Dartington International Summer School & Festival

A Music School by Day, A Concert Hall by Night 30 Jul – 27 Aug Welcome

It’s an enormous pleasure to welcome you to Dartington International Summer School and Festival. Dartington is a place of shimmering, ancient beauty, and its historical Summer School is for everyone: for professional musicians and music students, for people who love to play and people who love to listen. By day, there are masterclasses with world-class performers, composition and conducting courses, and orchestral and chamber coaching. You can sing in Fauré’s Requiem or Handel’s Alexander’s Feast, play in a string orchestra or a brass ensemble, and learn about flamenco, Middle Eastern and gospel music. Come and experience everything, from medieval and renaissance music to tango and samba; from talks by the legendary pianist Alfred Brendel and jazz with cool sax player Andy Sheppard to folk sessions with the wonderful Kathryn Tickell. There are poetry and multimedia courses, yoga and dance classes, lectures and films. Dartington hosts over eighty public concerts and events throughout August. Visit the beautiful gardens, relax with a drink or a meal, and enjoy up to three performances a day: some of the most celebrated artists, poets and thinkers are here. On 27th May we also present Party in the Town – take a look on the website for details of this exciting new event, happening all over Totnes. Dartington International Summer School has expanded into a fully-fledged festival. I look forward to welcoming you to a wonderful summer of music, arts and creativity! Joanna MacGregor, Artistic Director

Thank you to our current supporters Bursary awards for Andor Charitable Trust, Angus Alnatt outstanding students Charitable Foundation, Anonymous, John Many of our current supporters fund bursaries. Ashton Thomas, Barbara Whatmore Charitable The following families or individuals have also Trust, Boltini Trust, Bruce Wake Charity, George given an endowment or legacy specifically to Burt, John S Cohen Foundation, Richard Creed, support bursaries in perpetuity. Dartington Hall Trust, Dartington International Summer School Foundation, Daphne Oram Elizabeth Clough, Else and Leonard Cross, Trust, Rodney Davidson, Derek Hill Foundation, Charles Davis, Robert Eliot, Alfred Ensor, Richard Dunn, Elmgrant Trust, Eversley Trust, Richard Gardner, William Glock, Lucille Graham, Friends of the Summer School at Dartington, Gavin Henderson, Christopher Kite, Andras Harold Hyam Wingate Charity, Richard Heason, Milhaly, Busenhart Morgan Evans, Clifton Helen Roll Charitable Trust, Mirhane McLaren- Parker, Ernest Rainer, Esther Salaman, William Howard, Brian and Mary Midgley, RVW Trust, and Judith Scheide Fund, Louisa Schmidt, William and Judith Scheide Fund, Sir Harry Jenny Wood. Studholme, Tomas Tavoroch Avis Trust Fund, Trinity Laban College of Music, Gordon and Please see the website for details of the ways Barbara Waterhouse. in which you can support the Summer School. Contents

Your Time at 2 Summer School How Do the Courses Work? 3

Week 1 6 Sat 30 July - Sat 6 August

Week 2 12 Sat 6 - Sat 13 August Week 3 18 Sat 13 - Sat 20 August

Week 4 24 Sat 20 - Sat 27 August Finding Your Way Around 31 Fees and Accommodation 32

Concert Programme 34 Your Time at Summer School For newcomers and old-timers

Summer School participants relaxing on the lawn

Dartington International Summer School is all Your Summer School 'courses and concerts' about being creative during the day, in week-long pass means you can take part in any of the courses, workshops and masterclasses. Every courses, or just observe, as well as attend all the evening you can listen to up to three concerts, concerts and events. If you want to take time and perhaps perform in some of them too. The out, Dartington estate is perfect for walking, range of music covers classical, jazz, world music and Dartmoor, Totnes and Torquay are all easily and folk, as well as courses in multimedia, dance, accessible if you fancy going a bit further afield. visual arts and creative writing. The Course and Concert fee for the Summer The Summer School brings together an School includes all courses and concerts. The extraordinary mix of people; from professional Accommodation and Catering fees include all and non-professional musicians to emerging meals, from Saturday dinner at the start of the artists, writers and poets, in the beautiful week to Saturday breakfast at the end. The only surroundings of Dartington Hall – a medieval other expenses might be drinks at The White Hart estate in Devon. You can be an active participant Bar, which stays open late after every concert, or choose to observe any of the courses. The and music from the music shop. community you’ll be part of is one of learning, We very much look forward to welcoming you. sharing, performing and socialising - you may find yourself queuing alongside a major international artist at coffee time, or enjoying a drink with a rising star in the bar after a concert.

2 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school How Do the Courses Work?

Courses are chosen when you book, and you The Big Choir Plus attend each course for the full week. The More learning time for those singing in the timetable is shown on the following pages Big Choir, and to build your confidence for and further information on types of courses is the performance! It is possible to attend all given here as well as in the dedicated section or some of these sessions. for each week.

Open Courses, Advanced Courses, Chamber Choir Workshops and Masterclasses The Chamber Choir and Opera Choruses courses are aimed at experienced choral Open Courses like the Folk Choir, Gospel Choir, singers. Numbers are limited and there will be Brazilian Music, dance and improvisation an audition on Sunday morning. If you are not courses are open to absolutely everybody. successful in the audition and are singing in

the Big Choir then you should definitely try the Advanced Courses like Opera, Conducting, Big Choir Plus. Baroque Orchestra - are for music students, professionals and people playing/singing at an equivalent level. Application details are Chamber Music available online. Chamber Music is directed by Rhiannon Evans

(weeks 1 and 2) and Quentin Poole (weeks 3 Individual Instrument and Vocal Workshops and 4) and coaching is provided by the resident are taught on a one-to-one basis in front of ensembles. Please complete the Chamber Music the rest of the class, with occasional group work. form when you make your booking, so that We suggest you should be around Grade 5 or groups and repertoire can be most effectively above to get the most you can from them. prepared. Pre-formed groups are also very

welcome, and should still complete the Chamber Masterclasses with singers and instrumentalists Music form to ensure there is space and coaching are for advanced students, primarily aimed at available for everyone. Every participant will be undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma level, offered one session every day with coaching, but anyone at grade 8 or above (or equivalent) is with other sessions for rehearsal, and coaching welcome to apply. These courses will often have when available. For those that wish, 'Expanded' an application process, see website for details. chamber music with doubling of parts, takes Please read the course descriptions - they will place regularly. help you decide which course is the right one for you. Not all courses fit into one of the above categories! Please read the course descriptions The Big Choir on the following pages - they will help you decide Everyone is welcome to sing in the Big Choir. which courses are right for you – and of course It rehearses straight after breakfast providing call the office on 01803 847080 if you have any a joyous choral upbeat to each day’s activities, queries. The timetable on the following pages and culminates in a performance at the end of will help you put your day together. the week.

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 3 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4

Week 1 Big Choir – Vocal Masterclass – Vocal Workshop – Big Choir Plus Andrew Griffiths Emma Kirkby Nicholas Clapton

Vocal Ensembles Middle Eastern Singing

Advanced Renaissance Renaissance Reeds, Cornetts and Sackbuts Wind Band Recorders, Brass and Strings (Renaissance Polyphony)

Clavichord and Harpsichord Clavichord and Harpsichord

Lute – Toby Carr Lute – David Miller Oud Workshop Middle Eastern Music and Song

Viol Consorts Viol Consorts Viol Consorts

Jazz, Improvisation, Jazz, Improvisation, Composition and Composition and Medieval Music Medieval Music

Cross-Currents: Writing Homer’s Odyssey from the Ocean of Stories

Chamber Music Chamber Music Songs and Music in Chamber Music Shakespeare’s Theatre

Week 2 The Big Choir - Jane Glover Vocal Masterclass – Vocal Workshop – Big Choir Plus Hilary Summers Andrew Watts

Advanced Opera Course: Pyramus and Thisbe / Dido and Aeneas

Chamber Choir

Teaching and Arranging Folk Choir As I Walked Out One Morning As I Walked Out One Morning Folk Music

Baroque Orchestra

Introduction to Fortepiano Harpsichord Workshop Creative Writing

Recorder Workshop Recorder Ensembles

Baroque Cello, Violin, Trumpet and Wind classes

Natural Trumpet

Chamber Music Chamber Music Piano Workshop: Baroque Chamber Music Music on the Piano

All courses are taught for 6 days, from Sunday to Friday. There Observers are 4 main sessions a day, starting around 9am, 11am, 2pm and All of the classes welcome a small audience, and we encourage 3.30pm. There’s also an early morning session for Yoga or Tai observers, especially in Masterclasses. You do not need to sign Chi Qigong which is not listed below as it falls outside normal up to a course in order to observe it. teaching sessions. Please look at the timetable on these pages to Concerts and Talks see how your day could fit together, as you can see some courses There are concerts and talks at 5.15pm, 7.45pm and 10.00pm. run across multiple sessions. If a course title is repeated in separate Performances are by artists teaching at the Summer School, session blocks it is possible to sign up for just one session of the as well as student performances towards the end of the week. course, if the title runs across the blocks you must attend both/ If you book a full courses and concerts package you can attend all sessions. And don’t forget the evening is full of concerts too! all concerts, subject to capacity. See page 34 for the concert An outline of concerts is given at the back of this brochure and programme and events. a full concert brochure will be available in early 2016.

4 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4

Week 3 The Big Choir – Vocal Masterclass – Vocal Workshop – The Big Choir Plus George Vass Gillian Keith Sarah Gabriel

Advanced Opera Course: Bizet Carmen

Advanced Conducting - Sian Edwards

Advanced Opera and Music Theatre: The Pirates of Penzance The Pirates of Penzance Chorus

Songs from the Musicals

String Orchestra Violin Masterclass Violin, Viola and Cello workshops

Cello Masterclass Latin Music: Tango and Bossa Nova In the Heart of Rhythm Workshop

Piano Duets Piano Masterclass Piano Concertos Workshop Tango Dance

Piano Workshop Accordion Workshop

Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music

Week 4 The Big Choir – Nigel Perrin Gospel Choir Vocal Workshop – The Big Choir Plus Jessica Cash

Chamber Choir / Carmen Chorus

Advanced Opera Course: Bizet Carmen

Advanced Conducting - Sian Edwards

Advanced Composition – Judith Weir

Open Composition Open Conducting

Multimedia, Art and Sound Design

Stravinsky: The Soldier’s Tale and Satie’s 150th Birthday: Theatre, Music and Dada

Jazz Saxophones Jazz Ensembles Open Big Band

Jazz Drumming Modern Jive and Percussion

Beginner’s Jazz Jazz Trumpet

Jazz Piano and Keyboards

Piano Masterclass Contemporary Music and Contemporary Techniques

Tea Dance Band Trumpet Masterclass Brass Ensemble Violin Masterclass

Trombone Workshop

Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Violin, Viola, Bassoon, Horn workshops Cello Workshops

Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 5 Week

30 Jul – 6 Aug

Early and Middle Eastern music, improvisation, poetry, and fairy tales Week 1 is a fantastic week for singers: the Big Choir is directed by Stile Antico’s Andrew Griffiths, in a spectacular programme of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and Renaissance motets from Italy; vocalists can study John Dowland’s lute songs with the glorious soprano Emma Kirkby. William Lyons and Peter Oswald direct an exciting course on London theatre music and song of the 16th and 17th centuries; Emily White and Gawain Glenton direct the gorgeous polyphony of Andrea Gabrieli for cornetts, sackbuts and voices, while Nicholas Clapton welcomes singers to his open vocal workshop. There are classes and workshops for viol consorts, lutenists, reeds and recorders, cornetts and sackbuts, with David Miller, Fretwork, Carole Cerasi, The City Musick and The Brook Street Band. Improvisation and composition courses are led by the jazz pianist Huw Warren, and composer, fiddle and hurdy-gurdy player Stevie Wishart. Middle Eastern music and song is directed by the Lebanese oud player Abdul Salam Kheir and Egyptian singer Merit Ariane Stephanos, exploring the myriad interconnections between Arabic music and the Mediterranean. Literary journeys abound this week, with performances and poetry led by Alice Oswald and Simon Armitage. The writer and mythographer Marina Warner runs a creative writing course, retelling migration and cultural exchange through 1001 Nights and fairytale. Week 1’s concerts are full of flair: from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, fiddle fireworks from Corelli, Vivaldi and Leclair, In Nomine settings from Byrd and Purcell, and Terry Riley’s minimalist masterpiece In C, to medieval and Middle Eastern collaborations.

6 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Choral and Vocal Courses The Big Choir ANDREW GRIFFITHS SESSION 1 Vocal Ensembles STILE ANTICO SESSION 2 Vocal Masterclass EMMA KIRKBY SESSION 2 Vocal Workshop NICHOLAS CLAPTON SESSION 3 Middle Eastern Singing MERIT ARIANE STEPHANOS SESSION 3 The Big Choir Plus GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 4

Instrumental Courses Advanced Renaissance Wind Band THE CITY MUSICK SESSION 1 Lute and Lute Ensembles DAVID MILLER AND TOBY CARR SESSIONS 1 & 2 Viol Consorts FRETWORK SESSIONS 1, 2 & 3 Renaissance Reeds, Recorders, WILLIAM LYONS, NICHOLAS PERRY SESSION 2 Brass and Strings AND RICHARD THOMAS Clavichord and Harpsichord CAROLE CERASI SESSIONS 2 & 3 Music and Song from WILLIAM LYONS AND PETER OSWALD SESSION 3 Shakespeare's Theatre Cornetts and Sackbuts EMILY WHITE AND GAWAIN GLENTON SESSION 3 (Renaissance Polyphony) Oud Workshop ABDUL SALAM KHIER SESSION 3 Chamber Music RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE WILLIAMS SESSIONS 1, 2 & 4 AND THE BROOK STREET BAND

Improvisation and Words Cross-Currents: Writing from MARINA WARNER SESSION 2 the Ocean of Stories Jazz, Improvisation, Composition STEVIE WISHART AND HUW WARREN SESSIONS 2 & 3 and Medieval Music Homer’s Odyssey ALICE OSWALD SESSION 3 Middle Eastern Music and Song MERIT ARIANE STEPHANOS SESSION 4 AND ABDUL SALAM KHIER

More than Music Poetry Performance: readings from SIMON ARMITAGE 31 JULY 5.15PM Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl Lecture: Arabic fairy tales and MARINA WARNER 3 AUG 5.15PM The Consorts of the Caliphs Yoga JUSTIN DALTON 7.45AM - 8.30AM

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 7 Choral and Vocal Courses of their choice, on which we can work both technically and interpretatively. Aged from 16 to 80+, they have responded with everything from The Big Choir Machaut to Maxwell Davies - fabulous!’ SESSION 3 ANDREW GRIFFITHS The charismatic and internationally-acclaimed conductor Andrew Griffiths, returns to Dartington Middle Eastern Singing to direct Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. A choral MERIT ARIANE STEPHANOS treat, this music is virtuosic and thrilling, as well as sweetly languid and colouristic. We’ll A wonderful opportunity to explore vocal be pairing it with other early Renaissance repertoire with the celebrated Egyptian/German Venetian composers, alongside The City singer and composer Merit Ariane Stephanos. Musick’s Advanced Renaissance Wind Band. We’ll be looking at music from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Andalusia, and understanding SESSION 1 the myriad interconnections between the Middle East and the Mediterranean. You’ll learn to express yourself through colour and Vocal Ensembles ornamentation, and to improvise within the ANDREW GRIFFITHS AND STILE ANTICO Arabic modal system (maqam) and rhythmic patterns (iqa’). Andrew Griffiths and members of Stile Antico coach singers of all ages and abilities SESSION 3 in smaller ensembles, focusing on early madrigals and motets. The Big Choir Plus SESSION 2 GAVIN ROBERTS Vocal Masterclass Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big Choir repertoire, with the wonderful choir EMMA KIRKBY repetiteur Gavin Roberts. ‘I feel lucky that my career was characterised SESSION 4 from the start by ensemble singing, especially with my first love, the lute; so we’ll have a joint session with David Miller’s class of Instrumental Courses accomplished lute and theorbo players early on. I’m happy to coach students in their choice of repertoire; there will also be an emphasis this year on the beautiful songs of John Dowland, Advanced Renaissance Wind Band and I’ll send beforehand a choice of ensemble THE CITY MUSICK pieces.’ This is an Advanced Selected course, William Lyons and the ever-popular City please see website for application details. Musick members return for their wind SESSION 2 ensemble course. This year we will focus on the repertoire for cornets, shawms, dulcians and trombones from the Regensburg part Vocal Workshop books, the Lerma Codex, and German 17th century music for mixed ensemble, including NICHOLAS CLAPTON stringed instruments and continuo. This is an ‘Ever since coming to Dartington for the first time Advanced Selected course, please see website in 1995, I’ve always encouraged participants in for application details. my class to perform a wide and varied repertoire SESSION 1

8 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Lute and Lute Ensembles English schools. Carole Cerasi is a keyboards professor at the Yehudi Menuhin School and DAVID MILLER AND TOBY CARR the Royal Academy of Music. David Miller's course in session 2 provides SESSIONS 2 & 3 a unique opportunity for advanced and experienced players of early plucked instruments to develop their accompanying Music and Song from and continuo skills, whilst recreating the lush and sumptuous qualities of a large 17th Shakespeare's Theatre century continuo group, with lutes, archlutes, WILLIAM LYONS AND PETER OSWALD chitarroni and guitars. In session 1 Toby An exciting new course exploring the drama, Carr will offer intermediate and beginner music and songs of the great playwrights lute-players technical support and coaching. of Tudor and Stuart England including There’ll be opportunities to collaborate with Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson and Webster. singers from Emma Kirkby’s class on her Dowland project. Peter Oswald was Playwright-in-Residence at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and William SESSIONS 1 & 2 Lyons has composed and directed scores for the Globe since 2001. This course will be a rich and creative experience for Renaissance Viol Consorts instrumentalists, singers and actors. FRETWORK SESSION 3 The brilliant and ground-breaking viol consort Fretwork, supervise and lead tuition at all levels. Repertoire will include English, French, Italian and German music of the 16th and 17th centuries. SESSIONS 1, 2 & 3

Renaissance Reeds, Recorders, Brass and Strings WILLIAM LYONS, NICHOLAS PERRY AND RICHARD THOMAS Group and individual tuition with members of The City Musick, on shawms, crumhorns, dulcian, rackett, recorders, early violin, cornetts, sackbuts, bagpipes and renaissance percussion. We will be covering a broad repertoire of dance, theatre, court and civic music from the 15th to the 17th centuries. SESSION 2

Clavichord and Harpsichord CAROLE CERASI One of the world’s foremost early keyboard players focuses on the music of Bach and Handel, Scarlatti, and the early French and Emma Kirkby

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 9 Cornetts and Sackbuts – Improvisation and Words Renaissance Polyphony GAWAIN GLENTON AND EMILY WHITE Cross-Currents: Writing from the Cornetts and sackbuts were regularly mixed Ocean of Stories with singers in the 16th century, and this year we’ll focus on the burnished harmony MARINA WARNER and polyphony of Venetian composer Andrea Stories rise up from the depths, travel near and Gabrieli. This course aims to give students far, appearing in recognisable but new guises in a taste of this very special combination, as different places and at different times. In times instrumentalists learn from vocalists, and vice of crisis, conflict and migration, stories can versa. Singers should be able to sing a line to a open relations and exchanges across cultures, part if needed; all voice-types are welcome to languages and historical antagonisms. On this work on this gorgeous music. creative writing course with Marina Warner, SESSION 3 participants will take their cue from stories found in 1001 Nights, myth and fairy tale - responding, retelling and re-visioning them in Oud Workshop complete imaginative liberty. ABDUL SALAM KHEIR SESSION 2 The legendary Lebanese oud-player returns to Dartington to lead a course on Arabic music for the Jazz, Improvisation, Composition oud. Abdul is known to audiences the world over, and Medieval Music from Womad Festival to collaborations with Ex Cathedra and soprano Catherine Bott. His course STEVIE WISHART AND HUW WARREN will focus on Arabic classical and folk styles. A chance to work separately, then together, SESSION 3 with two of the world’s leading improvisors, thinkers and composers. Stevie Wishart - hurdy gurdy player, medieval violinist, composer Chamber Music and Hildegarde of Bingen scholar – directs a compositional and improvisational class in session Directed by Rhiannon Evans, the chamber music 2, while the brilliant pianist and composer Huw programme is open to all instrumentalists; daily Warren leads a free jazz and world improvisation coaching is available (see page 7 for this class, also in session 2. In session 3, both classes week’s tutors). will come together. You will also be joined by SESSIONS 1, 2 & 4 Alice Oswald’s poetry group later in the week, to create a short, informal performance. SESSIONS 2 & 3

Homer’s Odyssey ALICE OSWALD The poet and compelling performer Alice Oswald will be using Homer’s Odyssey to discover a different kind of poetry - not oral or literary, not page or performance, but something between all four. The course will try to learn from Homer that poetry is essentially a Participants practicing in the gardens way of remembering. There’ll also be a chance

10 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Huw Warren and Alice Oswald’s class 2015

to collaborate with the improvisation course powerful poetesses of the early Abbasid Court in run by Huw Warren and Stevie Wishart, leading The Consorts of the Caliphs, a rare collection of to a short, informal performance combining stories and poems, as well as 1001 Nights. words with music at the end of the week. 3RD AUGUST 5.15PM SESSION 3 Poetry Performance: Middle Eastern Music and Song Pearl and Sir Gawian MERIT ARIANE STEPHANOS SIMON ARMITAGE AND ABDUL SALAM KHIER The hugely popular and award-winning poet Merit and Abdul will teach you to sing and play a Simon Armitage performs excerpts of his wide range of folk and classical songs from Egypt, new translation of the fourteenth-century Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, as well as the tradition masterpiece Pearl, as well as his ground- of Mwashshahat, which originated in ancient breaking Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Andalusia. They will be focusing on performance 31ST JULY 5.15PM conventions and styles, giving you an insight into Arabic modes, rhythms and improvisation. SESSION 4 Yoga JUSTIN DALTON More Than Music This course, based on the gentle, fluid Scaravelli approach to yoga, is suitable for participants of all ages and abilities. Yoga has Lecture: Arabic Fairy Tales and been practised by many musicians - most famously Yehudi Menuhin - and it’s a great The Consorts of the Caliphs chance to loosen up the body before a day’s MARINA WARNER music-making. The scholarly writer and cultural historian 7.45AM - 8.30AM Marina Warner explores the romantic, witty and

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 11 Week

6 – 13 August

Baroque Orchestra, Baroque Opera, Folk Music and Creative Writing Week 2 is dramatic: it brings operatic virtuosity and brilliance to Dartington, alongside poetry, literature, ballads and storytelling. Jane Glover leads The Big Choir and Baroque Orchestra in Handel’s delicious and vivacious Alexander’s Feast. Our Baroque Opera double-bill this year is John Lampe’s satiric Pyramus and Thisbe, a huge hit on London’s stage in 1745, and Purcell’s tragic and timeless Dido and Aeneas. We’re blessed with a feast, too, of superb Baroque coaches – principal players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, as well as their leader, Margaret Faultless. The young international Ensemble Meridiana, who met and trained in Basel, also join us, along with the wonderful operatic singers Hilary Summers, Andrew Watts and Ruby Hughes. There are instrumental courses led by Richard Tunnicliffe and Maggie Cole for strings, harpsichord and fortepiano, and Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor runs a Baroque Music on the Piano course. Folk and poetry continues to be an important part of the programme: Northumbrian pipes-player and fiddler Kathryn Tickell returns to run a folk course, and Sally Davies directs our Dartington Folk Choir. The poet Jo Shapcott leads a poetry writing course. Concerts burn with a poetic intensity, from late night harpsichord music and Chopin’s complete Mazurkas, to a celebration of Kathleen Ferrier and Jane Glover’s Mozart’s Women. Operatic fireworks, Baroque brilliance – and a ceilidh too!

12 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses The Big Choir: JANE GLOVER SESSION 1 Handel Alexander’s Feast Vocal Masterclass HILARY SUMMERS SESSION 2 Vocal Workshop ANDREW WATTS SESSION 3 Advanced Opera Course: Pyramus RUBY HUGHES, RICHARD WILLIAMS SESSIONS 1, 2, and Thisbe/ Dido and Aeneas AND MARGARET FAULTLESS 3 & 4 Chamber Choir: JANE GLOVER SESSION 4 Dido and Aeneas choruses The Big Choir Plus GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 4

Folk and Poetry Courses Teaching and Arranging Folk Music SALLY DAVIES SESSION 1 Folk Choir SALLY DAVIES SESSION 2 As I Walked Out One Morning KATHRYN TICKELL SESSIONS 3 & 4 AND AMY THATCHER Poetry Writing Course JO SHAPCOTT SESSION 4

Instrumental Courses Baroque Orchestra MARGARET FAULTLESS AND SESSIONS 1, 2, ROBERT HOWARTH 3 & 4 Introduction to Fortepiano MAGGIE COLE SESSION 2 Recorder and Recorder Ensembles JILL KEMP SESSIONS 2 & 3 Baroque Violin Masterclass MARGARET FAULTLESS SESSION 3 Baroque Cello Masterclass RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE SESSION 3 Baroque Wind Workshop ANDREW WATTS SESSION 3 Natural Trumpet PAUL SHARP SESSIONS 3 & 4 Harpsichord Workshop MAGGIE COLE SESSION 3 Piano Workshop: Baroque Music JOANNA MACGREGOR SESSION 3 on the Piano Chamber Music RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE WILLIAMS, SESSIONS 1, 2 & 4 ENSEMBLE MERIDIANA

More Than Music Illustrated Lecture: Poetry JO SHAPCOTT 8 AUG 5.15PM Mozart’s Women: His Family, JANE GLOVER WITH MARINA WARNER 10 AUG 5.15PM His Friends, His Music Tai Chi Qigong JOE SALMON 8AM - 8.30AM

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 13 Choral, Vocal Advanced Opera Course: Lampe’s Pyramus and Thisbe, Purcell’s and Opera Courses Dido and Aeneas RUBY HUGHES, MARGARET FAULTLESS AND The Big Choir RICHARD WILLIAMS This exciting opera course brings together JANE GLOVER John Lampe’s satire on Pyramus and Thisbe, The great international conductor and scholar which took London by storm in 1745, as well returns to Dartington after many years, to as Henry Purcell’s timeless tragedy Dido and conduct Handel’s gorgeous Alexander’s Feast. Aeneas. Richard Williams directs with his usual Jane’s repertoire extends from Monteverdi to the flair and creativity, and you will be coached 21st century, but her core repertoire includes by the acclaimed soprano Ruby Hughes and Handel - particularly this luscious and richly OAE’s leader, Margaret Faultless. This is an dramatic work. Her qualities of clarity, integrity, Advanced Selected course, please see website wit and humour will dazzle the participants and for application details. lift The Big Choir to new heights! SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 SESSION 1 Chamber Choir Vocal Masterclass JANE GLOVER HILARY SUMMERS Jane Glover puts the Chamber Choir through We’re hugely privileged to welcome the its paces, rehearsing the marvellous choruses internationally-acclaimed contralto Hilary - from witches to sailors - for a performance Summers to Dartington. Hilary has made a of Purcell’s operatic masterpiece Dido and considerable name for herself in the world of Aeneas. There will be a short audition for the Baroque opera, working with such luminaries Chamber Choir on August 7th. as William Christie, Christopher Hogwood SESSION 4 and Deborah Warner; she also collaborates with major figures in contemporary music, including Pierre Boulez and Michael Nyman. Above all, Hilary’s warmth, experience and The Big Choir Plus personality will bring superb mentorship to GAVIN ROBERTS this class. This is an Advanced Selected course, Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The please see website for application details. Big Choir repertoire, with the wonderful choir SESSION 2 repetiteur Gavin Roberts. SESSION 4 Vocal Workshop ANDREW WATTS Folk and Poetry Courses Open to singers of all ages and abilities, the superb countertenor Andrew Watts – acclaimed performer and Voice Teacher at the Jette Parker Teaching and Arranging Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera Folk Music House – will improve your vocal technique and SALLY DAVIES performance skills in a relaxed, supportive and informative atmosphere. Sally Davies’ course is for musicians and music teachers with some experience and SESSION 3 enthusiasm for arranging, and you’ll be looking

14 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school at creating open harmonies for different- can we tell them in a new way? How can we sized ensembles. ‘Having sung the polyphonic use them as a conduit for our own stories, for songs of the Caucasus and The Balkans, I felt our own contemporary personal and political there was a crying need for British folk songs concerns? Come prepared to write, to be open to have something of the bite and power of to techniques and approaches old and new, these Eastern European arrangements. It’s and to have fun with language and stories. my intention to infuse English folk songs with Jo's most recent collection Of Mutabiity won some of these harmonic elements!’ the Costa Book Award, and in 2011 she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. SESSION 1 SESSION 4 Folk Choir SALLY DAVIES Instrumental Courses Sally Davies is an extremely experienced singer, composer and choir leader, and directs Baroque Orchestra the Cecil Sharp House Choir with her distinctive and original arrangements of folk songs. MARGARET FAULTLESS The Folk Choir course will provide an intense AND ROBERT HOWARTH and rewarding learning experience; you’ll Since 1989 Margaret has been a co-leader of be rehearsing folk songs from England and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Eastern Europe, in spine-tingling a cappella playing a significant role in their education harmony, for a concert later in the week. programme for young professionals. Together SESSION 2 with harpsichordist Robert Howarth, she’ll be directing the Baroque Orchestra in two major concerts this week: an operatic double bill, As I Walked Out One Morning John Lampe’s Pyramus and Thisbe and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on Thursday, and Handel’s KATHRYN TICKELL AND AMY THATCHER Alexander’s Feast - conducted by Jane Glover The wonderful virtuoso Northumbrian pipes- - on Friday. An unmissable chance to work player, fiddler and singer Kathryn Tickell with Baroque players at the centre of their joins forces with the sensational accordionist profession. This is an Advanced Selected course, and clog dancer Amy Thatcher, to lead this please see website for application details. exciting folk course. Devoted to instrumental SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 (SESSION 3 FOR tuition, the class offers the chance for players MASTERCLASSES OR SECTIONALS) to study and rehearse traditional tunes and arrangements, as well as collaborate and create new work. There's a concert later in the week, shared with the Folk Choir. SESSIONS 3 & 4

Poetry Writing Course JO SHAPCOTT In a Dartington week which includes Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and John Lampe's Pyramus and Thisbe, Jo Shapcott's poetry writing course will focus on old stories and new forms. Myth, folklore and fairy tales, however ancient, always tug at current concerns: how Ruby Hughes

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 15 Introduction to Fortepiano This is an Advanced Selected course, please see website for application details. MAGGIE COLE SESSION 3 This class is open to all keyboard players who are curious about the fortepiano, and want to gain new insights into Classical repertoire. Baroque Wind Workshop Diverse repertoire is very welcome; composers ranging from CPE Bach, JC Bach, Scarlatti and ANDREW WATTS Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were all being Andrew Watts is principal bassoon of the Orchestra seduced by the new instrument, and we’ll be of the Age of Enlightenment, and one of the leading examining this fertile period of change. As well players of Baroque and classical bassoon in the UK. as solo pieces, we’ll aim to work on songs with He is also a professor in the Historical Performance participants in the vocal classes. Department at the Royal Academy of Music. SESSION 2 SESSION 3

Recorder and Recorder Ensembles Natural Trumpet JILL KEMP PAUL SHARP Open to all recorder players these classes cover Paul Sharp is the guest principal trumpet of breathing, coordination, extended techniques, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, ornamentation and any other areas, or and one of the leading players of Baroque and repertoire, that students would like to cover. classical trumpet in the UK. He has played Please bring a treble at A440 and any other under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, Sir recorders you may have. There will be ensemble Charles Mackerras, Sir Mark Elder, Vladimir work in session 3 as well as individual coaching Jurowski, Marin Alsop and András Schiff. in session 2. SESSIONS 3 & 4 SESSIONS 2 & 3

Baroque Violin Masterclass Harpsichord Workshop MAGGIE COLE MARGARET FAULTLESS The popular early keyboard performer and The brilliant Baroque violinist Margaret pedagogue Maggie Cole returns to Dartington, Faultless, leader of the Orchestra of the Age to lead an open class for players with some of Enlightenment and Head of Historical experience of the harpsichord. A portion of Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, each lesson will be devoted to the Six Partitas gives a masterclass focussing on all technical of Bach - don’t be shy of bringing a movement and stylistic aspects of solo Baroque violin- or two. There’ll also be time to look at whatever playing. This is an Advanced Selected course, other repertoire participants bring. please see website for application details. SESSION 3 SESSION 3

Baroque and Classical Baroque Music on the Piano Cello Masterclass JOANNA MACGREGOR RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE An open course led by Artistic Director and Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music Joanna Richard Tunnicliffe leads a masterclass on both MacGregor, examining the multiple approaches Baroque and early classical repertoire, including to performing Baroque music on the piano. sonatas by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

16 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Students are invited to bring any solo Bach, Scarlatti or Handel piece to perform (including keyboard concertos), as well as music from the earlier French and English schools. We’ll also look at historical performances and recording practices. SESSION 3

Chamber Music Directed by Rhiannon Evans, the chamber music programme is open to all instrumentalists; daily coaching is available (see page 13 for this week's tutors). SESSIONS 1, 2 & 4

More Than Music

Poetry Reading: Jo Shapcott Jo Shapcott reads from her latest collections, Of Mutabiity and Transformation. 8TH AUGUST 5.15PM

Jane Glover on Mozart’s Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music Jane Glover, acclaimed conductor and acknowledged expert on Mozart’s life and work, discusses the remarkable women in Mozart’s turbulent life with the broadcaster and writer Paul Allen. 10TH AUGUST 5.15PM

Tai Chi Qigong JOE SALMON Joe Salmon, director of Tai Chi Nation, offers an early morning class, designed to relax the body and focus the mind. A dynamic form of moving meditation, Tai Chi Qigong is accessible to people of all ages and ideal for musicians, bringing great benefits for good practice and performance in the day ahead. 8.00AM - 8.30AM

Amy Thatcher, rehearsing in the Great Hall

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13 – 20 August

Conducting and Orchestral Music, Opera, Music Theatre and Brazilian Music Week 3 is a treat for pianists – with lectures on late Beethoven and Woody Allen from the legendary Alfred Brendel, masterclasses and workshops from Hamish Milne, Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor and Florian Mitrea - and string lovers, with the wonderful Škampa Quartet, cellist Adrian Brendel, violinist Chloe Hanslip and the Dartington Festival String Orchestra. George Vass rehearses Haydn’s mighty Nelson Mass and Richard Williams directs a new, riotously witty production of The Pirates of Penzance. There are music theatre classes, and vocal classes led by opera star Gillian Keith; and Sarah Gabriel stars in her new show about Dorothy Parker. Sian Edwards opens the two-week Advanced Conducting Course rehearsing a majestic programme of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and the Triple Concerto; the Advanced Opera Course production of Carmen begins; while tango, samba and bossa nova run through the week led by Brazilian master percussionist Adriano Adewale and Lithuanian accordionist Martynas Levikis, with a tango band and tango ball. Don’t forget your dancing shoes...

18 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses The Big Choir: GEORGE VASS SESSION 1 Haydn Nelson Mass Vocal Masterclass GILLIAN KEITH SESSION 2 Advanced Opera Course: SIAN EDWARDS AND GILLIAN KEITH SESSIONS 1, 2, Bizet Carmen 3 & 4 Vocal Workshop SARAH GABRIEL SESSION 3 The Big Choir Plus GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 4

Conducting Advanced Conducting Course SIAN EDWARDS SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4

Music Theatre and Latin American Music Advanced Opera and Music Theatre: RICHARD WILLIAMS, SESSIONS 1, 2 & 3 The Pirates of Penzance GEORGE VASS AND SARAH GABRIEL Songs from the Musicals ROBERT PURVIS SESSION 2 Latin Music: In The Heart of Rhythm ADRIANO ADEWALE SESSION 3 The Pirates of Penzance Chorus GEORGE VASS AND SARAH GABRIEL SESSION 4 Tango and Bossa Nova Workshop ADRIAN BRENDEL, ADRIANO SESSION 4 ADEWALE, MARTYNAS LEVICKIS, JOANNA MACGREGOR

Instrumental Courses Open String Orchestra ADRIAN BRENDEL SESSION 1 Piano Duets and Two-Piano Workshop FLORIAN MITREA SESSION 1 Violin Masterclass CHLOE HANSLIP SESSION 2 Cello Masterclass ADRIAN BRENDEL SESSION 2 Piano Masterclass HAMISH MILNE SESSION 2 Piano Workshop FLORIAN MITREA SESSION 2 Accordion Workshop MARTYNAS LEVICKIS SESSION 3 Piano Concertos Workshop JOANNA MACGREGOR SESSION 3 Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops ŠKAMPA QUARTET SESSION 3 Chamber Music QUENTIN POOLE, ŠKAMPA QUARTET, SESSIONS 1, 2 & 4 JORGENSEN TRIO, BARBARA SUE WHITE

More Than Music Illustrated Lecture: Beethoven’s ALFRED BRENDEL 15 AUG 5.15PM Last Sonatas Talk and Film: Woody Allen’s Zelig ALFRED BRENDEL 18 AUG 5.15PM Tai Chi Qigong JOE SALMON 8AM - 8.30AM Dance workshop: Tango FERNANDO GUIDO SESSION 4

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 19 Choral, Vocal This is an Advanced Selected course, please see and Opera Courses website for application details. SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4

The Big Choir Vocal Workshop GEORGE VASS SARAH GABRIEL The hugely popular conductor and Festival As at home in Mozart or Britten opera as she Director (Presteigne, Hampstead and Highgate) is in music theatre - Sarah Gabriel made her returns to Dartington to conduct one of Haydn’s European debut as Eliza in My Fair Lady at the choral masterpieces, Nelson Mass (or Missa in Théâtre du Châtelet, opposite Alex Jennings. Augustiis – ‘Mass for troubled times’). Written Her vocal class is open to all singers; Sarah is at the time of Napoleon’s stunning triumphs particularly interested in being authentically against Austria, Haydn was at the peak of his yourself onstage, and in how to express your powers, and scored this mighty work for a ‘dark’ individuality. You can see her in action in a orchestra: strings, trumpets, timpani and organ. brand new show about Dorothy Parker this week. It is supremely dramatic and exciting. We’ll also be performing Celia McDowell’s beautiful SESSION 3 Ave Maris Stella. George will also be conducting The Pirates of Penzance on Thursday evening in Week 3, The Big Choir Plus and choral singers can audition to be Pirates! GAVIN ROBERTS SESSION 1 Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big Choir repertoire, with the wonderful choir repetiteur Gavin Roberts. Vocal Masterclass SESSION 4 GILLIAN KEITH Gillian Keith is one of Canada’s leading lyric sopranos. A past winner of the prestigious Conducting Courses Kathleen Ferrier Award‚ she has gone on to star in the world’s major opera houses; her repertoire extends from Monteverdi and Advanced Conducting Course Handel to Richard Strauss and Britten. She SIAN EDWARDS puts Summer School singers through their paces in a warm, supportive setting. This is an Two weeks of intense study with Sian Edwards, Advanced Selected course, please see website Head of Conducting, Royal Academy of for application details. Music, for six conductors. Two programmes will be prepared and performed with the SESSION 2 Dartington Festival Orchestra. The first is an all- Beethoven prgramme: Coriolan Overture, the Triple Concerto with Adrian Brendel, Joanna Advanced Opera Course: MacGregor and Chloe Hanslip, and Symphony Bizet’s Carmen no.7. The second is a 20th century American SIAN EDWARDS AND GILLIAN KEITH programme, including Ives’ The Unanswered Question, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and Sian Edwards and Gillian Keith direct the John Adams’ The Chairman Dances. The first week of this two-week Advanced major work running through both weeks will course. Carmen is a masterpiece of French be Bizet’s Carmen; the performance in the romanticism, and receives a full concert Great Hall will be conducted by Sian Edwards, performance in the Great Hall on 26th August.

20 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school but students will be involved in all stages of those who don’t play an instrument - and will the musical preparation with singers from the be based on Afro-Brazilian rhythms such as Advanced Opera Course. This is an Advanced samba, ijexa and forro. Playing on conventional Selected course, please see website for and non-conventional instruments, exploring application details. rhythmic games, vocal and body percussion, it’ll be a fun and challenging way of making music. SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Towards the end of the week we’ll be giving a short samba performance. Music Theatre and Latin SESSION 3 American Music The Pirates of Penzance Chorus The Pirates of Penzance GEORGE VASS Come and be a Pirate! George Vass directs RICHARD WILLIAMS, GEORGE VASS the Pirates Choruses in Gilbert and Sullivan’s AND SARAH GABRIEL masterpiece (female pirates are also welcome). Director Richard Williams, conductor George Applications are welcome from participants; Vass and soprano Sarah Gabriel will direct a auditions will be held after the first choir new semi-staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s rehearsal on Sunday. masterpiece The Pirates of Penzance for SESSION 4 performance in the Great Hall on Thursday night in Week 3. Expect this production to be witty, and fast-paced – a thoroughly contemporary and brilliant take on this superb Bossa Nova and Tango Workshop opera. This is an Advanced Selected course, ADRIAN BRENDEL, ADRIANO ADEWALE, please see website for application details. MARTYNAS LEVICKIS AND JOANNA MACGREGOR SESSIONS 1, 2 & 3 This class will be for singers and instrumentalists interested in the music of Songs from the Musicals Tom Jobim, the great Brazilian singer and composer, and Astor Piazzolla, the master ROBERT PURVIS tango composer. We’ll be looking at various A boisterous journey through the world of existing arrangements and making our own, musical theatre, open to all singers of all exploring the colour and variety of these styles, abilities and ages. The course will focus on with a short informal performance towards the several musicals, looking at chorus and solo end of the week. numbers; one-to-one coaching is available SESSION 4 outside of ensemble sessions. There will be a performance later in the week. SESSION 2

In the Heart of Rhythm ADRIANO ADEWALE Adriano Adewale is a master percussionist from Brazil, fêted all over the world for his Africa- inflected jazz and sensational virtuosity. In the Heart of Rhythm is open to everybody – Adriano Adewale percussionists, instrumentalists, singers, and

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 21 opened a new and vital avenue he continues Instrumental Courses to explore, alongside his passion for jazz and world music. Adrian will coach advanced students in all areas of cello repertoire, Open String Orchestra including concertos. Students are selected in advance for this course: please see the website ADRIAN BRENDEL for details of application process. The hugely popular cellist Adrian Brendel SESSION 2 returns to lead the all-comers String Orchestra. Repertoire will include staples of the orchestral string repertoire –as well as short and spicy Piano Masterclass 20th century pieces. HAMISH MILNE SESSION 1 Hamish Milne is one of the most eminent piano pedagogues in the world, and is a professor at Piano Duets and the Royal Academy of Music; he studied with Two-Piano Workshop Harold Craxton and then in Italy with Guido Agosti, a pupil of Busoni. Hamish has been FLORIAN MITREA a passionate advocate of Medtner’s music The talented young Rumanian pianist Florian (recording his complete works for piano) and is Mitrea returns to guide you through four-hand particularly known for his love and knowledge and two-piano repertoire. You are welcome to of the late Romantic school. This is an come as an already-formed duo, or be prepared Advanced Selected course, please see website to pair up. There will be a range of four-hand and for application details. two-piano repertoire on sale in the music shop. SESSION 2 SESSION 1 Piano Workshop Violin Masterclass FLORIAN MITREA CHLOE HANSLIP The young Rumanian pianist Florian Mitrea The prodigiously talented violinist Chloe was a huge hit at last year’s Summer School Hanslip has played all over the world as a as a performer and teacher, and returns to soloist, and made her BBC Proms debut in run the Piano Workshop. Florian will guide 2002 at the tender age of 15. You can see her pianists of all abilities in a relaxed and friendly play a solo recital on Saturday night, and in atmosphere. He will coach anything from Bach Beethoven’s Triple Concerto on Wednesday to Bartók, but particularly likes the Viennese This is an Advanced Selected course, please school of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. see website for application details. SESSION 2 SESSION 2 Piano Concerto Workshop Cello Masterclass JOANNA MACGREGOR ADRIAN BRENDEL Preparing for a concerto performance demands One of the most versatile and original cellists not just mastery of your solo part, but also of his generation, Adrian Brendel has travelled knowledge of orchestration, balance and the the word as soloist, collaborator and teacher. leadership required for a successful performance! A fine classical and romantic player, his Pianists are invited to bring along all or part discovery of contemporary music as a teenager of any concerto, which we’ll work on with two

22 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school pianos, discussing style, colour, touch and tempo Chamber Music – also the ways in which to communicate with Directed by Quentin Poole, the chamber a conductor (teaming up with Sian Edwards’ music programme is open to all singers and conducting course for a session). instrumentalists; there are large ensemble SESSION 3 opportunities, and daily coaching is available (see page 19 for this week’s tutors). Accordion Workshop SESSIONS 1, 2 & 4 MARTYNAS LEVICKIS The accordion is most closely identified with More Than Music folk music from Eastern Europe and South America, but the brilliant young Lithuanian virtuoso Martynas Levickas aims to prove it Lectures can make all kinds of music everywhere. From ALFRED BRENDEL Beethoven to Vivaldi, from Ennio Morricone and Lady Gaga to contemporary classical music, We’re thrilled that Alfred Brendel, one of the Martynas’ class will show the full power and greatest pianists of all time, is returning to the range of the accordion’s repertoire. Summer School to give an illustrated lecture on Beethoven’s Last Three Piano Sonatas, and SESSION 3 to introduce Woody Allen’s Zelig in the Barn Theatre, Alfred’s talks will be as warm and Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops witty as they will be enlightening. 16th August 5.15pm: Illustrated Lecture ŠKAMPA QUARTET in the Great Hall Helena Jiříkovská and Adéla Štajnochrová 18th August 5.15pm: Talk and Film in (violin), Radim Sedmidubský (viola) and Lukáš the Barn Theatre Polák (cello), of the internationally-acclaimed Škampa Quartet, offer string players of all abilities a friendly and supportive workshop environment, in separate instrumental classes. Tai Chi Qigong JOE SALMON SESSION 3 See page 17 for more information. 8.00AM - 8.30AM

Tango FERNANDO GUIDO Vida de Tango’s Fernando Guido gets us ready for the Tango Ball on Friday night, teaching participants – at any level – the sensual moves of tango. SESSION 4

Alfred Brendel

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20 – 27 August

Carmen and Composition, Film and Multimedia, Gospel and Jazz Week 4 definitely has a Flamenco flavour, with a performance of Bizet’s Carmen as the climax of our Advanced Opera Course, complementing Paco Peña’s stunning Flamenco Mass alongside Fauré’s gorgeous Requiem. But most of all we celebrate musical creativity in all its forms: from multimedia courses and Judith Weir’s Advanced Composition Course, coaxing new chamber works into life, to the Jazz Course, led by the titanic saxophonist Andy Sheppard. This week is simply sensational for brass players: there are masterclasses with the brilliant Alison Balsom and cool Dutch jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans as well as Dartington Big Band, Dartington Brass Ensemble, and American jazz classics performed by the Dartington Festival Orchestra. There’s string tuition from Madeleine Mitchell and the Heath Quartet; piano masterclasses with Steven Osborne; wind tuition with Notus Winds; music theatre with Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, and Dadaist happenings being staged around the estate all week, in celebration of Erik Satie’s 150th birthday. Singers can go from choral and Gospel music, then into Carmen opera choruses; instrumentalists can perform in masterclasses and workshops in the morning, then improvise and compose in different styles, all afternoon. However you choose to spend your time, there’s an enormous amount of stimulation, fun, partying and dancing in store for you, in this final week of the 2016 Summer School.

24 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses The Big Choir: Paco Peña’s Flamenco Mass NIGEL PERRIN SESSION 1 and Fauré’s Requiem Gospel Choir CAROL PEMBERTON AND CELIA WICKHAM-ANDERSON SESSION 2 Advanced Opera Course: Carmen SIAN EDWARDS SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Vocal Workshop JESSICA CASH SESSION 3 Chamber Choir: Carmen choruses NIGEL PERRIN SESSION 4 The Big Choir Plus WILLIAM VANN SESSION 4

Conducting Courses Advanced Conducting Course SIAN EDWARDS SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Open Conducting Course JONATHAN BERMAN SESSIONS 3 & 4

Composition, Film and Multimedia Courses Advanced Composition JUDITH WEIR SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Open Composition JOHN ASHTON THOMAS SESSION 2 Multimedia, Art and Sound Design SARAH ANGLISS AND MATTHEW FAIRCLOUGH SESSIONS 1 & 2 Stravinsky: The Soldier’s Tale and Satie’s 150th RICHARD WILLIAMS AND CHRISTINA MCMASTER SESSIONS 1 & 2 Birthday: Theatre, Music, and Dada

Jazz Courses Beginner’s Jazz JOHN ASHTON THOMAS SESSION 1 Jazz Trumpet ERIC VLOEIMANS SESSION 2 Jazz Piano and Keyboards STEVE LODDER SESSION 2 Saxophones ANDY SHEPPARD SESSION 2 Jazz Drumming and Percussion MARTIN FRANCE SESSION 2 Jazz Ensembles ANDY SHEPPARD, ERIC VLOEIMANS, SESSION 3 STEVE LODDER, MARTIN FRANCE Open Big Band STEVE DUMMER SESSION 4

Instrumental Courses Tea Dance Band STEVE DUMMER SESSION 1 Piano Masterclass STEVEN OSBORNE SESSION 2 Trumpet Masterclass ALISON BALSOM SESSION 2 Trombone Workshop BRETT BAKER SESSION 2 Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon and Horn Workshops JEAN JOHNSON AND NOTUS WINDS SESSION 2 Contemporary Music and Contemporary Techniques JOANNA MACGREGOR SESSION 3 Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops THE HALCYON QUARTET SESSION 3 Brass Ensemble PAUL ARCHIBALD SESSION 3 Violin Masterclass MADELEINE MITCHELL SESSION 4 Chamber Music QUENTIN POOLE, MADELEINE MITCHELL, SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 HEATH QUARTET, THE HALCYON QUARTET, NOTUS WINDS, BARBARA SUE WHITE

More than Music Influx: a series of multimedia installations SARAH ANGLISS, MATTHEW FAIRCLOUGH AND STUDENTS AUG 26TH and performances around the estate OF THE MULTIMEDIA, ART AND SOUND DESIGN COURSE 2PM-5PM Yoga JUSTIN DALTON 7.45 - 8.30AM Modern Jive IVAN BURTON SESSION 4

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 25 Choral, Vocal Gospel. Black Voices will perform on Monday night, and they’ll be an informal performance and Opera Courses for participants on Friday. SESSION 2 The Big Choir NIGEL PERRIN Advanced Opera Course Original King’s Singer and seasoned choirmaster SIAN EDWARDS Nigel Perrin conducted a superb Mozart’s The second week of this two-week course Requiem last year. This year, we’ll be working directed by Sian Edwards, leading to a on Fauré’s much-loved and celebrated Requiem, complete concert performance of Bizet’s as well as Paco Peña’s amazing Flamenco Mass. Carmen on Friday night. Paco Peña’s soulful, stirring work complements the performance of Carmen this week; it SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 involves a flamenco dancer and flamenco musicians, surely a first for The Big Choir! SESSION 1 Vocal Workshop JESSICA CASH Gospel Choir Jessica Cash’s students have included Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb and Lesley Garrett. Her CAROL PEMBERTON AND expert tuition addresses any energy blocks, CELIA WICKHAM-ANDERSON tensions or stresses, freeing the body to sing beautifully. Students are asked to bring an aria Uplifting, harmonious, soul-stirring, challenging from an opera or oratorio to sing from memory, and fun all describe the power and appeal of and another piece of their choice. the Gospel Choir sessions, led by Carol Pemberton, Music Director of the internationally-acclaimed SESSION 3 a cappella group Black Voices. The workshops will cover a range of black music traditions that influence and shape what today we call Black Chamber Choir: Carmen Choruses NIGEL PERRIN Choirmaster Nigel Perrin rehearses choruses from Bizet’s magnificent Carmen, for a performance on Friday night. There will be short auditions held after the first Big Choir rehearsal on Sunday. SESSION 4

The Big Choir Plus WILLIAM VANN Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big Choir repertoire, with the wonderful choir repetiteur William Vann. SESSION 4

Nigel Perrin

26 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Conducting Courses Open Composition JOHN ASHTON THOMAS Advanced Conducting Course This class is designed for people who like composing classically, as well as those who SIAN EDWARDS enjoy arranging and song-writing – expert guidance is at hand, in a friendly and The second week of the Advanced Conducting collaborative atmosphere. Students will course – see page 20 for details. showcase their work in an informal concert SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 at the end of the week. SESSION 2 Open Conducting Course JONATHAN BERMAN Multimedia, Art and Sound Design An open conducting course for those with SARAH ANGLISS AND MATTHEW FAIRCLOUGH some conducting experience, led by Jonathan Sarah Angliss the innovative visual artist and Berman, whose recent performances have been composer, and Matthew Fairclough, composer at the Royal Opera House and Tanglewood. and sound artist, provide a collaborative space in We will be working on classical and romantic which to create innovative new work. This course repertoire, and general conducting technique, is for musicians of all backgrounds interested in and selected repertoire from Carmen. electronica, composition and art installation. SESSIONS 3 & 4 We will aim to create short new works to exhibit and perform at the end of the week. Composition, Multimedia SESSIONS 1 & 2 and Drama Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale/ Satie’s 150th Birthday: Theatre, Advanced Composition Music and Dada RICHARD WILLIAMS AND JUDITH WEIR CHRISTINA MCMASTER This immersive course will focus on creating Richard Williams directs Stravinsky’s great 1918 new music for the brilliant Heath Quartet and music theatre work – part folk tale, part morality outstanding young pianist Joseph Havlat for tale, part social satire – for a performance in the performance at the end of the week. Judith Barn Theatre with the Dartington Festival Wind Weir is one of the world’s greatest composers, Ensemble, conducted by Jonathan Berman. renowned for her operas, chamber and We’ll also be working on Satie’s wittily surreal orchestral works. In 2014 she was appointed music and words for another performance in the Master of The Queen’s Music. This is an Barn Theatre, alongside a live music-and-film Advanced Selected course, please see website performance René Clair’s 1924 Entr’Acte. We’ll for application details. also be staging a series of Dadaist happenings SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 around the estate this week, in celebration of Satie’s 150th birthday! SESSIONS 1 & 2

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 27 Jazz Courses from Asia, Africa and South America, will be inspiring for young and older saxophonists alike. SESSION 2 Beginner's Jazz JOHN ASHTON THOMAS Jazz Drumming and John Ashton Thomas directs a class especially Percussion Workshop for newcomers to jazz, or those with a classical MARTIN FRANCE background who want to brush up their skills. Learn the fundamentals of jazz harmonies, Professor of jazz drumming at the Royal rhythm and technique. Academy of Music, Martin France has worked with the finest and most creative musicians in SESSION 1 the world - including Elvis Costello, Evan Parker, Dave Holland and Nils-Petter Molvaer - as well as many classical orchestras. His class is open Jazz Piano and to all drummers and percussionists who’d like Keyboards Workshop to hone their jazz skills. STEVE LODDER SESSION 2 Steve Lodder is a leading jazz pianist, synth player and teacher, working with some of the coolest names in jazz. His course is open to Jazz Ensembles intermediate jazz pianists and keyboard players ANDY SHEPPARD, ERIC VLOEIMANS, who wish to develop their improvisation skills. STEVE LODDER AND MARTIN FRANCE SESSION 2 The fabulously cool, creative saxophonist Andy Sheppard directs Dartington’s Jazz Course, Jazz Trumpet Workshop together with cool trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, keyboard guru Steve Lodder, and virtuoso ERIC VLOEIMANS drummer Martin France, focussing on jazz improvisation and ensemble playing. This week’s The funky trumpeter from Amsterdam is one of jazz courses will prepare for a performance in the the busiest jazz performers in Europe, collaborating Great Hall towards the end of the week, as well as with Mercer Ellington, John Taylor, Peter Erskine, the late night jams in the White Hart. Concertgebouw Orchestra, Blue Note in New York, and many, many others. His music ranges from SESSION 3 lazy lounge to hardcore uptempo beats and spaced- out moods, with Zappa-influenced odd metres. His class will be ideal for jazz trumpeters with a taste for exploration, colour and cool. SESSION 2

Saxophones Workshop ANDY SHEPPARD The ECM recording artist, world-renowned bandleader and composer Andy Sheppard offers one-to-one and ensemble tuition to all saxophonists. Andy is one of jazz’s greatest collaborators, and his characteristic sense of lyricism, alongside very personal use of rhythms Andy Sheppard

28 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Open Big Band STEVE DUMMER Steve Dummer will be rehearsing standard arrangements for the final Friday night bash. Absolutely unmissable fun, and open to all alto, tenor and baritone saxes, trumpets and trombones, and piano, bass and drums. SESSION 4

Instrumental Courses

Tea Dance Band Alison Balsom STEVE DUMMER A great opportunity to dust off an instrument of classical music’s great ambassadors, and that hasn’t been played for a few years, improve is ranked amongst the most distinctive and ensemble playing, and play some melodic and ground-breaking musicians in the world. She fun music of bygone eras. Grade 5 standard or will also be performing in the Great Hall on above is ideal. Monday. This is an Advanced Selected course, SESSION 1 please see website for application details. SESSION 2 Piano Masterclass STEVEN OSBORNE Trombone Workshop Steven Osborne’s standing as one of today’s BRETT BAKER finest young pianists was publicly affirmed in Brett Baker is one of the world’s top trombonist 2013 with The Royal Philharmonic Society’s and educators, working with musicians and Instrumentalist of the Year and his second groups as diverse as Black Dyke Mill Band, Gramophone Award, for Mussorgsky’s Pictures Grimethorpe Colliery Band and Alison Goldfrapp. at an Exhibition and works by Prokofiev. He’s passionate about teaching the trombone, An exemplary classicist, with a taste for and plays in festivals all over the world. contemporary music, his masterclasses will be fascinating and rewarding. This is an SESSION 2 Advanced Selected course, please see website for application details. SESSION 2 Wind Workshops JEAN JOHNSON AND NOTUS WINDS Trumpet Masterclass The celebrated clarinetist Jean Johnson and the brilliant ensemble Notus Winds offer ALISON BALSOM wind players of all abilities a relaxed and supportive workshop environment, in individual The sensational 2013 Gramophone Artist of instrumental classes. Improve your technique, the Year and three-time winner at the Classical hone your performance skills, and discover Brits comes to Dartington for the first time, new repertoire! to direct the trumpet masterclass. Alison has created an international reputation as one SESSION 2

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 29 Contemporary Music and Contemporary Techniques JOANNA MACGREGOR An open class for anyone interested in contemporary music - of all styles - with Joanna MacGregor, Dartington’s Artistic Director and Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music. Instrumentalists and small ensembles are invited to bring early 20th century music onwards, for performance and coaching. We’ll also look at extended techniques, and the best ways to study and prepare brand new music. Chamber Music Directed by Quentin Poole, the chamber SESSION 3 music programme is open to all singers and instrumentalists; there are large ensemble Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops opportunities, and daily coaching is available (see page 25 for this week’s tutors). HALCYON QUARTET SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Members of the outstanding Halcyon Quartet, and brilliant young performers in their own right, lead individual instrumental classes in More Than Music a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. SESSION 3 Influx SARAH ANGLISS, MATTHEW FAIRCLOUGH Brass Workshop AND STUDENTS OF THE MULTIMEDIA, ART PAUL ARCHIBALD AND SOUND DESIGN COURSE A chance to work on the great brass repertoire A series of free multimedia installations and for trumpets, horns and trombones, ranging from performances around the estate, created by this antiphonal music by the Italian Renaissance School year’s Multimedia, Art and Sound Design students. to Elgar Howarth’s magnificent arrangement of 28TH AUGUST 2PM - 5PM Pictures at an Exhibition, for a concert performance in the Great Hall. There’ll be opportunities for performances in the beautiful outdoor spaces of Dartington too! Yoga JUSTIN DALTON SESSION 3 See page 11 for more information. Violin Masterclass 7.45AM - 8.30AM MADELEINE MITCHELL Modern Jive The distinguished soloist and Royal College of Music professor Madeleine Mitchell coaches violinists IVAN BURTON in core repertoire and contemporary music, and Everyone is invited to get ready for the final leads Stravinsky’s music theatre masterpiece Big Band party on Friday night by learning the The Soldier’s Tale. This is an Advanced Selected cool jazz movements of Modern Jive, taught by course, please see website for application details. this experienced Ceroc tutor. SESSION 4 SESSION 4

30 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Finding Your Way Around

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Map Key Key Information On arrival at Dartington you should go either to 1 Courtyard and Great Hall Foxhole if you are staying there, or to the main 2 Summer School Office, East Wing courtyard if staying anywhere else or non resident. The Medieval Courtyard is the central hub during 3 Space studios 1-6 and 20 the Summer School. 4 Aller Park Studios 30-33 and campsite Our Summer School office is based in the East 5 Higher Close and Swimming Pool Wing – sign post says Guest Reception. The Office Manager and Volunteers are based there from 6 Foxhole 9-5.30 daily to answer any queries. Roads Each day, a daily schedule for all courses and concerts is posted on the main notice board Footpaths outside the Great Hall. P Parking You can check in with your House Parents or the Registrar on a daily basis at meal times or first thing in the morning at the office, if you have any queries about your accommodation.

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We want to make the programme as accessible The Accommodation & Catering package is as possible to all participants, so we offer a for 7 nights, checking in from 14:00 on the wide variety of pricing options. The prices Saturday of your week and checking out by shown reflect charges once subsidies, possible 10:00 the following Saturday. All meals are through fundraising and the support of the included from dinner on Saturday night to Dartington Hall Trust, have been applied. breakfast the following Saturday. Prices are per room. The Courses & Concerts package allows you to participate in or observe all courses, and The Catering Only option is available to non- attend all concerts in one week. Courses begin residents or campers who have booked the full on Sunday morning and finish on Friday Courses & Concerts package, and to a second afternoon. Prices are per person. person sharing a double or twin room.

'Accommodation and Catering' 2016 Price Accommodation Medieval Courtyard Courtyard Deluxe Room, £1,505 Double En suite facilities The Medieval Courtyard is situated at the heart of the Dartington estate offering well-appointed Courtyard En suite Twin or Double £1,325 rooms of 3-4* hotel quality with various accommodation options. Location: Central Courtyard En suite Single £1,175 Courtyard Private Bathroom Double £1,130 Higher Close Higher Close comprises of single rooms with Courtyard Private Bathroom Single £995 shared bathrooms, furnished in a simple and Courtyard Shared Bathroom Single £805 functional style. Location: Central

Higher Close Single Room, £555 Foxhole Courtyard/White House Shared Bathroom Foxhole Courtyard/White House provides basic Foxhole Courtyard, Single Room, £325 but functional hostel style accommodation with Shared Bathroom shared bathrooms. Location: 15 minute walk from dining and teaching areas Foxhole Courtyard, Twin Room, £325 Shared Bathroom Camping Foxhole Whitehouse, Single Room, £325 Camping is available on a level field over-looking Shared Bathroom the Dart valley, with lighting, power and toilets Foxhole Whitehouse, Twin Room, £325 and showers located next to the field. Location: Shared Bathroom 5 minute walk from dining and teaching areas.

Camping (No Food Included) Free Catering Catering Only £325 Participants staying in the Medieval Courtyard 'Courses and Concerts' 2016 Price eat at the White Hart. Those staying at Higher Close, Foxhole and camping, or choosing Standard £425 the Catering Only option eat at Higher Close Student £385 Refectory - canteen style dining. We can cater for all dietary requirements; please provide full Under 12's £215 information upon booking.

32 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enjoy a full-English and continental breakfast, 5.15pm and 10pm concerts/talks – £8 and a light lunch, and a full three course evening £10 respectively. meal - made with fresh, seasonal and local 7.45pm concerts – £14 (unreserved) ingredients. Drinks and additional refreshments £18.50 (reserved). can be purchased from the Roundhouse Café in Day observer ticket – £10 the day and the White Hart Bar from 12 noon Please note the Courses and Concerts package until late. includes all courses and concerts.

Non-resident Booking Individual Course Bookings If you wish to organise your own off-site After Easter a number of courses are made accommodation you can purchase a Courses available to book on an individual basis. This is & Concerts package to access all the courses aimed at people who live or are staying within and concerts. a daily travelable distance who wish to just participate in one course, rather than the full Students courses and concerts package. An individual course will run from Sunday to Friday in its Students in full-time education receive a timetabled session(s) and you would need to 10% discount on the Courses & Concerts attend all 6 sessions of the course. package. Student discounts do not apply to Accommodation & Catering packages. Bursaries Children and Young People Finance should not be a barrier to attending the Summer School. Bursaries are available We welcome children of all ages and can offer to students and recent graduates for specific a 10% discount to 12s and overs. There's a courses, please see the website for more details 50% discount for anyone under 12 and under about bursaries, accommodation, courses, 4s go free. Under 18s must be accompanied by application process and deadline. a responsible adult.

Your Booking Cancellations and Charges All bookings are non-refundable after 31st To book your place please call 01803 847080. March 2016. We advise all participants to You can pay by debit or credit card for which take out holiday insurance which includes there is no additional charge. You can also cancellation cover above the value of the total pay by bank transfer and you can get bank booking. Any booking cancelled before 31st transfer details when you call the number March is subject to a 10% of total booking above to make your booking. You will receive cancellation fee. Any changes to your booking confirmation of your booking upon receipt of a will be subject to course and accommodation 50% deposit. Please note that we do not keep availability and may incur additional costs. payment details on record in accordance with regulator guidelines. Any remaining balance All information contained within this leaflet will NOT be automatically taken and you was correct at time of publication. Changes must contact us by 31st March 2016 to make in circumstances after the time of publication full payment. After this date full payment is may impact on the accuracy of the information required to make your booking. which may be subject to change without notice. We will do our upmost to communicate key changes via online communication but cannot Concerts and Day Tickets accept liability for the accuracy of information Individual concert tickets and day observer stored by the reader. tickets are available through our website www.dartington.org/summer-school.

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 33 Concerts and Events

DATE TIME VENUE CONCERT TITLE ARTIST DESCRIPTION WEEK ONE

30 Jul 7.45pm Great Hall Touches of Sweet Harmony: Stile Antico: early music Celebrating Shakespeare’s 400th birthday the musical world of vocal ensemble in style: from Morley to Dowland, Weelkes William Shakespeare to Wilbye

31 Jul 5.15pm Great Hall 14th century masterpieces: Simon Armitage: poetry reading Britain's popular performance poet Pearl and Sir Gawain and (and Oxford Professor of Poetry) on the Green Knight his new translation of Pearl

7.45pm Great Hall In Nomine: Fretwork: viol consort Byrd, Gibbons, Taverner & Purcell, with Ancient and Modern new Nico Muhly and Gavin Bryars

10.00pm Great Hall Cross Currents Huw Watkin, piano and Atmospheric late night jazz Alice Oswald, poet and performance poetry

01 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Arabic Fairy Tales and Marina Warner: illustrated lecture The cultural historian on 1001 Nights, Love Poetry and poetesses of medieval Baghdad

7.45pm Great Hall The Well-Tempered Joanna MacGregor: piano Bach's glorious, ground-breaking exploration Clavier Book 1 of 24 preludes and fugues - in every key

10.00pm Great Hall Middle Eastern Music Abdul Salam Kheir: oud and voice The veteran Lebanese musician in a and Song programme of lullabies and love songs

02 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Buona Modualazione: Carole Cerasi: harpsichord Exciting, lyrical Venetian works from La Serenissima! Galuppi, Picchi, Storace and Bach/Vivaldi

7.45pm Great Hall Lute Songs of Emma Kirkby, David Miller, vocal Love, life and death: the poetic John Dowland ensemble and lute consorts melancholy of John Dowland

10.00pm Great Hall Zanubia: Early Arab Merit Ariane Stephanos, Abdul Salam Beautiful liturgical music from Byzantine, Christian Chants Kheir, Father Abouna Shafiq and Syriac and Aramaic traditions Jon Banks

03 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Sackbuts and Cornetts Emily White and Gawain Glenton Brilliant, fiery Renaissance music for brass

7.45pm Great Hall Waits of the 16th and The City Musick, directed by The variety and splendour of 17th Century William Lyons Renaissance ensemble music

10.00pm Great Hall Stevie Wishart's Transients Stevie Wishart, hurdy gurdy and Medieval and improvised settings violin, with Joanna MacGregor, of Latin, Arabic & Sephardic texts Abdul Salam Kheir and singers

04 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Music and Song from William Lyons, Peter Oswald and Music, drama and songs from Shakespeare’s Theatre Summer School students Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson and Webster

7.45pm Great Hall Signor Corelli's Violin The Brook Street Band Virtuoso string fireworks: Corelli, Vivaldi, Leclair and Handel

10.00pm Great Hall Terry Riley's In C Fretwork, Joanna MacGregor, Stevie A rare performance of Terry Riley's Wishart, Huw Warren and other guests influential, minimalist classic – unmissable

05 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Masterclass Concert Performers from the A mixed programme of the week's Advanced courses liveliest students: all kinds of music

7.45pm Great Hall Monteverdi’s The Big Choir, Renaissance Wind Monteverdi's exhilarating masterpiece, Vespers of 1610 Band, The City Musick, singers of with instrumental music of Venice Stile Antico and Andrew Griffiths

10.00pm White Tavern Night: The City Musick, singers and students Entertaining medieval songs and dances, Hart Bar Medieval Partying washed down with mead (or wine…)

34 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school DATE TIME VENUE CONCERT TITLE ARTIST DESCRIPTION WEEK TWO

06 Aug 7.45pm Great Hall A Grand Tour: Maggie Faultless, members of OAE A dazzling programme of Vivaldi, Baroque Music Unmasked and Ensemble Meridiana Handel, Telemann, Purcell and more

07 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall The Virtuoso Recorder Jill Kemp, Claire Williams: recorder Baroque dances - Bach, Telemann & and harpsichord Handel - with 20th century dances

7.45pm Great Hall Virtuoso folk from the Kathryn Tickell and Northumbrian pipes, folk fiddle, North East and beyond Amy Thatcher accordion and clog dancing

10.00pm Great Hall Notturno Calmo e Martyna Kazmierczak: fortepiano Moonlit sonatas and sicilianos from Notturno Agitato CPE Bach, Mozart and Haydn

08 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Poetry Reading Jo Shapcott: poetry reading The award-winning poet reads from her latest collections, Of Mutabiity and Transformation.

7.45pm Great Hall Voices of Desire Ruby Hughes, soprano Early Baroque, Debussy and 20th century and Joanna MacGregor, piano Americana from the young operatic star

10.00pm Great Hall Beethoven Explored I Richard Tunnicliffe, cello and Sonatas Op. 5 and Op.17, ‘Bei Männern, Maggie Cole, fortepiano welche Liebe fühlen’ Variations

09 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Mozart's Women: Jane Glover talks to Paul Allen The remarkable women in Mozart's His Family, His Friends, about her acclaimed book turbulent life His Music

7.45pm Great Hall Klever Kaff: the Life of Hilary Summers, contralto The life and music of Britain's Kathleen Ferrier and Paul Allan, narrator greatest singer

10.00pm Great Hall A Countertenor’s Andrew Watts countertenor, Thomas Adès, Judith Weir, Michael Songbook Claire Williams piano Tippett and more

10 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Beethoven Explored II Richard Tunnicliffe, cello and Sonata in F Op.5 no.1, Sonata in A Op.69 Maggie Cole, fortepiano

7.45pm Great Hall Les Voyages d’Amour: Ensemble Meridiana The elegance and virtuosity of Rebel, the French Baroque Courette and Boismortier

10.00pm Great Hall ‘Canons Buried in Joanna MacGregor: piano Chopin’s greatest and most personal Flowers’: Complete works, over two evenings Chopin Mazurkas I

11 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall As I Walked Out Dartington Folk Choir, folk music A cappella folk choir and One Morning students and tutors instrumentalists directed by Kathryn Tickell, Amy Thatcher and Sally Davies

7.45pm Great Hall Pyramus and Thisbe, Dartington Baroque Orchestra, Operatic comedy and tragedy: John Dido and Aeneas Advanced Opera students directed Lampe and Henry Purcell in Richard by Maggie Faultless Williams’ fast-moving production

10.00pm Great Hall ‘Canons Buried in Joanna MacGregor: piano Chopin’s greatest and most personal Flowers’: Complete works, over two evenings Chopin Mazurkas II

12 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Masterclass Concert Performers from A mixed programme of the week's the Advanced courses liveliest students: all kinds of music

7.45pm Great Hall Handel’s Jane Glover conducts the Big Choir A fabulous feast of choral and orchestral Alexander’s Feast and Dartington Baroque Orchestra music, telling the story of Alexander the Great and the captured city of Persepolis

10.30pm Great Hall Ceilidh Caller and folk band Final Night Party, with dancing

Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 35 DATE TIME VENUE CONCERT TITLE ARTIST DESCRIPTION WEEK THREE

13 Aug 7.45pm Great Hall The Romantic Violin Chloe Hanslip violin, The young virtuoso violinist in a Florian Mitrea piano programme of classic repertoire

14 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Late Liszt and Schubert Yehuda Inbar, piano Liszt’s Isolde’s Liebstod transcription, and Schubert’s Sonata in G major D.894

7.45pm Great Hall Shostakovich, Schnittke Adrian Brendel cello, Joanna Passionate cello music: from wild and Beethoven MacGregor, piano Russians to wild Beethoven - Sonata in C major Op.102 no.1

10.00pm Great Hall Dark Romanticism Škampa String Quartet and Schubert Quartettsatz D.703 and Hamish Milne, piano Franck Piano Quintet in F minor

15 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Elemental: Songs of Gillian Keith soprano, Rich and rewarding lieder by Rachmaninov, Earth, Air, Fire and Water Alexandra Vaduva piano Strauss, Debussy, Fauré, and Barber

7.45pm Great Hall Great String Quartets I Škampa String Quartet Haydn’s Fragment Op.103, Shostakovich No.3 and Beethoven’s iconic Op.132, played by this great Czech group

10.00pm Great Hall Trio Americana Jørgensen Trio Sizzling works by Copland, Gunter Schuller, and Piazzolla

16 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Beethoven’s Last Alfred Brendel: Illustrated Lecture The legendary pianist on Beethoven’s Three Sonatas profound piano works

7.45pm Great Hall Tango Nuevo Adriano Adewale, Adrian Contemporary, jazzy tango and Brendel, Martynas Levickis, Latin American rhythm and Joanna MacGregor

10.00pm Great Hall Beethoven: Two Worlds Florian Mitrea: piano Waldstein Sonata Op.53, Sonata in C minor Op.111

17 Aug 5.15pm Barn Dorothy Parker Sarah Gabriel, soprano Capturing the wit, life and musical times Theatre Takes a Trip of Dorothy Parker

7.45pm Great Hall Coriolan Overture, Dartington Festival Orchestra and Adrian Brendel, Joanna MacGregor Triple Concerto, Advanced Conducting Course and Chloe Hanslip solo in Symphony no. 7 all-Beethoven programme

10.00pm Great Hall Accordion Vagabond Martynas Levickis: accordion Swashbuckling from Bach and Sofia Gubaidulina to Lithuanian folk songs

18 Aug 5.15pm Barn Woody Allen, Alfred Alfred Brendel: short talk and film The great pianist introduces the comic Theatre Brendel and Zelig mockumentary starring Woody Allen and Mia Farrow

7.45pm Great Hall Opera: The Pirates Advanced Opera students, Dartington Gilbert and Sullivan's wittiest opera, in of Penzance Festival Orchestra, George Vass Richard Williams’ contemporary production

10.00pm Studio 1 Songs from the Musicals Open Music Theatre students Solo and ensemble performances from popular musicals

19 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Masterclass Concert Performers from the Advanced courses A mixed programme of the week's liveliest students: all kinds of music

6.30pm Great Hall Party in the Town: Adriano Adewale and the Party in Adriano Adewale’s funky new work, Dartington commission the Town choir and ensemble created especially for the local community

7.45pm Great Hall Shostakovich Piano Big Choir and Chamber Choir, Spectacular Shostakovich Concerto no.1 and Festival Orchestra, George Vass and stirring Haydn Haydn’s Nelson Mass

10.30pm Great Hall Tango Ball Tango Band Final Night Party, with dancing

36 Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school DATE TIME VENUE CONCERT TITLE ARTIST DESCRIPTION WEEK FOUR

20 Aug 7.45pm Great Hall Great String Quartets II Heath String Quartet Mozart K.428, Bartók no.3 and Beethoven Op.131, played by this superb young quartet

21 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall 20th Century Winds Notus Winds Classic modern wind quintets

7.45pm Great Hall Rachmaninov, Steven Osborne: piano Rachmaninov’s Études-Tableaux, Debussy and Improvisation Debussy’s Estampes and improvisation from this great pianist

10.00pm Great Hall Late Night Jazz Eric Vloeimans jazz trumpet, The cool Dutch jazzer plays, bossa nova, Joanna MacGregor, piano Eastern European folk and straight-ahead jazz

22 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Hallellujah Junction: Thomas Ang and Joseph Havlat: John Adams, Grainger’s Porgy and American Classics two pianos Bess Fantasy, and Bernstein’s West Side Story Dances

7.45pm Great Hall Trumpet Recital Alison Balsom: trumpet One of classical music’s great ambassadors - unmissable

10.00pm Great Hall Gospel Music Black Voices: a cappella group Timeless gospel classics from the internationally-acclaimed vocal ensemble

23 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Dances from Russia Veronika Shoot: piano Lyadov, Scriabin, Stravinsky’sTango and Spain and Ginastera’s Argentinian Dances

7.45pm Great Hall Film with Music: In the Andy Sheppard saxophones, Joanna Iconic silent film: children playing in 1940s Streets and Chaplin’s The Kid MacGregor, piano & electronica Harlem, and Chaplin’s cheeky survivor

10.00pm Barn Stravinsky’s Dartington Festival Ensemble Stravinsky’s fabulist folktale of the Theatre The Soldier’s Tale conducted by Jonathan Berman Soldier and the Devil

24 Aug 5.15pm Barn Satie/Day Night Advanced Music Theatre Satie’s magnificently surreal life Theatre students, Richard Williams, in music and words; René Clair’s Christina McMaster 1924 Entr’acte

7.45pm Great Hall Ives, Gershwin, Adams Dartington Festival Orchestra, The Unanswered Question, Three Places and Copland jazz guests, Sian Edwards’ in New England, Rhapsody in Blue, The Conducting Course Chairman Dances and Appalachian Spring

10.00pm Great Hall Mussorgsky’s Pictures Dartington Brass Ensemble Elgar Howarth’s sensational arrangement at an Exhibition conducted by Paul Archibald of Mussorgsky’s masterpiece

25 Aug 5.15pm Great Hall Brahms Clarinet Quintet Heath Quartet and Brahms’ autumnal masterpiece, paired Jean Johnson, clarinet with Judith Weir’s Quartet (1990)

7.45pm Great Hall Paco Peña’s Flamenco Nigel Perrin conducts the Big Choir The great Paco Peña leads his Mass and Fauré’s Requiem and Festival Orchestra Flamenco Mass (with dance)

10.00pm Great Hall Jazzworks Directed by Andy Sheppard, Brand new music with brilliant students Eric Vloeimans, Martin France on the jazz course and Steve Lodder

26 Aug 2-5pm Dartington Influx Sarah Angliss, Matthew Fairclough A series of multimedia installations Gardens and Multimedia, Art and Sound and performances around the estate Design students

5.15pm Great Hall New Chamber Music Judith Weir, Heath Quartet New chamber music music from and Joseph Havlat piano Advanced Composition students

7.45pm Great Hall Bizet's Carmen Advanced Opera Course, Dartington Concert performance of the great Festival Orchestra, Sian Edwards French opera, with subtitles

11.00pm Great Hall Big Band and Dartington Big Band, Final Party Night: Stonking Big Band Modern Jive directed by Steve Dummer and dancing

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