What's On Lent 2015

WHAT’S ONLent Term 2015

Volume 2, No. 2

at the Faculty of Music

Academy of Ancient Music 3Endellion String Quartet 4Britten Sinfonia 5Cambridge University Lunchtime Concert Series 7Cambridge University Musical Society 8Lecture / Recital 10Practising Performance Series 11Humanitas Visiting Professorships 12Instrumental Awards Scheme 14Cambridge University Opera Society 15Kettle’s Yard 16Cambridge University Music Outreach 17Composers’ Workshops at the Faculty of Music 18Faculty of Music Colloquia 20College Events 23Events Listings by date 28

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This brochure is published by the Faculty of Music and its main purpose is to promote Faculty events. If you think your event should be included in next term’s brochure, please email [email protected] with details of your event. All event information for next term’s brochure must be submitted to the editor, Sarah Williams, by Friday 13 March 2015.

CONTENTS

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Monday, 16 February 20157.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

The Baroque Trumpet

with Tine Thing HelsethFree pre-concert talk at 6.30pm

Tine Thing Helseth, trumpetDavid Blackadder, trumpet

Bach Sinfonias from Cantatas 29, 150 and 31Biber Sonata No. 10 in G minorCorelli Sonata a quattroVivaldi Concerto in C major for two trumpetsTelemann Concerto in D major for three trumpets

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the art of trumpet playing was dominated by a small number of fearless virtuoso performers. Exploiting the super-high “clarino” register, these flamboyant trailblazers secured lucrative jobs at Europe’s wealthiest courts, inspiring court and civic composers to write ever more astonishing music for them.Norwegian sensation Tine Thing Helseth makes her AAM debut alongside AAM principal David Blackadder in a programme that celebrates the power and glory of the baroque trumpet in works from across Europe.

TICKETS: £14–£27 (£3 for AAMplify members). Available from www.cornex.co.uk, tel: 01223 357851.

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC

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Andrew Watkinson, violinRalph de Souza, violinGarfield Jackson, violaDavid Waterman, cello

Wednesday, 21 January 20157.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3Janáček String Quartet No. 1 (‘Kreutzer Sonata’)Schubert String Quartet in G, D. 887

Schubert’s Quartet in G is on a superhuman scale. Its titanic struggle between major and minor, and hope and despair, creates awe-inspiring music. In comparison the first of Janáček’s two quartets is brief. But with his unique tonality and idiom, and the introduction of ‘stream of consciousness’ music, he also sparked a musical revolution.

Wednesday, 11 February 20157.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Haydn String Quartet Op. 20 No. 5Sibelius String Quartet Op. 56 (‘Voces Intimae’)Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No. 3

Tonight’s outer works are linked by their breathtaking fugal finales, but what a contrast between them! This Haydn quartet also contains a perfectly beautiful slow movement. ‘Voces Intimae’ is Sibelius’s only mature chamber music composition but its restless energy and startling harmonic world make it quite as gripping as his better-known symphonic output.

Wednesday, 18 March 20157.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Oliver Schnyder, guest pianist

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 6Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 Op. 15Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44

In this concert we introduce the mercurial young Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder to our audience. The Schumann Piano Quintet is a perennial favourite for its celebratory energy and glorious tunes. Fauré’s Op. 15 is equally loved (if a little less well known) for its youthful verve and melody. We start with an early Beethoven quartet which perfectly links his Classical roots to his Romantic aspirations.

TICKETS: @26, £24 (OAP), £12 (registered disabled), £5 (students and under 16s). Tickets over £10 will incur a £2.50 booking fee, and those under £10 will incur a £1.50 fee. Available from Cambridge Corn Exchange and City Centre Box Office, 2 Wheeler Street, Cambridge. Box Office tel: 01223 357851; email: [email protected]; www.cornex.co.uk

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET

The Endellion String Quartet is represented by Hazard Chase hazardchase.co.uk

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BRITTEN SINFONIA

Tuesday, 13 January 20151.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

At Lunch 2 2014–15

Jacqueline Shave, violin Caroline Dearnley, cello Huw Watkins, piano

Kaija Saariaho Nocturne Debussy Sonata for cello and piano Kaija Saariaho Light and Matter (world première tour) Fauré Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120

All composers are dreamers. Kaija Saariaho conjures sonic images of magnetic power through her music. Fauré and Debussy’s power of suggestion and gift of lyricism, colour and rhythm result in sound worlds that are both luminous and dazzling. In this programme we hear one of Debussy’s finest chamber works and Fauré’s profound Piano Trio alongside Saariaho’s Nocturne for solo violin and a new piano trio commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.

Sunday, 18 January 20157.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Sarah Connolly in America

Sarah Connolly, mezzo-sopranoJacqueline Shave, violin/director

Carter Elegy for StringsRodney Bennett A History of the Thé DansantCopland Appalachian SpringCrawford Seeger Andante for StringsCopland Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson

American music is something of a giant melting pot, an exhilarating blend of wide open spaces, dance rhythms, traditional hymn tunes, and jazz, with

composers so often taking something of what was happening across the pond in Europe and carving out an identity of their own. Aaron Copland is for some listeners the father of American music, his ballet Appalachian Spring conjuring up a sound world to which so many other composers aspired, yet his admiration for the poet Emily Dickinson brings out a more intimate side to his writing, performed tonight by the acclaimed mezzo Sarah Connolly. Adding their voices to the American map tonight are the visionaries Elliott Carter and Ruth Crawford Seeger and surrogate New Yorker, Richard Rodney Bennett.

6.30pm: In ConversationSarah Connolly discusses the programme.

Saturday, 7 February 20154.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Family Concert: I Want My Hat Back

Hannah Conway, composer/presenter

The bear's hat is gone and he wants it back!Following its premiere at the BBC Proms join Britten Sinfonia and presenter Hannah Conway for this interactive family concert based on Jon Klassen's charming picture book, I Want My Hat Back. Featuring music by Debussy, Beethoven, Elgar and Gershwin plus songs to sing along to, this colourful performance is a perfect introduction to orchestral music for the young.

Suitable for children aged 3–7Concert duration is approximately 60 minutes

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Tuesday, 10 February 20151.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

At Lunch 3 2014–15

Jacqueline Shave and Miranda Dale, violins Clare Finnimore and Catherine Musker, violas Caroline Dearnley, cello

Beethoven String Quintet in C major, Op. 29: ‘The Storm’ Ben Comeau (Winner of Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop) New work (world première tour) Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet

Vaughan Williams’ Phantasy for string quintet, which displays his distinctive and expressive style, was dedicated to William Wilson Cobbett, whose famous competition encouraged young composers to write chamber music. Winner of our own Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop, Ben Comeau’s work receives its première and we hear Beethoven’s transitional and tumultuous quintet ‘The Storm’.

Tuesday, 10 March 20151.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

At Lunch 4 2014–15

Thomas Gould, violin Huw Watkins, piano Caroline Dearnley, cello Owen Gunnell, percussion

Lou Harrison Varied Trio for violin, piano and percussion Joey Roukens New work (world première tour) Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67

Joey Roukens has emerged as one of finest young composers on the Dutch music scene. His works are examples of different genres of music coexisting in

a natural way whether it be new or old styles, high culture or popular culture, western or non-western music. In this hour-long concert we hear a new work from Roukens co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall alongside music by Lou Harrison and Shostakovich.

Friday 3 April, 20157.30pm, King’s College Chapel

James MacMillan, conductorBritten Sinfonia Voices

James MacMillanSt Luke Passion

Britten Sinfonia continues its close relationship with Scottish composer James MacMillan with Easter performances of his St Luke Passion, which takes as its starting point the passage in the Gospel of Luke describing the suffering and death of Jesus. James’s musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music. In writing his Passion MacMillan said “Bach’s music proves that the Passion of Christ has deep beginnings and profound resonance, even for modern man: he opened up a window on the divine love affair with humanity. The greatest calling for an artist, in any age, is to do the same.”

EVENING CONCERT TICKETS: £30, £25, £15. Available from Cambridge Corn Exchange: box office 01223 357851; website: www.cornex.co.uk

AT LUNCH TICKETS: £9, (£6 for 2014–15 subscribers to Britten Sinfonia’s Cambridge evening concert series), £3 (students and under 18s). Available from tel: 01223 357851; web: www.brittensinfonia.com

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

Tuesday, 20 January 2015 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Where the Lemon Trees Blow: Songs written in celebration of the South

Charbel Mattar, bass-baritoneMartin Ennis, piano

Wolf Michelangelo-LiederIbert Chansons de Don QuichotteSongs by Liszt and Duparc

Tuesday, 27 January 2015 1.10pm, St John’s College Divinity School

All Roads Lead to RomeBaroque sonatas and concerti by Corelli, Geminiani and Muffat

Cambridge University Collegium MusicumMargaret Faultless, director

Tuesday, 3 February 2015 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

CUMS Concerto Competition Final 2015Performances by the CUMS Concerto Competition finalists

Tuesday, 17 February 2015 1.10pm, Lee Hall at Wolfson College

Helen Charlston, mezzo-sopranoKeval Shah, piano

Robert Schumann Maria Stuart Lieder, Gesänge der Elisabeth Kulmann, Frauenliebe und -leben

Tuesday, 24 February 2015 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Contrapunctus: polyphony from Bach to jazz

Ben Comeau, piano

An exploration of polyphony and improvisation through the works of J.S. Bach and jazz musicians such as George Gershwin, John Coltrane & Charlie Parker.

Tuesday, 3 March 2015 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Instrumental Awards Scheme

Performances by musicians from the Cambridge University Instrumental Award Scheme.

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Saturday, 17 January 20158.00pm, King’s College Chapel

Howard Shelley conducts Dvořák and Brahms

Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra Members of CUMS Symphony Orchestra The Choirs of Clare, Gonville & Caius, Jesus and Selwyn CollegesMembers of CUMS Chorus and Cambridge University Chamber Choir

Howard Shelley (1), conductorElinor Rolfe Johnson (2), sopranoJonathan Sells (3), bassTim Brown, chorus-master

Dvořák Symphony No. 8 Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem

TICKETS: £35, £30, £20 (students: £4 reduction of above prices), available from ADC box office tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.comSome £5 tickets will be available on the door, subject to availability

Friday, 6 February 20158.00pm, St John’s College Chapel

Saturday, 7 February 20158.00pm, Girton College Great Hall

The Lion and the Lance: From Venice to Leipzig

Cambridge University Collegium MusicumHistoric Woodwind of the Royal Academy of Music, London Margaret Faultless, directorHistoric Brass of the Combined ConservatoiresJeremy West, director

Cambridge University Chamber ChoirMartin Ennis, conductor

Bach Magnificat, BWV 243Bach Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229and works by Schein and Giovanni Gabrieli (celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Sacrae Symphoniae of 1615)

A musical journey that takes us from St Mark’s in Venice, where many of the posthumously published masterpieces of Giovanni Gabrieli were first performed, via the Salzburg of Heinrich Biber, to Leipzig, where both Johann Hermann Schein and Johann Sebastian Bach served as Cantor of the Thomaskirche. The programme, performed by many of the finest ‘early’ musicians in the country, celebrates the 400th anniversary of Gabrieli’s Sacrae Symphoniae and Schein’s Cymbalum Sionium, both of which were published in 1615. The programme concludes with two of Bach’s timeless masterpieces.

TICKETS: £15, £5 students. Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

Saturday, 21 February 20154.30pm, Trinity College Chapel

Oxford and Cambridge Wind Orchestras Varsity Concert

Programme to include:James Swearingen NovenaPhilip Sparke Year of the DragonAdam Gorb Awayday

Benedict Kearns, conductor

TICKETS: £10, £8 concessions, £5 students. Available from ADC box office tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

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Thursday, 26 February 20151.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra Schools Concert

James Swearingen NovenaMurray Gold, Ron Grainer (arr. Matthew Kemp) Doctor Who MusicAdam Gorb AwaydayCharles Ives Variations on ‘America’Arr. John Higgins Disney at the Movies Benedict Kearns, conductor

A varied and playful programme aimed at sparking the imagination of children; pieces will be displayed in a colourful projected presentation.

Open to schools by invitation – if your school would like to attend please contact Megan Wilson at [email protected]. The concert welcomes home-schooled children.


CUCO perform with Stephen Kovacevich, conducted by Christopher Seaman

Mendelssohn The Hebrides ‘Fingal’s Cave’Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Christopher Seaman, conductorStephen Kovacevich (4), piano

TICKETS: £20, £14, £10 (concessions £2 reduction), £5 students. Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

Thursday, 5 March 20158.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

CUMS Concert Orchestra perform Gounod, Gershwin and Bizet

Gounod Funeral march of a marionetteGershwin Piano Concerto in F majorGounod Judex from ‘Mors et Vita’Bizet Carmen: Suite No. 1 and Habanera Lucy Morris, conductorJulien Cohen, piano (CUMS Concerto Competition prize-winner)

TICKETS: £10, £8 concessions, £5 students. Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

Friday, 6 March 20158.00pm, King’s College Chapel

CUMS Chorus performs Vaughan Williams

East Anglia Chamber OrchestraCUMS Chorus Vaughan Williams Sea SymphonyFrederick Septimus Kelly Elegy for harp and strings (in memoriam Rupert Brooke) Stephen Cleobury, conductorJane Irwin, sopranoDuncan Rock, baritone TICKETS: £30, £20, £15 (students £4 reduction or £5 on the door). Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

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LECTURE / RECITAL

Thursday, 26 February 20157.30pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Richard Casey: Lecture/Recital

Richard Casey (piano) was born in Manchester in 1966 and started playing the piano at the age of seven. After graduating in Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, he studied piano at the Royal Northern College of Music with Marjorie Clementi and Martin Roscoe. In 1997 Richard won first prize in the British Contemporary Piano Competition, an achievement which attracted a series of solo engagements in the UK and abroad. Based in Manchester, Richard complements his solo career with a strong commitment to chamber music. Since 1994 he has been pianist with the New Music Players and has performed frequently as a guest with the London Sinfonietta, the Composers’ Ensemble, Lontano and Liverpool-based Ensemble 10:10. Richard is also a founder-member of the Manchester-based contemporary music ensemble Psappha. Since 1991 he has performed over 200 works with the group throughout the UK and in tours of Spain, Holland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Australia and the USA. Recent projects have included working with the Richard Alston Dance Company in Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrushka, collaboration with radical improvisation group Bark! and an invitation from Pierre Boulez to join the Ensemble Intercontemporain in a performance of his Sur Incises in Carnegie Hall, New York. In this lecture/recital, Richard will be performing music by Jonathan Harvey, Ed Hughes, Martyn Harry and Ligeti.

TICKETS: Admission free

Saturday, 7 March 20158.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

CUMS Symphony Orchestra performs Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky

Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew ThemesRachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 ‘Pathétique’

Joel Sandelson (CUMS Brenda Charters Conducting Scholar), conductorEleanor Kornas (CUMS Concerto Competition joint-winner), piano

TICKETS: £20, £14, £10 (concessions £2 reduction), £5 students. Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

Saturday, 14 March 20155.30pm, King’s College Chapel

King’s Foundation Concert

Haydn Trumpet ConcertoHaydn Paukenmesse The King’s Men and former Choral ScholarsCambridge University Chamber Orchestra Stephen Cleobury, conductorJohn Wallace, trumpet

TICKETS: £35, £30, £25, £15. Available from ADC box office, tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

PRACTISING PERFORMANCE

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The Faculty’s Practising Performance Series is open to students of all years of the undergraduate music course as well as masters and doctoral students, indeed anyone with an interest in performance. Because space is limited, please email Margaret Faultless ([email protected]) if you are not a Faculty member and wish to attend.

Wednesday, 11 February 20152.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Talking about Music

with Verity Sharp (1)

The well-known BBC broadcaster and performer will discuss how to talk about music to audiences - in concerts, on radio and TV. The workshop will enable students to develop their own style of presentation.

A familiar voice on BBC Radio 3 for many years, Verity Sharp is well known for her eclectic musical taste. She has produced and presented numerous editions of the award-winning Late Junction, which mixes up everything from classical to electronic music, folk, world and jazz. She has presented countless concerts for radio both onstage and off, as well as fronted BBC2’s Culture Show and the BBC Proms. As a foundation student at Dartington College of Arts she explored improvisation and performance practice as well as being introduced to Indian ragas, African drumming and the Japanese shakuhachi. This opened her eyes to the wider power of music as a communication tool, which is still where her true interest lies. She holds a BA Honours Degree in Music from the University of York where her main areas of study were the cello and composition. More recently she has become fascinated with the indigenous music of England and has been learning traditional music and song by ear. She has also recently been appointed Creative Director of Superstrings, a local music charity that champions string playing and creates platforms for young people to experience the huge benefits of collective music making.

Wednesday, 25 February 20152.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Conducting Workshop

with Nicholas Cleobury (2)

Conductor Nicholas Cleobury will workshop Beethoven’s Overture ‘Coriolan’ with a group of student conductors.

Nicholas Cleobury is Artistic Director of Mid Wales Opera, Principal Conductor of the John Armitage Memorial (JAM), Principal Conductor and Founder Director of Sounds New and Principal Conductor of the Oxford Bach Choir. He is Founder Laureate of the Britten Sinfonia.

Noted in particular as an orchestral and choral conductor, Cleobury has conducted all the major orchestras in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Singapore, South Africa and beyond, and choirs including the Swedish and Danish Radio Choirs, the Berkshire Choral Festival (UK and USA) and numerous major choirs in the UK, including the Royal and Huddersfield Choral Societies and the BBC Singers.

For more information about either of these Practising Performance workshops or to conduct on 25 February, please contact Maggie Faultless (Director of Performance Studies).

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HUMANITAS VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

Murray Perahia Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music 2015

In a career spanning forty years, Murray Perahia has become one of the most sought-after and cherished pianists of our time. Recognised worldwide as a musician of rare musical sensitivity, he performs in all of the major international music centres and with the world’s leading orchestras. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and regularly tours with them with performances throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and South East Asia.

Wednesday, 14 January 20155.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

On Performing the ClassicsIllustrated lecture

TICKETS: free of charge; no booking required

Thursday, 15 January 20155.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

On ChopinMurray Perahia in conversation with John Rink



Open Rehearsal with the Doric String Quartet



Doric String Quartet

Haydn Quartet in G, Op. 76 No. 1Bartok Quartet No. 6Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op. 130, with Grosse Fuge

Alex Redington, violinJonathan Stone, violinHelene Clement, violaJohn Myerscough, cello

TICKETS: £25, £12 and £5 for students. Available from Cambridge Corn Exchange: box office 01223 357851; website: www.cornex.co.uk

Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both Universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities.

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Sir John TomlinsonHumanitas Visiting Professor in Vocal Music 2015

Born in Lancashire, Tomlinson read civil engineering at Manchester University and studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music. He made his Bayreuth Festival debut in 1988 as Wotan (Der Ring des Nibelungen) under Barenboim, and sang at Bayreuth every year from 1988 to 2006. He has sung for English National Opera, at most of the leading opera houses in Europe, for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and for the Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, Munich and Glyndebourne festivals. Along with the main Wagner roles for bass and bass-baritone, his repertory has included Boris Godunov, Bluebeard, Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier), Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande), Claggart (Billy Budd), Philip II and

the Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo), Méphistophélès (Faust), the four villains (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Boris Ismailov (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) and Moses (Moses und Aron). He created the roles of Green Knight (Gawain) and The Minotaur for Harrison Birtwistle at The Royal Opera House.

Monday, 23 February 20157.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Michelangelo in Song

Featuring Britten’s song cycle, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo.


Wednesday, 25 February 20155.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

The Construction of the Role of Wotan

Illustrated lecture by Sir John Tomlinson in conversation with Patrick Carnegy.


Friday, 27 February 20155.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

The Construction of the Role of the Minotaur

Sir John Tomlinson in conversation with composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle.


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Saturday, 24 January 20158.00pm, Jesus College Chapel

Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music

Students from the IAS present a programme of chamber works.

TICKETS: Admission free.

Sunday, 25 January 20159.00pm, Pembroke College, Old Library




Saturday, 31 January 20151.15pm, Bateman Auditorium at Gonville & Caius College




INSTRUMENTAL AWARDS SCHEME

Monday, 2 February 20158.30pm, Old Combination Room at Trinity College




Tuesday, 10 February 20158.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Showcase Concert: Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music

The finest groups from the IAS this academic year present a varied programme of chamber works. For repertoire information, please see: www.mus.cam.ac.uk

TICKETS: £10, £8 (concessions), £3 (students), available in advance from [email protected]

The Instrumental Awards for Chamber Music Scheme (IAS) was set up to enable gifted players reach a high standard of performance in chamber music, auditioning for coveted places at the beginning of each academic year. They are coached regularly throughout the year by some of the very best professional chamber musicians including James Boyd, Celia Nicklin, Andrew West and the Endellion String Quartet, and have recently taken part in masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Richard Egarr, the Schubert Ensemble and Angela Hewitt.

Our Award holders will present varied programmes of chamber works in the following recitals during Lent Term 2015.

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Sunday, 1 March 20159.00pm, Old Library at Emmanuel College



TICKETS: £2, available on the door

Wednesday, 4 March, 20151.15pm, St John’s College Divinity School




Sunday, 8 March 20151.10pm, Gallery 3 at Fitzwilliam Museum




Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 February 20158.00pm, West Road Concert Hall


Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

with a libretto by the composer

It’s 1820 and freedom is on the horizon in Russia. Lensky, a young romantic filled with revolutionary zeal, is making a habit of travelling out to the country to court his beloved Olga. But on one such visit, he brings a friend, Onegin, and Olga’s obsessively romantic sister, Tatyana, falls madly in love with the stranger.

She writes him an impassioned letter, but Onegin refuses her advances, and his rash behaviour leads to accusations of foul play between him and Olga. Lensky, furious and righteous, challenges Onegin to a pistol duel, and all too soon, Onegin’s recklessness brings his life crashing down.

Featuring a fantastically talented cast and orchestra, Tchaikovsky’s celebrated lyric opera will be fully staged in modern English with a translation by David Lloyd-Jones.

TICKETS: £22, £16, £14, £13; concessions £18, £13, £10, £9; students £15, £10, £8, £7. Available from ADC box office tel: 01223 300085; adcticketing.com

Sunday, 18 January 201512.15pm, Kettle’s Yard

Nash Ensemble

“The Nash are chamber music royalty”, The Sunday Times.

Mark-Anthony Turnage Slide Stride for piano and string quartet Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Richard Causton Piano Quintet (Kettle’s Yard Commission) Shostakovich Piano Quintet

Thursday, 22 January 20158.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

Shiva Feshareki portrait concert

A new commission by Shiva Feshareki, whose music has been described as “exuberantly irreverent”, The Times, in response to The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay, as well as a showcase of her works for ensemble and turntables.

Thursday, 29 January 20158.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

Laura van der Heijden, celloTom Poster, piano

Beethoven, Schubert, Graham Fitkin, PoulencSold Out

Thursday, 19 February 20158.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

Kafka Fragments

Aisha Orazbayeva, violinLore Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano

“profoundly radical and inventive”, The Sound Projector.

The duo of internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg and upcoming violinist Aisha Orazbayeva perform György Kurtág’s masterpiece Kafka Fragments – 40 tiny pieces based on writings by Franz Kafka.


Jonathan Plowright, piano

Bach / Busoni Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm der Heiden Heiland’ BWV659Bach / Busoni Chorale Prelude ‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ BWV639 Brahms Six pieces, Op. 118Liszt Funerailles, S173 / 7 Brahms Variations on a Hungarian Melody, Op. 21 No. 2Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9


Mark Padmore, tenorJames Baillieu, piano

Schubert WinterreiseSold Out


Heath String Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 76 No. 6 Tippett String Quartet No. 1Dvořák String Quartet in G major, Op. 106

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KETTLE’S YARD

Thursday, 5 March 20158.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

Orbis Piano TrioThe Jim and Helen Ede concertKettle’s Yard ensemble in residence, 2014–15

Beethoven Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1, ‘Ghost Trio’Rachmaninov Trio Elegiaque No. 1Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65

Thursday, 12 March 20158.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

New Rhythms

The première of a newly commissioned dance and music work by choreographerMalgorzata Dzierzon and composer Kate Whitley, in response to New Rhythms: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Thursday, 23 April 20158.00pm, Kettle’s Yard

The Multi-Story OrchestraThe Michael Harrison Concert

“forget fusty concert halls, the future of music is emerging in a municipal car park”,The Times.

Works including Grisey’s seminal Periodes from Les Espaces Acoustiques performed by The Multi-Story Orchestra, who are based in a disused car park in Peckham, conducted by Christopher Stark.

TICKETS: Tickets for all Kettle’s Yard events are available from +44 (0)1223 748 100 or kettlesyard.co.uk/music

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

MUSIC OUTREACH

Sunday, 8 March 20153.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Creating My Cambridge – Singing History

All performances in this concert devised by Historyworks in partnership with CaMEO on the theme of ‘Creating My Cambridge’ will be about Cambridge’s people and places, past and present, giving voice to local primary school singers, musicians, poets, rappers, storytellers and composers. The organisers will be inviting participation to join in songs based on a newly commissioned poem by Michael Rosen about the Fitzwilliam Lions, a freedom rap about the Cambridge abolitionist Equiano, and some funny lyrics written by the Horrible Histories songwriter about the Elizabethan philanthropist, Thomas Hobson of Conduit fame. We will be asking primary school children to get creative with sounds and words for an astonishing concert of new compositions and performances, all pinned on historical sources which will be described in film and animations during the entertaining programme of pieces.

For more information about the ‘Creating My Cambridge – Singing History’ project, please go to historyworks.tv


COMPOSERS’ WORKSHOPS AT THE FACULTY OF MUSIC

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Tuesday, 20 January 20152.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Richard Causton (1) and John Hopkins (2)

In this session we will discuss various aspects of compositional technique.

Tuesday, 27 January 20152.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Robert Saxton (3)

Professor of Composition at Oxford, Robert Saxton is one of the most widely recognised composers of his generation. After early encouragement and advice from Benjamin Britten, he studied with Elizabeth Lutyens and at St. Catharine’s College with Robin Holloway. Later he also had some lessons with Luciano Berio. Before taking up the Oxford post, Robert was Head of Composition at the Guildhall and then at the Royal Academy of Music. Particularly interested in large-scale harmonic and structural issues, Robert will discuss aspects of his own music in these contexts.

Tuesday, 3 February 20152.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Joseph Phibbs (4)

Joseph Phibbs was born in London and studied at The Purcell School, King’s College London (BMus, First Class Honours; MMus) and Cornell University

(DMA). His teachers have included Param Vir, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and Steven Stucky. In 2013 he signed an exclusive contract with Ricordi London, as well as an agreement with Boosey and Hawkes, who publish much of his choral music. Rivers to the Sea, his largest orchestral work to date, was premiered to widespread critical acclaim in 2012 by the Philharmonia Orchestra (cond. Salonen) and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from the Royal Festival Hall. It has since been performed extensively both in the UK and abroad, and recently won the orchestral category of the 2013 British Composer Awards.


Anthony Payne (5)

Composer, writer, lecturer and broadcaster Anthony Payne was born in London and educated at Dulwich College and Durham University. His extensive list of compositions includes three major commissions for the BBC Proms: The Spirit’s Harvest (1985), Time’s Arrow (1990) – recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis for NMC – and Visions and Journeys (2002), which was voted by BBC Radio 3 listeners as the winner of the Audience Award in the 2003 British Composer Awards. He is also in demand as a teacher and lecturer, and has been Visiting Professor at Mills College, California and Composition Tutor at the New South Wales Conservatorium, Australia, to name but a few; he holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Birmingham and Kingston, and was recently made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. His wide-ranging musical knowledge makes him a popular and frequent broadcaster for the BBC.

The Faculty’s series of Composers’ Workshops is open to students of all years of the undergraduate music course as well as masters and doctoral students, indeed anyone with an interest in the creation of new music. Because space is limited, please email John Hopkins ([email protected]) if you are not a Faculty member and wish to attend.

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M.Phil. Composers

This session features work by the current crop of students studying for the MPhil in Composition at Cambridge. As was the case last year, there are six people working for the Masters degree, including Rhiannon Randle and Joy Lisney who were both finalists in June 2014.


Lu Pei

Lu Pei is Professor of Music at Shanghai University, and is briefly visiting this country to participate in this workshop. He got his Doctor of Music Arts from the University of Michigan, USA; Master of Music Arts from the University of Louisville, USA. Dr. Lu has composed for diverse genres and groups. The Washington Post claims “Lu Pei’s music is extremely smart, colorful, delectable and kinetic...”

Tuesday, 3 March 20152.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

James Clarke (6)

James Clarke’s compositions number over ninety works for forces such as symphony orchestra, ensembles, voices or solo musicians. They include the String Quartet, written for the Arditti Quartet, commissioned jointly by the Huddersfield Festival and Ars Musica, Brussels; Final Dance, written for Klangforum Wien, commissioned by Southwest German Radio for the Donaueschinger Musiktage; Landschaft mit Glockenturm II, for seventeen European and Chinese instruments, commissioned by the Viennese organisation ‘Asian Culture Link’;

Voices, a large-scale work for nine actors, solo musicians and orchestra, with a text specially written by Harold Pinter, commissioned by the BBC and first broadcast in 2005. James Clarke has been a visiting professor at universities in various countries, including Azerbaijan, where he was appointed an honorary Professor of Music at the Baku Music Academy; Russia, at the Moscow Conservatoire, and Sweden, at the University of Malmö. He has led composition courses at the Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari, Finland, where he was featured composer, and at the Festival junger Künstler Bayreuth.

Tuesday, 10 March 20152.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Kim Ashton (7)

Composer, conductor, teacher, gardener, baroque oboist. In Kim Ashton’s music zen calm meets zen violence, while the sounds of nature mix with the sweet strains of hardcore modernism. After graduating from Cambridge with a prize-winning double-starred first in music, Kim won a scholarship to study oboe at the Royal Academy of Music. However, after a residency conducting the National Symphony Orchestra of Myanmar, composition took over and in 2014 he was awarded his PhD in composition at King’s College London (where he studied with Silvina Milstein and George Benjamin). Recent work includes pieces for the OAE, the LSO, and Ensemble InterContemporain, while his music theatre piece Tonseisha was performed at this summer’s Tete a Tete Festival with Arts Council funding.

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Wednesday, 28 January 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Prof Richard Wistreich (2)(Royal College of Music)

‘An anatomy and physiognomy of early modern singing’

Richard Wistreich is Professor of Music and Director of Research at the Royal College of Music. His wide-ranging research interests are focused primarily on the cultural and social history of music-making in early-modern Europe. His book Warrior, Courtier, Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance was published in 2007 (Ashgate), as was The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi (CUP), co-edited with John Whenham; currently he is co-editor, with Iain Fenlon, of The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music (CUP). His wider research interests embrace the history and culture of performance in all ages, the pedagogy and practice of singing, and other related topics. Richard is also an internationally renowned performer of both early and contemporary music: he has made concert, radio and television appearances worldwide, and recorded more than 100 CDs of music ranging from award-winning albums of twelfth century organum, to many new works commissioned for the ensemble Red Byrd, and including celebrated discs of Monteverdi and Purcell.

FACULTY OF MUSIC COLLOQUIA

Wednesday, 21 January 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Prof Steven Connor (1)(University of Cambridge)

‘To the ear a great compassion: listening, counting and number’

Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is a writer, critic and broadcaster, who has published books on Dickens, Beckett, Joyce and postmodernism, as well as on topics such as ventriloquism, skin, flies, and air. His most recent books are Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things (2011), A Philosophy of Sport (2011), Beyond Words: Sobbing, Humming and Other Vocalizations (2014) and Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination (2014). He has a continuing interest in sound and voice, and is currently writing a book about numbers and words. His website at www.stevenconnor.com includes lectures, broadcasts, unpublished work and work in progress.

The Colloquium series is the main opportunity for members of the Faculty, researchers from other departments, and the general public to come together and hear papers on all aspects of music research, given by distinguished speakers from the UK and abroad. Colloquia are held on Wednesday evenings in the Recital Room of the Faculty of Music, West Road. Admission is free and all are welcome. Please arrive at 4.50pm for a 5.00pm start. Papers are followed by a discussion and a drinks reception with the speaker.

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Wednesday, 4 February 2015 5.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Prof Robert Pascall (3)(Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham)

‘Recapturing Brahms’s performances of Bach’s Cantatas’

Features the first UK performances of Brahms’s arrangements of movements from Bach’s Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, performed by the Faculty of Music Bach Ensemble, directed by Dr Martin Ennis.

Robert Pascall is Emeritus Professor in Music at the University of Nottingham. He has written historical and analytical studies of music from Bach to Schoenberg, with special interest in Brahms. He was Vice-Chair of the new Brahms Complete Edition 1991–2011, and is now on its Advisory Board. For this Edition he has edited the symphonies, including Brahms’s own arrangements of them for two pianos, four hands, and for one piano, four hands. He is Corresponding Director of the American Brahms Society. He has worked on historically informed performance of Brahms’s orchestral music with Thomas Dausgaard, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Charles Mackerras and Sir Roger Norrington, among others.

Wednesday, 11 February 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Dr Kariann Goldschmitt (4)(University of Cambridge)

‘From the “Jet Set” to intrigue: bossa nova and the 1960s international spy thriller’

Kariann Goldschmitt is lecturer in music at University of Cambridge. She received her PhD in musicology from UCLA and her MA in Music: Critical Studies/Experimental Practices from UCSD. She has previously taught at New College of Florida, Ringling College of Art and Design, and was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Non-Western Music at Colby College. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the relationship between Brazilian popular music and the global cultural industries. She has published in Popular Music and Society, Luso-Brazilian Review, and the Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies among others.

Wednesday, 18 February 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Dr Björn Heile (5)(University of Glasgow)

‘Aesthetic and socio-political considerations and the failure of their integration in Mauricio Kagel’s work post-1968’

Björn Heile is Reader in Music and Head of Music at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Music of Mauricio Kagel (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), the editor of The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), co-editor (with Martin Iddon) of Mauricio Kagel bei den Darmstädter

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Ferienkursen für Neue Musik: Eine Dokumentation (Hofheim: Wolke, 2009) and co-editor (with Peter Elsdon and Jenny Doctor) of Watching Jazz: Encountering Jazz Performance on Screen (OUP, forthcoming). He is currently preparing a large collaborative research project on the performance practice of Mauricio Kagel’s experimental music.

Friday, 6 March 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Prof Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (6) (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

‘Envisioning Portugal: music and nation’

Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco is Professor of Ethnomusicology, Director of the Instituto de Etnomusicologia at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and since 2013 President of the International Council for Traditional Music. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, and has been visiting professor at Columbia, Princeton, and Chicago Universities. She has carried out field research in Portugal, Egypt, and Oman, and published on cultural politics, musical nationalism, identity, music media, modernity, and music and conflict. Recent publications include the four-volume Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX (editor, Lisbon, 2010); Music and Conflict (co-editor with John O’Connell and author of the Epilogue, Urbana, 2010); and Traditional Arts in Southern Arabia: Music and Society in Sohar, Sultante of Oman (with Dieter Christensen, Berlin, 2009).

Wednesday, 11 March 2015 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Prof Mary Hunter (7)(Bowdoin College)

‘“It goes like this”: agency and the rhetoric of classical music performance’

Mary Hunter is a musicologist with interests in eighteenth-century opera, the history and ideology of performance, and music in culture. She is the author of The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna (Princeton, 1999), which won the American Musicological Society’s Kinkeldey Prize, and Mozart’s Operas: A Companion (Yale, 2008). She is the co-editor, with James Webster, of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna (Cambridge, 1997) and, with Richard Will, of Engaging Haydn: Culture, Context and Criticism (Cambridge, 2012). She has been the editor of the Journal of Musicological Research, the Cambridge Opera Journal, and AMS Studies in Music. The author of many articles in such journals as The Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, and Cambridge Opera Journal, and in many edited collections, she is currently working on a project about the ideology of performance in classical music culture.

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COLLEGE EVENTS

Friday, 23 January 20158.00pm, The Old Library at Pembroke College

Sarah Connolly, mezzo sopranoJoseph Middleton, piano

Mahler Rückert LiederSchubert Ellens GesängeElgar Sea PicturesCopland Emily Dickinson Poems

Sarah Connolly CBE has recently been described in The Independent as ‘She is unrivalled: simply the best, most exciting, most galvanising performer we have today...it was perfection.’ In 2015 she will return to New York’s Lincoln Centre to give a recital with Joseph Middleton. One of the few British artists to appear at this prestigious venue, we are thrilled that they will perform their programme in Pembroke beforehand.

TICKETS: £15, £10 (college members), £5 (students), available from www.pem.cam.ac.uk/the-college/pembroke-past-and-present/music/sir-arthur-bliss-song-series/tickets, from the Porters’ Lodge or on the door on the night

Saturday, 24 January 20152.00pm (to be confirmed), The Old Library at Pembroke College

Sarah Connolly Masterclass

Last year Pembroke College founded the ‘Pembroke College Lieder Scheme’ which gave four of the finest singer/pianist duos in Cambridge the opportunity to receive regular coaching from Joseph Middleton as well as invited guest performers John Mark Ainsley, Joan Rodgers and Amanda Roocroft. We were delighted that following participation in the scheme singers gained highly competitive entrance

scholarships for postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. This year the scheme has attracted another fine crop of aspiring Lieder duos. They have already received coaching from Joseph and Roderick Williams. In this masterclass they will benefit from study with one of the world’s foremost recitalists and pedagogues, Sarah Connolly.


Saturday, 24 January 20157.30pm, SCR at Trinity Hall

DIchterliebe

James Gilchrist, tenorAnna Tilbrook, Piano

Schumann Liederkreis, Op. 24Mendelssohn Auf Flügeln des GesangesMendelssohn Schlafloser AugenleuchteMendelssohn Keine von der Erde SchönenMendelssohn SchilfliedSchubert GanymedSchubert Auf dem SeeSchubert Geistes-GrußSchubert Der MusensohnSchumann Dichterliebe, Op. 48

TICKETS: £15, £10 (concessions), £5 (students), available from tel: 01223 332550; email: [email protected]

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Friday, 30 January 20156.30pm, Queen’s Building at Emmanuel College

Burnaby recital by The Cavaleri Quartet

Martyn Jackson, violinCiaran McCabe, violinAnn Beilby, violaRowena Calvert, cello

Mark-Anthony Turnage ContusionMozart Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421

TICKETS: Admission free and unticketed

Sunday, 1 February 20152.30pm, Girton College Chapel

Andrew Reid, Director of the Royal School of Church Music

A programme of organ music ranging from the French Baroque (Nicolas de Grigny) to the present day (James MacMillan) via masterpieces by J.S. Bach, Jehan Alain and Olivier Messiaen. Prior to taking up his current position, Andrew Reid was Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral; before that, he served in a number of assistant posts, including both

Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. Andrew Reid was a pupil of Peter Hurford and David Sanger. Among his many achievements was a performance of the complete organ works of J.S. Bach in one 25-hour recital in 1994.

TICKETS: Admission free, retiring collection

Monday, 2 February 20156.30pm, St John’s College Chapel

Evensong with St John’s VoicesGraham Walker, director

This evensong will include the first performance of Child by Timothy Watts, featuring Julian Hwand on violin. TICKETS: Admission free.

Friday, 6 February 20152.30pm and 6.00pm, St Catharine’s College Chapel

London Bulgarian Choir: workshop and concert

The London Bulgarian Choir was founded in 2000 by Dessislava Stefanova, a former singer with the

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legendary Philip Koutev Bulgarian National Folk Ensemble in Sofia. The choir brings its repertoire of traditional Bulgarian songs to every type of musical venue, and has been involved in a diverse array of work, from classical and jazz collaborations to working on the soundtrack to a computer game. The concert will be preceded by a participatory workshop for singers of all backgrounds, led by Dessi.

TICKETS: Workshop free; concerts £6, £4 (concessions), £2 students.

Saturday, 7 February 20158.00pm, Trinity College Chapel

A Night on Bald Mountain: Russian Orchestral Music with TCCO

An evening of Russian music with the Trinity College Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Oscar Osicki.

Mussorgsky Night on Bald MountainRimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

TICKETS: £8 adults, £5 students and free for TCMS members.

Wednesday, 11 – Saturday, 14 February 20151.10pm and 8.00pm, St John’s College Divinity School and St John’s College Chapel

St John’s College Music Festival

The St John’s College Music Festival runs over four days and comprises eight concerts and seven premières, including a new work by Robin Holloway.

For the full festival programme, see www.joh.cam.ac.uk/st-johns-college-music-festival-programme

Saturday, 21 February 20158.00pm, Jesus College Chapel

An Evening in Hamburg

Renowned French harpsichordist, Jean-Christophe Dijoux (pictured above), plays music by J.S. Bach, Johann Mattheson and others on the celebrated Bruce Kennedy double-manual harpsichord after a 1728 instrument by Christian Zell.

Part of the Piccola Accademia di Montisi Jesus College series.

TICKETS: £5, £2 (students), available on the door or reserve in advance on 01223 339699 or [email protected]

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Sunday, 22 February 20152.30pm, Girton College Chapel

Carissimi’s Jephthe and works by Purcell

A programme of sacred music performed by Girton College Chapel Choir (directed by Andrew Kennedy) and an instrumental ensemble led by Margaret Faultless. The centre-piece is Carissimi’s Jephthe, one of the most celebrated seventeeth-century oratorios. Based on a story from the Book of Judges, Jephthe tells the tale of an Old Testament prophet who sacrificed his daughter in fulfilment of a vow. Set against this are several shorter pieces by another seventeeth-century master, Henry Purcell.

TICKETS: Admission free, retiring collection

Friday, 27 February – Sunday, 1 March 20158.00pm, Pavilion Room at Hughes Hall

Porcelain and Pink

After sell-out performances of Kate Waring's Are Women People? in March, Hughes Hall is again delighted to host the same team for the world premiere of the comic chamber opera's companion piece, Porcelain and Pink, with text by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Don't miss this Key Works production!

TICKETS: £10, £6 (concessions); available from ADC Ticketing

Thursday, 12 March 20157.30pm, Trinity Hall

Friday, 13 March 20152.00pm and 7.30pm, Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall Music Society presents

Cabaret

Rees Webster, musical director

TICKETS: £5, available from [email protected]

Friday, 13 March 20151.00pm, Trinity College Chapel

Trinity College Choir lunchtime concert

Stephen Layton, conductor

Join Trinity College Choir for a recital of music from their forthcoming trip to Switzerland.


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Thursday, 19 March 20157.30pm, Jesus College Chapel

Bach Motets

The choirs of Jesus College ChapelBenjamin Morris and Bertie Baigent, directorsMark Williams, organ

A concert of motets by J.S. Bach, including music by John Tavener and Alexander L’Estrange.

TICKETS: £12, £8 (students) sighted; £8, £4 (students) unsighted. Ticket price includes interval refreshments.

Wednesday, 1 April 20157.30pm, King’s College Chapel

Rossini: Stabat Mater

Rachel Nicholls, sopranoPamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-sopranoHenry Waddington, bassPhilharmonia ChorusBBC Concert Orchestra

Nänie, a poem by Schiller, set to music by Brahms, is a lament on the inevitability of death. This is followed by Simaku’s setting of Yeats’s poem, in similar vein, lamenting the passing of the world. The music is sung by the soprano soloist and accompanied by strings. Rossini composed the Stabat Mater when he had finished writing operas. The music, scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra, combines solemnity, devotion, drama and delightful melodies.

TICKETS: £40, £30, £22, £15 (£5 student standby) are available from the Shop at King’s. Email: [email protected]; telephone 01223 769340.

Saturday 4 April 20156.30pm, King’s College Chapel

Bach St John Passion

Ben Johnson, EvangelistChristopher Purves, ChristusMary Bevan, sopranoRobin Blaze, countertenorEd Lyon, tenorAshley Riches, bassKing’s College ChoirAcademy of Ancient MusicStephen Cleobury, conductor

Bach tells the Passion story according to St John in a way that is both intimate and dramatic. Distinguished soloists join King’s College Choir and the Academy of Ancient Music for this performance.

TICKETS: £50, £40, £30, £22 (students, unsighted £5) available from the Shop at King’s. Email: [email protected]; telephone 01223 769340.

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