DIGITAL CONCERTS ALPESH CONDUCTS MENDELSSOHN

This concert was filmed in Symphony Hall, Birmingham on Wednesday 25 November 2020

Alpesh Chauhan – Conductor Stephen Hough – Piano

Brahms Academic Festival Overture 10’ Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1 20’ Mendelssohn Symphony No.1 35’ Alpesh Chauhan needs no introduction here in Birmingham – and OUR CAMPAIGN FOR MUSICAL nor does Felix Mendelssohn. His music was an instant smash LIFE IN THE WEST MIDLANDS when he visited Birmingham in the 19th century, and in the CBSO’s centenary year, his sparkling First Piano Concerto is like cracking Your support of the CBSO’s The Sound of the Future campaign will raise £12.5m over five open a bottle of musical champagne – especially when it’s played years to: by our old friend Stephen Hough. Critics say he is Britain’s greatest living pianist, but we are just glad to welcome him back, at the heart  Accelerate our recovery from the of a concert that ends with the irrepressible energy of Mendelssohn’s Covid-19 crisis so that we can get back to First Symphony, and begins with the cheerful student drinking songs enriching people’s lives through music as of Brahms’s festive overture. Bottoms up: this is music to prove – quickly as possible once again – that youth is simply a state of mind!  Renew the way we work for our second century, opening up the power of music to an even broader cross-section This concert is available to view online only from 6pm on of society whilst securing our tradition Thursday 10 December until Friday 8 January 2021 of artistic excellence.

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Supported by Supported by 1 (1833-97) Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47) Academic Festival Overture, Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.80 Op.25 Molto Allegro con fuoco Perhaps the most learned composer of his day, Brahms regarded Andante himself as essentially self-taught: he was never formally the Presto: Molto Allegro e Vivace student of any university. Yet he had participated fully in the student life (at least as regards listening to lectures, debating and drinking), at the University of Göttingen in the spring and summer Mendelssohn admitted that his Piano Concerto No.1 was hastily of 1853 while a guest of his new friend Joseph Joachim. Clearly written, but it never shows. On the other hand, the fact that he he remembered that time with pleasure: and the proof may be was only 22 at the time certainly does. Not in any suggestion of found in his Academic Festival Overture, composed in the summer immaturity, but in the concerto’s youthful freshness, engaging of 1880 in thanks for the honorary Doctorate of Philosophy charm, and spontaneous flow. conferred upon him the previous year by Breslau University. (He first performed it there at an all-Brahms concert at the beginning An enthusiastic traveller when young, he set out on a grand tour in of 1881.) Characteristically self-deprecating, he referred to the 1830, visiting Paris (where he met Berlioz), Venice, Rome, Florence, work as ‘a potpourri of student songs à la Suppé’ – presumably Switzerland and eventually arriving in Munich where the concerto a reference to the overture of Suppé’s then-popular operetta was quickly put together for a concert on 17 October 1831. Flotte Bursch (1863), a simple medley that includes the universally Mendelssohn was the soloist, and it was enthusiastically received. recognised student hymn Gaudeamus igitur. But Brahms’ overture, “It gave great pleasure and the people clapped for me to come out which concludes with that tune, is vastly more artful, and more again, but I was shy and would not” he wrote. humorous, being a fully worked-out but defiantly ‘un-academic’ sonata structure in C major masquerading as a free fantasia or As in the later Violin Concerto, Mendelssohn departs from the quodlibet. orthodox classical procedure of a long orchestral introduction presenting all the thematic material of the first movement before Moreover, student songs were venerable and popular enough the entry of the soloist. Instead, there are just a few bars of to be counted a species of folk music, and Brahms treated them mounting orchestral tension, then the soloist dashes away and with similar fondness. The result is accordingly an irreverent, most dominates the rest of the movement. There is a further student’s-eye view of the nobility of learning. Imbued with an innovation in that Mendelssohn links the movements. irrepressible sense of fun, the overture deploys great skill in the cause of mischief and mystification – as in the long introduction in Instead of a break at the end of the first, brass fanfares provide C minor, whose stealthy initial theme is reshaped to become the a direct link to the second, an andante in Mendelssohn’s most first subject. romantic style, starting with a cello cantilena. Then fanfares are back to take us straight into the last movement, a brilliantly The music goes on to pay lip-service to civic solemnity (presenting virtuosic affair in which the music ripples and dances along happily. the song Wir hatten gebauet ein stättliches Haus as a radiant Lutheran chorale on shining trumpets). It sings the praises of Programme note © Kenneth Loveland beauty (turning Hört, ich sing into a gorgeous, utterly Brahmsian second subject in E major); and it indulges a penchant for practical jokery – with a freshman’s ragging song, Was kommt dort in der Höh, first sardonically chuckling on bassoons, then bursting out uproariously on full orchestra. There’s parody too: the treatment of Was kommt dort surely recalls the Apprentices’ theme from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, and indeed the whole work may be a Brahmsian rejoinder to the Meistersinger Overture (also in C major) – a personal tribute to the values of counterpoint and ‘holy German art’, seen entirely from the Apprentices’ point of view. Certainly the final glorification ofGaudeamus igitur is achieved in a most un-Brahmsian (but typically Wagnerian) texture, as Brahms makes a merry noise with the largest orchestra he was ever to employ, complete with cymbals, triangle and bass drum.

Programme note © Calum MacDonald

2 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47) Leipzig in February 1827. But the symphony made much more of an impression on 25 May 1829 at a concert by the Philharmonic Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.11 Society of London. Felix, now 20, had decided to direct it himself using a new-fangled device called a conductor’s baton. The Allegro di molto London firm from which he ordered it had never heard of one. Andante Assuming that Mendelssohn was an alderman and that a baton was an item of civic regalia, they duly delivered a handsome wand Minuetto: Allegro molto embossed with a gold crown. Allegro con fuoco The performance went well. The middle movements were Few composers have been more completely surrounded by encored, and the following morning Mendelssohn presented admiring friends and fans than Felix Mendelssohn. So let’s thank the score to the Society, dedicating the symphony to them in Hector Berlioz for offering an impartial perspective. They met in gratitude (he said) for “the brilliant performance of the orchestra”. Italy in the spring of 1831. Mendelssohn was 22. Berlioz was 28, And it’s easy to imagine that this spirited symphony – very much and he recorded his impressions in a letter to his friends back in in the tradition of Mozart as well as Beethoven, and directed by France: its elegant and charismatic young composer – made an impact on performers and listeners alike. It positively bursts into life: He is enormously, extraordinarily, superbly, prodigiously Beethoven’s torrential “C minor mood” becomes the plaything of talented. I can’t be suspected of bias when I say this, a teenage genius who had spent his whole short life immersed in because he’s told me frankly he found my music utterly the poetic world of German romanticism. incomprehensible. The first movement sweeps to a finish, and Felix turns on the A few months later, Berlioz had a chance to hear some of charm in a tender Andante, in which – amid glowing string phrases Mendelssohn’s own music: the work we now know as his First – the woodwinds take turns to carry the melody like a group of Symphony. Berlioz heard it under less-than-ideal circumstances friends singing a partsong. They return in the central section of at a musical soirée in Rome, but that didn’t stop him recording his the Minuetto: a serene interlude at the heart of what is actually opinions: a stormy C minor scherzo. (In London, Mendelssohn temporarily replaced this movement with an orchestral version of the scherzo I heard the other day the symphony he had performed in from his String Octet). And in the finale, bristling classical energy London, which he has de-arranged for violin, bass and piano and Romantic song wrestle under storm-swept skies which finally duet. The first movement is superb, I don’t remember the slow clear, in a flourish of trumpets and drums, to let C major sunlight movement in every detail, the Intermezzo is fresh and pungent; flood the closing bars. as for the finale…

At that point it’s kindest to draw a veil. Berlioz was a man of strong opinions and acid wit, but tonight we are here to enjoy this extraordinary youthful work, first completed by Mendelssohn in March 1824 at the age of 15. There was an official premiere in Programme note © Richard Bratby

3 THE PERFORMERS

Alpesh Chauhan Pavel Kolesnikov, Johannes Moser, Arcadi Stephen Hough Volodos, and singers Markus Werba, Conductor Piano Christianne Stotijn and Jennifer Wilson Alpesh Chauhan is Music Director among others. One of the most distinctive artists of Birmingham Opera Company, Alpesh’s concerts have been broadcast on of his generation, Stephen Hough and Associate Conductor of the BBC radio and television in the UK, Italy, Belgium, combines a distinguished career as Scottish Symphony Orchestra, an and the Netherlands, including his a pianist with those of composer and orchestra which he has conducted performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony writer. Named by The Economist as one regularly since his debut in 2015. His No.5 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale of Twenty Living Polymaths, Hough 2019 collaboration with the BOC on RAI, which was televised on RAI 5. He has was the first classical performer to be its production of Shostakovich’s Lady been featured in extensive articles in The awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (2001) Macbeth of Mtsensk, was praised by Times, BBC Music and Classical Music and was made a Commander of the The Times as “a magnificently taut and magazines as well as Italy’s La Repubblica, Order of the British Empire (CBE) in sometimes terrifying account of the Amadeus and Musica, and guest blogged for the New Year’s Honours 2014. He was score directed by the superb Alpesh Gramophone magazine. Alpesh has been awarded Northwestern University’s Chauhan”, and received a prestigious interviewed on Italian national TV, BBC 2008 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano, Royal Philharmonic Society Award. Breakfast, BBC Radio 4, and Radio Klara won the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in 2010, and in For the past five years Alpesh has also Belgium, and also presented an edition of 2016 was made an Honorary Member enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the BBC Radio 3’s Inside Music. He was of RPS. Filarmonica in Parma, who appointed to the judging panels for the named him as their Principal Conductor and 2016 and 2018 editions of BBC Young Since taking first prize at the 1983 with whom he has performed and recorded Musician of the Year, and was nominated for Naumburg Competition in New York, Hough staples of the great symphonic repertoire, The Times Breakthrough Award at The has performed with many of the world’s including a complete cycle of Brahms’ South Bank Sky Arts Awards in 2019. major orchestras and has given recitals at symphonies. Other highlights of his career to A keen advocate of music education for the most prestigious concert halls. He is a date include performances with the London young people, Alpesh is a patron of Awards regular guest at festivals such as Salzburg, La Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, for Young Musicians, a UK charity supporting Roque-d’Anthéron, Mostly Mozart, with the BBC Philharmonic at the BBC talented young people from disadvantaged Edinburgh, and BBC Proms, where he has Proms, a production of Turandot in Valencia backgrounds on their musical journeys. He made more than 20 concerto appearances. at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, as well as has also worked with ensembles such as the He has appeared with most of the major regular appearances with the City of National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and European and American orchestras and plays Birmingham Symphony Orchestra where, the symphony orchestras of the Royal recitals regularly in major halls and concert until 2016, he was Assistant Conductor. Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal series around the world. Recent In the 2020-21 season, Alpesh makes his Northern College of Music. He was the engagements include recitals in Chicago, Berlin debut at the famed Philharmonie, conductor of the second BBC Ten Pieces film Hong Kong, London’s Royal Festival Hall, New leading the Deutsches Symphonie which brought the world of classical music York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Paris, Orchester Berlin in Strauss’ Don Juan as well into secondary schools across the country Boston, San Francisco, the Kennedy Center as in works by Korngold, Szymanowski and and received a distinguished BAFTA award. and Sydney; performances with the Czech, Mozart. The season also sees engagements Alpesh has also written on the vital London and New York Philharmonics, the with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, importance and necessity of exposing Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Milan’s “La Verdi” young children to music in Music Teacher St. Louis, National, Detroit, Dallas, Atlanta and Orchestra, Malmö Symphony Orchestra and magazine. Toronto symphonies, and the Philadelphia, Duisburger Philharmoniker, to name a few. Born in Birmingham, Alpesh then went on to Minnesota, Budapest Festival and Russian National Orchestras; and a performance Frequently appearing as a guest with the Royal Northern College of Music in televised worldwide with the Berlin acclaimed international orchestras including Manchester to study the cello with CBSO Philharmonic and Sir . He is also the Orchestre National d’Île de France, Section Leader Eduardo Vassallo before a regular guest at festivals such as Aldeburgh, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI, continuing at the RNCM to pursue the Aspen, Blossom, Edinburgh, , Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Master’s Conducting Course, taught by Clark Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Tanglewood, Verbier BBC Philharmonic and BBC National Rundell and Mark Heron. Alpesh has studied and the BBC Proms, where he has made over Orchestra of Wales, Alpesh also enjoys with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, participated 25 concerto appearances, including playing collaborations with distinguished soloists in masterclasses with Juanjo Mena, Vasily all of the works written by Tchaikovsky for such as Nicola Benedetti, Pablo Ferrández, Petrenko and Jac van Steen, and has been piano and orchestra over the summer of Boris Giltburg, Ilya Gringolts, Benjamin mentored by and Edward 2009, a series he later repeated with the Grosvenor, Stephen Hough, Leila Josefowicz, Gardner. Chicago Symphony.

4 Many of his catalogue of over 60 albums CBSO and Andris Nelsons; the Final Piano Naumburg Foundation, London’s National have garnered international prizes including Pieces of Brahms; and the Five Beethoven Gallery, , Le Musée de Louvre the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason Piano Concertos with Hannu Lintu and the and Australia, among others. d’Or, Monde de la Musique, several Grammy Finnish Radio Symphony. A noted writer, Hough regularly contributes nominations, eight Gramophone Magazine Stephen Hough is also the featured artist in articles for The Guardian, The Times, The Awards including ‘Record of the Year’ in an iPad app about the Liszt , Tablet, Gramophone and BBC Music 1996 and 2003, and the Gramophone ‘Gold which includes a fully-filmed performance Magazine and wrote a blog for The Telegraph Disc’ Award in 2008, which named his and was released by the cutting-edge, for seven years which became one of the complete Saint-Saens Piano Concertos as award-winning company Touch Press. most popular and influential forums for the best recording of the past 30 years. His cultural discussion and for which he wrote 2012 recording of the complete Chopin Published by Josef Weinberger, Hough has over 600 articles. His book, The Bible as Waltzes received the Diapason d’Or de composed works for orchestra, choir, Prayer, was published by Bloomsbury and l’Annee, France’s most prestigious recording chamber ensemble and solo piano. His Mass Paulist Press in 2007; his first novel,The Final award. His 2005 live recording of the of Innocence and Experience and Missa Retreat, was published in 2018 by Sylph Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos was the Mirabilis were respectively commissioned by Editions; and Rough Ideas, a collection of fastest selling recording in Hyperion’s and performed at London’s Westminster essays and reflections, was published by history, while his 1987 recording of the Abbey and . In 2012, Faber and Faber in August 2019 and Farrar, Hummel concertos remains Chandos’ the Indianapolis Symphony commissioned Straus and Giroux in the US in 2020. best-selling disc to date. His recent releases, and performed Hough’s own orchestration all for Hyperion, include a recording of his of Missa Mirabilis, which was subsequently Hough lives in London where he is a visiting mass, Missa Mirabilis, with the Colorado performed by the BBC Symphony as part of professor at the Symphony and ; a recital disc his residency with the orchestra. He has also and holds the International Chair of Piano with including Hough’s been commissioned by musicians of the Studies at his alma mater, the Royal Sonata for cello and piano (Les Adieux); the , the Gilmore Foundation, Northern College in Manchester. He is also a Dvořák and Schumann concertos with the The Genesis Foundation, the Walter W. member of the faculty at The .

5 CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Under the baton of its Music Director famous – and showed how the arts can help right. The CBSO Children’s Chorus and Youth Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the City of give a new sense of direction to a whole city. Chorus showcase singers as young as eight. Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Through its unauditioned community choir (CBSO) is the flagship of musical life in Home and Away – CBSO SO Vocal in Selly Oak – the CBSO Birmingham and the West Midlands, Rattle’s successors Sakari Oramo (1998- shares its know-how and passion for music and one of the world’s great orchestras. 2008) and Andris Nelsons (2008-15) with communities throughout the city. The helped cement that global reputation, and CBSO Youth Orchestra gives that same Based in Symphony Hall, the ochestra gives continued to build on the CBSO’s tradition opportunity to young instrumentalists aged over 150 concerts each year in Birmingham, of flying the flag for Birmingham. As the only 14-21, offering high-level training to the next the UK and around the world, playing music professional symphony orchestra based generation of orchestral musicians alongside that ranges from classics to contemporary, between Bournemouth and Manchester, top international conductors and soloists. film music and even symphonic disco. With the orchestra tours regularly in Britain – a far-reaching community programme and and much further afield. The orchestra These groups are sometimes called a family of choruses and ensembles, it is has travelled to Japan and the United the “CBSO family” – over 650 amateur involved in every aspect of music-making in Arab Emirates in previous seasons, and in musicians of all ages and backgrounds, the Midlands. But at its centre is a team of 75 December 2016 made its debut tour of who work alongside the orchestra to make superb professional musicians, and a 100- China. And its recordings continue to win and share great music. But the CBSO’s year tradition of making the world’s greatest acclaim. In 2008, the CBSO’s recording of tradition of serving the community goes music, right here in the heart of Birmingham. Saint-Saëns’ complete piano concertos was much further. Its Learning and Participation named the best classical recording of the programme touches tens of thousands That local tradition started with the last 30 years by Gramophone. of lives a year, ranging from workshops in orchestra’s very first symphonic concert in nurseries to projects that energise whole 1920 – conducted by Sir . Ever Now, under the dynamic leadership of neighbourhoods. And everyone’s welcome since then, through war, recessions, social Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, associate conductor at CBSO Centre on Berkley Street. As well as change and civic renewal, the CBSO has Michael Seal and assistant conductor Jaume being a friendly, stylish performance venue been proud to be Birmingham’s orchestra. Santonja Espinós, the CBSO continues to do for the lunchtime concert series Centre Under principal conductors including Adrian what it does best – playing great music for Stage and contemporary jazz concerts by Boult, George Weldon, Andrzej Panufnik and the people of Birmingham and the Midlands. Jazzlines, the CBSO’s rehearsal base is home Louis Frémaux, the CBSO won an artistic to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group reputation that spread far beyond the Meet the Family and Ex Cathedra. Now in its Centenary Midlands. But it was when it discovered the The CBSO Chorus – a symphonic choir year, the CBSO, more than ever, remains young British conductor Simon Rattle in made up of “amateur professionals”, trained the beating heart of musical life in the UK’s 1980 that the CBSO became internationally by Simon Halsey cbe – is famous in its own Second City.

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6 MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS

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Catherine Duke Richard Newton and Katharine Francis Pippa Whittaker Naomi & David Dyker Brian Noake John and Pippa Wickson ENDOWMENT FUND DONORS Chris Eckersley Ms E Norton obe in memory of Richard and Mary Williams Mike & Jan Adams Linda & William Edmondson Jack & Pam Nunn John Winterbottom Arts for All Alex & Fran Elder Marie & John O’Brien Ian Woollard Viv & Hazel Astling Robert van Elst Mr & Mrs R T Orme and our other anonymous supporters The Barwell Charitable Trust Miss E W Evans S J Osborne and our Friends. In memory of Foley L Bates Dr D W Eyre-Walker Nigel Packer Bridget Blow cbe Jack & Kathleen Foxall Rod Parker & Lesley Biddle LEGACY DONORS Deloitte Susan & John Franklin Chris and Sue Payne In memory of Chris Aldridge Miss Margery Elliott Agustín Garcia-Sanz Malcolm Payne The late Terence Baum Simon Fairclough B & C Gardner Graham and Bobbie Perry The late Elizabeth Bathurst Blencowe Sir Dexter Hutt Alan and Christine Giles Gill Powell & John Rowlatt The late Mr Peter Walter Black Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Professor J E Gilkison & Prof T Hocking C Predota Allan & Jennifer Buckle The Justham Trust Stephen J Gill Roger Preston The late Miss Sheila Margaret Burgess Mrs Thelma Justham R & J Godfrey Eileen & Ken Price Smith Barry & Frances Kirkham Jill Godsall John Randall Isabel Churcher Linda Maguire-Brookshaw Laura Greenaway in memory of Dr and Mrs K Randle The late Colin W Clarke Mazars Charitable Trust David Richards Christopher and Marion Rowlatt Mr and Mrs P Cocking Andrew Orchard & Alan Jones Claire Greenhill in memory of Gillian & Derek Rawson The late Roy Collins John Osborn Barrie Greenhill Mr David J Reeve David in memory of Ruth Pauline Margaret Payton Paul Hadley Trevor Robinson Holland Roger Pemberton & Monica Pirotta Roger & Gaye Hadley Peter & Pauline Roe Tony Davis & Darin Qualls David Pett Nigel & Lesley Hagger-Vaughan David & Jayne Roper The late Mr Peter S. Day Pinsent Masons Miss A R Haigh Helen Rowett & David Pelteret Mark Devin Martin Purdy Mr W L Hales Dr Gwynneth Roy Alistair Dow Peter & Sally-Ann Sinclair Malcolm Harbour Vic & Anne Russell The late Mary Fellows Jerry Sykes Ann & Phil Haywood Mrs L J Sadler Felonious Mongoose Alessandro & Monica Toso Keith R Herbert Carole & Chris Sallnow Valerie Frankland Patrick Verwer Keith Herbert & Pat Gregory Stephen Saltaire Jill Godsall R C & F M Young Trust Mr E L & Mrs M J Hill Miss S Scott Tricia Harvey Hanne Hoeck & John Rawnsley Margaret and Andrew Sherrey The late Mrs Marjorie Hildreth * Player supporter

‘The CBSO is a big part of our life, we love coming to Symphony Hall and enjoying CBSO concerts. It is so special and we are so lucky to live nearby to experience their talent.’ Peter and Jane Baxter (Gold Patrons)

JOIN PETER AND JANE BAXTER – AND THE CBSO For details of all our membership schemes please go to cbso.co.uk/support-us/membership. Your support will help us continue our work whilst you enjoy a range of exclusive benefits …

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8 THANK YOU The support we receive from thousands of individual donors, public funders, businesses and private foundations allows us to present extraordinary performances and to create exciting activities in schools and communities. Your support makes such a difference and is much appreciated.

Strategic Partners Corporate Partners

Supporter of Schoolsʼ Concerts

Partners in Orchestral Development

William King Ltd

Trusts and Foundations 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust The JABBS Foundation ABO Trust’s Sirens Programme Lillie Johnson Charitable Trust Miss Albright Grimley Charity The Kobler Trust Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation James Langley Memorial Trust The Andor Charitable Trust The Leverhulme Trust The Lord Austin Trust Limoges Charitable Trust The John Avins Trust The S & D Lloyd Charity Backstage Trust The Helen Rachael Mackaness Charitable Trust The Rachel Baker Memorial Charity The McLay Dementia Trust Bite Size Pieces The James Frederick & Ethel Anne Measures Charity The Boshier-Hinton Foundation MFPA Trust Fund for the Training of Handicapped British Korean Society Children in the Arts The Charles Brotherton Trust Millichope Foundation The Edward & Dorothy Cadbury Trust The David Morgan Music Trust Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust The Oakley Charitable Trust The R V J Cadbury Charitable Trust The Patrick Trust CBSO Development Trust The Misses C M Pearson & M V Williams Charitable City of Birmingham Orchestral Endowment Fund Trust The John S Cohen Foundation The Bernard Piggott Charitable Trust The George Henry Collins Charity PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for Organisations Baron Davenport’s Charity The Radcliffe Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust The Rainbow Dickinson Trust www.prsformusicfoundation.com Dunard Fund The Ratcliff Foundation The W E Dunn Trust Clive & Sylvia Richards Charity John Ellerman Foundation The M K Rose Charitable Trust The Eveson Charitable Trust The Rowlands Trust Globeflow The John Feeney Charitable Trust RVW Trust George Fentham Birmingham Charity The Saintbury Trust Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement F C Stokes Trust Fidelio Charitable Trust Sutton Coldfield Charitable Trust The Garrick Charitable Trust C B & H H Taylor 1984 Trust The Golsoncott Foundation G J W Turner Trust The Grey Court Trust The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust The Grimmitt Trust Garfield Weston Foundation The Derek Hill Foundation The Wolfson Foundation The Joseph Hopkins and Henry James Sayer Charities The Alan Woodfield Charitable Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Irving Memorial Trust

Thank you also to our Major Donors, Benefactors, Circles Members, Patrons and Friends for their generous support. For more information on how your organisation can engage with the CBSO, please contact Simon Fairclough, CBSO Director of Development, on 0121 616 6500 or [email protected]

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MANAGEMENT BOARD Chief Executive Stephen Maddock obe* Chair David Burbidge cbe dl PA to Chief Executive Niki Longhurst*† Deputy Chair David Roper Elected Trustees Tony Davis Director of Concerts Jenny Nicholls Jane Fielding Planning & Tours Manager (Maternity cover) Claire Greenwood Susan Foster Assistant Planning Manager Maddi Belsey-Day Joe Godwin Orchestra Manager Claire Dersley* Emily Ingram Assistant Orchestra Manager Alan Johnson Sundash Jassi Platform Manager Peter Harris* Chris Loughran Assistant Platform Manager Robert Howard Lucy Williams Librarian Jack Lovell Birmingham City Council Co-Librarian William Lucas Nominated Trustees Cllr Sir Albert Bore Director of Learning and Engagement Lucy Galliard Cllr Alex Yip Learning & Participation Manager Katie Lucas Player Nominated Trustees Elspeth Dutch Community Projects Officer Adele Franghiadi Helen Edgar Youth Ensembles Officer Rebecca Nicholas Schools Officer Carolyn Burton Additional Player Representative Margaret Cookhorn Chorus Manager Poppy Howarth Hon Secretary to the Trustees Mark Devin Children’s & Youth Chorus Officer Ella McNamee Research Assistant Adam Nagel*† Marketing Consultant Katy Raines CBSO DEVELOPMENT TRUST Interim Head of Marketing Maria Howes Chair Chris Loughran dl CRM and Insight Manager Melanie Ryan*† Publications Manager Jane Denton† Trustees Charles Barwell obe Assistant Marketing Manager Shaista Hussain Gordon Campbell Digital Content Producer Hannah Blake-Fathers Wally Francis Marketing Volunteer Christine Midgley*# John Osborn David Pett Director of Development Simon Fairclough Hon Secretary to the Trustees John Bartlett Head of Philanthropy Francesca Spickernell Membership & Appeals Manager Eve Vines† Events & Relationship Management Executive Megan Bradshaw CAMPAIGN BOARD Development Operations Officer Melanie Adey Chair David Burbidge cbe, dl Development Administrator Bethan McKnight† Susan Foster Trust Fundraiser Alexandra Rowlands Peter How Jamie Justham Director of Finance Annmarie Wallis Her Honour Frances Kirkham cbe Finance Manager Dawn Doherty Chris Loughran dl Payroll Officer Lindsey Bhagania† John Osborn cbe Assistant Accountant Graham Irving Finance Assistant (Cost) Susan Price Honorary Medical Advisors: HR Manager Hollie Dunster Dr Rod MacRorie. Association of Medical CBSO Centre Manager Niki Longhurst*† Advisors to British Orchestras/BAPAM Technical Manager Daniel Rowlinson* Professor Sir Keith Porter. Assistant CBSO Centre Manager Peter Clarke* Consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham Receptionists Sev Kucukogullari†

PLAYERS’ COMMITTEE Chair Jo Patton Vice Chair Mark Phillips Richard Watkin Andy Herbert Kirsty Lovie Colette Overdijk Heather Bradshaw * Recipients of the CBSO Long Service Award † Part-time employee # Volunteer Matthew Hardy

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