SPONSORSHIP The Ayr Concert Series is supported by South Ayrshire Council, Ayr Concert Ayr Arts Guild and Ayr Citadel. It is subsidised by Ayr Common Good Fund, Homecoming Scotland 2009, Come Back to Ayrshire, Ayr Concert and Enterprise Music Scotland with funds provided by the Series Scottish Arts Council. 2009/10 (Founded 1987) arranged by AYR ARTS GUILD Series for SOUTH AYRSHIRE COUNCIL Scotland’s Orchestras www.comebacktoayrshire.com AYR ARTS GUILD (founded 1973) with International Soloists Scottish Charity No. SC005562 AYR CONCERT SERIES 2009/10 TICKETS 2009/10 SEASON TICKETS available from Ayr Citadel and Leisure Centre Season Concession South Harbour Street, AYR, KA7 1JB. 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Gift Aid it! for Season Tickets AVailable only BY post. www.aag.org.uk Welcome Thursday 5 November 2009 Wednesday 6 January 2010 South Ayrshire Council is proud to welcome Royal Scottish Scottish Chamber Scotland’s three major orchestras along with Orchestra international conductors and soloists to Ayr National Orchestra Town Hall for the 23rd Ayr Concert Series Nicolae Moldoveanu, conductor Jakub Hrusa, conductor Nicolae Moldoveanu arranged by Ayr Arts Guild. Jakub Hrusa Nicola Benedetti, violin Hannah Holgersson, soprano Joining regulars the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Homecoming Gala Concert Viennese New Year Concert Orchestra, we are pleased to see and hear, for the Homecoming Programme to include: Gala Concert, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra who last FRANCK Le chasseur maudit STRAUSS Waltzes and Polkas played in Ayr Town Hall in 1998. BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 NICOLAI Overture: SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ The cherry on the icing on the cake is to welcome Nicola Nicola Benedetti The Merry Wives of Windsor Hannah Holgersson Benedetti, winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year title in DA FALLA Suite from The Three-cornered Hat 2006, the very best “Come back to Ayrshire” present. An evening of love and romance with Scotland’s star violinist, the one-and-only Nicola Benedetti! Franck’s wild depiction of TCHAIKOVSKY Music from The Nutcracker Winifred Sloan, Provost, South Ayrshire a hunt in full chase gives way to the romantic yearnings of the beloved Bruch Violin Concerto. Then, Schumann’s radiant First He may hail from Transylvania, but Nicolae Moldoveanu has a Symphony, composed during the spring of his love with his true Viennese touch when it comes to the music of the Strauss new wife Clara. Family. Expect familiar favourites - it just would not be New Year without The Blue Danube – and one or two surprises along Wednesday 21 October 2009 the way, all in fine spirits to toast 2010. Beautiful and talented Hannah Holgersson has established herself as one of Sweden’s Scottish Chamber Thursday 17 December 2009 most versatile singers. She appears regularly on radio and Orchestra BBC Scottish television. Nicholas McGegan, conductor Nicholas McGegan Symphony Orchestra Maximiliano Martín, clarinet Friday 19 February 2010 Stephen Bell, conductor SPOHR Symphony No. 2 Op 49 Jamie MacDougall, presenter BBC Scottish WEBER Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat Symphony Orchestra MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 1 Christmas Classics 2009 Jamie MacDougall Christoph König, conductor (London version) Maximiliano Martín Always one of the most popular events in Ayr’s pre-Christmas Alisa Weilerstein calendar, Christmas Classics 2009 offers you a musical stocking Alisa Weilerstein, cello SCO Principal Clarinet, Maximiliano Martín from Tenerife crammed with sweetmeats from Tchaikovsky to Leroy Anderson consistently dazzles audiences with his virtuoso playing and and many other favourites, together with a few choice surprises! GOLDMARK Overture: Im Frühling Weber’s tour-de-force will suit perfectly. It was inspired by one of Conductor is English-born Stephen Bell, and once again your SCHUMANN Cello Concerto the finest clarinettists of the composer’s time, and Weber certainly host is leading tenor and popular broadcaster, the inimitable TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1 ‘Winter Daydreams’ put him through his paces. Popular British conductor based in Scot Jamie MacDougall. Tickets always sell fast, so don’t leave it Carl Goldmark’s overture, written in the sunny key of A major, the USA, Nicholas McGegan marks the 150th anniversary of the too late before buying yours! death of Louis Spohr with one of the German composer’s two is full of the joys of spring. Christoph König from Dresden and the BBC SSO are joined by American-born Alisa Weilerstein for ‘London’ symphonies. Both Spohr and Mendelssohn premiered Schumann’s romantic cello concerto and the evening ends with their pieces with the Philharmonic Society of London and both Tchaikovsky’s precocious First Symphony, ‘Winter Daydreams’. with such success that they had to stop the performance to The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3: encore several movements there and then. www.bbc.co.uk/radio3.