2016/17 SEASON PREVIEW AND APPEAL The Wigmore Hall Trust would like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals and organisations for their generous support throughout the THANK YOU 2015/16 Season. HONORARY PATRONS David and Frances Waters* Kate Dugdale A bequest from the late John Lunn Aubrey Adams David Evan Williams In memory of Robert Easton David Lyons* André and Rosalie Hoffmann Douglas and Janette Eden Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Simon Majaro MBE and Pamela Majaro MBE Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mr Martin R Edwards Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Capital Group The Eldering/Goecke Family Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Annette Ellis* Michael and Lynne McGowan* (corporate matched giving) L SEASON PATRONS Clifford Chance LLP The Elton Family George Meyer Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan Alison and Antony Milford L Aubrey Adams* Complete Coffee Ltd L American Friends of Wigmore Hall Duncan Lawrie Private Banking The Ernest Cook Trust Milton Damerel Trust Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne‡ Martin Randall Travel Ltd Caroline Erskine The Monument Trust Karl Otto Bonnier* Rosenblatt Solicitors Felicity Fairbairn L Amyas and Louise Morse* Henry and Suzanne Davis Rothschild Mrs Susan Feakin Mr and Mrs M J Munz-Jones Peter and Sonia Field L A C and F A Myer Dunard Fund† L The Hargreaves and Ball Trust BACK OF HOUSE Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones Valerie O’Connor Pauline and Ian Howat REFURBISHMENT SUMMER 2015 Neil and Deborah Franks* The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust The Monument Trust Arts Council England John and Amy Ford P Parkinson Valerie O’Connor The Foyle Foundation S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 L The Piano Fund Hamish Parker The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Friends of Wigmore Hall Dr Clive Potter* David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma† Rose and Dudley Leigh Jonathan Gaisman* Oliver and Helen Prenn Ian Rosenblatt Sir Siegmund Warburg’s The Garrick Charitable Trust L Nick and Claire Prettejohn* John Gilhooly* The Rayne Foundation L Victoria and Simon Robey* Voluntary Settlement L Cita and Irwin Stelzer* The Garfield Weston Foundation John and Lauren Goldsmith* Stuart and Bianca Roden William and Alex de Winton* The Wolfson Foundation Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Charles Rose* and several anonymous donors and several anonymous donors Peter Goodwin Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* Charles Green The Rubinstein Circle L CHAMBER MUSIC CIRCLE DONORS AND SPONSORS Alexis Gregory Foundation The Sampimon Trust Tony and Marion Allen* The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust L and the Vendome Prize Julia Schottlander* Karl Otto Bonnier* Mr Eric Abraham* Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Neville and Nicola Abraham Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Sir Martin and Lady Smith*† Margery Gray Elaine Adair Peter Hardy Elijah Spies The Hargreaves and Ball Trust The Andor Charitable Trust L The Headley Trust L Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* Malcolm Herring* The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity L Pauline and Ian Howat David and Jacqueline Ansell* L Lord and Lady Lloyd Bernard and Ann Apter Nicholas Hodgson The Stewarts Law Foundation The Marchus Trust‡ Arts Council England André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ Derek Sugden Jo and Barry Slavin David and Margaret Beaton Peter and Carol Honey* Anne and Paul Swain* The Tertis Foundation Alan Bell-Berry Gay Huey Evans* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* Marina Vaizey Mr Nicholas J Bez Graham and Amanda Hutton* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* Kathleen Verelst* Mrs Arline Blass Hyde Park Place Estate Charity L The Tertis Foundation Tony Wingate David and Mary Bowerman* Simone Hyman* Allen L Thomas and Jane Simpson* and several anonymous donors Sir John and Lady Boyd The Idlewild Trust Robin Vousden* Alan Bradley* Peter and Nikki Jeffcote Andrew and Hilary Walker* VOICES AT WIGMORE: Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair John Lyon’s Charity L Professor Janet Walker CD and THE SCHUBERT SONG PROJECT Nicolas and Hilary Marc Jourdren* Professor Doug Jones AO* In memory of Donald Kahn Dame Fanny Waterman* Tony and Marion Allen* Browne-Wilkinson L Anthony Austin Clive Butler Su and Neil Kaplan* The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Jerome Karet* Philip and Emeline Winston* Geoffrey Barnett A bequest from the late Peter Cain L Karl Otto Bonnier* CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust L David and Louise Kaye* Youth Music Nicola Coldstream Charities Advisory Trust L Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* and several anonymous donors Pauline Del Mar City Bridge Trust L The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* * Rubinstein Circle members J L Drewitt Colin Clark L Benjamin Hargreaves Edwin C Cohen Maryly La Follette* Learning Programme supporters Edith Randall John Crisp* Gabor Lacko † Early Music and Baroque Louise Scheuer Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss L Series supporters Gill and Keith Stella* Celia and Andrew Curran The Leverhulme Trust L ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters John and Ann Tusa Anthony Davis* Tim Llewellyn Gerry Wakelin* The Dorset Foundation – in memory The Loveday Charitable Trust L Susan Ward of Harry M Weinrebe Simon and Sophie Ludlam* 02 SEASON PREVIEW 2015/16 WELCOME Wigmore Hall’s artistic programme for the This year we must raise £1.7 million in 2016/17 Season, outlined in this preview private donations to give you the great brochure, reflects our abiding commitment to experiences you expect from Wigmore Hall. the creative, the imaginative, the exhilarating, Our programme comprises everything the extraordinary. Those attributes flow naturally from concerts given by today’s outstanding from musicians of the highest calibre. This is performers to ground-breaking special projects, why we are so determined to share our work artist residencies, new commissions and with audiences worldwide, helped by our strong unique events. relationship with BBC Radio 3 and the launch With your help we can continue to attract of our own streamed concerts online from 2016. the world’s greatest artists, offer a platform The Hall’s acclaimed Learning programme, for the most compelling emerging talent and which attracts 23,000 visits a year, and our reach audiences beyond the Hall, through subsidised ticket scheme for under 35s are our community programmes and online. vital platforms as we reach out to existing and We thank you for playing such a decisive new audiences. part in our development and we ask you to contribute whatever you can to the Hall’s It is thanks to you – our loyal supporters © FRANCES MARSHALL and generous donors – that we can deliver the 2016/17 Annual Appeal. breadth and depth of the Hall’s programme. Your support is essential. Without it we simply could not do what we do. John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM Director of Wigmore Hall The Wigmore Hall Trust Registered Charity No. 1024838 SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 1 A REVIEW Programme pioneers Audience building The impact of your donations Wigmore Hall promotes more Demand for Wigmore Hall’s work 2015/16 SEASON Thanks to your donations concerts today than ever before, continues to grow with 12,000 our programming can be bolder AT A GLANCE creating unique special projects people visiting Wigmore Hall for the and more exciting than ever and developing season-long first time in 2014/15. The Hall’s attendances before. With an impressive series in collaboration with audience widened again from 200,000 at Wigmore Hall number of premières and remarkable artists. March last year following the commissions performed next + artists introduction of a bold subsidised performing • The Hall is leading the way season, Wigmore Hall is 2,000 ticket scheme funded for the in protecting the song recital, regarded around the world concerts 2015/16 Season by a legacy gift, presenting the largest song as a leading force in the new 488 at Wigmore Hall which offers 10,000 £5 seats for and chamber music series music scene – a fact of which own evening concerts to people under in the world. we can all be proud. 384 promotions the age of 35. The response to this • We have invested in our scheme has been overwhelming As we promote more of our chamber music recitals Early Music and Baroque Series, and we hope to expand the own concerts at the Hall, we 212 and confirmed our position scheme in time. We have also are able to ensure top quality days with more as the leading international restructured our ticket pricing for music spanning all the genres 123 than one concert commissioner of the Wigmore Series, setting the of repertoire. Our investment external contemporary music. bottom price for every evening in young artists is particularly 104 promotions performance at £15 or lower. rewarding throughout the • We continue to invest in young individuals giving season, allowing our audiences and emerging talent. 90 to specific projects The Wigmore Hall Endowment the first chance to hear Promoting so many of our own exceptional musicians as they Income from the Hall’s growing 84 vocal recitals concerts is vital for us to maintain grow and develop. Endowment Fund (launched in our place among the world’s 2013) helped to support two major piano recitals leading venues for chamber 62 projects which conclude in music and song. Investment in the early & baroque 2015/16: Henry Purcell: future of Wigmore Hall 51 series concerts A Retrospective and The Mozart contemporary Odyssey, revelatory composer-led Over the past two years we 47 music concerts series scheduled across have invested £2.1 million in ‘ Over the past two seasons. In addition the Fund the Hall’s infrastructure. A major Wigmore Hall co-commissions two years we have is also supporting our ambitious refurbishment project, completed 25 Schubert: The Complete Songs last summer, delivered up-to-date invested £2.1 million project in 2015/16 and 2016/17.