Music Symposium – 1st December 2018 Charles Villiers Stanford and C.Hubert.H.Parry Symposium Programme The Read Lecture Theatre, 5th Floor, Sherfield Building, Imperial College, Imperial College Road, South Kensington. 8.30am - 9.00am Registration and Coffee. 9.00am - 9.10am Welcome - John Covell. 9.10am - 10.00am Presenting the ‘Travelling Companion’. Toby Purser (Conductor) & Paul Higgins (Director). 10.00am - 11.00am Recital of Stanford & Parry Music for Violin and Piano. Colleen Ferguson (Violin) & Bernado Santos (Piano). 11.00am - 11.15am Break. 11.15am - 12.15pm Stanford’s Operas - Dr. Paul Rodmell. 12.15pm - 1.30pm Visit to RCM Library to see Stanford and Parry Scores. 1.30pm - 2.15pm Sandwich Lunch - Imperial College. 2.15pm - 3.45pm Song Recital - Parry and Stanford Songs. Eleanor Penfold (Soprano) & Lucy Colquhoun (Piano). 3.45pm - 4.00pm Coffee Break. 4.00pm - 5.00pm Parry & Stanford and the Great War - Lewis Foreman. 5.00pm - 6.00pm Parry - An Anniversary Appreciation - Professor Jeremy Dibble. TOBY PURSER Conductor Toby Purser is Petersburg Camerata and the St founder and Petersburg Festival Orchestra. Principal He conducted The Daughter of the Conductor of the Regiment at the 2018 Buxton ground-breaking Festival, and his current plans Orion Orchestra, include the Orion Orchestra’s on- and his going Alpha and Omega series at inspirational Cadogan Hall, an orchestral music-making has prompted guest residency at Aberystwyth MusicFest, invitations from ENO (where he just and concerts with the East Anglia completed two seasons as ENO Chamber Orchestra, the City of Mackerras Conducting Fellow Southampton Orchestra, the London conducting The Turn of the Screw, International Orchestra and for The Marriage of Figaro and La Raymond Gubbay Ltd. traviata), Bampton Classical Opera, Chelsea Opera Group, Grange Park As Artistic Director of the Peace and Opera, Iford Arts and Pimlico Opera, Prosperity Trust, he has been as well as many leading British furthering cultural collaboration orchestras including the RPO and between the UK and the Middle East RLPO, which he conducted in Jesús with concerts in Beirut and London, León’s debut CD Bel Canto for Opus bringing together Western and Arte CD. We welcome Toby as Music Middle Eastern opera singers, Director of NSO with The Travelling helping relaunch the Beirut Orpheus Companion as his debut. Choir, and taking music and musical instruments to Syrian children in the He has conducted the English refugee camps on the Chamber Orchestra, the London Lebanese/Syrian border. Concert Orchestra, L’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orpheus Sinfonia, Oxford University Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva, Kammerphilharmonie Graz, St PAUL HIGGINS Director He was the include L’elisir d’amore and Don founding Artistic Pasquale (Glyndebourne); La Director of the bohème, Manon Lescaut (Royal award-winning Opera). He has just returned from Theatre 503 in Opera Bastille where he assisted on London, a theatre the current L’elisir d’amore and dedicated to new future plans include revivials of Il writing and has directed new plays barbiere di Siviglia (Opera at the Arcola Theatre, Finborough Bordeaux), Don Carlos (ROH) and Theatre, National Theatre Studio directing Die Meistersinger for and Brighton Festival as well as at Fulham Opera. Theatre 503. He has worked as Associate and Assistant Director in In 2017 he won Best Opera the West End and for Royal Production at the Off West End Shakespeare Company, Chichester Awards for Così fan tutte (Kings Festival Theatre and Almeida Head Theatre, London). Theatre, and has also worked as an assistant director on numerous films, including The Madness of King George, Star Wars Phantom Menace and Enigma. In opera he has worked as Revival and Assistant Director for Royal Opera Covent Garden, La Scala Milan, Teatro dell’opera di Roma, Royal Opera Copenhagen, Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Opéra National de Paris and Glyndebourne and has directed Madama Butterfly (Opera Holland Park), Così fan tutte (English Touring Opera), Carmen (Dorset Opera). Revival credits COLLEEN FURGUSON Violin Dr. Colleen including the University of Ferguson is an Minnesota at Morris, Cornell active performer College, the University of Texas at El and teacher of Paso, the Loma Linda Academy and both violin and Florida Southern College. viola. She holds She enjoys sharing her knowledge both a Bachelor’s with others and has presented (2002) and a Master’s (2004) degree several educational sessions across in Music Education from The the United States at national University of Texas at Austin. conferences including the annual Subsequently, Dr. Ferguson earned American String Teachers both an MM (2012) and DMA (2015) Association National Conferences, in Violin Performance from the the National Association for Music University of Iowa. Education Annual Conferences, and She has played professionally as a the Biennial Suzuki Association of member of several orchestras the Americas Conference. including the El Paso Symphony, Las Dr. Ferguson is currently Assistant Cruces Symphony, Ottumwa Professor of Music (violin and viola) Symphony, and Orchestra Iowa and and director of the Symphony has played with Mannheim Orchestra at Indiana University of Steamroller and the Transiberian Pennsylvania. Orchestra. Dr. Ferguson has been an active participant at several international music festivals throughout Europe including festivals in Germany, Italy, Spain, Dublin, London and Russia. She is frequently featured as a guest artist/lecturer/master teacher at schools throughout the country BERNARDO SANTOS Piano Bernardo is Frederico de Freitas, being currently responsible for the critical edition pursuing a and publishing of this composer’s PG Theme and Variations. Advanced Since the beginning of his studies, Diploma at Trinity Laban Bernardo regularly participates in Conservatoire of Music and Dance, national and international in London, under the guidance of competitions, highlighting his pianist Deniz Arman Gelenbe, being participation in the International a recipient of scholarships from this Competition of the Russian institution, Dionisio Pinheiro Conservatory Alexander Scriabin Foundation and GDA Foundation. (Paris), where he received the 3rd Having graduated from the prize in 2013, in the senior category University of Aveiro and the and the Outstanding Soloist prize in Conservatori del Liceu, in Barcelona, the Mastering the Concerto festival Bernardo Santos studied under the and competition in 2017, in guidance of Alvaro Teixeira Lopes Bulgaria. Bernardo was responsible and Josep Colom, having started his for teaching masterclasses in several piano studies at age 10 with Klara music schools and universities in Dolynay. Santos had the opportunity Brazil. to study three years with pianist and Bernardo had the opportunity to composer Antonio Chagas Rosa. play with the Vidin State During his studies at University of Philarmonic Orchestra, University of Aveiro, Bernardo was laureated with Aveiro String Orchestra, Orquestra the Aveiro Township Prize, awarded Clássica do Centro, Orquestra Jovem to the best student completing this Vale Musica and Orquestra Bachelor degree in the university, Filarmonia das Beiras, having played having also completed his Master of under the baton of Antonio Vassalo Piano Pedagogy degree with the Lourenco, Artur Pinho Maria, Bruno highest mark on piano. Bernardo’s Martins, Charles Gambetta, David academic interests include research Wyn Lloyd and Kira Omelchenko and on famed Portuguese composer Miguel Campos Neto. Bernardo has C Recital of Music for Violin and Piano performed recitals all over Portugal HUBERT PARRY SONATA IN D FOR PIANOFORTE AND VIOLIN, ed. Jeremy and abroad, in venues such as the Dibble Rivoli Theatre, Foz Palace, Museum National of Music, Pancho Allegro Vladigerov House Museum (Sofia), Andante Sostenuto National Concert Hall (John Field Presto vivacissiomo Room), Royal Albert Hall (Elgar Room) and the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, C.V. STANFORD ALBUM-LEAF among others. Santos has also played for the Portuguese classical radio Antena2, at the Liceu Camões C.V. STANFORD SIX IRISH SKETCHES Auditorium, with his concert being Op. 153 broadcast live. He was one of the No. 1 Reel artists invited to the II and IV No. 4 Melody International Festival of Young Pianists in Amarante and was invited C.V. STANFORD THREE IRISH DANCES as the Artist in Residence 2017 of Op. 89 the Dionisio Pinheiro Foundation, in Agueda, Portugal. Bernardo also No. 3 The Leprechaun’s Dance recently participated in the project Curtas of the composer and guitarist HUBERT PARRY TWELVE SHORT Israel Costa Pereira, culminating into PIECES the edition of a CD. Set 1 No. 1 Idyll Set 1 No. 2 Romance Set 3 No. 1 Preamble Set 1 No. 3 Capriccio Set 1 No. 4 Lullaby Set 2 No. 1 Prelude C.V. STANFORD SIX IRISH FANTASIES Op. 54 No. 3 Jig PAUL RODMELL ELEANOR PENFOLD Speaker Soprano Paul Rodmell is a Senior Lecturer in Winner of the Schubert Song Prize the Department of Music at the at the London Song Festival, University of Birmingham. He is the soprano Eleanor Penfold recently author of monographs on Charles graduated from the Royal College of Villiers Stanford (2002) and Opera in Music where she was a Ruth West the British Isles 1875–1918 Scholar studying with Timothy (2013). He has also published Evans-Jones. research on music various aspects of British musical culture in the Eleanor has performed the roles nineteenth century and is currently of Naïade and Bergère in working on a study of the cultural Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the transfer of French music to Britain in Opéra Bastille and made her debut the same period. with English Touring Opera last year, performing the role of Venus in Rameau’s Dardanus and Soprano 2 in their Bach B minor tour. Other roles include Thérèse and une dame élégante in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias directed by Stephen Unwin, Clori in Acis and Galatea under Lawrence Zazzo at Snape Maltings and Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos directed by James Bonas as well as creating the role of Titania in Benjamien Lycke's & Mahlon Berv's PUCK.