Thursday, 8 September 2011

Concerts for September, October and November

Soprano Carolyn Harries
Opera Singers in Concert
St Michael's Church Chagford
Friday 9 September 7.30pm
Church of our Lady Upton Pyne
Sunday 11 September 3.pm
Mezzo Soprano: Carolyn Harries 
Tenor: Bobby Jeffrey
Piano: Patrick Taylor
Tickets:
Chagford: £7.50 (includes refreshments) on the door
Upton Pyne: £6
(Refreshments will be available
for a separate donation in aid of Church funds)
Advance booking possible for Upton Pyne
Veronica Clarke, 2 Robins Court, Upton Pyne
01392 841530

Exeter Chamber Choir


Exeter Chamber Choir Autumn Concert
Totnes Civic Hall Sunday 11 September 7.30pm
Exeter Chamber Choir (Director Andrew Daldorph)
Torbay Singers (Director Tina Guthrie)
Torbay Symphony Orchestra
(Conductor Richard Gonski, Leader Susanna Burnett)
Soprano: Catherine Hamilton
Bass: Darren Jeffry
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Johannes Brahms: German Requiem
Tickets: £12 (child/student £6)
Box:  TSO Booking Line - 01538 810146
Totnes Tourist Informantion - 01803 863168


Opera Holloway in Concert
St John the Apostle Church Torquay Wednesday 14 September 7.30pm
Dr Adrian Huxham
(Huxham Caritable Trust -supporters of Powderham Music Room)
Presents the senior students of Royal Holloway College, Londaon University
'Treats from the World's Greatest Operas'
Tickets: £6


Last Night of the Proms 2011Last Night of the Proms
Exmouth Pavilion Wednesday 14 September
Exmouth Town Band
Exmouth Shantymen
Soprano: Val Howels
Tickets: £8.50/£7.50

Val Howels is Britannia!








'Festive Flutes'
Joss Campbell, Elizabeth Walker,
Sarah Murphy, Melanie Orriss
Festive Flutes
Thurlestone Parish Hall
Saturday 17 September 7.30pm
(Thurlestone village is
5 miles west of Kingsbridge)
Tickets: £10 01548 560436
St Eustachius' Church Tavistock
Sunday 18 September 8pm
Tickets: £10/£8
Tavistock Tourist Info Centre
Mel Orriss 07817 703844
mel.orriss@btinternet.com




Organ Recital
St Margaret's Church Topsham
Saturday 17 September 7.30pm
Paul Morgan - Organist Emeritus, Exeter Cathedral
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sir Edward Elgar
Charles-Marie Widor
Admission: £4 (includes programme)


Guitarist David Cottam
Dreams and Dances for Classical Guitar
St Swithun's Church, Sandford
Friday 23 September 7.30pm
Guitarist: David Cottam
a new guitar made by Crediton Luthier
Shaun Newman
Tickets: £6 (accompanied child Free)












Classical Guitar Recital
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Saturday 24 September 1.15pm
Guitarist: Scipio Mosley
Admission Free: retiring collection


Le Jazz
Kennaway House Sidmouth
Sunday 25 September 7.30pm
(in the cellar bar - open from 6.45pm)
Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Keyboard: Andrew Daldorph
Guitar: Andrew Barrett
Double Bass: Mike Thorne
Tickets: £7
07583 796855
glyn.holford@sky.com

Baroque Masterworks
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Saturday 1 October  7.30pm
West Barok Singers
West Barok Players
Conductor: Brian Northcott
Organist: George Pratt
Jan Zelenka: Missa Votiva
Tickets: £12 (advance £10)
01395 272401 9am-9pm
or from Alison Burnett

The Well Tempered Clavier
King's College Taunton

Pianist Roger Woodward
(Photograph Boris Eldagsen)

Sunday 2 October 3.30pm
Following the release of his
critically acclaimed recording
of Bach's 'Well Tempered Clavier'
with 'Celestial Harmonies' records
Australian pianist Roger Woodward
will give a live performance
on the King's College
Yamaha grand piano
Tickets: £15 (U18 £5)
from King's College Reception:
telephone: 01823 328200


(Hear Roger Woodward's interview 
with 10radio's breakfast show
presenter Philip Knighton on Thursday,
Listen in from 7-9am Thur 22 Sept
105.3FM or online at www.10radio.org)

Sounds of Spain
at Ian and Yta Batchelor's new venue:
The Corn Barn, Sutton Barton, Cullumpton
Sunday 2 October 4-5pm
Guitar: David Cottam
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
Tickets: £5 (child £3)
from Yta: 01884 32107
or 'on the door'

"Nonclassical"
Exeter Bikeshed Theatre
Sunday 2 October 7.30pm
The Cutting Edge of Modern Classical Music!
South West Camerata
play Gabriel Prokofiev 'String Quartet No 1'
Violin Soloist: Emma Welton
(daughter of EMG Chair John Welton
and violinist with 'Icebreaker' and 'Black Hair')
plays 'Koan' by James Tenny)
New work by composer Michael Brailey
(Representing Devon in this year's
BBC Proms 'Inspire Young Composers')
Admission: £3 (concessions £2)

Music for String Quartet and Organ
Powderham Castle Friday 7 October 7.30pm
Wu String Quartet – International prizewinners
Paul Morgan – Emeritus organist of Exeter Cathedral

String Quartets:          Haydn Op.77 No.1
                                    Mendelssohn Op.80
                                    Dvorak Op. 106
Organ Concerto:        JS Bach - reconstruction
                                    In the James Wyatt Music Room
Tickets (£14) from Powderham Castle, 01626 890243


Conductor Andrew Daldorph
Milmer Requiem
Exeter Cathedral Saturday 8 October 7.30pm
East Devon Choral Society
Exeter Chamber Choir
Exeter Concert Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Holst: St Paul's Suite
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3
Handel: Zodok the Priest
Peter Milmer: Requiem
Tickets: from £10 (including concessions)
Exeter Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080


St Davids Players
Exeter Barnfield Theatre
Tue-Sat 11-15 October 7.30pm
Gilbert & Sullivan
The Yeomen of the Guard
Another chance to hear
Mezzo-Soprano Carolyn Harries
singing contralto as the
housekeeper of the Tower
Dame Carruthers.
Tickets: £13 (student/child £10)
Barnfield Box Office: 01392 270891 (10am-4pm)
Quaytickets: 08432 080500  24 hr (to be listed soon)
http://www.stdavidsplayers.co.uk/
http://www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk/
http://www.quaytickets.com/


Beacon Piano Trio
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 12 October 12.30pm
Piano: Joyce Clarke
Violin: Anna Cockroft
'Cello: Ruth Lass
Free Admission, retiring collection

Tasty Music
Bicton College
Wednesday 12 October 12.30pm
Concert with lunch:
Sounds of Spain
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
Guitar: David Cottam
Tickets: £10
01392 562300
customerservices@bicton.ac.uk

The Two Moors Festival - Opening Recital
St Andrew's Church Ashburton
Thursday 13 October 7.30pm
Johannes Brahms 1864:
A series of beautifully written monologues
describing Brahms' work with Clara Schumann
and Josef Joachim during this very creative year,
and performances of Brahms two great compositions:
Variation on Schumann's 'Letzer Gedanke' ('Last Thought')
D Minor Piano Concerto (first UK performance)
Piano: Christoph Berner
Piano: Ashley Wass
Narration: Ian Price
Script: Sarah Adie
Tickets: £18-22 (numbered)
Box Office: 01643 831006

The Two Moors Festival
Nine days of classical concerts
across Dartmoor and Exmoor
Thursday 13 - Saturday 22 October
http://www.thetwomoorsfestival.com/2011/Concerts2011.htm

An Evening of Rich Polyphony & Lute Songs
Buckfast Abbey Saturday 15 October 7.30pm
Counterpoint Choir
Musical Director: David Acres
Counter-Tenor: James Bowman
Lutenist: Dorothy Linell
Byrd, Dowland, Lassus, Palestrina, Purcell, Tallis . . .
Tickets: £14 (advance £12)
01392 490398
CounterpointVox@aol.com
http://www.counterpoint.org.uk/concerts.html


Autumn Concert of Music by Britten
United Reformed Church Southernhay Exeter
Saturday 15 October 7.30pm
Exeter Chamber Choir
Benjamin Britten:
‘Rejoice in the Lamb’
‘Hymn to St Cecilia’
‘Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam’
Organist: Andrew Daldorph
Conductor: Tina Guthrie
Tickets: £10 (child/student £5 advance £8/4)

Classical Concert Series
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Sunday 16 October 7.30pm
Piano Soloist: John Lill
Mozart: Sonata in D K576
Beethoven Sonata in C Op 53 'Waldstein'
Chopin: Ballade No 4
in F minor Op 52
Liszt: Sonata in B minor
Tickets: £16.50 (student standby £8)
Box: 01392 493493
http://www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/
Future Concerts:
Tim Lowe, 'Cello/James Baillieu, Piano Sun 27 Nov
Sitkovetsky Piano Trio Sun 5 Feb 2012
Navarra String Quartet Sun 4 March 2012


Sonatas Spirited and Serene
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 19 October 12.30pm
Beethoven, Bach and Boccherini
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
Piano: Susan Steele
(a 'Tasty Music' production)
Admission Free, retiring collection
(BTW the information given on the 'Journey'
 on Tue 20 Sept was wrong.
Mary O'Shea is not singing at this concert.
She will be at Glenorchy on Wed 9 Nov.
See details below)

Opera Through the Ages
St Mary Arches Church
Wednesday 19 October 7.30pm
Baritone: Alex Poulton
Soprano: Wing Wing Lam
Tickets: £10 (includes wine and refreshments)
01392 851207
proceeds in aid of the St Stephen's Project
Future Concerts:
Schubert's 'Winterreise' Wed 23 Nov
Exeter Chamber Choir Tue 20 Dec


Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Exeter University Great Hall
Thursday 20 October 7.30pm
Conductor: Michal Sworzynski
Piano Soloist: Boris Giltburg
'Romantic Power'
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 "Pathetique"
Tickets: £11.50 - £35
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
purchase.tickets.com
http://www.bsolive.com/


Two Moors Festival Concert
Exeter Cathedral Thursday 20 October 7.30pm
Orchestra of the Swan
Condutor: David Curtis
'Cello: Julian Lloyd Weber
Elgar:
Introduction and Allegro for Strings
'Cello Concerto
Enigma Variations
Tickets: £10-23
Box Office: 01643 831006

Endelion String Quartet
St Peter's Church Budleigh Salterton
Saturday 22 October 7.30pm
Violin: Andrew Watkinson, Ralph de Souza
Viola: Garfield Jackson
'Cello: David Waterman
Josef Haydn Opus 20 No 5 in F minor (1772)
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No 14 in C# minor Op 131 (1826)
Michael Tippett String Quartet No 2 in F# major (1942)
Tickets: £15


Hannahs at Seale Hayne
Big Red, Seale Hayne College, Newton Abbot
Wednesday 26 October 7pm
Leo Records International Tour
- The Joy of Making Music -
'Karate'
Saxophone: Alexy Kruglov (Russia)
Guitar: Jaak Sooaar (Estonia)
'Light and Shade'
Voice: Katja Kruz (Austria)
Piano: Carolyn Hume (UK)
Tickets: £10 (early bird £8)
01626 325800
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/132500


Opera Gala
(a repeat of the concert at Poltimore on Fri 8 July)
St Margaret's Church Topsham
Saturday 22 October 7.30pm
Piano: Joyce Clarke
Soprano: Janet McDonald
Mezzo Soprano: Anneke Freeland
Tenor: Chris Hunt
Bass: Julian Rippon
Tickets: information to come
(Soprano Mary O'Shea is not able to appear
at this performance. She will sing at Glenorchy
on Wed 9 Nov - see details below)

Honiton Festival
St Paul's Church Honiton
Friday 28 October 1pm
Piano: Sam Armstrong
Schubert: Sonata in A D664
Debussy: Two Etudes
Brahms: Klavierstucke Op 116
Tickets: £9
(lunch on sale from 12.00)
Next Concerts:
Oboe: James Turnbull, Piano: Craig White - Fri 25 Nov
Violin: Yuka Ishizuka, Piano: Nadav Hertzka - Fri 17 Feb
http://www.thehonitonfestival.co.uk/events.php


Reading Phoenix Choir
St Peter's Church Tiverton
Saturday 29 October 7.30pm
Sacred and Secular Choral Music
from 1500 to the present day
Special Guests:
Organist: Christopher Enston
Widor: Toccata in F major
Pipe and Tabor: Didier Garcon
Traditional Music from Provence
Tickets: £10 (advance booking recommended)
contact Sue North 01884 253494


Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Dartington Great Hall Sunday 30 October 3pm
Elgar: Serenade
Finzi: Romance
Mozart: Symphony No 17 in G
Musgrave: Aurora
Mozart: Symphony No 29 in A
Tickets: £18 (student £5)
01803 847070
http://www.dartington.org/

The Beacon Piano Trio
The Old Music Room, Queen's College, Taunton
Sunday 30 October 3pm
Piano: Joyce Clarke
Violin: Anna Cockroft
'Cello: Ruth Lass
(in association with Taunton Association of Performing Arts)
Handel, Mozart, Rachmaninov
Tickets: £12 (student £5)
Box Office: 01823 336344
events@tauntondeane.gov.uk
http://www.tauntondeaneleisure.co.uk/tdbcsites/hos/events/ticketevents.asp

Music in the Art Room
Topsham Art Room
Sunday 30 October 6.30pm
Sulis Wind Trio
Oboe: Peter Rees
Clarinet: Wayne Wilkins
Bassoon: Jean Crook
Mozart, Smetana, Dvorak
Victor Herbert, James Hook
Tickets £10 (including wine/refreshments)
- advance bookingessential
e.theartroom@elipse.co.uk

 
Chris Gradwell and Friends
Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, Sidmouth
Sunday 30 October 6.45 for 7.30pm
'Le Jazz' with Poetry and Sketches
Sax & Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Keyboard: Andrew Daldorph
Double Bass: Mike Thorne
Featuring:
James Pellow,Wally Cotgrave, Barbara Farquharson, Kairen Hooker,
Frances Lee, Rowland Molony, Trudi Morgan, John Torrance
Tickets: £10  Reservations: Glyn Holford  07583 796855

Autumn Music
Southernhay Church Exeter
Friday 4 November 7.30pm
Songs and Clarinet Favourites with Piano
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Paul Reade's 'Kitchen Garden Suite'
Franz Schubert 'Shepherd on the Rock'
Gabriel Fauré, Gerald Finzi
Soprano: Janet MacDonald
Baritone: Iain McDonald
Clarinet: Philip Bonser
Piano: Margaret Chave
Tickets £5

Devon Baroque
Dartington Great Hall Sunday 6 Nov 3pm Birds, Beasts & Battles
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Die Musikalische Fechtschul 
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonata Representativa 
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Battalia à 10 
Carlo Farina: Capriccio Stravagante
Cyriacus Wilche: Battaglia 
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Tickets: £18 (student £5)
01803 847070
http://www.dartington.org/arts/birds-beasts-and-battles

Bach Cantata Service
Exeter Cathedral Quire
Sunday 6 November 6pm
J. S. Bach: Cantata 48
St Peter's Singers of Exeter Cathedral
Exeter Bach Society
(This is an Anglican Church Service.
   There is no charge for admission.)

Soprano Lunchtime Recital
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 9 November 12.30pm
Soprano: Mary O'Shea
Piano: John Scarfe
Admission Free, retiring collection

Exeter Youth Orchestra
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Saturday 12 November 1.15pm
An Informal Concert
Admission Free, retiring collection

Classics Galore!
Exeter University Great Hall
Saturday 12 November 7.30pm
Strauss: Wine, Women and Song
Walton: Crown Imperial
Tchaikovsky: Valse des Fleurs
Vivaldi: Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Handel: Hallelujah Chorus/Zadok the Priest
(& an aria from 'Rinaldo' - Lascia ch'io pianga)
Coates: The Knightsbridge March
Lloyd Weber: Medley
Langford: Marching with Sousa
Jerusalem, Rule Britannia, Pomp and Circumstance
Exeter Symphony Orchestra
Lympstone SWT Brass Band
Ottery Choral Society
St David's Players
Soprano: Penny Daw
Tickets:
Gallery: £16.50 - !Sold Out!
Gallery Box: £12.50
Auditorium: £12.50 (U16 £7.50)
From 'Classics Galore': 01392 832405
classics@classicsgalore.co.uk
Auditorium tickets also from Exeter Visitor Centre,
Dix's Field - 01392 665885
http://www.classicsgalore.co.uk/index.html

ENGLISH  TOURING  OPERA
               (15-20 November)

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh
Tuesday 15 November 7.30pm
In collaboration with:

The Royal School of Music
Tickets: £12 unreserved
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk


Handel: Flavio
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Wednesday 16 November 7.30pm
English Translation:
Soprano: Paula Sides
Counter Tenor: Clint van der Linde
Bass Bariton: Andrew Slater
- Pre Show Talk -
Tickets: £17-30
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk

Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Thursday 17 November 7.30pm
Production: Thomas Guthrie
Set Design: Roger Butlin
(who died 23 July this year, aged 76)
Tenor: Mark Wilde
(Titus in 'La Clemenza di Tito' 23&26 March)
- Pre Show Talk -
Tickets: £17-30
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk


Handel: Xerxes
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Friday and Saturday 18 & 19 November 7.30pm
Nicholas Hytner's English translation
Soprano: Laura Mitchell
- Pre Show Talk on 18 November -


Tickets: £17-30
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493


Carlo Gesualdo: Tenebrae Music
Southernhay United Reformed Church
Saturday 19 November 4pm
Motet for Six Male Voices
with readings from Gesualdo's letters and journals
Tickets: £7.50 unreserved
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk

J. S. Bach: Cantatas 154, 156, 159 & 161
Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton
Sunday 20 November 3pm
In collaboration with:
Holy Cross Church Choir
With soloists and period players from:
The Old Street Band
Tickets: £8 unreserved
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk

- - - - -  End of ETO Tour - - - - -


Exeter Festival Chorus
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 19 November 7.30pm
John Rutter: Gloria
Bob Chilcott: Salisbury Vespers
Exeter Festival Chorus
Bath Camerata
Denov County Junior Choir
Wells Cathedral School Brass Ensemble
Conductor: Nigel Perrin
Tickets: £10-22  08456 005441
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
http://www.exeterfestivalchorus.org.uk/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=148

Schubert's Winterreise
St Mary Arches Church Exeter
Wednesday 23 November 7.30pm
Baritone: Alex Poulton
Accompanist: Andrew Daldorph
Tickets: £10 (includes wine and refreshments)
Proceeds in aid of the St Stephen's Project
Box Office: 01392 851207

Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra
Exeter Cathedral
Thursday 24 November 7.30
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1
Piano Soloist: Alexandria Dariescu
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Conductor: Marion Wood
Leader: Clare Smith
Tickets: available soon

Poetry & Jazz & Supper
Sladers Yard, West Bay, Bridport
Friday 25 November 7.30pm
Dan Shackell & Friends play jazz
Local poets recite their new works:
John Torrance, Kim Squirrell
Svetlana Savrosova, Rowland Molony
Tickets: £7.50 (with supper £17.50)
Sladers Yard: 01308 459511

Music For Two Pianos
Exeter Cathedral
Friday 25 November 7.30pm
Including Rachmaninov: Second Suite
Andrew Millington
David Davies
Tickets: £12 (student £5)
The Cathedral Shop 01392 271354

The Pearl of Africa Children's Choir
Exeter Cathedral Quire
Saturday 26 November 12.45 pm
20th Tour
Admission Free: retiring collection

"South Molton Sings Messiah"
South Molton Pannier Market
Sunday 27 November 6.30pm
Refreshments and entertainments
before the performance.
Mass Choir from across the South West
Soprano: Tina Gladwyn
Contralto: Emma Hewitson
Tenor: David Webb
Bass John Hobbs
Proceeds to Radio Devon Air Ambulance Fund


Cabaret with 'MUSIC DECO'
Kennaway House Sidmouth
Sunday 27 November 6.45 for 7.30pm
Soprano: Kate Walker
Clarinets/Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Tickets: £8  Box: 07583 796855
glyn.holford@sky.com

Monday, 22 August 2011

Dartington Summer School Week Five Concerts, 20 - 27 August 2011


The music of Schumann and Brahms runs through Week 5. The Australian conductor Brad Cohen directs the Summer School Choir in Brahms’ A German Requiem alongside choral songs by Schumann. Another focus is on the music of the Irish composer Gerald Barry, including much of his piano music, played by Noriko Kawai, and both of his piano quartets. More new music, in the shape of a new piece by Dominic Muldowney, has been specially commissioned by the Summer School for the saxophone player John Harle. There is a rich range of other music from early, with Stile Antico, to Beethoven with the Barbirolli Quartet. Alexander Janiczek, Lowri Blake and Ian Brown perform piano trios and Richard
Edgar-Wilson gives a programme including songs for tenor, horn and piano by Schubert and Britten.

Saturday 20 August

Alexander Janiczek, violin Ian Brown, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
Bach, Keyboard Partita no 6 in E minor
Messiaen, Thème et Variations
Webern, Four pieces op 7
Brahms, Sonata no 3 in D minor op 108
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Sunday 21 August

In Conversation With Ana Maria Pacheco

5.15pm, Great Hall
David Francis talks to Ana Maria Pacheco about her life and work.
£8.00 unreserved

Barbirolli Quartet

7.45pm, Great Hall
Mozart, Quartet in C major K465 ‘Dissonance’
Szymanowski, Quartet no 2 op 56
Beethoven, Quartet in E minor op 59/2 ‘Razumovsky’
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Sequences and Games

10.00pm, Great Hall
Paul Archibald, trumpet
Graham Lee, trombone
Julian Warburton, percussion
Noriko Kawai, piano
Zoë Martlew, cello
Gerald Barry, Trumpeter
Richard Baker, Gaming
Berio, Sequenza X for trumpet
Xenakis, Rebonds
Berio, Sequenza V for trombone
£5.00 unreserved

Monday 22 August

Juliet Edwards, piano John Flinders, piano

5.15pm, Great Hall
A programme to include:
Bach, Chorale Prelude (arr. Kurtag)
Brahms, Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale
Gerald Barry, Five Chorales
£8.00 unreserved

Zero Carbon Britain: A Vision for 2030

5.15pm, Ship Studio
A talk by Peter Harper.
£8.00 unreserved

Stile Antico

7.45pm, Great Hall
Cornysh, Woefully arrayed
Gibbons, Hosanna to the Son of David
Tallis, O sacrum convivium
Sheppard, I give you a new commandment
Lassus, In monte Oliveti
Tallis, Salvator mundi
Victoria, O vos omnes
Morales, O Crux, ave
Lassus, Vide homo
Taverner, Dum transisset Sabbatum
Gombert, Tulerunt Dominum meum
Guerrero, Maria Magdalene
Gibbons, I am the Resurrection
Crecquillon, Congratulamini mihi
L’Héritier, Surrexit pastor bonus
Byrd, In resurrectione tua
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Composers Ensemble

10.00pm, Great Hall
Noriko Kawai, piano
Daniel Pioro, violin
Eniko Magya,r viola
Zoë Martlew, cello
Mahler, Piano Quartet
Gerald Barry, Piano Quartet no 1
Richard Strauss, Ständchen, Liebesliedchen, Arabischer Tanz
Gerald Barry, Piano Quartet no 2
£5.00 unreserved

Tuesday 23 August

In Conversation With Gerald Barry

5.15pm, Great Hall
Richard Baker talks to Gerald Barry about his life and work.
£8.00 unreserved

Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor Andrew West, piano with John Flinders, piano & Stephen Stirling, horn

7.45pm, Great Hall
Schubert,
An dem Mond
Der Einsame
Alinde
An die Laute
Schubert, Auf dem Strom
Eschmann, Three songs from op 34
Durch sonnige Gründe, am murmelnden Bach
Es ist schon spät geworden
Irrlicht (Romanze)
John Woolrich, A Singing Sky
Britten, First and Second Lute Songs from ‘Gloriana’
Britten, Now sleeps the crimson petal
Folksongs arr. Britten,
The foggy, foggy dew
Down by the Salley Gardens
O waly, waly
Oliver Cromwell

John Harle, saxophone Steve Lodder, piano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Debussy, Syrinx
Dowland, Flow my Teares
Bartók, Three Folksongs from the Csik District
Richard Rodney Bennett, Four Country Dances
Dominic Muldowney, new piece
Schulhoff, Sonata
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 24 August

Joan Rodgers, soprano Andrew West, piano

5.15pm, Great Hall
Glinka, I remember that wonderful moment 1840
Confession 1840
Adele 1849
I am here Inez 1834
Mussorgsky, The Nursery
Mahler, Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
Rheinlegendchen
Das Irdische Leben
Scheiden und meiden
Wolf, Gesegnet sei das Grun
Mein Liebster ist so klein
Mein Liebster singt am Haus
Wie lange schon war immer mein Verlangen
Du denkst mit einem Fadchen mich zu fangen
Wer rief dich denn?
Wohl kenn ich euren Stand
Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen
Ich hab in Penna
£8.00 unreserved

Dartington Festival Orchestra

7.45pm, Great Hall
John Carewe, conductor
Brahms, Tragic Overture
Strauss, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Beethoven, Egmont Overture
Schumann, Symphony no 3 in Eb major ‘Rhenish’
This concert will also feature students on the Advanced Conducting Course.
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Noriko Kawaipiano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Gerald Barry, 1998 for Piano Solo
Handel, Suite
Gerald Barry Swinging Tripes and Trillibubkins
Handel, Suite
Gerald Barry, Au Milieu
£5.00 unreserved

Thursday 25 August

Chamber Choir

5.15pm, Great Hall
Jeremy Walker, director
John Flinders, piano
Juliet Edwards*, piano
Brahms, from Liebeslieder-Walzer, op 52*
Wenn So Lind Dein Auge
Vögelein Durchrauchst Die Luft
Sieh, Wie Ist Die Welle Klar
Nachtigall, Sie Singt So Schön
Schubert, Des Tages Weihe, D 763
Mendelssohn, Sechs Lieder, op 41 Im Walde
Schumann, Bei Schenkung Eines Flügels
Brahms, Fünf Gesänge, op 104
Nachtwache 1
Nachtwache 2
Letztes Glück
Verlorene Jugend
Im Herbs
Wolf, Im Stillen Friedhof
Berio, E Si Fussi Pisci
Brahms, from Neue Liebeslieder- Waltzer, op 65*
Verzicht, O Herz, Auf Rettung
Weiche Graser Im Revier
Schwarzer Wald
Nun, Ihr Musen, Genug!
£8.00 unreserved

Alexander Janiczek, violin Lowri Blake, cello Ian Brown, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
Beethoven, Trio in G major op 1/2
Haydn, Trio in F# minor H15/26
Mendelssohn, Trio in D minor op 49
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Berio’s voice theatre

10.00pm, Ship Studio
A performance by students studying with Linda Hirst.
Berio, Sequenza III
Berio, Cries of London
Berio, A-Ronne
£5.00 unreserved

Friday 26 August

Brass and Percussion Ensemble

4.00pm, Studio 31
Julian Warburton, conductor
Peter Wiegold, conductor
Gabrieli, Sonata pian e forte
Tippett, Fanfare no 1
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Fanfare
Cage, First Construction in Metal
Copland, Ceremonial Fanfare
Cage, Amores
Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Louis Andriessen, Workers Union
FREE

Advanced Composition

5.15pm, Great Hall
Daniel Pioro, violin
Eniko Magyar, viola
Zoë Martlew, cello
Noriko Kawai, piano
Performance of works by students on the Advanced Composition Course.
£8.00 unreserved

Summer School Choir and Dartington Festival Orchestra

7.45pm, Great Hall
Brad Cohen, conductor
Schumann, Four Double Choruses op 141
Brahms, A German Requiem
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Salsa ball

10.00pm, Studio 6
The culmination of this week’s Salsa course for everyone to enjoy the last night of this year’s Summer School.
Summer School participants only

Monday, 15 August 2011

Summer School Week Four Concerts, 13 - 19 August 2011

James Weeks and the Chamber Choir perform two important works – Birtwistle’s The Fields of Sorrow and Feldman’s Voices and Instruments – which were commissioned in the early seventies by William Glock for the Summer School Choir. There’s also a miniature
retrospective of music by Oliver Knussen including a performance of his recent Requiem conducted by the composer himself. Chamber music isn’t neglected: there are recitals
by Nicholas Daniel, the Finzi Quartet and the Gallimaufry Quintet. Stephen Kovacevich returns for an evening of chamber music by Brahms and Beethoven. There’s also a chance to hear Benjamin Britten’s late masterpiece, his suite on English Folk Tunes A time there was…, conducted by Steuart Bedford, who gave the world premiere in 1975.

Saturday 13 August

Geneviève Laurenceau, violin Gemma Rosefield, cello Stephen Kovacevich, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
Brahms, Violin Sonata no 2 in A major op 100
Beethoven, Cello Sonata no 5 in D major op 102/2
Brahms, Piano Trio no 3 in C minor op 101
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Sunday 14 August

Beethoven and the Piano

5.15pm, Great Hall
A talk by Misha Donat.
£8.00 unreserved

Gallimaufry Ensemble with Huw Watkins, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
Peter Wiegold, Prelude 3 (first performance of revised version)
Ligeti, Bagatelles
Oliver Knussen, Three Little Fantasies
Berio, Opus No Zoo
Mozart, Quintet for piano and wind K452
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Helen Reid, piano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Précis
Fauré, Nocturne
Oliver Knussen, Sonya’s Lullaby
Richard Baker, Breaking the Ground
Satie, Nocturne no 2
Peter Wiegold, Honfleur
Philip Cashian, Cortège
Debussy, L’isle joyeuse
£5.00 unreserved)

Monday 15 August

Spoken Tunes: poems by Alice Oswald

5.15pm, Great Hall
Celebrated Devon based poet Alice Oswald gives a reading of her work.
£8.00 unreserved

Finzi Quartet

7.45pm, Great Hall
Haydn, String Quartet in D minor op 76/2
Ravel, String Quartet in F major
Beethoven, String Quartet no 11 in F minor op 95 ‘Serioso’
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Kate Lukas, flute David Campbell, clarinet Huw Watkins ,piano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Debussy, Syrinx
Berio, Lied
Debussy, Première Rhapsodie
Carter, Esprit Doux/Esprit Rude
Stravinsky, 3 Pieces
Maderna, Dialodia
Huw Watkins, Two Chorales
Helen Grime, Ceremonie
Gerald Barry, Low
£5.00 unreserved
Due to the unexpected and very sad death of Duncan Prescott, who was due to perform in this concert, the programme will be revised, and the concert given in his memory.

Tuesday 16 August

In Conversation With Oliver Knussen

5.15pm, Great Hall
Oliver Knussen talks about his life and works.
£8.00 unreserved

Nicholas Daniel, oboe Huw Watkins, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
with
David Campbell, clarinet
Bach, Sonata in A major
Lutosławski, Epitaph
Helen Grime, Three Miniatures (First performance)
Oliver Knussen, Elegiac Arabesques for cor anglais and clarinet 
Schumann, Three Romances
Berio, Sequenza VII
Bach, Sonata in Eb major
Huw Watkins, Romances
Louis Andriessen, Forget me not
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Juliet Fraser, soprano Juliet Edwards, piano John Flinders, piano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Mozart Andante with 5 variations in G major, K 501
Wolf
Im Frühling
Der Musikant
Verschwiegene Liebe
Nachtzauber
Wolfgang Rihm, Drei Hölderlin- Gedichte
Enno Poppe, Wespe
Stravinsky, The Owl and the Pussycat
Debussy, Petite Suite
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 17 August

Dartington Festival Orchestra

7.45pm, Great Hall
Steuart Bedford, conductor
Mendelssohn, Overture A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Britten, Suite on English Folk Tunes: ‘A time there was…’
Ravel, Mother Goose Suite
Mozart, Symphony no 41 in C major K551, ‘Jupiter’
This concert will also feature students on the Advanced Conducting Course.
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Piano Masterclass Concert

10.00pm, Great Hall
A performance by students studying with Stephen Kovacevich this week.
£5.00 unreserved

Thursday 18 August

Student Chamber Music Performance

5.15pm, Studio 3
A programme to include the following works which were commissioned as part of the
Schubert Ensemble’s Chamber Music 2000 project – in which contemporary composers were commissioned to write for student ensembles.
Gerald Barry, The Pond
Philip Cashian, Music for the Night Sky
Pavel Novák, The Year of a Bird
Peter Sculthorpe, From the River
Gerald Barry, Snow is White
FREE

Chamber Choir and Wind Ensemble

7.45pm, Great Hall
James Weeks, conductor
Oliver Knussen, conductor
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
Huw Watkins, piano
Juliet Fraser, soprano
Wind tutors, students and players from the Dartington Festival Orchestra
Feldman, Voices and Instruments
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, An Interrupted Endless Melody
Holst, The Fields of Sorrow, and other canons for voices
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, The Fields of Sorrow
Oliver Knussen, Ophelia’s Last Dance
Brahms, Ophelia Songs
Oliver Knussen, Requiem
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Wind Band

10.00pm, Great Hall
Stephen Dummer, conductor
David Campbell, clarinet
Grainger, Molly on the Shore
Rimsky Korsakov, Clarinet Concerto
Hindemith, Symphony in Bb major for concert band
£5.00 unreserved

Friday 19 August

Tea Dance

4.00pm, Great Lawn
Take off your dancing shoes and come and dance on the lawn to the Tea Dance Band performing waltzes, tangos and quick steps.
FREE

Summer School Choir and Dartington Festival Orchestra

7.45pm, Great Hall
Charles Peeble,s conductor
Bruckner, Locus iste
Bruckner, Os Justi
Bruckner, Christus factus est
Bruckner, Virga Jesse
Britten, Russian Funeral
Scarlatti/Shostakovich, 2 Sonatas
Bruckner, Mass in E minor
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Gospel Choir

10.00pm, Great Hall
Finale performance of this week’s course directed by Carol Pemberton.
Summer School participants only

Monday, 8 August 2011

Dartington Summer School Week Three Concerts, 06 - 12 August 2011

Strings loom large this week. Two fine string quartets, the Benyounes and Callino quartets, each give concerts before combining forces at the end of the week for the Mendelssohn Octet. The cellist Rohan de Saram plays music Luciano Beri wrote specially for him – before which he will demonstrate on the Kandayan drum the Sri Lankan rhythms which inspired Berio. There will also be recitals by violinist Markus Daunert and violist Paul Silverthorne, and we also welcome the younger generation: Hungarian violist Eniko Magyar plays Berlioz’s Harold in Italy conducted by Sian Edwards. Not everything is for strings: James Oxley sings Schubert’s Winterreise, Daniel Adni plays Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, and John Lubbock conducts the Choir in Mozart’s great Requiem.


Saturday 06 August


Benyounes Quartet


7.45pm, Great Hall
Mozart, String Quartet in G major K387
Britten, Three Divertimenti
Beethoven, String Quartet no 14 in C# minor op 131
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Sunday 07 August


Daniel Adni, piano


5.15pm, Great Hall
Schumann, Faschingsschwank aus Wien op 26
Chopin, Nocturne in C# minor op posth
Liszt, Mephisto Waltz
Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody no 11
£8.00 unreserved


James Oxley, tenor Catherine Edwards, piano


7.45pm, Great Hall
Schubert, Winterreise
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Shradhanjali


10.00pm, Great Hall
Sanju Sahai, tabla
Jaymini Sahai, kathak dance
Debipriya Sircar, sitar and vocal
An extravagant high energy and enchanting collaboration of traditional Indian Music and Kathak dance. This concert brings together a combination of solo performances and interactive dialogue between musician and dancer, taking the audience on a spiritual journey. Indian Classical Music and Kathak Dance in its most pure and enriching form.
£5.00 unreserved


Monday 08 August


Beethoven and the String Quartet


5.15pm, Great Hall
A talk by Misha Donat.
£8.00 unreserved


Callino Quartet


7.45pm, Great Hall
Haydn, Quartet no 66 in G major op 77/1
Janáček, Quartet no 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Mendelssohn, Quartet no 2 in A minor op 13
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Paul Silverthorne, viola Catherine Edwards, piano


10.00pm, Great Hall
Schumann, Märchenbilder op 113
Shostakovich, Viola Sonata op 147
Brahms, Viola Sonata in F minor op 120/1
Prokofiev, Four Pieces from ‘Romeo and Juliet’
£5.00 unreserved


Tuesday 09 August


Markus Däunert, violin Daniel Adni, piano


5.15pm, Great Hall
Markus Däunert, violin
Daniel Adni, piano
Janáček, Violin Sonata
Shostakovich, Violin Sonata op 134
£8.00 unreserved


Rohan de Saram, cello


7.45pm, Great Hall
Bach, Suite no 3 in C major
Sciarrino, Ai Limiti Della Notte
Xenakis, Kottos
Locatelli, Laborinto Armonico
Kodály, Finale of the Solo Cello Sonata op 8
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Capriccio


10.00pm, Studio 3
Benyounes Quartet
Callino Quartet
Graham Mitchell, double bass
Richard Strauss, Prelude to Capriccio
John Woolrich, Capriccio
£5.00 unreserved


Arbolito del Querer


10.00pm, Great Hall
Flora de la Música Popular Argentina
Jasmine, roses, wild flowers, grasses and trees… Laura Hansen and Carlos Morera explore the wealth of Argentine music – in tango and other folkloric forms – that reflects a love of nature, especially the flora of their country.
£5.00 unreserved


Wednesday 10 August


Indian Music


5.15pm, Great Hall
Pandit Vishwa Prakash, composer and vocalist
Sanju Sahai, tabla
Jaymini Sahai, kathak dance
Debipriya Sircar, vocal and sitar
This concert will start with a tabla solo which will take you on a spiritual journey to the banks of Benares, the Holy City, where this form of artistry was born. The second part of the concert will be a rendition of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Brahma Vishnu Siva”. Bringing together poetry, storytelling, dance and music as a medium to present Tagore’s
work, this piece by Pandit Vishwa Prakesh has been specially commissioned by the Summer School to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Tagore.
£8.00 unreserved


Dartington Festival Orchestra


7.45pm, Great Hall
with The Dartington Community Choir
Sian Edward,s conductor
Eniko Magyar, viola
Beethoven, Overture Leonora no 3
Tippett, Ritual Dances from ‘The Midsummer Marriage’
Berlioz, Harold in Italy
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Cello Ensemble


10.00pm, Great Hall
with Adrian Bradbury & Rohan de Saram
Berio, Korot
Pierre Boulez, Anthèmes 1 Kandayan drumming
Berio, Sequenza XIV
Pierre Boulez, Messagesquisse
£5.00 unreserved


Keith Tippett piano


10.00pm, Studio 3
A concert of improvised music.
£5.00 unreserved


Thursday 11 August


Singing for the Brain


5.15pm, Great Hall
A talk about this project, working with people with dementia and their carers, in which Dartington’s Social Justice Department has been closely involved.
£8.00 unreserved


String Orchestra


7.45pm, Great Hall
Leo Hussain, conductor
Eniko Magya,r viola
Tippett, Little Music
John Woolrich, Ulysses Awakes
Purcell, Chacony
Holst, St Paul’s Suite
Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Elgar, Introduction and Allegro
£14 reserved /£8 unreserved


Songs from the Musicals


10.00pm, Studio 30
Robert Purvis, director
Finale of this week’s course.
Summer School participants only


Friday 12 August


Chamber Choir


5.15pm, Great Hall
Leo Hussain, conductor
Britten, Hymn to St Cecilia
Tippett, Four Songs of the British Isles
Vaughan Williams, Mass in G minor
£8.00 unreserved


Summer School Choir and Dartington Festival Orchestra


7.45pm, Great Hall
John Lubbock, conductor
Callino Quartet
Benyounes Quartet
Mendelssohn, Octet
Mozart, Requiem
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Tango Ball


10.00pm, Studio 6
The climax of a week-long course directed by Laura Hansen & Carlos Morera.
Summer School participants only

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Exeter Guitar Festival 2011


Concerts at the Exeguitarfestival 2011


Best wishes

Steve Gordon

Saturday 13 August 7.30pm VIDA Guitar Quartet - Phoenix Arts Centre

Sunday 14 August 7.30pm Stephen Gordon - Friends Meeting House

Tuesday 16 August 1.30pm David Cottam - Exeter Central Library

Wednesday 17 August 8.00pm Mandolinquents - Phoenix Arts Centre

Thursday 18 August 1.30pm Alison Smith - Exeter Central Library

Friday 19 August 7.30 Summer School ensemble concert - Friends Meeting House
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Week 2 of the Dartington Summer School


 Week 2
 
Opera and song dominate Week 2. All Sir Michael Tippett's song cycles, and some 
of Tippett's realisations of songs by Henry Purcell, are sung by the tenor Robert
Murray. There's a portrait concert of choral music by the French composer Betsy 
Jolas sung, alongside early French music, by Ex Cathedra. Jeffrey Skidmore also 
leads the Summer School Choir in an all-Bach programme and there's still more Bach
from the Brook Street Band, Carole Cerasi and Jill Kemp. In addition, we present
 a fully-staged production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in the Barn Theatre. Meanwhile,
two  pianists give recitals: Martino Tirimo, and Huw Watkins, who makes his Dartington
debut with a programme of Ravel, Schumann, Helen Grime and his own music. The City
Musick, too, makes its first Dartington appearance.




Tue 02
11.00am: SHOWCASE CONCERT SERIES (FREE): Early Brass Ensemble*
- Elizabethan Market, Totnes Market Square


Thu 04
1.10pm: SHOWCASE CONCERT SERIES (FREE): Early Music Ensemble*
- Bogan House, Totnes


To book please call the Box Office on 01803 847070