RNCM 01-04/18 January - April 2018

EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE 1 FRENCH CONNECTIONS

As we move into 2018, we continue to celebrate the music of France and its connections with the rest of the world. Our Spring season includes the centrepiece of our French Connections year, when Paris-Manchester 1918 brings together young musicians from the RNCM and Paris Conservatoire for a series of wartime-inspired performances in Manchester, London and Paris (see p28-29 for details). Our Strings and Festivals also have a French fl avour, while Debussy Perspectives, 1918-2018 takes an in- depth look at the great French composer and features arrangements of his work by composers such as John Adams and Colin Matthews (see p38-39 for details).

For full details, go to www.rncm.ac.uk/frenchconnections where we’ll be adding more events over the coming weeks and months.

22 33 SAT 13 – SUN 14 JAN RNCM STRINGS FESTIVAL The 2018 RNCM Strings Festival presents a mélange of French and British music, across a range of masterclasses, workshops, virtuosic recitals and two evening orchestral concerts. On Saturday evening we present a programme of well-known repertoire from Britain and France, including Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and Ravel’s String Quartet arranged for string orchestra, alongside newer works by British composers Adam Gorb and Jonathan Dove. On Sunday afternoon we see the return of our Brodsky Restaurant musical feast: Moments Musicaux et Patisseries. We fi nish the weekend in style with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra in a collaborative performance with RNCM string students. This event is particularly exciting as it features the largest number of our students playing with this world-renowned orchestra in the College’s history. This Festival is a true celebration and a manifestation of how passionate we are about the music to be explored over the weekend by our students and special guests. We look forward to welcoming you to share this experience. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/stringsfestival

SAT 13 JAN // 6.30pm SUN 14 JAN // 7pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall EVENING GALA THE HALLÉ CONCERT FEATURING FEATURING RNCM ENSEMBLES STUDENTS FROM Part 1: THE RNCM Francis Poulenc Organ Concerto in William Walton Viola Concerto G minor Edward Elgar Introduction and Camille Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto Allegro Op 47 No 1 in A minor Op 33 Violin Concerto in Jonathan Dove Out of Time D minor Op 15 Maurice Ravel Tzigane Sir Mark Elder conductor Henk Guittart conductor Sergej Bolkhovets conductor Jonathan Scott organ Veit Hertenstein viola Miklós Perényi cello Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Boris Belkin violin Tickets £17 Part 2: Adam Gorb Desta (world première) Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Full Weekend Ticket £56 Ascending Saturday Day Ticket £34 Maurice Ravel (arr Barshai) String (Students/Under 18s £20) Quartet in F major Sunday Day Ticket £28 Chris Hoyle conductor (Students/Under 18s £17) Catherine Yates, Gina McCormack directors Sarah Oates violin Tickets £17

4 5 SUN 21 JAN // 2pm // RNCM Concert Hall MON 15 JAN // 1.15pm THU 18 JAN // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM YOUNG EXPLORERS CONCERT MONDAY A4 BRASS AN ARABIAN ADVENTURE RECITAL SERIES QUARTET Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra Donato Lovreglio Fantasia RNCM INTERNATIONAL Tom Newall conductor ‘La traviata’ ARTIST DIPLOMA RECITAL James Mayhew illustrator Ruaridh Bakke clarinet Richard Strauss Festmusik For the latest in our RNCM Young Explorers Series, we journey Matt Lam piano der Stadt Wien into the magical world of the Arabian Nights. One Thousand and Henri Wieniawski Fantasia on Domenico Cimarosa Overture One Nights - a rich treasury of ancient tales written in Arabic Themes from ‘Faust’ Op 20 to ‘The Impresario’ - has thrilled people the world over with its amazing stories Pavel Chesnokov Tebe Poem of Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad and hundreds more. All the stories Charlotte Dowding violin Deuxième Imy Luc piano in the collection are told by Scheherazade, a clever woman who Arabesque preserved her life each night by keeping her murderous husband Free admission, no ticket John Golland Peace in suspense for the outcome of another tale. required Percy Grainger Shepherd’s Hey The Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov is only one of many creative Anton Bruckner Locus Iste artists - authors, fi lm-makers, even video game and hip-hop artists Felix Mendelssohn Saltarello - whose imaginations have been fi red by these tales and the heroic Jonathan Bates Toccata 4 fi gure of Scheherazade. His interpretation is one of the most Bramwell Tovey Street Songs beloved and most colourful works in the orchestral repertoire. Eric Whitacre The Seal Our Young Explorers concerts are a brilliant way to introduce Lullaby children to family-friendly, relaxed performances of classical Thomas Doss Moskito music. And as a special treat, during this afternoon’s Ola Gjeilo Northern Lights performance, artist James Mayhew will be illustrating episodes Christian Overhead 5 from these exciting stories live on stage. Miniatures For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/youngexplorers Jamie Smith cornet Suitable for ages 7 and above Jonathan Bates tenor horn Michael Cavanagh baritone Tickets £12, under-16s £6 Family ticket (4 people) £30 horn Christopher Robertson euphonium This is the fi rst of fi ve RNCM International Artist Diploma recitals taking place this season. See pages 22, 23 and 31 for details of the other THU 18 JAN // 1.15pm events in this series. // RNCM Concert Hall Tickets £10 FS RNCM WIND ORCHESTRA Gary Carpenter Pantomime Gary Carpenter Theatre Fountain Mark Heron, Alexander Webb, Melvin Tay, Peter Woff enden conductors Free admission, no ticket required

6 7 WED 24, FRI 26, WED 31 JAN MON 05 FEB // 6pm MON 29 JAN // 1.15pm MON 29 JAN // 7.30pm TUE 30 JAN // 7.30pm // RNCM Theatre // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Concert Hall RNCM OPERA SCENES MONDAY PIANO DUO GREATER RNCM singers further their on-stage experience RECITAL SERIES PRIZE MANCHESTER in these performances of excerpts drawn from a wide variety of operas. These free concerts Jean-Baptiste Arban Tonight’s competition for STRINGS are a great introduction to the world of opera Fantaisie and Variations on piano duos is adjudicated by SHOWCASE as the singers dip in and out of diff erent The Carnival of Venice John Thwaites. The GMYSO is delighted to repertoire to demonstrate their versatility. Peter Meechan Harry’s Song Tickets £7 FS Stan Nieuwenhuis Move Their be able to once again host Free admission, no ticket required Mind its String Showcase at the RNCM and welcome orchestras Giacomo Marcocig euphonium MON 29 JAN // 7.30pm from Bury and Wigan in this Dominic Ciccotti piano // RNCM Concert Hall feast of orchestral string Eugène Ysaÿe Finale from repertoire. Sonata No 1 in G minor Op 27 MANCHESTER CHAMBER Tickets £5 Franz Waxman Carmen Fantasy CONCERTS SOCIETY Promoted by Greater Manchester Music Tom Mathias violin QUATUOR ÉBÈNE Hub Dominic Ciccotti piano String Quartet No 2 Free admission, no ticket in G major Op 18 required Béla Bartók String Quartet No 4 WED 31 JAN // 7.30pm Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No 10 // RNCM Concert Hall in E fl at major Op 74 ‘Harp’ RNCM Tickets £25, platform seats £12.50 Promoted by MCCS BRAND NEW + ORCHESTRA 6.30pm Orr Guy, Rita Castro Blanco, // Forman Lecture Theatre Tjeerd Barkmeij er conductors PRE-CONCERT TALK Our Brand New Orchestra David Horne on Bartók’s String Quartet No 4 concerts give a fascinating insight into the creative Free admission to ticket holders process of composing for a symphony orchestra, conducting and performing MON 22 JAN // 1.15pm THU 25 JAN // 1.15pm at the RNCM. This is a // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall great showcase for our Composition students, who MONDAY RNCM introduce their own works on RECITAL SERIES SYMPHONY the night, and a chance for the audience to experiment Reynaldo Hahn Six chansons CHORUS and to hear brand new works en dialecte vénitien THE JOY OF LOVE before they are performed Louis-Charles Gagnon tenor Antonio Vivaldi Gloria in anywhere else. Olivia Dance piano excelsis Deo Free admission, no ticket Guillaume Connesson Le Rire Thomas Tallis If Ye Love Me required De Saraï; Techno Parade How Lovely + Katie Hyland fl ute Are Thy Dwellings Fair 6.30pm Jessica Tomlinson clarinet Antonín Dvořák Eia, mater // Carole Nash Recital Room Rachel Fright piano Arthur Sullivan Echoes No 6 ‘The Long Day Closes’ SPOTLIGHT: Dover | Strait | Free admission, no ticket Ralph Vaughan Williams Calais - British and French required Antiphon music for harpsichord Stuart Overington conductor performed by Dominic Daula Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket required required

8 9 FRI 26 – SUN 28 JAN FRI 26 JAN // 7.30pm SUN 28 JAN // 3pm RNCM BRASS // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall BAND FESTIVAL FODEN’S BAND CORY BAND ON LAND AND SEA Arthur Bliss Kenilworth Christopher Bond Corineus Derek Bourgeois Trials and (world première) The RNCM Brass Band Festival Triumphs (world première) Derek Bourgeois Cornet is the only place to enjoy John Ireland A Downland Concerto (concert première) all of Britain’s top brass Suite John Pickard Rain, Steam, bands in a non-competitive Liz Lane Tide and Time Speed (world première) environment. With no (world première) Philip Harper Destination fewer than 16 world and Etienne Crausaz Concerto Moon UK premières, including Grosso (UK première) Ray Steadman-Allen The music from rising creative Ray Steadman-Allen Seascapes Beacons stars, and discussions and James Gourlay conductor Philip Harper conductor workshops hosted by Brass Michael Fowles conductor Tom Hutchinson cornet Bands England, this year’s Gary Curtin euphonium Festival promises to be one Tickets £17 £14 Mark Landon marimba of the most wide-ranging in its 28-year history. Tickets £17 £14 7pm Six leading brass bands from // RNCM Concert Hall across the UK will feature alongside the RNCM Brass SAT 27 JAN // 7.30pm BRIGHOUSE AND Band and three outstanding // RNCM Concert Hall RASTRICK BAND youth bands - Junior RNCM, Elland Silver Youth and BLACK DYKE AND ELLAND Wardle Academy – as well as BAND WITH SILVER YOUTH outstanding soloists Owen BAND Farr (tenor horn), Glenn Van SHEFFIELD Looy (euphonium) and Peter PHILHARMONIC Goff Richards Fanfare for a Moore (trombone). CHORUS New Age With a Festival programme Simon Dobson Little Hymn themed around travel on Eric Ball Journey into Dan Price Starburst land and by sea, headlining Freedom Malcolm Arnold Little Suite the bill will be two of the Peter Graham New York Movie No 2 country’s leading composers, (world première) Graham Fitkin Metal Paul Mealor and his one-time Paul Mealor Paradise (world Ian Stephens Tunnel Vision teacher, John Pickard. première) (from Super Slow Way) (world Robert Farnon Une Vie de première of new version) The Fairey Band gives a Matelot Ray Steadman-Allen Psalm rare performance of Edward Peter Graham Radio City and Dance for the Creator Gregson’s Concertante for (world première of new (UK première) Piano and Band - one of a version) Lucy Pankhurst In Pitch handful of piano concertos Peter Graham On the Black written for brass band, Shoulders of Giants J S Bach (arr Howard Snell) and you’ll hear works Nicholas Childs conductor Passacaglia in C minor throughout the weekend by BWV 582 Lucy Pankhurst, Daniel Hall, Darius Battiwalla chorus Ludovic Neurohr, Liz Lane master David Thornton conductor and Derek Bourgeois, amongst Peter Moore trombone Samantha Harrison conductor others. Tickets £17 £14 Dominic Longhurst soprano cornet For full details, please Tickets £17 £14 see www.rncm.ac.uk/ brassbandfestival Full Weekend Ticket £90 (Student/Under 18s £45) Saturday Day Ticket £37 Sunday Day Ticket £42 Sponsored by Besson, Geneva and Yamaha

10 11 THU 01 – FRI 02 FEB IN FOCUS: THEA MUSGRAVE It is a huge privilege to welcome the great Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave to the RNCM in this, her 90th year. Truly one of the giants of contemporary music for over six decades, her beautiful, perfectly crafted music speaks with elegance and directness to audiences around the world. Thea studied in Paris with the legendary Nadia Boulanger, and we all look forward to hearing what that extraordinary French Connection was like. Don’t miss the chance to gain a fascinating insight into Musgrave’s work and life. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/musgrave

THU 01 FEB // 6pm FRI 02 FEB // 1.15pm // Carole Nash Recital Room // Carole Nash Recital Room FESTIVAL INTRO LUNCHTIME Thea Musgrave in conversation CONCERT with Clark Rundell. Programme to include: Free admission, no ticket Thea Musgrave Voices from required the Ancient World; Take Two Bassoons; Wind Quintet Robin Wallington New work 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall Free admission, no ticket required RNCM NEW ENSEMBLE AND 7.30pm RNCM WIND // Philharmonic Studio, ORCHESTRA MediaCityUK, Salford Programme to include: BBC PHILHARMONIC Thea Musgrave Lamenting with Thea Musgrave Song of the Ariadne; Power Play; Space Enchanter; Songs For a Winter’s Play; Journey through a Japanese Evening; Five Songs for Spring; Landscape From Darkness into the Light Edgar Divver New work (world première); The Seasons Mark Heron, Melvin Tay, Clark Rundell conductor Alexander Webb conductors Free admission, by ticket Free admission, no ticket application only. required

Ticket applications will be available at www.bbc.co.uk/tickets from 15 – 21 Jan 2018.

12 13 SAT 03 FEB // 7.30pm // RNCM Theatre THU 01 FEB // 1.15pm // RNCM Concert Hall RNCM BIG BAND WITH STEVE BERRY RNCM GUITARS Steve Berry director, double bass Rory Russell director For our fi rst Big Band show of 2018, RNCM guitarists under the we thought that we’d let Steve Berry tutorship of Craig Ogden explain his infl uences, his approach give this end of year and hint at what he has planned for showcase, which features our students (and the audience) on soloists James Girling and the night... Samuel Rodwell, alongside ‘Apart from the Syd Lawrence larger ensemble repertoire, Orchestra popping up on the including arrangements of occasional Saturday night TV show, music by Bach and Pachelbel. big bands were not an integral part Free admission, no ticket of my formative years. Having my ears required blown wide open in my late teens...I was a latecomer to all things jazz... London, the double bass and a whole lot more beckoned to me. I followed SAT 03 FEB // 12.30pm the prompting and proceeded to // RNCM Concert Hall immerse myself in the capital city’s JUNIOR RNCM early 80s jazz community. So it was that I recall fi nding FORMAL myself playing bass in the middle CONCERT of Django Bates’ Eden Express at its fi rst ever play through...For me that A showcase performance was my fi rst spine-tingling big band featuring talented soloists moment. It pretty much signalled from Junior RNCM. the inauguration of Loose Tubes, Free admission, no ticket and several life-changing years required thereafter, in the ‘big band that wasn’t really a big band’. Tonight’s concert references many of the infl uences that shaped my writing for large ensemble, Loose Tubes being a heady brew of - South African Township jazz, Weather Report, Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, John Taylor/Kenny Wheeler, and a whole host more besides. was part of a phenomenal double-bill FRI 02 FEB // 7.30pm Thus I look forward to working with Karen Sharp and her band. As // RNCM Concert Hall alongside the RNCM’s Big Band players a result, Marius became a huge hit as we seek to bring to life a variety MARIUS NESET with our students. This is just one of my charts, some from the Loose of two UK dates this Spring (the Marius Neset saxophone Tubes era, some written since that other is at Kings Place, London) Ivo Neame piano time and possibly one or two ‘covers’ that showcases Marius’ latest album, Anton Eger drums of other people’s pieces.’ Petter Eldh bass Circle of Chimes. All About Jazz Tickets £18 £15 FS Jim Hart vibes described the release as: ‘his most personal and complete recording to + Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset date, so compelling from fi rst chime is a huge innovator on the jazz to last...’ 6.30pm scene. You may well have witnessed // Carole Nash Recital Room Tickets £18 FS his incredible performance at the SPOTLIGHT: Saxophones in France 2012 RNCM Sax Day, when his quartet - How French music shaped classical saxophone Free admission, no ticket required

14 Photo: Derren Lee Poole 15 SUN 04 FEB RNCM DAY OF PERCUSSION Welcome to the RNCM Day of Percussion – now in its 26th year and still going strong! As always, it’s our chance to throw open our doors and welcome percussionists of all ages and abilities to participate in a day packed with clinics, an interactive workshop, one-to-one consultation lessons with RNCM Percussion staff and an extensive trade exhibition supplying all things percussive. We are thrilled to host a superb line-up of international artists (who have performed with everyone from Dr John to Family Guy creator and big band singer, Seth MacFarlane) covering a wide variety of specialities and techniques from contemporary percussion, marching drum corps, percussion duo, drum-kit and plenty more besides. Matt Skelton takes a look behind the scenes of the Hollywood Studio Film Orchestras, the Aurora Duo will share insights into how to develop a successful percussion ensemble and John McNamara will lead a clinic with the fantastic Company Drum Corps. We are joined by Dave Hassell and special guests to take a look back over his 50 years in the business, and our evening concert includes a newly-commissioned work by Laura Bowler with the Danish soloist Henrik Knarborg Larsen alongside appearances from all of the day’s artists. There are opportunities for you to get involved as well, whether it is in our fully interactive massed percussion ensemble, or by joining the RNCM Salsa Band in our Bar as they bring the day to a close. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/dayofpercussion

7pm // RNCM Concert Hall EVENING CONCERT The evening concert features all the day’s artists in various collaborations including a rousing fi nale from Dave Hassell and friends. The Company and the Aurora Duo perform solo sets and Henrik Knarborg Larsen showcases a newly-commissioned work by Laura Bowler accompanied by percussion students from the RNCM, Junior RNCM, Chetham’s School of Music and the Love Music Trust. Tickets £7

Full Day Ticket £25 (Student/Under 18s £14)

16 17 SAT 10 FEB // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall MON 05 FEB // 1.15pm // RNCM Concert Hall MON 05 FEB // Doors 7pm RNCM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA MONDAY // RNCM Concert Hall WITH HENNING KRAGGERUD RECITAL SERIES KHRUANGBIN W A Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G major K 216 ‘Strassburg’ Selections Featuring Laura Lee on bass, W A Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in from Frauenliebe und -leben Mark Speer on guitar and A major K 219 ‘Turkish’ Op 42 Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums, Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64 Khruangbin’s sound is rooted Lara Rebekah Harvey mezzo- Henning Kraggerud violin soprano in the deepest waters of world Rachel Fright piano music infused with classic soul, Henning Kraggerud’s reputation precedes him. He dub and psychedelia. takes well-known classical pieces and using his Joseph Haydn Piano Trio No Their début album The Universe own, completely fresh approach, breaks traditional 39 in G major Hob XV:25 musical norms and revitalises the music with ‘Gypsy’ Smiles Upon You was heavily infl uenced by 60s and 70s Thai his enthusiastic interpretations. His take on violin Vanessa White cassettes the band listened Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons at last year’s RNCM cello Elizabeth Elliott to on their long car journeys Strings Festival had a profound eff ect on both piano Imy Luc to rehearsals in the Texan the audience and the students involved, with the Free admission, no ticket countryside. Their new album Concert Hall crackling with energy. Indeed, our required Con Todo El Mundo, released in students were talking about that performance for January, takes inspiration not weeks to come. just from South East Asia but As he embarks on rehearsals with our Chamber also the funk and soul of the Orchestra for tonight’s concert, Henning has said TUE 06 FEB // 7.30pm Mediterranean and the Middle that he wants to ‘free the students up’ – to // RNCM Concert Hall East, particularly Iran. expand the toolbox of the musicians, to encourage THE FREDERIC Tickets £12.50 them to be creative and open to possibilities and Promoted by AEG Presents not to be restricted by rules or conventions. And COX AWARD as part of this approach, he will also talk about FOR SINGING the pieces being performed during the concert. Henning has chosen a programme including concertos Come and hear the singing THU 08 FEB // 1.15pm FRI 09 FEB // From 6.30pm by Mozart and Mendelssohn. He has recorded the stars of tomorrow in the // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room Mozart pieces for Naxos to huge critical acclaim, fi rst of three major vocal with The Strad concluding: ‘Even in an age when competitions this year, RNCM SPOTLIGHT technical cleanliness and accuracy can be taken Tonight’s adjudicating panel SINFONIETTA TRIPLE-BILL virtually for granted, Kraggerud’s buoyant, includes Susan Bickley. Francis Poulenc Rapsodie Students from the RNCM mellifl uous spontaneity and spotless intonation If you like this event, nègre perform three short concerts are in a class apart...A triumph for all concerned, you might also enjoy the Darius Milhaud La création which they have programmed guaranteed to blow away any musical cobwebs.’ Elizabeth Harwood Memorial du monde Op 81a themselves, covering a Praise indeed! Prize (13 Mar – see p35) and wide variety of styles and Orr Guy, Diogo Costa Tickets £15 FS later in the year, the Joyce conductors genres. and Michael Kennedy Award // 6.30pm for the Singing of Strauss Free admission, no ticket Bells Up for France! - Music (6 Jun). required from France for clarinet Tickets £10 FS quartet // 7.10pm Quartic Quartet - Arrangements for four guitars // 7.50pm For Cello Alone - Five world premières for solo cello Free admission, no ticket required

18 19 SUN 11 FEB // 11am MON 12 FEB // 1.15pm MON 12 FEB // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room MANCHESTER MONDAY NORMAN AMATEUR RECITAL SERIES GEORGE VIOLIN CHORAL W A Mozart Variations on a SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION Theme by Gluck K 455 RNCM violinists perform the Iwan Owen piano Choirs from across the fi rst movement of a classical sonata as they compete for country perform in front of J S Bach Siciliana and a distinguished panel of Presto from Sonata No 1 this prestigious annual award, adjudicated by Levon judges for the prestigious Fritz Kreisler Recitativo winner’s trophy. Cheer on und Scherzo-Caprice Op 6 Chilingirian. your favourite choir or Niccolò Paganini Caprice Tickets £7 FS simply sit back and enjoy No 11 in C major the singing. Savva Zverev violin More details at Luke Jones piano www.themacc.org.uk Free admission, no ticket Tickets £10 required Promoted by MACC

TUE 13 FEB // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall WED 14 FEB // 8pm Hans Richter’s Vormittagsspuk (‘Ghosts // RNCM Theatre Before Breakfast’). Some of the shorts BARRY DOUGLAS (piano) featured may not be that well-known Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op 37a LUIS BUÑUEL’S but were extremely innovative for the Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition UN CHIEN ANDALOU time they were made and will be a very interesting watch. The Belfast Telegraph described Barry 1920s SURREALIST SHORTS WITH Douglas’ playing as ‘an enthralling mix LIVE SCORE This is your only opportunity to catch of chiselled brilliance and melting this show as the project will not be Rita Castro Blanco, Tjeerd Barkmeij er performed anywhere else… lyricism’. Tonight, he contributes to conductors our French Connections narrative with a Caroline Bordignon, Dennis Tjiok, NB Suitable for persons aged 15 or programme that opens with Tchaikovsky’s Philippos Rousiamanis, Aaron Breeze older. Contains moderate surreal horror twelve short pieces that characterise composers and sex. the months of the year (complete with Tickets £12 FS French ‘subtitles’). The evening continues As we continue to research interesting © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London with Mussorgsky’s tribute to his close programming ideas for our French 2017 friend, the artist Victor Hartmann. This Connections season, we thought why not series of ten programmatic miniatures, curate our own original evening of + inspired by Hartmann’s paintings, is 1920s Surrealist short fi lms complete with brand new live scores composed and 6.30pm superbly atmospheric and depicts a wide // Carole Nash Recital Room range of moods, from the playfulness of performed by our students? Les Tuileries to the sinister melancholy Our programme will include Luis SPOTLIGHT: ‘Did I love a dream?’ - of Gnomus. Unsurprisingly, the pictorial Buñuel’s Un chien andalou (co-written Painting poetry on two pianos quality of the pieces drew the attention by Salvador Dalí), Man Ray’s Emak- Free admission, no ticket required of other composers and arrangers. Of the Bakia, René Clair’s Entr’acte and many subsequent orchestrations, the most successful is that produced by Ravel in 1922. Tickets £18 £15 FS

20 21 THU 15 FEB // 1.15pm FRI 16 FEB // 7.30pm MON 19 FEB // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Concert Hall RNCM ALEXEY MANCHESTER SINFONIETTA PUDINOV CHAMBER Tōru Takemitsu Rain Coming RNCM INTERNATIONAL CONCERTS Pierre Boulez Dérive 1 ARTIST DIPLOMA RECITAL SOCIETY George Benjamin Octet Johannes Brahms Piano Sonata PIXELS ENSEMBLE Rory Storm, Jack Sheen, No 2 in F sharp minor Op 2 Alex Robinson conductors Dennis Tjiok Szenen (world Claude Debussy Sonata for cello and piano Free admission, no ticket première) W A Mozart Flute Quartet in required Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet No 2 in A major Op 81 D major K 285 + Claude Debussy Sonata for Alexey Pudinov piano fl ute, viola and harp 12pm Emily Nebel, Michael Jean Françaix Quintet No 1 // Carole Nash Recital Room Gurevich violins for fl ute, harp and string Kimi Makino viola PRE-CONCERT TALK trio Abel Selaocoe cello A panel including Richard Claude Debussy Sonata for Steinitz, the founder and This is the third of fi ve violin and piano former Artistic Director of RNCM International Artist W A Mozart Piano Quartet in the Huddersfi eld Contemporary Diploma recitals taking G minor K 478 Music Festival, discuss place this season. See Tickets £25, platform seats connections between Boulez facing page plus pages 6 and Benjamin. £12.50 and 31 for details of the Promoted by MCCS Free admission, no ticket other events in this series. required Tickets £10 FS

THU 15 FEB // 7.30pm SAT 17 FEB // 9am and // Carole Nash Recital Room 1.45pm SUN 18 FEB // 9am and ANDRES YAURI 1.45pm FRI 16 FEB // Doors 7pm RNCM INTERNATIONAL // RNCM Theatre ARTIST DIPLOMA RECITAL // RNCM Concert Hall INTERNATIONAL Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in NATALIE IMBRUGLIA D minor RV 481 PLUS SUPPORT THEATRE DANCE W A Mozart Quartet in B fl at AWARDS 2018 major K 370 Following the success of last year’s Acoustic Heitor Villa-Lobos Ciranda Tour, Australian superstar Natalie Imbruglia The IDTA International das sete notas W 325 returns to the stage for a string of UK dates. Theatre Dance Awards are in the form of audition Camille Saint-Saëns Sonata A multi-talented performer, Natalie’s career classes. Awards are granted in G major Op 168 has seen her achieve platinum selling albums, in Ballet, Theatre Craft, Roger Boutry Interferences I successful movie, stage and TV roles, as well as Tap and Modern Jazz at Grade acclaimed live tours. She has also won multiple Andres Yauri bassoon and Performers level. Jonathan Scott piano awards for her work. Tickets £16 full day, Natalie says of her forthcoming UK tour: ‘I really This is the second of fi ve RNCM £10 half day enjoyed the intimate nature of the acoustic set International Artist Diploma Promoted by International Dance recitals taking place this and being able to connect with the audience...so I Teachers’ Association season. See facing page plus wanted to play some of the places we weren’t able pages 6 and 31 for details to visit the fi rst time around.’ of the other events in this Tickets £32.50 advance series. Promoted by AAA Entertainment Tickets £10 FS

22 23 THU 22, FRI 23, revolutionary and adored pieces. It SAT 24 FEB // 7.30pm is also the perfect showcase for our SAT 24 FEB // 2pm musical theatre group, RNCM Young // RNCM Theatre Company, and includes stand-out Bernstein/Sondheim classics such as RNCM YOUNG Maria, I Feel Pretty, Tonight, America COMPANY and Somewhere. WEST SIDE STORY RNCM Young Company was formed following a production of West Side Story staged Based on a Conception of Jerome Robbins at the RNCM in 2008. This year we mark Book by Arthur Laurents Music by the 10th anniversary of this production Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Stephen and are proud to be working in Sondheim partnership with exciting new theatre Entire Original Production Directed and company, Future Stages. We’re also Choreographed by Jerome Robbins proud that members of this original cast, Dominic Biddle and Daniel Originally Produced on Broadway by McDwyer, join us on the creative team Robert as Associate Director and Associate E Griff ith and Harold S Prince by Musical Director, meaning that a new Arrangement with Roger L Stevens generation of young performers will be James Bonas director mentored by creative talent that came Dominic Biddle associate director up through the RNCM ranks. Gregory Batsleer musical director This amateur production is presented Daniel McDwyer associate musical by arrangement with Music Theatre director International (Europe). All authorised Ewan Jones choreographer performance materials are also supplied Holly Hughes associate choreographer by MTI Europe www.mtishows.co.uk Tom Paris set designer Julie Parker lighting designer Tickets £12 Inspired by the timeless story of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story takes + Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers and places them in the vibrant battleground FRI 23 FEB // 6.30pm of 1950s New York. In the midst of the // Carole Nash Recital Room deep-seated rivalry between the warring SPOTLIGHT: New York New York - gangs the Sharks and the Jets, Maria Music from the Big Apple and Tony discover that ancient grudges Free admission, no ticket required are no match for true love. However, their warring factions refuse to back + down and the rumbles, romance and SAT 24 FEB // 6pm resentment lead the bloody path to the // Carole Nash Recital Room lovers’ ultimate, tragic conclusion. SPOTLIGHT: James Girling Quarteto de With soaring, sophisticated and diverse Bossa Nova - Intimate Brazilian music melodies, energetic dance battles and poetry and its remarkably salient social message, West Side Story is still one Free admission, no ticket required of American musical theatre’s most

24 25 SAT 24 FEB // 7.30pm MON 26 FEB // From 6.30pm THU 01 MAR // 1.15pm // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Concert Hall MANCHESTER SPOTLIGHT RNCM HARP WELSH SOCIETY TRIPLE-BILL ENSEMBLE ST DAVID’S DAY CONCERT A showcase of student Gareth Glyn Cwlwm Cân Geraint Roberts conductor groups from the RNCM who Osian Ellis Diversions Ryan Davies tenor have programmed new and (Clymau Cytgerdd) Côr Ger y Ffi n contemporary music in Grace Williams Hiraeth various forms. John Thomas Scenes of Tickets £18.50 Childhood Promoted by Manchester Welsh Society // 6.30pm Carol Harris Cawl Cennin Soundscapes - Contemporary (Leek Soup) music for bassoon and clarinet Eira Lynn Jones director MON 26 FEB // 1.15pm // 7.10pm Free admission, no ticket // RNCM Concert Hall HAZY - A Classical required MONDAY Performance...But Not Really RECITAL SERIES // 7.50pm Kurt Weill Youkali; Wie Sylvette and the Lux string FRI 02 MAR // 7.30pm lange noch; Es regnet quartet - Experimental // Carole Nash Recital Room compilation work based on Yuliya Shkvarko soprano material by Sylvette RNCM Stathis Chomatsas piano Free admission, no ticket COMPOSERS’ Jacques Ibert Two Interludes required CONCERT Camille Saint-Saëns Tarantelle Op 6 Adam Gorb, Head of Composition, introduces this Irene Jimenez Lizcano fl ute concert of new and recently Antonio Perez Barrera premiered works, written by clarinet WED 28 FEB // 8pm RNCM composers and performed Hector Leung piano // Carole Nash Recital Room by their fellow students. Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket DECONTAMINATION DOUBLE-BILL required required DECONTAMINATION #12 FRAGMENTATION AND DISTORTION In this short concert, violinist Aisha Orazbayeva and fl autist Kathryn Williams perform solo music by Salvatore Sciarrino alongside radical interpretations of early music. Sciarrino’s often fl eeting, fragmentary, inherently exploratory music that pushes instrumentalists to their limits is matched with early music imagined through extended techniques and maverick performance practice.

DECONTAMINATION #13 LECTURE ABOUT SAD MUSIC AND HAPPY DANCE The third of Matthew Shlomowitz’s provocative lecture pieces, Lecture About Sad Music and Happy Dance, is a collaboration between himself, dancer-choreographer Shila Anaraki and violinist Aisha Orazbayeva. He asks: ‘How can abstract music and dance elicit emotional responses from audiences? What can evolutionary biology tell us about emotional reactions to art? Do the sonic qualities of sad music relate to the physical qualities of sad dance? How does the happy dance of France compare with the happy dance of Indonesia? What emotion does sadness plus surprise combine to make? Why do we want to see art that makes us feel sad, and why does sad art sometimes make us happy?’ Tickets £8 FS

26 27 THU 01 – WED 14 MAR THU 01 MAR // 7.30pm MON 05 MAR // 6.30pm FRI 09 MAR // 5pm PARIS-MANCHESTER 1918 // RNCM Concert Hall // Opéra-Comique Foyer, Paris // RNCM Concert Hall The centrepiece of our French Connections RNCM-PARIS IN FLANDERS IN FLANDERS year, Paris-Manchester 1918 brings together young musicians from the RNCM and Paris CONSERVATOIRE RNCM and Paris Conservatoire As part of our Chamber Conservatoire for two weeks of performances SYMPHONY students perform a selection Music Festival, RNCM and in Manchester, London and Paris, bringing ORCHESTRA of British and French song, Paris Conservatoire students to life the music and stories of our two interspersed with readings perform a selection of cities during the First World War. Claude Debussy Prélude à of soldier-musicians’ letters British and French song, published by Nadia and Lili interspersed with readings For full event information, see l’après-midi d’un faune Edward Elgar Boulanger in the Gazette des of letters between RMCM piano www.rncm.ac.uk/parismanchester Variations on an Original Theme Op 36 ‘Enigma’ classes de composition. professors Frank Merrick, You can explore more through our virtual Richard Wagner (arr de who was imprisoned as a exhibition featuring wartime letters, Vlieger) The Ring – An A second performance for conscientious objector, concert programmes, photographs, recordings Orchestral Adventure schoolchildren will take and his wife Hope Squire. and modern-day refl ections place at Opéra-Comique Markus Stenz conductor For further information, at www.rncm.ac.uk/parismanchester1918 on Tue 06 Mar at 11am. see p32-33 A joint orchestra of over For further information, 90 players performs side- see www.opera-comique.com by-side in works by three WED 14 MAR // 6pm great European masters - // Carole Nash Recital Room Debussy, Elgar and Wagner THU 08 MAR // 8pm - conducted by the German // Théâtre du Conservatoire FRIENDSHIP IN conductor Markus Stenz. National Superieur d’Art WARTIME Manchester’s Hallé Orchestra, Dramatique, Paris under Sir Thomas Beecham, RNCM-PARIS This new work created by performed several all-Wagner schoolchildren in Manchester concerts throughout the First CONSERVATOIRE and Paris imagines wartime World War. 100 years on, SYMPHONY letters between young people this compilation from the in our cities. operatic cycle known as The ORCHESTRA Free admission, by ticket Ring compresses its fi nest Claude Debussy Prélude à only orchestral music into a fi ery l’après-midi d’un faune spectacle – an extraordinary Edward Elgar Variations on an challenge for even the most Original Theme Op 36 ‘Enigma’ talented young musicians. Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Op 14 Tickets £18 £15 FS Sponsored by Markus Stenz conductor This concert will be repeated Supported by The venue for our fi nal at Cadogan Hall, London, orchestral performance is Paris-Manchester 1918 is a on Fri 02 Mar. For further steeped in musical history. partnership project between the information, see Royal Northern College of Music Once the location of the www.cadoganhall.com (RNCM) and the Conservatoire Paris Conservatoire and National Supérieur de Musique a mainstay for Parisian et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) + musical life, during the war 6pm audiences often heard the // Forman Lecture Theatre music of Berlioz, including PRE-CONCERT TALK the famous Symphonie Fantastique. This concert A panel including Barbara hall was notably the venue Kelly, RNCM Director for Symphonie Fantastique’s of Research, and Liouba 1830 première – an amazing Bouscant, Head of Musicology source of inspiration for at the Paris Conservatoire, our joint forces as they compares wartime concert life perform this seminal work in Manchester and Paris. on the exact same stage. Free admission, no ticket Tickets available from 20 Feb required at [email protected]

28 29 MON 05 MAR // 7.30pm SAT 03 MAR // 1pm SUN 04 MAR // 10am // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Conference Room // RNCM Concert Hall GUSTAV MAHLER CONTEMPORARY MANCHESTER CAMERATA SOCIETY IN THE MUSIC FOR ALL WHO RUNS THE WORLD… NORTH AND (COMA) FESTIVAL Laura Jayne Bowler New work inspired by Björk, Aurora & Joni Mitchell MIDLANDS 2018 Anna Clyne Within Her Arms Gustav Mahler (arr Coghill) This nationwide biennial Deborah Pritchard Seven Halts on the Somme Lieder eines fahrenden festival off ers musicians Jessica Cottis conductor Gesellen (version for wind of all ages and abilities a Tine Thing Helseth trumpet quintet) gateway into the exciting, Tickets £37 £30 £22 Gustav Mahler (arr Coghill) imaginative and essential Promoted by Manchester Camerata Urlicht (version for wind world of contemporary music, quintet) a vibrant celebration in + A talk by Colin Matthews on which professional, amateur 6.30pm his contribution to Deryck and young musicians can // Carole Nash Recital Room Cooke’s performance version come together to celebrate SPOTLIGHT: The Forgotten Female works by many of the leading of Mahler’s 10th Symphony, Romantics - A celebration of their composers of today. followed by a short recital legacy in outstanding art song of Mahler songs by the Prima Composition students at the Free admission, no ticket required Wind Quintet. RNCM will have their pieces Tickets £17.50 Non Members, workshopped and premiered by £15.50 Students, £16.50 GMS a pro-am ensemble as part of Members a mixed day of contemporary music making. Following a Promoted by Gustav Mahler Society in the North and Midlands performance of CoMA Open Score commissions by CoMA MON 05 MAR // 1.15pm WED 07 MAR // 7.30pm THU 08 MAR // 1.15pm THU 08 MAR // 7.30pm partner ensembles and young // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room musicians from the GM Music Hub, a new commission by MONDAY UGNIUS RNCM STRING ABEL SELAOCOE composer Nigel Osborne for RECITAL SERIES PAULIUKONIS ORCHESTRA AND RNCM INTERNATIONAL ARTIST DIPLOMA RECITAL large forces, conducted Louise Farrenc Selection of RNCM INTERNATIONAL ARKENSEMBLE by Stuart Hazelton, will Piano Etudes ARTIST DIPLOMA RECITAL Samuel Barber Sonata in be the centrepiece of a Programme to include: Maria Stratigou piano Joseph Haydn Sonata in E fl at C minor Op 6 fi nal concert, a catalyst Edward Elgar Serenade for Thomas Demenga major Hob XVI:52 New York Honk for creating as diverse an Jacob TV The Garden of Love Strings in E minor Op 20 Benjamin Britten Joseph Haydn Sonata (Andante Sonata in C ensemble as possible, to Barbara Thompson Green major Op 65 and Variations) in F minor Chris Hoyle, Rob Buckland which allcomers are invited. Kabantu Isabel Pattuzzi saxophone Hob XVII:6 conductors Music from Visit www.coma.org to get Georg Breinschmid Skubek’s Free admission, no ticket Frédéric Chopin Polonaise- The RNCM String Orchestra involved Delight required Fantaisie in A fl at major joins forces with Promoted by CoMA Welsh Traditional Suo Gahn Op 61 ArkEnsemble, a student group Claude Debussy Images Book 1 comprising wind, brass and Abel Selaocoe cello Alexander Scriabin Sonata percussion modelled on the Maya Irgalina piano No 3 in F sharp minor Op 23 Netherlands Wind Ensemble Katie Foster violin Alistair McMath bass Ugnius Pauliukonis piano and famous for its spirit of adventure. Ben Sayah guitar This is the fourth of fi ve Delia Stevens percussion RNCM International Artist Free admission, no ticket This is the fi fth and fi nal Diploma recitals taking required place this season. See right RNCM International Artist Diploma recital taking and pages 6, 22 and 23 for details of the other events place this season. See left in this series. and pages 6, 22 and 23 for details of the other events Tickets £10 FS in this series. Tickets £10 FS

30 31 FRI 09 – SUN 11 MAR SAT 10 MAR // 7.30pm RNCM CHAMBER // RNCM Concert Hall MUSIC FESTIVAL TRIO APACHES UN VOYAGE DES IMPRESSIONS Germaine Tailleferre Trio Claude Debussy (arr Sally Beamish) La The 2018 RNCM Chamber Music Festival mer takes its inspiration from our wider Maurice Ravel Piano Trio in A minor French Connections season. Alongside Tickets £17 classics of the French repertoire by Ravel, Debussy and Fauré, we will look at the impact of master musicians such 9.30pm as Messiaen, Boulez and Nadia Boulanger // RNCM Theatre on composers as diverse as Poulenc and Maxwell Davies. The Festival will take FAUSTUS you from the USA to the Far East on a Recipients of the 2017 German Record worldwide voyage of these fascinating, Critics Award, BBC Folk Award nominees and often surprising infl uences. Faustus are deeply rooted in English We are delighted to welcome several traditional song and dance. Alongside a renowned guest artists including French selection from their repertoire, tonight quartet Quatuor Voce, Trio Apaches, they explore links between English and folk trio Faustus and musicians from French folk music and customs. the Aronowitz Ensemble. Alongside these Tickets £14 eminent chamber musicians, we’ll be showcasing our own excellent students, as well as talented young musicians from SUN 11 MAR // 7.30pm Junior RNCM, Chetham’s School of Music // RNCM Concert Hall and St Mary’s School. From baroque to pop, our French- ARONOWITZ ENSEMBLE infl uenced Festival will have something WITH RNCM STUDENTS for everyone. Gabriel Fauré Piano Quartet No 1 in C For full details, please see minor Op 15 www.rncm.ac.uk/chamberfestival Ernest Chausson Chanson perpétuelle Op 37 George Enescu String Octet in C Major FRI 09 MAR // 7.30pm Op 7 // RNCM Concert Hall Tickets £17 QUATUOR VOCE WITH NICKY SPENCE (tenor) Full Weekend Ticket £150 AND JEREMY YOUNG Friday Day Ticket £45 Saturday Day Ticket £66 (piano) Sunday Day Ticket £49 Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op 10 Benjamin Britten Three Divertimenti Henri Duttileux Ainsi la nuit Ralph Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge Tickets £17 Sponsored by Institut Francais bureauexport

32 33 MON 12 MAR // 7.30pm // Carole Nash Recital Room 3 MON 12 MAR // 1.15pm THU 15 MAR // 1.15pm 8 // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall NEW MUSIC AND SCIENCE MONDAY RNCM BAROQUE Following the huge RECITAL SERIES ENSEMBLE success of last season’s Ludwig van Beethoven 7 Georg Muff at Sonata No 2 in The Music of Proof: Variations on a Theme by G minor from Armonico Tributo What Does Maths Sound Mozart WoO 46 J S Bach Orchestral Suite Like? we’re embarking on Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky No 1 in C major BWV 1066 another interdisciplinary Nocturne Op 19 No 4 Roger Hamilton, collaboration during Anna Ryland-Jones cello Alex Robinson directors British Science Week. In Louis Perera piano this, our second PRiSM Free admission, no ticket event, scientists from Johannes Brahms Variations required Manchester Metropolitan on a Theme by Haydn Op 56 University will collaborate Mackenzie Paget, with eight RNCM composers Sean Greenheld piano in the creation of eight FRI 16 MAR // 7.30pm new compositions involving Free admission, no ticket // Carole Nash Recital Room eight RNCM performers. required So more music shaped DUET GROUP’S by science and more CHOPIN PRIZE opportunities to be the RNCM pianists and students fi rst people to hear these TUE 13 MAR // 7.30pm from Chetham’s School of brand new works. // RNCM Concert Hall Music compete for this Tickets £5 THE ELIZABETH annual prize, adjudicated No concessions HARWOOD this year by Vovka MEMORIAL PRIZE Ashkenazy. FOR SINGERS Tickets £10 FS This special award, founded in memory of the much-loved Yorkshire soprano, provides SAT 17 MAR // 7.30pm support for an outstanding // RNCM Concert Hall fi nal year singer. Tonight’s adjudicating panel includes SALE CHORAL Susan Bullock. SOCIETY Tickets £10 FS Felix Mendelssohn Elij ah Op 70 + Russell Medley conductor Richard Brocklehurst organ 6.30pm Helen Lacey soprano // Carole Nash Recital Room Jennifer Parker mezzo- SPOTLIGHT: Keep Right soprano On to the End of the Road Christopher Littlewood tenor - Family stories from the Sale Sinfonia First World War Tickets £18 Free admission, no ticket Promoted by Sale Choral Society required

34 35 SAT 17, SUN 25 MAR // 3pm versus evil. It addresses faith and spirituality and is a ‘coming of MON 19, THU 22, FRI 23 MAR // age’ story - a tale of transition, 7.30pm redemption and resolution. // RNCM Theatre Humperdinck’s music magically HANSEL AND GRETEL evokes the contrasting worlds of the story and the sweeping but ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK accessible score is much admired Anthony Kraus conductor for its folk-inspired themes. Stephen Medcalf director Ultimately, what’s fascinating Yannis Thavoris set and costume about this opera is that the music, designer like the children, seems to grow up Kevin Thraves chorus master during the course of the piece. Jack Sheen assistant conductor This production will be performed Bethan Rhys Wiliam choreographer in English without surtitles. RNCM Opera Orchestra SPECIAL UNDER 18s TICKET OFFER RNCM Opera Chorus If you are under 18, you can save Hansel and Magical and mysterious, 50% on your Hansel and Gretel Gretel, based on the Brothers Grimm tickets. story, is possibly the most popular operatic fairytale of them all. We Tickets £34 £28 £21 (weekdays) witness the brother and sister run Tickets £36 £30 £23 (weekends) away from their poor home where + hunger is an ever-present threat, SAT 17 MAR // 6.30pm to the bountiful and idyllic world // Carole Nash Recital Room of the forest, with all of its exciting possibilities but also its SPOTLIGHT: Menotti’s ‘The dangers. Telephone’ - A comic opera about how technology could ruin a Lost in the forest and searching relationship for food, the siblings embark on a rollercoaster journey of discovery. Free admission, no ticket required Unable to fi nd their way home in + the dark, they meet the Sandman who sprinkles sand into their eyes THU 22 MAR // 6.30pm to send them to sleep. During the // Carole Nash Recital Room night the children sleep soundly SPOTLIGHT: Music for the Stage - and dream that fourteen angels From Monteverdi to Broadway surround and protect them. Later, Free admission, no ticket required the Dew Fairy wakes them and they catch their fi rst glimpse of the + candy-coloured gingerbread house FRI 23 MAR // 6.30pm and the true villain of the // Carole Nash Recital Room piece, the Witch! SPOTLIGHT: The Antique Relique - Hansel and Gretel certainly has A re-presentation of Machaut’s La dark elements but it also explores Messe de Nostre Dame wider themes, juxtaposing good Free admission, no ticket required

36 37 TUE 20 MAR // 1.15pm WED 21 MAR // 1.15pm // Carole Nash Recital Room // Carole Nash Recital Room LUNCHTIME CONCERT LUNCHTIME CONCERT Programme to include: Claude Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Claude Debussy Première rhapsodie Claude Debussy Piano Trio in G major Alongside Paris Conservatoire competition Peter Sheppard-Skærved violin pieces from the period. Neil Hyde cello Nicholas Cox clarinet Roy Howat piano Roy Howat piano Free admission, by ticket only Free admission, by ticket only

7.30pm 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall RNCM SYMPHONY PHILIPPE CASSARD (piano) ORCHESTRA AND DEBUSSY: INFLUENCES AND SINFONIETTA INSPIRATIONS Claude Debussy Danses sacrée et profane Jean-Philippe Rameau Gavotte et six doubles Erik Satie (arr Dominic Muldowney) Sports Claude Debussy Pour le piano et Divertissements Edvard Grieg Notturno Op 54 No 4 Claude Debussy (arr David Horne) Rhapsodie Claude Debussy Ballade for alto saxophone and ensemble (world Emmanuel Chabrier Scherzo-valse première) Claude Debussy Danse ‘Tarentelle Styrienne’ Claude Debussy (arr John Adams) Le livre de Gabriel Fauré Nocturne No 6 in D fl at major Baudelaire Op 63 Claude Debussy (arr Colin Matthews) Hommage Claude Debussy Arabesque No 1; Nocturne à S Pickwick Esq P P M P C; La fi lle Au bord d’une source; Les jeux aux cheveux de lin; Général Lavine; La d’eau à la Villa d’Este cathédrale engloutie from Préludes Claude Debussy Jardins sous la pluie; Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest Mark Heron, Orr Guy conductors Frédéric Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor Shimeng Sun harp Op 27 No 1; Berceuse in D fl at major Op 57; Monica Toll soprano Barcarolle in F sharp major Op 60 Tickets £15 FS TUE 20 – WED 21 MAR Claude Debussy Refl ets dans l’eau; Étude No This concert will be repeated in Lancaster 4 ‘Pour les sixtes’; L’isle joyeuse DEBUSSY PERSPECTIVES, on Thu 22 Mar. For more details, please see Philippe Cassard’s live performances of the www.lancasterarts.org 1918-2018 complete piano works of Debussy (that’s The great French composer Claude Debussy four recitals in a single day) have been died in Paris on 25 March 1918. 100 met with great enthusiasm from press and 10pm years on, as Debussy experts from across audiences alike: ‘Here was proof beyond // Carole Nash Recital Room the world come to Manchester to share doubt that Debussy’s piano music can BRUNO HEINEN (piano) their latest research, join us for two overwhelm the listener with diverse feelings days of performances of orchestral, and sensations that combine admiration, Programme to include: piano, chamber music and jazz, including pure sensual pleasure, curiosity, a dreamy Bruno Heinen The Forgotten Image (inspired two world premières – a new arrangement abandon, amusement and melancholy...’ by Debussy’s Images oubliées) of the Rhapsodie for alto saxophone by (The Independent) As part of Debussy Plus other original compositions by the David Horne, and the fi rst performance of Perspectives, Philippe will perform an performer the surviving part of the fi nal movement unusual programme featuring many beautiful Free admission, by ticket only of Debussy’s Violin Sonata. miniatures by Debussy alongside the works that infl uenced them. For more information, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/debussyperspectives Tickets £18 £15 FS

38 39 SAT 24 MAR // 7.30pm // RNCM Theatre SUN 18 MAR // 7pm MON 19 MAR // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall RNCM BIG BAND AND BURY MUSIC MANCHESTER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SERVICE CHAMBER WITH MARKUS CONCERT BAND CONCERTS STOCKHAUSEN SHOWCASE SOCIETY Programme to include: Markus Stockhausen Miniature Bury Youth Concert Band KUSS QUARTET Michael Golding conductor Markus Stockhausen Dancing Light Joseph Haydn String Quartet Bury Training Concert Band Clark Rundell conductor in B fl at major Op 50 No 1 Steven Sandiford conductor Markus Stockhausen trumpet Hob III:44 Bury Junior Concert Band György Kurtág Off icium So you may have seen Markus Stockhausen Anna Shipton conductor breve in memoriam Andreae improvising with Florian Weber and our students at the RNCM in May 2016. And you Bury Saxophone Ensemble Szervánszky Op 28 may have also seen our Big Band and Chamber Ruth Parry director Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in F major Op 59 No Orchestra collaborate on Tim Garland’s Luca’s Tickets £10, under 12s free 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Winter project last Christmas. But for our Promoted by Bury Music Service second Big Band show of the season, we’re Tickets £25, platform seats putting all of these musical forces together £12.50 on one big stage and will stand back to see Promoted by MCCS what happens... MON 19 MAR // 1.15pm + // RNCM Concert Hall Markus Stockhausen has built a stellar 6.30pm reputation as a free improviser, moving MONDAY // Forman Lecture Theatre comfortably between the jazz and classical RECITAL SERIES PRE-CONCERT TALK worlds. He will arrive a few days before this show to work extensively with our students, to Alberto Ginastera Piano Barry Cooper on Beethoven’s ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet encourage and draw out their improvisational Sonata No 1 skills. The fi rst half begins with Markus’ Tianyang Han piano Free admission to ticket trumpet and our strings players as the primary holders Rhonda Larson Lughnasa focus in Miniature, and then moves into a Astor Piazzolla Selections section of intuitive music with strings, wind, from Histoire du Tango brass and percussion. After the interval, the Andy Scott Salt of the Earth trumpet and strings will be joined by our Big THU 22 MAR // 1.15pm Band then additional wind players swell the Hannah Jeff eries fl ute // RNCM Concert Hall numbers for Dancing Light, an homage to Paul Sophie Turnbull percussion RNCM Klee commissioned by the Swiss Jazz Orchestra. Free admission, no ticket Markus commented that this light-fi lled piece required SAXOPHONE evokes the eternal journey of the soul, ORCHESTRA complete with fl ying sparks that mirror the creativity on stage. Rob Buckland, Andy Scott directors We expect big things from this event. It’s an incredible opportunity for our students... The RNCM Saxophone Orchestra and the audience too! So make sure that you’re demonstrates its skill, part of the story. energy and versatility with a programme ranging from the Tickets £18 £15 FS UK première of Adam Gorb’s + Away Day to music inspired 6.30pm by jazz and folk traditions. // Carole Nash Recital Room Free admission, no ticket SPOTLIGHT: Atlantic Airwaves - French and required American infl uences in wind music Free admission, no ticket required

40 41 MON 26 MAR // 7pm THU 29 MAR // 7pm SAT 14 APR // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Theatre // RNCM Concert Hall CHEADLE HULME LORETO COLLEGE SALFORD SCHOOL EASTER CONCERT CHORAL SOCIETY SPRING CONCERT David Lloyd-Mostyn director EASTER CONCERT of music Tickets £8 Gioachino Rossini William Promoted by Cheadle Hulme School Tickets £6 Tell Overture Promoted by Loreto College Giuseppe Verdi Requiem Tom Newall conductor Sinéad Campbell-Wallace TUE 27 MAR // 7.30pm soprano // RNCM Concert Hall SAT 07 APR Emily Cobley alto SUN 08 APR // 9am Lawrence Thackeray tenor THE // RNCM Venues MANCHESTER Fionn Ó hAlmhain bass NATIONAL Piccadilly Symphony GRAMMAR CONCERT BAND Orchestra SCHOOL Ticket £18 FESTIVAL 2018 Promoted by Salford Choral Society EASTER CONCERT The UK’s largest Wind Band Tickets £6 and Big Band Festival, with Promoted by Manchester Grammar performances every half an School hour. THU 19 APR // 1.15pm // RNCM Concert Hall Tickets £6 Promoted by the National Concert Band Festival RNCM STRING WED 28 MAR // 7pm Sponsored by Yamaha UK and R Smith & Co ENSEMBLE SAT 21 APR // 7pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Theatre Josef Suk Serenade for MANCHESTER Strings in E fl at major Op 6 RNCM SESSION ORCHESTRA HIGH SCHOOL Pavel Fischer director AND CHOIR FOR GIRLS Free admission, no ticket + SUPPORT required SPRING CONCERT Andy Stott director Tickets £5 The RNCM Session Orchestra returns to Promoted by Manchester High School the Theatre stage with an epic production for Girls featuring the 40-piece orchestra plus a 40-strong choir. The set-list is infl uenced by the sound of Gospel, with the orchestra, choir and soloists performing an eclectic mix of classic songs and current chart hits. FRI 20 APR // 8pm // RNCM Concert Hall Tickets £15 FS BBC RADIO 2 YOUNG BRASS AWARDS THE FINAL Ken Bruce and Frank Renton present this live broadcast of Radio 2’s nationwide search for its next brass star. The audience will be seated at 7.50pm, with live broadcast from 8pm. Free admission, by ticket only (maximum 4 tickets per person) Promoted by BBC Radio 2 in association with RNCM

42 43 SAT 21 APR // 7.30pm SUN 22 APR COMING SOON // RNCM Concert Hall RNCM WIND, ALTRINCHAM BRASS AND THU 03 MAY // 7.30pm CHORAL SOCIETY // RNCM Concert Hall PERCUSSION RNCM Georges Bizet (arr McNaught) FESTIVAL Carmen SYMPHONY Georges Bizet L’Arlésienne A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL ORCHESTRA Suite No 1 Stravinsky’s L’Histoire Programme to include: du soldat (The Soldier’s Manchester Philharmonia Béla Bartók Piano Concerto Tale) forms the centrepiece Steven Roberts conductor No 1 of a day of performances Emma Morwood soprano Johannes Brahms Symphony No exploring the theatre of Helen Sherman mezzo-soprano 2 in D major Op 73 Nicholas Ransley tenor music, featuring RNCM ‘IT IS A GREAT Sergej Bolkhovets conductor Bradley Travis bass-baritone ensembles alongside special LOCATION BECAUSE guests Boston Brass. Wyn Chan piano Tickets full £15, WE ARE CLOSE TO accompanied children £3 For full details, please see Promoted by Altrincham Choral www.rncm.ac.uk/wbpfestival THE CITY CENTRE Society FRI 15 JUN // 7.30pm AND SO CLOSE TO // RNCM Concert Hall CAMPUS. IT IS RNCM CHAMBER REALLY NICE TO CHOIR AND SHARE A FLAT SOLOISTS WITH PEOPLE WHO TUE 24 APR Gioachino Rossini Petite HAVE THE SAME RNCM DAY OF SONG messe solennelle INTERESTS. I FEEL ONLY THE WANDERER AT EASE HERE.’ Featuring afternoon recitals by the RNCM Songsters and Chamber Choir, a vocal masterclass by Richard FRI 29 JUN // 7.30pm Ines, RNCM student Stokes and an evening recital by celebrated // The Bridgewater Hall and Sir Charles British baritone Roderick Williams. RNCM Groves Hall resident For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/ SYMPHONY dayofsong ORCHESTRA Ambroise Thomas Mignon 7.30pm Overture // RNCM Concert Hall Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Liberty Living is home to 23,000 students RODERICK WILLIAMS (baritone) Concerto No 1 in E fl at major across nineteen UK cities including Manchester Op 107 where we have three student residences; Sir JONATHAN FISHER (piano) Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Charles Groves Hall next to the RNCM, Liberty George Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Chloé Gabriel Fauré Mirages Op 113 Point next to Manchester Piccadilly train station and the 34 storey Liberty Heights in John Ireland Santa Chiara conductor the city centre. We are delighted to sponsor John Ireland Sea Fever Sergej Bolkhovets conductor John Ireland Great Things Waynne Kwon cello a scheme to enable all of our Manchester-based Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel students access to £3 tickets to key RNCM Tickets £18 £15 Maurice Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée performances throughout 2017/18. Tickets £18 £15 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.

44 45 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 outlined a few options below… From the excitement of schoolchildren 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 Become a member the message that music connects; YOUR DNA’S LEFT that it can enrich, comfort, inspire, For £30 a year for individual Members and £50 for joint challenge, channel, educate… whoever Members. Benefi ts include: you are. For more information please ITS MARK ON US. • Receive news and electronic updates from the RNCM visit www.rncm.ac.uk/engage • Advanced electronic notice of upcoming performances IT DEFINES WHO • Priority booking for selected performances • 15% discount on selected performances Learning and • £15 opera tickets (one per Member, per opera run). Participation WE ARE TODAY; Where the opera production is double-cast, Members The Learning and Participation team will be able to book an additional £15 ticket to see IT INSPIRES WHERE 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 Series WE COULD BE For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/members or (see p7) and RNCM Young Company contact our Box Off ice on 0161 907 5555. (see p24-25), our musical theatre TOMORROW – LET’S group, a low-cost, non-audition group for all young people of secondary school age. In addition TAKE THE JOURNEY the team designs bespoke projects for a range of community groups. TOGETHER. Contact Fiona Stuart on 0161 907 5281 Book a Flexible Series 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 team • The more you book, the more money you save. Book 3-5 concerts and save 15%, book 6-9 is grateful for the support of the Clive concerts and save 20% and book 10+ concerts and save 25%. and Sylvia Richards Charity, Eric and • There are no booking fees for events purchased as part of a Flexible package. Margaret Kinder Charitable Trust, the ARE YOU AN ALUM OF THE Lauriston Trust, the Leverhulme Trust For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/fl exi and to book a Flexible Series package contact RNCM, RMCM OR NSM? and the Zochonis Charitable Trust. our Box Off ice on 0161 907 5555. Remaining part of your life after graduation The Sir John Manduell is really important to us. Become a Group Booker Research Forum Series For events that are promoted by the RNCM, we have generous discounts available depending on at the RNCM So whatever you’re doing, wherever in the the size of your group. For example: world, we’d love to hear from you. Our Research Forums are FREE and Groups of 10-29 save 15% Groups of 30-49 save 20% Groups of 50+ save 25% open to the public with no ticket There are lots of ways you can get involved • Group organisers can claim an additional free ticket required; RNCM staff and guest with RNCM Life, to inspire and support the speakers give presentations on an • There are no booking fees on group bookings next generation of students. 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, And you can keep up to date with the latest Box Off ice on 0161 907 5555. music-psychological or other kinds Alumni News and Events with our newly-launched For school groups of 10+ we also have a limited number of seats available for events of research. The talks last about 45 magazine, The Northern. 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 To learn more email [email protected] about these sessions at call 0161 907 5377, or visit our webpages www.rncm.ac.uk/researchforums at www.rncm.ac.uk/alumni Just a quick reminder that concessions are available for events promoted by the RNCM. 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 off ers Collection etc, sign up to receive our events e-newsletter at www.rncm.ac.uk/signup Spring 2018 opening hours at www.rncm.ac.uk/instrumentcollection 46 47 Looking for a Venue or Musicians? Food and Drink at the RNCM

Why not join us at the RNCM for a unique dining experience? Choose from a tasty snack in our Café, a pre-concert bite from the Concert Bar menu, or a three-course meal in our Brodsky Restaurant. Our delicious food is home cooked and locally sourced using the freshest ingredients.

The RNCM has a wide The RNCM THEATRE boasts For Conference enquiries selection of excellent one of the largest theatre please contact our purpose-built spaces to stages in Manchester with Conference and Catering hire for every type of ample wing space, orchestra Team on 0161 907 5353 or event, performance or pit, lighting box area and [email protected] The conference. Following a space for a sound desk RNCM also has a number £7.1 million refurbishment in addition to the seated of smaller spaces for project completed in capacity. There are 607 conferences including our November 2014, our largest seats in the Theatre with an 110-seater Carole Nash spaces have now been option to place additional Recital Room and 60-seater revitalised with excellent audience seating over the Conference Room. Brodsky (*open from Mon 08 Jan) Café back of house facilities orchestra pit, taking the We are open from 11am-4pm Monday to Enjoy a wide range of drinks, snacks and and the latest technical total maximum capacity to Looking for Friday during term time, so come and delicious cakes from our Café. set−up, including a new 657 seats. Musicians sample our popular lunchtime menu from lighting rig and sound The RNCM’s Professional 12noon. Hospitality at the RNCM equipment. The FORMAN LECTURE THEATRE Engagements team has a 150 capacity and has The RNCM can also provide catering for co-ordinates a large Pre-theatre dining is also available been completely updated social functions, events, and private number of engagements Monday to Saturday from 5pm (on Venues for Hire following the refurbishment dinners. You can even hire Brodsky, our from weddings to corporate performance evenings) with two courses project. It comes equipped Restaurant, outside of term time. The RNCM CONCERT HALL has a events, on behalf of costing just £15.95 and £19.95 for three with projector, screen variety of fl exible options music societies, clubs, courses. To avoid disappointment please and is ideal for pre- Please contact our Conference and for your event with layouts companies and individuals. reserve your table in advance by calling concert talks, discussions, Catering Team on 0161 907 5353 or including 445 capacity Contact the Professional 0161 907 5353. presentations and [email protected] for further seating on Level One, 610 Engagements Team on screenings. details. capacity seating with our 0161 907 5352 or Brodsky will be closed for the Easter new Balcony and Oglesby [email protected] vacation from Mon 25 Mar. For performance enquiries All food items and menus are subject to Balcony open, or even up to for further details. please contact our Events availability. Outside of term time and 730 capacity seating with Manager, Paul Cobban on Concert Bar at weekends, opening hours are dependent a reduced stage size for 0161 907 5289 or The Concert Bar lite-bite menu is upon the performance programme. amplifi ed bands and small [email protected] available from 5pm-7pm (during term time) ensembles (NB – please speak or for full venue simply order at the bar. Please note this For full details of menus and opening to our Events Manager for information and technical menu is not available on Sundays. You can hours please call 0161 907 5353 or 5252 further details about the specifi cations please visit also avoid the queues and pre-order your or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/foodanddrink 730 layout). www.rncm.ac.uk/hire interval drinks prior to the start of the concert.

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