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Saffron Hall Co-producd by theBarbianCentre and Part of Barbican Presents 2019–20 Jonathan Fensom Guildhall Consort The EnglishConcert Amanda Wilkin Anjana Vasan Jack Farthing Jamie Parker Gwilym Bowen Tim Morgan Monday 21 October 2019 7.30pm, Hall with An Entertainment Gabriel: in Balsom Alison advertising by Cabbell(tel 02036037930) Programme produced by HarrietSmith; hearing aidto Tsettingonentering thehall. Please useourinductionloop–justswitch your Use ahearingaid? the performance. Take photos ormake recordings during Please don’t... the performance. Turn off watch alarmsandphonesduring Please do... conductor actor actor actor trumpet soprano actor

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2 Gabriel But we beginwithareworking of Birtwistle andJohnWoolrich. sitting alongsidepiecesby SirHarrison modern, withmusicby ScarlattiandPurcell with Britten Sinfonia mixingancientand the GuildhallJazzOrchestra to aconcert groundbreaking range from areworking of MilesDavis’s that magnificently here inconcertsthat doesn’t believe inboundariesandshows gifts andinterests. She’s amusicianwho to experience thesheer range of her in-Residence asitgives audiencesachance Balsom isthisseason’sMilton CourtArtist- We’re delighted thattrumpeter Alison Welcome , aremarkable project first seen Sketches of Spain with with Huw Humphreys, Head of Music,Barbican I hopeyou enjoy it. It promises to beawonderful evening. patchwork. to create astunningaural andvisual and hiscontemporaries, woven together trumpet, performing musicby Purcell all thisisAlisonBalsomwithhernatural from allstrata of society. Inthemiddleof London, through anumberof characters the bustleandclamourof Restoration Adamson wrote aseriesof plays thatevoke adapted for the concerthall.Samuel at Shakespeare’s Globe in2013 andnow

itself, late 17th-century trumpeters beganto adjustments to themechanicsof thetrumpet the lipsand,probably, viaobscure physical cannot produce, butthrough techniques using master it.There are notes thatthenatural trumpet instrument andneedsaplayer of hugeskillto the softness imaginable’. It’sanunpredictable played with, asonecommentator putit,‘all London, audiencesbeganto hearthetrumpet to make it‘sing’intheupperregister. In1690s come from thegreater effort required to play it, natural trumpet,asweetness thatmay, ironically, possible there’s auniquesweetness of tone to the sounds outof any kindof instrument,butit’s SA trumpet thatappealto you? NR natural trumpet–anditsBaroque repertoire. evening: the trumpet–specifically thevalveless Globe provides a‘frame’ for thesubjectof the a traditional recording for aclassicallabel.The music infresh ways, beyond theconcert hallor contexts for herperformances; to share great theatre space. Alisonwants always to find new it mightmeanto have Alisonperforming ina and meinaroom andasked usto explore what on somemusic-theatre projects, soheputAlison that Iwas working withcontemporary but Dominicknew of my interest inmusic,and Alison loves playing outdoors.I’mnot amusician, great environment for music,acoustically; and So sheapproached DominicDromgoole. It’sa Balsom wanted to play atShakespeare’s Globe! Samuel Adamson Nicholas Robins page 6 For alistof see themusicbeingperformed, Globe for the ‘Gabriel’ writing about Adamson to Samuel talks Robins Nicholas Trumpet the Sound overcome the instrument’sharmoniclimitations. Great players canof courseget beautiful Whatare thequalitiesof thenatural How didthispiececomeabout? Quite simply, really: Alison potential of theirart,andtheinstrumentsof pieces for theplayer. Allgoodartistspushthe Snow, andthecomposerwrote somecomplex worked withanother great virtuoso,Valentine and beautifulsonglike melodies.Later, Handel trumpet partsthathad difficult, florid obbligatos the natural trumpet.Purcell responded with who couldproduce hitherto unheard notes on the late-Stuart monarchs. They were virtuosos family of trumpeters, whowere employed by wonderful players. We know abouttheShore perhaps simplybecausehehad access to some was clearlywritingmore varied trumpetparts, – from about1690 tillhisdeath–where he there isavery shortperiodof justfive years strings. InEngland,where Purcell isconcerned, brass partsto theestablished ground bassand composers beganto add more windand towards more expansive musicalstylesas SA the period.Why doyou thinkthatis? NR celebrate theirturning-points–birth,marriage, used asasignalling instrument.Buthumans attention-grabbing; andithasalways been tone. Ofcoursethetrumpetisfervent, rousing, public occasionthatcallsfor apropagandistic major-key soundmakes itperfect for thekindof a monarch –itscapacity for brightdeclamatory to celebrate avictory orannouncethearrival of SA inherently celebratory aboutit,isn’tthere? celebration of theinstruments.There’s something to QueenMary, it’sthetrumpet thatleads the NR some extent AlisonandIare telling thatstory. to theplayers asmuchthecomposers,andto the trumpetcameinto itsown, perhapsthanks that inthe1690s there was ashortperiodwhen of someonewhodoesthisconstantly. It’sclear their art,to thelimit.Alisonisagreat example There was intheBaroque amovement Obviously thetrumpetisperfect instrument Thetrumpetreally seemsto take flight in Inoneof Purcell’s wonderful birthday odes

3 Programme note 4 Alison, someto beaboutwomen inmusic:their women inthelate Restoration, and,inspired by many of theshortplays inthepiece to beabout a ‘female trumpeter’. Nevertheless, Iwanted early onwe didn’twant rightly getsbored withit,andwe decided male. Alisongetsasked aboutthisoften and SA for instance. characters from theperiod. Hunt, NR and play it,sheneedssingersaswell. music, whichmeansAlisoncan’tjustfind an music by Purcell, althoughalot of itisvocal strictly speaking.Butthere’s awealth of trumpet thrilling, anditfeels authentic–even ifitisn’t, the trumpet’ismetwithamusicalanswer. It’s lines, andsuddenlytheexhortation ‘Sound . Sheborrows oneof thevocal countertenor andtrumpetrather thantwo odes, whichAlisonreimagines asaduetbetween Trumpet’ from oneof hisQueenMarybirthday stunningly effective –isPurcell’s ‘Soundthe instrument. Onesuchexample –andit’s so thatthetrumpettakes thelineof another has occasionallyslightlyrearranged themusic, trumpet itselfisabsentfrom themusic.Alison ironically, whenthephrase isemployed, the turns uptimeandagain. Althoughoften, to thewars, thephrase ‘soundthetrumpet’ listener, orto tell tales of brave boys marching designed to galvanise patriotism withinthe SA NR or minor-key melodies,are atthecentre of it. piece: andtrumpets,playing extraordinary ‘flat’ music imaginable, perhapshismostsublime Mary died,hewrote thesaddest, mostmournful sound outwarlike fanfares. AndwhenQueen fine dramatist. Hedidn’tjustusethetrumpetto plays andrevivals. Like allcomposers,hewas a well assongsandincidental musicfor Restoration time: semi- suchas Purcell was writingalot for thetheatre atthis yearning andnostalgia inthetrumpetparts. the early1690s –there islovely tenderness, that exact periodIwas talking aboutbefore, Queen Mary–hewrote sixof themfor her, over its place, butinfact inPurcell’s birthday odesfor trumpet canmeethumansubtlety. Bombasthas of whichhave nothing to dowithpageant. The death, andsoon–inallsortsof ways, some InRestoration Englishtexts setto music You’ve conjured upsomefascinating Hasany of themusicbeenrearranged? Traditionally, thetrumpetworld hasbeen Gabriel The Fairy-Queen to beabout , as , as

Lewis was a keen observer, too, and hepaints manservant JenkinLewis. It’snostalgic, but SA an enormouslyimportant figure atthetime. consciousness now, buthemusthave been Anne) –doesn’tfeature highlyinournational Queen Mary’ssister (whowould becomeQueen NR and herstatus incourtandasamusician. Arabella’s gendermeantfor hersingulartalent, woman witha‘scandalous’past,andwhat what itmighthave beenlike to beasingle marriage. BygivingArabella avoice, Iimagine by seeingitthrough thelensof Arabella’s position ontheold‘ColdandRaw’ anecdote Sara Mendelson.‘ColdArabella’ takes anew work of thehistorians Patricia Crawford and story. We know alittleaboutitthanks to the had themarriage annulled.Thisisatrue in 1680 shemarriedanother woman, then there’s another strange detail aboutArabella: to singaScots ballad, ‘ColdandRaw’. But bored withPurcell’s songsandasked Arabella story goesthat,atasoirée, QueenMarygot ‘Cold Arabella’ in Purcell andQueenMary, whichtheshortplay She’s known for atimeworn anecdote about soprano, Congreve wrote apoemabouther. Arabella Huntsangatcourt,shewas afine women started acting andsinginginpublic. our periodwere men,butobviously atthistime dominance. Alltheplayers andcomposersin position intheface of malecultural andpolitical – was intended to keep Catholicism of QueenMaryandWilliamof Orange NR the boy, whoseshortlife was abitof amisery. 1695. It’samoving composition for andabout – abeautifultrumpet-filled birthday odefrom by music written especiallyfor himby Purcell plays in of 1701 established theHouseof Hanover. The the Stuarts. After hisdeaththeAct of Settlement death at11 of hydrocephalus meanttheendof Anne’s onlyson,was thegreat Stuart hope. His so many children. SothisDuke of Gloucester, husband Williamwere childless,andAnnelost queen –Mary, James’sdaughter. Maryandher the Protestant nephew of thenew Protestant and wasn’t aware of hisown importance as existence of his Catholic grandfather James II boy, whoknew nothing of theexile oreven a poignantpicture of asick,brilliant,lonely There’s amemoirabouthimwritten by his The young Duke of Gloucester –thesonof The GloriousRevolution – the succession Gabriel abouttheduke were inspired Gabriel investigates. The about Purcell theman.It’shard to pinhimdown. as theSymphony in he wrote hismostsublimetrumpetmusic,such to provoke andneedle.Andthisiswhere Ithink songs, plays andoperas are written to entertain, more egalitarian places than thecourt,of course; theatre music.Thealehouseandtheatre are and catches, someof themanti-Catholic–and music, sacred music,popularmusic–hissongs Purcell’s outputthat’sastonishing. Hewrote royal explore this intheplay. It’sthesheerrange of often beautifulbutthewords are jingoistic.We This music–thebirthday odesandsoon–is the royal musicPurcell wrote for thetrumpet. Gabriel music for JamesII.Hewas aworking . did. Thatsaid,hewas commissionedto write music thatIthinkwe have to concludethatit SA in bolstering ’sProtestant position? a role insupportingthisnew status quo?Or NR the rightof subjectsto petition,andsoon. parliamentary supremacy inmatters of taxation, power; outwent thedivinerightof kings,incame the ‘Protestant wind’blew away James’sabsolute Scotland, there was uneasy accord inEngland: even asrebellions occurred inIreland and the oddthreat to Mary’ssafety. Butonthe whole, Jacobite activity inEnglandduringourperiod, away each ‘fighting season’.There was some her advisors, sheran thecountrywhilehewas when herhusbandwas victorious abroad. With though Marybecamemore popular, especially William andMarywere not instantly loved, expensive, whichcausedcontroversy athome. Scotland andontheContinent,they were wars raged, not onEnglishsoilbutinIreland, as they say ‘bloodless’–atleastinEngland. But with hisCatholicwife andtheirnew son.Itwas summoned to take thethrone andJames IIfled system, ourdemocracy. WilliamandMarywere of Parliament andisthebasisfor ourparty SA period of queasy consensuswasn’t it? and absolute monarchy atbay. Itwas a He was commissionedto write somuchroyal The Billof Rightsestablished theimportance And music,Purcell’s music–didthatplay started whenAlisonbeganto explore . Little is known . Littleisknown one elementmore important thantheother. in thebigpublicspace of theGlobe,withno I wanted alltheseelementsworking together musicians andAlisonwithhernatural trumpet; other, dance,orchestral music,actors, singers, self-contained plays, plays thatbledinto each I wanted lots of songsthatspoke to thestories, I canthinkof. Word paintingof thefirst order. more successfullythanalmostany other music of themelodicline;it’smarriedto thelyric and ticklestheheart.Listen to theconstruction elegantly expressed: love simultaneously pierces sentiment inthatsongisstraightforward butso in successfully asPurcell. We have many examples point thatnobodyhassettheEnglishlanguage as lyrically they’re perfect: BenjaminBritten made the dance and sounded andlooked like andjusthow important experience of themasit’shard to say whatthey stand updramaturgically, andwe’ve lostthetrue music. Unfortunately, thesemi-operas don’t operas withdialoguescenesthatgive way to ones. Thesemi-operas work like that:dramatic narrative connectionsbutdirect emotional the plays, others are moodpieces,withoblique throughout: someof theseare plot-specific to are songsandorchestral piecesinterspersed SA suggest to you away of writing of Purcell’s ‘semi-operas’ isn’tit?Didthatform which disappeared for two centuries.It’sone NR reprinted withkindpermission Interview ©NicholasRobins; Alison andIhopeto address thatalittle. their drama, someof their narrative meaning. centuries, though,perhapsthey losesomeof from theirpersonalandpoliticalcontexts by music thatrunthegamutof emotions. Divorced Queen Maryodesare trulywonderful piecesof key. It’ssuchadramatic instrument.Purcell’s and effectively asany other instrument.That’s express the longingsof theheartas beautifully speaking of hearts,how thetrumpetcan trumpet was often itsbeatingheart.And response to, whatitreflected; andhow the plays in We are exploring why themusicthatAlison Gabriel Yes. We’re luckyto have Gabriel Gabriel –‘IfLove’s aSweet Passion’ isone.The mise enscène isaseriesof short plays. There was written, whatitwas in The FairyQueen were. Musicallyand Gabriel itself? itself? ,

5 Programme note 6 Come, Ye Sonsof Art,Away from KingArthur, Z628 Purcell Ode for theBirthday of QueenAnne Handel Birthday of QueenMary1692), Z331 Love’s GoddessSure Was Blind Purcell Purcell Anonymous The FairyQueen Purcell of Gloucester Purcell (Ode for St Cecilia’sDay), Z328 Purcell Birthday of QueenMary 1694), Z323 Purcell Queen Purcell Gloucester drum’ from Purcell ‘Gabriel’ features thefollowing music: Playlist , Z629 ‘May herblestexample chase’from ‘See, Even NightHerselfisHere’ from from Symphony from ‘Come, Ye Sonsof Art,Away’ from ‘If Love’s aSweet Passion’ from ‘Soundthetrumpetandbeatwarlike ‘Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying’ ‘Farewell, alljoys!’, Z368 ‘Eternal Source of LightDivine’ from , Z342 , Z342 Birthday Odefor theDuke of Ballad: ‘ColdandRaw’ , Z342 , Z342 , Z629 Birthday Odefor theDuke Hail! BrightCecilia (Odefor the (Odefor the , HWV74 The Fairy The Fairy

Z629 Z629 Purcell Purcell Purcell Purcell (), Z646 Purcell/Anonymous Purcell Z628 Purcell Purcell Handel Z629 Purcell Mary 1694), Z323 of Art,Away (Odefor theBirthday of Queen Purcell as They’re Fair’ from Purcell Purcell Purcell Act VPrelude from ‘The Plaint’from Rondeau from Act VSymphony from ’Tis Women Makes UsLove’, Z281 ‘Come, ifyou dare’ from ‘Farewell, alljoys!’, Z368 Act IVSymphony from ‘Sound thetrumpet’from Come,Ye Sons Chaconne and‘They ShallbeasHappy Funeral Musicfor Queen Mary, Z860 Act IVAct Tune from ,Z627 Overture from The FairyQueen A New IrishTune The FairyQueen Atalanta The FairyQueen The FairyQueen King Arthur The FairyQueen , HWV35 King Arthur , Z629 , Z629 , Z629 , Z628 , , , Lizzie Patterson About the performers ‘Women inthe Arts’.Apassionate advocate of and alecture atSomervilleCollege,Oxford, on given aTEDtalk, entitled ‘MusicasaHealer’ busy performing schedule,shehaspreviously School andtheCurtisInstitute. Inaddition to her masterclasses worldwide, includingattheJuilliard professor attheGuildhall.Sheregularly gives Leicester, isnow an honorary fellow andvisiting Anglia RuskinUniversity andtheUniversity of and, inaddition to herhonorary doctorates from and theGuildhallSchoolof Music&Drama She studiedtrumpetattheParis Conservatoire Klassik Awards andthree ClassicBRITAwards. Robbins O2Silver ClefAward, three ECHO Gramophone numerous prestigious awards, including leading Baroque soloists).Shehasreceived Balsom Ensemble(ahandpicked group of The EnglishConcertand,mostrecently, The the Academy of AncientMusic,IlPomo d’Oro, with leading early-music ensembles,including of theBBC Proms. Sheregularly collaborates well asappearingsoloistattheLastNight York andLondonPhilharmonicorchestras, as , Philadelphia Orchestra andNew Paris, SanFrancisco andToronto Symphony Sir Roger Norrington, theOrchestre de time, includingPierre Boulez,LorinMaazel, the greatest conductors andorchestras of our Alison Balsomhasperformed withsomeof Alison Balsom Alison Balsom ’s Artistof theYear, theNordoff trumpet

City of BirminghamSymphony Orchestra performances withtheNew York Philharmonic, CornExchange andconcerto include residencies attheWigmore Halland amongst herrepertoire. Recent career highlights Saloon Concerto, Bramwell Tovey’s repertoire includesTheaMusgrave’s Trumpet The Lanterne of Light she gave theworld premiere of GuyBarker’s She hashad numerous concertos written for her; Ancient MusicandLosAngelesPhilharmonic. of theBaroque inChicago, theAcademy of of thisseasonincludeperformances withMusic Birtwistle withBritten Sinfonia. Furtherhighlights an experimental programme of Purcell and of Spain Artist-in-Residence includeMilesDavis’s Other projects thatform partof herseasonas Barbican aspartof herresidency atMilton Court. Globe, whichsheisreviving inconcerthere atthe acclaimed production producer andprotagonist of thecritically In 2013 sheconceived andthenbecamecreative ambassador for theBBC’s Ten Piecesproject. the importance of musiceducation,sheisalsoan and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. the Konzerthaus Berlin,Alte Oper Frankfurt in December, includingperformances at next month. Shewilltour thealbum to Germany recording, and more than12 soloalbums.Herlatest on EMIClassicsand,latterly, Warner Classics, Alison Balsomhasanextensive discography Jess GillamandDanielledeNiese. Music alongsidesoloistsNicolaBenedetti, Symphony orchestras and Academy of Ancient together theCityof BirminghamandLondon commissioned 20new works andbrought of Cheltenham MusicFestival, where she From 2018 to 2019 shewas ArtisticDirector Chamber orchestras andTheBalsomEnsemble. as European tours withtheBasleandZurich and Orchestre NationaldeToulouse, aswell andQigangChen’s withtheGuildhallJazzOrchestra and Royal Fireworks attheBBC Proms andher Gabriel , willbereleased Songs of theParadise Joie Eternelle atShakespeare’s Sketches

7 About the performers 8 Richard Haughton Harry Bicket and of the New York Philharmonicfor performances English NationalOpera ( Plans for thisseasonincludereturn visitsto Royal Collegeof MusicandOxford University. He was borninLiverpool andstudiedatthe Strauss’s Candide finta giardiniera he hasconducted Music Directorship. Sincetaking uphisposition, its ChiefConductor andin2018 assumedthe appearances for Santa Fe , hebecame orchestras. In2013, following regular guest English Concert,oneof Europe’s finest period 2007 hehasbeenArtisticDirector of The of Baroque andClassicalrepertoire. Since and isespeciallynoted for hisinterpretation opera andconcertconductor of distinction, Harry Bicket isinternationally renowned asan Harry Bicket Così fan tutte . Inthe2019 seasonhealsoperformed Four LastSongs , theMetropolitan Opera ( conductor , Roméo et Juliette ) andtheRoyal Northern Così fan tutte withRenée Fleming. Orphée et Eurydice , Fidelio , , La La and and ), ),

acclaimed new production of His first production (an his GlyndebourneFestival debutin1996 with masterclasses attheJuilliard School.Hemade Chamber Orchestra. Hehasalsoled Los AngelesPhilharmonicand Symphony orchestras, Cleveland Orchestra, concerts withtheChicago andCincinnati Symphonic guestconductinghasincluded Company ( of Figaro ( and of Figaro (most recently States andCanada for theMetropolitan Opera include acclaimed productions intheUnited productions, highlightsof recent seasons In addition to hisregular Santa Fe Opera Sumi Jo.Next summerheconducts embarks onatour to Korea andChinawith Barbican andatSaffron Hall,andtheorchestra of at Exeter Cathedral, aswell asinperformances the Wigmore HallandtheTwo MoorsFestival Opera. Hewillalsoconducttheorchestra at including CarnegieHallandLosAngeles Handel opera serieswithperformances of Sinfonia. TheEnglishConcertcontinues its and heisnow aregular guestthere. (2006–7) and 2004) was quicklyfollowed by Gabriel Giulio Cesare and ), Houston Grand Opera ( and , andreturned in1999 and2003. Rodelinda inEurope andtheUSA, atvenues withAlisonBalsomhere atthe , Maometto II Orphée et Eurydice La clemenzadiTito Rusalka The Magic Flute for Santa Fe Opera. ), LyricOpera of Chicago , La clemenzadiTito ) andCanadian Opera and Hercules Rodelinda , Giulio Cesare , The Marriage Carmen (2008), (2008), The Marriage The Magic ). ). in in and and

Simon Annand 503/TheatreVoice) and A ChainPlay Hoard In addition, hewrote originalcontributionsto Theatregoers’ ChoiceBestNew Play). film, OldVicTheatre, 2008Whatsonstage All AboutMyMother Studios); Company/Old Vic); (Bush/Channel 4); (); National Youth Theatre); Connections), Theatre); Theatre); and lyrics,musicby ,National and Young People); UK Theatre Award for BestPlay for Children Theatre/Regent’s Park OpenAirTheatre, 2015 book by Michael Morpurgo, Chichester Festival (); His other plays andadaptations include 2013 summerseasonatShakespeare’s Globe. Alison Balsom.Itwas initiallystaged aspartof the by HenryPurcell, incollaboration withtrumpeter the musicof Samuel Adamson devised Samuel Adamson Samuel Adamson (New Vic,Stoke); Tomorrow Week Frank &Ferdinand Southwark Fair The FairyQueen (Almeida); Fish andCompany Running Wild Drink, Dance,LaughandLie Grace Note writer The LightPrincess Some Kindof Bliss (from Pedro Almodóvar’s Decade Urban Scrawl ; 24 HourPlays (BBC Radio 3)and Clocks and Whistles Clocks andWhistles Mrs Affleck Gabriel (based on the (basedonthe (NationalTheatre andother pieces (Peter Hall (Headlong). (/ , a play using , aplay using (National (National (book (book (Theatre (Old Vic); (OldVic); (Trafalgar Wife

Dominic Dromgoole published by Faber &Faber. Samuel Adamson’s plays, including Studios/Krug). Film credits include Merchants Theatre Studio) andOstrovsky’s Studlar’s also adapted for BBC Radio 3);Bernhard Bernhardi (); Schnitzler’s (National Theatre) and West End);Ibsen’s Studios) and Orchard (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Versions includeChekhov’s which hasmade sixfilms since2017: Dromgoole’s He isalsothedirector of OpenPalm Films, been seenincinemasallover theworld. wide acclaim, were filmed andhave since 2017 and2018. Theseproductions played to at theVaudeville Theatre between October presented ayear-long OscarWildeseason Classic SpringTheatre Company, which Dominic Dromgoole isartisticdirector of Dominic Dromgoole (Oxford Stage Company/Riverside Transdanubia Dreaming (Dumbfounded/, (InSite Performance/Arcola Theatre). Pillars of theCommunity Running for River director A Doll’s House A Doll’sHouse (OSC tour and (OSC tour and The Cherry The Cherry Uncle Vanya Larisa and the Larisa andthe (National (National Professor Gabriel (Directional

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9 About the performers 10 New York Times Canongate in2017, andwas includedin : Globeto Globe Sheridan Morley Award. Hislatest book, Took Over MyLife Playwriting The Full Room: anA–Zof Contemporary Dominic Dromgoole isalsotheauthorof Stage Company andtheBushTheatre. He was previously artisticdirector of theOxford Shakespeare’s plays, each intheirown language. companies from 37different countriesto present the Globeto GlobeFestival, whichhosted of Malfi the inaugural production there, of theSamWanamaker Playhouse, directing King and Claire van Kampen’s the transfer of two, JessicaSwale’s writing, premiering 30plays andoverseeing his tenure, hecreated aprogramme of new numerous Shakespearean productions during every countryintheworld. Aswell asdirecting in atwo-year tour of which heextended internationally, culminating projects, hecreated aUK-widetouring operation ambition andradical scope.Amongother internationally renowned theatre of progressive maintained andenhanceditsreputation asan Globe from 2006to 2016, duringwhichtimeit He was theartisticdirector of Shakespeare’s Undercliffe Bill Buckhurst’s Making NoiseQuietly , to theWest End.Hedrove thecreation . In2012 healsoinitiated anddirected , and The ManintheHat Pond Life ’ BestBooks of theYear. Will andMe:How Shakespeare , whichwon theinaugural Hamlet , SimonAmstell’s , was publishedby andLisaMulcahy’s and the Farinelli andthe whichtravelled to The Duchess The Duchess and Nell Gwynn Tides Benjamin The The .

, The LionKing and West End), Othello productions for Shakespeare’s Globe,including Jonathan Fensom hasdesignednumerous UK Tour) and Bath); Final Curtain East); Derngate Theatre andTheatre Royal Stratford Derngate Theatre); for BestScenicDesign); Broadway, UKTour –Tony Award Nomination Costume Design); – Tony Award Nominationfor BestScenicand Farinelli andtheKing Jonathan Fensom’s recent theatre credits include Jonathan Fensom and hassubsequentlyopenedworldwide. Jonathan Fensom The Nightingales Still Alice , The Duchessof Malfi and , whichpremiered onBroadway The OtherPlace . Hewas Associate Designeron (West Yorkshire Playhouse and The Real Thing Journey’s End OurLady of Kibeho designer , (West EndandBroadway Farinelli andtheKing , The Pope Sherlock Holmes – The Sherlock Holmes–The (Park Theatre). (West End, , (Theatre Royal Julius Caesar (Royal & & (Royal (Royal & & (Royal (also (also Simon Annand Bach’s With theRotterdam Philharmonicshewillsing Philharmonic Orchestra underVasily Petrenko. and Mahler’sSymphony No2withtheRoyal BBC Symphony Orchestra underSakari Oramo; Richard Egarr;Mendelssohn’s the Handel&Haydn Societyof Boston under Orchestra underRichard Farnes; Symphony under MartynBrabbins; Britten’s Apostles Plans thisseasonandbeyond includeElgar’s became aFellow of theRCM in2017. an HonDMusby Sheffield in2013 and Royal Collegeof Music.Shewas awarded University before studyingsingingatthe Cathedral andread Archaeology atSheffield Elizabeth Watts was achorister atNorwich Elizabeth Watts Elizabeth Watts Christmas withtheLondonPhilharmonicOrchestra with theRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic soprano conducted by Nathalie Elijah Spring Spring Messiah with the withthe with with The The and ‘Abscheulicher!’from concert aria At thisyear’s BBC Proms shesangBeethoven’s (which won the Alessandro ScarlattiandCPEBach’s and ; Mozartarias;works by critically acclaimed discsof Liederby Schubert She isaprolific recording artistandhasmade (Handel’s sequel both Mozart’sopera andElenaLanger’s National Opera; aswell astheCountess in Flute Elvira ( Susanna ( for theRoyal Opera, Covent Garden; and ( Her operatic appearances includeZerlina Grand Macabre Orchestre nationaldeLille;andLigeti’s No 4withtheNetherlandsPhilharmonicand under ChristianZacharias; Mahler’sSymphony Nicholas Carter andSakari Oramo; Mozartarias Vaughan Williams’s Brahms’s Petite messesolennelle Symphony Recent highlightshave includedthe and achamberconcertwiththeNashEnsemble. Wigmore Hallfor asolorecital withJuliusDrake, with .Shewillalsoreturn to the Stutzmann andBeethoven’s Symphony No9 Don Giovanni ) andFiordiligi ( Don Giovanni Figaro Gets aDivorce A GermanRequiem Rinaldo underSirSimonRattle; Rossini’s Ah! Perfido ) andMarzelline( Gramophone under Alan Gilbert and Rattle. underAlanGilbertandRattle. ) for GlyndebourneonTour. Così fan tutte Sea Symphony ), Pamina ( underGustavo Gimeno; and Leonore’s scene ; andAlmirena Award). under Marin Alsop; underMarinAlsop; The Magic Fidelio Fidelio ), Donna ), Donna ) for Welsh underboth Spring Spring Magnificat . ) Le Le

11 About the performers 12 Ben Durrant Musica andtheLondonHandelFestival, where staged performance of Bach’s Highlights ontheconcertplatform includea Purcell’s with NorwichBaroque Orchestra; and Concert d’Astrée atOpéra deLille;Pergolesi’s Queen English Touring Opera; Purcell’s the title-role inHandel’s Recent andfuture engagements include Band; andaduetrecital withMichael Chance. ; numerous performances withtheHanover Monteverdi’s he alsosangtherole of theHighPriest( Sellars; Arsace (Handel’s under SirSimonRattle anddirected by Peter with theOrchestra of theAge of Enlightenment L’Orfeo Festival; andaEuropean tour of Monteverdi’s Gernando ( College of MusicInternational Opera School; Dream Youth Opera; Oberon ( Ferdinand ( Venus andAdonis Recent opera highlightsincludeCupid(Blow’s in thisyear’s Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Dowdle. ASamlingArtist,hewas afinalist of MusicunderBenJohnsonandCaroline postgraduate studiesattheRoyal College Tim Morgan recently completed his Tim Morgan Tim Morgan ) for Nevill HoltOpera andtheRoyal with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le withEmmanuelleHaïmandLe withtheMonteverdi Choir. King Arthur The Enchanted Island withtheOAE; Vivaldi Vespers of 1610 countertenor ) with the ; ) withtheDunedinConsort; withVox Luminis. A Midsummer Night’s A MidsummerNight’s ) at the London Handel ) attheLondonHandel Giulio Cesare Berenice withtheMonteverdi St JohnPassion The Indian The Indian ) with British ) withBritish ) with La Nuova for for Esther ); );

Benjamin Ealovega with theAcademy of AncientMusicatMilton Orchestra of Wales and inthe In concerthehas sung theEvangelist inBach’s and SallyO’Reilly’s Position in two operas by Kate Whitley – National Opera of Poland; theprotagonists at theParis Philharmonie,LaMonnaie andthe Provence Festival, withfurtherperformances Tamino ( In new musichehascreated theroles of Rappresentatione dianimaecorpo Siren Song Bucharest andVenice; Sylph(Rameau’s d’Ulisse Court; multipleroles in in Aldeburgh; Damon( Festival; Lysander ( Giove ( Poppea highlights includeValletto ( Bach, Monteverdi andHandel.Recent operatic contemporary music,withaparticularfocus on His repertoire ranges from theBaroque to Handel andHasseto bereleased imminently. Concert inBach andPurcell, withrecordings of Orchestra of Wales anddebutswithTheEnglish Bach’s calibre. Forthcoming engagements include with orchestras andensemblesof thehighest beauty of hissinging.Heperforms internationally his dynamicstage presence andtheclarity British tenor GwilymBowen isacclaimed for Gwilym Bowen ( at theQueenElizabethHall;Tom Rakewell with theOrchestra of theAge of Enlightenment Gwilym Bowen The Rake’s Progress St Matthew Passion Il ritorno d’Ulisseinpatria withtheAAMhere attheBarbican,in and ) for Angers-Nantes Opéra; Eurimaco/ Be WithMeNow ); andIntelletto (Emiliode’Cavalieri’s 0520 withJohnButtand BBC National tenor –andSmith(MattRogers A MidsummerNight’sDream And LondonBurned ); Davey (JonathanDove’s Poppea Acis andGalatea ) attheAix-en- with BBC National withBBC National L’incoronazione di St Matthew and Unknown ) attheGrange Il ritorno ). Zaïs ). ) ) ) Guys andDolls Other theatre roles includeSkyMasterson in member of theoriginalBroadway version. Award nominationfor BestActor inaPlay asa Award for BestActor. Healsoreceived aTony Cursed Child cast for theWest Endplay known for hisrole asHarryPotter intheoriginal Jamie Parker isanEnglish actor andsinger, best Jamie Parker Jamie Parker before studyingattheRoyal Academy of Music. a choral scholaratTrinity College,Cambridge, Gwilym Bowen was borninHereford andwas of Trinity College,CambridgeandtheOAE. S4C, andtheMassinBminorwithChoir world-first Welsh language broadcast for with NetherlandsBach Societyandina Recordings includethe Enlightenment atSt John’s,SmithSquare. Passion and Bach’s MassinBminorand Symphony Orchestra underStephen Layton; Australian Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide with theSeattleSymphony Orchestra, West with theCityof LondonSinfonia; Orchestra; Mahler’s Richard Tognetti andtheAustralian Chamber Bach’s at theEdinburgh International Festival; ariasin Monteverdi andSchützwiththeDunedinConsort withMasaaki SuzukiatLincolnCenter; Passion ariaswiththeOrchestra of theAge of for theNetherlandsBach Society;Bach , for whichhereceived anOlivier actor at TheSavoy Theatre intheWest Das Liedvon derErde St JohnPassion across Australia with Harry Potter andthe Messiah St John arias arias

series the villainGeorge Warleggan intheBBC1 drama Donald in playing Freddie Threepwood in Jack Farthing isanEnglishactor whoisknown for Jack Farthing Jack Farthing Arthur Strong & MrNorrell Channel 4,MajorGrant in Television roles includeCaptain in directed by NicholasHytner. and Partners, and Films includeSamMendes’s Vic Theatre. End, andMike Connorin Theatre. Leonard in Disruption the , Carmenin Theatre roles have includedAndrew in and thelead, Dan,in The Riot Club In films hehasappeared asGeorge Balfour in BBC. Uncovered: Hamlet Screen andITVHamletin Paynter in Screen, JohnLennonin The History Boys Poldark attheAlmeidaandlead role Poirot: TheBigFour The Mary Broome for BBC1, aswell asAidein for BBC2. , Marc in . Othertelevision roles include The Lady intheVan

actor ABC Murders for Blakeway Productions/ for Fox Searchlight, both Burn Love. Wedding. Repeat Cilla attheOrange Tree High Society Jonathan Strange for Mammoth for ITV, Gerald 1917 for Mammoth Shakespeare Blandings for Amblin for Amblin for BBC Films The Cloud Carmen Carmen . at the Old attheOld Wild Count Count and and at at for for

13 About the performers 14 Other theatre credits include: Rachel O’Riordan. new adaptaion by Tanika Gupta anddirected by She mostrecently appeared asthelead in Drama. trained attheRoyal Welsh Collegeof Music& Anjana Vasan isaSingaporean actor who Anjana Vasan College of Music & Drama. Amanda Wilkinstudied attheRoyal Welsh Amanda Wilkin Amanda Wilkin and and War and On television shehasfeatured in Vic). (Shakespeare’s Globe)and A MidsummerNight’sDream (National Theatre), Smoke Doll’s House Anjana Vasan , The Children Act Temple Black Mirror Ill Behaviour (Almeida/West End), for Sky. Filmsinclude for theLyricHammersmith,ina actor actor for Netflix, and An Adventure for BBC Films. Fresh Meat Life of Galileo Rutherford &Son Brexit: TheUncivil and Summer & Summer & Sex Education Mughal Mowgli (Bush Theatre), for Channel4 King Lear King Lear (Young A

The GrinningMan to develop high-level consort-singingskills. Orchestra, offering studentstheopportunity such astheGuildhallSchool’sBaroque the year, either 21st centuryanditperforms regularly throughout repertoire ranges from theRenaissance to the Guildhall School’sadvanced vocal ensemble.Its Historical Performance Department,isthe in collaboration withTheSixteen andthe Guildhall Consort,ledby EamonnDougan Guildhall Consort include Doctors On television shehasappeared in The Twits Home (RSC); Sade Bacchae (Watermill Theatre); Plough/Birmingham Rep); Clwyd/Hightide); La Ronde 306: Day Wanamaker Festival); Theatre/West End); at Shakespeare’s Globe); Festival’s Night’s Dream Her theatre credits include ensembles, withmany moving into soloroles. achieving success inanumberof specialistvocal Graduates of theGuildhallConsortare at theBarbicanCentre andSouthbankCentre. Fields; andpre-concert events for TheSixteen Smithfield; aperformance atSt Martin-in-the- Bach motets atSt Bartholomew theGreat, works by Arvo Pärt,broadcast by theBBC; Recent highlightshave includedaconcertof and (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton) and Stamping, ShoutingandSinging and Mamma Mia!Here We GoAgain (Royal &Derngate Theatre); (NationalTheatre of Scotland); Hamlet (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster). (Bunker Theatre); A Midsummer Gavin andStacey , a cappella Emilia , Hopelessly Devoted Gabriel (Trafalgar Studios); The LittleSob Blood Wedding , theGlobeto Globe White Teeth

Night’s Dream and Emilia Arabian Nights or with ensembles or withensembles A Midsummer A Midsummer Pilgrims . Herfilm credits The Tempest (Vaudeville (KilnTheatre); (Sam (Sam Berlin Station (Theatr (Theatr and (Paines Marat/ The The

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(all (all , Tom Morrisandmany more have not Balsom, ,DominicDromgoole, Dame , IestynDavies, Alison ways to bring musicto life. Joyce DiDonato, reflect andenhanceitspursuitfor new The artisticpartnerswithwhomitcollaborates with precision, delicacy andbeauty. for combiningurgency, passionandfire The EnglishConcerthasearnedareputation principal guestdirector KristianBezuidenhout, Under theartisticdirection of HarryBicket and with itsaudiencethroughout theworld. together; unwavering, initsdesire to connect of itsplayers for working andperforming and recorded output;unique,inthezeal quality, ambitionandvariety of itslive orchestra: exceptional, inthe world-renowned The EnglishConcertisanoutstanding The EnglishConcert launched its partnership The EnglishConcertlauncheditspartnership inspiring for musiciansandaudiencealike. its homeaudiencethatare challengingand different path,presenting programmes to London seriesallows itto explore aradically to grow. Meanwhile, theensemble’sregular Hall, andtheroster of great hallscontinues Élysées, the ElbphilharmonieandBarbican Theater anderWien,Théâtre desChamps- Hall, theitinerary now regularly takes inthe from anongoingrelationship withCarnegie international HandelOpera tour. Blossoming One cornerstone of itsannualcycle isthe orchestra shapetheway itperforms. individual projects butcontinueto helpthe only brought theirextraordinary skillsto performances of Monterverdi’s with thisyear with Vespers of 1610 .

15 About the performers 16 Kinga Ujszászi Julia Kuhn Alice Evans Violin Wilson Elizabeth Unsworth- Jack Lindberg Nancy Holt Eleanor Oldfield Simone Ibbett-Brown Alto Avalon Summerfield Ella Bodeker Eleanor Neate Jessica Smith Chloe Todd Soprano Joe Qiu Joe Qiu Spreckelsen Katharina /Recorder Christoph Sommer Theorbo/Lute Kate Aldridge Double Bass Joseph Crouch Cello Louise Hogan Viola The English Concert The English Consort Guildhall leader

Simon Neal and tunedby Keyboards supplied Tom Foster /Organ Robert Howes Percussion Sevillano Miguel Tantos Wolfgang Gaisbock Russell Gilmour Trumpet Benjamin Reason Peter Norris Jonathan Eyers Thomas Niesser Jack Dolan González Joseba Ceberio Nkululeko Masuku Mark Bautista Tenor