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2017/18 Season ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE 2017/18 SEASON Spring Edition Patron HRH The DuchessBook of Cornwall online sjss.org.uk 1 © Matthew Andrews CONTENTS —— 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 2 Box Office020 7222 1061 2017/18 SEASON 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 Baroque music within the three remaining concerts from their UK’s only concert 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 London’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 orchestras, choirs and ensembles to St John’s Smith Square. Book online sjss.org.uk 3 Joseph Houston © William Scott Houston Joseph Ealovega © Benjamin Tsoy Samson JANUARY General booking: Mon 23 Oct Patrons booking: Mon 16 Oct Friends booking: Fri 20 Oct Mathilde Milwidsky © Donald van Hasselt van © Donald Mathilde Milwidsky 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 Rebecca Saunders 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 Promoted by Co-promoted by Joseph Houston Promoted by St John’s Smith Square and St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square Sun 7 January 3.00pm Wed 10 January 7.30pm Thu 11 January 1.05pm £16 (£10), YF £16 (£10), YF £10, YF 4 Box Office020 7222 1061 Nicola Benedetti © Simon Fowler © Simon Benedetti Nicola The King’s Singers © Marco Borggreve THE KING’S SINGERS: GOLD Patrick Dunachie countertenor 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 Benedetti violin 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 London Mozart Players 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 John Rutter 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 Co-promoted by London Mozart Players Co-promoted by The King’s Singers kingssingers.com and St John’s Smith Square and St John’s Smith Square Co-promoted by The King’s Singers and St John’s Smith Square Thu 11 January 7.30pm Sat 13 January 12.00–2.30pm £55*, £32, £26, £21, £15 £20 (10% off ) Sat 13 January 7.30pm * incl. post-concert reception £15 observer (10% off ) £50, £30, £15 (10% off ) Book online sjss.org.uk 5 JANUARY General booking: Mon 23 Oct Patrons booking: Mon 16 Oct Friends booking: Fri 20 Oct 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 Stott viola Chopin Ballade No. 3 in Ab Dupré Prelude & Fugue in Ruth Alford cello Op. 47 F minor Op. 7 No. 2 Donizetti String 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.
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