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P09P36 P32 P06 P46 Sat 14 - Sun 15 Jan Sat 14 Jan 7.30pm RNCM STRINGS RNCM Concert Hall FESTIVAL RNCM STRING The RNCM Strings Festival is a major event in the College’s calendar. ENSEMBLES AND We’ve programmed 48 hours of CHAMBER CHOIR incredible events – from performances WITH HENNING KRAGGERUD to masterclasses to workshops – to appeal to string players and music Louis Andriessen Remembering That lovers alike. Sarabande J S Bach (arr Andriessen) Prelude in We explore Baroque music and its B minor BWV 869 influence as we move through the works Gregorio Allegri Miserere of Vivaldi and Bach, Vaughan Williams Louis Andriessen …miserere… and Tchaikovsky and onwards to Tippett Max Reger Lyric Andante and Louis Andriessen, who we’re Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons delighted to confirm will be visiting the RNCM during the Festival. Henning Kraggerud director, Henk Guittart, Stuart Overington This year’s highlights include conductors brilliant examples of artistic collaboration as our students work Tickets £17 FS with professional musicians. On Saturday evening, Henning Kraggerud Sun 15 Jan will direct a performance of Vivaldi’s 7pm The Four Seasons. On Sunday, the RNCM Concert Hall Festival’s closing Gala ends with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s EVENING GALA Serenade, performed by a large string . And just before the Gala, CONCERT you’ll also be able to witness the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a spectacular sight of 40 cellists Theme by Thomas Tallis performing Tallis’ Spem in alium in Danse sacrée et danse a new . profane Variations For full details, please see Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on a Rococo Theme Op 33 www.rncm.ac.uk/stringsfestival Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C major Op 48 Henk Guittart, Chris Hoyle conductors Elinor Nicholson harp István Várdai RNCM String Ensembles Tickets £17 FS

Full Weekend Ticket £50 Saturday/Sunday Day Tickets £30 Student/Under 18s £15 per day

4 5 Tue 17 Jan 8pm RNCM Theatre Thu 12 Jan Mon 16 Jan Tue 17 Jan WARREN MILLER 1.15pm 1.15pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall SKI FILM TOUR Winter is coming! Ignite your RNCM MONDAY THE GREATER excitement for this season’s Winter sports with the legendary annual SYMPHONY RECITAL Warren Miller ski film tour. CHORUS SERIES STRINGS In its 67th year, this year’s Felix Mendelssohn Help J S Bach (arr Busoni) SHOWCASE Here,There and Everywhere Tour will Lord! Wilt thou quite Chaconne in D minor BWV take you on a breathtaking cinematic The GM Youth String destroy us? from Elijah 1004 journey across the globe. Join the Orchestra W A Mozart Dies Irae from Daniel Portal world’s best skiers and snowboarders Requiem Stephen Threlfall as they chase powder and first Franz Schubert (arr George Frideric Handel conductor descents in Alaska, tour Greenland Holman) An die Musik Mourn Israel from Saul New Century Strings by dog sled and head out on a Swiss Franz Schubert Lachen und Anton Bruckner Locus Iste (Bolton Music Service) adventure aboard the Glacier Express. Weinen; Der Hirt auf dem Felix Mendelssohn Grant Us Through premier cinematography, Felsen Stuart Hazelton conductor Thy Peace experience the steep, the deep and (Oldham Agnus Dei and Helen Lacey soprano Lyceum Strings the unthinkable. Music Service) Dona Nobis Pacem from Mass Luke Holman Tickets £12 in C major ‘Paukenmesse’ Rachel Fright piano Jacqueline Burrows Promoted by Snowline Media Ltd conductor Stuart Overington Free admission, no ticket conductor required The GMYSO is delighted Free admission, no ticket to present its first solo required concert, and to welcome string from Thu 19 Jan Thu 19 Jan Sat 21 Jan Bolton and Oldham in this 1.15pm 7.30pm 7.30pm feast of orchestral string RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Theatre Mon 16 Jan repertoire. Doors 7pm RNCM WIND AUREA TOMMY RNCM Concert Hall Tickets £5 No concessions ORCHESTRA QUARTET EMMANUEL Promoted by The Greater Manchester Music Hub Heitor Villa-Lobos RNCM INTERNATIONAL IT’S NEVER TOO LATE SUPPORT: CHARLIE CUNNINGHAM Fantasia in Three ARTIST DIPLOMA TOUR Kenny Anderson, known primarily by Movements RECITAL + SPECIAL GUEST Joaquín Rodrigo Per la flor his stage name King Creosote, is Joseph Haydn String CLIVE CARROLL an independent singer-songwriter del lliri blau Quartet in C major Op 76 Two-time Grammy nominated from Fife, Scotland. In 2011, his Clark Rundell, Mark Heron, No 3 ‘Emperor’ guitarist Tommy Emmanuel, collaborative with , Sam Hairsine, Alex Webb Two whose five decade career Diamond Mine, was nominated for the conductors Pieces has garnered hundreds and he is also a member Free admission, no ticket Franz Schubert String of thousands of fans of the Scottish/Canadian band The Burns required Quartet in A minor worldwide, visits the RNCM Unit. D 804 ‘Rosamunde’ to showcase his latest To date, Anderson has recorded over This is the first of four album, It’s Never Too forty with his latest, Astronaut RNCM International Artist Late. Meets Appleman, released in September Diploma recitals taking Tickets £25 advance 2016. ’s verdict? ‘You place this season. See No concessions can almost smell the Highlands in the pages 11, 27 and 29 for Promoted by The Gig Cartel harps, and bagpipes.The songs details of the other swing from cosmic and ethereal to events in this series. mischievously earthy…’ The Aurea Quartet is also Tickets £18.50 performing at our Chamber No concessions Music Festival in Mar. See Promoted by John Grundy p30-31 for details. Tickets £10 FS 6 7 Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes brought Sun 22 Jan to life by live orchestra, narrator and 2pm some very special guests… Dressing up RNCM Concert Hall as your favourite fairytale character RNCM YOUNG is encouraged! Our Young Explorers concerts are a Mon 23 Jan Tue 24 Jan Wed 25, Fri 27 Jan EXPLORERS CONCERT brilliant way to introduce children to A TWIST IN THE TAIL 1.15pm 7.30pm Wed 01, Mon 06 live classical music. These events are Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall Paul Patterson Three Little Pigs family-friendly ‘relaxed’ performances, Feb Paul Patterson Little Red Riding Hood specially designed to keep everyone MONDAY BRAND NEW 6pm Text adapted from Roald Dahl’s Revolting engaged and amused. RECITAL SERIES ORCHESTRA RNCM Theatre Rhymes by Donald Sturrock For full details, please see Gareth Farr Kembang Suling Diogo Costa, Edmon Levon, RNCM www.rncm.ac.uk/youngexplorers Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra (Three Musical Snapshots Alex Robinson conductors SCENES Tom Newall conductor Suitable for ages 4 and above of Asia) Our Brand New Orchestra RNCM singers further their For the latest event in our RNCM Young Tickets £10, under-16s £5 Cressida McKay Frith flute concerts give a on-stage experience in Explorers Concert Series, we’ll be Family ticket (4 people) £25 Theodore Fowler marimba fascinating insight into celebrating the fairytale with two of these performances of arr Williams Excerpts of the creative process excerpts drawn from a wide works by Marius Neset and of composing for a variety of . These collaborators symphony orchestra, free concerts are a great conducting and performing Isobel Williams saxophone introduction to the world at the RNCM. This is a of opera as the singers Elizabeth Brightwell- wonderful showcase for percussion dip in and out of different Gibbons our Composition students, Chris Rabbits bass guitar repertoire to demonstrate who introduce their own their versatility. Free admission, no ticket works on the night, and a Free admission, no ticket required chance for the audience required to experiment and to hear brand new works before they are performed Mon 23 Jan anywhere else. In 7.30pm September 2016, our recent RNCM Concert Hall Composition graduate Tom MANCHESTER Harrold had the world première of his piece CHAMBER Raze performed at the Last CONCERTS Night of . So this is a great chance to SOCIETY see how talent is nurtured LAWRENCE POWER within the College. () SIMON CRAWFORD Free admission, no ticket PHILLIPS (piano) required Henri Büsser Appassionato for viola and piano Op 34 Georges Hüe Thème varié Johannes Brahms Sonata in F minor Op 120 No 1 Mark-Anthony Turnage Power Play York Bowen No 2 in F major Op 22 Tickets £25, platform seats £12.50 Promoted by MCCS + 6.30pm Forman Lecture Theatre PRE-CONCERT TALK Free admission to ticket holders 8 9 Wed 25 – Thu 26 Jan IN FOCUS: ANDERS HILLBORG The RNCM and the BBC Philharmonic are Thu 26 Jan 1.15pm delighted to welcome the brilliant Swedish RNCM Concert Hall Anders Hillborg to Manchester. From works which are influenced by his early ENSEMBLES years as a keyboard player in a pop band, to heavyweight influences from Ligeti and FROM Ferneyhough, Hillborg consistently finds new CHETHAM’S soundworlds and new structures which breathe life, adventure and even the absurd into the SCHOOL OF concert hall. MUSIC For full details, please see W A Mozart Trio in E flat www.rncm.ac.uk/hillborg major K 498 ‘Kegelstatt’ Robert Schumann Allegro Wed 25 Jan brillante from Piano 7.30pm Quintet in E flat major RNCM Concert Hall Op 44 Free admission, no ticket RNCM NEW ENSEMBLE required Anders Hillborg Vaporised Tivoli; Scream Sing Whisper Bofan Ma New work Igor Stravinsky Octet for Wind Instruments Thu 26 Jan Elspeth Brooke New work 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Mark Heron, Diogo Costa, Ellie Slorach conductors RAN FENG Free admission, no ticket required (piano) Thu 26 Jan RNCM INTERNATIONAL 2pm ARTIST DIPLOMA BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford RECITAL Domenico Scarlatti Sonata BBC PHILHARMONIC in F minor K 466 Programme to include: Robert Schumann Anders Hillborg lontana in sonno; Eleven Kreisleriana Op 16 Gates; King Tide Sonata in B Clark Rundell conductor minor S 178 Ruby Hughes soprano This is the second of Free admission, by ticket only. four RNCM International Ticket applications will be available between Artist Diploma recitals 09-15 Jan at www..co.uk/tickets taking place this season. See pages 7, 27 and 29 7.30pm for details of the other Peel Hall, University of Salford events in this series. THE RED BRICK SESSIONS Tickets £10 FS Programme to include: Anders Hillborg Brass Quintet; Hautposaune; Close Ups (Närbilder) William Hearne New work for solo clarinet Free admission, by ticket only (through the RNCM Box Office) 10 11 Fri 27 - Sun 29 Jan RNCM BRASS BAND FESTIVAL The RNCM Brass Band Festival is the only place to see all of Britain’s top brass bands in a non-competitive environment. This year, we welcome six of the foremost bands in the land, including current British Open and European champions, who will be joined by world-class soloists plus outstanding student bands from the RNCM and Junior RNCM. We’re also delighted to welcome the James Madison University Brass Band, who hail from Virginia, USA, for a rare UK visit. With trumpeter Rex Richardson and conductor James Gourlay also making the trip from the USA, the main theme of the weekend explores the musical connections between the UK and the United States, including many brass band originals and new . You’ll be able to hear new brass band arrangements of pieces by classical who have links to the US. And for the Festival finale, the Cory Band will join forces with the James Madison musicians to play a Sousa march. This year’s other themes include a retrospective of the work of Martin Ellerby – who celebrates his 60th birthday in 2017 – including a rare performance of his Cabaret Concerto, one of only four piano concertos written for brass band. We also celebrate Howard Snell’s 80th birthday and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band’s 100th anniversary. Each year the RNCM Brass Band Festival presents a number of significant premières and 2017 is no exception as we feature eight world and five UK premières. So we’re very excited about this year’s Transatlantic extravaganza! For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/brassbandfestival

Fri 27 Jan Sat 28 Jan Sun 29 Jan 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall BLACK DYKE FODEN’S BAND THE CORY BAND (arr BAND Hindmarsh) American Bruce Broughton Suite Leonard Bernstein (arr Overture (world première of from Young Sherlock Holmes Snell) Candide Overture new arrangement) (world première) Martin Ellerby Cabaret Andy Scott Trumpet Concerto Edward Gregson Cornet Concerto (world première of new Concerto Hubert Bath Freedom (Brass arrangement) Martin Ellerby Elgar Band Symphony No 1) Martin Ellerby Genesis Variations Gustav Holst (arr Oliver Waespi The Graces of Edward Gregson Four Etudes Hindmarsh) Capriccio Love (world première) (world première of new Robert Bernat Dunlap’s Martin Ellerby Canticle of arrangement) Creek the Sun for percussion and Philip Harper Cantabile (UK Howard Snell Gallery brass band première) Peter Graham The Triumph of James Gourlay, Michael Philip Sparke Raveling, Time Fowles conductors Unraveling Rex Richardson trumpet Nicholas Childs, Edward Philip Harper conductor Gregson conductors Tickets £16 £14 FS Benjamin Powell piano Richard Marshall cornet Tickets £16 £14 FS Tickets £16 £14 FS

Full Weekend Ticket £98 Student/Under 18s Weekend Ticket £49 Saturday Day Ticket £44 Sunday Day Ticket £46 Sponsored by Besson, Yamaha UK and Virginia Commonwealth University

12 13 Mon 30 Jan Tue 31 Jan Wed 01 Feb Thu 02 Feb 1.15pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall MONDAY DIDSBURY YAIR KLESS RNCM RECITAL COFFEE (violin) FRANK CHAMBER SERIES CONCERTS 30TH WIBAUT ORCHESTRA Domenico Scarlatti Sonata ANNIVERSARY (piano) Siegfried in A major K 39 Idyll Johannes Brahms Violin Frédéric Chopin Ballade No CONCERT Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Sonata No 1 in G major 4 in F minor Op 52 CRAIG OGDEN (guitar), Rondo Op 78; No 2 Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Tianyang Han piano NAVARRA STRING in A major Op 100; Violin Concerto No 2 in F major QUARTET, ALEXANDRA Sonata No 3 in D minor Antonín Dvořák (arr Op 102 Schäfer) Slavonic Dances DARIESCU (piano), Op 108 Felix Mendelssohn Symphony Op 46 No 8, Op 72 No 2 and KABANTU Our International Chair No 5 in D major Op 107 No 7 Programme to include: in Violin, Yair Kless, ‘Reformation’ Sat 04 Feb Hugues Roberts flute John Dowland Lachrimae presents a unique Gergely Madaras, Manoj 7.30pm Dunja Papric clarinet Pavane; Fantasia No 7 opportunity to hear Kamps conductors RNCM Theatre Joshua Hall oboe Isaac Albéniz Sevilla Brahms’ three violin Alexander Panfilov piano Daniele L’Abbate horn Gary Ryan Lough Caragh; sonatas in one concert. RNCM BIG BAND Edoardo Casali bassoon Rondo Rodeo Written between 1878 and Alexander Panifilov (winner WITH MARTIN TAYLOR 1886, these three works of the 2014 James Mottram Free admission, no ticket director String Quartet in F minor epitomise the composer’s International Piano Mike Hall required guitar Op 95 ‘Serioso’ ability to reconcile Competition) performs Martin Taylor Gabriel Fauré Préludes heartfelt expression with Shostakovich’s gloriously Our first Big Band show of 2017 features guitar wizard (selection) classical discipline. wistful Second Piano Martin Taylor, who brought the house down last time he Mon 30 Jan Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto. We also welcome played with our Big Band in 2011 with his tribute to Tickets £17 £14 FS 7.30pm Sonata in F major Op 10 back former RNCM Junior Django Reinhardt (but more of that later…) Carole Nash Recital Room No 2 Fellow Gergely Madaras, a Completely self-taught from the age of four, Martin

PIANO DUO As Didsbury Coffee brilliant young conductor invented and developed his own unique way of playing Concerts marks its 30th Thu 02 Feb whose career has gone the guitar (witness this for yourselves on his website 1.15pm from strength to strength PRIZE anniversary, we’re www.martintaylor.com) He is widely considered to be the RNCM Concert Hall since he completed his Tonight’s competition for delighted to join in the world’s foremost exponent of solo jazz and fingerstyle fellowship with us. piano duos is adjudicated celebrations by hosting RNCM playing and his remarkable musical career has spanned by . an event featuring a You can hear more of five decades, including collaborations with the likes of Kodály’s music during our Tickets £7 stellar line-up of SAXOPHONE Jeff Beck, George Harrison and Stéphane Grappelli. guest artists: they ORCHESTRA Festival Besides non-stop touring with Grappelli (occupying the have all performed at (10-12 Mar) See p30-31 Rob Buckland, Andy Scott position once held by his idol, Django Reinhardt) Martin DCC as students and are for details. directors has also found the time to compose music for Japanese now highly successful Tickets £15 FS soap operas and set up an online guitar school to teach The RNCM Saxophone musicians in their own and inspire guitarists from across the globe. In the Orchestra demonstrate + right. Tonight’s eclectic lead up to tonight’s show, our students will have a their skill, energy 6.30pm programme features unique opportunity to work with Martin, to benefit from and versatility with Carole Nash Recital Room everything from beautiful his massive and varied experience before owning the a programme including guitar, piano and chamber SPOTLIGHT: Carnelian stage on Saturday night! pieces to an amazing arrangements of orchestral Saxophone Quartet – An Tickets £18 £15 FS hybrid of South African works. exploration of folk fusion vocal harmonies, Celtic Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket + reels, Brazilian samba and required required 6.30pm Balkan folk music courtesy Carole Nash Recital Room of Kabantu (formerly SPOTLIGHT: Good Vibes – Revealing the soundworld Project Jam Sandwich). of the vibraphone Tickets £10 FS Free admission, no ticket required 14 15 Sun 05 Feb RNCM DAY OF PERCUSSION We pride ourselves that our Day of Percussion is one of the most popular and established events of its kind. And this year, we turn 25! As always, it’s our chance to throw open our doors and welcome percussionists of all ages and abilities to participate in a day packed with workshops, clinics, concerts and even one to one consultation lessons. We are thrilled to host a brilliant line-up of international artists (who have performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Weather Report, Björk to Last Night of the Proms) with specialities ranging from orchestral cymbals, contemporary solo percussion, percussion duo, drum-kit, Latin percussion and plenty more besides. This year’s line-up includes Alex Acuńa, Joby Burgess, Jonathan Herbert, Ralph Salmins and Ian Wright. The Central Band of the RAF will be with us throughout the day and our evening concert will showcase the talents of all of our guest artists playing in various combinations. There are also plenty of opportunities for you to get involved, including our opening massed percussion session, lessons with the entire RNCM percussion staff and an interactive workshop from O Duo. Finally, if you have any energy left after all of this excitement, our day will conclude with the RNCM Salsa Band in the bar so bring your dancing shoes… For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/dayofpercussion

7.15pm RNCM Concert Hall EVENING SHOWCASE The day culminates with a concert featuring performances from all of today’s artists. Celebrating percussion from many angles there will be some fascinating, original collaborations between the artists. Tickets £7 Day Ticket £25 Student/Under 18s £14

16 17 Tue 07 Feb Thu 09 Feb 7.30pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall THE FREDERIC RE-COMPOSED COX AWARD BRUNO HEINEN/RAVEL, STOCKHAUSEN, KURTÁG FOR SINGING MAX RICHTER/VIVALDI THE FOUR SEASONS Bruno Heinen piano Come and hear the singing Cosmo Strings stars of tomorrow in the Kana Ohashi leader first of three major RNCM vocal competitions this As a starting point for this project, we invited our students year. to choose a piece of music that inspired them and that they were really keen to perform. The ensemble Cosmo Strings came If you like this you might back with Max Richter’s re-imagining of Vivaldi’s The Four also enjoy the Elizabeth Seasons with the following rationale: Harwood Memorial Prize Tue 07 Feb (28 Feb – see p27) and ‘If anything coined the term ‘overplayed’ could this be it? later in the year, the In its ubiquity, Vivaldi’s masterpiece seems to have become 10am background noise. So when the piece was coupled with the RNCM Concert Hall Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of term ‘re-composed’ it was like a sad fridge being re-stocked Strauss (7 Jun). for free. How does Richter butter the parsnips? Why not MASTERCLASS WITH ‘re-mix’? Post-minimalism on Vivaldi’s bones: there are ALINA IBRAGIMOVA (violin) Tickets £10 stark, surprising parallels with which our favourite moments Fresh from her performance with the Chiaroscuro evolve, they change. This music can transform our memories, Quartet as part of Manchester Chamber Concerts so we had to perform it’. Rory Storm viola, Cosmo Strings Society’s 2017 season, Alina Ibragimova returns the Thu 09 Feb This evening opens with further re-imaginings of classic following day to host a public masterclass with some 1.15pm works as contemporary pianist, composer, band leader and of our violin students. RNCM Concert Hall RNCM PhD student Bruno Heinen deconstructs the music of Tickets £8 FS composers including Bach, Ravel, Stockhausen and Kurtág. His RNCM set will include a performance of one of the movements from

CHAMBER Stockhausen’s Tierkreis, during which he freely improvises over one of the composer’s actual music boxes from the ‘Over two consecutive nights, we shall be entering a kaleidoscope of colours, images and sounds. This evening is a mosaic of re-imagined works curated to show them in different light, penned by artists. We are taken on a journey, from as early as Bach and Vivaldi to newly-composed works with everything seen through different filters and lenses. And how lucky are we to listen an improvised Stockhausen with one of the original 1970s Stockhausen music boxes?! I am incredibly proud our students as we see their work come to life across these two fantastic events.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti – Artistic Director Mon 06 Feb Mon 06 Feb ENSEMBLE 1970s (Bruno’s parents studied with Stockhausen – another 1.15pm 7.30pm Gustav Mahler (arr Simon) fascinating connection!) Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall Symphony No 4 in G major PS You can hear The Four Seasons in its original form as part (Movements 1 and 2) of our Strings Festival (see p4-5 for details). And on 25 MONDAY MANCHESTER Edmon Levon, Chloé Mar, we’ve also programmed The Re-(w)Rite of Spring, Darryl RECITAL CHAMBER Soeterstède conductors Brenzel’s re-working of Stravinsky’s radical ballet score for This is the first of two jazz big band (see p39 for details). SERIES CONCERTS lunchtime concerts that Tickets £12 FS Reynaldo Hahn 7 Chansons SOCIETY present a rare opportunity grises CHIAROSCURO to hear Mahler’s Fourth Louis-Charles Gagnon tenor QUARTET Symphony in its stripped Olivia Dance piano down version for chamber The Art of Fugue J S Bach ensemble (Movements 3 François Borne Carmen (excerpts) and 4 will be performed Fantasy String Franz Berwald on 16 Feb – see p23 for Jihyun Chang flute Quartet No 3 in E flat details). Victor Lim piano major The RNCM Symphony Free admission, no ticket Ludwig van Beethoven Orchestra will also be required String Quartet No 14 in C sharp minor Op 131 performing Mahler’s Symphony No 9 on 31 Mar. Tickets £25, platform See p42-43 for details. seats £12.50 Promoted by MCCS Free admission, no ticket required 18 19 film. This project marks the culmination Fri 10 Feb of three years work with six different 7.30pm composers, each of whom has been given RNCM Theatre a section from the feature length work RON FRICKE’S to score live, one after the next, in a Sat 11 Feb Sun 12 Feb Mon 13 Feb unique musical relay. You’ll hear many 10.30am 2pm 1.15pm BARAKA contrasting musical styles as the score RNCM Venues RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room FILM WITH LIVE SCORE moves seamlessly from electronic to JUNIOR RNCM NORTHERN MONDAY New music scored and performed by: percussive to contemporary classical. Flamingods This is a rare opportunity to see Baraka OPEN DAY LUSOFONIA RECITAL My Panda Shall Fly on a big screen complete with live An opportunity to visit SYMPHONY SERIES Afrodeutsche soundtrack (it was originally made for the Junior RNCM, meet Alessandro Scarlatti Clori O>L>A IMAX). We’re particularly excited about current staff, students and ORCHESTRA mia, Clori bella Daniel Lim (RNCM composer), performed by the collaborative nature of this project parents, and listen to the Luís de Freitas Branco Georg Philipp Telemann RNCM students as two RNCM Composition students, Daniel Juniors perform. For full Vathek (UK première) Viola Sonata in D major Eldad Diamant (RNCM composer), performed Lim and Eldad Diamant, are currently details, contact Junior Clarice Assad Brazilian TWV 44:1 by RNCM students writing brand new material for two of RNCM on 0161 908 5264. Fanfare (UK première) George Frideric Handel Ah, the sections and we’re working closely Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Shot in 25 countries on six continents, Free admission, no ticket mio cor! from Alcina with Video Jam to bring this event to Petite Suite de Concert Baraka brings together a series of required George Frideric Handel our Theatre stage. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov stunningly photographed scenes to Sorge infausta from Capriccio Espagnol capture what director Ron Fricke calls Tickets £14 FS Orlando ‘a guided meditation on humanity.’ The Promoted by RNCM and Video Jam Edmon Levon conductor film is often compared to the iconic Almira Consort + Expect contagious non-verbal documentary Koyaanisqatsi for Edwin Kaye, Lixin Liu, 6.30pm energy and passion in a which Fricke was cinematographer. Xiang Ting Teng voice Carole Nash Recital Room programme to include an Katie Lewis oboe Hailed as Manchester’s ‘leading audio- SPOTLIGHT: Hollywood Blockbusters extraordinary, ingenious Natalia Senior-Brown viola visual masterminds’ (Time Out) Video – 21st century film music arranged for and fantastically scored Brooks Griffith, Lucinda Jam is an event series which commissions two masterpiece by much- Neil, Isabel Williamson musicians to compose and live perform loved Portuguese composer Free admission, no ticket required cello original accompaniment for contemporary Freitas Branco, music by Louis Perera, Dennis British-Creole composer Tjiok, Alex Robinson Coleridge-Taylor (famously harpsichord described as the ‘African Free admission, no ticket Mahler’), plus a world required première and a Brazilian Fanfare your dancing feet will find irresistible. Tickets £18 £15 £10 £3 (students) Promoted by Northern Lusofonia + 1pm Carole Nash Recital Room SPOTLIGHT: Synaesthesia – New music for solo cello, piano and visual art Free admission, no ticket required

20 21 Tue 14 Feb Wed 15 Feb Thu 16 Feb Thu 16 Feb 7.30pm 7.30pm 1.15pm 6pm Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall Manchester Central Library NORMAN RNCM RNCM THEODORA IN GEORGE GUITARS CHAMBER THE CITY VIOLIN Programme to include: ENSEMBLE Students from the RNCM Celso Machado Folguedo School of Vocal Studies Gustav Mahler (arr Simon) SCHOLARSHIP Leo Brouwer Acerca del and Opera present a Symphony No 4 in G major RNCM violinists perform cielo, el aire y la selection of arias and (Movements 3 and 4) the first movement of a sonrisa duets from Handel’s great Tom Goff, Orr Guy Classical Sonata and RNCM guitarists perform masterwork Theodora. conductors works by Fritz Kreisler a range of works in this This concert will be Margarita Wood soprano as they compete for this departmental showcase, accompanied by the Sir prestigious annual award. including Folguedo The second of two John Fisher Foundation Tickets £7 for eight guitars by lunchtime concerts that Junior Fellow Repetiteur, present a rare opportunity Benedict Kearns. the virtuoso Brazilian to hear Mahler’s Fourth guitarist Celso Machado. RNCM Opera will be Symphony in its stripped Tickets £8 S performing Handel’s Wed 15 Feb F down version for chamber 2pm and 7pm Theodora from 24 Mar - ensemble (Movements 1 RNCM Theatre 01 Apr. See p36-38 for and 2 will be performed details. on 9 Feb – see p18 for RNCM Tickets £5 details). CHILDREN’S The RNCM Symphony OPERA Orchestra will also be Tue 14 Feb performing Mahler’s 7.30pm PROJECT Symphony No 9 on 31 Mar. RNCM Concert Hall RATS! See p42-43 for details. FACING THE MUSIC: A LIFE Kate Pearson composer Free admission, no ticket RNCM Students required IN MUSICAL THEATRE Primary Schools from PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE IN CONVERSATION across the North West WITH EDWARD SECKERSON For years the inhabitants It still remains one of the best kept secrets of a small remote town have in show business that Patricia Routledge - best had their lives ruined by known for her TV creations, not least Hyacinth a plague of rats. Food, Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances - trained not clothes and belongings only as an actress but as a singer too, enjoying are destroyed, disease is great success in musical theatre on both sides spreading and it seems of the Atlantic. She won the coveted Tony Award nothing can be done, until for her performance in Darling of the Day on one day a mysterious figure Broadway and an Olivier for Candide at the Old arrives who seems to be Vic. the answer to all their problems… Loosely inspired In a fascinating encounter with the writer and by the ancient German broadcaster Edward Seckerson, Patricia discusses legend of The Pied Piper this little known aspect of her extraordinary of Hamelin, this year’s career with illustrations from some rare and Children’s Opera Project treasured recordings. draws on the themes of Tickets £12 FS darkness and hope that consume this idyllic town. Free admission, by ticket only 22 23 Fri 17 Feb 7.30pm RNCM Theatre Wed 22 Feb Doors 7.30pm LED BIB RNCM Concert Hall + FLIGHTLESS BIRDS This season, it’s all about collaborations and providing THE HANDSOME our students with opportunities to work with professional FAMILY musicians, be it as part of our Strings and Chamber Music SUPPORT: COURTNEY Festivals or in RNCM Big Band and Session Orchestra projects. MARIE ANDREWS Tonight’s event focuses on the development of students on our innovative Popular Music programme as we welcome Led Bib into Husband and wife duo The the building. Handsome Family released their tenth album, Unseen, Mercury Prize nominees Led Bib are back in 2017 with a new in September 2016. This album, Umbrella Weather. One of the catalysts of the re-birth is their first release of young British jazz, this, their eighth release, marks a since their unexpected turning point as for the first time, every member of the band worldwide fame when their has been involved in the writing of the album. However the song Far From Any Road crashing grooves, soaring saxes and industrial churning are all was picked as the True still there! Detective Season 1 theme In the run-up to this gig, Led Bib will work with students song. With its unique mix on our Popular Music course to share the benefit of their of country instrumentation experience. Support on the night will be provided by the and intriguing surrealist jazz/electronic trio Flightless Birds, a recent signing on lyricism, the album explores Northern Quarter Records, a brand new independent label the unseen stories, people based out of our Popular Music programme (read more at www. and places of the American northernquarterrecords.com) They will play the opening slot, West, where members Brett then Led Bib will play their own set showcasing their new album and Rennie Sparks live with the two bands closing the show together. (Albuquerque, NM) and shines Tickets £15 FS Sat 18 Feb Sun 19 Feb a light on the obscure and 9am and 1.45pm 6.30pm forgotten. Sun 19 Feb RNCM Concert Hall Unseen continues The 9am and 1.45pm MANCHESTER Handsome Family’s embrace RNCM Theatre of things beyond easy view; INTERNATIONAL the slow dive of the sun, INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL FESTIVAL enormous bugs awakening in THEATRE DANCE Feel the energy as the thorny yards, sirens and AWARDS 2017 choirs attending the coyotes that cry out to the Manchester International purple sky. An epic western The IDTA International Gospel Festival come gothic masterpiece, the Theatre Dance Awards are together to perform their album draws from real life in the form of audition own repertoire before the events. classes. Awards are massed choirs perform Tickets £15 advance granted in Ballet, Theatre songs from the workshops Promoted by Hey! Manchester Craft, Tap and Modern Jazz taking place around the at Grade and Performers city over the weekend. level. Tickets £15 Tickets £16 full day, Promoted by Breakaway Music Tours £10 half day Promoted by International Dance Teachers’ Association Ltd

24 25 Fri 24 Feb Sun 26 Feb Mon 27 Feb Tue 28 Feb Thu 02 Mar Fri 03 Mar 7.30pm 11am 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM FILM MANCHESTER MANCHESTER THE MANCHESTER LITSA ORCHESTRA AMATEUR CHAMBER ELIZABETH CAMERATA TUNNAH 100 YEARS AT THE CHORAL CONCERTS HARWOOD MOZART MADNESS (violin) MOVIES WITH JEAN-EFFLAM COMPETITION SOCIETY MEMORIAL RNCM INTERNATIONAL For the second fundraising BAVOUZET ADULT CHOIRS ARCADIA QUARTET ARTIST DIPLOMA event organised by the PRIZE FOR W A Mozart Divertimento in RECITAL RNCM Student Development Tickets £10 Joseph Haydn String D major K 136 Promoted by Jon Atkin SINGERS Board, we turn our Quartet in G major Op 33 Piano Concerto Ludwig van Beethoven This special award, W A Mozart attention to the history No 5 Hob III:41 No 14 in E flat major K 449 Sonata in A major Op 47 founded in memory of the of film music over the Béla Bartók String Quartet Divertimento in ‘Kreutzer’ much-loved Yorkshire W A Mozart last 100 years or so. No 3 F major K 138 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Mon 27 Feb soprano, provides support The RNCM Film Orchestra, Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto Souvenir d’un lieu cher 1.15pm for an outstanding final W A Mozart made up of selected String Quartet No 8 in No 19 in F major K 459 Op 42 Carole Nash Recital Room year singer. Tonight’s musicians currently E minor Op 59 No 2 Eugène Ysaÿe Sonata No 4 adjudicating panel Gábor Takács-Nagy music based at the College, Tickets £25, platform for solo violin ‘Kreisler’ MONDAY includes Donald Maxwell. director will take us on a seats £12.50 Francis Poulenc Sonata FP Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano cinematic adventure, RECITAL Promoted by MCCS Tickets £10 119 exploring classic film Tickets £37 £30 £22 SERIES + Litsa Tunnah violin music from Korngold £3 (students) Heitor Villa-Lobos Assobio Petr Limonov piano to Adele. 6.30pm Promoted by Manchester Camerata a jato (The Jet Whistle) Forman Lecture Theatre This is the third of Tickets £10 Thu 02 Mar + Samuel Maynez (arr Gandia/ PRE-CONCERT TALK 1.15pm four RNCM International Steirud) Elegia del 6.30pm Artist Diploma recitals Free admission to ticket RNCM Concert Hall recuerdo RNCM Concert Hall taking place this season. holders Javier Escrihuela Gandia RNCM PRE-CONCERT TALK See pages 7, 11 and 29 Sat 25 Feb Free admission, no ticket for details of the other 7pm cello CONCERT required events in this series. RNCM Concert Hall Anna Steirud flute Julio Medaglia Suite ORCHESTRA Tickets £10 FS MANCHESTER popular brasileira Programme to include: Joseph Haydn Symphony No flute WELSH Jihyun Chang 99 in E flat major Hob I:99 Michael Choi clarinet SOCIETY Garry Walker, Alex Sat 04 Mar Adam Bowman oboe 12.30pm ST DAVID’S DAY Robinson conductors Bernadette Childs bassoon RNCM Concert Hall CONCERT Nathaniel Edwards horn Free admission, no ticket John Ieuan Jones baritone Free admission, no ticket required JUNIOR RNCM Delyth Humphreys conductor required FORMAL Caernarfon Male Voice Choir CONCERT Tickets £18.50 A showcase performance Promoted by Manchester Welsh featuring talented Society soloists from Junior RNCM. Free admission, no ticket required

26 27 Sun 05 Mar Mon 06 Mar Thu 09 Mar Thu 09 Mar 11am 1.15pm 1.15pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room MANCHESTER MONDAY RNCM HARP MARGARITA AMATEUR RECITAL ENSEMBLE WOOD CHORAL SERIES Carlos Salzedo Fraicheur (soprano) Bernard Andrès Port au Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco COMPETITION RNCM INTERNATIONAL Capriccio Diabolico Sat 04 Mar YOUTH CHOIRS Paul Patterson Scorpions ARTIST DIPLOMA Gary Ryan Hot club 7pm (With stings in their RECITAL Tickets £10 français RNCM Theatre Promoted by Jon Atkin tails) (UK première) Programme to include: Sam Rodwell guitar Manuel de Falla (arr W A Mozart Nel grave RNCM SESSION ORCHESTRA William Bolcom Songs Williams) Spanish Dance tormento from Mitridate, No 1 WITH BILL LAURANCE Neil Balfour bass-baritone rè di Ponto SUPPORT: SAM DAVIES Emily Hooker piano Eira Lynn Jones director Franz Liszt Songs Claude Debussy Quatre After the success of last year’s collaboration Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket chansons de jeunesse with Stefan Redtenbacher’s Funkestra, tonight’s required required gig is the second time that the RNCM Session Margarita Wood soprano Orchestra will play a full show with a guest Robin Humphreys piano director, on this occasion, the brilliant Bill This is the fourth and Laurance. You may well know Bill as an original final RNCM International member of the internationally acclaimed Snarky Artist Diploma recital Puppy. He is a Grammy Award-winning classically taking place this season. trained pianist who has performed with artists See pages 7, 11 and 27 including Laura Mvula and Morcheeba. for details of the other Bill will arrive at the College on the Thursday events in this series. before the gig and will work solidly with the Tickets £10 FS students in our Session Orchestra right through to the day of the show. So this is another great example of collaboration with guest professional musicians. The evening will kick off with a set by The Bill Laurance Band (Bill – piano/keys, Felix Higginbottom – percussion, Joshua Blackmore – drums, Chris Hyson - bass) followed by a set by the Session Orchestra (with a rotating rhythm section). Bill will be on stage for the whole show and all of the music played will be his work. And as an extra special touch, RNCM students will orchestrate Bill’s tunes so we’ll be unveiling some new, previously unheard large scale arrangements of his music. PS Bill Laurance and the Session Orchestra will be on stage at 8pm. Tickets £15 FS + 6.30pm Studio 1 SPOTLIGHT: The Ollie West Band – Portraits Free admission, no ticket required

28 29 Fri 10 - Sun 12 Mar BUDAFEST: RNCM CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL THE MUSIC OF HUNGARY AND SPIRIT OF THE CSÁRDÁS The RNCM Chamber Music Festival plays a huge role in the story of the College and is one of the UK’s most substantial chamber music events. Chamber music is at the heart of what we do – the RNCM has a proud tradition of chamber ensemble training and our alumni appear with high profile ensembles such as the Elias, Heath and Navarra String Quartets plus the Gould Piano Trio to name just a few. This year, we take a journey through Hungary’s rich musical heritage, exploring works from 1800 to the present day. The Festival will include the masterworks of Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Ernő Dohnányi, György Kurtág and György Ligeti, lesser known gems by Karl Goldmark, Ferenc Farkas and Sándor Veress, and composers such as Haydn, Brahms and Liszt who were all influenced by Hungarian folk music. The Festival will also look at the educational legacy of Kodály and Bartók and the Hungarian string playing tradition. Eminent musicians such as Gábor Takács-Nagy, the Keller and Talich Quartets, Kathryn Stott and RNCM alumni the Aurora Percussion Duo will perform alongside other renowned performers from across Europe and we will be showcasing exceptional students from the RNCM and Chetham’s School of Music. So please join us and embrace the spirit of the csárdás! For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/chamberfestival With the generous support of the Balassi Institute Hungarian Cultural Centre

Fri 10 Mar Sat 11 Mar Sun 12 Mar 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall TALICH GÁBOR KELLER QUARTET TAKÁCS-NAGY QUARTET WITH TIM HORTON (violin) Béla Bartók String Quartet (piano) No 2 String Quartet Zoltán Kodály Duo for KATHRYN Béla Bartók violin and cello Op 7 No 3 STOTT (piano) String Quartet Béla Bartók String Quartet Béla Bartók No 6 AND FRIENDS No 5 Ernő Dohnányi Piano Joseph Haydn String Tickets £17 FS Quintet No 2 in E flat Quartet in D major Op 20 minor Op 26 No 4 Hob III:34 Full Festival Ticket £130 Béla Bartók Sonata for Two Tickets £17 FS Student/Under 18s Festival Pianos and Percussion Ticket £50 Béla Bartók Music for Friday Ticket £44 Strings, Percussion and Saturday Ticket £46 Celeste Sunday Ticket £46 Gábor Takács-Nagy violin Kathryn Stott, Jeremy Young piano Zelkova Quartet Aurea Quartet Aurora Percussion Duo Musicians from RNCM and Chetham’s School of Music Tickets £17 FS 30 31 Mon 13 Mar Sun 19 Mar 1.15pm 7pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall MONDAY MASTERCLASS RECITAL WITH ANNE SOFIE SERIES VON OTTER Manuel de Falla Suite (mezzo-soprano) Populaire Espagnole We’re delighted to welcome Anne Manuel de Falla Danse Sofie von Otter to the College to Espagnole work with our vocal students in Abigail Hammett violin this free public masterclass. The Iwan Owen piano Swedish mezzo-soprano has long been Franz Liszt Rhapsodie recognised as one of the very finest espagnole S 254 singers of her generation and is known particularly for the enormous Nadya Kisseleva piano versatility of her operatic Free admission, no ticket roles and recital and recording required repertoire, working at the highest international level. Tue 14 Mar This is Miss von Otter’s first 7.30pm Thu 16 Mar visit to the RNCM and we are very RNCM Concert Hall 1.15pm fortunate that she is able to make RNCM Concert Hall time to work with our students STEVEN OSBORNE (piano) during her busy rehearsal schedule Johannes Brahms Intermezzo in C sharp minor Op 117 No 3 RNCM BRASS for the UK première of Thomas Adès’ Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E major Op 109 ENSEMBLE The Exterminating Angel at the Johannes Brahms Intermezzo in B flat minor Op 117 No 2 MOMENTS IN THE SUN . Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in A flat major Op 110 Free admission, by ticket only Johannes Brahms Intermezzo in E flat major Op 117 No 1 Jean-Baptiste Lully (arr Music from the + Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in C minor Op 111 Miller) Court of the Sun King 5.30pm RNCM alumnus Steven Osborne returns to perform a Jacques Ibert (arr Wright) Carole Nash Recital Room beautifully crafted programme that weaves together Divertissement SPOTLIGHT: The Miniature stunning works by Beethoven and Brahms. This is a rare Beach arr Timothy Souster Magic Flute – A succinct, opportunity to hear Beethoven’s final three sonatas in Boys Medley one concert. These pieces turned sonata form on its dynamic re-telling of Mozart’s head, by abandoning the traditional movement forms John Wallace conductor masterpiece and moving away from the medium as an early type of Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket required ‘home entertainment’ into a profound, deeply personal required statement. Brahms’ triptych was also written later in the composer’s life. These pieces are among the most popular of his late piano works and are notable for Thu 16 Mar the distinct character of the lullaby. Indeed, Brahms 7.30pm described these three compositions as ‘lullabies to RNCM Concert Hall my sorrows’. Tickets £17 £14 FS THE + MANCHESTER 6.30pm GRAMMAR Carole Nash Recital Room SPOTLIGHT: Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence – SCHOOL Sextet for strings EASTER CONCERT Free admission, no ticket required Tickets £6 Promoted by The Governors of the Manchester Grammar School 32 33 Mon 20 Mar Mon 20 Mar Mon 20 Mar 1.15pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall MONDAY RNCM CHEADLE RECITAL COMPOSERS HULME SERIES CONCERT SCHOOL Aoua from Adam Gorb, Head of SPRING CONCERT Chansons madécasses Composition, introduces Tickets £7 Caroline Bordignon New this concert of new and Promoted by Cheadle Hulme School work recently premiered works, James Francis Brown Le written by RNCM composers Libellule from Songs of and performed by their Nature and Farewell fellow students. Hayley Swanton soprano Free admission, no ticket Chelsea Burns mezzo- required soprano Katie Hyland flute Gabriel Solan Romero cello Dominic Degavino piano Tue 21 Mar Aaron Breeze New work 7.30pm Carmel Smickersgill New RNCM Concert Hall work TOBY SPENCE (tenor) Marsica Trio Wed 22 Mar Thu 23 Mar Thu 23 Mar Hannah Corcoran saxophone CHRISTOPHER GLYNN From 6.30pm 1.15pm 7.30pm Kathryn Mason harp (piano) Studio 1 RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room Amy Surman cello Franz Schubert The Beautiful Maid of Free admission, no ticket the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin) SPOTLIGHT RNCM STRING DUET GROUP’S required Grammy Award-winning British tenor DOUBLE-BILL AND WIND CHOPIN PRIZE Toby Spence performs a new English Our Spring Double-Bill of ORCHESTRAS RNCM pianists and students translation of Schubert’s acute study Spotlights presents two from Chetham’s School of Georg Philipp Telemann Don of the pain of disillusionment. exciting collaborations Music compete for this Quixote Suite Commissioned by pianist Christopher between some of our annual prize, adjudicated Jinjun Lee New work Glynn, Jeremy Sams’ translation of this Classical and Popular this year by Peter Christopher Marshall Rust well-known song cycle allows the non- Music students, as they Jablonski. Belt (European première) German speakers amongst us to understand push the boundaries of Tickets £7 the words with immediacy, and perhaps conventional concert hall Catherine Yates director have a more fulfilling experience, norms. Mark Heron, Sam Hairsine conductors without having to follow a printed 6.30pm translation. Arundo Quartet – New Free admission, no ticket Tickets £17 £14 FS works and arrangements for required and electronics 7.15pm Music to Sit Down to – With OSD Ensemble Free admission, no ticket required

34 35 36 37 staged dramatic work contains some of Handel’s most beautiful 7pm Fri 24, Tue 28, Thu 30 Mar arias, duets and choruses - and this promises to be a Sun 26 Mar, Sat 01 Apr 3pm profoundly moving theatrical experience. RNCM Theatre The story, in English, recounts the tender love and eventual THEODORA martyrdom of Theodora, a young Christian woman, and her Roman lover, Didymus. When the order is given that those who refuse GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL to offer sacrifice to Jupiter are to be tortured and killed, Roger Hamilton conductor the two lovers find themselves locked in a battle to the death; John Ramster director each determined to sacrifice their own life to save the other. Bridget Kimak set and costume designer The Roman chorus, initially baying for blood, are deeply Jake Wiltshire lighting designer shaken and affected by the quiet courage of the Christian Sergej Bolkhovets assistant conductor lovers and their friends. Kevin Thraves chorus master The plot of Theodora resonates to this day as conflicts RNCM Opera Orchestra continue to erupt around the globe. Innocence, love, faith and RNCM Chorus courage bloom strong and full of promise, only to be struck See full cast information at www.rncm.ac.uk/theodora down by the thirst for power and blind hatred. Theodora was Handel’s penultimate oratorio and is widely Tickets £34 £28 £21 (weekdays) FS recognised as one of his great masterpieces. This rarely £36 £30 £23 (weekends) ‘Ritual dances and pagan rites - what a find! Ever since I heard the jazz version of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring by The Bad Plus, I wanted to find a good arrangement for Big Band and Darryl Brenzel’s arrangement is it… I decided to do this with our Big Band to bring out the freedom, the crude rhythmic, irregular pulse, the primeval nature of this great rite to the fore.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti – Artistic Director

THEODORA Tue 28 Mar 6pm + Carole Nash Recital Room Fri 24 Mar HEAR MORE: Pre-opera performance 6pm RNCM students perform a selection of music Carole Nash Recital Room written in the 18th century. This HEAR MORE: Heroines of Legend concert will include instrumental music by Handel and two rarely heard vocal Join the RNCM Songsters as they present duets by Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari. an exciting programme of song inspired Handel ‘borrowed’ Clari’s duets and by heroines of legend, featuring music included the music in his score and melody but adapting them and by Monteverdi, Purcell, Haydn and Sat 25 Mar creating space for improvisation of Theodora. 7.30pm Robert Schumann. by the musicians. In Brenzel’s Free admission, no ticket required RNCM Theatre Free admission, no ticket required hands, the work moved fluidly from big band swing to Afro- RNCM BIG BAND Sun 26 Mar Thu 30 Mar THE RE-(W)RITE OF SPRING Cuban grooves to flamenco rhythms 6pm and even down to gritty James 10am-3pm Carole Nash Recital Room Darryl Brenzel The Re-(w)Rite of Brown funk. There are echoes of RNCM Concert Hall Spring Ellington, Mingus, Evans and Maria COME AND SING HANDEL HEAR MORE: Biblical Songs Composers express their inspiration from Mike Hall director Schneider, even as Brenzel’s own Don’t miss this amazing opportunity religion in many fascinating ways. In a unique voice asserts itself. to take part in our first ever day- When Mobtown Music Series curator programme featuring the music of Schubert, long RNCM Come and Sing event. Enjoy Brian Sacawa invited Darryl Tonight’s gig follows a storming Dvořák and Fauré, the RNCM Junior a full morning singing a selection Brenzel to adapt Stravinsky’s sell-out show at this year’s Malta Songsters explore Biblical themes within of Handel choruses led by conductor, radical orchestral ballet The International Arts Festival. art song. Tom Newall. In the afternoon, there Rite of Spring for a modern This is a great opportunity to will be an opportunity to view Handel Free admission, no ticket required 17-piece jazz big band, no-one witness a very different kind of manuscripts presented by Ros Edwards from really knew what was going to (rarely performed) Big Band event, The Henry Watson Music Library at Sat 01 Apr happen. There were, after all, one that will shine a light on Manchester Central Library. British 10am riots at the piece’s 1913 Paris the amazing talent of our young soprano, Lynne Dawson, famous for her Forman Lecture Theatre première. Fortunately, when student players and improvisers. Handel performances and recordings, will LEARN MORE: Forum Plus - Brenzel’s creation was unveiled at So catch The Rite of Spring as Baltimore’s Metro Gallery on 12 you’ve never heard it before! lead an informal Q&A session with Ros to Handel’s Theodora: context, libretto, discover how a large quantity of Handel May 2010, the audience remained Tickets £18 £15 FS composition, reception and production in their seats in rapt attention, manuscripts ended up in Manchester. This Join expert Handel scholars for a + unique day will conclude by watching a consumed by a work as boldly fascinating insight into Handel’s oratorio 6.30pm performance of Handel’s Theodora presented unconventional as Stravinsky’s Theodora, in this public study morning original. Carole Nash Recital Room by RNCM Opera. Places are limited for given by The Handel Institute and RNCM. this event and early booking is strongly Brenzel tackled each of the SPOTLIGHT: Alpine Appalachia recommended. Free admission, no ticket required original work’s 14 sections – Chamber orchestrations by Wagner and Copland Tickets £30 (including ticket to 3pm as its own piece, building off performance of Theodora) Stravinsky’s original harmonies Free admission, no ticket required 38 39 Tue 28 Mar 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ Mentored by none other than Quincy Jones, the prodigiously talented young Cuban Wed 29 Mar pianist is rapidly amassing international 7.30pm plaudits, reflected in his standout RNCM Theatre performance as a special guest on the BBC Proms tribute to Quincy Jones in August THE SWINGLES 2016. His expansive style combines a + TWELFTH DAY breath-taking technique with a tirelessly FOLKLORE inventive imagination, and adds his own individual response to the traditions Global a cappella phenomenon The Swingles present of his native Cuba. Having sold out Folklore – a truly international programme of successive London concerts in recent powerful traditional songs for life’s defining years, this will be Alfredo and his moments. From choral polyphony and soaring ballads trio’s first UK tour, playing the music to whirling reels and ragas, this contemporary from his most recent recording, Tocororo Mon 27 Mar vocal supergroup transports audiences to the - telling his own personal story through 7.30pm unique, flawless soundworld that sets the five-time the legend of Cuba’s national bird - a RNCM Concert Hall Grammy winners apart. tale of freedom, travel and cultural For more than half a century The Swingles have cross-pollination. MANCHESTER pushed the boundaries of vocal music. The seven ‘Ebullient and sultry piano, intricate CHAMBER young singers that make up today’s London-based and irresistible rhythm.’ group are driven by the same innovative spirit CONCERTS that has defined the group since they first made Tickets £15 FS waves in the 1960s. Promoted by Serious in association with RNCM SOCIETY ENSEMBLE 360o The Swingles are joined by special guests the wonderful fiddle and harp duo Twelfth Day (RNCM En Saga Op 9 alumnae!) who will open tonight’s concert and Richard Strauss (arr share the stage for a joint number or two… Franz Hasenöhrl) Till Sat 25 Mar Mon 27 Mar Tickets £18 £15 7.30pm 1.15pm Eulenspiegel - einmal FS RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room anders! Promoted by RNCM and IMG Artists Bohuslav Martinů Nonet SALFORD MONDAY No 2 H 374 Witold Lutosławski Dance CHORAL RECITAL Preludes SOCIETY SERIES Louis Spohr Nonet in F Johannes Brahms Eugène Bozza major Op 31 Schicksalslied (Song of Divertissement Tickets £25, platform Destiny) Antonio Pasculli Hommage à seats £12.50 Carl Orff Carmina Burana Bellini Promoted by MCCS Music and Performing Arts Vanessa Hanson-Morris cor + Salford Children’s Choir anglais 6.30pm Heather Heighway soprano Sophie Rocks harp Carole Nash Recital Room Austin Gunn tenor Rachel Fright piano PRE-CONCERT Miles Horner baritone George Enescu Legende RECEPTION Roderick Barrand, Benedict Jean Pennequin Morceau de Celebrating the 80th Kearns piano Concert Tom Newall conductor anniversary season Philippe Gaubert Cantabile Please contact Manchester Tickets £17 et Scherzetto Chamber Concerts Society Promoted by Salford Choral Society Richard Kingon trumpet for details Maria Vilberg piano [email protected] Free admission, no ticket required 40 41 Dr MichelleCastelletti–ArtisticDirector It isbeautifullycomplexandexcruciatinglyblissful.’ profundity oftheworksplaysonwholeideacontraststhroughoutevening. one totakethemthere.Thecontrastoftheexuberanceyouthwithmaturityand what theydobest-playwiththeirheartsonsleeves.AndJacvanSteenisthe Colourful, boldandpassionate,thesetwoworkswillallowourphenomenalstudentstodo Fin-de-Siècle periodandtheSecession,tochromaticismtakenitsextreme. Five PiecesforOrchestra,thiscombinationimmediatelytakesustojustaftertheexquisite disturbing, yethealing,powerfulandsublimeatthesametime.PairedwithSchoenberg’s ‘Mahler’s symphonyisaspainfulitbeautiful.Itdark,grotesque,forebodingand 42

43 other Mahlerian qualities - a passionate love of life and nature; Fri 31 Mar an idealistic instinct to confront despair with heroic endeavour; 7.30pm and a magnificent pride in creative powers which, despite his RNCM Concert Hall illness, remained undiminished. In fact, Mahler said at the time: RNCM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ‘I am thirstier for life than ever…’ Arnold Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra Op 16 Tonight’s programme is completed by a composition by Mahler’s Gustav Mahler Symphony No 9 good friend, Arnold Schoenberg. The two men respected and admired each other enormously. This early work was written in Jac van Steen, Manoj Kamps conductors 1909, during a time of intense personal and artistic crisis Mahler’s Ninth Symphony has divided opinion for decades – is it a for the composer. This is reflected in the tensions and at some hymn to the end of all things or an ultimately affirmative love- times extreme violence of the score mirroring the Expressionist song to life and to mortality? It is, of course, down to the movement of the time, in particular its preoccupation with the listener to interpret the piece and find their own meaning. subconscious and burgeoning madness. The Ninth took shape against a background of painful memories, Tickets £17 £14 FS frustrated love and a life about to be cut short – Mahler’s + daughter had died, he was in an unhappy marriage, his own health was failing and it was the end of his reign as Artistic Director 6.30pm of the Court Opera. Carole Nash Recital Room – Songs and duets from Consequently, the piece is full of contrast - life/death, SPOTLIGHT: A Woman’s Life and Love Barbara Stozzi to Madeleine Dring lyricism/pathos, stillness/storm - yet while it is dark, grotesque and disturbing, there is a painful beauty running Free admission, no ticket required through this symphony. The despair and anguish co-exist with Sat 01 Apr Sun 02 Apr Tue 04 Apr Thu 06 Apr 7.30pm 7pm 7.30pm 7pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall WILLIAM OLDHAM SPECIAL LORETO BYRD SINGERS CHORAL VIRTUOSI COLLEGE BAROQUE CHORAL SOCIETY 10TH ANNIVERSARY EASTER CONCERT MASTERPIECES George Frideric Handel CONCERT David Lloyd-Mostyn J S Bach Orchestral Suite Messiah To celebrate the 10th director of music No 3 in D major BWV 1068 anniversary of Special Natasha Jouhl soprano Tickets £5 Virtuosi, we present a Promoted by Loreto College George Frideric Handel Louise Winter mezzo- Dixit Dominus HWV 232 soprano variety of orchestral and Magnificat in D solo performances from our J S Bach Amar Muchala tenor major BWV 243 students. Henry Waddington bass Fri 07 Apr RNCM soloists Nigel P Wilkinson Tickets £7 8pm Eighteenth Century conductor Promoted by Special Virtuosi RNCM Concert Hall Tue 18 Apr Orchestra Ticket £15 Doors 7pm Keith Orrell conductor Promoted by Oldham Choral Society CINE-MAGIC RNCM Concert Hall Tickets £15 Come and be transported to Promoted by The William Byrd the magic of the movies Sun 09 Apr KESTON Singers with Chorus UK and the 7pm COBBLERS CLUB Sheffield Pops Orchestra RNCM Concert Hall Wed 05 Apr After a triumphant UK tour in this cinematic musical 7.30pm around the release of their extravaganza. RNCM Concert Hall KING EDWARD latest album Wildfire, the Tickets £15 MUSICAL band were invited to open TIGRAN Promoted by Fono Productions Ltd SOCIETY OF for Bellowhead on their HAMASYAN farewell tour. KCC have played some of the UK’s Tigran Hamasyan is on a roll. MACCLESFIELD biggest festivals, including With performances on the iconic 60TH ANNIVERSARY Sat 08 Apr Glastonbury, Bestival, Later… with Jools Holland and 7.30pm CONCERT Cambridge, Wilderness and inspired radio sessions with RNCM Concert Hall Programme to include Green Man; been playlisted Gilles Peterson and Jamie Cullum, excerpts from: by 6 Music and Amazing the 29 year old pianist’s music ALTRINCHAM Eine Kleine Adam Gorb Radio; and been invited to is fired by his passion. His fluent Yiddishe Ragmusik CHORAL perform live on BBC Radio by improvisation fuses with the rich O Fortuna from Carl Orff the likes of Dermot O’Leary, folkloric music and poetry of SOCIETY Carmina Burana Steve Lamacq and Bob Harris. his native Armenia; this ability Ave Verum W A Mozart Robert Russell Bennett A new album is planned for to stay true to his homeland Corpus K 618 Suite of Old American release in early 2017. while incorporating musical W A Mozart Mass in C major Dances elements that are nothing but K 317 Giuseppe Verdi Va Pensiero ‘Crossover potential written modern (dubstep, thrash metal Joseph Haydn Nelson Mass from Nabucco all over it’ 4* MOJO and contemporary electronic) Hob XXII:11 Aaron Copland Four Dance Tickets £15 is fascinating. Tigran topped Promoted by Band on the Wall Lancashire Chamber Episodes from Rodeo the French jazz charts with his Orchestra George Frideric Handel solo piano album A Fable, and he Steven Roberts conductor Hallelujah Chorus released his second solo album on Johannes Brahms How Lovely Tickets £12.50 Nonesuch in early 2016. are Thy Dwellings Promoted by Altrincham Choral ‘A-may-zing! Now Tigran, you are Society Ian Chesworth, Anthony my teacher.’ Herbie Hancock Houghton, Julia Harding Tickets £25 musical directors Promoted by Mintaka Music Tickets £10 Promoted by KEMS 44 45 leave silent pictures - and some of their Thu 27 - Sat 29 Apr stars - behind. When Monumental Studios 7.30pm turns silent The Dueling Cavalier into The RNCM Theatre Dancing Cavalier, a musical picture, in SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN order to stay relevant, they are faced with Sat 22 Apr RNCM YOUNG COMPANY a problem: their star, Lina Lamont can’t 7.30pm sing, and can’t even really talk. Lina’s Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green RNCM Concert Hall voice sounds like nails on a blackboard. Songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed Enter Kathy Selden, an aspiring actress Based on the classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, by special ST GEORGE’S arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc. whose dulcet tones are able to cover Lina Wed 19 Apr Lamont’s, calling into question what it Doors 7.30pm Music Published by EMI, all rights administered by Sony/ SINGERS ATV Music Publishing LLC means to act, how credit is distributed, RNCM Theatre DIAMOND Caroline Clegg director and what it means to get a fair shake in THE UNTHANKS ANNIVERSARY Josh Barnett assistant director the movie business. HOW THE WILD WIND CONCERT Alex Robinson musical director With its brilliant choreography and iconic BLOWS: PERFORMING THE William Byrd Laudibus in Mariyka Bolubasz choreographer songs, Singin’ in the Rain is the perfect showcase for our musical theatre group, SONGS AND POEMS OF sanctis The Gene Kelly classic Singin’ in the Rain Henry Purcell Hear my earned the top spot in the AFI’s 100 Years RNCM Young Company. It includes some of the MOLLY DRAKE prayer of Musicals list and, in 2007, was ranked best-loved comedy routines, dance numbers, Following their acclaimed J S Bach Lobet den Herrn as the fifth greatest motion picture of all and love songs ever written, including Good reinterpretations of the Felix Mendelssohn Hear my time. Adapted for the stage in 1983, this Mornin’, Make ‘em Laugh, and the show- works of and Sat 22 Apr prayer delightful musical captures the waning stopping dance number, Singin’ in the Rain. , 1.15pm Gustav Holst Ave Maria days of the silent screen era as they give Tickets £12 the mavericks of British RNCM Concert Hall Arvo Pärt Cantate Domino way to new-fangled talkies. With The Jazz This amateur production is presented by arrangement folk music The Unthanks canticum novum Singer première making Hollywood frantic, with Josef Weinberger Ltd on behalf of Music Theatre perform the extraordinary THE GENESIS Eric Whitacre Sleep the studios are forced to suddenly change International of New York songs of Molly Drake. ENSEMBLE Jonathan Dove Seek him all the movie-making rules at once, to Mother of – one that maketh the seven accommodate sound. In doing so, they Aktor/ of the most poetic and Christophe Enzel stars Reaktor II influential songwriters Uģis Prauliņš Missa New work ever – her charming and Daniel Basford Regensis bittersweet works deservedly (arr Plater) Neil Taylor conductor rank alongside those of her Utopia Peter Durrant organ/piano brilliant son. Arvo Pärt (arr Williams) Magnificat Tickets £12 Tickets £20 Tom Harrold New work Promoted by St George’s Singers Promoted by Hey! Manchester Jacob TV Resurrection Power The Genesis Ensemble Mon 24 Apr Fri 21 Apr is an intercollegiate 7.30pm 8pm saxophone orchestra made RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall up of students from the RNCM, Royal College of TRINITY BBC RADIO 2 Music and Guildhall School CHURCH OF YOUNG BRASS of Music and Dance. This project evolved to improve AWARDS co-operation between the HIGH SCHOOL THE FINAL Saxophone departments at ANNIVERSARY Ken Bruce and Frank the three Colleges and to CONCERT Renton present this live create links between the Tickets £5 broadcast of Radio 2’s North and South. Promoted by Trinity Church of nationwide search for The theme for this England High School its next brass star. The lunchtime concert audience will be seated is contemporary works for at 7.50pm, with live saxophone orchestra and broadcast from 8pm. this will include at least Free admission, by ticket two new commissions along only (maximum 4 tickets with pieces written and per person) arranged specially for the Promoted by Radio 2 in association ensemble. with RNCM Tickets £5 46 47 coming soon

Thu 27 Apr Sun 30 Apr Fri 23 Jun 1.15pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM DAY OF RNCM Concert Hall RNCM STRING SONG RNCM Join students from the ENSEMBLE School of Vocal Studies in CHAMBER Ruth Rogers director a colourful day of song ORCHESTRA celebrating Europe’s rich cultural diversity with AND music by Vaughan Williams, CHAMBER Thu 27 Apr Britten, de Falla, Brahms 7.30pm and Canteloube, and CHOIR RNCM Concert Hall featuring performances by J S Bach St John Passion BRAND NEW the RNCM Chamber Choir, BWV 245 the RNCM Songsters and David Hill conductor ORCHESTRA the exciting new RNCM Nicholas Mulroy evangelist ArkEnsemble.

Fri 28 Apr 1.15pm Thu 29 Jun Wed 17 May 7.30pm 7.30pm The KREUTZER RNCM Theatre QUARTET RNCM WITH LINDA MERRICK BRAD MEHLDAU SYMPHONY (clarinet) ORCHESTRA A programme of brand TRIO Programme to include: new works for clarinet Sergei Prokofiev Violin quintet. Concerto No 1 in D major Thu 15 Jun Op 19 7.30pm Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Fri 28 Apr RNCM Concert Hall Symphony No 6 in B minor 7.30pm Op 74 ‘Pathétique’ Carole Nash Recital Room STEVEN Juanjo Mena conductor Liberty Living is home to 19,500 students across nineteen UK cities ROSAMUNDE ISSERLIS (cello) Erkki Louko violin including Manchester where we have three student residences; Sir The celebrated cellist Charles Groves Hall next to the RNCM, Liberty Point next to Manchester PRIZE performs solo works by Piccadilly train station and the 34 storey Liberty Heights in the city Bach and Kurtág. Fri 07 - Sat 08 Jul centre. We are delighted to sponsor a scheme to enable all of our Manchester-based students access to £3 tickets to key RNCM performances Sat 29 Apr RNCM throughout 2016/17. 7.30pm STUDENT RNCM Concert Hall For more information on how to book a £3 ticket, Liberty Living FESTIVAL students should visit www.rncm.ac.uk/libertyliving, contact the RNCM FODEN’S The first RNCM festival of box office on0161 907 5555 or speak to their reception team. BAND AND its kind, created by the students and run by the THE WALLACE students. ‘It is a great location because we are close to the city centre and so COLLECTION close to campus. It is really nice to share a flat with people who have the same interests. I feel at ease here.’ Ines, RNCM student and Sir Charles Groves Hall resident 48 Ways to save money at the RNCM There are lots of ways to save money when you visit the RNCM, depending on the frequency of your visits, the size of your party and which benefits are important to you. We’ve From the excitement of schoolchildren outlined a few options below… composing and performing their own opera, to Family Days and the invaluable work of Music for Health in hospitals and care homes, RNCM Engage reaches out to our regional communities and individuals, spreading the message that music Become a member connects; that it can enrich, For £30 a year for individual Members and £50 for joint comfort, inspire, challenge, Members. Benefits include: channel, educate… whoever you are. For more information please visit • Receive news and electronic updates from the RNCM www.rncm.ac.uk/engage • Advanced electronic notice of upcoming performances

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There are refreshment Brodsky Café facilities available at the RNCM with the Café, Brodsky is our restaurant The Café is open from 8am Brodsky Restaurant and here at the RNCM. Whether until the interval on Bar and the Concert Bar you are attending a performance nights. offering a range of fresh, concert, a conference home cooked and locally or just visiting our Concert Bar sourced food from just a facilities, come in for a The Concert Bar is open coffee and a pastry to a bite to eat from a quick from 5pm until 11pm. three course meal. lunch to a three course meal. We also offer a wide During vacations the range of wines, beers, Concert Bar opens one hour spirits, real ales and prior to the performance soft drinks. time. Interval Drinks can be ordered at the Concert We are open from 11am Bar and in Brodsky. Monday to Friday and 5pm Saturday with last All food items and food orders at 7pm on menus are subject to availability. Outside The RNCM has a wide The RNCM THEATRE boasts For Conference enquiries performance nights (and of term time and at selection of excellent one of the largest theatre please contact our 7.30pm for concerts with weekends, opening hours purpose-built spaces to stages in Manchester with Conference and Catering an 8pm start time.) are dependent upon the hire for every type of ample wing space, orchestra Team on 0161 907 5353 or We recommend that you performance programme. event, performance or pit, lighting box area [email protected] reserve a table in Brodsky conference. Following a and space for a sound The RNCM also has a number by calling 0161 907 5353 For full details of menus £7.1 million refurbishment desk in addition to the of smaller spaces for or 5252. Brodsky is closed and opening hours please project completed in seated capacity. There are conferences including our during vacation periods call November 2014, our largest 607 seats in the Theatre 110-seater Carole Nash and on Sundays. 0161 907 5353 or or visit spaces have now been with an option to place Recital Room and 60-seater 5252 or revitalised with excellent additional audience seating Conference Room. www.rncm.ac.uk/brodsky back of house facilities over the orchestra pit, www.rncm.ac.uk/cafeandbar and the latest technical taking the total maximum Looking for set−up including a new capacity to 657 seats. Musicians lighting rig and sound The RNCM’s Professional Hospitality at equipment. The FORMAN LECTURE THEATRE Engagements team the RNCM has a 150 capacity and co-ordinates a large has been completely The RNCM can also provide number of engagements updated following the catering for social Venues for Hire from weddings to corporate refurbishment project. functions, events, and The RNCM CONCERT HALL has a events, on behalf of It comes equipped with private dinners. You can variety of flexible options music societies, clubs, projector, screen and is even hire Brodsky our for your event with layouts companies and individuals. ideal for pre-concert Restaurant outside of term including 445 capacity Contact the Professional talks, discussions, time. seating on Level One, 610 Engagements Team on presentations and capacity seating with our 0161 907 5352 or screenings. Please contact our new Balcony and Oglesby [email protected] Conference and Catering Balcony open, or even up to for further details. For performance enquiries Team on 0161 907 5353 or 730 capacity seating with please contact our Events [email protected] for a reduced stage size for Manager, Paul Cobban on further details. amplified bands and small or ensembles (NB – please 0161 907 5289 speak to our Events Manager [email protected] or for full venue for further details about information and technical the 730 layout). specifications please visit www.rncm.ac.uk/hire 52 53 Booking Information and Getting Here

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