OF MUSI TRINI APR–JUL 2017 T Y LABAN CONSERVA C & DAN C WHAT'S ON E MUSIC AND DANCE T OIRE OIRE TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON BOOKING: 020 8463 0100 WELCOME WHAT’S ON APR– JUL 2017 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 & MUSICAL THEATRE 14 CONTEMPORARY DANCE 20 JAZZ (INCLUDING BEATS IN THE BAR) 22 COMPETITIONS AND PRIZES 24 MASTERCLASSES Welcome to our Summer Guide – a season packed full of 28 TAKE PART opportunities to see and hear Trinity Laban talent. It’s a great time to catch the future stars of music, dance and musical 30 LOVE YOUR LUNCHTIME theatre before they embark on professional careers, as our FREE MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY departments pull out all the stops to showcase their work. Summer season opens with a Side by Side Symphony 34 CHAPEL CHOIR Orchestra concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Blackheath Halls, and then our Symphony Orchestra returns to the stage at Cadogan Hall in the heart of Chelsea for the finale of their year in June. Our Opera is always a highlight of the Trinity Laban calendar and this year promises to be no exception. Monteverdi’s HOW TO BOOK L'Incoronazione di Poppea, with its glorious music and very human emotions of power, passion and corruption is not to Ticketed events at King Charles Court, be missed. Laban Theatre and Blackheath Halls can be booked at trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson, 'Power to the People' is the overriding theme of our Musical at Blackheath Halls Box Office, in person Theatre summer shows, once more at Stratford Circus. Made in or on 020 8463 0100. Dagenham stages the campaign for equal pay, and Urinetown is a brilliant satire with nods to Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. Booking information for other venues Both guaranteed to be great nights out. is given with the individual event listing. Transitions Dance Company return to Laban Theatre with their triple bill of freshly commissioned works by choreographers Keep up to date with all our news and Cristian Duarte, Oded Ronen and Charles Linehan, and this events by joining our mailing list: year, our second year undergraduates perform significant works by major choreographers including Merce Cunningham, Martha trinitylaban.ac.uk/subscribe or call: Graham, Dore Hoyer, Hofesh Shechter and a re-imagining of a 020 8463 0100 to register your details lost work by Rudolf Laban as their historical project show. Keep in touch on social media and watch With a major concert series of works by Schumann, a Jazz videos/trailers: series focussing on Thelonious Monk’s Town Hall Concert and the annual Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival it’s a packed few /TRINITYLABAN months. I look forward to seeing you there. Professor Anthony Bowne Principal, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Cover and adjacent images by jk-photography: 3 Performances at CoLab 2017 FRI 28 APR 18.00h FRI 5 MAY 18.00h TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RUSH HOUR CONCERT: BLACKHEATH HALLS SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE The Ahijado-Pagán Piano Duo perform Tchaikovsky’s ballet music, featuring Trinity PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Laban dance students in a special collaborative CONCERTS presentation, involving new choreography reinterpreting Tchaikovsky's music. This summer, hear the finest Trinity Laban RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS talent in action, including major symphony ADMISSION FREE orchestra concerts, performances from our Junior Department and the finale of our TUE 9 MAY 13.05h Schumann Season. SPRING FORTH Conductor Jonathan Tilbrook Nielsen Symphony No.3 Op.27 Trinity Laban’s Side by Side series brings together students with mentors from the Philharmonia Orchestra for a performance of Nielsen’s musical masterpiece Symphony No.3, Op.27. Written between 1910 –11and known as the 'Sinfonia espansiva', the work proved to be Nielsen’s international breakthrough. Join us for an energetic performance. Join The Befrienders and students from Trinity Laban’s Vocal Department for a vocal GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS performance celebrating all things Spring. ADMISSION FREE, TICKET REQUIRED The Befrienders are a social group for older people run by Ageing Well Lewisham in WED 3 MAY 19.30h partnership with Trinity Laban. This group is one of four who meet regularly as part of Trinity TRINITY LABAN JUNIOR FELLOW CONCERT: Laban’s Inspired not Tired programme of music STEPHEN UPSHAW AND THE RIOT ENSEMBLE and dance for people aged 60 and above. Jonathan Harvey Jubilus PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT Scott Lygate Chamber Symphony ADMISSION FREE, NO TICKET REQUIRED Augusta Read Thomas Capricious Angels Helga Arias Parra Incipit Hear Jonathan Harvey’s rarely heard masterpiece Jubilus performed by Stephen Upshaw, Richard Carne Junior Fellow at Trinity Laban, on solo viola, alongside new works by contemporary composers performed by The Riot Ensemble. GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS ADMISSION FREE, TICKET REQUIRED BOOK NOW: 020 8463 0100 | TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON 5 CONCERTS TUE 16 MAY 19.30h SUN 25 JUN 18.30h WED 28 JUN 19.30h SAT 8 JUL 19.00h THE POWER OF THE VOICE BLACK HEATHER CLUB: TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TRINITY LABAN CHILDREN’S & A chance to hear outstanding performances DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE YOUNG PEOPLE’S PROGRAMMES by Trinity Laban's vocal ensembles Rubythroat CELEBRATION PERFORMANCE and Chamber Choir. Rubythroat, directed by Head of Voice Linda Hirst, perform Berio's Cries of London and works by contemporary Italian composer Claudio Ambrosini, whilst Hilary Campbell directs Chamber Choir as they perform student compositions by Michael Worboys and Anandi Sala. PEACOCK ROOM, KING CHARLES COURT Conductor Martin André ADMISSION FREE The Black Heather Club invites you to join Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments a midsummer mystery walk celebrating (1920 version) SAT 20 MAY 14.30h contemporary and folk music. See and hear Copland Clarinet Concerto For the first time Junior Trinity’s major the Greenwich waterside from a completely Rachmaninov Symphony No.3 ensembles join forces in concert with Trinity JUNIOR TRINITY fresh perspective on this musical adventure, Laban’s renowned Animate Orchestra and curated by Graham McKenzie, Trinity Laban’s Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.3 was first other musical ensembles from Trinity Laban’s SUMMER CHAPEL CONCERT Dominic Murcott and Joe Townsend, and performed in London in 1937, conducted Children’s and Young People’s programmes. Junior Trinity students showcase the year’s guerrilla arts collective Bastard Assignments. by Sir Thomas Beecham for his new London Music for soloists and orchestra by Grøndahl achievements in their final ORNC Chapel Philharmonic. Tonight Trinity Laban students and Bizet feature in a performance of ASSEMBLE IN KING CHARLES COURT, ORNC concert of the year. A diverse programme of bring this work of ‘superb Russian melancholy’ music for choirs, big band, wind orchestra £12 (£8) chamber music incorporating the Junior Trinity to life at Cadogan Hall, conducted by and string ensembles. This concert will Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Martin André. The concert also features include the world premiere performance of Clarinet Concerto Morley. Highlights include Handel’s ‘Piangerò SUN 16 JUL 12.00h Copland’s , performed by a specially commissioned new composition la sorte mia’ from Giulio Cesare, the opening Hannah Hever, winner of this year’s Trinity for Fast Fiddlers by Dominic Murcott, Head movement of Spohr’s Clarinet Concerto No.1, A.L. LLOYD ALOUD: Laban Soloists' Competition 2017. Cadogan of Composition at Trinity Laban, featuring a and music from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. Hall is one of London's most prestigious special guest appearance. FOLK MUSIC AT TRINITY LABAN concert venues in the heart of Chelsea, and OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE CHAPEL CADOGAN HALL Trinity Laban, The Greenwich Foundation a fitting venue for the finale concert of our ADMISSION FREE £20, £15, £10, £6 FOR CHILDREN UNDER 12 and Dave Arthur join forces for a day of Symphony Orchestra's year. CADOGANHALL.COM music, talk and friendship in celebration CADOGAN HALL of the life and work of Bert Lloyd, one of FRI 2 JUN 18.00h £12, £8, £5 STUDENTS the key figures of folk music in Britain. A CADOGANHALL.COM RUSH HOUR CONCERT: Greenwich resident, Lloyd was a singer, folk song collector, political activist, traveller and BLACKHEATH HALLS writer. Celebrated folk artists including Martin Harpist Gabriella Jones is joined by flautist Wyndham-Reid, Rattle on the Stove Pipe, Mark Taylor and pianist Stephan Ellenberger, Hylda Simms and the revived City Ramblers in a varied recital including music by Bach, Skiffle Group perform tributes to Lloyd, and Piazzolla, and Ravel’s Introduction and Barrie Gavin, Bernard Wrigley, Caroline Lloyd Allegro. and Joe Townsend recreate music from Lloyd’s journeys in Romania. Listen, sing and RECITAL ROOM, BLACKHEATH HALLS join in the conversation at this day celebrating ADMISSION FREE folk traditions. KING CHARLES COURT £20 (£10) 6 BOOK NOW: 020 8463 0100 | TRINITYLABAN.AC.UK/WHATSON 7 CONCERTS CONCERT SERIES THE SCHUMANN SERIES ROYAL GREENWICH GUITAR FESTIVAL 2017 DISCOVER US Following on from the concerts in the SUN 25 – TUE 27 JUN THU 29 JUN 12.30 – 13.30h Spring, this major free concert series places Schumann’s great masterpieces for solo KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS' CONCERT piano alongside his chamber music and songs, allowing audiences to discover the SINGING THROUGH THE AGES full range of this imaginative, visionary and Join us for this special Schools' Concert for poetic composer. Performances are courtesy KS2, where we’ll be exploring the voice and of Trinity Laban’s outstanding students, staff how vocal music has developed through the and visiting guest artists. For full details see ages, from plainchant to the world of Disney.