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DIGITAL CONCERTSALPESH CONDUCTS MENDELSSOHN This concert forms part of the CBSO Symphonic Collection, and was filmed in Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Alpesh Chauhan – Conductor

Stephen Hough – Piano

Brahms Academic Festival Overture 10’

Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1 20’

Mendelssohn Symphony No.1 35’

Alpesh Chauhan needs no introduction here in Birmingham – and nor does Felix Mendelssohn. His music was an instant smash when he visited Birmingham in the 19th century, and in the CBSO’s centenary year, his sparkling First Piano Concerto is like cracking open a bottle of musical champagne – especially when it’s played by our old friend Stephen Hough. Critics say he is Britain’s greatest living pianist, but we are just glad to welcome him back, at the heart of a concert that ends with the irrepressible energy of Mendelssohn’s First Symphony, and begins with the cheerful student drinking songs of Brahms’s festive overture. Bottoms up: this is music to prove – once again – that youth is simply a state of mind!

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Johannes Brahms (1833-97)

Academic Festival Overture, Op.80

Perhaps the most learned composer of his day, Brahms regarded himself as essentially self-taught: he was never formally the student of any university. Yet he had participated fully in the student life (at least as regards listening to lectures, debating and drinking), at the University of Göttingen in the spring and summer of 1853 while a guest of his new friend Joseph Joachim. Clearly he remembered that time with pleasure: and the proof may be found in his Academic Festival Overture, composed in the summer of 1880 in thanks for the honorary Doctorate of Philosophy conferred upon him the previous year by Breslau University. (He first performed it there at an all-Brahms concert at the beginning of 1881.) Characteristically self-deprecating, he referred to the work as ‘a potpourri of student songs à la Suppé’ – presumably a reference to the overture of Suppé’s then-popular operetta Flotte Bursch (1863), a simple medley that includes the universally recognised student hymn Gaudeamus igitur. But Brahms’ overture, which concludes with that tune, is vastly more artful, and more humorous, being a fully worked-out but defiantly ‘un-academic’ sonata structure in C major masquerading as a free fantasia or quodlibet.

Moreover, student songs were venerable and popular enough to be counted a species of folk music, and Brahms treated them with similar fondness. The result is accordingly an irreverent, student’s-eye view of the nobility of learning. Imbued with an irrepressible sense of fun, the overture deploys great skill in the cause of mischief and mystification – as in the long introduction in C minor, whose stealthy initial theme is reshaped to become the first subject.

The music goes on to pay lip-service to civic solemnity (presenting the song Wir hatten gebauet ein stättliches Haus as a radiant Lutheran chorale on shining trumpets). It sings the praises of beauty (turning Hört, ich sing into a gorgeous, utterly Brahmsian second subject in E major); and it indulges a penchant for practical jokery – with a freshman’s ragging song, Was kommt dort in der Höh, first sardonically chuckling on bassoons, then bursting out uproariously on full orchestra. There’s parody too: the treatment of Was kommt dort surely recalls the Apprentices’ theme from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, and indeed the whole work may be a Brahmsian rejoinder to the Meistersinger Overture (also in C major) – a personal tribute to the values of counterpoint and ‘holy German art’, seen entirely from the Apprentices’ point of view. Certainly the final glorification of Gaudeamus igitur is achieved in a most un-Brahmsian (but typically Wagnerian) texture, as Brahms makes a merry noise with the largest orchestra he was ever to employ, complete with cymbals, triangle and bass drum.

Programme note © Calum MacDonald

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47)

Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25Molto Allegro con fuoco

Andante

Presto: Molto Allegro e Vivace

Mendelssohn admitted that his Piano Concerto No.1 was hastily written, but it never shows. On the other hand, the fact that he was only 22 at the time certainly does. Not in any suggestion of immaturity, but in the concerto’s youthful freshness, engaging charm, and spontaneous flow.

An enthusiastic traveller when young, he set out on a grand tour in 1830, visiting Paris (where he met Berlioz), Venice, Rome, Florence, Switzerland and eventually arriving in Munich where the concerto was quickly put together for a concert on 17 October 1831. Mendelssohn was the soloist, and it was enthusiastically received. “It gave great pleasure and the people clapped for me to come out again, but I was shy and would not” he wrote.

As in the later Violin Concerto, Mendelssohn departs from the orthodox classical procedure of a long orchestral introduction presenting all the thematic material of the first movement before the entry of the soloist. Instead, there are just a few bars of mounting orchestral tension, then the soloist dashes away and most dominates the rest of the movement. There is a further innovation in that Mendelssohn links the movements.

Instead of a break at the end of the first, brass fanfares provide a direct link to the second, an andante in Mendelssohn’s most romantic style, starting with a cello cantilena. Then fanfares are back to take us straight into the last movement, a brilliantly virtuosic affair in which the music ripples and dances along happily.

Programme note © Kenneth Loveland

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47)

Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.11Allegro di molto

Andante

Minuetto: Allegro molto

Allegro con fuoco

Few composers have been more completely surrounded by admiring friends and fans than Felix Mendelssohn. So let’s thank Hector Berlioz for offering an impartial perspective. They met in Italy in the spring of 1831. Mendelssohn was 22. Berlioz was 28, and he recorded his impressions in a letter to his friends back in France:

He is enormously, extraordinarily, superbly, prodigiously talented. I can’t be suspected of bias when I say this, because he’s told me frankly he found my music utterly incomprehensible.

A few months later, Berlioz had a chance to hear some of Mendelssohn’s own music: the work we now know as his First Symphony. Berlioz heard it under less-than-ideal circumstances at a musical soirée in Rome, but that didn’t stop him recording his opinions:

I heard the other day the symphony he had performed in London, which he has de-arranged for violin, bass and piano duet. The first movement is superb, I don’t remember the slow movement in every detail, the Intermezzo is fresh and pungent; as for the finale…

At that point it’s kindest to draw a veil. Berlioz was a man of strong opinions and acid wit, but tonight we are here to enjoy this extraordinary youthful work, first completed by Mendelssohn in March 1824 at the age of 15. There was an official premiere in

Leipzig in February 1827. But the symphony made much more of an impression on 25 May 1829 at a concert by the Philharmonic Society of London. Felix, now 20, had decided to direct it himself using a new-fangled device called a conductor’s baton. The London firm from which he ordered it had never heard of one. Assuming that Mendelssohn was an alderman and that a baton was an item of civic regalia, they duly delivered a handsome wand embossed with a gold crown.

The performance went well. The middle movements were encored, and the following morning Mendelssohn presented the score to the Society, dedicating the symphony to them in gratitude (he said) for “the brilliant performance of the orchestra”. And it’s easy to imagine that this spirited symphony – very much in the tradition of Mozart as well as Beethoven, and directed by its elegant and charismatic young composer – made an impact on performers and listeners alike. It positively bursts into life: Beethoven’s torrential “C minor mood” becomes the plaything of a teenage genius who had spent his whole short life immersed in the poetic world of German romanticism.

The first movement sweeps to a finish, and Felix turns on the charm in a tender Andante, in which – amid glowing string phrases – the woodwinds take turns to carry the melody like a group of friends singing a partsong. They return in the central section of the Minuetto: a serene interlude at the heart of what is actually a stormy C minor scherzo. (In London, Mendelssohn temporarily replaced this movement with an orchestral version of the scherzo from his String Octet). And in the finale, bristling classical energy and Romantic song wrestle under storm-swept skies which finally clear, in a flourish of trumpets and drums, to let C major sunlight flood the closing bars.

Programme note © Richard Bratby

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THE PERFORMERS

Alpesh ChauhanConductor Alpesh Chauhan is Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company, and Associate Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, an orchestra which he has conducted regularly since his debut in 2015. His 2019 collaboration with the BOC on its production of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, was praised by The Times as “a magnificently taut and sometimes terrifying account of the score directed by the superb Alpesh Chauhan”, and received a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award.

For the past five years Alpesh has also enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, who named him as their Principal Conductor and with whom he has performed and recorded staples of the great symphonic repertoire, including a complete cycle of Brahms’ symphonies. Other highlights of his career to date include performances with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, with the BBC Philharmonic at the BBC Proms, a production of Turandot in Valencia at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, as well as regular appearances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra where, until 2016, he was Assistant Conductor.

In the 2020-21 season, Alpesh makes his Berlin debut at the famed Philharmonie, leading the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin in Strauss’ Don Juan as well as in works by Korngold, Szymanowski and Mozart. The season also sees engagements with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Milan’s “La Verdi” Orchestra, Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Duisburger Philharmoniker, to name a few.

Frequently appearing as a guest with acclaimed international orchestras including the Orchestre National d’Île de France, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Alpesh also enjoys collaborations with distinguished soloists such as Nicola Benedetti, Pablo Ferrández, Boris Giltburg, Ilya Gringolts, Benjamin Grosvenor, Stephen Hough, Leila Josefowicz,

Pavel Kolesnikov, Johannes Moser, Arcadi Volodos, and singers Markus Werba, Christianne Stotijn and Jennifer Wilson among others.

Alpesh’s concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in the UK, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands, including his performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI, which was televised on RAI 5. He has been featured in extensive articles in The Times, BBC Music and Classical Music magazines as well as Italy’s La Repubblica, Amadeus and Musica, and guest blogged for Gramophone magazine. Alpesh has been interviewed on Italian national TV, BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 4, and Radio Klara Belgium, and also presented an edition of BBC Radio 3’s Inside Music. He was appointed to the judging panels for the 2016 and 2018 editions of BBC Young Musician of the Year, and was nominated for The Times Breakthrough Award at The South Bank Sky Arts Awards in 2019.

A keen advocate of music education for young people, Alpesh is a patron of Awards for Young Musicians, a UK charity supporting talented young people from disadvantaged backgrounds on their musical journeys. He has also worked with ensembles such as the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and the symphony orchestras of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Northern College of Music. He was the conductor of the second BBC Ten Pieces film which brought the world of classical music into secondary schools across the country and received a distinguished BAFTA award. Alpesh has also written on the vital importance and necessity of exposing young children to music in Music Teacher magazine.

Born in Birmingham, Alpesh then went on to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester to study the cello with CBSO Section Leader Eduardo Vassallo before continuing at the RNCM to pursue the Master’s Conducting Course, taught by Clark Rundell and Mark Heron. Alpesh has studied with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, participated in masterclasses with Juanjo Mena, Vasily Petrenko and Jac van Steen, and has been mentored by Andris Nelsons and Edward Gardner.

Stephen HoughPiano One of the most distinctive artists of his generation, Stephen Hough combines a distinguished career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Hough was the first classical performer to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (2001) and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year’s Honours 2014. He was awarded Northwestern University’s 2008 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano, won the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in 2010, and in 2016 was made an Honorary Member of RPS.

Since taking first prize at the 1983 Naumburg Competition in New York, Hough has performed with many of the world’s major orchestras and has given recitals at the most prestigious concert halls. He is a regular guest at festivals such as Salzburg, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Mostly Mozart, Edinburgh, and BBC Proms, where he has made more than 20 concerto appearances.

He has appeared with most of the major European and American orchestras and plays recitals regularly in major halls and concert series around the world. Recent engagements include recitals in Chicago, Hong Kong, London’s Royal Festival Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Paris, Boston, San Francisco, the Kennedy Center and Sydney; performances with the Czech, London and New York Philharmonics, the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, National, Detroit, Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto symphonies, and the Philadelphia, Minnesota, Budapest Festival and Russian National Orchestras; and a performance televised worldwide with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle. He is also a regular guest at festivals such as Aldeburgh, Aspen, Blossom, Edinburgh, Hollywood Bowl, Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Tanglewood, Verbier and the BBC Proms, where he has made over 25 concerto appearances, including playing all of the works written by Tchaikovsky for piano and orchestra over the summer of 2009, a series he later repeated with the Chicago Symphony.

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Many of his catalogue of over 60 albums have garnered international prizes including the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d’Or, Monde de la Musique, several Grammy nominations, eight Gramophone Magazine Awards including ‘Record of the Year’ in 1996 and 2003, and the Gramophone ‘Gold Disc’ Award in 2008, which named his complete Saint-Saens Piano Concertos as the best recording of the past 30 years. His 2012 recording of the complete Chopin Waltzes received the Diapason d’Or de l’Annee, France’s most prestigious recording award. His 2005 live recording of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos was the fastest selling recording in Hyperion’s history, while his 1987 recording of the Hummel concertos remains Chandos’ best-selling disc to date. His recent releases, all for Hyperion, include a recording of his mass, Missa Mirabilis, with the Colorado Symphony and Andrew Litton; a recital disc with Steven Isserlis including Hough’s Sonata for cello and piano (Les Adieux); the Dvořák and Schumann concertos with the

CBSO and Andris Nelsons; the Final Piano Pieces of Brahms; and the Five Beethoven Piano Concertos with Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony.

Stephen Hough is also the featured artist in an iPad app about the Liszt Piano Sonata, which includes a fully-filmed performance and was released by the cutting-edge, award-winning company Touch Press.

Published by Josef Weinberger, Hough has composed works for orchestra, choir, chamber ensemble and solo piano. His Mass of Innocence and Experience and Missa Mirabilis were respectively commissioned by and performed at London’s Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. In 2012, the Indianapolis Symphony commissioned and performed Hough’s own orchestration of Missa Mirabilis, which was subsequently performed by the BBC Symphony as part of his residency with the orchestra. He has also been commissioned by musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Gilmore Foundation, The Genesis Foundation, the Walter W.

Naumburg Foundation, London’s National Gallery, Wigmore Hall, Le Musée de Louvre and Musica Viva Australia, among others.

A noted writer, Hough regularly contributes articles for The Guardian, The Times, The Tablet, Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine and wrote a blog for The Telegraph for seven years which became one of the most popular and influential forums for cultural discussion and for which he wrote over 600 articles. His book, The Bible as Prayer, was published by Bloomsbury and Paulist Press in 2007; his first novel, The Final Retreat, was published in 2018 by Sylph Editions; and Rough Ideas, a collection of essays and reflections, was published by Faber and Faber in August 2019 and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US in 2020.

Hough lives in London where he is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music and holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at his alma mater, the Royal Northern College in Manchester. He is also a member of the faculty at The Juilliard School.

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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN IJonathan Martindale *

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Philip BrettColin TwiggJane Wright * Julia Åberg *Stefano Mengoli *Ruth Lawrence *

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VIOLIN IIPeter Campbell-Kelly *Kate Suthers*Moritz Pfister *Catherine Arlidge *

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Amy Jones * #

Bryony Morrison *Georgia Hannant *Gabriel Dyker *

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VIOLAAdam Romer *

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David BaMaung *Angela Swanson

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Michael Jenkinson * #

Catherine Bower *Jessica Tickle *

CELLOEduardo Vassallo *

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David Powell * #

Miguel Fernandes *Catherine Ardagh-Walter *

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DOUBLE BASSJulian Atkinson *

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Damián Rubido GonzálezJeremy WattMark Goodchild *#

FLUTEMarie-Christine Zupancic *

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Veronika Klirova *

PICCOLOAndrew Lane

OBOEEmmet Byrne *Rachael Pankhurst *

CLARINETJoanna Patton *

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Mark O’Brien *

BASSOONNikolaj Henriques *

Christopher Gunia

CONTRABASSOONMargaret Cookhorn *

HORNElspeth Dutch *

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Jeremy Bushell *Martin Wright #

TRUMPETJonathan Holland *

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Richard Blake *Jonathan Quirk *

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TROMBONERichard Watkin * Robert Moseley

BASS TROMBONEDavid Vines *

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TUBAGraham Sibley *

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TIMPANIMatthew Hardy *

PERCUSSIONAdrian Spillett *

Andrew Herbert *Toby Kearney *

# Recipient of the CBSO Long Service Award * Supported player

Under the baton of its Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham and the West Midlands, and one of the world’s great orchestras.

Based in Symphony Hall, the ochestra gives over 150 concerts each year in Birmingham, the UK and around the world, playing music that ranges from classics to contemporary, film music and even symphonic disco. With a far-reaching community programme and a family of choruses and ensembles, it is involved in every aspect of music-making in the Midlands. But at its centre is a team of 75 superb professional musicians, and a 100-year tradition of making the world’s greatest music, right here in the heart of Birmingham.

That local tradition started with the orchestra’s very first symphonic concert in 1920 – conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. Ever since then, through war, recessions, social change and civic renewal, the CBSO has been proud to be Birmingham’s orchestra. Under principal conductors including Adrian Boult, George Weldon, Andrzej Panufnik and Louis Frémaux, the CBSO won an artistic reputation that spread far beyond the Midlands. But it was when it discovered the young British conductor Simon Rattle in 1980 that the CBSO became internationally

famous – and showed how the arts can help give a new sense of direction to a whole city.

Home and Away

Rattle’s successors Sakari Oramo (1998-2008) and Andris Nelsons (2008-15) helped cement that global reputation, and continued to build on the CBSO’s tradition of flying the flag for Birmingham. As the only professional symphony orchestra based between Bournemouth and Manchester, the orchestra tours regularly in Britain – and much further afield. The orchestra has travelled to Japan and the United Arab Emirates in previous seasons, and in December 2016 made its debut tour of China. And its recordings continue to win acclaim. In 2008, the CBSO’s recording of Saint-Saëns’ complete piano concertos was named the best classical recording of the last 30 years by Gramophone.

Now, under the dynamic leadership of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, associate conductor Michael Seal and assistant conductor Jaume Santonja Espinós, the CBSO continues to do what it does best – playing great music for the people of Birmingham and the Midlands.

Meet the Family

The CBSO Chorus – a symphonic choir made up of “amateur professionals”, trained by Simon Halsey cbe – is famous in its own

right. The CBSO Children’s Chorus and Youth Chorus showcase singers as young as eight. Through its unauditioned community choir – CBSO SO Vocal in Selly Oak – the CBSO shares its know-how and passion for music with communities throughout the city. The CBSO Youth Orchestra gives that same opportunity to young instrumentalists aged 14-21, offering high-level training to the next generation of orchestral musicians alongside top international conductors and soloists.

These groups are sometimes called the “CBSO family” – over 650 amateur musicians of all ages and backgrounds, who work alongside the orchestra to make and share great music. But the CBSO’s tradition of serving the community goes much further. Its Learning and Participation programme touches tens of thousands of lives a year, ranging from workshops in nurseries to projects that energise whole neighbourhoods. And everyone’s welcome at CBSO Centre on Berkley Street. As well as being a friendly, stylish performance venue for the lunchtime concert series Centre Stage and contemporary jazz concerts by Jazzlines, the CBSO’s rehearsal base is home to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Ex Cathedra. Now in its Centenary year, the CBSO, more than ever, remains the beating heart of musical life in the UK’s Second City.

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MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS

EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORTWe are particularly grateful for theexceptional support of the following people this year:

£50,000+David and Sandra BurbidgeAlison & Jamie Justham (*David Vines)Barry and Frances KirkhamChris & Jane Loughran

(*Jonathan Martindale)Maurice Millward (*Chris Yates)John Osborn in support of the Osborn

Music DirectorshipClive & Sylvia Richards Charity(Principal Supporter of the CBSO’s

work with young people)Jerry Sykes in support of keynote

concert programming (*Catherine Ardagh-Walter)

£20,000+Peter How

BENEFACTORS (£10,000+)Lady Alexander of WeedonVivian and Hazel AstlingValerie Lester (*Jacqueline Tyler mbe)Felonious Mongoose in memory of

Dolores (*Richard Blake)

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

(*Peter Campbell-Kelly)Lord Digby & Lady Patricia Jones

of BirminghamGill & Jonathan Evans

(*Charlotte Skinner)Len Hughes & Jacquie Blake

(*Anthony Alcock)Sue & Graeme Sloanand our other anonymous supporters.

CONCERTO CIRCLE (£2,500+)Viv & Hazel Astling (*Graham Sibley)The Barwell Charitable TrustAllan & Jennifer Buckle

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

memory of Ernest Churcher (*Elspeth Dutch)

Charlie & Louise Craddock (*Kirsty Lovie)

Mike & Tina Detheridge (*Andrew Herbert)

The ENT Clinic (*Alan Thomas)Duncan Fielden & 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)Paddy & Wendy Martin

Carol MillerPatrick & Tricia McDermott

(*Helen Edgar & Rachael Pankhurst)Carole McKeown & David Low

(*Miguel Fernandes)Carol MillerFrank North (*Kate Suthers)Angela O’Farrell & Michael Lynes

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

(*Julian Atkinson)Robert PerkinGraham Russell & Gloria Bates

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

(*Marie-Christine Zupancic)Howard & Judy Vero (*Richard Watkin)Michael WardDiana & Peter Wardley (*Oliver Janes)John Yelland obe & 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 Römer

OVERTURE CIRCLE (£1,000+)Mike & Jan Adams (*Eduardo Vassallo)Katherine Aldridge in memory of ChrisMichael Allen in memory of YvonneRoger & Angela AllenMiss J L Arthur (*Julian Walters)Kiaran AsthanaMr M K AyersMr & Mrs S V BarberJohn Bartlett & Sheila Beesley

(*Mark O’Brien)Michael BatesTim & Margaret BlackmoreChristine & Neil BonsallMrs Jennifer Brooks in memory of

David (*Julia Åberg)Helen Chamberlain in memory of Allan

Chamberlain (*Sally Morgan)Gay & Trevor Clarke (*Bryony Morrison)Dr Anthony Cook & Ms Susan EliasJohn Cunningham-DexterJulian & Lizzie DaveyAnita Davies (*Jeremy Bushell)Tony Davis & Darin QuallsJenny DawsonDr Judith Dewsbury in memory of Tony

(*Kate Setterfield)Alan Faulkner

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(*Michael Seal, Associate Conductor)John and Jenny KendallJohn & 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 MillsNigel & Ann MundyPaul & Elaine MurrayIan C NortonAndrew Orchard & Alan JonesRoger and Jenny Otto in memory

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

(*Joanna Patton)Alan Titchmarsh mbe

(*Matthew Hardy)Mr R J & Mrs M WallsRobert Wilson (*Emmet Byrne)Mr E M Worley cbe & Mrs A Worley dlMike & Jane Yeomans in memory of

Jack Field (*Michael Jenkinson)Richard and Emma Yorkeand our other anonymous supporters.

GOLD PATRONS(£650+ per year)Peter & Jane BaxterMike BowdenLady CadburyMr C J M CarrierChristine & John CarrollTim CherryTim Clarke & familyProfessor & Mrs M H CullenRoger and Liz Dancey

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SILVER PATRONS(£450+ per year)Mr & Mrs S V BarberRichard Allen & Gail BarronMr P G BattyePaul BondProfessor Lalage BownRoger and Lesley CadburyMr A D & Mrs M CampbellSue Clodd and Mike GriffithsDavid & Marian Crawford-ClarkeMrs A P CrocksonDr. Margaret Davis & Dr. John DavisMark DevinAlistair DowJane Fielding & Benedict ColemanMrs D R GreenhalghJohn Gregory in memory of JanetCliff HaresignMr & Mrs G JonesBob and Elizabeth KeevilRodney and Alyson KettelRebecca King in loving memory of IanMr Peter T MarshJames & Meg MartineauPeter and Julia MaskellDr & Mrs Bernard MasonAnthony & Barbara NewsonRichard NewtonMrs A J OfficerLiz & Keith ParkesMr R Perkins & Miss F HughesDr and Mrs PlewesThe Revd. Richard & Mrs Gill Postill

We are grateful to the following major supporters of The Sound of the Future campaign:

David & Sandra BurbidgeJohn Osborn cbe

Sir Dominic & Lady CadburyJamie & Alison JusthamChris & Jane LoughranPeter How

Frances & Barry KirkhamMaurice MillwardJerry SykesKatherine Aldridge

Baltimore Friends of the CBSOProfessor Dame Sandra Dawson dbeAnd other donors who prefer to remain anonymous.

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Credits correct as of 22 March 2021

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Kath & Mike PoulterEileen Poxton in memory of

Reg PoxtonDr & Mrs R C ReppRay SmithSheila & Ian SonleyAndy StreetJohn & Dorothy TeshProfessor & Mrs J A ValeWilliam & Janet VincentTony & Hilary VinesPeter WallingJulie & Simon WardStephen WilliamsJohn & Daphne WilsonGeoff & Moira WyattMr Paul C Wynnand our other anonymous supporters.

PATRONS (£250+ per year)Mrs Thérèse AllibonDavid and Lesley ArkellVal and Graham BacheLeon & Valda BaileyAndrew BarnellMr P & Mrs S BarnesMr & Mrs BarnfieldDi BassPaul BeckwithMr I L BednallPeter & Gill BertinatPhilip and Frances BettsMrs Ann BillenMichael & Beryl BloodBridget Blow cbeAnthony and Jenni BradburyDr Jane Flint Bridgewater& Mr Kenneth BridgewaterMr Arthur BrookerM. L. BrownAnn BrutonMr & Mrs J H BulmerMr G H & Mrs J M ButlerBenedict & Katharine CadburyPeter & Jeannie CadmanElizabeth CeredigCarole & Richard ChillcottDr J & Mrs S ChitnisPeter and Jane ChristopherAnn Clayden and Terry ThorpeDr A J CochranDee & Paul CockingMrs S M Coote in memory of JohnD & M CoppageLuned CorserMr Richard and Mrs Hilary CrosbyMaurice & Ann CrutchlowJudith Cutler and Keith MilesStephen & Hilary DalyRobert & Barbara DarlastonWilf DaveyTrevor DavisKath DeakinDr J Dilkes & Mr K A Chipping & familyBrian & Mary DixonTerry Dougan and Christina LomasMr and Mrs C J DrayseyJohn DruryCatherine DukeNaomi & David DykerChris EckersleyLinda & William Edmondson

Alex & Fran ElderRobert van ElstMiss E W EvansDr D W Eyre-WalkerJill Follett and John HarrisChris Fonteyn mbeJack & Kathleen FoxallSusan & John FranklinAgustín Garcia-SanzB & C GardnerAlan and Christine GilesProfessor J E Gilkison & Prof T HockingStephen J GillR & J GodfreyJill GodsallLaura Greenaway in memory of

David RichardsPaul HadleyRoger & Gaye HadleyNigel & Lesley Hagger-VaughanMiss A R HaighMr W L HalesMalcolm HarbourPhil Haywood in memory of AnnKeith R HerbertKeith Herbert & Pat GregoryHanne Hoeck & John RawnsleySusan Holmes in memory of PeterValerie & David HowittPenny HughesDavid HutchinsonHenry & Liz IbbersonMr R M E & Mrs V IrvingKen & Chris JonesMr M N JordanPaul JulerMrs P KeaneMr & Mrs R KirbyMr A D KirkbyProfessor & Mrs R J KnechtMrs D LarkamJennie Lawrence in memory of PhilipEmmanuel LebautM. E. LingMr J F & Mrs M J LloydProfessor David LondonGeoff & Jean MannCarmel and Anthony MasonGeoff & Jenny MasonNeil MayburyMr A A McLintockPatro MobsbyNorah MortonP J & H I B MulliganMrs M M NairnRichard & Shirley NewbyRichard Newton and Katharine FrancisBrian NoakeMs E Norton obeIn memory of Jack & Pam NunnMarie & John O’BrienMr & Mrs R T OrmeS J OsborneNigel PackerRod Parker & Lesley BiddleGraham and Bobbie PerryGill Powell & John RowlattC PredotaRoger PrestonEileen & Ken PriceRichard and Lynda PriceJohn Randall

Dr and Mrs K RandleKaty and David RicksTrevor RobinsonPeter & Pauline RoeDavid & Jayne RoperJane and Peter RoweHelen Rowett & David PelteretChristopher and Marion RowlattDr Gwynneth RoyVic & Anne RussellMrs L J SadlerCarole & Chris SallnowStephen SaltaireWilliam and Eileen SaundersMargaret and Andrew SherreyDr & Mrs ShrankKeith ShuttleworthElizabeth SimonsMr N R SkeldingEd SmithMary Smith & Brian Gardner

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

Michael TaylorBryan & Virginia TurnerJohn & Anne TurneyMrs J H UpwardClive Kerridge & Suzan van HelvertBob & Louise VivianStephen Vokes & Erica BarnettTim & Wendy WadsworthKit WardAnn WarneNeil WarrenMrs M L WebbElisabeth & Keith WellingsMr & Mrs J WestRoger & Sue WhitehouseMr William & Mrs Rosemary WhitingPippa WhittakerJohn and Pippa WicksonRichard and Mary WilliamsBarry and Judith WilliamsonJohn WinterbottomIan Woollardand our other anonymous supportersand our Friends.

LEGACY DONORSIn memory of Chris AldridgeThe late Terence BaumThe late Elizabeth Bathurst BlencoweThe late Mr Peter Walter BlackAllan & Jennifer BuckleThe late Miss Sheila Margaret Burgess

SmithIsabel ChurcherThe late Colin W ClarkeMr and Mrs P CockingThe late Roy CollinsDavid in memory of Ruth Pauline

HollandTony Davis & Darin QuallsThe late Mr Peter S. DayMark Devin

Alistair DowThe late Mary FellowsFelonious MongooseValerie FranklandJill GodsallTricia HarveyThe late Mrs Marjorie HildrethMr Trevor & Mrs Linda IngramRobin & Dee JohnsonAlan Jones & Andrew OrchardMs Lou JonesThe late William JonesPeter MacklinThe late Mr & Mrs F. McDermott &

Mrs C. HallThe late Myriam Josephine MajorThe late Joyce MiddletonPhilip MillsThe late Peter & Moyra MonahanThe late Arthur MouldThe late June NorthStephen OsborneGill PowellTony Davis & Darin QuallsThe late Mrs Edith RobertsPhilip RothenbergThe late Mr Andrew RoulstoneThe late Thomas Edward ScottMrs C E Smith & Mr William SmithPam SnellThe late Mrs Sylvia StirmanThe late Mrs Eileen SummersMiss K V SwiftJohn TaylorMr D M & Mrs J G ThorneJohn VickersMrs Angela & Mr John WattsAlan Woodfieldand our other anonymous donors.

ENDOWMENT FUND DONORSMike & Jan AdamsArts for AllViv & Hazel AstlingThe Barwell Charitable TrustIn memory of Foley L BatesBridget Blow cbeDeloitteMiss Margery ElliottSimon FaircloughSir Dexter HuttIrwin Mitchell SolicitorsThe Justham TrustMrs Thelma JusthamBarry & Frances KirkhamLinda Maguire-BrookshawMazars Charitable TrustAndrew Orchard & Alan JonesJohn OsbornMargaret PaytonRoger Pemberton & Monica PirottaDavid PettPinsent MasonsMartin PurdyPeter & Sally-Ann SinclairJerry SykesAlessandro & Monica TosoPatrick VerwerR C & F M Young Trust

* Player supporter

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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 George Henry Collins CharityThe Concertina Charitable TrustBaron Davenport’s CharityThe D’Oyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe W E Dunn TrustJohn 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 TrustThe Derek Hill FoundationThe Joseph Hopkins and Henry James Sayer CharitiesJohn Horniman’s Children’s TrustThe Irving Memorial TrustThe JABBS Foundation

Lillie Johnson Charitable TrustThe Kobler TrustJames Langley Memorial TrustThe Leverhulme TrustLG Harris TrustLJC FundLimoges Charitable TrustThe S & D Lloyd CharityThe Helen Rachael Mackaness Charitable TrustThe McLay Dementia TrustThe James Frederick & Ethel Anne Measures CharityMFPA 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

Strategic Partners

www.prsformusicfoundation.com

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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 difference 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.

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BOARDChair 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 TRUSTChair 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 Howard Librarian Jack Lovell-Huckle Co-Librarian William Lucas

Head of Artistic Planning Anna MelvillePlanning & Tours Manager Hannah MuddimanProject Manager Claire GreenwoodAssistant Planning Manager Maddi Belsey-Day

Director of Learning and Engagement Lucy GalliardLearning & Participation Manager Katie LucasCommunity Projects Officer Adele FranghiadiYouth Ensembles Officer Rebecca NicholasSchools Officer Carolyn Burton Chorus Manager Poppy Howarth Children’s & Youth Chorus Officer Ella McNameeResearch Assistant Adam Nagel*†

Marketing Consultant Katy Raines Director of Marketing and Communications Gareth Beedie Interim Head of Marketing Maria HowesCRM and Insight Manager Melanie Ryan*†Publications Manager Jane Denton†Digital Content Producer Hannah Blake-Fathers Marketing Volunteer Christine Midgley*#

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

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

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