OF MUSIC & DANCE CONSERVATOIRE LABAN TRINITY SEP–DEC 2018 WHAT'S ON MUSIC AND DANCE

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Welcome to our Autumn Season 2018, where an extraordinary range of performances awaits you. This year we launched Venus Blazing – an unprecedented commitment to celebrating the music of women composers. We’ve pledged to ensure that in our major music performances this year at least half of the music will be by women composers. This autumn, 31 of the 46 works being performed (67%) are by female composers, both historic and contemporary. We also relaunch Blackheath Halls after a major refurbishment, and I know there will be much to delight audiences ahead. Our Symphony Orchestra starts us off with a Side by Side concert of Grace Williams’ Symphony No. 2, and returns to perform Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3 in November. Other highlights of the season include Trinity Laban String Ensemble performing Errollyn Wallen, Grażyna Bacewicz and Edward Elgar; Trinity Laban Chamber Choir performing Imogen Holst, Elizabeth Maconchy and Lili Boulanger and Trinity Laban Chorus, Musical Theatre Show Choir and Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir performing extracts from Rebecca Dale’s Mater Requiem. At Laban Theatre, expect a strong dance season, featuring Tara D’Arquian’s intriguing Bad Faith, the dark comedy of Gracefool Collective, Marina Collard’s What This Is, Is..., and the welcome return of Julie Cunningham & Company. Our BA3 students perform commissioned works in a great opportunity to see new dance talent live. We perform at major London music festivals – the Early Music Festival, Brandenburg Choral Festival of London and Spitalfields Music – and present our own new music festival Rude Health, showcasing experimental music and composition at the cutting edge. Last but not least, our Musical Theatre students present Cabaret in December, and we finish the season with our vocal students performing Thea Musgrave’s festive opera A Christmas Carol. I look forward to welcoming you to all our performances. Professor Anthony Bowne Principal, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance WHAT’S ON SEP– DEC 2018

Over the following pages we’ve listed our vibrant programme of performances and events. To help you find your way around this extensive programme, we have colour coded similar events so that you can find them more easily:

4 CONCERTS & OPERA 10 MUSICAL THEATRE 11 JAZZ 12 CONTEMPORARY DANCE 16 LOVE YOUR LUNCHTIME FREE MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY 19 COMPETITIONS & PRIZES 20 MASTERCLASSES 21 THE OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE TRINITY LABAN CHAPEL CHOIR 22 TAKE PART

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*Blackheath Halls will be closed until late autumn Cover image: Venus Blazing Venus Blazing artwork: Adam Hypki

We are pleased to be supporting Greenwich Performs, a new festival based Betty Blue Eyes Trinity Laban on traditional roots which launches in Musical Theatre, summer 2018 the heart of Greenwich this October and Photo: Lidia Crisafulli features music, theatre and outdoor events. 3 TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIDE BY SIDE CONCERT Trinity Laban’s Side by Side series brings CONCERTS together student talent with professional mentors from leading orchestras, sharing Join us for a wide range of their expertise and skills. concerts this season as we launch Venus Blazing, our unprecedented commitment to the music of women composers.

FRI 5 OCT 18.00h SIDE BY SIDE Conductor Jonathan Mann Grace Williams Symphony No. 2 An opportunity to hear Grace Williams’ Symphony No. 2 from 1956 as part of our Venus Blazing season.

ST ANNE’S CHURCH, LIMEHOUSE VENUS ADMISSION FREE, TICKET REQUIRED BLAZ NG

FRI 23 NOV 18.00h SIDE BY SIDE Conductor Jonathan Tilbrook Louise Farrenc Symphony No. 3 Written in 1847, Farrenc contributed three remarkable symphonies to the canon of French instrumental music, including Symphony No. 3. Described as “a uniquely expressive and significant voice that needs to be recognised and heard” (The Guardian), this is a great chance to hear this work.

GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS VENUS ADMISSION FREE, TICKET REQUIRED BLAZ NG

4 THU 25 OCT 19.30h THU 1 NOV 19.30h WARLOCK AND HIS TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONIC WINDS BRITISH CONTEMPORARIES

Conductor Timothy Reynish A varied programme of repertoire by Thea Musgrave Journey through a Japanese Peter Warlock and his contemporaries. Landscape – Concerto for Marimba and Poldowski song selection Wind Orchestra Peter Warlock Serenade for Frederick Delius Elizabeth Maconchy Music for Woodwind for piano 4 hands and Brass Morfydd Llwyn Owen song selection for Judith Bingham Three American Icons soprano and piano – Spring, Tristesse and Emily Howard Deep Soul Diving a selection from The Land of Hush-a-bye As part of our Venus Blazing season, an Peter Warlock song selection evening of wide-reaching symphonic wind Join us at King Charles Court for a varied music in celebration of Thea Musgrave’s programme of repertoire by Peter Warlock 90th birthday, featuring her 1994 Journey and his contemporaries. Born Philip Arnold through a Japanese Landscape – Concerto Heseltine (1894–1930), the English composer for Marimba and Wind Orchestra. and critic first used the pseudonym Peter GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS VENUS Warlock in 1916, and is chiefly known for £5 BLAZ NG his output of English song and choral music. The concert also features works as part of the Venus Blazing season by Belgian-born British composer and pianist Régine Wieniawski RUSH HOUR RECITAL (1879–1932), known professionally by the Join us for a free early-evening concert in the pseudonym Poldowski, and Welsh composer, Recital Room at Blackheath Halls at 18.00h. pianist and mezzo-soprano Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891–1918) who had a huge impact on British music and composed 250 pieces WED 28 NOV before her untimely death aged 26. Megan Storer, flute andNoelia Cotuna, harp PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT VENUS A programme of flute and harp music from ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED BLAZ NG this up-and-coming undergraduate duo, including music by Franz Liszt, Jean Cras and David Heath.

TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON | 5 CONCERTS

SAT 17 NOV 13.00h & 19.00h THU 6 DEC 19.00h JUNIOR TRINITY WINTER CONCERTS TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT THE SPITALFIELDS FESTIVAL

Junior Trinity returns to LSO St Luke's with its annual performances featuring students aged 11–19. Join Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra at the home of British boxing for their debut LSO ST LUKE’S performance at the acclaimed Spitalfields £17 (£7 UNDER 18s) Music Festival. Led by festival curator LSO.CO.UK André de Ridder, Spitalfields Music celebrates two dynamic young British composers and a timeless masterpiece with a concert full THU 29 NOV 19.00h of colour, drama, passion and fire. Experience TRINITY LABAN CHORUS orchestral music like never before with a site‑specific spatialised performance, unique to York Hall. Full details of the programme will be announced on Thursday 18 September. YORK HALL, BETHNAL GREEN £12 (£6) VENUS SPITALFIELDSMUSIC.ORG.UK BLAZ NG

Conductor Dominic Peckham Rebecca Dale Mater Requiem (excerpts) Eleanor Daley Set Me As A Seal Meredith Monk Panda Chant II Judith Weir Drop Down Ye Heavens From Above Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms joined by the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir Leonard Bernstein West Side Story (excerpts) performed by Musical Theatre Show Choir Always a highlight of the season, Dominic Peckham returns to work with Trinity Laban students in this programme for massed voices.

GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS VENUS £5 BLAZ NG

6 FRI 7 DEC 19.30h TUE 11, THU 13 & FRI 14 DEC VARIOUS TIMES TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS RUDE HEALTH: A FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC

Conductor André de Ridder Leoš Janá ek Suite from The Cunning An experimental festival of new music and Little Vixen (Smetáček version) innovative performances from Trinity Laban’s acclaimed composition students. Always Trinity Laban student works challenging, often provocative; come and hear Shiva Feshareki GABA-analogue them test their more adventurous ideas in Igor Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919) three unpredictable sonic and artistic events. Join us at Blackheath Halls for a fantastic KING CHARLES COURT, LOCATIONS VARY evening of symphonic music depicting ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED forests, foxes and folklore! The concert opens with a performance of The Cunning Little Vixen Suite for orchestra, reworked SUN 16 DEC 19.00h in this arrangement by Smetáček in 1965, bringing the atmosphere of this unique opera OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE TRINITY LABAN to the concert hall. The evening celebrates CHAPEL CHOIR: HANDEL MESSIAH Trinity Laban’s own composers as well as Winner of the 2017 BASCA British Composer Award for Innovation, Shiva Feshareki, whose work GABA-analogue is programmed. The concert closes with Stravinsky’s evocative Firebird Suite originally composed as a ballet in 1910 for the Ballets Russes, and was the composer’s first major success.

GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS VENUS £5 BLAZ NG Conductor Ralph Allwood MBE First performed in 1742, Handel’s oratorio is one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music. Join the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir as they perform this traditional Christmas celebration, with solos by members of the Chapel Choir. OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE CHAPEL FULL TICKET DETAILS AND BOOKING ONLINE

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FRI 2 NOV FRI 14 DEC 19.30h 17.00h & 19.30h (UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS) SAT 15 DEC 14.30h & 19.30h 18.15h & 20.30h (POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS) TRINITY LABAN OPERA PRESENTS TRINITY LABAN OPERA SCENES THEA MUSGRAVE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Expect spellbinding storytelling, haunting melodies and a spine-tingling spectacle as Libretto and music by Thea Musgrave Trinity Laban undergraduate and postgraduate Director Jennifer Hamilton vocal students explore the supernatural side Musical Director John Pryce-Jones of opera in this showcase. Designer Ian Sommerville RECITAL ROOM AND GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS A rare chance to see the classic Dickens tale ADMISSION FREE, BOOKING REQUIRED of Scrooge and the Spirit of Christmas, as Trinity Laban Opera presents this semi-staged production of Thea Musgrave’s festive opera. WED 14 NOV 19.30h Brought to life by Trinity Laban students, this JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS is the perfect festive treat! AT BLACKHEATH HALLS By arrangement with Novello and Company Limited.

LABAN THEATRE VENUS £15 (£12) BLAZ NG

Patrick Terry Counter-tenor Konu Kim Tenor David Gowland Piano The Royal Opera House comes to Blackheath, as singers from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme perform outstanding opera repertoire in the intimate setting of the Recital Room at Blackheath Halls. RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS £10 (£8)

8 FESTIVALS THU 8–SAT 10 NOV 10.00h–17.00h Trinity Laban students perform at two major THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL musical festivals in London this season. EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Instrument makers, music publishers, BRANDENBURG CHORAL FESTIVAL shops, record companies, organisations and education all on show at Blackheath Halls for OF LONDON AUTUMN SERIES 2018 this annual celebration of early music. Trinity Laban students take to the stage at BLACKHEATH HALLS London’s biggest and broadest celebration TICKETS: THE EARLY MUSIC SHOP of all things choral. Find more information 01274 288100 about Festival tickets at: EARLYMUSICFESTIVAL.COM ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS 020 7766 1100 SMITF.ORG/MUSIC TRINITY LABAN CONCERTS AT THE EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL THU 27 SEP 21.30h OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE TRINITY LABAN CHAPEL THU 8 NOV 13.05h CHOIR: BRANDENBURG CHORAL FESTIVAL 2018 TRINITY LABAN HISTORICALLY INFORMED Conductor Ralph Allwood MBE PERFORMANCE COMPETITION WINNER'S CONCERT Programme includes Allegri's Miserere. £15

SAT 24 NOV 19.00h OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE TRINITY LABAN CHAPEL CHOIR: BRANDENBURG CHORAL FESTIVAL 2018 Conductor Ralph Allwood MBE Hear prize-winning violinist A joint concert with the choir of Queen’s College, Melanie Gruwez perform. Cambridge, including Mozart’s Requiem. ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, BLACKHEATH £36, £32, £29, £22, £16, £9 ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED

SAT 10 NOV 13.05h JUNIOR TRINITY AT THE EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Young musicians specialising in early music at Trinity Laban’s renowned Junior Conservatoire perform a range of chamber music. ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, BLACKHEATH ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED

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Betty Blue Eyes Trinity Laban Musical Theatre, summer 2018

FRI 7 & SAT 8 DEC 14.30h & 19.30h TRINITY LABAN MUSICAL THEATRE PRESENTS: CABARET Director Karen Rabinowitz Musical Director Mark Smith This winter, Trinity Laban Musical Theatre With musical numbers from the 1987 revival welcomes you to the Kit Kat Club. including Willkommen, Cabaret, Don’t Tell In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920’s draw Mama and Don’t Go, this promises to be an to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies exciting and compelling show from our final welcomes the audience and assures them year Musical Theatre students. they will forget all their troubles at the LABAN THEATRE Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as £10 (£5) wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich.

10 BEATS IN THE BAR Our much-loved regular series features JAZZ guest artists alongside student bands. ADMISSION FREE

Our Jazz Department is one of THU 4 OCT 20.00h the strongest in Europe, and our Season launch gig featuring Mark Lockheart, performances are a great chance Malcolm Earle-Smith and Andrea Vicary Part of Greenwich Performs to hear the stars of tomorrow on OLIVER’S JAZZ BAR, GREENWICH stage in London today. THU 11 OCT, THU 18 OCT, THU 25 OCT, THU 1 NOV, THU 8 NOV, THU 15 NOV 20.00h Music from Year 4 student bands OLIVER’S JAZZ BAR, GREENWICH

MON 5 NOV 19.30h Music from award-winning Danish drummer Anders Mogensen, Hans Koller (piano) and Martin Speake (saxophone) RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS

TUE 13 NOV 19.30h RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS

THU 29 NOV, THU 6 DEC 20.00h Music from Year 3 and postgraduate student bands OLIVER’S JAZZ BAR, GREENWICH

TUE 4 DEC 18.30h Music from Year 3 and postgraduate student bands STUDENT UNION BAR, KING CHARLES COURT

THU 22 NOV 20.00h TRINITY LABAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra performs, featuring music from Mary Lou Williams, Maria Schneider, Marian McPartland and Nikki Iles, led by Mark Lockheart and Mercury Prize nominated Laura Jurd. GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS VENUS ADMISSION FREE, TICKET REQUIRED BLAZ NG

TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON | 11 FRI 28 SEP 19.30h TARA D'ARQUIAN CONTEMPORARY BAD FAITH DANCE

Laban Theatre presents the very best contemporary dance – this season with a focus on groundbreaking female choreographers. If Bad Faith is the leanest work in the In Situ trilogy, it is perhaps the most fully realised. It’s modernist rather than postmodernist in tone, with flashes of Beckett in its tragicomic bleakness. The Guardian

French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre describes the concept of bad faith (mauvaise foi) as the habit people have of deceiving themselves into thinking that they do not have the freedom to make choices for fear of the potential consequences of making a choice. Here, choreographer Tara D’Arquian collaborates with poet Jemima Foxtrot and designer Fridthjofur Thorsteinsson to depict a story of self-deception. 20 years after her disappearance, we find Nora in a place of nothingness. Wandering through this parallel world, she encounters uncanny manifestations of her inner darkness. There is no way out of this "non-place" other than to embrace these creatures as extensions of her own self. Will Nora dare to look reality square in the face again? Bad Faith was commissioned by Trinity Laban and supported by Art(SIG), Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre, Greenwich Dance, Pavilion Dance South West. Co‑produced by L’Escaut Architectures. Funded by Arts Council England. LABAN THEATRE 12 £16 (£12) TUE 9 OCT 19.30h THU 18 & FRI 19 OCT 19.30h GRACEFOOL COLLECTIVE TOMORROW’S STARS TODAY THIS REALLY IS TOO MUCH BA3 COMMISSIONED WORKS

Brought to life by renowned choreographers including Gary Lambert, Zoi Dimitriou and Struan Leslie, Trinity Laban students get the chance to delve deep into their creativity. This annual performance is guaranteed to be an experimental show and provides a great opportunity to catch future dance stars at the start of their careers.

Raucous, provocative and laugh-out-loud LABAN THEATRE funny, this genre-busting performance reveals £8 (£4) the downright absurd realities of life as a 3-dimensional, high definition, water‑drinking, salad-eating, WO-man in modern society. “Gleefully compelling” (Exeunt), slickly choreographed and dripping with feminist charm and anarchic wit. Gracefool combine dancing with dark comedy to delve into a world of farcical stereotypes and preposterous power struggles, wrestling with gender, identity and social convention. An outlandish and wildly entertaining medley of absurd political speeches, talent contests and box ticking. Age guidance: 11+ This Really is Too Much has been generously supported by Activate Performing Arts, Barnsley Civic, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Spin Arts and Yorkshire Dance. Part of Greenwich Performs LABAN THEATRE £16 (£12)

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FRI 9 NOV 19.30h JULIE CUNNINGHAM & COMPANY TO BE ME

An intimate, intriguing show from a choreographer who's definitely one to watch. Lyndsey Winship, Evening Standard on To Be Me

Set to the poetry of spoken word artist and Trained at the Rambert School, Julie rapper Kate Tempest, To Be Me explores the Cunningham spent many years working themes of gender, identity and the changing with Merce Cunningham in New York before body. Based on the Greek myth of Tiresias – returning to Britain to join the Michael Clark the blind prophet, born a man and transformed Company. In September 2016, Cunningham into a woman by the gods – Tempest’s verse set up her own company with the aim of finding becomes the accompaniment to a striking new movement vocabularies that strip away and uncompromising choreographic work mannerism and pretense, addressing questions exemplifying the extraordinary technical of gender identity and challenging gender ability of Cunningham and her dancers. roles. Cunningham is a A New Wave Associate In a new solo, Julie Cunningham is in search at Sadler’s Wells and an Associate Artist at of a new kind of desired and desiring Dance East, and Julie Cunningham & Company female body. Here, Cunningham draws is an Associate Company of Rambert. on The Lesbian Body, the radical 1973 1 hour, with no interval novel by Monique Wittig. Following Wittig’s Age guidance: 16+ exhortation, Cunningham works “to recite (contains adult themes and strong language) one’s own body, to recite the body of the other” entirely outside of the masculine gaze. LABAN THEATRE £16 (£12) 14 WED 14 NOV 18.30h & 20.00h PROFESSIONAL DANCE WORKSHOPS MARINA COLLARD WHAT THIS IS, IS…

Come and join us in our world-class studios and develop your passion for moving. We offer accessible dance, movement, and conditioning A cube occupies centre stage, absorbing a classes in a variety of techniques. Whatever range of curated elements and providing a your level of experience, there is a class for you. space for individual disciplines to sit and jostle beside each other. Two performers navigate BOOK AT: TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/SHOP-DANCE/ADULT/AUTUMN18 the four sides, made from latex rubber, screens which oscillate between solidity and liquidity of surface, transparency and WED 19 SEP–WED 24 OCT 19.00h–20.30h luminosity, structure and image. GUEST WORKSHOPS: What this is, is… is an installation and performance lasting 45 minutes with the WITH ADRIAN LOOK / TANZTHEATER cast and audience on stage throughout. Join us for a professional-level class led by Choreographed by Marina Collard and guest teacher Adrian Look. Adrian teaches a performed by Tina Krasevec and Rahel contemporary dance theatre class, inspired by Vonmoos, the piece immerses the audience the aesthetic of Pina Bausch and the strength in a space of movement and sound. and artistic expression of Tanztheater. LABAN THEATRE LABAN BUILDING £16 (£12) £62 (£46), DROP IN £12 (£8)

WED 31 OCT–WED 5 DEC 19.00h–20.15h GUEST WORKSHOPS: WITH NATALIA IWANIEC / GAGA PEOPLE Following sell-out classes last season, book now for the return of Gaga People classes. Offering a creative framework for participants to connect to their bodies and imaginations, classes increase physical awareness and improve flexibility and stamina in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere. Gaga People classes are open to people aged 16+, regardless of their background in dance or movement. No previous dance experience is needed. LABAN BUILDING £62 (£46), DROP IN £12 (£8)

TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON | 15 LOVE YOUR LUNCHTIME LOVE YOUR THURSDAYS AT ST ALFEGE LUNCHTIME

Break away from your desk, or take a moment in the middle The stunningly beautiful St Alfege Church – designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and of the day to enjoy some of resting place of Thomas Tallis – plays host the finest music in beautiful to this Thursday lunchtime series. surroundings. Our lunchtime THURSDAYS FROM 13 SEP–13 DEC 13.05h concerts are free, last about ST ALFEGE CHURCH 45 minutes and are a high ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED point in the middle of the day. Highlights this season include:

THU 4 OCT Full listings of all concerts this JinahJ Shim, piano. A performance of Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Op. 15, and Beethoven’s season can be found online at: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111. trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson Part of Greenwich Performs or get the weekly listings THU 11 OCT Trinity Laban Percussion Ensemble with performer details directed by Mick Doran. straight to your inbox: Part of Greenwich Performs trinitylaban.ac.uk/subscribe THU 25 OCT Trinity Laban String Ensemble conducted by Nic Pendlebury perform Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20, Errollyn Wallen’s Photography (first movement), Grażyna Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra and a new commission VENUS from a Trinity Laban student. BLAZ NG

THU 1 NOV Trinity Laban Harp Department

THU 15 NOV Trinity Laban Sinfonia Strings perform, featuring Elena Kats-Chernin’s Zoom and Zip and Bartók’s VENUS Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.68. BLAZ NG

16 THU 29 NOV Trinity Laban Guitar Department TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS AT THE FRI 16 NOV OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE CHAPEL Trinity Laban Guitar Department FRI 30 NOV Trinity Laban Harp Department

TUE 4 DEC Puzzle Piece Opera Vocal student Eleanor Strutt directs a student‑led opera production.

The Old Royal Naval College Chapel is an internationally famous architectural masterpiece, and the perfect venue for our series of biweekly chamber concerts. TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS FROM TUE 2 OCT–TUE 4 DEC 13.05h (NO CONCERTS FRI 12 OCT, TUE 23 OCT & FRI 26 OCT) THE CHAPEL, ORNC ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED Highlights this season:

TUE 2 OCT Anja Jamšek, violin and Minyoung Bae, piano perform perform César Franck’s Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano, along with Matija Bravničar’s Suonata in Modo Antico. Part of Greenwich Performs

FRI 5 OCT Trinity Laban Wind Ensemble performs a programme including: Mel Bonis Suite dans le style ancien, Op. 127 Jean Françaix Musique Pour Faire Plaisir Pauline Hall Suite for Wind Quintet Richard Strauss Serenade, Op. 7 VENUS Part of Greenwich Performs BLAZ NG

TUE 9 OCT Valentina Ciardelli holds the Carne Trust Junior Fellowship for an Individual in 2018/19 at Trinity Laban and will perform a varied programme of music for double bass. Part of Greenwich Performs

TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON | 17 OUT & ABOUT THU 22 NOV 13.00h Effloresce Duo: Juliette Koch, soprano and Lucy Rose Murphy, piano, perform vocal music by Claude Debussy, Robert Schumann and Jonathan Dove. ST GEORGE THE MARTYR, SOUTHWARK

THU 22 NOV 13.05h Trinity Laban Chamber Choir, directed by Stephen Jackson, perform Imogen Holst’s Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow, Libby We perform at venues across London Larsen’s So blessedly it sprung and work and beyond – find our full list of free by Benjamin Britten. concerts and locations online. VENUS ST BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT, WEST SMITHFIELD BLAZ NG Highlights this season include: FRI 23 NOV 12.30h FRI 19 OCT 13.10h Trinity Laban Chamber Choir, directed by Trinity Laban’s String Ensemble Stephen Jackson, perform Imogen Holst’s ST JAMES’S PICCADILLY Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow, Libby Larsen’s So blessedly it sprung and work by Benjamin Britten. WED 24 OCT 13.10h VENUS Simone Alessandro Tavoni, piano CHELMSFORD CATHEDRAL BLAZ NG STEINWAY HALL

MON 29 OCT 13.00h Hugo Lau, clarinet and Arturo Irisarri, piano featuring Brahms’ Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E‑flat major, Op. 120. ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS

WED 31 OCT 13.00h Trinity Laban Guitar Department QUEEN’S HOUSE, ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH

WED 14 NOV 13.10h Yu Zhou Zhang, piano ST JAMES’S PICCADILLY

WED 21 NOV 13.00h Trinity Laban Harp Department QUEEN’S HOUSE, ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH

18 THU 1 NOV 10.00h THE JOHN LONGMIRE COMPETITION FINAL Pianists perform works by Beethoven COMPETITIONS in the final of this competition. PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT & PRIZES ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED FRI 16 NOV 10.30h Be a part of the excitement as THE VERA KANTROVICH PRIZE musicians from Trinity Laban FOR SOLO STRINGS compete for a variety of awards Competitors perform an unaccompanied during the autumn season. work by J S Bach in this Strings prize. PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED

THU 22 NOV 10.00h THE ALISON STEPHENS COMPETITION FOR PLUCKED AND FRETTED INSTRUMENTS Competitors perform a free-choice 15 minute programme. PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED

TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON | 19 MON 22 OCT 18.00h VOCAL MASTERCLASS: UBALDO FABBRI MASTERCLASSES PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT

WED 7 NOV 12.00 h RECITAL Masterclasses are a unique chance 13.00h CHAMBER WORKSHOP & MASTERCLASS to observe some of the finest and RECITAL AND MASTERCLASS: most celebrated musicians in the CARNE TRUST ENSEMBLE IN world at close quarters as they work RESIDENCE THE LINOS PIANO TRIO with Trinity Laban students. These RECITAL: PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT free performances are open for WORKSHOP & MASTERCLASS: SEE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS anyone to see learning in action. THU 8 NOV 14.00h ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED VOCAL MASTERCLASS: JAMES BOWMAN CBE PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT

FRI 9 NOV 14.00h VOCAL AUDITION MASTERCLASS A vocal masterclass led by industry experts including Elaine Kidd (Royal Opera House) Darren Hargan (Opernhaus Zürich), Michael Pinkerton (Konservatorium Wien) and James Clutton (Investec Opera Holland Park). PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT

WED 14 NOV 14.30h JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS: MASTERCLASS Join the Royal Opera House's Jette Parker Young Artists Patrick Terry, counter-tenor, Konu Kim, tenor and David Gowland, piano. RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS

THU 15 NOV 14.00h VOCAL MASTERCLASS: SUSAN BULLOCK CBE PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT

20 Since 2001, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance has provided music in the Chapel at the Old Royal Naval College. THE OLD ROYAL We are the only Conservatoire in the UK to support a Collegiate Chapel Choir, which is one of the most outstanding sacred music ensembles in London. Most members NAVAL COLLEGE of the choir are drawn from Trinity Laban, but there are also places for experienced and outstanding local volunteer singers. The choir is supported by an assistant organist TRINITY LABAN and Director of Chapel Music. The choir sings a varied repertoire, spanning over 500 years of music, from Renaissance polyphony to CHAPEL CHOIR the present day. See ornc.org/events for the latest performances and recitals. All performances take place in the Old Royal Naval College and are directed by Ralph Allwood MBE. Admission to Chapel Services is always free, and all are very welcome. Please be aware that services are of a religious nature. This season’s Chapel Service highlights include:

MON 24 SEP 17.30h Evensong in association with the Totally Thames Festival

SUN 30 SEP 11.00h Eucharist with the Singknaber boys’ choir of the Cathedral of St Ursus in Solothurn

SUN 11 NOV 11.00h Remembrance Sunday service, Requiem Mass

MON 26 NOV 17.30h Eucharist with Eaton Square Upper School

MON 10 DEC 18.00h Chapel Carol service

TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON | 21 THU 6, FRI 7, MON 10 & TUE 11 SEP TAKE PART SEPTEMBER SERIES

From one-off taster days to weekly classes, courses, creative arts projects and summer schools, Trinity Laban Learning and

Participation programmes are for Join us for Trinity Laban’s September anyone who wants to experience Series aimed at older adults – offering four days of accessible and energising music and and enjoy music and dance. movement workshops for all abilities. Whether you wish to create new music with others, explore Contemporary Dance technique or immerse yourself in the genres of Hip Hop and African music and dance, you’ll find a range of workshops on offer to inspire you. SINGLE DAY: £20 ALL 4 DAYS: £70 (INCLUDING LUNCH) TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/SEPTEMBERSERIES

WED 17 OCT 13.00h DIDO & AENEAS: COMPOSITION PROJECT CULMINATION Inspired by the story and themes of Blackheath Halls Community Opera’s production of Dido & Aeneas, an intergenerational group of performers from Deptford Green School and older adults from Trinity Laban’s Inspired not Tired programme and Meet Me at the Albany will present a new piece devised over six weeks. The performance will also include original performances from the opera. SEE WEBSITE FOR VENUE DETAILS ADMISSION FREE

22 SUPERSONICS, MUSIC WORKSHOPS SCHOOLS’ CONCERT FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS “… an excellent opportunity for our children to work with musicians of this calibre. Truly inspiring.” Experience the world of live music in your school. Trinity Laban are offering one‑off interactive music workshops for Year 4 and 5 classes led by Trinity Laban students supported by our established tutor team. To register your school’s interest in workshops in the autumn terms, FRI 16 NOV 13.00h–15.00h email [email protected] SCHOOLS’ CONCERT: A LEVEL SEMINAR Kaija Saariaho Petals for Violoncello SAT 15 SEP–SAT 8 DEC and Live Electronics ADULT DANCE CLASSES: AUTUMN TERM Clara Wieck Schumann Piano Trio From beginners to advanced levels, in G minor, Op. 17, first movement contemporary dance, ballet, street dance, Mozart The Magic Flute: Excerpts from Act 1 yoga and pilates - we've got you covered. Find No. 4 (Queen of the Night) and No. 5 (Quintet) out more about all our weekday and Saturday Join presenter Patrick Bailey and musicians adult dance classes and book now for the from Trinity Laban for an afternoon of focused autumn term. For Professional Workshops analysis and exploration of selected set works with special guest tutors, see page 15. from the Edexcel A Level music syllabus. Featuring live performances and a chance TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/TAKE-PART/FOR-ADULTS to hear specific excerpts which illustrate important musical elements, this seminar THU 25 OCT 12.25h provides a great introduction to analysis at A Level, supporting and complementing CONCERT AND A CUPPA pupils’ learning in the classroom. Have you ever been to a concert and wished BLACKHEATH HALLS you knew more about the music played or KS5: £4 PER STUDENT VENUS its composer? Are you interested in coming (ACCOMPANYING TEACHERS GO FREE) BLAZ NG to listen to live music for the first time and meeting new people? Concert and a Cuppa is a new series of informal pre-concert talks led MON 3 DEC by students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Each talk will provide CAROLS ON THE GREEN an insight into the music or composer in the Join young dancers from Bellingham Beats concert, takes place before the concert and and older adults from Young at Heart, one is free to attend. of the groups in Trinity Laban’s Inspired not Tired older people’s arts programme, ST ALFEGE CHURCH HALL for Christmas carols, dancing and festive ADMISSION FREE celebrations in Bellingham. CHRIST CHURCH URC, 15 BELLINGHAM GREEN, BELLINGHAM, LONDON SE6 3HQ

TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON | 23 TRINITY LABAN ALUMNI Our graduates go on to careers as artists, practitioners and leaders in music and dance in the UK and overseas. If you are a graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the former Trinity College of Music or Laban Centre, make sure you are part of this international network of music and dance professionals by sharing your contact details with us. You’ll receive news and updates from Trinity Laban and the alumni community, including events, benefits and special offers. To find out more about the alumni programme, the benefits you can access and ways to connect with Trinity Laban, email [email protected] or visit trinitylaban.ac.uk/alumni

MARK LOCKHEART MARINA COLLARD LTCL SAXOPHONE 1982 BA (HONS) DANCE THEATRE 1991 SAXOPHONIST AND COMPOSER MA DANCE STUDIES 2002 CHOREOGRAPHER AND PERFORMER

I met so many people at Trinity Laban The thing I valued most about my that ended up as lifetime musical studies at Trinity Laban was that the collaborators; fellow jazz musicians but creative, artistic practice was central also film composers and orchestrators. and we addressed dance as an art The openness and freedom of Trinity form. There was a curious, investigative Laban enabled me to develop my own atmosphere in which to develop a voice both as a player and a composer. creative/choreographic practice.

Mark will be leading the Trinity Laban Jazz See What this is, is… an installation and Orchestra at Blackheath Halls on Thursday performance by Marina at the Laban 22 November (see page 11 for more details). Theatre on Wednesday 14 November (see page 15 for more details).

24 TRINITY LABAN MUSICIANS FOR HIRE

Would you like live music at your wedding, party, reception, dinner or other event? Trinity Laban trains musicians of the highest standard We had a fantastic party who can be hired to enhance your event with live music. on Saturday night, and Trinity Laban's groups are experienced, well-presented and the trio was the principal reliable, with recommendations from our acclaimed faculty members. We regularly provide a wide range of classical and reason for this. They jazz ensembles for background music, concerto and recital were absolutely great, performers, and vocal soloists for choral concerts. wonderful music. Whatever the occasion, and whatever music you require, Private client we will endeavour to help with your request. For further information please contact: Howard Felton, Professional Placements Coordinator 020 8305 4432 /[email protected] or visit trinitylaban.ac.uk/externalengagements BOOK NOW: 020 8463 0100 | TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON 25 JOIN THE FAMILY at Trinity Laban – London’s Creative Conservatoire. With an ever-growing reputation for innovation, excellence and collaboration, we nurture the artists of tomorrow. Trinity Laban produces confident, versatile and entrepreneurial alumni who have an influence on a local, national and global scale. We thank our friends and supporters who contribute vital funds and enable much of this to happen. You too, can become one of these supporters and part of the Trinity Laban family by joining as a Patron or Friend. You will meet students and teachers, watch rehearsals, attend masterclasses and join us for special events. If you are interested in supporting the very fabric of our building you may derive great pleasure from contributing to our major campaign to refurbish King Charles Court in the Old Royal Naval College. In this way, you will be helping to provide excellent facilities for students and preserve the building for years to come. Alternatively you may wish to direct your support towards the improvements of the Laban Building or Blackheath Halls, to ensure that they are state of the art flagship venues for our performers. There will of course always be a need for student scholarship support, which enable more students from both the UK and around the world to take up their places at Trinity Laban. Our scholarship donors enjoy getting to know some of our students and tracking their progress and success. Wherever your interests lie, we will recognise the generosity of your gift in a way that is appropriate for you. Contact us to find out about giving to Trinity Laban as a Friend or a Patron and to see what your gift can do.

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RichMarcus Brigstocke Hall WE’RE BACK Seann Walsh AUTUMN 2018 Jeremy Hardy

COMEDYMarcus Brigstocke ● Seann Walsh ● Rich Hall ● Jeremy Hardy

MUSICVenus Blazing a celebration of female composers EXHIBITIONSRoyal Greenwich International Early Music Festival

TALKSBergman, film & music FAMILYA French twist to a classic favourite in 3 Little Pig Tails COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR Do join our friendly gospel choir and perform at our 10th anniversary concert featuring special guests VENUES Our performance venues are located in South East London, however Trinity Laban musicians and dancers also perform at a wide range of venues around London and the UK. Details for venues are indicated next to events, but these are our main home venues.

KING CHARLES COURT LABAN THEATRE BLACKHEATH HALLS PEACOCK ROOM LABAN THEATRE GREAT HALL STUART ROOM STUDIO THEATRE RECITAL ROOM THEATRE STUDIO MACKERRAS ROOM

King Charles Court is the The award-winning Laban Blackheath Halls is a historic home of our Faculty of Music, Building was made for dance, arts venue in Blackheath located in the World Heritage and the Laban Theatre and Village, home to Trinity Laban Site Old Royal Naval College Studio Theatre are both performances as well as a in Greenwich. Concerts in the here. Dance shows also wider programme of comedy, Peacock Room and Stuart take place at Laurie Grove spoken word, family and Room take place here, as and around the Faculty music events. well as Chapel Choir and of Dance in unexpected Blackheath Halls will re-open lunchtime concerts in the Old places and spaces. in late autumn 2018 after a Royal Naval College Chapel. period of closure to improve the interior of the venue for both artists and audiences

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