Winter 2015 programme

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A Happy New Year to everyone. concert, including the wonderfully Blackheath Sundays Blackheath Halls has a great tradition for evocative Seven Last Words on the Cross bringing you some of the best names on by James MacMillan. This is a rare the comedy circuit. Following in that opportunity to see and hear one of the Classical events tradition, we are delighted to announce leading choral groups in the world. the launch of Laughing Boy Comedy Club, The Jette Parker Young Artists will a monthly Thursday night show in the present three further Wednesday evening Recital Room. Alongside new and recitals at the Halls, the first on 21 January. CoLab emerging comedy talents, the Comedy The students of Trinity Laban will once Club will feature some of the top again be providing a diverse range of comedians trying out new material. Also performances and events from classical to Musical Theatre on 10 April making their first appearance jazz and musical theatre. at the Halls will be two of comedy’s rising As ever, Blackheath Halls’ community young stand up stars – Romesh engagement programme provides lots of Comedy Ranganathan and Suzi Ruffell – with opportunities to get involved, have fun, their hotly anticipated new shows. and learn new skills. Between January and For lovers of folk music we welcome March you can come and join our popular back both the award-winning Scottish Blackheath Does Broadway course, or What’s On When singer, Emily Smith, and the great Irish Meantime Jazz if jazz is your thing. band, Altan, and an all-day Folk Funday Blackheath Halls Orchestra has space for on Sunday 17 May, with workshops, string and French horn players and this Children’s opera story-telling, concerts and a family ceilidh. term has the privilege of playing On 30 May The Manfreds, with their alongside internationally renowned original frontman, Paul Jones, will be soloists Raphael and Elizabeth Wallfisch. Children’s events performing many of the greatest hits of Following the success of our previous the 1960s group Manfred Mann, along children’s operas, the Halls will be with jazz and blues songs from some of presenting a production of Brundibar by Spoken Word their best known albums. the Czech composer Hans Krasa. Our Saturday Children’s Theatre series Two dates to put in your diary now are brings to the stage more wonderfully the annual Quiz Evening on 30 January enchanting stories, both old and new, and the Opera Gala Night on 8 March, Music events including Little Bo Peep, Rumpelstiltskin, both now firmly part of Blackheath’s and A Real Mermaid’s Tale. social calendar, raising very important Join us for one of our Sunday morning funds to support the work of the Halls. Community Come recitals featuring an excellent mix of There’s plenty for everyone so do come and Join In artists and musical repertoire, including and join us. the ever-popular Wihan Quartet, marking their 30th anniversary. Community events We are delighted to welcome the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge to the Halls on 14 March in a special Passiontide Keith Murray, General Manager Booking info

Contacts General Manager Operations Manager Marketing and Box Development Manager Technical Manager Community Administrator Keith Murray Hannah Benton Office Co-ordinator Helma Zebregs Malcolm Richards Engagement Manager Caroline Foulkes Kyle Jarvis Rose Ballantyne

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www.blackheathhalls.com 3 BLACKHEATH SUNDAYS SACCONI QUARTET Sibelius and Nielsen at 150 SUNDAY 1 FEBRUARY 11am | Recital Room Sibelius Moderato and Allegro appassionato in C sharp minor Nielsen String Quartet in G minor, Op.13 Sibelius String Quartet in D minor, Op.56 ‘Intimate Voices’

2015 celebrates the 150th anniversary of both Sibelius and Nielsen’s births. The Sacconi Quartet, having given the UK premiere of Sibelius’ Moderato and Allegro appassionato at Buxton Festival, champions both composers with this sumptuous Nordic programme spanning works from either end of Sibelius’ compositional spectrum framing one of Nielsen’s most popular chamber music works, his first String Quartet in G minor. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions Photo: Emilie Bailey

AMY HARMAN bassoon TOM POSTER piano SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY 11am | Recital Room Schumann 3 Romances, Op.94 Liszt Oh! Quand je dors (text by Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo) Hindemith Sonata for Bassoon and Piano Box office Saint-Saëns Sonata for Bassoon and Piano, Op.168 020 Reynaldo Hahn Le Printemps; A Chloris 8463 Dutilleux Sarabande et Cortège Amy Harman studied at the and 0100 on graduating she became principal of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and has appeared as guest principal with the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Scottish Chamber Orchestras. In 2011 Amy became principal of the . Accompanying Amy is Tom Poster, internationally known as a pianist of outstanding artistry and versatility. Equally in demand as a soloist and chamber musician he has appeared in both capacities at the BBC Proms in 2008, 2009 and 2011. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions 4 www.blackheathhalls.com BLACKHEATH SUNDAYS

Blackheath Sundays Multibuy Discount Book 3-4 concerts and A free receive a 10% piano coffee is included discount NAUFAL MUKUMI with all tickets SUNDAY 1 MARCH 11am | Recital Room for Blackheath Book all 5 Beethoven Appassionata No.23, Op.57 Sundays events concerts and Scriabin 12 Études, Op.8 receive a Chopin Complete Scherzos 15% discount.

We welcome back award winning Laban Conservatoire of Music pianist Naufal Mukumi to the and Dance in 2013 with first Sunday series. Naufal began his class honours, also winning the piano studies at the age of seven, Conservatoire’s Silver Medal Award. after winning several prizes in He is currently continuing his international piano competitions; studies at Trinity Laban with Head he left Uzbekistan aged 16 and of Piano, Deniz Gelenbe. entered the Purcell School of Music TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions to study with Tessa Nicholson. Naufal graduated from Trinity Recital supported by Esta Finlay

Support our Blackheath Sunday recitals Our Sunday morning recital series ensembles and soloists. If you are group. With your support we can has been a regular feature at not already a donor and enjoy our continue to deliver a diverse and Blackheath Halls for many years, Sunday morning recitals, we hope high quality series of recitals. providing opportunities for local that you will consider making a Contact Helma Zebregs, audiences to hear some of the donation to the series or even Development Manager, at country’s leading classical artists, as sponsoring an individual recital, [email protected] well as many new and emerging either on your own or as part of a

Box office: 020 8463 0100 5 BLACKHEATH SUNDAYS WIHAN QUARTET SUNDAY 15 MARCH 11am | Recital Room

Schubert String Quartet No.10 in E flat major, D.87, Op.125/1 Paganini (arr. W. Zinn) Caprices for String Quartet: No.9 in E major, No.14 in E flat major, No.17 in E flat major, No.18 in C major, No.20 in D major, No.24 in A minor Dvorˇák String Quartet No.13 in G major, Op.106

The Wihan Quartet have had a long association with Blackheath Halls and are firm favourites with our audience. The Quartet is celebrating 30 years since its formation in 2015 and over the years it has developed an outstanding reputation for the romantic and modern masterpieces of interpretation of its native Czech the string quartet repertoire. heritage, and of the many classical, TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions

BENJAMIN BAKER violin ROBERT THOMPSON piano Blackheath SUNDAY 29 MARCH 11am | Recital Room Sundays Multibuy Schubert Grand Duo in A major, for Violin and Piano, D.574 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata No.4 in E minor, Op.27 ‘Fritz Kreisler’ Discount Ernst The Last Rose of Summer (Étude No.6) Book 3-4 Strauss Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major, Op.18 concerts and receive a 10% Award-winning New Zealand violinist Benjamin Baker over discount the past year has made his debut with the Philharmonia Book all 5 Orchestra and performed with the Haydn Chamber Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon. concerts and He has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Newbury and receive a 15% Northern Chords Festivals; and appeared as soloist with the discount Royal New Zealand Ballet Company. For this Blackheath Sunday series recital he is accompanied by consummate pianist, Robert Thompson who as a chamber musician regularly collaborates with a number of instrumentalists and has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, the Leeds and Nottingham International Piano Series, and The Sage, Gateshead. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions 6 www.blackheathhalls.com CLASSICAL EVENTS

MUSIC APPRECIATION WITH LUNCHTIME RECITALS MATTHEW TAYLOR The Friends of Blackheath Halls Orchestral Splendours bring you a series of recitals for the MONDAY 5, 12, 19 & 26 JANUARY; 2, 9 & 23 FEBRUARY; winter. All concerts are in the Recital Room and start at 1.10pm. Admission 2, 9 & 23 MARCH 10am | Recital Room is free with a retiring donation to Blackheath Halls. This 10-week course and a rare opportunity to concentrates on the hear Wagner. Lunch with Friends development of the orchestra This course should give a The Friends will be offering a hot and and orchestral forms. varied glittering orchestral cold lunch made with delicious fresh Matthew will cover an display. For more information, food, prior to the recitals. extensive period from the make a booking or arrange 17th century including ballet your free taster lecture KEATS QUARTET music by Lully and early contact: Lionel Lewis on 020 MONDAY 19 JANUARY opera by Monteverdi, 8297 1075, email ljl@lionel Mendelssohn String Quartet Op.13; baroque and classical, jlewis.org.uk or visit www. Janácˇek String Quartet No.1, ‘Kreutzer followed by the concert blackheath-music.co.uk Sonata’ overtures of the 19th century COURSE FEE: £10 per lecture of Mendelssohn and Berlioz | £80 (10 week course) MAYA IRGALINA piano THURSDAY 22 JANUARY Chopin Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante Op.22; Schumann Piano Sonata Op.11; Chopin Fantasie- TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY Impromptu ORCHESTRA Side-by-Side EMILIE CAPULET piano MONDAY 26 JANUARY Ravel Pavane pour une Infante Défunte; Debussy L’Isle Joyeuse; Ravel Gaspar de la Nuit JAMES KIRBY piano MONDAY 9 FEBRUARY Debussy Images, Book 2; Schubert Sonata in A, D.959 FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 6pm | Great Hall Conductor Jonathan Tilbrook OPERAVIEW MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY Stravinsky Petrushka Mozart Bastien and Bastienne Mozart’s one act comic opera To welcome in the New Year and a new term, students and performed in an English translation, staff perform Stravinsky’s Petrushka, a work that revels in fully staged and costumed. Russian folk music and superbly exploits the capabilities of the symphony orchestra, with bold, bright washes of sound. LONDON CHAMBER COLLECTIVE In Petruska, Stravinsky wrote a masterpiece, a tour de force, MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY which would propel him forward to the Rite of Spring. Beethoven Violin Sonata Op.96; Side-by-Side concerts are always popular, so book early to Mozart Piano Quartet No.1 in G avoid disappointment. minor, K.478 >> ADMISSION FREE but ticketed Box office: 020 8463 0100 7 BLACKHEATHCLASSICAL EVENTS SUNDAYS

Rising stars of the Royal Opera House, Covent JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS RECITALS Garden

Artistic Director David Gowland WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY Administrator Siri Fischer Hansen 7.30pm | Recital Room 7.30pm | Recital Room LAUREN FAGAN soprano KIANDRA HOWARTH soprano We are delighted to be hosting another SAMUEL DALE JOHNSON LUIS GOMES tenor series of recitals by the talented rising baritone singers of The Royal Opera House. In WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL 7.30pm | addition to their Royal Opera House Programme includes: Recital Room performances, you can hear the Young Schumann Liederkreis; Grieg Artists in the intimate setting of Opus 48; Gounod Avant de ANUSH HOVHANNISYAN Blackheath Halls’ Recital Room, quitter ces lieux from Faust, soprano accompanied by the programme’s Act II; Puccini Donde lieta, YURIY YURCHUK artistic director David Gowland. from La Boheme, Act III. bass-baritone For more information about the Programme, visit www.roh.org.uk/ TICKETS: £7 | £5 students | £18 for all three recitals about/jette-parker-young-artists- Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is generously programme supported by Oak Foundation

TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FRIDAY 23 JANUARY 7.30pm | Great Hall

Conductor Martin André Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini Overture opens Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini, Overture the concert, followed by one of Bartok’s best- known compositions, Music for String, Percussion Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste and Celeste. A new work by Trinity Laban student Alexander Bourne-Clark* New Composition Alexander Bourne-Clark is also featured and Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra completes the programme. Martin André conducts the Trinity Laban TICKETS: £12 | £7 CONCESSIONS Symphony Orchestra in a programme that unwraps *Trinity Laban Composition Student and explores the soundworld of the orchestra.

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TRINITY LABAN SINFONIA LUNCHTIME RECITALS WIND AND STRINGS THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 7.30pm | Great Hall THE LEADING LADIES MONDAY 2 MARCH Conductors Andrew Dunn & Andy Sherwood A selection of classical, traditional Piano Margaret Fingerhut and popular songs. Adam Gorb Bohemian Revelry ANNIE YIM piano Kenneth Hesketh Danceries MONDAY 9 MARCH Peter Copley Piano Concerto Programme includes Schumann Enescu Prelude a l’unison, Suite No.1 Fantasie Op.17 Panufnik Jagiellonian Triptych EUSEBIUS QUARTET THURSDAY 19 MARCH Wind Orchestra repertoire includes Haydn String Quartet in D Major, Adam Gorb’s Czech inspired Bohemian Revelry and Op.20 No.4; Schumann String Quartet Kenneth Hesketh’s Danceries, a work influenced by Henry No.1 in A Minor, Op.41 no.1 Playford’s folk music collection Dancing Master. In the second half soloist Margaret Fingerhut performs ADELE PAXTON soprano Peter Copley’s Piano Concerto with the String Orchestra alongside Enescu’s Prelude a l’unison from Suite No.1 in C SARAH DOWN piano and Panufnik’s Jagiellonian Triptych. MONDAY 23 MARCH TICKETS: £5 Sarah Meneely-Kyder Four arrangements of Scottish folk songs; King David; Strauss & Mahler Selected songs; Kurt Weill TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY Surabaya Johnny, Alabama Song; ORCHESTRA Dvorˇák Rusalka’s Song to the Moon Side-by-Side MINERVA PIANO TRIO FRIDAY 27 MARCH TUESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 6pm | Great Hall Programme includes: Brahms Piano Conductors Jonathan Tilbrook & James Ham Trio in B major, Op.8 (orig version) Weber Der Freischutz J.277 Overture BLAZE ENSEMBLE Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 MONDAY 13 APRIL Beethoven Quintet for piano and Featuring orchestral students alongside professional winds Op.16; Ian Stephens Thea Dances musicians, conductors James Ham and Jonathan Tilbrook direct the fourth Side-by-Side concert this academic year KRISTINA ROKASHEVICH piano with a journey into German national identity during MONDAY 20 APRIL the 19th century. Beethoven Piano Sonata No.30, Weber’s Overture from Der Freischutz – a work considered Op.109; Schumann Carnaval Op.9 by many to be the first important German romantic opera – opens the programme. Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra OLGA STEZHKO piano then perform Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 in C minor – MONDAY 27 APRIL widely considered to bridge the gap between the classical Mozart Sonata K.570; Prokofiev Tales and romantic eras. of an Old Grandmother; Ravel Pavane Side-by-Side concerts are always popular, book early to pour une infante défunte; Abeliovich avoid disappointment! Tarantella; Debussy Images, Book Two Admission FREE but ticketed Box office: 020 8463 0100 9 BLACKHEATHCLASSICAL EVENTS SUNDAYS

TRINITY LABAN SOLOISTS’ COMPETITION FINAL THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY 7.30pm | Great Hall

Finalists compete in this popular and prestigious competition. The Soloists’ Competition showcases some of the Faculty of Music’s most talented performers, with each student performing a concerto (with orchestral parts reduced as piano accompaniment) to win the opportunity to perform their chosen concerto with the Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra at Cadogan Hall in June. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed Advance booking recommended

TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Side-by-Side FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY 6pm | Great Hall Conductor Jonathan Tilbrook Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 ‘Pathetique’

Jonathan Tilbrook conducts the final Side-by-Side this season in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6 in B minor (Pathetique), his final completed symphony. Side-by-Side concerts are always popular, book early to avoid disappointment! ADMISSION FREE but ticketed 10 www.blackheathhalls.com BLACKHEATHCLASSICAL SUNDAYS EVENTS TRINITY LABAN WIND ORCHESTRA THURSDAY 5 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall

Conductor Duncan Stubbs Paul Meallor Hymn to Endless Light Tom Davoran Ascension

Duncan Stubbs, principal director of music RAF Music Services and Wing Commander for the Central Band of the Royal Air Force, conducts the Trinity Laban Wind Orchestra in a wonderful programme, featuring Paul Meallor’s Hymn to Endless Light and Tom Davoran’s Ascension, with trumpet and euphonium soloists from the band of the Royal Air Force. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed

TRINITY LABAN ANGELL TRIO WITH CONCERT MATTHEW ROSE ORCHESTRA WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH 7.30pm | Recital Room TUESDAY 10 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall John Woolrich The Voices Kate Whitely New Composition Conductor Jonathan Tilbrook Novák In der Tatra Join Blackheath Halls regular Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2 in Matthew Rose F major, Op.102 Box office (right) and the Erica MacLeod* New composition world renowned Dvorˇák Symphony No.8 in G major, Op.88 020 Angell Trio as they return to the Trinity Laban Concert Orchestra and 8463 Halls for an conductor Jonathan Tilbrook return evening featuring with a programme exploring Eastern 0100 the new works of European Music. the Michael Photo: Lena Kern The concert includes Novák’s most Cuddigan Trust successful work In der Tatra, a new 2015 composers John Woolrich and composition by Trinity Laban student Kate Whitely. Erica Macleod and two Set up in 2014 in memory of Michael uncharacteristically cheerful pieces: Cuddigan, a great supporter of new Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.2 and vocal chamber music, the Trust supports Dvorˇák’s Symphony No.8. the composition of new work through TICKETS: £5 concert performances by top musicians in the field. *Trinity Laban Composition Student TICKETS: £14 | £9 concessions Box office: 020 8463 0100 11 CLASSICAL EVENTS

Director Graham Ross John Tavener Exhoration THE CHOIR OF CLARE Thomas Tomkins When David Heard COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE WITH Richard Farrant Call to Remembrance, O Lord THE DMITRI ENSEMBLE Robert Ramsey How are the Mighty SATURDAY 14 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall Fallen We are delighted to welcome the Choir of Clare College, Charles H. Parry At the Round to Blackheath Halls to perform this special Passiontide Earth’s Imagined Corners concert with the Dmitri Ensemble. Since their founding in Thomas Weelkes When David Heard 1971, the Choir of Clare College has gained an international John Tavener Song for Athene reputation as one of the leading choral groups in the world. William Harris Bring us, O Lord God The performance includes James MacMillan’s powerful masterpiece Seven Last Words on the Cross and John James MacMillan Seven Last Words Tavener’s evocative Song for Athene. on the Cross TICKETS: £24 | £20 concessions | £5 under 16s 12 www.blackheathhalls.com CLASSICAL

TRINITY LABAN STRING TRINITY LABAN ENSEMBLE SHOWCASE SERIES FRIDAY 27 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall Trinity Laban chamber musicians and soloists perform early evening Conductor Nicholas Pendlebury recitals in this new series Clarinet Elliott DeVivo showcasing Trinity Laban musicians in the intimate setting Janácˇek (arr. R.Tognetti) of the Recital Room. Quartet No.1, JW.VII/8, GEN LI piano “Kraytserova sonata” (The FRIDAY 27 MARCH Kreutzer Sonata) 6pm | Great Hall Joanne Mary Cooper* New Work Sibelius Romance in C major Op.42 Gen Li performs Finzi (arr. Ashmore) Five Bagatelles Op.23a a programme (arr. for clarinet and string orchestra) that includes Chopin’s 24 Preludes, and a 4-hands Tchaikovsky Serenade in C major, Op.48 performance of Stravinsky’s Russian TICKETS: £5 Dance from Petrushka with duo *Trinity Laban Composer partner Lin Lin. ADMISSION FREE

ART EXHIBITIONS TERRY and VALERIE VAUGHAN LEE GREEN OPEN WEDNESDAY 4 FEBRUARY – SUNDAY 1 MARCH 10am-5pm | Café Bar STUDIOS Terry Vaughan has developed TUESDAY 7 APRIL – THURSDAY 30 APRIL his art in clay, painting, collage 10am-5pm | Café Bar and the making of boxes. He has had solo and mixed Lee Green, close to Blackheath, is home exhibitions and been involved to 50 visual artists working in fine art, in the exhibition on The Body printmaking, photography, textiles, at the V&A Museum and jewellery, ceramics, sculpture, craft artwork for shop window and illustration. Many of the group are displays amongst other things. well known, exhibiting nationally as Valerie Vaughan was a well as in London. teacher by profession in Lewisham and during the 80s she went to the Royal College of Art and did a degree in Art Education. Valerie has constantly practised her art in a variety of materials such as paint, clay and stained glass and has had a variety of exhibitions. She was also chair of the Blackheath Art Society

for several years. Julie Eccles

Box office: 020 8463 0100 13 COLAB EVENTS THE FIFTH WALL THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY 7.30pm | Blackheath Halls

Join us at Blackheath Halls for an evening of projects that push artistic boundaries. The London Democratic Orchestra invites you to answer the question: what is the future for the orchestra? This project involves musicians, dancers and a choreographer working together with and without a conductor, COLAB 2015 from music and memory. As a culmination of his week in residence CoLab is Trinity Laban’s Michael Klien will also introduce his two-week festival where eight Excavation Project, which sees him hundred students from both working with a large group of dance Music and Dance Faculties get and music students. together to develop ideas and Artists, students, academics and make-work. celebrities will also participate in a live CoLab is about the streamed ‘After Hours’ debate importance of experimentation about the meaning of creativity and collaboration where the and learning. Available to view process is as important as the at: trinitylaban.ac.uk/live product. Students and staff ADMISSION FREE but ticketed share their work in a series of informal events throughout the two weeks. We invite and encourage COLAB FINALE you to attend these free, FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY 7pm | collaborative events and join Blackheath Halls us on this exciting journey. For details as they unfold, CoLab 2015 closes with a delightfully visit www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/ raucous celebration of dance and music. whatson/colab Walk around the building’s many nooks and crannies experiencing weird and wonderful projects from CoLab 2015. The finale will be a giant ‘joining-in’ that features baroque, Hip Hop, Ceilidh, breaking bread, darkness, noise and a little silence. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed

Disclaimer: Due to the responsive and process driven nature of CoLab, performance listings are subject to change. For up-to-date information visit: trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson/colab 14 www.blackheathhalls.com MUSICAL THEATRE

TRINITY LABAN BA3 MUSICAL THEATRE SHOWCASE PREVIEW MONDAY 23 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall

BA3 Musical Theatre students present West End performed with style and an open dress rehearsal performance polish from the highly talented ahead of their showcase to invited Musical Theatre final year students. industry specialists. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed Expect a medley of songs from the

BEATS IN THE BAR Trinity Laban Jazz students perform in this Why not stay after regular series of jazz gigs in our Recital Room. our events for All sessions are free and start at 7.30pm drinks, a chat and Tuesday 3 February Tuesday 3 March music in our Featuring first and Featuring third year relaxed and second year students students performing friendly bar in jazz combos. in jazz combos.

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Independently run Laughing Boy Comedy Club hotspots’ by GQ magazine have put on some of the most successful shows in Laughing Boy still welcome London over the past 10 years. They have helped back some of their A-List friends. launch the careers of some of the UK’s finest Alan Carr, who is known to pop down to try stand-ups today, including Alan Carr, Michael out new material, quips ‘I love performing at McIntyre, Jon Richardson, Kevin Bridges, Seann Laughing Boy, and warmed up there before my Walsh and Josh Widdicombe. O2 dates. You never know who’ll rock up Viewed as one of the top 10 ‘hidden comedy and do a set’ THE LINE-UP SO FAR... THURSDAY 16 APRIL 8pm | Recital Room Angela Barnes (left), star of Mock the THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 8pm | Recital Room Week and Stand up for the Week. Pete Firman, star of BBC1’s The THURSDAY 21 MAY 8pm | Recital Room Magicians, brings his trademark blend THURSDAY 18 JUNE 8pm | Recital Room of crowd-pleasing comedy and jaw- dropping magic. TICKETS: £10 THURSDAY 19 MARCH 8pm | Recital Room Check www.blackheathhalls.com for up-to-date line-ups Rob Deering – ‘One of the leading stand- ups of his generation’ Time Out Ben Norris – ‘Truly a sight to behold’ Ed Byrne Kev McCarthy – One of the country’s most in demand comperes. OFFER! BIANCO43 PIZZERIA RESTAURANT, BLACKHEATH Show your Laughing Boy Comedy ticket and receive a 20% discount off your choice of pizza.

ROMESH RANGANATHAN Rom Wasn’t Built in a Day SUZI RUFFELL DOUBLE Social Chameleon HEADER TOUR FRIDAY 10 APRIL 8pm | Recital Room

Two of comedy’s rising stand up stars embark on their first UK tour. Fresh from supporting some of the UK’s top comedians, Romesh Ranganathan and Latitude New Act of the Year finalist, Suzi Ruffell take their hotly anticipated shows on the road. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions 16 www.blackheathhalls.com WINTER/SPRING 2015 DIARY

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THURSDAY 22 JANUARY Lunchtime Recital: Maya FEBRUARY MONDAY 5 Irgalina, piano 1.10pm SUNDAY 1 Music Appreciation 10am FRIDAY 23 Blackheath Sundays: Sacconi Blackheath Does Broadway Trinity Laban Symphony Quartet 11am Rehearsal 7.30pm Orchestra 7.30pm Blackheath Halls Orchestra Rehearsal 2.30pm FRIDAY 9 MONDAY 26 Trinity Laban Symphony Music Appreciation 10am MONDAY 2 Orchestra: Side-by-Side 6pm Lunchtime Recital: Emilie Music Appreciation 10am MONDAY 12 Capulet, piano 1.10pm Meantime Jazz Course 1 7pm Music Appreciation 10am Meantime Jazz Course 1 7pm Blackheath Does Broadway Meantime Jazz Course 1 7pm Blackheath Does Broadway Rehearsal 7.30pm Blackheath Does Broadway Rehearsal 7.30pm TUESDAY 3 Rehearsal 7.30pm WEDNESDAY 28 Trinity Laban Symphony David Carpenter: Magna Carta Orchestra: Side-by-Side 6pm MONDAY 19 8pm Beats in the Bar 7.30pm Music Appreciation 10am Lunchtime Recital: Keats THURSDAY 29 WEDNESDAY 4 – Quartet 1.10pm Trinity Laban Sinfonia Wind SUNDAY 1 MARCH and Strings 7.30pm Art Exhibition: Terry & Valerie Tea Dance 2pm Vaughan 10am-5pm Meantime Jazz Course 1 7pm FRIDAY 30 Quiz Evening 8pm WEDNESDAY 4 Blackheath Does Broadway Blackheath Does Broadway SATURDAY 31 Rehearsal 7.30pm Rehearsal 7.30pm Children’s Event: Little Bo Peep WEDNESDAY 21 3pm SATURDAY 7 Jette Parker Young Artists: Tea Dance 2pm Lauren Fagan, soprano & Samuel Dale Johnson, baritone SUNDAY 8 7.30pm Blackheath Halls Orchestra Blackheath Does Broadway Rehearsal 2.30pm Rehearsal 7.30pm

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MONDAY 9 THURSDAY 19 WEDNESDAY 25 Music Appreciation 10am CoLab 2015: The Fifth Wall Jette Parker Young Artists: Lunchtime Recital: James Kirby, 7.30pm Kiandra Howarth, soprano, Luis Gomes, tenor 7.30pm piano 1.10pm FRIDAY 20 Meantime Jazz Course 1 7pm CoLab Finale 2015 7pm THURSDAY 26 Blackheath Does Broadway Trinity Laban Soloists’ SATURDAY 21 Competition Final 7.30pm Rehearsal 7.30pm House of Fun with Arthur WEDNESDAY 11 Smith 8pm FRIDAY 27 The Richard Grierson Annual Trinity Laban Symphony SUNDAY 22 Orchestra: Side-by-Side 6pm Architecture Lecture 8pm Blackheath Halls Orchestra THURSDAY 12 Sectionals 11am SATURDAY 28 Laughing Boy Comedy Club Blackheath Halls Orchestra Children’s Event: 8pm Rehearsal 2.30pm Three Pigs 3pm

SATURDAY 14 MONDAY 23 Children’s Event: The Music Appreciation 10am MARCH Adventures of Perseus 3pm Lunchtime Recital: London SUNDAY 1 SUNDAY 15 Chamber Collective 1.10pm Blackheath Sundays: Naufal Blackheath Sundays: Amy Blackheath Does Broadway Mukumi, piano 11am Harman, bassoon & Tom Poster, Rehearsal 7.30pm Blackheath Halls Orchestra piano 11am Rehearsal 2.30pm

MONDAY 16 MONDAY 2 Lunchtime Recital: Operaview Music Appreciation 10am 1.10pm Multibuy offers are available Lunchtime Recital: The Leading Blackheath Does Broadway Ladies 1.10pm Rehearsal 7.30pm for Blackheath Sundays, Tea Dance 2pm Children’s events and WEDNESDAY 18 Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm Blackheath Does Broadway Comedy events. Contact the Rehearsal 7.30pm Blackheath Does Broadway box office for more details Rehearsal 7.30pm

Annual House of Fun Three Pigs Architecture with Arthur Saturday 28 Lecture Smith February Wednesday Saturday 21 11 February February Highlights WINTER/SPRING 2015 DIARY

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TUESDAY 3 SATURDAY 14 MONDAY 23 Beats in the Bar 7.30pm The Choir of Clare College, Music Appreciation 10am Cambridge with The Dmitri Lunchtime Recital: Adele THURSDAY 5 Ensemble 7.30pm Trinity Laban Wind Orchestra Paxton, soprano & Sarah Down, 7.30pm SUNDAY 15 piano 1.10pm Blackheath Sundays: Wihan Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm SATURDAY 7 Quartet 11am Blackheath Does Broadway: Trinity Laban BA3 Musical Dress Rehearsal 2pm Theatre Showcase Preview MONDAY 16 7.30pm Blackheath Does Broadway Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm Performance 7pm Blackheath Halls Orchestra WEDNESDAY 25 Live At The Halls 7pm SUNDAY 8 Rehearsal 7pm Opera Gala Night 6.30pm WEDNESDAY 18 FRIDAY 27 Helen Castor: Joan of Arc – Lunchtime Recital: Minerva MONDAY 9 A History 8pm Piano Trio 1.10pm Music Appreciation 10am Trinity Laban Showcase Series: Lunchtime Recital: Annie Yim, THURSDAY 19 Gen Li, piano 6pm piano 1.10pm Lunchtime Recital: Eusebius Quartet 1.10pm Trinity Laban String Ensemble Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm 7.30pm Laughing Boy Comedy Club Blackheath Halls Orchestra 8pm SUNDAY 29 Rehearsal 7pm Blackheath Sundays: Benjamin SATURDAY 21 TUESDAY 10 Baker, violin & Robert Children’s Event: There's a Thompson, piano 11am Trinity Laban Concert Orchestra Monster in My Piano 3pm 7.30pm SUNDAY 22 MONDAY 30 WEDNESDAY 11 Blackheath Halls Orchestra Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm Angell Trio with Matthew Rose Rehearsal 2pm 7.30pm TUESDAY 31 Blackheath Halls Orchestra Children’s Opera: Brundibar Performance 7.30pm 6pm

The Choir Helen Castor: Children’s of Clare Joan of Arc opera: College Wednesday Brundibar Saturday 14 18 March Tuesday 31 March March WINTER/SPRING 2015 DIARY

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THURSDAY 16 SATURDAY 16 APRIL Laughing Boy Comedy Club Altan 8pm 8pm WEDNESDAY 1 SUNDAY 17 Children’s Opera: Brundibar MONDAY 20 The big jig: Folk Family Fun Day 2pm Lunchtime Recital: Kristina 3pm onwards Rokashevich, piano 1.10pm Children’s Opera: Brundibar THURSDAY 21 6pm SATURDAY 25 Laughing Boy Comedy Club THURSDAY 2 Children’s Event: The Worm 8pm That Squirmed 3pm Children’s Opera: Brundibar WEDNESDAY 27 6pm MONDAY 27 Ken Follett: The Edge of Eternity TUESDAY 7 - THURSDAY 30 Lunchtime Recital: Olga 8pm Art Exhibition: Lee Green Open Stezhko, piano 1.10pm SATURDAY 30 Studios 10am-5pm WEDNESDAY 29 Children’s Event: A Real FRIDAY 10 Jette Parker Young Artists: Mermaid's Tale 3pm Comedy: Romesh Ranganathan Anush Hovhannisyan, soprano, The Manfreds 8pm & Suzi Ruffell 8pm Yuriy Yurchuk, bass-baritone 7.30pm SATURDAY 11 JUNE Children’s Event: Alan in Wonderland and The Three MAY THURSDAY 18 Goats Plus… 3pm Laughing Boy Comedy 8pm SUNDAY 3 MONDAY 13 Tea Dance 2pm Lunchtime Recital: Blaze JULY Ensemble 1.10pm SATURDAY 9 Children’s Event: WEDNESDAY 29 WEDNESDAY 15 Rumpelstiltskin 3pm Tea Dance 2pm Tea Dance 2pm Dr Alastair Niven: Judging The FRIDAY 15 Man Booker Prize 8pm Emily Smith 8pm

The Worm Jette Parker Emily Smith That Squirmed Young Artists Friday Saturday 25 Wednesday 29 15 May April April Highlights BLACKHEATH HALLS CHILDREN’S OPERA

Comments COME AND from 2014 BRUNDIBÁR by Hans Krása PERFORM! Image by Flora and participants and Bonnie Eggleston Rehearsals: 14–21 FEBRUARY; their parents Some weekend and evening rehearsals inspired by the until 28–30 MARCH original View of ‘It was lovely to Terezin collage by Performances: TUESDAY 31 MARCH 6pm | make such great Hanush Weinberg WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL 2pm & 6pm | THURSDAY 2 APRIL 6pm b.18 August 1931 - memories through SUBSCRIPTION: £35 d.15 December 1943 performing in a spectacular performance which was put together by a fab cast and crew.’

‘The best thing was the enthralling feeling of enjoying performing in front of an audience.’

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introduction to Director James Hurley Auditions are on Wednesday 14 opera for the Musical Director Christopher Stark January 2015 children.’ Designer Rachel Szmukler l 40 children aged 8 to 12 to be part of Lighting Designer Ben Pickersgill the chorus. No audition required. l Up to 10 adults to be part of the ‘She adored the Brundibar Nicholas Merryweather chorus. No audition required. l 8 chaperones to be part of the chorus whole process Annette Rebekah Smith and chaperone five children. and it has given Joe Adam Music This is an amazing opportunity for her confidence participants to work with a professional and joy.’ Come and take part in our third creative team and a professional opera Blackheath Halls Children’s Opera, singer. For information on how to get Brundibar. A brother and sister go involved email Rose Ballantyne at ‘Keep up the looking for milk for their sick mother [email protected] excellent work, with no money. Can they sing for it? Or inspiring children will the evil Brundibar prevent them? Performances: TUESDAY 31 MARCH 6pm, Does your child love singing and WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL 3pm & 6pm & to sing and love performing? We are looking for: THURSDAY 2 APRIL 6pm | Great Hall opera!’ l 7 young people to take on solo singing and acting roles in the production. TICKETS: £10 | £5 under 12s Box office: 020 8463 0100 2321 BLACKHEATHCHILDREN’S EVENTS SUNDAYS LITTLE BO PEEP SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 3pm | Recital Room Sea Legs Puppet Theatre

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and Children’s doesn’t know where to find them. Her Multibuy companion Little Boy Blue is doing his best to help find the woolly runaways Discounts but he keeps falling asleep. Book 3-4 events Meanwhile, The Nursery Rhyme and receive a Man is in his kitchen baking a surprise cake for Little Bo Peep’s birthday. As he 10% discount works a naughty mouse keeps stealing the ingredients. Book 5-6 events Watch Sea Legs Puppet Theatre bring and receive a your favourite nursery rhymes to life 15% discount in their fabulous tenth anniversary show, featuring magnificent puppets, Book 7-8 events fantastic scenery and of course lots of and receive a music and singing. 20% discount TICKETS: £7

Suitable for ages: 2+ Running Time: 45 minutes plus 15 minutes ‘Meet the Puppets’

THE ADVENTURES OF PERSEUS SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY 3pm | Recital Room Multistory Theatre

Two quarrelsome professors bring to life one of the most exciting of the myths from Ancient Greece: the story of a woman with snaky-hair, a sea- slime monster and a boy determined to protect his mother. The professors use projection, puppetry, lightning-quick character changes and some pretty impressive physical action to tell their tale. And even manage to agree on a suitably happy ending! TICKETS: £7

Suitable for ages: 5+ Running Time: 55 minutes 22 www.blackheathhalls.com CHILDREN’S EVENTS THREE PIGS A sty full of stories and song SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY 3pm | Recital Room Storybox

The Three Little Pigs, Susannah the Fanciful Sow and The Old Woman and her Pig are all brought to life with the amazing ingenuity and formidable storytelling skills of Rod Burnett and Storybox Theatre. This porcine show will send magic tingling up the spines of piglets, sows and boars of all ages! TICKETS: £7

Suitable for ages: 2+ Running Time: 45 minutes plus 15 minutes ‘Meet the Puppets’

THERE’S A MONSTER IN MY PIANO SATURDAY 21 MARCH 3pm | Recital Room Garlic Theatre

Q: What do you do when you hear a strange munching noise inside a piano? A: Call the Piano Doctor of Course. He might be able to help with his bag full of ears and his collection of weird and wonderful tools. But when he looks inside – the musical notes are packing their bags and running away. What are they scared of and who is hammering the keys? Garlic Theatre delight children and adults with this offbeat jazzy tale. Starring puppets, clowning, animation and a very highly strung monster indeed. TICKETS: £7

Suitable for ages: 4+ Running Time: 45 minutes

Box office: 020 8463 0100 23 CHILDREN’S EVENTS ALAN IN WONDERLAND AND THE THREE GOATS PLUS… SATURDAY 11 APRIL 3pm | Recital Room Booster Cushion Theatre

We follow Alan (Alice’s brother) as he tries to rescue his sister who has got stuck at a Tea Party. Alice has eaten so much that she’s grown into a troll and is eating everything. The only way to help is to get the goats to save her. This comical performance shows the fun to be had from playing with traditional tales and joining them together. The audience will eagerly want to help and get involved by miming teacups, teapots and even one becoming a troll (belly provided). TICKETS: £7

Suitable for Ages: 4+ Running Time: 50 minutes

THE WORM THAT SQUIRMED SATURDAY 25 APRIL 3pm | Recital Room Indigo Moon Theatre Following their recent sell out performance of Aladdin at Blackheath Halls, Indigo Moon return to tell the tale of a squirmy worm that causes chaos wherever he goes. Using physical movement and humour, this visual feast of farce crosses cultural borders in crazy pursuit of the worm. A contemporary show for children and adults alike combined with an exciting musical score and live sound effects, makes it a thrill to watch! TICKETS: £7

Suitable for Ages: 5+ Running Time: 50 minutes 24 www.blackheathhalls.com CHILDREN’S EVENTS RUMPELSTILTSKIN SATURDAY 9 MAY 3pm | Recital Room Treasure Trove Theatre

Whir, whir, whir, the wheel turned and turned until all the straw had been spun into gold. Snapdragon, the greedy King, has imprisoned Marigold in his tower and set her an impossible task – to spin straw into gold. Alone in the dungeon, Marigold weeps... then Rumpelstiltskin appears. An enchanting, colourful production using hand and shadow puppetry TICKETS: £7

Suitable for Ages: 4+ Running Time: 50 minutes

A REAL MERMAID’S TALE SATURDAY 30 MAY 3pm | Recital Room Ripstop Theatre

Follow intrepid explorer, Amelia Buttersnap, on an exciting adventure on the high seas with pirates, monstrous sea creatures and mermaid treasure. A fun and exciting show full of magic, puppetry and mutinous rats. TICKETS: £7

Suitable for Ages: 3+ Running Time: 50 minutes

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Contact Janine Howlett Cute tel: 07849 640909 jhowlett65@ Cuisine googlemail.com SPOKEN WORD DAVID CARPENTER Magna Carta WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY 8pm | Recital Room Box office

David Carpenter, professor of suppressed and argued Medieval History at King’s College about ever since. 2015 marks 020 London and part of the team the 800th anniversary of its working on the Magna Carta project, creation – an event that will be marked 8463 discusses probably the most famous with exhibitions, commemorations declaration in western legal history. and debates in all the countries 0100 Wrested by rebellious barons from a over whose constitutions and legal very reluctant King John, Magna Carta assumptions the shadow of Magna sets out a series of rights and duties, Carta hangs. which have been appealed to, ignored, TICKETS: £10

THE RICHARD GRIERSON ANNUAL ARCHITECTURE LECTURE Maybe it’s because: Designing London 2020 WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 8pm | Recital Room

In the current decade a profile in health, education population the size of and civic buildings, will discuss Birmingham’s (latest estimate this topic in our annual lecture: 1,085,400) will be added to Designing London 2020. London. London’s economy is President of RIBA from set to grow by 15% in the next 2007-2009 and voted one of five years, a rate far higher than The Independent’s Top 100 the rest of the UK. Environmentalists for his Under this pressure how work in ‘greening the RIBA’. shall we hang on to and Sunand Prasad is a leading improve what is best and figure in architecture and beautiful about the capital? construction and continues to And be able to do all this while hold a number of key positions cutting emissions? related to policy development London has again become and design quality, including the World City – this time a member of the Mayor’s commercial rather than Design Advisory Panel for imperial. But London’s status London and a member of today appears to be being the UK Government’s Green gained at the expense of many Construction Board. Londoners, younger ones for a The lecture is organised by start, for whom it is increasingly the Friends of Blackheath Halls’ less affordable to live here. What Sunand Prasad, senior Architectural Group. can we do through planning, partner of Penoyre & Prasad, TICKETS: £12 | £10 concessions architecture and technology to a multi sectoral practice with | £6 students make a London to love? an internationally recognised 26 www.blackheathhalls.com SPOKEN WORD HELEN CASTOR DR ALASTAIR NIVEN Joan of Arc – A History Judging The Man Booker Prize 1994 & 2014 WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 8pm | Recital Room WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 8pm | Recital Room

Fresh from telling the Tickets to Fellow of Harris story of England’s queens Spoken Word Manchester College, before Elizabeth in her events include University of Oxford, bestseller She-Wolves, a glass of wine and eminent figure in acclaimed historian the world of literature, and broadcaster Helen (over 18s only) Dr Alastair Niven gives Castor gives a fresh and an insight into his gripping account of Joan experiences as a judge of Arc, featuring first- on the panel for the hand testimony from the revolutionary Booker Prize in 1994 and 2014. figure and those who knew her: a rare Greeted each year with great survival from the medieval world. anticipation and fanfare the Booker TICKETS: £10 Prize is a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or even to be nominated ‘A triumph of history – there have been for the longlist. many lives of the saint, but none quite To many it is considered to be the like this masterly narrative drawing on second-equal most important prize after the Nobel Prize for Literature and strictly contemporary sources.’ alongside the Pulitzer. The Guardian TICKETS: £10

KEN FOLLETT Become a Friend of The Edge of Eternity Blackheath Halls WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 8pm | Recital Room The Friends of Blackheath Halls is a great village network. We exist to Throughout the Century Trilogy, support the Halls, Ken Follett has followed the raising funds, providing fortunes of five intertwined audiences and putting families as they make their way on our own cultural events. The Friends through the 20th century. programme includes regular lunchtime Now in Edge of Eternity they come to one of the concerts, exciting architectural visits, and most tumultuous eras of all, the enormous social, literary evenings with well-known authors political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through and occasional special events. the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass I hope you will consider making a political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, commitment to the Halls by picking up a the Cuban Missile Crisis, Presidential impeachment, Friends brochure at the Halls or emailing revolution – and rock and roll. [email protected]. With the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew but now will never seem Dame Joan Ruddock, Chairperson the same again. The Friends of Blackheath Halls TICKETS: £10 Box office: 020 8463 0100 27 MUSIC EVENTS THE HOUSE OF FUN WITH ARTHUR SMITH SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY 8pm | Great Hall

An uproarious night of variety with fantastic comedy, sparkling music, saucy stand-up, scintillating theatre and more in the company of Arthur Smith, compere beyond compare, playwright, king of comedians, professional Leonard Cohen impersonator and star of radio’s Loose Ends, The Smith Lectures and TV’s The One Show and Grumpy Old Men. THE LINE-UP SO FAR...

The McCarricks (right), consisting of Martin McCarrick on cello and Kimberlee McCarrick on violin, have collaborated with Kristin Hersh, Sinead O’Connor, Gary Numan, Marianne Faithfull and at Patti Smith’s 2006 Meltdown at the , London. Currently developing Shirley & Shirley (above right) inspired comic observation, top TV shows and taking the are Joanna Carolan and Pascale class creations and wonderfully Edinburgh Festival by storm – Wilson, who filter our world dark ideas. James Corden dubs Shirley & through fabulously twisted Shirley ‘Two of the freshest and minds and deliver a “mash- TICKETS: £17.50 | £15 most energetic performers in up” of character, physical and concessions Edinburgh this year’. sketch comedy. Be prepared for NB: line-up subject to change

THE MANFREDS Hits, Jazz and Blues SATURDAY 30 MAY 8pm | Great Hall

The 1960s group Manfred Mann is now considered, more than ever, one of the finest and most respected bands from that era. Their numerous pop hits were R&B based with an undercurrent of jazz – a very unusual but winning combination of playing style and substance. As a result, their records have a timeless quality and, some 55 years on, The Manfreds, with original front man Paul Jones, will be performing many of their hits, along with a mix of Jazz and Blues songs, from some of their best-known albums. TICKETS: £22 28 www.blackheathhalls.com MUSIC EVENTS Folk festival EMILY SMITH FRIDAY 15 MAY 8pm | Recital Room

Having celebrated a decade as one of Scottish music’s most distinctively sublime voices, Emily Smith begins a fresh chapter in her illustrious, award-winning career. For her fifth solo album Echoes, Emily returns to her first love of traditional song. Her gift for finding a personal connection in these passed-down, anon-penned words is still at the heart of her craft. But this is a bold new phase in Emily’s music and with it comes what she describes as a ‘new Scottish sound’. TICKETS: £17 | £15 concessions

THE BIG JIG Folk Funday for all the family SUNDAY 17 MAY

Folk music from around the world in all its forms has shaped the world that we live in and been handed down from generation to generation. At Blackheath Halls we are recreating and reviving this tradition in a day of folk music and fun for all the family. Bring your friends and family to an amazing day of dancing, playing, and participation, listening and relaxing to folk music at the Halls. ALTAN There will be a jam session in the bar, SATURDAY 16 MAY 8pm | Great Hall a Ceilidh for families in the Great Hall, story-telling and informal workshops With exquisitely produced, award-winning recordings, for all levels. ranging from the most sensitive and touching old Irish TICKETS FROM: £5-£25 songs all the way to hard-hitting reels and jigs, and with Further details available at their heart-warming, dynamic live performances, Altan have www.blackheathhalls.com moved audiences from Donegal to Tokyo. TICKETS: £18 | £16 concessions Box office: 020 8463 0100 29 COMMUNITY – COME AND JOIN IN Blackheath Halls Community Engagement Programme We run a thriving work. Our aim is to give all 'A life-affirming and life- Community our community participants Engagement the opportunity of working changing experience. Everyone programme at with some of the country’s should take part!' Blackheath Halls. most talented artists as well as Our aim is to engage as many getting a chance to perform in to sing gospel music and members from the diverse local our famous Great Hall. musical theatre classics as well community of every age in Over the past year we have as classical repertoire. high quality music making and produced two community As well as singing we have performance in this wonderful operas, Britten’s The Little two thriving orchestras, our historic venue. Sweep and Rossini’s The Blackheath Halls Orchestra and Blackheath Halls is fortunate Adventures of Count Ory, giving our Meantime Jazz Orchestra to be situated in one of the over 300 local people aged rehearsing and performing all world’s leading cultural capitals between 8 and 80 the chance to year round at Blackheath Halls. where so many exceptional perform alongside professionals If you’d like to come and get musicians and leaders live and and be led by a professional involved in any aspect of our opera team in productions of work, or you know a school that 'The most magical, wonderful high artistic worth. would be interested in joining experience in the world that has During the year we have also us to sing, play and perform, affected me deeply in a very run projects giving over 400 then please get in touch. singers of all abilities and levels Rose Ballantyne positive way.' of experience the opportunity [email protected]

BLACKHEATH DOES BROADWAY Rehearsals MONDAY 5, 12, 19, 26 JANUARY; 2, 9, 16, 23 FEBRUARY; 2 MARCH & WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY; 4, & 18 FEBRUARY 7.30pm-9.30pm Dress Rehearsal SATURDAY 7 MARCH 2pm-5pm Performance SATURDAY 7 MARCH 7pm | Great Hall Course Leader Lee Reynolds Choreography Carolyn Williamson Piano Rachel Murphy

Come and join us at Blackheath Halls to form our popular Blackheath Does Broadway choir. You will get the chance to sing and dance to some of the world’s best known musical theatre songs as well as learning some new repertoire. This course is suitable for everyone from beginners to seasoned thesps and is a fun and rewarding way to experience the joy, sweat and camaraderie of musical theatre. If you fancy singing a solo there will be an opportunity to audition during the course. This year a group from John Ball Primary School Year 5 will join us at our final performance. SUBSCRIPTION: £85 | £76 concessions 30 www.blackheathhalls.com COMMUNITY – COME AND JOIN IN BLACKHEATH HALLS ORCHESTRA Come and Play Brahms and Schubert Rehearsals SUNDAY 1, 8, 22 FEBRUARY & 1 MARCH 2.30pm-5.30pm; MONDAY 9 & 16 MARCH 7pm-10pm; SUNDAY 22 MARCH 2pm-4.30pm Sectionals SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY 11am-1.30pm Performance SUNDAY 22 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall Musical Director Leigh O’Hara Violin Elizabeth Wallfisch Cello Raphael Wallfisch Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello Op.102 Schubert Symphony No.8 in B minor D.759 (complete four movement version by Brian Newbould) TEA DANCES MONDAY 19 JANUARY; SATURDAY 7 FEBRUARY; MONDAY 2 MARCH; WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL; SUNDAY 3 MAY; WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2pm-4.30pm | Great Hall

Come and spend a magical afternoon in the friendly atmosphere of a Blackheath Halls tea dance where you get a chance to dance in our magnificent Great Hall. There’s sequence dancing, quickstep, cha cha cha and much more, compered by Mr Wonderful Dancing. TICKETS: £5 (including light refreshments)

MEANTIME JAZZ Start the New Year by dusting down that old instrument and Course 1: MONDAY 12, 19, 26 JANUARY; joining our friendly orchestra. We have space in some string 2 & 9 FEBRUARY 7pm-9pm sections and for French horns. Course 2: MONDAY 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 SUBSCRIPTION: £57 | £51 concessions | Under 18s FREE MARCH 7pm-9pm

Two five-session courses rehearsing Find out how your support can ensure that we can jazz standards and looking at improvisation, led by Jonny Dexter. continue to deliver this high quality work. The group is particularly looking for Contact: Helma Zebregs, Development Manager, on trumpet and trombone players. 020 8318 9758 or [email protected] COURSE FEE: £40 | £35 concessions Box office: 020 8463 0100 31 COMMUNITY EVENTS BLACKHEATH DOES BROADWAY SATURDAY 7 MARCH 7pm | Great Hall Course Leader Lee Reynolds Choreography Carolyn Williamson Piano Rachel Murphy

Our Blackheath Does Broadway group presents for a third time their popular all-singing, all-dancing evening of musical theatre performances from the shows. A fun night for all the family! LIVE AT THE HALLS TICKETS: £9 | £7 concessions | £5 under 12s WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH 7pm | Great Hall Blackheath Halls are proud to be a Lewisham Live Festival partner. We present this showcase of music making by over 200 Lewisham young people in collaboration with the Lewisham Music Service as part of the three week-long festival of music and dance. The evening will culminate in a specially created piece for the massed ranks of performers led by Lewisham Music Hub. TICKETS: £7 | £6 concessions

BLACKHEATH HALLS ORCHESTRA Plays Brahms and Schubert SUNDAY 22 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall Musical Director Leigh O’Hara Violin Elizabeth Wallfisch Cello Raphael Wallfisch Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello Op.102 Schubert Symphony No.8 in B minor D.759 (complete four movement version by Brian Newbould)

We are so excited to welcome celebrated and internationally renowned soloists Raphael and Elizabeth Wallfisch to perform the Brahms Double Concerto with our Blackheath Halls Orchestra. This will be a really thrilling concert. TICKETS: £12 | £10 concessions | £5 under 12s This event is supported by Meg and Richard Dinkeldein and friends.

32 www.blackheathhalls.com COMMUNITY FUNDRAISERS QUIZ EVENING FRIDAY 30 JANUARY 8pm | Great Hall

Join us for Blackheath Halls’ quiz evening when we will be testing your knowledge of a wide variety of interesting and amusing topics. This evening is in support of Blackheath Halls’ Community Engagement Programme. Tables can be booked via our Box Office. You can choose your own table, so it’s worth booking soon. TICKETS: £10 per person (maximum eight per team) Nibbles included in ticket price

OPERA GALA NIGHT SUNDAY 8 MARCH doors 6.30pm PERFORMANCE 7pm | Great Hall

Now firmly part of Blackheath’s social calendar This is our main fundraising event for Blackheath Halls Opera and the launch of our 2015 Opera. International opera singer Matthew Rose, Ambassador to Blackheath Halls Opera, will be hosting our Opera Gala Night and you will be treated to an evening of wonderful singing by Matthew and his colleagues from the world of opera. Ticket price includes a glass of sparkling wine on arrival and a light super. For further information and to book tickets contact Helma Zebregs on 020 8318 9758 or email h.zebregs@ trinitylaban.ac.uk This evening usually sells out quickly, so please book early. Booking can only be confirmed with payment. TICKETS: £37.50 per person | £325 per table of 10

Box office: 020 8463 0100 33 BLACKHEATHSUPPORT US SUNDAYS Why Blackheath Halls deserves your support…

Blackheath Halls opened its Help us to maintain and many emerging ensembles and doors as a concert hall in 1895 improve Blackheath Halls soloist to perform in Blackheath and people flocked from all over During the last three years the Halls beautiful Recital Room. We South East London and beyond generosity of our supporters has hope you will consider making a to ‘Blackheath Concert Halls’ enabled us to install a lift to the donation to the series or sponsor for professional performances first floor, refurbish the Recital an individual recital on your own by artists such as Sir Edward Room, improve the outside of our or as part of a group. A great way Elgar, Dame Clara Butt and Percy building and repair our car park. to celebrate a special occasion! Grainger and for a whole host In the next few years we plan to of community events, including improve both the front of house Remember Blackheath Halls in balls and lectures by public and backstage facilities of our your will figures including Sir Ernest Grade II listed Victorian building. If you would like future Shackleton. generations to experience Having served as a government Support our Community the joy of coming to events at building after the Second World Engagement Programme Blackheath Halls or to perform in War, Blackheath Halls faced an Each year we offer more than our wonderful building, please uncertain future until it was 5,000 opportunities to take part consider leaving a legacy to saved as a concert hall by the in community events to people Blackheath Hals. There are tax local community. varying in age from 8 to over incentives for leaving a legacy to Since we reopened in 1985, 80 from the London Boroughs a registered charity. Blackheath Halls has been at of Greenwich and Lewisham the centre of cultural life in and beyond. We offer people Thank you Blackheath and we continue the unique opportunity to work We are most grateful to the to offer people from all over with first class professional many people who so generously South East London and beyond performers and creative teams, to support Blackheath Halls in so an exciting professional learn new skills and to perform many ways. Just to remind you, performance programme in ensemble productions in our if you are a UK tax payer, we are featuring a wide variety of historic building in front of large able to claim 25% Gift Aid on top artists. audiences. of your donation. We are proud of our For further details on how Community Engagement Support Blackheath Sundays to support Blackheath Halls, Programme which works closely recitals please contact Blackheath Halls’ together with the Music Hubs Our Blackheath Sundays recitals Development Manager Helma in the London Boroughs of bring some of the country’s Zebregs on 020 8318 9758 or at Lewisham and Greenwich. leading classical artists, as well as [email protected]

Our Great Hall The renovated Recital Room The Halls are the centre of village culture

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BOX OFFICE Email Kyle BOOK MORE — Jarvis at 020 8463 0100 marketing@ SAVE MONEY! www.blackheathhalls.com blackheathhalls. Book 3 or more concerts/events [email protected] and receive up to 20% off. Monday-Friday 10am-5pm com if you Offer only available on Blackheath and up to 30 minutes after the start would like to Sundays, Children’s events and of any event be added to Comedy events. Weekends Open for scheduled events, our emailing otherwise closed. list Please call for precise opening times. STUDENTS AND Booking fees apply £1.50 per transaction for all credit/debit cards UNDER 26s If you are a student or under 26 you by phone or internet. Tickets can can get discounted tickets to selected be posted for a charge of 75p per concerts throughout the year. Contact transaction. Kyle Jarvis on 020 8318 9758 or email [email protected] to ACCESS join one of the free e-bulletin lists to Blackheath Halls is committed to get details of these offers. making your visit easy and enjoyable. Where possible we operate a family friendly and accessible venue with GROUP DISCOUNT baby change facilities, lift and Bring friends – save money! accessible toilets. Make the most of our group bookings Wheelchair users Blackheath Halls scheme, with savings of 10% on tickets is fully accessible for customers with for groups of 10-19 people and 20% reduced mobility. for 20 or more. Offer excludes some Visually impaired customers Guide performances and concessionary offers dogs are welcome. Printed materials may not be combined. Please call the are available in large print format www. Box Office for details. from the Marketing Department on 020 8318 9758. Tickets We offer discounts and EXCHANGES complimentary access assistant tickets  (subject to availability). AND RETURNS Access arrangements Telephone 020 Tickets may be exchanged for another 8318 9758 before your visit so that we concert in the Blackheath Halls Winter can best accommodate your needs. 2015 season or for a credit voucher at a handling fee of £2 per ticket up to 48 hours prior to the event/performance. CONCESSIONS All tickets are non-refundable. Concessionary ticket prices are l All discounts are subject to available to under 18s, full-time @ Follow us on availability and cannot be combined. students, over 60s, benefit recipients Twitter and l  Credit and gift vouchers are valid (Jobseekers Allowance; Income Facebook for one year from date of issue or Support; and Pension Credit); MU purchase. members and Lewisham Card holders. l The right is reserved to substitute Please bring your identification with artists and to vary programmes. you when you purchase your ticket/s.

Box office: 020 8463 0100 35 HOW TO FIND US Blackheath Halls | 23 Lee Road | London SE3 9RQ

CAR The A2, A20 and South Circular all provide easy access to Blackheath. Situated at the south end of the village, Blackheath Halls is next to the mini-roundabout serving Lee Road, Lee Park, Lee Terrace and Blackheath Village. PARKING The nearest car park to Blackheath Halls is Blackheath Station pay and display car park, which is two minutes walk from the Halls. Please note that there is no parking at the Halls and that parking is not permitted in Blackheath Park, the adjacent private road. TRAIN Direct overground trains run from London Victoria (25 mins), London Charing Cross (22 mins), London Waterloo East (19 mins), London Bridge A2 (12 mins), Bexleyheath Greenwich and Dartford. As you come out of Royal Parade MontpelierRow Blackheath Station, turn right and we are a two-minute walk Tranquil Vale up the road. DLR The nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Lewisham. Bexleyheath & Dartford London Bridge 12 mins 23 mins Connections can be Cannon St/Charing X 23 mins made to Blackheath Victoria 21 mins Blackheath Halls by overland train Lawn Terrace

or bus. Lee Road BUS Routes, 54, 89,

108, 202, 380, 386 Lee Terrace and N89 all stop in Blackheath Village. Blackheath Halls is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Blackheath Halls is a registered charity, No.287589