Dartington International Summer School & Festival

A Music School by Day, A Concert Hall by Night 29 Jul - 26 Aug Welcome

It’s an enormous pleasure to welcome you to Dartington International Summer School & Festival. Dartington is a place of shimmering beauty, and its world-famous Summer School is for everyone: for professional musicians and music students, for people who love to listen, and for people who want to debate ideas. The 2017 programme engages with music reflecting migration and exile, ancient and new, and complexities of identity, nation and revolution.

Play in a brass ensemble, and learn about Middle Eastern and Brazilian music. Experience everything from medieval and renaissance music to salsa and . Listen to legendary pianist Alfred Brendel on Schubert; Stories in Transit hosted by Marina Warner; and folk sessions with Martin and Eliza Carthy. There are poetry and multimedia courses, yoga and dance, lectures and films.

Dartington hosts over ninety public concerts and events throughout August. Visit the beautiful gardens, relax with a drink or a meal, and immerse yourself in world-class performances, from afternoon to late night; some of the most celebrated musicians, writers and thinkers will be here. On April 28th we present our second Party in the Town, happening all over Totnes, and collaborating with local artists and young people. Take a look on the website for details of this exciting event.

Dartington International Summer School has expanded into a fully-fledged, exuberant festival, and gets more action-packed every year. I look forward to welcoming you to a wonderful summer of music, arts and creativity!

Joanna MacGregor, Artistic Director

Thank you to our current supporters Bursary awards for outstanding students Andor Charitable Trust, Anonymous, John Ashton Thomas, Barbara Whatmore Charitable Many of our current supporters fund bursaries. Trust, Bruce Wake Charity, George Burt, John S The following families or individuals have also Cohen Foundation, Richard Creed, Dartington given an endowment or legacy specifically to Hall Trust, Dartington International Summer support bursaries in perpetuity. School Foundation, Daphne Oram Trust, Rodney Davidson, Derek Hill Foundation, Richard Dunn, Elizabeth Clough, Else and Leonard Cross, Charles Elmgrant Trust, Eversley Trust, Friends of the Davis, Robert Eliot, George Ellis, Alfred Ensor, Summer School at Dartington, Harold Hyam Richard Gardner, William Glock, Lucille Graham, Wingate Charity, Richard Heason, Helen Roll Gavin Henderson, Christopher Kite, Andras Charitable Trust, Mirhane McLaren-Howard, Brian Milhaly, Busenhart Morgan Evans, Clifton Parker, and Mary Midgley, Sir Harry Studholme, Gordon Pamela Parkinson, Ernest Rainer, Esther Salaman, and Barbara Waterhouse, Tait Memorial Trust, The William and Judith Scheide Fund, Louisa Hinrichsen Foundation, The Radcliffe Trust, The Schmidt, Jenny Wood. TL Trust, Exeter & District Classical Music Trust, Please see p.33 for details of the ways in which Stile Antico Foundation. you can support the Summer School.

2 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 3 Your Time at Summer School

Dartington is a place of extraordinary beauty and The timetables on the following pages will show creativity, and the Summer School is for everyone you which courses take place in which sessions - professional musicians, music students of all and help you to plan your week. All courses are ages, people who love to play, sing and write taught for 6 days from Sunday to Friday. and people who love to listen. The community As a general rule; advanced courses and you will be a part of is one of learning, sharing, masterclasses are aimed at instrumentalists and performing and socialising. singers with Grade 8 (or equivalent) or above. By day we run classes and courses covering Advanced courses that have selection process a range of music and literature. Some do not are for music students, professionals and people require you to read music or play an instrument, playing/singing at an equivalent level. For others cater for people who are already playing/ workshops we recommend a minimum level of singing/writing to a very high standard. Grade 5 (or equivalent). Open courses are open to everyone whatever their musical experience. Not There are 4 main 90 minute sessions a day, all courses fit into one of the above categories so starting around 9am, 11am, 2pm and 3.30pm, please do read the course descriptions or call the plus a shorter early morning session for Yoga office for more information. or Tai Chi. Whether you choose a busy or very relaxed programme is up to you. Participants When you book a ‘Courses and Concerts’ pass usually follow up to three different courses which you can take part in any of the courses, as a also allows time in the day for private practice, to participant or observer (unless specified), as well enjoy the gardens, or to observe a class. as attend all the concerts and events. Be sure to take your seat 10 minutes before the start of each concert to be guaranteed a place. Every evening you can attend up to three concerts or events and perhaps perform in some of them too. An outline of the concerts programme is found on the back pages of this brochure. If you choose to book an ‘Accommodation and Catering’ pass this includes meals from Saturday dinner at the start of the week to Saturday breakfast at the end. It is worth noting that the accommodation at Dartington, with the exception of the medieval courtyard, is functional and basic. You may find all the information you need in this brochure and on our website www.dartington. org/summer-school, but if you have any further queries please do call the Summer School office on 01803 847080.

4 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 5 Week SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 4 Choral and Vocal Courses The Big Choir: Vocal Ensembles Improve Your The Florentine Intermedi STILE ANTICO Sight-Singing ANDREW GRIFFITHS RHIANNON EVANS Vocal Masterclass Vocal Workshop Vocal Workshop EMMA KIRKBY NICHOLAS CLAPTON NICHOLAS CLAPTON Middle Eastern Singing The Big Choir Plus MERIT ARIANE STEPHANOS GAVIN ROBERTS Instrumental Courses Advanced Renaissance Renaissance Reeds, Recorders, The Contemporary Middle Eastern Wind Band Brass and Strings Music and Song THE CITY MUSICK WILLIAM LYONS, JANE CHAPMAN MERIT ARIANE STEPHANOS NICHOLAS PERRY AND AND JON BANKS 29 Jul – 5 Aug RICHARD THOMAS Chamber Ensemble Workshop Middle Eastern Music: and RHIANNON EVANS The Ottoman Heritage Masterclass JON BANKS EMILY WHITE AND GAWAIN GLENTON and Lute Ensembles Cornetts and Sackbuts: DAVID MILLER AND TOBY CARR Renaissance Polyphony EMILY WHITE AND GAWAIN GLENTON Consorts Stories in Transit; Florentine marriages; FRETWORK Renaissance and Early Music, Improvisation and Poetry Harpsichord JANE CHAPMAN Migration and exile are the themes this week, tracing rich cultural Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music heritages, as Stories in Transit weave contemporary narratives linking RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE the Mediterranean and Middle East. From a premiere of Dowland’s WILLIAMS AND ENSEMBLE WILLIAMS AND ENSEMBLE WILLIAMS AND ENSEMBLE WILLIAMS AND ENSEMBLE Lachrimae with words by refugee poets, to teachers like Marina MERIDIANA PLAYERS MERIDIANA PLAYERS MERIDIANA PLAYERS MERIDIANA PLAYERS Warner and Palestinian poet Tamim al-Barghouti, this will be a hugely thought-provoking and exciting week. Improvisation and Words The Bearer-Beings: Portable Stories in Transit: Oral Poetry and Music Jazz Improvisation and Andrew Griffiths leads the Florentine Intermedi, glorious choral music Stories in Dislocated Times ALICE OSWALD AND STEVIE WISHART Composition Masterclass celebrating an extravagant Medici marriage; vocalists can study with MARINA WARNER AND much-loved teachers, Emma Kirkby and Nicholas Clapton. William STEVIE WISHART Lyons and The City Musick direct the fabulous Advanced Renaissance Arabic Poetry and Wind Band, while Emily White and Gawain Glenton cultivate glittering Arabic History music for cornetts and sackbuts. TAMIM AL-BARGHOUTI There are classes for viol players, lutenists, harpsichordists, reeds and Jazz Improvisation Workshop HUW WARREN recorders, with Fretwork, David Miller, Jane Chapman and Ensemble Meridiana players. Improvisation courses are led by jazz pianist Huw Warren and composer, and hurdy-gurdy player Stevie Wishart, More than Music who reveals her new Dart-inspired piece for Dartington. Middle Eastern music and song is directed by Egyptian singer Merit Ariane Stephanos Stories in Transit: Dance Lecture: Yoga and multi-instrumentalist Jon Banks, while Joanna MacGregor explores Telling the Tale in Times of Conflict Salome and the Qiyan of Arabic Poetry JUSTIN DALTON MARINA WARNER, ALICE OSWALD, MARINA WARNER, KIM BRANDSTRUP 7.45AM-8.30AM the life and work of cult musician John Fahey, and collaborates with PETER OSWALD AND AND JOANNA MACGREGOR the Dartmoor artist Gary Fabian Millar and Devon poet Alice Oswald. TAMIM AL-BARGHOUTI 1 AUGUST 5.15PM 30 JULY 5.15PM

6 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 7 Choral and Vocal Courses Vocal Masterclass The Big Choir Plus Viol Consorts EMMA KIRKBY GAVIN ROBERTS FRETWORK The Big Choir ‘I feel lucky that my career was characterised Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big Choir The brilliant and ground-breaking viol consort from the start by ensemble singing, especially repertoire, with the wonderful choir repetiteur Gavin Fretwork supervise and lead tuition at all levels. ANDREW GRIFFITHS with my first love, the lute; so we’ll have a joint Roberts. Repertoire will include English, French, Italian and session with David Miller’s class of accomplished German music of the 16th and 17th centuries. The inspiring conductor Andrew Griffiths returns to lute and players early on. I’m happy to SESSION 4 Dartington to direct the Florentine Intermedi, the coach students in their choice of repertoire; there SESSIONS 1, 2 & 3 stunning 1589 celebration for a Medici marriage, will also be an emphasis on the beautiful songs of with music by Malvezzi, Marenzio and Caccini. This , and I’ll send beforehand a choice Instrumental Courses lavishly entertaining masterpiece is the earliest Renaissance Reeds, of ensemble pieces.’ This is an Advanced Selected forerunner of , with wood nymphs, dancers, course, please see website for application details. Recorders, Brass and Strings muses, scenes set in hell as well the heavens. We’ll Advanced Renaissance Wind Band be presenting it like a wedding – are you with the SESSION 2 WILLIAM LYONS, NICHOLAS PERRY AND bride or groom? THE CITY MUSICK RICHARD THOMAS An edition of this work is being specially made for Improve Your Sight-Singing William Lyons and the ever-popular City Musick Group and individual tuition with members of Dartington and will be available to purchase from members return for their wind ensemble course. The City Musick, on shawms, crumhorns, dulcian, us. Please see the ‘Music Supplies’ page on the RHIANNON EVANS This year we will focus on the music for cornetts, rackett, recorders, early violin, cornetts, sackbuts, shawms, dulcians and trombones from the varied website for more information. Do you struggle with the demanding multi-tasking bagpipes and renaissance percussion. We will and exciting repertoire of the civic and court bands be covering a broad repertoire of dance, theatre, SESSION 1 activity that is sight-singing? Is recognizing in Renaissance Italy. We will also be focusing on rhythms, pitching intervals and reading the text all court and civic music from the fifteenth to the the music of the Florentine Intermedi of 1589 seventeenth centuries. at once a daunting challenge? This course is open in preparations for the Friday evening choir and Vocal Ensembles to all, especially singers who are not fluent readers, renaissance band concert. This is an Advanced SESSION 2 STILE ANTICO and anyone wishing to brush up on their sight- Selected course, please see website for application singing skills. details. This is an Advanced Selected course, please Exploring repertoire from Musica Transalpina, a see website for application details Renaissance and SESSION 3 1588 collection including works by Palestrina, Baroque Harpsichord Marenzio and Lassus, which brought the latest SESSION 1 madrigalian techniques to England and kick- Vocal Workshop JANE CHAPMAN started the flowering of the English , Chamber Ensemble Workshop: NICHOLAS CLAPTON Jane Chapman studied with Ton Koopman at Stile Antico will work with singers of all ages and Corelli and Vivaldi the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and is now abilities in small groups, and will focus on improving ‘Ever since coming to Dartington for the first time professor at the Royal College of Music; she’s one of ensemble skills. Scores will be available to buy at the in 1995, I’ve always encouraged participants in my RHIANNON EVANS the most innovative and imaginative harpsichordists beginning of the course. class to perform a wide and varied repertoire of their Start the day with a fun-filled ensemble play- around. Jane will be coaching core harpsichord SESSION 2 choice, on which we can work both technically and through. This week we’ll be exploring Baroque repertoire from the 16th to 18th centuries, interpretatively. Aged from 16 to 80+, they have repertoire including Concerti Grossi by Corelli and concentrating on technique and style. responded with everything from Machaut to Maxwell Vivaldi. All strings and C instruments welcome; pitch SESSION 2 Davies - fabulous!’ will be A440. SESSION 3 or 4 SESSION 1 The Contemporary Harpsichord Middle Eastern Singing Lute and Lute Ensembles JANE CHAPMAN MERIT ARIANE STEPHANOS DAVID MILLER AND TOBY CARR ‘One of Britain’s most distinguished harpsichordists, bringing the harpsichord into the 21st century A wonderful opportunity to explore vocal repertoire In session 1, Toby Carr will offer intermediate and establishing her reputation as a rule-breaker’ with the celebrated Egyptian/German singer and beginner lute-players technical support and (The Wall Street Journal). Having collaborated with and composer Merit Ariane Stephanos. We’ll be coaching. David Miller’s course in session 2 provides composers, artists and dancers, Indian, Brazilian and looking at music from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq a unique opportunity for advanced and experienced jazz musicians, this class is ideal for keyboardists, and Andalusia, and understanding the myriad players of early plucked instruments to develop their improvisers and composers wanting to explore the interconnections between the Middle East and accompanying and continuo skills, whilst recreating contemporary possibilities of the harpsichord. the Mediterranean. You’ll learn to express yourself the lush and sumptuous qualities of a large 17th through colour and ornamentation, and to improvise century continuo group, with , archlutes, SESSION 3 within the Arabic modal system (maqam) and chitarroni and guitars. There’ll be opportunities to rhythmic patterns (iqa’). collaborate with singers from Emma Kirkby’s classes. MERIT ARIANE STEPHANOS SESSION 3 SESSION 1 & 2

8 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 9 Middle Eastern Music: class situation. We will also schedule classes on but something between all four. Guided by Alice, Jazz Improvisation and ornamentation and other technical aspects. and the composer and hurdy gurdy player Stevie The Ottoman Heritage Wishart, musicians and poets will work towards a Composition Masterclass SESSION 4 JON BANKS short, informal performance combining words with HUW WARREN AND STEVIE WISHART music at the end of the week. Exploring instrumental music from Egypt, Syria and A further session for more advanced improvisers, Chamber Music SESSIONS 2 & 3 Turkey, this is an introduction to one of the most jazz musicians and composers. Stevie Wishart – varied musical traditions led by qanun and santouri RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE WILLIAMS AND hurdy gurdy player, medieval violinist, composer player Jon Banks. Intermediate instrumentalists ENSEMBLE MERIDIANA PLAYERS Arabic Poetry and Arabic History and Hildegarde of Bingen scholar – joins pianist from all backgrounds are welcome; reading music Huw Warren to encourage a deeper level of creative The chamber music programme, open to all is essential for melody players, but less so for TAMIM AL-BARGHOUTI playing and composing. instrumentalists and singers, will offer one formally percussionists. Ranging from high-energy dances organised session each day with coaching available The charismatic Palestinian poet and columnist and courtly repertory to extended meditative SESSION 4 from the resident ensemble, with other sessions Tamim al-Barghouti is a brilliant performer and compositions in complex rhythmic cycles, there’ll be for rehearsal and coaching when available. Each thinker, capable of attracting hundreds of thousands plenty of scope to improvise. We’ll include music of participant will be assigned to a group in advance of people to his poetry performances. With several the Sufi tradition, alongside Eastern Mediterranean More Than Music according to availability and standard, and suitable published poetry collections and academic works forms such as the sirto and longa. repertoire can be suggested in advance if required. to his name, Tamim was a Visiting Professor of SESSION 3 Pre-formed groups are welcome. Politics at Georgetown University, and currently works at the United Nations. His course delves Stories in Transit: Telling the Tale SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 into the centuries-old traditions of Arabic poetry, in Times of Conflict Middle Eastern Music and Song inextricably entwined with the politics and history of MARINA WARNER, ALICE OSWALD, PETER JON BANKS AND MERIT ARIANE STEPHANOS the Middle East. “Whether in imagining and thereby Improvisation and Words creating the self, or in asserting it against colonial OSWALD AND TAMIM AL-BARGHOUTI negation, or in rebelling, questioning and at times Merit and Jon will teach you to sing and play a Is expressing the imagination and passing on even deconstructing it, Arabic literature has been wide range of folk and classical songs from Egypt, traditions and testimony part of human rights? arguably inseparable from the political history of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, as well as the tradition The Bearer-Beings: Portable Can a narrative build a place of belonging for those the Arabs. Literature is also the work of individual of Mwashshahat, which originated in ancient Stories in Dislocated Times without a nation? Join this fascinating discussion. Andalusia. They will be focusing on performance authors who come from different backgrounds conventions and styles, giving you an insight into MARINA WARNER and have varying perceptions of themselves, as 30 JULY 5.15PM modes, rhythms and improvisation. individuals and as a collective, this might allow us This creative writing course revolves around the to approach the question of political identity in the SESSION 4 concept of stories and their literary, oral, visual, or Arab world with a greater degree of complexity and Dancing Voices: Salome and the musical transmission. We’ll explore how collective nuance.” Qiyan of Arabic Poetry Cornetts and Sackbuts: memories are formed and how individuals pass on stories. The title – ‘the bearer-beings’ - comes SESSION 3 MARINA WARNER, KIM BRANDSTRUP AND Renaissance Polyphony from a poem by Wallace Stevens and participants JOANNA MACGREGOR will create and ‘transmit’ their own creations, free Jazz Improvisation Workshop GAWAIN GLENTON AND EMILY WHITE variations from myths and folklore, or other handed The award-winning Danish choreographer Kim Brandstrup joins Marina Warner and Joanna Cornetts and sackbuts were regularly mixed with down material. Come to the workshop with a story HUW WARREN MacGregor to explore and demonstrate their new singers in the 16th century, and this year we’ll that means something to you (from any place or A chance to work with one of the world’s leading dance piece, inspired by medieval legends about focus on the burnished harmony and polyphony era). The workshop forms a part of a larger project improvisers, thinkers and composers. The brilliant Salome, and the poetry and lives of the qiyan or of Venetian composer Claudio Merulo. This course working in refugee communities with story-making pianist and composer Huw Warren leads a free jazz ‘singing girls’ of the Abbasid court in medieval aims to give students a taste of this very special as a necessary and dynamic survival process and improvisation class, encouraging Baghdad. combination, as instrumentalists learn from SESSION 1 fluidity and expressiveness in musicians of all vocalists, and vice versa. Singers should be able backgrounds and levels. 1 AUGUST 5.15PM to sing one to a part if needed; all voice-types are welcome to work on this gorgeous music. Stories in Transit: SESSION 3 Yoga SESSION 3 Oral Poetry and Music JUSTIN DALTON ALICE OSWALD AND STEVIE WISHART Cornetts and Sackbuts and This course, based on the gentle, fluid Scaravelli Can a memory of literature and the process of approach to yoga, is suitable for participants of all Recorder Masterclass making it over and over again build ‘a country of ages and abilities. Yoga has been practised by many words’ (Mahmoud Darwish)? Can narratives build a GAWAIN GLENTON AND EMILY WHITE musicians - most famously Yehudi Menuhin - and place of belonging for those without a nation? The it’s a great chance to loosen up the body before a An extra session for , and recorder poet and compelling performer Alice Oswald will day’s music-making. players. Students are encouraged to bring solo be using storytelling to discover a different kind of poetry - not oral or literary, not page or performance, 7.45AM-8.30AM or ensemble pieces, to be coached in an open- HUW WARREN

10 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 11 Week SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 4 Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses The Big Choir: Handel Samson Opera Chorus: Improve Your Sight-Singing Chamber Choir LAURENCE CUMMINGS Purcell King Arthur RHIANNON EVANS LAURENCE CUMMINGS LAURENCE CUMMINGS AND GAVIN ROBERTS Advanced Opera Course: Purcell King Arthur CAROLYN SAMPSON, ANDREW WATTS, RICHARD WILLIAMS AND ROBERT HOWARTH Vocal Masterclass Vocal Workshop Vocal Workshop CAROLYN SAMPSON ANDREW WATTS ANDREW WATTS The Big Choir Plus GAVIN ROBERTS Acting for Opera Singers RICHARD WILLIAMS Folk, Poetry and Literature Courses Folk and the Landscape Folk Choir As I Walked Out One Morning SALLY DAVIES AND SALLY DAVIES ELIZA AND 5 – 12 August PAUL HUTCHINSON Crime Writing Accordion Workshop The Visionary Imagination: JAMES RUNCIE PAUL HUTCHINSON Milton and Blake JAMES RUNCIE Folk Baroque ANDY WATTS Exploring the Short Form KATE CLANCHY Instrumental Courses Advanced ROBERT HOWARTH Chamber Ensemble Workshop Introduction to Harpsichord Workshop RHIANNON EVANS STEVEN DEVINE STEVEN DEVINE The English Identity: , Recorder Workshop Recorder Ensembles JILL KEMP JILL KEMP , and Creative Writing Masterclass ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD Week 2 examines the English identity, from Purcell’s mythic Restoration opera King Arthur and John Milton and William Blake’s Baroque Masterclass: visionary imagination, to , street and nature The Art of Continuo Playing poetry. Laurence Cummings leads The Big Choir in Handel’s epic RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE Baroque Wind Workshop oratorio Samson, while Robert Howarth inspires the Advanced Opera ANDY WATTS and Baroque Orchestra students. Natural Trumpet Workshop We’re blessed with a superb array of Baroque coaches – Richard PAUL SHARP AND ROSS BROWN Piano Workshop: Tunnicliffe on the art of continuo playing, Baroque violinist Adrian Baroque Music Butterfield, trumpeters Paul Sharp and Ross Brown, and Steven Devine JOANNA MACGREGOR on early keyboards. Wonderful opera singers Carolyn Sampson and Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Andrew Watts are our vocal coaches, and Artistic Director Joanna RHIANNON EVANS, KATE RHIANNON EVANS, KATE RHIANNON EVANS, KATE RHIANNON EVANS, KATE SEMMENS, REBECCA SEMMENS, REBECCA SEMMENS, REBECCA SEMMENS, REBECCA MacGregor runs a Baroque Music on the Piano course. TRUSCOTT, CLAIRE TRUSCOTT, CLAIRE TRUSCOTT, CLAIRE TRUSCOTT, CLAIRE WILLIAMS, ANDY WATTS AND WILLIAMS, ANDY WATTS AND WILLIAMS, AND WILLIAMS, ANDY WATTS AND Folk and literature are bigger than ever, with legendary musicians MARTYNA KAZMIERCZAK MARTYNA KAZMIERCZAK MARTYNA KAZMIERCZAK MARTYNA KAZMIERCZAK Eliza and Martin Carthy. Sally Davies directs Dartington Folk Choir, accordionist Paul Hutchinson creates Folk and the Landscape, and Andy Watts brings Folk Baroque. James Runcie teaches crime writing More than Music and lectures on Last Words, and Forward prize winner Kate Clanchy Last Words: From Keats and Tai Chi Qigong explores poetry and short stories. Operatic genius, Baroque brilliance – Virginia Woolf to Bach’s JOE SALMON The Art of 8AM - 8.30AM and a ceilidh too! JAMES RUNCIE 8 AUGUST 5.15PM

12 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 13 performances of Monteverdi, Purcell, Mozart and Acting for Opera Singers instrument, uses block chords, drones and pedal Choral, Vocal Schubert. She directs this week’s masterclass for notes, and is a master of harmony. Paul enjoys advanced singers with wit, warmth and flair. This is RICHARD WILLIAMS developing the potential of a group to deepen and and Opera Courses an Advanced Selected course, please see website for improve their musicianship, and welcomes players application details. Opera and theatre director Richard Williams gives at all levels. young opera singers the confidence to deepen The Big Choir SESSION 2 their knowledge of staging and characterization. SESSION 2 Primarily aimed at Advanced Opera students, this LAURENCE CUMMINGS Improve Your Sight-Singing will also be open for keen observers. Folk Baroque Glyndebourne and ENO conductor Laurence SESSION 4 Cummings returns to direct the Big Choir in Handel’s RHIANNON EVANS ANDY WATTS mightiest oratorio Samson, full of dramatic and Do you struggle with the demanding multi-tasking A brand new folk course for 2017! Andy Watts is stirring choruses. Laurence is one of the most activity that is sight-singing? Is recognizing Folk, Poetry and associate Principal of the Orchestra of thrilling exponents of historical practice; his music- rhythms, pitching intervals and reading the text all the Age of Enlightenment, and founder of the folk/ making has been described as ‘both witty and at once a daunting challenge? This course is open Literature Courses early music group The Carnival Band, well known for compassionate.’ Don’t miss this wonderful chance to to all, especially singers who are not fluent readers, their work with Maddy Prior and currently recording explore Handel’s Milton-inspired work with him. and anyone wishing to brush up on their sight- the 100 most popular ballads of the 17th century. We’ll be working with the Burrows Edition. singing skills. Folk and the Landscape Here folk, Baroque and ‘modern’ instrumentalists can explore street ballads and from SESSION 1 SESSION 3 SALLY DAVIES AND PAUL HUTCHINSON the 17th and 18th centuries, challenging artificial Sally Davies and Paul Hutchinson, two experienced categories to create and exchange new music. This Advanced Opera Course: Vocal Workshop and visionary folk musicians and composers, lead innovative course is open to all instrumentalists and a creative course that explores the connections singers, using notation as well as playing by ear. Purcell King Arthur ANDREW WATTS between folk music and the landscape, using the SESSION 2 CAROLYN SAMPSON, ANDREW WATTS, Open to singers of all ages and abilities, the superb beautiful grounds of Dartington estate. We will RICHARD WILLIAMS AND ROBERT HOWARTH countertenor Andrew Watts – acclaimed performer explore the links between nature, traditional and , creating some of our own As I Walked Out One Morning This exciting opera course, led by conductor and Voice Teacher at the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the – will improve music along the way, for performance later in the Robert Howarth, presents Purcell’s Restoration week. ELIZA AND MARTIN CARTHY spectacular King Arthur, with Britons and Saxons, your vocal technique and performance skills in a gods and goddesses. Richard Williams directs a relaxed, supportive and informative atmosphere. SESSION 1 The amazing father-and-daughter duo Martin and Eliza Carthy return to Dartington after several stylish production set in 1950s England, and you’ll SESSION 3 or 4 be coached by opera singers Carolyn Sampson years to lead this exciting folk course. Devoted to and Andrew Watts. There are also extra classes in Folk Choir instrumental tuition as well as songs, the class offers the chance for players to study and rehearse opera acting, and continuo singing with Richard Chamber Choir SALLY DAVIES Tunnicliffe. This is an Advanced Selected course, traditional tunes and arrangements, as well as please see website for application details. LAURENCE CUMMINGS Sally Davies is a singer, instrumentalist, composer collaborate and create new work. There’s a concert and choir leader, with a wide ranging experience later in the week, shared with the Folk Choir. SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 A lovely selection of choral pieces reflecting our themes of English identity, Milton and Blake: If Ye of folk and world music. She directs the Cecil SESSIONS 3 & 4 Love Me (Tallis), O Clap Your Hands (Gibbons), The Sharp House Choir with her distinctive and original Opera Chorus: Purcell King Arthur Lamb (Eric Haas), and Blest Pair of Sirens (Hubert arrangements of folk songs. The Folk Choir course will provide an intense and rewarding learning LAURENCE CUMMINGS AND GAVIN ROBERTS Parry). The Chamber Choir is aimed at experienced choral singers. experience; you’ll be rehearsing folk songs from Laurence Cummings puts a small opera chorus England and Eastern Europe, in spine-tingling SESSION 4 through its paces, rehearsing Purcell’s marvellous a cappella harmony, for a concert later in the week. choruses – from gods and goddesses to Cold People, There may well be some collaborations with the Britons and Saxons – for a performance of this The Big Choir Plus instrumental folk courses this year! operatic masterpiece. There will be a short audition SESSION 2 for the Opera Chorus on August 6th. GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 2 Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big Choir Accordion Workshop repertoire, with the wonderful choir repetiteur Gavin Vocal Masterclass Roberts. PAUL HUTCHINSON SESSION 4 CAROLYN SAMPSON The wonderful accordionist Paul Hutchinson tutors at Cecil Sharp House and Folkworks in Durham. We’re privileged to welcome back the soprano Paul’s style of teaching is relaxed and entertaining. Carolyn Sampson, fêted all over the world for her He considers the accordion a beautiful and versatile BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

14 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 15 Crime Writing wind, brass and harpsichord classes. A very busy Baroque Violin Masterclass Harpsichord Workshop schedule, but thrilling! This is an Advanced Selected JAMES RUNCIE course, please see website for application details. ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD STEVEN DEVINE Acclaimed writer and Head of Arts at Radio 4, James SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 (SESSION 3 FOR The brilliant violinist Adrian Butterfield, director Steven is harpsichordist with the Orchestra of the Runcie runs a creative writing course based on the MASTERCLASSES OR SECTIONALS) of the London Handel Players and Professor of Age of Enlightenment and a soloist with many lessons of crime writing - from Greek tragedy to Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music, gives recordings to his name. Here he leads an open The Girl on the Train. How much can thinking about masterclasses focussing on all technical and class for players with experience of the harpsichord crime fiction further your own literary endeavours? Chamber Ensemble Workshop: Bach stylistic aspects of solo Baroque violin-playing. This covering the full range of solo repertoire for the Each session will be devoted to one particular RHIANNON EVANS is an Advanced Selected course, please see website instrument. If time allows, he will involve chamber element: character, plot, research and setting, for application details. coaching too. dialogue, editing. Start the day with a fun-filled ensemble play- through. This week we’ll be exploring the SESSION 3 SESSION 3 SESSION 1 Brandenburg and Orchestral Suites by Bach. All strings and C instruments welcome; pitch Baroque Cello Masterclass: Piano Workshop: Baroque Music Exploring the Short Form will be A440. The Art of Continuo Playing JOANNA MACGREGOR KATE CLANCHY SESSION 1 RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE An open course led by Artistic Director and Head Whether you write poetry, short stories, essays or Introduction to Fortepiano Richard Tunnicliffe focuses on the subtleties and of Piano at the Joanna even hybrids of all three, you will find something complexities of continuo playing - the harmonic and MacGregor, examining multiple approaches to to interest and extend you in this mixture of STEVEN DEVINE rhythmic basis of Baroque style - combined with a Baroque piano performance. Students are invited to workshops and tutorials. Kate Clanchy has won a singing line, and an ability to listen deeply. There’ll bring any solo Bach, Scarlatti or Handel works, as Forward prize for her poetry, the BBC National Short One of the busiest and most experienced keyboard be an opportunity to combine with the Advanced well as music from the French and English schools. Story Award, and the Writer’s Guild Award for her players and music directors around, Steven Devine Vocal class, exploring voice and continuo music, We’ll also discuss historical performances and non-fiction. She is currently writing a book of essays. will be leading this class for all keyboard players as well as solo cello repertoire. This is an Advanced recording practices. who wish to delve deep into the solo music of CPE SESSIONS 2 & 3 Selected course, please see website for application SESSION 3 Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and others. Steven details. will look at the way the fortepiano enhances our The Visionary Imagination: understanding and interpretation of this great music SESSION 3 Milton and Blake and if time allows will involve chamber music, as well as vocal repertoire with participants in the vocal Baroque Wind Workshop JAMES RUNCIE classes. SESSION 2 ANDY WATTS A creative reading course based on the works of John Milton and William Blake. In each session we Andy Watts is professor in the Historical will read poetry together and look at visions of earth Recorder Workshop Performance Department at the Royal Academy and heaven, from Blake’s Jerusalem to Milton’s of Music, as well as a principal player for OAE and Paradise Lost. A selective reading list will be provided JILL KEMP The Carnival Band. He gives a lively, illuminating in advance, but no prior knowledge is assumed or class on technique and expression for all wind necessary. Open to all recorder players, these classes cover instrumentalists, in solo and chamber repertoire. breathing, coordination, extended techniques, SESSION 4 ornamentation and any other areas or repertoire SESSION 3 that students would like to cover. This session will focus on solo repertoire, from the 16th to 21st Instrumental Courses centuries. Please bring a treble at A440. Natural Trumpet Workshop SESSION 2 PAUL SHARP AND ROSS BROWN Advanced Baroque Orchestra Paul Sharp and Ross Brown, both supremely gifted Recorder Ensembles performers and teachers, share a class that will ROBERT HOWARTH provide ample opportunities for group and solo JILL KEMP tuition coaching and orchestral repertoire. There’ll be Robert Howarth is one of the world’s most sought- concerts in the Great Hall, and daily performances after Baroque conductors, and will be directing This will be an ensemble session for all recorder from the medieval tower! the Baroque Orchestra in two major performances: players. Please bring any sizes of recorder you may Purcell’s opera King Arthur on Thursday, and have, for an energetic and lively class covering group SESSIONS 3 & 4 Handel’s mighty oratorio Samson (conducted by repertoire from the last five centuries. Laurence Cummings) on Friday. Every day, there’ll also be opportunities for solo and chamber tuition SESSION 3 with our stellar array of Baroque teachers, in string, JILL KEMP

16 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 17 Chamber Music RHIANNON EVANS, KATE SEMMENS, REBECCA TRUSCOTT, CLAIRE WILLIAMS, ANDY WATTS AND MARTYNA KAZMIERCZAK The chamber music programme, open to all instrumentalists and singers, will offer one formally organised session each day with coaching available from the resident ensemble, with other sessions for rehearsal and coaching when available. Each participant will be assigned to a group in advance according to availability and standard, and suitable repertoire can be suggested in advance if required. Pre-formed groups are welcome. SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 More Than Music

Last Words James Runcie asks how much the last words and music of an author or a composer cast, either deliberately or accidentally, a retrospective shadow over their work as a whole. This lecture will have a particular focus on Keats’s last letters, Virginia Woolf’s suicide note, David Hume’s A Short Account of my Life and Bach’s The Art of Fugue. 8 AUGUST 5.15PM

Tai Chi Qigong JOE SALMON Joe Salmon, director of Tai Chi Nation, offers an early morning class, designed to relax the body and focus the mind. A dynamic form of moving meditation, Tai Chi Qigong is accessible to people of all ages and ideal for musicians, bringing great benefits for good practice and performance in the day ahead. 8.00AM-8.30AM

Information and online booking: 18 www.dartington.org/summer-school BIG BAND Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 19 Week SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 4 Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses

The Big Choir: Vocal Masterclass Vocal Workshop Chamber Choir: Beethoven Mass in C PAUL NILON SARAH GABRIEL Brahms and Schubert GEORGE VASS GAVIN ROBERTS

Advanced Opera Course: Britten Peter Grimes SIAN EDWARDS, PAUL NILON AND SUSANNA STRANDERS Conducting

Advanced Conducting Course SIAN EDWARDS

Music Theatre and Latin American Music 12 – 19 August Advanced Music Theatre: Sondheim Sweeney Todd RICHARD WILLIAMS, GEORGE VASS, SARAH GABRIEL AND SARA VAN BEERS

Scenes from Guys and Dolls Brazilian Music and Song In The Heart of Rhythm and Oklahoma! ADRIANO ADEWALE ADRIANO ADEWALE SARAH GABRIEL, AND LUIZ MORAIS AND LUIZ MORAIS RICHARD WILLIAMS AND SARA VAN BEERS Instrumental Courses

String Orchestra Violin Masterclass Piano Workshop Dartington Piano ADRIAN BRENDEL THOMAS GOULD JOANNA MACGREGOR Concerto Competition AND THOMAS GOULD SIAN EDWARDS, JOANNA MACGREGOR AND DARTINGTON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Cello Masterclass Music for Two Pianos ADRIAN BRENDEL and Piano Duet Conducting and Orchestral Music, Opera, FLORIAN MITREA Music Theatre and Brazilian Music Piano Masterclass Violin, and PASCAL ROGÉ Cello Workshops Week 3 is rich for pianists – with lectures from the legendary Alfred HEATH QUARTET Brendel, classes with Pascal Rogé and Florian Mitrea, and a brand new Piano Concerto Competition with Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor Piano Workshop Piano Workshop FLORIAN MITREA FLORIAN MITREA and Sian Edwards - and string lovers, with the wonderful Heath Quartet, cellist Adrian Brendel, violinist Thomas Gould, and the Dartington Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Festival Orchestra. George Vass rehearses Beethoven’s mighty Mass QUENTIN POOLE QUENTIN POOLE QUENTIN POOLE in C, and, with Richard Williams and Sarah Gabriel, directs a brilliant HEATH QUARTET HEATH QUARTET HEATH QUARTET BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO production of Sweeney Todd. Vocal masterclasses are led by opera tenor Paul Nilon, who also stars in the Advanced Opera Course production of Peter Grimes, and performs Schubert’s Winterreise. The Advanced Conducting Course opens with a majestic programme including Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony; while Latin music runs More than Music through the week, led by Brazilian master percussionist Adriano Schubert’s Winterreise - My Musical Life - Tai Chi Qigong Open Dance Course: Salsa Adewale and guitarist Luiz Morais. Don’t forget your dancing shoes for lecture interview with Joanna JOE SALMON KEVAN KENNEDY ALFRED BRENDEL MacGregor 8AM - 8.30AM SESSION 4 the Salsa Ball…. 15 AUGUST 5.15PM ALFRED BRENDEL 16 AUGUST 5.15PM

20 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 21 Choral, Vocal Vocal Workshop Music Theatre and In the Heart of Rhythm and Opera Courses SARAH GABRIEL Latin American Music ADRIANO ADEWALE AND LUIZ MORAIS As at home in Mozart or Britten opera as she is in In the Heart of Rhythm is open to everybody – music theatre - Sarah Gabriel made her European percussionists, instrumentalists, singers, and those The Big Choir debut as Eliza in My Fair Lady at the Théâtre du Advanced Music Theatre: who don’t play an instrument - and will be based Châtelet, opposite Alex Jennings. Her vocal class is on Afro-Brazilian rhythms such as samba, ijexa and GEORGE VASS open to all singers; Sarah is particularly interested in Sondheim Sweeney Todd forro. Playing on conventional and non-conventional being authentically yourself onstage, and in how to instruments, exploring rhythmic games, vocal and The popular conductor George Vass returns to RICHARD WILLIAMS, GEORGE VASS, SARAH express your individuality. You can see her in action GABRIEL AND SARA VAN BEERS body percussion, it’ll be a fun and challenging way Dartington to conduct one of Beethoven’s meatiest in her recital on August 14th. of making music. On Friday night there’ll be a short, masterpieces, his Mass in C. An early, joyful work, A brand new course aimed at young professional joyful performance, just before the Salsa Ball. it was commissioned by Prince Esterházy II to SESSION 3 music theatre performers, and advanced music celebrate his wife’s name-day in 1807, and contains SESSION 4 some of Beethoven’s most moving and sublime theatre students. It provides a splendid opportunity music for voices. Chamber Choir to work on Sondheim’s crackling, dark portrayal of The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, working towards We’ll be working with the Carus Edition. GAVIN ROBERTS three public performances in the jewel-like Barn Instrumental Courses Theatre, on 17th and 18th August. The course is SESSION 1 Gavin Roberts coaches selections from Brahms’ directed by four veterans – director, conductor, gorgeous Lieberslieder Walzer, as well as choruses singer and choreographer – of opera and West String Orchestra from Schubert’s Rosamunde. The Chamber Choir is Vocal Masterclass End productions, and is simply unmissable if you aimed at experienced choral singers. wish to work intensely, and at a high level, on this ADRIAN BRENDEL AND THOMAS GOULD PAUL NILON SESSION 4 masterpiece of 20th century music theatre. This is The hugely popular cellist Adrian Brendel returns an Advanced Selected course, please see website for to lead this workshop for all-comers, and will be Paul Nilon is Britain’s leading lyric tenor, and application details. we are lucky to have him with us for two weeks, working on a major Baroque violin concerto, with working with advanced vocalists, and the cast of Conducting Courses SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Thomas Gould as soloist. Other repertoire will Britten’s powerful Peter Grimes. A veteran soloist include staples of the orchestral string repertoire –as well as short and spicy 20th century pieces. in opera houses throughout the world, Paul will be Scenes from Guys and Dolls performing Schubert’s Winterreise this week, and the Advanced Conducting Course SESSION 1 supremely dramatic role of Peter Grimes next week. and Oklahoma! He puts Summer School advanced singers through SIAN EDWARDS their paces in a warm, supportive setting. This is an SARAH GABRIEL, RICHARD WILLIAMS AND Two weeks of intense study with Sian Edwards, Head SARA VAN BEERS Advanced Selected course, please see website for of Conducting, Royal Academy of Music, for six application details. conductors; two programmes will be prepared and A boisterous journey through the world of musical SESSION 2 performed with the Dartington Festival Orchestra. theatre, open to singers of all abilities and ages. The first is the enticing prospect of two great The course will focus on two brilliant, iconic symphonies – Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, musicals, looking at chorus, solo numbers and Advanced Opera Course: and Mozart’s Symphony no.41, Jupiter – alongside ensemble scenes; we’ll also rehearse simple and Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten witty choreography. There will be an informal Britten Peter Grimes and Brahms’s Serenade no.2 in A, Op.16. The performance later in the week. first week also includes Dartington’s first Piano SIAN EDWARDS, PAUL NILON AND SUSANNA SESSION 2 STRANDERS Concerto Competition, so there’ll be sessions with outstanding young pianists, working on concertos The conductor Sian Edwards (Oper Frankfurt, by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann. The second Brazilian Music and Song Glyndebourne), tenor Paul Nilon (ENO, ROH) and week presents a fantastic opportunity to prepare vocal coach Susanna Stranders (Garsington Opera, and perform Britten’s great opera Peter Grimes, ADRIANO ADEWALE AND LUIZ MORAIS ROH) direct the first week of this two-week Advanced starring the international lyric tenor Paul Nilon, with course. Peter Grimes is the masterpiece that revived students from the Advanced Opera Course. This is Adriano Adewale is a master percussionist from British opera, and will receive two full concert an Advanced Selected course, please see website for Brazil, fêted all over the world for his Africa-inflected performances in the Great Hall on August 24th and application details. jazz and sensational virtuosity. Together with 26th. As an extra performance opportunity, there’ll the Brazilian guitarist and composer Luiz Morais, be an ‘Opera Gala’ recital programme directed SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 you will be guided and inspired in the popular by Susanna Stranders on 17th August. This is an Brazilian tradition, looking at songs, melodies and Advanced Selected course, please see website for instrumental accompaniments. Open to all. application details. SESSION 3 SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 SIAN EDWARDS

22 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 23 Violin Masterclass and friendly atmosphere. He will coach anything Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops from Bach to Bartók, but particularly likes the More Than Music THOMAS GOULD Viennese school of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. HEATH QUARTET Described as ‘staggeringly virtuosic’ by The SESSION 2 or 3 Oliver Heath and Cerys Jones (violin), Gary Lectures and Talks Guardian and ‘a soloist of rare refinement’ by The Pomeroy (viola) and Chris Murray (cello), of the Sunday Times, Thomas Gould is one of the brightest internationally-acclaimed Heath Quartet, offer string ALFRED BRENDEL young violinists around. His masterclass will cover Piano Concerto Workshop players of all abilities a friendly and supportive We’re thrilled that Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest core repertoire and contemporary works; don’t miss JOANNA MACGREGOR workshop environment, in separate instrumental his collaboration with Adriano Adewale on 14th classes. pianists of all time, is returning to the Summer August, and his performance with Adrian Brendel Preparing for a concerto performance demands not School to give an introduction to Schubert’s and the Heath Quartet on 17th August. This is an just mastery of your solo part, but also knowledge of SESSION 4 Winterreise and to speak to Artistic Director Joanna Advanced Selected course, please see website for orchestration, balance and the leadership required MacGregor about his musical life. Alfred’s talks will application details. for a successful performance. Pianists are invited Chamber Music be as warm and witty as they will be enlightening. to bring along all or part of any concerto, which SESSION 2 15 AUGUST 5.15PM Schubert’s Winterreise we’ll work on with two pianos, discussing style, QUENTIN POOLE, HEATH QUARTET AND 16 AUGUST 5.15PM My Musical Life colour, touch and tempo – also the ways in which to BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO Cello Masterclass communicate with a conductor. The chamber music programme, open to all Tai Chi Qigong ADRIAN BRENDEL SESSION 3 instrumentalists and singers, will offer one formally organised session each day. Coaching will be JOE SALMON One of the most versatile and original cellists of his available from members of the resident ensembles, generation, Adrian Brendel has travelled the world Dartington Piano both for these and for the other sessions of rehearsal See page 18 for more information. as soloist, collaborator and teacher. A fine classical Concerto Competition and study. Groups can be organized in advance or 8.00AM-8.30AM and romantic player, his discovery of contemporary more spontaneous music making can be facilitated music as a teenager opened a new and vital avenue SIAN EDWARDS, JOANNA MACGREGOR AND with repertoire suggestions or players to fill gaps he continues to explore, alongside his passion for DARTINGTON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA in an ensemble. Pre-formed groups are welcome. Open Dance Course: Salsa jazz and world music. Adrian will coach advanced There will also be occasional larger-scale ensemble This is a brand new course, aimed at advanced students in all areas of cello repertoire, including sessions, open to all. KEVAN KENNEDY concertos. Students are selected in advance for students. Selected pianists will have the chance to rehearse a concerto with the Dartington Festival SESSIONS 1, 2 & 3 Kevan Kennedy gets us ready for the Salsa Ball on this course: please see the website for details of Friday night, teaching participants – at any level – application process. Orchestra and conductors on the Advanced Conducting course, under the guidance and the sensual moves of salsa. coaching of Sian Edwards and Joanna MacGregor. SESSION 2 SESSION 4 Pianists can choose from Mozart K271 and K491; Beethoven’s 4th and 5th piano concertos; and the Piano Masterclass Schumann concerto in A minor. A winner will be PASCAL ROGÉ chosen to perform their concerto, under the baton of George Vass, in the choral concert on August 18th. We are delighted to welcome Pascal Rogé to This is an Advanced Selected course, please see Dartington for the first time. Exemplifying the best website for application details. in French pianism, Pascal was mentored by Julius SESSION 4 Katchen and Nadia Boulanger. He has won many international awards for his recordings of Ravel, Poulenc, Saint-Saens, Fauré and Satie; his playing Music for Two Pianos is characterised by its elegance, beauty, and stylistically perfect phrasing. This is an Advanced and Piano Duet Selected course, please see website for application FLORIAN MITREA details. The talented young Rumanian pianist Florian Mitrea SESSION 2 returns to guide you through four-hand and two piano repertoire. You are welcome to come as an Piano Workshop already-formed duo, or be prepared to pair up. There will be a range of four-hand and two-piano repertoire FLORIAN MITREA on sale in the music shop and available through the Summer School library. The young Rumanian pianist Florian Mitrea is always a huge hit at Summer School as a performer SESSION 4 and teacher, and returns to run the Piano Workshop. Florian will guide pianists of all abilities in a relaxed FLORIAN MITREA

24 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 25 Week SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 4 Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses The Big Choir: Chamber Choir: Vocal Workshop Songs of the Jazz Age Elgar The Music Makers Elgar and Vaughan Williams SARAH GABRIEL SARAH GABRIEL AND LEE REYNOLDS LEE REYNOLDS RICHARD WILLIAMS Gospel Choir Opera Chorus: Peter Grimes CAROL PEMBERTON AND CELIA TIM ANDERSON WICKHAM-ANDERSON Advanced Opera Course: Peter Grimes SIAN EDWARDS, PAUL NILON AND SUSANNA STRANDERS Conducting Courses Advanced Conducting Course SIAN EDWARDS Composition, Multimedia and Journalism Courses Advanced Composition MICHAEL FINNISSY Multimedia, Art and Sound Design: Musical Magpie-ism Improvising to Film 19 – 26 August DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA NEIL BRAND Open Composition Writing about Music HOWARD SKEMPTON PAUL MORLEY Jazz and Brass Courses Beginner’s Jazz Trumpet Workshop Jazz Ensembles Big Band JOHN ASHTON THOMAS ERIC VLOEIMANS AND , ERIC STEVE DUMMER PAUL ARCHIBALD VLOEIMANS, STEVE LODDER AND Brass Warm-up Session Trombone and Brass Ensemble PAUL ARCHIBALD, Low Brass Workshop PAUL ARCHIBALD ERIC VLOEIMANS AND BRETT BAKER Peter Grimes and Composition, Film BRETT BAKER Jazz Piano and and Multimedia, Gospel and Jazz Keyboards Workshop STEVE LODDER Week 4 looks closely at the complexity of English identity – with two Saxophones Workshop performances of Britten’s Peter Grimes as the climax of our Advanced ANDY SHEPPARD Opera Course; English revolutionists Michael Finnissy (directing the Jazz Drumming and Percussion Workshop Advanced Composition Course with the Gildas Quartet), Howard MARTIN FRANCE Skempton, David Bowie and Cornelius Cardew (with Cage and Crumb); the avant-folk Dead Rat Orchestra; and Elgar’s magnificent Music Wind, Piano and Instrumental Courses Wind Band Flute, Clarinet, , Cornelius Cardew Makers and elegiac Cello Concerto. STEVE DUMMER Bassoon and Horn Workshops and Open Scores ATÉA WIND QUINTET JOANNA MACGREGOR AND This week is simply sensational for brass and jazz players. There’s the HOWARD SKEMPTON Jazz Course, led by titanic trio Andy Sheppard, Steve Lodder and Martin Piano Workshop Violin, Viola and France; there are classes with cool jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, who CHIAO-YING CHANG Cello Workshops joins up with Steve Dummer’s Dartington Big Band, and with Paul SULKI YU, KAY STEPHEN AND PEI-SIAN NG Archibald and the Dartington Brass Ensemble. There’s chamber tuition Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music from The Fournier Trio and the Atéa Wind Quintet; film and music with QUENTIN POOLE, QUENTIN POOLE, QUENTIN POOLE, Neil Brand, and a music-writing course with journalist Paul Morley. FOURNIER TRIO AND FOURNIER TRIO AND FOURNIER TRIO AND ATÉA WIND QUINTET ATÉA WIND QUINTET ATÉA WIND QUINTET Singers can choose between Black Voices’ Gospel choir, chamber choral pieces by Vaughan Williams, Peter Grimes opera choruses, and Songs of the Jazz Age with Sarah Gabriel; instrumentalists can perform, More than Music improvise and compose in different styles, all day. However you choose Illustrated Lecture: Illustrated Lecture: Musical Magpie-ism: Yoga The Age of Bowie The Silent Pianist Speaks Multimedia Installations JUSTIN DALTON to spend your time, there’s an enormous amount of stimulation, fun, PAUL MORLEY NEIL BRAND DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA 7.45AM- 8.30AM partying and dancing in store for you in this final week of the 2017 21 AUGUST 5.15PM 23 AUGUST 5.15PM AND STUDENTS ON THE Summer School. MULTIMEDIA COURSE Open Dance Course: Jive 25 AUGUST 2PM – 4.30PM IVAN BURTON SESSION 4

26 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 27 Gospel Choir Opera Chorus: Peter Grimes music scene - raw, elemental and poignant, with a Choral, Vocal love of idiosyncratic folk traditions and antiquated CAROL PEMBERTON AND TIM ANDERSON technology. Their performances have featured flailing and Opera Courses CELIA WICKHAM-ANDERSON axes, salt and sawdust, throbbing harmonium, Opera conductor and repetiteur Tim Anderson, grinding fiddle and 2000 shards of micro-tuned steel Uplifting, harmonious, soul-stirring, challenging and (Glyndebourne, Garsington, ENO, Oper Stuttgart), cast to the floor in cascading, shimmering joy. The The Big Choir fun, all describe the power and appeal of the Gospel helps prepare the choruses for Peter Grimes - Musical Magpie-ism course will use found objects, Choir sessions, led by Carol Pemberton, Music some of the most earthy, visceral and dramatic old instruments and analogue systems to create LEE REYNOLDS Director of the internationally-acclaimed a cappella music Britten ever wrote – for performances on multimedia installations all over the estate. group Black Voices. The workshops will cover a range the 24th and 26th August. This course is aimed at The young conductor Lee Reynolds, fresh from of black music traditions that influence and shape experienced choral singers. SESSIONS 1 & 2 ENO and Glyndebourne, comes to Dartington to what today we call Black Gospel. Black Voices will conduct Elgar’s valedictory The Music Makers, SESSION 4 perform on 20th August, and there’ll be an informal celebrating the power of art in society: ‘We are the performance for participants on the final Friday. Open Composition music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams.’ Elgar quotes extensively from his own music - Nimrod, SESSION 2 Conducting Courses HOWARD SKEMPTON the Violin Concerto, First and Second Symphonies - The magnificent Howard Skempton – a founding weaving an atmosphere of memory and reflection. Advanced Opera Course: Peter member of the legendary Scratch Orchestra – is a We’re pairing it with Elgar’s Cello Concerto, played Advanced Conducting Course composer, pianist and accordionist, and his melodic by the wonderful cellist of the Fournier Trio, Pei-Sian Grimes music is characterised by a stripped-down, essentials- Ng - it’ll be a fabulous concert! SIAN EDWARDS only choice of materials. This class is designed for SIAN EDWARDS, PAUL NILON AND people who like composing classically, as well as We’ll be working with the Novello Edition. The second week of the Advanced Conducting SUSANNA STRANDERS those who enjoy arranging and song-writing. Expert SESSION 1 course – see page 22 for details. The second week of this two-week course directed by guidance is at hand, in a friendly and collaborative Sian Edwards, leading to two concert performances SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 atmosphere. Students will showcase their work in an Chamber Choir of Britten’s Peter Grimes on 24th and 26th August. informal concert at the end of the week. See page 22 for more details. SESSION 2 LEE REYNOLDS Composition, Multimedia SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Lee Reynolds rehearses beautifully complementary and Journalism Courses Improvising to Film repertoire to The Big Choir – Elgar’s The Prince of Sleep and My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land, and Vocal Workshop NEIL BRAND Vaughan Williams’s luminous Serenade to Music. The Chamber Choir is aimed at experienced choral SARAH GABRIEL Advanced Composition A great chance to work with one of the world’s singers. As at home in Mozart or Britten opera as she is in MICHAEL FINNISSY foremost exponents of live film music. This music theatre - Sarah Gabriel made her European course offers composers and pianists (and other SESSION 2 debut as Eliza in My Fair Lady at the Théâtre du This immersive course will focus on creating new instrumentalists) the opportunity to study Châtelet, opposite Alex Jennings. Her vocal class is music for the young Gildas Quartet and outstanding selected silent classic films, discussing the art of open to all singers; Sarah is particularly interested in young pianist Joseph Havlat, for performances improvisation and ‘reading’ a film. We’ll aim to being authentically yourself onstage, and in how to at the end of the week. Michael Finnissy is one of create new music around excerpts of film, and express your individuality. You can see her in action the most significant figures to emerge in post-war informally showcase our work in the Barn Cinema at in her recital on 22nd August. Britain: his coruscating brilliance, shimmering the end of the week. textures, intensity, and gigantic output makes him SESSIONS 3 & 4 SESSION 3 a hero for the students he teaches, although he puts it rather more modestly: ‘My biography? Doesn’t “fit in”. From the wrong side of the tracks all the way.’ Writing about Music Songs of the Jazz Age This is an Advanced Selected course, please see SARAH GABRIEL AND RICHARD WILLIAMS website for application details. PAUL MORLEY It’s the 80th anniversary of George Gershwin’s death, SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Paul Morley is a music journalist, whose latest so we thought that was a good enough excuse to book, The Age of Bowie – part biography, part memoir - received rave reviews this year. He wrote celebrate this great American composer along with Multimedia, Art and Sound the genius of Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Hoagy for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983 and Carmichael and John Steinbeck, as the Jazz Age Design: Musical Magpie-ism has since written for a wide range of publications, gave way to the Great Depression. We’ll look at the writing passionately about pop and classical music. literature, music theatre and songs of the 1920s and DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA His course will guide you in the nuances of writing 1930s. A workshop for singers, actors and writers. about all kinds of music, in terms of journalism, Dead Rat Orchestra are adventurers, adrift in a sea of social landscape and personal memory. SESSION 4 sound and possibility. They’ve gained a reputation SARAH GABRIEL as one of the most innovative ensembles on the UK SESSION 4

28 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 29 Jazz and Brass Courses Trombone and Low Brass Jazz Ensembles Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Workshop ANDY SHEPPARD, ERIC VLOEIMANS, Bassoon and Horn Workshops STEVE LODDER AND MARTIN FRANCE Beginner’s Jazz BRETT BAKER ATÉA WIND QUINTET Brett Baker is one of the world’s top trombonists The fabulously creative saxophonist Andy Sheppard Alena Lugovkina (flute), Philip Haworth (oboe), Anna JOHN ASHTON THOMAS and educators, working with musicians and groups directs Dartington’s Jazz Course, together with Hashimoto (clarinet), Ashley Myall (bassoon) and as diverse as Black Dyke Band, Grimethorpe cool trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, keyboard guru Chris Beagles (horn) offer wind players of all abilities John Ashton Thomas directs a class especially Steve Lodder, and virtuoso drummer Martin France, for newcomers to jazz, or those with a classical Colliery Band and Goldfrapp. He’s passionate about a relaxed and supportive workshop environment, teaching the trombone, and is the director of the focusing on jazz improvisation and ensemble playing. in separate classes. Improve your technique, hone background who want to brush up their skills. Learn This week’s jazz ensembles will prepare for a late- the fundamentals of jazz harmonies, rhythm and Singapore and Thailand Low Brass Festivals. As well your performance skills, and discover new repertoire! as coaching, he’ll be encouraging you to perform night performance in the White Hart on Thursday. technique. SESSION 2 and collaborate with the trumpet and jazz faculty SESSION 3 SESSION 1 all week. SESSION 2 Brass Ensemble Piano Workshop Brass Warm-up Session PAUL ARCHIBALD CHIAO-YING CHANG PAUL ARCHIBALD, ERIC VLOEIMANS AND Jazz Piano and Taiwanese-British pianist Chiao-Ying Chang is a top BRETT BAKER A chance to work together on the great brass Keyboards Workshop repertoire for trumpets, horns and trombones, with prizewinner and pianist in the Fournier Trio, who perform in the Great Hall on August 19th. Chiao- The essential morning ritual: a warm-up session for STEVE LODDER one of the UK’s top trumpeters and teachers. We’ll brass players, taken in turn by three very different be working on Paul’s own transcription of Prokofiev’s Ying will guide pianists of all abilities in a relaxed brass tutors. A great way to start your day, focusing Steve Lodder is a leading jazz pianist, synth player Romeo and Juliet Suite, for a concert performance in and friendly atmosphere, and is happy to coach on breathing and the fundamentals of technique. and teacher, working with some of the coolest the Great Hall on Thursday. There’ll be opportunities anything from Bach to Bartók, and beyond. names in jazz. His course is open to intermediate for performances in the beautiful outdoor spaces of SESSION 2 SESSION 1 jazz pianists and keyboard players who wish to Dartington too! develop their improvisation skills. SESSION 3 Cornelius Cardew and Open Scores Trumpet Workshop SESSION 2 PAUL ARCHIBALD AND ERIC VLOEIMANS Big Band JOANNA MACGREGOR AND HOWARD SKEMPTON Our trumpet class is expanding this year with Saxophones Workshop STEVE DUMMER An open class for anyone interested in the great two tutors, and is open to trumpeters of all music ANDY SHEPPARD backgrounds. Paul Archibald is one of UK’s busiest Steve Dummer will be rehearsing Dartington Big composer Cornelius Cardew and his legacy. We’ll orchestral trumpeters, regularly working with Britten The ECM recording artist, world-renowned Band for the final Friday night bash, with solos be looking at Cardew’s piano music; his links with Sinfonia, London Philharmonic and his own English bandleader and composer Andy Sheppard offers from the great jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans. The Cage and indeterminate works like Autumn ’60 Brass Ensemble. Amsterdam-based Eric Vloeimans, one-to-one and ensemble tuition to all saxophonists. repertoire will range from a full programme of big and Memories of You; improvisation in The Tiger’s who was an enormous hit last year, is one of the Andy is one of jazz’s greatest collaborators, and band standards to more contemporary jazz pieces. Mind and Treatise; and The Great Learning, his coolest trumpeters in jazz. You’ll be learning music his characteristic sense of lyricism, alongside very Absolutely unmissable fun, this workshop is for masterpiece for the Scratch Orchestra. We’ll work techniques in a variety of styles, and be working on personal use of rhythms from Asia, Africa and all alto, tenor and baritone saxes, trumpets and towards an informal performance at the end of the repertoire ranging from Mark Anthony Turnage and South America, will be inspiring for young and older trombones, and piano, bass and drums. week. Georges Enescu to improv. There will be a chance to saxophonists alike. SESSION 4 SESSION 3 perform informally at the end of the week. SESSION 2 SESSION 2 Piano, Wind and Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops Jazz Drumming and SULKI YU, KAY STEPHEN AND PEI-SIAN NG Percussion Workshop Instrumental Courses The violinist and cellist of the outstanding Fournier MARTIN FRANCE Trio and the viola player of the brilliant young Gildas Wind Band Quartet lead individual instrumental classes, in a Martin France has worked with the finest and most relaxed and supportive atmosphere. creative musicians in the world - including Elvis STEVE DUMMER Costello, , and Nils-Petter SESSION 3 Molvaer - as well as many classical orchestras. His A great opportunity to dust off an instrument class is open to all drummers and percussionists that hasn’t been played for a few years, improve who’d like to hone their jazz skills. ensemble playing, and play some great music. Grade 5 standard or above is ideal; there’ll be an SESSION 2 informal performance on Friday afternoon. MUSIC THEATRE SESSION 1 30 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 31 Chamber Music Yoga QUENTIN POOLE, FOURNIER TRIO AND ATÉA JUSTIN DALTON Support Dartington WIND QUINTET See page 11 for more details. The chamber music programme, open to all 7.45AM – 8.30AM International Summer School instrumentalists and singers, will offer one formally organised session each day. Coaching will be available from members of the resident ensembles, Open Dance Course: Jive both for these and for the other sessions of rehearsal and study. Groups can be organized in advance or Everyone is invited to get ready for the final Big more spontaneous music making can be facilitated Band party on Friday night by learning the cool jazz with repertoire suggestions or players to fill gaps movements of Jive, taught by this experienced tutor. in an ensemble. Pre-formed groups are welcome. SESSION 4 There will also be occasional larger-scale ensemble sessions, open to all. SESSIONS 1, 3 & 4 More Than Music

Illustrated Lecture: The Age of Bowie Paul Morley, an outstandingly astute and passionate music journalist for the last thirty years, has written brilliantly and profoundly about pop music, as well as classical music. His new book, The Age of Bowie, is a moving tribute that is part biography, part memoir, but also a book about how to live. Friends of the Dartington The Dartington International 21 AUGUST 5.15PM International Summer School Summer School Foundation Illustrated Lecture: For over 60 years, young musicians, celebrated The Dartington International Summer School virtuosos and passionate amateurs have come Foundation is an independent charity that The Silent Pianist Speaks together to learn from each other, create and aims to invest in the development of the Neil Brand gives an illuminating lecture-recital on perform new work, interpret gems from the Summer School. The Foundation aims to build his extraordinary life as a pianist and composer, classical, folk, jazz, and modern repertoires, as a significant endowment to ensure the Summer using clips from his favourite Silent Era films. soloists, in ensembles, in choirs and orchestras, School can be enjoyed by future generations of 23 AUGUST 5.15PM firing new works and artistic partnerships which talented students as well as gifted amateurs. resonate far beyond the Summer School. Through careful investment and stewardship of your gift and your wishes, the Foundation Musical Magpie-ism: The Friends Programme is an invitation to those provides a donation to the Summer School every Multimedia Installations who love the Dartington International Summer year. We are keen to hear from those who would School to ensure it continues to flourish. Here are like to play a significant part in guaranteeing DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA AND STUDENTS OF just some of the ways you can support us: THE MULTIMEDIA, ART AND SOUND DESIGN the future of this invaluable and unique feature COURSE • Join the Friends of British musical life. To discuss legacy and • Sponsor a Concert endowments please contact Gareth Keene, A series of free multimedia installations and • Support a Bursary Student Company Secretary, Buttermead, Manaton, performances around the estate, created by this Newton Abbot, Devon TQ13 9XG, UK year’s Multimedia, Art and Sound Design students. The Friends Programme is managed by the [email protected], DISSF charity number: 25 AUGUST 2 – 4.30PM Trust. For more details visit 272163 www.dartington.org/support-us/ or email [email protected]

32 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 33 Catering Concerts and Day Tickets Fees and Accommodation Participants staying in the Medieval Courtyard Individual concert tickets and day observer eat at the White Hart. Those staying at Higher tickets are available through our website Close, Foxhole and camping, or choosing www.dartington.org/summer-school. the Catering Only option eat at Higher Close 5.15pm and 10pm concerts/talks – £8 and The prices shown reflect charges once subsidies, The Accommodation & Catering package is for 7 Refectory - canteen style dining. Vegetarian and £10 respectively possible through fundraising and the support of nights, checking in from 14:00 on the Saturday gluten free options will always be available but 7.45pm concerts – £14 (bench seat) the Dartington Hall Trust, have been applied. of your week and checking out by 10:00 the we can cater for all dietary requirements; please £18.50 (central rake) following Saturday. All meals are included provide full information upon booking. Day observer ticket – £10 The Courses & Concerts package allows you from dinner on Saturday night to breakfast the to participate in or observe all courses (unless following Saturday for one person. Enjoy a full-English and continental breakfast, a Please note the Courses and Concerts package specified), and attend all concerts in one week. light lunch, and a full three course evening meal includes all courses and concerts. 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34 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 35 Concerts and Events

DATE TIME VENUE CONCERT TITLE ARTIST DESCRIPTION DATE TIME VENUE CONCERT TITLE ARTIST DESCRIPTION WEEK ONE WEEK TWO

29 Jul 7.45pm Great Hall Roman Holiday Ensemble Meridiana From Stockholm, via Italy, to London: 05 Aug 7.45pm Great Hall Great Sonatas Baroque ensemble and Robert Howarth leads dazzling performances Handel, Corelli and more through the eyes harpsichord of Rameau, Buxtehude, Bach and Handel of Johan Helmich Roman 06 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Jill Kemp: The Virtuoso Jill Kemp – recorders From Baroque to the 21st century, from 30 Jul 5.15pm Great Hall Stories in Transit: Marina Warner, Alice Oswald, What role can imaginary narratives play Recorder Claire Williams - harpsichord this outstanding virtuoso Telling the Tale in Peter Oswald, in the refugee crisis? Join this fascinating Gavin Roberts - piano Times of Conflict Tamim Al-Barghouti discussion.

7.45pm Great Hall Birds in Exile Fretwork-viol consort Fascinating programme of 16th and 17th 7.45pm Great Hall Eliza and Martin Carthy Eliza Carthy - fiddle and vocals Folk royalty returns to Dartington - prepare century Mediterranean composers in exile Martin Carthy - guitar and vocals to be amazed

10.00pm Great Hall The Strange Story of Jack Joanna MacGregor - John Dowland and John Fahey, America’s 10.00pm Great Hall Vienna vs: Berlin Martyna Kazmierczak - fortepiano Gorgeous keyboard works by CPE Bach, Dowland and Blind Joe Death piano, with narrator cult and folk guitarist Fasch, Haydn and Mozart

31 Jul 5.15pm Great Hall The Daughter of the Merit Ariane Stephanos - singer Songs and stories of the Middle East and 07 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Baroque Wind and Brass Ross Brown – trumpet, Andy Thrilling fanfares, and early brass and Pomegranate Tree Nilufar Habibian - quanan Mediterranean are reinvented and rewoven Watts – dulcian, with ensemble wind pieces Jon Banks - percussion Anna Conomos - storyteller 7.45pm Great Hall Carolyn Sampson: Carolyn Sampson – soprano A soprano’s Schubertiade: Gretchen, 7.45pm Great Hall In a Strange Land: Elizabethan Stile Antico - early music vocal Music of intense spirituality, including Schubert’s Women Joseph Middleton - piano Mignon, Ellen and Suleika sing Composers in Exile ensemble Byrd, Tallis, Dowland, Philips and more 10.00pm Great Hall Richard Tunnicliffe: Richard Tunnicliffe - cello A survey of cello music, from Vivaldi and 10.00pm Great Hall Infinite Riches in a Huw Warren - jazz piano, Atmospheric, late night jazz from this The 18th Century Cello Steven Devine - harpischord Vandini to Bonocini and Barrière Little Room with guests poetic and innovative jazz musician 08 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Illustrated Lecture: Last Words James Runcie – lecturer, Joanna Keats’ last letters; Virginia Woolf and David 01 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Dancing Voices: Salome and Marina Warner - critic and A new ballet, discussed and demonstrated: MacGregor - piano illustrations Hume; and Bach’s Art of Fugue the Qiyan of Arabic Poetry mythographer, Kim Brandstrup - medieval Salome and the ‘singing girls’ of choreographer, Joanna MacGregor the Abbasid Court 7.45pm Great Hall First Words, Final Songs Joanna MacGregor – piano Ligeti’s dazzlingly mercurial Op.1; late 7.45pm Great Hall ‘A Musicall Banquet’ Emma Kirkby - soprano Music from four European countries, James Runcie - words Liszt and Schubert, including B flat major Nicholas Clapton - countertenor stealing its title from Dowland’s 1610 Sonata D960 David Miller - lutes anthology 10.00pm Great Hall Gods and Kings Andrew Watts - countertenor Works by Handel, Gluck, Mozart and Vivaldi 10.00pm Great Hall Alice Oswald: The Rainstorm Alice Oswald - poet, New Radio 3 poetry project inspired by Gavin Roberts - piano Joanna MacGregor - piano and Daniel Defoe’s The Storm, with Dartmoor soundscapes, Gary Fabian Millar artist 09 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Italian Fire: String virtuosity Adrian Butterfield - violin Sizzling virtuosity: Vivaldi, Tartini, Locatelli, - projections over two centuries Richard Tunnicliffe - cello Rolla and Paganini. 02 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Purcell, Telemann and Bach Richard Boothby - viola da gamba Telemann’s newly discovered fantasias, Jane Chapman - harpsichord plus suites and grounds 7.45pm Great Hall Music Domestica: The Kate Semmens - soprano Music for the home by Bach, Handel, Enlightened Music Maker Matthew Truscott - violin Leclair and Monteclair 7.45pm Great Hall Piffaro & Co. The City Musick - directed by Civic, court and festival music from Rebecca Truscott - cello William Lyons Renaissance Italy. Steven Devine - harpsichord

10.00pm Great Hall Vespers for St. Hildegarde Stevie Wishart - hurdy gurdy, Jon Stevie Wishart’s candlelit Compline for 10.00pm Great Hall Innocence and Experience, Carolyn Sampson - soprano From Russian folk melodies to Blake and Banks - percussion, Gavin Roberts Hildegarde of Bingen: both medieval and Lullabies and Fairy Tales Joanna MacGregor - piano Britten - and more - organ, vocal ensemble contemporary 10 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall As I Walked Out One Morning Dartington Folk Choir, folk music A cappella folk choir and instrumentalists 03 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall La Brillantina Ensemble in Echo: Gawain Brilliant, fiery music from Renaissance students and tutors directed by Eliza and Martin Carthy, Paul Glenton – cornett, Emily White – Italy Hutchinson and Sally Davies sackbut, violin

7.45pm Great Hall The Oriental Miscellany: Airs Jane Chapman - harpsichord From Hindustani airs to Stevie Wishart’s 7.45pm Great Hall Opera: Purcell’s King Arthur Dartington Baroque Orchestra Gods and goddesses, Britons and Saxons: of Hindustan with visuals and guests new, Dart-inspired Out of the Mists and Advanced Opera students, Richard Williams’ gorgeous production, set directed by Robert Howarth in 1950s England 10.00pm Great Hall Stories in Transit: Dowland’s Singers of Stile Antico, with New texts to Dowland’s Lachrimae, telling Lachrimae Texted guests contemporary tales of exile and migration 10.00pm Great Hall Folk: Duo Pagoda Project Paul Hutchinson - accordion A warm, entertaining blend of traditional Karen Wimhurst - clarinets folk music and jazz improvisation 04 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Masterclass Concert Performers from the Advanced A mixed programme of the week’s liveliest courses - singers, lutes and students: all kinds of music 11 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Masterclass Concert Performers from the Advanced A mixed programme of the week’s liveliest keyboards courses students: all kinds of music 7.45pm Great Hall The Florentine Intermedi Dartington Choir, Renaissance Glitteringly spectacular: you are invited to Wind Band, The City Musick, a royal Medici wedding! 7.45pm Great Hall Handel’s Samson Dartington Choir, Baroque Handel’s mightiest oratorio, based on singers of Stile Antico, Andrew Orchestra, Laurence Cummings, Milton’s Samson Agonistes Griffiths Carolyn Sampson and Andrew Watts 10.30pm White Hart Tavern Night: The City Musick, singers and Entertaining medieval songs and dances, Bar Medieval Partying students washed down with mead (or wine…) 10.30pm Great Hall Ceilidh Caller and folk band Final Night Party, with dancing

36 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 37 DATE TIME VENUE CONCERT TITLE ARTIST DESCRIPTION DATE TIME VENUE CONCERT TITLE ARTIST DESCRIPTION WEEK THREE WEEK FOUR 12 Aug 7.45pm Great Hall Heath Quartet: Haydn, Heath Quartet Haydn Op.33 no1 in B minor; Beethoven 19 Aug 7.45pm Great Hall Great Piano Trios Fournier Trio Including Beethoven Ghost Trio in D major Beethoven and Mendelssohn Op.59 no.1 in F major; Mendelssohn Op.80 Op. 70, and Bridge Phantasie in C minor in F minor 20 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Summer Music for Atéa Wind Quintet Taffanel Quintet in G minor; Barber 13 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall The Hungarian Connection I Joseph Havlat - piano Liszt, Ligeti, and Dohnányi’s sensational Wind Quintet Summer Music; Ligeti Six Bagatelles Ruralia Hungaria 7.45pm Great Hall Black Voices Black Voices - a cappella group Internationally-acclaimed vocal ensemble 7.45pm Great Hall Adrian Brendel and Adrian Brendel - cello Debussy and Franck sonatas; Schnittke singing in the black oral tradition Joanna MacGregor: Joanna MacGregor - piano no.2 and Beethoven A major Op.69 no.3 Cello and piano recital 10.00pm Great Hall Dead Rat Orchestra Nathaniel Mann, Robin Alderton Raw, poignant, and with a love of Flailing axes, throbbing idiosyncratic folk traditions 10.00pm Great Hall Bukolika Piano Trio Roma Tic - violin, Joanna Gutowska Chopin, Lutoslawski and Dvořák’s harmonium, grinding fiddle and - cello, Anna Szalucka - piano Dumky Trio 2000 shards of micro-tuned steel… 14 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Sarah Gabriel: Song Recital Sarah Gabriel - soprano Brilliant soprano mixes classical with Gavin Roberts - piano music theatre repertoire 21 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Illustrated Lecture: Paul Morley - lecturer Part memoir, part biography, a fascinating The Age of Bowie study of a pop icon 7.45pm Great Hall Adriano Adewale: Adriano Adewale – percussion, Contemporary, jazzy tango and Latin Latin Evening Luiz Morais - Brazilian guitar; American rhythm 7.45pm Great Hall Jazzworks Andy Sheppard - saxophones Sensational music from this jazz with Thomas Gould - violin, Eric Vloeimans - trumpet supergroup Adrian Brendel - cello and Martin France - percussion Joanna MacGregor - piano Steve Lodder - keyboards 10.00pm Great Hall Pascal Rogé: Pascal Rogé - piano A late night programme of Satie, Ravel and 10.00pm Great Hall : Sonatas and Joanna MacGregor - Cage’s meditative, cult classic, based on French Piano Music Debussy by the French master Interludes for Prepared Piano prepared piano Hindu philosophy 15 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Alfred Brendel on Winterreise Alfred Brendel The legendary pianist on Schubert’s 22 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Alkan: Concerto for Solo Piano David Gray - piano A rare chance to hear this pinnacle of piano greatest cycle virtuosity, by a maverick composer 7.45pm Great Hall Schubert: Die Winterreise Paul Nilon - tenor One of the most enigmatic masterpieces in 7.45pm Great Hall An Evening of Brass Music Paul Archibald - trumpet Scintillating brass in classical, jazz and Joanna MacGregor - piano the Western canon Brett Baker - trombone contemporary styles – unmissable! 10.00pm Great Hall The Hungarian Connection II Florian Mitrea - piano Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no.5 Eric Vloeimans, trumpet Héroïde-élégiaque, Schubert Hungarian 10.00pm Great Hall Songs of the Jazz Age Sarah Gabriel - soprano, Thomas Sparkling repertoire from 20s and 30s Melody, and more Ang - piano, with guests America 16 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Alfred Brendel: My Life Joanna MacGregor interviews An informal talk from the great pianist, 23 Aug 5.15pm Barn Illustrated Lecture: The Silent Neil Brand - lecturer Celebrated composer demonstrates the art Alfred Brendel about his early life and influences Theatre Pianist Speaks of film and live piano 7.45pm Great Hall Dartington Festival Orchestra: Students of the Advanced Prokofiev Classical Symphony; Mozart to Arvo Pärt Conducting course students, Brahms Serenade no.2; Pärt Cantus in 7.45pm Great Hall Film with Music: Andy Sheppard - saxophones, Eisenstein’s1925 masterpiece of Soviet Dartington Festival Orchestra, Memoriam Benjamin Britten; Mozart Battleship Potemkin Joanna MacGregor - piano & silent film - a tribute to early Russian Sian Edwards - director Symphony no.41 Jupiter electronica, Matt Fairclough - revolutionaries sound projection 10.00pm Great Hall ‘The Instant and Eternity Heath Quartet Pärt Fratres and Glazunov String Quintet in struggle within us:’ Arvo Pärt Adrian Brendel - cello A major Op.39 10pm Great Hall George Crumb: Black Angels Gildas Quartet Crumb’s brilliantly scary work for electric and Glazunov string quartet 17 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Music from Brazil Adriano Adewale – percussion Sun-filled rhythm and melody from two 24 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Prokofiev: Dartington Brass Ensemble Love and Death - raising the roof with Luiz Morais - Brazilian masterly jazz musicians Romeo and Juliet Suite Paul Archibald - conductor Prokofiev’s great ballet score 7-string guitar 7.45pm Great Hall Opera: Peter Grimes Students of the Advanced Starring Paul Nilon as Peter Grimes – 7.15pm Barn Sweeney Todd: The Demon Advanced Music Theatre course: The first of three performances of Opera and Conducting courses, Britten’s most powerful opera Theatre Barber of Fleet Street Richard Williams & Sarah Gabriel – Sondheim’s brilliantly dark masterpiece Dartington Festival Orchestra, Sian directors, George Vass - conductor Edwards - conductor 7.45pm Great Hall The Hungarian Connection III Thomas Gould – violin, members of Kodály Duo Op.7 and Serenade; Bartók, and 10.30pm White Hart Jazz Jam Students of the Jazz course Roof-raising jazz in the bar the Heath Quartet, Adrian Brendel - Liszt Vallée d’Obermann (trio arr.) Andy Sheppard - director cello, Joanna MacGregor - piano 25 Aug 2pm Studio 1 Cornelius Cardew Howard Skempton, Michael Cardew’s extraordinary scores, 10.00pm Great Hall Opera Gala Students on the Advanced Opera Show-stopping operatic and Finnissy, Joanna MacGregor, reinterpreted course, Susanna Stranders - ensembles Summer School students piano/director 3pm Barn Film with Music Students of the Film and Music Short, classic films with live music 18 Aug 1.30pm Barn Sweeney Todd: The Demon Advanced Music Theatre course: The second of three performances of Theatre course, Neil Brand - director Theatre Barber of Fleet Street Richard Williams & Sarah Sondheim’s brilliantly dark masterpiece Gabriel – directors, George Vass 2- 4.30pm Dartington Multimedia Installations Students of the Multimedia, Art A series of multimedia installations and - conductor Gardens Musical Magpie-ism and Sound Design course, Dead performances around the Estate Rat Orchestra 4pm Studio 1 Scenes from Guys and Dolls/ Musicals course: Richard Williams Great songs, witty choreography Oklahoma! & Sarah Gabriel - directors 5.15pm Great Hall New Chamber Music Gildas Quartet New chamber music from students of the 5.15pm Great Hall Masterclass Concert Performers from the A mixed programme of the week’s liveliest Joseph Havlat - piano Advanced Composition course, directed by Advanced courses students: all kinds of music Michael Finnissy 7.15pm Barn Sweeney Todd: The Demon Advanced Music Theatre course: The last of three performances of 7.45pm Great Hall Elgar’s Cello Concerto and The Dartington Festival Orchestra Glyndebourne conductor Lee Reynolds Theatre Barber of Fleet Street Richard Williams & Sarah Sondheim’s brilliantly dark masterpiece Music Makers Dartington Choir directs Elgar’s profound, valedictory Gabriel – directors, Mark Austin Pei-Sian Ng - cello masterpieces - conductor 11.00pm Great Hall Big Band and Jive Dartington Big Band Final Party Night: Stonking Big Band and 7.45pm Great Hall Winner of Dartington Piano Dartington Choir and Dartington A stirring evening of Beethoven’s great Steve Dummer - director dancing Concerto Competition, and Festival Orchestra, George Vass - choral work, prefaced by a concerto by Eric Vloeimans - trumpet Beethoven’s Mass in C major, Op.86 conductor Mozart, Beethoven or Schumann 26 Aug 7.45pm Great Hall Opera: Peter Grimes Students of the Advanced Opera Starring Paul Nilon as Peter Grimes – 10.15pm White Hart In the Heart of Rhythm Students from the Latin Music A joyfully uplifting (and loud!) course, Dartington Festival Britten’s most powerful opera Ensemble courses, Adriano Adewale - director performance of Latin percussion music Orchestra, Sian Edwards - 11pm Great Hall Salsa Ball Salsa Band Final Night Party, with dancing conductor

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