RNCM January - April 2016 16 / 01-04 EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE P44 P30 P21 P37 P17 P33 P06 P22 P27 P47 P32 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.