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University Music • Barber Concerts • Beast UNIVERSITY MUSIC • BARBER CONCERTS • BEAST AUTUMN16 Saturday 3 September 7.30pm Community partner Bournville String hello Orchestra Autumn concert/event listings 2-16 Timothy English conductor Looking forward 16 Caroline Pether leader University Music – How to get involved 17 Naina Reddy voice How to book 18 Ivy Lau, Bronagh Lee, Junias Wong violin soloists Getting here 19 Schubert Vaughan Williams Rondo for violin and Fantasia on a e have got a fantastic line-up strings, D438 Theme of Thomas of concerts for the Autumn Box Office Vivaldi Tallis Wterm - plus some special events 'Summer' from the Daniel Pett for those wishing to Get involved! and News Four Seasons New Commission participate in music-making. Handel We are pleased to announce that Silent Worship We welcome Simon Carrington as tickets for all concerts taking place in Visiting Professor of Choral Conducting The Bramall can now be booked In their annual charity concert the Bournville and look forward to his debut concert online via The Bramall website or String Orchestra are joined by four young, by telephone. For concerts in the with our choirs on 2 December. We see talented soloists. This year, money is being Barber Institute booking is via Barber raised for the Children's Hand and Arm the return of The English Concert in the reception or the Barber website. Barber Evening Series, and the 30-plus Surgery Unit at Birmingham Children's We hope that this change, based on Hospital. University Music ensembles present customer feedback, will make it easier concerts in both the Elgar Concert Hall for you to book for University Music Barber Concert Hall and the Barber Concert Hall, plus jazz events in The Bramall. £15 adults, children free gigs in The Bramall foyer. We hope that you enjoy checking out all that is on offer as we look forward to an Autumn barber.org.uk/concerts packed with wonderful music. 0121 414 7333 Special booking information For tickets call 0121 471 1583 or thebramall.co.uk email [email protected] Jo Sweet 0121 414 4414 Head of University Music and Concerts Come along for a day of music-making Sunday 25 september in The Bramall and find out about the Get involved! 10.30am-6pm many University Music ensembles and choirs that you can join! 10.30am-12.30pm 4-6pm Symphony Orchestra The Big, Big, Big Band Saint-Saëns Join jazz percussionist, band leader and Finale from Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’ composer Jonathan Silk, and trumpeter, bass Director of Orchestral Studies, Daniele player and composer Percy Pursglove, for Rosina, leads a sessions for mass orchestra an afternoon of mass big band action. Jam with organist Nicholas Wearne. Bring along session to follow. your instrument and meet some like-minded musicians! throughout the day Early Music sessions 1.30-3.30pm Leading Early Music specialists will be running Chorus instrumental workshops and taster sessions throughout the day. Come along and discover The Bramall Mozart our early instrument collection. Free admission/booking required by 'Coronation' Mass, K317 Thursday 22 September via: Our Chorus Director, Julian Wilkins, takes you [email protected] through Mozart’s popular 'Coronation' Mass with a team of student soloists. If you have your own score then please bring it along! uobmusicsociety.org.ukGet involved! @UoBMS f UoBMS 3 Friday 7 October 7.30pm Friday 14 October 1.10pm Department of Music Barber Lunchtime Concert BEASTdome: Emergence Shakespeare and his contemporaries Denis Smalley guest artist Presteigne Festival Soloists Joel Williams tenor BEAST's 2016/17 season opens with a Duncan Appleby piano performance which takes full advantage of the Friday 7 October 1.10pm sweeping possibilities of The Dome, featuring Programme includes: Barber Lunchtime Concert artists from Birmingham and abroad. The musical arc reaches its culmination with noted Dowland James Turnbull oboe British composer Denis Smalley, celebrating Fine knacks for Ladies Clare Hammond piano his 70th year, who joins us to present his (attrib. Shakespeare) most recent large-scale work, the Fabrezan Purcell arr. Benjamin Britten Preludes, which takes as its centrepiece Poulenc Robert Saxton Sweeter than roses the resonant chords of Debussy’s Engulfed Britten Oboe Sonata, FP185 Arias, for oboe and Cathedral. Thomas Hyde piano Fancie Parry Winter Music Dutilleux The Dome, The Bramall No longer mourn for me Ninfea Cruttwell- Oboe Sonata £10 on door, £7 advance, £3 students Reade *Presteigne Festival commission Quilter Ravens’ Cage* in association with the Royal Fear no more the heat o' the sun Philharmonic Society An annual fixture in the Barber Lunchtime Winner of the 2014 Musica Britannica Sir series, this year’s Presteigne Festival tour Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize, tenor Joel concert is given by acclaimed pianist Clare Williams is a rising star in the world of opera Hammond and oboist James Turnbull. The and lieder, and is currently undertaking programme features works by the Festival’s a Masters Degree at the Royal College composer-in-residence, Robert Saxton, of Music. He is joined by Birmingham and a newly commissioned work by Conservatoire and Royal College of Music Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, composition pupil student Duncan Appleby for a recital of music of featured composer Thomas Hyde. influenced by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Barber Concert Hall Free admission Barber Concert Hall Free admission 4 October Wednesday 19 October 7.30pm Friday 21 October 1.10pm Barber Evening Concert Barber Lunchtime Concert Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet Richard Jenkinson cello David le Page violin Mozart (arr. Hasel) permanently established wind quintet in the Fantasy for a Mechanical Organ KV 594 famous orchestra's rich tradition of chamber Kodály Kalevi Aho music. The members are living musical witnesses Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7 Wind Quintet No. 2 to the hugely productive and influential musical Ghys/Servais Tomasi partnerships of the Berlin Philharmonic not only Variations brillantes et concertantes sur l'air Cinq danses Profanes et Sacrées with Karajan, but also with its two most recent 'God Save the King' Paul Taffanel Musical Directors, Claudio Abbado and Sir Simon Quintette Rattle. As a quintet they have toured the world In the final year of his PhD at the University, extensively and continue to be the leaders in former CBSO Principal Cellist Richard The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet the genre through their recording, education, Jenkinson is joined by leader of Orchestra (Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin) make commissioning and performing portfolio. of the Swan, David le Page to present their Barber Institute debut with an eclectic Kodaly’s violin and cello duo alongside a programme for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon Barber Concert Hall set of variations on ‘God Save the King’ by and horn. The Quintet was founded in 1988, £18, £15 concessions, £12 Barber Friends, Joseph Ghys and François Servais. during the era of Herbert von Karajan, the first £5 students Barber Concert Hall Free admission 'Arguably the best ensemble of its kind in the world' Manchester Evening News David le Page Wednesday 26 October 7.30pm Friday 28 October 1.10pm Barber Evening Concert Barber Lunchtime Concert The English Concert Baroque Masters Daniel Lebhardt piano Harry Bicket director/harpsichord In an age of instant communication it is all J S Bach Alfonso Leal del Ojo viola too easy to imagine that the musical centres Italian Concerto, BWV971 Adès Purcell of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries were isolated pockets of creativity: entirely the opposite Darknesse Visible Suite from King Arthur Beethoven Corelli was true. Purcell's quintessentially English style incorporated significant aspects from French music Sonata No. 32, Op. 111 Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No.10 Telemann while Bach and Telemann's Germanic attention to harmony and counterpoint was infused with In 2014, at the age of 22, Daniel Lebhardt won Viola Concerto in G, TWV51:G9 First Prize at both the Young Concert Artists Vivaldi aspects of Italian and French styles. Favourites of the Dutch printing houses, Corelli and Vivaldi's auditions in Paris, and at their International Concerto for Strings in G minor, RV157 Auditions in New York. A year later he went Handel music was equally devoured by amateur English musicans who sought out the latest pirate copies. on to be selected for representation by Young Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 6 Classical Artists Trust in London and to make J S Bach Handel’s 'English' style similarly betrays his upbringing in Germany and early success in Italy. his debut at Wigmore Hall, under the auspices Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV1068 From these fusions comes the greatest music of the Royal Academy of Music’s Patron’s Barber Concert Hall Europe had ever heard, setting these musical Award. Daniel makes his Barber Institute debut £18, £15 concessions, £12 Barber Friends, giants apart as Baroque Masters. with a performance that includes £5 students Beethoven’s final piano sonata and Thomas Adès’s 1992 Darknesse Visible – a work that the composer describes as ‘an explosion of John Dowland’s lute song In Darknesse Let Mee Dwell (1610)’. Barber Concert Hall THE INDEPENDENT Free admission 'FLAWLESS AND UPLIFTING' Thinking about going to university Saturday 29 October in the future? Considering studying Get involved! at the University of Birmingham? 11am-5pm Come along and discover all that University Music & Music DEPARTMENT University Music and the Department of Music has to offer. You can take part in Chorus and Orchestra sessions as part of this inspiring day, take a tour of our facilities, find out about music scholarships, meet our professional coaches and teachers, sample some classes, play in our Big Band, and talk to members of the Music Society and the Music Department team. Join us for the morning, afternoon or the whole day.
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