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Including 18 INCLUDING 18 Box Office Summer concerts 2-16 Tickets for concerts that take place in Friday 28 April–Sunday 18 June & event listings The Bramall can be booked online via Department of Music/Barber Gallery The Bramall website or by telephone. LOOKING FORWARD 17 For concerts in the Barber Institute Sounding Images booking is via Barber reception or the HOW TO BOOK 18 Barber website. We hope that these booking methods make it easy for you As part of the Sounding Images module, GETTING HERE 19 to purchase tickets for our concerts. University of Birmingham music students have created new electroacoustic pieces inspired barber.org.uk/concerts by works in the Barber collection. Eleven 0121 414 7333 thebramall.co.uk students have chosen very different works 0121 414 4414 including works by Monet, Dahl and Magritte. Take an audio tour of the gallery and experience the visual works from another perspective - pick up headphones and an Our Summer line-up is possibly the most The annual Summer Festival Opera is a MP3 player from the Barber Institute or eclectic yet! We present the biggest names creative and magical production of Jonathan stream the audio tracks from your own device: in the guitar world on 10 May with a concert Dove’s The Enchanted Pig, and will be soundingimages.wordpress.com from John Williams, Gary Ryan and John the first performance in the UK by university Etheridge, plus a Barber Evening Concert students. Barber Gallery with previous BBC Young Musician winner, Free - available during Martin James Bartlett on 17 May. We You can also get some dates in your diary standard opening times. have Music student recitals in The Dome, for the Autumn as we give you a sneak peek as well as exciting events such as the at what is coming up in the next Barber annual BEASTFEaST and performances Evening series and in the Birmingham on the University Community Fun Day International Piano Festival. I am also on 11 June. The now long-established delighted to announce that there will be Summer Festival of Music completes our a professional Barber Opera – a revival 2016/17 season, and runs from 4–16 June. of L’Agrippina by Nicolò Porpora in The Festival includes many of the regular September – a work that has not been University Music ensembles, plus guest staged since its debut in Naples in 1708. appearances from student jazz/fusion bands You can check the dates for the start of the Whitecap and Argle Bargle. 2017/18 season on page 17. This page: Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857) A Mother and Child by the Sea Jo Sweet Opposite (top): Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) Young Woman Seated Head of University Music and Concerts Opposite (bottom): René Magritte (1898-1955) The Flavour of Tears Monday 24 April and Wednesday 26 April The Department of Music Barber’s art works, Final Year Recitalists as you’ve never Final year recitalists perform a selection of heard music in preparation for their end-of-year THEm performance assessments. before Monday 24 April 12.30–2pm George Ireland piano Becky Maxwell soprano Caspar Goodwin violin Esther Mead soprano Wednesday 26 April 12.30–2pm Lucy Osborne flute Abbie Lingard saxophone Zofia Reeves early voice Victoria Huggett soprano Recitals Student The Dome, The Bramall Free 3 Thursday 27–Saturday 29 April Thursday Department of Music 27 BEAST FEaST 2017: Figure | Landscape | Seascape | Sky 7.30pm Concert Electronic music can produce sounds Our festival launch features works by Matthusen suggestive of the most intimate Tickets and Tremblay’s improv duo light.box. intentions; the result of acts undertaken The Dome, The Bramall by the most miniscule of agents. At the 3 day pass: same time it can evoke soundscapes £30 on door, £25 advance, £12 students which whether subtle or grand go far Individual concert: beyond the scope of an individual's £10 on door, £7 advance, £3 students friday actions, up to and including the cosmic. Day pass (Friday or Saturday): £16 on door, £12 advance, £5 students 28 Join us and featured composers thebramall.co.uk 10am Paula Matthusen, Pierre Alexandre Talk Tremblay, and Sarah Farmer for The Dome, The Bramall BEAST FEaST 2017 as we explore this range of possibilities, from the local, personal, and rhetorical, through the 1.10pm immersive and environmental, to the Barber Lunchtime Concert incomprehensibly huge. Pestova/Roche/Rees Trio Our resident ensemble the Pestova/Rees/ Roche Trio present a concert featuring the premiere of Scott Wilson's LOW, alongside works by Rob MacKay, Maximillian Marcoll, and others. Barber Concert Hall Free 4 friday saturday Wednesday 3 May 12.30–1.45pm 28 29 Department of Music 3pm 11am Final Year Recitalists Performance /Installation Talks Featured artist Sarah Farmer performs The Dome, The Bramall Carolyn Burton violin the latest incarnation of her A precarious Bradley Gill baritone equilibrium of give and take (and round in 2pm Elizabeth Wood clarinet ellipses we go). This extended work is for violin Keynote Address by Simon Emmerson combined with electronic sound derived from The Dome, The Bramall Final year recitalists perform a selection of data from black hole binary systems, gathered music in preparation for their end-of-year during a research period with University of 4pm performance assessments. Birmingham Gravitational Wave physicists. Concert Newly adapted for the immersive BEASTdome Featuring Ambrose Seddon’s Fleeting The Dome, The Bramall sound system, this performance invites the Strands, John Young’s Spectral Domains (with Free audience to come and go as they please. Trionys from Germany) and Adam Stanovic’s The Dome, The Bramall beautiful One Byrd, Two Stones for piano and electroacoustic sound, based on the music of 7pm William Byrd. Concert Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall Works include Tremblay’s asinglewordisnotenough2 (aria da capo) for the 8pm Recitals experimental Seaboard keyboard instrument, Concert Student and Pestova/Rees/Roche performing Andrew The festival closer goes out with a bang, Lewis’s Straatmuziek. with music including Rob Bentall’s gorgeous Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall Telian for Swedish nyckelharpa and electronic sound, Charles Nichols raucous Epithemus 8.45pm Gift performed by American bassoonist Steve Concert Vachi, and the premiere of a new 'massively This late night event includes Simon multichannel’ commission by P.A.Tremblay. Emmerson’s Aeolian, and featured artist Paula Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall Matthusen’s Rising Divergence for video with fixed and live electronic sound. Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall Full details at beast.bham.ac.uk 5 John Williams Friday 5 May 1.10–2pm Barber Lunchtime Concert The Royal Air Force Music Services Tuba Quartet Michael Howley & Lewis Musson euphonium Jonathan Truscott & Jonathan Gawn tuba We celebrate International Tuba Day with an eclectic recital from the Tuba Quartet of the Royal Air Force. As individuals the players have held principal positions in many of the country’s finest brass bands and orchestras, including Brighouse and Rastrick, Desford Colliery Band, Cory Band, and the Scottish Ballet Orchestra. They also boast a former winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Soloist of the Year competition, and the winner of the RAF soloists prize for the past two years. Barber Concert Hall Free 6 Gary Ryan Wednesday 10 May 7.30–9.30pm Friday 12 May 1.10–2pm Barber Evening Concert Barber Lunchtime Concert 6 Hands Michael Tsalka fortepiano John Williams guitar C P E Bach John Etheridge guitar Fantasy in C, Wq. 59/6-H284 Gary Ryan guitar W F Bach Polonaise in C, F.12, No. 1 Pre-eminent classical guitarist John Williams Polonaise in G minor, F.12, No. 12 and celebrated jazz guitarist John Etheridge Mozart are joined by critically acclaimed guitarist Sonata No. 18 in D, K. 576 and composer Gary Ryan to form guitar Cherubini supergroup 6 Hands. Join these three guitar Fantasy in C legends as they combine their unrivalled Beethoven skills as classical and jazz musicians to Rondo in G, Op. 129 create an awe-inspiring concert of solos, duos and trios. One of Europe's leading period piano specialists, Michael Tsalka, presents a concert Barber Concert Hall on the Department of Music's fortepiano. £18, £15 concessions £12 Barber Association Barber Concert Hall £5 students/under 18s Free John Etheridge 7 “Martin is a natural Wednesday 17 May 7.30–9.30pm and powerful Friday 19 May 1.10–2pm Barber Evening Concerts & Piano Festival launch musician, he lives and Barber Lunchtime Concert breathes music” Martin James Bartlett piano Nicola Benedetti Suzanne Fischer soprano Panaretos Kyriatzidis piano Winner of the 2014 BBC Young Musician J S Bach competition, Martin James Bartlett makes his Partita No. 2 Schubert Barber Institute debut for the launch of the Granados Suleika I, Op. 14 No.1, D720 2017 Birmingham International Piano Festival. Goyescas, Book 2, 'El Amor Y La Muerte' Suleika II, Op. 31, D717 The festival runs from Friday 27 October to Ginastera Hugo Wolf Saturday 4 November. Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 Die Spröde and Die Bekehrte from Schumann Goethe Lieder Barber Concert Hall Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Mendelssohn £18, £15 concessions Horowitz Frühlingslied Op. 47/3 and Schilflied Op. 71/4 £12 Barber Association Carmen Variations from Three settings of poems by Lenau £5 students/under 18s Gould Berlioz Boogie Woogie Etude Villanelle, Sue les lagunes and L’île inconnue from Nuits d’Été, Op. 7 Debussy Green and Spleen from Ariettes oubliée Walton Contrast and Rhyme from A Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table The annual Oxford Lieder Festival takes place every October and is complemented by projects such as the Young Artist Platform, presenting the finest young singers and pianists in recitals across the UK.
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