OF MUSIC & DANCE TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE SEP–DEC 2018 WHAT'S ON MUSIC AND DANCE VENUS TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON BLAZ NG BOOKING: 020 8463 0100 WELCOME Welcome to our Autumn Season 2018, where an extraordinary range of performances awaits you. This year we launched Venus Blazing – an unprecedented commitment to celebrating the music of women composers. We’ve pledged to ensure that in our major music performances this year at least half of the music will be by women composers. This autumn, 31 of the 46 works being performed (67%) are by female composers, both historic and contemporary. We also relaunch Blackheath Halls after a major refurbishment, and I know there will be much to delight audiences ahead. Our Symphony Orchestra starts us off with a Side by Side concert of Grace Williams’ Symphony No. 2, and returns to perform Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3 in November. Other highlights of the season include Trinity Laban String Ensemble performing Errollyn Wallen, Grażyna Bacewicz and Edward Elgar; Trinity Laban Chamber Choir performing Imogen Holst, Elizabeth Maconchy and Lili Boulanger and Trinity Laban Chorus, Musical Theatre Show Choir and Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir performing extracts from Rebecca Dale’s Mater Requiem. At Laban Theatre, expect a strong dance season, featuring Tara D’Arquian’s intriguing Bad Faith, the dark comedy of Gracefool Collective, Marina Collard’s What This Is, Is..., and the welcome return of Julie Cunningham & Company. Our BA3 students perform commissioned works in a great opportunity to see new dance talent live. We perform at major London music festivals – the Early Music Festival, Brandenburg Choral Festival of London and Spitalfields Music – and present our own new music festival Rude Health, showcasing experimental music and composition at the cutting edge. Last but not least, our Musical Theatre students present Cabaret in December, and we finish the season with our vocal students performing Thea Musgrave’s festive opera A Christmas Carol. I look forward to welcoming you to all our performances. Professor Anthony Bowne Principal, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance WHAT’S ON SEP– DEC 2018 Over the following pages we’ve listed our vibrant programme of performances and events. To help you find your way around this extensive programme, we have colour coded similar events so that you can find them more easily: 4 CONCERTS & OPERA 10 MUSICAL THEATRE 11 JAZZ 12 CONTEMPORARY DANCE 16 LOVE YOUR LUNCHTIME FREE MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY 19 COMPETITIONS & PRIZES 20 MASTERCLASSES 21 THE OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE TRINITY LABAN CHAPEL CHOIR 22 TAKE PART VENUS BLAZ NG indicates a concert as part of our Venus Blazing season. HOW TO BOOK Ticketed events at King Charles Court, Laban Theatre and Blackheath Halls can be booked at trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson, on 020 8463 0100 and at Blackheath Halls Box Office* in person after re‑opening. Booking information for other venues is given with the individual event listing. Keep up to date with all our news and events by joining our mailing list trinitylaban.ac.uk/subscribe or call 020 8463 0100 to register your details. Keep in touch on social media: /TRINITYLABAN *Blackheath Halls will be closed until late autumn Cover image: Venus Blazing Venus Blazing artwork: Adam Hypki We are pleased to be supporting Greenwich Performs, a new festival based Betty Blue Eyes Trinity Laban on traditional roots which launches in Musical Theatre, summer 2018 the heart of Greenwich this October and Photo: Lidia Crisafulli features music, theatre and outdoor events. 3 TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIDE BY SIDE CONCERT Trinity Laban’s Side by Side series brings CONCERTS together student talent with professional mentors from leading orchestras, sharing Join us for a wide range of their expertise and skills. concerts this season as we launch Venus Blazing, our unprecedented commitment to the music of women composers. FRI 5 OCT 18.00h SIDE BY SIDE Conductor Jonathan Mann Grace Williams Symphony No. 2 An opportunity to hear Grace Williams’ Symphony No. 2 from 1956 as part of our Venus Blazing season. ST ANNE’S CHURCH, LIMEHOUSE VENUS ADMISSION FREE, TICKET REQUIRED BLAZ NG FRI 23 NOV 18.00h SIDE BY SIDE Conductor Jonathan Tilbrook Louise Farrenc Symphony No. 3 Written in 1847, Farrenc contributed three remarkable symphonies to the canon of French instrumental music, including Symphony No. 3. Described as “a uniquely expressive and significant voice that needs to be recognised and heard” (The Guardian), this is a great chance to hear this work. GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS VENUS ADMISSION FREE, TICKET REQUIRED BLAZ NG 4 THU 25 OCT 19.30h THU 1 NOV 19.30h WARLOCK AND HIS TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONIC WINDS BRITISH CONTEMPORARIES Conductor Timothy Reynish A varied programme of repertoire by Thea Musgrave Journey through a Japanese Peter Warlock and his contemporaries. Landscape – Concerto for Marimba and Poldowski song selection Wind Orchestra Peter Warlock Serenade for Frederick Delius Elizabeth Maconchy Music for Woodwind for piano 4 hands and Brass Morfydd Llwyn Owen song selection for Judith Bingham Three American Icons soprano and piano – Spring, Tristesse and Emily Howard Deep Soul Diving a selection from The Land of Hush-a-bye As part of our Venus Blazing season, an Peter Warlock song selection evening of wide‑reaching symphonic wind Join us at King Charles Court for a varied music in celebration of Thea Musgrave’s programme of repertoire by Peter Warlock 90th birthday, featuring her 1994 Journey and his contemporaries. Born Philip Arnold through a Japanese Landscape – Concerto Heseltine (1894–1930), the English composer for Marimba and Wind Orchestra. and critic first used the pseudonym Peter GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS VENUS Warlock in 1916, and is chiefly known for £5 BLAZ NG his output of English song and choral music. The concert also features works as part of the Venus Blazing season by Belgian‑born British composer and pianist Régine Wieniawski RUSH HOUR RECITAL (1879–1932), known professionally by the Join us for a free early‑evening concert in the pseudonym Poldowski, and Welsh composer, Recital Room at Blackheath Halls at 18.00h. pianist and mezzo‑soprano Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891–1918) who had a huge impact on British music and composed 250 pieces WED 28 NOV before her untimely death aged 26. Megan Storer, flute andNoelia Cotuna, harp PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT VENUS A programme of flute and harp music from ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED BLAZ NG this up‑and‑coming undergraduate duo, including music by Franz Liszt, Jean Cras and David Heath. TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON | 5 CONCERTS SAT 17 NOV 13.00h & 19.00h THU 6 DEC 19.00h JUNIOR TRINITY WINTER CONCERTS TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT THE SPITALFIELDS FESTIVAL Junior Trinity returns to LSO St Luke's with its annual performances featuring students aged 11–19. Join Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra at the home of British boxing for their debut LSO ST LUKE’S performance at the acclaimed Spitalfields £17 (£7 UNDER 18s) Music Festival. Led by festival curator LSO.CO.UK André de Ridder, Spitalfields Music celebrates two dynamic young British composers and a timeless masterpiece with a concert full THU 29 NOV 19.00h of colour, drama, passion and fire. Experience TRINITY LABAN CHORUS orchestral music like never before with a site‑specific spatialised performance, unique to York Hall. Full details of the programme will be announced on Thursday 18 September. YORK HALL, BETHNAL GREEN £12 (£6) VENUS SPITALFIELDSMUSIC.ORG.UK BLAZ NG Conductor Dominic Peckham Rebecca Dale Mater Requiem (excerpts) Eleanor Daley Set Me As A Seal Meredith Monk Panda Chant II Judith Weir Drop Down Ye Heavens From Above Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms joined by the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir Leonard Bernstein West Side Story (excerpts) performed by Musical Theatre Show Choir Always a highlight of the season, Dominic Peckham returns to work with Trinity Laban students in this programme for massed voices. GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS VENUS £5 BLAZ NG 6 FRI 7 DEC 19.30h TUE 11, THU 13 & FRI 14 DEC VARIOUS TIMES TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS RUDE HEALTH: A FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC Conductor André de Ridder Leoš Janá ek Suite from The Cunning An experimental festival of new music and Little Vixen (Smetáček version) innovative performances from Trinity Laban’s acclaimed composition students. Always Trinity Laban student works challenging, often provocative; come and hear Shiva Feshareki GABA-analogue them test their more adventurous ideas in Igor Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919) three unpredictable sonic and artistic events. Join us at Blackheath Halls for a fantastic KING CHARLES COURT, LOCATIONS VARY evening of symphonic music depicting ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED forests, foxes and folklore! The concert opens with a performance of The Cunning Little Vixen Suite for orchestra, reworked SUN 16 DEC 19.00h in this arrangement by Smetáček in 1965, bringing the atmosphere of this unique opera OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE TRINITY LABAN to the concert hall. The evening celebrates CHAPEL CHOIR: HANDEL MESSIAH Trinity Laban’s own composers as well as Winner of the 2017 BASCA British Composer Award for Innovation, Shiva Feshareki, whose work GABA-analogue is programmed. The concert closes with Stravinsky’s evocative Firebird Suite originally composed as a ballet in 1910 for the Ballets Russes, and was the composer’s first major success. GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS VENUS £5 BLAZ NG Conductor Ralph Allwood MBE First performed in 1742, Handel’s oratorio is one of the best‑known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music. Join the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir as they perform this traditional Christmas celebration, with solos by members of the Chapel Choir.