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P09P13 P46 P42 P20 Sat 09 – Sun 10 Jan RNCM STRINGS Mon 11 Jan Thu 14 Jan Thu 14 Jan FESTIVAL 1.15pm 1.15pm 7.30pm The RNCM Strings Festival is a major event RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room in the College’s calendar - a chance to see every single string student perform RNCM STRING RNCM DIVERSO at some point over the weekend plus a ORCHESTRA SAXOPHONE STRING showcase for internationally renowned artists who also happen to be our staff! Johannes Brahms (arr ORCHESTRA QUARTET Hudec) String Sextet No 2 Rob Buckland, Andy Scott RNCM We’ve programmed 48 hours of incredible in G major Op 36 events – from performances to directors INTERNATIONAL Pavel Fischer director masterclasses to workshops – to appeal The RNCM Saxophone ARTIST DIPLOMA to string players and music lovers alike. Free admission, no ticket Orchestra performs an RECITAL On Saturday afternoon, the RNCM’s Haworth required engaging programme W A Mozart String Quartet International Chair in Cello Miklós displaying the incredible in G major K 387 Perényi performs Kodály’s Cello Sonata versatility of the Leoš Janáček String and the Festival’s closing Gala ends with saxophone family. Quartet No 1 ‘Kreutzer a performance of Brahms’ Double Concerto Sonata’ performed by Alexander Sitkovetsky and Free admission, no ticket Wed 13 Jan required Franz Schubert String Leonard Elschenbroich. 7.30pm Quartet in D minor D 810 This Festival is a true celebration and Carole Nash Recital Room ‘Death and the Maiden’ a manifestation of how passionate we This is the first of five are about the music to be explored over RNCM RNCM International Artist the weekend by our students and special BAROQUE Diploma recitals taking guests and we look forward to welcoming place this season. See you to share this experience. SOLOISTS pages 7, 16, 23 and 45 For full details, please see Programme to include: for details of the other www.rncm.ac.uk/stringsfestival Vocal chamber duets by events in this series. George Frideric Handel and The Diverso String Quartet Agostino Steffani is also performing at our Sun 10 Jan Trio Sonata by Arcangelo Chamber Music Festival 7pm Corelli in March. See p30-31 for RNCM Concert Hall Songs by Alessandro details. Scarlatti Tickets £10 FS EVENING GALA Roger Hamilton director CONCERT Tickets £10 FS Joseph Lauber Quartet for Double Basses Gustav Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No 5 Anton Bruckner (arr Stadlmair) Adagio from String Quintet in F major ‘What better way to celebrate the start of the year Johannes Brahms Double Concerto in A than with a festival of music for strings across minor Op 102 ages, across styles and across genres? From harps Henk Guittart, Alpesh Chauhan conductors and guitars to double-basses, from students playing alongside staff to alumni celebrities returning to Alexander Sitkovetsky violin perform at the College, and from masterclasses and cello Leonard Elschenbroich workshops to a wonderful gala concert, this will be Jiří Hudec, Ronan Dunne, Toby Hughes, a lush yet fiery weekend!’ Roberto Carrillo-Garcia double basses Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director Tickets £15 Full Weekend Ticket £40 Saturday/Sunday Day Tickets £25 Student/Under 18s £10 per day 4 5 Fri 15 Jan Thu 21 Jan Fri 22 Jan 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall RNCM WIND TOBY HUGHES RNCM ORCHESTRA (double bass) SYMPHONY THE MUSIC OF BENJAMIN ORCHESTRA ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT POWELL Gary Carpenter The Listening Project Symphony Music to include: (piano) Alfred Schnittke Viola Robert Russell Bennett RNCM Concerto Autobiography (Part One INTERNATIONAL Igor Stravinsky Petrushka & Part Two); Down to the ARTIST DIPLOMA Sea in Ships; Suite of Old Clark Rundell, Manoj Kamps Tue 19 Jan RECITAL conductors American Dances; Symphonic 7.30pm Programme to include: Kimi Makino viola Songs for Band RNCM Concert Hall Giovanni Bottesini Gran To launch New Music Clark Rundell, Mark Heron, Wed 20, Fri 22, Duo Concertante North West 2016, we’ve Sam Hairsine, Matt Weites ALEXANDRA DARIESCU Wed 27 Jan, Vilmos Montag Sonata in conductors put together three (piano) Wed 03 Feb E minor fascinating works. RNCM Tickets £10 FS César Franck Sonata in Felix Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor 6pm Tutor in Composition, Gary A major Op 54 RNCM Theatre Carpenter’s The Listening Gabriel Fauré 3 Préludes Op 103 This is the second of five Project Symphony was Frédéric Chopin Prelude in C sharp minor Op 45 RNCM OPERA RNCM International Artist originally commissioned Mon 18 Jan Karol Szymanowski 3 Preludes Op 1 Diploma recitals taking as a spin-off from the BBC 1.15pm Frédéric Chopin Polonaise in A flat major Op 53 SCENES place this season. See and the British Library’s RNCM Concert Hall Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr Pletnev) Nutcracker RNCM singers further their pages 5, 16, 23 and 45 Listening Project. It is Suite on-stage experience in for details of the other designed to be played MONDAY Frédéric Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor Op 31 these performances of events in this series. alongside a collage of excerpts drawn from a wide Toby Hughes will also be conversations between RECITAL From the Royal Albert Hall to Carnegie Hall, RNCM variety of operas. performing Joseph Lauber’s people discussing things alumna Alexandra Dariescu, recently named as one SERIES Quartet for Double Basses they had always wanted to, of ‘30 pianists under 30 destined for a spectacular Free admission, no ticket Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata alongside Jiří Hudec, but never had, so it’s career’ by International Piano Magazine, has required in A flat major XVI:46 Ronan Dunne and Roberto often highly emotional impressed audiences worldwide with her effortless Carrillo-Garcia in the subject matter. Emily Hooker piano musicality and captivating stage presence. Named closing Gala of the RNCM BBC Music Magazine’s Rising Star in 2011, Alexandra Also featured is Alfred Claude Debussy Strings Festival on 10 Jan graduated from the RNCM in 2008 and went on to Thu 21 Jan Schnittke’s Viola Concerto Chansons de Bilitis and will guest with the become the first pianist mentored by Imogen Cooper on 1.15pm - a piece written for Francis Poulenc RNCM Chamber Orchestra the Royal Philharmonic Society/YCAT Philip Langridge RNCM Concert Hall Yuri Bashmet in 1985 Le Bestiaire on 18 Mar. See p4 and p41 Mentoring Scheme. that actually has the Lara Rebekah Harvey RNCM respectively for details. musician’s name encoded We’re delighted to welcome her back for the first mezzo-soprano GUITARS Tickets £10 FS in musical letters into Rachel Fright piano of our 2016 guest artist piano recitals. On 10 Mar the score - to be played Angela Hewitt visits the RNCM (see p36) and on Music to include: Free admission, no ticket by RNCM alumna Kimi 21 May, Richard Goode returns for an evening Leo Brouwer Cuban required Makino, plus the Petrushka of Schubert. Landscape with Rumba for suite from Stravinsky’s Tickets £17 £14 FS guitar ensemble 1911 ballet. Paulo Bellinati Baiao de + Gude for guitar trio Tickets £17 £14 FS 6.30pm Manuel de Falla La vida Carole Nash Recital Room breve for guitar and cello SPOTLIGHT Tula Flutes – Music for four flutes Craig Ogden director Free admission, no ticket required Free admission, no ticket required 6 7 And from Monday onwards, there Fri 22 – Fri 29 Jan is a major focus on Sir Harrison Birtwistle, who will be in residence NEW MUSIC NORTH in Manchester for a few days, working WEST with both RNCM and University of Unbelievably, two years have now Manchester students. You’ll be passed and it’s time for our biennial able to hear works by RNCM and UoM festival of contemporary music, New composers and there will be plenty Music North West. And we’re about to of performances by ensembles from embark on a monumental event! This both institutions. There is a world year, NMNW spans eight days, there première of Kevin Malone’s opera are over 30 individual events taking Mysterious 44, plus appearances place in multiple venues and over by House of Bedlam, ACM Ensemble, 100 living North West composers are Distractfold, ddmmyy, Chetham’s represented. Contemporary Music Ensemble, plus Psappha and the BBC Philharmonic, The opening weekend (a festival who will also be performing works within a festival if you like) is by RNCM and University of Manchester curated by composer Larry Goves composers.

8 and includes diverse responses to Manchester-based bands including New So this really is an incredible Order and The Chemical Brothers, showcase for North West talent and pieces exploring notation and as NMNW Artistic Director Clark performer freedom, pieces exploring Rundell says: ‘the fact that so many scale and perception of time in extraordinarily creative people live music (with works ranging from 30 and work in our midst is a cause of seconds to a 4.5 hour long video huge celebration!’ installation) and performances by The For full details, please see Vonnegut Collective, Trio Atem, Solem www.rncm.ac.uk/nmnw16 Quartet and Esther Swift.

NMNW HIGHLIGHTS peer pressure, superstition evening with works by James and individual responsibility. Wishart, Anthony Gilbert and Fri 29 Jan 7.30pm The cast of 15 singers are Mark Simpson. St Michael’s, Ancoats Sat 23 Jan accompanied by a surround-sound Free admission, by ticket only. 8pm electronic score, a specially (Once open, ticket applications RNCM Studio Theatre recorded narration by Richard PSAPPHA will be available at bbc.co.uk/ Dawkins and a singing computer. Psappha conclude NMNW in a THE VONNEGUT tickets and will be allocated on performance at St Michael’s in COLLECTIVE Originally commissioned by a first-come, first-served basis.) Ancoats, with music by Harrison Manchester Opera Project Birtwistle, Joshua Brown, Leo with funds from Arts Council This chamber ensemble Geyer, Daniel Kidane, Aaron challenges conventional ideas England, with support from the

9 Parker, Jack Sheen and Emma Ida Carroll Trust, University Thu 28 Jan about notation and invites 5.30pm and 10pm Wilde. of Manchester and the Richard improvisation, including works Carole Nash Recital Room by Cornelius Cardew, Anton Dawkins Foundation for Reason Tickets from £5 Hunter and Tullis Rennie. and Science. Advanced tickets available from HOUSE OF psappha.com Free admission, no ticket Tickets £15, students £8 BEDLAM required CHANGES AND NOSTALGIA

The 5pm show explores ideas

Tue 26 Jan about transformation in music, 7.30pm Mon 25 Jan with works by Larry Goves, 7pm Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK Christian Winther Christensen, RNCM Studio Theatre Elliot Carter and Ben Hackbarth. BBC The later show looks at lo-fi MYSTERIOUS 44 PHILHARMONIC electronic sound, nostalgia and (world première) AND PSAPPHA memory, responding to music by composer/librettist David Fennessy, Max Matthews and Kevin Malone The BBC Philharmonic performs director Jon Robinson. Caroline Clegg new works by Robin Walker, Adam Based on Mark Twain’s Mysterious Gorb and students from the RNCM Free admission, no ticket Stranger stories, this new and University of Manchester, required opera raises issues of humanism, whilst Psappha round off the Mon 25 Jan Sun 24 Jan 1.15pm 12pm and 4pm Carole Nash Recital Room Sat 23 Jan RNCM Concert Hall MONDAY 7.30pm SING-A-LONG-A- RNCM Theatre RECITAL FROZEN SERIES RNCM BIG BAND This year we’re launching a new Emily Howard Sky and WITH RYAN QUIGLEY Children’s Sunday Series and we’re doing Water for solo piano Mike Hall director it in style. If you’re not familiar with Edward Gregson Serenata the phenomenon that is Frozen, then Our first Big Band show of 2016 Notturna for cello and you’ve had your head in the sand for the piano features brilliant jazz improviser last couple of years! So we’re delighted Ryan Quigley. Ryan is jazz trumpet David Ellis Two for to embrace the spirit of this massively Six Op 55 for saxophone tutor and one of the directors popular film and offer our own take on of the Big Band at the Royal quartet Elsa, Olaf and company with two daytime Simon Parkin Cellphone Conservatoire of Scotland. Born performances of Sing-A-Long-A-Frozen. in Derry, he started playing the for cello and vibraphone Suitable for ages five and upwards, Alan Williams Jazz trumpet at 11 and was brought up come along dressed as your favourite on a diet of Miles Davis, John Disasters for euphonium character, have your face painted and and piano Coltrane and Maynard Ferguson (but ‘Let it Go’… more of that later…). As a gigging This lunchtime concert is musician, he has toured and PS don’t forget that we have our next part of New Music North recorded with The Bad Plus, Tim RNCM Family Day on 20 Mar. See p42 for West. Read more about Garland, Bob Geldof, Del Amitri details. our contemporary music and Sharleen Spiteri, to mention Tickets £10 festival on p8-9. but a few. No concessions Free admission, no ticket Ryan will be joining forces with required the RNCM Big Band to play some of his own arrangements, including Ticket to Ride and Rockin’ Robin, Do you want to build a snowman? plus a few tunes from the Maynard Ferguson library, including the epic MacArthur Park. By the way, there’s another fabulous RNCM Big Band concert on 12 Mar when we welcome Clark Tracey to the venue to recreate his father’s envelope-pushing album Alice in Jazzland. See p37 for details. Tickets £18 £15 FS

10 11 ‘The promotion of the art of our time is a constant priority for the RNCM. In the last six months we have welcomed Krzysztof Penderecki, Robert Saxton, and Brian Ferneyhough. Mon 25 Jan Today we welcome alumnus Sir 7.30pm Harrison Birtwistle – testament RNCM Concert Hall Thu 28 Jan of our strong commitment to 1.15pm contemporary music. From 60sec RNCM Concert Hall MANCHESTER works to an opera and a 4.5hr– long installation, we have CHAMBER created our most exciting and RNCM WIND CONCERTS contrasting NMNW to date.’ ORCHESTRA SOCIETY Dr Michelle Castelletti, Tom Harrold Acrid Lines (world Artistic Director ALBAN GERHARDT première of new version) (cello) ANNE-MARIE Harrison Birtwistle Panic MCDERMOTT (piano) Mark Heron, Matt Weites conductors Harry Fausing Smith saxophone Samuel Barber Cello Sonata Op 6 This lunchtime concert is part of New Benjamin Britten Cello Music North West and we’re delighted Sonata in C major Op 65 to confirm that Panic will be performed Lukas Foss Capriccio in the presence of the composer, Sir Leonard Bernstein Three Harrison Birtwistle. Read more about our Meditations from Mass contemporary music festival on p8-9. George Gerswhin (arr Free admission, no ticket required Alban) Three Preludes Ástor Piazzolla Le Grand Tango Tickets £25, platform seats £12.50 Promoted by MCCS Fri 29 Jan + Tue 26 Jan 1.15pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall 6.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall LOUISE PRE-CONCERT TALK Free admission, to ticket PATTY GRIFFIN WINTER WITH SPECIAL GUESTS holders Patty Griffin is a Grammy Award-winning (mezzo- artist who has achieved great acclaim for soprano) her songwriting as well as her powerful voice. She has proved herself a writer JOHN GOUGH of uncommon perception, with a genius (piano) for character-driven storytelling. On RNCM STAFF RECITAL her latest album, Servant of Love, she brings that genius to bear in its over- This is the first in a arching themes. She travels through new series of RNCM staff different musical terrains - folk and recitals. The programme blues, rock and jazz, ancient sounds and will include works by modern - and a sparse, organic quality works by Fanny Hensel, persists. Patterns and recurrence weave Clara Schumann, Poldowski, throughout the album in small ways and Rebecca Clarke, Muriel large: the drone of open tunings, modal Herbert and Joan Trimble. riffs and bluesy moves, images of nature. See pages 23, 40 and 48 for details of the other Tickets £26.50 £21.50 events in this series. No concessions Promoted by Edge St Live Free admission, no ticket required 12 13 Fri 29 – Sun 31 Jan RNCM BRASS BAND FESTIVAL The RNCM Brass Band Festival reaches its 26th year with a new name and a renewed focus on the finest music composed or arranged for brass band. Six of the foremost bands in the land will be joined by world-class soloists, an award-winning brass quartet, an ambitious youth band from Cheshire and outstanding student bands from the RNCM and the Junior RNCM. The Festival pays tribute to the creativity of John McCabe (1939 - 2015), whose brass band works are among the most highly regarded 14 in the brass band repertoire. A retrospective of the complete brass band music of Joseph Horovitz honours this distinguished composer and teacher in his 90th year. We celebrate the centenary of one of the Salvation Army’s finest composers and arrangers, New Zealander Sir Dean Goffin, and mark the 70th birthday of Manchester-born composer Michael Ball. This year we also première new and recent work from Nigel Clarke, Simon Dobson, Gavin Higgins, Paul McGhee and Lucy Pankhurst as well as first performances from rising stars Jonathan Bates and Tom Davoren. We’re very excited about this new chapter in the RNCM’s brass banding history and look forward to welcoming you to these wonderful performances. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/brassbandfestival

Fri 29 Jan Sat 30 Jan Sun 31 Jan 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall

15 BLACK DYKE BAND FODEN’S BAND GRIMETHORPE Michael Ball An English Suite Benjamin Britten (arr Hindmarsh) King COLLIERY BAND Bruce Broughton (arr Argente) Fanfares, Arthur: Suite (world première of brass John McCabe Salamander Marches, Hymns & Finale (world première band version) Joseph Horovitz Concerto Classico of brass band arrangement) Michael Ball Euphonium Concerto Nigel Clarke Further Adventures of the Joseph Horovitz Euphonium Concerto Joseph Horovitz Theme and Co-operation Same (world première) Philip Wilby Five Rivers, A Pastorale John Mackey Asphalt Cocktail (UK Dean Goffin Rhapsodic Variations: Symphony première) My Strength, My Tower Jonathan Bates Panic on Pudding Lane Andy Scott A Child like You Eric Ball Sunset Rhapsody (world première) Arthur Butterworth Odin – From the Land Michael Ball Whitsun Wakes Dean Goffin Rhapsody in Brass of Fire and Ice Op 76 Simon Dobson Rampage (world première) Robert Childs conductor James Gourlay, Michael Fowles conductors Peter Graham Metropolis 1927 Roger Webster, Alexis Demailly cornets David Thornton euphonium Nicholas Childs conductor Anna-Clare Monk soprano This event is sponsored by Besson Gary Curtin euphonium Lauren Scott harp Tickets £16 £14 baritone Katrina Marzella Tickets £16 £14 Full Weekend Ticket £98 Tickets £16 £14 Early Booking Discount £78 (full Weekend Ticket only, book by 18 December) Student/Under 18s Weekend Ticket £49 Saturday Day Ticket £44 Sunday Day Ticket £42 Mon 01 Feb Wed 03 Feb Thu 04 Feb 1.15pm 7.30pm 1.15pm Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall MONDAY PIANO DUO RNCM RECITAL PRIZE CHAMBER SERIES Tonight’s competition for ENSEMBLE piano duos is adjudicated J S Bach Partita in A Aaron Copland Old by Martin Roscoe. minor BWV 1013 American Songs (Set 1) Paul Bonneau Caprice en Tickets £7 Aaron Copland Appalachian forme de valse Spring (chamber version) Ivan Alekhin flute Carlos Agreda, Edmon Levon, Chloe van Andrew Downes Meditations Thu 04 Feb conductors Op 38 7.30pm Soeterstede Joseph Turrin Psalm from Carole Nash Recital Room Neil Balfour, Two Portraits John Holland-Avery, Hollie-Anne Bangham, Louise Franks trumpet JEREMY SO Xiang Ting, Juliet George Méliès, it is recognised as (piano) Free admission, no ticket Montgomery singers Sat 06 Feb the first ever science fiction short RNCM 8pm required film. INTERNATIONAL Free admission, no ticket RNCM Concert Hall ARTIST DIPLOMA required Commissioned by World Science RECITAL ICARUS AT THE Festival (New York) and produced Tue 02 Feb EDGE OF TIME by HOME, Manchester, Icarus at 7.30pm Programme to include: the Edge of Time is presented in BRIAN GREENE AND RNCM Concert Hall Ludwig van Beethoven Sat 06 Feb association with artists AL and AL’s Piano Sonata No 31 in A 10.30am PHILIP GLASS major new solo exhibition at HOME, THE FREDERIC flat major Op 110 RNCM Venues A futuristic re-imagining of the Manchester: Incidents of Travel in György Ligeti Etudes classic Greek myth set in outer the Multiverse, Sat 6 Feb - Sun 10 COX AWARD Book 1 JUNIOR RNCM space, Icarus at the Edge of Time Apr 2016. Sergei Prokofiev Piano FOR SINGING OPEN DAY is based on a stunning book by the A new publication will be on sale on Sonata No 8 in B flat major world-renowned theoretical physicist Come and hear the singing An opportunity to visit the night of the event, offering a Op 84 and Pulitzer Prize nominee Brian stars of tomorrow in the the Junior RNCM, meet compelling insight into the artist’s Greene. Featuring a spectacular first of three major RNCM This is the third of five current staff, students and epic sci-fi trilogy. This cosmic science fiction film created and vocal competitions this RNCM International Artist parents, and listen to travelogue includes a vivid account directed by AL and AL, with a brand year. The judging panel Diploma recitals taking the Juniors perform. For of the film-makers’ collaboration new score by Philip Glass, this includes Richard Berkeley place this season. See full details, contact the with composer Philip Glass and North West première is performed Steele. pages 5, 7, 23 and 45 Junior RNCM on 0161 907 physicist Brian Greene, who provides for details of the other live by the BBC Philharmonic his own essay elegantly describing If you like this you might 5264. events in this series. and conducted by RNCM alumnus the mathematics underpinning the also enjoy the Elizabeth Free admission, no ticket Duncan Ward. Discover the boy who Multiverse. The book continues its Harwood Memorial Prize Tickets £10 FS required challenges the awesome power of a journey across time and space with (24 Feb - see p26) and + black hole and the unyielding forces insights on their work by world- later in the year, the of Einstein’s theory of general renowned mythographer and author Joyce and Michael Kennedy 6.30pm relativity. Marina Warner and a sensational new Award for the Singing of RNCM Studio Theatre account of the Multiverse from the Strauss (7 Jun). SPOTLIGHT The Narrated live by Professor Brian Novus Brass Quartet – Greene, the evening includes an mind of legendary graphic novelist Tickets £10 Shostakovich, Barber and additional companion score for Grant Morrison. 7/8 Funk piano, accompanying a screening of Tickets £15 the recently restored Le Voyage dans Free admission, no ticket la lune (A Trip to the Moon, 1902). HOME production with BBC Philharmonic. required Co-presented with Contact, as part of Directed by film-making pioneer Queer Contact Festival 2016 16 17 Mon 08 Feb Wed 10 Feb Thu 11 Feb 6.30pm 2pm and 7pm 7.30pm Sun 07 Feb Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Theatre RNCM Studio Theatre RNCM DAY OF MANCHESTER RNCM WILLE AND PERCUSSION UNIVERSITIES CHILDREN’S THE BANDITS We pride ourselves that our Day of STRING OPERA + DIVING STATION Percussion is one of the most popular Essentially a classic and established events of its kind. SOCIETY PROJECT blues rock three piece It’s our chance to throw open our MUSS, an intercollegiate COMING HOME - guitar, drums, bass doors and welcome percussionists of string ensemble featuring Kate Pearson composer - Wille and the Bandits all ages and abilities to participate aspiring professional RNCM Students always push their sound in a day packed with workshops, string players studying Primary Schools from beyond that traditional clinics, concerts and even one to one in Manchester, performs across the North West format and were voted one consultation lessons. This year, we’re Tchaikovsky’s Serenade of the top ten must see Loosely inspired by the joined by special guests Ney Rosauro, for Strings conducted by bands at Glastonbury 2014 story of Watership Down, Randy Max, Elliott Henshaw, Nigel participants of the RNCM by BBC Radio 1. Support this new opera charts a Shipway and Dave Hassell – all huge Conducting Masterclasses, comes in the shape of journey filled with danger names in the percussion world. as part of the two day Diving Station and their and excitement. Forced to So with a special focus on youth and course for external harp-driven rock (they’re leave a place where they new music in the opening concert, a conductors. great!) who are students are no longer wanted, a massive trade exhibition, two world on our Popular Music Free admission, no ticket group of children battle premières and a glorious finale, the course. required to conquer their enemies day is a brilliant resource for all Promoted by RNCM Conducting and overcome a series of Tickets £12 FS percussionists – from those just challenges. Will they starting out to professionals or indeed manage to defeat the anyone with an interest in percussion… obstacles in their path For full details, please see Mon 08 Feb and find their perfect home Fri 12 Feb www.rncm.ac.uk/dayofpercussion 7.30pm in a new land? 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Free admission, by ticket only 7pm MANCHESTER SOUNDSCAPE RNCM Concert Hall CHAMBER CHAMBER EVENING CONCERT CONCERTS ORCHSTRA Our Day of Percussion culminates with SOCIETY AN AMERICAN IN a concert featuring performances from ENGEGÅRD QUARTET PARIS all of today’s artists. Celebrating W A Mozart String Quartet Maurice Ravel Ma Mère percussion from many angles, there No 21 in D major K 575 L’Oye (Suite) will be some fascinating, original Edvard Grieg String Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky collaborations between the artists and Quartet No 1 in G minor Variations on a Rococo we’re excited to present the world Op 27 Theme Op 33 première of Ney Rosauro’s second Ludwig van Beethoven Ottorino Respighi Adagio vibraphone concerto played by the String Quartet No 15 in con Variazioni man himself accompanied by the RNCM A minor Op 132 George Gershwin (arr Percussion Ensemble. Farrington) An American Tickets £25, platform Ticket £7 in Paris seats £12.50 Day Ticket £25 Promoted by MCCS Daniel Parkinson conductor Early Booking Discount £20 + Guy Johnston cello (book by 23 December) 6.30pm Kate Simmons choreographer Student/Under 18s £12 Forman Lecture Theatre KSDance dancers PRE-CONCERT TALK Tickets £15 Free admission, to ticket Promoted by Daniel Parkinson holders 18 19 Tue 16 Feb 7.30pm Sat 13 Feb RNCM Theatre 7.30pm THE DEVIL INSIDE RNCM Concert Hall MUSIC THEATRE WALES MANCHESTER By Stuart MacRae and Louise INSPIRATIONAL Welsh The Devil Inside is a gritty, VOICES glittery, Faustian folktale, COLOURS OF GOSPEL set firmly in the 21st century. Inspired by The Bottle Imp, Fri 12 Feb Manchester Inspirational a short story by Robert Louis 7.30pm Voices is a multi- Stevenson, this brand new opera RNCM Studio Theatre cultural, cross echoes his most famous tale The generational blend of Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll FAY HIELD AND THE local singers who come and Mr Hyde. HURRICANE PARTY together to create uplifting and joyful Two friends stumble upon a Folk singer Fay Hield was instrumental in putting gospel music that inspires bottle that will change their together The Full English. But on this occasion, and promotes community lives, a bottle that can she visits with her long-standing band, The Hurricane togetherness. grant any wish. But there‘s a Party. The line-up features Andy Cutting (button catch and the bottle demands Tickets £13.50 accordions, melodeon), Rob Harbron (English Concertina, a payment… Will the pair find fiddle, vocals), Sam Sweeney (fiddle, viola, cello, Promoted by Manchester Inspirational Voices their happy-ever-after or will nyckelharpa, vocals) and Roger Wilson (fiddle, guitar, the bottle be their undoing? mandolin, vocals). This Manchester date coincides with the release of Fay’s new solo album, Old Adam. This evening of magic and enchantment, with a touch of FS Tickets £15 Mon 15 Feb Tales of the Unexpected, will 1.15pm keep you guessing, and leave + Carole Nash Recital Room you thinking ‘be careful what 6.15pm you wish for’. Carole Nash Recital Room MONDAY LEARN MORE Pre-concert talk In this informal RECITAL The Devil Inside follows the session, folk musician, performer and musicologist outstanding success of Ghost Fay Hield is in conversation with the RNCM’s Deputy SERIES Patrol, the previous opera Artistic Director Jacqui Dale, discussing the influences Georg Philipp Telemann written for Music Theatre Wales and development of folk music today. Cantata TWV 1:1884 ‘Ich by composer Stuart MacRae and renowned novelist Louise Welsh Free admission, no ticket required will den Kreuzweg gerne gehen’ which won a South Bank Sky Arts Award and was nominated for an Edwin Kaye bass-baritone Olivier. Henry Rankin violin Sat 13 - Sun 14 Isabel Williamson cello A co-commission and co- harpsichord production with Scottish Opera Feb Louis Perera 9am Frédéric Chopin Tickets £15 FS RNCM Theatre 4 Mazurkas Op 24 + Marc-André Hamelin Etude 6.30pm IDTA: No 6 in D minor ‘Esercizio Forman Lecture Theatre INTERNATIONAL per pianoforte (Omaggio a LEARN MORE Pre-concert Domenico Scarlatti)’ talk The composer Stuart THEATRE DANCE Yau Kit Pun piano MacRae in conversation with Michael McCarthy AWARDS Free admission, no ticket Tickets £16 full day, required Free admission, no ticket £10 half day required Promoted by International Dance Teachers Association Ltd 20 21 Thu 18 Feb Thu 18 Feb Fri 19 Feb 1.15pm 7.30pm 1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall RNCM KANA OHASHI YURI CONCERT (violin) TORCHINSKY ORCHESTRA MARTIN (violin) AND W A Mozart Symphony No 41 KLETT (piano) FRIENDS in C major K 551 ‘Jupiter’ RNCM RNCM STAFF RECITAL Free admission, no ticket INTERNATIONAL Dmitri Shostakovich (arr required ARTIST DIPLOMA Barshai) Chamber Symphony RECITAL in C minor Op 110a J S Bach Largo and This is the second in a Allegro Assai from Violin new series of RNCM staff Sonata No 3 in C major recitals. See pages 13, BWV 1005 40 and 48 for details of W A Mozart Violin Sonata the other events in this No 21 in E minor K 304 series. Giovanni Bottesini Free admission, no ticket Thu 18 Feb Gran Duo Concertante required Doors 7pm Sergei Prokofiev Violin RNCM Theatre Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 80 HOWARD JONES Ernest Chausson Poème AN INTIMATE EVENING OF SONGS Sat 20 Feb This is the fourth of five AND STORIES 7.30pm RNCM International Artist SUPPORT ELISE YUILL RNCM Concert Hall Diploma recitals taking Howard Jones was one of the defining figures place this season. See MAGIC VOICES of mid-80s synth pop. His music merged the pages 5, 7, 16 and 45 technology-intensive sound of New Wave with for details of the other CONTEMPORARY the cheery optimism of hippies and late- events in this series. SINGERS 60s pop and he racked up a string of hits Tickets £10 FS MOVIES AND including New Song and What is Love? MUSICALS A classically trained pianist (including Ticket £20 a stint at the RNCM!) Jones applied his technique to early synths and was one of No concessions the early pioneers to use sequencers live Promoted by Magic Voices Ltd on stage while playing and singing. In this rare acoustic show, he’ll take a trip through his 30 year career sharing stories and the inspiration behind many of his songs. Tickets £22.50 No concessions Promoted by Gig Cartel

22 23 Sat 20 Feb 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Sun 21 Feb Mon 22 Feb 6pm 7.30pm STEFAN REDTENBACHER’S RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall FUNKESTRA WITH RNCM SESSION ORCHESTRA RNCM ORGAN ‘Stefan, you know what the funk is about’ – praise STUDENT RECITAL PRIZE indeed from Fred Wesley of James Brown’s old band GALA RNCM organists take to our the JB’s. And the funk will indeed take over the Concert Hall stage for RNCM come February when Stefan Redtenbacher’s CONCERT this annual prize. We’re delighted to present Funkestra get together with our very own Session Tickets £7 Orchestra. this fundraising event in aid of The Defence Medical Funkestra’s key personnel are Stefan (bandleader, Welfare Service (DMWS). composer/arranger, bass), Mike Sturgis (drums), A wonderful showcase for Eran Kendler (guitar), Paul Jordanous (trumpet) RNCM talent, our students Tue 23 Feb and Simon Allen (tenor saxophone). They have just will organise every aspect 7.30pm released their 9th album, Dr Hypenstein, and they of this concert as well RNCM Concert Hall regularly pack out London’s 606 Club and other as performing the music established venues in the capital. They have on the day. So it’s a ALCINA shared the stage with an unbelievable array of unique opportunity to see GEORGE FRIDERIC guest artists - from Fred Wesley and Alfred ‘Pee students from a variety of HANDEL Wee’ Ellis to the horn sections from Prince’s RNCM Schools collaborating band, Incognito and the Brand New Heavies. They Cast to include: and exploring different are also keen to work with upcoming musicians and Bryony Williams Alcina ways of performing give regular masterclasses across the UK in music Elizabeth Humphries together - all in a good colleges, and now it’s our turn to be part of the Bradamante cause. Funkestra story... Heather Lowe Ruggiero Tickets £20 Joanna Norman Morgana Tickets £12 FS Chase Hopkins Oronte + Harvey Davies piano 6.30pm A cast of RNCM alumni, RNCM Studio Theatre Mon 22 Feb including the star leads SPOTLIGHT Bethlehem Casuals 1.15pm of recent RNCM Opera Carole Nash Recital Room productions L’elisir Free admission, no ticket required d’amore and Il ritorno MONDAY d’Ulisse in patria, return for this semi-staged RECITAL concert performance of ‘The Session Orchestra is the only major SERIES excerpts from Handel’s Alcina performed with ensemble that brings together students from Edward McGuire Folk every school of study at the RNCM. Since its Memories in Autumn piano accompaniment. début concert in 2011, it has built a loyal Danse lente fan base and has become a popular music Joseph Jongen Tickets £12 FS Op 56b phenomenon, regularly performing to sell- + out audiences at the College and across the Stephanie Halsey harp UK. There is something very special about 6.30pm Jenna Thackray flute this Orchestra, the only one of its kind in Carole Nash Recital Room UK conservatoires, as it not only offers a Samuel Barber Hermit SPOTLIGHT Women unique musical education for its performers, Songs Op 29 Scorned – Dramatic but it reaches a large and diverse audience… baroque cantatas and duets Tonight’s concert represents our first Charlotte Badham mezzo- collaborative project with a major artist, soprano for voice and continuo enabling us to showcase the musicianship, Rachel Fright piano ensemble versatility and professionalism of our Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket performers… enjoy!’ required required Andy Stott, Head of Popular Music RNCM 24 25 Wed 24 Feb Thu 25 Feb Fri 26 Feb 7.30pm 1.15pm 1pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room THE RNCM STRING THE ELIZABETH AND WIND EMPEROR’S HARWOOD ORCHESTRAS WIND BAND MEMORIAL George Frideric Handel MOZART’S COSÌ FAN Concerto Grosso in B flat TUTTE PRIZE FOR major Op 6 No 7 HWV 325 Hear Mozart’s Così fan SINGERS Chris Hoyle conductor tutte arranged by Johann Tonight marks the 25th Wendt for the Emperor Han Xu New work anniversary of this Joseph II’s wind band, Kenneth Hesketh Diaghilev alongside the first modern special award, founded Dances in memory of the much- performances of numbers loved Yorkshire soprano Mark Heron, Matt Weites from other operas of the and which provides support conductors 1789–90 Vienna opera season by Salieri, Sarti Fri 26 Feb for an outstanding final Free admission, no ticket and Martín y Soler. 7.30pm year singer. Tonight’s required adjudicating panel Dr Martin Harlow will RNCM Concert Hall includes Russell Smythe. explain the late 18th century craze for the RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello) Tickets £10 small wind band known SHAI WOSNER (piano) Thu 25 Feb as the ‘Harmonie’. 7.30pm Ludwig van Beethoven ‘Ralph Kirshbaum is still a Read more about RNCM RNCM Studio Theatre Cello Sonata No 1 in F major favourite with Manchester Opera’s production of Così Op 5 No 1; Cello Sonata No music-lovers after his long Wed 24 Feb fan tutte on p34-35. 7.30pm OTAVA YO 4 in C major Op 102 No 1; association with the RNCM… Carole Nash Recital Room Steaming out of St Free admission, no ticket 12 Variations in G major on His singing tone in the Petersburg in white required a Theme by Handel WoO 45; upper register of the cello MASTERCLASS vests, peasant dress, Cello Sonata No 5 in D major is something you don’t and ushankas on head Op 102 No 2 easily forget: we heard it WITH TINE to best advantage in the with ear-flaps akimbo, Tonight, we’re delighted to Beethoven Cello Sonata in THING Otava Yo bring the welcome American cellist A major Op 69.That had a abandoned traditions of Ralph Kirshbaum back to HELSETH touch of manic quality in Russian folksong into ‘I am thrilled our stage to perform a its scherzo and wonderfully (trumpet) the 21st century. They that just before Beethoven cycle as part his Wigmore Hall positive ending’. Manchester Tine Thing Helseth is offer a glimpse into of his 70th birthday performances, Ralph Evening News 4* review, curating Manchester life in an old Russian celebrations. Mr Kirshbaum village, replete with Kirshbaum has accepted September 2015 Camerata’s 2015/16 Up our invitation to has a long association with romance, melancholy and Close experimental series start his 70th the College – he served on Tickets £20 £18 FS so while she is in the merrymaking, a fierce sense our faculty for almost 40 celebrations here + city, we’re thrilled of pride and a good dose with us at the RNCM. years and founded the hugely that this extraordinary of surreal humour. And what better way successful RNCM Manchester 6pm to do so than with young Norwegian trumpet The next gig in our Making International Cello Carole Nash Recital Room sensation will host a a powerful programme Festival. He also recently SPOTLIGHT Intimately Tracks series features of Beethoven sonatas masterclass with our performed with Martin – Mahler’s Perotá Chingó and takes together with pianist Expansive Roscoe and James Campbell students. place on 15 Apr. See p44 Shai Wosner, and, 4th Symphony reduced to at the RNCM Concert Hall 12 players Tickets £8 for details. of course, his 1729 in the opening concert of Montagnana Cello’ Free admission, no ticket Tickets £15 FS Manchester Chamber Concerts Dr Michelle required Society’s 2015/6 season: Castelletti, Artistic Director 26 27 ‘I am looking forward enormously to coming back to the RNCM to work with the singers in a masterclass. I am not a great fan of the term ‘masterclass’ actually, as it gives the idea of one person being in charge and the other having to obey… I much prefer it to be seen as a working session between two colleagues, a way of the experienced Sat 27 Feb Sun 28 Feb Mon 29 Feb Tue 01 Mar singer providing new pair of ‘ears’ for a younger singer, 12.30pm 11am 7.30pm 7.30pm and a chance to explore the music together. A great voice RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall is wonderful but it is not enough… we are storytellers and have to have imagination and intention in the way we tell JUNIOR RNCM MANCHESTER NORMAN BRAND NEW the story to the audience.’ FORMAL AMATEUR GEORGE ORCHESTRA Susan Bullock, soprano CONCERT CHORAL VIOLIN Tom Goff, Edmon Levon, Harish Shankar conductors A showcase performance COMPETITION SCHOLARSHIP featuring talented Our Brand New Orchestra RNCM violinists compete soloists from Junior RNCM. 2016 concerts give a for this prestigious ADULT CHOIRS fascinating insight into Free admission, no ticket annual award, adjudicated the process of composing, required Ticket £10 by Paul Barritt. conducting and performing Promoted by Jon Atkin Tickets £7 at the RNCM. This is a wonderful showcase for RNCM Composition students Sat 27 Feb and a chance to hear brand 7pm Mon 29 Feb Mon 29 Feb new pieces before they are RNCM Concert Hall 1.15pm performed anywhere else. Carole Nash Recital Room 7.30pm MANCHESTER RNCM Concert Hall Free admission, no ticket WELSH MONDAY MASTERCLASS required + RECITAL SOCIETY WITH 9.15pm ST DAVID’S DAY SERIES CHRISTIAN RNCM Studio Theatre CELEBRATIONS J S Bach Italian Concerto LINDBERG LATE NIGHT WITH BRYTHONIAID BWV 971 SPOTLIGHT MALE VOICE CHOIR Fan Liu piano (trombone) MICHAELBRAILEY – Charlotte Trepess soprano Béla Bartók (arr Arma) Christian Lindberg is Emotive electronic music, Ticket £18.50 Suite Paysanne Hongroise perhaps the first classical performed live trombonist to maintain Promoted by Manchester Welsh Anna Murphy flute Free admission, no ticket Society a successful full-time required Wyn Chan piano performing career as a Free admission, no ticket soloist and tonight, he required works with our students in Wed 02 Mar 7.30pm this public masterclass. Thu 03 Mar 1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall Tickets £8 RNCM Concert Hall + MASTERCLASS WITH RNCM SUSAN BULLOCK 6.30pm PERCUSSION RNCM Studio Theatre (soprano) SPOTLIGHT A Homage ENSEMBLE Susan Bullock is one of the world’s most – Diverse to Philip Jones Ivan Trevino Catching sought-after British dramatic sopranos works for brass ensemble Shadows and she recently took part in our sell- Free admission, no ticket Damien Harron Manual Mode out Michael Kennedy Memorial Concert. This required Nathan Daughtrey Halcyon is a wonderful opportunity to observe the Days creative process as this talented singer Tim Garland The Fullness works with our vocal students to develop of Time their technique and understanding of the Simone Rebello director pieces chosen for this public masterclass. Free admission, no ticket Tickets £8 required 28 29 Fri 04 – Sun 06 Mar RNCM CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL SONGS WITHOUT WORDS The RNCM Chamber Music Festival plays an enormous role in the story of the College and is a major event in our calendar. Chamber music is at the core at what we do - the RNCM has a proud tradition of chamber ensemble training and our alumni appear with high profile ensembles such as the Elias, Heath and Navarra String Quartets plus the Gould Piano Trio to name but a few. Every year, the Chamber Music Festival goes from strength to strength, presenting the opportunity to see our wonderful students, internationally renowned staff and special guests perform beautiful music across a jam-packed weekend. This year is no exception, as we explore German Romanticism in Songs

30 Without Words. We focus particularly on the music of Mendelssohn and Schumann and our students will be involved in a major composition project, as they are asked to create responses to Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words. So the Festival will include works from across the 19th century but will also dip into the 20th century with composers such as Richard Strauss. This year’s line-up features some of the finest musicians performing today including the Talich Quartet, Elias Quartet, Michelangelo Quartet, plus RNCM Junior Fellows the Solem Quartet and our International Artist chamber ensemble the Diverso String Quartet. We also welcome chamber groups from Chetham’s, St Mary’s, Junior RNCM, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Sheffield Music Academy. So please join us and immerse yourself in this weekend of lush musical landscapes. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/chamberfestival 31

‘Dawn to midnight for three successive Fri 04 Mar Sat 05 Mar Sun 06 Mar days is not yet too 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm much to pay for RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall the buzz of this Festival… I took, as MICHELANGELO TALICH QUARTET ELIAS QUARTET always, a delight in Felix Mendelssohn 4 Pieces Op 81 WITH JEREMY YOUNG (piano) the fresh energy of QUARTET the young musicians’ WITH PETR PRAUSE (cello) Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet Felix Mendelssohn (arr C Matthews) performances. Roll No 4 in E minor Op 44 No 2 Three Songs Without Words Ludwig van Beethoven String on next year!’ Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet Robert Schumann String Quartet in Quartet No 12 in E flat major Op 127 No 1 in E flat major Op 12 F major No 2 Op 41 No 2 Audience member, Franz Schubert String Quintet in Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in RNCM Chamber Music C major D 956 Tickets £17 FS E flat major Op 44 Festival Má Vlast Tickets £17 FS 2015 Tickets £17 FS Tue 08 Mar 8pm Mon 07 Mar RNCM Studio Theatre 1.15pm DECONTAMINATION 6 Carole Nash Recital Room GOOD BEHAVIOUR: MONDAY BAD BEHAVIOUR Our latest Decontamination adventure RECITAL features extracts from Tom Johnson’s Music SERIES for 88 and Chord Catalogue performed by pianist Philip Thomas, alongside recent Alfred Schnittke Violin Sonata No 1 music by James Saunders performed by the ensemble Distractfold. Cecilia Blanes-Coloma violin Tickets £8 FS Liga Korne piano + Nebojša Živković To the 6pm Gods of Rhythm RNCM Studio Theatre Ivan Trevino Catching LEARN MORE Pre-concert talk Playing Shadows games, playing music - James Saunders Sophie Smith, Elizabeth talks about his recent composition Brightwell-Gibbons Free admission, no ticket required percussion Free admission, no ticket required

that the kora and the cello seem Sat 05 Mar to express themselves with a 8pm single voice; two sensibilities RNCM Theatre in unison. Now, these two sonic Mon 07 Mar 7.30pm voyagers have returned with RNCM Concert Hall BALLAKÉ SISSOKO Musique de Nuit - an album even & VINCENT SÉGAL more spellbinding than its MUSIQUE DE NUIT predecessor. MANCHESTER When Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Perhaps the most magical thing CHAMBER Ségal released their first about the new album is that after CONCERTS collaborative album, Chamber years of touring, and performing Music, they caught the music together on hundreds of stages SOCIETY world by surprise. Everything around the world, the album has NAVARRA QUARTET about this duo was unexpected: the feeling of eavesdropping on a WITH ALEKSANDAR Sissoko is one of Mali’s greatest late-night jam session – it was MADŽAR (piano) exponents of the kora; joining recorded in two sessions in the forces in an unlikely pairing Malian capital of Bamako – one at Joseph Haydn String with a French cellist who worked night on Ballaké’s rooftop, and Quartet in C major Op 20 on Tom Waits’ Black Angel and the other during the day in the No 2 many other specially-created famed Bogolan studio. Pēteris Vasks String shows. Quartet No 4 There’s a second kora performance Johannes Brahms Piano Like Toumani Diabaté, Sissoko this Spring when Stringboxes play Quintet in F minor Op 34 is a griot, whose music is an intimate set in our Carole steeped in ancient West African Nash Recital Room (11 Mar). Tickets £25, platform traditions. He’s also a staunch See p36 for details. seats £12.50 innovator, as demonstrated Promoted by MCCS Tickets £15 through this collaboration with Promoted by Serious in association with RNCM Ségal. Their complicity is such 32 33 Wed 09, Fri 11, Tue 15, Thu 17 Mar 7pm RNCM Theatre Sun 13, Sat 19 Mar 3pm RNCM Theatre COSÌ FAN TUTTE W A MOZART Roger Hamilton conductor Manoj Kamps assistant conductor Thomas Guthrie director Rhiannon Newman Brown set and costume designer 34 Rachael McCutcheon lighting designer Kevin Thraves chorus master RNCM Opera Orchestra RNCM Chorus See full cast information at www.rncm.ac.uk/cosi

The bay of Naples. Sisters a part as fate in our + Fiordiligi and Dorabella relationships. It underlines are engaged to Guglielmo how relationships can so often Sun 13 Mar 12pm and Ferrando. The men trust be fragile and tenuous, and in RNCM Theatre their fiancées’ faithfulness doing so, highlights our true implicitly but when their human vulnerability. LEARN MORE Pre-opera friend Don Alfonso tells them We’re delighted to welcome talk Roger Hamilton offers a a woman’s fidelity is never alumnus Thomas Guthrie to closer insight into the music guaranteed, he is challenged to direct his first RNCM Opera and historical context of prove his theory. So a wager production. An accomplished Mozart’s opera. is made. Don Alfonso tells the singer and actor himself, +

35 sisters that their sweethearts Tom has directed performances are to be sent away with their for the Royal Opera House, Thu 17 Mar SAVE MONEY ON regiment. A tearful farewell 5.30pm Classical Opera Company, follows. Then things really Carole Nash Recital Room YOUR COSÌ TICKETS English Touring Opera, start to get complicated… Glyndebourne Youth Opera HEAR MORE Pre-opera For this production of Mozart’s opera is the great and Brighton Festival. He performance RNCM singers Cosí, we’ve introduced an composer’s most divisive and is founding director of perform songs and arias by Early Booking Discount controversial work. Some say GOTcompany. And as a guest Mozart, Haydn, Salieri, on the four weekday that the music and libretto director, he will continue Paisiello, written at the same performances. So if you simply don’t match – that the amazing work of our Head time as Così fan tutte. book your tickets by sentiments the libretto states of Opera Stefan Janski, who Wednesday 3 February, PS On 26 Feb The Emperor’s routinely are heard in music retires this Summer as we you can save 20% on your Wind Band will perform an so deeply stirring that the continue to nurture talent and tickets. (Please note arrangement of Così fan tutte words and the score seem to produce the stars of that this offer cannot be as part of a special event be at odds with each other. the future. used in conjunction with presented by Dr Martin Harlow. Maybe though, that emotional any other concessions or This production will be See p26 for details. disparity is Mozart’s way of offers). performed in Italian with making sure this unlikely story surtitles. Group booking discounts hits its mark... are also available. Please Tickets £34 £28 £21 (weekdays) Deep down, Cosí provides a contact our Box Office on £36 £30 £23 (weekends) sharp reminder of how personal FS 0161 907 5555 to find out choice plays as important more. ‘I regard this opportunity to play Stan’s big band charts as an honour and a joy. Part of the programme is from ‘Alice in Jazzland’… The charts had been lost so this will be a rare insight into Stan’s first big band arrangements. I’m really looking forward to performing this music with a generation who are mostly unaware of our own rich history Thu 10 Mar Thu 10 Mar Fri 11 Mar of musical talent in jazz… I am expecting to hear some 1.15pm 7.30pm 7.30pm outstanding musicians and greatly anticipate a concert we RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall will all remember for a long time.’ RNCM ANGELA TRINITY Clark Tracey CONCERT HEWITT CHURCH OF ORCHESTRA (piano) ENGLAND Sat 12 Mar 7.30pm Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Franz Schubert Moments HIGH SCHOOL RNCM Theatre Polonaise from Eugene Musicaux D 780 ANNIVERSARY Onegin Ludwig van Beethoven CONCERT Sonata in D minor Op 31 No RNCM BIG BAND Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 2 ‘The Tempest’ Tickets £5 Violin Concerto in D major WITH CLARK TRACEY Fantasia in Promoted by Trinity Church of Op 35 Joseph Haydn STAN TRACEY NIGHT C major Hob XVII:4 England High School Mike Hall director Matthew Wood, Tom Goff Alessandro Scarlatti conductors Sonatas (selection) Our second Big Band show of the season is Philip Brett violin Isaac Albéniz Suite something very cool indeed. Drummer, band leader, educator and composer Clark Tracey will Free admission, no ticket española (selection) Fri 11 Mar join us as special guest when we present an required Manuel de Falla 7.30pm Fantasia Bætica Carole Nash Recital Room evening of his father Stan’s music. The Sunday Times’ Paul A legendary character on the British jazz Driver described Angela STRINGBOXES scene, pianist and composer Stan Tracey was Hewitt as ‘one of the Following their packed a master musician in his own quiet way. He reliably mesmerising Studio show at the RNCM produced beautiful work such as Under Milk musicians of the day’. Big Weekender, the kora/ Wood, one of the best known British jazz albums This high profile Canadian voice and double bass ever, and Alice in Jazzland, the follow-up that pianist regularly appears duo of Holly Marland and pushed the envelope with its confidence and wild in recital and with major Michael Cretu return with musical invention and was truly a product of orchestras across the their new compositions its time (it was no coincidence that it was globe and is a hugely and exciting fusion of recorded at Abbey Road in the mid-60s). successful recording West African, Gypsy, Folk, Clark has been busy having his father’s big artist with the Hyperion Contemporary, Classical band charts transcribed. As a result, tonight’s label, being especially and Jazz. show will feature music from Under Milk Wood, well-known for her If you like the kora, Seven Ages of Man and Alice in Jazzland (and recordings of Bach’s major check out Ballaké Sissoko that’s particularly exciting as the Alice chart keyboard works. and Vincent Ségal on 5 actually went missing after a gig at Ronnie Tickets £17 £14 FS Mar. See p32 for details. Scott’s…) + Tickets £12 FS One final thing, there’s another RNCM Big Band show on 23 Jan when trumpeter Ryan Quigley pays 6.30pm a visit. See p10 for details. Carole Nash Recital Room SPOTLIGHT Five Reeds Tickets £18 £15 FS – Much-loved classics for + Reed Quintet 10pm Free admission, no ticket Carole Nash Recital Room required SPOTLIGHT Wild About Gershwin! - Well-loved songs beautifully transcribed for solo piano Free admission, no ticket required

36 37 Sat 12 Mar Sun 13 Mar Mon 14 Mar Tue 15 Mar 7.30pm 11am 1.15pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Studio Theatre Mon 14 Mar MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MONDAY 7.30pm RNCM CAMERATA AMATEUR RECITAL RNCM Concert Hall COMPOSERS THE MOZART SESSION CHORAL SERIES PARIS-MANCHESTER CONCERT WITH JEAN-EFFLAM André Jolivet Chant de MUSICIANS FROM THE RNCM AND Adam Gorb, RNCM Head of BAVOUZET COMPETITION Linos PARIS CONSERVATOIRE Composition, introduces W A Mozart Symphony No 1 2016 this concert of new and Meera Maharaj flute Pierre Boulez Bel édifice et les in E flat major K 16; Piano YOUTH CHOIRS recently premièred works, Emily Hooker piano pressentiments from Le marteau sans maître Concerto No 17 in G major written by RNCM composers Tickets £10 Peter Maxwell Davies Birthday Music for John K 453; Divertimento in B Francis Poulenc Sextet and performed by their Promoted by Jon Atkin Mark-Anthony Turnage A Slow Pavane; Hilary’s flat major K 137; Piano Op 100 fellow students. Hoedown Concerto No 18 in B flat Timothy Bingham flute Jérôme Combier Dawnlight Free admission, no ticket major K 456 Katie Lewis oboe Stanislas Makovskyi New work required horn Gábor Takács-Nagy Annita Skoutella Aaron Breeze New work conductor William Curran clarinet This evening, Paris comes to Manchester Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano Alice Braithwaite bassoon Victor Lim piano as we welcome musicians from the Paris Tickets £35 £28 £20 £12 Conservatoire to the RNCM. This collaboration Wed 16 Mar £3 students Free admission, no ticket provides our audience with the opportunity 7.30pm Promoted by Manchester Camerata required to witness Paris-based students playing Carole Nash Recital Room alongside some of our own, which should provide an interesting new synergy. Moreover, CHOPIN PRIZE this exchange also provides an exciting RNCM pianists and students opportunity for RNCM students, as they will from Chetham’s School of go to Paris to play the same programme with Music compete for this their French counterparts. prestigious annual prize, adjudicated this year by This evening of English and French Bruce Brubaker, Chair contemporary music also includes brand new of Piano at New England work by composers from both institutions, so Conservatory, Boston. it’s a wonderful showcase for our Composition students and a chance to hear brand new Tickets £7 pieces before they are performed anywhere else. Supported by Diaphonique Tickets £7 FS + ‘Diaphonique enables 6.30pm partnerships such as this to be Carole Nash Recital Room created, fostered and grown. It SPOTLIGHT Baroque in the Mirror – Modern is wonderful to be able to work with our counterparts in Paris reflections for cello and piano Conservatoire and for students Free admission, no ticket required on either side of the channel to be given the possibility and platform to create a new beautiful language that is born only through performing together.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director 38 39 ‘Our students have not forgotten working with Henk Guittart on the Verklärte Nacht 80-strong string orchestra project last year. It is a pleasure to be working with Henk again, this time with chamber forces, as we present a delightful programme of cheeky, tantalising and immortal classical works.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director

Thu 17 Mar Fri 18 Mar 1.15pm 1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM HARP PETER ENSEMBLE LAWSON Bernard Andrés A Fresca (piano) Marcel Tournier Preludes RNCM STAFF RECITAL Paul Patterson Mosquito Massacre Alberto Ginastera Malambo arr Starfish Duo Heitor Villa-Lobos Prole The Emerald Isle do Bebe I Alberto Ginastera Sonata Eira Lynn Jones director Fri 18 Mar This is the third in a 7.30pm Free admission, no ticket new series of RNCM staff RNCM Concert Hall required recitals. See pages 13, 23 and 48 for details of RNCM CHAMBER the other events in this series. ORCHESTRA Wed 16 Mar Free admission, no ticket W A Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute 7.30pm required Nino Rota Divertimento Concertante for double RNCM Theatre bass Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D major Sat 19 Mar JEFF WILLIAMS GROUP ‘Classical Symphony’ 7.30pm Legendary London-based American drummer Jeff Franz Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor D 759 RNCM Concert Hall Williams brings his Quintet to the RNCM to ‘Unfinished’ showcase the band’s new album, Outlier, due Henk Guittart, Harish Shankar conductors AN EVENING out in March 2016. Toby Hughes double bass WITH SHANE Jeff sees this release as a journey through As part of this imaginative programme, Toby THOMAS the different aspects of his musical life, Hughes performs Nino Rota’s composition for 16 year old British which has seen him play with the likes of double bass which in the first movement, offers pianist Shane Thomas will Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Wheeler and Mike a reminder of the instrument’s extraordinarily showcase his own original Gibbs. Much of the material was developed in wide pitch (it covers nearly four octaves). concert at London Jazz Festival, the Vortex, compositions, playing solo Derby Jazz and Birmingham’s CBSO Centre. Toby made history by becoming the first ever pieces. He’ll also be double bassist to win the Strings Section joined by RNCM musicians The stellar touring line-up features Josh Final of the Royal Over-Seas League ARTS for some of the works. Arcoleo (tenor sax), Kit Downes (piano), Competition. You can see his International Tickets £10 John O’Gallagher (alto sax), and Sam Artist Series recital on 21 Jan and also see Promoted by Clayton Thomas Lasserson (double bass). him perform Joseph Lauber’s Quartet for Double Tickets £15 FS Basses alongside Jiří Hudec, Ronan Dunne and Roberto Carrillo-Garcia in the closing Gala of RNCM Strings Festival on 10 Jan. See p7 and p4 respectively for details. Sat 19 Mar 7.30pm Tickets £15 FS Carole Nash Recital Room + 6.30pm PLASTIKES RNCM Studio Theatre KAREKLES SPOTLIGHT Lavena Trio – Flute, viola and THEODORAKIS harp music from the 20th century ‘EPITAPHIOS’ Free admission, no ticket required HOMAGE TO REBETIKO Tickets £15 Promoted by Rebetiko Carnival 40 41 Sun 20 Mar RNCM FAMILY DAY Our Family Days have become a huge success and are a great, fun-filled way for everyone to explore the work we do here at the RNCM whatever their age or musical ability. So please come and join us for our latest adventure. Tickets £5 adults. Admission for children is free, by ticket only, accompanied by an adult. Suitable for ages 5 and above.

Thu 24 Mar 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall FASCINATING AÏDA’S DILLIE KEANE Sat 09 - Sun 10 Dillie Keane takes a short break from her Apr Fascinating Aïda’s gal pals to present her 9am first solo show in 557 years (she claims…) RNCM Venues With some brand new songs, some grand old favourites, gorgeous songs of love and THE NATIONAL songs of disgraceful behaviour, Dillie CONCERT BAND will break your heart, mend it again and have it sent to the cleaners for pressing. FESTIVAL Tickets £21 Tickets £7.50 (£15 family No concessions ticket covers up to 2 Promoted by Password Productions adults and 3 children) Promoted by NCBF

Sat 02 Apr Sun 03 Apr Thu 14 Apr 7.30pm 2.30pm 1.15pm Mon 21 Mar Tue 22 Mar Wed 23 Mar RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall 7.30pm 7.30pm 7pm CONGLETON THE NATIONAL RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM STRING AND SALFORD YOUTH WIND ENSEMBLE THE CHEADLE MANCHESTER CHORAL ORCHESTRA OF Felix Mendelssohn String Symphony 10 in B minor MWV MANCHESTER HULME HIGH SCHOOL SOCIETIES GREAT BRITAIN N 10 GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Edward Elgar The Dream of MUSIC FROM AROUND Benjamin Britten SCHOOL SPRING CONCERT SPRING CONCERT Gerontius Op 38 THE WORLD Variations on a Theme of EASTER CONCERT Tickets £8 Tickets £5 Tickets £17 Rodney Winther conductor Frank Bridge Op 10 Promoted by Cheadle Hulme School Promoted by Manchester High School Promoted by Congleton Choral Society Paul Edmund-Davies flute Ruth Rogers director Tickets £6 for Girls Promoted by The Governors of Tickets £15 Free admission, no ticket Manchester Grammar School Promoted by NYWO required 42 43 Fri 15 Apr 7.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre PEROTÁ CHINGÓ Fri 15 Apr Mon 18 Apr 8pm 6.15pm None of this was planned… but a chance RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall meeting, a hitch-hiking trip and a viral video clip later, Lola Aguirre and Julia BBC RADIO 2 BELLEVUE Ortiz found themselves fronting a band with fans already numbering hundreds of YOUNG BRASS PRIMARY thousands. Since that seminal Summer of AWARD - SCHOOL 2011, Perotá Chingó have toured all over THE FINAL BELLEVUE NORTHERN Latin America, and more recently Europe, CELEBRATION OF in a camper van, mobilising audiences Ken Bruce and Frank MUSIC everywhere they go by the power of Renton present this live social networking. They’ll play anywhere broadcast of Radio 2’s Tickets £5 they are invited to: living rooms, nationwide search for Promoted by Bellevue Education city streets, parks and theatres; an its next brass star. impressive YouTube trail seems to track Accompanied by the their every appearance. Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Their music is inspired by their the four talented finalists travels: original songs appear alongside play music of their own chacareras, sambas, reggae, and much choice then as the judges in-between. Everything revolves around decide who will take the the two voices; singing in harmony or title, the band give a unison, or meandering off track to find concert of their own. each other again, they create a rich Free admission, by ticket palette of sound colour, while guitar only (maximum 4 tickets and percussion accompany with minimal, per person) Wed 20 Apr 7.30pm careful arrangements. Promoted by Radio 2 in association with RNCM RNCM Theatre Another gig in our Making Tracks series Wed 20 Apr 7.30pm features Otava Yo and takes place on KATHRYN TICKELL Carole Nash Recital Room 25 Feb. See p26 for details. AND THE SIDE Tickets £15 FS Kathryn Tickell Northumbrian pipes, KATIE LOWE fiddle (soprano) ROBIN Ruth Wall harp Amy Thatcher accordion, clog dancing HUMPHREYS Louisa Tuck cello (piano) Channeling their diverse musical RNCM INTERNATIONAL experiences into a powerful new sound, ARTIST DIPLOMA The Side stay true to the spirit and RECITAL essence of Kathryn’s own Northumbrian folk tradition whilst unleashing the This is the final RNCM talent and creativity of each individual International Artist musician. Diploma recital taking place this season and the Evocative slow airs that could break programme will include works your heart move seamlessly into life- by Wagner, Puccini and affirming jigs and reels; Amy storms into Sibelius. See pages 5, 7, 16 a clog dance; Kathryn’s dizzying rapid- and 23 for details of the fire piping contrasts with the richness other four events in this of the cello and Ruth’s sparkling harp series. playing blends it all together. Tickets £10 FS Tickets £18 £15 FS

44 45 Cabaret tells the story of Cliff Wed 27 – Sat 30 Apr Bradshaw, an American author working 7.30pm on a novel in Berlin, who encounters RNCM Studio Theatre singer Sally at the seedy Kit Kat CABARET Club. When she is fired by the club’s RNCM YOUTH PERFORM owner, also her jealous boyfriend, she moves in with Cliff and the two fall Book by Joe Masteroff in love. As the Nazis begin taking Based on the play by John Van Druten control of the German government, the and Stories by Christopher Isherwood atmosphere of the Kit Kat Club and the Music by John Kander lives of Cliff and Sally begin to change Fri 22 Apr Lyrics by Fred Ebb dramatically… 7.30pm Broadway production directed by Harold Forman Lecture Theatre With its brilliant choreography, Prince dark wit and iconic songs, Cabaret Produced for the Broadway Stage by is the perfect showcase for our CONCERTO: Harold Prince musical theatre group, RNCM Youth A BEETHOVEN Caroline Clegg director Perform. Established for young people JOURNEY Daniel McDwyer musical director of secondary school age, RNCM Youth Francesca Letch, Robert Brooks, In this 2015 documentary, director Perform has enjoyed great reviews over Edwin Kaye, James Penniston assistant Phil Grabsky follows Leif Ove the last few years with its sell-out directors Andsnes on his recently-completed productions of The Wiz, The Threepenny Stewart Bartles lighting designer Beethoven Journey. This four-year Opera, On the Town, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys project with the Mahler Chamber ‘Life is a cabaret old chum’ belts out and Dolls and Little Shop of Horrors. Orchestra allowed pianist Leif Ove singer Sally Bowles from the stage This amateur production is presented by to immerse himself in the music of of Berlin’s Kit Kat Club at the dawn arrangement with MusicScope and Stage Beethoven and culminated in three of the 1930s. And since its Broadway Musicals Limited of New York. critically-acclaimed concerts at Sat 23 – Sun 24 première in 1966, this anthem, plus Tickets £12 the 2015 BBC Proms. Apr other iconic songs such as Willkommen, Don’t Tell Mama and Tomorrow Belongs to The screening will be introduced RNCM WIND Me, have ensured the huge success of by Phil Grabsky and there will be Kander and Ebb’s award-winning musical a post-screening Q&A. AND BRASS across the globe. Tickets £7 FS WEEKEND Join us for an exciting new festival that celebrates all things Thu 21 Apr wind. This event will 7.30pm bring together wind and RNCM Concert Hall brass players from around the UK in the vibrant BRAND NEW surroundings of the ORCHESTRA RNCM. Open to players of all ages, levels and The RNCM’s Brand New abilities, there will be Orchestra presents its opportunities to play second showcase of the alongside our staff and season featuring the students, in the Massed work of our Composition Wind Orchestra and the students. chance to gain insights Free admission, no ticket into technique from some required of the UK’s finest wind + players. There will also be plenty of performances 6.30pm by various student chamber Carole Nash Recital Room groups and guest artists SPOTLIGHT From Down including the Wallace Under – The Music of Collection. Nigel Westlake For full details, please Free admission, no ticket see www.rncm.ac.uk/ required windandbrassweekend 46 47 Thu 28 Apr Fri 29 Apr Sat 21 May Thu 23 Jun 7pm 7.30pm Coming 7.30pm 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall ‘Only Beethoven survived Soon RNCM Theatre RNCM Concert Hall the Soviet ban… until PIANO RNCM Shostakovich 5. The MAX RICHTER RNCM Junior Fellowship in Sun 15 May RECITAL PRIZE SYMPHONY Conducting is one of the 7.30pm ENSEMBLE CHAMBER RNCM’s most prestigious Talented students from the RNCM Theatre The electro-acoustic ORCHESTRA and sought-after ORCHESTRA RNCM School of Keyboard polymath will perform Pietro Mascagni Intermezzo courses. Our alumni are Programme to include: Studies play a variety From Sleep, a new piece from Cavalleria Rusticana now leading orchestras KRONOS Richard Strauss Serenade of piano repertoire to drawn from his eight- Aram Khachaturian Piano across the world. Tonight in E flat major Op 7 compete for this prize, we have the privilege QUARTET hour landmark work, Concerto in D flat major Johannes Brahms Symphony which this evening is to listen to the RNCM The ever-adventurous described by Richter as Op 38 No 4 in E minor Op 98 adjudicated by Piers Lane. Symphony Orchestra under Kronos Quartet returns his ‘personal lullaby Dmitri Shostakovich the baton of Junior to the RNCM with a for a frenetic world’, as Philippe Bach conductor Tickets £7 Symphony No 5 in D minor Fellow Harish Shankar programme that includes well as a performance of Op 47 together with one of our Terry Riley’s One Earth, The Blue Notebooks, which concerto competition conductor One People, One Love, Harish Shankar winners, Iyad Sughayer’s Pitchfork described as Fri 24 - Sat 25 Jun Fodé Lassana Diabaté’s 7.30pm Iyad Sughayer piano dazzling interpretation ‘a gigantic beacon for Fri 29 Apr Sunjata’s Time and the composers searching for RNCM Theatre Tickets £17 £14 FS of Khachaturian’s 1.15pm Piano Concerto and world première of a new ways to introduce dance Carole Nash Recital Room Shostakovich’s heroic piece by Lau’s Martin music’s visceral qualities RNCM BIG GRAHAM Symphony No 5.’ Green. into the classical BAND Fri 29 - Sat 30 Dr Michelle Castelletti, sphere.’ THE VOICE IN JAZZ SCOTT (piano) Artistic Director Apr The voice is the focus of RNCM STAFF RECITAL Sat 21 May this two night Summer Big 8pm 7.30pm Alban Berg Piano Sonata RNCM Theatre Wed 22 Jun Band special, featuring RNCM Concert Hall 7.30pm Op 1 some classic jazz melodies RNCM Concert Hall Adam Gorb New work MARIKA RICHARD performed by RNCM singers. Frédéric Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in A KLAMBATSEA GOODE (piano) COLIN CURRIE BUTTERFLY IN BLOOD flat major Op 61 Franz Schubert Piano (percussion) Thu 30 Jun Based on Fania Fenelon’s This is the fourth in a Sonata in C minor D 958 The foremost solo 7.30pm book Women’s Orchestra of new series of RNCM staff Franz Schubert Piano percussionist of his The Bridgewater Hall Auschwitz, Butterfly in recitals. See pages 13, Sonata in A major D 959 generation, Colin Blood is an avant-garde 23 and 40 for details of Franz Schubert Piano Currie performs a highly RNCM chamber opera involving the other events in this Sonata in B flat minor virtuosic, multi- classical contemporary SYMPHONY series. D 960 instrumental programme. and free improvisational ORCHESTRA Free admission, no ticket parts. required Programme to include: Tickets £17 Sergei Prokofiev Piano Promoted by Marika Klambatsea Concerto No 2 in G minor Mark Elder conductor Jeremy So piano

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We’re inviting you to Take Your Seat Sun 06 and Tue 08 Mar To find out more about Looking for join the RNCM ensemble. 3pm any of our projects Leave a lasting legacy contact Fiona Stuart musicians? Producing world-class COSÌ FAN TUTTE in the newly refurbished RNCM Engage is the on or artists, operating as DRESS REHEARSAL 0161 907 5281 The RNCM’s Professional Concert Hall by naming a Royal Northern College a leading international communityoutreach@rncm. Engagements team co- seat. For more information Take an exclusive look of Music’s learning and or visit conservatoire and ac.uk www.rncm. ordinates a large number please visit our Take behind the scenes as our participation programme, inspiring communities ac.uk/communityoutreach of engagements on behalf Your Seat page at www. 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There are so The Sir John team on 0161 907 5352 or Friends Events of music, and supports many ways to support the [email protected] the development of the Manduell Research College as we strive to Fri 08 Apr for further details. next generation of dynamic Forum Series at deliver the very highest Tue 09 Feb 10.30am music educators. RNCM standards of training 10.30am RNCM Concert Hall the RNCM Engage brings together RNCM on the Road underpinned by an artistic Carole Nash Recital Room Our Research Forums IN CONVERSATION students, professional programme of the finest are FREE and open to RNCM ensembles and THOMAS BARON WITH HARISH artists, and community quality. the public; RNCM staff soloists perform regularly PITFIELD: SHANKAR and business leaders to and guest speakers give at prestigious venues and A LOOK INTO THE Harish Shankar is exchange and develop presentations on an aspect festivals throughout the RNCM ARCHIVES the Junior Fellow of ideas, and to reach out Friends of their work - whether UK. For more information Join RNCM Archivist, Conducting at the College. to new and increasingly it’s musicological, about future external Join our community of Heather Roberts for a During this session, we diverse audiences. creative, educational, events please visit RNCM Friends to receive fascinating exploration will be talking to Harish For more information music-psychological or www.rncm.ac.uk/ontheroad exclusive benefits and into the College records about his flourishing please visit other kinds of research. special behind-the-scenes focusing on Thomas Baron career and exactly what it www.rncm.ac.uk/engage The talks last about 45 access to our work. Pitfield 1903-1999. Pitfield takes to attain a coveted minutes and then the floor Artistic was a composer, artist and RNCM Junior Fellowship. Visit our Friends is open for questions and Proposals of RNCM page at poet. Despite very little www.rncm. Originally hailing from Learning and discussion. Open to all, We are always interested for more encouragement throughout ac.uk/friends Malaysia, Harish Shankar Participation free admission, no ticket in hearing your suggestions information or contact his strict upbringing, he enjoys a growing presence required. You can read for future programming. studied and later taught The Learning and [email protected] on the international more about these sessions If you would like to at the Royal Manchester Participation team stage. Having completed at www.rncm.ac.uk/ talk to a member of the College of Music (RMCM). engages with the RNCM’s his Master’s Degree researchforums Artistic Team, email Amongst other artefacts, wider community through Benefactors in conducting at the his beautiful collection a year-round programme of [email protected] Despite awarding over prestigious Conservatory of sketchbooks will be on events including an annual one million pounds every of Weimar, engagements display. Children’s Opera Project RNCM Historic year in bursaries, many have taken him as far (see p19), Family Days more gifted students Free admission, booking as South America and Instrument (see p42), and the Youth need help to access our essential. Tickets Australasia. Now based Collection Perform musical theatre training. Become an RNCM available from the in Manchester, Harish has group which runs on The RNCM Historic Benefactor to help a RNCM Box Office. completed assistantships Wednesday evenings and is Instrument Collection talented musician fulfil with the Royal Liverpool a low-cost, non-audition can be accessed using their potential. Visit our and BBC Philharmonic and group for all young people the staircase behind Benefactors page at has enjoyed his conducting of secondary school age the Box Office or by the www.rncm.ac.uk/benefactors début with the Hallé (see p47). In addition the lift situated opposite for more information or Orchestra. 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The RNCM STUDIO THEATRE There are refreshment Concert Bar Hospitality at is a flexible black box facilities available at space which has an the RNCM with the Café, The Concert Bar is open the RNCM audience capacity of up to Brodsky Restaurant and from 5pm until 11pm. The RNCM can also provide 140 seats. The space is Bar and the Concert Bar During vacations the catering for social equipped with projector, offering a range of fresh, Concert Bar opens one hour functions, events, screen and a flexible home cooked and locally prior to the performance dinners, training events, lighting rig, suitable sourced food from just a time. meetings and conferences for a variety of events coffee and a pastry to a in our venues. Please and can be configured in a three course meal. Please note the above contact our Conference and variety of set-ups. opening times are during Catering Team on 0161 907 Brodsky term time only and all 5353 or hospitality@rncm. The food items and menus are CAROLE NASH RECITAL Brodsky is open from ac.uk for further details. is a stunning shoebox subject to availability. ROOM 11am Monday to Friday and venue which has up to Outside of term time and 5pm Saturday with last 100 seats in a Theatre at weekends, opening hours food orders at 7pm on Style configuration. The are dependent upon the performance nights (and room has a wonderful performance programme. 7.30pm for concerts with acoustic making it a great For full details of menus an 8pm start time.) We venue for small-scale and opening hours please recommend that you reserve performances as well as call 0161 907 5353 or 5252 a table in Brodsky by being a beautiful room for or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/ calling 0161 907 5353 The RNCM has a wide conferences and catering brodsky or www.rncm.ac.uk/ Our Venues or 5252. selection of excellent receptions. cafeandbar purpose-built spaces to The RNCM CONCERT HALL Café hire for every type of has a variety of flexible The FORMAN LECTURE THEATRE event, performance or options for your event has a 150 capacity and The Café is open from 8am conference. Following a with layouts including 445 has been completely until the interval on £7.1 million refurbishment capacity seating on Level updated following the performance nights. project completed in One, 610 capacity seating refurbishment project. November 2014, our largest with our new Balcony and It comes equipped with spaces have now been Oglesby Balcony open, or projector, screen and is revitalised with excellent even up to 730 capacity ideal for pre-concert back of house facilities seating with a reduced talks, discussions and and the latest technical stage size for amplified presentations. set−up including a new bands and small ensembles lighting rig and sound (NB – please speak to our For full venue equipment. For dates and Events Manager for further information and technical rates please contact our details about the 730 specifications please visit Events Manager, Paul layout). www.rncm.ac.uk/hire Cobban on 0161 907 5289 or [email protected] The RNCM THEATRE boasts The RNCM also has a wide or for full venue one of the largest black range of smaller spaces information and technical box stages in Manchester suitable for social specifications please visit with ample wing space, functions, training www.rncm.ac.uk/hire orchestra pit, lighting box area and space for events, dinners, meetings a sound desk in addition and conferences. Please to the seated capacity. contact our Conference and There are 607 seats in the Catering Team for further Theatre with an option to details on 0161 907 5353 place additional audience or [email protected] seating over the orchestra pit, taking the total maximum capacity to 657 seats. 52 53 Booking Information and Getting Here

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