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Summer 2015 programme Box Office 020 8463 0100 www.blackheathhalls.com Hire the Halls Blackheath Halls, a Grade II listed building, offers two beautiful and unique spaces for celebrations, performances, recordings, conferences and rehearsals. Renowned for the quality of its acoustics, the magnificent Great Hall is the venue of choice for leading orchestras and ensembles for recordings and rehearsals. Among those who choose Blackheath Halls as their preferred venue are Chandos Records, English National Opera, London Symphony Orchestra, Channel 4 and the BBC. The recently refurbished Recital Room, which is licensed for wedding ceremonies, offers the perfect location for smaller scale functions and chamber music performances. For all hire enquiries please contact Caroline Foulkes, [email protected] or 020 8318 9758 BLACKHEATH WELCOMESUNDAYS DON’T BOOK YOUR HOLIDAYS YET... CONTENTS There’s so much on offer for audiences of There are two excellent Blackheath Classical events all ages at Blackheath Halls this summer. Sundays recitals planned featuring It’s the ninth year of our successful leading soloists. On 10 May violin and and there is still piano duo and Blackheath Halls Opera Michael Bochmann Deniz Myths and Fairies time for you, your family and friends to Arman Gelenbe will be joined by soprano take part in a fully staged production of Kirsty McLean in a programme of works Mozart’s Idomeneo. by Mozart, Britten and Brahms. This The recently launched Thursday night recital forms part of our exciting series of Blackheath Sundays Laughing Boy Comedy Club is already magical events in support of this year’s proving very popular. This is your chance operas. For the final recital of the series on to see some of the new emerging comedy 7 June BBC New Generation Artist, and Musical Theatre talents. We are also delighted to announce leading baritone, Benjamin Appl, with an extra date for Romesh Ranganathan pianist James Cheung, will be performing and Suzi Ruffell’s doubleheader show on Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin. Comedy events 16 May – book soon so you don’t miss out! From 7 to 13 May we are putting on a On 30 May The Manfreds, with original series of magical events around the theme frontman, Paul Jones, will be performing of Myths and Fairies, including a What’s On When many of the greatest hits of 60’s legends, performance by our own Blackheath Manfred Mann. Halls Orchestra. These events look For a great evening of variety with forward to our opera season in July. fantastic comedy, music and stand-up, Trinity Laban Opera returns with Blackheath Opera don’t miss The House of Fun with Arthur Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Smith on 12 June. and, bringing our summer programme to After the great success of last year’s a close, we have the Blackheath Halls Children’s events Folk Weekend, from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 Opera performances of Mozart’s May the Halls will once again be filled Idomeneo with soloists Mark Wilde, with the sounds of ‘folk’. Award-winning Sam Furness, Kirstin Sharpin and Music events solo artist, Emily Smith, will bring her Rebecca Bottone. sublime Scottish sound to the Halls. We Trinity Laban continues to play an also welcome back the great Irish folk integral role in the music making of the Spoken Word band Altan. On Sunday come and join us Halls, with a production of Gilbert and at the The Big Jig a fun day for the whole Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, family, from Toddler Folk, Story-telling and orchestral and chamber music concerts Gypsy Fiddle to a Family Ceilidh. and jazz events. Art Exhibitions Our Saturday children’s theatre shows There’s something for everyone, so continue with a great mix of classic tales where better to be this summer than at and new and enchanting stories. There is Blackheath Halls. Support us an extra treat on Saturday 9 May at 11am when local children’s author, Rachael Mortimer, will be introducing you to her Booking info fairy tales with a difference. Keith Murray, General Manager Contacts General Manager Operations Manager Marketing and Technical Manager Community Administrator Keith Murray Hannah Benton Box Office Co-ordinator Malcolm Richards Engagement Manager Caroline Foulkes Kyle Jarvis Rose Ballantyne Tel: 020 8318 9758 Fax: 020 8852 5154 Email: [email protected] Box office: 020 8463 0100 www.blackheathhalls.com 3 BLACKHEATHCLASSICAL EVENTS SUNDAYS MUSIC APPRECIATION WITH MATTHEW TAYLOR Inextinguishable: Sibelius and Nielsen – A Joint Celebration MONDAY 13, 20, 27 APRIL 10am, TUESDAY 5 MAY 9.45am, MONDAY 11, 18 MAY 10am, TUESDAY 26 MAY 9.45am, MONDAY 1, 8 & 15 JUNE 10am | Recital Room This year is the 150th anniversary of two distinct Nordic giants, Sibelius and Nielsen whose vast array of symphonies, concertos, tone poems, chamber music and one opera will be illustrated in tandem by Matthew Taylor. Sample Sibelius and his depiction of the Finnish Kalevala or Nielsen’s evolutionary progressive view of tonality and life in this extended series. For more information, make a booking or arrange your free taster lecture contact: Lionel Lewis on 020 8297 1075, email [email protected] or visit www.blackheath-music.co.uk COURSE FEE: £95 (10-week course) | £70 (8-week Mondays only course) TRINITY LABAN POSTGRADUATE TRINITY LABAN OPERA SCENES PHILIP JONES FRIDAY 24 APRIL 5pm & 7.30pm | Great Hall Box office COMPETITION FINAL Director Simon Iorio TUESDAY 21 APRIL 6.30pm | Great Hall 020 Musical Directors Robert Bottriell; Kelvin Lim Hear Trinity Laban’s most talented brass ensembles (of up to ten players) 8463 Trinity Laban postgraduate vocal performing a free choice programme, in students perform scenes from Dukas’ a bid to win this sought after prize in 0100 Ariane et Barbe-bleu, Smetana’s The memory of the late great trumpeter Bartered Bride and Jonathan Dove’s Philip Jones. Flight. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed ADMISSION FREE but ticketed Be part of our brochure Find out how your business can benefit from advertising in our next brochure Contact: Janine Howlett, marketing consultant [email protected] 4 www.blackheathhalls.com CLASSICAL EVENTS JETTE PARKER YOUNG TRINITY LABAN ARTISTS RECITAL Rising Stars of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden SHOWCASE SERIES WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL 7.30pm | Recital Room Trinity Laban chamber musicians and soloists perform early evening Artistic Director David Gowland recitals in this series showcasing Administrator Siri Fischer Hansen Trinity Laban musicians in the intimate setting of the Recital Room. ANUSH HOVHANNISYAN soprano SYLVAIN BLASSEL harpist YURIY YURCHUK bass-baritone FRIDAY 24 APRIL 6pm | Recital Room Sviridov Russia cast adrift The French harpist Sylvain Blassel Strauss Vier letzte Lieder performs a concert with Trinity Rossini ‘Sombre fôret’, from Guillaume Laban harp students as part of this Tell Act II student showcase series. Programme to include Beethoven’s Bagatelles Mozart ‘Aprite un po’ quegli occhi’, from Le Op.126 for solo harp. nozze di Figaro, Act IV ADMISSION FREE but ticketed Verdi ‘Come in quest’ ora bruna’, from Simon Boccanegra, Act I Verdi ‘lo morro’, from Don Carlos, Act IV TICKETS: £7 | £5 students Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is generously supported by Oak Foundation © ROH Photographer Mark Douet TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Side-by-Side FRIDAY 1 MAY 6pm | Great Hall Conductor Jonathan Tilbrook R.Strauss Don Juan, Op.20 R.Strauss Tod und Verklärung Op.24 (Death and Transfiguration) PENTE ENSEMBLE Jonathan Tilbrook conducts orchestral students and FRIDAY 29 MAY 6pm | Recital Room professional teaching staff in a performance of Richard Strauss’ tone poems. This showcase series concert features Described by Karl Dahlhaus as Fin-de-siécle (end of the an up and coming student wind century) Modernism, Don Juan redefined the parameters of quintet from Trinity Laban musical potential, due to the work’s flamboyancy. The performing both standard and rarely evocative Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), heard repertoire for the ensemble. which portrays the death of an artist, ends the programme. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed ADMISSION FREE but ticketed Box office: 020 8463 0100 5 CLASSICAL EVENTS TRINITY LABAN CONCERT ORCHESTRA THURSDAY 18 JUNE 7.30pm | Great Hall Conductor Gerry Cornelius Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty, Op.66 (Intrada) Satie Parade Kodály Dances of Galánta Tchaikovsky Symphony No.2 in C minor, Op.17 ‘Little Russian’ Gerry Cornelius conducts a programme of ballet music and folk-inspired works. TICKETS: £5 LUNCHTIME RECITALS The Friends of Blackheath Halls ANYSSA NEUMANN piano WIECK PIANO DUO bring a series of recitals for the FRIDAY 8 MAY THURSDAY 4 JUNE spring and summer. All concerts An all-Bach recital – programme Mozart Sonata in C major, are in the Recital Room and start K.521, Amirov Valse from opera at 1.10pm. A light lunch is includes English Suite No.5 in E minor. ‘Sevil’, Mendelssohn Allegro available prior to the recital. Brillante Op.92, Gershwin Admission is free with a retiring GUILDHALL SCHOOL CANTATA Rhapsody in Blue donation to Blackheath Halls. ENSEMBLE Director James Johnstone LANA TROTOVSEK violin BLAZE ENSEMBLE SIMON LANE piano MONDAY 11 MAY MONDAY 13 APRIL MONDAY 8 JUNE Beethoven Quintet for piano Five singers accompanied by Brahms Sonata and winds Op.16; Ian Stephens violins, recorders, gamba, cello, No.3 in D minor, Thea Dances. theorbo and harpsichord perform what many believe to Op.108, Arvo KRISTINA ROKASHEVICH piano be Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Pärt ‘Fratres’, Tchaikovsky MONDAY 20 APRIL finest piece of musical theatre: Actéon change en biche. ‘Meditation’ Beethoven Piano Sonata No.30, Op.42, Frolov Concert Op.109; Schumann Carnaval Op.9 ELLERDALE TRIO Fantasy on themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. OLGA STEZHKO piano MONDAY 18 MAY MONDAY 27 APRIL Beethoven Trio No.7 in B flat MARIA CANYIGUERAL piano major, Op.97 ‘Archduke’; Cilia Mozart Sonata Petridou Piano Trio ‘Black July MONDAY 15 JUNE K.570; Prokofiev 1974’: ii.