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P09P10 P11 P26 P34 Cabaret tells the story of Cliff Wed 27 – Sat 30 Apr Bradshaw, an American author working 7.30pm on a novel in Berlin, who encounters RNCM Studio Theatre singer Sally at the seedy Kit Kat Club. When she is fired by the club’s CABARET owner, also her jealous boyfriend, she RNCM YOUTH PERFORM moves in with Cliff and the two fall Book by Joe Masteroff in love. As the Nazis begin taking Based on the play by John Van Druten control of the German government, the and Stories by Christopher Isherwood atmosphere of the Kit Kat Club and Music by John Kander the lives of Cliff and Sally begin to Lyrics by Fred Ebb change dramatically… Broadway production directed by With its brilliant choreography, Harold Prince dark wit and iconic songs, Cabaret Produced for the Broadway Stage by is the perfect showcase for our Harold Prince musical theatre group, RNCM Youth Caroline Clegg director Perform. Established for young people Daniel McDwyer musical director of secondary school age, RNCM Youth Mariyka Bolubasz choreographer Perform has enjoyed great reviews Francesca Letch, Robert Brooks, over the last few years with its Edwin Kaye, James Penniston assistant sell-out productions of The Wiz, The directors Threepenny Opera, On the Town, Kiss Stewart Bartles lighting designer Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls and Little Shop of Horrors. ‘Life is a cabaret old chum’ belts out singer Sally Bowles from the stage This amateur production is presented of Berlin’s Kit Kat Club at the dawn by arrangement with MusicScope and Sat 23 – Sun 24 Apr of the 1930s. And since its Broadway Stage Musicals Limited of New York. première in 1966, this anthem, plus Tickets £12 RNCM WIND AND BRASS WEEKEND other iconic songs such as Willkommen, Join us for an exciting new weekend for wind and brass players, featuring a Don’t Tell Mama and Tomorrow Belongs jam-packed programme of concerts, playing sessions and participatory workshops. to Me, have ensured the huge success Open to players of all ages, levels and abilities, there will be opportunities of Kander and Ebb’s award-winning to perform alongside our staff and students in two massed playing sessions. You musical across the globe. can explore the history of the brass ensemble in the Philip Jones Centre for Brass Symposium - during which repertoire from the mid-19th century will be played on historic instruments - and gain insights into technique from some of the UK’s finest wind players in a series of creative instrumental workshops. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/windandbrassweekend Sat 23 Apr Sun 24 Apr 6.30pm 2.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall THE WALLACE RNCM ARKENSEMBLE COLLECTION Inspired by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and featuring woodwind, brass AND RNCM BRASS and percussion, senior students and ENSEMBLES staff from the RNCM present innovative music by Mozart, Mahler and Moondog, Programme to include: via Michael Torke and Will Gregory. John McCabe Rounds for Brass Quintet Elgar Howarth Spooks: an outrage for Tickets £10 bass trombone, brass ensemble and Buy tickets for both concerts and percussion; Berne Patrol; The Old pay just £15. Call our Box Office Chalet; Basle March on 0161 907 5555 for details. W Hogarth Lear Mr Lear’s Carnival Joshua Cirtina bass trombone Tickets £10 4 5 ‘This is a really powerful programme: Shostakovich 5 is an extraordinary work, full of energy, momemtum and drive. The virtuosic Khachaturian Concerto is a special treat as it’s rarely performed.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director

Fri 29 Apr Sat 30 Apr Sat 07 May 1.15pm 7.30pm 12.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall GRAHAM FUTURE JUNIOR RNCM SCOTT (piano) TALENT FORMAL RNCM STAFF RECITAL FUNDRAISING CONCERT Alban Berg Piano Sonata GALA A showcase performance Op 1 featuring talented Richard Wagner Prelude to Adam Gorb New work soloists from Junior RNCM. Frédéric Chopin Polonaise- Act 3 from Lohengrin Fri 29 Apr Sergei Prokofiev Adagio- Free admission, no ticket 7.30pm fantaisie in A flat major Allegro from Piano required RNCM Concert Hall Op 61 Concerto No 3 in C major This is the first of two Op 26 RNCM staff recitals this RNCM SYMPHONY John Williams Summon the season. See page 23 for Heroes details of the other event Sat 07 May ORCHESTRA Giuseppe Verdi Quartet 7.30pm in this series. Pietro Mascagni While Shostakovich from Rigoletto RNCM Theatre Intermezzo from struggled to sincerely Free admission, no ticket Astor Piazzolla Verano Cavalleria Rusticana incorporate social required Porteno MANCHESTER Tue 26 Apr Aram Khachaturian Piano realism into his Evelyn Glennie A Little Prayer WIND 6pm Concerto in D flat major writing, Khachaturian String Carole Nash Recital Room Op 38 represented this Luigi Boccherini ORCHESTRA Dmitri Shostakovich ideology at its best. Quintet in C major Op 37 Fri 29 Apr Martin Ellerby Prelude Symphony No 5 in D minor Also premiered in 1937, THE CONTEM- Christopher Clark for Hampstead Heath Op 47 his Piano Concerto was - Sat 30 Apr 8pm conductor Adam Swayne Go Down Hoe- PORARY PIANO an overnight sensation Harish Shankar conductor RNCM Theatre Martin James Bartlett Down and brought the composer RNCM pianists perform a Iyad Sughayer piano piano Edward Gregson Concerto recognition in the West. short concert of works by Lynne Dawson soprano for Piano and Wind Shostakovich’s Fifth This dazzling, rarely MARIKA Toru Takemitsu, Charles Le Yu percussion ‘Homages’ Symphony was hailed as performed piece is full Ives, Thomas Adès, Carla KLAMBATSEA Samuel R Hazo Exultate an unprecedented success of spicy harmonies and Future Talent Musicians Bley, Luigi Dallapiccola, BUTTERFLY IN BLOOD Adam Gorb Yiddish Dances Igor Stravinsky, Joseph when it premiered in colourful orchestration RNCM Alumni Orchestra Based on Fania Fenelon’s Frank Ticheli Amazing Shaw and Erik Satie. 1937, appealing to the and continues to excite Project Jam Sandwich book Women’s Orchestra of Grace public and critics and intrigue to this Tickets £12 Free admission, no ticket Auschwitz, Butterfly in Robert Sheldon Danzas alike. For the audience, day. Promoted by Benedict Conway required most of whom had Blood is an avant-garde Cubanas Tickets £17 £14 FS lost loved ones under chamber opera involving Ralph Corrigan, Clare Stalin’s regime, the + classical contemporary Deady conductors Largo movement captured and free improvisational Adam Swayne piano 6.30pm Thu 28 Apr the profound and shared parts. 7pm Carole Nash Recital Room Tickets £8 grief of a people in Tickets £17 Carole Nash Recital Room Promoted by Manchester Wind mourning. Only Beethoven SPOTLIGHT Silène et Promoted by Marika Klambatsea Orchestra had survived the Soviet Bacchus - The Almira Supported by Arts Council England PIANO ban until this energetic Consort present Campra’s RECITAL PRIZE symphony was unveiled secular cantata Silène and Shostakovich 5 was and two sacred duets by Talented students from the the product of the Schütz. RNCM School of Keyboard composer yielding to Studies play a variety Free admission, appease the authorities, of piano repertoire to no ticket required whilst mocking them in compete for this prize, the process of creating which this evening is great art. adjudicated by Piers Lane. Tickets £7 6 7 Sat 07 May Wed 11 May Fri 13 May 7pm 7.30pm From 6.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Theatre RNCM Studio Theatre OLDHAM RNCM JAZZ SPOTLIGHT CHORAL COLLECTIVE TRIPLE-BILL SOCIETY 90 YEARS OF BIG BAND The first of two Spotlight JOY, TEARS AND Mike Hall director Triple-Bills this Summer CONSOLATION features chamber groups from Tonight, the RNCM Jazz across the RNCM, including a Johannes Brahms Requiem Collective charts the brass quintet and a couple Op 45 (sung in English) evolution of the Big of rather unusual line-ups Antonín Dvořák Te Deum Band; from the heady days – string quartet and sax, Op 103 of seedy Harlem clubs, and a trio of harp, sax and Robert Schumann Piano through mass popularity of cello. Concerto in A minor Op 54 the 30s, near extinction in the 60s to the cutting 6.30pm Latitude Brass Nigel P Wilkinson edge of today’s art music. Quintet - Four UK premières conductor For large jazz ensemble, of New Zealand contemporary Angela Lloyd-Mostyn piano Big Band has always been works Yvette Bonner soprano the format of choice. 7.10pm String Q + Sax James Cleverton baritone - Modern Music for an The East Lancs Sinfonia If you’re a Big Band fan, then you’ll love Too Darn Thu 12 May unconventional quintet Tickets £15 7.30pm Hot, the collaboration 7.50pm The Marisca Trio - Promoted by Oldham Choral Society RNCM Studio Theatre between the RNCM Big Band Songs without words and students from our School of Vocal Studies Thu 12 May CHRIS WOOD Our second Spotlight Triple- 6-9pm Bill featuring songs from and Opera and Popular Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer Music programme on 24 The John Rylands Library across the world takes place whose music reveals his love for the on Wed 08 Jun (see p18). and 25 June. See p28/29 unofficial history of the English speaking for details. NEON people. With gentle intelligence he weaves Free admission, no ticket required Tickets £10 FS SONNETS the tradition with his own contemporary + THE JOHN RYLANDS parables. Always direct and unafraid to speak his mind, his songwriting has been 6.30pm LIBRARY AND RNCM praised for its surgical clarity. On this RNCM Studio Theatre LIGHT UP THE BARD visit, he’ll be showcasing his new album, Sat 14 May SPOTLIGHT French The RNCM and The John a recording that includes Chris’ reflections From 12.30pm Connections - Wind Rylands Library join on minor league football, empty nest Various venues Quintet transcriptions together for an evening syndrome, learning to swim, Cook-In Sauce of orchestral music by of Shakespearean-related and not least, the Gecko as a metaphor for JUNIOR RNCM Debussy and Gershwin. themes, with music and contemporary society! NEW MUSIC readings in this event Free admission, no ticket A past collaborator of Chris Wood’s, Martin specially curated for DAY required Carthy, visits the RNCM with his daughter Manchester After Hours. New Music Day showcases Eliza on 02 June. See p15 for details. Free admission, no ticket the work of Junior RNCM Tickets £15 FS required composition students, with concerts featuring solos and chamber works as well as pieces written for the Junior RNCM New Music Ensemble. For full details, please contact the Junior RNCM on 0161 907 5264. Free admission, no ticket required 8 9 Sun 15 May Sat 21 May SOLD OUT, returns only 7.30pm 7.30pm RNCM Theatre RNCM Theatre KRONOS MAX RICHTER QUARTET ENSEMBLE San Francisco’s Grammy Award- Hailed as the most influential composer winning Kronos Quartet begin of his generation, Richter’s soundworld their first national UK tour for blends a classical training with modern many years with a programme technology, with work including a series that includes Terry Riley’s One of acclaimed solo albums on FatCat and Earth, One People, One Love, the Deutsche Grammophon, concert and ballet world première of a new piece music, and scores for award-winning films by Martin Green of Lau, works including Waltz with Bashir and HBO’s by Laurie Anderson and Komitas, The Leftovers. and arrangements including The In this show, the Max Richter Ensemble will Who’s Baba O’Riley. perform From Sleep, a new piece drawn from The evening also features three UK his eight-hour landmark work, described premières: Sunjata’s Time by Fodé by Richter as his ‘personal lullaby for a Lassana Diabaté from Trio da Kali frenetic world’. The first half will feature plus music by Aleksandra Vrebalov a performance of The Blue Notebooks, and Garth Knox (who also happens which Pitchfork described as ‘a gigantic to be a Visiting Tutor in Viola beacon for composers searching for ways to at the RNCM). These pieces are introduce dance music’s visceral qualities all part of the 50 for the Future into the classical sphere.’ initiative, in which the Barbican For more cutting-edge music this season and Serious partner Carnegie Hall check out Kronos Quartet (15 May) and and Kronos Quartet, among others, Markus Stockhausen and Florian Weber are creating 50 exciting new works (31 May) at the RNCM. See p10 and p14 over the next five years for Kronos for details. and then other string quartets to play in the future. Tickets £25 Promoted by Serious in association with RNCM Kronos demonstrate a mastery of contemporary music styles from minimalism to metal, breaking down musical boundaries, and remaining unique in their progressive vision of chamber music. Experiment further with cutting- edge music this season when the Max Richter Ensemble (21 May) and Markus Stockhausen and Florian Weber (31 May) visit the RNCM. See p11 and p14 for details. Tickets £25 Promoted by Serious in association with RNCM + 6.30pm RNCM Studio Theatre SPOTLIGHT Toy Boat – Experiments in time, groove, harmony and improvisation Free admission, no ticket required

10 11 Sat 28 May Sun 29 May 7.30pm 2pm Sat 21 May RNCM Theatre RNCM Concert Hall Sun 29 May 7.30pm 6.30pm RNCM Concert Hall TEDDY THOMPSON RNCM YOUNG RNCM Concert Hall RICHARD WITH KELLY JONES EXPLORERS JOSEPH GOODE (piano) + SUNNY OZELL CONCERT TAWADROS On their début collaboration, Little OUD RECITAL FOR Franz Schubert Piano Windows, Teddy Thompson and American SERIES Sonata in C minor D 958 singer Kelly Jones give audiences engaging MUSIC FROM DISTANT COPTS IN NEED Franz Schubert Piano views of the joys and sorrows of love and GALAXIES One of the world’s Sonata in A major D 959 the vagaries of the human heart. leading oud performers Franz Schubert Piano John Williams Star Wars Suite Longtime mutual admirers, Teddy and Kelly John Adams Short Ride in a Fast and composers, Joseph Sonata in B flat minor Tawadros, performs a D 960 first sang together at LA’s Club Largo Machine in 2011. The songs that they’ve written Gustav Holst The Planets fundraising concert in aid American pianist Richard since capture complex emotions with simple of the charity Copts in Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra Goode has been hailed for honesty. You can hear the give and take, the Need. There will also be a Tom Newall conductor music-making of tremendous dynamics, the occasional imperfections, the pre-concert Copts in Need emotional power, depth deep human soul of performances. Join us for the launch of our presentation in our Forman and expressiveness and new Young Explorers Concert Lecture Theatre at 5.30pm. After their first London show sold out in has been acknowledged Series for children. For this eight minutes and their Celtic Connections Tickets £15 worldwide as one special event we’re delighted Promoted by Copts in Need concert in Glasgow had to transfer from a of today’s leading to be working in partnership small theatre to the 2,000 capacity Royal interpreters of classical with the Piccadilly Symphony Concert Hall, Teddy and Kelly are looking and romantic music. Orchestra to bring you a forward to their first national tour together. Tonight he will perform programme full of epic music, Schubert’s final three Tickets £20 from a galaxy far, far away… sonatas, written during Promoted by Serious in association with RNCM For full details please see the final few months of the www.rncm.ac.uk/youngexplorers composer’s life. Tickets £12, under-16s £10, ‘There are brilliant family ticket £35 (4 people) young things among pianists, and there are Supported by Arts Council England wise old birds, who show their wisdom naturally in everything they do, without grandstanding or elaborate highlighting of details. Richard Goode is one of the latter sort.’ Daily Telegraph

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12 13 ‘There’s a strong telepathic interplay between Stockhausen and Thu 02 Jun Weber and the music they 7.30pm create – how they get RNCM Concert Hall from A to B in the magic of the moment is very beautiful.’ Wed 01, Thu 09 MARTIN AND Dr Michelle Castelletti, and Thu 16 Jun ELIZA CARTHY Artistic Director 6pm RNCM Theatre It’s just over 50 years since Martin Carthy recorded his iconic, eponymous first album and more than 20 years RNCM OPERA since his daughter Eliza’s recording début. Martin is a legendary ballad singer and guitarist who has influenced SCENES generations of artists, including Bob Dylan, Paul RNCM singers further Simon and Richard Thompson, while Eliza has been twice their on-stage nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and is a multiple experience in these winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Stalwarts of Tue 31 May the folk scene, the father and daughter duo unite for a 7.30pm performances of excerpts handful of UK dates. RNCM Concert Hall drawn from a wide range of operas. By the way, on the subject of folk dynasties, Teddy MARKUS Free admission, no Thompson (son of Richard and Linda) plays the RNCM with ticket required American singer Kelly Jones on 28 May. See p12 for STOCKHAUSEN AND details. FLORIAN WEBER Tickets £18 £15 FS INSIDE OUT Fri 03 Jun + Markus Stockhausen trumpet, flugelhorn 7.30pm 6.30pm Florian Weber piano Wed 01 Jun Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Studio Theatre 5pm To complete our ‘triptych’ of events that SPOTLIGHT 47 plus 4 strings – An intricate dance RNCM Concert Hall share deep conceptual thought behind the live RNCM between the harp and cello performance (see p10 and p11 to read about GUITARS Free admission, no ticket required the Kronos Quartet and Max Richter Ensemble RNCM respectively) we’ve programmed an acoustic jazz SYMPHONY Music to include: set by Inside Out. This duo brings together two Steve Reich Electric of Europe’s finest improvising musicians – Markus CHORUS Counterpoint (version Stockhausen and Florian Weber. Both classically- Antonín Dvořák Mass in D for soloist and guitar trained performers, they share a deep interest in major Op 86 ensemble) Roland Dyens Brésils for the process of creative expression, of looking Stuart Overington ‘inside’ and ‘out’ for deeper musical insights. eight guitars conductor Nigel Westlake Jovian They’ve played together since 2008 and have not In a concert designed to Moons lost their love of experimentation. Rich and provide sanctuary from Toru Takemitsu All in colourful compositions from both musicians can the horrors of Rush Hour Twilight be heard, inspired improvisation and intuitive (the whole performance Rory Russell conductor musicality unite to become a harmonious entity lasts 45 minutes) the while unimaginable sounds are coaxed from the RNCM Symphony Chorus will An end of year instruments. There’s a beautiful telepathy perform Dvořák’s beautiful performance showcasing between Markus and Florian and in their live Mass in D major scored the work of our Guitar shows, they allow the audience to share in for choir and organ under Department featuring a their musical dialogue, waiting for the ‘magical the baton of RNCM alumnus mixture of solo, chamber moment’ to manifest on stage. Stuart Overington, who and ensemble pieces. Tickets £18 £15 FS is currently Director of Tickets £8 FS Chetham’s School of Music + Chamber Choir, Director of 6.30pm Hallé Youth Training Choir RNCM Studio Theatre and Director of Hallé SPOTLIGHT The Northern Saxophone Project - Ancoats Community Choir. Orchestral Colours for Saxophone Ensemble Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket required required 14 15 Sun 05 Jun 11am – 4pm Carole Nash Recital Room Sun 05 Jun Sat 04 Jun 3pm 7pm MUSIC IN MANCHESTER RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Theatre DURING WORLD WAR I RNCM ALUMNI ARCHIVES, PRESENTATIONS AND RNCM SESSION PERFORMANCES CONCERT Join RNCM staff and ORCHESTRA As part of the Manchester Histories Festival, + SUPPORT student performers for we’ve put together a fascinating day that examines a celebratory concert Andy Stott director the importance of music in Manchester during the marking the reunion of First World War. We begin with a two hour drop- Once again, it’s time for the hugely popular RNCM Sat 04 Jun 7.30pm alumni from the School in session with RNCM archivist Heather Roberts, of Wind, Brass and Session Orchestra to take command of our Theatre 2.30pm Sun 05 Jun during which many previously unseen treasures Percussion. stage. This time, you’ll be able to hear recent RNCM Studio Theatre from the RNCM archives will be made available songs by the likes of Clean Bandit and Ella to examine and explore. This is a wonderful Saxophonist Rob Buckland Henderson as well as favourites such as Stevie CITY OF opportunity to connect with the College’s wartime and percussionist Simone Wonder, Michael Bublé and Jamiroquai. MANCHESTER characters and to find out about what was happening Rebello will be joined by Our Session Orchestra is a brilliant microcosm of musically in the city during the period. guest artists from the OPERA world of brass and wind, what goes on here at the RNCM. It features the At 1pm, we begin the first of three research talents of students from all Schools of Study and CARMEN for a concert of special talks themed around music in Manchester during collaborations and popular is a hotbed of creativity. These gigs are high GEORGES BIZET the First World War and the period leading up to octane and genre-hopping – you can hear fantastic repertoire. Nigel Machin artistic the conflict. These talks will be presented by arrangements that utilise a large number of Tickets £10 director Professor Barbara Kelly (Director of Research, musicians and singers so it gives songs that were Juan Ortuño music RNCM), Geoff Thomason (Deputy Librarian, RNCM) and originally written and arranged for say a 4-5 director RNCM PhD student Rachel Johnson and they will be piece band a whole new lease of life. That’s why followed by a Q & A session. these shows are always so popular, with a large Tickets £18 and loyal following who love the energy on stage. Promoted by City of Manchester This event ends with a performance by RNCM Opera students of Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and So if you haven’t experienced the RNCM Session Piano (1915), which was performed at the Royal Orchestra in full flow, why not try it and see what Manchester College of Music during the war. all the fuss is about? Read more about Manchester Histories Festival at PS The Session Orchestra will be on stage at 8pm. www.manchesterhistoriesfestival.org.uk Tickets £12 FS Free admission, no ticket required 16 17 ‘Are you ready to listen to nine hours of fantastic music, not knowing what to expect? You’re going to get the very best of our students choosing what they Tue 07 Jun Fri 10 Jun love doing the most Sat 11 Jun 7.30pm 7.30pm From 10am and that’s very rare. RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Studio Theatre It is outside of the RNCM Concert Hall prescribed course JOYCE AND ROSS of action in their RNCM GOLD course. This is their MICHAEL LEADBEATER’S chance to shine on MEDAL KENNEDY GREAT BRITISH their own instrument COMPETITION in their own words.’ AWARD FOR SONGBOOK The RNCM’s star performers and Dr Michelle composers compete for an RNCM Following his sell-out, THE SINGING Castelletti, Artistic Gold Medal, the College’s most critically acclaimed West Director prestigious annual award, in OF STRAUSS End concerts, award- a full day of performances in Senior students from winning musical director front of a distinguished panel the RNCM School of Vocal Ross Leadbeater celebrates from across the music industry. Studies and Opera compete the music of the Great in the finals of this British Songbook. From Ten performers give a 30-minute prestigious annual award, Ivor Novello to Andrew free choice programme each singing a programme Lloyd Webber, Lionel throughout the day, so it is a of Lieder or arias by Bart to Leslie Bricusse great opportunity to hear our Richard Strauss. This with The Beatles, Queen most talented students playing year’s adjudicating panel and even some Gilbert the music they truly love as will include baritone & Sullivan, there is they have put the programmes Alan Opie. something for everyone in together themselves. There will this show. also be the opportunity to hear Tickets £10 new works by four selected RNCM Tickets £18 Promoted by Ross Leadbeater composers, each written for Productions Ltd Sat 11 Jun the most recent winner of the Wed 08 Jun Chamber Ensemble of the Year, 7.30pm the Abelia Saxophone Quartet. From 6.30pm RNCM Theatre RNCM Studio Theatre This is a chance to see the JULIAN ARGÜELLES stars of the future on the cusp SPOTLIGHT of their professional careers TETRA TRIPLE-BILL and today’s winners will also Julian Argüelles saxophone perform a recital at London’s Our second Spotlight Kit Downes piano Wigmore Hall next year as part Triple-Bill features songs Sam Lasserson bass of their prize. So, we would from across the globe, James Maddren drums love you to come along to with an enticing selection support our students and be Julian Argüelles has built a of American, Scottish and part of this exciting process… reputation for presenting top Czech music for voice and and to see if you agree with class small band post-bop that piano (and a flute!) the judges?! now spans almost three decades. 6.30pm Songs for the His current quartet Tetra brings For a detailed schedule Common Man – Works by together the cream of Britain’s including details of performers Aaron Copland and William young, contemporary jazz talent and programmes when it becomes Bolcom and they released their début album available, please visit 7.10pm Wee Bit of Scots – last October. Julian said of the www.rncm.ac.uk/goldmedal An evening of Scots song creative process: ‘I love working Free admission, no ticket with these guys...These brilliant Meet Czech Music! required 7.50pm young musicians can take anything – A childish view of the I throw at them. They have no fear world and nature and it’s always a lot of fun.’ Free admission, no ticket Tickets £18 £15 FS required 18 19 Sun 12 Jun From 11am Tue 14 Jun RNCM DAY 7.30pm OF SONG RNCM Concert Hall Tue 14 Jun THE POET’S ECHO 7.30pm FRETWORK Carole Nash Recital Room The poet takes centre stage for this WITH NARRATOR year’s RNCM Day of Song with a programme SCHUBERT inspired by the work of Victor Hugo, THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Goethe Orlando Gough The World Encompassed PRIZE and many other great writers. Four When Drake set sail from Plymouth on 15 November Senior students from the concerts throughout the day showcase the 1577, he took with him four viol players, who RNCM School of Strings talents of our singers, including the almost certainly had no idea that they were about compete for this annual RNCM Songsters – a special, auditioned to embark on such an epic journey. The viols prize, which celebrates group of our finest singers and pianists – played music to accompany Drake’s private worship the music of Schubert. and we also welcome the English baritone – he prayed for over an hour each day, and sang Tickets £8 and RNCM alumnus Philip Smith for the 4pm hymns to the viols; they also entertained him recital. The song expert Richard Stokes while he ate; he also used the pacific nature gives a masterclass, and at the end of the music to impress the natives in South of the day, join us in the bar to hear America, and then also in Java, where the king acoustic performances of great poetry returned the favour. from the world of popular music! Fretwork have commissioned Orlando Gough (Birds For full details, please see on Fire) to use these scant facts to create a www.rncm.ac.uk/dayofsong journey in sound that charts Drake’s remarkable feat. Music from the 16th century prior to Drake’s departure is woven seamlessly into 4pm a through-composed piece of music lasting 70 RNCM Concert Hall minutes complete with narrator. Drake stopped SONGS FOR LOVERS, in Morocco, The Cape Verde Islands, Brazil, Argentina, Patagonia; passed through the MADMEN AND Straights of Magellan (where he lost one of VAGABONDS the sister ships, and another turned back, and where Drake’s ship, the Pelican, was renamed PHILIP SMITH (baritone) The Golden Hinde); then up the coast of Chile, JONATHAN FISHER (piano) Mexico, California, across the Pacific Ocean to Programme to include music by Franz the Moluccas, Java, then round Cape of Good Hope, Schubert, Judith Bingham and John Sierra Leone and finally Plymouth in September Ireland, set to texts by Johann Wolfgang 1580. von Goethe, Charles Baudelaire, and Tickets £17 £14 FS John Masefield. Tickets £10

6pm RNCM Concert Hall THE POET’S ECHO RNCM SONGSTERS Programme to include music by Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, Roger Quilter and Franz Schubert, set to texts by Alexander Pushkin, William Shakespeare and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Tickets £10 Day Ticket £30 20 21 Fri 17 Jun 2.30pm Forman Lecture Theatre Fri 17 Jun OPERA 1.15pm Wed 15 - Thu 16 Thu 16 Jun RNCM Concert Hall NORTH: Jun 5.15pm HELEN KRIZOS INSIDE RNCM Studio Theatre OPERA IN FOCUS: FORUM PLUS: AND PAUL JANES Opera North’s concert COLIN COLIN staging of Wagner’s epic (piano duo) Ring Cycle has won universal MATTHEWS MATTHEWS IN RNCM STAFF RECITAL acclaim. To accompany the Our In Focus series performance of the complete CONVERSATION Claude Debussy Epigraphes cycle at The Lowry, Salford continues to embrace the Colin Matthews discusses his antiques work of living composers, Quays (13-18 June), Opera music with General Manager Camille Saint-Saëns North and the RNCM present offering a rare opportunity of the BBC Philharmonic, Variations on a Theme of a unique exploration of to delve into their music Simon Webb, including a Beethoven Op 35 Wagner’s monumental – and and mind. closer look at his most This is the second of two controversial – achievement This Summer, it’s the turn recent String Quartet No 5, RNCM staff recitals this in the company of leading of British composer Colin premiered in 2015. season. See p7 for details academics as well as Matthews as he celebrates Free admission, no ticket of the other event in this singers and production his 70th birthday. Colin required series. staff from Opera North, who has strong connections with will provide live musical Manchester – he is a Fellow Free admission, no ticket illustrations. You can of the RNCM and the Hallé’s required 7.30pm read more about Opera Composer Emeritus. Join us RNCM Concert Hall North’s production at as the celebrated writer www.theringcycle.co.uk talks about the thoughts, RNCM NEW beliefs, motivations and Tickets £10 stories behind his music. ENSEMBLE No concessions Promoted by Opera North and RNCM String For full details, please see Colin Matthews Quartet No 5 www.rncm.ac.uk/colinmatthews Lucas Garner New work Colin Matthews Contraflow Wed 15 Jun John Uren New work 7.30pm Mark Heron, Tom Goff, Edmon Philharmonic Studio, Levon conductors MediaCityUK Free admission, no ticket BBC required PHILHARMONIC Programme to include: Colin Matthews Violin Concerto Colin Matthews Broken Symmetry Clark Rundell conductor Daniel Pioro violin Free admission, by ticket only. Once open, ticket applications will be available at www.bbc.co.uk/tickets

Opera North’s Das Rheingold, 2011: Michael Druiett as Wotan (Photograph: Clive Barda) 22 23 Sat 18 Jun From 11am Mon 20 Jun Tue 21 Jun RNCM 7.30pm 7.30pm PIANO DAY Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room FANDANGO! DIVERSO VIOLA PRIZE Spain is the focus of this year’s The RNCM’s leading viola RNCM Piano Day as we immerse STRING players compete for the ourselves in an intense few hours QUARTET annual Viola Prize which of performance (there are six RNCM INTERNATIONAL tonight is adjudicated by concerts in total) that explores ARTIST DIPLOMA Steven Burnard, Principal Spanish and Latin American Viola with the BBC repertoire in all its colourful RECITAL Philharmonic. glory. Our own students will be Ludwig van Beethoven joined by musicians from Junior String Quartet No 4 in Tickets £8 RNCM and Chetham’s to perform C minor Op 18 repertoire by composers such György Kurtág Officium as Mompou, Granados, Ginastera, breve in memoriam Andreae de Falla and Albéniz. This Szervánszky Op 28 evocative programme includes Johannes Brahms String Granados’ Goyescas - a piece Quartet No 1 in C minor inspired by the paintings of Goya Op 51 No 1 - and Artur Pizarro will bring Tickets £10 FS to life Albéniz’s impressionist evocations of Spain when he performs Iberia. Dance is also a very strong theme throughout so expect a few surprises along Mon 20 Jun the way… 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/pianoday WIGAN MUSIC SERVICE 5pm RNCM Concert Hall GENERATIONS - A CELEBRATION OF GOYESCAS COMMUNITY MUSIC PIANISTS FROM THE RNCM MAKING Enrique Granados Goyescas Op 11 Three generations of musicians from across Tickets £5 the Wigan Borough join forces to present a unique 7pm evening of light choral RNCM Concert Hall music and Big Band jazz featuring the multi award- ARTUR PIZARRO winning Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra and 150 voices Isaac Albéniz Iberia (complete) from Wigan Community Choir Tickets £15 and Age UK Wigan Silver Choir. SPECIAL TICKET OFFER – buy a ticket for the evening concert Tickets £6 and attend the daytime concerts Promoted by Wigan Music Service for free

24 25 Thu 23 Jun 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Wed 22 Jun 7.30pm CHAMBER RNCM Concert Hall ORCHESTRA Paul Hindemith Konzertmusik Op 41 COLIN CURRIE Richard Strauss Serenade in E flat (percussion) major Op 7 Elliott Carter Figment V Johannes Brahms Symphony No 4 in Per Nørgård Fire Over Water from E minor Op 98 I Ching Philippe Bach conductor Toshio Hosokawa Reminiscence RNCM alumnus Philippe Bach returns Bruno Mantovani Bruno: Moi, Jeu to conduct our Chamber Orchestra Iannis Xenakis Rebonds B and a programme based around the Karlheinz Stockhausen Vibra-Elufa Meiningen style of performing the Rolf Wallin Realismos Mágicos music of Brahms. Hailed as ‘the world’s finest and Philippe is Principal Conductor most daring percussionist’ (The of the 68-piece Meiningen Court Spectator), Colin Currie is a solo Orchestra in Germany. In October and chamber artist at the peak 1885, the very same orchestra of his powers. Championing new performed the world première of music at the highest level, he is Brahms’ Fourth Symphony conducted by the soloist of choice for many of the composer himself. For tonight’s today’s leading composers including concert, we will replicate the Steve Reich and Nico Muhly. Indeed, staging of the première, using a his unrivalled commitment to reduced orchestra, similar to that commissioning and creating new work which appeared on the opera house was recognised in 2015 by the Royal stage that evening. Philharmonic Society who awarded him the Instrumentalist of the Year Tickets £15 FS Award for his achievements. + After making its 5-star début at 5.30pm the BBC Proms in 2006, the Colin Carole Nash Recital Room Currie Group took on the role of SPOTLIGHT Self-portrait before ambassadors for Steve Reich’s - Brahms’ Third Piano Quartet seminal piece Drumming, which Death they have performed at venues and Free admission, no ticket required festivals across the globe with the + composer’s personal endorsement. It’s on record that Reich said 6.30pm of their interpretation: ‘It was Forman Lecture Theatre expressionist, it was a brand new LEARN MORE Pre-concert talk take...And I thought, oh, we never Brahms, the 4th and the Meiningen could have done it that way...’ Experience - Brahms scholar Nicole Grimes discusses the composer’s final Tickets £17 £14 FS ‘He’s one the best percussionists in the symphony and his connection with the world. He’s daring and his programmes are + Meiningen Court Orchestra ahead of incredible. Such energy in his playing and 6.30pm tonight’s concert. so much precision. Some people think Carole Nash Recital Room Free admission, no ticket required percussion is just about making noise. I say come and get ready to be transported SPOTLIGHT Dust to Dust - The to the beautiful world of colour!’ Story of Our Star Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director Free admission, no ticket required 26 27 ‘Too Darn Hot’….What better material to perform in collaboration, will be joined terms of staging, lighting and late June at the height of Fri 24 and Sat 25 Jun by students from our School of costumes, as Stefan Janski, who Summer? This is a fabulous 7.30pm Vocal Studies and Opera and has brought his amazing vision performance opportunity for RNCM Theatre the enthusiastic students Popular Music programme to bring to so many RNCM Operas, will in the RNCM School of Vocal these stunning songs to life. direct these concerts. Studies and Opera to develop RNCM BIG their microphone technique This project is a fantastic To invite our singers to be and skills and to perform BAND AND opportunity for our students to part of our Big Band story excellent repertoire with demonstrate their versatility, is a bold and exciting move. Mike and the RNCM Big Band SINGERS We can’t wait to unleash some TOO DARN HOT to work in new ways and to in the Opera Theatre. learn useful skills outside jazzy talent, so come along Today’s profession demands Mike Hall music director their ‘regular’ teaching and be part of this incredible versatile artists and Stefan Janski director story. these highly talented SVS/ scenarios. Our vocal students Opera singers will most For two nights only, we’re will audition and when we’ve Tickets £18 £15 FS certainly not disappoint selected our 15/16 singers, going to transport you back + as they strut their stuff in time to the halcyon days they’ll receive special before potentially cruising of the Big Band era, taking in training for these shows, Sat 25 Jun the world employed as including workshops with the 6.30pm entertainers on luxury classic standards such as Too 28 wonderful Tina May, a legend in Carol Nash Recital Room liners…’ Darn Hot, On the Street Where the jazz and Big Band world who SPOTLIGHT Charlie Chaplin: Stefan Janski, Director You Live and What is This Thing Called Love? For this journey you may well have seen perform Easy Street - A screening of through the music of the 30s, here at the RNCM. the 1917 film with a live 40s and 50s, we’ll be guided And to evoke the balmy jazz piano score. by Mike Hall and the RNCM Big clubs of the period, there may Free admission, no ticket ‘Well, how times have Band who for this exciting well be a few surprises in required changed. Twenty years ago I felt I was on a crusade to bring jazz into the mainstream at the RNCM; to become practised by the many rather than the ‘slightly naughty’ music-making of a few rebels! And now we, the Big Band, are teaming up with the esteemed School of Vocal Studies and Opera plus friends from our Popular Music programme, benefit- ting from their skills in stagecraft and theatricals and, not least, singing. The crusade has to be complete now!’ Mike Hall, Music Director

‘This is a different kind of 29 collaboration - a new mix. The repertoire is fabulous and it’ll really get the audience excited. There’s something for everyone - the swing and Big Band era will appeal to the jazz audience and it’s a new angle for the opera audience to experience how versatile our vocal students can be. Stefan is glamming it up for us - in a ‘Hollywood’ kind of way - red carpets etc. It’s also sadly his last project with us before he retires.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director Sat 25 Jun Mon 27 Jun Thu 30 Jun 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room MANCHESTER CHRISTOPHER SPECIAL BEETHOVEN ROWLAND VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA RNCM SUMMER Ludwig van Beethoven CHAMBER CONCERT Egmont Overture Special Virtuosi musicians Sergei Rachmaninov Piano ENSEMBLE OF perform orchestral and Concerto No 2 in C minor THE YEAR solo pieces in their end Op 18 Tonight’s competition of Summer term concert. Antonín Dvořák Symphony brings together the No 6 in D major Op 60 Tickets £7 winners of each of the Promoted by Special Virtuosi Frank Lennon conductor RNCM’s chamber music Tickets £10 prizes, held over the No concessions course of the academic Promoted by Manchester Beethoven year, to compete for this Orchestra prestigious annual award. Thu 30 Jun 7.30pm Tonight’s adjudicator RNCM Concert Hall will be cellist Jonathan Tunnell. The proceeds from tonight’s competition go WIGAN MUSIC towards the Christopher SERVICE Rowland International THE ANNUAL THREE Masterclass Fund. BRASS BANDS CONCERT Tickets £8 The youth brass bands of Sun 26 Jun Wigan, Bolton and Astley 11am-4pm join forces to present an evening of original RNCM SUMMER Tue 28 Jun compositions and popular 7.30pm items, combining the sound FAMILY DAY Carole Nash Recital Room of over 100 brass players. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MANCHESTER Tickets £7 CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL RNCM Promoted by Wigan Music Service For the second year running, we’re delighted to be COMPOSERS joining forces with MMU’s Manchester Children’s CONCERT Book Festival. Celebrating 100 years since the Adam Gorb, RNCM Head of birth of Roald Dahl, this will be an epic day of Composition, introduces music-making, theatre and storytelling for all this concert of new and ages… with a few surprise guests. recently premiered works, For full details, please see written by RNCM composers www.rncm.ac.uk/summerfamilyday and performed by their Tickets £5 adults. Admission for children is free, fellow students. by ticket only, accompanied by an adult. Free admission, no ticket Suitable for ages 4 and above. required Promoted by RNCM in association with Manchester Children’s Book Festival

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The first two parts of Respighi’s ‘Roman Thu 30 Jun triptych’ are featured. In Fountains of Rome, 7.30pm 33 we are transported to four separate fountains The Bridgewater Hall in this beautiful city at four different points in the day, the music evoking the light and RNCM SYMPHONY atmosphere of dawn, morning, midday then dusk. In the impressionistic Pines of Rome, the ‘This end of year ORCHESTRA second of Respighi’s technicolour portrayals concert will be Gioachino Rossini Semiramide Overture of the city, the composer combines his love of Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2 in G extraordinary, colourful and innovative orchestration with especially with Mark minor his interest in older music, particularly Elder’s involvement, Ottorino Respighi Fountains of Rome references to medieval plainchant and folk who has chosen an Giuseppe Verdi Prelude to Act 1 of La tunes. The imagery is strong in both pieces, exuberant Italian Traviata with generous splashes of orchestral colour, programme which I think Ottorino Respighi Pines of Rome exemplifying the eclectic, pictorial style will bring out the life and youthfulness conductors that won Respighi such popularity. Mark Elder, Harish Shankar of this exceptional Jeremy So piano Alongside the contributions by Rossini and orchestra. Sir Mark’s For our annual end of year RNCM Symphony Verdi, tonight’s programme is completed by interpretation of Orchestra concert we return to The Bridgewater Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, performed Respighi combined Hall for an evening bursting with colour and by RNCM International Artist Diploma student with the energy that our students have great energy. Jeremy So, conducted by RNCM Junior Fellow will create a unique Harish Shankar. With a programme chosen by our guest conductor explosion of colour.’ FS Sir Mark Elder, the focus is firmly on Italy. Tickets £18 £15 Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director Fri 01 Jul 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall FRITZ LANG’S Sat 02 Jul METROPOLIS From 10.15am (1927) Various venues FILM SCREENING WITH LIVE JUNIOR RNCM ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT PERFORMANCE Darius Battiwalla organ DAY Following our sell-out screening of Performance Day profiles Nosferatu in 2015, we’ve once again the work of the full range put our heads together with organist of Junior RNCM ensembles, Darius Battiwalla to select another including Symphony Orchestra, silent classic. This time, we’re Brass Band and Foundation screening the 2010 restored version Section as well as Wind, of Fritz Lang’s dystopian sci-fi epic, Vocal, Percussion and Jazz Metropolis (cert PG, 150 mins). Ensembles. For full details, This pioneering film, full of iconic contact the Junior RNCM on images of oppression and liberation, 0161 907 5264. was inspired by Lang’s first ever Free admission, no ticket Thu 14 Jul visit to New York in 1924: ‘I looked required 7.30pm into the streets – the glaring lights RNCM Studio Theatre and the tall buildings – and there I conceived Metropolis’. MANCHESTER With its spectacular sets and dazzling Sun 03 Jul special effects, its allegory of a 7pm INTERNATIONAL future where an exploited underclass RNCM Concert Hall works in subterranean machine halls to ROOTS ORCHESTRA support a small, pampered aristocracy STOCKPORT Michael Cretu director living in palatial skyscrapers became YOUTH Remi Adefeyisan creative producer a landmark of world cinema. Uniting musicians from 10 global Darius, a Tutor in Organ and Teaching ORCHESTRA nationalities and a bewildering range Improvisation at the RNCM, will 60TH ANNIVERSARY of genres, the Manchester International improvise a live score on the RNCM CONCERT Roots Orchestra has brought an exciting Concert Hall’s Hradetzky three manual new voice to the world music scene since Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky organ. He has been improvising piano its RNCM début in 2013. Its repertoire Violin Concerto in D major and organ accompaniments for silent deftly combines diverse musical influences Op 35 films since 2008 and plays regularly from haunting Eastern European melodies, Edward Elgar Enigma at silent film events at the National the delicate textures of Middle Eastern Variations Media Museum in Bradford. percussion and vocals; through to soulful SYO Composition Prize Winner Sufi chants of South Asia, joyful African S Tickets £12 F New work gospel - embracing rap, hip-hop, classical Tim Crooks, Chris Orton and jazz along the way. The orchestra conductors proudly boasts the talents of RNCM Jennifer Pike violin students alongside local and international musicians. This is the launch of the Tickets £10 Promoted by Stockport Youth Orchestra orchestra’s first tour as an independent ensemble and a welcome return to its RNCM home. Tickets £10 Supported by Community Arts North West and RNCM Engage

34 35 Fri 15 Jul Tue 19 Jul 8pm 7pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall CHORUSUK INTERNATIONAL RISE OF THE HEROES YOUTH Join ChorusUK and Manchester and Sheffield PHILHARMONIC Pops Orchestra as they 30TH ANNIVERSARY fly into action with CONCERT their supersonic concert William Walton Crown Imperial featuring the songs Flash ‘A Coronation March’ Gordon, Duel of the Maurice Ravel Bolero Fates (Star Wars) and My Gustav Mahler Symphony No 1 in Immortal (Daredevil). D major ‘Titan’ Tickets £11-£22.50 Stuart Hazelton, Jürgen Boelsen No concessions conductors Promoted by Fono Productions Tickets £10 Promoted by Bolton Music Service Sat 16 Jul 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall ALTRINCHAM CHORAL SOCIETY A NIGHT AT THE OPERA Programme to include excerpts from Verdi’s La traviata, Nabucco, Bizet’s Carmen, the hours in the English countryside. Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Sun 17 Jul In this performance of Arthur 2pm Onegin and more. Butterworth’s Creatures in the Night, RNCM Concert Hall Steven Roberts conductor the orchestra will recreate the Janet Fischer soprano sounds of the animals musically and Christopher Turner tenor RNCM YOUNG we’ll be using lighting and other Lydia Bryan piano clever tricks, immersing the audience EXPLORERS in the action! Tickets £12.50 Promoted by Altrincham Choral CONCERT SERIES A guest presenter will read a brand Society CREATURES OF THE NIGHT new narrative by the award-winning Arthur Butterworth Creatures of the children’s author Michael Rosen, Night we’ve commissioned illustrations to Camille Saint-Saëns Carnival of the project during this event and there Animals will also be audience participation… Daniel Parkinson conductor For full details, please see Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra www.rncm.ac.uk/youngexplorers The RNCM Concert Hall will be Tickets £10, under-16s £8, transformed into a world of adventure family ticket £30 (4 people) as we visit the Carnival of the Animals and recreate the passing of 36 37 with a love of trance, melody and Sat 23 Jul improvisation - the essence of the music 8pm played by this band. Supersonic brings RNCM Theatre together songs that have a universal dimension that speaks to everyone. Far THOMAS DE from tribute or imitation, the band’s music tells their own story through POURQUERY: this fabulously idiosyncratic material: SUPERSONIC the story of six Supersonic musicians, led by this most enigmatic of creative PLAY SUN RA artists from today’s French music scene. UK PREMIÈRE Wild and raw, joyful and urgent with Thomas De Pourquery vocals, saxophones / bags of character – do not miss this Fabrice Martinez trumpet, flugelhorn / opportunity to hear the band’s sole Laurent Bardainne tenor & baritone UK performance. saxophone / Arnaud Roulin piano, Tickets £17 FS keyboards / Frederick Galiay bass Promoted by RNCM and manchester jazz festival Edward Perraud drums The extraordinary French musicians + assembled here to play the music of Sun 6.30pm Ra come from as many diverse backgrounds RNCM Studio Theatre and styles as were epitomised by Sun Ra RNCM/mjf introduces: – the maverick experimental composer- ANDCHUCK!! Saxophonist Nick pianist, cosmic philosopher and pioneer Seymour’s band create fresh and funky of Afro-futurism. sounds and have fun, in a genre-melting Although these musicians evolved through kind of way. contemporary music, rock and electro, Free admission, by ticket only they are above all great jazz players, Sponsored by Manchester Arndale

rhythmically intense and harmonically Tue 26 Jul adventurous and the addition of 8pm saxophone brings out the band’s melodic RNCM Theatre drive yet further. THE IMPOSSIBLE With an on-stage presence that radiates easy humour and a delight in each GENTLEMEN other’s company that belies their ALBUM LAUNCH virtuosity, they return to mjf with Iain Dixon clarinet, saxophones / Mike music from their third album Let’s Get Walker guitar / Gwilym Simcock piano, Deluxe, which is launched this evening. keyboards / Steve Rodby bass / Adam ‘A rare and fabulous group of talents’ Nussbaum drums The Times The Anglo-American jazz supergroup, Tickets £17 FS now joined by multi-reeds maestro Iain Promoted by RNCM and manchester jazz festival Dixon, are five unique talents, all superb players in their own right, + joining forces to create sparkling, 6.30pm impassioned music with their trademark RNCM Studio Theatre powerful and immaculate performances. RNCM/mjf introduces: Their pieces effortlessly embrace jazz, LIEKO QUINTET Inspired by Robert raunchy blues and hard-rocking grooves Glasper, Cory Henry, Thelonious Monk and with the elegance of classical music, Miles Davis, pianist Alex Hill reinvents delicate vignettes, soaring improvised early blues and gospel music. lines and Pat Metheny-influenced guitar Free admission, by ticket only themes. The ensemble’s sound palette is Sponsored by Manchester Arndale manchester jazz festival 38 39 Sat 29 Oct Fri 25 Nov 7pm 7.30pm RNCM Theatre RNCM Concert Hall RNCM CHILINGIRIAN SESSION QUARTET ORCHESTRA WITH MASSIMO MERCELLI (flute) The first outing of the season for this Programme to include: exceptional blend of Krzysztof Penderecki musicians from the RNCM’s Flute Quartet Pop and Classical courses.

by the forces used by arranger Mon 28 Nov - Wed 27 Jul Eddie Sauter on the classic Stan Wed 02 Nov 8pm 7.30pm Sat 03 Dec Getz album Focus (itself inspired RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall by Bartók). But do not expect a RNCM JAMES IRWIN MITCHELL similar soundworld – here the RNCM mjf originals 2016 ensemble has been approached MOTTRAM from a very different perspective. SYMPHONY INTERNA- BEN COTTRELL: Propelled by the energy of doubled-up bass and drums and with ORCHESTRA TIONAL PIANO NEW SEEING subtle live electronics lending Programme to include: COMPETITION the sound a 21st century nuance, Sergei Prokofiev Symphony WORLD PREMIÈRE The fifth edition of New Seeing will be familiar yet No 5 in B flat major Op 100 Ben Cottrell conductor / Graham this major international at the same time completely South trumpet / Richard Jones Clark Rundell conductor competition for young unexpected. piano, celeste / Mick Bardon, pianists, culminating Stewart Wilson basses / Finlay Ben’s orchestral arrangements have in the Concerto Final Panter, Johnny Hunter drums / adorned the work of Laura Mvula, Thu 17 Nov on Saturday 03 December 7.30pm Tullis Rennie electronics / Gemma Everything Everything and Goldie; accompanied by the Royal RNCM Concert Hall Bass, Jon Martindale, Lucy McKay, Beats & Pieces, since their début Liverpool Philharmonic Steven Proctor, Laura Senior, at mjf 2008, have received awards Orchestra. Simmy Singh violins / Lucy Nolan, at home and abroad alongside JOHN Emma Richards, Kay Stephen violas consistent critical and audience TOMLINSON / Paul Grennan, Peggy Nolan, Alice acclaim. Wed 07, Fri 09, cellos / sound (bass), Purton Ben Seal Tickets £15 FS Sun 11, Tue 13, engineer Promoted by RNCM and manchester jazz festival DAVID OWEN Sponsored by Irwin Mitchell The sound of a string ensemble is Thu 15, Sat 17 Dec NORRIS (piano) RNCM Theatre something that we all recognise, + The RNCM’s International but New Seeing takes a completely 6.30pm Chair in Singing performs different approach to writing LA VIE RNCM Studio Theatre a recital of ‘Michelangelo for strings within a jazz(ish) RNCM/mjf introduces: in Song’, with music PARISIENNE setting. Jazz(ish) because Ben Saxophonist Jamie by Britten, Wolf and JACQUES OFFENBACH Cottrell’s writing for the Beats ODD POETS Stockbridge leads this celebration Shostakovich. Andrew Greenwood conducts & Pieces Big Band in particular of Dhafer Youssef, fusing Offenbach’s comic portrayal has always combined traditional traditional and contemporary oud of Parisian life, with jazz elements with inspirations music with jazz and rock. guest director Stuart taken from a multitude of musical Barker. styles. The instrumentation for Free admission, by ticket only Ben’s mjf-commissioned work Sponsored by Manchester Arndale premiered tonight is inspired Photo – Alex Bonney manchester jazz festival 40 coming soon 41 Get Involved

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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 sourced food from just a facilities, come in for a Concert Bar coffee and a pastry to a bite to eat from a quick The Concert Bar is open three course meal. lunch to a three course meal. We also offer a wide from 5pm until 11pm. range of wines, beers, During vacations the spirits, real ales and Concert Bar opens one hour soft drinks. prior to the performance time. Interval Drinks can We are open from 11am be ordered at the Concert Monday to Friday and Bar and in Brodsky. 5pm Saturday with last food orders at 7pm on Please note the above performance nights (and opening times are during 7.30pm for concerts with term time only and all an 8pm start time.) food items and menus are subject to availability. The RNCM has a wide Venues for Hire The FORMAN LECTURE THEATRE We recommend that you selection of excellent has a 150 capacity and reserve a table in Brodsky Outside of term time and purpose-built spaces to The RNCM CONCERT HALL has been completely by calling 0161 907 5353 at weekends, opening hours hire for every type of has a variety of flexible updated following the or 5252. are dependent upon the event, performance or options for your event refurbishment project. performance programme. conference. Following a with layouts including 445 It comes equipped with £7.1 million refurbishment capacity seating on Level projector, screen and is For full details of project completed in One, 610 capacity seating ideal for pre-concert menus and opening hours November 2014, our largest with our new Balcony and talks, discussions, please call 0161 907 5353 spaces have now been Oglesby Balcony open, or presentations and or 5252 or visit revitalised with excellent even up to 730 capacity screenings. www.rncm.ac.uk/brodsky or back of house facilities seating with a reduced www.rncm.ac.uk/cafeandbar and the latest technical stage size for amplified For full venue information set−up including a new bands and small ensembles and technical specifications lighting rig and sound (NB – please speak to our please visit Hospitality at Events Manager for further equipment. For dates and www.rncm.ac.uk/hire the RNCM rates please contact our details about the 730 Events Manager, Paul layout). The RNCM can also provide The RNCM also has a wide Cobban on catering for social 0161 907 5289 range of smaller spaces or The RNCM THEATRE boasts functions, events, [email protected] suitable for social or for full venue one of the largest black dinners, training events, functions, training information and technical box stages in Manchester meetings and conferences events, dinners, meetings specifications please visit with ample wing space, in our venues. Please orchestra pit, lighting and conferences. Please contact our Conference and www.rncm.ac.uk/hire contact our Conference and box area and space for Catering Team on 0161 907 Catering Team for further a sound desk in addition 5353 or hospitality@rncm. details on to the seated capacity. 0161 907 5353 ac.uk for further details. There are 607 seats in or [email protected] the Theatre with an option to place additional audience seating over the orchestra pit, taking the total maximum capacity to 657 seats. 44 45 Booking Information and Getting Here

Don’t forget Concessions Sonic Manchester Parking RNCM Concert Hall Lower Hall Upper Hall You can now select your For events promoted by The RNCM car park is Balcony own seat online when the RNCM, concessions Sonic Manchester is a free located next to the Oglesby Balcony booking tickets. Check are available to under scheme for students run by College in the basement this out at 18s, students, over 60s, the RNCM, The Bridgewater of the Sir Charles Groves Platform Seats www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on claimants (in receipt of Hall, BBC Philharmonic Hall of Residence, off Stage Seats JSA or ESA) and disabled and Manchester Camerata. Rosamund Street West. Open patrons (plus essential It gives students the from 5pm weekday evenings M1 Booking by phone companion). For other opportunity to buy tickets and anytime over weekends N1 STAGE 0161 907 5555 events please check from as little as £3. and bank holidays, costing with the Box Office on For more information £3.50 (payable on foot at C1 B1 D1 0161 907 5555 or go to and to sign up for the the machine). Closes at Additional stage seats Booking in person www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on latest offers, please 11.30pm. Other car parking E1 or by post for more details. Please visit www.facebook.com/ options are available at F1 G1 A18 note proof of concession sonicmanchester www.rncm.ac.uk/parking A11 U1 B21 Box Office, RNCM, B13 T1 may be required. For full C24 Artists and programmes C15 124 Oxford Road, D28 details of concessionary GG1 D17 Manchester M13 9RD are correct at the time E28 tickets please check with E16 Email & Mailing of going to press and F28 F15 the Box Office or visit G29 List we reserve the right to G14 www.rncm.ac.uk/discounts change artists and/or Booking Fees Keep in touch with events programmes without notice H1 H17 A booking fee of £1 per at the RNCM by joining I1 I17 if necessary. If you J1 J17 ticket applies to most our free mailing list for L27 Ticket Exchange have any comments please K1 K17 transactions. No booking regular updates. Sign P1 L1 contact Head of Marketing fee applies to tickets & Refunds up at www.rncm.ac.uk/ Q1 & Communications, bought in person at the For full details on ticket mailinglist or contact the R1 RNCM, 124 Oxford Road, Box Office. exchanges and our refund Box Office for details. S1 Manchester M13 9RD. P11 P23 policy please visit Q10 Q23 R9 www.rncm.ac.uk/exchanges R23 Payment S23 Please note, refunds are Access Payment can be made by Seating Plans only made in the case of a All public spaces and cash, Mastercard, Visa For a more detailed layout cancelled performance. facilities are accessible or Maestro. of our venues please to wheelchair users (via visit lifts). Free parking www.rncm.ac.uk/ RNCM Theatre seatingplans Enquiries by email Group Discounts is also available for disabled patrons, reserve Discounts are available STAGE [email protected] your space with reception for groups of 10 or more PIT SEATS on . Please A5 for all events promoted 0161 907 5300 contact the Box Office or B5 A11 Box Office opening by the RNCM. For more C4 B11 B29 visit www.rncm.ac.uk/ information contact the D4 C11 C29 hours access for detailed access Box Office or visit E4 D11 D29 information. F3 11am - 6pm www.rncm.ac.uk/groups E11 E29 Monday to Saturday G3 F11 F29 H2 (later on performance nights) G11 G29 J2 H11 H29 How to find us K1 Sunday 1 hour before Flexible Series J11 J29 L1 K11 K29 performances Oxford Road station is the M1 Save 15% or more on your L11 L29 (closed on non-performance Sundays) closest railway station N1 tickets by creating your M11 M29 and is a 15 minute walk P1 For full terms and own flexible series. Simply N11 N29 away. Go to www.tfgm.com Q choose at least 3 concerts P11 P29 conditions visit www.rncm. R1 for details of public Q11 Q29 ac.uk/whats-on/terms or you’d like to attend transport in the Greater S2 R11 R29 (marked with logo). contact the Box Office. FS T3 Manchester area. For more S11 S24 S29 U2 detailed information and T29 a map of how to find us U29 please visit www.rncm.

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