RNCM 04-07/18 April - July 2018

EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE 1 FRENCH CONNECTIONS

As we embark on the final leg of our French Connections journey, there is much more wonderful music to look forward to this Summer, as we continue to explore the music and musicians of France and their connections far and wide…

Highlights include Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé at The Bridgewater Hall with conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier (p32-33), the baritone Roderick Williams singing a Franco-British programme (p8-9), the French organist-composer-improviser Thierry Escaich providing the soundtrack to the 1927 American silent film Sunrise (p19), and two stunning choral works – Fauré’s Requiem (p17) and the Paris-based Italian composer Rossini’s dramatic Petite messe solennelle (p22-23).

Au revoir for now… We’ll be back in the Autumn for a new adventure!

22 33 THU 19 APR // 1.15pm SAT 21 APR // 7.30pm MON 23 APR // 7.30pm SAT 21 APR // 7pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Theatre RNCM STRING ALTRINCHAM TRINITY CHURCH RNCM SESSION ENSEMBLE CHORAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND ORCHESTRA Josef Suk Serenade for (arr McNaught) HIGH SCHOOL AND CHOIR Strings in E flat major Op 6 Carmen ANNIVERSARY CONCERT + NORTHERN VOICES Pavel Fischer director Georges Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite No 1 Tickets £5 Andy Stott director Free admission, no ticket Promoted by Trinity Church of required Manchester Philharmonia England High School The RNCM Session Orchestra Steven Roberts conductor returns to the Theatre Emma Morwood soprano stage with an epic Helen Sherman mezzo-soprano production featuring the Nicholas Ransley tenor 40-piece orchestra plus Bradley Travis bass-baritone a 50-strong choir. The Tickets full £15, set-list is influenced by accompanied children £3 the sound of gospel, with Promoted by Altrincham Choral the orchestra, choir and Society soloists performing an eclectic mix of classic songs and chart hits including Hallelujah and Bridge Over Troubled Water. FRI 20 APR // 8pm Support arrives in the // RNCM Concert Hall shape of RNCM student BBC RADIO 2 YOUNG a capella group, BRASS AWARDS Northern Voices. Tickets £15 THE FINAL FS Ken Bruce and Frank Renton present this live broadcast of Radio 2’s nationwide search for its next brass star. The audience will be seated at 7.50pm, with live broadcast from 8pm. Free admission, by ticket only (maximum 4 tickets per person) Promoted by BBC Radio 2 in association with RNCM

4 5 SUN 22 APR To include: RNCM WIND, 6pm // RNCM Theatre BRASS AND THE SOLDIER’S TALE PERCUSSION FILM WITH LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT FESTIVAL A live performance of Stravinsky’s masterpiece alongside R O Blechman’s A DANCE WITH THE beautifully stylish, Emmy Award- DEVIL winning animated film. The RNCM School of Wind, This film is suitable for all ages. Brass and Percussion presents a festival that Jasper de Waal conductor explores the theatricality Tickets £10 of music, musical gesture and the role of the virtuoso within the ensemble. 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall There’ll be fascinating BOSTON BRASS stuff going on throughout the building - both in WITH RNCM BRASS ENSEMBLE our venues and via ‘pop- Joaquín Turina Danza Fantastica up’ performances in public Manuel de Falla Ritual Fire Dance spaces when you least expect J S Bach Wachet Auf; Little Fugue them… Arthur Pryor Blue Bells of Scotland Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Astor Piazzolla Milonga Tale forms the centrepiece Billy May Green Hornet of a day examining the drama Pablo Beltrán Ruiz Sway of music, featuring RNCM Duke Ellington/Juan Tizol Caravan ensembles alongside special Boston Brass: guests Boston Brass. Expect Jeff Conner, Jose Sibajatrumpet performances of brilliance, Chris Castellanos horn artistry and imagination. Domingo Pagliuca trombone Be prepared to dance with Sam Pilafian tuba the Devil as we take a Modest Mussorgsky (arr Howarth) trip through music and the Pictures at an Exhibition macabre. And be warned – Elvis may not have left the James Gourlay conductor building… RNCM Brass Ensemble Boston Brass For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/wbpfestival Tickets £12 This event is supported by Yamaha A joint ticket priced at £18 is available for the 6pm and 7.30pm performances. Please call the Box Office to book.

6 7 TUE 24 APR RNCM DAY OF SONG ONLY THE WANDERER The image of the lone traveller has long inspired many of the great poets and composers of song, from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ vagabond finding joy in a life on the open road, to the figure of the tragic, love-scorned wanderer seeking escape from the world in Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Join us for a day of brilliant recitals and wonderful repertoire. We welcome celebrated British baritone Roderick Williams as special guest, who will give a recital featuring George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad, Ravel’s colourful Don Quichotte à Dulcinée and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ enigmatic Songs of Travel. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/dayofsong

To include: 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall RODERICK WILLIAMS (baritone) AND JONATHAN FISHER (piano) George Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Gabriel Fauré Mirages Op 113 John Ireland Santa Chiara John Ireland Sea Fever John Ireland Great Things Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Maurice Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Tickets £18 £15 Day Ticket £32 (limited availability)

8 9 WED 25 APR // 6pm THU 26 APR // 7.30pm TUE 01 MAY // Doors 7pm TUE 01 MAY // 7pm // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Theatre // Carole Nash Recital Room THE RNCM EDDI READER THE MARK RAY CONTEMPORARY BRAND NEW First hitting the limelight with PIANO RECITAL PIANO ORCHESTRA the band Fairground Attraction, Eddi PRIZE Reader is now established as one of Members of the RNCM’s Elspeth Slorach, Melvin Tay, the UK’s leading singer-songwriters. RNCM pianists compete for Contemporary Piano class Peter Woffendenconductors From the traditional to the this solo recital prize, contemporary, Eddi delivers truly perform a selection of short Our Brand New Orchestra adjudicated by Leslie emotional performances with her rare 20th and 21st century works showcases the work of RNCM Howard. for piano. blend of melting vocals and towering Composition students, Tickets £7 FS romanticism. Free admission, no ticket allowing our audience to required experiment and to hear brand Tickets £22.50 new works before they are No concessions Promoted by The Gig Cartel performed anywhere else. WED 02 MAY // 8pm // Carole Nash Recital Room Free admission, no ticket THU 26 APR // 1.15pm required DECONTAMINATION #14 // RNCM Concert Hall + THE HOUSE OF RNCM BAROQUE 6.30pm BEDLAM ENSEMBLE // Carole Nash Recital Room You may well have seen The Jean-Baptiste Lully SPOTLIGHT: The Growth of House of Bedlam’s barn- Suite from Le Bourgeois the Silk – A multimedia fable storming performance as part gentilhomme opera of New Music North West here Henry Purcell Suite from The Free admission, no ticket at the RNCM last November. Fairy-Queen required They return for the latest Marin Marais Suite from in our Decontamination Alcyone contemporary music series, Pavlo Beznosiuk director featuring music by Hanna FRI 27 APR // 7.30pm Hartman, a newly-revised Free admission, no ticket // Carole Nash Recital Room piece by Mauricio Pauly required plus premières by Matthew + ROSAMOND Sergeant and Larry Goves. Connected to the RNCM’s 12pm PRIZE Experimental/Exploratory // Forman Lecture Theatre RNCM student composers Music Research Centre, PRE-CONCERT TALK collaborate with Creative this concert traverses RNCM lecturer Cheryll Writing students from instrumental music, Duncan explores the Manchester Metropolitan idiosyncratic performer colourful instrumentation, University to create new interactions, music made programmatic depictions works in this prize which with and by objects and and dance elements that celebrates its tenth performative electronics. characterise the stage birthday this year. The music of Lully and his adjudication panel includes Tickets £8 FS successors, and shows how RNCM Head of Composition these influenced Purcell’s Adam Gorb and MMU’s Michael ‘dramatick operas’ of the Symmons Roberts. 1690s. Tickets £7 FS Free admission, no ticket required

10 11 THU 03 MAY // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall RNCM SYMPHONY FRI 04 MAY // from 6.30pm SUN 06 MAY // 7pm SUN 06 MAY // 8pm // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Theatre ORCHESTRA SPOTLIGHT OLDHAM JOHN LEES’ Camille Saint-Saëns Danse macabre Op 40 TRIPLE-BILL CHORAL SOCIETY BARCLAY JAMES Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No 1 Johannes Brahms Symphony No 2 in D major Op 73 Three short concerts offering Edward Elgar The Dream of HARVEST Sergej Bolkhovets conductor a fascinating selection Gerontius A CELEBRATION OF 50 Wyn Chan piano of core repertoire, music East Lancs Sinfonia YEARS OF BJH MUSIC hardly ever performed, For the first Symphony Orchestra performance Nigel P Wilkinson conductor *SOLD OUT, RETURNS ONLY and new music written by Kathleen Wilkinson mezzo- of our Summer season and one of our final Tickets £65 (VIP ticket) students at the RNCM and the soprano French Connections events, we’d like to offer £35 (standard) University of Manchester. Benjamin Hulett tenor everyone a special capped ticket price of Promoted by John Lees’ Barclay James just £5 for this concert. // 6.30pm Henry Waddington bass Harvest Freedom of Speech - A Tickets £15 Tonight’s programme was chosen by our Junior musical exploration for Promoted by Oldham Choral Society Fellow in Conducting Sergej Bolkhovets, piano trio and chamber choir for what will be his final assessment, and Bartók’s Piano Concerto will be performed by // 7.10pm Wyn Chan, one of the winners of our Concerto The Insects are Coming Competition. As seen elsewhere in Bartók‘s - Music for guitar trio by output, percussion is at the forefront of Chiel Meijering this work, complementing the piano, which is // 7.50pm also played percussively. Mozart/Nielsen - Heritage Brahms composed his Symphony No 2 less than and development of the a year after the première of his Symphony classical form in the 20th No 1 – an astonishing fact given that the century former had taken him 21 years to complete Free admission, no ticket from sketches to finishing touches. Finally required confident in his abilities as a symphonist, and less troubled by the looming shadow of Beethoven, Brahms created a much more genial, spontaneous work that was well-received by SAT 05 MAY // 7.30pm both critics and audiences. // RNCM Theatre Our evening is completed by Saint-Saëns’ ERIC BIBB atmospheric tone poem based on an old French legend that Death appeared every Halloween There is no doubting Eric Bibb’s status at midnight to rouse the skeletons from their as an acoustic blues legend. Since graves to dance until dawn. If it sounds his début in 1972, he has released a familiar and you can’t quite place it, the further 35 albums and enjoyed a hugely piece also made an appearance as the theme successful touring career that has music to the BBC series Jonathan Creek! spanned five decades, working with the Tickets £5 likes of Pops and Mavis Staples, Bonnie No concessions Raitt and Toumani Diabaté. This has made + Eric one of the leading bluesmen of his generation. 6.30pm A progressive preservationist and a // Carole Nash Recital Room fiery singer with true soul, gospel SPOTLIGHT: Guitar Quintet – Underplayed and folk roots, Bibb has also gained repertoire for guitar and string quartet some celebrity fans along the way: ‘he Free admission, no ticket required is what the blues in the new century should be about…’ Elwood Blues (aka Dan Aykroyd) Tickets £25 advance No concessions Promoted by Triple A Entertainment

12 13 WED 09 MAY // 7.30pm SAT 12 MAY // 7.30pm THU 24 MAY // 2.30pm // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Theatre // MediaCityUK, Salford HORN RNCM JAZZ BBC MASTERCLASS COLLECTIVE TUE 15 MAY // Doors 7pm PHILHARMONIC // RNCM Theatre WITH STEFAN JAZZ FROM AROUND THE AN EVENING WITH WITH RNCM SOLOISTS DOHR WORLD AKALA AND CONDUCTORS Mike Hall director Robert Schumann Manfred A chance to witness the Overture Op 115 creative process up close Tonight, the RNCM Jazz NATIVES: RACE AND CLASS Franz Liszt Piano Concerto as Berlin Philharmonic Collective explores the IN THE RUINS OF EMPIRE No 2 in A major Orchestra’s Principal Horn origins of jazz, how the A searing modern polemic on Elizabeth Maconchy Music for player Stefan Dohr works genre evolved and how its race in the UK from the MOBO- Woodwind and Brass with our students to develop influence continues to spread award winning rapper, musician Edward Elgar Cello Concerto their understanding of the across the globe. and outspoken political in E minor Op 85 music chosen for this public This gig will pull together commentator. Alex Robinson, Alex Webb masterclass. an exciting and eclectic From the first time he was conductors Tickets £8 F set-list including music stopped and searched as a S Ugnius Pauliukonis piano from Scandinavia, Cuba, child, to the day he realised Abel Selaocoe cello Lebanon and China, plus a his mum was white, to his first few surprises along the way. encounters with racist teachers RNCM soloists on the If you’re a Big Band fan, - race and class have shaped International Artist Diploma then you’ll love our RNCM Akala's life and outlook. In course perform under the Big Band show featuring this unique book he takes his batons of RNCM student trombonist Bart van Lier on own experiences and widens them conductors in this fantastic 28 Jun. See p31 for details. out to look at the social, and unrivalled opportunity historical and political to perform with the BBC Tickets £10 FS factors that have left us where Philharmonic. For some, this + we are today. will be their first time conducting or performing a 6.30pm Next month, Benjamin Zephaniah concerto with a professional // Carole Nash Recital Room visits the RNCM to talk about orchestra, so come along and his autobiography, The Life and SPOTLIGHT: Jazz in an support our students in what Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah. Unlikely Setting - The Venus will no doubt be a defining See p29 for details. Trio brings lesser-known moment at the start of their pieces into the spotlight Ticket and book £22.50 careers. No concessions Free admission, no ticket Promoted by Waterstones Free admission, by ticket required application only www.bbc.co.uk/tickets Ticket ballot opens Mon 07 May and closes at 10pm on Sun 13 May. Tickets will be allocated Mon 14 May.

14 15 FRI 25 - SAT 26 MAY // 7pm // RNCM Theatre MON 04 JUN // 7.30pm RNCM YOUNG // Carole Nash Recital Room COMPANY RNCM VIOLA THE CIRCUS HOUSE PRIZE LETTERS RNCM viola players compete Sian Berry director for this annual prize, Alex Anderson director adjudicated by Heather Lucy Frost designer Wallington. Ashley Walsh musical director Tickets £7 FS RNCM Young Company joins forces with The Circus House, MON 04 JUN // 2pm Manchester for a spellbinding // RNCM Concert Hall new work of music, dance TUE 05 JUN // 6pm and acrobatics. Supported RNCM TOGETHER // RNCM Concert Hall by Arts Council England and Once again, it’s time for our annual concert to RNCM created by young people from say ‘thank you’ to all of our donors, trusts and both organisations, Letters SYMPHONY corporate sponsors who support our students and the responds to the RNCM’s French CHORUS work of the College throughout the year. It’s open Connections year by examining to everyone, so please come and join us for this Gabriel Fauré Requiem in D the shared experiences of wonderful event. minor Op 48 the people of Manchester and Paris over the century since Hendrik Andriessen Intermezzo Stuart Overington conductor Andante con variazioni the end of the First World This is the first of two free Casey Cangelosi Character No 2; Prelude 10/31/09 War. Combining elements of events this season designed Richard Strauss Das Rosenband Op 36 theatrical circus with wire to provide an escape from Charles Koechlin La lune; L’air; Le thé walking, aerial dance and the misery of rush hour and Claude Debussy L’âme évaporée stunning acrobatics, this will the daily commute… See p18 The Salley Gardens be an amazing spectacle. for details of the second Frank Bridge Love went-a-riding Tickets £10 event on 07 Jun. Camille Saint-Säens Danse macabre Op 40 Supported by Arts Council England George Gershwin The Man I Love Free admission, no ticket required Phoebe Kam flute Yanan Xu harp Darren Gallacher percussion Caroline Taylor soprano Hoi Chiu, Ran Feng, Alexey Pudinov piano Free admission, by ticket only

SUN 27 MAY // 7.30pm SAT 02 JUN // 7.30pm // RNCM Theatre // RNCM Theatre GRETCHEN STARS IN PETERS THEIR EYES SPECIAL GUEST KIM THE LIVE REVIVAL RICHEY The famous musical talent For two decades, Gretchen show in which amateur Peters has been one of lookalikes and soundalikes Nashville’s most beloved and impersonate their favourite respected artists. Tonight, singing stars is back - for she showcases her new album, one night only! Hosted by Dancing with the Beast, due Matthew Kelly. for release on 18 May. Tickets £36.50 Tickets £27.50 £23.50 £19.50 Promoted by Prevent Breast Cancer Promoted by Edge Street Live

16 17 FRI 08 JUN // 7.30pm fact secondary to the true protagonist // – the camera. Director Christopher Nolan TUE 05 JUN // 7.30pm THU 07 JUN // 10am-1pm THU 07 JUN // 6pm RNCM Concert Hall concluded that the film helped him ‘to // Carole Nash Recital Room // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Concert Hall F W MURNAU’S explore the possibilities of purely RNCM GUITARS TEDxRNCM RNCM BRASS SUNRISE (1927) visual storytelling’. Craig Ogden, Rory Russell CHANGE: THE REAL DEAL BAND FILM SCREENING WITH LIVE ORGAN Murnau pushed his images as far directors ACCOMPANIMENT as he could, forced them upon us, This year TEDxRNCM is facing Elgar Howarth Agincourt Song haunted us with them. The more you RNCM guitarists present a topic of discussion the (arr Thierry Escaich organ consider Sunrise, the deeper it becomes an end of year showcase world over - change. Whether Snell) Overture to Candide F W Murnau’s landmark film is an - not because the story grows any more featuring the Zamorra Trio, for better or for worse, Edward Gregson Concerto allegorical tale about a man fighting the subtle, but because you realise the final year Masters students change is happening. How Grosso good and evil within himself. Both sides real subject is the horror beneath the Hao Wang, Sam Rodwell and we fit into this bigger Edward Gregson An Age of are made flesh - one a sophisticated woman surface… Michael King, past Gold story of change however, Kings he is attracted to, the other his wife. Medal winner James Girling, can be more down to our The improvised score will be performed Nicholas Childs conductor Sunrise isn’t just an essential silent by French organist and composer Thierry plus works for massed own choices. Give change a Emma Wheeler soprano film; it is, in many ways, the essential guitars. chance like never before in Escaich, a unique figure in contemporary A4 Brass Quartet silent film. It simultaneously represents music and one of the most important Free admission, no ticket 2018. Join today’s speakers This is the second of two both the pinnacle and the end of the French composers of his generation. required in exploring how it features silent film era. in different fields and what free events this season Motion Picture © 1927 Fox Film Corporation. Renewed discoveries are made by designed to provide an escape As a leading figure of German 1954 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. engaging in change. from the misery of rush hour Expressionism, Murnau’s enormous stylised and the daily commute… See sets and cinematic innovations led The Tickets £14 FS WED 06 JUN // 7.30pm Tickets £38, p17 for details of the other New York Times to hail Sunrise as ‘a film + // RNCM Concert Hall available online at event on 05 Jun. masterpiece’. The city street set alone www.tedxrncm.com/tickets 6.30pm THE JOYCE Free admission, no ticket reportedly cost over $200,000 to build Promoted by TEDx // Carole Nash Recital Room AND MICHAEL required and was re-used in many subsequent Fox + productions to recoup some costs. SPOTLIGHT: Summer Sound - Music for KENNEDY We encounter characters with no names flutes depicting different Summer scenes THU 07 JUN // 1.15pm AWARD FOR 7.30pm cast in a monochrome fairytale - but Free admission, no ticket required THE SINGING OF // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room the human characters in Sunrise are in RNCM SPOTLIGHT: A Quintet in STRAUSS PERCUSSION Time - An exhilarating journey through 20th century Senior students from the ENSEMBLE Europe RNCM School of Vocal Studies and Opera compete in the Michael Burritt Fandango 13 Free admission, no ticket finals of this prestigious John Psathas Kyoto required annual award, each singing a Michael Burritt MAG7 programme of Lieder or arias (European première) by Richard Strauss. This Astor Piazzolla (arr year’s adjudicating panel Brightwell-Gibbons) will include Susan Bullock. Libertango Tickets £10 Le Yu director FS Free admission, no ticket required + 2.30pm // Carole Nash Recital Room POST-CONCERT RECITAL RNCM students perform music for bass clarinet and percussion, including the UK première of Daniel Adams’ Transitory Liaisons alongside works by Billie Holiday and Arthur Gottschalk. Free admission, no ticket required 18 19 SUN 10 JUN // Doors 7pm THU 14 JUN // 2.30pm THU 14 JUN // 1.15pm // RNCM Concert Hall // MediaCityUK, Salford // RNCM Concert Hall SONA JOBARTEH BBC RNCM CONCERT The kora is traditionally PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA played by male griots WITH RNCM SOLOISTS Louise Farrenc Symphony No 3 and never by women. Sona AND CONDUCTORS in G minor Op 36 Jobarteh is the woman who decided to change the rules. Richard Strauss Don Juan Holly Mathieson conductor She stands as she plays, Op 20 Free admission, no ticket demonstrating elegant and Johann Nepomuk Hummel Grand required intricate musicianship; a Concerto for bassoon and + fine singer, with a cool, orchestra in F major WoO 23 laid-back style. She has won Sergei Rachmaninov Rhapsody 12pm over audiences all over the on a Theme of Paganini // Forman Lecture Theatre world with her captivating Op 43 PRE-CONCERT TALK voice and catchy melodies Paul Hindemith Symphonic PhD student Maria Stratigou bringing messages about the Metamorphosis of Themes by introduces Louise Farrenc’s issues that she champions - Carl Maria von Weber Symphony No 3 with cultural identity, gender, Orr Guy, Diogo Costa references to the time SUN 10 JUN // Doors 7pm love and respect, whilst conductors of its composition and // RNCM Theatre remaining utterly faithful Andres Yauri bassoon its influences. to her Gambian heritage. Alexey Pudinov piano Free admission, no ticket SAT 09 JUN // 7pm SAT 09 JUN // 7.30pm NOUVELLE Tickets £25 RNCM soloists on the required // RNCM Theatre // RNCM Concert Hall VAGUE No concessions International Artist Diploma Promoted by Mintaka Music RNCM SESSION MANCHESTER + SUPPORT course perform under the batons of RNCM student THU 14, TUE 19, ORCHESTRA BEETHOVEN Bossa Nova = Nouvelle conductors in this fantastic FRI 22 JUN // 6pm ORCHESTRA Vague = New Wave. This + YOUNG MONARCH and unrivalled opportunity // RNCM Theatre transliteration was the TUE 12, THU 14 JUN Andy Stott director SUMMER CONCERT to perform with the BBC starting point for Marc // Doors 7pm Philharmonic. For some, this RNCM OPERA For their second appearance W A Mozart Overture to Collin and Olivier Libaux’s // Band on the Wall will be their first time SCENES this season, the RNCM La Clemenza di Tito unique project, which, by NORTHERN conducting or performing a Session Orchestra cuts K 621 appropriating the punk and concerto with a professional RNCM singers further their loose with its usual mix of Jean Sibelius Symphony post-punk cannon and running SESSIONS orchestra, so come along and on-stage experience in these popular music, including No 2 in D major Op 43 it through the Bossa Nova support our students in what performances of excerpts songs by Pink, Joni Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky filter, reinvented the cover FROM THE RNCM POPULAR MUSIC DEGREE will no doubt be a defining drawn from a wide variety of Mitchell, Take That, Adele, Piano Concerto No 1 in band genre, revealing new moment at the start of their operas. These free concerts Ed Sheeran and Coldplay. B flat minor Op 23 and brilliant talents along The RNCM’s Popular Music careers. are a great introduction the way including Camille, students return to Band on to the world of opera as This 40-piece ensemble Frank Lennon conductor Free admission, by ticket Phoebe Killdeer, Nadeah, the Wall for their Summer the singers dip in and continues to play a pivotal Jason Lam piano application only Mélanie Pain and Liset Alea. showcase with eleven amazing out of different repertoire role in bringing together www.bbc.co.uk/tickets Tickets £10 bands performing over two to demonstrate their students from both our No concessions Tickets £28.50 No concessions nights. Come along and hear Ticket ballot opens Mon 28 versatility. classical and popular music Promoted by Manchester Manchester’s finest young May and closes at 10pm on degree programmes, providing Beethoven Orchestra Promoted by AGMP Free admission, no ticket talent as they perform an Sun 03 Jun. Tickets will be them with industry standard required training and professional eclectic mix of pop classics allocated Mon 04 Jun. performance opportunities. and original songs. Our Session Orchestra gigs Tickets £5, students £3 are also an amazing showcase Please note, tickets are for other student groups only available on the door and tonight’s support, Young Monarch, will be on stage at 7pm, with the Session Orchestra starting their set at 8pm. Tickets £15 FS

20 21 FRI 15 JUN // 7.30pm ‘sacrée musique’ (damned music), // RNCM Concert Hall and its jaunty and memorable melodies have enchanted and PETITE MESSE surprised audiences ever since. SOLENNELLE This most naturally witty of GIOACHINO ROSSINI composers plays with his audience’s expectations (just as the choral Gioachino Rossini William Tell music is settling into an appealing Overture arc, Rossini switches his focus to Gioachino Rossini Wind Quartet the soloists, and once you come No 3 in F major to terms with that, he switches Gioachino Rossini Petite messe back, as if he were toying with solennelle his listeners.) The music ranges Andrew Greenwood conductor from hushed intensity to boisterous Scott Brothers Duo piano,harmonium high spirits. So it’s not a work of Silvia Magagni piano profound religious insight, but RNCM Chamber Choir and Soloists one that is a delightful, life- Petite messe solennelle was enhancing musical experience. written towards the end of An intimate ensemble of RNCM Rossini’s life. He had retired soloists, choir, two pianos and from composing operas more than harmonium will bring Rossini’s 30 years earlier, and described unashamedly operatic score to life the piece as ‘the last of under the watchful eye of Andrew my péchés de vieillesse’ (sins Greenwood. You may have seen Andrew of old age). The music is deeply conducting La Vie Parisienne at the personal and wonderfully intimate, RNCM in December 2016 but he has a composer drawing on all the also worked with many prestigious compositional faculties that made companies including WNO and Wexford him so popular decades before. Festival Opera. They will be joined Written in 1863 for a private by Jonathan and Tom Scott. BBC performance, this refined Radio 2’s Nigel Ogden recently said and elegant piece avoids of the duo: ‘Perhaps there’s the sentimental opulence of a fair bit of telepathy going most contemporary liturgical on between the two brothers, but works. Rossini joked that he whatever it is, the end results are could not decide whether his fantastic.’ Petite messe solennelle was Tickets £18 £15 FS ‘musique sacrée’ (sacred music) or

22 23 SAT 16 JUN To include: SUN 17 JUN // 7.30pm RNCM PIANO 10.30am // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall DAY PIANO ESPRESSIVO CHORUS This year’s Piano Day MASTERCLASS focuses on the art of WITH MURRAY THE MUSIC OF THE American pianist Murray PERAHIA LEGENDARY SINGER- Perahia, celebrating SONGWRITERS repertoire that he has Join us for this masterclass Join us as we journey performed and recorded over with one of the finest through the songs of some a career that has spanned musicians of his generation, of the greatest singer- more than 40 years. Our American pianist Murray songwriters of all time, day starts with three RNCM Perahia. Three talented including iconic musicians students playing to Murray students from the RNCM such as Elton John, David Perahia in a masterclass School of Keyboard Studies Bowie, Tracy Chapman, Bruce setting, exploring in much play a selection of Springsteen and Bob Dylan. detail works by Beethoven, repertoire by Beethoven, Hear the massed voices of Chopin and Schubert. In the Chopin and Schubert. Espressivo Chorus perform afternoon we get to witness ‘Perahia’s extraordinary these songs in stunning all piano poetry performed by pianism is a sacrament of new choral arrangements RNCM students, in the form purification and a kind accompanied by a live band. of Chopin Impromptus and of return to an age of Tickets £12 Ballades, a selection of pianistic innocence.’ Promoted by Espressivo Chorus Ltd Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Los Angeles Times Words, and Schumann’s Tickets £10 energetic and lyrical masterpieces, his Fantasie TUE 19 JUN // 7.30pm and Symphonic Etudes. Our 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall // Carole Nash Recital Room evening recital brings together tutors from the EVENING RECITAL A4 BRASS School of Keyboard Studies W A Mozart Sonata in A minor QUARTET in a concert of works for K 310 two pianos and piano duet, a RNCM INTERNATIONAL W A Mozart Sonata in D major medium that Perahia enjoys ARTIST DIPLOMA RECITAL for two pianos K 448 with his partner Radu Lupu. Franz Schubert Sonata in B Jonathan Bates Toccata For full details, please see flat major for piano four Gioachino Rossini Overture www.rncm.ac.uk/pianoday hands D 617 to The Barber of Seville Franz Schubert Allegro for Jonathan Bates Prayer to piano four hands D 947 Ascension ‘Lebensstürme’ Oliver Waespi South Uist Franz Schubert Fantasie in F Variations minor for piano four hands Jaime Texidor Amparito Roca D 940 Béla Bartók Six Romanian Folk Dances Benjamin Frith, Bingbing Li, Daniel Hall Metro-Gnomes Paul Janes, Helen Krizos, Edward Gregson Brass Quartet Colin Stone, Graham Scott, No 2 John Gough, Sally Ann Callum Harrison kinesis Macleod piano Kentaro Sato Tsunangari Tickets £10 Jonathan Bates Mists of the Day Ticket £25 Mountains Tickets £10 FS

24 25 WED 20 – THU 21 JUN THU 21 JUN // 11am IN FOCUS: GILBERT & GORB // Forman Lecture Theatre IN CONVERSATION + The RNCM celebrates the music of the two most important composers in its 50 year Adam Gorb talks to Edward Gregson about history - Anthony Gilbert and Adam Gorb. his life in music, alongside performances Anthony and Adam are the only two Heads of Miss Gee; Straitjacket; A New Life For of Composition to serve at the RNCM, Anya; and selections from Four Temperaments producing not only brilliant students but for Two Guitars. also creating and shaping one of the most

varied and vibrant Composition departments 2pm in Europe. All of this achievement sits on // Forman Lecture Theatre the back of their brilliance as composers. Don’t miss the chance to hear premières IN CONVERSATION + from both composers, including a gorgeous Anthony Gilbert talks to Douglas Jarman, new work by Anthony inspired by his partner alongside performances of The Flame has Ray Sassoon and Adam Gorb’s powerful new Ceased (in memory of John McCabe); HumDance opera, The Path to Heaven. (UK première) and Return of the St Louis. All events are free admission, no ticket required unless otherwise stated. 6pm For full details, please see // RNCM Concert Hall www.rncm.ac.uk/gilbertandgorb PRE-CONCERT TALK Adam Gorb, librettist Ben Kaye and director WED 20 JUN // 12pm Stefan Janski introduce // RNCM Concert Hall The Path to Heaven.

FESTIVAL INTRO 7.30pm Clark Rundell introduces the composers of // RNCM Concert Hall our two-day focus, Anthony Gilbert and THE PATH TO HEAVEN Adam Gorb. Adam Gorb composer

Ben Kaye libretto 1.15pm Stefan Janski director // RNCM Concert Hall Mark Heron conductor LUNCHTIME CONCERT Melvin Tay assistant conductor Musicians from Psappha and RNCM Anthony Gilbert Six of the Bestiary for saxophone quartet A powerful tale of extremism, expedience, Adam Gorb Sonatina for Eight Hands deceit and betrayal, The Path to Heaven Anthony Gilbert Moonfaring for cello and dramatically exposes the disintegration of marimba the loves, lives and hopes of an extended Adam Gorb Viderunt Omnes (world première) family struggling to survive amidst the horrors of The Holocaust.

7.30pm Tickets £15 FS // RNCM Concert Hall RNCM NEW ENSEMBLE Anthony Gilbert Dark Singing, Dancing Light Athanasia Kontou New work Anthony Gilbert Encantos 2010 Adam Gorb Dancing in the Ghetto Adam Gorb Invocation (UK première) Stephen Bradshaw New work Anthony Gilbert La Douceur (…et la Tendresse) (world première)

26 27 SAT 23 JUN // From 10am // RNCM Concert Hall FRI 22 JUN // from 8pm RNCM GOLD MEDAL // Carole Nash Recital Room COMPETITION SPOTLIGHT DOUBLE-BILL The RNCM’s star performers and composers compete for an RNCM Students from the RNCM Gold Medal, the College’s most perform two short concerts prestigious annual award, in a full featuring music which day of performances in front of a highlights the beauty of distinguished panel from across the poetry hailing from France music industry. and Scotland. Ten performers give a 30-minute free // 8pm choice programme throughout the day, Postcards from Spain - so it’s a great opportunity to hear Vocal and piano music by our most talented students playing Debussy and Fauré the music they truly love. There // 8.40pm will also be the opportunity to hear The Rowan Tree - A night new works for piano trio written by of Scottish folk song four selected RNCM composers. Free admission, no ticket This is a chance to see the stars required of the future on the cusp of their professional careers - previous winners include the hugely talented and successful pianist, Alexandra SAT 23 JUN // 7.30pm Dariescu. We would love you to come // RNCM Theatre along to support our students and be part of this exciting process… and THE LIFE AND RHYMES OF see if you agree with the judges?! BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH For a full schedule including He befriended Nelson Mandela, fought in the 1980s details of performers and programmes race riots and recorded radical and relevant reggae when it becomes available, please music with Bob Marley’s former band. Benjamin visit www.rncm.ac.uk/goldmedal Zephaniah was unable to read and write at school Free admission, no ticket required but became one of Britain’s most remarkable poets. And now he’s back with his first tour in eight years, to coincide with the release of his remarkable autobiography, The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah. In a compelling and inspiring show, Zephaniah will explain how he fought injustice and discrimination, to lead a remarkable life, while sharing a selection of favourite stories and poems. Signed copies of The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah will be available after the show. On 15 May, award-winning rapper and musician Akala visits the RNCM to talk about his book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. See p15 for details. Tickets £22 £20 FS + 6.30pm // Carole Nash Recital Room SPOTLIGHT: music for people who like art - A true musical tour-de-force by Andrew Hamilton Free admission, no ticket required

28 29 SUN 24 JUN // 2pm // RNCM Concert Hall TUE 26 JUN // 7.30pm RNCM YOUNG // Carole Nash Recital Room EXPLORERS RNCM CONCERT COMPOSERS’ CONCERT AHOY THERE! Adam Gorb, RNCM Head of Programme to include: Composition, introduces this John Williams Suite from Jaws concert of new and recently Hans Zimmer Music from premièred works, written by Pirates of the Caribbean RNCM composers and performed Benjamin Britten Four Sea by their fellow students. Interludes Traditional Sailor’s Hornpipe Free admission, no ticket required Tom Newall conductor Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra

For the latest in our RNCM WED 27 JUN // 7.30pm Young Explorers series, we // Carole Nash Recital Room look yonder to the big blue sea (and some of the scary CHRISTOPHER and exciting things we might ROWLAND find above and below the waves…) You just have to hear RNCM CHAMBER THU 28 JUN // 7.30pm the first few notes of John ENSEMBLE // Williams’ iconic score and OF THE YEAR RNCM Theatre you’ll remember the first time RNCM BIG BAND you saw the dreaded shark AWARD WITH BART VAN LIER fin rise out of the water in We celebrate the legacy of a darkened cinema… Moving Mike Hall director Dr Christopher Rowland, forward through cinematic Bart van Lier trombone architect of the RNCM’s history, today you’ll also world-class Chamber Music For our Summer Big Band collaboration, our students hear music that acted as a department, with the 11th will have the opportunity to work with Bart van thrilling backdrop for the annual award for chamber Lier, Principal Trombonist with the Metropole adventures of Captain Jack music excellence within the Orkest, who you may have seen feature as a soloist Sparrow and his swashbuckling College, as prize-winning in last Summer’s Charlie Mingus BBC Prom, conducted pirate crew. And to round student ensembles compete by Jules Buckley. off this salty adventure, for the prestigious title of the Sailor’s Hornpipe will Established in 1945 to help raise the morale of the Christopher Rowland Chamber also make an appearance - Dutch people following the Second World War, this Ensemble of the Year. recognised by all generations multiple Grammy-winning jazz and pop orchestra have as the Blue Peter theme tune! Tickets £10 FS shared the stage with a stellar list of musicians, from Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz Our Young Explorers concerts and Brian Eno, through to Gregory Porter and are a brilliant way to Basement Jaxx. introduce children to family-friendly, relaxed Bart is a phenomenal jazz improviser and every performances of classical solo is a leap into the deep. Composer/arranger music. So watch out for Bill Holman described his playing style as having: marauding pirates! ‘imagination, wit, taste, heart, a warm sound and great technique…’ and the website All About Jazz For full details, please see described his ‘buttery tones’! Tonight’s set will www.rncm.ac.uk/youngexplorers feature a mixture of solos and ensemble pieces Suitable for ages 4 and above including compositions and arrangements by Holman, Tickets £12, under-16s £6 Jerome Kern and Schwartz/Dietz as well as some of Family ticket (4 people) £30 Bart’s own arrangements. Tickets £18 £15 FS

30 31 S F for the original ballet was devised by Michel Fokine, a classically trained dancer and choreographer. Set in a meadow at the edge of sacred wood where sheep graze and nymphs frolic, the tale unfolds of the love between young shepherd Daphnis and his beautiful Chloé who is abducted by pirates but eventually rescued through the intervention of Pan, the shepherd-god Arcadia. The story ends with the lovers’ blissful reunion. We’re delighted to welcome Maestro Tortelier work with our students as they prepare for this major event in our academic calendar. Chief Conductor with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Emeritus of the BBC Philharmonic, he is, course, very well-known to Manchester audiences. Moreover, tonight he will guide our students as they perform his personally chosen selection of music from Ravel’s masterpiece. Alongside contributions by Ambroise Thomas and Ravel, tonight’s programme is completed by Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, performed by one of our Concerto Competition winners, Waynne Kwon. Tickets £18 £15 conductors is among Ravel’s finest

* ‘one of the most beautiful products Daphnis et Chloé , Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major Op 107* 7.30pm Mignon Overture Daphnis et Chloé //

cello The Bridgewater Hall RNCM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA SYMPHONY RNCM DAPHNIS ET CHLOÉ ET DAPHNIS Dmitri Shostakovich Maurice Ravel Waynne Kwon For our annual end of year RNCM Symphony Orchestra concert, we return to The Bridgewater Hall for a performance of timeless score, under the baton of Yan Pascal Tortelier. Described by Stravinsky as in all of French music’ achievements. The work’s opulent orchestration, yearning melodies and sumptuous harmonic colouring combine with great rhythmic drive to create one of the composer’s most masterful statements. Based on a pastoral drama by the Greek poet Longus, scenario FRI 29 JUN // Ambroise Thomas Yan Pascal Tortelier, Sergej Bolkhovets

32 33 SAT 30 JUN // from 10.15am MON 09 - THU 12 JUL SAT 14 JUL // 7.30pm SUN 15 JUL // 7.30pm // Various Venues // 7pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall JUNIOR RNCM // RNCM Concert Hall MANCHESTER FODEN’S BAND PERFORMANCE ONE EDUCATION WIND AND THE JAMES DAY MUSIC SHOWCASE 2018 ORCHESTRA MORRISON Music Showcase is a series Performance Day profiles Edward Gregson Festivo QUARTET of concerts demonstrating a the work of the full range Rob WiffinSinfonietta great variety of styles and The world-renowned Foden's of Junior RNCM ensembles Jonathan Dove The Ringing high standards achieved by Band returns to the RNCM, including Symphony Isle pupils in Manchester Schools joining forces with the Orchestra, Brass Band and Joseph Haydn (arr Jose and One Education Music award-winning James Morrison Foundation Section, as well Schyns) Concerto for Oboe Centres commissioned by Quartet for a unique evening as Wind, Vocal, Percussion and Wind Ensemble MyHub - Manchester Music. showcasing the worlds of Malcolm Binney and Jazz ensembles. For full Charivari brass and jazz. details, contact the Junior Tickets £6 Martin Ellerby Dona Nobis RNCM on 0161 907 5264. Promoted by One Education Music Pacem Tickets £25 Promoted by Mark Wilkinson Free admission, no ticket David Bedford Sun Paints required Rainbows FRI 13 JUL // 7pm Goff RichardsDoyen

// RNCM Concert Hall Ralph Corrigan conductor TUE 17 - WED 18 JUL SUN 08 JUL // 2pm WIGAN MUSIC Debbie Fuller oboe // 10.30am and 1.20pm // RNCM Concert Hall SERVICE Tickets £8 // RNCM Concert Hall BURY MUSIC Promoted by Manchester Wind TRAFFORD STRING SHOWCASE Orchestra MUSIC SERVICE SERVICE The Wigan Junior and MON 16 JUL // 8pm ExTRAFFORDganza 2018 BURY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Intermediate Orchestras // RNCM Concert Hall SUN 15 JUL // 2pm FAMILY CONCERT will perform a programme of Trafford Music Service entertaining music, ranging // RNCM Concert Hall AN EVENING WITH MARC Bury Youth Orchestra are presents a musical journey from arrangements of popular performing an exciting WIGAN MUSIC COHN for schoolchildren, their themes, to arrangements of family concert, featuring SERVICE parents and their teachers, classic favourites. In 2016, Grammy Award-winning singer- presented by Tom Redmond Bruch’s Violin Concerto songwriter Marc Cohn celebrated the 25th Wigan Youth String Orchestra BRASS IN CONCERT with an eclectic selection and the world première of anniversary of his platinum-selling self- Nautilus Eve Geoghegan violin of music performed by staff for Orchestra and Hundreds of young brass titled début with a special tour performing Judith Elsey violin ensembles. Electronica by Tim Power. musicians have graduated the album in its entirety from start to Richard Waldock conductor Joining the orchestra will from the Wigan Music Service finish for the first time. Following that Tickets £7 be children from various Wigan & Leigh Junior String brass department and the victory lap, Cohn returns to digging in the Promoted by Trafford Music Service primary schools across Bury Orchestra famous Wigan Youth Brass treasure chest of his quarter-century of performing their creative Louise Peacock conductor Band. This concert showcases rich, evocative, soulful songs. Riding the the work of the current responses to these pieces. Wigan & Leigh Intermediate wave of spontaneity and audience connection, THU 19 - FRI 20 JUL membership throughout Tickets £10 String Orchestra no two performances are alike, and requests // 10.30am and 1.20pm 2018 and will be a true Debbie Wright conductor are always taken, making for an intimate grab // RNCM Concert Hall Promoted by Friends of Bury Music celebration of the musical Centre bag of a set full of big hits, deep cuts and Tickets £4 talent and achievement of surprises. STOCKPORT Promoted by Wigan Music Service these young musicians and Tickets £29.50 advance MUSIC SERVICE their tutorial team. No concessions STOCKPORT MUSICAL Wigan Youth Brass Band Promoted by Triple A Entertainment SPECTACULAR Wigan Schools Intermediate Brass Band Stockport Music Service Wigan and Leigh Junior Brass presents a concert of Bands music for, and featuring, schoolchildren from Dave Little, Alex Thomas, across the borough. Jonathan Ford conductors Tickets £6 Tickets £6 Promoted by Stockport Music Service Promoted by Wigan Music Service

34 35 SUN 22 - SUN 29 JUL MON 23 JUL // 7.30pm LONDON MASTER // Carole Nash Recital Room CLASSES BENJAMIN ZANDER 30th ANNIVERSARY SUMMER Benjamin Zander presents new MASTER COURSE perspectives on leadership is this interpretation workshop, Experiencing TUTORS: the Art of Possibility. Sir John Tomlinson voice Gyorgy Pauk violin Tickets £15 Hannah Roberts cello Norma Fisher piano TUE 24 - FRI 27 JUL // 7pm Benjamin Zander conducting // Carole Nash Recital Room This unique event, now in its 30th year, SHOWCASE CONCERTS will offer daily public masterclasses and concerts: showcasing extraordinary Featuring selected virtuosi from the young international singers, violinists, 2018 Course cellists, pianists and conductors who Tickets £5 come from every part of the world to work with our distinguished faculty of leading soloists. SAT 28 JUL // 7pm We are delighted that Sir John // Carole Nash Recital Room Tomlinson, RNCM President, will be YOUNG MASTER taking the daily vocal classes and singing in the opening concert. CONCERT For further information and to purchase STARS OF THE FUTURE tickets for the daily masterclasses (£10 A celebration of extraordinary talent per day) and evening concerts, please given by a chosen representative of each visit www.rncm.ac.uk/londonmasterclasses Class. In Aid of London Master Classes Promoted by London Master Classes Bursary Fund. Tickets £10 SUN 22 JUL // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall SUN 29 JUL // 7pm OPENING GALA CONCERT // RNCM Concert Hall To include Sir John Tomlinson (voice) GRAND FINALE Hannah Roberts (cello) and star alumni Maestro Benjamin Zander, with conductors performances. In Aid of London Master and virtuosi from the 2018 Course, offer Classes Bursary Fund. an evening of joyous music-making. Tickets £20 Tickets £15

36 37 FRI 27 JUL // 8pm // RNCM Concert Hall WINSTONE/GESING/VENIER WITH SPECIAL GUEST ABEL SELAOCOE Norma Winstone voice Klaus Gesing bass clarinet, saxophones Glauco Venier piano Abel Selaocoe cello ‘Serendipity is a word I would use to describe how I would feel about this group coming together. Glauco and Klaus uncannily seemed to know what the other was going to play when I first performed with them. Rhythmically, there’s no certainty as to where the beats are and sometimes we will stretch a bar almost as they do in classical music.’ Norma Winstone Music For Films is the trio’s fifth recording together and the fourth for the ECM label, boasting a beguiling set of personal interpretations of these broad-ranging and often overlooked songs. Norma is one of the UK’s most cherished improvising artists. Her crystalline tone, vast range and open versatility have graced an astonishing international performance and recording career that stretches back over decades. The dynamic Manchester-based South African cellist Abel Selaocoe joins with the effortless Italian pianist and the incisive German reeds player for this concert, adding an extra international dimension to their universal sound. ‘While some singers choose to sing at their audience, Winstone sings to her listeners, creating a close-up and personal relationship where her voice and tone give meaning to the lyrics and the lyrics give meaning to her voice. It’s a delicate balancing act, but when it works, as it does here, it can create something meaningful and profound.’ Jazzwise Tickets £18 Promoted by RNCM in association with manchester jazz festival + 6.45pm // Studio 1 RNCM/mjf introduces: SLIMS COLLECTIVE Experimental, cinematic music from jazz trio James Davis (piano), Chris Rabbitts (bass) and Will Graham (drums). Free admission, by ticket only

38 39 MANCHESTER JAZZ FESTIVAL JAZZ MANCHESTER RNCM ON THE ROAD COMING SOON RNCM ensembles and soloists perform regularly at prestigious venues and festivals throughout the UK and further afield. Our forthcoming highlights are listed below but for MON 26 NOV – SAT 01 DEC more information about future external events, please visit www.rncm.ac.uk/ontheroad RNCM JAMES MOTTRAM SAT 05 MAY // from 10.30am THU 31 MAY // 7.45pm MON 25 JUN // 7.30pm INTERNATIONAL // Wigmore Hall, London // Purcell Room, London // Storyhouse, Chester PIANO IN FOCUS: MARK- RNCM GOLD NORTHERN COMPETITION ANTHONY MEDAL BALLET SINFONIA 2018 TURNAGE WINNERS' WITH KANTOS CHAMBER CHOIR 30 pianists from across RNCM and Wigmore Hall CONCERT the globe compete in this ‘IT IS A GREAT present a day of music PRESENTED BY SIR JOHN Edward Elgar There is Sweet biennial competition which LOCATION BECAUSE to celebrate the work of TOMLINSON Music Op 53 culminates in a Concerto composer Mark-Anthony Ralph Vaughan Williams The Final on Sat 01 Dec with the WE ARE CLOSE TO The annual Gold Medal Turnage, one of the best Lark Ascending Royal Liverpool Philharmonic THE CITY CENTRE Competition features the known and most prolific Benjamin Britten Hymn to St Orchestra under conductor finest young performers and AND SO CLOSE TO British composers. Events Cecilia Robert Spano. composers at the College, Ralph Vaughan Williams at 10.30am, 12pm and 2pm For full details please see CAMPUS. IT IS with each competing for the Serenade to Music Individual events £5 coveted RNCM Gold Medal in www.rncm.ac.uk/jmipc REALLY NICE TO Daniel Parkinson, Elspeth Day Ticket £10 front of a distinguished Slorach conductors SHARE A FLAT For tickets and further panel from across the SUN 09, SAT 15 DEC For tickets and further WITH PEOPLE WHO information, see music industry. In this // 3pm www.wigmore-hall.org.uk information see HAVE THE SAME concert, Sir John Tomlinson, FRI 07, MON 10, WED 12, President of the RNCM, www.storyhouse.com THU 13 DEC // 7.30pm INTERESTS. I FEEL introduces Charlotte Trepess AT EASE HERE.’ SAT 05 MAY // 9.30pm (soprano), Vykintas Civas SUOR ANGELICA/ // (saxophone) and Samantha WED 27 JUN // 7.30pm Nottingham Royal Concert GIANNI SCHICCHI Ines, RNCM student Hall Clarke (soprano) as they // Storyhouse, Chester perform repertoire from GIACOMO PUCCINI and Sir Charles RNCM NORTHERN Groves Hall resident their Gold Medal programmes. Martin André conductor ARKENSEMBLE The evening also features BALLET SINFONIA Robert Chevara director a world première by winning The ArkEnsemble – the RNCM’s Gabriel Fauré Masques et Puccini’s trio of one- composer, Aled Smith. creative and unconventional Bergamasques Suite Op 112 act operas, Il trittico, wind ensemble directed by For tickets and further Gabriel Fauré Pelléas et highlights the dramatic, Rob Buckland – gives an information, see Mélisande Suite Op 80 tragic and comedic best of Liberty Living is home to approximately after-hours performance www.southbankcentre.co.uk Aaron Copland Clarinet this giant of Italian opera. 23,000 students across nineteen UK cities that combines snapshots of Concerto In December, RNCM Opera will including Manchester where we have five Rossini’s iconic William Rita Blanco, Tjeerd perform two of the operas student residences; including Sir Charles Tell Overture to link a FRI 15 JUN // 1pm Barkmeijer, Rory Storm, from this stunning work. Groves Hall next to the RNCM, Liberty Point programme featuring Mozart, // St Martin-in-the-Fields, Melvin Tay, Peter Woffenden Suor Angelica is a heart- next to Manchester Piccadilly train station Moondog, Steve Martland, London and Daniel Parkinson wrenching tale set in and the 34 storey Liberty Heights in the city Piazzolla and Michael Nyman. PRIMA WIND conductors a convent. It contains centre. We are delighted to sponsor a scheme For tickets and further Antonio Perez-Barrera moments of harrowing to enable all of our Manchester-based students QUINTET clarinet information, see drama and unequalled access to £3 tickets to key www.trch.co.uk redemptive beauty. This Prima Wind Quintet presents For tickets and further RNCM performances throughout 2017/18. a free 45-minute concert information, see will be followed by the featuring works by Barber, www.storyhouse.com scintillatingly devilish For more information on how to book a Arnold and Francaix. comedy of Gianni Schicchi, £3 ticket, Liberty Living students should in which a family of For tickets and further visit www.rncm.ac.uk/libertyliving, contact hypocrites are duped out of information, see the RNCM box office on 0161 907 5555 or speak their inheritance. www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org to their reception team. Tickets on sale now www.rncm.ac.uk/puccini

40 41 Ways to save money at the RNCM There are lots of ways to save money when you visit the RNCM, depending on the frequency of your visits, the size of your party and which benefits are important to you. We’ve outlined a few options below… From the excitement of schoolchildren composing and performing their own opera, to Family Days and the invaluable work of Music for Health in hospitals and care homes, RNCM Engage reaches out to our regional communities and individuals, spreading YOUR DNA’S LEFT Become a member the message that music connects; that it can enrich, comfort, inspire, For £30 a year for individual Members and £50 for joint challenge, channel, educate… whoever ITS MARK ON US. Members. Benefits include: you are. For more information please • Receive news and electronic updates from the RNCM visit www.rncm.ac.uk/engage IT DEFINES WHO • Advanced electronic notice of upcoming performances • Priority booking for selected performances • 15% discount on selected performances Learning and WE ARE TODAY; • £15 opera tickets (one per Member, per opera run). Participation Where the opera production is double-cast, Members The Learning and Participation team will be able to book an additional £15 ticket to see IT INSPIRES WHERE the alternative cast. delivers events including an annual • Save 10% on food purchases in our restaurant Brodsky Children’s Opera Project, Family Days, WE COULD BE our Young Explorers Concert Series For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/members or (see p30) and RNCM Young Company contact our Box Office on0161 907 5555. (see p16), our musical theatre group, TOMORROW – LET’S a low-cost, non-audition group for all young people of TAKE THE JOURNEY secondary school age. In addition the team designs bespoke projects TOGETHER. for a range of community groups. Contact Fiona Stuart on 0161 907 5281 Book a Flexible Series or [email protected] • Save 15% or more on your tickets by creating your own Flexible Series. Just choose the 3+ concerts you would like to attend marked with F S in this brochure. The RNCM Learning and Participation team • The more you book, the more money you save. Book 3-5 concerts and save 15%, book 6-9 is grateful for the support of the Clive concerts and save 20% and book 10+ concerts and save 25%. and Sylvia Richards Charity, Eric and • There are no booking fees for events purchased as part of a Flexible package. Margaret Kinder Charitable Trust, the ARE YOU AN ALUM OF THE Lauriston Trust, the Leverhulme Trust For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/flexi and to book a Flexible Series package contact RNCM, RMCM OR NSM? and the Zochonis Charitable Trust. our Box Office on0161 907 5555. Remaining part of your life after graduation The Sir John Manduell is really important to us. Become a Group Booker Research Forum Series For events that are promoted by the RNCM, we have generous discounts available depending on at the RNCM So whatever you’re doing, wherever in the the size of your group. For example: world, we’d love to hear from you. Our Research Forums are FREE and Groups of 10-29 save 15% Groups of 30-49 save 20% Groups of 50+ save 25% open to the public with no ticket There are lots of ways you can get involved • Group organisers can claim an additional free ticket required; RNCM staff and guest with RNCM Life, to inspire and support the • There are no booking fees on group bookings speakers give presentations on an next generation of students. aspect of their work - whether it’s For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/groups and to make a group booking, contact our musicological, creative, educational, Box Office on0161 907 5555. And you can keep up to date with the latest music-psychological or other kinds Alumni News and Events with our newly-launched For school groups of 10+ we also have a limited number of seats available for events of research. The talks last about 45 magazine, The Northern. promoted by the RNCM. To receive regular updates about school events and special offers visit minutes and then the floor is open for www.rncm.ac.uk/signup questions and discussion. Read more To learn more email [email protected] about these sessions at call 0161 907 5377, or visit our webpages www.rncm.ac.uk/researchforums at www.rncm.ac.uk/alumni Just a quick reminder that concessions are available for events promoted by the RNCM. For more information visit www.rncm.ac.uk/discounts RNCM Historic Instrument And to keep in touch with news about performances at the RNCM and to hear about special offers Collection etc, sign up to receive our events e-newsletter at www.rncm.ac.uk/signup Summer 2018 opening hours at www.rncm.ac.uk/instrumentcollection 42 43 Looking for a Venue or Musicians? Food and Drink at the RNCM

Why not join us at the RNCM for a unique dining experience? Choose from a tasty snack in our Café, a pre-concert bite from the Concert Bar menu, or a three-course meal in our Brodsky Restaurant. Our delicious food is home-cooked and locally-sourced using the freshest ingredients.

The RNCM has a wide The RNCM THEATRE boasts For Conference enquiries selection of excellent one of the largest theatre please contact our purpose-built spaces to stages in Manchester with Conference and Catering hire for every type of ample wing space, orchestra Team on 0161 907 5353 or event, performance or pit, lighting box area and [email protected] The conference. Following a space for a sound desk RNCM also has a number £7.1 million refurbishment in addition to the seated of smaller spaces for project completed in capacity. There are 607 conferences including our November 2014, our largest seats in the Theatre with an 110-seater Carole Nash spaces have now been option to place additional Recital Room and 60-seater revitalised with excellent audience seating over the Conference Room. Brodsky Café back of house facilities orchestra pit, taking the We are open from 11am-4pm Monday to Enjoy a wide range of drinks, snacks and and the latest technical total maximum capacity to Looking for Friday during term time, so come and delicious cakes from our Café. set−up, including a new 657 seats. Musicians? sample our popular lunchtime menu from lighting rig and sound The RNCM’s Professional 12noon. Hospitality at the RNCM equipment. The FORMAN LECTURE THEATRE Engagements team has a 150 capacity and has The RNCM can also provide catering for co-ordinates a large Pre-theatre dining is also available been completely updated social functions, events, and private number of engagements Monday to Saturday from 5pm (on Venues for Hire following the refurbishment dinners. You can even hire Brodsky, our from weddings to corporate performance evenings) with two courses project. It comes equipped Restaurant, outside of term time. The RNCM CONCERT HALL has a events, on behalf of costing just £15.95 and £19.95 for three with projector, screen variety of flexible options music societies, clubs, courses. To avoid disappointment please and is ideal for pre- Please contact our Conference and for your event with layouts companies and individuals. reserve your table in advance by calling concert talks, discussions, Catering Team on 0161 907 5353 or including 445 capacity Contact the Professional 0161 907 5353. presentations and [email protected] for further seating on Level One, 610 Engagements Team on screenings. details. capacity seating with our 0161 907 5352 or Brodsky will be closed for the Easter new Balcony and Oglesby [email protected] vacation from Mon 26 Mar and re-opens For performance enquiries All food items and menus are subject to Balcony open, or even up to for further details. on Mon 16 Apr. please contact our Events availability. Outside of term time and 730 capacity seating with Manager, Paul Cobban on at weekends, opening hours are dependent a reduced stage size for 0161 907 5289 or Concert Bar upon the performance programme. amplified bands and small [email protected] The Concert Bar lite-bite menu is ensembles (NB – please speak or for full venue available from 5pm-7pm (during term time) For full details of menus and opening to our Events Manager for information and technical simply order at the bar. Please note this hours please call 0161 907 5353 or 5252 further details about the specifications please visit menu is not available on Sundays. You can or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/foodanddrink 730 layout). www.rncm.ac.uk/hire also avoid the queues and pre-order your interval drinks prior to the start of the concert. 44 45 area. Please also see Booking Information and Getting Here www.tfgm.com/buspriority to see how your route to the RNCM may have changed as a

result of the city-wide Bus Lower Hall Save Money! Concessions Sonic Manchester Priority Scheme. For more RNCM Concert Hall Upper Hall There are several ways that For events promoted by detailed information and a map Balcony you can save money when you the RNCM, concessions are Sonic Manchester is a free of how to find us please visit Oglesby Balcony visit the RNCM – either as available to under-18s, scheme for students run by www.rncm.ac.uk/visit a group booker or via our students, over 60s and the RNCM, The Bridgewater Platform Seats Flexible Series or our RNCM claimants (in receipt of Hall, BBC Philharmonic Stage Seats Membership scheme. JSA or ESA). For all events and Manchester Camerata. Parking See p42 for details. taking place at the RNCM, It gives students the The RNCM car park is located M1 disabled patrons who require opportunity to buy tickets next to the College in the N1 an essential companion in from as little as £3. basement of the Sir Charles STAGE Booking by phone order to attend, can claim For more information Groves Hall of Residence, off C1 B1 D1 0161 907 5555 up-to-two tickets for the and to sign up for the Rosamond Street West. Open Additional stage seats total value of a single full latest offers, please from 5pm weekday evenings E1 price ticket. For other events visit www.facebook.com/ and 6am-11.30pm at weekends, F1 G1 Booking in person please check with the Box A18 sonicmanchester costing £3.50 (payable on A11 U1 B21 Office on 0161 907 5555 or go B13 T1 or by post foot at the machine any time C24 www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on C15 to after arrival). Closes at D28 Box Office, RNCM, GG1 D17 for more details. Please Email & Mailing E28 11.30pm. Please note that the E16 124 Oxford Road, F28 note proof of concession underground car-park entrance/ F15 Manchester M13 9RD List G29 may be required. For full G14 Sign up to hear more exit is 2.1 metres high and details of concessionary about What’s On at the 2.3 metres wide. Customers H1 H17 tickets please check with I1 I17 Booking Fees RNCM, including the who own larger vehicles the Box Office or visit J1 J17 L27 A booking fee of £1 per latest events, festivals, may wish to consider using K1 K17 www.rncm.ac.uk/discounts ticket applies to most exclusive offers and how alternative car parks in P1 L1 transactions. No booking to support the RNCM at order to reduce the risk of Q1 fee applies to tickets Ticket Exchange www.rncm.ac.uk/mailinglist damage to vehicles. Other car R1 S1 parking options are available P11 bought in person at the Box & Refunds or contact the Box P23 at www.rncm.ac.uk/parking Q10 Q23 Office. For full details on ticket Office for full details. R9 R23 exchanges and our refund To read our privacy Please note, due to recent S23 Payment policy please visit information please visit carriageway changes made by www.rncm.ac.uk/exchanges www.rncm.ac.uk/privacy TfGM, visitors can no longer Payment can be made by exit Rosamond Street at the cash, Mastercard, Visa Please note, refunds are junction with Oxford Road (as or Maestro. only made in the case of a Access it is now one way) and are RNCM Theatre cancelled performance. All public spaces and therefore encouraged to exit facilities are accessible either via Higher Cambridge Enquiries by email STAGE Group Discounts to wheelchair users Street or Higher Chatham [email protected] Street. PIT SEATS Discounts are available for (via lifts). Free parking A5 groups of 10 or more for is also available for Artists and programmes are B5 A11 C4 disabled patrons, reserve correct at the time of going B11 B29 Box Office opening all events promoted by the D4 C11 C29 your space with reception RNCM. For more information to press and we reserve the E4 D11 D29 hours on 0161 907 5300. Please F3 contact the Box Office or right to change artists and/ E11 E29 11am - 6pm visit www.rncm.ac.uk/groups contact the Box Office or programmes without notice G3 F11 F29 H2 Monday to Saturday or visit www.rncm.ac.uk/ if necessary. If you have any G11 G29 J2 (later on performance nights) access for detailed access H11 H29 comments please contact Head K1 J11 J29 Flexible Series information. L1 Sunday 1 hour before of Marketing & Communications, K11 K29 M1 performances Save 15% or more on your RNCM, 124 Oxford Road, L11 L29 N1 (closed on non-performance Sundays) tickets by creating your Manchester M13 9RD. M11 M29 How to find us P1 own flexible series. Simply N11 N29 For full terms and Q Oxford Road station is the P11 P29 choose at least 3 concerts R1 conditions visit www.rncm. Q11 Q29 you’d like to attend closest railway station and Seating Plans ac.uk/whats-on/terms or S2 R11 R29 is a 15 minute walk away. (marked with F S logo). For a more detailed layout T3 contact the Box Office. S11 S24 S29 U2 Go to www.tfgm.com for of our venues please visit T29

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