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An interview with one of our Charity We are celebrating a decade of And finally, have a look at some of Development graduates reveals how inspirational teaching in Musical Theatre. the hundreds of upcoming musical volunteering in Africa lead her to this The article on page 19 takes a look back and theatrical shows taking place unique course and now, having at some of the highlights, shares a little throughout the coming months. completed it, how she is embarking history on the course and explains how We have compiled an impressive list of on an exciting job in the charity the three companies, Tour, Musical events by aspiring actors and musicians Welcome sector. Learn more about her Theatre Commission and Musical in ‘What’s On’. There is an extensive experiences and what the degree Theatre Festival came into being. range of musical performances, theatre Hello and welcome to our Autumn 2018 edition of ShowCase did for her on page 12. shows and masterclasses at different Our Chamber Orchestra has been venues across our University and the magazine. In this issue we’ll be looking at some of the work that We also learn more about the chosen to record with recorder pioneer, surrounding area. Take a look now collaboration between our University virtuoso and musical inspiration Piers as there is definitely something for our students and staff have been up to as well as sharing with and the Abbey Road Institute, based Adams. On page 22 you can learn everyone! For more about our events, at the historical Abbey Road Studios. more about this relationship as well as well as the latest news from our you an extensive list of upcoming events that are sure to be Our Head of Orchestral Studies, as about Piers himself. And on page aspiring actors and musicians, visit our Crispin Ward, tells us how this 24 our Orchestral Manager Simon listings page www.chi.ac.uk/events a real treat. We also look at the many ensembles and relationship began and the many Growcott tells us how The Sleepy workshops available to help you on your creative journeys. benefits it’s bringing to our students. Lagoon Orchestra was formed, what a Salon Orchestra is as well as its fascinating history.
2 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 3 Contents Acts of Expression Showcasing a range Welcome 2 of artistic and cultural events News and Reviews 6
In Focus: Marcia Bellamy 10
42 Learning How to Help Change the World 12
Collaborating with Abbey Road 16
10 years of Musical Theatre at Chichester 19
Collaborating with Piers Adams Records with the 22 University Chamber Orchestra
Abbey Road The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra 24 Learn more about our partnership with this musical institution In Focus Our Ensembles 27 Acts of Expression 42 Voice Tutor, Marcia Bellamy, tells us about 16 her life as a mezzo soprano in this fun interview What’s On 49 Arts @ Chichester 65
10 Dear Liz 66
Toni’s Tasty Treats 67
How to find us 68
Booking information 69 Learning How to Help Diary of events 70 Change the World Read all About it What’s On Disclaimer Back cover Our latest news Musical listings from Contact Us Back cover How a gap year in Africa lead to tea at Buckingham Palace and reviews September 2018 to January 2019 12 6 49
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Bumper Year for University finalists played brilliantly but also how Glyndebourne Academy is an operatic Brass Musicians lucky they were to be accompanied so development project that aims to support Our student musicians are celebrating a sensitively by the band. The winners were talented young singers from diverse brilliant year. In February the brass band announced as Charlie Harrington with backgrounds who have the potential to came an impressive third at the National A Little Star Went Out in 1st place, Lars make singing their career. UniBrass championships in York against Thorkildsen with Cry me a River in 2nd very strong competition. The musicians and Hannah Jenkins with Demelza in 3rd. We look for outstanding young singers saw off competition from Oxford, who aren’t currently able to consider a Cambridge, York, Southampton and If that wasn’t enough they have also standard path towards music college or a others, and lost out only to Bristol and performed in a joint concert with the career as a professional singer. This could Leeds. Orchestral manager Simon championship section band, Verwood be due to personal circumstances, lack of Growcott, said he was delighted to carry Concert Brass in June, providing students career guidance, lack of skills home third prize in the championships. with the opportunity to hear, and play development, a late start in singing, He added: “The result was remarkable for beside, one of the best brass bands financial barriers or other factors. Singers two reasons, firstly our University managed in the area. will normally be aged between 16 and 26, to produce a band of a quality that could although in some exceptional cases older compete against the giants from the north. To keep up to date with the brass band singers will be considered. Secondly if one were to draw a line from you can follow them on Twitter Bristol to the Wash, it is the first time that a @chiunibrassband or on Facebook by Glyndebourne Academy students band south of that line has been awarded a searching for University of Chichester receive intensive training, mentorship, placing.” The annual UniBrass contest was Brass Band. You can also watch their advice and guidance from leading created in 2010 to showcase the best performance from UniBrass 2018 by opera professionals. performers from universities across the visiting https://ystv.co.uk/watch/ UK and Northern Island. unibrass/2018/shield/chichester The next Glyndebourne Academy will ...... be held in 2019, and applications will be Before their triumph at the York Barbican, open from September to December the brass band could be found recording Glyndebourne Academy Auditions 2018. For more information on the in the world renowned Abbey Road Are you wondering if you have what programme, student profile and Studios. Our Music Department has it takes to be a professional singer? application process go to developed a close working relationship Do you love singing but don’t know www.glyndebourne.com/academy with the Abbey Road Institute and the how to proceed to the next level? Glyndebourne is pleased to be working band were the latest ensemble to be If so Glyndebourne Academy may with the University of Chichester to invited to be “recording guinea-pigs” for be for you. support vocal talent in our region. News their students. The brass band recorded 4 ...... pieces of traditional repertoire under the guidance of Abbey Road Institute Sound Engineer Chris Cook, including A and reviews Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square and Amazing Grace.
Our staff and students are a busy bunch. As well as Jump forwards to the end of the Academic Year and the brass band hosted studying, teaching and researching, they are out and about their first ever Solo Competition in May 2018. The evening featured six finalists taking part in competitions, delivering workshops and showcasing their virtuosity accompanied by the brass band performing for guest developing partnerships around the world. We also share adjudicator, and one of the leading with you information on auditions at Glyndebourne conductors and horn players of this generation, Anthony Halstead. He Academy. Read on to find out more…. commented that not only did all six
6 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 7 University Orchestras Perform On 10th December 2018 the concert Students Deliver Music A Bulgarian Liaison in Support of Charities moves to the Cadogan Hall and the Workshops to Bosnian The University is developing a relationship Every year our orchestras undertake a orchestra will be back to perform in this Schoolchildren with Plovdiv University’s Academy of variety of charitable performances to help prestigious venue; performing with Joely During February 2018 reading week Music, Dance and Fine Art in Bulgaria to raise much needed funds. Richardson, Alistair McGowan, Ana Maria undergraduates studying on the help train budding musical theatre Rincon and Piers Adams. Community Music strand of our BA students. A party from Bulgaria who are In December 2017 the University’s Music Degree were given the opportunity touring their Ensemble in the UK will Chamber Orchestra travelled to London In November 2017 our Chamber to put their skills to the test as they be attending our London Graduate to perform at the annual Children’s Trust Orchestra and Symphonic Choir held an planned, prepared and delivered a series Showcase in Leicester Square and our Charity Gala Concert. The evening afternoon tea and concert at the nearby of workshops in schools across Tuzla, musical theatre tour will visit Plovdiv as featured glorious Christmas and Choral Goodwood House in aid of Mercy Ships Bosnia. In partnership with World Vision part of their European City of Culture music, candlelight, readings and carols at and other charities. This very popular and project leader Brian Dipple, students 2019 events. Holy Trinity Sloane Square, London. This event featured light classics and opera and spent the week in five different schools festive event was hosted by journalist and the audience were treated to a wonderful working with young people aged 9-15. Karen Howard, Head of Musical Theatre, BBC news presenter Nicholas Owen, concert full of glamour and variety. The project helps students in rural Paul Ackerley, Senior Lecturer and Ambassador of The Children's Trust. He Victoria Christian, daughter of perfumier schools across the region, whose access to Resident Producer and Associate was joined on the night by very special Clive Christian, gave a brief talk about music lessons and the arts is limited. Lecturer, Dena Lague will also be visiting guests, Joely Richardson and Angela their newly commissioned work “Stay Bulgaria in a reciprocal arrangement to Rippon CBE. Gold, The Sound of Perfume,” where the Student Christina Murphy commented begin the preparations for a collaboration orchestra played a piece specially written “I hadn’t even been on a plane before so this with Plovdiv University’s Academy of Performing with the orchestra were for the most expensive perfume in the experience really was something totally Music, Dance and Fine Art. Bulgarian recorder virtuoso Piers Adams of Red world as it was sprayed into the air. different... It has helped me become more training is based on the principle of finding Priest, international soprano Ana Maria confident, more culturally aware, and further the best place to train in the world in that Rincon, the vibrant Amici Ensemble a Danielle Allen of Mercy Ships enthused cemented my passion for working with young discipline, then encouraging everyone to choir made up of singers from the Royal “…phenomenal doesn’t even cover the people. The relationships that I built with the go there. With the recent rise of interest Opera House, Covent Garden, and performance that you put on! It was students in such a short space of time felt in the London and Broadway Musical children from the James Allen Prep exceptional and the only feedback that really meaningful; I miss being in Bosnia, Theatre repertoire among Bulgarian School Choir. The event raised many I have received from guests was that they meeting and connecting with new people audiences, there is an interest in training thousands of pounds for the vital work absolutely loved it and everyone involved every day.” that cannot yet be met locally. We are of the Children’s Trust. Ana Maria was is so talented.” making Chichester the solution, for the very complimentary of the orchestra, Sarah Collins, Associate Lecturer in next five to ten years at least. “It was an enormous pleasure. The orchestra This is becoming a regular event for the Community Music, organised the trip...... and Crispin Ward made last year’s concert University, raising money for several She said “I am unbelievably proud of our such a fabulous memorable contribution and charities at the invitation of Susan, students. Their hard work paid off and their the charity was inundated with requests, Duchess of Richmond who is the energy and enthusiasm was infectious. from both audience AND performers, for orchestra’s patron. The orchestra and Leading a workshop with young people can them to play again this year.” choir will be back again for another be challenging but the addition of a language Goodwood performance, one of the barrier adds another level and they most enjoyable ways to spend a Sunday absolutely smashed it! By day 5 you wouldn’t afternoon whilst raising thousands for have even known that they hadn’t known worthy causes. any Bosnian on day 1.” ...... Brian Dipple began working on the project in 2008 and said “It was a pleasure to work with Sarah Collins and three Chichester students…I am already looking forward to next year!” ......
8 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 9 The American-born mezzo soprano Marcia Bellamy is Associate Lecturer in German Repertoire and Language and has been one of our voice tutors since 2013. Marcia has sung throughout the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom and Europe. After appearances with the Portland Symphony, Midwest Opera and Banff Music Theatre, she was the soloist for eight seasons with the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Marcia has created lead roles in many new What is your favourite colour Which sign of the zodiac are you? operas and she enjoys the distinction of and why? I’m a Pisces being the only cast member to perform in Very vivid green – a colour which makes all six runs of Raymond Gubbay’s me happy when I see it and which I was Where do you like to holiday? production of Madam Butterfly at the really obsessed with as a child. My whole Since I’ve had a family, someplace where Royal Albert Hall (1998-2015). She has room was done out in this colour and my we’ve already been – because you know sung widely in concert and oratorio, parents simply gave in, they had no choice. how to pack for it. If it was just up to me, appearing as a guest with the Berlin a city I’ve never been in before. Philharmonic under Harnoncourt, Radio Do you have any animals? Symphony Orchestra Berlin under We have a wonderful black cat, Lancelot, Dessert or cheese? Frühbeck de Burgos and Gerd Albrecht, but he’s a bit of a destroyer and like Cheese, although I don’t mind pudding. the BBC Concert Orchestra, and the everyone else in the family, very I’m quite competitive about pudding London Symphony. complicated and demanding. making, especially ancient puddings – Sussex Pond, for example. Her recordings include Dancing Sunbeam; Do you have a hobby? The Rose of Persia, Hanover Band (BBC You forfeit your hobby, and even Who would be your three Music Magazine), Carmen; Carmen, Live sometimes being able to listen for favourite people to take to dinner? Concert Recording (Neuchatel), Dido; enjoyment, when you become a musician I think Leonard Bernstein would have Dido and Aeneas, Live Concert Recording – in another life I’d make things out of been rather good value and I would love (Neuchatel), and Columbine; Arlecchino, wood and also be a Flamenco dancer. to have met him. Hildegard von Bingen Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin must have been an incredible person and (Capriccio). Most recently, she performs Tell us something interesting I would like to have shared a pudding with as the Conférencier in the RedBlonde about yourself that no one knows. her. And Kaspar Holten, until this year Productions new operetta Bouffe! Well if there are things that no-one Director of the Royal Opera House, who featuring the music of Jacques Offenbach knows there’s usually a good reason for I’ve heard lots about but haven’t met. with libretto by Stephen Plaice. that. There is, to be honest, a file of secret things – but I’m not going to reveal them. Are you a diva or laid back? It depends on who you ask. I think I’m a What three things can you not laid back diva. live without? My tuning fork (I have one with me now Why did you become a musician? and I always keep one in the car), a scarf, I’m delighted to be called a musician, as and goodwill. singers aren’t always – but it’s because In Focus – with music brings it all together, history, drama What three things would you and dance, performance, alternative reality. change about yourself? There were no musicians in my family and I would be more patient, I’d know more, at the age of 14 I sort of started and I’d have had a better education. sleepwalking down the path to being a singer, waiting for somebody to tell me to do something else, and nobody ever did. Marcia Bellamy
10 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 11 Learning How to Help Change the World
How a gap year volunteering in Africa leads to tea at Buckingham Palace.
Stacey Addison graduated from our I’d do it differently now. In the end a than I’d expected, the first year was no Charity Development BA Hons in three week trip lasted a year and it joke but it really laid great foundations 2017 and is in the first-ever cohort of was extremely hard to leave. Doing for the second and third years. It was fundraiser graduates anywhere in the the overseas trip was a game changer really beneficial that the people who world. Wasting no time, she’s already for me. I loved my time out there. It taught us were practitioners and that busy at work raising money to help helped me learn more about myself, we met guest lecturers and attended make the world a better, kinder place. being with different people and being events. I wouldn’t change any of it. Here we ask about volunteering, her out of my bubble. work and this unique degree course. What was the best bit of What was your journey from the degree? Tell us how your interest in volunteering to your degree? It was really good that you can tailor fundraising started. I was volunteering in Zanzibar when I the degree, and select modules to I originally went to South Africa for read about the Charity Development shape it to your interests. The teaching three weeks to work with children and degree online and decided to apply. I staff were brilliant and had so much adults in rural locations teaching interviewed for the degree on Skype knowledge. I am still in contact with a English and HIV awareness. At the end sitting on a bunk bed in the number of them. The smaller classes of my three weeks I saw an advert for accommodation block in Cape Town. I meant that they knew you as a person an internship and applied. I wasn’t back had to ask all the volunteers to switch so it felt that the teaching was aimed at in the UK long before I got offered the off their WIFI so that there was my needs. internship, so I quit my job and went enough bandwidth to talk to the back to South Africa for six months. I Charity Development BA Programme What have you done since then went on to intern in Zanzibar for Leader, Donna, back in the UK. I left graduating? four months and then another three South Africa a week before the start I work for the charity Mencap helping months in Cape Town. of Uni, going almost direct from Cape to ensure that they have the funding Town to Bognor Regis. needed to deliver support to people While I was in Zanzibar I helped to set with learning disabilities. I started in up the charity side of a project raising Was the degree programme July 2017, just a month after I left the money for an English centre that’s now what you expected? course so it really didn’t take long to fully up and running. I wrote my first It was definitely harder than I expected find work. I only had three interviews grant proposal when I was out there – I’d underestimated how complex the before finding the right job for me. too and although I got the grant I think charity sector is. It was also more work
12 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 13 What do you do at Mencap? with them about their interests and Thinking about what you learnt I’m a ‘Philanthropy Officer’; I look after how they’ve helped the people on the degree programme, has donors who give between £1,000 and Mencap supports, which is really it been useful for your work? £10,000 a year, our mid-value donors. rewarding. The other day I went to an Yes, it’s been extremely useful. During Day to day that means that I spend event at Buckingham Palace and met induction week at Mencap I was able some of my time researching for new with two of my regular donors!! to say ‘yes’ to all those “do you know donors, writing proposals and working about” questions. It means I can work with the creative team to make the What has surprised you about with colleagues across all the proposals look fantastic. I’ve also been your job? fundraising teams and I think that’s a looking at how we ask for support. Working with people with learning real advantage. Mencap works hard The great thing about this approach is disabilities. Life in the office is lively not to let fundraising happen in silos, that I get to learn about Mencap’s work because we’re committed to because we know it works better in more detail. I’ve been to visit a supporting everyone in achieving their when everyone coordinates to give the number of our projects to see the potential and that means I get to work donor a better experience. I use lots work we do in action and chat with alongside the people we are there for. of the tools that I was shown at Uni to the programmes team about how it all One of my colleagues is so passionate plan my work, and be more efficient; it works. There are four in my about Mencap, he’s the most amazing feels great to be so on top of fundraising team, and about 40 advocate for what people with a everything. fundraisers in total. learning disability can achieve. He comes and talks to donors, he goes What have you enjoyed most? and represents us in Parliament. He’s I get to know our mid-value donors on really inspired me to want to be a a personal level. We invite them to great fundraiser; he’s made me events and so part of my job is chatting passionate about the cause.
14 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 15 Collaborating with Abbey Road
Our orchestras and ensembles have been busy working with the Abbey Road Institute, an educational initiative from Abbey Road Studios and Universal Music.
Two years ago the Abbey Road Institute Over the past two years we have sent perfect partner for our students and staff to Photo credit: Programme Director, Carlos Lellis, asked various groups to studios 1, 2 and 3 work with.” Crispin also appreciates the Andrew our Head of Orchestral Studies, Crispin depending on the type of session for the mixture of opportunity open to the Worsfold. Ward, to bring an orchestra to the day. This has included the full Symphony students of both institutions, “The fact famous Abbey Road Studios to record Orchestra with full Symphonic Choir and that they can be recording where the Beatles with their students and staff. This was just the University’s prize winning Brass Band, recorded their Abbey Road album in studio 2 the start of an on-going relationship that to smaller groups like the Baroque one day and where the Star Wars films were has seen many of our students Orchestra and jazz ensembles. We have recorded in the colossal studio 1 the experience performing and recording in produced an entire CD full of recordings next is such a wonderful experience for these historical studios. from these sessions and plans for the our musicians.” coming years will ensure many of our “It was such an enjoyable experience,” says future students will enjoy the benefits of Abbey Road Institute are a specialist audio Crispin, “I used to come here a lot when this terrific experience. school based at Abbey Road with their I was younger and making recordings so it own dedicated recording studio, was amazing to be back, almost like The students get to work with production suites, mixing room and coming home, and whilst it’s now is all experienced professionals whilst there, teaching facilities. Launched in London in modern and state of the art, the studios such as sound engineer John Dunkerley, a September 2015, they now have schools have not changed in their unique multi Grammy award winner. “The studios in Germany, the Netherlands, France and character for decades.” are so friendly and welcoming,” remarked Australia. They offer an innovative one viola player Zach Scales. “They completely year programme, the Advanced Diploma The first session was with our Chamber put you at ease, I thought I might be in Music Production & Sound Engineering, Orchestra recording the theme from intimidated at the prospect of recording which was designed in collaboration with Schindler’s List by John Williams. Solo there but they are really encouraging.” the team at Abbey Road Studios as well violin and leader of the orchestra Oxana as our extended industry network. Dodon was delighted to be making her Carlos Lellis is also delighted with the London recording debut. “It was like a collaboration, “The fact that the University dream, to follow in the footsteps of such of Chichester has so many varied orchestras amazing musicians was quite humbling.” and ensembles of high quality makes it a
16 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 17 All photos by Andrew Worsfold.
Ten Remarkable Years of Musical Theatre at Chichester
We are celebrating a decade of inspirational teaching in Musical Theatre that has staged more than 60 productions, seen by over 30,000 people across the country.
They say ‘never look back’, unless of Karen Howard, Head of Musical Theatre, Theatre students and one of the reasons we course ‘the view is a good one’. On the said “I’ve been asked to name the single continue to attract such a large number of 1st and 2nd September 2018 many of most important ingredient that has applicants. The buzz afterwards prompted a our 1,200 Musical Theatre alumni will underpinned our success over the last ten discussion about upgrading to a three years stream back to our Bognor Regis Campus years and it’s the team. I still see many of single honours course. In order to for a weekend of memory-soaked the same faces that I saw at the beginning - differentiate us from other Musical Theatre workshops, a gala concert and an industry we built the course together and we are all degrees I suggested that our student’s final symposium looking at the next ten years still here because we remain invested in dissertation production should go on a of this multi-billion pound industry. giving our students the best industry training regional tour. The experience would give we can. them invaluable training in adapting to Thanks to our Triple-Threat course and different staging and audiences. ‘The Tour’ other opportunities to study musical “Early on I noticed how hungry our students was born and Paul Ackerley came on board theatre, Chichester was recently featured were to learn about the industry.. I thought as resident producer, with the student in ‘The Stage’ as one of the principal that if we played to the students’ strengths producers team and our arts and stage places in the UK to train in Musical we could build professional resilience and management routes following.” Theatre. With over 500 students enable them to stay in a notoriously difficult applying annually to audition for the 60 industry for longer. We were right to do that Perhaps one of the biggest innovations of Triple Threat places alone, the message is as so many of our students have achieved the course was to create three distinct clearly out there. So how did this excellence in areas beyond their original companies that every final year student phenomenon begin? ambition to perform. One of our first alumni would audition for and join. Born of the became an orchestral conductor at this unwanted outcome that some students As with many successful endeavours, the University and our first‘West End student’ would be auditioned out of ‘The Tour’, a spark that lit the blue touch paper was a joined ‘The Ladykillers’ as an Acting-ASM. second company was formed. Leading casual, ‘what if’ conversation. This was immersive theatre specialist Joel Scott followed by the courage to back the “The course opened as a two-year joined the team and Musical Theatre hunch and acquire the right people to foundation and right from the start, Commission was born, a project so deliver the vision and build a powerful Chichester was willing to invest in fully-scaled, successful that it is visited by researchers learning environment that would resonate public-domain productions. They are the from other universities. When student within the industry ultimate training platform for Musical numbers peaked in 2015, the third
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All photos by Andrew Worsfold.
company, Musical Theatre Festival was A recent critical innovation that has “I’ve managed to stay in the industry, formed, targeting students who would gained Chichester a strong reputation performing and teaching and I’ve just got a thrive on the more contemporary, within the performance industry has been role in EastEnders. There was such energy specialist repertoire. To date our London Graduate Showcase. Now in among the tutors when I came on the performances have included Spend Spend its third year, it allows students to present course, they really wanted you to succeed. Spend and Betty Blue Eyes, both shown work at the peak of their training, direct Everything was possible. That first tour was within the Brighton Fringe, and to agents, who continue to rely on insane, we did everything out of the back of Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along at the London-only showcases to source their a van and even built the set. It really set us Spring Festival, Newbury in Berkshire, future performers. For this we have up as a group. So many of my year and that was visited by Claude-Michel secured some of the leading agencies to those that came behind us went on to do Schonberg himself. attend regularly including Mark Ward of great things. But when I look at what the Belfield and Ward who is on record as course is doing now, I’m amazed. It felt Underpinning the delivery of all this work putting Chichester-students on his watch special in the beginning and now I can see are some 30 specialist tutors and an list, having placed several within major that it was. I can’t wait to return in outstanding professional technical team productions over the years. This year the September and see the campus again who support the students with their event will be held at the larger Leicester with its smart new facilities and see all learning. When an audience comes to a Square Theatre that will enable us to those familiar faces.” University of Chichester Triple Threat accommodate the 200 plus confirmed production all aspects of the show, from guests to date. marketing and costume design to lighting, music and of course the performance Over the years we’ve received countless have been undertaken by the students.. comments from students thanking their Every aspect is now covered by our tutors for giving them a terrific platform training and mentored by industry to build their chosen careers. Lauren professionals who are first-rate artists, Verrier gradated in the first cohort, technicians and tutors. playing the cat in the first Tour Company production Honk!
20 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 21 ‘Concerto Recording of the Year’), University’s Chamber Orchestra Chosen to Record with Piers embarked on his mission to extend the recorder’s repertoire and reputation. This resulted in a series of ground-breaking London recitals and CD recordings – including first performances of forgotten 19th century Viennese music for the czakan (keyed recorder), a revival of the important mid-20th century British recorder repertoire, and his own transcriptions Piers Adams for recorder and piano in the grand romantic style.
Recorder pioneer, virtuoso and musical inspiration Piers Adams has been Piers also began commissioning new performing regularly with our Chamber Orchestra and he has now recorder music, most notably concertos by the Russian composer Vladislav Shoot chosen them to record his latest CD. This is set to take place in January and David Bedford – whose hugely 2019 in the University’s brand new state of the art recording studio, part popular work he recorded for NMC Records with the BBC Symphony of our new 32 million pound technology park. Orchestra. He has performed these, and the rest of his extensive repertoire of baroque and modern recorder concertos, with orchestras around the Piers’ first encounter with the University The recording in January will contain About Piers Adams world, including the Philharmonia, English of Chichester Chamber Orchestra and concertos by David Bedford and Piers is one of the world’s leading Sinfonia, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the its conductor Crispin Ward was two David Pugsley as well as a new commission recorder players, a much-loved musician Academy of Ancient Music, the City of years ago with a performance of Bach’s composed for Piers by our Head of who has given the instrument a broad London Sinfonia and the Singapore Brandenburg 5. This was such a success Orchestral Studies, Crispin Ward. popular appeal through his concerts, Symphony Orchestra. Venues have that 6 months later Piers asked them to broadcasts and recordings. He has been included the Royal Festival, Queen perform the David Bedford concerto “Crispin has produced a substantial new hailed in the international press as Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls, as well as in for recorder and strings, written work for the recorder which will hopefully “superhuman… the reigning recorder private concerts for HRH The Prince of especially for Piers, just before his be popular for years to come – full of virtuoso in the world today”, “intensely Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh. appearance with the same work with infectious folk-inspired melody, and with a musical and astonishingly colourful”, the Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. nod to the baroque idioms which is the “in an instrumental class of his own”. In 1997 Adams, together with the Piers enjoyed working with the recorder’s heritage” said Piers. “David University of Chichester’s own Baroque musicians very much and commented, Pugsley’s work – a hard-hitting, jazz It was a chance encounter with a group violin specialist Julia Bishop, founded his “It was a total pleasure working with inspired epic – will also be a world of Hungarian gypsy musicians, whilst now world-renowned, trailblazing such a talented, committed and premiere recording, and with the classic taking part in an early music festival in baroque quartet Red Priest. This has enthusiastic bunch of young musicians. Bedford concerto in the mix too I’m looking Belgium, which was to provide the since become the backbone of his They brought incredible life and energy to forward to this being a milestone album inspiration for Piers in the years to performing career and has brought the the concerto and the experience was far for the recorder!” follow: this was music performed with thrill of his music to audiences across more than a ‘warm-up’ for the Hong unbridled freedom, heart-on-sleeve the globe – with over 1000 concerts on Kong performance – in many ways they The orchestra and Piers will also emotion and sheer, joyous virtuosity – four continents in some of the world’s got the real spirit of the work better than be performing this December at and these facets have now become the most prestigious festivals. The group most of the professional groups I’ve Cadogan Hall as part of the Children’s hallmarks of Piers’ own style. has appeared many times on TV and played it with over the years.” Trust Charity Concert, with Alistair radio – including hour long televised McGowen, Joely Richardson and Following an acclaimed debut in London’s features for NHK (Japan) and LWT’s Angela Rippon. Wigmore Hall in 1985, and the recording The South Bank Show (UK) – and of his debut disc of Vivaldi Recorder recorded seven discs on its own label Concertos (Which CD magazine’s (Red Priest Recordings).
22 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 23 The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra
In this interview Orchestral Manager, Simon Growcott,
tells us about a slightly different orchestral style The Victor Salon Orchestra. A typical Salon orchestra, 1920s
The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra is a So what is a Salon Orchestra? which could be played by combinations which now, with its original director the leading authority on Jack Hylton, music to the Pirates of Penzance while student ensemble which was originally Salon Orchestras are variously titled of instruments from piano, bass and violin Andre Rieu, have become a worldwide coming to work with us and perform in staying in Bognor. Maybe it could have formed as an experimental orchestra, Theatre Orchestras or Spa Orchestras. to a full orchestra. The missing parts phenomenon. An explanation for the a concert in which we will have a brand been The Pirates of Bognor without the purpose of which was to play In the late nineteenth and early twentieth cued into other instruments parts or the presence of an alto saxophone in new arrangement from the Jack Hylton Gilbert's input!) through some very old music that had centuries, with the birth of the railways, piano. This would mean the musician Strauss Waltzes, for anyone who has archives which hasn't been heard for been found in the library when it was people began to take holidays out of the needs a specific set of skills as any part seen his concerts! 80 years. For further information, contact Simon moved during the music block city. Heading for the seaside or, on the could have two different instrumental Growcott at [email protected]. refurbishment. The sets of parts were continent, Spa towns. With this lines written on one stave with the Many of the musical arrangements So why The Sleepy Lagoon neither dance band nor chamber newfound freedom people were looking instruction "if no oboe play". The became unfashionable and neglected Orchestra? See The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra’s Tribute orchestra but a mix of the two, mostly for entertainment. This was occasionally repertoire was extremely varied, ranging but within this vast genre of music there One of the first pieces we found was to Jack Hylton with Pete Faint on Saturday titled "Salon Orchestra". provided by Military Bands or Brass from concerts of Mozart, Beethoven and are some real gems which we are called By the Sleepy Lagoon. In 1930 the 27th Oct, 7.30pm in Chichester. See Bands but the majority of the music was Wagner in the morning, a tea dance in beginning to discover. composer Eric Coates wrote a piece of ‘What’s On’ for more details. So with six violins, a viola, a cello and a supplied by a resident orchestra with the afternoon through to popular songs music which was used by the BBC as the bass in the string section, two flutes, an professional or semi-professional of the theatre in the evening. Why not just have a Chamber theme tune for its long running radio oboe and two clarinets in the woodwind musicians often hired for "the season". Orchestra? programme Desert Island Discs. It is and two horns or horn and saxophone, Their job was to play in halls, bandsstands With the advent of swing, rock and roll With the instruments and arrangements taken by many to be an evocation of a two cornets and a trombone in the and theatres, sometimes doing three and recorded music the Salon we have we can perform a wide variety warm, blue lagoon in an exotic location. brass, with occasional percussion different concerts a day. Orchestra became a thing of the past of music in almost any situation. We’ve In fact it was written while the including a glockenspiel (which no piece with two notable exceptions. The also found that with our woodwind composers was staying in Selsey, nine of light music can do without), the A full size orchestra would have been Scarborough Spa Orchestra, formed in players doubling on saxophones and one miles south of Chichester! He was Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra was formed. expensive so numbers were cut down 1911, is Britain's last seaside orchestra or two other members moving to other inspired by the view at sunset, across the Although we originally had no intention and arrangements of popular tunes, light to still be in existence as a ten piece instruments we are able to play 1930's bay towards Bognor Regis, with the of doing any public performances, within music and classical music were made. orchestra, which still meets during the dance band music. This has led to the South Downs in the background, hence a couple of weeks we were playing With a varied combination of Summer Season. The other is the discovery of Jack Hylton's music, a the Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra. (This is Waltzes for a ball. We were then asked instruments in every orchestra the Maastricht Salon Orchestra, formed in whole new genre. As you will see from one of two occasions where Bognor has to play in a school and lately for an Old publishing houses, rather than making 1978. The twelve members went on to the What's On section of this magazine, inspired composers, the other being Sir People's Community Club. specific arrangements, wrote music become the Johann Strauss orchestra we are lucky enough to have Pete Faint, Arthur Sullivan who wrote much of the
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Vocal
All ensembles (open to Chichester and Arundel Cathedrals. It Choral Conductors’ Seminar performs concerts throughout the year and Conductor’s Choir students only) take and takes part in the Christmas Carol Leader: Tom Robson Services at Chichester Cathedral and in St place on a weekly basis Wilfrid’s Church in Bognor Regis. The Tues 11th Sept, 2.00pm-4.00pm Choir also tours in the summer months Oaklands – The Harry Potter Room. during term time. The and recently it has been to Verona, Budapest and Rome. If you have had The seminar (first hour) is for anyone days given in the listings previous experience of singing in a choir interested in learning to conduct and train and have some sight singing skills, then this choirs. If you think you might end up are the start dates. ensemble is for you. The Choir meets teaching then this is a useful skill to have. twice a week; entry is by audition and you It is for beginners and also those with should contact Music Reception in order some experience. Basic skills are taught in Theatre Ensemble - to arrange a suitable time to be heard. the seminar and then put into practise in Special Projects Group ...... the second hour when voluntary singers Leader: TBA come to become the choir for your practice. You could just come for the Mon 1st Oct, 10.00am-12noon Otter Consort second part of the session (second hour) The Chapel. Leader: Tom Robson and be a singer, or you may wish to gain Tues 11th Sept, 11.00am-12.30pm useful skills in choir leading too. The This ensemble focuses on techniques Oaklands – The Malfoy Room. choice is yours. for the chorus work in musicals. Recent ...... repertoire includes Carousel in Concert This small vocal ensemble is for those and South Pacific in Concert. These works who are highly experienced singers, with are performed as a concert production Chichester Chorale good sight reading ability and a love of with a full symphony orchestra. Principals Leader: Arthur Robson choral music, both sacred and secular. All are auditioned from the ensemble. members of this ensemble are also Weds 19th Sept, 7.30pm-9.30pm ...... members of Chamber Choir. The Venue Room L04. repertoire will be extensive and Chamber Choir challenging and will require the members This is a community choir for a mixed aged group, which welcomes both Leader: Arthur Robson to learn the music by heart. We often sing First Year Choral Experience Classical Singers Drop In Singers Platform students and local enthusiasts from the Mon 10th Sept, 4.30pm-6.00pm a Christmas Concert in the wonderful Leader: Arthur Robson Leader: Jonathan Veira Leader: Susan Legg setting of Uppark House for the National surrounding area. It gives three major Tues 11th Sept, 4.30pm-6.00pm Mon 1st Oct, 10.00am-11.00am Tues 2nd Oct, 10.00am-11.00am Weds 3rd Oct, 10.00am-11.30am Trust as well as joining with the Chamber concerts in the year, one of which is with Oaklands – The Hermione The Elizabeth Swann Room. Oaklands – The Hermione Granger Pieces of Eight. Choir for the annual Carol Service in the the University’s Chamber Choir. Granger Room. Room. Cathedral. There is usually a residential Membership is through audition. Although the weekly sessions are called Tues 2nd Oct, 4.00pm-5.00pm Susan’s vocal class takes the form of a course planned for Reading Week ...... Chamber Choir is one of the most Choral Experience, it is really musicianship Oaklands – Hufflepuff. supportive performance platform which (Semester two) in Salisbury, culminating in challenging vocal ensembles at the through the voice. I am not expecting aims to help singers build confidence as the singing of Evensong in either Salisbury University. The repertoire is extensive perfect voices, although there will be Classical Singers Drop In is for any classical their recital programme takes shape. The or Winchester Cathedral. There is always and varied and includes both sacred and some I’m sure. I simply want you all to singer who is working on a piece and is class will also look at programme notes an international tour in the summer with secular music from all periods. The choir enter into the spirit of enjoying making looking for expert tuition and insight. It and work on presentation and posture. the Chamber Choir and recently Otter has recently performed Britten’s St music together, reading a vocal score, aims to be both fun and challenging, The session provides a regular platform to Consort has been to Verona, Budapest Nicolas, Haydn St Nicolas Mass, Vivaldi exercising the brain communally and enabling singers to improve, progress and monitor performance progress and to and Rome. Entry is by audition. Gloria and Faure Requiem, all with having fun together! enhance their skills throughout the course help singers get the best out of their ...... orchestra. The choir regularly performs in ...... of the year. All are welcome from performance. Come and join us! numerous locations in the area including beginners to advanced......
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First Year Choir works to prepare you for experience Leader: Lisa Pow after your degree. It is open to singers of Vocal Repertoire Coaching and all abilities and does not require you to Vocal Drop In Sessions Weds 3rd Oct, 3.00pm-4.00pm audition, just come along and take part to Ensemble Leaders: Will Pool, Stuart Tortuga. improve everything from your breathing Hutchinson and Lesley-Anne Sammons technique to your sight reading skills. The First Year Choir provides practical Whether you’re a veteran chorister or an Vocal Repertoire sessions start experience for those students who wish instrumentalist looking to try out singing Mon 17th Sept, 1pm-4pm and to gain a well-rounded musical experience in a relaxed and performance-focused 4.30pm-7.30pm in Pirate at University. It is open to all singers and environment, the Symphonic Choir Room 13 with Stuart and instrumentalists in the first year, regardless welcomes you. Thurs 20th Sept, 5pm-8pm in of experience and skill, and will cover all ...... Pirate Room 5 with Will genres of music, technique, sight reading and improvisation. The choir provides the Vocal Drop In sessions start Postgraduate Vocal opportunity to perform in a variety of Mon 1st Oct, 2.00pm-5.00pm Performance Platform situations, which will enhance your main Pirate Room 5 with Lesley-Anne Leader: William Robert Allenby musical discipline. Whether you've never Vocal repertoire coaching is available sung before or are a seasoned chorister, Thurs 11th Oct, 1.00pm-3.00pm via a sign up system, allowing you access this is the ensemble for you. Pieces of Eight. to a professional vocal coach who will ...... work on interpretation of your musical William's class is designed specifically for theatre repertoire. These free sessions Symphonic Choir postgraduate musical theatre and are in addition to allocated one-to-one tuition and are available on a first Leader: Lisa Pow classical singers. Building on the skills acquired in undergraduate study, it takes come, first served basis. Your session Fri 5th Oct, 9.00am-10.00am the form of an advanced performance will concentrate on style and performance techniques. Please bring The Chapel. platform which aims to prepare students your own sheet music – either in book for pathways into professional work, Symphonic Choir works as a dedicated form or properly collated, no loose music conservatoires and drama schools. pages or staples. ensemble of the University’s singers and With professional coaching on audition accompanists, encompassing all genres presentation, technical help with from Jazz and Show Tunes to Opera and creating a demo CD/show-reel and CV Vocal Personal Study Prep Classical works. Engagements for the writing, and regular visits from Head of Leader: Susan Legg choir are varied and interesting, with Voice Susan Legg for scheduled mock chances to sing in many different locations These sessions take place in auditions and masterclasses, this Semester 2 only as a standalone choir or as part of the bespoke class will help you develop key choral section alongside the University’s professional performance tools, Susan’s class, designed exclusively for BA orchestras in large-scale symphonic culminating in a Postgraduate Vocal Gala dissertation singers, takes the form of a works. There will also be opportunities to Concert each Semester. supportive performance platform hone your skills as part of a stage ...... which aims to help the student build ensemble and to discover unique choral confidence as a programme takes shape. We will also look at programme Photo credit: notes and work on presentation and Andrew Worsfold. posture. The session provides a regular platform to monitor performance progress and to help students get the best out of their performance.
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Orchestras and Bands
regularly does concerts in schools and Band. It focuses on the traditional brass All ensembles (open community centres as a small ensemble band repertoire and gives an annual to students only) take or with up to 20 musicians. Christmas Concert as well as one other ...... in the second semester. There is no place on a weekly basis audition but you may be asked to play a Wind Band short piece to ensure that you occupy the during term time. The Leader: Simon Growcott right seat...... days given in the listings Tues 18th Sept, 6.00pm-8.00pm The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. are the start dates. Symphonic Brass Ensemble Leader: Fraser Tannock Wind Band is open to all students from the University who wish to play a wide Mon 1st Oct, 12noon-1.30pm Chamber Orchestra range of music from all genres. The Wind The Chapel. Conductor: Crispin Ward Band gives two concerts a year in Chichester and has previously performed The Symphonic Brass Ensemble gives Mon 10th Sept, 1.00pm-4.30pm at the University of Chichester Music brass players the opportunity to rehearse By playing basic arrangement you can Thurs 13th Sept, 1.00pm-4.30pm Festival on Guernsey. They have also and perform some of the wide range of Big Band Symphony Orchestra The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. Leader: James Lelean develop your brass playing and stamina Leader: Crispin Ward performed in Brighton and Eastbourne to music written for a larger brass ensemble. as well as ensemble skills. There are even great critical acclaim. All brass players are welcome (both Brass Thurs 4th Oct, 7.00pm-8.30pm Rehearsal schedule to be The Chamber Orchestra is a small a few instruments available if you just ...... Band and Orchestral instruments) and Tortuga. announced. Intensive rehearsals ensemble of 15-17 players who rehearse want to try. suitable parts will be found for them. are according to the concert diary. twice a week to produce high quality ...... The Big Band is an opportunity for performances throughout the year. Since Pops Orchestra students to experience this very popular Symphony Orchestra is one of the most its inception it has performed in America, Leaders: Crispin Ward Sinfonietta type of group. They have developed prestigious instrumental ensembles at the Switzerland, Austria and France as well as Special PROjects Group Leader: Simon Growcott Weds 19th Sept, 3.00pm-5.00pm strong links with several popular amateur University. It performs concerts many prestigious concerts in the UK. The Leaders: Simon Growcott The Chapel. big bands based in the local area and in Tues 30th Oct, 4.00pm-6.00pm throughout the year in Chichester Chamber Orchestra is regularly joined by Mon 1st Oct, 4.30pm-6.30pm the past, some students have helped The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. Cathedral, the University Chapel and in international musicians, soloists and Pops Orchestra is for any instrumentalist The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. these bands and have been paid for doing other venues and often tours in the conductors. This ensemble acts as an who wants experience of playing in a Wed 3rd Oct, 12.30pm-2.30pm so. The Big Band is a perfect, relaxed way Sinfonietta is an ensemble with flexible summer months. The Symphony ambassador for the University and a high large ensemble. There are approximately Tortuga. of improving your sight reading skills, membership enabling student composers Orchestra meet for an intensive four days standard is expected. Repertoire ranges 70 performers and they explore film particularly for players who are keen on to have their works performed by a live of rehearsals during the two University from the Baroque to 20th Century. music, music from the shows, orchestral The Special PROjects Group gives Jazz but might feel their reading is weak. It group of musicians and to have the reading weeks and before concerts, rather Membership is by audition. rock and pop music. The Pops Orchestra students the opportunity to perform the is also ideal for reading musicians who experience of conducting their own than a regular weekly meeting. There are ...... has recently toured the Channel Islands as lighter side of music. Film music, musicals want to tackle improvisation for the first works if they wish. Submissions of works also some occasional Tuesday evening well as giving concerts both within the and popular classics make up the core time. Membership is by audition. are made in the first instance to Simon rehearsals. The Orchestra is supported by The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra University and at other venues. Entry is repertoire of this group, which includes ...... Growcott who will then organise a tutors in all sections of the orchestra who Leader: Simon Growcott open to anyone. an integral Big Band. The group will not timetable of rehearsals beginning after also take sectional rehearsals. International ...... only perform in its own concerts but will Student Led week in the first semester. soloists and conductors are often invited Tues 18th Sept, 10.00am-12noon also take on projects providing ensembles Training Band The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. Leader: Emma Button ...... to perform with the orchestra. Brass Band for Musical Theatre, outside agencies and Membership is by audition. other interesting opportunities. Fri 5th Oct, 12noon-2.00pm The The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra is part of Leader: Emma Button ...... Membership to the pool of players Captain Jack Sparrow Room. The Special PROjects Group. It meets Thurs 20th Sept, 4.30pm-6.30pm making up SPROG is by audition and regularly throughout the year and plays a Fri 21st Sept, 5.00pm-7.00pm players will be selected from the pool to If you have ever wanted to play a brass Find out more wide variety of music from Classical to The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. suit the requirements of any given project. instrument or just want to improve your For information please visit Light Music, 1930's Dance Band to Disney ...... playing then this is the ensemble for you. www.chi.ac.uk/music Film music. Although originally formed as Brass players from all departments of the an experimental ensemble, it now University are welcome to join the Brass
32 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 33 Instrumental
All ensembles (open Clarinet Choir Piano Group Leader: Spencer Bundy Leader: Terence Allbright to students only) take Mon 1st Oct, 8.00pm-9.30pm Tues 2nd Oct, 5.00pm-6.30pm place on a weekly basis The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. Pieces of Eight. during term time. The The Chichester Clarinet Choir is based at This group is for piano solo and duet the University but is open to the local playing and for accompanying one other days given in the listings community. The choir uses everything instrument or voice. Pianists at all levels from the small Eb clarinet up to a Contra are welcome at this weekly opportunity are the start dates. Base in Bb and tries to share parts around to play whatever you have ready or in so that everybody gets a chance to progress, with an audience only of the perform a solo and lead in a chamber size other members of the group: everyone Saxophone Group group. During rehearsals the choir will plays every week. There is no teaching in Leader: Spencer Bundy often try workshop ideas like this session, but there is discussion and improvisation and areas which the other feedback if it's wanted. This is an Mon 1st Oct, 6.30pm-8.00pm ensembles, due to their size, might not excellent, relaxed environment for The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. give players the opportunity to try. It also building up repertoire and for dealing gives members a chance to experiment with any nervousness or performance The Chichester Saxophone Ensemble is with arranging for Clarinet Choir. The anxiety. Accompanists can agree a time to based at the University but is open to Clarinet Choir is also ideal for saxophone bring their partners. The group gives a Saxophone players in the local or other wind players to get a chance to concert towards the end of each community. There are no age limits and perform on their second instrument. semester (not compulsory!). no auditions. Often during rehearsals Clarinet Choir usually takes part in at least ...... there will be a workshop type element one concert per semester, often where saxophonists will look at an combined with another University. 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 manner. The group will also sometimes split into smaller groups and give people a chance to explore the ever increasing repertoire for Saxophone quartet. The Saxophone Group welcome any wind players who might be looking for a way to gain experience performing on their second instrument. The ensemble tries to Photo credit: Andrew Worsfold. perform at least one concert per All photos. semester and in the past have raised funds for various charities......
Find out more For information please visit www.chi.ac.uk/music
34 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 35 Jazz and Folk
All ensembles (open musicians. Jazz Nights also provide an Guitar Workshop afternoon, which are then usually opportunity for students who have taken Leader: Dave Smith showcased during Jazz Night. Any music to students only) take part in the jazz workshops to showcase student is welcome so long as they have a the pieces that they have been working Weds 3rd Oct, 2.00pm-4.00pm genuine interest in developing their jazz place on a weekly basis on during the afternoon. The Jar of Dirt. skills within a group setting. Any ability ...... level is welcome but commitment is during term time. The This weekly workshop will primarily focus expected throughout the semester, since Folk Night on sight reading but will also look at set spaces are limited. Students who have days given in the listings Leader: Sarah Collins pieces, commercial skills, and technical already attended jazz workshop regularly skills (chords, modes and scales). The have automatic places and as many new are the start dates. Mon 1st Oct, 7.00pm-9.00pm workshop is open to all guitarists. students as possible will be The Elizabeth Swann Room...... accommodated...... Folk Group This will run alternate weeks and are Jazz Composers’ Workshop available for any folk musicians, or anyone Leader: Sarah Collins Leaders: Nick Reynolds and Rhythm Workshop interested in folk, to come and perform Rob Westwood Leaders: Rob Westwood Weds 3rd Oct, 9.30am-11.00am or listen in a relaxing environment. Any Oaklands – The Malfoy Room. style of folk is welcome. Weds 3rd Oct, 3.00pm-4.00pm Thurs 4th Oct, 2.30pm-4.30pm ...... Pieces of Eight. Tortuga. A relaxed atmosphere and no pressure environment centered on communal The Jazz Composers' Workshop employs Jazz Research Group This workshop is for all students playing, an eclectic mix of folk music and methods almost identical to those of the Leaders: Nick Reynolds and Rob Westwood wanting to develop their use of rhythm – personal growth. We cover a variety of great jazz composers of the 20th Century especially whilst improvising. The songs ranging from sea shanties written Weds 3rd Oct, 1.00pm-2.00pm such as Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus workshops will be mostly practical, hundreds of years ago, alternative songs Pieces of Eight. and Miles Davis. Notation and even the exploring metric modulation, Konnakol, from film and TV, right up to recent pop use of chord symbols is kept to a odd metres, riff based composition and releases. Take an active role in deciding This group is for jazz musicians that want minimum whilst live improvised invention applying these to a live performance which material we cover as contributions to develop their skills further and are is used to engage the group in interactive setting. Please bring your instrument. are always welcomed. Have a go at singing happy to experiment with different and spontaneous music making. The ...... or experiment with a second instrument techniques within jazz education. A workshop crosses all styles including blues at our Folk Group and get more different topic will be covered each week modality, jazz rock, European minimalism Jazz Live Performing Skills comfortable with performing at which will range from theoretical to and a wide range of rhythmic Leader: Alex Ayling bi-weekly Folk Nights. practical to contextual. Please bring your frameworks. All instrumentalists and Photo credit: ...... instrument and an open mind. vocalists are welcome, including less Fri 5th Oct, 12noon - 2.00pm Andrew Worsfold. Jazz Jam Night All photos...... Oaklands – The Chamber of Secrets. familiar jazz instruments such as viola and Leader: Rob Westwood Jazz Night bassoon. Leader: Nick Reynolds Bass Guitar Workshop ...... This is for any jazz students wishing to Mon 8th Oct, 7.00pm-9.00pm develop improvisational awareness and The Elizabeth Swann Room. Weds 26th Sept, 6.30pm-9.00pm Leader: Gary Simons Jazz Workshop broaden their musical vocabulary. The The Elizabeth Swann Room. Weds 3rd Oct, 1.00pm-2.00pm Leader: Nick Reynolds workshop will encourage discussion and This will run on alternate nights with the Oaklands – The Snape Room. experimentation through performance. folk nights and will provide an opportunity Jazz Night provides a relaxing atmosphere Weds 3rd Oct, 4.00pm-5.30pm The focus is on using practical group for everyone to play in much larger for any students with an interest in jazz to This weekly workshop will primarily focus The Elizabeth Swann Room. workshops to gain more experience groups. The emphasis here is on be able to perform. The evenings are on sight reading but will also look at set working with others within a jazz context. participating and trying things out on informal with a licensed bar, so you can pieces, commercial skills, and technical Students assemble in The Elizabeth However, the skills gained can applied to stage. This will be facilitated by Rob Find out more enjoy a drink or two whilst listening to the skills (chords, modes and scales). The Swann Room and are then assigned to a variety of musical situations. Westwood and any level of experience For information please visit music. Any style of jazz is welcome and workshop is open to all bassists. groups based on experience/ability level...... is welcomed. www.chi.ac.uk/music the jazz tutors are always available to ...... The jazz tutors then work with their ...... provide a house rhythm section for guest group on a number of pieces during the
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All groups (open to Don’t be shy, give it a try. shoulders and arms and will be particularly Zumba Music Theory Support sessions give practical ways to induce ...... helpful to musicians recovering from Leader: Kelly-Marie Aldridge Leader: Helen Price better coordination with a subsequent Sight Reading for Pianists injuries or suffering from nerves, tension improvement in expressivity and ease of students only) take Weds 3rd Oct, 11.00am-12.30pm Thurs 4th Oct, 9.00am-12.30pm Leader: Angela Zanders or stress. No previous experience of yoga playing or singing. It also gives you a better place on a weekly basis is required. The classes are beneficial for and 1.00pm-2.30pm The Will Turner Room. return on the investment in your course. Tues 2nd Oct, 2.00pm-3.00pm everyone at any level, for the beginner or The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. Many musicians spend a fortune on during term time. The Pieces of Eight. those with previous experience who can Music Theory will benefit all students therapies such as osteopathy or explore asanas and breathwork at a Come along, get fit, dance, laugh and who would like to develop their chiropractic or have careers cut short by days given in the listings However difficult you may find sight deeper level. It will give each student a set party with Zumba Fitness ®. Suitable for knowledge of how to read and write damage done to muscles joints or throats reading, it is always possible to get really of tools for life. all levels and abilities, a great conditioning music. The ability to analyse various works due to faulty use of self. An are the start dates. good at it with the right approach and lots ...... class that compliments other training. is invaluable to musicians as throughout understanding of how to structure of practice. These classes are designed to Open class for anyone. their training they are required to proper use of the musculoskeletal and be fun, confidence-building and ...... compose, perform, transcribe, edit and Meditation nervous system will not only bring more completely non-intimidating! Come along transpose. This weekly session is available Harpsichord Tuning Leader: Maria O’Donnell pleasure to your music making but will Leader: David Pollock and watch your skills grow – you will learn Intermediate Yoga to all students and covers a wide range of help to prolong it through a full working your pieces quicker and find yourself in Tues 2nd Oct, 5pm-5.30pm topics. Instrumentalists and vocalists of all Weds 19th Sept, 11.00am-12noon Leader: Maria O'Donnell life. great demand! The Elizabeth Swann Room. abilities are welcome, whether their ...... The Chapel...... Weds 3rd Oct, 3.00pm-4.00pm ambition is to perform on stage, write a Meditation is the practice of stilling or The Captain Jack Sparrow Room. symphony, teach or gain higher marks in An eight-week course introducing Baroque Performance Clinic Yoga for singers and musicians calming the mind through the focus of their assignments and music theory. harpsichord temperaments, to equip If you are an experienced yoga student Leader: David Pollock Leader: Maria O’Donnell attention to a single point of reference...... students with practical tuning skills. This point of reference varies depending wishing to develop your understanding and These sessions take place in Reference will be made to important Tues 2nd Oct, 4.00pm-5.00pm improve your practice, then the on the chosen technique. It can involve Conducting Workshop semester 2 only source texts as well as to modern and 6.00pm-7.00pm intermediate sessions are for you. Many focusing on the breath, on a word or Leader: Crispin Ward research into the temperament used by J The Elizabeth Swann Room. phrase known as a mantra or an object. professional singers, musicians and Students preparing baroque pieces S Bach. Indispensable for historically Meditation means turning your attention performers use yoga to build stamina, Fri 5th Oct, 1.00pm-3.00pm (instrumental or vocal) are welcome to informed performance. Suitable for Yoga for singers and musicians can be inwards away from distracting thoughts fluidity and focus in both mind and body. The Bootstrap Bill Room. bring work in progress for help with everyone, not just keyboard players. extraordinarily beneficial. The basic and focusing on the present moment. The sessions will include asana, pranayama appropriate performing style, continuo Contact David Pollock, principles and effects of music and yoga Thoughts and emotions are inextricably and meditation appropriate for this level. A weekly workshop session to introduce accompaniment, and other relevant [email protected], for more information. are universal. It has been said that ‘Yoga is linked, so the practice of meditation can Numbers for these sessions will be limited. students to the study and practice of issues. An eight-week course in which ...... the melody and harmony of the unseen bring a greater sense of peace to ...... conducting. Primarily focused on work we also explore harpsichord inner self, and music the melody and emotions or reduce the impact of with orchestras, these sessions combine temperaments to equip students with Aural Classes harmony of the seen outer self’. Yoga troubling thoughts. With practice the Tai Chi traditional score based study with online practical tuning skills. Indispensable for Leader: Angela Zanders works on all the various systems of the meditator can observe thoughts that arise Leader: Sam Moor and audio resources. Opportunity to historically informed performance. body; physical, emotional, mental, more objectively. Meditation can bring work with small ensembles is often Contact David Pollock [email protected] Tues 2nd Oct, 1.00pm-2.00pm intellectual and spiritual, making it different Thurs 4th Oct, 9.00am-10.00am provided for and is ideal for students who Pieces of Eight. many benefits such as reducing stress, The Elizabeth Swann Room. for more information. from other forms of exercise. The subtle anxiety, depression and is used as a means would like to gain a basic insight into the ...... qualities of Yoga have the potential to of relaxation. Come and experience a art of conducting and is often a useful Learning the nuts and bolts of how music stimulate and develop the musical ability of Tai Chi or Taijiquan is a profoundly supplement to students on IVT courses. works – rhythm, keys, chords, musical variety of ways of encouraging the mind intelligent system that trains the body and a musician or singer. It can help singers sing to quieten. Experience the calmness, ...... styles and general listening skills - are and musicians play with more fluidity, mind naturally and perceptively to essential tools for transforming budding cultivate greater mental discipline, gain produce excellent health, fitness and well- power and emotional expression. The The Performing Body instrumentalists, singers and composers insight and relax. being. It is arguably one of the most weekly drop-in classes will focus on the ...... Leader: Graham Elliot into first-class musicians. These classes are practice of asanas (physical postures), effective and successful health systems designed to help you to make the most pranayama (breathwork), and meditation, known today. The classes will focus upon Thurs 11th Oct, 4.00pm-6.00pm Find out more of your musical potential, however basic helping students improve lung capacity, the key principles that form the Pieces of Eight. For information please visit your knowledge or rusty your skills. stamina, concentration, flexibility and foundation of excellent movement, well- www.chi.ac.uk/music Just come along with a pencil, eraser, vitality. These tailored yoga classes will being and skill in martial arts (gong fu). Using Alexander Technique and pen, manuscript book and notebook. release tension in the back, neck, ...... Feldenkrais Method, the Performing Body
38 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 39 Workshops
All workshops (open Open to all year 2 students Classical 1 Workshops Rock / Pop Workshops (voice and piano) • Musical Theatre Workshop 1: These workshops give students the to students only) take 5.00pm-6.00pm, In these sessions, students are opportunity to cover Rock and Pop place on a weekly The Will Turner Room encouraged to overcome their fears and specific techniques and areas of musicality • Musical Theatre Workshop 2: anxieties of performing in front of their in a very informal and vocational way. basis during term time. 5.00pm-6.00pm, peers in a gentle and relaxed way. Singers Students collaborate with the tutor to The Elizabeth Swann Room and pianists can bring their solo plan topics to cover each Semester and All workshops start on • Musical Theatre Workshop 3: repertoire to work on, or if a pianist everyone works as a team in offering 4.00pm-5.00pm, Tortuga wishes to gain experience in friendly feedback, ideas and support. Monday 8th October • Classical 1 Workshop (voice and piano): accompanying they can have ...... unless otherwise stated. 1.00pm-2.00pm, opportunities to form partnerships with The Will Turner Room singers. However, no pianist will be Percussion Workshop • Classical 2 Workshop (Instrumental): expected to accompany or sight read any Leader: Jason Huxtable 11.00am-12noon, Pieces of Eight vocal music. The main thing is that their Open to all year 1 and 2 • Rock / Pop Workshop: confidence grows and this becomes a Mon 1.30pm-3.30pm BMus students 10.00am-11.00am, great platform to build on. Led by William Tortuga. The Poor Souls Room Allenby from the piano, this is a • Jazz Group Workshop: Open to musicians of any instrument, 10.30pm-12.30pm, ...... supportive and encouraging environment for intuitive and constructive feedback percussion workshop is an opportunity to The Poor Souls Room develop rhythmic, aural, ensemble and Jazz Group and BMus Jazz from the students and himself. (Starts Thurs 11th Oct) improvisation skills in a fun and engaging Group Workshops ...... • BMus Jazz Group Workshop: environment. Sessions will combine an 12:30pm-2.30pm, Relaxed, creative and productive introduction to the basics of percussion Classical 2 Workshops The Poor Souls Room workshops where the students are invited technique on both tuned and untuned (Instrumental) (Starts Thurs 11th Oct) to choose pieces that are studied. The percussion instruments whilst developing ...... workshops offer harmonic and rhythmic In these performance workshops the repertoire across musical styles and ideas to use as tools for improvisation. focus is with you - the performer - genres. No previous percussion Open to all year 1 students There is an emphasis and your relationship to music, the experience is required. instrument and the pieces you play. • Musical Theatre Workshop 1: on the fact that knowledge is only ...... We explore a wide range of performance 3.00pm-4.00pm, knowledge if it can be applied ... practice from technical aspects of playing, Photo credit: The Elizabeth Swann Room hopefully the student will take plenty Rock Workshop to expression and musicality, to how to Andrew Worsfold. • Musical Theatre Workshop 2: of ideas away that they can actually use. Leader: Jason Huxtable All photos. practice and methods to manage 4.00pm-5.00pm, ...... performance anxiety. We also Mon 4.00pm-6.00pm The Will Turner Room concentrate on concerns or topics of The Jar of Dirt and Pieces of Eight. • Musical Theatre Workshop 3: Musical Theatre Workshops interest that you may have. Sessions are 4.00pm-5.00pm, Providing an opportunity for students to open, relaxed, always interesting and Rock workshop is an opportunity for The Elizabeth Swann Room try out new songs or potential exam everyone present has an opportunity to band musicians to come together and • Classical 1 Workshop (voice and piano) material in the run up to assessments. The share and contribute wisdom. develop their own rock bands in a : 12noon-1.00pm, performance friendly atmosphere means ...... focused and purposeful way. Material The Will Turner Room that even the less confident students feel covered is student led and can range from • Classical 2 Workshop (Instrumental) : comfortable about getting up to sing. metal to prog-rock; whatever you are 12noon-1.00pm, Pieces of Eight Students are given helpful hints and interested in and wish to explore! • Rock / Pop Workshop: suggestions and the sessions are a great Sessions will focus on building ensemble Find out more 9.00am-10.00am, chance to air their songs in public and hear skills, developing a set for performance at For information please visit The Poor Souls Room what other people are singing too. the student union and/or external gigs www.chi.ac.uk/music ...... towards the end of the year......
40 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 41 Jamal Harewood – Word. Image Credit: Tara Yarahmadi.
We host an eclectic range of public events throughout the year including thought- provoking insights, literature and cultural exhibitions, as well as creative performances. Here are some of the forthcoming events that we would like to share. expressionActs of 42 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 43 The ShowRoom has built Liz Aggiss: Slap and Tickle Ridiculusmus, Give Me a reputation for presenting Thursday 27 September, 7.30pm Your Love The ShowRoom, Bishop Otter Thursday 4 October, 7.30pm some of the most exciting Campus, Chichester. The ShowRoom, Bishop Otter companies touring on the Campus, Chichester. UK circuit. Maverick, anarchic, indomitable and fearless: all words that have been used to Theatre legends Jon Haynes and David describe performance artist Liz Aggiss. Woods of Ridiculusmus are back with a Born in an era when children were seen funny, fragile and profound fable based on and not heard, Liz never had a clue what ground breaking medical research and she wanted to do. She just knew she real-life war testimonies. wanted to be seen and heard. Ex-soldier and budding rock star Zach has Slap and Tickle is an award winning, dark withdrawn into a cardboard box in a and ribald physical commentary on kitchen in West Wales. His friend Ieuan cultural mores and sexual taboos: a arrives offering recovery - in the form of a disorientating display of interpretations capsule containing 3,4 and contradictions about women, girls, methylenedioxymethamphetamine with mothers, bitches and senior citizens. which he claims to have successfully Beating a path through the personal and treated his own post-traumatic stress. historical, Aggiss creates a feminist soup that lurches from spoken word to Parachuted into their recently fractured Above: Ridiculusmus. expressionist movement, from music hall pasts, Zach and Ieuan swing between Image credit: Sarah Walker. to radio nostalgia, from costume change dreamboat heroism and woozy Right: Liz Aggiss. Image credit: Joe Murray. to prop manipulation. enlightenment via a head warping exchange on patriotism, conflict and SLAP AND TICKLE won a Total Theatre supermarket shopping that will tickle, Award Edinburgh Festival 2017. move and appal you in equal measure. Come on everybody lets have a party! www.ridiculusmus.com www.lizaggiss.com “It’s Ridiculusmus at their best” “The hilarious tickle never undermines the The Stage serious slap in this solo – sheer brilliance” The Glasgow Herald Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+ ...... Find out more “Slap and Tickle is a pointed and bawdily funny exploration of what it means to For more about events in the refuse to act your age” ShowRoom please contact: Lyn Gardner, theguardian.com • Email: [email protected] • Tickets: store.chi.ac.uk Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+ • www.theshowroomchichester.co.uk ...... Theatre & Dance Theatre
44 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 45 Casson & Friends. Image credit: Alisa Boanta
Rachel Mars, Our Christopher Brett Bailey, Casson & Friends, Carnal Hearts Suicide Notes ... the CHOREOCRACY Thursday 11 October, 7.30pm spoken word of Christopher Thursday 22 November, 7.30pm The ShowRoom, Bishop Otter Brett Bailey The ShowRoom, Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester. Thursday 18 October, 7.30pm Campus, Chichester. The ShowRoom, Bishop Otter A Welcome! To you and to me and Campus, Chichester. A new dance & technology collaboration our spikey, sticky, shameful bits! that puts YOU in control more than ever ’With a raucous chorus of original A different-every-night, shouting & before... Record Breaking Dance Artist music, award-winning theatre maker reading show... stories, poems and black Tim Casson and BAFTA award-winning Rachel Mars and four belting female humour. Bailey’s words deliver a Digital Artist Seb Lee-Delisle, present singers bring you a gleeful, dark show linguistic kaleidoscope of caustic their first collaboration: about the hidden workings of envy. cartoons, crackpot prophesies and CHOREOCRACY: The fun interactive Part symphony, part exorcism, demented erotica. Verbal diarrhoea, dance show that puts the audience in dirty jokes, venomous poetry, and tall control of the performance. Seb and Tim Our Carnal Hearts is a thrilling and tales that corkscrew deep into will be your guides through the show, and murky celebration of desire, nightmares. Tonight he is a voicebox and using innovative mobile technology, will competition and all the times we screw a microphone and nothing more: a potty give you control over the three highly each other over. Performed with a mouthed poet, a reverend with a forked skilled dance performers in real-time - surround-sound choral score by tongue, a standup comedian from hell, with no experience of dance required. Louise Mothersole, Our Carnal Hearts delivering a symphony of verbal Find out what happens when we ask the comes to the ShowRoom after sell outs adrenaline and twisted humour, a dense, public what would make a good show, across the UK and US and a Total poetic blend of the hallucinogenic and decide what you do or don’t want to see, Theatre Award. the hardboiled, a live action short story and have your say about what the dancers collection for the depraved, the do next: as we explore whether a dance www.rachelmars.org depressed and the death obsessed. performance can be truly democratic…
“Wickedly funny... soothing and christopherbrettbailey.com Commissioned by DanceEast and sharp-edged at the same time” Supported by Theatre Delicatessen, ★★★★ The Stage ‘“A beautiful maniac onstage with a South East Dance, and Studio Wayne McGregor through the FreeSpace Rachel Mars. Christopher mircrophone’ Snap Reviews Image credit: Brett Bailey. “Not just honest... very funny, too, and Programme. Claire Haigh Image credit: Jemima Yong streaked with regret” “If gonzo journalism ever needed a news ★★★★ Lyn Gardner, The Guardian anchor, this would be the guy”Exeunt Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts “Deeply engaging... beautifully blends “A loaded Kerouac…his wit glitters like Council Englan. together mundane normality and broken glass” Sydney Morning Herald phantasmal spectacle” www.cassonandfriends.com ★★★★ Broadway Baby “A juggernaut, a plosive onslaught … a mesmeric presence” The Stage “Casson is a choreographic provocateur in Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+ the way he blurs the distinction between ...... Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+ audience and performer by combining or ...... inverting the two” Find out more Nicholas Minns, writingaboutdance.com For more about events in the Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 12+ ShowRoom please contact: ...... • Email: [email protected] • Tickets: store.chi.ac.uk • www.theshowroomchichester.co.uk
46 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 47 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 2018 to January 2019.
48 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 49 September
Weds 12th Sept, 7.30pm Thurs 27th Sept, 12.30pm-1.30pm The Harp Family with Lunchtime Concert Series Frances Kelly St John’s Chapel, St John’s Street, The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1UR Otter Campus, University of Chichester Sponsored by Funtington Music Group Come when you can, go when you must. A series of free lunchtime Virtuoso harpist and university lecturer concerts, donations in aid of the Frances Kelly displays the range and Friends of St John’s Chapel. repertoire of this well loved instrument. Castalian Quartet. Well known both as a chamber musician For further information please see the Photo Credit Kaupo Kikkas. and soloist, Frances is a leading exponent notice boards in St John’s Chapel. October of early harps and is much in demand as a Alternatively please go to continuo player. She has worked with www.chi.ac.uk/events. many distinguished ensembles including Thurs 4th Oct, 7.30pm Paul Turner with baritone Nigel Cliffe the Gabrieli Consort and Players and the Admission Free, no need to book. Castalian Quartet Thurs 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th Oct, explain how to work towards a perfect Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment...... 12.30pm-1.30pm performance. The Assembly Room, North Street, Lunchtime Concert Series Tickets: £15 on the door or pre-book on Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1LQ Tickets: £15 at the door or pre-book on 01243 378900. No charge for University Sponsored by Chichester Chamber Concerts St John’s Chapel, St John’s Street, 01243 378900. No charge for University of Chichester Music students and staff. Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1UR of Chichester Music students and staff...... Programme: ...... Mozart: String Quartet in C K465 Come when you can, go when you Sun 16th Sept, 6.15pm Dissonance must. A series of free lunchtime Thurs 11th Oct, 7.30pm Fauré: String Quartet in E minor Op.121 concerts, donations in aid of the Graduation Evensong Crotchets and Quavers Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor Op.59 Friends of St John’s Chapel. with Company Presents: The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop no 2 An Evening of English Song Otter Campus, University of Chichester For further information please see The Castalian Quartet was the winner of the notice boards in St John’s The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Music: 1st Prize and three special awards at the Chapel. Alternatively please go to Otter Campus, University of Chichester Canticles: Sumsion in G, Aylward Lyon International Competition in 2015, www.chi.ac.uk/events. Responses: Anthem Hymn for and prize winner at the Banff International Join Daisy Shepherd, Evie Hamilton- St. Cecilia, Howells String Quartet Competition 2016. The Admission Free, no need to book. Mason, Emily Waters, Harry Heaven and Castalian Quartet was selected by Young ...... Ciaran O’Donovan, aka ‘Crotchets and All welcome. Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) and in Quavers’, along with other performers ...... 2018 won a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Weds 10th Oct, 7.30pm for a concert focused on English Song, Photo credit: Fellowship Award. This season they give The Art of the Accompanist featuring the works of those like Bridge, Andrew Worsfold. Quilter, Rubbra, and Head. All photos. debut concerts in the USA, Canada, with Paul Turner (piano) and China and Colombia. Nigel Cliffe (baritone) Admission free, no need to book. Tickets: £17 / free for under 25’s / season The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Donations in aid of Stonepillow; Otter Campus, University of Chichester Find out more tickets available from Chichester Festival www.stonepillow.org.uk Sponsored by Funtington Music Group For information and to book tickets, Theatre. Book online at www.cft.org.uk, ...... please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or tel: 01243 781312 or at the door. Free tickets must be booked in advance to Much of the world’s greatest music has see contact information in event listings. ensure a place. been written to be performed by a solo ...... voice and accompanying pianist. Pianist
50 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 51 Thurs 18th Oct, 7.00pm-9.00pm Dave Morgan and the Integer Trio The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
Dave Morgan, a seasoned Canadian jazz trumpeter, will be joining the Integer Trio, a modern jazz/fusion band from West Sussex, for a night of standards, arrangements and originals. Featuring Rob Westwood on keys, Nick Reynolds on bass and Rich Carter on drums.
Admission free, no need to book.
Pioneers of Donations in aid of The Sussex Snowdrop Pornography. Percussion with Trust; www.thesussexsnowdroptrust.com Joby Burgess......
October Sat 20th Oct, 7.30pm Pastoral Symphony Sat 27th Oct, 4.30pm and 7.30pm The Musical Theatre Performance Pornography Company are proud to present this Tues 16th Oct, 7.00pm –8.10pm documentary on censorship and the performances, daring collaborations, St John’s Chapel, St John’s Street, confronting, intelligent and affecting piece Pioneers of Percussion with PMRC. Linda Buckley a ‘leading figure in extensive education work, and regularly Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1UR The Assembly Theatre, Bognor Regis of theatre, to kick off their 2018/19 Joby Burgess the younger generation of Irish appears throughout Europe, the USA and Campus, University of Chichester, season. composers’ contributes a new work in beyond. Both in the studio and on the Holst: Songs Without Words PO22 1HR The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Ekstasis - fusing live sounds and road Joby Burgess works with artists Mozart: Clarinet Concerto Soloist: For further updates, please follow us on Otter Campus, University of Chichester electronics to create a moment of trance including Peter Gabriel, Eric Whitacre, Emma Francis One week in July 2005. Live 8. G8. twitter: @UOCpornography and and rapture. Award-winning British Graham Fitkin, Gabriel Prokofiev, Will Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral London 2012 Olympic bid. 7/7. Snapchat: MTPCompany Programme: composer Rebecca Dale’s Can’t Sleep for Gregory and John Lunn. Seasons: Toru Takemitsu vibraphone and loops is inspired by study The University of Chichester Chamber Britain feels like the centre of the world. This Amateur production is presented by Can’t Sleep: Rebecca Dale (commissioned of the brain’s activity, at the edge of sleep. Joby Burgess is generously supported with Orchestra begin their season with works World-changing politics, gigantic charity arrangement with Casarotto Ramsay & for Pioneers of Percussion) funds from Arts Council England, from Mozart and Beethoven. The Pastoral concerts, the chance to host the Associated Ltd on behalf of Cursing and Ekstasis: Linda Buckley (commissioned for Toru Takemitsu’s Seasons explores our Lancaster Arts and the Hinrichsen Symphony that has inspired so much music Olympics; everything’s happening, and Sobbing Ltd. Pioneers of Percussion) changing weather and ecology with a Foundation. related to the countryside and the great everyone’s talking about it. In schools, Psappha: Iannis Xenakis delicate landscape of metallic melody and outdoors has been a favourite of audiences offices, streets, shops, parks and homes – Tickets: £8.00 / £5.00 concessions and The Filthy Fifteen: Nicole Lizée noise, featuring the aluminium harp. Iannis Pioneers of Percussion is produced by since its first performance in 1808. there’s a buzz in the air, a sense of NUS. Book online at (commissioned for Pioneers of Xenakis’ Psappha explodes with muscular Powerplant and supported by Bell anticipation. The world’s eyes are focused www.chi.ac.uk/events or phone the Ticket Percussion) and abrasive rhythm taken from ancient Percussion. Powerplant is supported by Tickets: £10 / £5 concessions. University on Britain and you can feel the energy and Source Box Office 0333 666 3366. Please Greek text. PRS for Music Foundation. of Chichester students and staff are free. possibilities. But in less than an hour in note a standard postage rate of £1.50 will Joby Burgess, the “insanely talented British Please present your student or staff card central London, everything will change. apply for telephone bookings. percussionist” (Chicago Classical Music) The 9ft tall Capone-era Aluminium Harp, Tickets: £12 / £8 concessions. University at the door. Book online at ...... presents Pioneers of Percussion, a solo a typewriter, a giant steel sheet, loop of Chichester students and staff are free. www.chi.ac.uk/events or phone the Ticket Pornography is the stark and shattering recital programme of new commissions pedals, graphic scores, electronics and Please present your student or staff card Source Box Office 0333 666 3366. Please play by Simon Stephens that captures and pioneering works, from the most video all feature in this revelatory at the door. Book online at note a standard postage rate of £1.50 will Britain as it crashes from the euphoria innovative and creative composers of the programme from one of contemporary www.chi.ac.uk/events or phone the Ticket apply for telephone bookings. and promise of the 2012 Olympic Find out more 20th Century. classical’s leading lights. Source Box Office 0333 666 3366. Please ...... announcement into the devastation of For information and to book tickets, note a standard postage rate of £1.50 will 7/7. Each monologue or playlet focuses please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or Called a ‘brilliant musical scientist’ One of Britain’s most diverse apply for telephone bookings. on a different individual, walking in their see contact information in event listings. Montreal based Nicole Lizée’s new work percussionists, Joby Burgess is best known ...... shoes in the run-up to the tragedy. with video, The Filthy Fifteen is a quasi for his virtuosic, often lissom
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Sat 27th Oct, 7.30pm exploring Bernstein’s relationship with The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra’s America, New York, Broadway, the Tribute to Jack Hylton with Movies, Politics, Love, and God. In a salute Pete Faint to the role model of his youth, Carl Davis will evoke Leonard Bernstein at home, The Assembly Room, North Street, with the singers realising his imagination. Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1LQ The through performance in the University Chapel will have an informal Pete Faint “widely regarded as the world seating arrangement referencing the authority on Dance Band leader and supper clubs that Bernstein frequented. Theatrical Entrepreneur Jack Hylton”, leads The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra and Tickets: £20. Book online at vocalists in the music which made Jack www.citywallproductions.com. Limited Hylton famous. A must-see concert for all free tickets to University of Chichester fans of 1920’s and 30’s dance bands. students and staff on presentation of a Featuring a new arrangement from the valid UOC card. Jack Hylton archive unheard since the ...... Louise Walsh 1930's.www.Jackhylton.co.uk. Vocal Masterclass. Mon 29th Oct, 1.00pm-2.00pm Tickets: £10 / £5 concessions. University November Monday Lunchtime Concert Sing God a of Chichester students and staff are free. Simple Song. (Open to students only) Please present your student or staff card Thurs 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th Fri 2nd Nov, 5.30pm-7.30pm Sat 3rd Nov, 10.00am- 9.30pm at the door. Book online at Pieces of Eight, Music Block, Nov, 12.30pm-1.30pm Louise Walsh Vocal Masterclass for singers; 7.30pm for concert www.chi.ac.uk/events or phone the Ticket Bishop Otter Campus Lunchtime Concert Series Chichester Singing Day: Source Box Office 0333 666 3366. The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Bach’s Magnificat in D Major Please note a standard postage rate of In response to students’ helpful feedback, St John’s Chapel, St John’s Street, Otter Campus, University of Chichester £1.50 will apply for telephone bookings. we're running some friendly, informal Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1UR The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop ...... Monday Lunchtime Concerts which you Soprano Louise Walsh returns to the Otter Campus, University of Chichester or your small ensemble can sign up to! Come when you can, go when you University by popular demand to work Sun 28th Oct, 7.30pm Really handy in preparation for your must. A series of free lunchtime with classical singers on musical Learn and sing Bach’s Magnificat in D (doors open at 7.00pm) performance assessments, or just to run concerts, donations in aid of the interpretation, energy in performance and, Major in one day. Sing God a Simple Song something through to a hugely Friends of St John’s Chapel. as a fully qualified kinesiologist, posture appreciative, small audience. An and physical ease on the concert platform. This event is for all singers regardless of The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop accompanist will also be there on the day For further information please see the Louise has sung the lead role of Christine ability. Singers learn the choral work Otter Campus, University of if you need one. notice boards in St John’s Chapel. in Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the through various rehearsals throughout Chichester Alternatively please go to Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London the day and the piece is put together, The sign-up sheets will be displayed on www.chi.ac.uk/events. and has been a guest soloist at The Royal culminating in an evening performance. City Wall Productions & Bernstein in the wall outside White Cap Bay from the Opera House, Covent Garden, The The singers start at 10am. The audience Chichester Festival. 1st October and we'd love to see you Admission Free, no need to book. English National Opera, The Royal Albert come for the evening concert. there. (If you’re taking one of the ...... Hall and The Royal Festival Hall. An original musical entertainment devised Ensembles modules, please note that Singers: If you are interested in by composer and pianist Carl Davis and your attendance at these concerts is The session is accompanied by Head of performing, the cost for the day will be director/visual artist Pamela Howard, Find out more ‘stampable’!) Voice and pianist Susan Legg. £20, please email [email protected] for an with performances from four vocal tutors For information and to book tickets, application form. from the University of Chichester. It Admission Free. No need to book Admission Free, no need to book. please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or depicts seven different aspects of see contact information in event listings...... Tickets for the concert: £10, available at Leonard Bernstein’s often-conflicted life, [email protected] ......
54 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 55 Far Left: Stephen Kovacevich Piano Masterclass. Middle: Merlin score using words of poets, written during No.3, Mendelsson’s Trio No.1 and Dvorak’s who were married but are now divorced. Ensemble Vienna. Left: Kiss Me Kate. World War 1. Jenkin’s. The Armed Man Trio in f minor 0p. 65. When the show’s secondary leading man, charts the descent into war ending in the a compulsive gambler, signs the lead’s Benedictus and Better is Peace. Tickets: £15 at the door or pre-book on name to an IOU, two thugs show up 01243 378900. No charge for University backstage to collect and turn the theatre Tickets: £15 / £10 concessions / £5 side of Chichester Music students and staff. into comic mayhem with most of the aisle. Book online at www.chi.ac.uk/events ...... principals at each other’s throats! Porter’s or phone the Ticket Source Box Office score, coming late in his career, is one of 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard Thurs 15th Nov, 7.00pm-9.00pm his best. It’s a hit parade of songs with the postage rate of £1.50 will apply for Hum Drum Lum show business anthem, ‘Op’nin, Another telephone bookings. Show, and the sizzling ‘Too Darn Hot,’ with November The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop live band in the pit. Exceptional staging, Also at the Cathedral… Otter Campus, University of Chichester exceptional fun and one of the musical theatre stage’s enduring triumphs! Following in the vein of artistic Mon 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th Nov, has won unsurpassed admiration for his formations and music/drama projects all at INSPIRE Art Installation collaborations such as Jack Kerouac and 1.00pm-2.00pm interpretation of Beethoven, Brahms, the highest level. They have appeared at Take and Peacemaking. Open daily Staged by the Level 5 Musical Theatre Steve Allen, the renowned oeuvre of Gil Mozart and Schubert. A Grammy great music festivals such as Salzburg, positive action for peace! From the 5-15 Triple Threat students whose previous Monday Lunchtime Concert Scott Heron, as well as the work of nominated artist, Kovacevich has a long list Lucerne and Bonn, and at prestigious venues November an art installation in the shows have sold out and attract critical (Open to students only) spoken word group The Last Poets, of recordings for Philips and EMI. Most around Europe and in the US. North Transept of Chichester Cathedral, acclaim. Directed by Karen Howard students and professors from the Pieces of Eight, Music Block, recently he has released, to unanimous linked to the nationwide INSPIRE event, (Carousel, Annie Get Your Gun) with University of Chichester invite you to join Bishop Otter Campus critical praise, Beethoven’s Diabelli Tickets: £17 / free for under 25’s. Season will invite us to explore and respond to Choreography by Drew Varley (Annie them in an evening of stylistic Variations for Onyx Classics, forty years tickets available from Chichester Festival the themes of Remembrance with free Get Your Gun, Moonlight Club) and coalescence. Musicians and poets shall be In response to students’ helpful feedback, after his first recording of the work. The Theatre. Book online at www.cft.org.uk, tel: entry. www.oasisinspire.org Music Direction by Phil Wood taking to the stage, bringing you the we're running some friendly, informal University of Chichester is delighted to 01243 781312 or at the door. Free tickets ...... (Wonderful World of Dissocia, Grease) crispest and most thought provoking Monday Lunchtime Concerts which you, or have been given the opportunity to host a must be booked in advance to ensure a place. fusions to be heard in the bleak your small ensemble can sign up to! Really masterclass with Kovacevich, during which ...... Sun 11th Nov, 3.30pm Part of the Cole Porter Season featuring November. handy in preparation for your performance he will work with students to enhance A Service of Remembrance and KISS ME KATE & ANYTHING GOES. assessments, or just to run something their musical and expressive skills in Sat 10th Nov, 7.30pm Reconciliation Buy both at the same time and get the through to a hugely appreciative, small Admission free, no need to book. performance. Armistice Centenary second half price! audience. An accompanist will also be Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, Donations in aid of The Sussex Snowdrop Commemoration and West Sussex PO19 1PX Trust www.thesussexsnowdroptrust.com there on the day if you need! Admission free, no need to book. Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter Reconciliation Concert ...... Book by Bella & Samuel Spewack The sign-up sheets will be displayed on the Chichester Cathedral, West Street, A special service commemorate the 100th anniversary of the World War I Armistice, Thurs 15th – Sat 17th Nov, wall outside White Cap Bay from the 1st Thurs 8th Nov, 7.30pm Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1PX By arrangement with MusicScope and October and we'd love to see you there. and the return to peace from wartime. 7.30pm; Sat 17th Nov, 2.30pm Merlin Ensemble Vienna Stage Musicals Limited of New York (If you’re taking one of the Ensembles Proceeds to the Cathedral's chosen Kiss Me Kate modules, please note that your attendance The Assembly Room, North Street, Military Charity All are welcome – free to attend.. Tickets: £14 / £12 concession / £8 Regis Centre, Belmont Street, at these concerts is ‘stampable’!) Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1LQ ...... students. To book call 01243 861010 or Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 1BL Sponsored by Chichester Chamber Concerts Portsmouth High School for Girls visit www.alexandratheatre.co.uk. Admission Free. No need to book. Oakwood School Weds 14th Nov, 7.30pm ...... Cole Porter’s 1949 Tony Award-winning ...... Programme: University of Portsmouth Choir Trio Martinu KISS ME KATE was one of Broadway’s Brahms: Violin Sonata in A Op.100 University of Chichester Symphonic The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop truly witty musicals. A double-dose battle Tues 6th Nov, 5.30pm R Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, Trio Choir and Chamber Choir Otter Campus, University of Chichester of the sexes show-within-a-show comedy, Liszt: La Lugubre Gondol, violin and piano Stephen Kovacevich Sponsored by the Funtington Music Group as wise and tart as ever. Sam and Bella Liszt: Mephisto Waltz, violin and piano Laura Rossi: Voices of Remembrance Piano Masterclass Spewack’s script incorporates Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat Op.40 Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man Find out more The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Two works by contemporary composers A concert by the world famous and highly Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’ as a celebrated Trio Martinu from Prague. musical version of ‘Shrew’ is going through For information and to book tickets, Otter Campus, University of Chichester The Merlin Ensemble Vienna was formed in responding to the horrors of war. Laura Peter Jirikovsky (piano), Pavel Safarik the agonies of an out-of-town tryout in 1991 by principal members of the Chamber Rossi through her research for the film score please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or (violin) and Jaroslev Matejka (cello). Baltimore, rehearsals are complicated by Stephen Kovacevich is one of the most Orchestra of Europe, with the aim of to The Battle of the Somme and from her see contact information in event listings. The programme includes Martinu’s Trio an ongoing feud between the two stars, revered musicians of his generation. He performing chamber music works in various uncle’s diaries has produced an emotive
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Sat 17th Nov, 7.30pm Tickets: £5 / £3 concessions. University of in one musical theatre’s most enduring Tickets: £10 / £5 concessions. University University of Chichester Chichester students and staff are free. comedies! of Chichester students and staff are free. Brass Band and Wind Band Please present your student or staff card at Please present your student or staff card the door. Book online at Staged by the Level 5 Musical Theatre at the door. Book online at St Paul’s Church, Churchside, www.chi.ac.uk/events or phone the Ticket Triple Threat programme whose previous www.chi.ac.uk/events or phone the Ticket Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 6FT Source Box Office 0333 666 3366. Please shows have sold out and attract critical Source Box Office 0333 666 3366. Please note a standard postage rate of £1.50 will acclaim. Directed by Ed Burnside note a standard postage rate of £1.50 will The award winning Brass Band and apply for telephone bookings. (Cabaret, Matilda) with Choreography by apply for telephone bookings. conductor Emma Button team up with ...... Damien Delaney (On The Town, ...... the University Wind Band, conducted by Cinderella) and Musical Direction by Julian student Charlie Harrington, for a variety Tues 20th Nov, 6.30pm Kelly (White Christmas, Cinderella). Tues 27th Nov, 6.30pm-8.00pm concert of music from classical A Concert of English Song Piano Group Concert arrangements to film music. Part of the Cole Porter Season featuring The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop ANYTHING GOES & KISS ME KATE. The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Tickets: £10 / £5 concessions. University Otter Campus, University of Chichester Buy both at the same time and get the Otter Campus, University of Chichester of Chichester students and staff are free. second half price! Please present your student or staff card BMus Vocal Performance Students will If you enjoy piano music this is definitely at the door. Book online at sing a selection of English songs from the Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER for you: a group of the university's www.chi.ac.uk/events or phone the Ticket Renaissance to the present day. Book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, enthusiastic piano students will share the Source Box Office 0333 666 3366. Please Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse concert, bringing a variety of tastes and note a standard postage rate of £1.50 will Admission free, no need to book. repertoire – and perhaps some duets (on apply for telephone bookings...... By arrangement with MUSICSCOPE & one piano) or duos (on two)...... Stage Musicals Limited of New York Thurs 22nd – Sat 24th Nov, Admission free, no need to book Mon 19th Nov, 6.30pm 7.30pm; Sat 24th Nov. 2.30pm Tickets: £14 / £12 concession / £8 ...... Music on Mondays: Laura Anything Goes students. To book call 01243 861010 or Snowden, classical guitar visit www.alexandratheatre.co.uk. Thurs 29th Nov, 7.30pm Regis Centre, Belmont Street, ...... Crotchets and Quavers with The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 1BL Company Presents: A Crochets Otter Campus, University of Chichester Sat 24th Nov, 7.30pm and Quavers Quality Christmas Set sail with Cole Porter’s wonderful, 1934 The guitarist and composer Laura Tony Award-winning musical comedy Les Elements: Strange The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Snowden returns as a soloist in an enticing ANYTHING GOES. Staged in the midst of and extreme music from Otter Campus, University of Chichester programme reflecting the traditions of the the depression this tap-happy, zany classic the Baroque instrument as well as its place in the finds a brassy nightclub singer, a starry-eyed St John’s Chapel, St John’s Street, Join Daisy Shepherd, Evie Hamilton- contemporary sphere. Music from the 19c stowaway and Public Enemy No.13 Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1UR Mason, Emily Waters, Harry Heaven, and by Sor and Regondi will be heard alongside booked on a transatlantic luxury liner Ciaran O’Donovan, aka ‘Crotchets and early 20c works by Barrios and Villa-Lobos, bound for romance and hilarity. When the G F Telemann: Alster Overture Quavers’ for an evening of Christmas Top: Music on Mondays: while music of today will be present in the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette J F Rebel: Les Elements classics, alongside some lesser known Laura Snowden, classical guitar. Above: Anything Goes. form of Sonata No.2 by the Finnish pianist and convention get tossed out of the J S Bach: Concerto for Violin, Oboe and festive pieces. and composer Olli Mustonen and works portholes. Topping off the fun is Cole Orchestra by Snowden. Both composers are also Porter’s delightful, delicious, ‘De-Lovely’ H Purcell: Abdelazar Suite Admission free, no need to book. outstanding performers and this Donations in aid of Stonepillow, first-class score that includes some of Find out more programme with following discussion will musical theatre’s greatest hits, including www.stonepillow.org.uk The University of Chichester Baroque For information and to book tickets, provide fascinating insights into how far the I Get A Kick Out Of You, You’re The Top, Blow ...... Orchestra explore the most bizarre, please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or guitar and its repertoire can extend Gabriel Blow and of course, Anything Goes, experimental and extreme offerings from see contact information in event listings. beyond its origins. performed by a live band in the pit. Even the period. more exceptional fun, staging and laughter
58 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 59 December
Mon 3rd Dec, 6.30pm Thurs 6th Dec, 7.30pm ...... Piano Extravaganza Christmas Carol Service (Bognor Regis) Mon 10th Dec, 7.30pm The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop The Children’s Trust Otter Campus, University of Chichester St.Wilfrid’s Church, Ellasdale Road, Charity Christmas Concert Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21, 2SG Piano Tutors and Student Pianists join Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, forces in this concert to present an A service of traditional lessons and carols London, SW1X 9DQ eclectic programme of music for one and sung by the University Chamber Choir. two pianos The University of Chichester Chamber All are welcome and entry is free, Orchestra have been invited once again Tickets: £5 / £3 concessions. University of although donations will be welcomed on to perform in this gala concert with Magnard Wind Ensemble. Chichester students and staff are free. the night. guests Alastair McGowan, Joely Please present your student or staff card ...... Richardson and Angela Rippon in this at the door. Book online at prestigious event in aid of The Children’s www.chi.ac.uk/events or phone the Ticket Thurs 6th Dec, 7.30pm Trust Wed 12th Dec, 7.30pm Tickets: £15 at the door or pre-book on together to bring Christmas to Hayling Source Box Office 0333 666 3366. Please Magnard Wind Ensemble Christmas Carol Service 01243 378900. No charge for University Island. The concert features all the usual note a standard postage rate of £1.50 will Tickets from £30 . Available from (Chichester) of Chichester Music students and staff. Christmas favourites plus the opportunity apply for telephone bookings. The Assembly Room, North Street, Cadogan Hall Box Office 020 7730 4500 ...... for some audience participation. Chichester Cathedral, West Street, ...... Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1LQ www.cadoganhall.com. Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1PX Sponsored by Chichester Chamber Concerts ...... Thurs 13th Dec, 7.00pm-9.00pm Tickets: £10 / £1 for under 19’s. Tickets Thurs 6th Dec, 12.30pm-1.30pm Student Jazz Concert available from mid-October online at: Programme: A service of traditional lessons and carols www.havantorchestras.org.uk or Lunchtime Concert Series Tues 11th Dec, 7.30pm Ligeti: Sechs Bagatellen sung by the University Chamber Choir. The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Postgraduate Vocal Performers www.ticketsource.co.uk. Tickets available Bach (arr. Shiner): Prelude and Fugue in C Otter Campus, University of Chichester St John’s Chapel, St John’s Street, present 'An Enchanted from mid-November at: Hayling Island sharp minot All are welcome and entry is free, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1UR Evening of Song' Community Centre , tel: 02392 467545 Woolrich: Book of Studies Set 1 although donations will be welcomed on This concert will feature students who and Hayling Island Bookshop, 34 Come when you can, go when you must. Haydn: Divertimento in B flat major The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop the night. regularly attend the jazz nights and Mengham Road, Hayling Island, A series of free lunchtime concerts, Nielsen: Wind Quintet Op.43 Otter Campus, University of Chichester ...... workshops. There will be a wide range of tel: 02392 466620. donations in aid of the Friends of Patterson: Westerley Winds different styles so come along for a St John’s Chapel. The University of Chichester's all new Weds 12th Dec, 7.30pm diverse and enjoyable musical experience! For ticket enquiries and tickets by post Formed in 2012 the Magnard Ensemble Postgraduate Vocal Performance Platform Funtington Music Group email: [email protected] For further information please see have built a reputation for delivering both proudly presents a Gala show of their Christmas Special Admission free, no need to book. Tel: 01489 877497 Text: 07855 972057 high quality concert performances and favourite music. Donations in aid of The Sussex Snowdrop the notice boards in St John’s Chapel. The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop ...... dynamic educational projects. The Trust, www.thesussexshowdroptrust.com Alternatively please go to Otter Campus, University of Chichester ensemble made their international debut With an eclectic mix of music from ...... www.chi.ac.uk/events. Sponsored by the Funtington Music Group at the Culture & Convention Centre Broadway and London's West End, Fri 14th Dec, 7.30pm Lucerne, Switzerland in January 2017. through to classical song, jazz standards Admission Free, no need to book. FMG are delighted to welcome back two Concert Orchestra present Currently, the Ensemble are selected and opera, there is bound to be ...... young graduates of the University of “It’s beginning to look a lot artists for the Cavatina Chamber Music something for everyone. Chichester for their special Christmas like Christmas” Trust, the Tillett Trust Young Artist Concert. Now established professionals Hayling Island Community Centre, Platform and the Tunnell Trust. Come along and support the launch in their own right, Erin Alexander and Station Road, Hayling Island, of the new postgraduate singers pathway Tina Gelnere accompanied by Hampshire, PO11 0HB Find out more Tickets: £17 / free for under 25’s / season in this wonderful musical Gala, with Christopher Coote, (piano) will perform For information and to book tickets, tickets available from Chichester Festival maybe a surprise guest or two to spice popular solos and duets by well known For the second year the University please visit or Theatre. Book online at www.cft.org.uk, up the evening! www.chi.ac.uk/events composers including Donizetti, Handel, concert Orchestra and members of the tel: 01243 781312 or at the door. Free see contact information in event listings. Mozart and Puccini. Havant Symphony Orchestra join tickets must be booked in advance to Admission free, no need to book. ensure a place......
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Weds 16th Jan, 7.30pm Four exceptional musicians come THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original Ensemble Reza together to perform Messiaen’s great story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. work, Quartet for the End of Time. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Matthew Hunt, solo clarinettist with the of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love Otter Campus, University of Chichester. Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, with a sweet, smart young man from a Sponsored by the Funtington Music Group and a member of Sheffield- based respectable family – a man her parents have Ensemble 360. Alina Ibragimova, a soloist never met. And if that weren’t upsetting A concert by the Ensemble Reza string with world-wide acclaim, Louise Hopkins enough, Wednesday confides in her father sextet. Established in 2013, Ensemble Reza is a renowned soloist and chamber and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, was formed so that players could enjoy musician and Alasdair Beatson is much in Gomez Addams must do something he’s performing chamber music closer to demand as partner to some of the never done before – keep a secret from his home, taking first class music to audiences greatest solo instrumentalists of today, beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will in Sussex and across the South East. The at the same time pursuing a successful change for the whole family on the fateful combination of virtuoso musicians who solo career. night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s are close friends performing together, ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents. results in breathtaking performances. This Tickets: £17 / free for under 25’s / season evenings programme includes Dvorak’s tickets available from Chichester Festival For further updates please follow us on wonderful String Sextet Op.48. Theatre. Book online at www.cft.org.uk, twitter: @UOCaddams and Snapchat: tel: 01243 781312 or at the door. Free MTPCompany Tickets: £15 at the door or pre-book on tickets must be booked in advance to 01243 378900. No charge for University ensure a place. Book by MARSHALL BRICKMAN and of Chichester Music students and staff...... RICK ELICE. Music and Lyrics by ...... ANDREW LIPPA. Based on Characters Thurs 24th – Sat 26th Jan, 7.30pm; Created by Charles Addams. Thurs 24th Jan, 7.30pm Sat 26th Jan, 2.30pm Matthew Hunt and Friends The Addams Family The Addams Family is presented through special arrangement with and all authorised The Assembly Room, North Street, Regis Centre, Belmont Street, Bognor performance materials are supplied by Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1LQ Regis, West Sussex, PO21 1BL Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW), 122- Sponsored by Chichester Chamber Concerts 124 Regent Street, 3rd floor, London W1B The Musical Theatre Performance 5SA. www.theatricalrights.co.uk Matthew Hunt; clarinet Company is very proud to present this Alina Ibragimova; violin devilishly dark and daring musical comedy. Tickets: £14 / £12 concessions /£8 Louise Hopkins; cello Brought to you by the same team that NUS/U16’s. To book call 01243 861010 Alasdair Beatson; piano produced The Wedding Singer and Little or visit www.alexandratheatre.co.uk Women in their 2017/18 season...... Debussy: Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano Ravel: Piano Trio Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Find out more For information and to book tickets, please visit www.chi.ac.uk/events or see contact information in event listings. Matthew Hunt and Friends.
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64 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 65 Dear L z Our Agony Aunt helps I’m still very friendly with my college Dear Liz friends from 40 years ago, we’ve gone The Dalek should work! out students in need through the passage of time together, Toni’s Tasty Treats marriage, babies, middle age – the whole Dear Student shebang. Believe me there is nothing It does actually – we sometimes get it to Dear Liz more rewarding than chatting to friends speak to new applicants when they come I’m really going to miss Uni and everyone who have known you for most of your to audition! Not many people know this Coconut Macaroons here when I leave. Is there anything I can adult life so always make that extra bit of but Ben actually auditioned for the part do to make leaving any easier? effort to pick up the phone or send a of the new Dr Who. We thought he was message – you’ll be so pleased you did. a definite given his naturally exuberant These are “proper old school”. When I 400g Coconut – take a coconut, hit it with Grease a baking tray or cymbal and pre- Dear Student ...... style of dress but sadly he lost out to was younger I had no idea what they a machete to split it open and scrape out heat the oven (that means turn it on to were other than the Famous Five liked the insides for some lovely fresh coconut. warm up) to 180°C. Most students over the years have all said Jodie Whittaker. Perhaps he can give her eating them. So recently on the way to an Alternatively you can just buy some from how much they dread leaving Uni which, Dear Liz some tips?! orchestra rehearsal, after a long debate a supermarket, but that way you don’t Put all of the ingredients into a bowl and of course, makes us all feel really pleased Is it normal to feel really stressed out and ...... with our Orchestral Manager about the have the shells for next time you want to give it a good stir with a spoon or viola bow that you’ve had such a fab time with us. tired towards the end of the semester? I rise of the macaron and the differences fake your horse riding assessment. Go for until everything is combined. Then, using a We do though have a responsibility to always seem to feel really drained. Dear Liz between those and macaroons (yes I shredded (not by a guitar) as it is better spoon or tuba mouthpiece (I use an ice- make sure that you are prepared for the I was really interested in going to the know, but it is definitely a more than desiccated. Unhelpfully it often cream scoop, but for most of you that’s outside world of work. We always say to Dear Student Music Department student ball this year interesting subject than mouthpieces….), I comes in packs of 450g but you can be probably a large spoon anyway) put our first years that they should visit the All students mention this – control your but didn’t have a partner so felt I couldn’t decided to try making some and see. approximate, this recipe really doesn’t spoonfuls onto the tray. Put them in the Careers Service at the Uni who are all stress by preparing and planning well go? Is there another one this year? need to be exact, just pretend you’re at oven to bake for about 12-15 minutes, until really helpful at making sure that the beforehand, keep a diary and schedule They are so ridiculously easy to make and jazz night and improvise. they start to go a bit golden brown on top. transition to the big world outside is as of all the work you need to do, including Dear Student they are also a firm favourite of our easy as possible for you. The sooner you practice and don’t forget Bach Flower You’ll be really pleased to know there is! I orchestral manager so if you’re bored of 1 tin of condensed milk – if you don’t When they are done, take them out to do this the better, don’t leave it until your Remedies are very helpful at times like think that Ben is planning a lovely big Baroque and want a change from the know what it is you don’t need to but note cool. Then, if you are feeling fancy you can Chamber Orchestra these might help pay it is not the same as evaporated milk. You’ll dip them in some melted chocolate and last year. these! (Nothing to do with Johann extravaganza to rival the glitz and glamour your way to becoming a Sleepy Lagooner. find it in the aisle with the custards etc. drizzle some over the top. If you are the Sebastian Bach by the way!!) It’s just a of the Blackpool Ballroom next year in the type of person to make a mess (ie those Once you have left, be that person who small pot of some essential essences Assembly rooms, Chichester – not exactly These only need 3 ingredients and as you 85g plain flour – this is not very much of you that use the band rooms) then you co-ordinates meet-ups with your Uni to calm the nerves readily available Strictly but more middle class rural Britain should be able to count to three after all flour. You can definitely steal it from a might want to skip this part. Remember, if friends, don’t let friends drift away into from Boots. meets Italian Gigolo Bruno Tonioli! Get the waltzing you’ve done this year there housemate and they won’t notice. Just be you are melting the chocolate on the hob oblivion. It’s so important and life ...... out your glad rags and practice those are no excuses. I’m afraid I can’t remember sure not to spill it, trails of white powder then it goes in a (heatproof NOT plastic) enhancing to keep in touch. shimmies and syncopations and look out where the recipe came from to credit are suspicious in more ways than one. bowl over a saucepan of hot water. for the date in the Summer Showcase. them, somewhere online, just Google it ...... (other search providers are available). For some extra flavour, if you do have an organised housemate with some vanilla essence then a couple of drops of this wouldn’t go amiss.
66 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 67 How to find us Get your copy AUTUMN 2018
University address Make sure you receive your free copy The Chapel of the Ascension is located at: Parking of the next issue of ShowCase. Join our University of Chichester Bishop Otter Campus, College Lane Blue badge mailing list at www.chi.ac.uk/events Chichester, West Sussex parking PO19 6PE THE CHAPEL OF THE ASCENSION THE ZEEBAR Travelling by car? Please follow signs for the University of Chichester from the A286.
Car parking Car parking at the University is free from 5.00pm onwards on a first come, first Changing the served basis. There are a number of What’s Entrance On World Listings for spaces allocated for blue badge holders. September to How a gap year in January 2018 Africa lead to tea at Buckingham Palace Arriving by train? There are regular services from and to London Victoria and along the South Coast. A taxi rank is located next to the Booking information station. Alternatively the University Campus is approximately 20-30 BISHOP OTTER minutes’ walk. CAMPUS How to check availability and Refunds Concessions book tickets Online bookings via Ticket Source have a For all concerts organised by the Are you on foot? Where performances are listed with booking fee included in the total cost of University concessions are for over 60's We are approximately15-20 minutes walk contact details, please follow the the ticket which will be lost in the event and 16 years and under. from the centre of Chichester. instructions in the main body of the of a refund. listings. For all other performances, go to Enquiries For events taking place at our Bognor www.chi.ac.uk/events, select the Concert programmes The University of Chichester Music Regis Campus (PO21 1HR), please performance that you would like to Large-print text concert programmes Office is open Monday to Friday visit our website: www.chi.ac.uk/findus attend, and follow the link to book online. are available upon request. Please note from 9.00am to 4.00pm. Please call Alternatively, call the Ticket Source Box we will require two working days’ 01243 816185 or 816205. Office on 0333 666 3366 (charged at a notice for this. local rate). A postage rate of £1.50 applies for telephone bookings. Bus and train Box Office hours are: Monday to Friday stations 9.00am - 7.00pm (excluding bank holidays) and Saturday 9.00am - 5.00pm.
68 | University of Chichester SHOW CASE | 69 Diary of events
Date Time Performance Venue Date Time Performance Venue
September Mon 19th 1.00pm Monday Lunchtime Concerts (UOC student audience only) Pieces of Eight Weds 12th 7.30pm The Harp Family with Frances Kelly The Chapel of the Ascension Mon 19th 6.30pm Music on Mondays, Laura Snowden, Classical Guitar The Chapel of the Ascension Sun 16th 6.15pm Graduation Evensong The Chapel of the Ascension Tues 20th 6.30pm A Concert of English Song The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 27th 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel Thurs 22nd 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel Thurs 27th 7.30pm Liz Agguss: Slap and Tickle The Showroom Thurs 22nd-24th 7.30pm Anything Goes (2.30pm matinee on 24th) Regis Centre Thurs 22nd 7.30pm Casson & Friends, CHOREOCRACY ShowRoom October Sat 24th 7.30pm Les Elements: Strange and extreme music from the Baroque St John's Chapel Thurs 4th 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel Mon 26th 1.00pm Monday Lunchtime Concerts (UOC student audience only) Pieces of Eight Thurs 4th 7.30pm Castalian Quartet The Assembly Room Tues 27th 6.30pm Piano Group Concert The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 4th 7.30pm Ridiculusmus, Give Me Your Love ShowRoom Thurs 29th 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel Weds 10th 7.30pm The Art of the Accompanist, with Paul Turner (piano) and Nigel Cliffe (baritone) The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 29th 7.30pm A Crochets and Quavers Quality Christmas The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 11th 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel Thurs 11th 7.30pm Crotchets and Quavers with Company Presents: An Evening of English Song The Chapel of the Ascension December Thurs 11th 7.30pm Rachel Mars, Our Carnal Hearts ShowRoom Mon 3rd 6.30pm Piano Extravaganza The Chapel of the Ascension Tues 16th 7.00pm Pioneers of Percussion with Joby Burgess The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 6th 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel Thurs 18th 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel Thurs 6th 7.30pm Christmas Carol Service (Bognor Regis) St.Wilfrid’s Church Thurs 18th 7.00pm Dave Morgan and the Integer Trio The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 6th 7.30pm Magnard Wind Ensemble The Assembly Room Thurs 18th 7.30pm Christopher Brett Bailey, Suicide Notes ShowRoom Mon 10th 7.30pm The Children's Trust Charity Christmas Concert Cadogan Hall Sat 20th 7.30pm Pastoral Symphony St John's Chapel Tues 11th 7.30pm Postgraduate Vocal Performers present, 'An Enchanted Evening of Song' The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 25th 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel Thurs 12th 7.30pm Christmas Carol Service (Chichester) Chichester Cathedral Sat 27th 4.30 & 7.30pm Pornography Assembly Theatre Weds 12th 7.30pm Funtington Music Group Christmas Special The Chapel of the Ascension Sat 27th 7.30pm The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra’s Tribute to Jack Hylton with Pete Faint. The Assembly Room Thurs 13th 7.00pm Student Jazz Concert The Chapel of the Ascension Sun 28th 7.30pm Sing God a Simple Song The Chapel of the Ascension Fri 14th 7.30pm Concert Orchestra present “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” Hayling Island Community Centre Mon 29th 1.00pm Monday Lunchtime Concerts (UOC student audience only) Pieces of Eight January November Weds 16th 7.30pm Ensemble Reza The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 1st 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel Thurs 24th 7.30pm Matthew Hunt and Friends The Assembly Room Fri 2nd 5.30pm Louise Walsh Vocal Masterclass The Chapel of the Ascension Thurs 24th-26th 7.30pm The Addams Family (2.30pm matinee on 26th) Regis Centre Sat 3rd 7.30pm Chichester Singing Day, Bach’s Magnificat in D Major (10am rehearsal for singers) The Chapel of the Ascension Mon 5th 1.00pm Monday Lunchtime Concerts (UOC student audience only) Pieces of Eight Venue addresses th Tues 6 5.30pm Stephen Kovacevich Piano Masterclass The Chapel of the Ascension • Assembly Theatre, Bognor Regis Campus, University of Chichester, PO21 1HR Thurs 8th 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel • Chichester Cathedral, West Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1PX Thurs 8th 7.30pm Merlin Ensemble Vienna The Assembly Room • Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ Sat 10th 7.30pm Armistice Centenary Commemoration and Reconciliation Concert Chichester Cathedral • Hayling Island Community Centre, Station Road, Hayling Island, Hampshire, PO11 0HB • Pieces of Eight, Music Block, Bishop Otter Campus, PO19 6PE Sun 11th 3.30pm A Service of Remembrance and Reconciliation Chichester Cathedral • Regis Centre, Belmont Street, Bognor Regis, PO21 1BL Mon 12th 1.00pm Monday Lunchtime Concerts (UOC student audience only) Pieces of Eight • St John's Chapel, St John's Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1UR th Weds 14 7.30pm Trio Martinu The Chapel of the Ascension • St Paul’s Church, Churchside, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 6FT Thurs 15th 12.30pm Lunchtime Concert Series St John's Chapel • St.Wilfrid’s Church, Ellasdale Road, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21, 2SG Thurs 15th 7.00pm Hum Drum Lum The Chapel of the Ascension • The Assembly Room, North Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1LQ Thurs 15th- 17th 7.30pm Kiss Me Kate (2.30pm matinee on 17th) Regis Centre • The Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester, PO19 6PE • The ShowRoom, Bishop Otter Campus, College Lane, University of Chichester, PO19 6PE Sat 17th 7.30pm University of Chichester Brass Band and Wind Band St Paul’s Church
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