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Thr wing Disclaimer Please note that the views expressed in this A large print, text-only copy is available by calling magazine are attributable to the contributor tennis balls and do not necessarily reflect those of the 01243 816000 or emailing [email protected] Choreographers from all over the University of Chichester. world work with mapdance 2020. What’s PLEASE RECYCLE AFTER USE chi.ac.uk/events On September 2020 to January 2021 Photo credit: Andrew Worsfold. Welcome to Showcase Autumn 2020

Our Autumn 2020 edition of Showcase includes news from a student cruise ship performer (who had a great time and did get home) and amazing and undaunted digital musical theatre and dance. You can also read about our plans to celebrate two really important musical anniversaries: in 2020-21 we enter the second year of our exciting collaboration with the Hanover Band, continuing our journey through the all the Beethoven symphonies. And the Sleepy Lagoon embark on a scarcely less majestic canon, touring the full repertoire of James Bond to coincide with the release of Bond 25. There’s a fascinating glimpse of a new way to aim high from our USA conquering Twirlmania champion, and this edition’s Tutor in Focus is percussionist Matt Fisher – veteran (but still with his original hair) of Glastonbury, WOMAD and the London Jazz Festival. Most excitingly of all, we’re adding to our reach this year by live streaming all our on-campus (and some off-campus) performances, so more people in more places can see more fantastic stuff.

University of Chichester Conservatoire is one of the largest performance communities in the UK. Have a look at the ensembles, workshops, masterclasses, and the massive range of musical, dance, and theatrical shows happening on our two campuses and elsewhere in outside venues across the region. At time of going to press we hope that we will be able to run all our events with a full audience, and live streaming them as well means we’re covering our bets, and that more people can watch too. For more about these events, as well as the latest news from our aspiring actors, dancers and musicians, visit our listings page chi.ac.uk/events.

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Read all About it Welcome 3 Our latest news News and Reviews 7 and reviews. Life is a Cabaret 10 What’s On Throwing tennis balls 12 7 Chichester listings from In Focus: Matt Fisher 16 September 2020 to January 2021. From Live To Digital In 7.7 Billion Steps 18

The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra 20 35 Our Ensembles 22 Shaken, Not Stirred What’s On 35 The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra explore the Dear Liz 48 music of James Bond. Voice of the Future 51

How to find us 52 20 Booking information 53 Diary of events 54

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Our staff and students are a busy bunch. As well as studying, teaching and researching, they are out and about taking part in competitions, delivering workshops and developing partnerships around the world. Read on to find out more …

Twirlmania Along with competing, I am also a coach By Adelaide Parker at my club and as such I choreographed several event routines for my team In February I competed in the Twirl mates and team routines many of which Mania World Open Championships held also placed in the top ten. I am now in the ESPN Wide World of Sport training hard for the international baton Complex in Orlando, Florida. Over the twirling association uk nationals which course of the competition I competed will be taking place in Bournemouth in 26 events including solo, duet, trio across the Easter weekend. and team disciplines. I placed in the top ten in 10 of my solo events. I also My event places competed in the Miss Twirl Mania multi • Freestyle pairs –7th place discipline event in which I won one of • Military strut – 3rd place the disciplines and finished 2nd overall • 2 Baton –7th place in my category. During the competition • Solo - 6th place I had the honour of becoming both the • Freestyle strut – 3rd place first person to represent a British • I Strut – 4th place university and the first British athlete to • Show solo – 8thplace compete in the prestigious showpiece • Solo dance twirl – 8th place Collegiate Classic event when I proudly • Trio - 5th place represented the University of Chichester • Twirl team – 9th place on the world stage against many of the • Junior pom pon team – 5th place best twirlers in the world. My aim was • Senior pom pon team – 3rd place to finish in the top 15 in the collegiate • Drill team – 2nd place classic event but did not achieve my • Dance line – international champion target this time but will work harder • Miss Twirl mania: to achieve it next time. • Solo – 1st place • Basic strut – 5th place • Modelling – 4thplace • Overall placement – 2nd place

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Conservatoire invests in the various rights holders for their National Theatre at Home project shows livestreaming equipment ongoing support with this. the demand exists for the livestreaming of events, greatly improving accessibility This year we’re investing in cameras Once large audiences in theatres and to the artform. Access to the arts will and other equipment to allow us to concert halls become more frequent no longer be constrained by geography.” livestream all our Semester 1 on- again we will continue to operate the campus concerts. This means that if livestream, potentially allowing a world- For details of how to access the family and friends can’t be part of a live wide audience to view student work livestreams please keep an eye audience, either because the event has and making sure that everyone has on our social media channels sold out or because they really do live a chance to see it. (facebook.com/ChiUniConservatoire), a long way away (an amazing 80% of and do join us. our students come from the Midlands Senior Technician Chris Jones said or the North) we will still be able to “This significant investment demonstrates showcase what we’re performing in our desire to be at the cutting edge of West Sussex. We would like to thank artistic production. The success of the

B.Mus. Vocal Performance Degree Then in the second semester we always Our singers have become even Concert programme have our Languages Concert which more adventurous with their linguistic By Susan Yarnall allows Italian, German and French skills explorations so we started a Eurovision to be heard in opera, aria, lieder and Concert last year to allow singers to We try to give our singers as many melodie and this will be at 6pm on perform in languages other than French, performing opportunities as possible and Tuesday 16thMarch 2021. German and Italian and we heard Welsh, over the past few years we have Russian, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, increased the number of concerts that This is an important occasion to perform Finnish, Lithuanian and Norwegian and we schedule. We are planning to hold before assessments begin and we enjoy we look forward to even more the following concerts (within safe the acoustic of the Chapel and the Languages next year. This will take guidelines and social distancing measures chance to dress up. We are so fortunate place at 6pm on Tuesday 2nd February. if necessary.) We have an English Song to have Susan Legg, our wonderfully Concert planned for Tuesday 17th talented Head of Voice to accompany We also run masterclasses, workshops November 6pm which gives the singers our singers and Marcia Bellamy, Jon and mini-recitals for the singers in our a chance to showcase this wonderful Grave and Susan Yarnall lead our singers Languages Modules, so there are plenty repertoire and begin their performing in a variety of ensembles for the of opportunities to sing and we look career at Chichester Conservatoire. Languages Concert. forward to hearing you.

8 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 9 Life is a Cabaret for Student Joe Carter

BMus Performance final year student Joseph Carter has taken to the music industry like a duck to water – the famed P&O cruise ship Ventura, in fact, where he landed his first professional contract across the Christmas period.

In October last year, as a result of Across the first week, we spent a lot a 7:45pm pre-dinner set, but usually we William Allenby’s partnership with of time rehearsing new material - as would start at 9:15pm and be finished Jon Perry and Sonic Artists for the everyone in the band was completely before midnight. University’s new Cabaret Performance new and had never met before, we had Courses, I was offered the opportunity to create a repertoire that would last with In other words: we got off at every port, to audition for a sight-reading role on minimal repetition. This usually involved spent all day exploring different cities in board one of the ships Sonic Artists rehearsing new songs in the afternoon Europe and the Canary Islands, then provides musicians for. The audition and performing them that evening. played fun party music when we got back. involved sight reading a number of pieces of music to click tracks, and a While this was definitely a challenge, it Our repertoire included somewhere short conversation with Jon about my quickly evolved into an absolute dream between 250 and 300 songs, ranging On some occasions we played in more tribute acts such as Paloma Faith or Perry of Sonic Artists, for trusting me experience and training. job. For starters, the four other band from Hit Me Baby One More Time to chilled-out venues such as black-tie Bruno Mars, though they sometimes had and giving me the opportunity, as well members (vocals, guitar, bass, and The Winner Takes it All; from Lady cocktail bars, and as background music their own cabaret-style shows. For these as all of my teachers who allowed me Despite verbal and written confirmation drums, pictured above with Joseph) Marmalade to The Wizard and I. in the three-storey Atrium with its we would accompany the guests using to take my assessments early and move from Sonic Artists, an ENG1 medical were some of the best musicians and winding staircases. For these we would charts they would give to us on the day. my lessons around to accommodate. examination and packing every item of people I’ve had the pleasure of working I found myself challenged by much of play through ballroom dance charts we Despite this being the element of the job Thanks must also be given to William clothing I’ve ever owned into several with, and I am still in regular contact the repertoire; unlike Musical Theatre had been provided with such as ‘You’ve I was the most anxious about, I can Allenby for putting me in touch with Jon, large suitcases, it didn’t really sink in that with all of them. keyboard parts, party band music relies Got a Friend in Me - Foxtrot Version’, safely say it was the most enjoyable part, without which I certainly would not have I was actually going to have to do the job far more heavily on ‘jamming’ and or my personal favourite ‘Eye of the and Jon’s faith in me was not misplaced. had this opportunity. until about 9am on 29th November when There were also just two occasions in improvisation than playing prescribed Tiger - Waltz’. I was dropped off on P&O’s 3,080 the 35 days during which we played in written notes, and so I feel I have I am incredibly grateful for the Words by Joseph Carter passenger vessel Ventura, which was to the daytime. For the rest of the contract genuinely expanded my repertoire But the absolute best part of the job was experience, and am excited to be doing be my home for the next five weeks. we would begin working at 5PM for a and that my musicianship has improved when we had guest entertainers. These the same again in the future. soundcheck (if needed), potentially as a result. would often take the form of music Finally, I am extremely grateful to Jon

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Just a year ago, Gwen Ballard, Madison Burgess and Yuan-Chen Cheng were new recruits for mapdance, the University of Chichester’s MA contemporary dance company. mapdance re-forms annually with a new roster of students, who spend a year working with distinguished choreographers and developing as dancers Thr wing The choreographers for mapdance 2020 We talked via Zoom about what was Coming from a classically orientated came from Andalusia (Jose Agudo), clearly a life changing experience for them. dance culture, Orange was particularly Britain (Gary Clarke); Israel (Noa inspired by Clarke, who gave tasks to his Shadur) and Turkey (Ceyda Tanc), to ‘It was wonderful,’ says Orange. ‘I went dancers, drawing their different ideas open up new and sometimes radical to the UK to see how other people dance, into the dance as a whole. Yet, initially, tennis balls ideas about dance. Gwen, Madison and and what I found was very different.’ Clarke’s way of creating On Your Marks, Cheng – or Orange as she likes to be Gwen ‘loved being part of a company based on a dance marathon, was a called – had travelled, respectively, from with so much energy,’ and Madison was shock because, Madison remembers, Choreographers from all over the Newcastle, Toronto and Taipei, to join ‘really excited by the different ‘at the first rehearsal we spent three hours the cohort of thirteen dancers. choreographic styles’. throwing tennis balls at each other.’ world work with mapdance 2020.

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If tennis balls did not feature in the group. But the new dancers only ‘got it’ lockdown, but that is a story for another finished work, she, nonetheless, when the choreographer came and day. It is enough to know that the recognised the activity as a device made shifts in the choreography to suit company has returned, revitalised to for feeding off the people Clarke them. Then Agudo’s subtle nuances begin touring again this autumn. was working with and shaping the released hidden powers. dance according to individual talents. ‘He listened to our bodies’ says Gwen, Everyone was challenged by the Mapdance 2020 autumn performances ‘and made an amazing piece of work’. rhythmic complexity of Tanc’s Turkish- tbc. See www.mapdance.org inspired AYIN, which derived from ideas By contrast, Shadur arrived with about ritual. ‘It felt very foreign on my In addition to MA Performance: Dance, Suddenly We Were All Alone as body,’ said Madison. Orange, however, other dance masters programmes a completed work. This was was helped by discovering surprising links offered by the University of Chichester challenging, Madison explains, between Turkish and Chinese dance include: Advanced Practice; ‘because Noa taught us something that culture, and Gwen gradually found Choreography and Professional came from her body to our bodies. She is something special, for it was teaching her Practices; Choreography by Independent very tall, and I will never look like she ‘as much about myself as a dancer as Research; Dance Research. does, but then she let us play with the about the style of the piece’. movement,’ and the choreography could be adapted to suit individual bodies. By the time mapdance 2020 gave their ‘Suddenly,’ says Gwen, ‘Noa made me first performances in March, they had realise that the reason why we dance is bonded into a company of nascent because we enjoy it so much’. professionals. This was through rigorous rehearsal processes conducted by map’s Agudo’s Inside the Animal, was also co-directors, Detta Howe and Yael made in advance. Inherited from the Flexer. ‘They are the most amazing previous mapdance, members of the women,’ observes Madison, and the 2019 company taught it to the 2020 others nod in agreement. Then came

14 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 15 Hi Matt! It is such a pleasure to be able Any advice for students doing What was (one of your most) to talk with you and learn about your session work? memorable performances / people

music making. Let's start with an easy you have worked with? Session work is very different to live one - can you tell me what brought you performance. Usually the producer or Touring Bulgaria with a group called to music - and specifically percussion? artist is hiring you to play their vision. The David Dower Trio. A couple of Drums came first and then percussion So you have to be really sensitive to that years ago we played at the Bansko later. I knew early that it’d become my and find out what they’re looking for. Jazz Festival. The stage was just like career. I studied at the Royal Welsh and I usually avoid anything flashy that is Glastonbury, with 10,000 people in then took a Masters in jazz drums at going to take away from the song - save the audience and TV cameras Trinity College of Music. After that, that for the live gig where you can really everywhere. I just remember the gig I studied Indian Tabla and got totally stretch out and bounce off the vibe from as being a magical experience and it In Focus: obsessed with it, I think at one point the audience. And you never can arrive stands out as one of my favourite I was practising around 8 hours a day! too early… performances with the trio. The whole Then a renowned Indian singer called concert is on YouTube. Najma Akhtar asked me to be in her How about live gigs?

band and I guess this started the route Something about creativity and With live gigs it’s really important to into world music where people would individuality. hire me as a drummer / percussionist. focus purely on the music. I’m into meditation and I think this really helps With so many musicians out there, accessing flow states and settling nerves. all doing the same thing and looking Can you say something about the I highly recommend it to all performers, for work, it’s important to look at how breadth of your performing experience? Matt Fisher it’ll really improve your focus. Arrive to you can bring something different to I think the choice to diversify into other the gig in plenty of time so that you can the table. Anything that you can do to areas of percussion was a real game set up stress-free, and in the days or create your own individual voice is changer for me. It’s enabled me to play weeks leading up to the gig make sure vastly going to improve your in so many different contexts and styles, you’re prepared and know the material employment opportunities. from jazz gigs to world music festivals. inside-out. Having those different sounds up my sleeve has been really appealing to artists It's great to have you at Chichester - in both live and recording situations. I've seen you perform at the Fresher's Staff Concert and I loved the guest What are your main projects at the lecture you did on my Structures of moment? (I hope you don't mind me Politics and Rock module. What has adding this in, it just seemed to lead your experience of the Conservatoire on to this) been like so far...

I am playing with a great jazz project I love it. I remember looking around called ATLAS. We’ve just released an Chichester Uni when I was 18, being album and it’s had some great reviews. shown around by Ben Hall, I remember We’ve also just recorded some new thinking he was so much fun and that music at Peter Gabriel's studio Real everyone was really friendly. That visit World. I have a multi-percussion / remained with me as such a positive piano duo with a fab Australian pianist experience and I’ve always wanted to called David Dower – we’re actually work here. I’d heard great things from planning a tour of India for next year. friends and colleagues that have worked in the Conservatoire, so it’s been great to start teaching here.

16 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 17 The character that everyone was looking From Live To Digital In for. Knowing that the cast had created this moment for me made it even more immersive and I began staying awake not wanting to miss anything!’

Francesca who played Mary Grace in this sequence filmed herself making the call which you can see on our link. 7.7 Billion Steps Other audience comments: Ever had that moment when you reach into the fridge for cheese and take out jam? ‘This journey into unexplored territory was brave and daring and worthy of Apart from wondering who keeps jam in a fridge, the key is not to let it take you by an award.’ surprise but to assume that it was jam you wanted all along and adapt to your new flavour. ‘Had me hooked all week. Loved working out the clues and figuring In March 2020 Triple Threat’s Musical ‘The interactive experience kept us on discovered a talent for video editing!’ – everything out. There was always Theatre Commission Company were the edge of our seats! I felt so immersed cast member, Olivia Ridley something new and I’ve never just four weeks from completing a sold- in the piece as the actors had such an experienced anything like this! The out, live immersive musical theatre amazing connection with their audiences. Alice Fisher: ‘I helped to drive our references throughout had us tossing up production, titled ‘7.7 BILLION!’ There need to be more pieces like character responses to the audience so many ideas and stories that correlated Outdoor sequences were rehearsed 7.7 BILLION!!!’ comments. We were provoking them and made us think! Well done guys!’ for audiences to watch through minibus to interact to sometimes controversial windows while listening to dialogue Previous Commission productions dialogue. We set up a WhatsApp group ‘Such an amazing concept and a fun through binaural headphones. A town- include a survivor’s story of a cult that was monitored pretty much 24/7. experience for us all in this lockdown! house booked for when they disembark kidnapping performed in an old dairy in We’d alert the writing team to new Well done Commission!’ to experience the events within, before Battersea; a tale of 1930s actors making comments and agree responses, being driven to and sealed within their first sound film performed on sometimes within seconds. One night ‘That was absolutely incredible from a warehouse in a spectacular finale Worthing Pier with a thirty-piece we agreed that Francesca should contact start to finish. Your adaptability to the involving a giant wind-machine and orchestra, and in 2017 a musical about a particularly vocal audience member situation was outstanding and turned it a parade-volume of ticker tape. a global pandemic set in a remote at Midnight’. into an interactive virtual world which biomedical facility on the South Downs. I was in so invested in!’ At Midnight on Monday April 27th the The company also adapt classic scripts, The recipient of that phone call was Emily company went ‘live’ instead with an recently ‘Woyzeck ‘and ‘The Crucible’. Doye: ‘…so there were characters from ‘Congratulations Commission! What an interactive, week-long, on-line event This year’s production used Edgar Allan the show popping up on the internet on amazing journey! We've enjoyed trying presenting over eighty-five minutes of Poe’s short story, ‘Masque of the Red these fake Instagram, Facebook and to unravel the clues before they were filmed sequences, hundreds of fictional Death’ as a starting point for Twitter accounts. They were posting revealed in the comments. We loved the character posts, mysterious voicemails constructing a narrative that interrogated conflicting messages and clues trying to haunting vocals and the emotional and live calls over seven consecutive the uncomfortable issues of draw you in. A couple of friends and I impact. Such a talented days. Over 300 subscribers deciphered overpopulation and climate destruction. started a chat group so we could solve cast...STANDING OVATION!’ riddles, made sense of eavesdropped the clues and try and work out what the conversations, interpreted clues and ‘As soon as the idea of a digital version hell was going on. I suspected a You can view all of the films including tracked the progress of our characters of the show was pitched, everyone conspiracy, then I got this personal those sequences mentioned in the article across several social media platforms, completely committed to it. Shooting the message from one of the characters. by requesting access to the following page: eventually reaching more than 3,000 minifilms in one day, the self-filming at They wanted to ‘meet me’! I had to pass facebook.com/prospero.allan.3 people, gaining acclaim from gamers home, the countless Zoom calls to a loyalty test and if I got through that, and resulting in an invitation to re- discuss the new features and backstory I then had one chance to pick up my View the EdFringe production trailer broadcast within this year’s on-line that came with our new digital format, phone when it rung, and they didn’t say here: vimeo.com/429649296 Edinburgh Fringe. and the brilliant commitment of fellow when it would be. They rang me at cast member Carina Torres, who Midnight! It turned out to be Mary Grace.

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The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra are gearing up for a substantial tour across the south of England in 2021. No strangers to film repertoire, this year will see the ensemble draw on one of the richest veins of material available.

Our events page online will have all John Barry, who later went on to The fourth film in the series, both sung by Shirley Bassey, Live and a contemporary band, U2. Bono and all the power and panache one has come the details of when and where to catch score 11 Bond films, the James Bond Thunderball, is another Barry film score Let Die - written and performed by the Edge penned Goldeneye and Tina to expect from Bond music. All of these performances, as well as details of live- Theme was created for the opening with the title song lyric by Don Black. Paul McCartney and A View to a Kill Turner performed it putting it firmly on are contemporary in style with our streaming options. Meantime, it’s worth title sequence. Although there were Originally the title song was to be by Duran Duran. The trend was away a par with Goldfinger, Thunderball and students’ experience of popular music. reflecting on the wealth of music that songs in the film they were there as “Mr Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang” as a homage from the established vocalists towards Diamonds are Forever. these films have brought to us over incidental music. The now iconic theme to an Italian journalist’s description of the current chart-topping bands and Although the angular melodies and more than half a century. is a favourite with musicians the world James Bond. However, Thunderball by singers. A View to a Kill was the most Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) had its stabbing brass of the Bond theme songs over, from the instantly recognisable Tom Jones was chosen. The famous successful James Bond song to that point incidental music scored by David Arnold have not always had chart success, the In 1962, when Eon films decided to guitar riff to the screaming brass swelling melody and stabbing brass being nominated for a Golden Globe but the theme song was selected by exposure through the films, soundtrack produce Dr No, little did they realise introduction, which our trumpet players chords of Barry’s theme can be heard in award for best original song in 1986. a competitive process, with 12 artists albums and Bond compilations have they would be creating the start of a film can’t wait to get their lips around. The the accompaniment throughout making or groups being invited to submit a resulted in them becoming a part of the franchise featuring probably the best- suspense and tension never fail to excite it unmistakably a “Bond Song”. The eighties ended with a new James work. Eventually Sheryl Crow’s song was collective musical psyche. As with the films, known spy in the world. Over twenty- an orchestra as much as the audience. Bond, Timothy Dalton, and a new edge chosen and it was another big, bold and the James Bond actors, everybody has four films later the next Bond film is With the production of On Her to the plots as Bond was now competing Bond song which fitted into the mould a favourite James Bond song. always a celebrated event. In 2020 No Even the second Bond release was Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969 John with the big Hollywood adventure films from the John Barry era. Brosnan’s last Time to Die will become the twenty fifth without an opening title song, although Barry was faced with a challenge to like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. outing as James Bond saw the film THE film in the series, and even before the one does appear over the closing credits. produce a title song with the name of The Living Daylights, sung by A-Ha producers courting a popular superstar SLEEPY LAGOON film’s release the announcement of the John Barry, who had replaced Monty the film in the lyrics. His only thoughts and co-written by John Barry, was to pen the theme song. Madonna’s Die artist chosen to perform the theme song, Norman, provided the incidental music were something in the style of Gilbert Barry’s final Bond film score. A new Another Day was possibly an attempt to ORCHESTRA Billie Eilish, was greeted by the press and for the film but From Russia with Love and Sullivan so he ultimately broke with era in Bond music had truly arrived and engage a new audience with the film public with anticipation. This is a clear was written by Lionel Bart, of Oliver the tradition, set since From Russia with Michael Kamen was asked to score the through the music, and probably seemed demonstration of the importance that the fame, and Matt Monro who did the vocals Love, and had an instrumental title film Licence to Kill. This trend away from like a good idea at the time. music has to the overall ethos of the film, on the film. It can be heard playing on the music. Barry did write We Have All the the big anthems, into ‘pop’ music makes so much so that the producers chose radio in the film and over the end credits. Time in the World which appears in the the collection of Bond songs an eclectic Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond to hold a press conference. The Sleepy film sung by Louis Armstrong and is mix, giving our musicians the chance to has brought in new style of Bond theme Lagoon Orchestra decided to mark the Following the film’s, and subsequently often miscredited as the title song. explore their alter-egos in the rock pop song. Casino Royale’s - You Know My occasion in their own way with a the song’s, success the producers asked world of the eighties (not the fashions) – Name, Quantum of Solace’s - Another celebration of all the Bond songs to date. John Barry to write a title song for the Following Sean Connery and George an era they’ve dabbled with in the past Way to Die, and Spectre – The Writing’s third film. With the lyrics of Anthony Lazenby, Roger Moore took on the with Abba and Queen tributes. on the Wall are all standalone songs Of course, the music has not always Newley and Leslie Bricusse, and the mantle of James Bond and the next having little or no reference to the film. been of such importance. In 1962 Monty vocals of Shirley Bassey, Goldfinger was 15 years produces a string of films with The next Bond film wasn’t released for The exception to these is 2012’s Skyfall Norman was asked to provide some produced and the scene was set for iconic theme songs. These included six years, another new Bond, Pierce sung by Adele. This goes back to the big music for Dr. No, and with the help of 19 of the next 20 films. Diamonds are Forever and Moonraker - Brosnan, and another collaboration with song tradition of the early films and has Photo credit: Andrew Worsfold.

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All ensembles take Chamber Choir Classical Singers Drop In Reading Week (Semester two) in Symphonic Choir Leader: John Hancorn Leader: Jonathan Veira Salisbury, culminating in the singing Leader: Lisa Pow Vocal Repertoire Coaching and

of Evensong in either Salisbury or Vocal Drop In Sessions place on a weekly basis Chamber Choir is one of the most Classical Singers Drop In is for any classical Symphonic Choir works as a dedicated Winchester Cathedrals. There is always Ensemble Leaders: Will Pool and challenging vocal ensembles at the singer who is working on a piece and is ensemble of the University’s singers and during term time. an international tour in the summer with Stuart Hutchinson University. The repertoire is extensive looking for expert tuition and insight. the Chamber Choir and recently Otter accompanists, encompassing all genres and varied and includes both sacred and It aims to be both fun and challenging, Consort has been to Verona, Budapest from Jazz and Show Tunes to Opera and Vocal repertoire coaching is available via secular music from all periods. The choir enabling singers to improve, progress and and Rome. Entry is by audition. Classical works. Engagements for the a sign up system, allowing you access to has recently performed Britten’s St enhance their skills throughout the course ...... choir are varied and interesting, with a professional vocal coach who will Nicolas, Haydn St Nicolas Mass, Vivaldi of the year. All are welcome from chances to sing in many different locations work on interpretation of your musical Gloria and Faure Requiem, all with beginners to advanced. as a standalone choir or as part of the theatre repertoire. These free sessions Postgraduate Vocal orchestra. The choir regularly performs in ...... choral section alongside the University’s are in addition to allocated one-to-one Performance Platform numerous locations in the area including orchestras in large-scale symphonic tuition and are available on a first come, Leader: William Allenby Chichester and Arundel Cathedrals. First Year Choir works. There will also be opportunities first served basis. Your session will Photo credits: It performs concerts throughout the year, William’s class is designed specifically for to hone your skills as part of a stage Andrew Worsfold. Leader: Lisa Pow concentrate on style and performance including at the prestigious Cathedral postgraduate musical theatre and classical ensemble and to discover unique choral techniques. Please bring your own sheet Choirs weekend and takes part in the The First Year Choir provides practical singers. Building on the skills acquired in works to prepare you for experience music – either in book form or properly University Christmas Carol Services. experience for those students who wish undergraduate study, it takes the form of after your degree. It is open to singers of collated, no loose pages or staples. The Choir also tours in the summer to gain a well-rounded musical experience an advanced performance platform which all abilities and does not require you to at University. It is open to all singers and months and recently performed in aims to prepare students for pathways audition, just come along and take part to instrumentalists in the first year, regardless Belgium. If you have had previous into professional work, music improve everything from your breathing Vocal Personal Study Prep of experience and skill, and will cover all experience of singing in a choir and have conservatoires and drama schools. technique to your sight-reading skills. Leader: Susan Legg genres of music, technique, sight reading some sight singing skills, then this With professional coaching on audition Whether you’re a veteran chorister or an ensemble is for you. The Choir meets and improvisation. The choir provides the presentation, technical help with creating a instrumentalist looking to try out singing Susan’s class, designed exclusively for BA twice a week; entry is by audition and you opportunity to perform in a variety of demo CD/show-reel and CV writing, and in a relaxed and performance-focused dissertation singers, takes the form of a should contact Music Reception in order situations, which will enhance your main regular visits from Head of Voice Susan environment, the Symphonic Choir supportive performance platform to arrange a suitable time to be heard. musical discipline. Whether you’ve never Legg for scheduled mock auditions and welcomes you. which aims to help the student build ...... sung before or are a seasoned chorister, masterclasses, this bespoke class will help ...... confidence as a programme takes this is the ensemble for you. you develop key professional performance shape. We will also look at programme ...... tools, culminating in a Postgraduate Vocal notes and work on presentation and Choral Conductors’ Seminar Theatre Ensemble - posture. The session provides a regular Gala Concert each Semester and Conductor’s Choir Special Projects Group platform to monitor performance Otter Consort Leader: John Hancorn ...... Leader: William Allenby progress and to help students get the Leader: John Hancorn The seminar (first hour) is for anyone This ensemble focuses on techniques best out of their performance. Singers Platform interested in learning to conduct and train This small vocal ensemble is for those for the chorus work in musicals. Recent Leader: Susan Legg choirs. If you think you might end up who are highly experienced singers, repertoire includes Into the Woods in Find out more teaching then this is a useful skill to have. with good sight-reading ability and a love Susan’s vocal class takes the form of a Concert and South Pacific in Concert. For information please visit It is for beginners and also those with some of choral music, both sacred and secular. supportive performance platform which These works are performed as a concert experience. Basic skills are taught in the All members of this ensemble are aims to help singers build confidence as production with a full West End style pit www.chi.ac.uk/music seminar and then put into practice in the also members of Chamber Choir. their recital programme takes shape. The band. Principals are auditioned from second hour when voluntary singers come The repertoire will be extensive and class will also look at programme notes the ensemble. to become the choir for your practice. challenging and will require the members and work on presentation and posture...... You could just come for the second part of to learn the music by heart. We often sing The session provides a regular platform to the session (second hour) and be a singer, a Christmas Concert in the wonderful monitor performance progress and to or you may wish to gain useful skills in choir setting of Uppark House for the National help singers get the best out of their leading too. The choice is yours. Trust as well as joining with the Chamber performance. Come and join us! ...... Choir for the annual Carol Service. There ...... is usually a residential course planned for

24 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 25 Orchestras and Bands

All ensembles take Chamber Orchestra Conducting Workshop Conductor: Crispin Ward Leaders: Crispin Ward place on a weekly basis The Chamber Orchestra is a small A weekly workshop session to introduce during term time. ensemble of between 15-17 players who students to the study and practice of rehearse twice a week to produce high conducting. Primarily focused on work quality performances throughout the year. with orchestras, these sessions combine Since its inception it has performed in traditional score-based study with online Big Band America, Switzerland, Austria and France and audio resources. Opportunity to Leader: James Lelean Photo credit: as well as many prestigious concerts in the work with small ensembles is often Andrew Worsfold. The Big Band is an established ensemble UK. The Chamber Orchestra is regularly provided for and is ideal for students who who perform regularly across the country joined by international musicians, soloists would like to gain a basic insight into the at different venues and concerts. They and conductors. This ensemble acts as an art of conducting and is often a useful have developed strong links with several ambassador for the whole University and supplement to students on IVT courses. popular big bands based in the local area a high standard is expected. Repertoire ...... Symphonic Brass Ensemble The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra Wind Band and in the past, some students have ranges from the Baroque to 20th Leader: Fraser Tannock Leader: Simon Growcott Leader: Charlie Harrington helped these bands and have been paid Century. Membership is by audition. Special PROjects Group for doing so. The Big Band is a relaxed ...... Leaders: Simon Growcott The Symphonic Brass Ensemble gives The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra is part of Wind Band is open to all students from group who meet once a week, but brass players the opportunity to rehearse The Special PROjects Group. It meets the University who wish to play a wide The Special PROjects Group gives remain at the top of their ability both in Concert Orchestra and perform some of the wide range of regularly throughout the year and plays range of music from all genres. The Wind students the opportunity to perform the learning and performing. The band play Leader: Emma Button music written for a larger brass ensemble. a wide variety of music from Classical to Band gives two concerts a year in lighter side of music. Film music, musicals pieces from across the decades and All brass players are welcome (both Brass Light Music, 1930's Dance Band to Disney Chichester and usually performs at the Concert Orchestra is for any and popular classics make up the core genres including: Swing, Jazz, Pop, Band and Orchestral instruments) and Film music. Although originally formed as annual University of Chichester Music instrumentalist who wants experience of repertoire of this group, which includes Rock and much more. Membership suitable parts will be found for them. an experimental ensemble, it now Festival on Guernsey. They have also playing in a large ensemble. There are The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra. The group is by audition...... regularly performs as a small ensemble or performed in Brighton and Eastbourne approximately 70 performers and they will not only perform in its own concerts ...... with up to 25 musicians. to great critical acclaim. explore film music, music from the shows, but will also take on projects providing ...... orchestral rock and pop music. Entry is ensembles for Musical Theatre, outside Symphony Orchestra Brass Band Leader: Crispin Ward open to anyone. agencies and other interesting Leader: Emma Button Training Band ...... opportunities. Membership to the pool Symphony Orchestra is one of the most Leader: Emma Button Brass players from all departments of the of players making up SPROG is by prestigious instrumental ensembles at University are welcome to join the Brass audition and players will be selected from the University. It performs concerts If you have ever wanted to play a brass Band. It focuses on the traditional brass the pool to suit the requirements of any throughout the year in Chichester instrument or just want to improve your band repertoire and gives an annual given project. Cathedral, the University Chapel and in playing then this is the ensemble for you. Christmas Concert as well as one other in ...... other venues and often tours in the By playing basic arrangement you can the second semester. There is no audition Photo credits: summer months. The Symphony develop your brass playing and stamina but you may be asked to play a short piece Andrew Worsfold. Orchestra meet for intensive rehearsals as well as ensemble skills. There are even to ensure that you occupy the right seat. during the two University reading weeks have a few instruments available if you just ...... and before concerts, rather than a want to try. regular weekly meeting. There are also ...... some occasional Tuesday evening rehearsals. The Orchestra is supported by tutors in all sections of the orchestra who also take sectional rehearsals. International soloists and conductors are Find out more often invited to perform with the For information please visit orchestra. Membership is by audition. www.chi.ac.uk/music ......

26 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 27 Photo credit: Andrew Worsfold.

Instrumental

All ensembles take Clarinet Choir manner. The group will also sometimes Leader: Spencer Bundy split into smaller groups and give people place on a weekly basis a chance to explore the ever increasing The Chichester Clarinet Choir is based at repertoire for Saxophone quartet. The during term time. the University but is open to the local Saxophone Group welcome any wind community. The choir uses everything players who might be looking for a way from the small Eb clarinet up to a Contra to gain experience performing on their Base in Bb and tries to share parts around second instrument. The ensemble tries so that everybody gets a chance to to perform at least one concert per perform a solo and lead in a chamber size semester and in the past have raised group. During rehearsals the choir will funds for various charities. often try workshop ideas like ...... improvisation and areas which the other ensembles, due to their size, might not Piano Group Photo credits: give players the opportunity to try. It also Leader: Terence Allbright Andrew Worsfold. gives members a chance to experiment with arranging for Clarinet Choir. The This group is for piano solo and duet Clarinet Choir is also ideal for saxophone playing and for accompanying one other or other wind players to get a chance to instrument or voice. Pianists at all levels perform on their second instrument. are welcome at this weekly opportunity Clarinet Choir usually takes part in at least to play whatever you have ready or in one concert per semester, often progress, with an audience only of the combined with another University. other members of the group: everyone ...... plays every week. There is no teaching in this session, but there is discussion and Saxophone Group feedback if it's wanted. This is an Leader: Spencer Bundy excellent, relaxed environment for building up repertoire and for dealing The Chichester Saxophone Ensemble is with any nervousness or performance based at the University but is open to anxiety. Accompanists can agree a time Saxophone players in the local to bring their partners. The group gives community. There are no age limits and a concert towards the end of each no auditions. Often during rehearsals semester (not compulsory!). there will be a workshop type element ...... where saxophonists will look at an element of playing and discuss ways of improving. Some of the repertoire goes up to 16 players so valuable experience can be gained in the performance of Chamber music in a relaxed and informal

Find out more For information please visit www.chi.ac.uk/music

28 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 29 Jazz and Folk

All ensembles take Jazz Composers’ Workshop Jazz Night Leaders: Nick Reynolds and Leader: Nick Reynolds

Rob Westwood place on a weekly basis Jazz Night provides a relaxing atmosphere during term time. The Jazz Composers' Workshop employs for any students with an interest in jazz to methods almost identical to those of the be able to perform. Any style of jazz is great jazz composers of the 20th Century welcome and the jazz tutors are always such as Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus available to provide a house rhythm Bass Guitar Workshop and Miles Davis. Notation and even the section for guest musicians. Jazz Nights Leader: Gary Simons use of chord symbols is kept to a also provide an opportunity for students This weekly workshop will primarily focus minimum whilst live improvised invention who have taken part in the jazz on sight reading but will also look at set is used to engage the group in interactive workshops to showcase the pieces pieces, commercial skills, and technical and spontaneous music making. The that they have been working on during skills (chords, modes and scales). The workshop crosses all styles including blues the afternoon. workshop is open to all bassists. modality, jazz rock, European minimalism ...... and a wide range of rhythmic frameworks. All instrumentalists and vocalists are Jazz Research Group welcome, including less familiar jazz Guitar Workshop Leaders: Nick Reynolds and Rob Westwood instruments such as viola and bassoon. Leader: Dave Smith This group is for jazz musicians that want ...... to develop their skills further and are This weekly workshop will primarily focus happy to experiment with different on sight reading but will also look at set Jazz Jam Night techniques within jazz education. A pieces, commercial skills, and technical Leader: Rob Westwood different topic will be covered each week Photo credits: skills (chords, modes and scales). The This will run on alternate weeks and will which will range from theoretical to Andrew Worsfold. workshop is open to all guitarists. provide an opportunity for everyone to practical to contextual. Please bring your ...... play in much larger groups. The emphasis instrument and an open mind.

here is on participating and trying things ...... Jazz Workshop Rhythm Workshop

out on stage. This will be facilitated by Leader: Nick Reynolds Leaders: Rob Westwood

Rob Westwood and any level of Students assemble in The Elizabeth This workshop is for all students wanting experience is welcomed. Swann Room and are then assigned to to develop their use of rhythm – ...... groups based on experience/ability level. especially whilst improvising. The

The jazz tutors then work with their workshops will be mostly practical, Photo credits: Andrew Worsfold. group on a number of pieces during the exploring metric modulation, Konnakol,

afternoon, which are then usually odd metres, riff based composition and

showcased during Jazz Night. Any music applying these to a live performance

student is welcome so long as they have a setting. Please bring your instrument.

genuine interest in developing their jazz ......

skills within a group setting. Any ability

level is welcome but commitment is

expected throughout the semester, since

spaces are limited. Students who have

already attended jazz workshop regularly

have automatic places and as many Find out more new students as possible will be accommodated. For information please visit ...... www.chi.ac.uk/music

30 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 31 Workshops

Classical Workshops Rock / Pop Workshops All workshops take (Vocal and Instrumental) These workshops will give you the place on a weekly basis In these performance workshops the opportunity to explore Rock and Pop during term time. focus is with you – the performer – and specific techniques and areas of musicality your relationship to music, your in a very informal and vocational way. Open to all students voice/instrument and the pieces you sing You'll collaborate with your tutor to plan or play. We explore a wide range of topics to cover each semester and performance practice, from technique to everyone works as a team in offering expression and musicality, in a gentle and friendly feedback, ideas and support. • Jazz Group Workshops relaxed way to help you get used to ...... • Classical Workshops performing without anxiety or fear. We (vocal and instrumental) also give voice to questions, concerns or Percussion Workshop

• Musical Theatre Workshops topics of interest that you may have. Open to musicians of any instrument, • Rock / Pop Workshop Sessions are open, relaxed, always interesting and everyone present has percussion workshop is an opportunity to an opportunity to share and develop rhythmic, aural, ensemble and contribute wisdom. improvisation skills in a fun and engaging ...... environment. Sessions will combine an introduction to the basics of percussion technique on both tuned and untuned Jazz Group Workshops percussion instruments whilst developing Relaxed, creative and productive repertoire across musical styles and workshops where you're invited to genres. No previous percussion choose pieces to be explored. The experience is required! Photo credits: Andrew Worsfold. workshops offer harmonic and rhythmic ...... ideas to use as tools for improvisation. There is an emphasis on the fact that Rock Workshop knowledge is only knowledge if it can be applied... hopefully you'll take plenty of Rock workshop is an opportunity for ideas away that you can actually use, and band musicians to come together and use effectively. develop their own rock bands in a ...... focused and purposeful way. Material covered is student led and can range from metal to prog-rock; whatever you are Musical Theatre Workshops interested in and wish to explore! Providing a forum for trying out new songs Sessions will focus on building ensemble or potential assessment material in the run skills, developing a set for performance at up to assessments. The performance the student union and/or external gigs friendly atmosphere means that even the towards the end of the year. less confident amongst us will feel ...... comfortable about getting up to sing. You'll be given lots of helpful hints and suggestions and the sessions are a great chance to air your songs in public and hear Find out more what other people are singing too. For information please visit Photo credit: Andrew Worsfold...... www.chi.ac.uk/music

32 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 33 Pal Joey and Babes in Arms What’s on With our orchestras, ensembles, choirs and bands each performing an assorted repertoire throughout the year, we provide something for every musical taste. Here’s our offering from September 2020 to January 2021.

At time of going to press we hope that we will be able to run all our events with a full audience. However, we will of course, continue to be ruled by the government guidance in place at the time. For all our on-site concerts tickets will need to be booked in advance via Ticketsource, even if the event is free of charge. There will be no tickets available on the door. Please visit our social media page facebook.com/ChiUniConservatoire for up to date audience information and details of how to access the livestream for the relevant event.

34 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 35 Dudok String Quartet Amsterdam.

September

Songs on the Lawn Weds 9th Sept, 7.30pm Tues 29th Sept, 7.30pm

Pavlos Carvalho (cello), Erin Alexander and Nick Miller,

Bach Cello Suites “On a High Note” Songs on the Lawn will be held during Autumn lunchtimes on good weather The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop days outside Elizabeth Swann on the Otter Campus, University of Chichester Otter Campus, University of Chichester lawn. These exciting pop-up concerts will Sponsored by Chichester Music Society Sponsored by Chichester Music Society feature unaccompanied songs, small a cappella vocal ensembles and Pavlos Carvalho, cello, appears regularly as University of Chichester Alumnus and songs with guitar, ukelele or flute. a soloist and chamber musician in the UK Award-winning soprano Erin Alexander, Repertoire is wide ranging and will and abroad with a wide-ranging repertoire together with pianist Nick Miller, present incorporate all styles including jazz, from baroque through to twentieth “On a High Note”, the story of soprano October folk songs and classical lute songs. century music. He makes regular Graziella Sciutti. The singer was a Let’s hope for sunshine! appearances at the Brighton and contemporary of Maria Callas, and helped Chichester festivals where he annually pioneer the movement of opera singers Songs on the Lawn Winner of a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Admission Free, advanced bookings only.

Please contact Susan Legg for more performs the six cello suites by Bach and becoming actors. Erin will sing the arias by Trust Award 2018, and prizes at the information if you would like to take part: has performed all the major cello Mozart, Verdi, and Rossini which made Bordeaux International String Quartet Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events Songs on the Lawn will be held during [email protected] concertos with orchestras around the Sciutti’s career. Competition, the Dudok Quartet of or phone the Ticket Source Box Office Autumn lunchtimes on good weather ...... country. He has won numerous prizes, Amsterdam is forging a reputation as one 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard days outside Elizabeth Swann on the including the Koblenz Chamber Music Erin Alexander has recently finished of the most creative and versatile young postage rate of £1.50 will apply for lawn. These exciting pop-up concerts will competition in Germany, the International studying on a full scholarship at the quartets of their generation. This season telephone bookings. feature unaccompanied songs, Taneev competition in Russia, the Tunnell Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini. Whilst they are appearing at London’s Wigmore small a cappella vocal ensembles and Trust in Scotland and the Kirckman Award there she performed the roles of Hall and Barcelona Auditori as well as Retiring collection in aid of The Chitones songs with guitar, ukelele or flute. in London – with Trio Belle Epoque. Despina (Cosi fan Tutte) and Rosina (Il giving concerts in Belfast, Würzburg and Tour Fund. Repertoire is wide ranging and will Barbiere di Seviglia). the Mecklenburg Vorpommern and West ...... incorporate all styles including jazz, Pavlos is perhaps best known to CMS Cork Chamber Music Festivals. folk songs and classical lute songs. members as a member of Ensemble Reza Tickets: £15 on the door or pre-booked Let’s hope for sunshine! who perform regularly at the University. on 01243 378900. No charge for Tickets from Chichester Festival Theatre,

In this event he will discussing Bach’s Cello University of Chichester Staff or Students. available from 10th August. Please contact Susan Legg for more suites and giving complete performances ...... £18 – season tickets are available - free information if you would like to take part: of two of them. for under 25s (must be booked to ensure [email protected] a seat in the hall)...... Tickets: £15 on the door or pre-booked ......

on 01243 378900. No charge for Tues 6th Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 1st Oct, 7.30pm University of Chichester Staff or Students. The Chitones Present: ...... Dudok String Quartet An Evening of Song Amsterdam

The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Assembly Room, North Street, Otter Campus, University of Chichester Chichester PO19 1LQ

Sponsored by Chichester Chamber Concerts Join the 2019 Ensemble of the Year

winners, The Chitones in a fun evening of Bartók Quartet No. 5 Barbershop songs. The Chitones are Dance arrangements by Kurtág, Kalman, Find out more happy to present another exciting evening Vigh, Ligeti and Brahms For information and to book tickets, of classic Barbershop, with some more Erin Alexander. Brahms Quartet No. 3 in B flat major please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or adventurous new repertoire. Prepare Photo credit: see contact information in event listings. Andrew Worsfold. your socks, as this will undoubtedly Photo credits: knock them off! Andrew Worsfold.

36 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 37 Photo credits: Andrew Worsfold.

Weds 14th Oct, 7.30pm Admission Free, advanced bookings only. songs by composers including Hubert by Oliver Franklin and his Theatre Beethoven the Revolutionary – Parry, Ralph Vaughan Williams, York Orchestra, this performance is Angela Zanders Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events Bowen, Rebecca Clarke, Cyril Scott, guaranteed to lift your spirits and get your or phone the Ticket Source Box Office Herbert Howell and Stanley Bate. The toes tapping! The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard programme includes extracts from Otter Campus, University of Chichester postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Salter’s Four ‘Hopkins Songs’. Director: Jade Batson Sponsored by Chichester Music Society telephone bookings. Musical Supervisor/Conductor: Oliver ...... Tickets: £5 / £3 Concessions. University Franklin Angela Zanders has a special interest in of Chichester students and staff are free. Producer: Kiera Smitheram promoting the accessibility of classical Tues 20th Oct, 7.30pm Production Devised by William Allenby music and has been giving lecture recitals PGH3 and Friends Present: Advanced bookings only. for many years. She has lectured in Music Autumn Adventures Tickets: £5. University of Chichester Appreciation for Birkbeck College, Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events students and staff are free. University of London and for the WEA The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop or phone the Ticket Source Box Office and U3A in Hampshire and currently runs Otter Campus, University of Chichester 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard Advanced bookings only. her own classes in Music Appreciation in postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Hampshire and West Sussex. She has Join PGH3 (Polly Clarke, Greg Susevee, telephone bookings. Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events been a lecturer at the University of Howard Weyman, Hannah Fisher, and ...... or phone the Ticket Source Box Office Chichester since 2010 and is an Harry Heaven), Ensemble of the Year 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard adjudicator for The British and 2019 Runners-up for an exciting evening Thurs 22nd Oct, 6pm postage rate of £1.50 will apply for International Federation of Festivals. In this of music. The ensemble, along with other Music on Thursdays Masterclass telephone bookings. event, as part of the CMS programme to talented musicians will be presenting a with Emily Gray ...... mark the 250th year of Beethoven’s birth, soothing evening of Autumnal songs. Thurs 29th Oct, 6.30pm Angela will examine Beethoven’s life and The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Basically Beethoven place in the history of Western music. Admission Free, advanced bookings only. Otter Campus, University of Chichester The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Tickets: £15 on the door or pre-booked Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events or Emily Gray (mezzo-soprano) will lead Otter Campus, University of Chichester on 01243 378900. No charge for phone the Ticket Source Box Office 0333 a masterclass featuring a selection of our Sponsored by Hanover Band Patrons University of Chichester Staff or Students 666 3366. Please note a standard postage vocalists. Emily will be working with them ...... rate of £1.50 will apply for telephone on their repertoire in preparation for Orchestral students perform alongside bookings. concert performances and assessments. the principal players of The Hanover Thurs 15th Oct, 7pm Band in a showcase concert. Conducted Staff Jazz Concert Retiring collection in aid of local charities. Admission Free, advanced bookings only. by Stephen Threlfall, former Head of ...... Music at Chethams, the concert marks The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events the culmination of an intensive course Otter Campus, University of Chichester Thurs 22nd Oct, 4.30pm or phone the Ticket Source Box Office exploring the works of Beethoven and

Music on Thursdays – A Lyrical 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard the techniques of historical performance. A concert featuring staff from the Twilight: English song in the 20c. postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Chichester Conservatoire Jazz telephone bookings. Tickets: £10 / £7 Concessions. University Department who will be performing a set The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop ...... of Chichester students and staff are free. of originals and standards. Come along Otter Campus, University of Chichester and enjoy an exciting evening of eclectic Sat 24th & Sun 25th Oct, 7.30pm Advanced bookings only. and innovative jazz in the atmospheric Emily Gray (mezzo-soprano) and Timothy Showstoppers: setting of the Chapel of the Ascension. Salter (piano) return to Music on Hits from the Musicals Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events Thursdays with a selection of English or phone the Ticket Source Box Office songs from across the 20c revealing how The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard Find out more composers moved away from the Otter Campus, University of Chichester postage rate of £1.50 will apply for For information and to book tickets, influence of late 19c German telephone bookings. please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or Romanticism towards the forging of an The UoC Conservatoire Musical Theatre ...... see contact information in event listings. English musical language with its own Ensemble presents a glittering evening of character. They perform and discuss musical theatre favourites. Accompanied

38 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 39 Sitkovetsky Piano Tri.o

November

Songs on the Lawn Thurs 5th Nov, 7pm Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) and Wu

Flute and piano Recital Tutor Qian (piano) were joined last season by

Showcase Performance German-Korean cellist Isang Enders. Songs on the Lawn will be held during Autumn lunchtimes on good weather The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop The past season saw the trio touring Asia days outside Elizabeth Swann on the Otter Campus, University of Chichester and appearances in the Bath Mozartfest, lawn. These exciting pop-up concerts will Beethovenhaus Bonn and Frederiksvaerk feature unaccompanied songs, Gaetano Donizetti Sonata for Flute and Hindsgavl Festival in Denmark. small a cappella vocal ensembles and and Piano songs with guitar, ukelele or flute. Gabriel Faure Fantasie Tickets from Chichester Festival Theatre, Repertoire is wide ranging and will Lowell Leibermann Soliloquy available from 10th August. incorporate all styles including jazz, Francis Poulenc Sonata for Flute folk songs and classical lute songs. and Piano £18 – season tickets are available - free Let’s hope for sunshine! for under 25s (must be booked to ensure Flute tutor Liz Meyer performs a recital of a seat in the hall). Please contact Susan Legg for more works with piano accompaniment...... information if you would like to take part: [email protected] Admission Free, advanced bookings only. Fri 6th Nov, 7.30pm ...... Begin the Beguine … again Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events Tues 3rd Nov, 7.30pm or phone the Ticket Source Box Office The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Tues 10th Nov, 7.30pm Weds 11th Nov, 7.30pm 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard Otter Campus, University of Chichester An Evening of Remembrance Rosamunde Trio Chichester Rotaract Present: postage rate of £1.50 will apply for with Wind Band & Marching A Musical Showcase The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop telephone bookings. The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra prove that Band The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop ...... even though we have been locked down Otter Campus, University of Chichester Otter Campus, University of Chichester we’re not out. A concert of the best The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Sponsored by Chichester Music Society Thurs 5th Nov, 7pm music from the Roaring 20’s to the Otter Campus, University of Chichester Come along to the first in a series of The Rosamunde Trio has toured Sitkovetsky Piano Trio Fabulous 40’s. The concert will be live concerts from Chichester Rotaract. This streamed; so for one evening only you can An hour-long concert with wind band and extensively in the UK on 25 occasions and fun-filled event will showcase all the talent Assembly Room, North Street, push back the furniture, roll up the marching band performing traditional has also performed in festivals and major that the Rotarians, and friends, have to Chichester PO19 1LQ carpets, mix yourself a Sidecar, and, in the marches, classical works and movie venues in the USA, Ireland, Germany, Italy, offer. With a range of bands, soloists, and Sponsored by Chichester Chamber Concerts privacy of your own home, dance like no themes themed to a remembrance style Slovenia, Cyprus and the Czech Republic. everything in between, this will be a night one is watching! Featuring the music we service. The Trio’s recordings include the to remember. Alexander Sitkovetsky violin have come to know and enjoy such as, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich Trios, as Isang Enders cello Begin the Beguine, Puttin’ on the Ritz, It’s Tickets: £5. University of Chichester well as Dvorak’s Trios, all recorded in Admission Free, advanced bookings only. Wu Qian piano Magic and a Jack Hylton selection. Also a students and staff are free. Prague at the Liechtenstein Palace. In Vera Lynn Tribute, fitting for the current 2012 and 2013 the Rosamunde Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events Schumann Fantasiestücke in A times, including White Cliffs of Dover and, Advanced bookings only. celebrated its 10th anniversary with cycles or phone the Ticket Source Box Office minor Op. 88 be assured, We’ll Meet Again. of the complete Piano Trios of 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events Beethoven. In this concert they will be postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Op.70 no. 2 Admission Free, advanced bookings only. or phone the Ticket Source Box Office playing trios by Mozart and Beethoven. telephone bookings. Arensky Piano Trio No 1 in 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard Tickets: £15 on the door or pre-booked D minor Op. 32 Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Find out more Retiring collection in aid of local charities telephone bookings. on 01243 378900. or phone the Ticket Source Box Office For information and to book tickets, ...... The Sitkovetsky Trio is established as an ...... 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or exceptional piano trio of today, with No charge for University of Chichester postage rate of £1.50 will apply for see contact information in event listings. sensational performances in the foremost telephone bookings. Staff or Students. concert halls around the world......

40 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 41 Photo credits: Andrew Worsfold. Thurs 19th Nov, 7.30pm youth with Hart’s acerbic wit perfectly meetings, all members of the Group are Staff Concert Professor Laura counterpointing Rodgers’ innate included in the programme, at whatever Ritchie and Ben Hall romanticism, and the lyrics are a triumph of stage of development, and the repertoire ingenious wordplay.’ The Guardian. is mainly classical. The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester Staged by the brilliant Musical Theatre Admission Free, advanced bookings only. Triple Threat programme whose shows Programme to include the Rachmnainov now have a special cache in the industry Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events and Shostakovich cello sonatas. with both media critics and local or phone the Ticket Source Box Office audiences now regularly sell out. 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard Tickets: £10. University of Chichester postage rate of £1.50 will apply for students and staff are free. Babes in Arms is Directed by Gary Sefton telephone bookings with Musical Direction by Brady Mould ...... Advanced bookings only. and Choreography by Damien Delaney whose collective professional credits Thurs 26th Nov, 7pm Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events guarantee exceptional production values. Student Jazz Concert or phone the Ticket Source Box Office Extravaganza 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard Part of the ROGERS & HART Season postage rate of £1.50 will apply for featuring PAL JOEY & BABES IN ARMS. The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop telephone bookings. Buy both at the same time and get the Otter Campus, University of Chichester ...... second half price! A concert featuring students from the Thurs 19th – Sat 21st Nov, 7.30pm Rodgers & Hart’s Chichester Conservatoire Jazz Thurs 12th – Sat 14th Nov, 7.30pm Staged by the brilliant Musical Theatre Tickets: £14, £12 (Concessions), £8 Sat 21st Nov, 2.30pm BABES IN ARMS Department. Please come along and Sat 14th Nov, 2.30pm Triple Threat programme whose shows (NUS/U16’s). Babes In Arms enjoy an evening featuring a wide range of Music by RICHARD RODGERS now have a special cache in the industry styles and groups from the students that Pal Joey Regis Centre, Belmont Street, Lyrics by LORENZ HART with both media critics and local To book tickets call 01243 861010 or regularly attend the jazz nights and Bognor Regis, PO21 1BL Book by GEORGE OPPENHEIMER Regis Centre, Belmont Street, audiences now regularly sell out. book online at alexandratheatre.co.uk. workshops. Based on the original by Rodgers & Hart Bognor Regis, PO21 1BL ...... Rogers & Hart’s early ground-breaking Pal Joey is Directed by Karen Howard with Admission Free, advanced bookings only. classic boasts one of the greatest scores This amateur production of BABES PAL JOEY is known for breaking hearts, Musical Direction by Stuart Hutchinson and Tues 17th Nov, 6pm ever written with My Funny Valentine, IN ARMS is presented by arrangement and for featuring one of the most Choreography by Rachel Brown whose Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events English Song Concert Where or When, Johnny One Note and The with Concord Theatricals Ltd. delectable scores and wittiest lyrics of any collective professional credits guarantee or phone the Ticket Source Box Office Lady is a Tramp immortalised as recording concordtheatricals.co.uk American musical. Richard Rogers wrote in exceptional production values. Support The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard album favourites by Frank Sinatra, Tony The Times, ‘Pal Joey’ was the work that your local theatre and have a memorable Otter Campus, University of Chichester postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Bennett, Andy Williams and Barbra Tickets: £14, £12 (Concessions), ‘forced the entire musical comedy theater night out with a high-quality live show! telephone bookings Streisand. The plot is simple on the surface: £8 (NUS/U16’s). to wear long pants for the first time.’ Its A programme of English Song given by ...... Valentine and his teenage friends find deglamourizing portrait of show business in Part of the ROGERS & HART Season our B.Mus Vocal Performance degree themselves unsupervised while their folks To book tickets call 01243 861010 or Depression-era Chicago anticipated the featuring PAL JOEY & BABES IN ARMS. singers accompanied by Susan Legg. hit the vaudeville summer circuit. The local book online at alexandratheatre.co.uk. decadent seediness conjured by Cabaret Buy both at the same time and get the sheriff, regarding the kids as indolent loafers, ...... and Chicago. Brooks Atkinson in the New second half price! Admission Free, advanced bookings only. threatens to send them to a work farm. But York Times wrote of the original they talk themselves into a two-week Tues 24th Nov, 6.30pm production: it’s a show that ‘draws sweet PAL JOEY Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events reprieve — just enough time to produce Keyboards Group Concert water from a foul well’. With musical classics Music by RICHARD RODGERS or phone the Ticket Source Box Office their own show and prove their mettle. like Chicago and Bewitched, Bothered and Lyrics by LORENZ HART 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop The old-fashioned virtues of musical Bewildered, a handsome charmer with stars Book by JOHN O’HARA postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Otter Campus, University of Chichester comedy are peppered with socio-political Find out more in his eyes, a sultry mistress, and glittering telephone booking. commentary designed to provoke its 1937 For information and to book tickets, production numbers, the ground-breaking This amateur production of PAL JOEY ...... We used to be Piano Group, but we’ve audience to think about the divisive society Joey, changed the face of classic Broadway. is presented by arrangement with evolved! The organ has joined, and other please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or that was soon to explode into global And it all started with a letter… Exceptional Concord Theatricals Ltd. keyboards are in the offing - harpsichord, see contact information in event listings. conflict. 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Thurs 3rd Dec, 7.30pm All are welcome and entry is free, in July, at a theatre in London. Christmas Carol Service although donations will be welcomed on the night. PROLOGUE will be Directed by Course St. Wilfrid’s Church, Ellasdale Road, ...... Leader Andrew Wright, with Musical Bognor Regis PO21 2SG Direction from Andrew Cleary and Weds 9th Dec, 7.30pm Choreography by Joey Bethell and A service of traditional lessons and carols David Owen Norris Sophie Barge. sung by the University Chamber Choir. All are welcome and entry is free, The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop For further updates please follow our although donations will be welcomed Otter Campus, University of Chichester social media channels: on the night. Sponsored by Chichester Music Society Twitter: @UOCprologue/@chiuniMTP ...... Instagram: Chi Conservatoire - MTP This is a special Christmas Concert at the Snapchat: MTPCompany Sat 5th Dec, 7.30pm end of CMS’s yearlong celebration of the Cabaret Showtime works of Beethoven, marking the 250th Tickets: £8 / £5 Concessions.

anniversary of his birth. David Owen The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Norris, the renowned pianist and Advanced bookings only. Otter Campus, University of Chichester broadcaster, will discuss and perform one

of the composer’s much-loved pieces, the Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events December Join the Level 5 Cabaret Performance Moonlight Sonata. or phone the Ticket Source Box Office Company for a festive show to get you in 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard the mood for Christmas. With a super Wine and mince pies will be served postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Tues 1st Dec, 7.30pm Thurs 3rd Dec, 7.30pm Thurs 3rd Dec, 7.30pm mix of dance, singing, comedy and magic during the interval. telephone bookings. Advanced Performers Course ‘Come to the Cabaret’ Zoltan Fejervari Piano plus some very special guests, this is a not ...... Christmas Show to be missed event. Let the Level 5 The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Assembly Room, North Street, Tickets: £15 on the door or pre-booked Cabaret students and Cabaret Showband The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester Chichester, PO19 1LQ on 01243 378900. transport you to the world of cruising. Otter Campus, University of Chichester Sponsored by Chichester Music Society No charge for University of Chichester

Join the level 4 Cabaret Performance Staff or Students Devised by Will Allenby with choreography Join students from the Advanced Company for their first show. Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37a ...... by Drew Varley and Joey Bethell. Performers Course for a festive romp Featuring song, dance and music, come Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

through an eclectic mix of music from the and support the next generation of Fri 11th Dec, 4.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: £5. University of Chichester world of opera to musical theatre, sacred entertainers as they start their journey. Zoltán Fejérvári has emerged as one of Prologue students and staff are free. music and everything in between. the most intriguing pianists among the The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Set sail with them in a cruise ship styled newest generation of Hungarian Advanced bookings only. Otter Campus, University of Chichester Presented and accompanied by Will entertainment with special guests. musicians. Winner of the 2017 Concours

Allenby and Susan Legg. A not to be missed evening of classic Musical International de Montréal and Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events PROLOGUE is an annual, in-house Deck the halls indeed! entertainment! recipient of the prestigious Borletti- or phone the Ticket Source Box Office showcase production featuring the final Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2016, Zoltán 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard year students on the BA (Hons) Musical Tickets: £5. University of Chichester Tickets: £5. University of Chichester Fejérvári has appeared in recitals postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Theatre Performance degree students and staff are free. students and staff are free. throughout the Americas and Europe, at telephone bookings. programme. The showcase will be a fully- Advanced bookings only. prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, ...... staged production and will present a Advanced bookings only. Gasteig in Munich, Lingotto in Turin and diverse and vibrant range of repertoire Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events Liszt Academy in Budapest. Tues 8th Dec, 7.30pm from the canon of modern musical Book Online at www.chi.ac.uk/events or phone the Ticket Source Box Office theatre. or phone the Ticket Source Box Office 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard Tickets from Chichester Festival Theatre, Christmas Carol Service

0333 666 3366. Please note a standard postage rate of £1.50 will apply for available from 10th August. The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop PROLOGUE is the first of two Find out more postage rate of £1.50 will apply for telephone bookings. Otter Campus, University of Chichester guaranteed productions for the third year For information and to book tickets, telephone bookings...... £18 – season tickets are available - free Musical Theatre Performance students please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or ...... for under 25s (must be booked to ensure A service of traditional lessons and carols and acts as a prequel to their graduate a seat in the hall). see contact information in event listings. sung by the University Chamber Choir. showcase Debut, which they will perform ......

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‘Coram Populi’ a concert for all first-year students

Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester

A unique opportunity to hear staff perform. You won’t get another chance to see this! January For details please visit our Facebook page facebook.com/ChiUniConservatoire Weds 13th Jan, 7.30pm Thurs 28th – Sat 30th Jan, 7.30pm Filled with unforgettable songs and a truly ...... Continuum Baroque Quartet Sat 30th Jan, 2.30pm unique and fresh story, from the writers

Cry-Baby of Hairspray, Cry-Baby is a deliciously Cloisters Chamber, Bishop Otter enjoyable, rebellious teen comedy event. Campus, University of Chichester Regis Centre, Belmont Street, Bognor Cry-Baby, Allison and Baltimore’s Sponsored by Chichester Music Society Regis, PO21 1BL energetic juvenile delinquents will dance their way right into your heart! Continuum have performed a variety of The Musical Theatre Performance exciting and varied concerts in Festivals Company is very proud to present this For further updates please follow our and Music Series, offering crafted jumping, jiving, Rock and Roll musical, social media channels: programmes of baroque music for flute, based on the cult classic 1990 John Twitter: @UOCcrybaby violin, cello and harpsichord. They have Waters film. Brought to you by the Instagram: Chi Conservatoire - MTP performed together in festivals such as same team that produced the Olivier Snapchat: MTPCompany the Chichester Music Festival (2011), Award Winning musical Our House in the British Flute Society (2012) and January 2020. Book by Thomas Meehan and Mark more recently in Somerset, Lincolnshire O’Donnell. Music and Lyrics by Adam at the Handel House museum, London It’s 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes Schlesinger and David Javerbaum and Wells Cathedral. This concert marks communism, and Wade “Cry-Baby” Based on the Universal Pictures film a return to Chichester of the ensemble Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. written and directed by John Waters and features the music of J.S.Bach and He’s a bad boy with a good cause - truth, his contemporaries. justice, and the pursuit of rock and roll. This amateur production is presented Cry-Baby and the square rich girl Allison by arrangement with Music Theatre Tickets: £15 on the door or pre-booked are star-crossed lovers at the centre of International (Europe) on 01243 378900. this world. Fuelled by hormones and the All authorised performance materials new rhythms of rock and roll, she turns are also supplied by MTI Europe No charge for University of Chichester her back on her squeaky-clean boyfriend mtishows.co.uk Staff or Students. Baldwin to become a “drape” (a ...... Baltimore juvenile delinquent) and Cry- Tickets: £14, £12 (Concessions), £8 Baby’s moll. At the other end of the (NUS/U16’s). topsy-turvy moral meritocracy of 1954 Find out more America, Baldwin as the king of the To book tickets call 01243 861010 or For information and to book tickets, squares leads his close-harmony pals book online at alexandratheatre.co.uk. against the juvenile delinquents, who are please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or ...... ultimately arrested for arson, sending the see contact information in event listings. Photo credit: drapes all off to prison. It’s Romeo and Andrew Worsfold. Juliet meets High School Hellcats.

46 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 47 DearL z weeks now. You’ll also be aware that Dear Anonymous Dear Anonymous will be able to sit back objectively and being out the front that we get to know Our Agony Aunt we’ve had to make a few adjustments Forget Jazz vocal lessons (unless you This is a very interesting question and see that you have made the right students as they’ll come and have a helps out students along the way to follow government are really, really interested in having I’m sure you probably aren’t alone in decision after all. chat with us even if they haven’t got health and safety guidelines to ensure them for study purposes) just get thinking along these lines. Although ...... any queries. I like to think that in need the safety of all students and staff, but yourself down to the next Jazz night – friendship and Uni experiences are very although we’re a large department, we you’ll be delighted to hear that we’re this is the place to be for all Jazzers on important what you have got to Dear Liz do provide a personalised service to bringing you as much face to face a Wednesday night - and if this ‘special’ consider at all times is what is best for We see you, Suzi and Alison sitting on students (and staff) and we do know Dear Liz teaching as we possibly can and also a person is there fine, you can switch on you and your future career, primarily the reception desk all day long with the the names of most of our students so I The last few months have been really really varied and interesting the charisma and charm but if not, you are here to study after all! technicians, what on earth do you do think that adds a great warmth to the strange and although I’ve really enjoyed programme of events for semester 1. I you’ll have an amazing time anyhow. Obviously by transferring across to the which keeps you so busy although it place and hope all students feel it too. being back with my family, I’ve found it think that you’ll be really happy at what By the way, ditch those boring old BMus you would have discussed this in must be a laugh listening to Ben’s jokes Incidentally, we do actually manage to a real struggle coping with my Uni work we can offer in these rather tricky clothes; blazers and tweeds do not sit detail with Ben Hall and come to the all day long! get some work done as well when without the support of my friends. I’m times and it goes without saying, of well with a Jazzer, go get yourself conclusion that this was the best way we’re on the front desk! really hoping that things will return to course, that we’re really pleased to something a bit more hip! forward for yourself. We’re all Dear Student ...... normal as soon as possible, do you have you all back on campus...... individuals and maybe your BA friends Great question and yes, we do try to think they ever will? ...... were not so keen on performing as be polite and laugh along to all of Ben’s Dear Liz yourself, wanted a different career path jokes but then I guess all of you Dear Student Dear Liz As a 3rd Year BMus student most of to you, the list is endless so the BMus students have to do the same in his This is a question which obviously a lot I really like this person who plays in a my friends who are on the BA are would have not have been so lectures! of students would probably want to jazz group but I'm a classical vocalist leaving. As this realisation has sunk in important for them. We all waver at The truth is that it’s actually quite nice ask and they would definitely agree and I don't know how to go about I have started to question my change times in our decisions, but if you revisit to move away from our back-office with you that life has been really getting to know this person. I'm not to BMus and how it has an impact on what initially prompted you to switch desks and come and sit on the challenging and difficult at times over certain if I should go to Jazz Night or my future studies. Have I done the courses and forget the fact that friends reception desk and hear all the chatter the last few months. By the time you even if this person will be there. Should right thing? have left already with their degree, you from passing students. It’s only by read this, however, you’ll know that the I start having Jazz vocal lessons? Can Music block has been open for many you please give me some advice?

48 | University of Chichester Conservatorie SHOW CASE | 49 Voice of the Future Madame Bell, reads your horoscope for 2021!

AQUARIUS GEMINI LIBRA January 21 - Feb 19 May 22 - June 21 Sep 24 - Oct 23 You are highly creative and intelligent, the You’re a real social butterfly, playful and Believe it or not, Librans are social butterflies world is your oyster, you are eccentric and curious, you are quick to learn and can talk who hate to be alone and have lots to say think ‘out of the box’. Acting is an ideal the hind legs off a donkey – sounds like you’d themselves but hate loudmouths and conformity occupation for Aquarians so many of you will be very suitable Musical Theatre material! – so rather do as I say, than do as I do – bit of an probably be on our Acting for Film degrees. Marilyn Monroe was a Gemini and so is enigma then but guess some of our more ...... Donald Trump – not sure if the latter is too theatrical students may well be born under this much of a favourable role model. star sign – loud extrovert types better watch out PISCES ...... when associating with a Libran! February 20 - March 20 ...... Pisces ‘the fish’ calm, smooth and gliding CANCER through the troubled waters of life, you are June 22 - Jul 23 Scorpio quite often artistic and musical (this is helpful Your tenacity and loyalty combine with Oct 24 - Nov 22 if you’re in the Conservatoire!) but you may emotional sympathy – great attributes but Scorpios are best in times of trouble, brave also suffer from a desire to escape reality – you may feel insecure about your artistic and resourceful, with a never say die attitude. those assessment uploads are approaching a ability so be confident and accept advice from These go getters dislike passive people and little too fast for your liking! all your tutors, don’t forget they’ve been ideas so if you’re a Scorpio don’t forget that ...... there and done it all before you. not everyone can be like you, team working ...... is essential at Uni especially in the ARIES Conservatoire so sometimes it’s best to keep March 21 - April 20 LEO quiet and let other have their say too. You’re fiery, full of ambition and excitement Jul 24 - Aug 23 ...... but this can lead to impatience and irritability You’re the sun king of the jungle and you’re Be Passionate, if things don’t go your way – look at famous really hard to ignore when you act as if you’re SAGITTARIUS Arians, Elton John, Mariah Carey etc – they king or queen of all you survey! Try and leave Nov 23 - Dec 21 certainly know how to kick up a tantrum if the ego behind. It’s important to be confident Extrovert and funny, 24-hour party people (try things don’t go right, let’s not have any of but you need to be able to work in a team. to keep out of the SU bar some of the time!) those tempers and theatricals in the Music You love the theatre, the bright lights and the you love performing and will do everything to Block please! gaiety so are definitely a Musical Theatre type. achieve your aims – look at your fellow Be Inspired, ...... Sagittarians, Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus, need I say more? TAURUS VIRGO ...... April 21 - May 21 Aug 24 - Sep 23 You’re solid and reliable and you are devoted It’s all in the detail with Virgo, you like CAPRICORN Be You to others so hang in there, once you find the everything in its place at all times, this has got Dec 22 - Jan 20 right partner you’ll mate for life. Taureans to be a plus if you’re into organising musical Capricorns love music and approach life in a have a passion for music (handy) and Adele theatre shows, harness that talent. Make it responsible and disciplined manner – their self- and David Beckham were both born under work for you if you prefer being at the back of control is admired by others but they hate this star sign so if you can’t make it in music, the stage rather than at the front centre stage. change and don’t cope well with understanding there’s always the option for you to brush up ...... others! If you’re a Capricorn, harness the on those free kicks! positives to your star sign but do try to get along ...... with others otherwise you’re on a lonely path to stardom and to making friends at Uni! Famous At the University of Chichester we encourage our students to be challenged, be Capricorns are Jesus (of course!), Mohammed fearless and to be themselves regardless of their interests, backgrounds or ambitions. Ali (and Mr Bean – wow that’s a medley! ...... Be inspired and find out more about our courses.

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September December Weds 9th 7:30 pm Pavlos Carvalho (cello), Bach Cello Suites The Chapel of the Ascension Tues 1st 7:30 pm Advanced Performers Course Christmas Show The Chapel of the Ascension Tues 29th 7:30 pm Erin Alexander and Nick Miller - On a High Note The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 3rd 7:30 pm ZOLTAN FEJERVARI piano Assembly Room Thurs 3rd 7:30 pm ‘Come to the Cabaret’ The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 3rd 7:30 pm Christmas Carol Service St Wilfrids Church October Sat 5th 7:30 pm Cabaret Showtime The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 1st 7:30 pm Dudok String Quartet Amsterdam Assembly Room Tues 8th 7:30 pm Christmas Carol Service The Chapel of the Ascension Tues 6th 7:30 pm The Chitones Present: An Evening of Song The Chapel of the Ascension Weds 9th 7:30 pm David Owen Norris The Chapel of the Ascension Weds 14th 7:30 pm Beethoven the Revolutionary – Angela Zanders The Chapel of the Ascension Fri 11th 4:30 pm Prologue The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 15th 7:00 pm Staff Jazz Concert The Chapel of the Ascension Fri 11th 7:30 pm Prologue The Chapel of the Ascension Tues 20th 7:30 pm PGH3 and Friends Present: Autumn Adventures The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 22nd 4:30 pm Music on Thursdays – A Lyrical Twilight: English song in the 20c. The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 22nd 6:00 pm Music on Thursdays Masterclass with Emily Gray The Chapel of the Ascension January Sat 24th 7:30 pm Showstoppers: Hits from the Musicals The Chapel of the Ascension Weds 13th 7:30 pm Continuum Baroque Quartet Cloisters Chamber Sun 25th 7:30 pm Showstoppers: Hits from the Musicals The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 28th 7:30 pm Cry-Baby Regis Centre Thurs 29th 6:30 pm Basically Beethoven The Chapel of the Ascension Fri 29th 7:30 pm Cry-Baby Regis Centre Sat 30th 2:30 pm Cry-Baby Regis Centre Sat 30th 7:30 pm Cry-Baby Regis Centre November Tues 3rd 7:30 pm Chichester Rotaract Present: a Musical Showcase The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 5th 7:00 pm Flute and Piano Recital The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 5th 7:30 pm Sitkovetsky Piano Trio Assembly Room Fri 6th 7:30 pm Begin the Beguine….again The Chapel of the Ascension Tues 10th 7:30 pm An Evening of Remembrance with Wind Band & Marching Band The Chapel of the Ascension Weds 11th 7:30 pm Rosamunde Trio The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 12th 7:30 pm Pal Joey Regis Centre Fri 13th 7:30 pm Pal Joey Regis Centre Sat 14th 2:30 pm Pal Joey Regis Centre Sat 14th 7:30 pm Pal Joey Regis Centre Tues 17th 6:00 pm English Song Concert The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 19th 7:30 pm Babes in Arms Regis Centre

Thurs 19th 7:30 pm Staff Concert Professor Laura Ritchie and Ben Hall The Chapel of the Ascension Venue addresses • Cloisters Chamber, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester • Assembly Room, North Street, Chichester PO19 1 LQ Fri 20th 7:30 pm Babes in Arms Regis Centre • The Assembly Theatre, Bognor Regis Campus, University of Chichester • Regis Centre, Belmont Street, Bognor Regis PO21 1BL • The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester • St. Wilfrid’s Church, Ellasdale Road, Bognor Regis PO21 2SG Sat 21st 2:30 pm Babes in Arms Regis Centre Sat 21st 7:30 pm Babes in Arms Regis Centre Disclaimer Tues 24th 6:30 pm Keyboards Group Concert The Chapel of the Ascension All event details including venues and prices are correct at time of going to press. The University of Chichester reserves the right to limit or vary advertised pricing and discounts. ID must Thurs 26th 7:00 pm Student Jazz Concert Extravaganza The Chapel of the Ascension be shown where relevant. The University of Chichester reserves the right to make any alteration to the advertised programme which may be rendered necessary by unavoidable cause. Latecomers cannot be guaranteed access to an event until a convenient break in the performance.

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