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Jerusalem Quartet The 2019/20 Beethoven Festival Opening Weekend BOOKING DETAILS ENCLOSED JERUSALEM QUARTET BARTÓK EXPLORED THE JERUSALEM QUARTET INTERVIEW SIMON MAJARO MBE SPRING SPECIAL CELEBRATION EMANUEL AX TURNS 70 2019 FRIENDS OF OF FRIENDS INSERT 2019/20 HIGHLIGHTS Beethoven was born in Bonn in December 1770. Throughout the 2019/20 Season, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth with a festival encompassing almost all of his instrumental and chamber repertoire and, through our Learning department, the influence of his legacy. Given Beethoven’s hearing loss later in times and we are delighted to introduce her life, in the 2019/20 Season we will have to the Wigmore Hall audience in March. Your the opportunity to examine how we listen exceptional financial support enables us to to music individually either as performers, present debut concerts such as this. It also composers or audience members. Included allows us to celebrate significant milestones with this issue of The Score magazine are with established artists such as Emmanuel the details for the exciting opening weekend Ax, in special gala events. celebrations on the 14 and 15 September We are delighted to announce that Kikkas © Kaupo when we present ten concerts in two days, Wigmore Hall is to become the new home placing Beethoven in context through the for CAVATINA’s extraordinary activities ABOVE John Gilhooly works of his predecessors and successors, nationwide. For those of you who don’t and those in the 20th century, and even already know CAVATINA and the story of its In this edition, there is also a very today, who still felt his influence. Details of extraordinary founders Simon and Pamela interesting article on our approach to taking priority booking for the opening weekend Majaro, CAVATINA exists to bring chamber care of our mental health in the workplace. are enclosed with your magazine, and full music to young people, and young people Our Mental Health Champion, Daisy Swift, details of the season-long celebration are to chamber music. It was founded in 1998 talks about the support and initiatives to also included. and has gone on to introduce and share the which Wigmore Hall is committing for the We are very pleased to include stimulating wonderful joys of chamber music to well wellbeing of our staff, artists and audiences. interviews with two artists in our current over 100,000 young people. I look forward to you joining us for a season at different stages of their careers This issue also heralds the JACK Quartet’s wealth of fine music at the Hall both this who, in many ways, personify the best survey of the five string quartets by Elliott season, and in the seasons to come. of what we do here. Emmanuel Ax is an Carter and the Jerusalem Quartet’s study of exceptional artist and it is an honour to the works of Béla Bartók. Yehuda Shapiro celebrate his 70th birthday here in concert interviews Hervé Niquet, founding director with Sir Simon Keenlyside and the Dover of the Baroque music ensemble Le Concert Quartet. Zlata Chochieva is one of the most Spirituel, on page 11 ahead of their concert Director interesting artists to cross my radar in recent in July. © Hope Fitzgerald © Simon Jay Price © Simon Jay ABOVE LEFT John Suchet and John Gilhooly discuss the 2019/20 Season at our launch in January ABOVE RIGHT Wigmore Hall Learning’s Singing with Friends on the stage RIGHT John Gilhooly with the Wigmore Hall Development team: Izzy Harvey-Kelly, Cassey North, Marie-Hélène Osterweil, Penne Wallis, Fleur Noble Johnston, and Chairman Aubrey Adams at the 2019/20 Season launch COVER Jerusalem Quartet, photographed by Felix Broede 2 WIGMORE-HALL.ORG.UK | FRIENDS OFFICE 020 7258 8230 THANK YOU! As we launch our new Audience Fund (previously known as the Annual Fund) appeal for the 2019/20 Season, we are pleased to report back on last year’s appeal, and how your donations are being spent this current season. Last year, 433 generous donors gave £79,563 to help support our 2018/19 Season and all aspects of our work at Wigmore Hall. This collective giving is enormously valuable, and each year the Hall benefits hugely from what the Fund is able to contribute. This season, the Fund is making a particular contribution towards: © Simon Jay Price © Simon Jay Live streams Young artists and debuts Building upkeep and maintenance This season we plan to broadcast around 15 Wigmore Hall has always been committed to We are very lucky to have such a wonderful concerts and events live from the Hall – three showcasing young and emerging artists, and setting in which to present the intimate times as many as we were able to last season, providing a platform to help them build an music making for which the Hall is thanks to consistent investment from our audience and shape their careers. However, renowned. However, keeping this historic donors. Producing one live stream typically presenting these concerts can be incredibly building in good condition for our artists costs between £2,500 and £3,000, including expensive, and an artistic risk, as high ticket and audience is a huge challenge. Support equipment hire and additional staff needed for sales cannot be expected for an unknown from the Annual Fund helps cover essential the production. We are committed to making name. The Annual Fund has provided a cleaning and maintenance costs, and this content available for free to whoever vital lifeline this season, enabling us to offer ensures that we can respond efficiently would like to access it, and have already these very talented artists the performance when unexpected issues arise; most recently reached thousands of people all over the world opportunities they so richly deserve. replacement boiler safety valves! in the last six months. We have had some wonderful feedback – and next year, thanks to ‘No other venue focusses the mind you, we will be filming and streaming an even and quickens the heart quite like greater number of concerts and events. Wigmore. To have such an iconic LEFT Darius Weinberg, Wigmore Hall Live ‘Now I know what a live stream hall put its faith in us at such an Manager, and Anna Lumbroso, Digital can be. Wonderful musicians and a early stage was a huge boon, and Content Officer, film John Gilhooly’s introduction to a live stream privilege for me to cosily listen to undoubtedly the catalyst for our CENTRE such top repertoire. Please do let subsequent career as a string quartet.’ Castalian String Quartet your colleagues know how happy Castalian String Quartet RIGHT this concert is making me!’ One of our House Managers, Sokol Priftaj, attends to the stage lighting Viewer, Brussels AUDIENCE FUND 2019/20 The Annual Fund represents the coming together of generous members of our audience who believe in and wish to support the work that we do here. In this spirit, we have relaunched our annual appeal this year as the Audience Fund. Cumulatively these gifts have such an enormous impact, and we hope that many of you will feel able to support the appeal this year. All gifts, no matter the size, make a difference. Wigmore Hall Trust Registered Charity No. 1024838 FRIENDS OFFICE 020 7258 8230 | WIGMORE-HALL.ORG.UK 3 The Jerusalem Quartet interviewed by Jessica Duchen in December 2018 THE COMPLETE BARTÓK STRING QUARTETS It’s 20 years since the Jerusalem Quartet made its debut at Wigmore Hall. The occasion proved as special for those young musicians as it was for their listeners – and the cellist Kyril Zlotnikov still cherishes a photo of the programme’s elegant title page on his mobile phone. ‘The first time we ever played at Wigmore Hall, it was part of a Gala concert by the groups participating in the Amadeus Quartet’s summer course,’ remembers second violinist Sergei Bresler. ‘After that,’ says Zlotnikov, ‘we had an exceptional offer for a group as young as we were at the time – they gave us a Saturday night recital the next season. So we did the first big recital at Wigmore Hall on 20 March 1999.’ They played Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ Quartet, Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 and Beethoven’s Op. 133 with the Grosse Fuge. ‘Since then, it’s been probably the venue where we’ve played the biggest number of concerts, sometimes three or four programmes a year, or projects like the Shostakovich cycle,’ says first violinist Alexander Pavlovsky. ‘The acoustic is amazing, the public knows us well and we also know some of them well! It feels very special to play in such an historical place.’ The Quartet is back at the Hall in May 2019 to perform another major 20th-century cycle of quartets: the six by Béla Bartók, spread across two nights on 8-9 May, and arranged in programmes respectively of the odd and even numbers. They have been performing the entire cycle for several years now, the Quartet says, though one or two of the pieces have been in their repertoire for much longer, notably No. 6 – ‘We went backwards!’ jokes Bresler. RIGHT Jerusalem Quartet 4 WIGMORE-HALL.ORG.UK | FRIENDS OFFICE 020 7258 8230 Wednesday 8 May 7.30pm Any substantial cycle written across a composer’s professional Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52; String Quartet No. 3 BB93; lifespan becomes in some ways an autobiography. Bartók’s first quartet String Quartet No. 5 BB10 was composed in the shadow of his early passion for the violinist Stefi Geyer; the sixth and last dates from 1939, the last summer before World Thursday 9 May 7.30pm War II, and seems filled with deep, compassionate wisdom.
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