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P09P38 P15 P12 P10 Edward Elgar Introduction Fri 30 Sep and Allegro Op 47 7.30pm Lament for RNCM Concert Hall Frank Bridge Strings Josef Suk Serenade for Sat 24 Sep RNCM STRING Strings in E flat major Op 6 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room ORCHESTRA Andrew Watkinson director Henry Purcell Suite from André Nadais percussion King Arthur LIVE MUSIC Tickets £12 Emmanuel Séjourné Concerto FS NOW for Marimba and String Join us to mark the Orchestra centenary of Live Music Jimmy Webb: The Glen Now’s founder, Yehudi Mon 12 Sep Campbell Years celebrates Doors 7pm Menuhin, as LMN’s North the highlights of the RNCM Concert Hall West branch presents a 100+ recordings from the special concert showcasing Mon 03 Oct JIMMY WEBB Webb/Campbell songbook. performances by current 1.15pm Webb shares his treasure Carole Nash Recital Room THE GLEN CAMPBELL and alumni ensembles trove of anecdotes about inculding Slidin’ About YEARS his collaborations with and Project Jam Sandwich. MONDAY Campbell, revealing Grammy-winning songwriter www.livemusicnow.org.uk/ the personal side to Sat 24 Sep RECITAL Jimmy Webb has had chart- 7.30pm mencennw generational touchstones topping hits in a unique RNCM Concert Hall SERIES like Honey Come Back. Webb Tickets £10 range of genres over György Ligeti Six the last 50 years, from will perform duets with Promoted by Live Music Now in MANCHESTER association with RNCM Bagatelles for Wind country to pop to disco, a recorded Glen Campbell, Quintet with songs including Worst demonstrating the singular CAMERATA That Could Happen, Wichita talents of these two pop FROM HAYDN TO Prima Wind Quintet Lineman, Up, Up and Away icons and the indelible Mon 26 Sep Cressida McKay Frith flute HENDRIX 7.30pm and MacArthur Park. But mark their symbiotic Philippa Austin oboe Rolling Stones/Daniel RNCM Concert Hall perhaps the most enduring craftsmanship made on Benjamin Percival french Schnyder Sympathy For The partnership out of all American music, and all horn Devil these memorable songs is over the world. MANCHESTER Nadia Plummer bassoon Gustav Holst St Paul’s with Glen Campbell. Ellen Tiso clarinet Tickets £22.50 Suite Op 9 No 2 CHAMBER Promoted by Band on the Wall Ralph Vaughan Williams CONCERTS Aaron Copland Duo for flute Oboe Concerto and piano
Joseph Haydn Cello SOCIETY CARDUCCI QUARTET Lily Caunt flute Wed 31 Aug Sun 18 Sep Concerto in C major Lee Jae Phang piano W A Mozart Symphony No 29 WITH MARTIN ROSCOE Thu 06 Oct Doors 7pm 3.30pm Doors 7pm in A major K 201 Free admission, no ticket RNCM Theatre RNCM Concert Hall (piano) AND LEON RNCM Theatre Jimi Hendrix/Daniel BOSCH (double bass) required Schnyder Purple Haze SAM BEAM ANDREW String ROBIN Variations Dmitri Shostakovich AND JESCA WILDE (piano) Quartet No 11 in F minor Gábor Takács-Nagy music Thu 06 Oct TROWER Op 122 HOOP Ludwig van Beethoven director 1.15pm Hailed as one of the Sonata in F major Op 54; Ludwig van Beethoven American singer/songwriter Hannah Roberts cello RNCM Concert Hall finest guitarists in rock Sonata in C major Op 2 No 3; String Quartet in C major Jesca Hoop (now a resident Rachael Clegg oboe history, Robin Trower’s Sonata in C minor Op 13 Op 59 No 3 ‘Rasumovsky’ of Chorlton, Manchester…) RNCM career has spanned more ‘Pathétique’ Tickets £35 £28 £20 Franz Schubert Piano teams up with the amazing Quintet in A major D 667 than four decades but he Frédéric Chopin Scherzo £3 students CONCERT Sam Beam, aka alt-folk received his big break in in B minor Op 20; Two Promoted by Manchester Camerata ‘Trout’ pioneer Iron & Wine, to ORCHESTRA 1967 when he joined Procol Nocturnes Op 27; Three Tickets £25, platform showcase their album of + Antonín Dvořák Symphony No Harum. Mazurkas Op 56; Two seats £12.50 original duets, Love 6.30pm 8 in G major Op 88 Waltzes; Andante spianato Promoted by MCCS Tonight he’ll play Letter for Fire. RNCM Concert Hall material from his latest and Grande Polonaise in + Mark Heron, Edmon Levon, PRE-CONCERT solo release, Where Are Tickets £20 E flat major Op 22 6.30pm Chloe van Soeterstede No concessions PERFORMANCE conductors You Going To? Promoted by SJM Tickets £25 £20 £15 £10 Forman Lecture Theatre Free admission, no ticket Tickets £22.50 Promoted by Kantor Concert PRE-CONCERT TALK Free admission, no ticket Management & Public Relations required required No concessions Free admission to ticket Promoted by The Gig Cartel 4 holders 5 manchester literature festival 6 signed copyofHag-Seed Tickets £12or£25forticketanda of deal withbeguaranteedasignedcopy those optingfortheticketandbook be signingbooksafterthisevent.All Please note:MargaretAtwoodwillnot conversation withAlexClark. The HeartGoesLast,shewillbein MaddAddam trilogyandmostrecently Booker-winning including 40 booksoffiction,poetryandessays magical tales.Theauthorofmorethan artistic visionaryandtellerof emotion isanaturalfitforAtwood, collision ofnature,enchantmentand commissions, theplay’sincendiary of theacclaimedHogarthShakespeare Shakespeare’s Hag-Seed, herimaginativeretellingof Margaret Atwoodreturnstolaunch Canadian authorandMLFfavourite bring abouthisredemption?Acclaimed play thatheraldedhisdownfall and findshimselfinexile;canthe production ofTheTempestisbetrayed director stagingaground-breaking revenge. Definitelyrevenge.’Atheatre ‘It’s gotathunderstorminit.And RNCM Theatre 7pm 07Fri Oct Promoted byManchesterLiteratureFestival HAG-SEED ATWOOD MARGARET Hag-Seed. , the The Handmaid’sTale,the . The latest The Tempest.latest
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Tue 11 Oct 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room DIVERSO QUARTET Sat 08 Oct Mon 10 Oct WITH KATARZYNA WASIAK (piano) 2.30pm 7.30pm Forman Lecture Theatre RNCM Concert Hall THE WEINBERG PROJECT Mieczysław Weinberg Piano Quintet in F minor Op 18 ELGAR VESSELIN Karol Rathaus Rapsodia Notturno Op 66 for cello and SOCIETY STANEV (piano) piano Szymon Laks Piano Quintet on Popular Polish Themes NORTH WEST César Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue This hugely talented quartet performed their final BRANCH Claude Debussy Préludes recital as RNCM International Artist Diploma students ELEANOR ROBERTS: (Book 1) in June 2016. For their first performance as alumni ELGAR, RICHTER AND Frédéric Chopin Preludes here at the College, they will re-explore the THE BUILDING OF A Op 28 cultural legacy of the Holocaust in this deeply moving programme. HALLÉ TRADITION Tickets £22.50 £15 No concessions Tickets £10 FS Free admission, no ticket Promoted by Les Concerts du Lac required Promoted by Elgar Society North West Branch Mon 10 Oct Doors 6.30pm RNCM Theatre Thu 13 Oct Mon 10 Oct 1970s London, Steve 1.15pm 1.15pm Wed 12 Oct Reich’s gripping Triple RNCM Concert Hall 7.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room SUZANNE Quartet, and jazz RNCM Theatre VEGA guitarist and composer RNCM BRASS MONDAY THE LOVER, BELOVED PSAPPHA Mike Walker’s Ropes. BAND RECITAL TOUR This epic piece had its ROPES première as part of the William Walton (arr SERIES Suzanne Vega showcases Mike Walker Ropes 2008 Manchester Jazz Hindmarsh) A Wartime her new album Lover, Sketchbook Cécile Chaminade Steve Reich Triple Festival. This, the Beloved - a selection of Fortune’s Concertino in D major Quartet work’s second ever live Stan Nieuwenhuis songs derived from Vega’s Fool Op 107 Gavin Bryars Jesus’ Blood performance, will feature life-long interest in the Bramwell Tovey Coventry Jules Mouquet La flûte de Never Failed Me Yet Mike’s internationally- American writer Carson renowned jazz quintet Variations Pan Op 15 Psappha Strings McCullers. This show will with the 22-piece Psappha Iain Dixon clarinet, David Thornton, Alex Webb Hannah Corcoran saxophone feature material from the Strings who recorded the saxophone conductors Emily Owen piano album plus hits including work for CD earlier this Mike Walker guitar Kathleen Gaspoz cornet Gabriel Fauré Rêve Marlena on the Wall, Luka year. Gwilym Simcock piano Free admission, no ticket d’amour; Green; C’est and Tom’s Diner. Steve Rodby bass Tickets £20, early bird required l’extase Ticket £38.50 £28.50 Adam Nussbaum drums £17.50 (limited number Reynaldo Hahn Si mes vers Promoted by Chas Cole for CMP conductor available) Entertainment in association Clark Rundell avaient des ailes Promoted by Psappha with Solo Claude Debussy Green Psappha opens its 25th anniversary season + Isla Macewan, with an emotionally- 6.30pm Rachel Speirs sopranos charged programme where Carole Nash Recital Room Hector Leung piano jazz meets mesmeric SPOTLIGHT Odyssey minimalism. The programme Free admission, no ticket Ensemble – The features Gavin Bryars’ required Unexplained cult piece Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Free admission, no ticket inspired by a recording required of a homeless man in
8 9 Thu 13 Oct Fri 14 Oct Sat 15 Oct 7.30pm 7.30pm 12.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall BRAND NEW MAKE AN JUNIOR RNCM ORCHESTRA ARIA FORMAL Tom Goff, Manoj Kamps, A MUSIC THEATRE CONCERT Chloe van Soeterstede WALES PROJECT A showcase performance conductors A masterclass and featuring talented Our Brand New Orchestra performance of five soloists from Junior RNCM. concerts give an insight new arias composed by Free admission, no ticket into the process of RNCM students with five required composing, conducting writers from Manchester and performing at the Metropolitan University, RNCM. This is a wonderful exploring the theme of showcase for RNCM immigration. Composition students and a Composer Stuart MacRae, chance to hear brand new fresh from his success pieces before they are with the opera The Devil performed anywhere else. Inside for Music Theatre Free admission, no ticket Wales and Scottish Opera, required and established librettist Michael Symmons Roberts + lead this masterclass, 6.30pm performed by singers from Carole Nash Recital Room MTW. SPOTLIGHT Tjiok Piano Music Theatre Wales is Quartet ‘Akdeniz’ – grateful for financial Idyll and Crisis in the support from the Michael Mediterranean Sea Tippett Musical Foundation Free admission, no ticket and the D’Oyly Carte required Charitable Trust.
Tickets £8 travel in our special programme of Promoted by RNCM in association Sun 16 Oct exhilarating film music. with Music Theatre Wales 2pm RNCM Concert Hall Our Young Explorers concerts are a brilliant way to introduce children and a uniquely sharp perspective RNCM YOUNG to live classical music. These Sat 15 Oct on contemporary life and love, events are family-friendly ‘relaxed’ 7.30pm presented in a widescreen sound you EXPLORERS CONCERT performances, with interesting staging RNCM Theatre can lose yourself in… SPELLS, SPACE AND SUPERHEROES to keep everyone engaged and amused. JULIA BIEL Back with a completely self-penned John Williams music from Harry Come dressed as your favourite album that includes nods to artists Potter, Jurassic Park, ET, Superman superhero and be prepared for a Hailed by The Independent as Calvin Custer music from Star Trek surprise or two… ‘the best British vocalist to such as Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Björk, through to Nina Alan Silvestri music from Back to For full details, please see emerge in an age’, award-winning the Future singer, songwriter and multi- Simone and Billie Holiday, this new www.rncm.ac.uk/youngexplorers project is packed with melancholic instrumentalist Julia Biel is Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra Suitable for ages 4 and above blazing a trail on the British innocence and epic drama, all Tom Newall conductor wrapped up in a production Tickets £12, under-16s £5 music scene, blending vocals For the latest event in our RNCM Young style that owes as much to the family ticket (4 people) £30 reminiscent of the greats of Explorers Concert Series we conjure contemporary as to the classic. jazz’s golden age with a poetic up potions, come face-to-face with yet conversational lyrical style Tickets £15 FS aliens, and enjoy a spot of time 10 11 Mon 17 Oct Mon 17 Oct Wed 19 Oct Thu 20 Oct Thu 20 Oct Fri 21 Oct 1.15pm 7.30pm 4.30pm (radio broadcast) 1.15pm 7.30pm From 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room MONDAY MASTERCLASS DIVERSITY IN RNCM CHETHAM’S SPOTLIGHT RECITAL WITH BERLIN COMPOSITION CONCERT SYMPHONY TRIPLE-BILL SERIES PHILHARMONIC As part of an industry ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA Our Autumn Spotlight conference focussing Triple-Bill showcases Vincent Persichetti Johannes Brahms Academic Franz Liszt Piano Concerto WIND QUINTET on ethnic diversity in Baroque music in various Parable for solo cor Festival Overture Op 80 No 2 in A major S 125 CHRISTOPHER classical composition, guises, including original anglais Op 128 Johannes Brahms Tragic Edward Elgar Cello ROWLAND there will also be a live settings and modern takes Paul Hindemith Sonata for Overture Op 81 Concerto in E minor Op 85 broadcast on Radio 3’s In on rarely performed cor anglais and piano INTERNATIONAL Modest Mussorgsky (arr Tune from our Concert Hall Mark Shanahan, Tom Goff repertoire. MASTERCLASS Ravel) Pictures at an Katie Lewis cor anglais at 4.30pm on the day of conductors Exhibition 6.30pm Victor Lim piano Tonight’s event presents the conference, featuring Free admission, no ticket – The an amazing opportunity performances by the BBC Paul Mann conductor Les Amants Trahis Fritz Kreisler Praeludium required Betrayed Lovers, a cantata for our students to work Philharmonic and students Callum McLachlan piano and Allegro by Jean-Philippe Rameau with some of the finest from the RNCM. Linda Heiberga cello Ludwig van Beethoven wind musicians in Europe, 7.10pm Allegro assai from Violin Tickets £19 £15 £7 as all of our guests Applications for tickets Sonata Op 30 No 3 Promoted by Chetham’s School of Sprezzatura Saxophone are current players in to the In Tune broadcast Rondo Music Ensemble – Gesualdo’s Niccolò Paganini the Berlin Philharmonic will open four weeks from Violin Concerto in B Madrigali Libro Sesto Orchestra. This is a before the event at + minor Op 7 ‘La Campanella’ unique chance to witness www.bbc.co.uk/ 5.30pm 7.50pm Thomas Mathias violin the creative process, as showsandtours/shows Forman Lecture Theatre The Zelenka Project – Dominic Degavino piano professional musicians Promoted by BBC Radio 3, BASCA, PRE-CONCERT TALK A performance of hidden work with RNCM students to BBC Philharmonic and RNCM, in Baroque gems Free admission, no ticket association with BBC Black and Symphonic Prelude develop their technique required Asian Forum Tickets £3 Free admission, no ticket and understanding of the required music chosen for this masterclass. Tickets £8 Sat 22 Oct Supported by Christopher Rowland 5pm and 8pm International Masterclass Fund RNCM Concert Hall Fri 21 Oct 7.30pm A CONVERSATION ON RNCM Theatre MAKING A MURDERER MANCHESTER WITH ATTORNEYS DEAN STRANG LITERATURE AND JERRY BUTING An afternoon/evening of conversation FESTIVAL with two of the most compelling figures VIVIENNE WESTWOOD featured in the Netflix documentary, Please see p6-7 for full Making a Murderer. Attorneys Dean Strang details and Jerry Buting will participate in a moderated discussion regarding the operations of the criminal justice system, as well as the broader implications of the Steven Avery case. Tickets £30 No concessions Promoted by One Inch Badge
12 13 Thu 27 - Fri 28 Oct 1.15pm Sun 23 Oct RNCM Concert Hall 7.30pm IN FOCUS: RNCM Theatre RNCM NEW TANSY DAVIES ENSEMBLE JAY RAYNER Our In Focus series grind show THE TEN (FOOD) continues to embrace the Tansy Davies (electric) for chamber COMMANDMENTS work of living composers. ensemble and electronics This Autumn, it’s the The original Ten New turn of British composer Amir Sadeghi Konjani Commandments have very work Tansy Davies who when little to offer when it Iris for asked to describe herself Tansy Davies comes to the complex soprano saxophone and in three words, came up business of how and what ensemble we eat. Now, the award- with ‘mercurial, social winning restaurant critic and giggly.’ Davies’ music Clark Rundell, Orr Guy and Masterchef judge Jay is cool but emotional. conductors Rayner has decided it’s It jolts and pulses with Emma McPhilemy saxophone time to act. So join our a rhythmical, almost very own culinary Moses in mechanical edge. She draws 7.30pm this audio-visual romp as a lot of inspiration from Peel Hall, University of Sat 22 Oct he attempts to lead us to architecture, often using 7pm Salford the edible Promised Land. the orchestra to build RNCM Theatre Includes Q&A and book her structures and it signing. is this way of thinking BBC GONDWANA RECORDS that creates new worlds, PHILHARMONIC Tickets £21 bridging contemporary music PRESENTS: No concessions and more classical idioms Programme to include: Promoted by United Music MATTHEW HALSALL & THE GONDWANA such as jazz and rock. Tansy Davies Residuum ORCHESTRA PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS Tansy Davies Falling Angel For full details, please Tansy Davies Spine SUPPORT: MAMMAL HANDS Mon 24 Oct see www.rncm.ac.uk/ Following his sold-out shows at the RNCM and 1.15pm tansydavies Antony Hermus conductor Hallé St Peters last year, Manchester-based Carole Nash Recital Room Free admission, by ticket trumpeter, composer, arranger, band-leader and only. Once open, ticket record label boss Matthew Halsall makes a welcome MONDAY Thu 27 Oct applications will be return for a special one-off show featuring the RECITAL 11.30am available at Gondwana Orchestra with guest vocalists Josephine Carole Nash Recital Room www.bbc.co.uk/tickets Oniyama and Bryony Jarman-Pinto. SERIES Halsall’s unique sound draws on the spiritual Sergei Rachmaninov FESTIVAL jazz of John and Alice Coltrane, alongside Moments Musicaux Op 16 INTRO Fri 28 Oct 1.15pm contemporary electronica, the classic Cadet (selection) Tansy Davies Loopholes and Carole Nash Recital Room recordings of Dorothy Ashby and the psychedelic Matthew Lam piano Lynchpins for solo piano soul arrangements of Charles Stepney, to deliver Ludwig van Beethoven MICHAELBRAILEY New work LUNCHTIME a sublime mix of stripped-back soulfulness and Tansy Davies Forgotten Game deep, minimalist, spiritual jazz. Clarinet Trio in B flat major Op 11 2 for oboe and piano CONCERT Support comes from Gondwana’s latest stars, Tansy Davies Aquatic – Tansy Davies Troubairitz Mammal Hands, who draw on influences from Steve German Martinez Merino duet for saxophone and for soprano and percussion clarinet Reich and Bonobo to Pharoah Sanders to Sufi trance percussion Carmel Smickersgill New music. Javier Escrihuela Gandia work cello Davies discusses her music Tansy Davies Dark Ground Tickets £18 Louis Perera piano in this 60-minute event No concessions which includes some live for solo percussion Promoted by Gondwana Records Free admission, no ticket performances. Admission to all events is required free, no ticket required, unless otherwise stated. 14 15 Sat 29 Oct 7pm RNCM Theatre RNCM SESSION ORCHESTRA + SUPPORT Once again, it’s time for the RNCM Session Orchestra to lay claim to our Theatre stage. There are some new names in the mix this time - you’ll be able to hear songs by Randy Crawford, The Commitments, Adele, John Legend, Steely Dan, Earth, Wind and Fire and many more. Our Session Orchestra has become a runaway success, with regular sell-out concerts and a loyal following who love the creative energy that unfolds on stage. So if you haven’t experienced the band in all its glory, why not come along and see what all the fuss is about? PS The Session Orchestra will be on stage at 8pm. Tickets £12 FS Fri 28 Oct 8pm Carole Nash Recital Room Sat 29 Oct DUET From 2pm RE:SOUND MUSIC THEATRE Carole Nash Recital Room In spite of opposition, Robert Schumann CELEBRATING marries his beloved Clara. Their wedding party is one to remember and, as the JOHN MCCABE anniversaries go by, the couple is determined AND ALAN to keep the magic and music of that occasion alive. However, although Clara and Robert RAWSTHORNE return each year to the place where they The Rawsthorne Trust celebrated their union, nothing else remains celebrates the rediscovery the same. of the manuscript of Alan Rawsthorne’s Chamber This interactive theatrical experience weaves Cantata in the Library together an original script with the Lieder of Congress, Washington of Robert Schumann, in a staged performance DC, with a performance of in a cabaret setting by a cast of singer/ the work in the evening actor/musicians. concert, alongside music A new production from Re:Sound Music Theatre, by William Alwyn and a in collaboration with Oxford Lieder Festival selection of American and Arts Council England. composers. Two earlier Tickets £10 FS events in the day include performances of new works in memory of John McCabe and an illustrated talk by Monica McCabe. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/ rawsthorne All events are free admission, no ticket required Promoted by Rawsthorne Trust in association with RNCM 16 17 Tue 01 Nov Doors 7pm RNCM Theatre Sun 30 Oct Mon 31 Oct AFRO CELT SOUND SYSTEM 7.30pm 7.30pm With sales now topping one and a half million RNCM Theatre RNCM Concert Hall albums and two Grammy nominations to date, Afro Celt Sound System celebrate their 20th anniversary SHAUN MANCHESTER with a stunning new album, The Source and a UK ESCOFFERY CHAMBER tour. This European and African-based collective LIVE IN CONCERT have been a ground-breaking force in music ever CONCERTS since they started, along the way finding kindred British soul singer Shaun SOCIETY spirits across international talent and forging a Escoffery visits the reputation for exhilarating shows. RNCM on the back of the SITKOVETSKY TRIO Afro Celt Sound System LIVE features the core band release of his new album Joseph Haydn Piano Trio in Evergreen.The Radio 2 G major Hob XV:25 ‘Gypsy members Simon Emmerson, Guinean vocalist, kora and favourite will perform Rondo’ balafon virtuoso N’Faly Kouyate and charismatic dhol master Johnny Kalsi, along with percussionist tracks from the album, as Maurice Ravel Piano Trio well as material spanning in A minor Robbie Harris and fiddle-player Eòghann MacEanruig, Ged Lynch on drums, Simon ‘Palmskin’ his 15 year solo career. Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Op 90 ‘Dumky’ Richmond on keyboards and electronica and Val Tickets £20 Etienne on backing vocals, with the gritty, witty No concessions Tickets £25, platform rhymes of Gaelic rapper, musician and language Promoted by Senbla seats £12.50 activist Griogair. Promoted by MCCS ‘A delirious mix of primal intensity, spiritual beauty and explosive rhythms...a colossus of an Mon 31 Oct album’. fRoots Magazine on The Source 1.15pm Sun 30 Oct Tickets £22.50 Carole Nash Recital Room 3pm No concessions RNCM Concert Hall MONDAY Promoted by Kilimanjaro Live Ltd STEVE BACKSHALL’S RECITAL WILD WORLD SERIES Join Wildlife TV Presenter, adventurer, Ludwig van Beethoven naturalist and writer Steve Backshall as Seven Variations on ‘Bei he takes you on a tour of the real life Männern, welche Liebe expeditions that have inspired his novel The fühlen’ WoO 46 Falcon Chronicles and his new novel in the Manuel de Falla Ritual series, Shark Seas. It’s a wild journey, Fire Dance illustrated with photos and films from his expeditions from the Arctic to the Antarctic, Eva Richards cello from the tundra to the top of the world’s Dominic Ciccotti piano highest peaks and from the depths of the Federico García Lorca rainforest to the bottom of the sea. (arr Girling) Four Spanish This talk is suitable for wildlife enthusiasts Songs of all ages from eight to eighty but parents Carlos Guastavino are advised that some content might be (arr Girling) La rosa y challenging for very young children. el sauce Fernando Obradors Tickets £19.50 (arr Girling) El vito Promoted by Jo Sarsby Personal Management Ltd Charlotte Badham mezzo- NB If you can’t make the matinée on 30 Oct, soprano this event will be repeated on 15 Nov at 7pm. James Girling guitar Free admission, no ticket required 18 19 ‘The thread running through Decontamination is the unusual or surprising connections between different starting points, territories, lines of enquiry and sounds. In mourning the passing of Pierre Boulez and David Bowie, I was struck by these connections: two figures of re-invention and experimentation, both known for their complex relationships with mainstream classical and pop culture respectively. This sense of loss is elusively echoed in Morton Feldman’s ‘Three Voices’, a spectacularly unusual setting of Frank O’Hara’s ’Wind’. Written, in part, in response to the deaths of Philip Guston and O’Hara himself, Feldman imagined a connection between living and dead voices in the live and pre-recorded vocal parts. This stillness and repetition characterises both Joanna Bailie’s and Bryn Harrison’s pieces, the former responding to field recordings, the latter to more introverted starting points.’ Larry Goves, Decontamination curator
This concert features RNCM student Tue 01 Nov performers and composers across the 8pm Pop and Classical study programmes Carole Nash Recital Room with music by Boulez, covers of Bowie DECONTAMINATION #7 classics and new works inspired by both BOULEZ/BOWIE composers. Tickets £6 FS
within field recordings both modified and Tue 22 Nov literal. In this beautiful piece for 8pm piano and soundtrack, the instrument Carole Nash Recital Room becomes a mediator between the real and DECONTAMINATION #8 the imagined. EXTERIOR/INTERIOR Bryn Harrison’s recent work for violin and piano explores the idea of non-goal Artificial Landscape No 8 Joanna Bailie orientated structures by (as he writes) Receiving the Approaching Bryn Harrison ‘dealing directly with the opposition Memory of static and mobile structures’. He Aisha Orazbayeva violin explores the juxtaposition of near and Mark Knoop piano exact repetition in close proximity dealing with issues of duration, memory Joanna Bailie’s Artificial Landscape and disorientation. No 8 is one in a sequence of fantasy landscapes that places instruments Tickets £8 FS
sound. The piece is a setting of parts Thu 08 Dec of Frank O’Hara’s poem Wind and is an 8pm unusual interpretation. The piece is Carole Nash Recital Room performed with one voice live and two DECONTAMINATION #9 voices pre-recorded. Feldman later said: THREE VOICES ‘Frank O’Hara had died several years before. I saw the piece with Joan Three Voices Morton Feldman in front and these two loudspeakers Juliet Fraser voices behind her. There is something kind of tombstoney about the look of Morton Feldman’s Three Voices, like loudspeakers. I thought of the piece as much of his later work, is a long an exchange of the live voice with the (50-mins) piece inspired by the pattern dead ones – a mixture of the living and and weave of fabric. Characteristically the dead’. small motifs are repeated irregularly to create asymmetrical patterns and Tickets £8 FS intricate permutations; a weave of decontamination series 20 21 ‘This programme is explosive! American Games is a great wind orchestra opener, which is followed by a truly virtuosic trumpet concerto which will prepare the audience for the powerful Prokofiev in the second half. A fantastic work, this symphony has a certain brightness about it, reflecting the particular time in history. As described by Time magazine after the première in 1945, ‘[Prokofiev 5] is magnificent! It is yesterday, it is today, it is tomorrow.’’ Dr Michelle Castelletti. 22 Artistic Director
with which the United States could still following his years as an expatriate so 23 Wed 02 Nov convey unlimited space and boundless was viewed as his first properly ‘Soviet’ 7.30pm possibilities. symphony. Shortly after its première, RNCM Concert Hall Prokofiev wrote: ‘I conceived of it as Next up, Jolivet’s trumpet concerto, glorifying the grandeur of the human written in 1955, will be performed RNCM SYMPHONY spirit… praising the free and happy man by one of our Concerto Competition – his strength, his generosity, and the ORCHESTRA winners Illiam Quane. This piece demands purity of his soul. I cannot say that I Nicholas Maw American Games virtuosic skills and extended technique. deliberately chose this theme. It was André Jolivet Trumpet Concerto No 2 Jazz and bluesy influences can be heard born in me and clamoured for expression’. Sergei ProkofievSymphony No 5 in B flat throughout and it requires no fewer than major Op 100 14 different percussion instruments! The Finally, tonight we are also delighted to Clark Rundell, Mark Heron, composer described the concerto as ‘one host the launch of Sir John Manduell’s Sergej Bolkhovets conductors of my ballets for trumpets’. memoirs, No Bartók Before Breakfast. Sir John was the founding Principal of Illiam Quane trumpet Tonight’s programme is completed by the RNCM from 1973 to 1996. He was also Prokofiev’s loftily heroic symphonic work Nicholas Maw’s rousing work American Programme Director of Cheltenham Festival – undoubtedly his most popular. Composed Games launches tonight’s proceedings. when Maw’s American Games was performed in Russia in 1944, the composer was Commissioned by the BBC Proms and for a second time. So this evening’s sheltered from the hostilities of the premièred at the Royal Albert Hall in event has some wonderful, personal Second World War, living in an artists’ 1991 by the RNCM Wind Orchestra, when connections. asked to write a piece for wind band, retreat 150 miles north east of Moscow. S the medium suggested to Maw the sense Moreover, it was the first symphony he Tickets £17 £14 F had written since he returned home Sat 05 Nov Sun 06 Nov Thu 03 Nov 7.30pm 7pm 1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall SALFORD OLDHAM RNCM WIND CHORAL CHORAL ENSEMBLE SOCIETY SOCIETY Florent Schmitt Lied et W A Mozart Vesperae Joseph Haydn The Creation Scherzo Op 54 solennes de confessore in Charles Gounod Petite Linda Richardson soprano C major K 339 Symphonie Simon Crosby Buttle tenor W A Mozart Mass in C minor Dean Robinson bass Laura Jellicoe director K 427 ‘Great’ The East Lancashire Free admission, no ticket Amy Webber soprano Sinfonia required Helen Anne Gregory mezzo- Nigel P Wilkinson soprano conductor tenor Lawrence Thackeray Tickets £15 Louis Hurst bass Promoted by Oldham Choral Society Orchestra of the North and Fred Jones Tom Newall conductor Thu 03 Nov 7.30pm (Support 6.30pm) Tickets £17 RNCM Theatre Promoted by Salford Choral Society RNCM BIG BAND NOCHE CALIENTE Sat 05 Nov 5pm WITH DAVE HASSELL AND ANDY SCOTT Sun 06 Nov 10am SUPPORT: SMUDGE BIG BAND RNCM Theatre Dave Hassell percussion Andy Scott saxophone BRITISH Join us for a red hot evening of Latin American ASSOCIATION Big Band Jazz (phew!) Tonight, the RNCM Big Band OF lets loose with the music of some stellar Latin and jazz greats – Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, BARBERSHOP Chano Pozo, Michel Camilo, Wayne Shorter and SINGERS our very own Andy Scott. QUARTETS CONTEST And to crank up the Latin influence even further, 2016 we welcome Dave Hassell to the party. A leading light on the UK Latin American music scene, Dave National Senior and Youth leads his own Latin band, Apitos, he’s a regular Quartets compete to at the RNCM Day of Percussion and he has played qualify for a place in with an incredible array of musicians, including the National Championships Dr John, Clarke Terry, Art Farmer and Charles which will be hosted in McPherson, to name but a few… Bournemouth 26-29 May 2017. Support is provided by Smudge Big Band, a 20-piece ensemble who are Manchester’s one and Free admission, no ticket only all-women big band, made up entirely of required Promoted by The British Association RNCM students. of Barbershop Singers Tickets £18 £15 FS
24 25 Thu 10 Nov Doors 6.30pm RNCM Theatre Mon 07 Nov Wed 09 Nov Thu 10 Nov 7.30pm Doors 7pm 7.30pm JOHN BRAMWELL RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Theatre Carole Nash Recital Room I Am Kloot’s singer/songwriter John Bramwell is touring with his first set of THE SONS OF IAN HUNTER RNCM brand new songs since the band’s UK 2014 PITCHES AND THE PREVIEW top ten album Let It All In. SUPPORT: FINLAY LESLIE ‘Arguably the UK’s finest export’ The New RANT BAND NIGHT Yorker The Sons of Pitches is As leader of 70s British The RNCM Student a multi award-winning rock legends Mott The Development Board is proud Ticket £19.50 £17.50 British vocal group No concessions Hoople and a hugely to present the first in Promoted by Edge Street Live combining soaring solos, influential solo artist, a series of fundraising impeccable harmonies and Ian Hunter is widely concerts. The evening sensational beat-boxing to revered as one of will provide an exclusive stunning effect. They were rock‘n’roll’s most preview of the upcoming crowned winners of the compelling performers, Spring programme as well BBC2 TV series The Naked as well as one of its as a showcase of selected Choir in October 2015 and most articulate musicians currently based with nearly two million songwriters. at the College. YouTube hits have earned a growing international Tickets £27.50 Tickets £10 No concessions reputation. Promoted by The Gig Cartel Tickets £22.50 No concessions Promoted by Edge Street Live
Tue 08 Nov Doors 7pm Sat 12 Nov RNCM Theatre Doors 7pm RNCM Theatre SETH LAKEMAN Sun 13 Nov SUPPORT: WILDWOOD KIN ELIZA CARTHY AND 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Award-winning folk-singer, songwriter and THE WAYWARD BAND multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman returns Ground-breaking and award-winning singer MANCHESTER to the RNCM to showcase his new album, and musician Eliza Carthy is recording a Ballads of the Broken Few. brand new album with a brand new band, INTERNATIONAL Seth has successfully steered English folk The Wayward Band. No ordinary ensemble, SOCIETY 50TH music into the mainstream with high-energy The Wayward Band is bursting at the seams ANNIVERSARY performances and a series of best-selling with some of the finest players in recent CONCERT albums over the last ten years. His new times, including members of Bellowhead, RNCM musicians come album has been produced by Ethan Johns Mawkin, Blowzabella, Edward II, Emily together in celebration of who has worked with the likes of Kings of Portman Trio, Peatbog Fairies, Dreams of the work of Manchester’s Leon, Joe Cocker and Laura Marling. Tall Buildings and Tyde. The Big Machine by Eliza Carthy and The Wayward Band is International Society, Tickets £25 due for release in October 2016 and will marking 50 years as a No concessions feature traditional material, as well as centre of international Promoted by SJM classics from Eliza’s back catalogue and friendship for thousands new tunes. of students. Performers will include a range of Tickets £18 advance international students Promoted by Band on the Wall from the RNCM. Tickets £10 26 27 Tue 15 Nov 7.30pm Mon 14 Nov Tue 15 Nov Wed 16 Nov RNCM Theatre Thu 17 Nov 1.15pm 7pm 8pm 1.15pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Theatre RE-IMAGINING SONDHEIM RNCM Concert Hall ANTHONY DE MARE MONDAY STEVE SHOW OF Re-Imagining Sondheim is a modern masterpiece RNCM RECITAL BACKSHALL’S HANDS WITH of the piano – a superb album on ECM where CHAMBER pianist Tony de Mare asked 36 composers ranging SERIES WILD WORLD MIRANDA from Steve Reich to Wynton Marsalis to respond CHOIR AND Stuart Saunders Smith Thaw See p18 for full details SYKES to some of legendary theatre composer Stephen ENSEMBLE Jeff Herriott Swarms of Sondheim’s greatest songs. Both a homage and a WALK WITH ME Antonio Vivaldi Gloria Light in Metal celebration, Re-Imagining Sondheim makes the (excerpts) With songs from 25 years case for Sondheim as one of the 20th century’s Aidan Marsden percussion Thomas Tallis Sancte Deus Tue 15 Nov at the forefront of UK greatest composers – as at home in the concert W A Mozart Ave verum Igor Stravinsky (arr 7.30pm acoustic folk music, hall as on the Broadway stage. corpus Agosti) Firebird Suite Carole Nash Recital Room Show of Hands are once again reunited for their The New York Times said ‘As a Sondheim devotee, Charles Stanford Beati piano Lee Jae Phang SIR JOHN Autumn tour with the I’ve been fascinated to hear how composers quorum via Free admission, no ticket talented Miranda Sykes fixate on elements of these songs and translate Gabriel Fauré Cantique de required BARBIROLLI on double bass. them into original piano pieces. Anthony de Jean Racine Mare gave vibrant, colourful performances, Stuart Overington CELLO PRIZE The band are widely his passion for Sondheim coming through conductor Cello students from recognised for their palpably. His playing was dynamic and stylish – the RNCM compete for stunning musicianship, I loved it’. Free admission, no ticket Mon 14 Nov the resonance of their 7.30pm this prestigious prize. required songs and a remarkable Stephen Sondheim was thrilled with the project, RNCM Concert Hall Tonight’s adjudicator is Richard Markson and rapport with their and attended the New York performances. As he MANCHESTER competitors perform two audience. Their latest said, ‘it’s not every pianist who has such Piatti Caprices and a album Long Way Home has imagination, along with the passion, commitment CHAMBER post-Beethoven duo sonata. received glowing reviews and virtuoso technique, to carry it off’. across the board, leading CONCERTS Tickets £8 Tickets £20 £15 to a short-listing for Promoted by Serious in association with RNCM SOCIETY best album at the 2016 QUATUOR MOSAIQUES BBC Folk Awards. Joseph Haydn String ‘An irresistible, ‘I am thrilled with our Quartet No 42 in D major anthemic, rousing live evolving relationship Hob III:42 show’ Mark Radcliffe with the music producers W A Mozart String Quartet Serious. This Tony De Tickets £22.50 Mare performance is in E flat major K 428 Promoted by SaltaireLive Ludwig van Beethoven extraordinary on many String Quartet in B flat levels, not least because major Op 18 No 6 of the sheer number of outstanding composers that Tickets £25, platform have written their response seats £12.50 to Sondheim’s music; but, Promoted by MCCS maybe more than that, + this is one of the many 6.30pm performances that help us Forman Lecture Theatre to celebrate the diversity PRE-CONCERT TALK of partnerships and collaborations within our Free admission to ticket artistic programme.‘ holders Dr Michelle Castelletti. Artistic Director
28 29 ‘I have been associated with the College since 1966, when, as a young engineering graduate, I pinned on the noticeboard a card with the words ‘singing lessons required’. The next day, Patrick McGuigan (later in the 90s to be Head of Vocal Studies) replied and I began singing lessons with him which led to me becoming a full-time student. Since then, it’s been my pleasure to return at regular intervals for recitals and masterclasses and more recently, to come and
30 work with the students for a couple of days each term. Now I am privileged to become President of the RNCM for a five-year term and as such it is an honour for me to continue my association with this great institution’. Sir John Tomlinson
‘I invite the audience to embark on this beautiful journey with us. By the end of the evening, I promise you will feel as if you are in Michelangelo’s candle-lit studio, surrounded by his paintings. As Sir John said, this is an opportunity for us to see these works anew.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti. Artistic Director
31 Sir John has a strong connection to the Tonight’s event will see the 16th century Thu 17 Nov RNCM after graduating from the Royal Michelangelo portrayed by Sir John in an 7.30pm Manchester College of Music (RMCM) in updated form, as a 19th century painter RNCM Concert Hall 1970. Since then, he has performed leading in his workshop, looking over his old roles with companies throughout the writing, and reliving each piece in turn. JOHN TOMLINSON world and regularly appears at the Royal This semi-staged performance links music (bass) DAVID OWEN Opera House, Covent Garden, with English with visual art and is a fascinating National Opera, at the Bayreuth Festival evening of storytelling that explores the
NORRIS (piano) and leading opera houses worldwide. As psyche of Michelangelo and his musings MICHELANGELO IN SONG International Chair in Singing, Sir John on wisdom, the joy and pain of love and Benjamin Britten Seven Sonnets of also works each term with students in our youth, creativity, death, and immortality. Michelangelo Op 22 School of Vocal Studies and Opera. Tickets £18 £15 S Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo F Hugo Wolf When the name Michelangelo is mentioned, Suite on Verses of + Dmitri Shostakovich it is usually in connection with his Michelangelo Buonarroti Op 145 artistic output. However, what fewer 6.30pm Following the recent announcement that people might know is that Michelangelo Carole Nash Recital Room Sir John Tomlinson CBE will become the also wrote a great number of poems, SPOTLIGHT Contemporary Guitar RNCM’s new President in January 2017, we madrigals and sonnets, some of which were Music - Richard Rodney Bennett’s Guitar are delighted to welcome the critically- set to music by composers such as Britten, Concerto acclaimed bass to perform a recital of Wolf and Shostakovich. Free admission, no ticket required ‘Michelangelo in Song’ in our Concert Hall. Fri 18 Nov Doors 7pm RNCM Concert Hall BILLY BRAGG AND JOE HENRY In March 2016, Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, guitars in hand, boarded a Los Angeles-bound train at Chicago’s Union Station looking to re-connect with the culture of railroad travel and the music it inspired. Winding along 2728 miles of track over four days, the pair recorded classic railroad songs from the journey, along with favourites from their own back catalogues. Tickets £24.50 No concessions Promoted by Band on the Wall
Fri 18 Nov Doors 7pm RNCM Theatre THE BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND Formed in 1962 by Vivian 7.30pm Stanshall and Rodney Sun 20 Nov RNCM Concert Hall Slater, the band were originally known as the RNCM SAXOPHONE ARTVARK SAXOPHONE Bonzo Dog Dada Band. DAY Joined shortly after by QUARTET Sat 19 Nov Sat 19 Nov RNCM Saxophone Day is the UK’s largest Vernon Dudley Bohay- alto saxophones 2.30pm 7.30pm annual saxophone gathering. For this, Rolf Delfos, Bart Wirtz Nowell, Sam Spoons, tenor saxophone Forman Lecture Theatre RNCM Concert Hall our 16th year, we’re ‘going Dutch’, Mete Erker Roger Ruskin Spear, Bob baritone saxophone as we present some of the leading Peter Broekhuizen Kerr, “Legs” Larry Smith ELGAR ALTRINCHAM sax artists from the Netherlands. We Chairs? Music stands? The Artvark and Neil Innes, the now welcome classical virtuoso Niels Bijl, Saxophone Quartet doesn’t need them… classic line-up was re- SOCIETY CHORAL the stunningly creative Artvark Quartet They meander through musical traditions named The Bonzo Dog Doo NORTH WEST SOCIETY and the combined forces of the Westland and move across the stage creating an Dah Band. BRANCH Karl Jenkins For the Saxophone Orchestra led by Erik-Jan de improvised choreography. Artvark stands In 1967, Paul McCartney DIANA NCVEAGH: Fallen from The Armed Man With - with special guests - as well for innovative, original compositions, invited the Bonzos to strong individual soloists and the REMINISCENCES Edward Elgar Nimrod (organ as the RNCM Saxophone Orchestra. Each appear in The Beatles film solo) of these incredible artists presents a adventurous groove of four saxophones. Magical Mystery Tour. Free admission, no ticket Paul Mealor Wherever You workshop or masterclass catering for all As the group says on its own website: Around the same time, the required Are ages, styles and levels of experience. ‘Artvark thrills, stinks, growls and band became regulars on Promoted by Elgar Society North William Walton Crown sizzles’ and who can resist that?! West Branch The Dutch theme even extends to our Do Not Adjust Your Set Imperial (organ solo) catering on the day (pancakes are Tickets £15 FS along with future members Alwyn Humphreys Songs from rumoured!) and there will be a Beat Jazz of Monty Python’s Flying Day Ticket £34 the First World War Club in Brodsky after the final concert. Circus. The following year Student/Under 18s £17 Steven Roberts conductor So drop by and join the party… they had a hit single with Sponsored by Henri Selmer Paris and Vandoren Jonathan Scott organ, I’m the Urban Spaceman and For full details, please see piano the rest is history… www.rncm.ac.uk/saxophoneday Tickets £12.50 Tickets £20 Promoted by Altrincham Choral No concessions Society Promoted by AGMP 32 33 Mon 21 Nov Wed 23 Nov 1.15pm 5.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room Mon 21 Nov Fri 25 Nov MONDAY INAUGURAL 7.30pm 7.30pm RECITAL SERIES MICHAEL Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall John Ireland Piano Trio No 2 KENNEDY THE HELEN CHILINGIRIAN in E minor INTERNATIONAL Lily Whitehurst violin PORTHOUSE QUARTET Lucy Hoile cello RESEARCH PAGANINI WITH MASSIMO Hayley Parkes piano LECTURE PRIZE MERCELLI (flute) Gabriel Fauré Three Songs Professor Annegret Fauser W A Mozart String Quartet RNCM violinists and viola Op 23 and Cary C Boshamer, in D minor K 421 players compete for this Francis Poulenc Deux poèmes Distinguished Professor of Krzysztof Penderecki Flute prestigious annual prize. de Louis Aragon FP 122 Musicology, University of Quartet Claude Debussy C’est North Carolina at Chapel Tickets £8 Ludwig van Beethoven l’extase String Quartet in F minor Hill, discuss Nationalism Op 95 Xiang Teng soprano and Transnationalism in Flute Quartet Rachel Fright piano 20th century Music. W A Mozart Tue 22 Nov in D major The first of the week’s Free admission, no ticket 8pm performances relating to the required Carole Nash Recital Room The Chilingirian Quartet welcomes one of Italy’s First World War includes DECONTAMINATION #8 John Ireland’s Piano Trio No finest flautists to perform 2, composed in 1917. Thu 24 Nov EXTERIOR/ a recital that includes 1.15pm the first Manchester Free admission, no ticket RNCM Concert Hall INTERIOR performance of Krzysztof required See p20-21 for full details Penderecki’s Flute Quartet,
RNCM CONCERT Tickets £17 £14 FS Wed 23 Nov ORCHESTRA + 1.15pm Percy Grainger Shepherd’s Hey 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Claude Debussy (arr C Carole Nash Recital Room Matthews) La cathédrale SPOTLIGHT Mahler at engloutie LUNCHTIME the Piano – Orchestral Maurice Ravel Rapsodie sounds arranged for piano CONCERT espagnole MUSIC FROM THE RMCM duo Clark Rundell, Diogo Costa, Free admission, no ticket 1914-18 Orr Guy, Alex Robertson required Programme to include: conductors Ottokar Nováček String For our final lunchtime Quartet No 3 Op 13 concert this week, we look to Today’s programme features works performed by the Hallé Sat 26 Nov 7.30pm repertoire known to have during the First World War, RNCM Concert Hall been performed at the RMCM including Percy Grainger’s during the First World traditional English tune, a ST GEORGE’S War. When Nováček’s String nod to happier times. Quartet was presented in the Free admission, no ticket SINGERS Annual Public Examination required Johannes Brahms Ein in July 1915, the student deutsches Requiem quartet included Private Frank Tipping, a violinist Elizabeth Watts soprano who fought in the war, sadly Marcus Farnsworth baritone dying in action in 1917. Northern Chamber Orchestra Neil Taylor conductor Free admission, no ticket required Tickets £18 Promoted by St George’s Singers 34 35 Mon 28 Nov – Sat 03 Dec RNCM JAMES MOTTRAM Sun 04 Dec 10am, 1.30pm and 5pm INTERNATIONAL RNCM Concert Hall PIANO COMPETITION TRAFFORD Media Partner Vasily Petrenko photo: Mark McNulty MUSIC This major biennial event offers an all-round learning experience SERVICE for young pianists from all over WINTER CONCERTS the world, mixing opportunities to Tickets £9 perform on the concert platform with Promoted by Trafford Music Service a series of masterclasses given by a distinguished international jury. Attend the early rounds and masterclasses for free throughout Mon 05 Dec the week, before hearing the three 1.15pm finalists perform a concerto with Carole Nash Recital Room the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. MONDAY For full details please see RECITAL www.rncm.ac.uk/jmipc SERIES COMPETITION JURY J S Bach Sonata No 3 for Vovka Ashkenazy (Iceland/Russia) solo violin (excerpts) Jin Ju (PR China) Eugène Ysaÿe Ballade from Alexey Lebedev (Russia/Germany) Sonata No 3 in D minor for Jerome Lowenthal (USA) solo violin John O’Conor (Ireland) Noriko Ogawa (Japan) Oliver Baily violin Graham Scott (UK) Arnold Schoenberg Piano (Russia) Vladimir Tropp Suite Op 25 Yulia Vershinina piano Free admission, no ticket Mon 28 and Sat 03 Dec required Tue 29 Nov 7.30pm From 10am RNCM Concert Hall ‘I think that the best RNCM Concert Hall part of the JMIPC is CONCERTO FINAL that even if you are not Mon 05 Dec Doors 7pm ROUND ONE WITH ROYAL LIVERPOOL lucky enough to make it RNCM Concert Hall PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA to the finals, you still get to have a masterclass Vasily Petrenko conductor Wed 30 Nov and with a famous musician CHEADLE Fri 02 Dec The three finalists perform their chosen who is also a jury HULME From 10am work from a shortlist of concertos member… which makes it a Carole Nash Recital Room by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Grieg, fantastic experience for SCHOOL Mendelssohn, Mozart and Schumann. everyone. Of course, if A CELEBRATION OF PUBLIC MASTERCLASSES CHRIST MAS Tickets £17 £14 FS you do pass into the final stage, playing with such Tickets £7 Admission to all events is free, Thu 01 Dec a great orchestra as the Promoted by Cheadle Hulme School no ticket required, unless otherwise RLPO is a treat!’ From 10am stated RNCM Concert Hall Supported by James Mottram Bequest Alexander Panfilov, winner of JMIPC 2014 SEMI-FINALS ‘tis the season to be jolly 36 37 heights of frivolity. La Vie Parisienne Wed 07, Fri 09, Tue 13, is a brilliant tangled tale of flirtatious Thu 15 Dec 7.30pm masquerading and romantic intrigue. In Sun 11, Sat 17 Dec 3pm the midst of this mayhem is a series of RNCM Theatre captivating relationships. La Vie Parisienne was Offenbach’s LA VIE PARISIENNE first full-length operetta to portray JACQUES OFFENBACH contemporary Parisian life and quickly became one of his most popular works. Music by Jacques Offenbach The composer celebrated his own world In an English version by Alistair Beaton through his music; he wooed it, praised Libretto by Henri Mailhac and Ludovic it, mocked it and seduced it. In La Vie Halévy Parisienne, he held up a mirror to 1860s Andrew Greenwood conductor Paris - the work reflects the excitement Stuart Barker director and the giddiness that Paris inspires in Simone Romaniuk set and costume designer its visitors to this day. The theme is Mike Gunning lighting designer simple: everyone wants to visit Paris, Manoj Kamps assistant conductor live in Paris and love in Paris… It is Bethan Rhys Wiliam choreographer, a love letter to the most romantic of production assistant European cities. This witty, frothy, Kevin Thraves chorus master delightful romp brings La Belle Époque RNCM Opera Orchestra to vivid life in glorious technicolour RNCM Chorus and is a brilliant choice if you’ve never See full cast information at seen a live opera performance before. www.rncm.ac.uk/lavie Please join us as we hurtle through the city of love and paint the town red! This December, we would like to take you on a whistle-stop tour of glittering This production will be performed in Paris nightlife! This year marks the English. 150th anniversary of the world première La Vie Parisienne translation of Offenbach’s famous operetta La Vie © Alistair Beaton 1995 Parisienne and we are excited to present Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd www.alanbrodie.com an English version by leading political satirist, Alistair Beaton. Tickets £34 £28 £21 (weekdays) FS £36 £30 £23 (weekends) Our production is set in 1930s Paris, where cosmopolitan gaiety has reached new
+ + + Wed 07 Dec Tue 13 Dec Thu 15 Dec 6pm 6pm 6pm Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room Carole Nash Recital Room HEAR MORE HEAR MORE LEARN MORE Pre-opera performance: Pre-opera performance: Forum Plus La Belle Époque Voyage à Paris of the Hugh Macdonald, Clair Songs written in the 1930s Rowden and Barbara Kelly decade of the première of Our opera is presented discuss the musical and La Vie Parisienne, under in the 1930s and we give cultural context of La Vie the regime of Napoleon III a flavour here of life Parisienne, as well as the and immediately before the in Paris at that time politics of Paris in the Franco-Prussian war. The with songs by Messiaen, 1860s. RNCM Songsters perform Poulenc, Hahn and Ibert, Free admission, no ticket well-known songs by Fauré, performed by the RNCM required Bizet, Saint-Saëns and Junior Songsters. Duparc. Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket required required 38 39 Thu 08 Dec Sat 10 Dec Sat 10 Dec Mon 12 Dec Mon 12 Dec 1.15pm From 10.15am Doors 7.40pm 1.15pm 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Various Venues RNCM Concert Hall Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall FIRST YEAR JUNIOR RNCM MANCHESTER MONDAY MANCHESTER BRASS BAND PERFORMANCE CHRISTIAN RECITAL CHAMBER AND WIND DAY UNIONS SERIES CONCERTS ORCHESTRA Performance Day profiles CAROL CONCERT Andy Scott Sonata for flute SOCIETY the work of the full range and harp Malcolm Arnold (arr Ray Join the Christian MAHAN ESFAHANI of Junior RNCM ensembles, Farr) Four Scottish Dances Unions of Manchester for Ivan Alekhin flute (harpsichord) ADAM from the Symphony Guy Woolfenden Rondo their third annual carol Sophie Rocks harp Orchestra and Vocal WALKER (flute) Variations service, which promises to Ensemble to the Foundation Kevin Volans String Concert Guy Woolfenden Gallimaufry be a joyous and thought- François Couperin Section and Brass Band. provoking event with well- Quartet No 1 ‘White Man Royal IV David Thornton, Mark For full details, contact loved carols led by RNCM Sleeps’ (2nd movement) Johann Joachim Quantz 2 Heron, Alex Webb the Junior RNCM on 0161 musicians. Philippos Rousiamanis Capriccii conductors 907 5264. 10,000 War Babies! František Benda Sonata in Tickets £5 E minor Free admission, no ticket Free admission, no ticket Promoted by University of Helena Logah violin required required Manchester Christian Union, Philippos Rousiamanis J S Bach Sonata in E minor Manchester Metropolitan University violin BWV 1034 Christian Union and Royal Northern viola Jacques Duphly La College of Music Christian Union Peter Hartley Alice Luddington cello Forqueray - Chaconne Pierre Danican Philidor Thu 08 Dec Sat 10 Dec Free admission, no ticket 8pm 2.30pm Cinquième Suite required Carole Nash Recital Room Forman Lecture Theatre J S Bach Sonata in B minor BWV 1030 DECONTAMINATION #9 ELGAR Tickets £25, platform THREE VOICES SOCIETY seats £12.50 See p20-21 for full Promoted by MCCS details NORTH WEST
BRANCH HARVEY DAVIES AND Fri 09 Dec SARAH EWINS: VIOLIN 7.30pm AND PIANO SONATAS IN RNCM Concert Hall ELGAR’S DAY Free admission, no ticket ROOF ST required Promoted by Elgar Society North PETERSBURG West Branch ROOF ANNUAL CHARITY CONCERT Sam Brierley-Rimmer conductor Laura Mayo director Tickets £6.50 Promoted by ROOF St Petersburg
‘tis the season to be jolly 40 41 ‘The way most of us experience instrumental music these days is through narrative, usually film. I want to draw listeners who may not usually get involved with concert music into this fantastic world. Often, a big band will be present in concerts where nostalgia plays a large part and the orchestral forces, if present, a somewhat supportive role. ‘Luca’s Winter’ features an integrated super-ensemble where all elements are equal and have a special place in telling this story. There is therefore a strong element
42 of ‘Young Person’s Guide’ as we discover the instrumental groups as the characters and plot unfold.’ Tim Garland
‘I believe in collaboration and I’m passionate about what I call ‘cross-pollination’ across different genres. With the dramatic, magic realism of this work, this performance will present an exciting, new and beautiful fairy-tale for adults and children alike.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti. Artistic Director
As a Research Fellow of the RNCM, Tim has received support to Wed 14 Dec create this concert work for an integrated ‘super-ensemble’ 7.30pm of big band and orchestra that tells the magical and surreal RNCM Concert Hall story of Luca, a young musician who finds himself in a city populated by famous characters from various winter tales.
43 RNCM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Luca’s own story becomes entwined in those of Geppetto AND BIG BAND (Pinocchio’s maker), The Tin Soldier, The Cobbler and the LUCA’S WINTER Elves, The Little Match Girl and more; even Dickens’ three ghosts feature in this magic realist narrative. Writers Nora Tim Garland Luca’s Winter (world première) Chassler and Don Paterson OBE have helped Garland turn the Clark Rundell conductor tale into beautiful, economic verse, which is choreographed to Tim Garland saxophone his bespoke score. Stefan Booth narrator Along Luca’s journey, listeners are immersed in new music For our regular December Big Band slot, we’re going to present that unites big band and orchestral instruments in a vivid, a very different kind of project as we combine what would novel sound palette that portrays beloved characters with normally be two separate end of term concerts - by our Chamber love, warmth and musical virtuosity. Tim himself has described Orchestra and Big Band - into one exciting world première. Luca’s Winter as the largest, most adventurous, far-reaching Luca’s Winter is an epic festive work for big band, chamber project of his career. orchestra and narrator (on this occasion, the West End Tickets £18 £15 FS regular and Eastenders and Hollyoaks actor, Stefan Booth). + Think modern update of Peter and the Wolf and Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, with a gripping narrative that’ll 6.30pm capture the imaginations of teenagers and adults in a seasonal Carole Nash Recital Room adventure. SPOTLIGHT Spontaneous Soundscapes - Cross-genre improvisation for mixed ensemble Free admission, no ticket required Thu 15 Dec Sat 17 Dec 1.15pm 7.30pm coming soon RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall RNCM SALFORD Sat 14 - Sun 15 Jan BAROQUE CHORAL RNCM ENSEMBLE SOCIETY STRINGS Arcangelo Corelli Concerto George Frideric Handel Grosso in F major Op 6 Messiah FESTIVAL No 2 Featuring Vivaldi’s Llio Evans soprano Joseph Haydn Symphony Four Seasons directed Emma Stannard mezzo- No 8 in G major Hob I:8 by violinist Henning soprano ‘Le soir’ Kraggerud. Nicholas Sales tenor Roger Hamilton, conductor Miles Horner bass Free admission, no ticket Northern Baroque Sinfonia required Eugene Monteith Fri 10 - Sun 12 Mar conductor Tickets £17 RNCM Promoted by Salford Choral Society CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Hungary is the focus of this year’s festival featuring the great works of Bartók, Dohnányi, Ligeti and Kurtág. Liberty Living is home to 19,500 students across eighteen UK cities including Manchester where we have three student residences; Sir Fri 24, Sun 26, Charles Groves Hall next to the RNCM, Liberty Tue 28, Thu 30 Mar Point next to Manchester Piccadilly train Sun 18 Dec station and the 34 storey Liberty Heights in 11am-4pm Sat 01 Apr the city centre. We are delighted to sponsor RNCM Theatre Various Venues a scheme to enable all of our Manchester-based THEODORA students access to £3 tickets to key RNCM RNCM CHRIST MAS performances throughout 2016/17. FAMILY DAY GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL For more information on how to book a £3 Come and join us for a day of magical
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‘tis the season to be jolly 9 in D major Ines, RNCM student and Sir Charles Groves Hall resident Jac van Steen conductor 44 Get Involved
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