgewater www.rncm.ac.uk/visit Flexible Series or our new claimants (in receipt Hall, BBC Philharmonic Stage Seats RNCM Membership scheme. of JSA or ESA). For all and Manchester Camerata. See p42 for details. events taking place at the It gives students the Parking RNCM, disabled patrons N1 M1 opportunity to buy tickets The RNCM car park is who require an essential STAGE from as little as £3. located next to the Booking by phone companion in order to C1 B1 For more information College in the basement attend, can claim up-to- D1 0161 907 5555 and to sign up for the of the Sir Charles Groves Additional stage seats two tickets for the total E1 latest off ers, please Hall of Residence, off value of a single full F1 visit www.facebook.com/ Rosamond Street West. Open G1 Booking in person price ticket. For other A18 sonicmanchester from 5pm weekday evenings A11 U1 B21 events please check B13 T1 or by post and anytime over weekends, C24 C15 with the Box Off ice on D28 Box Off ice, RNCM, costing £3.50 (payable GG1 D17 0161 907 5555 or go to Email & Mailing E28 E16 124 Oxford Road, on foot at the machine). F28 www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on F15 Manchester M13 9RD List Closes at 11.30pm. G29 for more details. Please G14 Keep in touch with events Other car parking options note proof of concession at the RNCM by joining are available at H1 H17 may be required. For full I1 I17 Booking Fees our free mailing list for www.rncm.ac.uk/parking details of concessionary J1 J17 L27 A booking fee of £1 per regular updates. Sign Please note, due to recent K1 K17 tickets please check with P1 L1 ticket applies to most up at www.rncm.ac.uk/ carriageway changes made the Box Off ice or visit Q1 transactions. No booking mailinglist or contact the by TfGM, visitors can www.rncm.ac.uk/discounts R1 fee applies to tickets Box Off ice for details. no longer exit Rosamond S1 bought in person at the P11 P23 Street at the junction Q10 Q23 Box Off ice. with Oxford Road (as it R9 R23 Ticket Exchange Access & Refunds is now one way) and are S23 All public spaces and For full details on ticket therefore encouraged to Payment facilities are accessible exchanges and our refund exit either via Higher Payment can be made by to wheelchair users (via policy please visit Cambridge Street or Higher cash, Mastercard, Visa lifts). Free parking www.rncm.ac.uk/exchanges Chatham Street. or Maestro. is also available for RNCM Theatre Artists and programmes Please note, refunds are disabled patrons, reserve are correct at the time only made in the case of a your space with reception Enquiries by email of going to press and STAGE cancelled performance. on 0161 907 5300. Please we reserve the right to box.off [email protected] PIT SEATS contact the Box Off ice or A5 change artists and/or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/ B5 A11 programmes without notice Group Discounts access for detailed access C4 B11 B29 Box Off ice opening if necessary. If you D4 C11 C29 Discounts are available information. hours for groups of 10 or more have any comments please E4 D11 D29 F3 for all events promoted contact Head of Marketing E11 E29 11am - 6pm G3 F11 F29 & Communications, by the RNCM. For more How to fi nd us H2 Monday to Saturday G11 G29 RNCM, 124 Oxford Road, J2 (later on performance nights) information contact the Oxford Road station is the H11 H29 Manchester M13 9RD. K1 Box Off ice or visit J11 J29 Sunday 1 hour before closest railway station L1 www.rncm.ac.uk/groups K11 K29 and is a 15 minute walk M1 performances L11 L29 N1 (closed on non-performance Sundays) away. Go to www.tfgm.com Seating Plans M11 M29 P1 for details of public N11 N29 For full terms and Flexible Series For a more detailed Q transport in the Greater P11 P29 layout of our venues R1 conditions visit www.rncm. Save 15% or more on your Q11 Q29 Manchester area. Please ac.uk/whats-on/terms or tickets by creating your please visit www.rncm. S2 R11 R29 also see www.tfgm.com/ contact the Box Off ice. own fl exible series. Simply ac.uk/seatingplans T3 S11 S24 S29 buspriority to see how U2 choose at least 3 concerts T29 your route to College you’d like to attend U29 may change in the near (marked with F S logo). 46 47 Sponsors and Supporters

ERIC AND MARGARET KINDER CHARITABLE TRUST

THE PATRON’S FUND

ZOCHONIS TRUST

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