Final Edition CITY OF LONDON FESTIVAL 22 JUNE - 17 JULY 2014 FULL TO THE BRIM: OVER 250 LIVE EVENTS! BOX OFFICE 0845 120 7502 COLF.ORG Festival supporters Welcome Main Funding Corporate Partner Corporate Partner Event Sponsor Partner Welcome It is my privilege to present the full programme of the 2014 City of London Festival. Over three weeks outstanding artists will bring life and vitality to the amazing places and spaces Hotel Partner Dining Partner Project Partner Media Partner of the Square Mile including our own new pop-up venue in Paternoster Square, the Bowler Hat (details from p.8). This is one of our biggest ever programmes with over 250 events in 50 venues, with half of them free of charge. The City played host to the President of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, in November and we are delighted to be following up her state visit with a number of events under the title ‘Seoul in the City’ including a unique Anglo-Korean performance of Media Partner Media Partner Media Partner Media Partner Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in St Paul’s Cathedral. You can find more information and background to the Festival on our website colf.org and stay connected with us on Facebook or Twitter for regular updates. Paul Gudgin, Festival Director Singing, soccer and street guitars fill the Corporate Members Paternoster Square Management Royal Mail outdoors, with over 120 free events. Bank of England The City of London Solicitors’ Company BNY Mellon Rock the Boat Street Guitars are ready to be The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Clifford Chance LLP played in City beauty spots, Premier League The Golden Bottle Trust football clubs and children’s writers join forces Supporters the happenstance The Idlewild Trust for our Storybook World Cup, and the Bowler Acción Cultural Española The Rushworth Charitable Trust Hat is brimming with a new programme of free Aldgate & Allhallows Foundation The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths and ticketed children’s theatre, dance, circus, comedy and cabaret. More than 50 Arts Council Korea The Worshipful Company of Gardeners schools have contributed this year, including the Festival Children’s Parade with Bank of England The Worshipful Company of Glaziers Barbican Children’s Library over 1,400 children presenting classic children’s stories, while Musical Meeting & Painters of Glass BDO LLP Place sees nine primary schools and nine offices singing together in work-places. The Worshipful Company of Gold and Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Join us for Melodians Steel Orchestra presenting Jeremy Deller’s English Magic, Silver Wyre Drawers Broadgate City of London Guixot de 8’s marvellous Sculpture Scribble and Factoria Circular’s giant music wheel The Worshipful Company of Insurers Canary Wharf Arts & Events The Worshipful Company of Launderers Rodafonio – just some of the events filling our squares and gardens this summer! CBRE 30 St Mary Axe Management Ltd The Worshipful Company of Management Devonshire Square Ruth Oakley, Head of Outdoor Events and Participation Consultants Global Local The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors Google The Worshipful Company of Musicians Gresham College The Worshipful Company of Security Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation Professionals How to Book Land Securities The Worshipful Company of World Traders Morgan Stanley Book online at colf.org (reduced booking fee applies) or call the Usborne Publishing Barbican box office on 0845 120 7502 (booking fee applies). Arts Partners John Hornby Skewes Book in person at the Advance box office in the Barbican, or at the City Korea Tourism Organization Information Centre, south of St Paul’s Cathedral (no booking fee). Arsenal Football Club Korean Cultural Centre Artizan Street Library To make the Festival as accessible as possible to a wide range of audiences Mansion House Bank of England we heavily subsidise all ticketed concerts to ensure that prices are as low as Music In Offices Barbican possible. Tickets start from just £5 for our Cathedral concerts. [re]design Barbican Film Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Barbican/Guildhall Creative Learning Shoe Lane Library Follow the Festival BBC Radio 3 Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health Bishopsgate Institute Simmons & Simmons @CoLFestival City of London Festival Central School of Ballet Song in the City City of London Open Spaces Department Southwark Cathedral Join our mailing list and discover more about us at colf.org City Music Foundation St Paul’s Cathedral Clifford Chance LLP Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Crystal Palace Football Club Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Deutsche Bank City of London Festival is run by The City Arts Trust Limited, registered charity no. 204828 Music & Dance Drake Music Fitz Eylwin House, 25 Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2BP The Worshipful Company of Brewers Guildhall Connect Admin: 020 7583 3585 Email: [email protected] The Worshipful Company of Musicians Guildhall School of Music & Drama President The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London Chairman Lady Brewer JAM 2 3 Book online at colf.org Orchestral concerts Orchestral concerts Wren’s awe-inspiring St Paul’s Cathedral and the opulent Georgian Mansion House are transformed into concert venues for the City of London Festival. Experience these architectural jewels in the City’s crown, alongside London’s newest, state-of-the-art concert hall, Milton Court, for our renowned orchestral series. Thursday 3 July 8.00pm St Paul’s Cathedral London Symphony Orchestra Daniel Harding conductor Bruckner Symphony No 9 Penderecki Threnody for the Victims St Paul’s Cathedral of Hiroshima Bruckner’s stirring symphonies have been described as ‘cathedrals in Monday 30 June 7.30pm Sunday 22 June 7.00pm sound’. The combination of St Paul’s Cathedral, Bruckner’s magnificent Mansion House Milton Court, Silk Street ninth Symphony and the charismatic The Academy of St Martin Barbican Young Orchestra leadership of young conductor Myung-Whun Chung in the Fields Edward Gardner conductor Daniel Harding make for a very Michael Petrov cello special occasion. Inon Barnatan piano/director Sibelius Finlandia The brilliant LSO were commended Tuesday 15 July 8.00pm Simon Callow narrator Tomo Keller violin Walton Cello Concerto for their recent live recording of St Paul’s Cathedral Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919) Bruckner’s masterpiece, playing London Symphony Orchestra Beethoven Coriolan Overture Op 62 with ‘a transparency and poise that This fine young orchestra is a welcome London Symphony Chorus Beethoven Romance No 2 cuts through even the most climactic, in F major Op 50 recent addition to the Barbican family brass-laden fortissimos’ **** The Myung-Whun Chung conductor Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 Op 58 and is rapidly establishing a reputation Kathleen Kim soprano for outstanding musicianship. For their Guardian. Don’t miss the chance Join us for a theatrical exploration of Songmi Yang mezzo soprano first Festival appearance they are to hear them perform it live in the Beethoven through his music stunning setting of St Paul’s. Yosep Kang tenor conducted by the Music Director of and letters. English National Opera, Edward Gardner. Tickets £48, £42, £32, £25, £15, £10 Jongmin Park bass Tickets £30, £20 and £10 Although tickets are free, they and £5 Beethoven Symphony No 9 Bank or Mansion House must be booked in advance for St Paul’s The Music Director of the Seoul this performance. Philharmonic, Myung-Whun Sponsored by Barbican or Moorgate Free Chung and four virtuosic Korean soloists join forces with the London Presented by This concert is being recorded for Symphony Orchestra and London future broadcast by BBC Radio 3 Symphony Chorus for an Anglo- Korean performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9. An anthem to peace and reconciliation, this work carries a particular resonance given the current situation on the Korean Peninsula. Experience this monumental symphony inside one of the world’s great icons. Tickets £50, £42, £32, £25, £15, £10 and £5 St Paul’s Sponsored by Daniel Harding SEOUL IN THE CITY Simon Callow 4 5 Book online at colf.org The City’s Great Halls The City’s Great Halls Quintessential Monday 14 July 7.30pm Quintets: Guildhall Great Hall, A key feature of the Festival has long been the concerts held in the Gresham Street City’s opulent Livery Halls – the ancient headquarters of the City’s The Nash Ensemble trading bodies, which still thrive today as Worshipful Companies. Two performances that revel in Commonwealth Connections These intimate performances offer an exclusive chance for you to the glory of the piano quintet, with Nicola Benedetti explore the glorious surroundings of venues not usually open to combining the intimacy of the string Special guests include: the public. quartet with the expressive quality of the piano. The Festival is delighted Duncan Chisholm Quartet that the Nash Ensemble is joining us Mzansi Youth Choir for these two special concerts in its Monday 23 June 7.30pm Wednesday 25 June 7.30pm As Glasgow puts the final touches 50th anniversary year. to preparations for the 2014 Drapers’ Hall, Throgmorton Street Stationers’ Hall, Ave Maria Lane Commonwealth Games, a taste of The Fateful Voyage Sunwook Kim piano Monday 7 July 7.30pm Scotland and the Commonwealth comes to the City of London. James Gilchrist tenor Scriabin Sonata No 3 in F sharp Merchant Taylors’ Hall, Nicola Benedetti’s latest musical Iain Burnside piano minor Op 23 Threadneedle Street adventure is both a departure and Franck Prelude, Choral et Fugue Matthew Cammelle narrator Stravinsky Three pieces for a homecoming: learning fiddle Schumann Piano Sonata No 1 Op 11 This unique recital, structured string quartet technique from Aly Bain and around the story of a voyage to the Seoul-born Sunwook Kim came Mozart Piano Concerto K 449 triumphantly opening this year’s front, pays homage to composers, to international recognition when (arranged for piano quintet by Celtic Connections festival in some now almost forgotten, who he won the prestigious Leeds Mozart) Glasgow, here Nicola collaborates enlisted and were killed in the First International Piano Competition in Brahms Piano Quintet with some of Scotland’s top 2006, aged just 18, becoming the traditional musicians, including World War.