Saturday 16 December 2017 7.30–9.45pm Barbican Hall

LSO SEASON CONCERT BERNSTEIN 100

Bernstein No 2, ‘The Age of Anxiety’ Interval Bernstein (concert version)

Sir conductor WONDERFUL Danielle de Niese Eileen Alysha Umphress Ruth Nathan Gunn Bob Baker Duncan Rock Wreck/Second Associate Editor David Butt Philip Lonigan Guide/First Editor/Frank Kevin Brewis Third Cop/First Man/Cadet/Villager Stephen John Davis First Cop/Chick Clark Flora Dawson Violet TOWN Second Woman Soophia Foroughi Andrew Keelan Second Cop/Second Man Jane Quinn First Woman Michael Baxter Fourth Cop Daniele Quilleri, Gary Brown casting consultants chorus director

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Bernstein was also known for some LSO LIVE’S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S PANUFNIK BUSHRA EL-TURK of the 20th century’s greatest musicals, DREAM WINS RECORDING OF THE YEAR and this evening’s programme concludes A former participant on the LSO's Panufnik with his 1953 work Wonderful Town. This The LSO’s recording of Mendelssohn’s Scheme, Bushra El-Turk tells is a piece well-known to Sir Simon Rattle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed with us what it was like working with the LSO who created a landmark recording in 1999. Sir , the Monteverdi and how she combined Middle Eastern and It is a pleasure to welcome a brand new cast and three artists from the Guildhall School, Western art music in her piece Tmesis. of soloists, with a number of performers has been awarded Symphonic Recording making their LSO debuts. of the Year by two French BEHIND THE SCENES monthly publications, Classica and Diapason. WITH ALICE SARA OTT I hope that you enjoy tonight’s performance A warm welcome to this evening’s concert. and that you can join us again soon. On LSO FRIENDS PRIORITY BOOKING On our YouTube channel, Alice Sara Ott plays Tonight LSO Sir Simon Rattle 13 January Sir Simon Rattle is joined by a FOR THE 2018/19 SEASON a dazzling, explosive excerpt from Liszt’s continues our celebration of , cast of narrators, including Helen McCrory , and shows us her talent for as we approach his centenary year in 2018. and Simon Callow, for a rare performance LSO Friends will receive priority booking for solving a Rubik’s Cube in less than a minute – Bernstein was one of the 20th century’s most of the Genesis Suite, directed by Gerard the 2018/19 Season when it goes on sale in part of her warm-up routine before a concert. influential musicians and a close associate McBurney and with specially created visual January. Find out more about joining the of the LSO, holding the title of President projections by production designer Mike Tutaj. Friends at lso.co.uk/friends. SIR SIMON RATTLE ON BERNSTEIN from 1987 to 1990. WELCOME TO OUR GROUPS Also on our YouTube channel, Sir Simon This programme is a portrait of the city where Rattle talks about his love of Bernstein's Bernstein made his name, New York, beginning A warm welcome to our groups tonight: music and tells us more about why he chose with his ‘Age of Anxiety’, a work for solo Judith Howick & Friends the pieces featured in tonight's concert. piano and based on W H Auden’s Kathryn McDowell CBE DL Konzertdirektion Schmid ode to war time in the city. We are delighted Managing Director Nicole Hu & Friends Read our blog, watch videos and more to be joined by Krystian Zimerman, who ACFEA Tour Consultants • .com/lso was a great friend of Bernstein and is a British Emunah Entertains • lso.co.uk/blog very special interpreter of his music. Marjorie Wilkins & Friends The two performed this piece together many times during the composer’s lifetime, Read our news online notably during the LSO’s extensive • lso.co.uk/news 1986 Bernstein Festival.

2 Welcome 16 December 2017 Tonight’s Concert Sir Simon Rattle in 2018

ymphonic and orchestral music, PROGRAMME NOTE WRITERS Thursday 11 January 2018 7.30pm Thursday 19 April 2018 7.30pm ballets, musicals, film, choral works, Barbican Hall Thursday 26 April 2018 7.30pm – Leonard Bernstein was David Gutman is a writer of CD and Barbican Hall one of the most multifaceted composers programme notes who has provided Schubert Symphony No 8, ‘Unfinished’ of the 20th century, writing music for just extensive commentary for the BBC Proms Mahler Rückert Lieder Helen Grime Woven Space * about every genre there is. ‘He’s a man since 1996. His books cover subjects Handel Three Arias (world premiere) of endless contradictions,’ says Sir Simon as wide-ranging as Prokofiev and David Rameau Les Boréades – Suite Mahler Symphony No 9 Rattle. ‘I thought it would be wonderful Bowie and he is a regular contributor to pair these two different sides of him’. to Gramophone and The Stage. Sir Simon Rattle conductor Sir Simon Rattle conductor Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano ‘Age of Anxiety’ serves as one such example Edward Bhesania is a writer and editor * Commissioned for Sir Simon Rattle and the of Bernstein’s many influences. ‘It’s this who reviews for The Strad and The Stage. LSO by the Barbican amazing mixture of Mahler, jazz and He has also written for The Observer, Saturday 13 January 2018 7.30pm everything – you just see simply wonderful BBC Music Magazine, International Piano, Barbican Hall 26 April generously supported by Baker McKenzie music that stands the test of time,’ The Tablet and Country Life. Sir Simon remarks. MUSIC OF EXILE Sunday 22 April 2018 7pm Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Milhaud et al Barbican Hall ‘Wonderful Town is another story ... it’s a Genesis Suite masterpiece, in its completely different way.’ Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Tippett The Rose Lake † Written in 1953, it looks ahead to the later Mahler comp Cooke Symphony No 10 works that would come to cement Bernstein’s Sir Simon Rattle conductor place in the popular imagination. ‘It has so Helen McCrory, Simon Callow, Sir Simon Rattle conductor much of Bernstein’s very particular language – Rodney Earl Clarke, Sara Kestelman narrators you can see West Side Story coming, and you Gerard McBurney creative director † Supported by Resonate, a PRS Foundation can hear Prelude, Fugue and Riffs coming, Mike Tutaj projection design initiative in partnership with Association of British but you can also hear the ease with which London Symphony Chorus , BBC Radio 3 and Boltini Trust he was able to enter into that extraordinary Simon Halsey chorus director world [of musical theatre].’ Produced by the LSO and the Barbican. Part of the lso.co.uk/whatson And for Sir Simon, pairing these two pieces LSO’s 2017/18 Season and Barbican Presents. 020 7638 8891 together is also making a statement – ‘We’re saying happy birthday, Lenny.’

Tonight’s Concert 3 Leonard Bernstein Symphony No 2, ‘The Age of Anxiety’ 1948–49 / note by David Gutman

Part One or all their seriousness of purpose Perhaps Bernstein no longer felt overawed can depict with striking prescience the world 1 The Prologue: Lento moderato not one of Leonard Bernstein’s by W H Auden •. ‘At the time I wrote it, to come: ‘Odourless ages, an ordered world / 2 The Seven Ages: Variations 1–7 three conforms to I thought it was absolutely necessary; Of planned pleasures and passport-control / Variation 1: L’istesso tempo the generic stereotype of the big abstract the poem and the Symphony were mutually Sentry-go sedatives, soft drinks and / Variation 2: Poco più mosso statement. The composer later confessed integral … But now I don’t think so. Managed money, a moral planet / Variation 3: Largamente, ma mosso to harbouring ‘a deep suspicion that every The Symphony has acquired a life of its own’. Tamed by terror’. Variation 4: Più mosso work I write, for whatever medium, is really Variation 5: Agitato theatre music in some way’. True to form, his — Today, whatever we make of Auden’s Variation 6: Poco meno mosso ‘Age of Anxiety’ has been turned into a dance ‘Odourless ages, an ordered world quartet of misfits – Quant, a world-weary Variation 7: L’istesso tempo piece by choreographers including Jerome Irish businessman; Malin, a retired Canadian 3 The Seven Stages: Variations 8–14 Robbins, John Neumeier and Liam Scarlett. Of planned pleasures and doctor and airman; Rosetta, a Jewish Variation 8: Molto moderato, passport-control, department store buyer; and Emble, a young ma movendo The score has a complex intellectual Sentry-go sedatives, soft drinks and naval recruit – it is the ‘musical’ qualities of Variation 9: Più mosso (Tempo di Valse) superstructure which at first Bernstein Bernstein’s composition which explain its Variation 10: Più mosso regarded as essential, holding fast to his Managed money, a moral planet growing appeal. ‘The Age of Anxiety’ is not Variation 11: L’istesso tempo literary inspiration. ‘I had not planned a Tamed by terror’ the first symphony to include a substantial Variation 12: Poco più vivace ‘meaningful’ work, at least not in the sense — part for piano. Antecedents include Variation 13: L’istesso tempo of a piece whose meaning relied on details Vincent d’Indy’s Symphonie sur un chant Variation 14: Poco più vivace of programmatic implication. I was merely W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety montagnard français (1886). More pertinent writing a symphony inspired by a poem stylistic models could be found in ballets by Part Two and following the general form of that poem. Today it is his musical invention quite as much Stravinsky and Hindemith. In this case, says 1 The Dirge: Largo Yet, when each section was finished I as Auden’s heavily stylised Pulitzer Prize- Bernstein, ‘The piano provides an almost 2 The Masque: Extremely Fast discovered, upon re-reading, detail after winning text that embodies the search for autobiographical protagonist, set against an 3 The Epilogue: Adagio; Andante; detail of programmatic relation to the poem – meaning in the post-War era summed up in orchestral mirror in which he sees himself’ – Con moto details that had ‘written themselves’ wholly the title. The six-part, 80-page poem, in which an observer to make connections, whether unplanned and unconscious’. Later, in 1965, four lonely people in a bar, emboldened by representing Auden or Bernstein himself. Krystian Zimerman piano he carried out a revision, changing the alcohol, try to establish a connection with ending so that the evening becomes more each other and ultimately with God, ‘phony’ We hear this directly at the end of the jazz satisfying for the soloist, originally absent or not, is comparatively little read. The gulf party that is ‘The Masque’; the instrument from the denouement on programmatic between the mundane characters and what (or its double) still there in the phantom grounds until its final resounding chord. Auden requires of them in his eclogue now form of a second piano within the orchestra, seems too great. Yet the extravagant language a piece of wordless theatre.

4 Programme Notes 16 December 2017 The presence of what he regarded as idea contained within its predecessor and Interval – 30 minutes • W H AUDEN (1907–73) vernacular flimflam unsettled the work’s generating the next – Bernstein’s habitual There are bars on all levels of the dedicatee, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s symphonic method in miniature. Concert Hall; ice cream can be bought resident maestro , at the stands on Stalls and Circle level. who, having offered the commission to his Part Two of the score, associated with the Visit the Barbican Shop on Level -1 and see favourite pupil, duly premiered the work on characters’ departure from the bar and their our new range of Gifts and Accessories. 8 April 1949. Bernstein was at the piano. increasingly pointless partying, assumes In fact, the overt jazz that surfaces in the first a Schoenbergian, then a Brahmsian penultimate section (using material dropped demeanour to lament the loss of a guiding • 1986 BERNSTEIN FESTIVAL from the musical ) is atypical; father figure, the ‘colossal dad’ (‘The Dirge’), elsewhere it is mixed down into a magpie moving on to worldlier bebop hedonism idiom owing almost as much to Shostakovich. at Rosetta’s place and the abortive love between Rosetta and Emble (‘The Masque’). The moods and meters of the six Auden- Bernstein being Bernstein, there’s a common Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York derived sections govern the pattern of the source in the twelve-note idea launching on 21 February 1907. As a boy he studied at music. For the first variation of ‘The Seven the previous section (itself an inversion St Edmund’s School, Hindhead where he met Stages’, where the poem speaks of remoter of the subsidiary flute theme from ‘The the future playwright Christopher Isherwood. times and places, Bernstein provides a Prologue’). Dawn breaks with ‘The Epilogue’, Auden graduated from Christ Church College, flowing melody in the manner of a Baroque a renewed search for values in everyday Oxford in 1928 and spent time teaching sarabande. But it is equally rewarding to lives lived alone. No easy optimism, rather before moving to America in 1939, becoming take in the argument as an eccentric kind a Shostakovich-like assertion of the a US citizen in 1946. He found success with of . determination to survive, more resolute The LSO’s Bernstein Festival ran from his first book, Poems, which was published than anything in the poem. After the April to May 1986, and was a celebration in 1930; plays written with Isherwood In ‘The Prologue’ a pair of clarinets begin a pianist’s interpolated burst of questioning of Bernstein’s music, from his symphonies established him as a left-wing writer, lonely pianissimo duet, followed by a long what emerges is the first of Bernstein’s and Chichester Psalms to West Side Story. a reputation he sought to escape in the US. descending scale on the flute which, the great Coplandish hymns of faith. Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal His 1947 poem The Age of Anxiety won composer suggests, ‘acts as a bridge into the Highness The Duke of Edinburgh attended him the Pulitzer Prize. Auden became realm of the unconscious, where most of the Krystian Zimerman, the most subtle the performance of ‘The Age of Anxiety’ Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1956, and poem takes place’. There follow two sets of pianist ever to champion this music, with Krystian Zimerman on 6 May. based his 1962 anthology The Dyer’s Hand seven variations corresponding to Auden’s played the work to great acclaim here on his lectures. He died on 29 September ‘Seven Ages’ and ‘Seven Stages’, each under the composer’s direction during 1973 in Austria, where he spent six months of the 14 segments growing out of some the LSO’s 1986 Bernstein Festival •. a year due to his declining health.

Programme Notes 5 Leonard Bernstein Wonderful Town 1953 / note by Edward Bhesania

Book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ine years after the success of deftly crafted songs for Russell – such as The sisters’ fortunes are contrasted in Music by Leonard Bernstein On the Town, Bernstein again ‘One Hundred Ways to Lose a Man’ and the next two songs: at the offices of the Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green hooked up with writing-duo Betty ‘Swing’ – that played to her strengths as a Manhatter, where Ruth has come with her Based upon the play My Sister Eileen Comden and Adolph Green for Wonderful character actress. (Russell claimed in her writing portfolio, Bob Baker and his fellow by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov Town, another salute to the Big . memoir that, when Bernstein talked about associate editors list the countless young and The Short Stories by Ruth McKenney The writers had been tasked by the show’s wanting to hear her vocal range, she didn’t hopefuls who have tried but failed to get director to produce the lyrics – and get realise she had any range other than the their talents noticed in New York (‘What Act One a score composed – to a tight deadline. one in her kitchen.) a Waste’), while Eileen, reflecting on Frank 1 Overture Bernstein, Comden and Green retreated to after a lunchtime visit, savours being 2 Christopher Street Bernstein’s studio apartment and, working ACT ONE ‘A Little Bit in Love’. 3 Ohio through a fug of cigarette smoke, came up 4 Conquering New York with the music and lyrics in five weeks. The action begins in the heart of Greenwich ‘Pass the Football’ is the only song for 5 One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man Village with a tourist guide presenting Wreck, the out-of-season football player 6 What a Waste The musical was based on the 1940 play the colourful community of artists and temporarily sleeping in the sisters’ kitchen 8 A Little Bit in Love My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome personalities on ‘Christopher Street’. The while his disapproving mother-in-law 9 Pass the Football Chodorov, which itself had been adapted sisters arrive, Eileen a striking blonde who visits his wife Helen. Eileen and Ruth have 10 Conversation Piece from Ruth McKenney’s autobiographical wants to be an actress, and Ruth, a smart, haphazardly invited a trio of guests to their 11 A Quiet Girl short stories originally published in The savvy aspiring writer. Having hastily rented apartment for dinner: Frank Lippencott 12 Conga New Yorker. Set in bohemian Greenwich a cramped, noisy basement apartment, and from Walgreen’s, Bob Baker from the Village, 1935, the scenario follows sisters uncertain of the future, they nostalgically Manhatter and the abrasive Chick Clark, Act Two Ruth and Eileen Sherwood, newly arrived wonder why they ever left ‘Ohio’. The next a newspaperman whom Eileen has invited 13 Entr’acte from Columbus, Ohio, as they try to make morning they set out to make an impression: in the hope he will prove a useful contact 14 My Darlin’ Eileen their way in the big city. Rosalind Russell during the dance sequence ‘Conquering New for Ruth (though his focus is on Eileen). 15 Swing (who had starred in the 1952 film version of York’ Ruth is turned away by editors and ‘Conversation Piece’ underscores the stilted 16 Quiet Incidental My Sister Eileen) was cast as Ruth and the Eileen receives plenty of attention but no dinner conversation, ending with manic 16a Ohio (Reprise) 25-year-old Edie played Eileen. work. Eileen soon meets Frank Lippencott, high coloratura singing from Eileen. 17 It’s Love manager of a Walgreen’s drugstore, who Ruth and Bob quarrel over his critique of 18 Ballet at the Village Vortex They were unlikely stage sisters: Russell showers her with freebies. By contrast Ruth her writing samples, leading Bob to lament 19 The Wrong-Note Rag was an Oscar-nominated Hollywood veteran feels she screws up so badly around the that he never seems to find ‘A Quiet Girl’. 20 It’s Love (Reprise) who couldn’t hold a tune, and Adams was opposite sex that she could write a book on Meanwhile, Chick has hatched a bogus a soprano graduate of the it (‘One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man’). writing assignment to send Ruth to, in making her Broadway debut. Bernstein order that he can get closer to Eileen.

6 Programme Notes 16 December 2017 Ruth duly dashes off to interview a crew introduces the club, where Eileen has now • BERNSTEIN AND MUSICAL THEATRE of Brazilian navy trainees about their been hired to sing, and where Ruth is told by impressions of New York. She asks for their Chick that she has been offered a press job. thoughts on everything from (baseball The outlook suddenly looks promising. player) ‘Dizzy Dean’ and the ‘silver screen’ Ruth joins Eileen to entertain the crowd to ‘hot-dog stands’ and (conductor) with ‘The Wrong-Note Rag’, an upbeat ‘Stokowski’s hands’ – but all the sailors number contrasting a jangling, want to do is ‘Conga’. ragtime with a smoother foxtrot section.

ACT TWO SUMMARY

Act Two opens in Christopher Street police Wonderful Town could hardly have sounded station, where Eileen has been detained a more heartfelt hymn to New York, yet for disturbing the peace. Blissfully smitten Bernstein’s own early encounter of the city by her, the Irish officers sing an ode to was nothing like love at first sight. After ‘My Darlin’ Eileen’, which alternates a wistful a visit in 1939, the year he graduated from Irish-style folk song with an exuberant jig. Harvard, he was initially repelled by ‘the Bernstein collaborated with Betty Comden Bernstein’s last original score for Broadway depravity of the Greenwich Villagers … and Adolphe Green for his first musical, was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1967), Ruth has been hired by ‘Speedy’ Valenti to and the frantic attempts to preserve the On the Town (1944), based on choreographer recounting the history of the White House, promote his night club, the Village Vortex, atmosphere of post-war bohemianism’. Jerome Robbins’ ballet Fancy Free (set to which ran for only seven performances. out on the street. In another perfect vehicle Bernstein’s music). His most well-known Following this was the 1971 MASS, for Rosalind Russell, ‘Swing’ sees Ruth lose Four years later, on 14 November 1943, he musical, West Side Story premiered in a musical theatre interpretation of her inhibitions while urging the cool villagers made his dramatic debut with 1957, a collaboration with Robbins and the the traditional Mass featuring a cast to ‘get hep!’ at the club. the , standing in young Stephen Sondheim (pictured above). of characters and dancers. for an ailing at a few hours’ The operetta was written at the ‘Quiet Incidental’ underscores the poignant notice. That concert, a live radio broadcast, same time, and opened on Broadway on 1956. moment when Ruth and Eileen, now reunited, made him a sensation overnight. At this The Race to Urga (1969) was commissioned realise they have both fallen in love with point Wonderful Town was another decade by Robbins, but was never completed. Bob Baker. In ‘It’s Love’ Eileen helps Bob away – and Bernstein’s greatest hit, recognise he has fallen for Ruth. The heavy, West Side Story, another four years beyond dirty blues of ‘Ballet at the Village Vortex’ – that – but by any standards he had already more Harlem than Greenwich Village – made it big in the Big Apple. •

Programme Notes 7 Leonard Bernstein in Profile 1918–90 / by Andrew Stewart

ernstein was a gifted scholar, from an earlier age, reaching audiences with taking his first piano lessons at powerful, often dramatic scores and crafting the age of ten and continuing to memorable, heart-on-sleeve melodies. study the instrument when he enrolled at Harvard University in 1935. From 1939 to 1941 He posed music that was approachable he pursued graduate studies at the Curtis without being banal, sentimental without Institute, emerging as a star pupil in Fritz being mawkish. Above all, he knew how Reiner’s conducting class. Bernstein made to write a good tune. • front-page news on 13 November 1943 when he deputised for Bruno Walter as conductor of the New York Philharmonic, achieving instant critical success and breaking the mould by being the first person to give a public performance with that orchestra wearing a grey lounge suit. His progress as a conductor was rapid, and in 1958 he was appointed Music Director and Chief Conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

In the same year he launched a series of televised children’s concerts. Bernstein was also active as a writer and regular broadcaster, although he managed to find time to create a large output of works. It could be reasonably argued that his work as a composer, performer and educator has had a greater influence on current trends in contemporary music than, for example, the avant-garde compositions of Stockhausen or Boulez. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bernstein kept faith with the aesthetic ideals and artistic concerns of composers

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ir Simon Rattle was born in As well as fulfilling a taxing concert In September 2017, Sir Simon took up and studied at the schedule in , Sir Simon and the Berlin his post as Music Director of the London . Philharmonic regularly tour within Europe, Symphony Orchestra, opening the 2017/18 North America and Asia. The partnership has season at the Barbican with a programme of From 1980 to 1998, Sir Simon was Principal also broken new ground with the education British music, Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust, Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the City of programme Zukunft@Bphil, earning and the Stravinsky ballets. In November, he Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and was the Comenius Prize in 2004, the Schiller toured Asia with the appointed Music Director in 1990. In 2002 Special Prize from the city of Mannheim Orchestra, with soloists and he took up his current position of Artistic in May 2005, the Golden Camera and the Song-Jin Cho. The rest of the 2017/18 season Director and Chief Conductor of the Berlin Urania Medal in Spring 2007. He and the will take Sir Simon on a European tour Philharmonic where he will remain until Berlin Philharmonic were also appointed with the LSO, to Munich with the Bayrische 2018. In September 2017, he became Music International UNICEF Ambassadors in the Rundfunk Orchestra, and to Baden-Baden Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. same year – the first time this honour has for his inaugural appearance with the Berlin been conferred on an artistic ensemble. Phillharmonic in the Festspielhaus. Sir Simon has made over 70 recordings for EMI (now Warner Classics), and has received Sir Simon has strong, long-standing Sir Simon Rattle was knighted in 1994 numerous prestigious international awards relationships with the leading orchestras in and in the New Year’s Honours of 2014 for his recordings on various labels. Releases London, Europe and the US, initially working he received the from on EMI include Stravinsky’s Symphony of closely with the Philharmonic Her Majesty the Queen. • Psalms (which received the 2009 Grammy and Boston Symphony Orchestras, and more Award for Best Choral Performance), Berlioz’s recently with the . He , Ravel’s L’enfant et regularly conducts the , les sortilèges, Tchaikovsky’s with which he has recorded the complete Suite, Mahler’s Symphony No 2, Stravinsky’s Beethoven symphonies and piano concertos and, on Warner Classics, (with ) and is also a Principal Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Symphonic Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Dances, all recorded with the Berlin Enlightenment and Founding Patron of Philharmonic. Simon’s most recent recordings Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. (Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Remembering, and Ravel, Dutilleux and Delage on Blu-Ray and DVD) were released on the LSO’s record label, LSO Live.

20 Artist Biographies 16 December 2017 Krystian Zimerman piano

rystian Zimerman came to fame International Piano Series on the anniversary the greater part of his life; he divides his when he was awarded First Prize of the composer’s birth. In 2013, to mark time between family, concert life and in the Chopin Competition at the the centenary of Lutosławski’s birth, chamber music. He takes a comprehensive age of 18. He has since enjoyed a world- Zimerman performed the Piano Concerto – approach to the music profession, organising class career working with the world’s most which the composer wrote for him – in a his own management and studying hall prestigious orchestras and giving recitals number of cities worldwide, including a acoustics, the latest sound technology in the top international concert halls. performance at London’s Royal Festival Hall and instrument construction. He has also with the and applied himself to the study of psychology Born into a family with a music-making Esa-Pekka Salonen. and computer science. tradition, musicians met almost daily in Zimerman’s home to play chamber music, In recent seasons he made his debut in China He has developed a similar approach to and this experience afforded him an with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra recording, a process which he controls at intimate, natural, everyday contact with under Paavo Jarvi; performed with the Taipei each stage. During his long collaboration live music. He took his first in music and Bangkok symphony orchestras and gave with his recordings under his father’s supervision and, aged performances of Brahms Piano Concerto No have earned him many top awards. In seven, began working formally with 1 and Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 with 1999 he recorded the Chopin Concertos Andrzej Jasinski, then a senior lecturer at the London Symphony Orchestra and Berlin with an orchestra specially formed for this the conservatoire in . He returned Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle. project, and with whom he then toured to Katowice in 2015 to play the opening throughout Europe and America, performing concert in the newly built concert hall. Zimerman transports his own piano for the Concertos to commemorate the 150th every recital, a practice which has made anniversary of Chopin’s death. He has He has collaborated with many pre-eminent audiences more aware of the complexities also recorded a disc of chamber music to musicians, including chamber partners such and capabilities of the instrument. celebrate the 100th anniversary of Polish as , Kyung-Wha Chung and Performing on his own familiar instrument, composer Grazyna Bacewicz, whose music , and conductors such as combined with his piano-building expertise he has championed. His most recent release Leonard Bernstein, , (acquired in Katowice and developed through is a recording of Schubert solo sonatas which , , , close co-operation with Steinway in has met with universal acclaim. • , , , Hamburg), helps him minimise any and Stanisław distractions from purely musical issues. Skrowaczewski. As part of the Chopin 200 celebrations in 2010, Zimerman gave Krystian Zimerman lives with his wife and the Chopin Birthday recital in London’s family in Switzerland where he has spent

Artist Biographies 21 Danielle de Niese Eileen (soprano) Alysha Umphress Ruth (mezzo-soprano)

Last season on the concert and recital Pump Boys And Dinettes (Rhetta Cupp), platform, de Niese made appearances at Signature Theatre, Virginia: Beaches (Cee the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, in Dublin Cee Bloom, for which she received a Helen with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, at the Tivoli Hayes nomination for Best Leading Actress Festival with the Copenhagen Philharmonic in a Musical). Her TV appearances include Orchestra and in gala concerts with the Fort Misty on ’s The Climb, streaming Worth Symphony Orchestra, in St Petersburg now on Amazon Prime Video, as well as at Classics at the Palace Square and at the roles in Law and Order SVU, Nurse Jackie Festival Napa Valley. Other recent highlights and Royal Pains. include a double header for the BBC Proms, singing at the Last Night of at the Alysha performed in the 52nd annual opposite , Grammy Awards, the 64th and 69th annual broadcast worldwide. , Monday Night Football half-time show, the Jimmy Fallon Show, A prolific recording artist, her debut , Good Morning America anielle de Niese has been hailed as recording for Decca, Handel Arias, was lysha is thrilled to be in London and The Today Show. She appears on ‘’s coolest soprano’ by The New awarded the prestigious Orphée d’Or and performing this amazing musical recordings of On the Town (. She regularly appears the much coveted award, as with the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle. Broadway cast recording), American Idiot on the world’s most prestigious opera and well as earning her a Classical Brit Award Other symphony work includes On the Town (Grammy award), Bring it On! (OBC), concert stages and is a prolific recording nomination for Female Artist of the Year. (Hildy) with the Symphony Fugitive Songs, and I’ve Been Played: artist, TV personality and philanthropist. under the baton of Alysha Umphress Swings Jeff Blumenkrantz Off-stage, de Niese is an advocate and soloist with the Boston Pops under (available on iTunes and Amazon). The 2017/18 season sees her returning to her for children’s rights and a passionate the baton of Keith Lockhart. native Australia for a role debut as Hanna philanthropist, and was included on Alysha is a Graduate of The Boston Glawari in a new exciting production of Marie Claire magazine’s influential list Her Broadway credits include: On The Town Conservatory. • Lehár’s , first presented of ‘Women on Top’. She is an Ambassador (Hildy); American Idiot (OBC); On a Clear Day in and opening in on New for HRH The Prince of Wales’ Foundation You Can See Forever; Priscilla Queen of the Year’s . De Niese also returns to the Royal for Children and the Arts, a patron of Future Desert; and Bring it On!. Off Broadway, she Opera House, Covent Garden as Musetta in Talent, which assists young musicians and appeared in Make Me a Song (The Music of a new production of Puccini’s La bohème. singers with financial support and guidance, William Finn). Alysha’s Regional Theatre On the concert platform she tours for the and is an Artist Member of the Mannes credits include: Dallas Theatre Center: Hood first time to the Middle East and Asia. Board of Governors. • (Meg), Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey:

22 Artist Biographies 16 December 2017 Nathan Gunn Bob Baker (baritone) Duncan Rock Wreck/Second Associate Editor (baritone)

Nathan Gunn has appeared with the a new production of Gloriana for the Teatro New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Real in Madrid. Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, , Pittsburgh Symphony He has sung the title role in Don Giovanni for Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic , the Boston Lyric Opera and the Orchestra. The many conductors with whom Welsh National Opera; Tarquinius in The Rape he has worked include Sir , of Lucretia for the Deutsche Oper, Berlin and Alan Gilbert, , , Glyndebourne; Papageno in Sir , Esa-Pekka Salonen, for ; Belcore in L’elisir Robert Spano and Michael Tilson Thomas. d’amore for Opera North; and Billy Bigelow This season, he returns to the Metropolitan in Carousel for the Houston Grand Opera Opera in The Magic Flute, appears in and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. the ’s Bernstein celebration, and premieres his one-man Highlights on the concert platform include show, Flying Solo, at the Laguna Playhouse the Last Night of the Proms with the BBC athan Gunn has made a reputation and the San Diego Repertory Theater. uncan Rock studied at the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and ; the as one of the most in-demand School of Music and Drama and Munich Radio Orchestra with Paul Daniel; baritones. He has performed at Nathan Gunn’s recordings include the title subsequently at the National the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra opera houses such as the Metropolitan role in with Daniel Harding and Opera Studio. He was the winner of the 2012 with Nicholas McGegan; and the Orchestra Opera, , Lyric Opera of the LSO (Virgin Classics), which won the Chilcott Award – the inaugural award from of Madrid’s Teatro Réal with Ivor Bolton. Chicago, , Paris Opera, 2010 Grammy. He also starred as Buzz Aldrin the Susan Chilcott Scholarship to support A keen recitalist, his appearances include Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and Teatro Real in Man on the Moon, an opera written for a ‘major young artist with the potential to the North Norfolk Music Festival, the Oxford in Madrid. His many roles include the title television and broadcast on the BBC in the UK. make an international impact’. A Jerwood Lieder Festival and St John’s, Smith Square. roles in Eugene Onegin, The Barber of Seville, Young Artist at the Glyndebourne Festival, and Hamlet; Guglielmo in Così fan tutte; Nathan Gunn is an alumnus of the he was also the recipient of the 2010 He has been a Samling Scholar, a Royal and the Count in . Lindemann Young John Christie Award, given by the Philharmonic Society Young Artist, and was A noted supporter of new works, he has Artists Program and was a winner of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. a winner of the Overseas Award from the created roles in new operas at the 1994 Metropolitan Opera National Council Royal Overseas League Singing Competition Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Competition. He is currently a professor His engagements in the 2017/18 season and the Marianne Mathy Award, presented Theater an der Wien, and Glyndebourne of voice at the University of Illinois at include Schaunard in La bohème for his to him by the late Dame . • Festival Opera. Champaign-Urbana and the General debut at the Metropolitan Opera and for his Director of the Lyric Theater in Illinois. • return to Covent Garden, and Mountjoy in

Artist Biographies 23 David Butt Philip Lonigan (tenor) Ashley Riches Guide/First Editor/Frank (bass-baritone)

Sir Mark Elder, and Verdi’s with the Other roles include Marcello in Puccini’s Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. La bohème, title roles in Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni and Owen Wingrave, and Aeneas Last season Butt Philip made debuts as Erik in Dido and Aeneas. He made his debut for in The Flying Dutchman at Opéra de Lille English National Opera as Schaunard in and Laertes in the premiere of ’s La bohème and returned last season as Hamlet at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance. Concert engagements included Beethoven’s Other recent highlights include Purcell’s Symphony No 9 with both the Yomiuri The Fairy Queen with the Academy of Ancient Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo and Music and Bach's with the the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Royal Festival Hall; and Handel’s with the Mozart Festival Orchestra at the In concert he has appeared with the Royal Festival Hall. Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli Consort, ritish tenor David Butt Philip is an During his time as a Jette Parker Young ritish bass-baritone Ashley Riches Berlin Philharmonic, Monteverdi Orchestra alumnus of the Jette Parker Young Artist he appeared in productions of read English at the University of and Academy of Ancient Music under some Artists Program, Royal Opera House. Verdi’s Nabucco, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Cambridge where he was a member of the world’s finest conductors, including Recent debuts in Wagner’s The Flying Puccini’s , Wagner’s Parsifal and of the King’s College Choir. He studied at Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Dutchman and Das Rheingold have Verid’s La traviata. On the concert platform the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Sir John Eliot Gardiner. He has performed established him as one of the exciting young he performed in Rossini’s Petite messe and subsequently joined the Jette Parker at festivals including Southwell, Flanders, heldentenors Britain has to offer today. solennelle at the Barbican, Haydn’s Nelson Young Artist Programme at Three , City of London, Schubert, Mass with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder, House. This season he joins the BBC New Ludlow and most recently at the BBC Proms. In the 2017/18 season, Butt Philip makes and recitals at . Generation Artist scheme. his debut with Teatro Real in Madrid, and Highlights of the 2017/18 season include The takes on the title role in Brett Dean’s Hamlet Butt Philip is a graduate of the Royal After making his Royal Opera main-stage Marriage of Figaro at English National Opera, with Glyndebourne on tour. Other highlights Northern College of Music, the Royal debut in concert with Roberto Alagna, Purcell’s King Arthur with the Academy of include Folco in Mascagni’s Isabeau at Opera Academy of Music, and the National Opera further appearances at the house included Ancient Music, Mozart’s Requiem with the Holland Park and Narraboth in Strauss’ Studio, an Associate of the Royal Academy Salieri in Rimsky Korsakov’s Mozart and Bremen Philharmonic, Mussorgsky’s Songs Salome at Royal Opera House. On the of Music and winner of the prestigious Salieri, Michael in the world premiere of and Dances of Death with the BBC National concert platform, Butt Philip sings Elgar’s John Christie Award in 2011. • Eichbert’s Glare, Morales in Bizet’s Carmen, Orchestra of Wales, and recitals at Wigmore The Dream of Gerontius with the Hallé and and Mandarin in Puccini’s Turandot. Hall and the Oxford Lieder Festival. •

24 Artist Biographies 16 December 2017 Kevin Brewis Third Cop/First Man/Cadet/Villager Stephen John Davis First Cop/Chick Clark

Grease (Victoria Palace); Anything Goes arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar and (National Theatre); My One & Only (Piccadilly Hughie Pierrepoint in Our Miss Gibbs at Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre); Finborough Theatre. In 2011, he was asked Singin’ in the Rain (National Theatre); to perform the role of Don Attilio in the 25th Hot Stuff (Leicester Haymarket Theatre). anniversary performance of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall. His television and film credits include: National Theatre 50th Anniversary Roles for the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company Performance (NT Live) and Showtime include Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore; at the Stadium (BBC Television). • Major General and Samuel in Pirates of Penzance; and roles in Lehár’s The Count of Luxembourg and Offenbach’s La vie parisienne. Other appearances include Masetto in Don Giovanni at Holland Park; Moralès in Carmen Northampton, Derngate; evin Brewis’ theatre credits include: tephen recently completed his Pish Tush in UK tour of The Mikado for Sarah The Cook in Dick Whittington debut season at the Chichester Carl Rosa; Ludwig in The Grand Duke and (Milton Keynes Theatre); Carousel Festival Theatre as the Russian Strephon in Iolanthe for Buxton Festival; (Opera North); Evita (Slovenia); Jesus Christ Constable in Fiddler on the Roof and will and Alris in The Golden Penguin with the Superstar (Tour); National Theatre 50th perform the role of Larry in Sondheim’s National Opera of Ukraine in Lviv. Anniversary (National Theatre); Kiss Me Kate Company in 2018 for Aberdeen Arts. His (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Old Vic), West End theatre credits include Phantom Cast recordings include Pasquale in The Most A Chorus Line (Tel Aviv); Cinderella (Theatre in The Phantom of the Opera, including the Happy Fella on TER; the Boatswain in HMS Royal Plymouth); Oliver! (Cyprus Open Air honour of portraying the role for a special Pinafore with D’Oyly Carte and TER; and a Theatre); White Christmas (Michael Rose 10,000th West End performance; Brother song from Wonderful Town on Deutsche Ltd); Hello Dolly! (Regent’s Park Open Air Reuben in Joseph at the Adelphi; The Gramophon’s Bernstein Dances. Radio Theatre); Stage (Regent’s Park Open Air Bishop of Digne, Jean Valjean and Javert in broadcasts include Bishop of Digne for the Theatre); Funny Girl (Chichester Festival Les Misérables; and Father Alexander and 21st anniversary concert of Les Misérables Theatre); The Producers (UK Tour), Bill Austin in Mamma Mia!. Other roles for BBC Radio 2 and the shared role of Me & My Girl (UK Tour); Saturday Night Fever include Captain Brackett and Emile de Leader in ’s Lost in the Stars (UK Tour); Aladdin (Hackney Empire); Becque in the Lincoln Center production of with Charles Hazelwood for BBC Radio 3. • South Pacific; Priest/Journalist in the UK

Artist Biographies 25 Flora Dawson Violet Soophia Foroughi Second Woman

in Sinbad the Sailor (York Theatre Royal); Theatre); Magdalena in Bernarda Alba Sondheim’s 75th Birthday Celebration (Union Theatre); vocalist in Thursford (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Dance Captain in Christmas Spectacular; and Jack and the Jack and the Beanstalk (Sheffield Lyceum). Beanstalk (Mercury Theatre, Colchester). Workshops include Drat! The Cat! Recordings include Pirates of the Caribbean – TV credits include Lead Tiller Girl in Dead Men Tell No Tales (Walt Disney Studios); John Bishop’s Christmas Special 2014 The Great Wall (Universal Pictures); Alice (BBC) and Celia Johnson in Go Compare Through the Looking Glass (Walt Disney Commercial 2016. • Studios); The Great Gatsby (Warner Bros Pictures); Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (20th Century Fox); Kung Fu Panda 2 (Paramount Pictures); Twilight – Breaking Dawn (Summit Entertainment); The Book of Life (20th Century Fox); Pirates of the lora is excited to be a part of this oophia Foroughi trained at the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides (Walt Disney wonderful celebration. Her theatre London School of Musical Theatre. Studios); and Madagascar – Europe’s Most credits include: Mimsey and cover Theatre credits include: Elena in Wanted (Paramount Pictures). • Emma in Funny Girl (UK tour); cover Lois Tiger Bay The Musical (Wales Millennium Lane in Kiss Me Kate (Welsh National Opera); Centre); Lady of the Lake in Spamalot (The alternate Lina Lamont in Singin’ In The English Theatre Frankfurt); Guest Vocalist Rain (Palace Theatre London); Rita in White in Russell Watson: Songs From The Heart Christmas (Sunderland Empire, Dublin Bord (UK tour); Mona in A Matter of Life And Death Gais and Liverpool Empire); Gemma in Once (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Renee and Upon a Time at The Adelphi (Union Theatre); First Cover Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels cover Rita in White Christmas (Plymouth (UK tour); Frau Zeller in The Sound of Music Theatre Royal and The Lowry); Tess in Crazy (Qatar); featured vocalist in Michael Ball for You (London Palladium); Follie Girl/ Sings the Musicals (Abu Dhabi); featured Dance Captain in Follies In Concert (London vocalist in Michael Ball: Both Sides Now Palladium); cover Princess in Call Me Madam (UK tour and DVD); Rhoda in White Christmas (Upstairs at The Gatehouse); Mack and (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Burelli Sister in Mabel (); Dance Captain The Rat Pack, Live From Vegas (Wyndham’s

26 Artist Biographies 16 December 2017 Andrew Keelan Second Cop/Second Man Jane Quinn First Woman

St Andrews); Joly and understudy Marius No 1 UK tour, Amman Citadel Festival in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre, London and Qatar National Convention Centre); and National Tour); Neighbour and Portia / Juliet in Shakespeare Smorgasbard understudy Mickey in Blood Brothers (Caterham Festival); The Queen in Gulliver’s (Phoenix Theatre, London and National Travels (Another Way Theatre); Lucy in Tour); Prince Peter in Jubilee (Her Majesty’s, A Class Act (Landor); Jenny in Company London and BBC Radio 3); Morgan in (Union); Gilbert And Sullivan Operettas for Evita (Pattichion Amphitheatre, Cyprus); Carl Rosa Opera, including Leila in Iolanthe Jesus Christ Superstar (Sweden); Chess (BIC and Kate in Pirates of Penzance (Gielgud, Bournemouth); soloist in The Andrew Lloyd West End and UK/US tours); understudy Webber Gala Concert (European Tour); Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Asian tour); Les Misérables Gala Concert (Scandinavian Lead Soprano in Enchanted Evenings Tour); Peter in The Golden Key (Greenwich (Pitlochry); Margot in The Merry Widow and Theatre); Harrison in Inkel and Yarico (Covent Lakme (Opera Holland Park); Miss Lynch, Garden Festival); Charley in Merrily We Roll Jan in Grease (David Ian Productions – No 1 ndrew trained at the Royal Along (Jack Lyons Theatre); Richard Crick ane Quinn trained at the Royal UK tour); Jane in Eloquent Protest (Trafalgar Academy of Music on the in Tess (Old Vic Workshop); Trofimov in the Academy of Music and Royal Studios); Militza in We’ll Gather Lilacs postgraduate Actor/Singer course. The Cherry Orchard; Arthur Bostock in the Holloway, . (Bridewell); Ivy Crush in Free As Air; Vallada original stage adaptation of Whistle Down in Florodora and The Princess of Monte Carlo His theatre credits include: understudy the Wind (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Theatre credits include Babette in La cage in The Grand Duke (Finborough); Claudine in Timon, Pumba, Zazu and Ed in The Lion King Harry in Once Upon a War (Churchill Theatre aux folles (original UK tour), Diva Marie Fanny (Sadler’s Wells); Music Hall Star in (UK tour); Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music Edinburgh). Langer in Across The Wall (St James Theatre), Oh! What A Lovely War (Clwyd); and The (Kilworth House Theatre); Policeman in Swing C / Leo’s Mother, Mrs Maudsley and Tales Of Beatrix Potter by Penny Croft and Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Film and television credits include Henry Marion in The Go Between (Apollo Theatre); Valentine Guinness (Arts Theatre Workshop). Concert (Royal Albert Hall); understudy York Jnr in Midsomer Murders, Lee in Every Jennyanydots in Cats (London Palladium Tito in Lend me a Tenor (Gielgud Theatre); Day in Autumn, Will Johnstone in Killing and Blackpool Opera House); Vesta Tilley in Concerts include Pan-European Voice Passarino in The Phantom of the Opera Time and The Social Worker in Quiddity. • Business As Usual (Cheltenham Everyman); Conference, The Jimmy Cricket Show, (Her Majesty’s, London ); Side by Side Anna in Lend Me A Tenor (Gielgud, West Monaco Grand Prix and Lord’s. Film/ by Sondheim (The Venue, London); End/Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Maria television includes De-Lovely (Winkler The Woman in White (Palace Theatre, Merelli, Sister Berthe, understudy Maria and Films), Enduring Love (Paramount), Y Factor London); Showboat (Royal Albert Hall); Baroness Schraeder in The Sound of Music (Sky). Radio includes Obla Air for the British Dickon in The (Byre Theatre, ( / David Ian Productions Council and Middleton Hall (Radio Series). •

Artist Biographies 27 Michael Baxter Fourth Cop FIND THE PERFECT GIFT FROM OUR NEW RANGE Tote Bags Tea Towels Mugs

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28 Artist Biographies 16 December 2017 Simon Halsey chorus director

imon Halsey holds positions across three honorary doctorates from universities Born in London, Simon Halsey sang in the the UK and Europe as Choral Director in the UK, and in 2011 Schott Music published choirs of New College, Oxford, and of King’s of the London Symphony Orchestra his book and DVD on choral conducting, College, Cambridge, and studied conducting and Chorus; Chorus Director of the City of Chorleitung: Vom Konzept zum Konzert. at the Royal College of Music in London. In Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus; 1987, he founded the City of Birmingham Artistic Director of Orfeó Català Choirs Halsey has worked on nearly 80 recording Touring Opera with Graham Vick. He was and Artistic Adviser of Palau de la Música, projects, many of which have won major Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Barcelona; Artistic Director of Berliner awards, including the Gramophone Award, Choir from 1997 to 2008 and Principal Philharmoniker Youth Choral Programme; Diapason d’Or, Echo Klassik, and three Conductor of the Northern Sinfonia’s Choral Director of the BBC Proms Youth Choir; Artistic Grammy Awards with the Rundfunkchor Programme from 2004 to 2012. From 2001 Advisor of Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Berlin. He was made Commander of to 2015 he led the Rundfunkchor Berlin (of Choir; Conductor Laureate of Rundfunkchor the British Empire in 2015, was awarded which he is now Conductor Laureate); under Berlin; and Professor and Director of Choral The Queen’s Medal for Music in 2014, and his leadership the chorus gained a reputation Activities at the University of Birmingham. received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of internationally as one of the finest professional Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany choral ensembles. Halsey also initiated Simon Halsey occupies a unique position in 2011 in recognition of his outstanding innovative projects in unconventional in classical music. He is the trusted advisor contribution to choral music in Germany. venues and interdisciplinary formats. • on choral singing to the world’s greatest conductors, orchestras and choruses, Since becoming Choral Director of and also an inspirational teacher and the London Symphony Orchestra and ambassador for choral singing to amateurs Chorus in 2012, Halsey has been credited of every age, ability and background. Making with bringing about a ‘spectacular singing a central part of the world-class transformation’ (Evening Standard) of the institutions with which he is associated, he LSC. Highlights with the LSO in 2017/18 has been instrumental in changing the level include Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder at the BBC of symphonic singing across Europe. Proms with Sir Simon Rattle and Halsey’s CBSO and Orfeó Català choruses; Liszt’s He is also a highly respected teacher and ‘Faust’ Symphony with Sir Antonio Pappano; academic, nurturing the next generation of Mahler’s Symphony No 2 with Semyon choral conductors on his post-graduate course Bychkov; and performances of Berlioz and in Birmingham and through masterclasses Bernstein with Rattle in his inaugural year at Princeton, Yale and elsewhere. He holds as Music Director of the LSO.

Artist Biographies 29 London Symphony Chorus on stage

President Sir Mark Elder won a Gramophone award and Sir Simon Rattle om cbe the recording of the Grande Messe des Morts by Berlioz with the LSO conducted by Sir Colin President Emeritus Davis won an International Music Award in André Previn kbe the Choral Works category. In June 2015 the recording of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Tenth Vice President Symphony, commissioned by the LSO and Michael Tilson Thomas recorded by the LSO and the LSC with Sir Antonio Pappano, won a prestigious South Patrons Bank Sky Arts award in the Classical category. cbe Howard Goodall cbe The 2016/17 season included performances of Verdi’s Requiem with Gianandrea Noseda Chorus Director he London Symphony Chorus was Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and in the Barbican and at the Lincoln Center in Simon Halsey cbe formed in 1966 to complement the Youth Orchestra. New York, a semi-staging of Ligeti’s Le grand the work of the London Symphony The Chorus has toured extensively throughout macabre with Sir Simon Rattle and Peter Associate Director Orchestra and in 2016 celebrated its 50th Europe and has also visited North America, Sellars, and Brahms’ Requiem with Fabio Luisi. Matthew anniversary. The partnership between the Israel, Australia and South East Asia. The LSC also collaborated with the CBSO LSC and LSO has continued to develop and was and Orfeó Català choruses for Schoenberg’s Chorus Accompanist strengthened in 2012 with the appointment Much of the LSC repertoire has been captured Gurrelieder at the BBC Proms with the Benjamin Frost of Simon Halsey as joint Chorus Director in its large catalogue of recordings featuring London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon of the LSC and Choral Director for the LSO. renowned conductors and soloists, which Rattle in August. Highlights of 2017/18 Chairman It now plays a major role in furthering the have won nine awards, including five Grammys. include Liszt’s ‘Faust’ Symphony with Owen Hanmer vision of the LSO Sing initiative. Recent releases include Britten’s Sir Antonio Pappano and Mahler’s with Gianandrea Noseda and Mahler’s Symphony No 2 with Semyon Bychkov. Concert Manager The LSC has also partnered many other Symphonies Nos 2, 3 and 8 with . Robert Garbolinski major orchestras and has performed The Seasons by Haydn, Belshazzar’s Feast by The LSC is always interested in recruiting nationally and internationally with the Walton, Otello by Verdi, and the world premiere new members, welcoming applications LSO Choral Projects Manager Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, of the St John Passion by James MacMillan from singers of all backgrounds. Interested Andra East and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. were all under the baton of the late singers are welcome to attend rehearsals Championing the musicians of tomorrow, Sir Colin Davis. The recent recording of before arranging an audition. For further it has also worked with both the National Götterdämmerung with the Hallé under information, visit lsc.org.uk. •

30 London Symphony Chorus 16 December 2017 Sopranos Altos Margaret Stephen Basses Liam Velez Anneke Amalie Kate Aitchison Linda Thomas Simon Backhouse * Tyler Wert LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS IN 2018 Frankie Arnull Lauren Au Hannah Tripp Roger Blitz Faith Baxter Lara Bienkowska Claire Trocmé Chris Bourne * denotes LSC Sunday 4 February 2018 7pm Anna Byrne-Smith Hetty Boardman Curzon Tussaud Andy Chan council member Barbican Hall Carol Capper * Weston Kathryn Wells Steve Chevis Laura Catala-Ubassy Elizabeth Boyden Matthew Clarke Mahler Symphony No 2, 'Resurrection' Eve Commander June Brawner Tenors Giles Clayton Harriet Crawford Gina Broderick Jorge Aguilar Damian Day Semyon Bychkov conductor Rebecca Dent Jo Buchan * Paul Allatt * Joe Dodd Christiane Karg soprano Saskia Edwards Maggie Donnelly Jack Apperley Thomas Fea Anna Larsson alto Isobel Hammond Diane Dwyer Erik Azzopardi Ian Fletcher London Symphony Chorus Denise Hoilette Lynn Eaton Paul Beecham Robert Garbolinski * Simon Halsey chorus director Debbie Jones Linda Evans Oliver Burrows Josué Garcia Jessica Kirby Amanda Freshwater Michael Delany Dan Gosselin Sunday 20 May 2018 7pm Ruth Knowles-Clark Christina Gibbs Colin Dunn John Graham Barbican Hall Debbie Lee Rachel Green John Farrington Bryan Hammersley Aine MacDonald Kate Harrison Matthew Fernando Owen Hanmer * Beethoven Missa Solemnis Louisa Martin Jo Houston Andrew Fuller Nathan Homan Meg McClure Elisabeth Iles Matthew Horne Anthony Howick Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Jane Morley Jill Jones Alastair Mathews Alex Kidney Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Gill O'Neill Gilly Lawson Matt McCabe Thomas Kohut Toby Spence tenor Maggie Owen Belinda Liao * Tom McNeill George Marshall Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Isabel Paintin Aoife McInerney Daniel Owers Hugh McLeod London Symphony Chorus Jasmine Spencer Jane Muir Davide Prezzi Ron Pacowitz Simon Halsey chorus director Deborah Staunton Caroline Mustill Michael Scharff Jamie Patrick Giulia Steidl Dorothy Nesbit Peter Sedgwick Alan Rochford Winnie Tse Helen Palmer Richard Street * Rod Stevens Tickets £15 to £55 (£10 wildcard) Lizzie Webb Susannah Priede * James Warbis Richard Tannenbaum plus booking fee Alice Young Lucy Reay Robert Ward * Gordon Thomson Lis Smith Brad Warburton Robin Thurston lso.co.uk | 020 7638 8891 Erika Stasiuleviciute Paul Williams-Burton Evan Troendle

London Symphony Chorus 31 London Symphony Orchestra on stage tonight

Leader Second Violins Cellos Flutes Bassoons Timpani LSO String Experience Scheme Roman Simovic David Alberman Tim Hugh Gareth Davies Rachel Gough Nigel Thomas Since 1992, the LSO String Experience Thomas Norris Alastair Blayden Walker Daniel Jemison Scheme has enabled young string players First Violins Miya Väisänen Jennifer Brown Alex Jakeman Joost Bosdijk Percussion from the London music conservatoires at Carmine Lauri David Ballesteros Noel Bradshaw Neil Percy the start of their professional careers to gain Lennox Mackenzie Matthew Gardner Eve-Marie Caravassilis Piccolo Contra Bassoon David Jackson work experience by playing in rehearsals Clare Duckworth Julian Gil Rodriguez Daniel Gardner Sharon Williams Dominic Morgan Sam Walton and concerts with the LSO. The musicians Nigel Broadbent Naoko Keatley Hilary Jones Paul Stoneman are treated as professional ‘extra’ players Ginette Decuyper Belinda McFarlane Amanda Truelove Oboes Horns Tom Edwards (additional to LSO members) and receive Gerald Gregory Iwona Muszynska Victoria Harrild Olivier Stankiewicz Timothy Jones fees for their work in line with LSO section Maxine Kwok-Adams Andrew Pollock Hester Snell Rosie Jenkins Angela Barnes Drum Kit players. The Scheme is supported by The Claire Parfitt Paul Robson James Pillai Matt Skelton Polonsky Foundation, Lord and Lady Lurgan Laurent Quenelle Aischa Guendisch Double Basses Cor Anglais Jonathan Lipton Trust, Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust, Harriet Rayfield Hazel Mulligan Colin Paris Christine Pendrill Samuel Jacobs Harps The Thistle Trust and Idlewild Trust. Colin Renwick Erzsebet Racz Patrick Laurence Bryn Lewis Sylvain Vasseur Matthew Gibson Clarinets Trumpets Manon Morris Rhys Watkins Violas Joe Melvin Andrew Marriner David Elton Laura Dixon Edward Vanderspar Jani Pensola Chris Richards Russell Bennett Piano Helena Smart Gillianne Haddow Simo Väisänen Gerald Ruddock Elizabeth Burley Malcolm Johnston Jeremy Watt E-Flat Clarinet Niall Keatley Bruno Heinen Anna Bastow Nicholas Worters Chi-Yu Mo Paul Mayes Lander Echevarria Editor Julia O’Riordan Bass Clarinet Trombones Edward Appleyard | [email protected] Robert Turner Christelle Pochet Dudley Bright Fiona Dinsdale | [email protected] Heather Wallington Peter Moore Editorial Photography Jonathan Welch Saxophones James Maynard Ranald Mackechnie, Chris Wahlberg, Michelle Bruil Luke Annesley Harald Hoffmann, Marco Borggreve Carol Ella Claire McInerney Bass Trombone Print Cantate 020 3651 1690 Stephanie Edmundson Mike Davis Paul Milner Advertising Cabbells Ltd 020 3603 7937 Mark Crooks Jay Craig Tuba Details in this publication were correct Leslie Neish at time of going to press.

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