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Mozart’s Women Celebrating the Maestro’s Muses LONDON MOZART PLAYERS Jane Glover Conductor with Jennifer France Soprano Lauren Zhang Piano Thursday 11th April 2019, 7.30pm London SW1P 3HA www.sjss.org.uk Save the date, tickets on sale soon! Mozart’s Women Celebrating the Maestro’s Muses Thursday 11th April, 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields PROGRAMME Thursday 15th August 7.30pm MOZART Overture Cosi fan tutte, K.588 ‘Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio’, K.418 Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat, K.271 INTERVAL ‘Et incarnatus est’ from Mass in C minor, K.427 ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te’, K.505 Symphony No.31 in D, K.297 LONDON MOZART PLAYERS Leader: Ruth Rogers Jane Glover: Conductor Jennifer France: Soprano LONDON MOZART PLAYERS Lauren Zhang: Piano Ruth Rogers Director/Soloist Join the LMP at London’s iconic church for a selection In accordance with the requirements of Refreshments are permitted only in our St John’s Smith Square, Westminster City Council, persons shall Footstool Restaurant in the crypt. The of music to serenade you on a summer’s evening. London SW1P 3HA not be permitted to sit or stand in any Footstool Restaurant will serve interval and gangway. The taking of photographs and post-concert refreshments. Box Office 020 7222 1061 use of recording equipment is strictly MOZART: Serenade No.13 in G major, K.525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) www.sjss.org.uk forbidden without formal consent from VAUGHAN WILLLIAMS: The Lark Ascending St John’s Smith Square. Smoking is not St John’s Smith Square Charitable Trust permitted anywhere in St John’s Smith ELGAR: Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op.20, Registered Charity No. 1045390 Square. Please ensure that all digital watch Registered in England alarms, pagers and mobile phones are TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op.48 Company No. 3028678 switched off. 3 London Mozart Players The London Mozart Players, the As resident orchestra of Croydon for on top of a shopping mall car park UK’s longest established chamber nearly 30 years, the ensemble has and a house music set at Boxpark orchestra, is thrilled to be celebrating shown an invigorated and growing with young DJ/producer Shift K3Y, its 70th birthday in 2019. Founded commitment to the borough’s #LMPOnTheMove was commended for in 1949 by Harry Blech to delight cultural life. In 2016, LMP relocated its innovative outlook and success in audiences with the works of Mozart its office from Fairfield Halls to St reaching the diverse communities of and Haydn, the orchestra is known John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, the borough. #LMPOnTheMove 2018 for its unmistakable British roots. undertaking a rich programme of proved to be an equally popular mix Over the last seventy years, the initiatives within the local community. of fun and unexpected events, and the LMP has developed an outstanding The orchestra has brought classical 2019 series looks like being the most reputation for adventurous, ambitious music stars Nicola Benedetti, Michael exciting yet! programming from Baroque through Collins, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and to genre-crossing contemporary Thomas Trotter to Upper Norwood The LMP enjoys a special relationship music, and continues to build on its in world-class performances, and with its audience and has thriving long history of association with many has implemented a tailored calendar Friends and Sponsors programmes. of the world’s finest artists including of events including specialist family The orchestra always tries to break Sir James Galway, Dame Felicity concerts and inclusive collaborations down the ‘fourth’ wall between Lott, Jane Glover, Howard Shelley, with local community groups and musicians and audience, and this is Nicola Benedetti, John Suchet and schools. achieved in part as the orchestra is Simon Callow. The orchestra enjoys self-directed. Many concerts, such as an international reputation, touring As one of the original pioneers of it’s acclaimed ‘Piano Explored’ series, extensively throughout Europe and the orchestral outreach work, LMP has involves a ‘deconstruction’ of the Far East, most recently Dubai and Hong enjoyed a host of relationships with works performed, allowing greater Kong, and records frequently for Naxos, schools and music hubs across the understanding and engagement with Chandos and Hyperion Records. UK (and recently in Dubai and Hong the music and with the musicians Kong), working with many teachers themselves. 1st Violins Violas Flutes Horns The London Mozart Players regularly and heads of music to inspire the next Ruth Rogers Sascha Bota Michael Cox Peter Francomb performs on London’s premier concert generation of musicians and music LMP is the only professional orchestra (ANON) Sophie Renshaw Rebecca Larsen Martin Grainger platforms, including the Royal Festival lovers. As well as working with schools, in the UK to be managed both Sijie Chen (GILL COX) (JULIA JAMES) (JOHN & EVELYN WRIGHT) Richard Cookson Oboes Hall, St John’s Smith Square and LMP continues its 70-year tradition operationally and artistically by the Nicoline Kraamwinkel Christopher Beckett Christopher O’Neal Trumpets Cadogan Hall as well as cathedrals of promoting young up-and-coming players. The orchestra has enjoyed the Ann Criscuolo (SEAN ROURKE) Bruce Nockles and other concert venues across the musicians. Nicola Benedetti, Jacqueline patronage of HRH The Earl of Wessex (CHRISTINE ROBSON) Cellos Katie Clemmow Peter Wright UK. LMP is the resident orchestra du Pré and Jan Pascal Tortelier are just since 1988. Nikki Gleed Sebastian Comberti (GEOFFREY & JOY LAWRENCE) (CYNTHIA HARROD-EAGLES) at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls and will three of many young musical virtuosi Thea Spires (ANON) celebrate this venue’s reopening after championed early in their careers by Julia Desbruslais Clarinets Timps refurbishment in September 2019 the orchestra. 2nd Violins (GORDON & JEANNE LEES) Marie Lloyd Matthew Farthing Jenny Godson Sarah Butcher Emma Canavan with a gala concert which will also Chair Sponsors (GEOFFREY SHAW) (GILLIAN NOBLE} (EDVALDO HUDSON PEREIRA) celebrate the orchestra’s 70th birthday. The orchestra’s award-winning 2017 For as little as £20 a month, you The orchestra’s anniversary year series #LMPOnTheMove saw the Antonia Kesel can sponsor an LMP chair and sees a wide range of concerts in the ensemble pushing the perceived Jayne Spencer Basses Bassoons enjoy a special connection with Stephen Rouse Stacey Watton Gavin McNaughton capital’s top concert venues including boundaries of classical music the orchestra. Anna Harpham (SANDRA & ANTHONY LINGER) Christopher Gunia Find out more about the chairs performances at King’s Place, Conway performance in Croydon, welcoming Cathy Elliott available by getting in touch with Hall and a return to Southbank’s Queen new audiences and partnerships. (THE BRISTOW FAMILY) Brian Willetts via [email protected] Elizabeth Hall. Including a live film score played 4 5 Jane GLOVER CBE Conductor British conductor Jane Glover has Opera, Covent Garden, English Figaro for Aspen Music Festival, been Music of the Baroque’s music National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Die Zauberflöte for Houston Grand director since 2002. She made her Glyndebourne, the Berlin Staatsoper, Opera, her continuing seasons with professional debut at the Wexford Glimmerglass Opera, New York Music of the Baroque in Chicago; Festival in 1975, conducting her own City Opera, Opera National de and concert appearances with edition of Cavalli’s L’Eritrea. She joined Bordeaux, Opera Australia, Chicago Oregon Bach Festival, London Mozart Glyndebourne in 1979 and was music Opera Theater, Opera National du Players, Malaysian Philharmonic, director of Glyndebourne Touring Rhin, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Bremen Philharmonic, Winnipeg Opera from 1981 until 1985. She was Luminato, Teatro Real, Madrid, and Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Helsinki artistic director of the London Mozart Teatro La Fenice. Known as a Mozart Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra Players from 1984 to 1991, and has specialist, she has conducted all the and Bamberg Symphony. also held principal conductorships of Mozart operas all over the world both the Huddersfield and the London regularly since she first performed Jane Glover’s discography includes Choral Societies. From 2009 until them at Glyndebourne in the 1980s. a series of Mozart and Haydn 2016 she was Director of Opera at the Her core operatic repertoire also symphonies with the London Mozart Royal Academy of Music where she includes Monteverdi, Handel, and Players and recordings of Haydn, is now the Felix Mendelssohn Visiting Britten. Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Professor. Britten, and Walton with the London Highlights of recent seasons include Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, Jane Glover has conducted all the The Magic Flute with the Metropolitan and the BBC Singers. Recent releases major symphony and chamber Opera, L’Elisir d’amore for Houston include Handel’s Messiah (Signum) orchestras in Britain, as well as Grand Opera, The Turn of the Screw, and Haydn Masses (Naxos). Her orchestras in Europe, the United Jephtha and Lucio Silla in Bordeaux, critically acclaimed book Mozart’s States, Asia, and Australia. In recent The Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummer Women was published in 2005. Her seasons, she has appeared with the, Night’s Dream, and Cosí fan tutte new book, Handel in London, was New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland and La Clemenza di Tito at the published in September 2018. Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, Alcina with the the San Francisco, Houston, Minnesota Washington Opera; the US