BRITISH CHORAL CLASSICS Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Sunday 1 August 2021, 3pm

Simon Halsey – Conductor Julian Wilkins – Organ CBSO Chorus

Handel Zadok The Priest 5’ Bainton And I Saw a New Heaven 5’ Wallen Peace on Earth 3’ Price Air and Toccato, from Suite No.1 for Organ 5’ Weir My Guardian Angel 2’ OUR CAMPAIGN FOR MUSICAL Ireland Greater Love Hath No Man 6’ LIFE IN THE WEST MIDLANDS Coleridge-Taylor Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 7’ These socially-distanced concerts have Leighton Ite, Missa Est, from Missa de Gloria, Op.82 5’ been made possible by funding from Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund, Balfour Gardiner Evening Hymn 6’ plus generous support from thousands of Parry I Was Glad 6’ individuals, charitable trusts and companies through The Sound of the Future fundraising campaign. It’s time to sing! There’s no more glorious sound than a great chorus raising its voice in joyful celebration, and it feels like a lifetime since our By supporting our campaign, you will play world-class CBSO Chorus last sang for you in Symphony Hall. Well, they’re your part in helping the orchestra to recover back: reunited for the first time in 17 months, as Simon Halsey conducts a from the pandemic as well as renewing the concert spanning four centuries of British music in all its pageantry, poetry way we work in our second century. Plus, and roof-raising splendour. Be there, and feel the thrill. They will be joined all new memberships are currently being matched pound for pound by a generous by organist Julian Wilkins who will also give a solo performance of Florence member of the CBSO’s campaign board. Price’s Air and Toccato from Suite No.1 for Organ. Support your CBSO at cbso.co.uk/future

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“And all the people rejoiced!” Nothing tops the sound of Organ music doesn’t only belong in church, either. Florence Price choral music when you’re in a mood to celebrate – and the grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas at the turn of the century, but re-union of our Chorus with you, our audience, after too when she headed north to Boston to study music, she passed many months of anxiety and silence, is definitely a cause herself off as a Mexican. It simply made life easier to pretend that for celebration. she wasn’t what she was: an African-American, and one of the most extraordinary (and original) of 20th-century American composers. An outstanding organist and pianist, she later moved For the coronation of King George II on 11 October 1727 Handel to Chicago – where she played the organ in churches and was commissioned to write four new Coronation Anthems, and cinemas across the city. She was a brilliant improviser and her rumours were soon circulating. The rehearsals were kept secret, Suite No.1 for Organ (1942) probably began as an improvisation to prevent them from being mobbed by crowds of fans. before taking its final form, with this haunting Air and the brilliant Toccata as its last two movements. You can’t really blame Handel for wanting to guard his big surprise. Imagine the impact of hearing this music for the first time! For the Judith Weir needs no introduction from us – the current Master of solemn anointing of the King, Handel begins with an orchestral the Queen’s Music is an old friend of the CBSO, and was our build-up like nothing that had been heard before. It’s still one of Composer in Association in the late 1990s. She composed this the most thrilling evocations of mounting excitement in all music, carol in 1997, and like Errollyn Wallen’s Peace on Earth, its and Zadok the Priest has been performed at every coronation seasonal message can apply to any time of year. As she explains: since. Naturally, it ends with general rejoicing: “Alleluia, Amen!” “My Guardian Angel is a carol, which celebrates the increased No-one does Alleluias quite like Handel. incidence of public appearances by angels at Christmas time. It is Still, you don’t always need fanfares to make an impact. Edgar a setting of short text by William Blake. The music of the carol is Bainton was an old boy of King Henry VIII School in Coventry, and based around a short alleluia; which may be performed by the his life was eventful – he spent the Great War in a German prison audience, whilst the choir weaves some 4-part counterpart camp. He wrote three symphonies, and founded the Sydney around it.” Symphony Orchestra. But in one short choral anthem, composed in 1928, he found a still, small voice of calm that continues to touch the hearts of church choirs and their congregations around the Anglican world. And I Saw A New Heaven finds deep comfort, rather than terror, in the Book of Revelation; this is music that speaks to listeners of all faiths, and none. Just as Errollyn Wallen’s carol Peace on Earth (2006) belongs both to Christmas, and to all times of year. “I was just improvising at the piano, and the music popped out”, she says. The words – her own – came later. And although they’re decidedly wintry, their message will appeal to anyone who’s come through a time of trial (whether a summer heatwave or something more malign) to a place of tranquillity and renewed hope.

2 The right combination of words and music has a way of finding its Gardiner’s much-loved Evening Hymn, a true evensong classic, own time and place. The anthem Greater Love by the Cheshire- composed in 1908 for the choir of Winchester College. Balfour born composer John Ireland dates from 1912, but it’s often Gardiner’s great-nephew John Eliot maintains the family’s musical assumed to be a response to the First World War – becoming tradition today. something of a fixture on Remembrance Sunday. The quiet But we’re not going softly into the night: we’re ending, as we dignity and swelling emotion of the music probably has started, with a great shout of choral joy – one of those pieces something to do with that; as has Ireland’s poignant choice of around which the whole nation celebrates. “I Was Glad when words. Like And I Saw A New Heaven, it’s long transcended its they said unto me: We will go into the house of the Lord” – and roots. as C Hubert Parry lifts his choir’s voices to the heavens, it’s hard That same year, 1912, saw the premature death of one of not to feel….well, what, exactly? This great anthem, created in Ireland’s most brilliant fellow-students at the Royal College of 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII and performed (with Music. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor had been born in Holborn, the Zadok The Priest) at every coronation since, somehow manages son of a farrier’s daughter and a medical student from Sierra to mingle pride, hope, nostalgia, tenderness and grandeur in a Leone. If the mixed-race, illegitimate Coleridge-Taylor experienced single soul-stirring arc of song. Music, in other words, that prejudice on the streets of Victorian London, his early talent as a transcends time and place even as it speaks straight to the heart, musician won him welcome and acclaim at the RCM. now and for always. “Indisputable!” scribbled his (and Ireland’s) teacher, Charles Villiers Stanford under the column headed “Progress” on his 1895 term report. Coleridge-Taylor’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F Programme note © Richard Bratby set two central elements of an Anglican evensong to music that glows – and leaps – with imagination and life. But then, the Anglican choral tradition is nothing if not a broad church: capable of embracing composers as diverse as the mixed-race Coleridge-Taylor, the modernist Yorkshireman Kenneth Leighton and the public schoolboy (and eventual Dorset pig-farmer) Henry Balfour Gardiner. Ite, Missa Est, the thunderous organ postlude of Leighton’s Missa di Gloria (written for Dubin Cathredral in 1980) ends (in Leighton’s own words) with “a massive acclamation”. It is bracingly different from the whispered warmth and lush, consoling harmonies of Balfour

3 THE PERFORMERS

Simon Halsey cbe

Conductor

He is also a highly respected teacher and academic, nurturing the next generation of choral conductors on his post-graduate course in Birmingham and through masterclasses at Princeton, Yale and elsewhere. He holds four honorary doctorates from universities in the UK, and in 2011 Schott Music published his book and DVD on choral conducting, Chorleitung: Vom Konzept zum Konzert.

Halsey has worked on nearly 80 recording projects, many of which have won major awards, including the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Echo Klassik, and three Grammy Awards with the Rundfunkchor Berlin. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2015, was awarded The Queen’s Medal for Music in 2014, and received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to choral music in Germany.

Born in London, Simon Halsey sang in the choirs of New College, Oxford, and of King’s College, Cambridge. and studied conducting at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1987, he founded with Graham Vick the City of Birmingham Touring Opera. He was Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Choir from 1997 to 2008 and Principal Conductor of the Northern Sinfonia’s Choral Programme Simon Halsey occupies a unique position in classical music. He is the from 2004 to 2012. From 2001-2015 he led the Rundfunkchor trusted advisor on choral singing to the world’s greatest conductors, Berlin (of which he is now Conductor Laureate); under his leadership orchestras and choruses, and also an inspirational teacher and the chorus gained a reputation internationally as one of the finest ambassador for choral singing to amateurs of every age, ability professional choral ensembles. Halsey has also initiated innovative and background. Making singing a central part of the world-class projects in unconventional venues and interdisciplinary formats.  institutions with which he is associated, he has been instrumental in changing the level of symphonic singing across Europe.

He holds positions across the UK and Europe as Choral Director of London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Chorus Director of the CBSO Chorus, Artistic Director of Orfeó Català Choirs and Artistic Adviser of Palau de la Música, Barcelona, Artistic Director of Berliner Philharmoniker Youth Choral Programme, Creative Director for Choral Music and Projects of WDR Rundfunkchor, Director of BBC Proms Youth Choir, Conductor Laureate of Rundfunkchor Berlin and Professor and Director of Choral Activities at University of Birmingham.

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Julian Wilkins Organ

Julian is Associate Conductor of the CBSO Chorus, working with Simon Halsey to prepare them for conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Edward Gardner, Sakari Oramo, Oliver Knussen, Martyn Brabbins, Olari Elts, Gianandrea Noseda, James MacMillan, John Storgårds, Jac van Steen, Valery Gergiev, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Mark Elder. He is Conductor of CBSO Youth Chorus and Music Director of Cambridge Chorale, University of Birmingham Chorus, and Phoenix – a Cambridgeshire-based SATB youth choir, mixed-voice training choir, primary school singing network and early years’ singing programme.

As a respected teacher, mentor and choral consultant he teaches at the University of Birmingham for both Undergraduate and Postgraduate pathways in Choral Conducting, is a member of the teaching panel for the ABCD National Conducting Courses, and is Vocal Coach and Guest Conductor for the City of Birmingham Choir directed by Adrian Lucas. He has co-directed the Art of Choral Direction course at Sherborne Summer School of Music with David Lawrence, and the Sintra International Singing and Choral Conducting Course in Portugal with Ghislaine Morgan.

Julian is in demand as a guest conductor, recitalist, accompanist and choral workshop leader, popular with musicians and audiences Julian Wilkins is a versatile, dynamic and inspiring conductor, organist of all ages. He has adjudicated for the BBC Young Musician and pianist, working throughout the UK and overseas with prestigious competition, the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the City of Derry musical organisations including the CBSO and Choruses, Hallé Choir, International Choral Festival, and at a number of regional music Brandenburg Sinfonia and Baroque Soloists, East Anglia Chamber competitions and festivals.  Orchestra, Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD), Association of Irish Choirs, BBC Proms Youth Choir, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and Sing Up – the Music Manifesto’s National Singing Programme.

Educated at Wells Cathedral School as a chorister and specialist musician, and at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge as an organ scholar, Julian has performed in many of the world’s cathedrals and leading concert venues as conductor, soloist and accompanist. He has appeared on BBC and independent television and radio, and on Peter Gabriel’s ground-breaking and GRAMMY-winning soundtrack for Martin Scorsese’s filmThe Last Temptation of Christ.

5 CBSO CHORUS

Simon Halsey cbe – Chorus Director Julian Wilkins – Associate Chorus Director

The Chorus has been at the centre of the CBSO story throughout: singing at the official opening of Symphony Hall in 1991, at Rattle’s final concert in Birmingham in 1998, and giving centenary performances of all three of Elgar’s great choral works: The Dream of Gerontius, The Apostles and The Kingdom under Sakari Oramo. It gave the 40th anniversary performance of Britten’s War Requiem at Coventry Cathedral in 2002, and returned in 2012 to give the 50th anniversary performance under Andris Nelsons – an occasion that was broadcast live to 17 countries. As versatile as it is virtuosic, the CBSO Chorus regularly takes part in the CBSO’s concert performances of operas – ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan to Wagner, Puccini and Richard Strauss. And of course, every year it leads Birmingham’s Christmas celebrations, when Simon Halsey conducts the CBSO’s annual carol concerts.

The CBSO Chorus is in demand far beyond Birmingham. It has sung and toured with some of the greatest orchestras in the world, including the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra, and has built a special relationship with the BBC Philharmonic. The Chorus is a regular guest at the BBC Proms, and has toured to The CBSO Chorus is one of the world’s great choirs – Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, where in 2000 it sang in 180 people from all walks of life who come together to sing Mahler’s Eighth Symphony for the opening concert of XXVII Olympic symphonic choral music. Trained for over 30 years by Simon Games in Sydney. In 2015, it made its first appearance in Mexico. As Halsey cbe, its main role is to perform with the City of well as performing in Birmingham and around the world, the Chorus Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on tour and at its home, has made over 50 recordings, winning four Gramophone awards, as Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. But it’s also an ensemble with well as numerous other international accolades. a global reputation in its own right, a hard-working team of “amateur professionals” who give up their own time to All this has been achieved by amateur singers from Birmingham perform the most challenging works in the choral repertoire and the Midlands, aged from 18 years old, whose day-jobs range to the highest international standard. from students to nurses, teachers and engineers. The entry requirements are demanding, and with weekly rehearsals and The Chorus was founded in 1973 at the instigation of the CBSOʼs up to 30 performances a year, the commitment is huge. But music director Louis Frémaux, and gave its first concert – a members of the CBSO Chorus are repaid with a lively social life performance of Berliozʼs The Damnation of Faust – in January 1974. and the unforgettable experience of singing great music to the In 1983, Simon Halsey became Chorus Master, forming a close highest standard with some of the world’s finest conductors, musical partnership with the CBSO’s then Music Director Simon orchestras and soloists.  Rattle and beginning an enduring relationship with the Chorus which would see it travel the world with the CBSO and perform works ranging from Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony and Janačék’s Glagolitic Mass to Henze’s The Raft of the Medusa and John Adams’ Harmonium.

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7 THANK YOU The Sound of the Future is a £12.5m fundraising campaign – launched to mark the CBSO’s centenary – which will ensure the orchestra’s recovery from the pandemic and redefi ne its future for the benefi t of everyone across Birmingham and the West Midlands.

EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORTERS MAJOR DONORS MEMBERS Patrick and Tricia McDermott The following individuals, trusts We are grateful to the following Over 1,500 members contribute (*Helen Edgar and Rachael and companies have nurtured the supporters for their major gift s annually to ensure the orchestra’s Pankhurst) CBSO’s world-class excellence and this year and over the life of our vital work both on and oﬀ the Carole McKeown and David Low broad community reach by Sound of the Future campaign. concert platform can happen. (*Miguel Fernandes) oﬀ ering exceptional philanthropic Thank you to each and every one Carol Miller support to the CBSO and the CBSO £250,000+ of you. Frank North (*Kate Suthers) Development Trust’s private John Osborn (*Gabriel Dyker) Angela O’Farrell and Michael Lynes endowment fund over time, either David and Sandra Burbidge (*Toby Kearney) by making major gift s, by leaving a Clive and Sylvia Richards Charity John Osborn (*Gabriel Dyker) legacy or through sustained BENEFACTORS (£10,000+) Dianne Page (*Catherine Arlidge MBE) (Principal Supporter of the CBSO’s Lady Alexander of Weedon annual giving. work with young people) Gerard Paris (*Amy Marshall) Viv and Hazel Astling (*Graham Sibley) Simon and Margaret Payton Felonious Mongoose in memory of (*Julian Atkinson) City of Birmingham Orchestral £100,000+ Endowment Fund Dolores (*Richard Blake) Robert Perkin Alison and Jamie Justham Rachel Baker Memorial Charity Graham Russell and Gloria Bates (*David Vines) The late Roy Collins (*Ruth Lawrence) Barry and Frances Kirkham SYMPHONY CIRCLE (£5,000+) Dunard Fund Gillian Shaw Chris and Jane Loughran John Cole and Jennie Howe John Osborn CBE Eleanor Sinton (*Adrian Spillett) (*Jonathan Martindale) (*Peter Campbell-Kelly) Garfi eld Weston Foundation Mr D P Spencer (*Oliver Janes) Gill and Jonathan Evans Barclays (*Charlotte Skinner) Lesley Thomson (*Jessica Tickle) The late Miss G Brant £50,000+ Basil and Patricia Turner Peter How Stephen and Stephanie Goldstein David and Sandra Burbidge The Charlotte Heber-Percy (*Marie-Christine Zupancic) John Ellerman Foundation Maurice Millward (*Chris Yates) Howard and Judy Vero (*Richard Watkin) Jerry Sykes in support of keynote Charitable Trust Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Len Hughes and Jacquie Blake Michael Ward The John Feeney Charitable Trust concert programming Diana and Peter Wardley (*Oliver Janes) (*Catherine Ardagh-Walter) (*Anthony Alcock) Charles Henry Foyle Trust Sue and Graeme Sloan Robert Wilson (*Emmet Byrne) The JABBS Foundation John Yelland OBE and Anna Alison and Jamie Justham £25,000+ and our other anonymous supporters. (*Catherine Bower) Barry and Frances Kirkham Sir Dominic and Lady Cadbury and our other anonymous supporters. Maurice Millward Clive and Sylvia Richards Charity CONCERTO CIRCLE (£2,500+) The Barwell Charitable Trust (Principal Supporter of the CBSO’s The following players are supported by Allan and Jennifer Buckle work with young people) anonymous members of the (*Jonathan Holland) Jerry Sykes Overture, Concerto and Symphony Mrs Jayne Cadbury The late Mr P S Day Circles, to whom we are very grateful: Jill S Cadbury (*Julia Åberg) Deutsche Bank Mark Goodchild Isabel, Peter and Christopher in loving The late Elnora Ferguson Joanna Patton memory of Ernest Churcher The late Mrs Marjorie Hildreth Mark Phillips (*Elspeth Dutch) Peter How Adam Römer Charlie and Louise Craddock The Helen Rachael Mackaness Katherine Thomas Charitable Trust (*Kirsty Lovie) The late Blyth and Myriam Major Mike and Tina Detheridge Mrs Thelma Justham (*Andrew Herbert) OVERTURE CIRCLE (£1,000+) The late Mr John Thomas Knight The ENT Clinic Mike and Jan Adams (*Eduardo The Leverhulme Trust Duncan Fielden and Jan Smaczny Vassallo) The LJC Fund (*Matthew Hardy) Katherine Aldridge in memory of Chris Chris and Jane Loughran David Gregory (*Stefano Mengoli) Michael Allen in memory of Yvonne The late Martin Purdy David Handford (*David Powell) Roger and Angela Allen The late Norman Thomas The Andrew Harris Charitable Trust Miss J L Arthur (*Julian Walters) The late Sheri and Mrs Janet Tullah Cliff Hubbold Kiaran Asthana The Roger and Douglas Turner David Knibb in memory of Lorraine Mr M K Ayers Charitable Trust (*Jon Quirk) John Bartlett and Sheila Beesley Valerie Lester (*Jacqueline Tyler MBE) (*Mark O’Brien) Wolfson Foundation Paddy and Wendy Martin Michael Bates (*David BaMaung) Tim and Margaret Blackmore

8 Christine and Neil Bonsall GOLD PATRONS Richard Newton Dr J Dilkes and Mr K A Chipping Mrs Jennifer Brooks in memory of David (£650+ per year) Mrs A J Offi cer and family (*Julia Åberg) Peter and Jane Baxter Liz and Keith Parkes Brian and Mary Dixon Helen Chamberlain in memory of Allan Mike Bowden Mr R Perkins and Miss F Hughes Terry Dougan and Christina Lomas Chamberlain (*Sally Morgan) Lady Cadbury Dr and Mrs Plewes Mr and Mrs C J Draysey Gay and Trevor Clarke Mr C J M Carrier The Revd. Richard and Mrs Gill Postill John Drury (*Bryony Morrison) Christine and John Carroll Kath and Mike Poulter Catherine Duke Dr Anthony Cook and Ms Susan Elias Tim Cherry Eileen Poxton in memory of Naomi and David Dyker Ann Copsey Tim Clarke and family Reg Poxton Chris Eckersley John Cunningham-Dexter Professor and Mrs M H Cullen Dr and Mrs R C Repp Linda and William Edmondson Julian and Lizzie Davey Roger and Liz Dancey Ray Smith Alex and Fran Elder Anita Davies (*Jeremy Bushell) Robin and Kathy Daniels Sheila and Ian Sonley Robert van Elst Tony Davis and Darin Qualls John and Sue Del Mar Andy Street Miss E W Evans Jenny Dawson Professor Sir David Eastwood John and Dorothy Tesh Dr D W Eyre-Walker Dr Judith Dewsbury in memory of Tony Mr G L and Mrs D Evans Professor and Mrs J A Vale Jill Follett and John Harris (*Kate Setterfi eld) Geoff and Dorothy Fearnehough William and Janet Vincent Chris Fonteyn MBE Alan Faulkner Nicola Fleet-Milne Tony and Hilary Vines Jack and Kathleen Foxall Elisabeth Fisher (*Colette Overdijk) Susan and John Franklin Peter Walling Susan and John Franklin Wally Francis Mr R Furlong and Ms M Penlington Julie and Simon Ward Agustín Garcia-Sanz J Godwin Averil Green in memory of Terry Green Stephen Williams Alan and Christine Giles Anita and Wyn Griffi ths Dr M Kershaw John and Daphne Wilson Professor J E Gilkison and Mary and Tony Hale Miss C Midgley Geoff and Moira Wyatt Prof T Hocking Tony and Shirley Hall Nigel and Sarah Moores Paul C Wynn Stephen J Gill Keith and Mavis Hughes Andrew and Linda Murray R and J Godfrey Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Magdi and Daisy Obeid and our other anonymous supporters. Jill Godsall Basil Jackson Chris and Eve Parker Laura Greenaway in memory of In memory of Harry and Rose Jacobi Phillipa and Laurence Parkes David Richards Mr Michael and Mrs Elaine Jones Chris and Sue Payne PATRONS (£250+ per year) Paul Hadley John Jordan Professor and Mrs A Rickinson Mrs Thérèse Allibon Roger and Gaye Hadley Mrs T Justham in memory of David Canon Dr Terry Slater David and Lesley Arkell Nigel and Lesley Hagger-Vaughan (*Michael Seal, Associate Conductor) Dr Barry and Mrs Marian Smith Val and Graham Bache Miss A R Haigh John and Jenny Kendall Pam Snell Leon and Valda Bailey Mr W L Hales John and Lisa Kent (*Veronika Klírová) Ian and Ann Standing Andrew Barnell Malcolm Harbour Charles and Tessa King-Farlow Rimma Sushanskaya Mr P and Mrs S Barnes Ian Hartland Beresford King-Smith in memory of Janet and Michael Taplin Mr and Mrs Barnfi eld Phil Haywood in memory of Ann Kate (*Heather Bradshaw) Roger and Jan Thornhill Di Bass Keith R Herbert Jane Lewis Bryan and Virginia Turner Paul Beckwith Keith Herbert and Pat Gregory Richard Lewis Roy Walton Mr I L Bednall Hanne Hoeck and John Rawnsley James and Anthea Lloyd Revd T and Mrs S Ward Gareth Beedie Susan Holmes in memory of Peter Tim Marshall (*Nikolaj Henriques) David Wright and Rachel Parkins Peter and Gill Bertinat Valerie and David Howitt David R Mayes OBE Philip and Frances Betts Penny Hughes and our other anonymous supporters. Philip Mills Mrs Ann Billen David Hutchinson Paul and Elaine Murray Michael and Beryl Blood Henry and Liz Ibberson Ian C Norton Bridget Blow CBE Mr R M E and Mrs V Irving Andrew Orchard and Alan Jones SILVER PATRONS Anthony and Jenni Bradbury Ken and Chris Jones Roger and Jenny Otto in memory (£450+ per year) Dr Jane Flint Bridgewater Mr M N Jordan of Juliet Mr and Mrs S V Barber and Mr Kenneth Bridgewater Paul Juler Rob Page Richard Allen and Gail Barron Mr Arthur Brooker Mrs P Keane Sir Michael and Lady Joan Perry Mr P G Battye M. L. Brown Mr and Mrs R Kirby Dr John Peterson Paul Bond Ann Bruton Mr A D Kirkby Julie and Tony Phillips (*Elizabeth Fryer) Professor Lalage Bown Mr and Mrs J H Bulmer Professor and Mrs R J Knecht Rosalyn and Philip Phillips Roger and Lesley Cadbury Mr G H and Mrs J M Butler Bill Lane Clive and Cynthia Prior Mr A D and Mrs M Campbell Benedict and Katharine Cadbury Brian Langton Ian Richards Sue Clodd and Mike Griffi ths Jeannie Cadman Mrs D Larkam Peter and Shirley Robinson David and Marian Crawford-Clarke Elizabeth Ceredig Jennie Lawrence in memory of Philip Mr A M and Mrs R J Smith Mrs A P Crockson Carole and Richard Chillcott Emmanuel Lebaut Mark and Amanda Smith Dr. Margaret Davis and Dr. John Davis Dr J and Mrs S Chitnis M. E. Ling Pam and Alistair Smith Mark Devin Peter and Jane Christopher Mr J F and Mrs M J Lloyd William Smith Alistair Dow Ann Clayden and Terry Thorpe Professor David London Colin Squire OBE Jane Fielding and Benedict Coleman Dr A J Cochran Geoff and Jean Mann Mr M and Mrs S A Squires Mrs D R Greenhalgh Dee and Paul Cocking Geoff and Jenny Mason Brenda Sumner John Gregory in memory of Janet Mrs S M Coote in memory of John Neil Maybury Tenors of the CBSO Chorus Cliff Haresign D and M Coppage Mr A A McLintock (*Joanna Patton) Mr and Mrs G Jones Luned Corser Patro Mobsby Alan Titchmarsh MBE Bob and Elizabeth Keevil Mr Richard and Mrs Hilary Crosby Norah Morton (*Matthew Hardy) Rodney and Alyson Kettel Maurice and Ann Crutchlow Geoff Mullett Mr R J and Mrs M Walls Rebecca King in loving memory of Ian Judith Cutler and Keith Miles P J and H I B Mulligan Mr E M Worley CBE and Mrs A Worley DL Mr Peter T Marsh Stephen and Hilary Daly Mrs M M Nairn Mike and Jane Yeomans in memory of James and Meg Martineau Sue Dalley and Martin Willis Richard and Shirley Newby Jack Field (*Michael Jenkinson) Peter and Julia Maskell Robert and Barbara Darlaston Richard Newton and Katharine Francis Richard and Emma Yorke Dr and Mrs Bernard Mason Wilf Davey Brian Noake and our other anonymous supporters. Carmel and Anthony Mason Trevor Davis Ms E Norton OBE Anthony and Barbara Newson Kath Deakin In memory of Jack and Pam Nunn

9 Marie and John O’Brien Ann Warne The late Roy Collins ENDOWMENT DONORS Mr and Mrs R T Orme Neil Warren David in memory of Ruth Pauline Holland We are grateful to all those who S J Osborne Mrs M L Webb Tony Davis and Darin Qualls have given to the CBSO Nigel Packer Elisabeth and Keith Wellings The late Mr Peter S. Day Development Trust’s private Rod Parker and Lesley Biddle Mr and Mrs J West Mark Devin endowment fund, thus enabling Graham and Bobbie Perry Roger and Sue Whitehouse Alistair Dow the orchestra to become more David and Julia Powell Mr William and Mrs Rosemary Whiting The late Mary Fellows self-suﬃ cient for the long term. Gill Powell and John Rowlatt Pippa Whittaker Felonious Mongoose Mike and Jan Adams C Predota John and Pippa Wickson Valerie Frankland Arts for All Roger Preston Richard and Mary Williams Jill Godsall Viv and Hazel Astling Eileen and Ken Price Barry and Judith Williamson The late Colin Graham The Barwell Charitable Trust Richard and Lynda Price John Winterbottom David and Lesley Harrington In memory of Foley L Bates John Randall Ian Woollard Tricia Harvey Bridget Blow CBE Dr and Mrs K Randle The late Mrs Marjorie Hildreth Deloitte and our other anonymous supporters Katy and David Ricks Mr Trevor and Mrs Linda Ingram Miss Margery Elliott and our Friends. Peter and Pauline Roe Robin and Dee Johnson Simon Fairclough David and Jayne Roper Alan Jones and Andrew Orchard Sir Dexter Hutt Jane and Peter Rowe Ms Lou Jones Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Helen Rowett and David Pelteret DONORS The late William Jones The Justham Trust Christopher and Marion Rowlatt Thank you to those who have The late Mr John Thomas Knight Mrs Thelma Justham Dr Gwynneth Roy chosen to make a gift to the Peter Macklin Barry and Frances Kirkham Vic and Anne Russell CBSO this year. The late Mr and Mrs F. McDermott and Chris and Jane Loughran Mrs L J Sadler Katherine Aldridge Mrs C. Hall Linda Maguire-Brookshaw Carole and Chris Sallnow Baltimore Friends of the CBSO The late Myriam Josephine Major Mazars Charitable Trust Stephen Saltaire Professor Dame Sandra Dawson The late Joyce Middleton Andrew Orchard and Alan Jones William and Eileen Saunders Peter Graham Philip Mills John Osborn Margaret and Andrew Sherrey Chris Morley The late Peter and Moyra Monahan Margaret Payton Dr and Mrs Shrank Members of the Newport Music Coach The late Arthur Mould Roger Pemberton and Monica Pirotta Keith Shuttleworth The late June North David Pett Elizabeth Simons and our other anonymous donors. Stephen Osborne Pinsent Masons Mr N R Skelding Gill Powell Martin Purdy Ed Smith The late Mrs Edith Roberts Peter and Sally-Ann Sinclair Mary Smith and Brian Gardner LEGACY DONORS Philip Rothenberg Jerry Sykes in memory of John and Jen We’re incredibly grateful to the The late Mr Andrew Roulstone Alessandro and Monica Toso Ray Smith following individuals who have The late Thomas Edward Scott Patrick Verwer Matthew Somerville and Deborah Kerr chosen to remember the CBSO in Mrs C E Smith and Mr William Smith R C and F M Young Trust Lyn Stephenson their will, passing on the baton for Pam Snell Robin and Carol Stephenson music-lovers of the future. The late Mrs Sylvia Stirman * Player supporter Anne Stock In memory of Chris Aldridge The late Mrs Eileen Summers Mr and Mrs J B Stuffi ns In memory of Peter Ashton Miss K V Swift J E Sutton The late Terence Baum John Taylor Barbara Taylor in memory of The late Elizabeth Bathurst Blencowe Mr D M and Mrs J G Thorne Credits correct as of 27 July 2021 Michael Taylor The late Mr Peter Walter Black John Vickers John and Anne Turney Philip Bowden Mrs Angela and Mr John Watts Mrs J H Upward Allan and Jennifer Buckle Philip Wilson Clive Kerridge and Suzan van Helvert The late Miss Sheila Margaret Burgess Alan Woodfi eld Bob and Louise Vivian Smith and our other anonymous donors. Stephen Vokes and Erica Barnett Isabel Churcher Tim and Wendy Wadsworth The late Colin W Clarke Kit Ward Mr and Mrs P Cocking

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10 The support we receive from thousands of individual donors, public funders, THANK YOU businesses and private foundations allows us to present extraordinary performances and to create exciting activities in schools and communities. Your support makes such a diﬀ erence and is much appreciated.

Public Funders Corporate Partners

Supporter of Schoolsʼ Concerts

Education Partners William King Ltd

Partners in Orchestral Development Trusts and Foundations 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust The JABBS Foundation ABO Trust’s Sirens Programme Lillie Johnson Charitable Trust Miss Albright Grimley Charity The Kobler Trust The Andor Charitable Trust James Langley Memorial Trust The Lord Austin Trust The Leverhulme Trust The John Avins Trust LG Harris Trust Backstage Trust LJC Fund The Rachel Baker Memorial Charity Limoges Charitable Trust Bite Size Pieces The S & D Lloyd Charity The Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Helen Rachael Mackaness Charitable Trust British Korean Society The MacRobert Trust The Charles Brotherton Trust The McLay Dementia Trust In-kind supporters The Edward & Dorothy Cadbury Trust The James Frederick & Ethel Anne Measures Charity Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust The Anthony and Elizabeth Mellows Charitable Trust The George Cadbury Fund MFPA Trust Fund for the Training of Handicapped The R V J Cadbury Charitable Trust Children in the Arts CBSO Development Trust Millichope Foundation City of Birmingham Orchestral Endowment Fund The David Morgan Music Trust The John S Cohen Foundation The Oakley Charitable Trust The Cole Charitable Trust The Patrick Trust The George Henry Collins Charity The Misses C M Pearson & M V Williams The Concertina Charitable Trust Charitable Trust Baron Davenport’s Charity Perry Family Charitable Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust The Bernard Piggott Charitable Trust Dunard Fund PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for Organisations Globeflow The W E Dunn Trust The Radcliffe Trust The W.G. Edwards Charitable Foundation The Rainbow Dickinson Trust John Ellerman Foundation The Ratcliff Foundation The Eveson Charitable Trust Clive & Sylvia Richards Charity The John Feeney Charitable Trust Rix-Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation George Fentham Birmingham Charity The M K Rose Charitable Trust Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement The Rowlands Trust Fidelio Charitable Trust RVW Trust The Garrick Charitable Trust The Saintbury Trust Funders The Golsoncott Foundation The E H Smith Charitable Trust Grantham Yorke Trust F C Stokes Trust The Grey Court Trust Sutton Coldfield Charitable Trust The Grimmitt Trust C B & H H Taylor 1984 Trust LG Harris Trust G J W Turner Trust The Derek Hill Foundation The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust www.prsformusicfoundation.com The Joseph Hopkins and Henry James Sayer Charities Garfield Weston Foundation John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Wolfson Foundation The Irving Memorial Trust The Alan Woodfield Charitable Trust

Thank you also to our Major Donors, Benefactors, Circles Members, Patrons and Friends for their generous support. For more information on how your organisation can engage with the CBSO, please contact Simon Fairclough, CBSO Director of Development, on 0121 616 6500 or [email protected] 11 CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

MANAGEMENT BOARD Chief Executive Stephen Maddock Obe* Chair David Burbidge CBE DL PA to Chief Executive Niki Longhurst*† Deputy Chair David Roper Elected Trustees Tony Davis Head of Orchestra Management Jane Fielding (Maternity Cover) Adrian Rutter Susan Foster Orchestra Manager Claire Dersley* Joe Godwin Assistant Orchestra Manager Alan Johnson Emily Ingram Platform Manager Peter Harris* Sundash Jassi Assistant Platform Manager Robert Howard Chris Loughran Librarian Jack Lovell-Huckle Lucy Williams Head of Artistic Planning Anna Melville Birmingham City Council Planning & Tours Manager Hannah Muddiman† Nominated Trustees Cllr Sir Albert Bore Project Manager Claire Greenwood† Cllr Alex Yip Assistant Planning Manager Maddi Belsey-Day Player Nominated Trustees Elspeth Dutch Director of Learning & Engagement Lucy Galliard Helen Edgar Learning & Participation Manager Katie Lucas Additional Player Representative Margaret Cookhorn Youth Ensembles Offi cer Rebecca Nicholas Schools Offi cer Carolyn Burton Hon Secretary to the Trustees Mark Devin Chorus Manager Poppy Howarth Children’s & Youth Chorus Offi cer Ella McNamee Research Assistant Adam Nagel*† CBSO DEVELOPMENT TRUST Director of Marketing & Communications Gareth Beedie Chair Chris Loughran DL Marketing Manager Beki Smith CRM & Insight Manager Melanie Ryan*† Trustees Charles Barwell OBE Publications Manager Jane Denton† Gordon Campbell Assistant Marketing Manager Harriet Green Wally Francis Digital Content Producer Hannah Blake-Fathers John Osborn CBE Marketing Volunteer Christine Midgley*# David Pett Hon Secretary to the Trustees John Bartlett Director of Development Simon Fairclough Head of Philanthropy Francesca Spickernell Membership & Appeals Manager Eve Vines† CAMPAIGN BOARD Events & Relationship Management Executive Megan Bradshaw Chair David Burbidge CBE, DL Development Operations Offi cer Melanie Adey Susan Foster Development Administrator Bethan McKnight† Peter How Trust Fundraiser Fiona Fox Jamie Justham Her Honour Frances Kirkham CBE Director of Finance Annmarie Wallis Finance Manager Dawn Doherty Chris Loughran DL Payroll Offi cer Lindsey Bhagania†* John Osborn CBE Assistant Accountant Graham Irving Honorary Medical Advisors: Finance Assistant (Cost) Susan Price HR Manager Hollie Dunster Dr Rod MacRorie. Association of Medical CBSO Centre Manager Niki Longhurst*† Advisors to British Orchestras/BAPAM Technical & Facilities Supervisor Tomoyuki Matsuo Professor Sir Keith Porter. Assistant CBSO Centre Manager Peter Clarke* Consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham Receptionist Sev Kucukogullari† PLAYERS’ COMMITTEE Chair Jo Patton Vice Chair Mark Phillips Richard Watkin Andy Herbert Kirsty Lovie Colette Overdijk Heather Bradshaw * Recipients of the CBSO Long Service Award † Part-time employee # Volunteer Matthew Hardy