18Th – 25Th June 2016 Welcome to the 2016 Winchfield Festival Registered Charity No
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
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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 ...... Piano Sonato No. 8, hand ”. in A minor K310 Beethoven ...... Piano Sonato No. 32, Peter is also an outstanding speaker and he in C minor Op. 111 will give a talk before the concert (starting at 7pm) about his programme.
Sandwiches and drinks will be available in the interval in the Festival Tent Thursday 23 June 7.30pm | Marquee | £19.00 Unde r18s £10 Sponsored by Dido and Aeneas The KB Sleigh by Henry Purcell Trust
After the Festival’s triumphant operatic debut in 2014 we are delighted to announce the return of David Gibson, this time directing Ars Eloquentiae and the Occam Singers. Ars Eloquentiae is a group specialising in period performance. Its members are drawn from the highest ranks of London’s young professional musicians, who individually perform with many of the world’s most highly-renowned early-music ensembles.
Dido and Aeneas is the first opera written by Henry Purcell and was first performed at Josias Priest’s girls’ school in Chelsea in 1689. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair and suicide when he abandons her. A monumental work in Baroque opera, Dido and Aeneas is remembered as one of Purcell’s foremost theatrical works, as well as his only all-sung dramatic work. Soloists include: Soprano Robyn Allegra Parton Mezzo Soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons Tenor Nathan Vale
Dido and Aeneas Rutilio Manetti (Italy, Siena, 1571-1639)
Hot and cold food (meat and vegetarian) and drinks will be available before the David Gibson concert and during the interval from Lewis Bros Catering Friday 24 June 7.30pm | Church | £19.00 VIDA Guitar Quartet
Founded in 2007, the VIDA Guitar Quartet brings together four of the UK’s most exceptional guitarists. VIDA has performed to critical acclaim in major UK venues including King’s Place (London), The Purcell room (London), The Sage (Gateshead) and St George’s (Bristol). They are sought-after festival artists throughout the UK, Europe and North America.
VIDA’s ability to “conjure up an orchestral palette of colour and effects” (Classic FM) combined with PROGRAMME their “exquisite tonal and dynamic control” has Vaughan Williams . . . . .English Folk Songs firmly established them as “a passionate and Peter Warlock ...... Capriol Suite masterful ensemble which sparkles with vitality and JS Bach ...... Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 spontaneity” (Acoustic). VIDA’s seemingly Interval effortless sense of ensemble and their broad Philip Houghton ...... Opals range of timbres and dynamics evokes “listening Tomothy Bowers . . . . .Fantasy on an Old English to an entire orchestra and not merely to four guitars. Melody There’s only one word for it – magic” Nick Cartledge ...... The Great British Rock Journey (Gramophone). Brahms ...... Three Hungarian Dances
Sandwiches and drinks will be available in the interval in the Festival Tent Saturday 25 June 7.30pm | Marquee | £19.00 The Extra Covers Rock ‘n’ Roll from the 60s
Buddy Holly and The Cricketers have taken off their DJs and dicky bows to become The Extra Covers, the ultimate musical entertainment package that is guaranteed to have everyone on their feet and singing along to the music.
The act’s repertoire is a musical tour de force provided unforgettable nights at fund-raising from the 1950s to the present day: Elvis, Eddie events for a huge number of charities, sporting Cochran, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray evenings and awards ceremonies as well as Charles, Chuck Berry, Beatles, Stones, Kinks, gracing royal occasions and making a number of Queen, T Rex, Van Morrison, Crowded House, TV appearances, here and overseas. Blur, Oasis, Scissor Sisters, Kings of Leon, Dandy So put on your glad rags and come on down for Warhols and many, many more. an evening with The Extra Covers that you will The unparalleled musicianship of the group, never forget. combined with their peerless ability to whip up the most lethargic audience into a wild party A delicious Hog Roast as well a selection of crowd has made this concert a hit at every type hot and cold food (meat and vegetarian) and drinks will be available before the start of event and with all age groups. of the concert from 6 pm from This wonderful act has toured the world and has Lewis Bros Catering . Alternatively you are invited to bring your own picnics. rocked theatres, clubs, open-air festivals and This beautiful Grade I listed church has played its part in Winchfield life for over 850 years. Generations have been baptised and married here, and buried in the churchyard.
It has been preserved for us and is a memorial to In the last 9 years the Friends have supported a those who are commemorated in the church and number of projects including the following: churchyard. Now the challenge is for us to do • Repairs to the tower render and removal of the same and keep this historic church for future moss from the roof. generations. • Removal of bird nesting debris from the belfry. The charity Friends of St. Mary’s Winchfield was established in 2007 with the principle objective • Refurbishment of pathways, fencing, gates and of supporting the fabric of this lovely Church. Its benches in the Churchyard. Charter states: “The principal object of the Charity is • Repairs to the Church organ. to support the maintenance, repair, restoration, preservation, beautification and improvement of the • Safety improvements to the electrical installation. fabric of the church and churchyard of St Mary’s Future projects will include the repair and Winchfield and the monuments, fixtures, fittings, cleaning of the stained glass windows. furniture, stain glass, ornaments and other chattels belonging to the Church.”
We organise a number of fundraising events The Friends of St. Mary’s Winchfield each year to help preserve this fine Norman Registered Charity: 1124379 Church. Please join us: Collect a leaflet from the Church or from the Friends Gazebo on Marquee Evenings. Thank You
The Winchfield Festival is committed to keeping ticket prices affordable, and despite selling most of the tickets available the Festival barely covers its costs from ticket sales alone. It is the generosity of our patrons, sponsors and other givers that allows us to make a small profit from which we can make charitable donations to the Church, Friends of St Mary’s and other good causes. We are very lucky this year to have 2 of our sponsors increase their gift substantially so as to sponsor She’Koyokh and Dido and Aeneas as you will see.
My particular thanks to the PCC for the Church, the Goddards for the field for the marquee, Jim and Alison Monk for running the bar, Malcolm Billyard for design and artwork and to about 100 volunteers from all over the village for their hard work throughout the Festival.
Ian Gavin-Brown Chairman
The Steinway concert piano chosen and hired by the Winchfield Festival is supplied and maintained by Steinway & Sons, London.