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WELCOME TO THE EVENT 1 EVENT 2 LINCOLNSHIRE INTERNATIONAL Monday 10th August 2015, 7.30 pm Tuesday 11th August 2015, 11.00 am CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2015 County Assembly Rooms Lincoln Drill Hall 01522 873894 76, Bailgate 01522 520098 Free School Lane [email protected] Lincoln LN1 3AR www.countyassemblyrooms.co.uk Lincoln LN2 1EY www.lincolndrillhall.com Welcome to the 2015 Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival. This year’s Festival focuses Love Letters Children’s Corner

its attention on the fascinating and Beethoven arr. Hummel – Debussy – complex relationship between music Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (40´) Children’s Corner (15´) and the written word. Poetry and prose have long been a source of “Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we “Even before I could reason, I was overcome by the force of this strange achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge enthusiasm, and I turned all my thoughts and feelings towards music. And great inspiration for composers and the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine, Ever mine, Ever yours.” now, the burning desire to understand it possesses me, against my will, and our programme features a wealth day and night lovely melodies seem to sound all around me.” of wonderful music directly related to works of literature. Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to the Immortal Beloved. Johann Joseph Fux, “Gradus ad Parnassum.” Moreover, the words penned by composers themselves are Seabourne – often hugely revealing; we’ll explore a number of pieces that “accept these few roses.” (12´) Scott – are directly linked to letters and documents written by the likes Impressions from “The Jungle Book” (15´) “Accept these few roses as a token of my unbounded esteem for you. of Beethoven, Janácek and Schumann, thus divulging essential ˇ You are so lovely in character and appearance that in your company one’s “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” clues to the origins of artistic creation. spirits are lifted; you breathe warm-heartedness, you look on the world Rudyard Kipling. with such kindness that one wants to do only good and pleasant things for I’m especially delighted to be presenting a project that’s very you in return. You will not believe how glad I am that I have met you.” Poulenc – close to my own heart. Wonderland, created to raise funds The Story of Babar the Elephant, for piano duet and narrator (27´) Leoš Janácekˇ in a letter to Kamila Stösslová. for the Lenny Trusler Children’s Foundation and celebrate the “A lover of life, mischievous, “bon enfant”, tender and impertinent, 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Janácekˇ – melancholy and serenely mystical, half monk and half delinquent.” Adventures in Wonderland, has been by far the most rewarding String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters” (27´) The critic Claude Rostand on Francis Poulenc. musical project with which I’ve ever been involved. It’s taken “You stand behind every note, you, living, forceful, loving. The fragrance of Ashley Wass - piano months of exhaustive planning and it’s terrific to be presenting your body, the glow of your kisses – no, really of mine. Those notes of mine Isata Kanneh-Mason – piano it at LICMF 2015 as part of an extensive tour. I’m especially kiss all of you. They call for you passionately….” Chris Jarvis - narrator thrilled to welcome Chris Jarvis - a man known to anyone with Leoš Janácekˇ in a letter to Kamila Stösslová. children, thanks to his work on CBeebies - to narrate. He’ll also join us for Children’s Corner, another concert featuring music Thomas Carroll – cello I that will appeal to the child in all of us. Matthew Trusler – violin I Trio Apaches Ashley Wass – piano I Our list of guest artists is as spectacular as ever and I’m grateful to all of them for giving their time and talent so graciously to Zara Benyounes – violin I Emily Holland – violin I Benyounes Quartet the music lovers of Lincolnshire. The BBC returns once again to Tetsuumi Nagata – viola I record two concerts and we’re delighted to have them onboard. Kim Vaughan – cello I Finally, I offer my thanks to you - our audience - for your Kathryn Thomas – flute continued support. I hope you’ll enjoy our programme as much as I’ve enjoyed creating it. I’m certain we’re in for another wonderful week of music, so please do spread the word! © Jean de Brunhoff, Babar the Elephant

Level and ramped access | Hearing loop | Toilets | City parking Level access and ramped access | Toilets | City parking Artistic Director £10 unallocated seating U16 & students £5 Photograph: www.musicinteralia.com £17/£16 concessions U16 & Students £5 (£9 & £4 if bought together with Event 5) EVENT 3 EVENT 4 EVENT 5

Tuesday 11th August 2015, 7.30 pm Wednesday 12th August 2015, 7.30 pm Thursday 13th August 2015, 2.30 pm Market Rasen Methodist Church St. Wulfram’s Church Lincoln Drill Hall 01522 873894 Chapel Lane Church Street Free School Lane [email protected] Market Rasen LN8 3AG Grantham NG31 6RR Lincoln LN2 1EY www.lincolndrillhall.com

The Last Word Tea with Tolstoy Wonderland

Beethoven – Beethoven – Free pre-concert talk about project at 1.45 pm in Drill Hall. String Quartet in F major, Op. 135 (25´) Sonata for violin & piano in A major, Op. 47 “Kreutzer” (35´) “They said a few words to each other, and the music began. They played “Here, my dear friend, is my last quartet. It will be the last; and indeed it “Wonderland” is a brand new project created by Ashley Wass and Beethoven’s “Kreutzer Sonata”. Do you know the first presto? Do you has given me much trouble, for I could not bring myself to compose the Matthew Trusler in order to raise money for and build awareness of the know it? Ah!...A terrible thing is that sonata, especially the presto! And a last movement.” Lenny Trusler Children’s Foundation – a Foundation started by Matthew terrible thing is music in general. What is it? Why does it do what it does? and of which Ashley is a trustee. The foundation is dedicated to providing Ludwig van Beethoven in a letter to his publisher. They say that music stirs the soul. Stupidity! A lie! relief from suffering and illness in very sick babies and children. Leo Tolstoy, “The Kreuzer Sonata.” Haydn – 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross, Op. 51 (65´) in Wonderland, one of the great works of children’s literature, by Lewis Janácekˇ – “The story of the end, of the last word of the end, when told, is a String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” (18´) Carroll. Thirteen different composers have been commissioned to each story that never ends.” write a short piece inspired by the book’s preface and 12 chapters. They “ I was imagining a poor woman, tormented and run down, just like the will be performed in order, such that the story’s narrative is told through Mark Strand, “Poem After the Seven Last Words.” one the Russian writer describes in his Kreutzer Sonata.” music, and will be interspersed by a narrator reading a specially written Leoš Janácek in a letter to Kamila Stösslová. script by Louis de Bernières (author of Capt. Corelli’s Mandolin.) Some of Zara Benyounes – violin I the world’s most renowned composers have committed to the project, Emily Holland – violin I Benyounes Quartet Chopin – all of them writing voluntarily. A series of new illustrations for the story Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8 (26´) have also been commissioned by Emily Carew Woodard which will be Tetsuumi Nagata – viola I “That is music! It gives me complete artistic satisfaction.” projected onto a screen during the performance along with some of the Kim Vaughan – cello I original drawings by John Tenniel. Leo Tolstoy commenting on Frédéric Chopin, his favourite composer

Thomas Carroll – cello I Matthew Trusler – violin Matthew Trusler – violin I Trio Apaches Ashley Wass – piano Ashley Wass – piano I Chris Jarvis - narrator Zara Benyounes – violin I Emily Holland – violin I Benyounes Quartet Tetsuumi Nagata – viola I Kim Vaughan – cello I

Friday 14th August 2015, 7.30 pm Saturday 15th August, 2015 7.30 pm LISE BERTHAUD – is a French violist unanimously praised as an outstanding rising figure on the music scene. She is a guest of various prestigious concert venues and festivals throughout St. Mary’s Church Lincoln Drill Hall 01522 873894 Europe and was a prize winner of the European Young Instrumentalists Competition in 2000. In Church Lane Free School Lane [email protected] 2005 she won the Hindemith Prize at the Geneva International Competition and since Horncastle LN9 5HW Lincoln LN2 1EY www.lincolndrillhall.com September 2013 has been part of the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists’ Scheme.

THOMAS CARROLL – studied with Melissa Phillips at the Yehudi Menuhin School and The Mirror of Life Ode to Freedom with Henrich Schiff in Austria. As an exceptionally gifted cellist he is one of only two artists who auditioned successfully for Young Concert Artist’s Trust in London and Young Concert Schumann – Free pre-concert talk – An introduction to Beethoven’s 9th Artists’, inc in New York. The Strad stated that his playing was “gloriously songful…he is in Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47 (30´) Symphony at 6.30 pm in Drill Hall. the business of real communication.” He is currently Professor at the Royal College of Music, “Good, kindly Eusebius, you make me laugh. And when you have all turned London and the Yehudi Menuhin School. back your clocks, the sun will rise as before. However highly I value your Rossini arr. Trio Apaches – William Tell Overture (12´) ISATA KANNEH-MASON – was a finalist in the keyboard category of the 2014 BBC tendency to assign everything to its proper place, I think you are really a Young Musician final and though she didn’t win the category she was presented with the repressed romantic.” “No, there are limits to the tyrant’s power. When a man finds Walter Todds Bursary – allocated by the BBC to a performer who did not reach the Final but Robert Schumann (as Florestan), Die Davidsblünder. justice is denied him.” who showed particular promise. Isata has performed in Los Angeles with pop star Sir Elton Friedrich Schiller, “William Tell.” John, who is paying her tuition fees at the Royal Academy of Music in London as part of his Frances-Hoad – support for talented young musicians. “My Fleeting Angel.” (10´) Klein – LEON MCCAWLEY - is one of Britain's foremost pianists and has forged a highly String Trio (1944) (14´) “The themes she found engaging enough to excite her concentration all successful career since winning 1st Prize in the 1993 International Beethoven Piano turn out to be episodes from her own life; they are all autobiography.” “And yesterday that man cut all the veins / He opened all the organ pipes Competition in Vienna and 2nd Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition. A keen Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath’s “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams.” / He bribed the birds to make them sing / To make them sing / Even chamber musician, he has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with a range of ensembles and though the verger’s hard fingers harshly sleep on top of us.” musicians at many concert venues including the Wigmore Hall and Aldeburgh, Cheltenham Brahms – Michael Flack, “Concert in the Attic of the Old School.” and Edinburgh festivals. He is currently professor of piano at London's Royal College of Music. Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60 “Werther” (40´) KATHRYN THOMAS – featured by The Times as a “Great British Hope”, she is a graduate “Must it ever be thus – that the source of our happiness must also be the of the Royal Academy of Music and has been made an Associate of the Academy fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my Beethoven arr. Liszt – for distinction in the music profession. She is a founder member of the Galliard Ensemble and heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral” (65´) a previous member of the BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists’ scheme. and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an “All men shall become brothers, wherever your gentle wings may hover.” MATTHEW TRUSLER – graduating from Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute in 1998, The Times insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and Friedrich Schiller, “Ode to Joy.” declared of Matthew that “we might just have an authentic, though British, virtuoso,” and The harasses me.” Independent stated that “Matthew has been attracting the kind of praise normally reserved Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther.” for a young Oistrakh.” Since then he has developed a reputation as one of Britain’s leading Thomas Carroll – cello I violinists, performing with many of the world’s great orchestras and receiving huge critical Matthew Trusler – violin I Trio Apaches Thomas Carroll – cello I acclaim for his diverse recordings. Matthew Trusler – violin I Trio Apaches Ashley Wass – piano I Classic FM Ashley Wass – piano I ASHLEY WASS – described by as an “endlessly fascinating artist,” he is firmly Lise Berthaud - viola established as of one of the leading performers of his generation. He is the only British winner Lise Berthaud - viola Leon McCawley - piano of the London International Piano Competition and a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. This is his ninth year as the Festival’s Artistic Director and he continues to bring internationally acclaimed musicians to Lincolnshire.

BENYOUNES QUARTET – winners of the 2012 1st International Sandor Vegh String Quartet Competition in Budapest and 2nd prize winners at the 2014 Orlando International String Quartet Competition the quartet is gaining a reputation as one of the most engaging, dynamic and successful young quartets. The Times stated: “The polish of the Benyounes Quartet was new…they already seem seasoned veterans with their tight ensemble and confident projection.” Zara Benyounes – violin | Emily Holland – violin This concert will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 This concert will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Tetsuumi Nagata – viola | Kim Vaughan - cello www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 CHRIS JARVIS - is one of CBeebies most experienced and versatile television presenters. A naturally charismatic, lively and engaging performer, he also hosts live family concerts around Level and ramped access | Toilets | Hearing loop | Town parking Level and ramped access | Toilets | Hearing loop | Town parking the country - mainly with the BBC Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestras. With £15/£14 concessions U16 & Students £5 £17/£16 concessions U16 & Students £5 the orchestra, he takes the audience on a musical journey; introducing composers, musical styles and getting everyone to sing along with the orchestra. TICKETS AND BOOKING PRE-CONCERT MEALS INFORMATION Following the success of last year’s scheme the following establishments have agreed to offer a pre-concert meal. Arrangements should be made Booking opens on 22nd June 2015 direct, and in advance, with each establishment making it clear that you are booking a pre-LICMF concert meal. Bookings start from 5.00 pm and may Tickets for all events are available from: be limited in number. This will ensure that your meal finishes early enough for you to get to the concert in good time. All four establishments have Lincoln Drill Hall Box Office agreed to make a donation to Festival funds for each meal served. Free School Lane, Lincoln LN2 1EY www.lincolndrillhall.com | 01522 873894 Event 1 – a pre-concert supper at: Monday to Saturday 10.00 am to 5.00 pm Café Zoot | www.cafezoot.co.uk LDH booking conditions apply. 5 Bailgate, Lincoln, LN1 3AE | 01522 536663 N.B. The Drill Hall box office and local box offices for 2 courses £11.95 Magna Musica Events 1, 3, 4 & 6 will close at 5.00 pm on Saturday 8th August. Distance from County Assembly Rooms – 200 yds. Any unsold tickets will be available on the door of each event. Tickets for Events 2, 5 & 7 will be available at the Drill Hall up Event 3 – a pre-concert supper at: Parchment, Promises & Passion to the start of these concerts. The Advocate Arms | www.advocatearms.co.uk 2, Queen Street, Market Rasen LN8 3EH | 01673 842364 Students must show current student ID 10 - 15 August 2015 | www.licmf.org.uk 2 courses £11.95, 3 courses £14.95 Box Office: Lincoln Drill Hall 01522 873 894 Tickets for Event 3 are also available in person from : Distance from Market Rasen Methodist Church - 300 yds The Gift Horse, 32, Queen Street, Market Rasen LN8 3EH ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ASHLEY WASS 01673 842535 Event 4 – a pre-concert supper at: The Angel & Royal Hotel | www.angelandroyal.co.uk Tickets for Event 4 are also available in person from: High Street, Grantham, NG31 6PN | 01476 565816 St Wulfram’s Church, Grantham NG31 6RR | 01476 561342 2 courses £12.95, 3 courses £16.95, tea/coffee £2.25 pp Distance from St Wulfram’s Church - 200 yds. Tickets for Event 6 are also available in person from : Horncastle Music Shop, 10, The Bull Ring, Horncastle, Event 6 – a pre-concert supper at: Lincolnshire, LN9 5HU | 01507 526566 Shakesby’s Restaurant | www.shakesbys.co.uk 5, West Street, Horncastle, LN9 5JE | 01507 526626 Tickets will be on sale on the door at all Events subject to availability. 2 courses £9.95 Doors will open 20 minutes before the start of each Event. All concerts except Events 2 & 5 have allocated seating. Distance from St Mary’s Church – 250 yds.

Wheelchairs – it would be helpful if wheelchair users could give prior warning when booking tickets. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

You may wish to bring a cushion for pew seating. With grateful thanks to... Youngsters may wish to bring cushions to events 2 & 5 in order to sit close Monday 10th August ∙ 7.30pm ∙ County Assembly Rooms to the musicians Board of Directors, Patrons and Friends, Volunteer Team LICMF is a company limited Tuesday 11th August ∙ 11.00am ∙ Lincoln Drill Hall by guarantee registered in England and Wales. Registration number 05724329. Tuesday 11th August ∙ 7.30pm ∙ Market Rasen Methodist Church Photography during the Events is strictly prohibited other than by the Registered charity number 1116781. Registered address Lincoln Drill Hall, Free School Wednesday 12th August ∙ 7.30pm ∙ St Wulfram’s Grantham official LICMF photographer. Lane, Lincoln LN2 1EY. Thursday 13th August ∙ 2.30pm ∙ Lincoln Drill Hall LICMF is a member of... Friday 14th August ∙ 7.30pm ∙ St. Mary’s Horncastle EAST LINDSEY ARTS FORUM Saturday 15th August ∙ 7.30pm ∙ Lincoln Drill Hall

LICMF is pleased to recommend the Lincoln Piano Centre from where they hire the Steinway concert grand pianos which feature in the festival concerts.