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18th – 25th June 2016 Welcome to the 2016 Winchfield Festival Registered Charity No. 1079073 The Winchfield Festival was founded in 1990 by Please make sure you order your tickets in good John Profit and Alan Melbourne to celebrate and time, as space is limited (especially in the Church) pay for a complete overhaul of the church organ. and concerts are often booked out well before June. The Festival is held in mid-June every other year You can order your tickets online and it is the centrepiece of the village calendar. (visit www.winchfieldfestival.org ). Otherwise Winchfield is a small village of only 600 please use the booking form at the back of this inhabitants, and the Festival is actively supported by programme. over 100 villagers who help with everything from We look forward to seeing you in June. manning the beer tent to hosting the performers. Ian Gavin-Brown Festival Chairman The reputation of the Festival has continued to Tristram Cary Music Director grow, and this year we have broadened the range of our concerts to include jazz, pop, klezmer (Jewish For more information please contact; dance music), chamber music and opera. Our Ian Gavin-Brown performers are world-class musicians who enjoy Telephone: 01252 842487 or the informal and friendly atmosphere of the Email: [email protected] Festival as well as the excellent acoustics of St The Oast House, Winchfield, Hook, Hants RG27 8DB Mary’s, our beautiful Norman church. www.winchfieldfestival.org How to find us A32 S B € To Reading To Hartley Wintney ⁄ 3 3 ⁄ 3 To London 4 M3 6 9 1 0 Fleet 3 0 B A3 Winchfield B 3 A 3 3 2 4 3 9 Hook 6 01 B3 St. Mary’s Church M3 Festival Marquee Odiham Dogmersfield J5 Wood ⁄ To Basingstoke A28 Crookham n 7 g i s Village e B as D ings toke Broad oak k Ca a nal O y b B 3 A2 e 34 87 l 9 na m Ba e Ca singstok m a Odiham r g ⁄ To Farnham o To Alton ⁄ r P Saturday 18 June 7.30pm | Marquee | £19.00 Steve Waterman All Star Big Band In cooperation with Fleet Jazz Club Steve Waterman is one of the top British jazz trumpeters. He has worked on the British and European jazz scene with John Surman, Andy Sheppard, Tony Coe, Carla Bley, Don Weller and many others. He has recorded many critically acclaimed CDs under his own name as well as a number of CDs on the ECM label with John Surman’s Brass Project and Carla Bley. Steve has also won numerous BBC British jazz awards over the years and is very committed to Jazz education. He is professor of Jazz Trumpet at Trinity College of Music in London and visiting Jazz Trumpet specialist at The Royal Northern College Of Music and The Welsh College Of Music And Drama. Steve also leads his own 18-piece big band, with a top notch, multi-award winning line-up which features some of the most celebrated names in British Jazz. The band was born from a mutual respect between these musicians, and the desire “An outstanding evening of to play Steve’s superb compositions to the contemporary and swing big band music highest possible standard. from one of the top bands in the Featuring: country ” Trumpets Steve Waterman, Mike Lovatt, Martin Shaw, Tony Dixon, If there is sufficient interest, a jazz Derek Lawton workshop led by Steve Waterman will be Saxes Simon Allen, Matt Wates, held in the afternoon of Saturday June 18. Dave O’Higgins, Paul Booth, Anyone interested, please email Karen Sharp [email protected] Trombones Mark Nightingale, Mark Bassey, Ian Bateman, Sara Williams Rhythm Gareth Williams (piano), Hot and cold food (meat and vegetarian) Marianne Windham (bass), and drinks will be available before the Clark Tracey (drums) concert and during the interval from Lewis Bros Catering Sunday 19 June 7.30pm | Church | £19.00 Huw Wiggins and James Sherlock Saxophone, Organ/Piano Huw Wiggins is a wonderful saxophonist. He won the Gold Medal and First Prize at the Royal Over-Seas League Competition and was named Commonwealth Musician of the Year in 2014. Huw is the professor of Saxophone at the Royal College of Music and he is helping to drive a surge of interest in the potential of the instrument outside its jazz niche. He works with pianist/organist James Sherlock and together they have developed a large and highly varied repertoire. PROGRAMME James Sherlock Huw Wiggins Darius Milhaud . .Scaramouche (Saxophone and Piano) Astor Piazzolla . .Oblivion (Saxophone and Organ) “If there’s one word that sums up this JS Bach . .Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr popular duo it’s versatility. From the Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (Organ) Handel . .Eternal Source of Light Divine intricacies of Bach and the lushness of (Saxophone and Organ) Demersseman to the starkness of Grieg . .Holberg Suite Op 40, Air (Saxophone and Organ) Stockhausen and the immediacy of more JS Bach . .Trio Sonata No. 2 contemporary pieces, Huw Wiggins and (Saxophone and Organ) James Sherlock bring nuance and Interval expression to music from across the Graham Fitkin . .Watching (Saxophone and Organ) centuries through their unusual Schumann . .Widmung, arr Liszt partnering of instruments ” (Piano Solo) Eugène Bozza . .Aria (Saxophone and Piano) François Borne . .Fantaisie Brillante sur Carmen (Saxophone and Piano) Sandwiches and drinks will be available in the interval in the Festival Tent Monday 20 June 7.30pm | Church | £19.00 Endellion String Quartet Winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Best Chamber Ensemble in 1996: Resident Quartet Cambridge University: the Endellion is renowned as one of the finest quartets in the world. Everywhere, the Quartet “sets the audience ablaze” (Daily Telegraph) PROGRAMME Haydn . .Quartet in C major Op. 54 No. 2 Shostakovich . .Quartet No. 8 Interval Tchaikovsky . .Quartet No. 3 “Tchaikovsky is one of the most approachable and popular of all composers. His best known works are his wonderful ballets and symphonies, but he also wrote terrific chamber music. He bares his Russian soul in Photograph by Eric Richmond the 3rd quartet, as Shostakovich bares his in his highly autobiographical 8th quartet. There is an interesting “the Endellion String Quartet captivates link between the two – Shostakovich was tormented by the dark shadow of Stalin and when Stalin died and concertgoers with a remarkable rapport, his body lay in state the Borodin Quartet were playing to each other with a sense almost required to play again and again for many hours the of discovery, communicating to the funeral march movement from Tchaikovsky’s 3rd audience on a level of unusual quartet. Both pieces never fail to make a profound impression on their listeners. intimacy.” (Guardian) The opening piece, Haydn’s quartet in C, Op 54 no Violins Andrew Watkinson and 2, is a brilliant, inventive and joyful quartet which also Ralph de Souza has an extraordinary slow movement with a strong Viola Garfield Jackson gypsy character. We are really looking forward to Cello David Waterman playing this programme for you.” David Waterman Sandwiches and drinks will be available in the interval in the Festival Tent Tuesday 21 June 7.30pm | Marquee | £19.00 Unde r18s £10 Sponsored by She’Koyokh The Emmanuel Kaye and Guy Schalom Foundation An evening of music and dance. She’Koyokh present an epic, all-embracing journey through Eastern Europe, the Balkans and beyond, performing a wealth of regional and national styles including polyphonic Bulgarian singing, Ottoman dance tunes, Serbian songs, and rip-roaring klezmer music. After hearing this, you’ll be desperate to get up The Band and dance, and – low and behold! – you have the Lead Vocals Cigdem Aslan unique opportuinity in the second half to be led Clarinet Susi Evans in lines and circles by Yiddish dance expert, Guy Violin Meg Hamilton Schalom, who will teach freylekhs, bulgars, shers Accordion Zivorad Nikolic and couples dances, with live music from Guitar Matt Bacon She’Koyokh. Double Bass Paul Moylan Percussion Christina Borgenstierna More info on Guy Schalom www.guyschalom.com/klezmer-keilidh/ Hot and cold food (meat and vegetarian) and drinks will be available before the “the best klezmer and Balkan band in concert and during the interval from Britain” (The Evening Standard) Lewis Bros Catering Wednesday 22 June 7.00pm | Church | £19.00 Peter Donohoe Piano In the years since his unprecedented success as Silver Medal winner of the 1982 7th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Peter Donohoe has built an extraordinary world-wide career, encompassing a huge repertoire and over forty years’ experience as a pianist, as well as continually exploring many other avenues in music-making. He is acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for his musicianship, stylistic versatility and commanding technique. Peter Donohoe played with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Sir Simon Rattle’s opening concerts as Music Director. He has also recently performed with all the major London Orchestras, Royal Concertgebouw, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, Swedish Radio, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Vienna Symphony and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras. He was an annual visitor to the BBC Proms for seventeen years and has appeared at many other festivals including six consecutive visits as resident artist to the Edinburgh Festival. Peter is playing a wonderful programme, culminating in Beethoven’s extraordinary last sonata with its great set of variations (some of which are close to jazz). Alfred Brendel said of PROGRAMME this sonata “what is to be expressed here is distilled Scriabin . .Piano Sonato No. 2, Op. 19 experience – perhaps nowhere else in piano literature Prokofiev . .Piano Sonato No. 8, Op. 84 does mystical experience feel so immediately close at Mozart .