ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

2017/18 SEASON

Spring Edition

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1 Welcome 2 Spring 2018 Listings 29 Holy Week Festival Listings 35 Summer 2018 Listings 47 Muffat Festival 48 Schools Listings 49 Young Artists 50 Support Us 52 Over 300 years of history 54 Booking Information 55 How to find us 56 Footstool Restaurant

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WELCOME TO ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE —— With our 2017/18 programme we Our partnership with Southbank Centre continue our core mission to provide continues for one more season, with a home for within the three remaining from their UK’s only hall dating from the International Piano Series this Spring. Baroque period whilst equally championing new music. International St John’s Smith Square is unique amongst artists sit comfortably alongside ’s concert halls; it is the oldest, emerging talent as St John’s Smith yet most flexible, concert hall in London Square continues to provide a vital and we are very proud that we are able and unique central London home for to offer a programme which is so diverse the best in community music. yet filled with events and festivals of deep integrity. Festival programming remains a key feature at St John’s Smith Square this I hope you will find the programme season. We are delighted to host our stimulating and interesting and I would second Holy Week Festival, as a mirror be very interested to hear any thoughts to our Christmas celebrations, which will and comments about your experiences feature a unique mix of liturgical and at St John’s Smith Square. concert performances, supremely suited to the setting of St John’s Smith Square. I look forward to welcoming you to St John’s Smith Square. Further festivals include the return of Rolf Hind’s iconoclastic celebration of the keyboard in the Occupy the Pianos festival; contemporary reflections with the Principal Sound festival; an immersive exploration of the music of Georg Muffat with The Brook Street Band; and, of course, the flagship London Richard Heason Festival of Baroque Music, which this Director year turns to France for its focus and, for the first time, welcomes a guest Richard Heason © Amy Ryan Artistic Director, Sébastien Daucé.

Alongside our festivals are our regular Thursday Lunchtime Concerts, Sunday at St John’s series and our highly acclaimed Young Artists’ Series, returning for a fourth season. We continue to welcome a whole host of partners throughout the season, bringing the best chamber , and ensembles to St John’s Smith Square.

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General booking: Mon 23 Oct Patrons booking: Mon 16 Oct Friends booking: Fri 20 Oct Mathilde Milwidsky © Donald van Hasselt

thursday lunchtime concerts SAMSON TSOY Composers in Exile JOSEPH Piano sunday at st john’s Chopin Étude in E Op. 10 No. 3 HOUSTON Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor MATHILDE Piano Op. 20 Chopin 2 Nocturnes Op. 48 MILWIDSKY Antonia Barnett-McIntosh Chopin Étude in C minor Op. 10 New Work (UK premiere) Young Artists’ Series No. 12 Xenakis Mists Rachmaninoff Selections from Mathilde Milwidsky violin Shadow 10 Preludes Op. 23 Alasdair Beatson piano Louis D’Heudieres New Work Rachmaninoff Selections from (UK premiere) Janáček Violin Sonata 13 Preludes Op. 32 Stephen Crowe Ey up me Duck Arvo Pärt Fratres (UK premiere) This concert is dedicated to Ysaÿe No. 2 from 6 Sonatas for Mark Barden Die Haut Anderer those who have felt compelled Solo Violin Op. 27 Christian Mason Remembered to abandon their homes and Ravel Violin Sonate No. 1 posth. Resonance seek refuge in a new country, Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb a painful tragedy faced by Op. 18 Built around three new solo many today. piano commissions by Antonia This diverse programme Barnett-McIntosh, Louis Samson Tsoy presents music contains the rarely heard D’Heudieres, and Stephen by Chopin and Rachmaninoff ‘Posthumous Sonata’ by Ravel, Crowe, this programme which conveys the composers’ composed when he was just 22 explores themes of strong yearnings for their years old but only published in miscommunication, homelands to which they never 1975. This one-movement work vulnerability, and failure. returned. “O, my fatherland!” bears the hallmarks of Ravel’s Chopin exclaimed when a sinuous melodic writing and is By using ‘extensions’ of the student presented him with a suitable contrast to the fiery traditional piano sound (voice, Étude Op. 10 No. 3 which opens Janáček and Strauss violin electronics, objects), these new this concert. sonatas, whilst Arvo Pärt’s pieces will exist in the space Fratres and Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2 between composition and Samson Tsoy is a Yeoman of provide yet more contrast with improvisation; as well as text The Musicians’ Company. elements of the Neo-Baroque. and sound. wcom.org.uk mathildemilwidsky.com josephhouston.co.uk samsontsoy.com

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Sun 7 January 3.00pm Wed 10 January 7.30pm Thu 11 January 1.05pm £16 (£10), YF £16 (£10), YF £10, YF

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The King’s Singers © Marco Borggreve THE KING’S SINGERS: GOLD Patrick Dunachie Timothy Wayne-Wright countertenor Julian Gregory tenor NICOLA Christopher Bruerton baritone BENEDETTI Christopher Gabbitas baritone & LONDON Jonathan Howard bass Bob Chilcott We are MOZART Senfl Das G’läut zu Speyer PLAYERS WORKSHOP: Vásquez Lagrimas de mi Consuelo Nicola Benedettiviolin WITH THE KING’S Lassus Dessus le Marché Leonard Elschenbroich d’Arras conductor SINGERS Takemitsu Handmade Proverbs The King’s Singers Brahms Violin Concerto in D Reger Morgengesang (past & present) Op. 77 Brahms Vineta Jeremy Jackman leader Brahms Symphony No. 1 in Rheinberger Abendlied C minor Op. 68 Come & sing The King’s Singers’ Toby Hession Master of Music favourites alongside some of Harburg & Arlen arr. Langford the ensemble’s former and Down with love presents the first of a special current members, led by Jeremy Arlen arr. Alexander L’Estrange two-part evening series with Jackman. This workshop is I’ve got the world on a string Classical BRIT award-winning open to singers of all levels Arlen & I Gershwin arr. Bennett violinist Nicola Benedetti. and sheet music will be It’s a new world In an evening celebrating provided on the day. Joanna and Alexander Brahms, the Scottish-born L’Estrange Quintessentially Arrive at 12.00pm to register instrumentalist demonstrates (world premiere) and collect your music, and why she is one of the most Be not afeard be ready to sing from 12.30pm. sought after violinists of her Nico Muhly To Stand in this The workshop will end at generation as she performs the House approximately 2.30pm. German composer’s Violin The King’s Singers mark their Concerto in D, recognised by Proceeds from this event 50th birthday with classic Joseph Joachim as one of the will be donated to The King’s favourites and new surprises. greatest German violin concerti. Singers Foundation. Pre-concert talk: 6.30pm londonmozartplayers.com kingssingers.com

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Anna Fedorova © Marco Borggreve

thursday lunchtime concerts sunday at st john’s THE PETER HOLDER REVOLUTIONARY ANNA Organ Series DRAWING ROOM FEDOROVA Americana ‘18 In the Shadow of Napoleon Blüthner Piano Series Vivaldi arr. Bovet Concerto in B minor Rv.580 Anna Fedorova piano Italy and Spain Bach Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Ehr’ BWV662 Adrian Butterfield violin Op. 23 Byrd A Fancy in D minor Kathryn Parry violin Chopin Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38 Litaize Prélude et Danse Fugée Rachel Stottviola Chopin Ballade No. 3 in Ab Dupré Prelude & Fugue in Ruth Alford cello Op. 47 F minor Op. 7 No. 2 DonizettiString Quartet No. 7 Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Ives Variations on America in F minor Op. 52 Peter Holder is Sub-Organist Arriaga String Quartet No. 3 Chopin Waltz in Eb Op. 18 of St Paul’s Cathedral, a post to in Eb Chopin 3 Waltzes Op. 34 which he was appointed at the Beethoven String Quartet Chopin Waltz in Ab Op. 42 age of 23, following two years as in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 Chopin 3 Waltzes Op. 64 Organ Scholar at Westminster Against the backdrop of the Anna Fedorova is one of the Abbey. Peter is also an Organ Napoleonic wars, Donizetti and world’s premier young pianists. Tutor at the Junior Royal Arriaga produced their first From an early age, she Academy of Music and precocious works of the new demonstrated an innate musical previously held the Pidem Revolutionary Age. While maturity and outstanding Organ Fellow of the Royal Beethoven was experiencing technical abilities. Her Academy of Music, where he Napoleon’s impact in central international concert career undertook undergraduate and Europe, on its war torn took off while she was only a postgraduate studies, gaining peninsulas, two prodigiously child, and audiences around the numerous scholarships and gifted composers were growing world were stunned by the awards. Peter was elected up. The young Donizetti and depth and power of her musical Associate of the Royal Academy the Basque composer Arriaga expression. Critics have praised of Music last year. He continues produced striking works for Anna’s signature “sweet his repertoire studies with string quartet at an early age. modesty and wild expression,” David Titterington, Jon Laukvik Beethovenian storms and which rendered listeners and Patrick Russill, alongside funeral marches echo in “completely taken by surprise, improvisation studies with their youthful works. compelled and astonished”. Thierry Escaich. revolutionarydrawingroom.com annafedorova.com peterholdermusic.co.uk

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Sun 14 January 3.00pm Wed 17 January 7.30pm Thu 18 January 1.05pm £16 (£10), YF £15, £10, £8 £10, YF

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PARNASSIUS SOUNDS PIANO DUO BAROQUE Americana ‘18 Anna Dennis soprano James Akers archlute, theorbo Simon Callaghan piano & guitar Hiroaki Takenouchi piano Henrik Persson bass viol Bernstein Music for Two Pianos Julian Perkins harpsichord Copland Danzón Cubano & director Barber arr. Gold and Fizdale Purcell Selection of songs Souvenirs Corbetta Suite in C Fine arr. David Plylar Toccata Draghi Harpsichord Suite No. 1 Concertante (European premiere) in E minor Gershwin/Grainger Fantasy on Dodgson The Worm ‘Porgy and Bess’ Dodgson Plush and Roses Parnassius makes a welcome remains return to St John’s Smith unequalled in the sensitivity Square in this celebration of with which he sets the English American piano music, played language. His music often on not one but two grand combines the decorum of the pianos! Featuring Broadway French style with the rhetorical classics and treating listeners exuberance of the Italian style to a feast of rhythms and styles – while remaining in music written by some of quintessentially English. America’s best loved composers, This programme celebrates this concert is highly Purcell’s florid qualities with a recommended. surprising array of vocal and tashmina.co.uk instrumental works.

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Thu 18 January 7.30pm Fri 19 January 7.30pm £18 (£10), YF £16 (£10), YF

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ARTS UNIT SYMPHONY & New South Wales State School Symphony Orchestra & Singers Stephen Williams conductor Elizabeth Scottconductor Graeme Koehne Powerhouse Grieg Symphonic Dances Op. 64 Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien Op. 45 Michael Markowski Joyride Tallis If ye love me sunday at st john’s Trad. Waltzing Matilda Eric Whitacre Equus I MUSICANTI Felix Riebl Steal the Light Alexandra & the Russians Sally Whitwell Tribe Sally Whitwell I Hold You Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in Sally Whitwell Sidewinder A minor Op. 35 The Australian New South Alexandra Harwood New Work Wales State School is coming (world premiere) to London! The school’s Tchaikovsky String Sextet in Symphony Orchestra and Choir D minor ‘Souvenir de Florence’ are two of the best ensembles Op. 70 administered by The Arts Unit Arensky wrote his quartet, of the New South Wales with its solitary violin and Department of Education. pair of cellos, in memory of The orchestra currently Tchaikovsky, quoting one of comprises 69 musicians, his themes as well as Russian whereas the choir consists of folksong and funeral music. 42 singers, with the students of A memento of a different kind, both ensembles representing partly written in Tuscany, ends a rich and diverse range of a concert which features a new

Leon Bosch © Guy Mayer cultural and socio-economic work by Alexandra Harwood. backgrounds. imusicanti.co.uk This is a free, ticketed event.

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Sun 21 January 3.00pm Mon 22 January 7.30pm £16 (£10), YF Free admission

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Royal Orchestral Society ROYAL ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY Peter Sheppard Skærved viola Orlando Jopling conductor thursday lunchtime concerts Berlioz Harold in Italy ON EAR AND EAR Stravinsky The Rite of Spring The first ever chance to hear Americana ‘18 one of Berlioz’ most personal and heartfelt works played Matthew Jones viola / violin on the astonishing instrument Annabel Thwaite piano which inspired the work. Made YOUNG Libby Larsen Viola Sonata by one of London’s finest MUSICIANS Hilary Tann On Ear and Ear luthiers, Barak Norman, the (tribute to Milton Babbitt) grand viola is mid way between SYMPHONY (London premiere) viola and cello and has a rich, ORCHESTRA John Adams Road Movies resonant and powerful lower register unlike any other viola. Antonio Oyarzábal piano Celebrated performers Matthew It has been in a private James Blair conductor Jones and Annabel Thwaite collection for decades but has offer a rare chance to hear Ravel Piano Concerto in G now resurfaced, and the Royal Libby Larsen’s extraordinary Mahler Symphony No. 6 in Orchestral Society is delighted Viola Sonata and Hilary Tann's A minor to present the first London haunting duo, a tribute to her performance of the Berlioz on The YMSO returns to St John’s late composition teacher Milton this instrument with one of the Smith Square in the new year, Babbitt, written for Matthew UK’s leading players, Peter and the young Antonio Jones and Annabel Thwaite. Sheppard Skærved. Oyarzábal starts the concert Unique in the genre, Adams’ with Ravel’s Piano Concerto in Road Movies for violin and Stravinsky’s masterpiece, G. The concert ends with piano is a rhythmic and The Rite of Spring, provides Mahler’s mighty Symphony evocative tour de force. a thrilling conclusion to this No. 6 in A minor. wonderful concert. matthewjonesmusic.guru ymso.org.uk annabelthwaite.com royalorchestralsociety.org.uk

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Wed 24 January 7.30pm Thu 25 January 1.05pm Sat 27 January 7.30pm £20, £15, £10 (20% offf ) £10, YF £20, £16, £10

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Duke Quartet

ROYAL HOLLOWAY sunday at st john’s Chamber Orchestra RÊVERIE: THE Chapel Choir London Mozart Players thursday lunchtime concerts LIFE & LOVES Rebecca Miller conductor OF DEBUSSY Rupert Gough conductor DUKE QUARTET Sheaffer Sundays Works by Beethoven and Louisa Fuller violin Vaughan Williams. Rick Koster violin Lucy Parham piano John Metcalfe viola Royal Holloway, University Simon Russell Beale narrator Sophie Harris cello of London has a tradition of Celebrating the centenary musical excellence spanning Shostakovich String Quartet of Claude Debussy through a over 100 years. Following the No. 1 in C Op. 49 personal and revealing journal, success of their 2017 debut Ravel String Quartet in F illuminated by some of his most performance here at St John’s Renowned for their electric atmospheric works for piano. Smith Square, the College's performances both live and Chapel Choir and Chamber There will be post-concert Q&A recorded, the Duke Quartet’s Orchestra unite once again, with Clemency Burton-Hill versatility has led them into with the London Mozart from BBC Radio 3. a broad range of projects Players, for a showcase including pop, education, dance Free gift from Sheaffer with including Beethoven’s and their own compositions every ticket purchased. Symphony No. 5. all of which have been highly lucyparham.com royalholloway.ac.uk acclaimed.

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Sun 28 January 3.00pm Wed 31 January 7.30pm Thu 1 February 1.05pm £25 (£15), YF £20 (£15), £10 £10, YF

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Lucy Crowe © Marco Borggreve

Lawrence Zazzo © Eric Richmond GALA FOR HANDEL MAITI NEPAL Harmonia Festival Orchestra ORLANDO Nicolae Mihaila piano La Nuova Musica Dorian Dimitrov conductor Lawrence Zazzo orlando Edwin Hillier New Work (world Lucy Crowe angelica Rowan Pierce © Jen Hart premiere) Christopher Lowrey medoro Filtsch Konzertstück (UK Rowan Pierce dorinda premiere) William Berger zorastro MacDowell Piano Concerto David Bates conductor No. 2 in D minor Op. 23 Handel Orlando Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D Op. 73 A starry cast of La Nuova Musica’s favourite singers will Harmonia Festival Orchestra’s perform Handel’s most debut gala concert in psychologically complex , collaboration with MAITI Orlando. The title role, Nepal. Featuring a broad originally sung by Senesino, will spectrum of works including be performed by the renowned one from the 19th century countertenor Lawrence Zazzo. receiving a UK premiere and Christopher Lowrey © Rebecca Fay a special new commission, this Of La Nuova Musica’s previous concert is raising awareness collaboration with Lawrence of child trafficking in Nepal. Zazzo, The Guardian wrote: “the musical director and All proceeds from this concert countertenor are a pairing will go to MAITI Nepal. made in Handel Heaven”. maitinepal.org lanuovamusica.co.uk Promoted by Co-promoted by La Nuova Musica Dorian Dimitrov and St John’s Smith Square Fri 2 February 7.30pm Thu 1 February 7.00pm £100*, £50*, £25, £15 £45, £35, £25, £15 * incl. VIP package

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Martin Helmchen © Giorgia Bertazzi MARTIN HELMCHEN Southbank Centre’s Graham Ross © Benjamin Ealovega International Piano Series Schumann Novellette in F Op. 21 No. 1 LONDON Schumann Novellette in D Op. 21 No. 2 MOZART Schumann Novellette in D SALOMON PLAYERS Op. 21 No. 5 ORCHESTRA Schumann Novellette in Piano Explored F# minor Op. 21 No. 8 Americana ‘18 Beethoven 33 Variations on Howard Shelley piano & a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 Graham Ross conductor director This young German artist has Bernstein Symphony No. 1 Mendelssohn Piano Concerto built an enviable reputation ‘Jeremiah‘ No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 with emphasis on the Austro- Copland Old American Song: London Mozart Players return German Classical and Romantic Set 1 with Howard Shelley for their repertoire and a lively concern Barber Symphony No. 1 in One highly anticipated Piano with contemporary music. Movement Op. 9 Explored lunchtime series. Schumann’s Novellettenform Salomon Orchestra performs The orchestra’s Conductor the largest and the least-known a programme of exciting Laureate delves into the sound among his major piano cycles symphonic music from the world of Mendelssohn with with the music clearly written early 20th century, under the the composer’s Piano Concerto in an exultant mood. baton of Graham Ross, Director No. 1, amongst the first of its The programme concludes with of Music and Fellow of Clare kind to break musical tradition Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, College, . in the Romantic era. a masterpiece, full of power, wit salomonorchestra.org londonmozartplayers.com and virtuosity.

Promoted by Co-promoted by London Mozart Players Co-promoted by HarrisonParrott Salomon Orchestra and St John’s Smith Square and Southbank Centre

Tue 6 February 7.30pm Wed 7 February 1.05pm Wed 7 February 7.30pm £17 (£14), £14 £15 (£5 students) £38, £28, £15, £10 (50% offf )

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Terry Riley

ZUBIN KANGA Americana ‘18 Rhythmic Kaleidoscopes Zubin Kanga piano thursday lunchtime concerts John Luther Adams Nunataks ELYSIAN Julia Wolfe Earring Cage In a Landscape PIANO TRIO David Lang Cage Emily Sun violin Frederic Rzeweski Piano Piece Jane Lindsay cello No. 4 Jennifer Hughes piano Terry Riley Piano Study No. 1 John Adams Phrygian Gates Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ In ‘Rhythmic Kaleidescopes’, Bridge Miniatures for Piano Zubin Kanga performs a wide Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 variety of American piano in C minor Op. 8 music, featuring rhythmic patterns and vibrant colours. Emily, Jane, and Jennifer, all graduates of the Royal College This concert features the classic of Music, formed the Elysian mimimalist work, Piano Study Piano Trio in 2014, and have No. 1 by Terry Riley, the enjoyed a busy performing mysterious landscapes of John schedule across the UK since. Luther Adams’ Nunataks, and the virtuosic explosion of The Trio are delighted to melody in Rzeweski’s Piano perform the iconic ‘Ghost’ Trio Piece No. 4. The centerpiece of by Beethoven, complemented the programme is one of the with Bridge’s charming great post-minimal works – Miniatures and Shostakovich’s John Adams’ epic masterpiece, Piano Trio No. 1, which the Phrygian Gates. composer wrote at the age of seventeen. zubinkanga.com

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Thu 8 February 1.05pm Fri 9 February 7.30pm £10, YF £16 (£10), YF

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CROUCH thursday lunchtime concerts END FESTIVAL sunday at st john’s CHORUS JULIAN MICHAEL JACOBSON MOFIDIAN & Americana ‘18 KEVAL SHAH Prayer of the Heart 70th Birthday Celebrations Oxford Lieder Brodsky Quartet Piano Young Artists David Temple conductor Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 Michael Mofidianbass-baritone Thompson Alleluia Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ Keval Shah piano Tippett Five Spirituals from A Schubert Piano Sonata No. 20 Child of our Time in A D959 RachmaninoffYa bil u ney Osvaldo Golijov Tenebrae ProkofievPiano Sonata No. 8 Op. 14/4 Paul Patterson Time Piece Op. 84 RachmaninoffV moyey dushe Tarik O’Regan The Ecstasies Op. 14/10 Written on the cusp of the Above RachmaninoffTi pomnish’li 19th century, Beethoven’s Copland Hoe Down vecher ‘Pathétique’ proved him to be Bernard Hughes Revelation RachmaninoffMi otdokhnyom the man for the new age, with Window Op. 26/3 its urgently dramatic opening Tavener Prayer of the Heart Wolf Fußreise and glorious, already ‘Romantic’ Wolf Um Mitternacht Crouch End Festival Chorus slow movement. Wolf Der Tambour joins forces with the Brodsky Schubert’s great A major Barber ‘Sure on this Shining Quartet in this extraordinary Sonata, “heavenly long” Night’ from Three Songs Op. 10 concert of UK and USA music. (Schumann), is perhaps his Mahler Rückert-Lieder This hugely colourful most accomplished. programme features a first The winners of the Oxford performance of Paul Patterson’s Prokofiev’sSonata No. 8 Lieder Young Artist Platform new arrangement of his counters the violence of 2017 make their St John’s Smith renowned work Time Piece and the sixth and seventh sonatas Square debut as a duo with Tavener’s iconic Prayer of the with something much more songs by Rachmaninoff, Wolf Heart, originally composed for Olympian in nature, almost and Barber, before concluding the singer Björk, performed Shakespearian, in its sense with Mahler’s astonishing here in its choral arrangement. of depth and humanity. Rückert-Lieder. cefc.org.uk julianjacobson.com keval-shah.com

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Sat 10 February 7.30pm Sun 11 February 3.00pm Thu 15 February 1.05pm £28, £24, £18, £12 £16 (£10), YF £10, YF

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STUDIO DE Music from Québec City’s Petit Séminaire: ABOUT STUDIO DE MUSIQUE Frémart Missa quatuor vocum MUSIQUE ANCIENNE ANCIENNE Ad placitum (extracts) DE MONTRÉAL DE MONTRÉAL Sacred songs from the Abenakis mission of Saint- Praised for its “rich-textured, Music in New France & Québec François-de-Sales (Odanak): vibrant sound” and Anon. O quam suavis • Inviolata “hypnotic beauty”, the Studio Andrew McAnerney GeoffroyEgo sum panis de musique ancienne de artistic director Montréal has established This programme explores the Québec City’s Ursuline a reputation as Montréal’s choral music of New France Monastery and the Hôtel-Dieu: finest early music vocal Antienne Beata es maria and Québec, and includes the Girard ensemble, composed of 10 Magnificat du earliest piece of classical music Aux-Cousteaux to 13 singers chosen for the deuxième ton composed in Canada and the remarkable clarity and Motet pour Saint- world premiere of Québec Anon. purity of their voices. Augustin • Motet Veni, veni composer Maurice-Gaston sancte spiritus Du Berger’s setting of Marc Founded in 1974 by the Lescarbot’s sonnet on the Montréal contemporary music: organist and harpsichordist explorations of Champlain. Maurice-G. Du Berger Ja de Christopher Jackson, the longtemps Studio has brought more smamontreal.ca than 800 Renaissance and Promoted by A Mass for the Holy Family: Baroque masterpieces before St John’s Smith Square Martin Prose de la Sainte the public, and continues to Famille reveal and share the vitality, Thu 15 February 7.30pm Aux-Cousteaux Missa quinque sensuality, and emotional £18 (£12) vocum Grata sum Harmonia depth of early music. Anon. Motet Magnus Dominus

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THREE VOICES General booking: Mon 23 Oct Patrons booking: Mon 16 Oct Principal Sound Friends booking: Fri 20 Oct Juliet Fraser soprano Siwan Rhys piano WHY PATTERNS? Explore Ensemble Newton Armstrong electronics Principal Sound PRINCIPAL Nicholas Moroz electronics Jenni Hogan flute Nono A Pierre. Dell’azzurro George Barton percussion SOUND FESTIVAL silenzio, inquietum Siwan Rhys piano & celesta Clemens Merkel violin Following a critically acclaimed Schoenberg Sechs kleine Alissa Cheung violin celebration of the music of Klavierstücke Op. 19 Morton Feldman in 2016, Nono ...sofferte onde serene... E Brown Hodograph I Principal Sound returns for Feldman Three Voices Jürg Frey Circular music No. 4 three days of concerts pairing Nono ‘Hay que caminar’ soñando more of his visionary music Fri 16 February 7.30pm Webern Variations for piano with a number of late £15, YF Op. 27 masterpieces by Luigi Nono. Feldman Why Patterns? Bringing together some of Sun 18 February 4.00pm contemporary music’s most RECEIVING THE £15, YF respected ensembles with the UK’s most exciting young talent APPROACHING – including St John’s Smith MEMORY Square Young Artists George UNCERTAIN Barton and Siwan Rhys – the Principal Sound festival offers the opportunity Aisha Orazbayeva violin Principal Sound to be immersed in the Mark Knoop piano contemplative works of these EXAUDI two giants of post-war music, Schubert Impromptu in C minor Explore Ensemble director both of whom opened up new Op. 90 No. 1 D899 James Weeks worlds of sonic exploration, Feldman Palais de Mari Salvatore Sciarrino Lo Spazio focussing on the minutiae of Bryn Harrison Receiving the Inverso individual voices, textures Approaching Memory György Kurtág ‘An ... / A...’ and sounds. (Hölderlin-Gesänge No. 1 for Sat 17 February 4.00pm solo baritone) “Music of shimmering spaces, £15, YF Nono Sarà Dolce Tacere disturbed silences, sharp-edged Cage Five fragments and dream-like Machaut Rose, liz, printemps, unpredictability... It’s music in verdure which you participate almost as FRAGMENTE Linda Catlin Smith Uncertain much as the performers, acting for 8 voices (world premiere) out your own dream-journey STILLE György Kurtág Selections from of moving through a landscape Signs, Games and Messages for that’s at once still and violent.” Principal Sound violin Bozzini Quartet Tom Service on the music of Machaut Dame, je suis cils Luigi Nono Claudia Molitor Und laß Dir Rebecca Saunders Molly’s Song jeden Tag geschehen 3 – Shades of Crimson £40 Festival Pass for entry to A Clementi Otto Frammenti John Croft Trio (Seirēnes III) all concerts in this festival. John Lely Doubles Feldman Voices and cello Curated by Sam Wigglesworth Nono Fragmente Stille, an John Croft Quartet (Seirēnes IV) Promoted by Diotima Wolfgang Rihm Quo me rapis St John’s Smith Square Sat 17 February 7.00pm Sun 18 February 7.00pm Fri 16–Sun 18 February £15, YF £15, YF

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Septura Brass Septet Sir Trevor McDonald OBE

SEPTURA BRASS SEPTET Kleptomania Pilfered Piano Arrangements for Brass septet: Debussy Préludes Mussorgsky Pictures at an MY MUSIC: Exhibition SIR TREVOR The piano’s rich repertoire is MCDONALD tempting for transcribers, and Debussy’s Préludes and My Music Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Orchestra of St John's Exhibition are certainly no John Lubbock conductor exception. Images inspire a Sir Trevor McDonald OBE guest huge range of colours from both composers, and using all Newsreader and journalist of the techniques in Septura’s Sir Trevor McDonald discusses vast arsenal these are brightly the music (performed by OSJ) illuminated. which means the most to him. live.septura.org osj.org.uk

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Tue 20 February 7.30pm Wed 21 February 1.05pm £20 (£18), YF £14

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LONDON CHORAL SINFONIA Americana ‘18 Rutter Requiem: Into Night Time Kim-Lillian Strebel soprano Michael Waldron conductor EUROPEAN Byrd Christe qui Lux UNION thursday lunchtime concerts Tallis O Nata Lux CHAMBER James MacMillan O Radiant ALEXANDER Dawn ORCHESTRA Kodály Evening Song MASON John Rutter Draw on Sweet Greshams Schola Cantorum Night National Youth Choir Fellows Organ Series Owain Park New Work (world Benjamin Goldscheider horn Americana ‘18 premiere) John Bowley conductor Eric Whitacre Sleep Hans-Peter Hofmann director Cochereau transc. David Briggs Eric Whitacre Water Night Triptyque Symphonique sur Haydn Missa Brevis Hob.XXII:7 Eric Whitacre Lux Aurumque deux thèmes ‘Little Organ Mass’ Morten Lauridsen Nocturnes William Bolcom Gospel Prelude Mozart Ave Verum Corpus K618 John Rutter Requiem on ‘Amazing Grace’ Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4 Alain Deuxième Fantaisie The London Choral Sinfonia K495 Alain Variations sur un thème presents a concert of reflecting Mozart Litaniae Lauretanae K109 de Clément Janequin and uplifting music for the Mozart Symphony No. 29 K201 Improvisations lenten season. The programme A celebration of music by features beautiful Alex Mason studied at Oxford Haydn and Mozart with the interpretations of both light University, The Hague, and the choir of one of Britain’s historic and night time from composers . He has musical schools and the across the centuries. The first held posts at Lichfield, and National Youth Choir half includes works by English St Davids Cathedrals. As a Fellowship, conducted by John Renaissance composers, Tallis prize-winning improviser at Bowley. Joining them for and Byrd, through to Biarritz and St Albans, Alex has Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 contemporary settings by also recorded improvisations are the EUCO, their director American composers Eric on the organ of Gloucester Hans-Peter Hofmann, and Whitacre and Morten Cathedral as well as for BBC soloist Benjamin Goldscheider Lauridsen. The programme Radio 3. Alongside his who was a BBC Young Musician culminates with Rutter’s engagements as an organist, of the Year Finalist. sublime Requiem. Alex works as an accompanist greshams.com for Ex Cathedra and Tenebrae. thelcs.org

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Wed 21 February 7.30pm Thu 22 February 1.05pm Thu 22 February 7.30pm £22, £16, £10 £10, YF £35, £25, £20, £10

18 Box Office 020 7222 1061 Philippa Waite © Siân Trenberth

MUFFAT FESTIVAL The Brook Street Band © Dan Bridge Georg Muffat (1653–1704) lived through a time of immense THE GERMAN political and musical change in Europe, influencing future VIOLIN SCHOOL generations of musicians. He Muffat Festival studied and worked in France during the early part of Louis The Brook Street Band XIV’s reign, worked in Rome, Muffat String Sonata No. 2 in DANCE encountering Corelli, and then G minor (Armonico Tributo) in various parts of central WORKSHOP Schmelzer Trio Sonata in E minor Europe. This was a time of Biber Sonata violino solo Muffat Festival transformation in the musical representativa in A landscape, with rivalry between An introduction to Baroque Schmelzer String Sonata No. 8 old and new factions. dance in G (Sacroprofanus Concentus Muffat was the first person to Musicus) Philippa Waite dancer bring French musical language Krieger Trio Sonata No. 10 in D The Brook Street Band and the fashion for the dance Biber Sonata No. 1 in B minor Have you always wanted to idiom to Germany. His immense (Fidicinium Sacro Profanum) know a little more about the skill in fusing different musical Schmelzer String Sonata No. 7 relationship between baroque styles, be it German, French in D (Sacroprofanus Concentus music and the dance steps that or Italian made him a true Musicus) so often accompanied it, and trendsetter. Krieger Trio Sonata No. 9 in were such an important part G minor The Brook Street Band (plus of courtly life in the 17th and 18th Muffat Florilegium Primum special guests) delves into centuries? No. 7 in G ‘Constantia’ Muffat’s world, exploring the Renowned Baroque dance varied musical styles that The emergence of a new style teacher Philippa Waite leads a informed and shaped his music. of violin writing in Germany workshop suitable for all ages The Band explores his legacy in the 17th century (under from 8 years upwards. No in the form of chamber and composers including Biber, previous experience or partner orchestral music, providing a Muffat and Schmelzer) was required. The session will focus comprehensive and varied to have a profound impact on on basic steps found in typical musical survey of some of the the rise of the violin as a solo dance types such as bourée, most important European instrument in this region. minuet, sarabande, gigue etc. musical figures of the late-17th Sensual music for 1 and 2 as well as touching on the and 18th centuries. violins, 2 violas and continuo etiquette of the period. written by tonight’s composers, Curated by Tatty Theo, Director from the South of the country, Live music will be provided of The Brook Street Band is typified by its florid and by members of The Brook brookstreetband.co.uk ornate style. Street Band.

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Fri 23–Sun 25 February Fri 23 February 7.30pm Sat 24 February 10.30am–12.15pm Festival Pass £40 (£25) £16 (£10), YF £8 (£5)

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FESTIVAL TALK Muffat Festival Georg Muffat (1653–1704) – his life, his music and his legacy Tatty Theo presents an illustrated talk, exploring this rich period of political and musical change in 17th- century Europe that shaped THE ITALIAN and defined Muffat’s music. INFLUENCE Admission is free for ticket holders to the 7.30pm concert. Muffat Festival The Brook Street Band sunday at st john’s Sat 24 February 5.30pm £16 (£10), YF Corelli Trio Sonata Op. 1 No. 1 THE CONCERTO in F Muffat Violin Sonata in D Muffat Festival Handel Trio Sonata Op. 2 No. 3 The Brook Street Band in Bb ALL ABOUT Corelli Trio Sonata Op. 3 No. 5 Bach Brandenburg Concerto in D minor No. 3 BWV1048 in G THE DANCE Handel Cello Sonata in D minor Handel Violin Concerto (Sonata Muffat Festival Corelli Trio Sonata Op. 1 No. 12 a cinque) in Bb HWV288 in D Geminiani Concerto Grosso The Brook Street Band No. 12 in D minor (‘La Follia’; An intimate chamber after Corelli Op.5 No. 12) MuffatFlorilegium Secundum programme (for 1 and 2 violins Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 2 in D ‘Splendidae Nuptiae’ and continuo) which explores No. 10 in D minor Lully La Chasse from Ballet des the Italian influence on Muffat String Sonata No. 5 in G Arts in G minor chamber music by Muffat and (Armonico Tributo) Handel Suite in Bb HWV34 from Handel, paired with works by Alcina Corelli, the pre-eminent Italian What better way to end a Fischer Le Journal du virtuoso violinist of the period. festival than with a glorious Printemps Op. 1 No. 3 in Bb programme of solo and Today we credit Corelli with Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in orchestral concertos! providing the template for B minor BWV1067 so many Italianate musical Muffat’s influence stemmed far Following on from the innovations in the baroque era. and wide, incorporating both morning’s exhilarating dance However, Muffat’s Italian-styled French and Italian style, and his workshop, experience some of violin sonata of 1677 predates all hugely important legacy is the wonderfully rich and joyous of Corelli’s chamber music, and beautifully illustrated in these orchestral music for strings, shows that Italian influence wonderful works by composers flutes and recorders that was prevailed in Germany before far better-known than Muffat such an important part of life at Muffat even encountered today, but who each owe him a French Courts and further afield. Corelli. huge debt of gratitude.

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Sat 24 February 7.30pm Sun 25 February 11.00am Sun 25 February 3.00pm £16 (£10), YF £16 (£10), YF £16 (£10), YF

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Tim Mead © Benjamin Ealovega

thursday lunchtime concerts BORIS GILTBURG BERKELEY ENSEMBLE Southbank Centre’s International Piano Americana ‘18 Series Sophie Mather violin Francesca Barrittviolin Brahms 7 Fantasias Op. 116 Dan Shilladay viola Shostakovich transc. Boris Gemma Wareham cello Giltburg String Quartet No. 8 Lachlan Radford double bass in C minor Op. 110 for piano John Slack clarinet FLORILEGIUM RachmaninoffÉtudes-Tableaux Andrew Watson bassoon A Handel Celebration Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg Paul Cotthorn first rose to prominence in his Mary Bevan soprano Schuller Suite for Wind Quintet teens. After he won first prize Tim Mead countertenor Carl Schimmel Towns of Wind at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Stephen Layton conductor and Wood Competition in Brussels, his Carter Wind Quintet Handel Zadok the Priest career became stratospheric. HWV258 Barber Summer Music Boris has been particularly Handel My heart is inditing The Berkeley Ensemble makes praised for his performances HWV261 its debut here with Barber’s of Russian music and tonight’s Handel Nisi Dominus HWV328 Summer Music, by turns concert is a special opportunity Handel Foundling Hospital languid and energetic, and to hear him in the immensely Anthem HWV286 which recalls both Gershwin colourful, intense and poetic set and Stravinsky. Alongside, Stephen Layton and of Études-Tableaux (picture st mid-20th century quintets by Florilegium celebrate the 21 studies) Op. 39 by Gunther Schuller and Elliott Birthday of the Royal College Rachmaninoff. The programme Carter are interspersed with of Paediatrics and Child Health also features Giltburg’s own works for solo players, with a concert of vivacious and much-acclaimed transcription completing this all-American triumphal works by Handel. for piano of Shostakovich’s survey of music for winds. rcpch.ac.uk String Quartet No. 8, a work of ferocious emotion. berkeleyensemble.co.uk Promoted by Royal College of Paediatrics Co-promoted by HarrisonParrott Promoted by and Child Health and Southbank Centre St John’s Smith Square

Tue 27 February 7.00pm Wed 28 February 7.30pm Thu 1 March 1.05pm £50, £40, £30, £18 £38, £28, £15, £10 (50% offf ) £10, YF

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sunday at st john’s © Joseph Karl Stieler (1820 ODYSSEY OF LOVE: LISZT & HIS WOMEN Sheaffer Sundays Lucy Parham piano Joanna David narrator ORCHESTRA Robert Glenister narrator VITAE The colourful life of the extraordinary Americana ‘18 took him from child prodigy to living legend. Odyssey of Michael Cobb conductor LONDON Love focusses on the two Bernstein Candide Overture greatest romances of this PHOENIX Gershwin Piano Concerto in F tempestuous genius. Arlene Sierra Aquilo (London ORCHESTRA There will be post-concert Q&A premiere) Walton Voices with Sean Rafferty from BBC Copland Symphony No. 3 Raghad Haddad viola Radio 3 In Tune. Sheena Balmain clarinet Orchestra Vitae celebrates “The concept is brilliant, it Lev Parikian conductor Americana ‘18 with an evening totally works, is engaging, of large staples in the country’s Bruch Concerto for Clarinet and insightful and informative, musical history, during which Viola in E minor Op. 88 and there is not a trace of London-based composer Arlene Beethoven Symphony No 9 in tricksiness or flash about it.” Sierra’s work Aquilo will D minor Op. 125 ‘Choral’ Scottish Herald provide a fresh perspective The message of universal of American music today. “With music ranging from brotherhood embodied in hushed inwardness to stormy Remind yourself of a country Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony flashiness, Liszt led a life that has produced some of has resonated down the ages, paralleling his music – and the most distinctive and making it an appropriate choice here it is, all bound together, memorable musical traditions, for this concert which is in aid living in music history.” composers and conductors. of Help Refugees UK. ***** Pianist Magazine Pre-concert talk: 6.30pm phoenixorchestra.org Free gift from Sheaffer with helprefugees.org.uk orchestravitae.co.uk every ticket purchased.

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Thu 1 March 7.30pm Fri 2 March 7.30pm Sun 4 March 3.00pm £15, £12 (£9) £26, £18, £14, £10 £25 (£15), YF

22 Box Office 020 7222 1061 London Mozart Players © Sim Canetty-Clarke Nancy Storace © Pietro Bettelini

BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA Howard Shelley © Eric Richmond Songs for Nancy CHROMA The Amadè Players © Ella Haller Zwierzchowska Jacquelyn Stucker soprano Andrew Griffithsconductor & piano Mozart Ch’io mi scordi di te? K505 Mozart ‘Deh vieni, non tardar’ from Le nozze di Figaro K492 Haydn Symphony No. 83 in G minor ‘The Hen’ Hob.I/83 Programme also includes arias and overtures by Salieri, Stephen Storace and Sarti. LONDON Anglo-Italian soprano Nancy MOZART Storace (1765–1817) was HANDEL renowned for her vocal prowess MESSIAH PLAYERS and remarkable stage presence, Piano Explored enjoying a glittering career International Women’s Day across Europe. Recruited for the Howard Shelley piano Emperor Joseph II’s new Italian The Amadè Players & director opera company in Vienna, she Nick Newland director came to the notice of the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto Handel Messiah leading composers of the day, No. 2 in G minor Op. 22 above all Mozart who created Inspired by Handel’s London Mozart Players return the role of Susanna in Le nozze philanthropy, period with Howard Shelley for their di Figaro specifically for her. instrument ensemble highly anticipated Piano The Amadè Players return Bampton Classical Opera marks Explored lunchtime series. to celebrate International the bicentenary of her death Women’s Day 2018 with the In the final instalment this with an appealing concert of Associated Country Women season, the Conductor Laureate music associated with her, of the World. ACWW is one of whisks the audience through with arias sung by rising star the largest rural women’s the rollercoaster 17 days it took Jacquelyn Stucker, currently development organisations, Saint-Saëns to write his Piano a Jette Parker Young Artist at with more than 9 million Concerto No. 2 for his friend, the Royal Opera. The event members worldwide. the pianist and composer opens Bampton’s own 25th Anton Rubinstein. Anniversary Season. amadeplayers.com acww.org.uk londonmozartplayers.com bamptonopera.org

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Tue 6 March 6.30pm Wed 7 March 1.05pm Wed 7 March 7.30pm £15 (£12) £15 (£5 students) £30, £24, £18

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Leonard Bernstein c. 1955

thursday lunchtime concerts THE ASHLEY FRIPP LONDON Piano CHORUS Weber Invitation to the Dance Americana ‘18 Op. 65 Edward Batting organ Bartók Suite Op. 14 Ronald Corp conductor Chopin Four Mazurkas Op. 24 Thomas Adès Three Mazurkas Bernstein Chichester Psalms Op. 27 Ives Variations on America Chopin Andante spianato et Barber Prayers of Kierkegaard grande polonaise brillante Op. 22 Sousa ‘Stars and Stripes’ March Morten Lauridsen Lux aeterna Ashley Fripp’s recital shows the colourful variety of dance The London Chorus celebrates music throughout pianistic the centenary of the birth of history, beginning with Weber’s Leonard Bernstein with his Invitation to the Dance – the popular Chichester Psalms. first ever waltz intended solely This work captures the diverse for listening, not dancing, to. spirit of American music with Bartók’s Hungarian and African its jazz influenced rhythms infused Suite contrasts with the and harmonies and contrasting Polish mazurkas of Chopin and sections which are intense Thomas Adès. The programme and dramatic. Our programme concludes with the rousing continues in this mood of fireworks of one of Chopin’s contrasts, featuring secular most popular and virtuosic and sacred music, some familiar polonaises. and some less well known. ashleyfripp.co.uk londonchorus.org.uk

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Thu 8 March 1.05pm Thu 8 March 7.30pm £10, YF £20, £15, £10

24 Box Office 020 7222 1061 sunday at st john’s JULIAN

Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown © Roger JACOBSONHarris 70th Birthday Celebrations

Kensington Symphony Orchestra © Sim Canetty-Clarke Masterpieces of Beethoven, Schubert, Prokofiev & Gershwin Julian Jacobson piano Mariko Brown piano Schubert Fantasie in C D760 ‘Wanderer Fantasy’ Beethoven Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Prokofiev Selections from Ten Pieces Op. 75 ‘Romeo and Juliet’: No. 1 Folk Dance • No. 4 The Young Juliet • No. 6 Montagues and Capulets • No. 10 Romeo Bids Juliet Farewell KENSINGTON Gershwin transc. Julian SYMPHONY Jacobson An American In ORCHESTRA In celebration of his 70th STEPHEN birthday, the acclaimed pianist Michael Seal conductor Julian Jacobson brings four MONTAGUE’S rich and varied programmes of Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in th major works by four composers 75 BIRTHDAY C minor WAB108 with whom he has been Americana ‘18 Bruckner’s last completed particularly associated over his symphony, with the richness long and distinguished career. A day of events to mark the of its orchestral sound and the This concert conclues with 75th birthday of Anglo-American grandeur of its themes, is a Julian’s brilliant piano duet composer Stephen Montague. monumental masterpiece on transcription of Gershwin’s There will be concerts and the scale of a cathedral or a An American in Paris. workshops throughout the day. mountain range. Please visit our website for julianjacobson.com more information. kso.org.uk marikojulianpianoduo.com

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Fri 9 March Sat 10 March 7.30pm Sun 11 March 3.00pm £18.50 (£14), £14 £16 (£10), YF

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thursday lunchtime concerts RICHARD PINEL Organ Series Americana ‘18 Naji Hakim Toccata Hampton Five Dances Gunnar Idenstam Intermezzo Duruflé Prélude, Adagio et Choral Varié sur le thème du ‘Veni Creator’ Op. 4 Sir Simon Jenkins Richard Pinel is a Fellow and the Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge, a post which he combines with the directorship of the Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy and a successful YOUNG freelance career as a virtuoso MUSICIANS organist. Prior to this he was, for seven years, Assistant SYMPHONY Director of Music at St George’s ORCHESTRA Chapel, Windsor Castle, playing for services of national and Steven Hudson oboe international significance. MY MUSIC: James Blair conductor He began his musical study in Arnold Tam O’Shanter Overture SIR SIMON his hometown of Northampton, Op. 51 before winning the prestigious JENKINS Strauss Oboe Concerto in D organ scholarship to Magdalen Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 My Music College, Oxford. Subsequently The YMSO returns to St John’s he undertook further study Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square, opening with with Henry Fairs as a Junior John Lubbock conductor Arnold’s Tam O’Shanter Fellow of Sir Simon Jenkins guest Overture, which leads to Conservatoire. This led to Sir Simon Jenkins, author, Strauss’ Oboe Concerto international success, newspaper columnist and featuring Steven Hudson as culminating in winning first editor, discusses the music their soloist. The concert will prize and both special prizes (performed by OSJ) which finish with Rachmaninoff’s in the Breda International means the most to him. triumphant Symphony No. 2. Organ Festival. osj.org.uk ymso.org.uk richardpinel.co.uk

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Tue 13 March 1.05pm Wed 14 March 7.30pm Thu 15 March 1.05pm £14 £20, £15, £10 (20% offf ) £10, YF

26 Box Office 020 7222 1061 Leonard Bernstein Johannes Brahms c. 1875 © Fritz Luckhardt

RETURN TO BLUE A Concert of Indian Contemporary Music BRAHMS Aruna Sairam singer REQUIEM Soumik Datta sarod player Islington Choral Society Discover South India’s rich Camden Symphony Orchestra history of spiritual music Michael Bowden conductor through the voice of celebrated If you love great choral music, songstress, Aruna Sairam. In COME & SING don’t miss Islington Choral a special performance, Sairam BERNSTEIN Society’s performance of collaborates with British Indian Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem composer Soumik Datta, to Music from musicals and films which combines choral passion explore the musical Americana ‘18 with orchestral excitement. As connections between Carnatic one of the Romantic period’s and Western musical traditions. David Wordsworth conductor leading composers, Brahms Leading on his signature Bernstein Arrangements from wrote arguably his greatest instrument, the Sarod West Side Story • Candide • choral composition, as a (19-stringed, fretless lute), Wonderful Town • On the Town comfort for those who mourn. Soumik weaves an intriguing, • 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue This passionate, large-scale global soundscape around work creates a tapestry of The day will culminate in Sairam’s majestic voice to evoke musical solace, peace and hope. an informal performance a haunting and sensory world. at 6.00pm. islingtonchoralsociety. bagrifoundation.org Promoted by wordpress.com Promoted by St John’s Smith Square Promoted by The Bagri Foundation Islington Choral Society Sat 17 March 10.30am–5.00pm Thu 15 March 7.30pm Participants £12 (£8) Sun 18 March 7.00pm £35, £25, £15, £10 (20% offf ) Audience £10 (£5) £20, £15

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Nick Pritchard © Nick James

GEORGE LI Southbank Centre’s International Piano HANDEL Series HANDEL ACIS & GALATEA Beethoven Sonata No. 6 in F ACIS & GALATEA Op. 10 No. 2 London Handel Festival Chopin Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor London Handel Festival Op. 35 ‘Marche funèbre’ London Handel Orchestra European Day of Early Music Rachmaninoff Variations on Nick Pritchard acis a theme by Corelli Op. 42 London Handel Orchestra Lucy Page galatea Liszt Consolation No. 3 in Db Nick Pritchard acis Ed Grint polyphemus Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody Lucy Page galatea Jorge Navarro Colorado damon No. 2 in C# minor Ed Grint polyphemus Martin Parr director Jorge Navarro Colorado damon Laurence Cummings conductor Tonight marks the Martin Parr director International Piano Series Handel Acis and Galatea Laurence Cummings conductor debut of the young Chinese- To celebrate the 300th American pianist George Li. Handel Acis and Galatea Anniversary of the very first Since winning silver medal at To celebrate the 300th performance of Acis and the International Tchaikovsky Anniversary of the very first Galatea, the London Handel Competition in Moscow, he has performance of Acis and Festival present a staging of attracted rave reviews such as: Galatea, the London Handel Handel’s popular pastoral opera. “Mr Li’s playing combined Festival present a staging of The bitter-sweet story, taken youthful abandon with utter Handel’s popular pastoral opera. from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, command” New York Times The bitter-sweet story, taken tells of the love between the from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, shepherd Acis and sea-nymph He is also the winner of Paris’ tells of the love between the Galatea, thwarted by the jealous XIV Concours International shepherd Acis and sea-nymph giant Polyphemus. Grand Prix Animato 2014 and a Galatea, thwarted by the jealous 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, This performance will be giant Polyphemus. and has been touring widely, repeated on Wed 21 March. notably with the conductor london-handel-festival.com london-handel-festival.com Valery Gergiev. earlymusicday.eu

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Mon 19 March 7.30pm Tue 20 March 7.30pm Wed 21 March 7.30pm £45, £35, £25, £15 £38, £28, £15, £10 (50% offf ) £45, £35, £25, £15

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Gilly French Daniel Pioro © Claire Shovelton

CANTANDUM Kate Ashby soprano Thomas Herford tenor Gilly French conductor Handel Chandos Anthem thursday lunchtime concerts ‘The Lord is my light’ Buxtehude Magnificat DANIEL PIORO Handel Chandos Anthem Violin ‘O come let us sing unto the Lord’ Beauty, Time and Space The Westminster-based Biber Passacaglia for solo violin chamber choir, Cantandum, Bach Partita No. 2 for solo violin acclaimed for the quality of its Caroline Shaw In Manus Tuas vocal sound, returns to St John’s (version for solo violin) Smith Square for an engaging The beauty of the violin is concert of music by Handel and demonstrated in this Buxtehude. Handel’s Chandos programme of sacred and Anthems, scored for soloists, secular music, exploring time chorus and a small orchestra, and space and the more are magnificent works of the ethereal sound world the English Baroque, whilst instrument inhabits. Sound in the delightful Magnificat, all its forms is an obsession of attributed to Buxtehude, with Daniel’s, and this programme is its lilting melodies, florid vocal a veritable playground of music soli and fluid string writing, to delve into. has a timeless simplicity. danielpioro.com cantandum.westminster.org.uk

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Thu 22 March 1.05pm Thu 22 March 7.30pm £10, YF £18

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Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra Carducci Quartet © Andy Holdsworth

STONELEIGH YOUTH CARDUCCI ENGLISH ORCHESTRA QUARTET BAROQUE CHOIR Spring Concert Americana ‘18 40th Anniversary Concert Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra London Youth Choir Philip Glass Quartets No. 1–5 Musica Poetica Stoneleigh Training Orchestra David Hurley countertenor Hailed by The Strad for Ben Goldscheider horn Jonathan Howard bass-baritone presenting “a masterclass in Robert Hodge musical director Jeremy Jackman conductor unanimity of musical purpose, Dan Shilladay assistant in which severity could melt Bach Mass in B minor conductor seamlessly into charm, and drama into geniality”, the Was Mass in B minor Bach’s last Arnold Peterloo Overture Op. 97 Carducci Quartet is one of the will and testament to music? It Krzysztof Penderecki Horn leading string quartest today. is certainly at the pinnacle of all Concerto his musical achievements. Holst The Planets Like many composers before him, Philip Glass saved some of This performance will be played Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra join his most personal and reflective at baroque pitch, accompanied forces with the London Youth music for his string quartets. by period instruments. Jeremy Choir for a performance of Jackman, a former member of Holst’s masterpiece, The “In an odd way, string quartets The King’s Singers conducts a Planets. The concert also have always functioned like lineup of soloists including features Penderecki’s Horn that for composers. I don’t David Hurley, another former Concerto, performed by really know why, but it’s almost member, and Jonathan Howard, outstanding young horn player impossible to get away from it. a current member. The other Ben Goldscheider, and Malcolm It’s the way composers of the soloists, to be announced, will Arnold’s dramatic Peterloo past have thought and that’s no be young artists supported by Overture. less true for me.” — Philip Glass the Josephine Baker Trust. stoneleighyouthorchestra.org. carducciquartet.com ebc.org.uk uk

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Fri 23 March 7.30pm Sat 24 March 7.30pm Sun 25 March 6.30pm £25, £19, £14, £10 £29, £23, £17, £11 £10 (£5)

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EX CATHEDRA HOLY WEEK Holy Week Festival FESTIVAL 2018 THE CHOIR Harmonic Spiritual Theatre: Mon 26 March – Sun 1 April OF ROYAL Sacrifice, betrayal, passion Returning after a hugely HOLLOWAY Jeffrey Skidmoreconductor successful inaugural year, we Holy Week Festival Anerio ‘Rispondi, Abramo’ from are delighted to present our Teatro armonico spirituale di Holy Week Festival curated by Into the Night madrigal Tenebrae and their artistic Rupert Gough conductor Monteverdi/Coppini O infelix director Nigel Short. recessus Ēriks Ešenvalds Evening St John’s Smith Square proudly Monteverdi/Coppini O Jesu René Clausen A clear midnight hosts workshops, ticketed mea vita Morten Lauridsen Nocturnes concerts and free late-night Monteverdi/Coppini Stabat Vytautas Miškinis Dum liturgical events exploring a Virgo Maria medium silentium vast range of sacred music in Monteverdi/Coppini Ure me, Vytautas Miškinis Tenebrae celebration of Holy Week. Domine Arturs Maskats Lugums naktij Gesualdo Sparge la morte Nigel Short and Tenebrae will ‘Prayer to the night’ Bouzignac O Mors, ero mors tua perform a moving sequence of Ēriks Ešenvalds Long Road Charpentier Le reniement de devotional settings and The Choir of Royal Holloway St Pierre responses on Spy Wednesday, takes you on a musical journey Anerio ‘Sedea lasso Gesù’ from Maundy Thursday and Good ‘Into the night’. An exotic mix Teatro armonico spirituale di Friday. The festival will also of sacred and secular music madrigal include opportunities to features composers from the Monteverdi/Coppini Maria, participate in a workshop with USA, Lithuania and Latvia. quid ploras? Tenebrae and Come & Sing The opening works by Ēriks Monteverdi/Coppini Gloria tua Handel’s Messiah with the Ešenvalds and René Clausen Monteverdi/Coppini Plagas Smith Square Voices. set evocative American poetry tuas To mark the 100th anniversary by Sara Teasdale and Walt Carissimi Jepthe of the formation of the Baltic Whitman. Appropriately for The bittersweet beauty of two states, this year’s programming Holy Week the images of night magnificent works by Carissimi will feature music by Ēriks and death are intertwined as and Charpentier are amongst Ešenvalds, Paweł Łukaszewski the programme moves from the first oratorios. This Lenten and Arvo Pärt amongst other Morten Lauridsen’s three programme explores the early Baltic composers. Nocturnes to a setting of the development of the oratorio Tenebrae responsory by We are delighted to welcome a with a selection of glorious Lithuanian Vytautas Miškinis host of distinguished headline music by Monteverdi, and concludes with settings of performers to this year’s Palestrina, Gesualdo and Anerio contemporary Latvian poetry. festival, including the Aurora – whose publication Teatro Orchestra, Ex Cathedra, This concert will last around armonico spirituale di madrigali Gabrieli, Polyphony and the 1 hour without an interval. lends the concert its name. Britten Sinfonia, Skylark (from chapelchoir.co.uk excathedra.co.uk the USA) and The Tallis Scholars. Co-promoted by The Choir of Royal Promoted by Holloway and St John’s Smith Square Ex Cathedra Holy Week Festival will be on sale on Mon 30 October. Mon 26 March 6.00pm Mon 26 March 7.30pm £10 £35, £28, £22, £14

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Chantage © Richard Northcott CHURCH CHOIR Holy Week Festival Roger Sayer conductor Greg Morris organ Anne Denholm harp Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor Alain Litanies Poulenc Vinea mea Electa Finzi Lo, the full, final sacrifice Op. 26 Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah Janáček Otcentáš CHANTAGE The programme provides Holy Week Festival pathos and passion with a wide range of musical styles. Crucifixus Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor was the first British a James Davey conductor cappella mass to be written Lotti Crucifixus a 8 since the 16th century and ETCETERA CIVIL Byrd Miserere mihi, Domine reflects the style the Great SERVICE CHOIR Leighton Drop, Drop Slow Tears Masses of William Byrd. Tallis’ Paweł Łukaszewski Two Lenton epic Lamentations of Jeremiah Holy Week Festival Motets have formed the bedrock of Humphrey Clucas Crucifixus passiontide worship for over Stabat mater Taverner Dum Transisset 400 years. The Last Supper is Stephen Hall conductor Matthew Sharrock O Sacrum beautifully expressed in Lo, the Convivium full, final sacrifice. The anthem’s For the sixth year, this Byrd Haec Dies text memorialises the outstanding Civil Service Choir Eric Whitacre Alleluia celebration of the Eucharist. performs something special Finzi assembled the text from during Holy Week. Chantage, one of the UK’s two poems of Richard Crashaw leading amateur choirs, Previous concerts have featured (c. 1613–1649), an English poet of presents Crucifixus: a major works by Mozart, the Metaphysical tradition of programme of music for Easter. Beethoven, and Haydn – John Donne and Thomas The dramatic and moving attracting capacity audiences. Traherne. The Temple Church narrative of Holy Week is Choir concert also encompasses This time it will be a Stabat reflected in pieces ranging from truly beautiful compositions Mater, but by whom? To find Lotti’s dissonantCrucifixus for Good Friday by Poulenc, out get your free tickets. Don’t through to Eric Whitacre’s and the extraordinary setting miss this extraordinary beautiful setting ofAlleluia . of The Lord’s Prayer by Janáček. lunchtime concert. This concert will last around Organist Greg Morris completes This concert will last around 1 hour without an interval. the programme with music 1 hour without an interval. from France and the Baltic. chantage.org civilservicechoir.org.uk jamesdavey.org templechurch.com

Promoted by Co-promoted by Chantage Promoted by Etcetera Choir and St John’s Smith Square The Temple Choir

Tue 27 March 1.00pm Tue 27 March 6.00pm Tue 27 March 7.30pm Free admission £10, YF £28, £22, £16, £10

32 Box Office 020 7222 1061 Tenebrae © Sim Canetty-Clarke

TENEBRAE & Holy Week Festival Nicholas Madden pilate/tenor THE Jimmy Holliday jesus/bass Emma Walshe soprano GESUALDO SIX Hannah Cooke mezzo soprano Holy Week Festival David de Winter tenor Stephen Kennedy baritone WORKSHOP: Fading: the hour is at hand Nigel Short conductor THE TENEBRAE Owain Park director Arvo Pärt Passio EFFECT Gibbons O Lord, in thy wrath Completed in 1982, this passion Joanna Marsh Two movements setting is one of Pärt’s most Holy Week Festival from Arabesques popular works and employs his Gesualdo Tristis est anima mea truly original tintinnabuli style. Nigel Short conductor Arvo Pärt Da pacem domine Set by candlelight, Tenebrae Arvo Pärt The Woman With Byrd Lullaby my sweet little and the players from the Aurora the Alabaster Box babe Orchestra will create an Arvo Pärt The Beatitudes Tormis Four Estonian Lullabies immersive audience experience Paweł Łukaszewski Weary in what promises to be an The Gesualdo Six is a vocal With Toil unmissable event in this year’s consort specialising in the Holy Week Festival. The Tenebrae Effect is performance of renaissance Tenebrae’s inspiring choral polyphony, directed by Owain “You couldn’t have asked for a development initiative that Park. The group were 2015/16 better performance: plush provides an insight into what St John’s Smith Square Young choral sound, heartfelt solos… makes Tenebrae’s sound and Artists and, after their popular rich contributions from the interpretation of music so appearance in the inaugural Aurora Orchestra and all unique. Join Nigel Short and Holy Week Festival, they are immaculately sculpted by Tenebrae singers for what is delighted to return with a Short.” The Times set to be a fascinating and programme of Renaissance This concert will last around informative morning. Scores and modern works united by 75 minutes without an interval. will be provided on the day. themes of despair, loss, peace Participants of this morning’s and hope, concluding with Workshop participants are workshop are entitled to a 10% beautiful lullabies by Byrd entitled to a 10% discount ticket discount for this concert. and Tormis. (within the same transaction) Bookings must be made in the to Tenebrae’s evening concert This concert will last around same transaction. on Wed 28 March 8.00pm. 45 minutes without an interval. tenebrae-choir.com tenebrae-choir.com thegesualdosix.co.uk auroraorchestra.com

Co-promoted by Tenebrae Co-promoted by The Gesualdo Six Co-promoted by Tenebrae and St John’s Smith Square and St John’s Smith Square and St John’s Smith Square

Wed 28 March 11.00am–1.00pm Wed 28 March 6.45pm Wed 28 March 8.00pm £20 (£14) £10, YF £35, £28, £22, £14

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Nigel Short © Chris O’Donovan

COME & SING HANDEL © Chris O’Donovan MESSIAH Holy Week Festival Tenebrae Associate Artists Smith Square Voices Chartwell Sinfonia MAUNDY Jessica Cale soprano SPY WEDNESDAY Elisabeth Paul mezzo soprano THURSDAY LITRUGICAL James Robinson tenor LITURGICAL Theo Plattbass EVENT Richard Heason conductor EVENT Holy Week Festival Handel Messiah Holy Week Festival Triduum Sacrum Join the Smith Square Voices Triduum Sacrum for their annual scratch Tenebrae Consort Tenebrae Consort performance of Handel’s Nigel Short conductor Nigel Short conductor Messiah. Accompanied by the Rev Graham Buckle cleric-in- Rev Graham Buckle cleric-in- Chartwell Sinfonia, and with residence residence Tenebrae’s Associate Artists Tenebrae Responsories for as soloists, choral singers are Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday invited to come together Good Friday Paweł Łukaszewski to celebrate and perform. Paweł Łukaszewski Responsories Responsories Rehearsals will take place on Join Tenebrae Consort, directed the day at 12.45pm–1.45pm Join Tenebrae Consort, directed by Nigel Short, for this moving and 2.30pm–5.30pm. by Nigel Short, for this moving sequence of devotional sequence of devotional sjss.org.uk Tenebrae settings and Tenebrae settings and responses. Promoted by responses. St John’s Smith Square tenebrae-choir.com tenebrae-choir.com

Co-promoted by Tenebrae Thu 29 March 7.00pm Co-promoted by Tenebrae and St John’s Smith Square Concert £12 (£8) and St John’s Smith Square Participants £10 (£5) Wed 28 March 10.00pm 50% off concert tickets when Thu 29 March 10.00pm Free admission purchasing a participant place Free admission

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Stephen Layton © Keith Saunders

BACH ST JOHN PASSION Holy Week Festival SKYLARK Polyphony ENSEMBLE Britten Sinfonia Holy Week Festival Nick Pritchard evangelist Neal Davies christus Americana ‘18 Julia Doyle soprano GOOD FRIDAY Helen Charlston mezzo Matthew Guard conductor LITURGICAL soprano Meditation for Good Friday: EVENT Hiroshi Amako tenor Seven Last Words Ashley Riches bass Holy Week Festival Skylark, a premier professional Bach St John Passion choir from the US, makes its UK Triduum Sacrum debut with an innovative For many people, for many Tenebrae Consort program conceived for Good years now, Polyphony’s Good Nigel Short conductor Friday. Featuring a diverse mix Friday performance of Bach’s Rev Graham Buckle cleric-in- of choral music from America sublime St John Passion has residence been a highlight of their and around the world, Skylark’s concert season. With period imaginative programme Tenebrae Responsories for instrument players of the thematically progresses Holy Saturday through the scriptural Seven Britten Sinfonia alongside the Join Tenebrae Consort, directed Last Words from the Cross. rising generation of singers by Nigel Short, for this moving amongst the soloists, this is There will be a pre-concert talk sequence of devotional simply not to be missed. at 6.30pm with Matthew Guard Tenebrae settings and stephenlayton.com/polyphony and Nigel Short. responses. brittensinfonia.com skylarkensemble.org tenebrae-choir.com

Promoted by Promoted by Co-promoted by Tenebrae Associated Musical Services Ltd Skylark Ensemble and St John’s Smith Square

Fri 30 March 2.30pm Fri 30 March 7.30pm Fri 30 March 10.00pm £55, £45, £40, £25 £20 (£10), YF Free admission

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THE CHOIR OF KING’S COLLEGE LONDON THE TALLIS SCHOLARS GABRIELI Holy Week Festival Holy Week Festival Holy Week Festival Joseph Fort conductor Mhairi Lawson soprano Requiem Rodion Shchedrin The Sealed Charlotte Beament soprano Angel Peter Phillips conductor Anna Harvey mezzo soprano Jeremy Budd tenor Victoria Surrexit pastor bonus The Choir of King’s College Edward Grint bass-baritone Victoria Vidi speciosam London gives a rare Paul McCreesh conductor performance of Rodion Guerrero Tota pulchra es Shchedrin’s The Sealed Angel, Guerrero Hei mihi, Domine Bach Mass in B minor BWV232 A Lobo Versa est in luctum which sets Nikolai Leskov’s tale There are few mightier spiritual Victoria Magnificat for double of a rural community or artistic challenges than choir protecting its religious icon. Bach’s Mass in B minor, but Victoria Requiem Following the tradition of then few living performers are Rachmaninoff’sAll-Night Vigil, The music in this programme better equipped to tackle it than Shchedrin’s choral textures takes us on a spiritual journey Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli. range from consummate from the light of Easter, Using chamber-sized forces, strength to gentle tenderness. through the darkness of Lent, McCreesh pares away centuries This concert will last around to return to a rather different of performance tradition to 1 hour without an interval. light – the light of Victoria’s drive to the emotional core belief in the afterlife. of this iconic work. kcl.ac.uk/choir thetallisscholars.co.uk gabrieli.com Co-promoted by The Choir of King’s College London and St John’s Smith Promoted by Promoted by Square The Tallis Scholars Gabrieli

Sat 31 March 1.05pm Sat 31 March 7.30pm Sun 1 April 5.30pm £10, YF £35, £28, £22, £14 £35, £28, £22, £14

36 Box Office 020 7222 1061 APRIL sunday at st john’s ENSEMBLE DENOTE thursday lunchtime concerts

General booking: Mon 22 Jan Classics by Arrangement TABEA DEBUS Patrons booking: Mon 15 Jan Mozart through the eyes Recorder Friends booking: Fri 19 Jan of his contemporaries 2015/16 Young Artist Tabea Debus performs Telemann’s John Irving fortepiano enterprising subscription lists. Mozart arr. Freystädtler Piano Promoted by Quartet in Eb (arrangement of St John’s Smith Square Quintet K452) Mozart ‘Kegelstatt’ TrioK498 Thu 12 April 1.05pm Mozart arr. Schwencke ‘Grand £10, YF Quintetto’ (arrangement of Grand Partita K361) thursday lunchtime concerts Pre-concert talk: 2.15pm Co-promoted by Ensemble DeNOTE IRISH GEORGE BARTON and St John’s Smith Square & SIWAN RHYS HERITAGE Sun 8 April 3.00pm OPERA GALA Young Artists’ Series £16 (£10), YF Irish Heritage Opera Americana ‘18 Jean Kelly conductor George Barton percussion A celebration of 44 years of Siwan Rhys piano Tim Mead © Benjamin Ealovega Irish Heritage support to emerging Irish musicians. Patrick Brennan New Work (world premiere) Promoted by John Luther Adams Four Irish Heritage Thousand Holes Thu 12 April 7.30pm Promoted by £25 St John’s Smith Square

Thu 5 April 1.05pm £10, YF HANDEL HERTFORDSHIRE GIULIO CESARE CHORUS THE SON London Handel Festival The Music of Michael Hurd Early Opera Company London Orchestra Da Camera OF MAN Tim Mead giulio cesare Marta Fontanals-Simmons Members of Orchestra of Anna Devin cleopatra mezzo soprano St John’s and OSJ Voices Rupert Enticknap tolomeo David Temple conductor Ghada Shbeir voice Hilary Summers cornelia Michael Hurd Music’s Praise Maria Makhouri qanoun Rachel Kelly sesto Michael Hurd The Phoenix and John Lubbock conductor Callum Thorpe achilla the Turtle James Hall nireno Fairouz Syriac Chants & Songs Michael Hurd Jonah Man Jazz Christian Curnyn conductor Kareem Roustom The Son of Britten Saint Nicolas

Man (London premiere) Handel Giulio Cesare Promoted by Promoted by Co-promoted by London Handel Festival Hertfordshire Chorus Musicstage Promotions Ltd and St John’s Smith Square Sat 14 April 7.30pm Thu 5 April 7.30pm Wed 11 April 7.00pm £25, £20, £14, £12 (10% off) £20, £15, £10 £45, £35, £25, £15 50% off forU18 s

Book online sjss.org.uk 37 Martin Sturfalt © Jan Lindblad APRIL ENGLISH SYMPHONY General booking: Mon 22 Jan Patrons booking: Mon 15 Jan ORCHESTRA Friends booking: Fri 19 Jan Americana ‘18 Kenneth Woods conductor sunday at st john’s Ives Symphony No. 3 ELÉGIE: Copland Clarinet Concerto MARTIN Jesse Jones New Work (world RACHMANINOFF; STURFÄLT premiere, commissioned by the A HEART IN EXILE ESO & St John’s Smith Square) Blüthner Piano Series Piston Sinfonietta Sheaffer Sundays Co-promoted by English Symphony Bach/KempffSinfonia from Wir Orchestra and St John’s Smith Square Lucy Parham piano danken dir Gott wir danken dir Henry Goodman narrator BWV29 Thu 19 April 7.30pm Sjögren Prelude & Fugue in The London premiere of Lucy £28, £18, £14, £10 D minor Op. 39 Parham’s latest Composer Nielsen Chaconne Op. 32 Portrait, which chronicles Debussy Pour le piano Rachmaninoff’s exile from Anders Nilsson Chaconne Mathilde Milwidsky © Donald van Hasselt Russia and the enduring Brahms Two gigues Wo04 longing for his homeland. Liszt Variations on Weinen, Free gift from Sheaffer with Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen S180 every ticket purchased. Co-promoted by Blüthner Piano Centre Co-promoted by Lucy Parham and St John’s Smith Square and St John’s Smith Square Tue 17 April 7.30pm Sun 15 April 3.00pm £15, £10, £8 £25 (£15), YF

GREGORY ARMONICO ROSE AT 70 thursday lunchtime concerts CONSORT Jupiter Singers MATHILDE Armonico Baroque Players Jupiter Orchestra Gillian Keith soprano Loré Lixenberg mezzo soprano MILWIDSKY Christopher Monks director Peter Sheppard Skærved violin Young Artists’ Series Gregory Rose conductor Bach Cantata ‘Ich habe genug’ Mathilde Milwidsky violin BWV82a Gregory Rose John Reid piano Marcello Oboe Concerto in Copland (world premiere) • D minor Suite pour cordes • 5 Schwitters Tartini Violin Sonata in G minor Bach Excerpt from Cantata Songs (world premiere) • ‘Devil’s Trill’ Bg5 ‘Weichet nur’ BWV202 Thambapanni (UK premiere) • Grieg Sonata No. 3 in C minor ‘The Wedding Cantata’ Fanfare • Old English Folk Op. 45 Bach Cantata ‘O holder Tag’ Songs • Violin Concerto (world Bartók Romanian Folk Dances BWV210 premiere) Sz56

Co-promoted by Armonico Consort Co-promoted by English Symphony Promoted by and St John’s Smith Square Orchestra and St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square

Mon 16 April 7.30pm Wed 18 April 7.30pm Thu 19 April 1.05pm £28, £22, £16, £10 £15, £12 £10, YF

38 Box Office 020 7222 1061 George Gershwin

LONDON PHOENIX ORCHESTRA Americana ‘18 Masa Tayama piano Lev Parikian conductor Anderson Goldilocks Overture Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Second Rhapsody Grofé Grand Canyon Suite

Promoted by London Phoenix Orchestra

Tue 24 April 7.30pm £15, £12 (£9)

MY MUSIC: LORD HAGUE

Rolf Hind © Škel Nicolau My Music Orchestra of St John’s OCCUPY THE BUKOLIKA John Lubbock conductor PIANOS 2018 PIANO TRIO Lord Hague guest Rolf Hind festival director Young Artists’ Series My Music, the OSJ’s concert series in which famous people Come and join the Occupation! Roma Tic violin discuss the music that means Pianistic treats, provocations Joanna Gutowska cello the most to them, continues and memorials over 3 days. Anna Szałucka piano with Lord Hague, a member of This festival is supported by the House of Lords and a Panufnik Piano Trio Op. 1 The London Community former leader of the Górecki 6 Bagatelles Foundation and Cockayne Conservative Party. Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb – Grants for the Arts. Op. 100 osj.org.uk

Curated by Rolf Hind Promoted by Promoted by Promoted by St John’s Smith Square Orchestra of St John’s St John’s Smith Square Mon 23 April 7.30pm Wed 25 April 1.05pm Fri 20–Sun 22 April £12 (£8), YF £14

Book online sjss.org.uk 39 CITY OF APRIL LONDON MAY SINFONIA Romantic Heroes: General booking: Mon 22 Jan Love Is Complicated Patrons booking: Mon 15 Jan Friends booking: Fri 19 Jan Michael Collins conductor & clarinet

Stephen Farr © Jennifer Snapes Brahms Clarinet Quintet Robert & Clara Schumann SEPTURA Chamber works BRASS SEPTET Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D Op. 73 Kleptomania Promoted by Borrowed Baroque Arrangements for Brass septet: Thu 26 April 7.30pm Handel Suite from Rinaldo £25 unreserved Rameau Suite from Dardanus Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite

Co-promoted by Septura Brass Septet and St John’s Smith Square Roderick Williams © Benjamin Ealovega Tue 1 May 7.30pm £20 (£18), YF

Bukolika Piano Trio © Magdalena Grundwald

thursday lunchtime concerts BRAHMS STEPHEN FARR REQUIEM thursday lunchtime concerts Organ Series Choir London Mozart Players BUKOLIKA Americana ‘18 Elin Pritchard soprano Andriessen Thema met Roderick Williams baritone PIANO TRIO variaties Christopher Dawe conductor Young Artists’ Series

Alain Choral Dorien Bruckner Ave Maria Roma Tic violin Bach Toccata, Adagio and Bruckner Locus iste Joanna Gutowska cello Fugue in C BWV564 Bruckner Os justi Anna Szałucka piano William Bolcom What a friend Bruckner Christus factus est we have in Jesus Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Dvořák Piano Trio No. 4 in Bartók Little Suite for Organ Gesellen E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Tailleferre Nocturne Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem Martin Piano Trio on Irish Simon Preston Alleluyas Promoted by folktunes Promoted by Anton Bruckner Choir Promoted by St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square Sat 28 April 7.30pm Thu 26 April 1.05pm £32, £28, £24, £18 Thu 3 May 1.05pm £10, YF (£30, £26, £22, £16) £10, YF

40 Box Office 020 7222 1061 Sébastien Daucé © Josep Molina

TETRACHORD PIANO ENSEMBLE Dialogues for 4 Claire Wickes Dimitris Karydis piano Petros Moschos piano Michalis Angelakis piano Nikos Stavlas piano Smetana Sonata in E minor Rachmaninoff Suite No. 1 Op. 5 Alexander Rosenblatt Fantasia on Japanese Themes Marek Pasieczny Suite Polonaise Mack Wilberg Fantasy on themes from Bizet’s Carmen LONDON Promoted by Tomos Xerri © Joshua Xerri Tetrachord Piano Ensemble FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE Thu 3 May 7.30pm £18, £12 MUSIC 2018 Treasures of the Grand Siècle Britain’s foremost Baroque music festival returns sunday at st john’s with another imaginative programme featuring the very THE best UK and international REVOLUTIONARY performing talent, including DRAWING ROOM Ensemble Correspondances. The Festival will be curated by thursday lunchtime concerts In the Shadow of Napoleon its first Guest Artistic Director, conductor and musicologist Emigrés in Vienna SIREN Sébastien Daucé, and will Adrian Butterfieldviolin Claire Wickes flute celebrate the 350th anniversary Kathryn Parry violin Tomos Xerri harp of the birth of François Rachel Stottviola Couperin. Damase Sonata No. 1 for Flute Ruth Alford cello and Harp Priority booking for LFBM Reicha String Quartet in Debussy arr. Tomos Xerri & Friends, and Patrons and C minor Op. 49 No. 1 Claire Wickes Trois chansons de Friends of St John’s Smith Cherubini String Quartet No. 3 Bilitis Square: Mon 29 January 2018 in D minor Liam Mattison Folding stars General booking: Beethoven String Quartet in C and other love songs Mon 5 February 2018 Op. 59 No. 3 Cras Suite en duo

Co-promoted by The Revolutionary Promoted by lfbm.org.uk Drawing Room and St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square Promoted by St John’s Smith Square Sun 6 May 3.00pm Thu 10 May 1.05pm £16 (£10), YF £10, YF Fri 11–Sat 19 May 2018

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General booking: Mon 22 Jan Patrons booking: Mon 15 Jan Friends booking: Fri 19 Jan thursday lunchtime concerts PHILIP SCRIVEN Organ Series Americana ‘18 Bernstein arr. Philip Scriven sunday at st john’s Overture to Candide Joel Martinson Aria on a ENSEMBLE Chaconne DENOTE Dan Locklair Rubrics ORCHESTRA Duruflé Suite Op. 5 Classics by Arrangement Promoted by Two Beethoven ‘Selfies’ NOVA St John’s Smith Square

John Irving fortepiano Americana ‘18 Thu 24 May 1.05pm Beethoven Piano Quartet George Vass conductor £10, YF Op. 16, the composer’s 1802 Emily Pailthorpe oboe arrangement of the Quintet for Barber Capricorn Concerto Piano and Winds Op. 21 George Barton & Siwan Rhys © Dejan Mrdja Beethoven Sonata for Basset Diamond Rounds Horn and Piano Op. 17, Josef Richard Blackford Oboe Friedlowsky’s 1802 arrangement Concerto ‘The Better Angels of of the Horn Sonata our Nature’ Beethoven Trio for Clarinet, Copland Appalachian Spring Cello and Piano Op. 38, the (complete chamber version) composer’s 1805 arrangement of the Septet Op. 20 Co-promoted by Nova Music Trust and St John’s Smith Square Pre-concert open rehearsal and talk: 2.15pm Tue 22 May 7.30pm £32, £25, £20, £15, YF Co-promoted by Ensemble DeNOTE and St John’s Smith Square

Sun 20 May 3.00pm £16 (£10), YF GEORGE BARTON CHENYIN LI & SIWAN RHYS Blüthner Piano Series Young Artists’ Series Beethoven Sonata No. 27 Americana ‘18 PUCCINI in E minor Op. 90 Beethoven Sonata No. 21 Eric Wubbels doxa LA BOHÈME in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Feldman Dance Suite (For Merle Kensington Symphony Trad. Three Chinese Marsicano) Orchestra transcriptions Oliver Leith New Work (world Russell Keable conductor Stravinsky Petrushka Suites premiere)

Promoted by Co-promoted by Blüthner Piano Centre Promoted by Kensington Symphony Orchestra and St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square

Mon 21 May 7.00pm Wed 23 May 7.30pm Thu 24 May 7.30pm £30, £20, £18 £15, £10, £8 £12 (£8), YF

42 Box Office 020 7222 1061 MORLEY COLLEGE PIANO CONCERTO Mathilde Milwidsky © Donald van Hasselt SERIES: FINALE Morley Chamber Orchestra Haruko Seki piano Charles Peebles conductor Mozart Symphony No. 14 in A K114 Colin Matthews Grand Barcarolle Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in Eb Op. 73 ‘Emperor’

Promoted by Morley College MY MUSIC: LORD JEFFREY Sat 26 May 7.45pm £12 ARCHER My Music Huw Watkins © Benjamin Ealovega Orchestra of St John’s John Lubbock conductor Deniz Arman Gelenbe © James Keates Lord Jeffrey Archer guest Author and politician Lord Jeffrey Archer discusses the music (performed by the OSJ) which means the most to him.

Promoted by Orchestra of St John’s

Wed 30 May 1.05pm £14 sunday at st john’s MATHILDE MILWIDSKY TURN OF thursday lunchtime concerts THE CENTURY Young Artists’ Series LITOLFF AT 200 Postcards from Germany Mathilde Milwidsky violin and France James Willshire piano Huw Watkins piano Moscheles Variations on a Sally Beamish New Work (world Deniz Arman Gelenbe piano Theme of Handel Op. 29 premiere) Michael Bochmann violin Litolff Lieder ohne Worte Op. 51 C Schumann Three Romances Vanessa Lucas-Smith cello Liszt Transcendental Étude for violin and piano Op. 22 Debussy Piano Trio in G No. 10 Beethoven Sonata No. 8 in G Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Litolff Spinnlied Op. 81 Op. 30 Op. 120 Litolff Scherzo Op. 115 Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Saint-Saëns Piano Trio No. 2 in Liszt Transcendental Étude Op. 82 E minor Op. 92 No. 11 Ravel Tzigane

Co-promoted by Deniz Arman Gelenbe Promoted by Promoted by and St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square

Sun 27 May 3.00pm Thu 31 May 1.05pm Thu 31 May 7.30pm £16 (£10), YF £10, YF £12 (£8), YF

Book online sjss.org.uk 43 JUNE YOUNG MUSICIANS ROYAL SYMPHONY General booking: Mon 22 Jan ORCHESTRAL Patrons booking: Mon 15 Jan ORCHESTRA Friends booking: Fri 19 Jan SOCIETY Savitri Grier violin Boris Giltburg piano James Blair conductor Orlando Jopling conductor Suppé Light Cavalry Overture sunday at st john’s Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 6 Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in I MUSICANTI in D Op. 61 G minor Op. 26 Sibelius Symphony No. 5 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Alexandra & the Russians Promoted by Promoted by Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra ProkofievQuintet in G minor Royal Orchestral Society Op. 39 Wed 13 June 7.30pm Dmitri Smirnov Dialogues in Sat 9 June 7.30pm £20, £15, £10 (20% offf ) the Dark £20, £16, £10 Alexandra Harwood New Work (world premiere) Glinka Septet David Titterington © Chris Christodoulou Co-promoted by I Musicanti sunday at st john’s and St John’s Smith Square ENSEMBLE Sun 3 June 3.00pm £16 (£10), YF DENOTE Classics by Arrangement Music arranged by Mozart and Beethoven thursday lunchtime concerts John Irving fortepiano BOREALIS Beethoven 12 variations for SAXOPHONE Violin and Piano WoO40 on Mozart’s ‘Se vuol ballare’ from QUARTET Le Nozze di Figaro Americana ‘18 Mozart 3 transcriptions for string trio of fugues from JS Alastair Penman soprano sax Bach’s Das Wohltemperirte Gillian Blair alto sax Clavier (with introductory thursday lunchtime concerts Victoria Puttock tenor sax Preludes by Mozart) K404a Daniel White baritone sax Beethoven 7 variations for Cello DAVID and Piano WoO46 on Mozart’s Jennifer Higdon Bop ‘Bei Männern welche Liebe TITTERINGTON Albright Selections from fühlen’ from Die Zauberflöte Fantasy Etudes Organ Series Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Gershwin arr. Schlei Wolfgang Op. 36 (arranged by Beethoven) Americana ‘18 Three Preludes for violin, cello, and piano Zack Browning New Work Messiaen Selections from Livre (world premiere) Pre-concert talk with John du Saint Sacrement: Adoro te • David Maslanka Selections Irving and violinist-composer La Source de Vie • Le Dieu caché from Mountain Roads Marcus Barcham-Stevens: • Acte de Foi Zack Browning Howler Back 2.15pm Ned Rorem A Quaker Reader

Promoted by Co-promoted by Ensemble DeNOTE Promoted by St John’s Smith Square and St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square

Thu 7 June 1.05pm Sun 10 June 3.00pm Thu 14 June 1.05pm £10, YF £16 (£10), YF £10, YF

44 Box Office 020 7222 1061 John Suchet

Catrin Finch © Rhys Frampton Bukolika Piano Trio © Magdalena Grundwald

sunday at st john’s BUKOLIKA ARCUBUS PIANO TRIO

ENSEMBLE Young Artists’ Series

Music of the Soul’s Journey Roma Tic violin Schola Cantorum of Cardinal Joanna Gutowska cello Vaughan Memorial School Anna Szałucka piano cello Rebecca Hepplewhite Debussy Piano trio in G L3 piano Russell Hepplewhite Boulanger D’un soir triste piano Iestyn Evans Boulanger D’un matin de Julian Collings conductor printemps conductor Scott Price Messiaen Quartet for the End Eric Whitacre I thank you God of Time for most this amazing day Promoted by LONDON Byrd Laudibus in sanctis St John’s Smith Square MOZART PLAYERS Britten Folksongs: The Salley Gardens • The Ash Grove • Sun 17 June 3.00pm Hosted by John Suchet O Waly, Waly • The Brisk Young £16 (£10), YF Catrin Finch harp Widow Emma Halnan flute Arvo Pärt Which was the Son John Suchet speaker of... Russell Hepplewhite Endless Britten Prelude and Fugue Time Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto BACH MASS Sheppard Media vita in C K299 Russell Hepplewhite Paradise: IN B MINOR Debussy Danse sacrée et danse In a dream London Handel Orchestra profane Tavener Svyati Adrian Butterfield director Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A K201 Pre-concert talk: 6.30pm Bach Mass in B minor

Co-promoted by London Mozart Players Promoted by Co-promoted by Tilford Bach Society and St John’s Smith Square Arcubus Ensemble and St John’s Smith Square

Thu 14 June 7.30pm Sat 16 June 7.30pm Tue 19 June 7.30pm £55*, £32, £26, £21, £15 £22, £16, £14, £10 £30, £24, £18, £14 * incl. post-concert reception

Book online sjss.org.uk 45 George Barton & Siwan Rhys © Dejan Mrdja JUNE

General booking: Mon 22 Jan Patrons booking: Mon 15 Jan Friends booking: Fri 19 Jan

thursday lunchtime concerts CLAIRE BOOTH & ANDREW MATTHEWS- sunday at st john’s Anne Queffélec © Caroline Doutre OWEN GEORGE BARTON Americana ‘18 & SIWAN RHYS I Hate Music Young Artists’ Series Claire Booth soprano Americana ‘18 Andrew Matthews-Owenpiano Cage Music for Amplified Toy Bernstein I Hate Music Pianos Beach Four Songs Kagel Transición II Augusta Read Thomas New Peter McGarr Night Scented Work (world premiere) Stock Songs by Ives, Rorem, & Barber Vinko Globokar Drama Promoted by Promoted by St John’s Smith Square ANNE St John’s Smith Square QUEFFÉLEC Thu 21 June 1.05pm Sun 24 June 3.00pm £10, YF £16 (£10), YF Blüthner Piano Series Handel Sarabande from Suite in G minor HWV432 Handel transc. KempffMenuet in G minor HWV434 HANDEL SAUL JUPITER Poulenc Excerpts from Suite The Camden Choir ORCHESTRA française FP80: Sicilienne • Pro Arte Pavane • Bransle de Champagne Nicholas Houghton continuo Americana ‘18 Handel Suite in E HWV430 Lesley-Jane Rogers soprano Jupiter Singers ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’ Margaret McDonald Gregory Rose conductor Mozart Sonata in A K331 mezzo soprano Ravel Pavane pour une infante Mark Wilde tenor Copland Old American Songs défunte James Plattbass Gregory Rose Birthday Ode for Ravel Miroirs David Stout bass Aaron Copland

Co-promoted by Blüthner Piano Centre Promoted by Promoted by and St John’s Smith Square The Camden Choir Jupiter Orchestra

Wed 20 June 7.30pm Sat 23 June 7.30pm Wed 27 June 7.30pm £15, £10, £8 £25, £20, £15, £10 £15, £12

46 Box Office 020 7222 1061 Nigel Short © Chris O’Donovan JULY Joo Yeon Sir © Diana Roberts

KENSINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Russell Keable conductor Delius A Song of Summer Bridge The Sea Sibelius Symphony No. 6 in D minor Op. 104

Promoted by Kensington Symphony Orchestra

Tue 3 July 7.30pm £18.50 (£14), £14

STONELEIGH YOUTH ORCHESTRA TENEBRAE Americana ‘18 Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra INDEPENDENCE Stoneleigh Training Orchestra Players of Aurora Orchestra Joo Yeon Sir violin (sjss 2015/16 DAY David Allsopp countertenor young artist) Americana ‘18 Nigel Short conductor Robert Hodge conductor Thompson Alleluia Dan Shilladay assistant A day of musical celebrations, Copland In the Beginning conductor workshops, and concerts as Eric Whitacre I thank you God part of Americana ‘18 to mark Wagner Lohengrin Prelude to Bernstein Missa Brevis Independence Day. Join us at Act III Eric Whitacre Sleep 8.00pm for a Come & Sing event Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in Stephen Paulus The Day is Done of American choral music G minor Op. 26 Schoenberg Friede auf Erden Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 Full details of our Independence Bernstein Chichester Psalms in E minor Op. 27 Day events will be announced (chamber version)

Promoted by on our website sjss.org.uk Promoted by Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra Promoted by Tenebrae St John’s Smith Square Sun 1 July 6.30pm Fri 6 July 7.30pm £10 (£5) Wed 4 July from 10.00am £35, £28, £22, £14

Book online sjss.org.uk 47 Septura Brass Septet © Bethany Clarke JULY

General booking: Mon 22 Jan Patrons booking: Mon 15 Jan Friends booking: Fri 19 Jan David Temple © Debbie Ram

HERTFORDSHIRE SEPTURA CHORUS BRASS SEPTET David Temple conductor Kleptomania Debussy Trois Chansons Americana ‘18 Fauré Requiem Duruflé Requiem Song Swag Saint-Saëns 2 Songs Arrangements for Brass septet: Promoted by Ravel Mother Goose Stravinsky © George Grantham Bain Collection (1920s) Hertfordshire Chorus Fauré Mélodies Op. 58 Gershwin Three Preludes Sat 7 July 7.30pm Gershwin Songbook Gershwin An American in Paris

Co-promoted by Septura Brass Septet and St John’s Smith Square

TWICKENHAM Tue 10 July 7.30pm CHORAL £20 (£18), YF SOCIETY Americana ‘18 Brandenburg Sinfonia DAVID FRAY Sarah Fox soprano AMATI Edward Price baritone Blüthner Piano Series Christopher Herrick conductor ORCHESTRA Mozart Fantasy in C minor K475 Leo Patsalides conductor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Mozart Sonata No. 14 in C minor Barber Adagio for Strings K457 Strauss Don Juan Op. 20 Vaughan Williams A Sea Mozart Rondo in A minor K511 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Symphony Schubert Sonata No. 20 in A in D Op. 35

Promoted by D959 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Twickenham Choral Society Co-promoted by Blüthner Piano Centre Promoted by and St John’s Smith Square Amati Orchestra Sun 8 July 7.30pm £22, £18, £10 (10% offf ) Wed 11 July 7.30pm Sat 14 July 7.30pm U18s & students £5 £15, £10, £8 £15 (£12), free for Under 11s

48 Box Office 020 7222 1061 MUFFAT FESTIVAL

Georg Muffat (1653–1704) lived through a Concert Tickets £16 (£10), YF time of immense political and musical Festival Pass £40 (£25) change in Europe, influencing future generations of musicians. He studied and Fri 23 February 2018 7.30pm worked in France during the early part ‘The German Violin School’, featuring of Louis XIV’s reign, worked in Rome, chamber music by Biber, Schmelzer, Muffat, encountering Corelli, and then in various and Krieger parts of central Europe. This was a time of transformation in the musical landscape, Sat 24 February 2018 10.30am with rivalry between old and new factions. Dance workshop with live music provided Muffat was the first person to bring French by The Brook Street Band musical language and the fashion for the dance idiom to Germany. His immense skill Sat 24 February 2018 5.30pm in fusing different musical styles, be it Festival Talk on Georg Muffat (1653–1704) German, French or Italian, made him a – his life, his music, and his legacy true trendsetter. Sat 24 February 2018 7.30pm The Brook Street Band (plus special guests) ‘All about the dance’, featuring orchestral delves into Muffat’s world, exploring the music, inspired by the dance music idiom, varied musical styles that informed and by Muffat, Lully, Handel, Fischer and Bach shaped him. The Band explores his legacy in the form of chamber and orchestral Sun 25 February 2018 11.00am music, providing a comprehensive and ‘The Italian Influence’, featuring Trio varied musical survey of some of the most Sonatas by Handel, Corelli, and Muffat important European musical figures of the late-17th and 18th centuries. Sun 25 February 2018 3.00pm ‘The Concerto’, a programme of solo and orchestral concertos by Geminiani, Handel, Bach, and Muffat The Brook Street Band © Dan Bridge

Book online sjss.org.uk 49 SCHOOL CONCERTS

WYCOMBE ABBEY JAMES ALLEN’S SCHOOL GIRLS’ SCHOOL School Orchestras School Orchestras Michele Chan piano Wind and String Orchestras Jacqueline Lee violin Holst Choir and Choral Society Charlotte Yu voice Daniella Wu violin Lawrence Tubb conductor Peter Gritton conductor Nicholas Hadwen conductor Sarah McClure conductor Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 26 Dvořák Slavonic Dance in F SOUTH Debussy Nocturnes Op. 46 No. 4 EAST SCHOOLS’ Parry I was glad Op. 51 Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54 (first movement) CHAMBER MUSIC In an ambitious and varied Copland Appalachian Spring COMPETITION programme, JAGS celebrates Elgar Serenade for Strings in the centenaries of Debussy Finals Concert E minor Op. 20 and Parry with some of their Finzi Romance for Strings in Eb The South East Schools’ best loved music. It has also Herrmann ‘Theme’ from Psycho Chamber Music Competition been 150 years since the Dvořák ‘Song to the Moon’ from was founded over seven years premiere of Bruch’s Violin Rusalka ago by Harrow, North London Concerto, performed in this Sibelius Violin Concerto in Collegiate and Wycombe Abbey programme by the school’s D minor Op. 47 (first movement) Schools to suit the needs of most senior music scholar their talented young musicians Daniella Wu. Wycombe Abbey is a girls’ and thriving chamber music boarding school with an jags.org.uk playing through high quality excellent reputation for music. coaching within a competitive Promoted by wycombeabbey.com structure. James Allen’s Girls’ School

Promoted by Promoted by Sun 29 April 6.00pm Wycombe Abbey School North London Collegiate School £15, £12 Thu 8 February 7.00pm Tue 13 March 6.00pm £18, £13 £10 (£5) ALLEYN’S SCHOOL CITY OF LONDON LATYMER Symphony Orchestra SCHOOL FOR UPPER SCHOOL Chamber Orchestra Chamber Choir Spring Concert GIRLS & CITY Chris Dearmer conductor OF LONDON Choir and Orchestra of Jo Doley conductor Latymer Upper School Alleyn’s School is one of the FREEMEN’S Tony Henwood conductor leading co-educational schools Jonathan Geoghegan SCHOOL in London, with a huge conductor Chamber ensembles from both programme of musical activity schools collaborate in this A concert of instrumental and throughout the year. This special concert. choral music by the musicians annual concert has become a of Latymer Upper School. highlight of the school’s year. clsg.org.uk freemens.org latymer-upper.org alleyns.org.uk

Promoted by Promoted by Promoted by City of London School for Girls Latymer Upper School Alleyn’s School

Mon 5 March 7.00pm Fri 16 March 7.30pm Wed 2 May 7.30pm £10 £12 (£10) £10, £8, £6 (£6)

50 Box Office 020 7222 1061 2017/18 YOUNG ARTISTS

George Barton & Siwan Rhys © Dejan Mrdja Mathilde Milwidsky © Donald van Hasselt

Bukolika Piano Trio © Magdalena Grundwald

GEORGE BARTON & SIWAN RHYS BUKOLIKA George Barton percussion PIANO TRIO Siwan Rhys piano MATHILDE Percussion and piano duo Roma Tic violin MILWIDSKY George Barton and Siwan Rhys’ Joanna Gutowska cello Violin performance activities Anna Szałucka piano encompass the fullest range, Described as “an exceptional Established in 2014, the from traditional classical talent” by Maxim Vengerov, Bukolika Piano Trio are avid festivals to crossover violinist Mathilde won the advocates of Polish chamber engagements at Nonclassical string section final of the2017 music from the 20th and 21st events. Here at St John’s Smith Royal Over-Seas League centuries, and have performed Square, they have performed in Competition. Her numerous in the ’s Rolf Hind’s Occupy the Pianos accolades include First Prize at Polish Music Exposed series. festival, and the Principal the 2011 Madeira International Their concerts this season Sound festival in celebration Violin Competition, awards feature works by Polish of Morton Feldman. from the Hattori Foundation, composers Mikołaj Górecki, the Philharmonia Orchestra’s gbsr.co.uk Hanna Kulenty, and Andrzej Martin Musical Scholarship, eorgebartonpercussion.com Panufnik. and the Drake Calleja siwanrhys.co.uk Foundation. bukolikapianotrio.eu @GBSRduo @bukolikatrio @siwanrhys mathildemilwidsky.com /bukolikapianotrio /GBSRduo @MMilwidskyVln /MathildeMilwidsky Mon 23 April 2018 7.30pm Thu 5 April 2018 1.05pm Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in A new commission by Patrick Sun 7 January 2018 3.00pm Eb is complemented by a Brennan and John Luther A eclectic programme, featuring selection of Polish works, Adams’ masterpiece Four music by Janáček, Arvo Pärt, including a new commission Thousand Holes Ysaÿe, Ravel, and Strauss Thu 3 May 2018 1.05pm Thu 24 May 2018 7.30pm Thu 19 April 2018 1.05pm Dvořák’s delightful ‘Dumky’ Trio A new commission by Oliver Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, and Martin’s Trio on Irish Leith, and works by Eric and sonatas by Grieg and Folktunes Wubbels and Feldman Tartini Sun 17 June 2018 3.00pm Sun 24 June 2018 3.00pm Thu 31 May 2018 7.30pm Messiaen’s Quartet for the end Cage’s Music for Amplified Toy A new commission by Sally of Time features alongside Pianos, alongside music by Beamish, Beethoven and Elgar other French works by Debussy Kagel, Peter McGarr, and Vinko sonatas, and works by Clara and Boulanger Globokar Schumann and Ravel

Book online sjss.org.uk 51 SUPPORT US

FRIENDS AND PATRONS EXPERIENCE MORE —— Be at the heart of the audience at St John’s PATRON Smith Square, and enjoy a range of benefits £150, or £140 annual direct debit, in recognition of your support. or only £12.50 monthly direct debit: • Free entry to every concert in our As a Friend or Patron of St John’s Smith Thursday Lunchtime Concerts series for Square, you are directly helping us to: Patron and 1 guest • Support world-class national and • 10% off food and drink in our Footstool international artists Restaurant (for Patron and 1 guest) • Nurture emerging musical talent • Invitations to special events such as • Encourage music-making within the post-concert receptions with the artists, local community pre-concert talks, and private • Maintain and care for the heritage of performances a Grade I listed building • One complimentary programme for each concert in our Sunday at St John’s series To join us, phone the Box Office on • Priority booking 7 days before the public 020 7222 1061 or sign up online at • No booking fee sjss.org.uk/support-us • Credit of your generosity on our website and in our Season Brochures ALL OUR SUPPORTERS RECEIVE: • 10% off standard tickets via our FRIEND Box Office (two per event) £45, or £40 annual direct debit, • Season brochure or only £3.75 monthly direct debit: • Supporters newsletters, including advance • 10 ticket vouchers for our information about concerts and events Thursday Lunchtime Concerts series • An exclusive invitation to the Annual • 10% off food and drink in our Footstool Friends and Patrons’ Reception in Restaurant (Friend only) June 2018 • Priority booking 3 days before the public • Priority booking • Reduced booking fee • Other offers and promotions

LEGACY GIFTS AND GIFTS IN MEMORY —— Whether you wish to honour a loved one to build on 300 years of history. To discuss or consider pledging a gift in your own will, the difference you wish to make, contact you can help St John’s Smith Square Lynn Simmonds, Development Manager, (Registered Charity No. 1045390) continue on 020 7222 2168, or email [email protected]

DONATE TO ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE Each year, we need to raise £250,000 (10% of our turnover) to deliver our artistic and community programme and maintain our heritage as a Grade I listed building. To make a one-off gift, or to discuss how you would like to support a specific concert, festival or artistic programme, contact Lynn Simmonds, Development Manager, on 020 7222 2168, or email [email protected]. More information at sjss.org.uk/donations

52 Box Office 020 7222 1061 BE A CORPORATE MEMBER – NEW FOR 2017/18 SEASON —— A host of opportunities exist for your ALL CORPORATE MEMBERS RECEIVE: company to get involved with St John's • An allocation of complimentary tickets Smith Square. and programmes (in line with your membership) across selected concerts From entertaining guests in the exceptional • Discounts on food and drink in our setting of St John’s Smith Square to Footstool Restaurant sponsoring a festival or a community programme – these are just some of the ways your business can help to build on 300 CORPORATE FRIENDS ALSO RECEIVE: years of history, support the arts, and most • Acknowledgement of your support in our importantly, the local community. season brochures and promotional print • Discounts on pre and post-concert Our membership options are ideal for receptions hosted in our Footstool businesses looking for ways to entertain Restaurant at St John’s Smith Square and impress clients, and to create unique • Discounts on programme advertising events with a difference. across a range of concerts and festivals ASSOCIATE £500 (+VAT) CORPORATE FRIEND £2,000 (+VAT)

Other opportunities to get involved include:

SPONSORSHIP COMMUNITY Support an existing artistic programme or Support music workshops in schools, develop a new and unique event to engage Young Artists at the start of their audiences. St John’s Smith Square delivers professional careers, or other projects a number of high-profile concerts and that engage the people important to you. festivals across its season and works with a network of artists and creative directors to programme new events.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT We have been delighted to host many corporate events throughout the 2016/17 season and are grateful for the support and generosity of our founding Corporate Friends.

CONTACT US To find out more about what your organisation can do in partnership with St John’s Smith Square, contact Lynn Simmonds, Development Manager, on 020 7222 2168, or email [email protected]. More information at sjss.org.uk/corporate

Book online sjss.org.uk 53 ST JOHN'S SMITH SQUARE

EXPLORE OVER 300 YEARS OF HISTORY —— The magnificent church of St John the Perhaps heralding the future musical life Evangelist was designed by architect of St John’s, in September 1901 Edith Hockey Thomas Archer as part of the ‘Commission and Robert Britten were married here. for Building Fifty New Churches’ of1710 . Twelve years later, they had a son, Benjamin, St John’s was the most elaborate of all, who as an adult would record here with with construction lasting 14 years, from the Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir. 1714 to 1728, and costing the princely sum Perhaps the most dramatic night in of £40,875 (approximately £5.2m today). St John’s history was 10 May 1941, the final For over 200 years, St John’s served as a night of the Blitz, when a direct hit from parish church, though not without incident. an incendiary bomb gutted the church. In 1742 a major fire led to extensive After the war it lay as a ruin and there restoration and modification to Archer’s was talk of turning the site into a car park. design. In 1815 the church was struck by This galvanised the local people, under the lightning, causing subsidence to the towers, leadership of Lady Parker of Waddington, and in the early twentieth century it was to raise the funds to buy the site and the target of a Suffragette bomb plot. commission Marshall Sisson to lead Ironically, in 1928, the church hosted the restoration to Archer’s original designs. Emmeline Pankhurst’s funeral. When the work was completed in 1969, St John’s Smith Square was re-born as one of the finest concert halls in London.

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54 Box Office 020 7222 1061 OUR HISTORY

Our grand opening concert was given by We’ve also hosted the Menuhin School Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Concert, featuring students Nigel Kennedy (who returned in 1989 for our 20th birthday and Melvin Tan; a 21-year-old gala). There have been many other with the Salomon Orchestra; Plácido highlights over the years – the UK premiere Domingo, Teresa Berganza and Ileana of ’s Cotrubaş recording Bizet’s Carmen with (with Stockhausen himself on sound Claudio Abbado and the London Symphony projection); world premieres of works by Orchestra; Philip Glass giving a chamber Boulez, Birtwistle, Copland and Tippett organ recital, and Lutosławski by the London Sinfonietta; William Walton the Philharmonia in the London premiere conducting his own 70th birthday concert; of his second Symphony. Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim Now in our 304th year, St John’s Smith conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Square continues to grow and thrive as an 84-year-old Sir Adrian Boult conducting a busy concert hall – a majestic building the English National Orchestra; and Morton resounding to beautiful music in a serene Feldman performing alongside Harrison city setting. Birtwistle and John Tilbury for BBC Radio.

5 CHORAL EUCHARISTS

Although we are primarily a concert hall, the Church of St John the Evangelist in Smith Square is still a consecrated church. Our choral eucharists are led by Rev Graham Buckle from our sister church of © Peter Baistow St Stephen’s, Rochester Row, and sung by Floreat (directed by Gilly French). These services are, of course, free to attend.

Epiphany Victoria Missa: O magnum mysterium Victoria Motet: O magnum mysterium Mon 8 Jan 1.00pm

The Feast of St John before the Latin Gate Schubert Mass No. 2 in G D167 1. Thomas Archer, Architect Vaughan Williams O taste and see 2. Archer’s original design 3. Upon completion, in 1728 Tue 8 May 1.10pm 4. The interior as a church 5. Re-born as a concert hall in 1969

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BUYING TICKETS —— PHONE CONCESSIONS AND REDUCTIONS 020 7222 1061 Concession prices are indicated in Monday to Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm parentheses. These tickets are available £2.75 booking fee applies for many of our concerts to senior citizens, full-time students, registered unemployed, school children (under 16) and people who ONLINE are registered disabled. sjss.org.uk £1.75 booking fee applies Westminster CitySave card holders are entitled to a 10% discount on a pair of tickets for any public concert. IN PERSON Monday to Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm Parties of ten or more qualify for a (until 6.00pm on public concert days). 10% discount. The Box Office opens one hour before the start of Sunday and Bank Holiday concerts. ACCESSIBILITY If you have access requirements, please POST inform our Box Office staff when booking Box Office, St John’s Smith Square, your tickets to help us provide you with the London SW1P 3HA best possible service and choice of seats. Please enclose a stamped addressed We allocate an additional seat free of charge envelope. Cheques should be made to disabled patrons who require a carer to payable to St John’s Smith Square. accompany them.

ON-SALE DATES PLEASE STAY IN TOUCH WITH US ONLINE Join the conversation! Spring General booking: Mon 23 Oct 2017 @StJohnsSmithSq Patrons booking: Mon 16 Oct 2017 /StJohnsSmithSquare Friends booking: Fri 20 Oct 2017 /StJohnsSmithSquare /StJohnsSmithSquare Summer /StJohnsSmithSquare General booking: Mon 22 Jan 2018 Patrons booking: Mon 15 Jan 2018 Friends booking: Fri 19 Jan 2018 Please Note We may need to substitute artists and to vary our concert programmes from the published information without warning. YOUNG FRIENDS SCHEME (UNDER 30S) Latecomers are admitted only at a suitable pause in the concert, as advised by the concert promoter. Please note that tickets may • £5 tickets to concerts marked ‘YF’ such as not be refunded but may be exchanged up to 48 hours before the performance, which will incurr a £2 administration fee. Thursday Lunchtime Concerts, Sunday at St John’s, and Young Artists’ Series • Receive invitations to special events • Exclusive targeted discounts Sign up for FREE: sjss.org.uk/young-friends

St John’s Smith Square is a member of the British Association of Concert Halls and the British Arts Festivals Association, an Affiliate Member of the Association of British Orchestras, and a member of Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne.

56 Box Office 020 7222 1061 HOW TO FIND US

YOUR VISIT —— St John’s Smith Square is just off Millbank between Westminster and Lambeth Bridges, close to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, and a short walk from Westminster tube station.

TUBE CAR PARKING Westminster, St James’s Park & Victoria St John’s Smith Square is within the congestion charging zone. Parking meters are in operation during the day Monday – BUS Friday until 6.30pm. In the evenings and 3 and 87 to Horseferry Road at weekends there are usually ample C10 and 507 (limited hours) to Millbank spaces locally. There is Westminster City 88 to Horseferry Road Council car parking on Great College 11, 211, 148 and 24 to Westminster Abbey Street and Arneway Street.

SANTANDER CYCLES RAIL A docking station is located in Smith Square Victoria, Waterloo, Vauxhall and there are also stations on Horseferry & Charing Cross Road, Page Street and Great College Street.

Book online sjss.org.uk 57 FOOTSTOOL RESTAURANT

EXPERIENCE FINE DINING & PRE-ORDER INTERVAL DRINKS —— Nestled beneath the Hall under the Legend has it the church was dubbed vaulted ceiling of the crypt, the Footstool ‘Queen Anne’s Footstool’ after architect Restaurant is an elegant and cosy place to Thomas Archer asked Queen Anne for enjoy everything from a delicious snack her view on how it should look. Kicking or light meal, to a sumptuous lunch or over her footstool she replied “like that!” dinner. All our food is freshly prepared by The four towers are said to mimic the our talented chefs using locally-sourced, upturned footstool. The restaurant seasonal ingredients. keeps this charming nickname alive. Indulge in fine loose leaf tea and Avoid the rush by pre-ordering your homemade cake, choose from our pre-show, interval and post-show enticing daily buffet menu, dine à la carte refreshments. We will ensure that your before a concert, or enjoy a glass of wine order is available for collection at a and a grazing board during the interval. convenient location in the crypt. Our friendly staff will be on hand, The Footstool Restaurant takes à la carte whatever you choose. reservations for lunchtime and evening service, buffet bookings for groups of ten or more, and caters for private events. To book, or to find out more, call us on 020 7222 2779 or email [email protected] Footstool Restaurant © Matthew Andrews

Pre-order your interval drinks before 6.00pm on the day via our smartphone preoday app and get 20% off your first three orders! Simply search ‘Footstool Restaurant at Smith Square’ in the Apple App Store or Google Play to download the app for free. Prices are exactly the same and there are no extra charges. Footstool Restaurant © Matthew Andrews Explore 300 years of history Unlike most churches of the time, the crypt at St John’s Smith Square was never used for burials. Its main use over the years was actually as a cellar for storing wine and beer. Untouched by the bombing that destroyed much of the building, the crypt was excavated and survives complete with its original brickwork. Discover more on pages 52–53.

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St John’s Smith Square is very grateful to its supporters who so generously contribute towards our work.

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