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AUTUMN16 Vaughan Williams Vaughan on a Fantasia of Thomas Theme Tallis Daniel Pett New Commission Special booking information or 1583 471 call 0121 tickets For email [email protected] Saturday 3 September 7.30pm Community partner Bournville String Orchestra English conductor Timothy leader Caroline Pether Naina Reddy voice Ivy Lau, Bronagh Lee, Junias Wong violin soloists concert the Bournville In their annual charity are joined by four young, String Orchestra money is being year, talented soloists. This raised for the Children's Hand and Arm Surgery Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Barber Concert Hall free £15 adults, children Schubert Schubert Rondo for violin and strings, D438 Vivaldi 'Summer' from the Four Seasons Handel Silent Worship barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 thebramall.co.uk 0121 414 4414 Box Office Office Box News We are pleased to announce that are We for all concerts takingtickets place in Bramall canThe now be booked Bramall website or online via The concerts in the by telephone. For Barber Institute booking is via Barber or the Barber website. reception based on hope that this change, We will make it easier customer feedback, for you to book for University Music Bramall. events in The
Get involved! Get e have got a fantastic line-up of concerts for the Autumn term - plus some special events 2-16 listings concert/event Autumn 16 forward Looking 17 get involved to – How Music University book 18 to How here 19 Getting W hello for those wishing to and participate in music-making. welcome Simon Carrington as We of Choral Conducting Professor Visiting and look forward to his debut concert see We on 2 December. with our choirs English Concert in the the return of The Barber Evening Series, and the 30-plus University Music ensembles present concerts in both the Elgar Concert Hall and the Barber Concert Hall, plus jazz hope that We Bramall foyer. gigs in The out all that is on offer you enjoy checking as we look forward to an Autumn with wonderful music. packed Jo Sweet 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!
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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
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'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.
Morning sessions include: Afternoon sessions include: 11am-12.15pm Orchestra: Overture from 2pm-2.30pm Talk: University Music Die Meistersinger - Scholarships and Parents Wagner Q+A 11am-12pm Early keyboard session 2.30pm-4pm University Chorus 12pm Facilities Tour 2.30pm-3.30pm Early Strings session The Bramall 12.30pm Talk: The Benefits of 2.30pm-3.30pm Early Woodwind session Free admission/booking required by Studying Music 3pm Facilities Tour Friday 21 October via: 12.45pm Talk: Why Study Music 3.30pm-5pm Big Band session [email protected] at the University of Birmingham?
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Friday 4 November 1.10pm Wednesday 9 November 7.30pm Barber Lunchtime Concert Barber Evening Concert Binchois Consort A Shakespeare and In Praise of Saints: English Music and Verlaine Songbook Midlands Alabasters in the Fifteenth Century Carolyn Sampson soprano Andrew Kirkman director Joseph Middleton piano Programme includes: This concert brings together two great English cultural exports of the late Carolyn Sampson Middle Ages: the exquisite beauties of sacred music and the enigmatic Schubert Britten purity of Midlands alabasters. Together they offer a rare insight into a Ständchen ‘Horch, Horch! Die Lerch’ Fancie devotional and cultural world long-since past, but in these lovely works Haydn Gurney brought vividly back to life. She never told her love Under the Purcell Greenwood Tree Barber Concert Hall An Epithalamium (A Wedding Song) Bush Free admission 10am: Symposium Schumann It was a Lover Eloquence in Herzeleid and his Lass Sound and Stone R Strauss Debussy Ophelia-Lieder Fantoches A symposium addressing Vaughan Williams Fauré internationally influential English Orpheus with his lute La Bonne Chanson traditions – in both visual art and music – at a time of great artistic We are delighted to welcome two University of Birmingham alumni to invention and political turbulence. perform in this Barber Evening Concert. Carolyn Sampson has performed The Symposium (preceding and internationally both on the concert and opera stages to critical acclaim, as following the lunchtime concert) well as releasing numerous recordings. Most recently, she released her has limited capacity for auditors debut song cycle recording, accompanied by Joseph Middleton. Joseph is an and participants. in-demand recitalist and accompanist who has performed all over the world, as well as being Director of Leeds Lieder and musician-in-residence at The Dome, The Bramall Pembroke College, Cambridge. In this performance, they explore the works To book for the symposium of English playwright William Shakespeare and French poet Paul Verlaine contact Prof. Andrew Kirkman through song. ([email protected]) Barber Concert Hall Left: Death, Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin Mary (c.1400-1420) Courtesy of The Barber £18, £15 concessions, £12 Barber Friends, £5 students Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham. November
Saturday 12 November 7.30pm Sunday 13 November 3pm Department of Music University Music BEASTdome: Envision Birmingham Symphonic Brass Freida Abtan guest artist Stephen Roberts director Multi-disciplinary artist Freida Abtan is the featured guest for an evening of electronic Ten talented brass players and their musical Carolyn Sampson music with video. Her multimedia works director Stephen Roberts present a lively Joseph Middleton are remarkable for their poetic beauty, and afternoon concert suitable for families. Expect combine aspects of musique concrète, noise fun arrangements of popular music and some music and live performance. For this concert brazen brass playing in this enjoyable hour- she will premiere a new work for video and long performance. Friday 11 November 1.10pm electronic sound, designed especially for the Barber Lunchtime Concert BEASTdome system. Earlier in the day she Barber Concert Hall will give a workshop on live video processing. Free admission King Edward’s School Video-music legend Jean Piché’s raucous eXpress will open the concert, which will also and King Edward VI feature music by Birmingham artists. High School for Girls The Dome, The Bramall King Edward’s School and King Edward £10 on door, £7 advance, VI High School give their annual concert £3 students in the Barber Concert Hall presenting a selection of their talented young musicians. Both schools have the enviable reputation of producing some of the UK’s finest young classical musicians many of whom go on to study solo, chamber music and orchestral performance at leading Music Colleges.
Barber Concert Hall Free admission 9 The Battle of Roncevaux . TapestryImage: The Battle woven 1475-1500. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Friday 18 November 1.10pm Sunday 20 November 3pm Barber Lunchtime Concert University Music Musica Secreta CEMPR and Early Modern Vocal Ensemble Deborah Roberts, Katharine Hawnt sopranos Featuring Musica Secreta Alison Kinder viol Claire Williams harpsichord 2016 sees the quincentenary of the publication of Ariosto's Orlando furioso, the source of texts For twenty years, Musica Secreta and its co- for innumerable operas, madrigals and other directors Deborah Roberts and Laurie Stras, musical entertainments in the musical baroque. have been at the forefront of the discovery and interpretation of music for and by early modern To celebrate this event the Centre for Early women. They bring together internationally- Music Performance and Research and the acclaimed musicians and ground-breaking Early Modern Vocal Ensemble team up with the research to perform fascinating and continually professional baroque ensemble Musica Secreta emerging repertoire. Musica Secreta present a to present a programme of musical responses programme of music as part of this weekend to this exciting and epoch-making publication. celebrating Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. Barber Concert Hall Barber Concert Hall Free admission Free admission
2.15pm: Public Dialogue ‘500 years of Madness in
Orlando furioso Culture and Society’ A panel of leading academics discuss the theme of madness in Orlando furioso and at its impact on writers, artists, musicians and 500 thinkers up to the present day. Barber Concert Hall Music inspired by 'Were Botticelli's Primavera to burst into song, she would Free admission probably sound like this.' Independent on Sunday on Musica Secreta Ariosto's masterpiece
Saturday 19 November 7.30pm Friday 25 November 1.10pm Friday 25 November 7.30pm University Music Society Barber Lunchtime Concert University Music Society Wind Band Amy Harman bassoon Big Band and Sax Choir Erdem Misirlioglu piano Featuring Stan Sulzmann
Matthew Stephens-Row, Schumann Jonathan Silk big band director Harry Hextall, Three Romances, Op. 94 Stan Sulzmann saxophone Zoë Goodwin conductors Mozart Sonata, K292 (arr. for bassoon and piano) The University Music Society Big Band Programme includes: Mendelssohn and its director Jonathan Silk present Songs Without Words leading saxophonist and composer Stan Martin Ellerby Dutilleux Sulzmann. A leading figure on the UK New World Dances Sarabande et Cortège jazz scene, Sulzmann's output as a Eric Whitacre sax player, band leader and composer Lux Aurumque Barber Concert Hall has inspired like-minded musicians for Stravinsky arr. Longfield Free admission decades. The Big Band perform The Firebird Suite charts from Stan’s critically acclaimed (Berceuse & Finale) Neon Orchestra project alongside music Paul Hart from his back catalogue, with the composer Cartoon 'The sheer tonal taking the stage as guest soloist. beauty of sound A talented Amy magically Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall trio of student drew from her £10, £8 concessions, £3 students conductors instrument was join more than memorable indeed' PLUS 100 performers Musicweb in the Music JAZZ Society Wind Band International COLLECTIVE and Saxophone Choir to 6PM IN THE FOYER present their annual joint concert in the Elgar Concert Hall. 'Stan Sulzmann - Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall the classy composer' £10, £8 concessions, £3 students JOHN FORDHAM, JAZZ UK
Image: Léon Bakst, costume design for The Firebird (1922) 11 (1884-5). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. (1884-5). Image: Thomas Moran Fingal’s Cave, Island of Staffa, Scotland
Saturday 26 November 7.30pm Sunday 27 November 3pm University Music Society University Music Society Symphony Orchestra Brass Band and Chamber Choirs Daniele Rosina conductor Stuart Birnie brass band director Mendelssohn Bradley Gill, Callum Thompson The Hebrides, Op. 26, 'Fingal's Cave' chamber choir conductors Elgar The Wand of Youth Programme includes:
Plus the winner of the Music Society Durante Soloist Competition Magnificat John Rutter Daniele Rosina leads the orchestra in a A Gaelic Blessing performance featuring Edward Elgar’s earliest Eric Whitacre surviving compositions. The Wand of Youth takes The Seal Lullaby the form of two orchestral suites that were part of the composer's output in his final year in post Three of the Music as the Professor of Music at the University of Society's most popular Birmingham, and based on melodies written in ensembles, the Brass Elgar's youth to accompany a family children’s Band, the mixed-voice play. In addition, we welcome the winner of the chamber choir and female Music Society Soloists Competition as they chamber choir present their perform alongside the Symphony Orchestra, and annual joint concert in the Elgar Hebrides hear Mendelssohn’s overture, popularly Concert Hall. The Music Society's Fingal’s Cave known as . Student President, Bradley Gill, takes to
the stage as one of the choir conductors, Image: Cornelia Parker Breathless Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall along with second year Music student, Callum £10, £8 concessions, £3 students Thompson. With what is sure to be an eclectic programme, the afternoon culminates in a joint performance by over 100 musicians. The Wand of Youth The Wand of Youth Fingal's Cave Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall £10, £8 concessions, £3 students 12 December
Friday 2 December 7.30pm University Music Birmingham University Singers and University Women’s Choir
Simon Carrington choir director
Above: Johan Cristian Dahl A mother and child by the sea (1840) Courtesy of The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham. Guerrero Byrd Two of the University’s award-winning chamber Virgo prudentissima Sacerdotes Domini choirs perform their annual joint concert under Lully Legrenzi the direction of Visiting Professor of Choral Friday 2 December 1.10pm Regina coeli Salve Regina Conducting, Simon Carrington. Founder of the Barber Lunchtime Concert Berlioz Raminsh Kings Singers and Yale's prestigious choral La mort d’Ophélie In the night we shall programme, Simon bring a wealth of experience Florentine Arts Ensemble Poulenc go in to these student choirs. Litanies à la Vierge Dove Dahl's Norwegian Landscape noire The Passing of the Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall Dove Year £10, £8 concessions, £3 students Liv-Marie Kodurand violin It sounded as if the Tomáš Klement piano Streets were running
Grieg The Herdgirl's Sunday Svendsen Romance, Op. 26 Grieg Sonata No. 3, Op. 45 in C minor
Taking inspiration from the Barber Gallery collection and Johan Cristian Dahl’s captivating 1840 oil on canvas – A mother and child by the sea – the Florentine Arts Ensemble present a Scandinavian programme for violin and piano.
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Saturday 3 December 7.30pm Sunday 4 December 3pm University Music Society University Music Society University Chorus Philharmonic Orchestra
Julian Wilkins chorus director Daniele Rosina conductor Lauren Zhang piano Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest Dvořák George Shearing The Noonday Witch, Op. 108 Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 102 The 200-strong University Chorus perform Dvořák music influenced by Shakespeare and the Symphony No. 8, Op. 88 stage under one of the country’s leading choral directors, Julian Wilkins. They present music The Music Society’s Philharmonic Orchestra from Vaughan Williams’ Shakespeare inspired welcomes the exceptionally talented young opera, Sir John in Love with the cantata In pianist Lauren Zhang for a performance of Windsor Forest. In contrast, jazz pianist George Shostakovich’s second piano concerto, a work Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets features piano written in 1957 for the composer’s son on his and double bass in a spirited, jazz influenced 17th birthday. Lauren is currently a student celebration of the Bard, in this, the 400th at King Edward VI High School for Girls and anniversary year of Shakespeare’s death. studies at the Junior School of Birmingham Conservatoire. Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall Admission: £10, £8 concessions, £3 students
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Sunday 4 December 3pm Monday 5 December 6.15pm Thursday 8 December 12.30-2pm University Music Society Chaplaincy/Department of Music University Music Society Philharmonic Orchestra University Carol Service Jazz Collective Christmas Swing-along Dvořák’s symphonic tone poem The Noonday Birmingham University Singers Simon Halsey conductor Witch opens the concert and takes its Get into the festive spirit with a lunchtime inspiration from the Karel Jaromir Erben’s performance from the Music Society’s jazz A traditional service of carols and readings led 1853 poem Polednice – based on a Slavic bands. Expect Christmas Classics jazzed up by range University Chaplaincy, and seasonal mythological demon. The Czech theme is with a sprinkling of elf dust. continued as the orchestra perform Dvořák’s music performed by Birmingham University Eighth Symphony – a work described by The Singers. Foyer, The Bramall Guardian’s Tom Service as ‘… 35 minutes (or Free admission so) of life-enhancing joy’. Great Hall, Aston Webb Building Free admission Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall Admission: £10, £8 concessions, £3 students
15 Looking forward Friday 9 December 1.10pm Barber Lunchtime Concert Barber Evening University Camerata Concerts 2017
MA Choral Conducting students direct the University Camerata in this, the final lunchtime concert of the Autumn term. Join this talented group of singers for a programme of music for chamber choir.
Barber Concert Hall Wednesday Wednesday Free admission Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 December 22 February 22 March University Music Heath Quartet I Fagiolini Birmingham University Singers
Paul Rodmell conductor
Birmingham University Singers make their annual visit to St Michael’s Church. Wednesday Wednesday 10 May 17 May Saturday 6 Hands: Martin James 6:30pm: Nine Lessons and Carols John Williams Bartlett piano Sunday John Etheridge 10am: Choral Eucharist Gary Ryan 3pm: Choral Evensong Barber Concert Hall St Michael’s Church, Tenbury Wells, £18, £15 concessions, WR15 8TG £12 Barber Friends, £5 students Free admission Concerts start at 7.30pm barber.org.uk 16 Get involved!
The University of Birmingham Music Auditioned & Unauditioned ensembles Society and Department of Music hand-picked ensembles Brass Band work together to create opportunities Big Band Creative Ensemble for musicians across the University Birmingham University Singers Chamber Choirs (SATB & SSA) and further afield. Chamber Orchestra Chamber Ensembles (various) Early Modern Vocal Ensemble Flute Choir New Music Ensemble Gamelan Ensemble With over 1000 positions in our 30 Philharmonic Orchestra Jazz Collective (various bands) ensembles, members participate in a Symphony Orchestra Orchestral Repertoire Ensemble variety of instrumental and vocal groups, University of Birmingham Voices Saxophone Choir across a range of abilities and styles. University Camerata University Chorus PlUS opportunities for Through University Music you can University Women’s Choir Wind Band student conductors, continue your passion for music-making, and annual soloist Early music small ensembles and composition apply for scholarships to continue Electroacoustic groups prizes. lessons when you get to the University, Baroque Flute Ensemble BEAST and be part of our annual programme of Early Strings BEER Harmonie Band Laptop Ensemble 100-plus concerts and events. Sackbutt and Cornetts Viol Consort
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September 3 7.30pm Bournville String Orchestra The Barber Institute Free-£15 25 10.30am Music in the Making The Bramall Free
October 7 1.10pm James Turnbull oboe Clare Hammond piano The Barber Institute Free 7 7.30pm BEASTdome: Emergence The Bramall £3-10 14 1.10pm Joel Williams tenor Duncan Appleby piano The Barber Institute Free 19 7.30pm Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet The Barber Institute £5-18 21 1.10pm Richard Jenkinson cello David le Page violin The Barber Institute Free 26 7.30pm The English Concert: Baroque Masters The Barber Institute £5-18 28 1.10pm Daniel Lebhardt piano The Barber Institute Free 29 11am Music Experience Day The Bramall Free
November 4 1.10pm Binchois Consort The Barber Institute Free 9 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson soprano Joseph Middleton piano The Barber Institute £5-18 11 1.10pm King Edward’s School and King Edward VI The Barber Institute Free High School for Girls 12 7.30pm BEASTdome: Envision The Bramall £3-10 13 3pm Birmingham Symphonic Brass The Barber Institute Free 18 1.10pm Musica Secreta The Barber Institute Free 19 7.30pm Wind Band and Sax Choir The Bramall £3-10 20 3pm CEMPR and Early Modern Vocal Ensemble The Barber Institute Free 25 1.10pm Amy Harman bassoon Erdem Misirlioglu piano The Barber Institute Free 25 7.30pm Big Band featuring Stan Sulzmann The Bramall £3-10 26 7.30pm Symphony Orchestra The Bramall £3-10 27 3pm Brass Band and Chamber Choirs The Bramall £3-10
December 2 1.10pm Florentine Arts Ensemble The Barber Institute Free 2 7.30pm Birmingham University Singers and The Bramall £3-10 University Women’s Choir 3 7.30pm University Chorus The Bramall £3-10 4 3pm Philharmonic Orchestra The Bramall £3-10 5 6.15pm University Carol Service Aston Webb Building Free 8 12.30pm Jazz Collective Christmas Swing-along The Bramall Free 9 1.10pm University Camerata The Barber Institute Free 10 , 11 see p16 Birmingham University Singers Tenbury Wells Free
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