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Cardiff University School of Music 2010/11 Concerts

We are pleased to welcome the Carducci Quartet for a third year as resident ensemble at the University. As well as six concerts in Cardiff, the Quartet continues to have a busy international career and in 2010/11 will be performing in America, Australia, Dubai.

Visiting artists to Cardiff include Voces8, Okeanos, Elin Manahan Thomas and Peter Lawson.

In a new venture we will be presenting six one-hour concerts in the early evening devoted to a complete cycle of Bach’s ‘48’ preludes and fugues.

Student performances include a concert of Bach’s orchestral works, Duruflé’s Requiem, Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no.6 and two performances of works by Mozart and Haydn at Llandaff Cathedral and St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, as well as the annual showcase for student compositions in April.

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Tues 12 Oct 18.40Members of the Carducci Quartet in conversation with Dr Arlene Sierra

Tues 02 Nov 18.30Dr David Ponsford discusses the importance of The well-tempered Clavier with Professor Robin Stowell

Tues 07 Dec 18.30Peter Lawson in conversation with Dr Caroline Rae

Tues 01 Feb 18.30Members of the Carducci Quartet in conversation with Dr Arlene Sierra

Tues 08 Feb 18.30 & 21.30Jonathan Powell in conversation with Dr Charles Wilson

Tues 25 March 18.30Members of Okeanos in conversation with Dr Arlene Sierra

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How did you meet, and why did you choose the name of an Italian poet

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The story has two halves really. Matthew and Emma met while playing in the National Childrens Orchestra, aged 12 and, as they both lived in Gloucestershire, began playing together in a quartet. That quartet was given the name ‘Carducci’ in 1997 after a performance given at the Castagnetto-Carducci Festival. The Tuscan town adopted the name Carducci, in honour of the great Italian love poet. The mayor of Castagnetto-Carducci bestowed the name upon the quartet and then paraded them around thetown with flags and medals! Matthew got so carried away in the moment that he proposed to Emma! Eoin and I met as teenagers. We both attended the Cork School of Music and played in various groups together. We met Matthew and Emma in London in 2003. As quartet in residence at Cardiff University you take a lot of care with the

workshops and seminars for students. What do you like about education work?

We love working with young kids, introducing them to the instruments and telling them about chamber music. It is also great to work with young musicians—encouraging their love of music and passing on our enthusiasm for quartet playing. Our work at Cardiff University is very important to us. The composition department is strong and vibrant and we believe it is valuable for these young composers to work alongside professional performers, as they compose their music. It must be so frustrating for them to only hear their music played back to them by their computer—we enjoy bringing the music to life.

You have a reputation for performing well-known and well-loved repertoire, as well as commissioning works from contemporary composers. Why do you ask today’s composers to write for you?

We enjoy the opportunity to play very old and very new music. For us, the variety of new music being composed today is fascinating. All of the works that have been composed for us have been very exciting—the whole process of working through the music for the first time, with the composer’s insight and input available to you is really a wonderful experience and performing a world premiere is always fun.

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Singing has been part of your life from an early age, yet you appeared set on an academic career, what made you change track?

I definitely always thought I’d be an academic—or a vulcanologist at one point, which would have made last Easter an interesting time! Singing went hand-in-hand with my other interests, and after I left University I had no plans to continue with it. But I was lucky enough to be spotted by the Monteverdi Choir ‘fixer’ before the Bach Pilgrimage in 2000 and got an audition with Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Having got in to the choir, and spent that year travelling Europe singing the most fabulous baroque music in the world’s most beautiful venues and with the top musicians in their field, I’m afraid there was no looking back. Your love of eighteenth-century music,

such as Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart is well-known. What makes it so compelling to you?

I think there’s something deeply touching about baroque and early classical music, something very human. The rhythms and harmonies step out of the straightforwardness of the renaissance into a new level of expression, and there are twists and turns which can be absolutely

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magical, within the music and its relationship to the text. I also love the element of dance in early music, the beautiful swing which makes it infinitely listenable-to (I know that’s not a word!). You have given time in your busy

performing schedule to teach and inspire those even younger than you. What is it you would like Cardiff students to take away from the time they spend with you?

I feel that there is a bit of a vaccuum between aspiring performers and those already in the professional world, and so much can be done to bridge that gap. Starting out as a musician in the big bad world is daunting and there are many pitfalls —most of which I’d say I managed to fall into accidentally at the beginning! It’s important to share tales and experiences, and to give tips, be they musical (how to trill in French baroque) or mundane (how to write a good biog). I also just thrive on the enthusiasm which students radiate, it’s great to be reminded sometimes, twelve years on, why I entered this career in the first place!

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02/04/11 19:30St David’s Cathedral, Pembs.

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When did you decide that you wanted to be performers? Everyone in the group is a soloist in their own right, so we can’t resist a bit of performance and showmanship! For each of us, the moment we decided to be performers, was probably the moment that we all discovered how much performance enhances the music itself, and when the conformity of a choir did not provide the freedom for individual expression. When there are only eight people on stage singing it is impossible to not show some individual character and personality, and I think it is this individuality which make the members of VOCES8 performers rather than just singers. As live performers it is important for us to remember that people go to concerts for a reason, and that reason is to get to know and build a rapport with the individuals on the stage and be entertained visually as well as audibly, otherwise why not just stay at home and listen to a CD? Going to concerts provides a completely different experience for audiences, and as performers it is our responsibility to make sure that experience is an exciting and stimulating one.

Andrea, how did your time at Cardiff University prepare you for your career? The department always had a very friendly atmosphere and sense of camaraderie amongst the students and staff, and whether I enjoyed the analysis lectures or not, the musical theory on chord structures has been useful! Cardiff provided me with a great number of performance opportunities to further develop my technique and confidence on stage and in front of a critical audience thanks to the lunchtime concert series, choir concerts and performance recitals. I had the opportunity to found my own eight-part a cappella group (well before I had found out about Voces8!), be a member of the chamber choir, and just did as much singing as I could. Until I got to my final year at Cardiff, I hadn’t seriously considered becoming a professional performer. I knew I enjoyed singing, but the prospect of trying to ’make it’ in an industry such as the notorious classical music scene was extremely daunting. However, nothing prepares you better than seeing people who are lucky enough to already be a part of it, and watching all the musicians who performed in the Music School’s concert series taught me a great deal about musicianship and ensemble.

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Bach’s WTC Series

Is it possible to summarise the importance of Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier in one sentence?

No! Whilst the nineteenth-century idea of Bach’s WTC as the ‘Old Testament’ of music still holds in some pianists’ circles (Beethoven’s sonatas being the ‘New’), the historical truth is different. Bach’s ‘progressive’ features in the ‘48’ include: 1) the separation of prelude and fugue as independent, self-contained genres; 2) the composition of preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, with a more modern system of keyboard tuning to enable this; 3) the presentation of the music as an encyclopaedia of all genres known to Bach for the preludes (e.g. dances, concerto, trio sonata, aria, ‘pattern’ pieces), and all known ways of writing fugues. Fascinating on so many different levels, the WTC is undoubtedly one of the greatest musical monuments of our civilisation. Bach did not specify which keyboard

instrument the ‘48’ should be played on. Why have you chosen the harpsichord?

For Bach, the harpsichord was the standard ‘domestic’ keyboard instrument for performing and teaching. Whilst it is certainly possible to play individual preludes and fugues on other keyboard instruments of the time, the clavichord, chamber organ, and even the early piano, the harpsichord is the only instrument on which to play the entire collection, and for which I believe Bach wrote the WTC. The two-manual harpsichord by Robert Goble & Sons (modelled on an 18th-century instrument by Blanchet and owned by the University) is ideal; Bach would have been extremely satisfied with such an instrument.

Why have you chosen to perform the 48 preludes and fugues as a complete cycle?

In order to demonstrate the sheer variety of genres, compositional techniques and Bach’s unbounded imagination. When one compares JSB’s compositions with those of his contemporaries, one is immediately struck with the sheer imagination and intellectual control which Bach was able to exercise over both large-scale structure and small-scale detail.

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Mark Eager Cardiff University Symphony Orchestra

Cardiff University Symphony Orchestra brings together a diverse range of musicians from across many University departments to enjoy one of the greatest pleasures known to man—that of making music. Music, as we know is a truly universal language, able to transcend most human barriers.

My aim with CUSO is to nurture talent through the careful choice of challenging, varied and enjoyable repertoire. This season we have music from Bernstein’s West Side Story through Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin Suite to Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony.

I am thoroughly looking forward to continuing our recent successes and teaching some wonderful and exhilarating scores over the next few months. David Ponsford University Choir

Rehearsals take place in the School of Music, but members (both students and staff) come from throughout the entire University and from the wider community of Cardiff. We have a mixture of young and more mature voices who have the flexibility to sing music from a wide range of repertory.

When I was a student, the choral performances in which I took part introduced me to the power of music that has had lasting effects on my life. My mission is to inspire the same for today’s students. The choir has given me feelings of such joy and achievement. Do join us as a supporter at our concerts to experience the enthusiasm and commitment that we all project through music.

David Ponsford University Chamber Orchestra

Members of the Chamber Orchestra are drawn from throughout the University. Gifted students often play for up to three years in a family ambience that is constantly striving for the highest musical standards. As well as performing in the University, we have performed in Brecon, Presteigne and Swansea, where non-University audiences have given us tremendous receptions. We also play with the Chamber Choir, and perform with professional soloists who are always generous in the giving of their experience to our students. John Hugh Thomas University Chamber Choir

Membership of the University Chamber Choir is open to students from all University departments. Choristers are auditioned, or re-auditioned, at the start of each academic session to forming a balanced group of forty singers. A group of this size makes it possible to perform a wide variety of works, ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary music.

Singers who remain in the choir for three years will have studied and performed works as varied as the motets of Lassus or Bouzignac; works by Handel or Bach and his family; compositions by Haydn and Mozart; music from the Romantic period and pieces by twentieth and twenty-first century composers. This session’s repertoire will include works by Haydn, Mozart, Poulenc, Duruflé and Whitacre.

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‘...these players have hot talent and guts. I look forward to more from New Noise...’ —The Times

‘Janey Miller’s exquisite oboe, Joby Burgess’s virtuosic percussion and

sound-blowing electronics make New Noise’s music blindingly vivid for anyone with a sense of musical adventure.’

—The Birmingham Post

Fusing together an eclectic mix of classical, electronic, jazz and contemporary music, we formed our duo New Noise at the turn of the millennium, that’s me, Joby Burgess, a percussionist and oboist, Janey Miller. As New Noise we have performed throughout the UK, working with a diverse range of artists including David Bedford, Donnacha Dennehy, Sam Hayden and Andy Sheppard.

Sharing my love of music is central to my life and of course is the common thread linking teaching and performing.

I’ve never been a ‘career’ performer, in the sense of being trained as a player intent only on winning the next International Piano Competition or cranking up the tempo of Chopin études to supersonic speeds. I do think of myself as a musician who happens to play the piano and who loves playing everything—from the baroque to contemporary jazz.

As a tutor at Chetham’s and the RNCM, I see my work as much more than a simple passing-on of technique and advice from Master to Pupil. I believe my own playing owes a lot to the receivership as well as the promotion of inspiration; my students inspire a lot. Although I’ve performed my fair share of Mozart concertos and Chopin nocturnes, that excitement of discovery is ultimately what drives my choice of repertoire and what has attracted me to much American music. The pioneering spirit of Charles Ives’ Concord sonata remains vital now, almost 100 years after its composition.

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Music of the Americas

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Okeanos’ primary focus is to reach out to new audiences, create opportunities for young composers, and initiate pioneering performance events, often collaborating with other art forms.

Our sound world is described as fragile, intriguing and often entrancingly beautiful. Here is some praise for ‘Reflections’, our CD featuring the music of Nicola Lefanu & Elizabeth Maconchy;

‘What a delicious combination this is. Used with such delicacy and subtlety it refracts light like the last vestiges of the winter sun’.

In collaboration with Japan-UK150, we were resident at Dartington Summer School in August 2009, introducing the music of Somei Satoh and presenting students’ works. This echoed an earlier project co-ordinated by Rolf Hind in collaboration with the Asian Music Circuit and koto soloist Etsuko Takezawa.

Jonathan Powell will guide his audience along the remarkable journey that the composer Alexander Scriabin took around the turn of the 20th century in Russia.

I look forward to guiding the audience along the remarkable journey that the composer Alexander Scriabin took around the turn of the 20th century in Russia. In the concert and lecture on 8 February 2011, I will show how Scriabin’s roots lie not only in the pianism of Chopin but also in the practices of his Russian predecessors such as Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov.

Having first performed Scriabin’s Fifth Sonata when aged 14, I have recently performed the cycle of ten sonatas in the UK, Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Denmark.

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Jonathan Powell

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October 2010

David Ponsford (harpsichord)Tues 12 Oct 17.30Bach The Well-tempered Clavier48 Preludes and FuguesBook I: nos.1—8Tickets £5

Carducci QuartetTues 12 Oct 19.30Mozart String Quartet in C major K465 ‘Dissonance’ / Shostakovich String Quartet in F sharp minor no.7, op.108 / Beethoven String Quartet in C minor op.18 no.4

Carducci QuartetGraham Oppenheimer (viola)Tues 26 Oct 19.30Haydn String Quartet in D minor, op.9 no.4 / Philip Glass Quartet no.3 (Mishima) / Beethoven String Quintet in C major op.29

November

David Ponsford (harpsichord) Tues 02 Nov 17.30Bach The Well-tempered Clavier48 Preludes and FuguesBook I: nos.9—16Tickets £5

Cardiff University Symphony OrchestraMark Eager (conductor)Sat 06 Nov 19.30Brahms Symphony no.3 /Bartók Miraculous MandarinTickets £8

November continued

Carducci QuartetTues 16 Nov 19.30Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 / Webern Langsamer Satz in E flat major / David Matthews String Quartet no.10 / Beethoven String Quartet in F minor op.95

Cardiff University Chamber ChoirJohn Hugh Thomas (conductor)Jeffrey Howard (organ) Sun 21 Nov 15.00St Mary’s Church SwanseaDuruflé Four motets on Gregorian themes / Poulenc Litanies à la vierge noir / Eric Whitacre Sleep Lux aurumque / Duruflé RequiemTickets £5

David Ponsford (harpsichord) Tues 23 Nov 17.30Bach The Well-tempered Clavier48 Preludes and FuguesBook I: nos.17—24Tickets £5

New NoiseTues 23 Nov 19.30Cornelius Cardew Solo with Accompaniment / Louis Andriessen To Pauline O / Kenneth Hesketh Klok / Stephen Montague Philup Glass / Michael Zev Gordon Imaginary Lands and music from the new album Frozen River Flows

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Cardiff University Chamber OrchestraDavid Ponsford (conductor and harpsichord)Jacqueline Ross (violin)Rob Court (harpsichord) Fri 03 Dec 19.30Cardiff University Concert Hall Sun 05 Dec 19.30Brecon CathedralJS Bach Brandenburg Concerto no.3 in G major BWV 1048 / Violin Concerto in E major BWV 1042 /Double Harpsichord Concerto in C minor BWV 1060 / Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041 / Suite no.3 in D major BWV 1068Tickets £8 / £6 / £3.50

Cardiff University Chamber ChoirJohn Hugh Thomas (conductor)Jeffery Howard (organ) Sat 04 Dec 19.30 Llandaff CathedralDuruflé Four motets on Gregorian themes / Poulenc Litanies à la vierge noir / Eric Whitacre Sleep Lux aurumque / Duruflé RequiemTickets £8 / £5

December continued

Peter Lawson (piano)Tues 07 Dec 19.30Ginastera 1st sonata / Ives Concord sonata / Villa-Lobos Prole do Bebe 1

Cardiff University Contemporary Music GroupTues 14 Dec 19.30Night Songs and Forest Scenes: Robert Schumann and the Twentieth Century. Works by Luigi Dallapiccola, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm and others are interleaved with songs and short instrumental movements by Schumann himself.Tickets £5Students/Under 18s £2.50

Cardiff University Choir and Symphony Orchestra Mark Eager and David Ponsford (conductors) Sat 18 Dec 19.15Hoddinott HallBarber Adagio for Strings / Bernstein West Side Story Suite /John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine / Bruckner Four Motets /Holst Hymn of JesusTickets £10 / £8 / £4.50

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Unless otherwise indicated, concerts take place at:

University Concert Hall, Cardiff School of MusicCardiff UniversityCorbett RoadCardiffCF10 3EB

Priced at £9 / £7 / £3.50 (unless stated otherwise)

All details are correct at the time of going to press—August 2010. The University reserves the right to make changes when absolutely necessary.

February 2011

David Ponsford (harpsichord)Tues 01 Feb 17.30Bach The Well-tempered Clavier48 Preludes and FuguesBook II: nos. 25—32Tickets £5

Carducci Quartet Tues 01 Feb 19.30Haydn String Quartet in C major op.33 no.3 ‘Bird’ / Bartók String Quartet no. 2 / Schumann String Quartet op.41 no.3 in A major

Jonathan Powell (piano) Tues 08 Feb 19.30The Eric Hodges Lecture RecitalScriabin Piano Sonatas—2, 4, 5, 8, 9 & 10

BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Welsh Composers’ ShowcaseThurs 17 Feb 10.00—13.00 & 14.00—17.00Fri 18 Feb14.30—17.30, Evening concert at 19.00BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff BayThis annual event will feature works by living composers in Wales. Student composers from Cardiff University’s School of Music will be invited to submit scores for the project. To book free tickets for the workshop sessions or evening concert, contact the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Audience Line on 0800 052 1812 or WMC Ticket Office on 029 2063 6464

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David Ponsford (harpsichord)Tues 01 March 17.30Bach The Well-tempered Clavier48 Preludes and FuguesBook II: nos. 33–40Tickets £5

Carducci QuartetTues 01 March 19.30Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.76 no.4 ‘Sunrise’ / Michael Zev Gordon Three Short Pieces for String Quartet / Beethoven String Quartet in B flat major, op.18 no.6

OkeanosTues 15 March 19.30Elizabeth Maconchy Reflections, Night, Morning & Noon / Vaughan Williams Two Blake songs / Howard Skempton Excursions / Nicola Lefanu Songs for Jane / Robin Holloway Serenade in D flat

April continued

Ben Gregor-Smith (cello)Tues 05 April 19.30The Kenneth Loveland Gift Winner’s Recital

Cardiff University Contemporary Music GroupTues 12 April 19.30Student ShowcaseTomorrow’s music todayCardiff University Contemporary Music Group presents the latest works by composition students in the School of Music.Free Admission / All welcome

Cardiff University Choir and Symphony OrchestraMark Eager and David Ponsford (conductors)Saturday 16 April 19.30St David’s HallVerdi Four Sacred PiecesTchaikovsky Symphony no.6Tickets £10 / £8 / £5

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David Ponsford (harpsichord)Tues 22 March 17.30Bach The Well-tempered Clavier48 Preludes and FuguesBook II: nos. 41—48Tickets £5

Voces8Tues 22 March 19.30A Choral TapestryHenryk Górecki Totus Tuus / JS Bach Singet dem Herrn / Palestrina Magnificat Primi Toni / Monteverdi Cantate Domino / Bruckner Ave Maria / Rheinberger Abendlied

Carducci QuartetSimon Rowland Jones (viola)Gemma Rosefield (cello)Tues 29 March 19.30Mozart String Quintet in C K515 / Shostakovich Elegy and Polka / Tchaikovsky Sextet: Souvenir de Florence

April

Cardiff University Chamber Choir and Orchestra withElin Manahan Thomas (soprano)Christopher Williams (piano)John Hugh Thomas (conductor)Fri 01 April 19.30Llandaff Cathedral, CardiffSat 02 April 19.30 St David’s Cathedral, PembrokeshireMozart God is our refuge, K20 / Mozart Ch’io mi scordi di te, K505 / Mozart Symphony in G, K129 / Mozart Ave verum, K618 / Haydn Salve regina in E / Haydn Missa Sancti Bernardi d’OffidaTickets £10 / £8 / £4.50 (Nave)£8 / £6 / £3 (Side Aisles)

Unless otherwise indicated, concerts take place at:

University Concert Hall, Cardiff School of MusicCardiff UniversityCorbett RoadCardiffCF10 3EB

Priced at £9 / £7 / £3.50 (unless stated otherwise)

All details are correct at the time of going to press—August 2010. The University reserves the right to make changes when absolutely necessary.

Special Offers

Book all concerts and receive a 25% discount*Book for the six Carducci Quartet concerts and receive a 15% discountBook for the complete Bach ‘48’ concerts, £5 per concert or £25 for six* This offer does not include the St David’s Hall concert

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Music courses starting this autumn:

— The Operas of Mozart— Learning to Read Music (I)— An Introduction to the Music of the Classical Period— Music Composition Workshop* — Music and Art in the Italian Courts, 1500-1600* — Chanting and Overtone Singing— Jamming! An Introduction to Playing Improvised Music— Learning to Read Music (II)— A Century of Romantic Music— An Introduction to the Music of the Romantic Period— Work Songs and Sea Shanties— Listen very carefully: Exploring the Elements of Music— Music and Art in fin de siècle Europe

* Teaching and learning are undertaken by means of web-delivered teaching materials.

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Autumn Dates 2010David Ponsford Bach’s ‘48’ 12 OctCarducci Quartet 12 OctCarducci Quartet 26 OctDavid Ponsford Bach’s ‘48’ 02 NovCardiff University Symphony Orchestra 06 NovCarducci Quartet 16 NovCardiff University Chamber Choir 21 Nov David Ponsford Bach’s ‘48’ 23 NovNew Noise 23 NovCardiff University Chamber Orchestra 03 & 05 DecCardiff University Chamber Choir 04 Dec Peter Lawson 07 DecCardiff University Contemporary Music Group 14 DecCardiff University Choir and Symphony Orchestra 18 Dec

Spring Dates 2011Carducci Quartet 01 Feb David Ponsford Bach’s ‘48’ 08 FebEric Hodges Lecture Recital /Jonathan Powell 08 FebDavid Ponsford Bach’s ‘48’ 01 MarchCarducci Quartet 01 MarchOkeanos 15 MarchDavid Ponsford Bach’s ‘48’ 22 MarchVoces8 22 MarchCarducci Quartet 29 MarchElin Manahan Thomas with Cardiff University Chamber Choir & Orchestra 01 & 02 AprKenneth Loveland Gift Winner’s Recital / Ben Gregor Smith 05 AprCardiff University Contemporary Music Group 12 AprCardiff University Choir and Symphony Orchestra 16 Apr

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