HEATH STRING QUARTET ALEXANDER CHAUSHIAN (Cello) VINEHALL INTERNATIONAL CONCERTS BOOKING FORM ALICE NEARY (Cello) YEVGENY SUDBIN (Piano) Please complete as required. Bookings can be made by post, phone or Welcome to International Classical email during the season. Concerts at Vinehall Saturday November 28th 2020 at 7.30 p.m. Sunday February 7th 2021 at 3.00 p.m. A FULL SEASON TICKET provides one seat at each of the seven The Vinehall Concert Series, celebrating its 32nd season, concerts. The SIX CONCERT OPTION and the FIVE CONCERT continues to bring the best of both British and international OPTION allow you to select six or five different concerts of your musicians to East Sussex. Performances take place in a purpose-built 250 seat theatre with superb piano and intimate choice. SINGLE TICKETS may also be booked for all concerts. acoustic which is ideal for chamber music. Please indicate your choice on the form overleaf. Complimentary SACCONI STRING QUARTET refreshments are served at each concert. SCHUBERT & CO MICHAEL COLLINS (Clarinet) We regret that we cannot exchange or refund tickets unless a Director and Piano: SHOLTO KYNOCH Saturday November 7th 2020 at 7.30 p.m. Alexander Chaushian ‘…a force to be reckoned with…’ The Guardian concert is sold out. As concerts are booked many months on “Great power and sweetness ... intimate closeness.” Spectator Programme advance there may be changes in advertised details. We are able to Saturday October 3rd 2020 at 7.30 p.m. offer assistance with transport throughout the area and have easy Programme Bach Suite no 1 for Cello in G major Sponsored anonymously Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op. 34 Borodin Sonata for Cello and Piano in B minor access/parking for the disabled. Please phone for details. Mendelssohn String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op. 13 Rachmaninov Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor Op. 19 Brahms Clarinet Quintet The internationally acclaimed Armenian cellist Alexander Chaushian has Name …………………………………………………………………………...........…..... The award-winning Sacconi Quartet was formed in 2001, their four founder performed worldwide, collaborating with many of today’s most critically acclaimed conductors, orchestras and artist. Concerto appearances members continue to demonstrate a shared passion for string quartet Address ………………………………………………………………………………………...…. repertoire, infectiously reaching out to audiences with their energy and “The Music’s potency and bravura were conveyed with thrilling conviction...” have included concerts with the Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia enthusiasm. The Sacconi is Quartet in Association at the Royal College of The Guardian Orchestras, the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Orchestre de la Suisse Music. The Sacconis’ prolific recording career has covered an extremely Romande, and the Boston Pops. Chaushian performs regularly at venues …..……………………………………………………………………………………………………… broad selection of repertoire. In 2020 they will record a new disc of works Programme such as the Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Konzerthaus by Roxanna Panufnik and 2017 saw the release of three highly praised new Vienna, Suntory Hall Japan, as well as Carnegie Hall in New York, and Bach Art of Fugue Nos: 1,4,5,6,9 and 19 (unfinished fugue) Symphony Hall in Boston. ..………………………………………………………………………………………………………… CDs: In Damascus, their CD of music by Jonathan Dove. In Damascus hit the Beethoven Quartet in Eb major op 74 ‘Harp’ Classical Top Ten and was chosen as one of Gramophone Magazine’s 2018 Schubert Quintet for Strings in C major (Alice Neary, Cello) Recordings of the Year. Alexander Chaushian enjoys regular chamber music relationships with Postcode ..............….….......…… Tel: ..................……………………..……….. such notable artists as Julia Fischer, Levon Chilingirian, Diemut Poppen, The Heath Quartet formed in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music. Emmanuel Pahud, and Ashley Wass, and has also collaborated with Yehudi The 2019-20 season saw the quartet make its debut in Russia (with Peter e-mail ………………………………………………………………..........………............… Donohoe), Mexico (with Freddy Kempf) and Lebanon (Al Bustan Festival). There were selected for representation by YCAT, awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Menuhin. He is also a member of the Tchaikovsky Trio. Chaushian’s regular Special Ensemble Scholarship and in 2012 won the Ensemble Prize at the chamber music partner is pianist Yevgeny Sudbin with whom he has I consent to being contacted by the VHICCS, on the above email address They returned to the Wigmore Hall for three concerts, performed two for general communications, as appropriate. Schubertiade northern UK tours, with many festivals and toured with pianist Freddy Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern where they are now regular visitors. made several highly acclaimed CDs for the BIS label. After initial studies Kempf. The name Sacconi Quartet comes from the outstanding twentieth- In 2016 they won the Gramophone Chamber Award for their recording in Armenia, Alexander Chaushian studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School Please return this form to A. G. Whitehead, Vinehall School, century Italian luthier and restorer Simone Sacconi. Robin is indebted to of the complete string quartets of Sir Michael Tippett, and in May 2013 and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and the Hochschule Schubert & Co. bring the spirit of the original ‘Schubertiade’ to the became the first ensemble in fifteen years to win the prestigious Royal für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin. From here, Chaushian went on to win Robertsbridge, East Sussex TN32 5JL modern concert, recreating an intimate gathering of friends to hear some Ellen Solomon for the use of his viola. Ben, Hannah & Cara have all been generously loaned their instruments by the Royal Society of Musicians, Philharmonic Society’s Young Artists Award. numerous prestigious prizes, including the 12th International Tchaikovsky Telephone 01580 883092 (theatre and answerphone) of the composer’s most personal creations. Exploring the varied faces of Competition in Moscow, and the ARD Competition in Germany. Chaushian the great song writer, they include such justly famous works as ‘An die a charity which helps musicians in need, for which they are extremely Email: [email protected] grateful. The quartet celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2021. This season the quartet returns to the prestigious Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin is Professor of Cello at the Royal College of Music. Musik’, ‘Ave Maria’ and An Silvia’. But the rare gathering of eight eminent in a series of concerts throughout 2020/21, where they will be joined by singers, who also delight in the art of ensemble performance, also allows “Brilliant playing in every sense” Classic FM clarinettist and composer Jörg Widmann and pianist Denis Kozhukin. They Yevgeny Sudbin has been hailed by The Telegraph as “potentially one of us to hear some of Schubert’s great masterpieces that almost never make also return to Wigmore Hall for programmes including a new commission the greatest pianists of the 21st century”. All of Yevgeny’s recordings have it into concert hall, including his astonishing setting of the 23rd Psalm for by Helen Grime, and to the Bath Festival for concerts of Beethoven. met with critical acclaim and are regularly featured as CD of the Month four female voices and the Serenade for male voices and mezzo soloist. Michael Collins has a continuing and distinguished career as a soloist and by BBC Music Magazine or Editor’s Choice by Gramophone. His Scriabin Gathered around the piano, Schubert & Co. include some quintessentially has in recent years also become highly regarded as a conductor. From 2010 – Their award-winning release of the Tippett was followed by two discs recording was awarded CD of the Year by The Telegraph and was described Viennese drinking and dancing songs, as their programme traverses 2018 he was the Principal Conductor of the City of London Sinfonia. Recent recorded for the Harmonia Mundi/PIAS label featuring Tchaikovsky’s first by Gramophone as “a disc in a million”. The International Record Review Schubert’s approaches to conviviality, spirituality, nature and - of course highlights include a return to the Philharmonia Orchestra and he made his and third quartets (November 2016) and the complete Bartók quartets stated that Yevgeny’s Rachmaninov recording “confirms him as one of the - love. conducting debut with the ECO and has performed with the London Mozart (June 2017), the latter of which won the 2017 Limelight Chamber Music most important pianistic talents of our time”. His 10th anniversary disc of Players. Michael Collins performs regularly with the Borodin, Heath and Award and was nominaed for the 2018 Gramophone Chamber Music Scarlatti Sonatas was received with equal rapture and not only hit No. 1 in Schubert & Co. is an exciting new vocal ensemble, founded in 2018 Belcea quartets, András Schiff, Martha Argerich, Stephen Hough, Mikhail Award – both projects were part-funded by the Quartet’s Borletti-Buitoni the Classical Music Charts but was also nominated for the Gramophone by the pianist Sholto Kynoch and a company of renowned singers. A Pletnev, Lars Vogt, Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis. His ensemble, London Trust Special Ensemble Scholarship 2011. Classical Music Award. Yevgeny was also nominated as Gramophone Artist The distinguished pianst Yevgeny Sudbin sends the following message: Schubert & Co. concert recreates the spirit of the original ‘Schubertiade’, Winds, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary