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BRITISH CHORAL CLASSICSSymphony Hall, Birmingham Sunday 1 August 2021, 3pm

Supported by

Supported by

Simon Halsey – Conductor

Julian Wilkins – Organ

CBSO Chorus

Handel Zadok The Priest 5’

Bainton And I Saw a New Heaven 5’

Wallen Peace on Earth 3’

Price Air and Toccato, from Suite No.1 for Organ 5’

Weir My Guardian Angel 2’

Ireland Greater Love Hath No Man 6’

Coleridge-Taylor Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 7’

Leighton Ite, Missa Est, from Missa de Gloria, Op.82 5’

Balfour Gardiner Evening Hymn 6’

Parry I Was Glad 6’

It’s time to sing! There’s no more glorious sound than a great chorus raising its voice in joyful celebration, and it feels like a lifetime since our world-class CBSO Chorus last sang for you in Symphony Hall. Well, they’re back: reunited for the first time in 17 months, as Simon Halsey conducts a concert spanning four centuries of British music in all its pageantry, poetry and roof-raising splendour. Be there, and feel the thrill. They will be joined by organist Julian Wilkins who will also give a solo performance of Florence Price’s Air and Toccato from Suite No.1 for Organ.

OUR CAMPAIGN FOR MUSICAL LIFE IN THE WEST MIDLANDSThese socially-distanced concerts have been made possible by funding from Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund, plus generous support from thousands of individuals, charitable trusts and companies through The Sound of the Future fundraising campaign.

By supporting our campaign, you will play your part in helping the orchestra to recover from the pandemic as well as renewing the way we work in our second century. Plus, all new memberships are currently being matched pound for pound by a generous member of the CBSO’s campaign board.

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You are welcome to view the online programme on your mobile device, but please ensure that your sound is turned off and that you are mindful of other members of the audience. Any noise (such as whispering) can be very distracting – the acoustics of the Hall will highlight any such sound. If you use a hearing aid in conjunction with our infra-red hearing enhancement system, please make sure you have collected a receiver unit and that your hearing aid is switched to the ‘T’ position, with the volume level appropriately adjusted.

Audiences are welcome to take photographs before and after the concert, and during breaks in the music for applause. If you would like to take photos at these points please ensure you do not use a flash, and avoid disturbing other members of the audience around you. Please note that taking photographs or filming the concert while the orchestra is playing is not permitted as it is distracting both for other audience members and for the musicians on stage.

Keeping you safe: Please ensure that you are following all of the covid-safe measures that are in place, including: arriving at the time indicated on your ticket, wearing a face covering whilst in the building (exemption excluded), keeping a social distance from other audience members and staff, following signage and/or guidance from staff, and using the hand sanitising stations provided. Thank you.

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BRITISH CHORAL CLASSICS

“And all the people rejoiced!” Nothing tops the sound of choral music when you’re in a mood to celebrate – and the re-union of our Chorus with you, our audience, after too many months of anxiety and silence, is definitely a cause for celebration.

For the coronation of King George II on 11 October 1727 Handel was commissioned to write four new Coronation Anthems, and rumours were soon circulating. The rehearsals were kept secret, to prevent them from being mobbed by crowds of fans.

You can’t really blame Handel for wanting to guard his big surprise. Imagine the impact of hearing this music for the first time! For the solemn anointing of the King, Handel begins with an orchestral build-up like nothing that had been heard before. It’s still one of the most thrilling evocations of mounting excitement in all music, and Zadok the Priest has been performed at every coronation since. Naturally, it ends with general rejoicing: “Alleluia, Amen!” No-one does Alleluias quite like Handel.

Still, you don’t always need fanfares to make an impact. Edgar Bainton was an old boy of King Henry VIII School in Coventry, and his life was eventful – he spent the Great War in a German prison camp. He wrote three symphonies, and founded the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. But in one short choral anthem, composed in 1928, he found a still, small voice of calm that continues to touch the hearts of church choirs and their congregations around the Anglican world.

And I Saw A New Heaven finds deep comfort, rather than terror, in the Book of Revelation; this is music that speaks to listeners of all faiths, and none. Just as Errollyn Wallen’s carol Peace on Earth (2006) belongs both to Christmas, and to all times of year. “I was just improvising at the piano, and the music popped out”, she says. The words – her own – came later. And although they’re decidedly wintry, their message will appeal to anyone who’s come through a time of trial (whether a summer heatwave or something more malign) to a place of tranquillity and renewed hope.

Organ music doesn’t only belong in church, either. Florence Price grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas at the turn of the century, but when she headed north to Boston to study music, she passed herself off as a Mexican. It simply made life easier to pretend that she wasn’t what she was: an African-American, and one of the most extraordinary (and original) of 20th-century American composers. An outstanding organist and pianist, she later moved to Chicago – where she played the organ in churches and cinemas across the city. She was a brilliant improviser and her Suite No.1 for Organ (1942) probably began as an improvisation before taking its final form, with this haunting Air and the brilliant Toccata as its last two movements.

Judith Weir needs no introduction from us – the current Master of the Queen’s Music is an old friend of the CBSO, and was our Composer in Association in the late 1990s. She composed this carol in 1997, and like Errollyn Wallen’s Peace on Earth, its seasonal message can apply to any time of year. As she explains:

“My Guardian Angel is a carol, which celebrates the increased incidence of public appearances by angels at Christmas time. It is a setting of short text by William Blake. The music of the carol is based around a short alleluia; which may be performed by the audience, whilst the choir weaves some 4-part counterpart around it.”

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The right combination of words and music has a way of finding its own time and place. The anthem Greater Love by the Cheshire-born composer John Ireland dates from 1912, but it’s often assumed to be a response to the First World War – becoming something of a fixture on Remembrance Sunday. The quiet dignity and swelling emotion of the music probably has something to do with that; as has Ireland’s poignant choice of words. Like And I Saw A New Heaven, it’s long transcended its roots.

That same year, 1912, saw the premature death of one of Ireland’s most brilliant fellow-students at the Royal College of Music. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor had been born in Holborn, the son of a farrier’s daughter and a medical student from Sierra Leone. If the mixed-race, illegitimate Coleridge-Taylor experienced prejudice on the streets of Victorian London, his early talent as a musician won him welcome and acclaim at the RCM. “Indisputable!” scribbled his (and Ireland’s) teacher, Charles Villiers Stanford under the column headed “Progress” on his 1895 term report. Coleridge-Taylor’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F set two central elements of an Anglican evensong to music that glows – and leaps – with imagination and life.

But then, the Anglican choral tradition is nothing if not a broad church: capable of embracing composers as diverse as the mixed-race Coleridge-Taylor, the modernist Yorkshireman Kenneth Leighton and the public schoolboy (and eventual Dorset pig-farmer) Henry Balfour Gardiner. Ite, Missa Est, the thunderous organ postlude of Leighton’s Missa di Gloria (written for Dubin Cathredral in 1980) ends (in Leighton’s own words) with “a massive acclamation”. It is bracingly different from the whispered warmth and lush, consoling harmonies of Balfour

Gardiner’s much-loved Evening Hymn, a true evensong classic, composed in 1908 for the choir of Winchester College. Balfour Gardiner’s great-nephew John Eliot maintains the family’s musical tradition today.

But we’re not going softly into the night: we’re ending, as we started, with a great shout of choral joy – one of those pieces around which the whole nation celebrates. “I Was Glad when they said unto me: We will go into the house of the Lord” – and as C Hubert Parry lifts his choir’s voices to the heavens, it’s hard not to feel….well, what, exactly? This great anthem, created in 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII and performed (with Zadok The Priest) at every coronation since, somehow manages to mingle pride, hope, nostalgia, tenderness and grandeur in a single soul-stirring arc of song. Music, in other words, that transcends time and place even as it speaks straight to the heart, now and for always.

Programme note © Richard Bratby

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THE PERFORMERSSimon Halsey cbe

Conductor

Simon Halsey occupies a unique position in classical music. He is the trusted advisor on choral singing to the world’s greatest conductors, orchestras and choruses, and also an inspirational teacher and ambassador for choral singing to amateurs of every age, ability and background. Making singing a central part of the world-class institutions with which he is associated, he has been instrumental in changing the level of symphonic singing across Europe.

He holds positions across the UK and Europe as Choral Director of London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Chorus Director of the CBSO Chorus, Artistic Director of Orfeó Català Choirs and Artistic Adviser of Palau de la Música, Barcelona, Artistic Director of Berliner Philharmoniker Youth Choral Programme, Creative Director for Choral Music and Projects of WDR Rundfunkchor, Director of BBC Proms Youth Choir, Conductor Laureate of Rundfunkchor Berlin and Professor and Director of Choral Activities at University of Birmingham.

He is also a highly respected teacher and academic, nurturing the next generation of choral conductors on his post-graduate course in Birmingham and through masterclasses at Princeton, Yale and elsewhere. He holds four honorary doctorates from universities in the UK, and in 2011 Schott Music published his book and DVD on choral conducting, Chorleitung: Vom Konzept zum Konzert.

Halsey has worked on nearly 80 recording projects, many of which have won major awards, including the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Echo Klassik, and three Grammy Awards with the Rundfunkchor Berlin. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2015, was awarded The Queen’s Medal for Music in 2014, and received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to choral music in Germany.

Born in London, Simon Halsey sang in the choirs of New College, Oxford, and of King’s College, Cambridge. and studied conducting at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1987, he founded with Graham Vick the City of Birmingham Touring Opera. He was Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Choir from 1997 to 2008 and Principal Conductor of the Northern Sinfonia’s Choral Programme from 2004 to 2012. From 2001-2015 he led the Rundfunkchor Berlin (of which he is now Conductor Laureate); under his leadership the chorus gained a reputation internationally as one of the finest professional choral ensembles. Halsey has also initiated innovative projects in unconventional venues and interdisciplinary formats.

Photo © Matthias Heyde

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THE PERFORMERSJulian Wilkins

Organ

Julian Wilkins is a versatile, dynamic and inspiring conductor, organist and pianist, working throughout the UK and overseas with prestigious musical organisations including the CBSO and Choruses, Hallé Choir, Brandenburg Sinfonia and Baroque Soloists, East Anglia Chamber Orchestra, Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD), Association of Irish Choirs, BBC Proms Youth Choir, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and Sing Up – the Music Manifesto’s National Singing Programme.

Educated at Wells Cathedral School as a chorister and specialist musician, and at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge as an organ scholar, Julian has performed in many of the world’s cathedrals and leading concert venues as conductor, soloist and accompanist. He has appeared on BBC and independent television and radio, and on Peter Gabriel’s ground-breaking and GRAMMY-winning soundtrack for Martin Scorsese’s film The Last Temptation of Christ.

Julian is Associate Conductor of the CBSO Chorus, working with Simon Halsey to prepare them for conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Edward Gardner, Sakari Oramo, Oliver Knussen, Martyn Brabbins, Olari Elts, Gianandrea Noseda, James MacMillan, John Storgårds, Jac van Steen, Valery Gergiev, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Mark Elder. He is Conductor of CBSO Youth Chorus and Music Director of Cambridge Chorale, University of Birmingham Chorus, and Phoenix – a Cambridgeshire-based SATB youth choir, mixed-voice training choir, primary school singing network and early years’ singing programme.

As a respected teacher, mentor and choral consultant he teaches at the University of Birmingham for both Undergraduate and Postgraduate pathways in Choral Conducting, is a member of the teaching panel for the ABCD National Conducting Courses, and is Vocal Coach and Guest Conductor for the City of Birmingham Choir directed by Adrian Lucas. He has co-directed the Art of Choral Direction course at Sherborne Summer School of Music with David Lawrence, and the Sintra International Singing and Choral Conducting Course in Portugal with Ghislaine Morgan.

Julian is in demand as a guest conductor, recitalist, accompanist and choral workshop leader, popular with musicians and audiences of all ages. He has adjudicated for the BBC Young Musician competition, the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the City of Derry International Choral Festival, and at a number of regional music competitions and festivals.

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CBSO CHORUS Simon Halsey cbe – Chorus Director Julian Wilkins – Associate Chorus Director

The CBSO Chorus is one of the world’s great choirs – 180 people from all walks of life who come together to sing symphonic choral music. Trained for over 30 years by Simon Halsey cbe, its main role is to perform with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on tour and at its home, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. But it’s also an ensemble with a global reputation in its own right, a hard-working team of “amateur professionals” who give up their own time to perform the most challenging works in the choral repertoire to the highest international standard.

The Chorus was founded in 1973 at the instigation of the CBSOʼs music director Louis Frémaux, and gave its first concert – a performance of Berliozʼs The Damnation of Faust – in January 1974. In 1983, Simon Halsey became Chorus Master, forming a close musical partnership with the CBSO’s then Music Director Simon Rattle and beginning an enduring relationship with the Chorus which would see it travel the world with the CBSO and perform works ranging from Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony and Janačék’s Glagolitic Mass to Henze’s The Raft of the Medusa and John Adams’ Harmonium.

The Chorus has been at the centre of the CBSO story throughout: singing at the official opening of Symphony Hall in 1991, at Rattle’s final concert in Birmingham in 1998, and giving centenary performances of all three of Elgar’s great choral works: The Dream of Gerontius, The Apostles and The Kingdom under Sakari Oramo. It gave the 40th anniversary performance of Britten’s War Requiem at Coventry Cathedral in 2002, and returned in 2012 to give the 50th anniversary performance under Andris Nelsons – an occasion that was broadcast live to 17 countries. As versatile as it is virtuosic, the CBSO Chorus regularly takes part in the CBSO’s concert performances of operas – ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan to Wagner, Puccini and Richard Strauss. And of course, every year it leads Birmingham’s Christmas celebrations, when Simon Halsey conducts the CBSO’s annual carol concerts.

The CBSO Chorus is in demand far beyond Birmingham. It has sung and toured with some of the greatest orchestras in the world, including the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra, and has built a special relationship with the BBC Philharmonic. The Chorus is a regular guest at the BBC Proms, and has toured to Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, where in 2000 it sang in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony for the opening concert of XXVII Olympic Games in Sydney. In 2015, it made its first appearance in Mexico. As well as performing in Birmingham and around the world, the Chorus has made over 50 recordings, winning four Gramophone awards, as well as numerous other international accolades.

All this has been achieved by amateur singers from Birmingham and the Midlands, aged from 18 years old, whose day-jobs range from students to nurses, teachers and engineers. The entry requirements are demanding, and with weekly rehearsals and up to 30 performances a year, the commitment is huge. But members of the CBSO Chorus are repaid with a lively social life and the unforgettable experience of singing great music to the highest standard with some of the world’s finest conductors, orchestras and soloists.

Photo © Ben Ealovega

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SOPRANORachael BaylisLisa BradburnDianne CharlesKate DoddsIsobel EdgarCatherine FosterPrue HawthorneDaisy HibberdEmma HudsonRobyn JenningsCatherine LanderAlexandra LewisCatherine MasonValerie MatthewsElla McNameeEmily MilburnAlison NeedhamSarah RussellJennifer ScholesJean ScottEsther SimkissEmma SmellieAllison TaylorKaren Wilson de Roze

ALTOElena Camblor GonzálezChristine ChadwickHelen ChamberlainEmily CobbLouise DavisRebekka DickinsonCaitlin DuffCatherine DukeSarah EnnisGill FletcherJudy FrodshamChristine GilesHazel HughesBarbara HulseVal LewisJoan LilburnMartha LittlehalesMoyra MortonElizabeth ParkinDiane ToddSarah TrinderChristina Warner

TENORBen AldenPaul BarnettChris BryanRichard CookDavid FletcherPaul GlossopCliff HaresignEd HarrisonDominic LeeDavid LewisAllen RobertsDavid RoperHarpreet SandhuNeil SouterAlan WinwoodDavid Young

BASSLawrence BaconOliver ClaytonRob ClealMike DernieDom EdgarRichard FullbrookStephen GibbsAndrew HalsteadMichael HartleyHugh HoughtonAlastair LeggPeter LeppardAndrew PackerAndy ParkerNeil ParkerCharles PottsRichard PrewPhil RawleDavid RiceGordon ThornettAlan WhiteTony Whitehouse

CBSO CHORUS

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The Sound of the Future is a £12.5m fundraising campaign – launched to mark the CBSO’s centenary – which will ensure the orchestra’s recovery from the pandemic and redefi ne its future for the benefi t of everyone across Birmingham and the West Midlands.

THANK YOU

EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORTERSThe following individuals, trusts and companies have nurtured the CBSO’s world-class excellence and broad community reach by off ering exceptional philanthropic support to the CBSO and the CBSO Development Trust’s private endowment fund over time, either by making major gift s, by leaving a legacy or through sustained annual giving.

City of Birmingham Orchestral Endowment Fund

Rachel Baker Memorial CharityThe late Roy CollinsDunard FundJohn Osborn CBEGarfi eld Weston FoundationBarclaysThe late Miss G BrantDavid and Sandra BurbidgeJohn Ellerman FoundationEsmée Fairbairn FoundationThe John Feeney Charitable TrustCharles Henry Foyle TrustThe JABBS FoundationAlison and Jamie JusthamBarry and Frances KirkhamMaurice MillwardClive and Sylvia Richards Charity

(Principal Supporter of the CBSO’s work with young people)

Jerry Sykes The late Mr P S DayDeutsche BankThe late Elnora FergusonThe late Mrs Marjorie HildrethPeter HowThe Helen Rachael Mackaness

Charitable TrustThe late Blyth and Myriam MajorMrs Thelma JusthamThe late Mr John Thomas KnightThe Leverhulme TrustThe LJC FundChris and Jane LoughranThe late Martin PurdyThe late Norman ThomasThe late Sheri and Mrs Janet TullahThe Roger and Douglas Turner

Charitable TrustWolfson Foundation

MAJOR DONORSWe are grateful to the following supporters for their major gift s this year and over the life of our Sound of the Future campaign.

£250,000+John Osborn (*Gabriel Dyker)David and Sandra BurbidgeClive and Sylvia Richards Charity

(Principal Supporter of the CBSO’s work with young people)

£100,000+Alison and Jamie Justham

(*David Vines)Barry and Frances KirkhamChris and Jane Loughran

(*Jonathan Martindale) £50,000+Peter HowMaurice Millward (*Chris Yates)Jerry Sykes in support of keynote

concert programming (*Catherine Ardagh-Walter)

£25,000+Sir Dominic and Lady Cadbury

MEMBERSOver 1,500 members contribute annually to ensure the orchestra’s vital work both on and off the concert platform can happen. Thank you to each and every one of you.

BENEFACTORS (£10,000+)Lady Alexander of WeedonViv and Hazel Astling (*Graham Sibley)Felonious Mongoose in memory of

Dolores (*Richard Blake)

SYMPHONY CIRCLE (£5,000+)John Cole and Jennie Howe

(*Peter Campbell-Kelly)Gill and Jonathan Evans

(*Charlotte Skinner)Stephen and Stephanie GoldsteinThe Charlotte Heber-Percy

Charitable TrustLen Hughes and Jacquie Blake

(*Anthony Alcock)Sue and Graeme Sloan

and our other anonymous supporters.

CONCERTO CIRCLE (£2,500+)The Barwell Charitable TrustAllan and Jennifer Buckle

(*Jonathan Holland)Mrs Jayne CadburyJill S Cadbury (*Julia Åberg)Isabel, Peter and Christopher in loving

memory of Ernest Churcher(*Elspeth Dutch)

Charlie and Louise Craddock (*Kirsty Lovie)

Mike and Tina Detheridge (*Andrew Herbert)

The ENT ClinicDuncan Fielden and Jan Smaczny

(*Matthew Hardy)David Gregory (*Stefano Mengoli)David Handford (*David Powell)The Andrew Harris Charitable TrustCliff HubboldDavid Knibb in memory of Lorraine

(*Jon Quirk)Valerie Lester (*Jacqueline Tyler MBE)Paddy and Wendy Martin

(*David BaMaung)

Patrick and Tricia McDermott (*Helen Edgar and Rachael Pankhurst)

Carole McKeown and David Low (*Miguel Fernandes)

Carol MillerFrank North (*Kate Suthers)Angela O’Farrell and Michael Lynes

(*Toby Kearney)John Osborn (*Gabriel Dyker)Dianne Page (*Catherine Arlidge MBE)Gerard Paris (*Amy Marshall)Simon and Margaret Payton

(*Julian Atkinson)Robert PerkinGraham Russell and Gloria Bates

(*Ruth Lawrence)Gillian ShawEleanor Sinton (*Adrian Spillett)Mr D P Spencer (*Oliver Janes)Lesley Thomson (*Jessica Tickle)Basil and Patricia Turner

(*Marie-Christine Zupancic)Howard and Judy Vero (*Richard Watkin)Michael WardDiana and Peter Wardley (*Oliver Janes)Robert Wilson (*Emmet Byrne)John Yelland OBE and Anna

(*Catherine Bower)

and our other anonymous supporters.

The following players are supported by anonymous members of theOverture, Concerto and Symphony Circles, to whom we are very grateful:Mark GoodchildJoanna PattonMark PhillipsAdam RömerKatherine Thomas

OVERTURE CIRCLE (£1,000+)Mike and Jan Adams (*Eduardo

Vassallo)Katherine Aldridge in memory of ChrisMichael Allen in memory of YvonneRoger and Angela AllenMiss J L Arthur (*Julian Walters)Kiaran AsthanaMr M K AyersJohn Bartlett and Sheila Beesley

(*Mark O’Brien)Michael BatesTim and Margaret Blackmore

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Christine and Neil BonsallMrs Jennifer Brooks in memory of David

(*Julia Åberg)Helen Chamberlain in memory of Allan

Chamberlain (*Sally Morgan)Gay and Trevor Clarke

(*Bryony Morrison)Dr Anthony Cook and Ms Susan EliasAnn CopseyJohn Cunningham-DexterJulian and Lizzie DaveyAnita Davies (*Jeremy Bushell)Tony Davis and Darin QuallsJenny DawsonDr Judith Dewsbury in memory of Tony

(*Kate Setterfi eld)Alan FaulknerElisabeth Fisher (*Colette Overdijk)Wally FrancisJ GodwinAnita and Wyn Griffi thsMary and Tony HaleTony and Shirley HallKeith and Mavis HughesLord Hunt of Kings HeathBasil JacksonIn memory of Harry and Rose JacobiMr Michael and Mrs Elaine JonesJohn JordanMrs T Justham in memory of David

(*Michael Seal, Associate Conductor)John and Jenny KendallJohn and Lisa Kent (*Veronika Klírová)Charles and Tessa King-FarlowBeresford King-Smith in memory of

Kate (*Heather Bradshaw)Jane LewisRichard LewisJames and Anthea LloydTim Marshall (*Nikolaj Henriques)David R Mayes OBEPhilip MillsPaul and Elaine MurrayIan C NortonAndrew Orchard and Alan JonesRoger and Jenny Otto in memory

of JulietRob PageSir Michael and Lady Joan PerryDr John PetersonJulie and Tony Phillips (*Elizabeth Fryer)Rosalyn and Philip PhillipsClive and Cynthia PriorIan RichardsPeter and Shirley RobinsonMr A M and Mrs R J SmithMark and Amanda SmithPam and Alistair SmithWilliam SmithColin Squire OBEMr M and Mrs S A SquiresBrenda SumnerTenors of the CBSO Chorus

(*Joanna Patton)Alan Titchmarsh MBE

(*Matthew Hardy)Mr R J and Mrs M WallsMr E M Worley CBE and Mrs A Worley DLMike and Jane Yeomans in memory of

Jack Field (*Michael Jenkinson)Richard and Emma Yorke

and our other anonymous supporters.

GOLD PATRONS(£650+ per year)Peter and Jane BaxterMike BowdenLady CadburyMr C J M CarrierChristine and John CarrollTim CherryTim Clarke and familyProfessor and Mrs M H CullenRoger and Liz DanceyRobin and Kathy DanielsJohn and Sue Del MarProfessor Sir David EastwoodMr G L and Mrs D EvansGeoff and Dorothy FearnehoughNicola Fleet-MilneSusan and John FranklinMr R Furlong and Ms M PenlingtonAveril Green in memory of Terry GreenDr M KershawMiss C MidgleyNigel and Sarah MooresAndrew and Linda MurrayMagdi and Daisy ObeidChris and Eve ParkerPhillipa and Laurence ParkesChris and Sue PayneProfessor and Mrs A RickinsonCanon Dr Terry SlaterDr Barry and Mrs Marian SmithPam SnellIan and Ann StandingRimma SushanskayaJanet and Michael TaplinRoger and Jan ThornhillBryan and Virginia TurnerRoy WaltonRevd T and Mrs S WardDavid Wright and Rachel Parkins

and our other anonymous supporters.

SILVER PATRONS(£450+ per year)Mr and Mrs S V BarberRichard Allen and Gail BarronMr P G BattyePaul BondProfessor Lalage BownRoger and Lesley CadburyMr A D and Mrs M CampbellSue Clodd and Mike Griffi thsDavid and Marian Crawford-ClarkeMrs A P CrocksonDr. Margaret Davis and Dr. John DavisMark DevinAlistair DowJane Fielding and Benedict ColemanMrs D R GreenhalghJohn Gregory in memory of JanetCliff HaresignMr and Mrs G JonesBob and Elizabeth KeevilRodney and Alyson KettelRebecca King in loving memory of IanMr Peter T MarshJames and Meg MartineauPeter and Julia MaskellDr and Mrs Bernard MasonCarmel and Anthony MasonAnthony and Barbara Newson

Richard NewtonMrs A J Offi cerLiz and Keith ParkesMr R Perkins and Miss F HughesDr and Mrs PlewesThe Revd. Richard and Mrs Gill PostillKath and Mike PoulterEileen Poxton in memory of

Reg PoxtonDr and Mrs R C ReppRay SmithSheila and Ian SonleyAndy StreetJohn and Dorothy TeshProfessor and Mrs J A ValeWilliam and Janet VincentTony and Hilary VinesPeter WallingJulie and Simon WardStephen WilliamsJohn and Daphne WilsonGeoff and Moira WyattPaul C Wynn

and our other anonymous supporters.

PATRONS (£250+ per year)Mrs Thérèse AllibonDavid and Lesley ArkellVal and Graham BacheLeon and Valda BaileyAndrew BarnellMr P and Mrs S BarnesMr and Mrs Barnfi eldDi BassPaul BeckwithMr I L BednallGareth BeediePeter and Gill BertinatPhilip and Frances BettsMrs Ann BillenMichael and Beryl BloodBridget Blow CBEAnthony and Jenni BradburyDr Jane Flint Bridgewaterand Mr Kenneth BridgewaterMr Arthur BrookerM. L. BrownAnn BrutonMr and Mrs J H BulmerMr G H and Mrs J M ButlerBenedict and Katharine CadburyJeannie CadmanElizabeth CeredigCarole and Richard ChillcottDr J and Mrs S ChitnisPeter and Jane ChristopherAnn Clayden and Terry ThorpeDr A J CochranDee and Paul CockingMrs S M Coote in memory of JohnD and M CoppageLuned CorserMr Richard and Mrs Hilary CrosbyMaurice and Ann CrutchlowJudith Cutler and Keith MilesStephen and Hilary DalySue Dalley and Martin WillisRobert and Barbara DarlastonWilf DaveyTrevor DavisKath Deakin

Dr J Dilkes and Mr K A Chipping and family

Brian and Mary DixonTerry Dougan and Christina LomasMr and Mrs C J DrayseyJohn DruryCatherine DukeNaomi and David DykerChris EckersleyLinda and William EdmondsonAlex and Fran ElderRobert van ElstMiss E W EvansDr D W Eyre-WalkerJill Follett and John HarrisChris Fonteyn MBEJack and Kathleen FoxallSusan and John FranklinAgustín Garcia-SanzAlan and Christine GilesProfessor J E Gilkison and

Prof T HockingStephen J GillR and J GodfreyJill GodsallLaura Greenaway in memory of

David RichardsPaul HadleyRoger and Gaye HadleyNigel and Lesley Hagger-VaughanMiss A R HaighMr W L HalesMalcolm HarbourIan HartlandPhil Haywood in memory of AnnKeith R HerbertKeith Herbert and Pat GregoryHanne Hoeck and John RawnsleySusan Holmes in memory of PeterValerie and David HowittPenny HughesDavid HutchinsonHenry and Liz IbbersonMr R M E and Mrs V IrvingKen and Chris JonesMr M N JordanPaul JulerMrs P KeaneMr and Mrs R KirbyMr A D KirkbyProfessor and Mrs R J KnechtBill LaneBrian LangtonMrs D LarkamJennie Lawrence in memory of PhilipEmmanuel LebautM. E. LingMr J F and Mrs M J LloydProfessor David LondonGeoff and Jean MannGeoff and Jenny MasonNeil MayburyMr A A McLintockPatro MobsbyNorah MortonGeoff MullettP J and H I B MulliganMrs M M NairnRichard and Shirley NewbyRichard Newton and Katharine FrancisBrian NoakeMs E Norton OBEIn memory of Jack and Pam Nunn

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Marie and John O’BrienMr and Mrs R T OrmeS J OsborneNigel PackerRod Parker and Lesley BiddleGraham and Bobbie PerryDavid and Julia PowellGill Powell and John RowlattC PredotaRoger PrestonEileen and Ken PriceRichard and Lynda PriceJohn RandallDr and Mrs K RandleKaty and David RicksPeter and Pauline RoeDavid and Jayne RoperJane and Peter RoweHelen Rowett and David PelteretChristopher and Marion RowlattDr Gwynneth RoyVic and Anne RussellMrs L J SadlerCarole and Chris SallnowStephen SaltaireWilliam and Eileen SaundersMargaret and Andrew SherreyDr and Mrs ShrankKeith ShuttleworthElizabeth SimonsMr N R SkeldingEd SmithMary Smith and Brian Gardner

in memory of John and JenRay SmithMatthew Somerville and Deborah KerrLyn StephensonRobin and Carol StephensonAnne StockMr and Mrs J B Stuffi nsJ E SuttonBarbara Taylor in memory of

Michael TaylorJohn and Anne TurneyMrs J H UpwardClive Kerridge and Suzan van HelvertBob and Louise VivianStephen Vokes and Erica BarnettTim and Wendy WadsworthKit Ward

Ann WarneNeil WarrenMrs M L WebbElisabeth and Keith WellingsMr and Mrs J WestRoger and Sue WhitehouseMr William and Mrs Rosemary WhitingPippa WhittakerJohn and Pippa WicksonRichard and Mary WilliamsBarry and Judith WilliamsonJohn WinterbottomIan Woollard

and our other anonymous supportersand our Friends.

DONORS Thank you to those who have chosen to make a gift to the CBSO this year.Katherine AldridgeBaltimore Friends of the CBSOProfessor Dame Sandra DawsonPeter GrahamChris MorleyMembers of the Newport Music Coach

and our other anonymous donors.

LEGACY DONORSWe’re incredibly grateful to the following individuals who have chosen to remember the CBSO in their will, passing on the baton for music-lovers of the future.In memory of Chris AldridgeIn memory of Peter AshtonThe late Terence BaumThe late Elizabeth Bathurst BlencoweThe late Mr Peter Walter BlackPhilip BowdenAllan and Jennifer BuckleThe late Miss Sheila Margaret Burgess

SmithIsabel ChurcherThe late Colin W ClarkeMr and Mrs P Cocking

The late Roy CollinsDavid in memory of Ruth Pauline HollandTony Davis and Darin QuallsThe late Mr Peter S. DayMark DevinAlistair DowThe late Mary FellowsFelonious MongooseValerie FranklandJill GodsallThe late Colin GrahamDavid and Lesley HarringtonTricia HarveyThe late Mrs Marjorie HildrethMr Trevor and Mrs Linda IngramRobin and Dee JohnsonAlan Jones and Andrew OrchardMs Lou JonesThe late William JonesThe late Mr John Thomas KnightPeter MacklinThe late Mr and Mrs F. McDermott and

Mrs C. HallThe late Myriam Josephine MajorThe late Joyce MiddletonPhilip MillsThe late Peter and Moyra MonahanThe late Arthur MouldThe late June NorthStephen OsborneGill PowellThe late Mrs Edith RobertsPhilip RothenbergThe late Mr Andrew RoulstoneThe late Thomas Edward ScottMrs C E Smith and Mr William SmithPam SnellThe late Mrs Sylvia StirmanThe late Mrs Eileen SummersMiss K V Swift John TaylorMr D M and Mrs J G ThorneJohn VickersMrs Angela and Mr John WattsPhilip WilsonAlan Woodfi eld

and our other anonymous donors.

ENDOWMENT DONORSWe are grateful to all those who have given to the CBSO Development Trust’s private endowment fund, thus enabling the orchestra to become more self-suffi cient for the long term.Mike and Jan AdamsArts for AllViv and Hazel AstlingThe Barwell Charitable TrustIn memory of Foley L BatesBridget Blow CBEDeloitteMiss Margery ElliottSimon FaircloughSir Dexter HuttIrwin Mitchell SolicitorsThe Justham TrustMrs Thelma JusthamBarry and Frances KirkhamChris and Jane LoughranLinda Maguire-BrookshawMazars Charitable TrustAndrew Orchard and Alan JonesJohn OsbornMargaret PaytonRoger Pemberton and Monica PirottaDavid PettPinsent MasonsMartin PurdyPeter and Sally-Ann SinclairJerry SykesAlessandro and Monica TosoPatrick VerwerR C and F M Young Trust

* Player supporter

Credits correct as of 27 July 2021

Get closer to the music, the orchestra and its musicians – we’d love you to be part of it.

Joining as a member will not only provide vital support to help the CBSO recover from the Covid crisis but your gift will also be matched pound for pound thanks to the generous support of a CBSO member of our campaign board.

Visit cbso.co.uk/membership for more information and to join online.

To make a donation, to join us as a member or for more information on the many ways by which you can support the CBSO, please visit cbso.co.uk/support-us

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Corporate Partners

Trusts and Foundations29th May 1961 Charitable TrustABO Trust’s Sirens ProgrammeMiss Albright Grimley CharityThe Andor Charitable TrustThe Lord Austin TrustThe John Avins TrustBackstage TrustThe Rachel Baker Memorial CharityBite Size PiecesThe Boshier-Hinton FoundationBritish Korean SocietyThe Charles Brotherton TrustThe Edward & Dorothy Cadbury TrustEdward Cadbury Charitable TrustThe George Cadbury FundThe R V J Cadbury Charitable TrustCBSO Development TrustCity of Birmingham Orchestral Endowment FundThe John S Cohen FoundationThe Cole Charitable TrustThe George Henry Collins CharityThe Concertina Charitable TrustBaron Davenport’s CharityThe D’Oyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe W E Dunn TrustThe W.G. Edwards Charitable FoundationJohn Ellerman FoundationThe Eveson Charitable TrustThe John Feeney Charitable TrustGeorge Fentham Birmingham CharityAllan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable SettlementFidelio Charitable TrustThe Garrick Charitable TrustThe Golsoncott FoundationGrantham Yorke TrustThe Grey Court TrustThe Grimmitt TrustLG Harris TrustThe Derek Hill FoundationThe Joseph Hopkins and Henry James Sayer CharitiesJohn Horniman’s Children’s TrustThe Irving Memorial Trust

The JABBS FoundationLillie Johnson Charitable TrustThe Kobler TrustJames Langley Memorial TrustThe Leverhulme TrustLG Harris TrustLJC FundLimoges Charitable TrustThe S & D Lloyd CharityThe Helen Rachael Mackaness Charitable TrustThe MacRobert TrustThe McLay Dementia TrustThe James Frederick & Ethel Anne Measures CharityThe Anthony and Elizabeth Mellows Charitable TrustMFPA Trust Fund for the Training of Handicapped

Children in the ArtsMillichope FoundationThe David Morgan Music TrustThe Oakley Charitable TrustThe Patrick TrustThe Misses C M Pearson & M V Williams

Charitable TrustPerry Family Charitable TrustThe Bernard Piggott Charitable TrustPRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for OrganisationsThe Radcliffe TrustThe Rainbow Dickinson TrustThe Ratcliff FoundationClive & Sylvia Richards CharityRix-Thompson-Rothenberg FoundationThe M K Rose Charitable TrustThe Rowlands TrustRVW TrustThe Saintbury TrustThe E H Smith Charitable TrustF C Stokes TrustSutton Coldfield Charitable TrustC B & H H Taylor 1984 TrustG J W Turner TrustThe Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable TrustGarfield Weston FoundationThe Wolfson FoundationThe Alan Woodfield Charitable Trust

Supporter of Schoolsʼ Concerts

Public Funders

www.prsformusicfoundation.com

G lobe f l ow

Partners in Orchestral Development

William King Ltd

THANK YOU The support we receive from thousands of individual donors, public funders, businesses and private foundations allows us to present extraordinary performances and to create exciting activities in schools and communities. Your support makes such a diff erence and is much appreciated.

For more information on how your organisation can engage with the CBSO, please contact Simon Fairclough, CBSO Director of Development, on 0121 616 6500 or sfairclough@cbso.co.uk

Thank you also to our Major Donors, Benefactors, Circles Members, Patrons and Friends for their generous support.

Education Partners

In-kind supporters

Funders

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BOARD Chair David Burbidge CBE DLDeputy Chair David RoperElected Trustees Tony Davis Jane Fielding Susan Foster Joe Godwin Emily Ingram Sundash Jassi Chris Loughran Lucy Williams

Birmingham City Council Nominated Trustees Cllr Sir Albert Bore Cllr Alex Yip

Player Nominated Trustees Elspeth Dutch Helen Edgar

Additional Player Representative Margaret Cookhorn

Hon Secretary to the Trustees Mark Devin

CBSO DEVELOPMENT TRUST Chair Chris Loughran DL

Trustees Charles Barwell OBE Gordon Campbell Wally Francis John Osborn CBE David Pett

Hon Secretary to the Trustees John Bartlett

CAMPAIGN BOARDChair David Burbidge CBE, DL Susan Foster Peter How Jamie Justham Her Honour Frances Kirkham CBE Chris Loughran DL John Osborn CBE

Honorary Medical Advisors:

Dr Rod MacRorie. Association of Medical Advisors to British Orchestras/BAPAM

Professor Sir Keith Porter. Consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham

PLAYERS’ COMMITTEEChair Jo Patton Vice Chair Mark Phillips Richard Watkin Andy Herbert Kirsty Lovie Colette Overdijk Heather Bradshaw Matthew Hardy* Recipients of the CBSO Long Service Award † Part-time employee # Volunteer

MANAGEMENTChief Executive Stephen Maddock Obe*PA to Chief Executive Niki Longhurst*†

Head of Orchestra Management (Maternity Cover) Adrian RutterOrchestra Manager Claire Dersley*Assistant Orchestra Manager Alan JohnsonPlatform Manager Peter Harris*Assistant Platform Manager Robert HowardLibrarian Jack Lovell-Huckle

Head of Artistic Planning Anna MelvillePlanning & Tours Manager Hannah Muddiman†Project Manager Claire Greenwood†Assistant Planning Manager Maddi Belsey-Day

Director of Learning & Engagement Lucy GalliardLearning & Participation Manager Katie LucasYouth Ensembles Offi cer Rebecca NicholasSchools Offi cer Carolyn Burton Chorus Manager Poppy HowarthChildren’s & Youth Chorus Offi cer Ella McNameeResearch Assistant Adam Nagel*†

Director of Marketing & Communications Gareth Beedie Marketing Manager Beki SmithCRM & Insight Manager Melanie Ryan*†Publications Manager Jane Denton†Assistant Marketing Manager Harriet GreenDigital Content Producer Hannah Blake-FathersMarketing Volunteer Christine Midgley*#

Director of Development Simon FaircloughHead of Philanthropy Francesca SpickernellMembership & Appeals Manager Eve Vines†Events & Relationship Management Executive Megan BradshawDevelopment Operations Offi cer Melanie AdeyDevelopment Administrator Bethan McKnight†Trust Fundraiser Fiona Fox

Director of Finance Annmarie WallisFinance Manager Dawn DohertyPayroll Offi cer Lindsey Bhagania†*Assistant Accountant Graham IrvingFinance Assistant (Cost) Susan PriceHR Manager Hollie DunsterCBSO Centre Manager Niki Longhurst*†Technical & Facilities Supervisor Tomoyuki MatsuoAssistant CBSO Centre Manager Peter Clarke*Receptionist Sev Kucukogullari†

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