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perspectives CHELTENHAMARTSCULTURE Cheltenham Arts Council: awards_funding_publicity_events listings Cheltenham MUSIC FESTIVAL PLUS: WILD WORLDS • INTERNATIONAL SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY • Art OFFICE June – September 2016 1-17 July 2016 PERSPECTIVES JUNE /SEPTEMBER 2016 Issue Box Oce 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com CONTENTS #cheltmusicfest Summer Days MUSIC FESTIVAL EDUCATION TEAM 2 Putting together each edition of Perspectives is one of NICK NELSON 4 life’s little pleasures for me. There is so much happening in the arts in Cheltenham that I’m always spoilt for choice! Listings 6 This edition we have an interview with the Music WILD WORLDS 11 Festival’s education team, who are bringing the wonder 4th International Salon of and excellence of this summer’s classical music festival to Photography 12 as wide an audience as possible. CHELTENHAM ART OFFICE 13 We meet Nick Nelson, a teacher at Cheltenham College whose lifelong love of art history, classicism and travel is helping to shape young minds – and create some extraordinary memories for this contemporary Mr Chips. There are previews of this summer’s globe-trotting “Wild Worlds” ceramics exhibition at The Wilson and of the 4th Cheltenham International Salon of Photography. And we hear from the creative entrepreneurs behind 'Welcome', Sanghamitra Sarkar, India FIAP Gold Cheltenham Art Office, a space for working, meeting and WINNER Mono CATEGORY, See page 12 the business of art. Enjoy! Hollie Smith-Charles Do get in touch if you would like to comment or contribute: [email protected] Featuring John Wilson Orchestra: Gershwin in Hollwood Pascal and Ami Rogé Nicola Benedetti Doric String Quartet RIMSKI’S BICYCLE PIANO, PERFORMING AT Howells’ Cello Concerto Melvyn Tan Christian Lindberg CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016 Roland Pöntinen Evelyn Glennie Vasily Petrenko & the RLPO Perspectives is produced three times a year. Fidelio Trio Guy Johnston Mendelssohn Octet Florin Ensemble Cheltenham The next issue will span October 2016-January 2017. Please email your event details to perspectives. Joshua Ellicott & Simon Lepper Fretwork with Simon Callow Arts Council Avi Avital’s Between Worlds Clare Martin: Hollywood Romance [email protected] PERSPECTIVES TEAM Barokksolistene’s Alehouse Sessions Janina Fialkowska EDITOR HOLLIE SMITH-CHARLES Advertising costs from £25 for CAC Members or £30 for non-Members. Please Oz Clarke’s Musical Wine Tour Ex Cathedra James Mayhew LISTINGS Alice Hodsdon TEMPLATE DESIGN Chantal Freeman contact editor@cheltenhamartscouncil .co.uk for more info. Tibetan Monks of Tashi Lhunpo and many more. Submissions (ads and events) must be with us by the END of JULY for consideration COVER THE FRONT COVER SHOWS RIMSKI’S BICYCLE Book now at cheltenhamfestivals.com/music PIANO, JUST ONE OF THE ACTS TAKING PART IN for the next issue. Charity No 251765 CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL’S AROUND TOWN… Illustration by Michelle Thompson ACTIVITY ON 9TH & 10TH JULY. 2 MUSIC MUSIC 3 A BIG NOISE FOR BUDDING MUSICIANS INTERVIEW WITH CHELTENHAM FESTIVALS’ EDUCATION TEAM BY HOLLIE SMITH-CHARLES heltenham Music Festival, which cultural mixture… takes place in July, is busy putting [It gives children C together its biggest and most eclectic and young people] programme of music education yet. extraordinary But we want to do much more, say the opportunities they team behind it. Perspectives met with Ali wouldn’t normally Mawle, Director of Education, and Pip have.” Claridge, Education Manager, to find out about their new programme: Musicate. What they are now adding to ALI MAWLE When Ali Mawle joined Cheltenham this is a year-round Festivals in September 2013, fresh from the programme. Their aim is to put things in National Gallery and its vast resources, motion which have a deeper, more lasting she found a dedicated team with huge impact, to “spread out and share,” says potential for engaging more widely. Ali, “the cultural capital of Cheltenham Ali set about exploring the bigger picture Festivals to everyone… We want to show and instigating a step change in the that [the Festivals] are not just about the Workshops with local music teachers at Cheltenham Music Festival 2015 organisation’s approach: working out what extraordinary acts.” This is true not only of the Music Festival, but across the sister the local and national education needs are development (CPD) for non-specialist – launching in July 2016 and growing Festivals of Jazz, Science and Literature for the arts and science, understanding primary school teachers. Speaking in depth and reach throughout 2017 and too. what Cheltenham Festivals’ unique selling with great passion and enthusiasm, Ali 2018. points are and then trying to match up the Cheltenham Festivals’ unique commented, “we want to make them It’s an ambitious, strategic and deeply two to create some magic: a unique and characteristic is that it gives audiences advocates and ambassadors, to give them thought-out project: “We want to embed cohesive schools and outreach programme access to exceptionally high quality live the skills to listen musically and the it and roll it out beyond Gloucestershire, and a better understanding of the impact music performances that they couldn’t confidence to share it with their pupils.” spreading our purpose nationally.” their work is having on young hearts and normally experience, as well as world- They will work with Birmingham minds. class speakers from the worlds of science When she moved out of London and back Conservatoire, to train students in and literature. The trick is to find ways to her native Gloucestershire, Ali wanted The 2016 Music Festival programme will “music communication”, showing to build on this to support the long-term a job where she could bring the arts to reach twice as many pupils as last year, die-hard music-lovers how to broker development of young people’s skills and as wide an audience as possible and to she says. It’s “high octane, engaging” an appreciation of live music to non- lifelong learning. share Cheltenham’s cultural richness and and a way to give children that “first specialist audiences – from teachers creativity. Last year, her team reached 173 touch” of outstanding classical music. The For the Music Festival in particular, the and students to unsuspecting parents. schools and 18,000 children through the programme is as inspiring as it is mind- big idea is “Musicate”, their new schools As with all Festivals’ education projects, Festivals’ education work. But it sounds blowing. They have open rehearsals with and outreach programme which will see the work in schools will be book-ended like that is just the start. renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie the team working with 27 schools across with attendance at those extraordinary and trombonist Christian Lindberg for Gloucestershire over three years. The aim performances at each summer’s Festival GCSE and A Level students; a Concert is to arm children with the tools they need For Schools series; workshops on music, to enjoy all types of music and therefore to Cheltenham Festivals’ education programme is for everyone: schools, families, culture and religion with Tibetan Monks; engage them in the arts. practitioners – even businesses – can all take part in different ways. and a masterclass with superstar violinist If you would like to find out more, please contact education@cheltenhamfestivals. Nicola Benedetti for talented young Teachers, of course, are the gatekeepers to com or visit www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/education string players from Gloucestershire and much of this understanding, so the project Worcestershire. It is, says Pip, “a very rich has at its heart continuing professional perspectives CHELTENHAM ARTS COUNCIL.CO.UK 4 ART ART 5 INTELLECTUAL WINDSURFING AND THE HISTORY OF ART home; taking a rather precious German princess, replete NICK NELSON OF ARCADIA EDUCATION REFLECTS ON TWENTY with bodyguard ‘heavy’, into YEARS SPENT ENDEAVOURING TO INSPIRE YOUNG MINDS a controversial exhibition of Mapplethorpe’s homo-erotic ick Nelson of Arcadia Education, photographs at London’s a company specialising in History National Portrait Gallery; but N of Art, reflects on twenty years of most of all, having to view via teaching at Cheltenham College CCTV a student knocking a large and always endeavouring to inspire young chunk of paint off a Pollock in minds. the Guggenheim, Venice – by accident, I hasten to add. An Teaching at a major public school interesting conversation with is a great experience. I inherited my the College’s Bursar inevitably passion for teaching from my father, a ensued! hugely committed Director of Music at Marlborough College (my alma mater) In tutoring students in Art and other schools. At Cheltenham College, History, one surprising, but we all, collectively, strive to nurture essential discipline is public individuality and creativity, and to teach speaking. Rhetoric is almost a prerequisite art form in the pupils critical thinking, encouraging them NICK NELSON to see both sides of an argument. Manners eyes of employers these days; are important to us, and our collective confident presentation skills aim is to shape the whole child and foster In teaching Art History, much depends instil a sense of belief in the employee. Thus, students are the chief tenets of trust, respect, fairness upon an individual’s subjectivity in the Boston, Washington, Paris and Italy have encouraged to participate in national and forgiveness in our charges. These, I appreciation of aesthetics. It largely provided great stimulus for pupils over competitions, such as the ARTiculation feel, are the building blocks for life, even consists of a series of opinions and the years; at best, culminating in a private Competition organised by Roche Court in in today’s rapidly advancing and multi- judgements, so having a ‘voice’ as a viewing of Monet’s restored Water Lily Wiltshire. cultural environment. teenager is key – the ‘teacher monologue’ series in the Tuileries; at worst, having to While History of Art remains my (aka ‘chalk and talk’) is no longer Equally important is the exposure to take responsibility for breaking a window specialism, it is a subject that is inherently appropriate in today’s media-spun society.