Concert Series - Vinehall School

Welcome to International Classical
Concerts at Vinehall
The Vinehall Concert Series now in its 26th year, continues
to bring the best of both British and international musicians
to East Sussex. Concerts take place in a purpose-built 250
seat theatre with superb piano and intimate acoustic,
which has undergone a complete refit in 2014.
English Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble
Saturday 4th October 2014 at 7.30 p.m.
Programme
Mozart Serenade No 11 in E flat K. 375
Ravel Tombeau de Couperin
Gounod Petite Symphonie for Nine Wind Instruments
The ECO Wind Ensemble is a highly versatile and flexible group of
musicians which has evolved naturally from the membership of the
internationally renowned English Chamber Orchestra (ECO).
Since its inception in 1960
the ECO has incorporated
a core of accomplished
chamber musicians. For over
five decades the ECO Wind
Ensemble
has
performed
frequently at home and
abroad in a variety of different
formations,
complementing
the work of the Orchestra. The
Ensemble has collaborated with artists such as Daniel Barenboim,
Christoph Eschenbach and Christian Zacharias.
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Parents of children at Vinehall may pay on account. Please tick LOUIS LORTIE
HEATH QUARTET / COLLINS
LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS
HANSLIP / DRIVER
BUSCH PIANO TRIO
BRENDEL / MADZAR
ECO WIND ENSEMBLE
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BUSCH PIANO ENSEMBLE
Saturday 22nd November 2014 at 7.30 p.m.
Programme
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Dohnanyi
Janacek
Beethoven
Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano No 9 Op. 47 in A major ‘Kreutzer’
Bowen Phantasie for Violin and Piano Op 34
Richard Strauss Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 18
Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 8 in B flat minor
Pohádka (Fairy Tale), for cello and piano (1910)
Sonata for Cello and Piano No 3 in A major Op. 69
Adrian Brendel studied at Winchester
College, Cambridge University and with
Frans Helmerson at the Cologne Music
Conservatoire.
Programme
Schubert
Beethoven
Dvorak Recent appearances include concerts in
Calgary, Napa Valley and in the UAE, Syria and
Egypt. In Europe, he has performed in Antwerp
and across Germany, Switzerland and the UK.
He has given performances of the complete
Bach cello suites at Lancaster University and
The Sage Gateshead, and collaborated with
Photo: Liebeck
many other artists including Kit Armstrong,
Andrej Bielow, Aleksander Madzar and the Jerusalem
String Quartet. His piano trio with Till Fellner and Lisa Batiashvili is
much in demand throughout Europe.
The Busch Ensemble
“London-based group the Busch Ensemble gave a passionate performance
of the Ravel Piano Trio, beautifully articulated and forcefully conveyed” The
Strad
He returned to Calgary in October 2012 as part of the jury for the
Honens International Piano Competition. Other performances in the
2012-2013 season included concerts with Imogen Cooper, Henning
Kraggerud, Kit Armstrong, and with the NDR Symphony Orchestra.
He recently shared the stage with his father, Alfred Brendel, for an
evening of poetry and music at King’s Place in London. He returns to
Düsseldorf for recitals with Kit Armstrong, as well as giving solo recitals
in Salzburg, Bensheim and Cambridge. Adrian Brendel is co-founder of
‘Music at Plush’, a summer music festival held every year in Dorset.
Aleksandar Madzar was born
in Belgrade in 1968. He started
playing the piano under the
guidance of Gordana Malinovic.
He won prizes in Geneva, Leeds,
the ‘Busoni’ and ‘Umberto
Micheli’
competitions
and
gave his debut with the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 1990. He has since then
been performing regularly all over Europe, enjoying a rich and varied
career in recital, concertos and chamber music, also touring North
and South America, South Africa and the Far East. Aleksandar Madzar
teaches at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire in Brussels.
CHLOË HANSLIP (Violin)
DANNY DRIVER (Piano)
Sunday 8th February 2015 at 3.00 p.m.
Sponsored by R M and S J Arblaster
Sponsored by Alexander Stiller
LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS
Saturday 14th March 2015 at 7.30 p.m.
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The ECO Wind Ensemble’s discography includes the Mozart
Serenade for 13 Winds conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Dvorak
Wind Serenade conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, and the Mozart
and Beethoven Quintets for Piano and Winds with Murray Perahia.
ADRIAN BRENDEL (Cello)
ALEKSANDAR MADZAR (Piano)
Saturday 1st November 2014 at 7.30 p.m.
Adagio in E flat major D.897 ‘Notturno’
Piano Trio No 5 Op. 70 No 1 in D major ‘Ghost’
Piano Trio No 3 in F minor Op. 65
Named after the legendary violinist Adolf Busch, this young piano trio
has emerged as the leading British piano trio among the new generation.
Winners of the 2012 Royal Overseas League Competition, the trio went on
to win several other important prizes. 2014 sees a Purcell Room debut
following their major award from the Philharmonia Orchestra and a second
Wigmore Hall performance.
The trio has performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Sage Gateshead,
and in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Denmark.
Their recent Wigmore Hall debut was received to critical acclaim and hailed
as a “memorable performance showing The Busch Ensemble’s incredible
unity, abundant facility and deep musical understanding”. Highlights of
forthcoming seasons include a tour of Scotland and collaborations with
Michael Collins. In late 2014 the Ensemble will make their debut tour
of the major cities of China. Their US debut tour in 2015 will include a
performance at the Phillips Collection International Chamber Music Series
in Washington DC.
As soloists they have been recognized for their achievements and playing
of “incredible verve”.
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arranging our flowers this season
HEATH QUARTET
MICHAEL COLLINS (Clarinet)
Saturday 9th May 2015 at 7.30 p.m.
Chloë Hanslip (b. 1987) has already
established herself as an artist of distinction
on the international stage. Prodigiously
talented, she made her BBC Proms debut
in 2002 and her US concerto debut in 2003,
and has performed at major venues in the
UK (Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall),
Europe (Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg
Laeiszhalle, Paris Louvre and Salle Gaveau,
St Petersburg Hermitage) as well as Carnegie
Hall, Metropolitan Arts Space in Tokyo and
the Seoul Arts Centre. She has performed
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with many of the world’s leading orchestras
and conductors with whom she has collaborated include Sir Neville
Marriner, Sir Andrew Davis, Mariss Jansons, Paavo Järvi, Charles
Dutoit, and Vassily Sinaisky.
Chloë records for Hyperion and her
first release on the label features Violin
Concertos by Vieuxtemps (“beautifully
and stylishly played” (The Telegraph).
Three further CDs - Glazunov and Schoeck,
Medtner Sonatas and York Bowen’s violin
works (with Danny Driver) have recently
been released with the latter recording
receiving
recommendations
from
Gramophone (Choice) and The Strad.
Danny Driver is known internationally
as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and
chamber musician. The exceptional quality of his performances
and recordings, the imagination and breadth of his repertoire, and
for the individuality of his interpretations of core repertoire works
and neglected masterpieces have earned him critical acclaim, being
praised for his ‘bold, exuberant and precise’ performances [The
Guardian], ‘impeccable technique and musicianship’ [Gramophone],
and ‘poise, power, and passion’ [BBC Music Magazine].
“There’s a wholly infectious conviction, spontaneity and panache
about these superbly accomplished performances that lend them
special distinction” Gramophone Magazine 2013 (York Bowen CD)
LOUIS LORTIE (Piano)
Saturday 6th June 2015 at 7.30 p.m.
sponsored anonymously
Sponsored by the Winter Family
Programme
Beethoven
Liszt Photo: Ahlburg
Programme
Telemann
Handel
Leclair Vivaldi J.S. Bach Concerto for Flute and Violin in E minor
Organ Concerto ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’
Violin Concerto Op.7 No.6 in A major
Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C major RV.443
Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major BWV.1050
For over ten years, since making their debut at Handel’s parish church,
St. George’s Hanover Square, as part of the London Handel Festival
2000, the London Handel Players have thrilled audiences across the
world with their performances and recordings. They perform regularly
at the Wigmore Hall and appear at many of the leading festivals in the
UK, Europe and North America, collaborating with singers such as Emma
Kirkby, James Bowman and Daniel Taylor. The members of the group
pursue busy solo and directing careers, work with many of the major
early-instrument ensembles in the UK and abroad and are professors at
the conservatoires in London. They bring together a wealth of recording
experience and their four recent recordings, of Handel and Geminiani,
have been highly acclaimed.
Concerts have recently included appearances at the Swansea, Newbury,
Tilford, Spitalfields and Gregynog Festivals, Birmingham and Brighton
Early Music Festivals, for Music at Oxford and in Warwick, at the Palau
de la Musica, Barcelona and at the Music and Beyond Festival in Ottawa.
They made their US debut in January 2012, with concerts in Los Angeles
and the Frick Collection, New York and they returned to Canada last
October. They perform at the Wigmore Hall as part of the 2014 London
Handel Festival.
“I find all the performances well-nigh perfect...the music is absolutely
gorgeous.” Piers Burton-Page, International Record Review.
“Their consummate musicianship is consistently delightful.”
David Vickers, Gramophone Magazine (“Handel at Home”)
Programme
Mozart Dvorak Mozart Photo: Ealovega
Adagio and Fugue
String Quartet in G major Op. 106
Clarinet Quintet in A major K. 581
HEATH QUARTET
The Heath Quartet is rapidly emerging as an exciting and original voice
on the international chamber music scene. Formed in 2002 at the
Royal Northern College of Music, they have undertaken residencies at
IMS Prussia Cove with András Schiff and at the Britten-Pears School in
Aldeburgh. Selected for representation by YCAT in 2008 they went on to
win 1st Prize at the Tromp International Competition in Eindhoven. Most
recently, they won the 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists
Award.
Highlights over the last year have included recitals at Wigmore Hall and
over the last two years the Quartet has given recitals at major festivals
and venues throughout Europe including Barbican, Bridgewater Hall,
Sage Gateshead, Perth Concert Hall and Queen’s Hall Edinburgh, the
Musikverein, Konzerthaus, and Esterházy Palace (Vienna). Current
engagements include performances at Wigmore Hall, their debut at the
Louvre and Musée d’Orsay in Paris, a Beethoven Cycle at the Kilkenny
Arts Festival, their debut at Carnegie Hall, New York and the BBC Proms.
MICHAEL COLLINS
“Michael Collins plays (and conducts) with an irresistible exuberance that
I’ve not heard equalled” Gramophone Magazine
Michael Collins’ dazzling virtuosity and sensitive musicianship have
earned him recognition as one of today’s most distinguished artists
and a leading exponent of his instrument. At 16 he won the woodwind
prize in the first BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. He has
since performed as soloist with many of the world’s most significant
orchestras. Collins also has the distinction of being the most frequently
invited wind soloist to the BBC Proms, including several appearances at
the renowned Last Night of the Proms. In great demand as a chamber
musician, his ensemble, London Winds, celebrated its twenty-fifth
anniversary in 2013.
Sonata No 29 in B flat ‘Hammerklavier’
Sonata in B minor
“Lortie is one of perhaps half a dozen
pianists who is worth dropping everything
to go and hear” Daily Telegraph
VINEHALL INTERNATIONAL CONCERTS BOOKING FORM
Please complete as required. Bookings can be made by post, phone or
email during the season.
A FULL SEASON TICKET provides one seat at each of the seven
concerts. The SIX CONCERT OPTION and the FIVE CONCERT
OPTION allow you to select six or five different concerts of your
choice. SINGLE TICKETS may also be booked for all concerts.
Please indicate your choice on the form overleaf. Complimentary
refreshments are served at each concert.
We regret that we cannot exchange or refund tickets unless a
concert is sold out. As concerts are booked many months on
advance there may be changes in advertised details. We are able to
offer assistance with transport throughout the area and have easy
access/parking for the disabled. Please phone for details.
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Robertsbridge, East Sussex TN32 5JL
Telephone 01580 883092 (theatre and answerphone)
01580 880413 (school office hours)
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The distinguished Clarinettist, Michael Collins, sends the following
message:
“I have had the pleasure of performing at Vinehall three times over
the years and am very much looking forward to returning during this
season to play the wonderful Mozart Clarinet Quintet with the talented
young Heath Quartet. I really enjoy playing at Vinehall where I know
the friendly audience always help lift performers to a higher level. If
you haven’t been before, please come along; you will find outstanding
musicians performing great music in a fabulous venue. I wish the
Vinehall Concert Series every success as it embarks on its Twenty-Sixth
Season.”
International Classical
Concert Series
26th Season
2014 - 15
French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has
attracted critical acclaim throughout
Europe, Asia and the United States.
Lortie has performed complete Beethoven
sonata cycles at Wigmore Hall, Berlin
Philharmonie and the Sala Grande del Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi
in Milan. Die Welt described his Berlin performances as “possibly the
finest Beethoven since the time of Wilhelm Kempff.”
As both pianist and conductor with the Montreal Symphony, he has
performed all five Beethoven concertos and all of the Mozart concertos.
Louis Lortie has also won widespread acclaim for his interpretation of
Ravel and Chopin. He performed the complete works of Ravel in London
and Montreal for the BBC and CBC, and is renowned all over the world
for his performances of the complete Chopin Etudes.
Louis Lortie has performed with the world’s leading conductors,
including Riccardo Chailly, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Charles
Dutoit, Kurt Sanderling, Neeme Järvi, Sir Andrew Davis, Wolfgang
Sawallisch, and Sir Mark Elder. He has made more than 30 recordings
for the Chandos label, covering repertoire from Mozart to Stravinsky,
including a set of the complete Beethoven sonatas and the complete
Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage. His disc of works by Schumann and Brahms
was named one of the best CDs of the year by BBC Music Magazine,
which also named his disc of Chopin Études one of “50 Recordings by
Superlative Pianists.”
“Louis Lortie, a fantastic Lisztian, performs them [Liszt transcriptions]
with confidence and clarity.” New York Times
“Louis Lortie’s technique is not in question: the skill and dedication
required to master these pieces to this level is enormous[...] Lortie’s
sparkling and swarthy playing is impressively glamorous.”
BBC Music Magazine
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