RNCM 04-07/18 April - July 2018 EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE 1 FRENCH CONNECTIONS As we embark on the final leg of our French Connections journey, there is much more wonderful music to look forward to this Summer, as we continue to explore the music and musicians of France and their connections far and wide… Highlights include Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé at The Bridgewater Hall with conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier (p32-33), the baritone Roderick Williams singing a Franco-British programme (p8-9), the French organist-composer-improviser Thierry Escaich providing the soundtrack to the 1927 American silent film Sunrise (p19), and two stunning choral works – Fauré’s Requiem (p17) and the Paris-based Italian composer Rossini’s dramatic Petite messe solennelle (p22-23). Au revoir for now… We’ll be back in the Autumn for a new adventure! 22 33 THU 19 APR // 1.15pm SAT 21 APR // 7.30pm MON 23 APR // 7.30pm SAT 21 APR // 7pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Theatre RNCM STRING ALTRINCHAM TRINITY CHURCH RNCM SESSION ENSEMBLE CHORAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND ORCHESTRA Josef Suk Serenade for Georges Bizet (arr McNaught) HIGH SCHOOL AND CHOIR Strings in E flat major Op 6 Carmen ANNIVERSARY CONCERT + NORTHERN VOICES Pavel Fischer director Georges Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite No 1 Tickets £5 Andy Stott director Free admission, no ticket Promoted by Trinity Church of required Manchester Philharmonia England High School The RNCM Session Orchestra Steven Roberts conductor returns to the Theatre Emma Morwood soprano stage with an epic Helen Sherman mezzo-soprano production featuring the Nicholas Ransley tenor 40-piece orchestra plus Bradley Travis bass-baritone a 50-strong choir. The Tickets full £15, set-list is influenced by accompanied children £3 the sound of gospel, with Promoted by Altrincham Choral the orchestra, choir and Society soloists performing an eclectic mix of classic songs and chart hits including Hallelujah and Bridge Over Troubled Water. FRI 20 APR // 8pm Support arrives in the // RNCM Concert Hall shape of RNCM student BBC RADIO 2 YOUNG a capella group, BRASS AWARDS Northern Voices. Tickets £15 THE FINAL FS Ken Bruce and Frank Renton present this live broadcast of Radio 2’s nationwide search for its next brass star. The audience will be seated at 7.50pm, with live broadcast from 8pm. Free admission, by ticket only (maximum 4 tickets per person) Promoted by BBC Radio 2 in association with RNCM 4 5 SUN 22 APR To include: RNCM WIND, 6pm // RNCM Theatre BRASS AND THE SOLDIER’S TALE PERCUSSION FILM WITH LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT FESTIVAL A live performance of Stravinsky’s masterpiece alongside R O Blechman’s A DANCE WITH THE beautifully stylish, Emmy Award- DEVIL winning animated film. The RNCM School of Wind, This film is suitable for all ages. Brass and Percussion presents a festival that Jasper de Waal conductor explores the theatricality Tickets £10 of music, musical gesture and the role of the virtuoso within the ensemble. 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall There’ll be fascinating BOSTON BRASS stuff going on throughout the building - both in WITH RNCM BRASS ENSEMBLE our venues and via ‘pop- Joaquín Turina Danza Fantastica up’ performances in public Manuel de Falla Ritual Fire Dance spaces when you least expect J S Bach Wachet Auf; Little Fugue them… Arthur Pryor Blue Bells of Scotland Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Astor Piazzolla Milonga Tale forms the centrepiece Billy May Green Hornet of a day examining the drama Pablo Beltrán Ruiz Sway of music, featuring RNCM Duke Ellington/Juan Tizol Caravan ensembles alongside special Boston Brass: guests Boston Brass. Expect Jeff Conner, Jose Sibaja trumpet performances of brilliance, Chris Castellanos horn artistry and imagination. Domingo Pagliuca trombone Be prepared to dance with Sam Pilafian tuba the Devil as we take a Modest Mussorgsky (arr Howarth) trip through music and the Pictures at an Exhibition macabre. And be warned – Elvis may not have left the James Gourlay conductor building… RNCM Brass Ensemble Boston Brass For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/wbpfestival Tickets £12 This event is supported by Yamaha A joint ticket priced at £18 is available for the 6pm and 7.30pm performances. Please call the Box Office to book. 6 7 TUE 24 APR RNCM DAY OF SONG ONLY THE WANDERER The image of the lone traveller has long inspired many of the great poets and composers of song, from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ vagabond finding joy in a life on the open road, to the figure of the tragic, love-scorned wanderer seeking escape from the world in Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Join us for a day of brilliant recitals and wonderful repertoire. We welcome celebrated British baritone Roderick Williams as special guest, who will give a recital featuring George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad, Ravel’s colourful Don Quichotte à Dulcinée and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ enigmatic Songs of Travel. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/dayofsong To include: 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall RODERICK WILLIAMS (baritone) AND JONATHAN FISHER (piano) George Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Gabriel Fauré Mirages Op 113 John Ireland Santa Chiara John Ireland Sea Fever John Ireland Great Things Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Maurice Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Tickets £18 £15 Day Ticket £32 (limited availability) 8 9 WED 25 APR // 6pm THU 26 APR // 7.30pm TUE 01 MAY // Doors 7pm TUE 01 MAY // 7pm // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Theatre // Carole Nash Recital Room THE RNCM EDDI READER THE MARK RAY CONTEMPORARY BRAND NEW First hitting the limelight with PIANO RECITAL PIANO ORCHESTRA the band Fairground Attraction, Eddi PRIZE Reader is now established as one of Members of the RNCM’s Elspeth Slorach, Melvin Tay, the UK’s leading singer-songwriters. RNCM pianists compete for Contemporary Piano class Peter Woffenden conductors From the traditional to the this solo recital prize, contemporary, Eddi delivers truly perform a selection of short Our Brand New Orchestra adjudicated by Leslie emotional performances with her rare 20th and 21st century works showcases the work of RNCM Howard. for piano. blend of melting vocals and towering Composition students, Tickets £7 FS romanticism. Free admission, no ticket allowing our audience to required experiment and to hear brand Tickets £22.50 new works before they are No concessions Promoted by The Gig Cartel performed anywhere else. WED 02 MAY // 8pm // Carole Nash Recital Room Free admission, no ticket THU 26 APR // 1.15pm required DECONTAMINATION #14 // RNCM Concert Hall + THE HOUSE OF RNCM BAROQUE 6.30pm BEDLAM ENSEMBLE // Carole Nash Recital Room You may well have seen The Jean-Baptiste Lully SPOTLIGHT: The Growth of House of Bedlam’s barn- Suite from Le Bourgeois the Silk – A multimedia fable storming performance as part gentilhomme opera of New Music North West here Henry Purcell Suite from The Free admission, no ticket at the RNCM last November. Fairy-Queen required They return for the latest Marin Marais Suite from in our Decontamination Alcyone contemporary music series, Pavlo Beznosiuk director featuring music by Hanna FRI 27 APR // 7.30pm Hartman, a newly-revised Free admission, no ticket // Carole Nash Recital Room piece by Mauricio Pauly required plus premières by Matthew + ROSAMOND Sergeant and Larry Goves. Connected to the RNCM’s 12pm PRIZE Experimental/Exploratory // Forman Lecture Theatre RNCM student composers Music Research Centre, PRE-CONCERT TALK collaborate with Creative this concert traverses RNCM lecturer Cheryll Writing students from instrumental music, Duncan explores the Manchester Metropolitan idiosyncratic performer colourful instrumentation, University to create new interactions, music made programmatic depictions works in this prize which with and by objects and and dance elements that celebrates its tenth performative electronics. characterise the stage birthday this year. The music of Lully and his adjudication panel includes Tickets £8 FS successors, and shows how RNCM Head of Composition these influenced Purcell’s Adam Gorb and MMU’s Michael ‘dramatick operas’ of the Symmons Roberts. 1690s. Tickets £7 FS Free admission, no ticket required 10 11 THU 03 MAY // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall RNCM SYMPHONY FRI 04 MAY // from 6.30pm SUN 06 MAY // 7pm SUN 06 MAY // 8pm // Carole Nash Recital Room // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Theatre ORCHESTRA SPOTLIGHT OLDHAM JOHN LEES’ Camille Saint-Saëns Danse macabre Op 40 TRIPLE-BILL CHORAL SOCIETY BARCLAY JAMES Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No 1 Johannes Brahms Symphony No 2 in D major Op 73 Three short concerts offering Edward Elgar The Dream of HARVEST Sergej Bolkhovets conductor a fascinating selection Gerontius A CELEBRATION OF 50 Wyn Chan piano of core repertoire, music East Lancs Sinfonia YEARS OF BJH MUSIC hardly ever performed, For the first Symphony Orchestra performance Nigel P Wilkinson conductor *SOLD OUT, RETURNS ONLY and new music written by Kathleen Wilkinson mezzo- of our Summer season and one of our final Tickets £65 (VIP ticket) students at the RNCM and the soprano French Connections events, we’d like to offer University of Manchester. £35 (standard) Benjamin Hulett tenor everyone a special capped ticket price of Promoted by John Lees’ Barclay James just £5 for this concert. // 6.30pm Henry Waddington bass Harvest Freedom of Speech - A Tickets £15 Tonight’s programme was chosen by our Junior musical exploration for Promoted by Oldham Choral Society Fellow in Conducting Sergej Bolkhovets, piano trio and chamber choir for what will be his final assessment, and Bartók’s Piano Concerto will be performed by // 7.10pm Wyn Chan, one of the winners of our Concerto The Insects are Coming Competition. As seen elsewhere in Bartók‘s - Music for guitar trio by output, percussion is at the forefront of Chiel Meijering this work, complementing the piano, which is // 7.50pm also played percussively.