Fringe Venue 111 www.stagw.org.uk Scottish Charity No. SC008990 Welcome to our 2015 programme for St Andrew’s and St George’s West at Festival Time. We have a wide range of performers, some of whom have been performing with us for over 25 years, while others are here for the first time. We hope you find something you will enjoy and we look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful building. Classical & 3 World Music 13 Chamber Music Jazz & Big Band 8 Spoken Word 14 Opera & Musicals 10 Organ & 12 Event calendar 16 Sacred Music Ticket order form 19 Scottish Flavour 12 How to get here 20 How to buy tickets for our events: Tickets for most performances can be purchased online through the Fringe Box Office at www.edfringe.com Tickets can be ordered by post using the booking form on the inside back cover. Our Box Office will be open at the church Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm from Monday 10th August. Tickets will be available from half an hour before the start of each performance at the door, subject to availability. 2 St Andrew’s & St George’s West at Festival Time Classical & Chamber Music Akiko Okamoto Piano Recital This talented Japanese-born pianist performs in two sparkling programmes of piano works. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Bartok Monday 10th August 2.30–3.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Tuesday 11th August Schubert, Liszt & Prokofiev 4.30–5.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) Running To Paradise: the music of Michael Jon Smith (1941-2009) ‘….all that I need do is to wish…’ (W.B Yeats). Yeats’s poem beautifully sums up the mood of this classical composer and former player in the Scottish National Orchestra. The concert, performed by flautist Inge Liepelaar, violist Roos Pollee and pianist Alison Gill, features ‘Running to Paradise’ for flute and piano, and ‘Caledonian Suite’ for solo viola, pieces of tremendous energy and Celtic wistfulness. www.mjsmith.eu Monday 10th August 4.30–5.30PM • £8 (£6 concession) Bach to Bach: the Complete Cello Suites Performed on Viola Noted US violist Christine Rutledge returns to Edinburgh to perform her new transcription of Bach’s six cello suites. Rutledge has been praised by The Strad and Broadway Baby for her beautiful tone. Rutledge performs in concerts and lectures around the US and abroad. Monday 10th August | Tuesday 11th August 7.30–9.15PM • £10 (£8 concession) Colin Kingsley in his 90’s and Mozart in his 20’s Come to hear Colin Kingsley at 90 years old playing Mozart at age 22 (Sonata in C K309) and age 31 (Rondo in A minor K511), also stylish Schubert, spring-like Grieg, idyllic Chabrier and Blackbird by Dutilleux (died age 97). Tuesday 11th August 12.30–1.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) www.stagw.org.uk 3 Whither Must I Wander Canadian baritone David John Pike and New Zealand pianist Stephen De Pledge present a moving programme centred around Robert Louis Stevenson’s Songs of Travel set by Vaughan Williams, and Butterworth’s settings of poems from Housman’s A Shropshire Lad. Pike’s recent release on Signum Classics earned him rave reviews, including five stars from BBC Music Magazine. Tuesday 11th August 2.30–3.30PM • £10 (£8 concession) Beethoven Violin Sonatas For the final concert in the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas series Lawrence Dunn (violin) and Gilmour Macleod (piano) play the Sonata No 3 in E major and the 10th and last Sonata in G major. Thursday 13th August 12.30–1.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) The Roseberry Trio The Roseberry Trio – Kirsty Howe (horn), Alasdair Hill (oboe) and Janice Gibson (piano) – play their third Fringe, presenting masterpieces for oboe, horn and piano by Herzogenberg and York Bowen, a gentle lullaby by Damase and Schumann’s fiery Adagio and Allegro, written for horn but played this time on the oboe. Friday 14th August 12.30–1.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) Valour Come and experience this WWI Centenary-inspired composition by the composer and poet Dom Mason. This performance is a transcription of the work for pianoforte, cello and recordings of the poetry (featuring a recording by Sir Derek Jacobi). Valour explores the effects of conflict and loss, taking the listener on an emotional journey about the meaning of family, courage and love. Friday 14th August 4.30–5.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) All Chopin Recital Come and enjoy a popular selection of favourite ballades, nocturnes, scherzos, waltzes, mazurkas, etudes and polonaises played on the piano by William Alexander. Saturday 15th August 12.30–1.30PM • £10 (£7 concession) 4 St Andrew’s & St George’s West at Festival Time Triplicity – A Garden of Song In their 12th Edinburgh Fringe recital, the trio of Frances Cooper (soprano), Anne Lewis (mezzo), Colin Dundas (piano) sow the seeds of a musical garden: a floral bouquet from Schubert, Schumann and Delibes, an arboretum planted by Handel and Grainger. ‘Very accomplished trio… great style’ Beith Arts Saturday 15th August 2.30–3.30PM • £10 (£8 concession) All in One Two staves (and all the leger lines!) become one under Stefan Warzycki’s dextrous left hand, in two virtuoso piano recitals including works by Bach, Chopin (arrangement by Godowsky) and a specially commissioned sonata by Pavel Zemek Novák. Saturday 15th August 7.30–9.30PM • £10 (£8 conc.) Thursday 20th August 12.30–1.30PM • £9 (£7 conc.) Guitars for St Cecilia’s De La Guitarra: Stephen Morrison and Gordon Ferries demonstrate the beauty and elegance of the 19th-century guitar duet, featuring original instruments. Their new programme includes Sor’s L’Encouragement; Carulli’s arrangement of the first two movements of Haydn’s ‘London’ Symphony (104); Beethoven transcriptions; and a selection of virtuoso compositions by Antoine de Lhoyer. Sunday 16th August 3–4.30PM • £10 (£8 concession, U18 Free) • C H O cello P I N • Technical wizardry – impressive attention to detail. By invitation, this impressive Polish and Taiwanese-Canadian duo of Barbara Misiewicz (cello) and Grace Mo (piano) is returning to Scotland to perform Chopin’s cello sonata together with Debussy’s cello sonata. Included in their recital is one of Chopin’s earliest published pieces: the exquisite Introduction and Polonaise brillante, Op.3. Promoted by The Chopin Circle in Scotland. Tuesday 18th August 12.30–1.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) www.stagw.org.uk 5 Bach and Brahms The accomplished London-based cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer and Edinburgh pianist Chris Harding play three consecutive concerts of Bach’s Gamben Sonatas and Brahms’ magnificent Cello Sonatas. Tue 18th August | Wed 19th August | Thu 20th August 4.30–5.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) Heavysonic Solo Piano Julian Layn is a classical composer and pianist. His unique style of music can best be described as contemporary classical for piano solo with a romantic-era harmonic structure underpinned by a heavy basso- continuo-concept. He has released two full-length albums of his own compositions that were sound engineered by Martin Pearson who has also engineered Keith Jarrett’s recent releases. Julian performed at last year’s Piano City Milano (a festival under the patronage of Ludovico Einaudi) and a three-day concert series at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at St Giles’ Cathedral. Wed 19th August | Thu 20th August 7.30–8.30PM • £10 (£8 concession, £20 family) L’invitation au Voyage Let Susan McNaught (soprano) and Robert Melling (piano) transport you to France with a journey through some of the most beautiful French chanson of the 19th and 20th centuries including favourites of the repertoire from Fauré, Liszt, Duparc and Poulenc. Friday 21st August 12.30–1.30PM • £10 (£8 concession) Harpsichords for St Cecilia’s John Kitchen explores a century of exciting French harpsichord repertoire, circa 1680–1780. His programme includes works by Elizabeth August Jacquet de la Guerre, Louis XIV’s protégeé born exactly 350 years ago; by Forqueray and Duphly from the reign of Louis XV; and by Jean-François Tapray, renowned for his late 18th-century virtuosic variations on Rameau’s celebrated dance, Les Sauvages. Saturday 22nd August 3–4.30PM • £10 (£8 concession, U18 free) 6 St Andrew’s & St George’s West at Festival Time Sonic Waves After reaching his £2,000 crowd funding target in less than 5 days, charismatic pianist Emmanuel Vass has broadcast on ClassicFM, BBC radios 2 and 3, and was named as the Independent newspaper’s ‘One to Watch’ and BBC music magazine’s ‘Rising Star’. This 26-year-old pianist was also named as ‘unsigned artist of the month’ by Yamaha. Monday 24th August 2.30–3.30PM • £10 (£8 concession) Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas Tim Cais and Chris Harding present two recitals of cello and piano music focusing on the works of Felix Mendelssohn, including both Cello Sonatas and the stunning ‘Variations Concertantes’, alongside wonderful sonatas from J S Bach and Prokofiev. Mon 24th August | Tue 25th August 4.30–5.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) Masterpieces for Piano Four Hands Two Japanese-born pianists, Yoko Johannsen and Reiko Takahashi, based in Tokyo and Berlin perform a wide variety of brilliant duets covering Grieg’s much-loved Peer Gynt, the classic duets of Dvorak and Debussy as well as Ravel’s wild waltz La Valse. Friday 28th August 4.30–5.30PM • £10 (£8 concession) Lasses, Life and Love A recital by Karen West, Elizabeth August Woollven and George Ross, accompanied by Helen Maddox and Alan Graham, to include Schumann’s Frauen-Liebe und Leben and John Maxwell Geddes’ clever and quirky Scots songs on a similar theme. Saturday 29th August 12.30–1.30PM • £9 (£7 concession) The Aurea Quartet with Scottish Voices Glasgow-based Aurea Quartet comprises four prize-winning graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.