Musical Dialogues British and Israeli Music on the South Bank Sunday 30 November 2008, 11am – 10pm Musical 11.00am – 12.30pm ILLUSTRATED TALK: Malcolm Miller on the connections and contrasts between Israeli and British Music. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 1.30pm – 3.00pm MEET THE COMPOSER Purcell Room at Humphrey Burton interviews Tzvi Avni with live performances of Avni works: Queen Elizabeth Hall Paths of Time String Quartet No 3 (2003) Brodowski Quartet, Trinity College of Music Mirage for Piano Trio, double-bass, percussion (2004) Thallein Ensemble, Birmingham Conservatoire Dialogues Saxophone Quartet (revised 2008) Sirocco Saxophone Quartet, Royal College of Music 3.00pm The Front Room FOYER MUSIC: New Noise jazz and improvisation group, Brunel University British and Israeli at Queen Elizabeth Hall 4.00pm – 6.15pm CHAMBER CONCERT Music on the South Bank Purcell Room at Ralph Vaughan Williams Concerto in D minor ‘Concerto Accademico’ (1924-25) Queen Elizabeth Hall Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra, Malcolm Singer, conductor, Ben Baker, violin Sunday 30 November 2008, 11am – 10pm Tzvi Avni Summer Strings – String Quartet No 1 (1962), Yehudi Menuhin School Lior Navok Saxophone Quartet (1999) Sirocco Saxophone Quartet, Royal College of Music Patron of the Day Oliver Kentish Prelude and Fugue for 10 Violas (2005) led by Rivka Golani Joe Cutler Clarinet Trio, Bartlebooth (2004), Thallein Ensemble, Birmingham Conservatoire Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Israeli works performed by three winners of The Spiro Ark Israeli Music Competition Master of the Queen’s Music Thomas Adès The Origin of the Harp (1994), Thallein Ensemble, Birmingham Conservatoire, Daniele Rosina, conductor Honouree: 6.30pm The Front Room FOYER MUSIC: Hadar Manor songs from Israeli busker based in London Tzvi Avni at Queen Elizabeth Hall – winner of the title ‘Queen of the Underground‘ distinguished Israeli composer 7.45pm SYMPHONY CONCERT performed by Queen Elizabeth Hall Noam Sheriff Concerto for Viola, Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra, Malcolm Singer, conductor; Rivka Golani, viola British musicians with outstanding Israeli soloists Michael Wolpe Concerto for Oud and Orchestra, Eden Sinfonia, Daniel Cohen, conductor; Sharon Rostorf-Zamir soprano, Rivka Golani viola and Taiseer Elias oud Taiseer Elias, oud Tzvi Avni ‘If This is a Man’ (1998) Eden Sinfonia, Daniel Cohen, conductor; Drop in or stay all day for 2 chamber concerts; a Symphony concert; Sharon Rostorf-Zamir, soprano a talk; a film and foyer events celebrating the connections Peter Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise (1985) Eden Sinfonia, and contrasts between Israeli Daniel Cohen, conductor and British Music. 8.00pm Purcell Room FILM: The Band’s Visit the humorous and poignant story of the visit of an Egyptian band to Israel at Queen Elizabeth Hall Part of a 15-day Festival in the UK with lectures, workshops, masterclasses and performances in Birmingham, Cambridge, Weybridge and several venues and music colleges in and around London. See www.jmi.org.uk Supported by BI Arts. Presented by the Jewish Music Institute Forum for Israeli Music, Director Malcolm Miller together with the Presented by the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance President Ilan Schul JewishJewis Musich Mus iInstitute,c Institut eSOAS, SOA UniversityS Universi tofy oLondonf London Artistic Advisor Michael Wolpe JMI Visiting Composer from Israel and Head of Composition at the Jerusalem Academy together with the Queen Elizabeth Hall concert: £22.50, £17.50, £12.50 JerusalemJerusale mAcademy Academ ofy oMusicf Mus iandc an Danced Dance Purcell Room concerts: £12.50, £8.50 Daniel Cohen 20% DISCOUNT WHEN BOOKING 3 CONCERTS Photo: Tom Fecht Purcell Room Film: £10 Talk: £2 Tickets: 0871 663 2500 www.southbankcentre.co.uk Musical Dialogues British and Israeli Music on the South Bank Sunday 30 November 2008, 11am – 10pm Featuring works by: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Michael Wolpe, Peter Maxwell Davies, Noam Sheriff, Thomas Adès, Lior Navok as well as music by younger British and Israeli composers The numerous outstanding Israeli performers on the international scene are well known, but as yet, the music created in the land of Israel since the early part of the twentieth century is a treasure trove still waiting to be revealed. It is the unique symbiosis of East and West and the assimilation of elements from diverse traditions, combining the strands of Jewish traditions and Arab and Middle Eastern music with the use of Western approaches that we will hear today. Rivka Golani (4:00pm Purcell Room Daniel Cohen (7:45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall) Performed by young British orchestral and chamber players with internationally acclaimed Israeli soloists and 7:45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall) Dynamic, young, prize-winning, Israeli conductor – a protégé of Daniel (see back page for details) Recognised as one of the outstanding violists of modern times. More than 250 Barenboim. He is now Chief Conductor of the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, works have so far been composed for Rivka, including 61 concertos: a record Music Director of the Gropius Ensemble and the resident conductor matched by no other violist in history. of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. “No nobler music-making could be imagined than this eloquent performance... “He is a splendid, gifted and experienced conductor, with real insights into the grand tradition brought to the service of inspired musical insight.” how to make his inner visions of a score become audible reality.” Geoffrey Crankshaw, Musical Opinion Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Malcolm Singer Ben Baker Patron of the Day: Honouree: Tzvi Avni, distinguished Israeli composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1:30pm and 4:00pm Purcell Room (7:45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall) and 7:45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall) Yehudi Menuhin School The Brodowski String Quartet Generally acknowledged to be one of the foremost composers of our time, Tzvi Avni has been at the forefront of music in Israel for over 6 decades as a composer in he lives in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland. many genres, riveting teacher, far-sighted administrator and great musical inspiration. (4.00pm Purcell Room, String Quartet (1:30pm Purcell Room) 4.00pm Purcell Room, String Orchestra, Ben Baker violin First prize winners, 2008 Royal Overseas League, Junior Fellows, 7.45pm ‘Queen Elizabeth Hall with Rivka Golani viola Trinity College of Music Malcolm Singer, conductor ALSO FEATURING Eden Sinfonia (7:45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall) The South Bank debut of this fine young symphony orchestra Thallein Ensemble (1:30pm and 4:00pm Purcell Room) Student group, set up for new music, Birmingham Conservatoire Three winners of The Spiro Ark Israeli Music Competition: (4:00pm Purcell Room) Litsa Tunnah violin, Amit Yahar piano, Alicja Smeitana violin Sharon Rostorf-Zamir, soprano (7:45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall) Taiseer Elias, oud, (7:45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall) has sung in the opera houses of New York, Paris, Prague, Bilbao, Madrid, Rome Professor of Arabic music Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Elias Sirocco Saxophone Quartet Presented by the Jewish Music Institute and London to great critical acclaim. recently won the prize of the minister of culture, science & sports in Israel. (1:30pm and 4:00pm Purcell Room) together with the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance “Above and beyond all others, this amazing coloratura tickled her vocal cords to “As an oud and violin player he stands head and shoulders above other Rising Stars of 2008, Royal College of Music create the most seductive sounds on the one hand and the volcanic eruptions of musicians both in Israel and abroad.” a vengeful goddess on the other” Professor Dalia Cohen, Chairman Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Department of Musicology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Film in the Purcell Room 8:00pm Musical Dialogues British and Israeli Music on the South Bank The Band’s Visit /Bikur Ha-Tizmoret The humorous and poignant story of the visit of an Egyptian band to Israel Director: Eran Kolirin Sunday 30 November 1:30pm – 10pm Israel, France 2007 89 mins Language: Arabic/English/Hebrew with English subtitles Contents Cast: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour 2. JMI Forum for Israeli Music (FIM) The Jewish Music Institute 3. Welcome Messages Patron of the Day, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen’s Music With Thanks Geraldine Auerbach MBE, Director, and Jonathan Meitlis, Chairman, JMI Malcolm Miller, Director of Forum for Israeli Music and the members of the FIM committee together with Geraldine Auerbach MBE, Director of the Jewish Music Malcolm Miller, Director of the JMI Forum for Israeli Music Institute, wish to thank all those that are participating in Musical Dialogues: Artistic Advisor, Michael Wolpe, British and Israeli Music on the Southbank. Special thanks go to Michael Wolpe, Head of Composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music Head of Composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the JMI Visiting Composer from Israel who, on his visits to the UK has established an 5. Overview of the Day’s Concerts ongoing relationship with many colleagues in UK music colleges and looks Malcolm Miller forward to their visits to Jerusalem. We particularly thank Maureen Phillips and 7. Connections and Contrasts in British and Israeli Music Yvonne Glass for their excellent and dedicated work on co-ordinating the whole Malcolm Miller considers the background and talks with 13 day event and to John Morgan for his generous design of the text of the Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Tzvi Avni and Michael Wolpe programme book. We are grateful too to all those who have contributed financially including Leopold de Rothschild CBE, the Eranda Foundation, the 10. ‘Meet the Composer’, Purcell Room, 1:30pm Sir Jack Lyons Foundation, Bi Arts, Clive Marks OBE, Ian Stoutzker, Hilton 13. Chamber Concert, Purcell Room, 4pm Nathanson and other trusts and individuals. We thank those who are hosting or chaperoning our composers and artists and those who have written – or are 18.