The Concert - University of Leeds International Concert Series

The Concert
2009-2010
Welcome to the
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
Concert Programme
2009-2010
This season’s programme has a new format with a new series
of Wednesday evening concerts and fewer Sunday afternoon
Chamber Music Concerts. The regular Friday free lunchtime
recital series provides a wide-ranging programme to suit all
tastes – an ideal opportunity to sample any unfamiliar repertoire.
These recitals will include another four concerts recorded by
BBC Radio 3 for broadcast in their lunchtime recital series.
• The midweek and evening concert programme brings the
University some notable performers in our most adventurous
programme yet!
• Harry Christophers and The Sixteen make their Leeds debut
when they start their 2009-10 Choral pilgrimage in the
University Great Hall.
• A duo guitar recital brings together two of the greatest names
in guitar playing when John Williams is joined by John
Etheridge for an electrifying programme of solos and duets.
• The winner of the 2006 Leeds Piano Competition, Sunwook
Kim, returns to Leeds for the world première of a BBC Radio
3 commission - Dai Fujikura’s “Joule”. This programme will
also include works by Haydn, Chopin and Prokofiev and will
also be recorded for broadcast in Radio 3’s “Performance on
3” series.
• Notable anniversaries are celebrated in recitals of Music
by Handel (keyboard music for organ and harpsichord
performed by Graham Barber) and Haydn when student
choirs from the School of Music join Leeds Baroque for a
classical period instrument performance of “The Creation”
or regular patrons we are introducing a “season ticket”
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covering all the University concerts in Clothworkers’ Concert Hall
providing a saving of up to 20% on the cost of individual ticket
purchases and all tickets will be available to purchase on line at
www.leeds.ac.uk/music/concerts. The redeveloped web pages
will also provide up-to-the-minute information on concerts and
the occasional special ticket offers.
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Radio 3 recitals:- Broadcasting Information
Five University of Leeds concerts are being recorded for
future broadcast on Radio 3.
Broadcasting dates are planned as follows
(Please check BBC Radio 3 listings for confirmation).
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Event No 31
Event No 25
Event No 10
Event No 27 7:00pm Wednesday 21 October 1:00pm Tuesday 29 March 1:00pm Wednesday 30 March 1:00pm Thursday 31 March 1:00pm Friday 1 April
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ConcertCalendar
Event 1
2 October 2009 Friday
1.10pm
Admission free
Heads we dance
Pete Bott (vocals & synths),
Yoni Collier (synths & vocals)
Becky Keighley (drums &
vocals)
We welcome back two School
of Music Alumni (PWM) for a
performance featuring tracks
from their recently released
debut album on This Is Fake
DIY Records called Love
Technology. All the songs
are written by Pete Bott with
music written and arranged
by Heads We Dance. Their
programme will include a
cover of the Kraftwerk track
‘Computer Love’ (music by
Ralf Hutter and Karl Bartos,
lyrics by Ralf Hutter and Emil
Schult). They will also preview
some new material due for
release in November 2009,
again songs written by Pete
Bott with music written and
arranged by Heads We Dance.
Heads We Dance formed in Leeds in August 2006 and
played their first show less than three weeks later as
support for Little Boots’ former band Dead Disco. Taking
their name from a Kate Bush lyric, Heads We Dance
have pursued their ambition of combining pop melodies
with dance music production. Their debut album, Love
Technology, was described by Artrocker magazine as
“glittering, lustrous electro-pop”. Heads We Dance have
been particularly popular amongst online bloggers, with
their recent single, ‘When The Sirens Sound’, going to
number 1 on the global blog aggregator chart Hype
Machine.
“Intelligent electro-robot-funk”
Culture Deluxe
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Event 2
4 October 2009 Sunday 10.30am - 1.00pm
Tickets: £12 Concessions £10 (Concessions are offered
ONLY to students in full-time education, registered
disabled and unemployed people). Available from the
Leeds College of Music Box Office, 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds
LS2 7PD; Tel 0113 222 3434
Leeds Lieder+ Masterclass with Dame Margaret Price
Dame Margaret will work on the songs of Schumann
and Mahler with four post-graduate duos who have
been nominated by their conservatoires as having great
potential. Hear the stars of the future before they enter
the demanding professional arena, and see them guided
by this great artist.
“...the most majestic soprano this island has
produced since the war.”
Gramophone
Supported by the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
Event 3
9 October 2009 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Harmonious Handel
Graham Barber (organ, harpsichord)
Graham Barber plays a programme of works by Handel,
including his popular Air and Variations in E major better
known as The Harmonious Blacksmith, and his Organ
Concerto Op.4 No.6.
Since his début in London at the Royal Festival Hall in
1979, Graham Barber has been recognised as one of the
world’s leading concert organists. He has given concerts
in major venues in Britain, Europe, the Far East, the
States and Australia, and has been widely broadcast.
Recent concerts have been in Prague, Leipzig, Braga,
Lisbon, Coimbra and Adelaide. Reviewing his first
recording in 1975, the Sunday Times described him as
a ‘technically brilliant, musically mature organist.’ He has
made CDs on many English, German and Dutch organs
and has been described in Gramophone magazine as
‘one of the organ world’s finest recording artists.’
Event 4
9 October 2009 Friday 9.00pm (note time)
Admission free
Peter Veale (oboe)
Some of the most exciting oboe playing you will ever hear
– this late-night performance, part of the city wide “Light
Night” programme, brings contemporary virtuosity of the
highest order. Peter’s programme will include works by
Vinko Globokar, Violeta Dinescu, Gwyn Pritchard, Elliot
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Carter and the world première of a new work by Sebastian
Semper.
Peter Veale studied oboe with Heinz Holliger and
conducting with Francis Travis at the Musikhochschule
in Freiburg. He tours internationally as a soloist and
has recorded for numerous CD labels. He is a leading
authority on contemporary oboe music and techniques
and is author of the book The Techniques of Oboe Playing
and is editor of the series Contemporary Music for Oboe,
both published by Bärenreiter (Kassel).
Note that this event requires free tickets for admission.
Event 5
11 October 2009
Sunday 3.00pm
Tickets: £15, £12 (adult
concessions),
£3 students and young
people
Audrey Burton Memorial
Concert
featuring Sunwook Kim
(piano)
HAYDN Piano Sonata in C
major, Hbk:48
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata in
A major, Op.82
DAI FUJIKURA “Joule”
(BBC Radio 3 commission world première) CHOPIN Sonata No.3 in B
minor, Op.58
20-year-old Sunwook Kim came to international
recognition when he won the prestigious Leeds
International Piano Competition in 2006. The
competition’s youngest winner for 40 years, as well
as its first Asian winner, his performance for the finals
of Brahms’s Concerto No.1 with Mark Elder attracted
unanimous praise from the press, and led to concerto
engagements with some of the UK’s finest orchestras as
well as recitals throughout Europe.
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Please note this concert is being recorded by BBC Radio 3 and
that you are asked to be in your seats by 2:55pm. Latecomers
cannot be admitted.
Reg. Charity No 1094566
Supported by Friends of University Art and Music (Leeds)
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Event 6
16 October 2009 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Virtuosic music for alto saxophone and piano
Sarah Markham (alto sax) with Paul Turner (piano)
An exciting programme including François Borne’s Fantaisie Brillante sur des airs de “Carmen” (arr. Iwan
Roth and Raymond Meylan), Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Fuzzy
Bird Sonata, Eugène Bozza’s Aria and Pedro Iturralde’s
Pequeña Czarda.
Sarah Markham studied at the Royal Northern College of
Music and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
She is now a much travelled recitalist and teacher.
She has broadcast on Radio 3 and Classic FM and
recorded with the Adelphi and Northern Saxophone
quartets and the Tribune Saxophone Octet.
“Sarah Markham...was formidably impressive...
a sustained feat of exuberance... breathed
an extraordinary, haunted magic. The most
mesmerising thing I’ve heard all year!”
Michael White, Independent on Sunday
Event 7
21 October 2009 Wednesday 7.30pm
Tickets £12 and £10 concessions. £5 students and
young people. Please note that seating is limited and early
booking is advised.
Jon Strong in Concert
After eleven years touring with his much acclaimed band
Jon Strong comes to “Clothies” for a solo performance.
“Mind-blowing acoustic guitar work”
“Brilliant” - Bob Harris Radio 1
- Fibbers York
Event 8
23 October 2009 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Music for Horn and Strings
The Music Serenade
Robert Ashworth (horn), Jackie Cima & Wendy Dyson
(violins), Liz Wyly (viola), Andrew Fairley (cello)
The programme includes works by Giovanni Punto
(1764-1803), Diether Noll (b.1934) and Emil Kreuz
(1867-1932)
The Music Serenade, formed in 1978 at the birth of
Opera North by clarinettist Howard Rogerson, is a
Leeds-based chamber ensemble made up of wind and
string players from the Orchestra of Opera North. Since
its beginnings as a wind ensemble, The Music Serenade
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has evolved into an extremely flexible ensemble, enabling
performances of all types of chamber music - large or
small ensembles - mixed together in an infinite variety
of formats. The group has performed for BBC Radio 3
on several occasions (both live broadcasts and studio
recordings) and has appeared for various music festivals,
leisure services, music clubs and societies, universities,
colleges and schools.
Event 9
25 October 2009 Sunday 3.00pm
Tickets £10, £7 and £3 students and young people
(unreserved). Available from the Howard Assembly
Rooms and University Concert series Box offices (see
page 24) for map see page 24
The Howard Assembly Rooms,
The Grand Theatre & Opera House (Note venue)
Amsterdam String Quartet
Alida Schat & John Wilson Meyer (violins), Jane Rogers
(viola), Thomas Pitt (cello)
Regarded as one of today’s leading historical instrument
quartets, ASQ’s members are at the forefront of the Early
Music scene. Since its formation the ASQ has placed
Haydn at the heart of its programming and has gained a
reputation as one of the leading interpreters of his work.
Their programme includes Haydn’s quartets Op.64 No.6
(1790), Op.77 No.1 (1799) and Op.103 with Mozart’s
quartet KV 421 (1783).
Event 11
06 November 2009 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Film Music Event: New Scores for Old Films
This concert, which is also part of a Film Music
Conference, will feature new student scores for old
black-and-white silent film clips. Each student composer
will be interviewed briefly by Professor David Cooper and
professional film composer Ilan Eshkeri, himself a Leeds
graduate, before their score is performed live by the
University of Leeds Film Music Ensemble.
Audience members are invited to stay in their seats for a
keynote interview with Ilan which will follow the concert
after a short comfort break, ending at about 3.30pm.
Admission Free to both concert and keynote interview,
no booking required. For further information on the
conference see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/filmmusic,
or email Ian Sapiro (i.p.sapiro@leeds.ac.uk).
Event 12
12 November 2009 Thursday 7.30pm
Tickets £20, £15 adult concessions, £10 students and
young people
“… what gorgeous playing! … [the quartet] play
fantastically together and form a tight ensemble
… All of Haydn’s challenges sound superiorly
simple. The result is a delight for the ear...”
Luister, April 2009
This performance runs in collaboration with the DARE project
Event 10
30 October 2009 Friday 1.00pm
Admission free
Strings Plus
Michael Collins (clarinet) with the Brodsky Quartet
HOWELLS Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet and strings
Op.31
BRAHMS Quintet for clarinet and strings in B minor
Op.115
The first of four lunchtime recitals being recorded by the
BBC for future broadcast. Please note that you are asked
to be in your seats by 1.05pm. Latecomers cannot be
admitted.
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Johns Williams and John Etheridge
Perhaps the greatest guitar duo of our generation – a
conjunction of classical and rock not to be missed.
Williams and Etheridge provide a programme of exciting
duos and solo pieces. This recital provides a rare
opportunity to hear them working together in this intimate
space. Note seating is limited and early booking is
advised.
Event 13
13 November 2009 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Des Hurley and Friends
As part of the “2009 Gathering” we welcome Irish Arts to
provide a lively programme of Irish traditional music.
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Event 14
15 November 2009 Sunday 3.00pm
Tickets £12, £10 adult concessions, £3 students and
young people
The Great Hall, University of Leeds
Haydn Anniversary Concert: The Creation
The School of Music Project Choir (chorus master Clive
McClelland) Leeds Baroque directed by Peter Holman
The School of Music Project choir are joined by members
of Leeds Baroque in a classical orchestra performance of
Haydn’s Creation. Using period instruments at classical
pitch (A=430) and period instrument performance
techniques this will be a rare opportunity to hear this
popular work performed in the Classical style.
Pre-concert talk at 2:30pm given by Dr Clive McClelland
Event 15
20 November 2009 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Student Showcase
The first of three concerts featuring performances by
students on performance courses in the School of Music.
Programme to be confirmed.
Event 16
22 November Sunday 3.00pm
Tickets £12, £10 adult concessions, £3 students and
young people
The Great Hall, University of Leeds
School of Music Philharmonia directed by Eno Koço
MAHLER Symphony 1 in D major (original version)
Eno Koço gathers the orchestral forces of the
Philharmonia for Mahler’s Symphony No 1 in D major. Its
popularity was not immediate - at its first performance in
1889 Mahler describes its reception by the audience as
“a mixture of furious disapproval and wildest applause.
It is amusing to hear the clash of opinions in the street
and in drawing-rooms...”. This performance will include
the “Blumine” movement which was the second of five
movements in the original version.
Event 17
25 November 2009 Wednesday 7.30pm
Tickets £12, £10 adult concessions, £3 students and
young people
Aakrisht
Jaymini Chauhan (dancer), Sanju Sahai (tabla), Roopa
Panesar (sitar), Poulomi Chakraborty (vocals)
Be prepared to be enthralled by this extravagant, high
energy and enchanting traditional Indian Music and
Dance collaboration by the younger generation of
renowned UK based artists. Through a combination
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of solo virtuoso performances and interactive dialogue
between musicians and dancer, this is your chance to
experience the very best in Hindustani Classical Music
and Kathak Dance in it’s most pure and enriching form.
For more info: (0113) 244 5523 or www.saa-uk.org.uk
Aakrisht is part of a National Tour. For more information
please visit www.aradhana.org.uk or
email info@aradhana.org.uk
Event 18
27 November 2009 Friday 1.10pm
Admission Free
The LUCHIP String Quintet
Clive Brown & David Milsom (violins), Peter Colyer &
Duncan Druce (violas), George Kennaway (cello)
MENDELSSOHN String Quintet Op. 87
Mendelssohn’s string quintet in Bb was written in 1845,
two years before his death, and nearly twenty years after
his first string quintet. It combines extrovert energy with
darker emotions which are enhanced by the presence of
two violas. We will be using the edition by Joseph Joachim
(1831-1907), Mendelssohn’s protegé, and will employ
performing techniques of the period.
Event 19
28 November 2009 Saturday 12.30pm to aprox
4.00pm
Admission free – retiring collection
Schubert and Mendelssohn Day
12:30pm Andrew O’Brien will perform Schubert and
Mendelssohn songs.
2:00pm Clive Brown will talk about textual and
performance practice issues in Mendelssohn’s String
Quintet No.2 in B flat major Op.87; this will be followed by
the LUCHIP Ensemble’s period instrument performance
of the work (see details above)
For details of the registration for the full day’s programme
contact Crawford Howie on 0114 255 1655
email address: acrhowie@blueyonder.co.uk
Event 20
4 December 2009 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Chorus of Opera North
Opera North chorus join us for a programme of music by
Arthur Sullivan, including some of his splendid partsongs
and excepts from their forthcoming production of
“Ruddigore”
This concert is promoted as part of the DARE initiative.
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Event 21
5 December 2009 Saturday 7.30pm
Tickets £12, £10 adult concessions, £3 students
and young people
The Best of the Best
Caco Senante with Vicente Borland
Caco Senante has been a professional singer and
composer since 1975. During these years, not only has
he been performing worldwide but he has also worked as
an actor and presenter as well as giving lectures in various
Spanish Universities on musical topics.
Vicente Borland is a renowned Panamanian pianist, a
highly-respected name in the jazz world and is an original
cinema score composer. Senante and Borland have
worked together for 20 years ; a fruitful relationship in
which Borland has been Senante´s musical arranger and
producer.
Instituto
Cer vantes
In this recital Senante performs the music of “legends”
of Latin American popular culture. Icons such as Carlos
Gardel, Violeta Parra, José Alfredo Jiménez, Armando
Manzanero, Pablo Milanes, Joan Manuel Serrat, Silvio
Rodriguez, Ruben Blades, Juan Luis Guerra or Sabina are
evoked in Senante´s repertoire constituting a fascinating
hybrid between a “German Cabaret in the 40s” and a
“Meeting place for friends and music”.
This performance is supported by Instituto Cervantes Manchester
and Leeds.
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Event 22
16 January 2010 Saturday 7.30pm
Tickets £10, £7 adult concessions, £3 students and
young people
Voice and Viols in Concert
Fretwork (viols) with Michael Chance (countertenor)
The world-famous consort of viols Fretwork is joined by
international countertenor Michael Chance in a varied
programme of Elizabethan song, consort music by the
Jacobean composers Martin Peerson and John Milton
senior (whose consort music the performers are soon to
record complete) and some surprises from a later repertory.
Most of the music to be heard is rarely performed and has
never been recorded, while some is here performed for the
first time.
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Event 23
22 January 2010 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Les Goût Réünis
Compagnia d’Istrumenti
Ailsa Reid (recorders), Daniel Edgar & Nia Lewis (violins),
Tim Smedley (cello), Peter Seymour (harpsichord, organ)
A programme celebrating some of the great composers
of the Baroque period, offering a ‘Grand Tour’ of national
styles. The concept of Les Goût Réünis, or the tastes
reunited, was an important tenet during the eighteenth
century; while composers such as Corelli and Rameau
are bastions of their native national styles, the music of
Telemann and Handel bears witness to the absorption of
such styles into the language of composers across the rest
of Europe.
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27 January 2010 Wednesday 6.00pm (note time)
Admission free
Making Waves I
The first of two concerts of contemporary electroacoustic
music by staff and students of the University of Leeds
featuring the School of Music multi-channel sound
diffusion system and Resound spatialisation software.
Admission free
Event 25
29 January 2010 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Strings Plus
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) with the Carducci Quartet
MOZART Quartet for oboe & strings in F major K.370
ARNOLD Quartet for oboe & strings Op.61
BLISS Quintet for oboe & strings T.44 HOROVITZ Quartet for oboe & strings Op.18
The second of four lunchtime recitals being recorded by
the BBC for future broadcast. Please note that you are
asked to be in your seats by 1:05pm. Latecomers cannot
be admitted.
Event 26
05 February 2010 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Schütz, Bach and their choral legacy
Leeds University Liturgical Choir directed by Bryan White
The Leeds University Liturgical Choir performs the music
of two of the great German composers of the Baroque era,
and traces their influence on a disparate set of 19th- and
20th-century composers: Samuel Wesley, Hugo Distler and
Knut Nystedt.
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LULC was formed in 2002 by Bryan White, Stephen Muir
and Philip Wilby as a chamber choir which included the
performance of sacred choral music in liturgical settings as
one of its important aims. The choir draws its membership
from across the University and has performed in a variety
of prestigious venues throughout the UK. In February 2009
the choir gave two performances of Dido and Aeneas to
capacity audiences at Temple Newsam House and in
June 2009 LULC joined with Rambert Dance Company
and London Musici for performances of Howard Goodall’s
Eternal Light at The Grand Theatre in Leeds. It has, to date,
made three recordings.
“They sing as well as, if not better than,
most Cathedral or Oxbridge college choirs.”
Michael Nunn, Lancashire Evening Post
Event 27
12 February 2010Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Strings Plus
Ursula Leveaux (bassoon) with the Navarra Quartet
REICHA Grand Quintetto for bassoon & string quartet
VOGEL Quartet for bassoon and strings Op.5 No.1
JACOB Suite for bassoon & string quartet
DUNCAN WARD Quintet for bassoon & string quartet
The third of four lunchtime recitals being recorded by the
BBC for future broadcast. Please note that you are asked
to be in your seats by 1:05pm. Latecomers cannot be
admitted.
Event 28
13 February 2010Saturday5.00pm
Tickets £25, £20 reserved front stalls and gallery: £20,
£15 back stalls unreserved.
Student standby at the door only £5 (any available seat)
(Note time and venue)
The Great Hall, Leeds University
Tallis, Sheppard and Byrd,
The Sixteen directed by Harry Christophers
This a cappella programme celebrates the glorious
English sacred music of the pre- and post-Reformation
by Sheppard, Tallis and Byrd. At the centre is John
Sheppard’s Media Vita, a staggering achievement of
polyphonic composition not only in its sheer size but also
in its expression which is at times almost overwhelming.
This concert is supported by Mills and Reeve LLD
(Leeds), The Early Music Shop and Friends of University
Art and Music (Leeds) in memory of Maurice Kirk (19222009).
Event 29
19 February 2010Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Dave Danford (percussion), Nicola Rose (piano) and Joel
Garthwaite (saxophone)
Since bursting onto the classical music scene in 2005,
British percussionist Dave Danford has rapidly become
established as one of the UK’s leading contemporary
classical musicians. The choice of repertoire for his
recitals focuses on accessible music for marimba and
vibraphone, including new commissions from leading
classical composers such as Andrew Keeling and Gareth
Wood. Also included is Dave’s popular arrangement of
Vaughan Williams’ Concerto Accademico, recorded on his
2007 album Rhythmic Renaissance.
Event 30
21 February 2010Sunday 3.00pm
Tickets £12, £10 Friends of LL+ and adult concessions,
£3 students and young people.
Clara Mouriz (mezzo soprano) with Joseph Middleton
(piano)
FALLA Seven canciones populares españolas
BRITTEN Two French folk song arrangements: Fileuse; Il
est quelqu’un sur terre
RAVEL Cinq melodies populaires grecques; Vocaliseétude en forme de habanera
RAVEL Shéhérazade
TURINA Poema en forma de canciones Op 19
Prize-winning Spanish-born mezzo Clara Mouriz has a
wide-ranging repertoire in the opera house in roles from
Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea to Tchaikovsky’s
Eugene Onegin. A committed recital singer, she made her
debut in Wigmore Hall and has also appeared at venues
including the Cheltenham International Festival and
London Musici Nights as well as Juventudes Musicales,
Amigos de la Opera and Quincena Musical in Spain.
Clara will be joined for her recital by another outstanding
young artist Joseph Middleton. Recently described in The
Times as ‘the cream of the new generation’ and praised
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for playing with ‘strength, variety and beauty’, Joe enjoys
a busy and varied career as a chamber musician and
accompanist and will open the 2009 Leeds Lieder +
Festival partnering Ann Murray.
“One of the most polished and elegant young
singers I have heard in recent years. She has
the makings of a rare artist.”
Daily Telegraph
Event 31
26 February 2010Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Strings Plus
Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), Tom
Dunn (viola), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello)
MOZART - “Ach ich fühls” from “The Magic Flute” for
flute & violin
MOZART - Quartet for flute & strings in D major K.285
HOFFMEISTER - Duo Concertante in G for flute and viola DANZI - Quartet for flute & strings in D minor
The last of four lunchtime recitals being recorded by the
BBC for future broadcast. Please note that you are asked
to be in your seats by 1:05pm. Latecomers cannot be
admitted.
Event 32
28 February 2010 Sunday 3.00pm
Tickets £12, £10 adult concessions, £3 students and
young people
Leeds Baroque Choir (chorus master Clive McClelland)
and Leeds Baroque Orchestra directed by Peter Holman
J.S. BACH Magnificat, Cantatas Nos. 11 and 34
Leeds Baroque celebrate their tenth anniversary with
a programme of festive church music by J.S. Bach for
soloists, choir and full Baroque orchestra. The great
setting of the Magnificat is contrasted with two of his
finest cantatas: No.11, also known as the Ascension
Oratorio, and No.34, the Whitsun cantata O ewiges feuer.
The city’s only “period instrument” choir and orchestra,
Leeds Baroque has been gaining a reputation for their
imaginative programming and polished performance.
“What an exciting ensemble, music cunningly
articulated …every work delivered different
colours and emotions.”
Event 33
5 March 2010 Friday 1.10pm
Admission free
Student Showcase
The second of three concerts featuring performances by
students on performance courses in the School of Music.
Programme to be confirmed.
Event 34
7 March 2010 Sunday 3.00pm
Tickets £15 (with waitress service) £7 Gallery seats with
self service. Reserve a table (seats 10 - and save £20)
Afternoon tea at the Grand Hotel c 1920.
Shelley van Loen and her Palm Court Strings
Join us for a special afternoon tea concert, when we
recreate the ambience of the sophisticated 1920s tea
rooms at the Grand Hotel, complete with Palm Court
Strings, elegant china, delicious cakes and waitress
service!
The Palm Court Strings will provide a delightful repast
of your favourite light music including works by Haydn
Wood, Brahms and Ivor Novello amongst others. Early
booking essential as seating is limited – feel free to wear
your flapper frock – but “dressing up” is entirely optional!
The afternoon will include an interval talk given by Prof.
Derek Scott (by his own admission, an unblemished
name in the ivory tower of academia) entitled Music and
Good Taste
Event 35
12 March 2010 Friday 1.00pm
Admission free
Kit Holmes in Concert
The Observer described her music ‘as Macy Gray meets
Nick Drake,’ and both Bob Harris and Andy Kershaw
have featured her on their BBC shows. Kit’s trademark
sultry vocals and virtuoso guitar playing have wowed
audiences across the UK through extensive touring with
the guitar hero, John Etheridge. Her second album, Catch
the Echo, which features the legendary double bass
player Danny Thompson, received a 5 star review.
“…full of warmth…an absolute delight”
Yorkshire Post
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Observer
Event 36
12 March 2010 Friday 6.00pm (Note time)
Admission Free
Cuban Big Band directed by Sue Miller (director,
Charanga del Norte)
In another of our performances featuring popular and
world musics, students explore Cuban traditional dance
styles such as Chachachá, Mambo, Son Montuno and
Danzón. The programme will include El Bodeguero by
Richard Egües, works made famous by Puntillita (Buena
Vista Social Club) in Orquesta Cosmopolitan, a guaracha
by Nico Saquito, the danzón-chá Bodas de Oro by Electo
Rosell and Lagrimas Negras by the famous son musician
Miguel Matamoros.
Event 37
14th March 2010 Sunday 3.00pm
Tickets £10, £7 adult concessions, £3 students and
young people
The Great Hall, Leeds University
The School of Music Project Choir (chorus master Bryan
White)
The School of Music Philharmonia directed by Eno Koço
A programme including a wide-ranging selection of English
repertoire including Parry vocal music, motets from Songs
of Farewell (for a cappella chorus), Choric Song from The
Lotos-eaters (for chorus, orchestra, soprano soloist and
speaker), and Gordon Jacob Oboe Concerto No.2 (with
Jonathan Tobutt, soloist).
Event 38
19 March 2010 Friday 1.10pm
Admission Free
George Kennaway (cello) and Daniel Gordon (piano)
A cross-section of 19th-century repertoire and performing
styles, with pieces associated with cellists who left extremely
detailed information about how this music was played.
Grützmacher’s version of Mendelssohn’s first sonata is
full of surprising expressive markings, which he claimed
were in the tradition of the composer. The Belgian virtuoso
Servais exploited every technical trick in his own pieces,
and in his version of Chopin’s famous nocturne and of a
violin piece by Baillot he shows his more sentimental side.
George Kennaway is a specialist in 19th-century cello
performance practice, working in the School of Music.
Event 39
21 April 2010 Wednesday 7.30pm
Tickets £8, £5 adult concessions, £3 students and young
people
Contemporary Music Festival: Composer Showcase
We open this year’s Contemporary Music Festival with
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work by up-and-coming composers . Supported by the
Forum of Composers and Musicians this performance will
feature works written during the last 12 months. For further
information on FOCAM see www.focam.co.uk
Event 40
23 April 2010 Friday 6.00pm (Note time)
Admission Free
Contemporary Music Festival:
LS TWO directed by Mic Spencer
A concert featuring the School of Music Contemporary
Music group – their programme will include Lacrimosa
(Hommage a Pierre Soulages) , Graspa by Beat Furrer
and newly composed works by postgraduates in the
School of Music.
Event 41
24 April 2010 Saturday 7.30pm
Tickets £10, £7 adult concessions, £3 students and
young people
Contemporary Music Festival: Adam Starkey (clarinet)
Marine Jacquinot (piano)
An exploration of the contemporary clarinet repertoire
from Berg’s ‘Four Pieces’ (1913) to the UK premier of
Michael Spencer’s ‘Ungrubd II’ (2009)
with works by Stockhausen, Powers and Maxwell Davies
Event 42
25 April 2010 Sunday 3.00pm
Tickets £10, £7 adult concessions, £3 students and
young people
Contemporary Music Festival:
New Songs with Margaret Feaviour (soprano) and
Simon Lane (piano)
Leeds Lieder+ is committed to promoting the composition
of new songs both through its Composers and Poets
Forum which forms new creative partnerships, and by
commissioning new work from established composers.
This concert will include performances of some of the best
songs from this year’s Composers and Poets Forum and
several Leeds Lieder+ commissions which include songs
by Edward Rushton, Sally Beamish, Kenneth Hesketh,
John Woolrich and Gavin Bryars.
Margaret Feaviour, originally from Leeds, is a member of
the BBC Singers, and thus spends much of her career
promoting new music. She is a featured soloist on many
of their recordings and has worked with some of the great
names in contemporary music.
Prize-winning pianist Simon Lane is already building a
prestigious career in chamber music both in this country
and abroad.
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“…its colourfully offbeat texts were here
lovingly characterised by solo soprano Margaret
Feaviour…”
Independent
“…the pianist Simon Lane offered alert, sensitive
and mature performances in a nicely planned
programme of late 20th-century works...”
Event 46
11th June 2010 Friday 1.10pm
Admission Free
Competition winners recital
A performance by winners of the LUUMS Chamber
Music Competition – details of the competition and of the
programme to be announced.
Independent
This concert is run in collaboration with Leeds Lieder +
http://www.leedslieder.org.uk/
Event 43
28 April 2010 Wednesday 1.10pm
Admission Free
Contemporary Music Festival:
Darragh Morgan (violin)
Darragh Morgan is widely acknowledged as a leading
soloist in new music and brings three world premières to
Leeds. There will be new works for violin and electronics
by BEAST director Jonty Harrison, Leicester De Montfort
University’s Simon Emmerson, Mantis’ Ricardo Climent
and New York composer Annie Gosfield.
All concerts take place in the Clothworkers’ Centenary
Concert Hall, unless otherwise stated. Light
refreshments are available in the foyer for 30 minutes
prior to lunchtime recitals.
Note: whilst every effort will be made to adhere to the stated
programme, the University reserves the right to make alterations
should circumstances make this unavoidable.
See www.leeds.ac.uk/music for latest information.
“Violinist Darragh Morgan constructs the
wonderfully detailed sound worlds impressively:
chilly false harmonics shimmer and form
whirlpools of ambience, while icy cluster
chords receive impeccable tuning”
The Strad
See page 24 for details of Contemporary Festival Saver ticket
Event 44
30 April 2010 Friday 1.10pm
Admission Free
Student Showcase
The final concert in our series featuring performances by
students on performance courses in the School of Music.
Programme to be confirmed.
Event 45
09 June 2010 Wednesday 6.00pm (Note time)
Admission Free
Making Waves II
The second of our concerts of contemporary
electroacoustic music by staff and students of the
University of Leeds. This performance features the School
of Music multi-channel sound diffusion system and
Resound spatialisation software.
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Event 17 Aakrisht - Jaymini Chauhan (dancer)
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How to find us
From A62 (Huddersfield) & A58 (Halifax)
Join inner ring road. Take exit signposted Skipton A660
which will bring you to Woodhouse Lane. The main
entrance and visitors car park can be found on your
left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the
Parkinson Building.
From the south (M1/M621)
At J43 the M1 splits. Take the right-hand lanes and follow
M621 Leeds Centre. Exit M621 at J3 and follow signs for
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your left) and turn right at the lights immediately after the
Civic Hall (on your right). Turn left at the next traffic lights
to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance and visitors car
park can be found on your left after a few hundred yards,
immediately before the Parkinson Building Tower.
From A61 (Harrogate) & A58 (Wetherby)
Follow signs to University. At Merrion Centre traffic lights,
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entrance and visitors car park can be found on your
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Parkinson Building.
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(signposted Harrogate, York and Skipton) and after a
few hundred yards approach major roundabout. Take
third exit to city centre and join inner ring road, A58(M).
Take exit signposted Skipton A660 which will bring you
to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance and visitors car
park can be found on your left after a few hundred yards,
immediately before the Parkinson Building Tower.
Leave A1 taking A64 towards Leeds and join inner ring
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Regular bus services from the city centre stop outside
the main entrance (Parkinson Building). For details of
timetable and service telephone 0113 245 7676
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Friends of University
Art and Music
The Friends of University Art and Music (FUAM) was founded to
support Art and Music within the University.
For a modest subscription friends enjoy a range of benefits and
priority booking for concerts and receive invitations to private
viewings of University Gallery exhibitions and to pre-exhibition
and pre-concert talks.
There is also a programme of activities which enables members
and their guests to pursue a shared interest in the arts in a social
setting.
The map above shows the location of The Howard Assembly
Rooms at Leeds Grand Theatre, Event number 9.
Booking Information
Friday lunchtime and “rush-hour” concerts are free and
booking is not required.
Ticketed concerts can all be booked and paid for on line via the
Concerts web page at www.leeds.ac.uk/music/concerts
Postal bookings: send a note of your requirements, your contact
details (phone/email) and a cheque payable to University of
Leeds with a SAE to Box Office, University Concert Series, School
of Music, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
NEW! Season Ticket
For regular concert-goers we offer a Clothworkers Concert
Season Ticket. A single payment of £128 or £96 (adult
concessions) buys a concert pass providing you with entry to all
Clothworkers concerts saving up to 20% on single ticket prices.
Note that this offer excludes concerts in the Great Hall and The
Howard Assembly Rooms.
Contemporary Music Festival Saver Ticket
£20,£14 and £6 (Book for all 3 ticketed concerts and get the
cheapest concert free)
Membership of the Friends of University Art and Music is open to
all associated with the University, past and present, and to those
in the wider community of Leeds and beyond, who wish to join in
maintaining and developing the fine tradition of art and music in
the University of Leeds.
For further information on membership please contact the
Friends of University Art and Music, c/o The School of Music,
The University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
University Art and Music needs your support –
Please become a Friend!
Leeds University Union
Music Society (LUUMS)
In addition to the series of concerts run by the School of Music,
the Student Union Music Society runs its own concert series.
LUUMS is a non-profit making student society providing all
students (not just those in the School of Music) with opportunities
to carry on musical activity when they come to university
regardless of their skill level and experience. All eight of our
ensembles play to a high standard and your support is always
appreciated. Our winter season concludes with a chance for
audience participation in our Carol Night with a programme of
traditional Christmas Carols. For further programme details or
information about joining LUUMS, see: www.luums.co.uk
All concerts start at 7.30 and prices for the those concerts
featuring auditioned ensembles (Symphonic Wind, Chamber
and Symphony orchestras) are £5 adults, £4 concessions and
£3 LUUMS members. Prices for all the other concerts are £4
adults, £3 concessions and £2 LUUMS members. SWO is the
Symphonic Wind Orchestra.
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Sinfonia of Leeds
saturday 7th november 2009
the great hall
university of leeds 7:30
CONDUCTOR
DOUGLAS SCARFE
beethoven
shostakovich
symphony no.6
symphony no.6
the great hall
university of leeds 7:30
saturday 30th january 2010
CONDUCTOR
SOLOIST
DAVID GREED
IAN BUCKLE
haydn
debussy
faure
rachmaninov
symphony no.65
jeux
pavane
variations on a theme of paganini
the great hall
university of leeds 7:30
saturday 20th march 2010
CONDUCTOR
SOLOIST
DOUGLAS SCARFE
ANNE TAYLOR
ravel
elgar
sibelius
le tombeau de couperin
sea pictures
symphony no.2
LEEDSLIEDER+
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Honorary Patron: Elly Ameling
Friday 2 – Sunday 4
October 2009
Filling the city with song!
Artistic Director: Julius Drake
Guest of Honour: Dame Margaret Price D.B.E.
Festival weekend includes:
Song recitals by:
Joan Rodgers, Christianne Stotijn, James Gilchrist
and the Endellion String Quartet, Allan Clayton and
prize winning young artists
Masterclass • Composers + Poets Forum and Showcase •
New Commissions • Conversation Piece •
Discovering Lieder+ for new audiences •
World Song • Community and Education projects
For more information: www.leedslieder.org.uk
Email: info@leedslieder.org.uk
Leeds Lieder+, Leeds College of Music,
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Telephone: 0113 234 6956
the great hall
university of leeds 7:30
saturday 12th june 2010
THE DENNIS CASSON CONCERT
CONDUCTOR
SOLOIST
DAVID GREED
ANDY LONG
bernstein
dvorak
vaughan williams
overture ‘candide’
violin concerto
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Would you like to make an individual contribution to
the University Concert Series?
Like all arts organisations we welcome the support
provided by the wider community for artistic
endeavours and are especially grateful for financial
support. The Patrons of University Music Scheme
enables you to sponsor an individual artist or concert.
You might like to celebrate a particular event or your
association with the University. In return for your
support your contribution will be acknowledged in
the concert programme and you will receive reserved
seating and complimentary tickets (if appropriate) to
your sponsored performance.
For further details of the scheme please contact Jillian
Johnson, Concerts Series Administrator, School of
Music, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT.
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