Dartington International Summer School ANNIVERSARY and Festival 28 Jul – 25 Aug 2018 ANNIVERSARY

We Are Celebrating 70 Years!

Dartington is a place of shimmering beauty, and its world- famous Summer School is 70 years young this year – proudly contributing to the creative life of this country. We have a packed programme of celebratory events – from photographic exhibitions to illustrated lectures, film archives, music and theatre. William Glock, Dorothy Elmhirst, artists and participants historically associated with the Summer School are just some of the surprises in store, as well as new creative collaborations from all over the world. Play in a brass ensemble; sing in a choir. Experience everything from medieval and renaissance music to salsa and . Listen to talking about Mozart, improvise with Byron Wallen, catch a masterclass with Felicity Lott or Imogen Cooper, and folk sessions with Harbottle & Jonas. There are poetry and multimedia courses, installations, lectures and films. Dartington Summer School hosts over one hundred public concerts throughout August. Visit the beautiful gardens, relax with a drink or a meal, and immerse yourself, from afternoon to late night. Some of the world’s most celebrated musicians, writers and thinkers will be here. Dartington International Summer School & Festival has reached a 70 year milestone: let’s celebrate its incredible legacy, and build the future together.

Joanna MacGregor Artistic Director ANNIVERSARY Your Time at Summer School Chamber Music

Dartington Summer School is for everyone - Whether you choose a busy or very relaxed professional musicians, music students of all programme is up to you. Participants often ages, people who love to play, sing and write, and follow three different courses allowing time people who love to listen. Our community is one in the day for private practice, to enjoy the of learning, sharing, performing and socialising. gardens, or to observe a class. By day we run classes and courses covering The weekly timetables on the following pages a range of music and literature. Some do will help you plan your week. All courses are not require you to read music or play an taught for six days from Sunday to Friday. instrument; others cater for people who are Open courses welcome everyone, whatever already playing, singing and writing to a their musical experience. For workshops high standard. we recommend a minimum level of Grade There are four 90 minute sessions a day, 5. As a general rule, advanced courses and starting around 9am, 11am, 2pm and 3.30pm, masterclasses have a selection process for and an early morning session in yoga or tai chi. music students, professionals and musicians at an equivalent level. Not all courses fit into one of the above categories, so do read the course descriptions or call the office for more information. When you book a Courses & Concerts pass you can take part in any of the courses, as Chamber music sessions, for instrumentalists designated session each day, for coaching a participant or observer (unless specified), and vocalists, are offered every week in two from our chamber music faculty. Pre-formed as well as attend all of the festival concerts formats: formal sessions, with a set ensemble ensembles are also welcome. As formal and events. It's advisable to take your seat and pre-arranged repertoire, or informal ad hoc sessions are pre-arranged, we ask that everyone ten minutes before the start of each concert, sessions, drawn together from interested players signing up is committed on a daily basis, and as they're very popular. Each evening you once everyone is on site. The scheduling of the the chosen repertoire is prepared in advance. can attend up to three concerts and perhaps formal sessions can be seen below. In order to maintain a workable balance perform in some of them too. An outline of of musicians on the course, we may close each week's concerts can be found beneath applications to certain instruments as required. each week's timetable. Week 1 Session 4 Informal: Our informal chamber music If you choose to book an Accommodation & Week 2 Session 4 sessions are arranged at the start of each Catering package to stay with us on site you Week 3 Session 3 week by the chamber music faculty who will be truly immersed in the Summer School will create suitable ensembles for players. experience. Ranging from our campsite to the Week 4 Session 1 These sessions can be regular or one-offs, deluxe suites in our 14th-century courtyard, with coaching from the chamber music a full guide to our accommodation and All other sessions can be arranged informally. tutors where possible. The flexibility of this catering options can be found on page 32. Chamber music participants are required arrangement is particularly suited to those to complete a chamber music form with You should find all the information you musicians who may not be able to prepare information on their playing level, ensemble need in this brochure and on our website: repertoire in advance, or participants cautious experience and preferred repertoire. www.dartington.org/summer-school, but if of overloading their schedule. you have any further queries please do call Formal: All applicants for these sessions must There's an online chamber music forum to the Summer School office on 01803 847080. submit a chamber music form by June 4. enable players to make contact and discuss With the information provided the tutors will repertoire in advance. You'll be given the link create ensembles and suggest repertoire, and to this forum when you sign up for your course. players can be put in contact with each other in advance. These ensembles will meet for one

2 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 3 Courses

Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Week 1 The Big Choir: Vocal Ensembles: Chamber Choir: The Big Choir Plus Christmas in the Sun Midsummer Liturgy Byrd’s The Great Service

Vocal Masterclass Vocal Workshop Vocal Workshop 28 July – 4 August Improve Your Sight-Singing Advanced Renaissance Renaissance Reeds, and Cornetts, Sackbuts and Wind Band Recorders, Brass & Strings Masterclass Singers: Renaissance Dawn choruses and Heaven’s Polyphony Chamber Ensemble Workshop Piano Workshop: Early Gate; Hildegard von Bingen and Workshop Birds and Christmas in the Sun Consorts Viol Consorts Viol Consorts and Lute Ensembles Lute and Lute Ensembles Middle Eastern Instrumental Music

Middle Eastern Singing Middle Eastern Music and Song

Improvisation Workshop Composition: Remembering the Future

Wind Masterclasses Wind Ensemble Wind Chamber Music Wind Workshops

Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music (formal)

Arabic Poetry Hildegard von Bingen: Hildegard von Bingen: and Arabic History A Swaying Bridge between A Swaying Bridge between Heaven and Earth Heaven and Earth

Yoga, 7.45am - 8.30am every morning

Concerts and Events

Date 5.15pm 7.45pm 10.00pm Sat Summer Music by Candlelight: 28 Jul Ex Cathedra

Sun Fire Burning in Snow: Sunrise: Fretwork Grounds and Chaconnes: Dawn Choruses and Midsummer Liturgy create a magical atmosphere for our first week, 29 Jul Ex Cathedra Joanna MacGregor with music inspired by the heavens. Stevie Wishart and Alice Oswald lead a major new Mon Music for a Summer’s Evening: Sekhmet’s Birds: Merit Ariane, Lute Songs: Clare Wilkinson course about the extraordinary Hildegard von Bingen, and there’s a new composition 30 Jul Atéa Quintet Jon Banks & guests & Lynda Sayce course for early instruments, Remembering the Future. Tues The Astronomer and the Witch: The Emperor and The Alchemist: Call of the Birds: Joanna MacGregor Jeffrey Skidmore directs Christmas in the Sun - glorious choral music from Latin America 31 Aug Ulinka Rublack In Echo directed by Gawain Glenton & Tamim al-Barghouti - as well as William Byrd; vocalists can study with Clare Wilkinson and Nicholas Clapton. Wed St Colombe: Richard Boothby Musica Universalis: Late Night Improv: Huw Warren, There are classes for viol players, lutenists, harpsichordists, reeds and recorders, and early 1 Aug & Asako Morikawa The Brook Street Band & Alice Oswald brass with Fretwork, Lynda Sayce, The City Musick and The Brook Street Band. Thurs Byrd’s The Great Service: Chamber The City Musick, directed Tamim al-Barghouti, Stevie Wishart The Atéa Quintet and Quentin Poole direct a full wind programme; improvisation is 2 Aug Choir directed by Jeffrey Skidmore by William Lyons & Joanna MacGregor led by Huw Warren, and Middle Eastern music and song is directed by Egyptian singer Fri Masterclass Concert: students from Christmas in the Sun: Dartington Medieval Tavern Night: The City Merit Ariane and multi-instrumentalist Jon Banks. Cambridge historian Ulinka Rublack 3 Aug the advanced courses Choir and Ensemble, Ex Cathedra, Musick, singers & students gives us a fascinating glimpse into a world between the Reformation and the scientific Jeffrey Skidmore revolution; the brilliant Tamim al-Barghouti returns, bringing his poetry to Dartington, and collaborating with Joanna MacGregor.

4 Fretwork Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 5 Choral and Vocal Courses Matins, None, Vespers, Compline – and Hymns at Heaven’s Gate. Scores will be available to buy at the beginning of the course. The Big Choir: Christmas in the Sun SESSION 2 JEFFREY SKIDMORE Vocal Masterclass The inspiring conductor Jeffrey Skidmore returns to Dartington to direct Christmas in the CLARE WILKINSON Sun, a sparkling programme of Latin American We’re delighted to welcome the young mezzo music. Early music from Bolivia, Peru and Clare Wilkinson. Particularly passionate about Mexico, as well as Missa Pastoril para Noite de Bach and Byrd, and known for her acclaimed Natal by the Rio de Janeiro priest, José Mauricio recordings and international performances, Nunes Garcia, will be performed in the Great Hall Clare directs a masterclass in Renaissance, on Friday night, accompanied by an orchestra of Elizabethan and early vocal music, early strings, wind, and organ. An edition with warmth and insight. ‘Absolutely beguiling: of these works is being specially prepared for Wilkinson is a wonderfully expressive singer of Ex Cathedra Dartington. Please see the ‘Music Supplies’ page lovely voice and consummate skill.’ – Fanfare. on the website for more information. This is an advanced selected course; please see SESSION 1 website for application details. SESSION 2 Middle Eastern Singing The Big Choir Plus Vocal Ensembles: Dawn Choruses MERIT ARIANE GAVIN ROBERTS and Midsummer Liturgy Chamber Choir: A wonderful opportunity to explore vocal Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big repertoire with the celebrated Egyptian/ Choir repertoire this week with our wonderful EX CATHEDRA Byrd’s The Great Service German singer and composer Merit Ariane. choir repetiteur Gavin Roberts. We’ll be celebrating the summer solstice JEFFREY SKIDMORE Singing music from ancient Andalusia to SESSION 4 with the superlative singers of Ex Cathedra: modern day Egypt, as well as exploring the Jeffrey Skidmore directs William Byrd’s and motets inspired by dawn myriad interconnections between the Middle famous Magnficat and Nunc Dimittis from choruses and birdsong, old and new. We’ll East and Mediterranean, you’ll learn about The Great Service, as well as Verse Anthems, also be singing the liturgical hours – Prime, musical style, language and the nuances of Instrumental Courses for a performance in the Great Hall on vocal expression, ornamentation and colour. Thursday. We will also be collaborating We’ll examine reaching the ecstatic core of the with , cornetts and sackbuts, music, through understanding the microtonal Advanced Renaissance Wind Band Alice Oswald and organ. The Chamber Choir is aimed at modal system (maqamat) and rhythmic THE CITY MUSICK experienced choral singers and you will be patterns (iqa’). This course is suitable for required to prepare the music in advance. William Lyons and the ever-popular City classically trained singers, as well as those Musick members return for their wind SESSION 3 interested in . ensemble course. This year we will focus on SESSION 3 the music for cornetts, shawms, dulcians and trombones from the varied and exciting Improve Your Sight-Singing repertoire of the civic and court bands in RHIANNON EVANS Vocal Workshop Renaissance Italy. We'll also be preparing music for Thursday’s Chamber Choir concert, Do you struggle with the demanding NICHOLAS CLAPTON and Friday’s legendary Medieval Tavern Night multi-tasking activity that is sight-singing? The irrepressibly witty and wise teacher and and there will be opportunities for natural Is recognising rhythms, pitching intervals countertenor Nicholas Clapton encourages trumpet one-to-one tuition with Richard and reading the text all at once a daunting his participants to perform a wide repertoire, Thomas. This is an advanced selected course; challenge? This course is open to all, especially working both technically and interpretatively. please see website for application details. singers who are not fluent readers, and anyone Singers of all abilities can choose between wishing to brush up on their sight-singing skills. SESSION 1 two sessions. SESSION 3 SESSION 3 OR 4

6 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 7 Chamber Ensemble Workshop Renaissance Reeds, Recorders, Middle Eastern Music and Song offer masterclasses for advanced wind players. Improve your technique, hone your RHIANNON EVANS Brass and Strings JON BANKS AND MERIT ARIANE performance skills, and discover new repertoire! WILLIAM LYONS, NICHOLAS PERRY AND Start the day with a fun-filled ensemble play- Merit and Jon will teach you to sing and play a This course is aimed at players of Grade 8 level RICHARD THOMAS through. In keeping with the overall theme of the wide range of repertoire from Egypt, Lebanon, and above. week, we will explore repertoire from the golden Group and individual tuition with members Syria, Iraq and ancient Andalusia. You’ll learn SESSION 1 age of the English consort, including music by of The City Musick, on shawms, crumhorns, about performance conventions and styles, Byrd, Dowland, Gibbons, Jenkins and Lawes. All dulcian, rackett, recorders, early violin, cornetts, and gain an insight into modes, rhythms, strings and non-transposing wind instruments sackbuts, bagpipes and renaissance percussion. ornamentation and improvisation. We’ll also Wind Ensemble welcome and the pitch will be A440. We'll be covering a broad repertoire of dance, explore the connections between Middle Eastern theatre, court and civic music from the 15th to and Western music, and apply these ideas to QUENTIN POOLE SESSION 1 17th centuries. the more familiar early European repertoire. A great opportunity to enjoy and improve SESSION 2 SESSION 4 ensemble playing, with excellent varied Lute and Lute Ensembles repertoire tailored to the participants. Grade 6 standard or above is ideal; there’ll be an LYNDA SAYCE Piano Workshop: Early Birds Cornetts and informal performance on Friday afternoon. With over 100 recordings to her name, Lynda and Chaconnes Sackbuts Masterclass SESSION 2 Sayce is an immensely experienced teacher, as JOANNA MACGREGOR GAWAIN GLENTON AND EMILY WHITE well as principal lutenist with The King’s Consort, Ex Cathedra and director of the lute ensemble Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor leads a An extra session for advanced and Wind Chamber Music Chordophony. In Session 1, Lynda offers lute- workshop studying early keyboard music on the players. Students are encouraged players technical support and coaching; Session 2 modern piano. We’ll concentrate on elegant French to bring solo or ensemble pieces; we’ll also QUENTIN POOLE AND ATÉA QUINTET enables players to develop their accompanying works inspired by birds and nature – Daquin, look at contemporary music, combining with Open to all modern wind players and pianists and continuo skills, with lutes, theorbos, and Rameau and Couperin – as well as grounds and Stevie Wishart’s Remembering the Future for daily coaching in organised ensembles; guitars. There will be opportunities to collaborate chaconnes by Byrd, Purcell and Handel. We’ll composition course. repertoire will be suggested in advance. Pre- with singers from Clare Wilkinson’s masterclass, also look at their modern counterparts – short, SESSION 3 formed groups are also welcome. This course as well as perform in concerts towards the end attractive pieces by Messiaen, Birtwistle and Philip will be organised as a formal chamber music of the week. Glass. Please see the 'Music Supplies' page on session, please see page 3 for relevant details. our website for suggested repertoire. SESSIONS 1 & 2 Cornetts, Sackbuts and Singers: SESSION 3 SESSION 3 Renaissance Polyphony Viol Consorts GAWAIN GLENTON AND EMILY WHITE Cornetts and sackbuts were regularly mixed FRETWORK Middle Eastern Instrumental Music with singers in the 16th century, and this year JON BANKS Members of the groundbreaking viol consort we’ll focus on the music for Emperor Rudolf II. Fretwork supervise and lead tuition at all levels. Exploring instrumental music from Egypt, This course aims to give students a taste of this Their repertoire will include English, French, Italian Syria and Turkey, this is an introduction to very special combination, as instrumentalists and German music of the 16th and 17th centuries. one of the most varied musical traditions learn from vocalists, and vice versa. Singers led by qanun and santouri player Jon Banks. should be able to sing one to a part if needed; SESSIONS 1 2 & 3 Intermediate instrumentalists from all all voice-types are welcome to work on this backgrounds are welcome; reading music is gorgeous music. essential for melody players, but less so for SESSION 4 Harpsichord Workshop percussionists. Ranging from high-energy CAROLYN GIBLEY dances and courtly repertory to extended meditative compositions in complex rhythmic Carolyn Gibley, harpsichordist of the cycles, there’ll be plenty of scope to improvise. Wind Masterclasses ebullient Brook Street Band (resident all We’ll include music of the Sufi tradition, ATÉA QUINTET this week), coaches core harpsichord alongside Eastern Mediterranean forms repertoire from the 16th to 18th centuries, Alena Walentin (flute), Philip Haworth such as the sirto and longa. concentrating on technique and style. (), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet), Ashley SESSION 3 Myall () and Chris Beagles (horn) SESSION 2

8 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 9 Wind Workshops Improvisation, Words Improvisation Workshop practice and improvisation. The broad palate of sounds – including , da gamba, ATÉA QUINTET HUW WARREN and Composition viola d’amore, hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord, bray The dynamic Atéa Quintet offers wind players of Pianist and composer Huw Warren leads a free harp, sackbutt, cornett – offer more interesting, all abilities a relaxed and supportive workshop improvisation class, encouraging fluidity and non-standardised sounds, and sometimes environment, in separate classes. Arabic Poetry and Arabic History expressiveness in musicians of all backgrounds defy conventional notation. We’ll try out ideas and levels. This class will explore improvising in sound, form, performance and notation SESSION 4 TAMIM AL-BARGHOUTI organum, playing over pedal points and drones, practically, and adventure into the broader The charismatic Palestinian poet and activist and how to create extended, free-flowing possibilities offered by this approach. Led by Chamber Music Tamim al-Barghouti returns to Dartington after melody. We’ll be weaving in discoveries from Stevie Wishart with input from other tutors his dazzling course last year. He’s a brilliant the Hildegard von Bingen course, and drawing throughout the week. RHIANNON EVANS, CLAIRE WILLIAMS performer and thinker, capable of attracting inspiration from jazz and medieval music. SESSION 4 AND THE BROOK STREET BAND hundreds of thousands of people to his SESSION 3 poetry performances. His course delves into The chamber music programme, open to all the centuries-old traditions of Arabic poetry, instrumentalists and singers, will offer one daily inextricably entwined with the politics and More Than Music formally-organised session in Session 4. Chamber Composition: history of the Middle East. Tamim also performs music can also be arranged informally during his own poetry this week. Remembering the Future other sessions. See page 3 for more details. STEVIE WISHART Yoga SESSION 1 SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 JUSTIN DALTON An intriguing course for anyone interested in developing as a composer, and for performers on This course, based on the gentle, fluid Scaravelli Hildegard von Bingen: early music instruments: we’ll take a walk on the approach to yoga, is suitable for participants of Stevie Wishart A Swaying Bridge between wild side of contemporary music and extended all ages and abilities. Yoga has been practised techniques on the foundations laid by early by many musicians - most famously Yehudi Heaven & Earth music. From the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Menuhin - and it’s a great chance to loosen STEVIE WISHART AND ALICE OSWALD performers were expected to contribute far up the body before a day’s music-making. more actively to the compositional process, A creative pilgrimage from manuscript to 7.45AM-8.30AM through mutually understood performance performance, interpreting the music and poetry of this extraordinary 12th century composer. Our starting point will be a single poem and its melody, which uses Hildegard’s famous Dawn allegory: made available in advance as notation and audio, students can learn the words, melody, or both, in preparation for the course. Using oral traditions still practised today, we’ll examine how the words and music are scripted and notated in the Dendermonde codex 9, inscribed at Hildegard’s own convent at Rupertsberg, near Bingen. With the focus on Hildegard and in the Dartington spirit of inclusivity, Stevie will involve Huw Warren and Tamim al-Barghouti in aspects of the aural chant tradition (in terms of music and words) and improvisational aspects of rhythm and embellishment, often overlooked in the western music traditions. Led by Hildegard specialist Stevie Wishart and the poet Alice Oswald, this course is open to singers, instrumentalists, poets and creative spirits. SESSIONS 2 & 3

10 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 11 Courses

Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Week 2 The Big Choir: Vocal Masterclass Semichorus: The Big Choir Plus St Matthew Passion St Matthew Passion

Vocal Workshop Vocal Workshop

Improve Your Sight-Singing Chamber Choir

4 – 11 August Advanced : The Great Passion

Advanced

Bach’s St Matthew Passion; Masterclass Flamenco and Folk Baroque Masterclass: Bach and the

Folk Baroque Baroque Winds Masterclass

Accordion Workshop Piano Workshop: Baroque and Beethoven

Folk Surgery Folk Choir As I Walked Out One Morning As I Walked Out One Morning

Introduction to Harpsichord Workshop

Chamber Ensemble Workshop Recorder Workshop Recorder Ensembles

Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music (formal)

Creative Writing: Creative Writing: Creative Writing: Creative Reading: Historical Fiction Poetry of Place Poetry of Place Reading the Landscape

Tai Chi Qigong, 8am - 8.30am every morning

Concerts and Events

Date 5.15pm 7.45pm 10.00pm Sat Tom Randle’s Los Nacimientos: 4 Aug Gillian Keith & dotdotdot dance company

Sun Flamenco: Folk: Harbottle & Jonas Fortepiano recital: Steven Devine 5 Aug dotdotdot dance company

Mon The Virtuoso Recorder: Jill Kemp Great Baroque Sonatas directed Bach’s Influence: Richard Tunnicliffe 6 Aug by Rob Howarth & Joanna MacGregor Week 2 focuses on Bach’s universal St Matthew Passion conducted by Tom Seligman, in a Tues Bach, : James Runcie Bach’s Influence: Joanna MacGregor Song Recital: Andrew Watts specially conceived, semi-staged performance for our 70th anniversary. Robert Howarth 7 Aug plays Beethoven & Gavin Roberts inspires Advanced Opera students in James Runcie’s The Great Passion, and James uses Anna Magdalena's Notebooks to reveal new insights into the composer's life. Wed Notebooks of Anna Magdalena Bach: Trio Gaspard , & Broadway: 8 Aug Steven Devine & Kate Semmens Gillian Keith, Tom Randle & We’re blessed with a superb array of Baroque teachers including Richard Tunnicliffe, Joanna MacGregor Pavlo Beznosiuk, Jill Kemp and Steven Devine. Tom Randle, Gillian Keith and Andrew Thurs As I Walked Out One Morning: The Great Passion: Advanced Opera Pagoda Project: Paul Hutchinson Watts are our vocal tutors; and the refreshing young Trio Gaspard coach chamber music 9 Aug Dartington Folk Choir & musicians singers, Robert Howarth & Karen Wimhurst this week. Barcelona-based dotdotdot dance enthrall us with flamenco. Fri St Matthew Passion Part I: St Matthew Passion Part II Blue Jewel Ceilidh Band: We welcome the brilliant folk duo Harbottle & Jonas, Sally Davies directs Dartington Folk 10 Aug Dartington Choir & Baroque Bring your Dancing Shoes! Choir and accordionist Paul Hutchinson coaches folkies for sessions in the White Hart bar. Orchestra, Tom Randle, Gillian Andy Watts returns with Folk Baroque. James Runcie directs Historical Fiction and Katrina Keith, Andrew Watts, Tom Seligman Porteous Poetry of Place. Bach, Baroque brilliance – and a ceilidh too!

12 Tom Randle Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 13 Choral and Vocal Courses Improve Your Sight-Singing Introduction to Fortepiano RHIANNON EVANS STEVEN DEVINE The Big Choir: Do you struggle with the demanding One of the busiest and most experienced St. Matthew Passion multi-tasking activity that is sight-singing? keyboard players and music directors around, Is recognising rhythms, pitching intervals Steven Devine leads keyboard players in an TOM SELIGMAN and reading the text all at once a daunting exploration of the solo music of CPE Bach, For two choirs, two orchestras, and a semi- challenge? This course is open to all, especially Paul Hutchinson Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and others, and how chorus, this will be an epic and unique journey. singers who are not fluent readers, and anyone the fortepiano enhances our understanding and Tom Randle and Gillian Keith will be sharing wishing to brush up on their sight-singing skills. interpretation of this great music. the role of the Evangelist, and Richard Williams SESSION 3 The Big Choir Plus SESSION 2 will semi-stage the soloists’ roles. A choral GAVIN ROBERTS experience not to be missed! We’ll be using the Barenreiter edition. Vocal Workshop Some extra rehearsal opportunities for this Recorder Workshop week’s St Matthew Passion, with our wonderful SESSION 1 ANDREW WATTS choir repetiteur Gavin Roberts. JILL KEMP The wonderful countertenor Andrew Watts – SESSION 4 Open to all recorder players, these classes cover Advanced Opera: acclaimed performer, and voice teacher at the breathing, coordination, extended techniques, The Great Passion Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the ornamentation and any other areas or repertoire Royal Opera House – will improve your vocal Instrumental Courses that students would like to cover. This session ROBERT HOWARTH, RICHARD WILLIAMS technique and performance skills in a relaxed, will focus on solo repertoire, from the 16th to AND ANDREW WATTS supportive and informative atmosphere. Singers 21st centuries. Please bring a treble at A440 To complement the St Matthew Passion, we’re of all abilities can choose between two sessions. Advanced Baroque Orchestra and solo repertoire you would like to work on. staging James Runcie’s music-play The Great There will be a harpsichordist/pianist available SESSION 3 OR 4 PAVLO BEZNOSIUK, ROBERT HOWARTH Passion which explores the tense rehearsal period to accompany the sessions. AND TOM SELIGMAN before its first performance. There are virtuosic SESSION 2 , dramatic and ensemble work, as Semichorus: St Matthew Passion The Advanced Baroque Orchestra, led and well as dialogue. Conducted by Robert Howarth, trained by Pavlo Beznosiuk, one of Europe's most directed by Richard Williams and coached by TOM SELIGMAN celebrated concert masters, works towards two Recorder Ensembles Andrew Watts, Tom Randle and Gillian Keith. performances: The Great Passion conducted Focusing on specially selected choruses from The Great Passion will be performed with the by Robert Howarth, and Bach’s St Matthew JILL KEMP St Matthew Passion, this course is aimed at Dartington Baroque Orchestra in the Great Hall. Passion, conducted by Tom Seligman. There experienced choral singers. The semichorus An ensemble session for all recorder players. This is an advanced selected course; please see are opportunities for strings, flutes/recorders, will also be required to attend The Big Choir Please bring any sizes of recorder you may website for application details. and harpsichordists and daily tuition in Session 1. have, for an energetic and lively class covering with our stellar array of Baroque teachers. A SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 group repertoire from the last five centuries. SESSION 3 very busy schedule, but thrilling! This is an advanced selected course; please see website SESSION 3 for application details. Vocal Masterclass Chamber Choir: SESSION 1, 2, 3 & 4 (SESSION 3 FOR GILLIAN KEITH AND TOM RANDLE Solemn Mass and Cheeky Songs MASTERCLASSES OR SECTIONALS) Baroque Violin Masterclass We’re privileged to welcome two superb singers KATE SEMMENS PAVLO BEZNOSIUK to direct this week’s vocal masterclass – the great A lovely selection of secular and sacred music The Ukrainian violinist Pavlo Beznosiuk, leader operatic tenor Tom Randle, and leading lyric Chamber Ensemble Workshop from Renaissance and Baroque composers, of the Academy of Ancient Music for over ten soprano Gillian Keith. Both have international including Josquin des Prez, Thomas Crequillon, RHIANNON EVANS years, and Professor of Baroque Violin at the performing experience, from Renaissance and Claudin de Sermisy, Pierre Certon and André and the Guildhall, through to contemporary song Start the day with a fun-filled ensemble play- Campra. The Chamber Choir is aimed at gives masterclasses focusing on all technical and opera. They welcome a wide variety of through. This week we’ll be exploring Bach's experienced singers. and stylistic aspects of solo Baroque violin repertoire. This is an advanced selected course; Brandenburg and Orchestral Suites. playing. This is an advanced selected course; please see website for application details. SESSION 4 All A440 strings and non-transposing wind please see website for application details. instruments welcome. SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 1

14 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 15 Baroque Cello Masterclass: Piano Workshop: The Folk Choir course will provide an intense Creative Writing: Historical Fiction and rewarding learning experience; you’ll Bach and the Recitative Baroque and Beethoven JAMES RUNCIE be rehearsing folk songs from England and RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE JOANNA MACGREGOR Eastern Europe, in spine-tingling a cappella Acclaimed novelist and Commissioning Editor The Evangelist recitatives are the backbone An open course led by Artistic Director and Head harmony, for a concert later in the week. for Arts at Radio 4, James Runcie runs a creative of the Passion settings, and Bach used of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music, Joanna writing course on historical fiction. Each session SESSION 2 conventions in his unique way to create a MacGregor, examining multiple approaches to will be devoted to one particular element: character, compelling dramatic narrative. The cellist Baroque styles and their impact on Beethoven’s plot, research and setting, dialogue and editing. forms an integral part of the story-telling, music. Students are invited to bring any solo Bach, SESSION 1 so the masterclass this year will take St Scarlatti or Handel works, or a movement from Accordion Workshop Matthew Passion’s wonderfully varied recits a Beethoven Sonata. We’ll also discuss historical PAUL HUTCHINSON as a starting point, comparing them with those performances, editions and performance practices. Paul's style of teaching is relaxed and of Bach's predecessors and contemporaries. Creative Writing: Poetry of Place SESSION 3 entertaining. He considers the accordion We’ll aim to combine with Gillian Keith and KATRINA PORTEOUS a beautiful and versatile instrument, uses Tom Randle, and their vocal class. There’ll block chords, drones and pedal notes, and is a Katrina Porteous was born in Scotland and lives also be an opportunity to study cello works master of harmony. Paul enjoys developing the on the Northumberland coast. She is best-known of the Baroque period. This is an advanced Chamber Music potential of a group to deepen and improve their for her radio poetry. Her latest collection, Two selected course; please see website for RHIANNON EVANS, STEVEN DEVINE, KATE musicianship, and welcomes players at all levels. Countries was shortlisted for the Portico Prize application details. SEMMENS, TRIO GASPARD, CLAIRE WILLIAMS 2015. This course will connect to the physicality SESSION 2 SESSION 3 The chamber music programme, open to all of landscape through sound. Through listening instrumentalists and singers, will offer one and writing it will focus on the local and daily formally-organised session each day in Folk Baroque particular, and explore the voices – natural and Baroque Winds Masterclass Session 4. Chamber music can also be arranged human – that lead us towards ‘a sense of place’. informally during other sessions. See page 3 for ANDY WATTS ANDY WATTS SESSIONS 2 & 3 more details. Andy Watts is the founder of the folk/early music Andy Watts, professor of Historical SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 group The Carnival Band. Here folk, Baroque and Performance at the Royal Academy of ‘modern’ instrumentalists can explore street Creative Reading: Music, and principal bassoon of the Orchestra ballads and from the 17th and 18th Reading the Landscape of the Age of Enlightenment gives a lively, Folk, Poetry and centuries, challenging artificial categories to illuminating class on technique and expression JAMES RUNCIE create and exchange new music. This innovative in solo and chamber repertoire, and prepares Literature Courses course is open to all instrumentalists and singers, A creative reading course based on the nature wind players for St Matthew Passion. This is using notation as well as playing by ear. works of John Clare, Gerald Manley Hopkins, an advanced selected course; please see Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. website for application details. Folk Surgery SESSION 2 In each session we will read their poetry together SESSION 3 SALLY DAVIES AND PAUL HUTCHINSON and look at their visions of the landscape. A selective reading list will be provided in advance, This session is designed to help and encourage As I Walked Out One Morning but no prior knowledge is assumed or necessary. participants to work in small groups for informal Harpsichord Workshop DAVID HARBOTTLE AND FREYA JONAS sessions and performances in the White Hart SESSION 4 STEVEN DEVINE bar, towards the end of the week. 'Doctors' Harbottle & Jonas have received plaudits from Davies and Hutchinson will give guidance and folk royalty including Seth Lakeman and Jon Steven is harpsichordist with the Orchestra of advice to bring your performances to life! Boden. Their music is eclectic, and always More Than Music the Age of Enlightenment and a soloist with accompanied by a great story. Devoted to many recordings to his name. Here he leads SESSION 1 instrumental tuition as well as songs, this class an open class for players with experience of offers the space to study and rehearse traditional Tai Chi Qigong the harpsichord covering the full range of solo tunes and arrangements, as well as collaborate repertoire for the instrument. JOE SALMON Folk Choir and create new work. There's a concert later in SESSION 3 SALLY DAVIES the week, and sessions in the White Hart bar led An early morning class, designed to relax the body by ceilidh caller and player Alexis Bennett. and focus the mind. For more details see page 23. Sally Davies is a singer, instrumentalist, composer and choir leader, with a wide SESSIONS 3 & 4 8AM-8.30AM ranging experience of folk and world music

16 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 17 Courses

Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Week 3 The Big Choir: The Creation Chamber Choir Vocal Workshop The Big Choir Plus Vocal Masterclass

Advanced Opera: The Marriage of Figaro 11 – 18 August Advanced Music Theatre: Oh! What a Lovely War Advanced Conducting

Scenes from West Side Story Brazilian Music and Song In The Heart of Rhythm The Creation; Imogen Cooper, and On the Town Harriet Walter and Felicity Lott; Piano Masterclass Piano Workshop Dartington Piano Concerto Brazilian music and Music Theatre Competition Piano Workshop Piano Workshop Music for Two Pianos and Piano Duet

String Orchestra Violin Masterclass Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops

Cello Masterclass Dance: Salsa

Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music (formal) Chamber Music

Tai Chi Qigong, 8am - 8.30am every morning

Concerts and Events

Date 5.15pm 7.45pm 10.00pm Sat Quatuor Hermès 11 Aug

Sun Bukolika Piano Trio Adrian Brendel & Joanna MacGregor Piano Recital: Joseph Havlat 12 Aug

Mon A Short History of the Summer Tango Nuevo: Adriano Adewale, Celebrating Dorothy Elmhirst: Sarah 13 Aug School: Gavin Henderson Luiz Morais, Thomas Gould, Adrian Gabriel, Richard Williams & guests Brendel & Joanna MacGregor

Tues On Playing Mozart: Alfred Brendel Thomas Gould & guests Florian Mitrea Plays Mozart 14 Aug Jane Glover rehearses Haydn’s gorgeous Creation (we’ll be joined for the performance by Harriet Walter) and the vocal masterclass is led by the legendary soprano Felicity Lott, Wed The Growing Charm of Dada: Iberia y Francia: Imogen Cooper Adrian Brendel & Quatuor Hermès who also coaches young singers in The Marriage of Figaro. Richard Williams and Sarah 15 Aug Alfred Brendel & Felicity Lott Gabriel direct Joan Littlewood’s brilliant satire Oh! What a Lovely War. Thurs Music from Brazil: Adriano Oh! What a Lovely War: Advanced Opera Gala: Advanced 16 Aug Adewale & Luiz Morais Music Theatre students (7.15pm) Opera students Week 3 is rich for pianists – with lectures from the legendary Alfred Brendel on Mozart and his love of Dada, classes with Imogen Cooper, Joanna MacGregor and Florian Dartington Festival Orchestra Mitrea, and our Dartington Piano Concerto Competition - and string lovers, with the Fri Scenes from West Side Story Oh! What a Lovely War: Advanced In the Heart of Rhythm Ensemble, wonderful Quatuor Hermès, cellist Adrian Brendel, violinist Thomas Gould, and the 17 Aug & On The Town (4pm) Music Theatre students (7.15pm) directed by Adriano Adewale & Luiz Dartington Festival Orchestra. Morais (10.15pm) Masterclass Concert: students from Haydn’s Creation: Dartington Choir, Our 70th birthday celebrations continue with Gavin Henderson’s witty overview of the the advanced courses Festival Orchestra, Harriet Walter Salsa Ball: Bring your Dancing Summer School’s action-packed history. The Advanced Conducting Course opens with a & Jane Glover Shoes! (10.30pm) majestic programme including Brahm’s 4th Symphony; while Latin music runs through the week, led by Brazilian master percussionist Adriano Adewale and guitarist Luiz Morais. Don’t forget your dancing shoes for the Salsa Ball…

18 Imogen Cooper Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 19 Choral, Vocal and Vocal Masterclass Conducting Courses Scenes from West Side Story and On the Town Opera Courses FELICITY LOTT RICHARD WILLIAMS, SARAH GABRIEL It’s an honour to welcome the soprano Advanced Conducting AND SARA VAN BEERS Felicity Lott to Dartington for the first time. TIMOTHY REDMOND The Big Choir: The Creation As a concert artist Felicity has worked under A boisterous journey through the world of Bernard Haitink, , Franz Two weeks of intense study with Timothy musical theatre, open to singers of all abilities JANE GLOVER Welser-Möst, Klaus Tennstedt, André Previn, Redmond, guest conductor with the and ages. The course will focus on two brilliant, The great international conductor and Kurt Masur and Simon Rattle, and in the opera Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic iconic musicals, looking at chorus, solo numbers scholar Jane Glover returns to Dartington house under Bernard Haitink, Carlos Kleiber, Orchestra, and Professor of Conducting at and ensemble scenes; we’ll also rehearse after many years to conduct Haydn’s James Levine, Marc Minkowski, Andrew Davis, the Guildhall School of Music. Working with simple and witty choreography. There will be dramatic and joyful masterpiece, The Charles Mackerras, and many others. She the Dartington Festival Orchestra, students an informal performance later in the week. Creation. Her qualities of clarity, integrity, has had a long and fruitful relationship with will prepare Beethoven's Leonora Overture, SESSION 2 wit and humour will lift Dartington’s Big Glyndebourne and the Wigmore Hall and Brahm's Symphony no. 4, and concertos by Choir to new heights! Our performance will has given recitals all over the world. She Beethoven, Bartók and Liszt with outstanding be narrated by the actor Harriet Walter. puts advanced singers through their paces young pianists for the second Dartington We’ll be using the Novello Edition. in a warm, supportive setting. This is an Piano Concerto Competition. The second week Brazilian Music and Song advanced selected course; please see our presents a fantastic opportunity to prepare and ADRIANO ADEWALE AND LUIZ MORAIS SESSION 1 website for application details. perform Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Adriano Adewale is a master percussionist with students from the Advanced Opera Course. SESSION 2 from Brazil, feted all over the world for This is an advanced selected course; please see his Africa-inflected jazz and sensational Chamber Choir website for application details. virtuosity. Together with the Brazilian GAVIN ROBERTS Vocal Workshop SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 guitarist and composer Luiz Morais, you Gavin Roberts coaches music by Finzi, Holst, will be guided and inspired in the popular SARAH GABRIEL and Elgar’s From the Bavarian Highlands. Brazilian tradition, looking at songs, melodies The Chamber Choir is aimed at experienced As at home in Mozart or Britten opera as she Music Theatre and Latin and instrumental accompaniments. choral singers, and you will be required to is in music theatre, Sarah Gabriel made her SESSION 3 prepare the music in advance. European debut as Eliza in My Fair Lady at the American Music Théâtre du Châtelet, opposite Alex Jennings. SESSION 2 Her vocal class is open to all singers. Sarah is particularly interested in being authentically Advanced Music Theatre: Sarah Gabriel and Richard Williams Advanced Opera: yourself onstage, and in how to express your Oh! What a Lovely War individuality. You can see her in action in her RICHARD WILLIAMS, SARAH GABRIEL The Marriage of Figaro recital on 13 August. AND SARA VAN BEERS FELICITY LOTT AND MARK AUSTIN SESSION 3 A splendid opportunity for young music Mark Austin (Grange Festival, Opera Bastille) theatre performers and advanced music directs the first week of this two-week Advanced theatre students to work on Joan Littlewood’s course; Felicity Lott, one of the legendary The Big Choir Plus brilliant musical satire on the First World War, Countesses, will also provide extra tuition GAVIN ROBERTS towards two public performances in the jewel- throughout the week. Mozart’s ensemble like Barn Theatre, on 16 and 17 August. The masterpiece will receive two semi-staged Some extra rehearsal opportunities for course is directed by veterans – director, singer performances in the Great Hall on 22 and 25 Haydn’s The Creation, with our wonderful and choreographer – of opera and West End August. As an extra performance opportunity, choir repetiteur Gavin Roberts. productions, and is simply unmissable if you there will be an Opera Gala programme on 16 SESSION 4 wish to work intensely, and at a high level, on August. This is an advanced selected course; this masterpiece of 20th-century music theatre. please see website for application details. This is an advanced selected course; please see SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 website for application details. SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4

20 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 21 In the Heart of Rhythm Cello Masterclass Piano Concerto Workshop Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops ADRIANO ADEWALE AND LUIZ MORAIS ADRIAN BRENDEL JOANNA MACGREGOR QUATUOR HERMÈS In the Heart of Rhythm is open to everybody – One of the most versatile and original Preparing for a concerto performance Omer Bouchez and Elise Liu (violin), Yung-Hsin percussionists, instrumentalists, singers, and cellists of his generation, Adrian Brendel has demands not just mastery of your solo part, Chang (viola) and Anthony Kondo (cello) form those who don’t play an instrument - and will travelled the world as soloist, collaborator and but also knowledge of orchestration, balance the luminous young Quatuor Hermès. They’ll be based on Afro-Brazilian rhythms such as teacher. A fine classical and romantic player, and the leadership required for a successful be offering string players of all abilities a samba, ijexa and forro. Playing on conventional his discovery of contemporary music as a performance. Pianists are invited to bring friendly and supportive workshop environment, and non-conventional instruments, exploring teenager opened a new and vital avenue he along all or part of any concerto, which we’ll in separate instrumental classes. rhythmic games, vocal and body percussion, continues to explore, alongside his passion work on with two pianos, discussing style, SESSION 4 it’ll be a fun and challenging way of making for jazz and world music. Adrian will coach colour, touch and tempo, as well as the ways music. On Friday night there’ll be a short, advanced students in all areas of cello in which to communicate with a conductor. joyful performance, just before the Salsa Ball. repertoire, including concertos. This is an SESSION 3 advanced selected course; please see website Chamber Music SESSION 4 for application details. LEIGH O’HARA, QUATUOR HERMÈS AND BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO SESSION 2 Dartington Piano Instrumental Courses Concerto Competition The chamber music programme, open to all instrumentalists and singers, will offer one TIMOTHY REDMOND formally organised session each day in Piano Masterclass AND JOANNA MACGREGOR Session 3. Chamber music can also be String Orchestra IMOGEN COOPER Selected pianists will have the chance to arranged informally in the other sessions. ADRIAN BRENDEL AND THOMAS GOULD We’re delighted that Imogen Cooper, one of rehearse concerto movements each day with Please see page 3 for more details. The hugely popular Adrian Brendel and the finest interpreters of classical and romantic Dartington Festival Orchestra and conductors SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Thomas Gould return to lead this workshop for repertoire, is here this week. She’s a close on the Advanced Conducting course, under the all-comers. We’ll be working on Mendelssohn’s collaborator with many of Week 3’s artists - guidance and coaching of Timothy Redmond and sparkling Concerto for Piano, Violin and Jane Glover, Alfred Brendel and Felicity Lott. Joanna MacGregor. Pianists can choose between Strings, as well as staples of orchestral string Students can intensively study Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven’s Emperor, Bartók’s third concerto and More Than Music repertoire and spicy 20th century pieces. Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann with this Liszt’s first concerto. A winner will be chosen to There’ll be a final performance on Friday. pianist of extraordinary international pedigree; perform in the orchestral concert on 16 August. her recent recital appearances include Tokyo, This is an advanced selected course, please see Tai Chi Qigong SESSION 1 New York, , Vienna, Prague, and the website for application details. JOE SALMON Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. This is SESSION 4 Joe Salmon, director of Tai Chi Nation, offers an advanced selected course; please see an early morning class, designed to relax Violin Masterclass website for application details. the body and focus the mind. A dynamic THOMAS GOULD SESSION 2 Music for Two Pianos form of moving meditation, Tai Chi Qigong is Described as ‘staggeringly virtuosic’ by The and Piano Duet accessible to people of all ages and ideal for Guardian and ‘a soloist of rare refinement’ by musicians, bringing great benefits for good FLORIAN MITREA The Sunday Times, Thomas Gould is one of the Piano Workshop practice and performance in the day ahead. brightest young violinists around. His masterclass The talented young Rumanian pianist Florian FLORIAN MITREA 8AM-8.30AM will cover core repertoire and contemporary Mitrea returns to guide you through four-hand works; don’t miss his collaborations throughout The young Rumanian pianist Florian Mitrea and two piano repertoire. You are welcome to the week with Adrian Brendel and Quatuor is always a huge hit at Summer School as a come as a pre-formed duo, or be prepared to Dance: Salsa Hermès. This is an advanced selected course; performer and teacher, and returns to run the pair up. There will be a range of four-hand and please see website for application details. Piano Workshop. Florian will guide pianists of all two-piano repertoire on sale in the music shop KEVAN KENNEDY abilities in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. and available through the Summer SESSION 2 Kevan Kennedy gets us ready for the Salsa Ball He will coach anything from Bach to Bartók, but School library. on Friday night, teaching participants – at any particularly likes the Viennese school of Haydn, SESSION 4 level – the sensual moves of salsa. Mozart and Beethoven. You’ll be able to choose between two different sessions. SESSION 4 SESSION 2 OR 3

22 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 23 Courses

Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 The Big Choir: Verdi’s Requiem Chamber Choir: George Vocal Workshop The Big Choir Plus Week 4 Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets Gospel Choir Songs of the Jazz Age: From The Crash to the War 18 – 25 August Advanced Opera: The Marriage of Figaro Advanced Conducting Verdi’s Requiem and Mozart’s Advanced Composition Open Composition Violin, Viola and Marriage of Figaro; Jazz, Cello Workshops and Composition Open Conducting Improvising to Film Multimedia Installations

Brass Warm-up Session Trumpet Workshop Brass Ensemble Big Band

Beginner’s Jazz Jazz Piano and Open Jazz Ensemble Keyboards Workshop

Saxophone Workshop

Jazz Drumming and Percussion Workshop

Trombone and Low Brass Workshop

Piano Workshop Celebrating Ragtime: Dance: Jive Joplin and Beyond

Chamber Music (formal) Chamber Music Chamber Music Chamber Music Yoga, 7.45am - 8.30am every morning

Concerts and Events

Date 5.15pm 7.45pm 10.00pm Sat Black Voices 18 Aug Week 4 is simply sensational for brass and jazz players. The jazz faculty of Eric Sun The Soul of a Woman: Heath Quartet Dead Rat Orchestra Vloeimans, Mark Lockhart, Steve Lodder and is joined by trumpeter 19 Aug Joanna MacGregor and bandleader Byron Wallen, who’ll direct a project around Martin Luther King. There’s Steve Dummer’s Big Band, and Paul Archibald’s Brass Ensemble. Mon Trio Tritium Jazzworks: Collaborations by the Songs of Berlin Cabaret: 20 Aug jazz tutors Sarah Gabriel Our choral work this week is Verdi’s magnificent Requiem, complemented by Mozart’s Tues Glock and his Legacy: Film and Music: Joanna MacGregor Film and Music: luminous The Marriage of Figaro. Singers can choose from Black Voices’ Gospel Choir, 21 Aug Dartington’s New Music & Eric Vloeimans Summer School Archive Chamber Choir, and Songs of the Jazz Age with Sarah Gabriel. Composition and creativity Wed You're Darn Tootin': Neil Brand The Marriage of Figaro: Heath Quartet & Eric Vloeimans is at the heart of this week’s work. Eleanor Alberga, and Freya Waley- 22 Aug Advanced Opera Cohen mentor composers; the sensational Dead Rat Orchestra creates installation work, Thurs Dartington Brass Ensemble An Evening of Brass Music: Paul Jazz Jam: Students of the Jazz courses and Neil Brand inspires film and music. There’s vibrant chamber tuition from theHeath 23 Aug Archibald, Brett Baker, Eric Vloeimans Quartet and Tritium Trio. Fri Dorothy’s Ghost: Sarah Gabriel and Verdi Requiem: Dartington Choir, Students of the Multimedia Course, As our 70th anniversary draws to a close, we celebrate Permutations, a music and 24 Aug Richard Williams (2pm) Festival Orchestra & Lee Reynolds directed by Dead Rat Orchestra architecture installation: William Glock’s Summer School legacy and archive film, Improvising to Film (3pm) Dartington Big Band (11pm) accompanied by live music: and Dorothy’s Ghost, an immersive theatre experience New Chamber Music around the estate in short, poetic scenes. Here’s to the next 70 years of Summer School! Sat The Marriage of Figaro: 25 Aug Advanced Opera (7.30pm) Freya Whaley Cohen's Permutations: Exhibited all week, launch event 19 Aug, 1pm 24 Eric Vloiemans Choral, Vocal and Advanced Opera: Songs of the Jazz Age: conducting technique, score preparation and The Marriage of Figaro From The Crash to The War approaches to rehearsal. It’s ideal for conductors Opera Courses (and interested musicians or teachers) at TIMOTHY REDMOND AND MARK AUSTIN SARAH GABRIEL beginner and intermediate level. Please see The second week of this two-week course The 1930s and 40s were marked by a series the 'Music Supplies' page on the website for The Big Choir: Verdi’s Requiem directed by Mark Austin, leading to two semi- of tumultuous events, including the Great the repertoire list. staged performances of Mozart’s timeless The Depression, the flight of refugees forced from LEE REYNOLDS SESSION 2 Marriage of Figaro on 22 and 25 August. Nazi-occupied Europe, and America joining World The dynamic conductor Lee Reynolds, fresh from See page 20 for full details. War 2. Through their work, the composers, singers ENO and Glyndebourne, returns to Dartington and writers of the period often commented on, SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 to conduct Verdi. Few choral works combine the and offered escape from, these turbulent times. Composition, Film and drama of opera, the thrill of wonderful symphonic In this workshop for singers, singing actors and Multimedia Courses writing, and spine-tingling, stellar solo moments. writers, we’ll be looking at: songs by Gershwin, But Verdi's Requiem does all that and more; from Vocal Workshop Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Kurt Weill; the terror of the Dies Irae and the transcendence SARAH GABRIEL singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bing of Lux Aeterna, it’s a thrilling experience. This Crosby and Frank Sinatra; and a diverse range Advanced Composition As at home in Mozart or Britten opera as she will be a fabulous climax to our fourth week. of writers, from Steinbeck and Dr Seuss to ELEANOR ALBERGA is in music theatre, Sarah Gabriel made her We’ll be using the Ricordi Edition. Raymond Chandler and Margaret Mitchell. European debut as Eliza in My Fair Lady at the This immersive course focuses on creating SESSION 1 Théâtre du Châtelet, opposite Alex Jennings. SESSION 4 new music for the Heath Quartet, and Her vocal class is open to all singers. Sarah is outstanding young clarinet trio Tritium Trio, for particularly interested in being authentically performances at the end of the week. With her Chamber Choir: George Shearing’s yourself onstage, and in how to express your The Big Choir Plus 2015 Last Night of the Proms commission Arise individuality. You can see her in action in her Athena! Eleanor Alberga cemented a reputation Songs and Sonnets TIM ANDERSON recital on 20 August. as a contemporary composer of international LEE REYNOLDS Opera conductor and repetiteur Tim stature; other works draw more obviously on SESSION 3 Lee Reynolds rehearses repertoire to Anderson (Glyndebourne, Garsington, ENO, her Jamaican heritage and time as a member complement our jazz programme this week: Oper Stuttgart), provides some extra rehearsal of an African Dance company. The emotional George Shearing’s immensely-sophisticated opportunities for Verdi’s Requiem – some range of her language, her structural clarity and Byron Wallen swing settings of Shakespeare, Songs and of the most hair-raising sacred music fabulously assured technique as an orchestrator Sonnets. The Chamber Choir is aimed at ever written. have always drawn high praise, as has her experienced choral singers, and you will be teaching and mentoring. Oliver Knussen will be SESSION 4 required to prepare the music in advance. meeting the students too, mid-week. This is an Advanced Selected course; please see website SESSION 2 Conducting Courses for application details. SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Gospel Choir CAROL PEMBERTON AND Advanced Conducting CELIA WICKHAM-ANDERSON TIMOTHY REDMOND Improvising to Film NEIL BRAND Uplifting, harmonious, soul-stirring, challenging The second week of the Advanced Conducting and fun all describe the power and appeal of the course – see page 21 for details. One of the world’s foremost exponents of Gospel Choir sessions, led by Carol Pemberton, live film music, Neil Brand is known for his SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Music Director of the internationally-acclaimed compelling presentations on television and a cappella group Black Voices. The workshops radio. This course offers composers, pianists will cover a range of black music traditions that and other instrumentalists a great opportunity influence and shape what today we call Black Open Conducting to study selected silent classic films, discussing Gospel. Black Voices will perform on 18 August, STEVE DUMMER the art of improvisation and ‘reading’ a film. and there will be an informal performance for We’ll aim to create new music around excerpts Steve Dummer has immense experience participants on the final Friday. of film, and informally showcase our work in conducting amateur orchestras, choirs, jazz the Barn Cinema at the end of the week. SESSION 2 ensembles and Big Bands. His relaxed, all- comers workshop will teach you the basics of SESSIONS 1 & 2

26 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 27 Open Composition Jazz and Brass Courses FREYA WALEY-COHEN The immensely talented composer Freya Beginner’s Jazz Waley-Cohen holds an Open Space Residency BYRON WALLEN at Aldeburgh, and her installation Permutations – created with architectural designers Finbarr A brilliant trumpeter and bandleader, O'Dempsey and Andrew Skulina – will be Byron Wallen’s performing, composing and exhibited all week at Foxhole. Freya is also teaching skills combine to make him a leading artistic director of Listenpony, a concert series figure among the new wave of creative jazz and record label that programmes classical musicians. Every morning he’ll direct a class music alongside folk, jazz and pop. This class especially for newcomers to jazz, or those with is designed for people who like composing in a classical background who want to brush up all styles, as well as those who enjoy arranging their skills in a late night event at the end of and song-writing, with expert guidance in a the week. friendly, collaborative atmosphere. Students SESSION 1 will showcase their work in an informal concert at the end of the week. SESSION 2 Brass Warm-up Session Eleanor Alberga PAUL ARCHIBALD, ERIC VLOEIMANS Multimedia Installations AND BRETT BAKER The essential morning ritual: a warm-up DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA session for brass players, taken in turn by Trombone and Low Saxophone Workshop Dead Rat Orchestra are adventurers, adrift three very different brass tutors. A great way Brass Workshop in a sea of sound and possibility. They’ve to start your day, focusing on breathing and BRETT BAKER gained a reputation as one of the most the fundamentals of technique. Mark Lockheart offers one-to-one and innovative ensembles on the UK music scene Brett Baker is one of the world’s top ensemble tuition to all saxophonists. Mark SESSION 1 - raw, elemental and poignant, with a love of trombonists and educators, working with is one of jazz’s greatest collaborators, and idiosyncratic folk traditions and antiquated musicians and groups as diverse as Black his characteristic sense of lyricism, alongside technology. This course will use found objects, Trumpet Workshop Dyke Band, Grimethorpe Colliery Band and very personal use of rhythms from Asia, Africa old instruments and analogue systems to Goldfrapp. He’s passionate about teaching the and South America, will be inspiring for young create multimedia installations all over the PAUL ARCHIBALD AND ERIC VLOEIMANS trombone, and is the director of the Singapore and older saxophonists alike. estate, culminating in a nocturnal torch-lit and Thailand Low Brass Festivals. As well as Our trumpet class is open to trumpeters of all SESSION 2 promenade at the end of the week. coaching, he’ll be encouraging you to perform music backgrounds. Paul Archibald is one of UK’s and collaborate with the trumpet and jazz SESSIONS 3 & 4 busiest orchestral trumpeters, regularly working faculty all week. with Britten Sinfonia, London Philharmonic and Jazz Drumming and his own English Brass Ensemble. Amsterdam- SESSION 2 Percussion Workshop based Eric Vloeimans, who was an enormous hit Dead Rat Orchestra MARTIN FRANCE last year, is one of the coolest trumpeters in jazz. You’ll be learning music techniques in a variety of Jazz Piano and Martin France has worked with the finest styles, and be working on repertoire ranging from Keyboards Workshop and most creative musicians in the world - Mark Anthony Turnage and Georges Enescu to including Elvis Costello, Evan Parker, Dave STEVE LODDER improv. There’ll be a chance to perform informally Holland and Nils-Petter Molvaer - as well as at the end of the week. Steve Lodder is a leading jazz pianist, many classical orchestras. His class is open synth player and teacher, working with to all drummers and percussionists who’d SESSION 2 some of the coolest names in jazz. His like to hone their jazz skills. course is open to intermediate jazz pianists SESSION 2 and keyboard players who wish to develop their improvisation skills. SESSION 2

28 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 29 Open Jazz Ensemble Big Band Celebrating Ragtime: Joanna MacGregor BYRON WALLEN, MARK LOCKHEART, STEVE DUMMER Joplin and Beyond ERIC VLOEIMANS, STEVE LODDER JOANNA MACGREGOR Steve Dummer will be rehearsing the AND MARTIN FRANCE Dartington Big Band for the final Friday Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor celebrates The wonderful Byron Wallen leads this year’s night bash, with solos from the great jazz Scott Joplin’s 150th birthday. Open to pianists Open Jazz Ensemble session, supported by trumpeter Eric Vloeimans. The repertoire of all backgrounds, we’ll be looking at Joplin’s a world-class band of jazz tutors. Byron’s will range from big band standards to wonderful and other composers’ absorbing music draws on elements of African more contemporary jazz pieces. Absolutely responses including rags by Stravinsky, William and Eastern cultures, and his work this week will unmissable fun, this workshop is for all alto, Bolcom and Elena Kats-Chernin. We’ll try create a piece based on the life of Martin Luther tenor and baritone saxes, trumpets and composing our own ragtimes, and look at the King (2018 is the 50th anniversary of his death) trombones, and piano, bass and drums. wider influence of jazz rhythms in recent piano and the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz students will music. There'll be a suggested repertoire list on SESSION 4 also be performing in our regular Jazz Jam in the 'Music Supplies' page of our website although the White Hart bar on Thursday night. students are free to bring their own choices. SESSION 3 Piano, Wind and SESSION 3 Instrumental Courses Brass Ensemble Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops PAUL ARCHIBALD Piano Workshop HEATH QUARTET A chance to work together on the great brass Oliver Heath and Sara Wolstenholme (violin), TOMÁŠ KLEMENTS has been practised by many musicians - most repertoire for trumpets, horns and trombones, Gary Pomeroy (viola) and Christopher Murray famously Yehudi Menuhin - and it’s a great with one of the UK’s top trumpeters and Tomáš Klements will guide pianists of all (cello) lead individual instrumental classes, for chance to loosen up the body before a day’s teachers. We’ll be working on Eric Crees’s abilities in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, string players of all abilities, in a friendly and music-making. arrangement of West Side Story Dances and and is happy to coach anything from Bach to supportive workshop environment. Gavin Higgins’ Freaks for trombone and brass Bartók, as well as more contemporary music. 7.45AM-8.30AM SESSION 3 for a concert performance in the Great Hall SESSION 2 on Thursday. There’ll be opportunities for performances in the beautiful outdoor spaces Dance: Jive of Dartington too! Chamber Music KEVAN KENNEDY GUY BUTTON, THE HEATH QUARTET SESSION 3 AND TRITIUM TRIO Everyone is invited to get ready for the final Big Band party on Friday night by learning The chamber music programme, open to the cool jazz movements of Jive, taught by this all instrumentalists and singers, will offer experienced tutor. one formally organised session each day in Session 1. Chamber music can also be SESSION 4 arranged informally in the other sessions. Please see page 3 for more details. SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 Permutations Permutations is a project exploring the social capacity of music and architecture, a More Than Music roaming performance artwork. Written by the composer Freya Waley-Cohen, performed and recorded by violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Yoga and in an architectural setting designed by Finbar O’Dempsey and Andrew Skulina, it’s a JUSTIN DALTON playfully powerful and intriguing experience. This course, based on the gentle, fluid The composer and designers invite you to Scaravelli approach to yoga, is suitable for a short talk, on Sunday 19 August at 1pm, participants of all ages and abilities. Yoga launching this week-long installation.

30 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 31 Catering Concerts and Day Tickets Fees and Accommodation Enjoy a full-English and continental breakfast, Individual concert tickets and day observer tickets a light lunch, and a full three course evening will be available through our website after 5 March. meal - made with fresh, seasonal and local www.dartington.org/summer-school The prices shown reflect charges once subsidies, A second person sharing a double or twin room ingredients. Vegetarian options are always 5.15pm and 10pm concerts/talks: £10 possible through fundraising and the support of may purchase an Additional Catering package. available and we can cater for all dietary 7.45pm concerts: £15 (bench seat) the Dartington Hall Trust, have been applied. This offer is also available to non-residents requirements; please provide full information £20 (central rake) or campers who have booked a full Courses & upon booking. A Courses & Concerts pass allows you to Day observer ticket: £10 Concerts package. participate in or observe any courses (unless Participants staying in the Medieval Courtyard Please note the Courses & Concerts pass specified), and attend all concerts in one week. eat in the White Hart dining room. Those includes all concert tickets. Please note that seats not taken 10 minutes Accommodation staying at Higher Close and Foxhole, or before the concert start may be released campers purchasing an Additional Catering Medieval Courtyard for general sale. Courses begin on Sunday Package, eat in the Higher Close Refectory. Individual Course Bookings Our 14th-century courtyard is situated at morning and finish on Friday afternoon. the heart of the Dartington estate offering Drinks and additional snacks can be purc- From 14 May a number of courses will be Prices are per person. well-appointed rooms of 3-4* hotel quality hased from the Roundhouse and Green Table available to book on an individual basis. This is An Accommodation & Catering package is for 7 with various bed and bathroom configurations. Cafés during the day and the White Hart bar ideal for people located within a daily travelable nights, checking in from 2pm on the Saturday Where a bathroom is shown as Private, it is until late. distance who wish to follow one or two courses, of your week and checking out by 10am the used by one room only but is located next to rather than the full programme. An individual following Saturday. Prices are per room and all or opposite the bedroom. Where a bathroom course will run from Sunday to Friday in its meals are included from dinner on Saturday is shown as Shared, it is located next to or Non-resident Booking timetabled slot and you would need to attend night to breakfast the following Saturday for opposite the bedroom and is shared with It is possible to purchase a non-resident all 6 sessions of the course. one person. one other bedroom on the corridor. Courses & Concerts pass and organise Location: Central your own off-site accommodation. Bursaries Courses & Concerts 2018 Price Higher Close Children and Young People Finance should not be a barrier to attending Higher Close comprises single rooms with shared the Summer School. Bursaries are available Standard £440 bathroom and kitchen facilities. Bedrooms are The Summer School is for people of all ages. to students and recent graduates for specific furnished in a simple and functional style. The We are pleased to welcome unaccompanied courses, please see our website for more details. Student / Under 18s £395 complex also includes the Higher Close refectory, young people aged 16 to 18 although we do Under 12s £220 our laundry facilities and the Dartington not provide any special supervision for those Volunteer swimming pool. Location: Central participants. Anyone under the age of 16 must Accommodation and Catering 2018 Price be accompanied by a responsible adult. A number of volunteer roles are available Foxhole during the Summer School. Please see our Courtyard Deluxe Room, £1,515 Double En suite facilities Foxhole, the former home of Dartington’s Your Booking website for more details. experimental school, provides basic but Courtyard En suite Twin or Double £1,335 functional hostel style single rooms with Bookings can be made on our website Cancellations and Charges shared bathrooms. A small number of twin www.dartington.org/summer-school or by Courtyard En suite Single £1,185 rooms are available in Foxhole, please enquire telephone +44 (0)1803 847080. You can pay All bookings are non-refundable after 1 May Courtyard Private Bathroom Double £1,140 for further details. Location: 15 minute walk by debit or credit card for which there is no 2018. We advise all participants to take out from dining and teaching areas additional charge. Payment can also be made by holiday insurance which includes cancellation Courtyard Private Bathroom Single £995 bank transfer or cheque, the details of which are cover above the value of the total booking. Any Courtyard Shared Bathroom Single £825 Camping available by contacting the office. You will receive booking cancelled before 1 May 2018 is subject Camping is available on a level field, with confirmation of your booking upon receipt of to a 10% of total booking cancellation fee. Higher Close, Single Room, Shared Bathroom £555 lighting, power, toilets and showers. Tents are an initial 50% payment. After 1 May 2018 full Any changes to your booking will be subject not provided. Please enquire about spaces for payment is required to make your booking. to course and accommodation availability and Foxhole, Single Room, Shared Bathroom £325 caravans and motorhomes. Location: 10 minute may incur additional costs. walk from dining and teaching areas Camping (Self Catering) Free All details correct at time of going to press. Additional Catering £325 Changes in circumstance after publication may impact on the accuracy of the information which may be subject to change.

32 Information and online booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080 33 Supporting Dartington Summer School

Become a Friend or Patron of the Dartington International Summer School The Friends and Patrons Programme is an invitation to those who love the Dartington International Summer School to ensure it continues to flourish. Here are just some of the ways you can support us: • Join as a Friend or Patron • Sponsor a Concert • Support a Bursary Student

The Friends and Patrons programme is managed by the Dartington Hall Trust. For more details visit www.dartington.org/summer-school or email Phoebe Wild [email protected] The Dartington International Summer School Foundation Each year we receive significant investment from the Dartington International Summer School Foundation, an independent charity that works to ensure that future generations of musicians can experience our programme. This year, the Foundation is raising funds for 70 new bursary places. If you are interested in finding out more about this campaign, please see the Foundation website www.dissf.org or contact Richard Heason (Chairman, DISSF) on [email protected]. Thank you to our current supporters Foundation, The Elmgrant Trust, The Exeter & District Classical Music Trust, The Eversley Patrons: Sue Anderson, Isla Baring, Ron Booker, Charitable Trust, Fidelio Charitable Trust, The Ian Chown, Michael Cosgrave, Robert Cox, Hinrichsen Foundation, The Harold Hyam Richard Creed, Ros Flinn, Peter & Jean Gell, Tim Wingate Foundation, The Helen Roll Charity, Grice, Tattwa Gyani, John Hacker, Christopher The John S Cohen Foundation, Margaret Guido’s Hanson-Abbott, Carmel Hart, Jim Haworth, Charitable Trust, The Music Sales Charitable Richard Heseltine, Jenny Hobbs, Judith Jackson, Trust, The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust, The Susan Kentner, Timothy Lloyd, Val Marriott, Radcliffe Trust, RVW Trust, Tait Memorial Trust, Mirhane McLaren-Howard, Catharine Meek, The TL Trust.

Jonathan and Gillian Pickering, Frances Ruck The following families or individuals Keene, David Sigall, Gillian Taylor, Andrew Ward, have also given an endowment or legacy Susan Weil. specifically to support the Summer School.

Corporate support: Blue Geranium, Frobishers, Walter Blue, Elizabeth Clough, Else and Leonard St Austell Brewery, Cross, Charles Davis, Robert Eliot, George Ellis, Trusts and Foundations: The Boltini Trust, Alfred Ensor, Richard Gardner, William Glock, The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust, The Lucille Graham, Gavin Henderson, Christopher Bruce Wake Charity, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Kite, Andras Milhaly, Busenhart Morgan Evans, Trust, The Derek Hill Foundation, Dartington Hall Clifton Parker, Pamela Parkinson, Ernest Rainer, Trust, Dartington International Summer School Esther Salaman, William and Judith Scheide Fund, Louisa Schmidt, Jenny Wood.

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DARTINGTON INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IS A PROGRAMME OF THE DARTINGTON HALL TRUST WHICH IS REGISTERED IN ENGLAND AS A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND A REGISTERED CHARITY. COMPANY NO. 1485560. CHARITY NO. 279756. REGISTERED OFFICE: THE ELMHIRST CENTRE, DARTINGTON HALL, TOTNES, TQ9 6EL.