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Music in St Andrews
January–June 2015
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/music
Welcome & Contents
Introduction
Welcome to the second issue of Music in St Andrews: we know from the
positive feedback to last semester’s season brochure that many of you
have enjoyed having the wide range of musical events taking place in
St Andrews presented in this new way, and this semester’s offering is,
if anything, even more varied. Highlights will include the visit of Dutch
organ improvisation virtuoso, Sietze de Vries and the launch of our
very own CD label with a special concert by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century
music will be a particular focus of the early part of the year, with (© Violet Shears)
our inaugural New Music Week in January and a chance to immerse
yourself for a day in the wonderful music of Olivier Messiaen in February. In April, meanwhile, we present possibly the
largest concert ever mounted in St Andrews: Elgar’s The Apostles, featuring more than 250 performers from town and
University and some of Scotland’s finest soloists. In June, the renamed Byre Opera presents its first production since the
theatre’s re-opening: Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris. This is just one of the many events we will present in the Byre, which now
benefits from a brand new Steinway piano and a state-of-the-art system ensuring optimum acoustics for music as well as
drama. Please come and join us to hear the difference, and look out for the new deals we are offering on food before and
after concerts in the recently relaunched café. We all look forward to welcoming you to this semester’s concerts and are
sure that there will be plenty for everyone to enjoy.
Michael Downes
Director of Music
Contents
St Andrews New Music Week. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6 Olivier Messiaen Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27
Orchestral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 Organ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 Masterclasses, Workshops and Research Seminars . . . . page 30
Chamber and Instrumental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 Music Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
Vocal and Choral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 Music Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
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Shine: celebrating the international year of light through science, art and music
Music and astronomy have much in common: both use a This link between music and astronomy will be celebrated
medium consisting of waves to communicate. In music, during the International Year of Light, 2015. Several events will
sound waves produced by voices, instruments and electronics tell the tales of different aspects of light within science and
combine to form compositions. In astronomy, light waves have the arts. This semester, live music will feature
travelled for up to billions of years before being captured by during the hugely popular Open Nights
telescopes and transformed into images and spectra. These in at the University Observatory (see page
turn tell us about the processes which shape planets, stars and 22). In addition, a new work has been
galaxies. For centuries, music and astronomy have also inspired commissioned from local artist Tim
each other: Pythagoras developed his model of the Solar Fitzpatrick. Follow us on twitter
System based on harmonic intervals, while many composers @shine_iyl2015 and visit our webpage
have composed pieces inspired by celestial phenomena, of http://shine.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
which Gustav Holst’s ‘Planets’ Suite is just one example. to keep up to date with our activities! 1
Concert Diary
SEMESTER DATE TIME CONCERT DETAILS
Every Sunday during semester 11:00 University Service sung by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir page 21
Every Sunday during semester 16:00 Choral Evensong sung by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir page 21
Every Wednesday during semester 17:30 Choral Evensong sung by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir page 21
Every Thursday during semester 22:00 Compline sung by St Leonard’s Chapel Choir page 21
Mondays during semester 17:00 Choral service sung by Children’s Chapel Choir in
(dates to be announced) St Leonard’s Chapel
WEEK 1 Tuesday 27 January 13:10 Organ recital by George Barrett page 28
NEW MUSIC WEEK Wednesday 28 January 13:10 Lunch concert by Ensemble Thing page 6
NEW MUSIC WEEK Thursday 29 January 20:00 New Music Ensemble: Amplified page 6
NEW MUSIC WEEK Thursday 29 January 22:00 CD launch: Bede Williams, Jonathan Kemp page 7
Friday 30 January 19:30 G&S Society presents HMS Pinafore page 21
NEW MUSIC WEEK Friday 30 January 22:00 Choristi…candlelit page 7
Saturday 31 January 14:30 G&S Society presents HMS Pinafore page 21
Saturday 31 January 19:30 University of St Andrews G&S Society presents HMS Pinafore page 21
NEW MUSIC WEEK Sunday 1 February 11:00 University Service with new music page 7
WEEK 2
NEW MUSIC WEEK Tuesday 3 February 13:10 Organ recital by Paul Stubbings: Letter from America page 7
NEW MUSIC WEEK Tuesday 3 February 14:30 Call for Scores/flute workshop with Richard Craig page 8
NEW MUSIC WEEK Wednesday 4 February 13:10 Lunch concert by Richard Craig page 8
NEW MUSIC WEEK Wednesday 4 February 14:30 Research seminar by Alistair MacDonald page 8
Friday 6 February 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
Saturday 7 February 19:30 Choristi Sanctiandree Spem in Alium page 22
Sunday 8 February 14:00 Music in Museums – Scholarship Saxophone Quartet page 16
WEEK 3 Tuesday 10 February 13:10 Organ recital by Alasdair Grant: Music for a Modernist Organ page 28
Wednesday 11 February 10:30 Piano masterclass by Susan Tomes page 30
Wednesday 11 February 13:10 Lunch concert by students from St Mary’s Music School page 16
Wednesday 11 February 14:30 Research seminar by Susan Tomes page 31
Wednesday 11 February 17:30 SCO Early Evening Recital by Su-a Lee (cello) and
Matt Hardy (percussion) page 16
Thursday 12 February 19:30 St Andrews Concert Series presents the Maggini Quartet page 16
Friday 13 February 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
Friday 13 February 10:00-12:30 Maggini Quartet, Call for Scores Workshop page 30
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY Saturday 14 February 11:30 Vocal Recital by Caroline Taylor, Chris Huggon,
Olivia Clark and Jenny Stewart page 27
OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY Saturday 14 February 14:00 La Nativité du Seigneur page 27
OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY Saturday 14 February 15:30 Lecture by Stephen Broad: Messiaen in 1930s Paris page 27
OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY Saturday 14 February 16:30 Flute Recital by Aisling Agnew and Christopher Baxter page 27
OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY Saturday 14 February 18:00 Quatuor pour la fin du temps page 27
WEEK 4
HENRY FAIRS in Residence Monday 16 February 12:00-14:00 Organ masterclass by Henry Fairs page 29
HENRY FAIRS in Residence Tuesday 17 February 13:10 Organ concert by Henry Fairs page 29
Wednesday 18 February 13:10 Lunch concert by Robin Mason (cello) and
Clare Sutherland (piano) page 17
Friday 20 February 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
WEEK 5 Tuesday 24 February 13:10 Organ concert by Andrew Macintosh page 28
Wednesday 25 February 11:00-13:00 Woodwind masterclass by Alison Mitchell page 30
Wednesday 25 February 13:10 Lunch jazz concert by Richard Michael page 17
Wednesday 25 February 19:30 Scottish Chamber Orchestra – ‘Brahms Serenade’ page 9
Friday 27 February 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
Sunday 1 March 19:30 Piano and Harpsichord Evening page 17
WEEK 6 Tuesday 3 March 13:10 Organ concert by Chris Bragg: Mr Muffat’s Remarkable Apparatus page 28
SIETZE DE VRIES Wednesday 4 March 14:15-15:45 Organ improvisation masterclass by Sietze de Vries page 29
in Residence
Wednesday 4 March 13:10 Piano recital by Aleksander Kudajczyk:
Chopin – the Polish influences page 17
Wednesday 4 March 14:30 Research seminar by Prof. Don Paterson page 31
SIETZE DE VRIES Thursday 5 March 19:30 Sietze de Vries improvisation concert with Choristi Sanctiandree:
in Residence Psalms from Geneva to Dundee page 29
Friday 6 March 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
Friday 6 March 19:30 A Cappella Society competition page 22
Saturday 7 March 10:00-17:00 Conducting workshops with Bede Williams and Gillian Craig page 30
Saturday 7 March 18:00 Observatory open night with live music for brass by
Eddie McGuire page 22
Saturday 7 March 20:00 The Seven Last Words Lent concert by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
and the Edinburgh Quartet page 22
Sunday 8 March 14:00 Music in Museums, Scholarship Wind Quintet page 18
Sunday 8 March 19:30 Heisenberg Ensemble concert page 9
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Concert Diary
WEEK 7
Tuesday 10 March 13:10 Organ concert by Gijs Boelen page 28
Wednesday 11 March 13:10 Lunch concert for Bach’s birthday by Hilary Michael and
Tom Wilkinson page 18
Thursday 12 March 19:30 St Andrews Concert Series presents Chloë Hanslip (violin) and
Danny Driver (piano) page 18
Friday 13 March 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 10
WEEK 8
HOLY WEEK Monday 30 March to 22:00 Compline sung by local choirs page 21
Friday 3 April inclusive
Tuesday 31 March 13:10 Organ concert by Hannah Gibson page 28
Wednesday 1 April 13:10 Lunch concert by Jessica Wyatt and Douglas Holligan page 18
Wednesday 1 April 14:30 Research seminar by Bede Williams page 31
Friday 3 April 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
WEEK 9 Tuesday 7 April 13:10 Organ concert by Tom Wilkinson: Two against Three page 28
Tuesday 7 April 19:30 MusSoc's Mission Impossible page 19
Wednesday 8 April 13:10 Lunch concert by Music Centre scholarship holders page 19
Thursday 9 April 19:30 St Andrews Concert Series presents the
Fitzwilliam String Quartet page 19
Friday 10 April 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
Friday 10 April 19:30 University Madrigal Group: Oriana page 23
Sunday 12 April 14:00 Music in Museums:
Hetty Buchanan Scholarship String Quartet page 19
Sunday 12 April 19:30 Launch of Sanctiandree CD label:
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet page 23
WEEK 10 Tuesday 14 April 13:10 Organ concert by Rufus Broderson page 28
Tuesday 14 April 19:30 Music Society Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert page 10
Wednesday 15 April 11:00-13:00 Viola masterclass by Jane Atkins page 30
Wednesday 15 April 13:10 Lunch concert by Music Centre scholarship holders page 19
Wednesday 15 April 14:30 Research seminar by Dr Ines Jentzsch page 31
Wednesday 15 April 19:30 Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Mozart and the Horn page 10
Thursday 16 April 19:30 St Andrews Chamber Orchestra with
Tom Wilkinson, organ page 11
Friday 17 April 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
Friday 17 April 19:30 G&S Society presents Patience page 24
Saturday 18 April 10:00-15:00 Study day on J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor page 31
Saturday 18 April 14:30 G&S Society presents Patience page 24
Saturday 18 April 17:00 St Salvator’s Chapel Choir alumni Evensong page 21
Saturday 18 April 19:30 G&S Society presents Patience page 24
Sunday 19 April 19:30 Piano and harpsichord evening page 20
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WEEK 11 Tuesday 21 April 13:10 Organ concert by Prof. David Smith page 28
Tuesday 21 April 19:30 St Andrews Baroque Orchestra page 11
Wednesday 22 April 13:10 Lunch concert by Sirocco Winds (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) page 20
Thursday 23 April 19:30 St Salvator’s Chapel Choir and St Andrews Chamber Orchestra:
Bach: His Inspirations, His Credo page 24
Friday 24 April 13:10 Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 24
Friday 24 April 19:30 Music Society: Spring into Song page 24
Sunday 26 April 19:30 St Andrews Chorus, Choristi Sanctiandree and
the Heisenberg Ensemble present Elgar’s The Apostles page 25
Monday 27 April 19:30 St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra with
Matt Hardy (percussion) page 11
POST-SEMESTER Thursday 7 May 19:30 St Andrews Concert Series presents Katherine Bryan (flute) and
Scott Mitchell (piano) page 20
Friday 8 May 09:00-12:00 Flute masterclass by Katherine Bryan page 31
Friday 8 May 19:30 Tom Wilkinson performs J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations page 20
Sunday 17 May 15:00 St Andrews Renaissance Singers page 26
CON ANIMA in Residence Friday 29 May 18:00 Choral Evensong page 26
with PAUL MEALOR
CON ANIMA in Residence Saturday 30 May 19:00 Concert: The British Bards page 26
with PAUL MEALOR
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Saturday 13 June 19:30 Concert by Ars Eloquentiae:
in Residence Concerted Perspectives, Adventures in Concerto Form page 12
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Monday 15 June 19:00 Byre Opera presents Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris page 13
in Residence
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Tuesday 16 June 19:30 St Salvator’s Chapel Choir, Ars Eloquentiae and
in Residence the Fitzwilliam String Quartet page 12
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Wednesday 17 June 19:00 Byre Opera presents Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris page 13
in Residence
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Thursday 18 June 19:00 Byre Opera presents Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris page 13
in Residence
Thursday 25 June 17:30 Graduation Week concert by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir page 26
(© Oli Walker) (© Tim Poirson)
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St Andrews New Music Week
The University Music Centre presents a week of new music designed to challenge, provoke and entertain.
28 January-4 February Wednesday 28 January Thursday 29 January
Byre Theatre – foyer Byre Theatre Byre Theatre, 20:00
– Lawrence Levy Studio, 13:10
Installation: '360° Sunset' Amplified
Ensemble Thing St Andrews New Music Ensemble
Lunch Concert St Andrews Fusion
Bede Williams and
Jonathan Kemp, directors
Angharad Rowlands, soprano
'360° Sunset' is an audiovisual
collaborative piece that scrutinises
the ‘convulsive beauty’ of light when
propagated through silica based
Ensemble Thing
aerogel. The visual artist Nedyalka
Panova investigates this phenomenon Glasgow-based new music band
as part of her work in the University’s Ensemble Thing present a performance Bede Williams leads the University’s
Synthetic Optics Group (funded by of John de Simone’s Independence; New Music Ensemble in a programme
EPSRC IAA). The music for the video an examination of musical, cultural of driving amplified post-minimalist
is from Nedyalka's collaboration with and national identity in Scotland classics including music by Matthew
musicians Alistair MacDonald (Royal from the perspective of its composer, Hindson, Louis Andriessen, and Steve
Conservatoire of Scotland) and Bede mixing musical genres, spoken word, Martland’s anarchic Dance Works.
Williams. Part of the International Year of electronics and Ensemble Thing’s
Tickets: £5, £2 (students),
Light. virtuoso musicianship.
FREE to Music Centre members
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
www.ensemblething.com
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Thursday 29 January Sunday 1 February
Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 22:00 St Salvator’s Chapel, 11:00
Bede Williams, trumpet University Service
Jonathan Kemp, live electronics
St Salvator's Chapel Choir (© Peter Adamson)
Bede Williams Jonathan Kemp
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir sing new music by
Bede Williams and Jonathan Kemp launch their new CD ‘Crystallise’, featuring James MacMillan during the weekly
ambient tracks for trumpet and electronics by Jonathan Harvey and Michael University Service, led by University
Clarke, with a late-night session in the Byre Studio. Chaplain, the Rev Dr Donald MacEwan.
Tickets: FREE (including glass of wine), CDs on sale for special price of £5.
All proceeds to Project Zambia.
Tuesday 3 February
St Salvator’s Chapel, 13:10
Friday 30 January
St Leonard’s Chapel, 22:00 Letter from America
Choristi…candlelit
Tom Wilkinson, director
This sixteen-piece chamber choir,
drawn from members of St Salvator’s
Chapel Choir, performs music by
current St Andrews students and by
Paul Mealor.
Paul Stubbings, Director of Music at St Mary’s
Tickets: £5, £2 (students and Music School and an organ graduate of the
Music Centre members) Amsterdam Conservatory, performs 20th and
21st century music from the USA, including
William Bolcom’s swinging gospel preludes.
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
(© Oli Walker)
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St Andrews New Music Week
Richard Craig in Residence Wednesday 4 February
Byre Theatre
Flautist Richard Craig is one of the most innovative and brilliant Scottish – Lawrence Levy Studio, 14:30
musicians of his generation. Following studies at the RSAMD and the
Conservatoire de Strasbourg, his creative Research Seminar
approaches to the performance of new
Dr Alistair MacDonald
music, including the many works he has
commissioned, have led him to perform at
venues including the South Bank in London and
Lincoln Center in New York. His debut recording,
‘INWARD’, was nominated for Scottish Album of
the Year in 2012 and he has broadcast with the
BBC, WDR Cologne, YLE Finland, Radio France,
Radio Nacional de España, Swedish Radio, ARTE
and Icelandic RUV.
Richard Craig (© Alex Craig)
Dr Alistair MacDonald (© Lucy Kendra)
Composer and Fellow of the Royal
Tuesday 3 February Wednesday 4 February Conservatoire of Scotland, Dr Alistair
Byre Theatre Byre Theatre MacDonald presents a research seminar
– Lawrence Levy Studio, 14:30 – Lawrence Levy Studio, 13:10 entitled “Designing an improvising
environment for acoustic instruments
Call for Scores Workshop Richard Craig, flute and electronics.”
Richard works with composers and Lunch Concert Admission: FREE
flautists on pieces composed for flute Richard Craig demonstrates his www.alistairmacdonald.co.uk
and electronics in response to the 2015 breathtaking virtuosity and incredible
University of St Andrews Call for Scores. array of techniques in music for flute,
Admission: FREE bass flute and electronics by John Croft,
Bruno Maderna and Kaija Saariaho.
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
www.richardcraig.net
8Orchestral
Wednesday 25 February Sunday 8 March
Younger Hall, 19:30 Younger Hall, 19:30
Pre-Concert talk with Martin Suckling, 18:30
Pre-Concert Performance of a new work composed and performed by pupils Haydn’s ‘Clock’
from Waid Academy, Bell Baxter High School and St Leonard’s School, 19:00 Heisenberg Ensemble
Gillian Craig, conductor
Brahms Serenade no. 1 in D, op 11
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor
Mark Stone, baritone
Heisenberg Ensemble (© Daniel K Oi)
The St Andrews-based Heisenberg Ensemble
perform a programme of music by Mozart and
Mark Stone (© Robert Workman) Haydn, including the latter’s Symphony no. 101.
Mahler arr Britten – What the Wild Flowers Tell Me Tickets: £10, £5 (students). Advance tickets from
Suckling – Candlebird the Byre Box Office, 01334 475000.
Brahms – Serenade No 1 in D op 11
www.heisenbergensemble.co.uk
Completed 20 years before his First Symphony, Brahms’ Serenade no. 1
represents the composer’s first essay in large-scale orchestral writing. It is
presented alongside the Scottish Premiere of Martin Suckling’s superbly
accomplished song cycle Candlebird, his musical response to words by
Don Paterson.
Tickets: £11-£22, £5 (students)
For information on subscriptions and school group bookings, please contact
the SCO on 0131 557 6802, info@sco.org.uk
www.sco.org.uk
9Orchestral
Friday 13 March Wednesday 15 April
Younger Hall, 13:10 Younger Hall, 19:30
Pre-concert talk by Richard Egarr at 18:30
Grieg Piano Concerto
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra Mozart and the Horn
Michael Downes, conductor Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Maebh Martin, piano Richard Egarr, conductor
University of St Andrews Music Society Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn
Lunch Concert
St Andrews’ ‘town and gown’ Maebh Martin
chamber orchestra warms up for its
tour of Northern Ireland later in the month with a performance
of Grieg’s wonderful Piano Concerto featuring soloist Maebh
Martin.
Admission: FREE
Tuesday 14 April Alec Frank-Gemmil (© Thomas Ernst)
Younger Hall, 19:30 Weber – Symphony no. 1 in C
Mozart – Horn Concerto no. 2 in E flat K417
Spring Concert – Concert Rondo in E flat K371
University Music Society Beethoven – Symphony no. 8
Symphony Orchestra
BBC Radio 3 Young Generation Artist and SCO Principal Horn,
Chris George, conductor Alec Frank-Gemmill takes on the mantle of the greatest horn
Stephanie Goh, viola player of the late 18th century, Joseph Leutgeb, as he performs
Mozart’s Horn Concerto no. 2, dedicated to his virtuoso
The Music Society’s Symphony Music Society Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra performs two classics friend. This concert of grand Viennese classics culminates in
of the 1920s. Music Centre Concerto Competition winner Beethoven’s humorous Eighth Symphony of 1812.
Stephanie Goh performs Walton’s breakthough work, his Viola
Tickets: £11 – £22, £5 (students)
Concerto of 1929, whilst the concert will also feature George
available from the Byre Box Office, 01334 475000.
Gershwin’s riotous An American in Paris…taxi horns and all.
For information on subscriptions and school group bookings,
Tickets: £7, £4 (concessions and students)
please contact the SCO on 0131 557 6802, info@sco.org.uk
www.sco.org.uk
10Thursday 16 April Monday 27 April
Holy Trinity Church, 19:30 Younger Hall, 19:30
Poulenc Organ Concerto StAFCO Spring Concert
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra
Michael Downes and Gillian Craig, conductor
Bede Williams, conductors Matt Hardy, percussion
Tom Wilkinson, organ
University Organist Tom Wilkinson
performs Francis Poulenc’s Concerto
for Organ, Strings and Timpani,
the commission of exceptionally Tom Wilkinson
colourful sewing machine fortune
heiress Winaretta Singer. Also on the programme is Groundswell
by Australian Paul Stanhope (Scottish Premiere), Delius’ Walk
to the Paradise Garden and Richard Strauss’ Suite for 13 wind
instruments op 4.
Tickets: £8, £5 (concessions), £1 (students).
StAFCO (© Peter Adamson)
Advance tickets available from the
Byre Box Office, 01334 475000. Join us for a performance in StAFCO's customary and
characteristic style, blending the more serious with the lighter.
Includes music by Haydn and Elgar, with special guest Matt
Tuesday 21 April Hardy, newly appointed Principal Timpanist with the Scottish
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30 Chamber Orchestra.
Admission: FREE S&
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St Andrews Baroque Orchestra
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St Andrews’ baroque orchestra is one of the UK’s very few M MU
community ensembles which deals with questions of
performance practice and the use of old instruments. In this
concert they will present Bach’s First Orchestral Suite alongside Saturday 13 June
music by Fasch, Telemann and Vivaldi. St Andrews Episcopal Church, 19:30
Tickets: £5, £4 (concessions), £1 (students), Concerted Perspectives:
FREE to Music Centre members Adventures in Concerto Form
Ars Eloquentiae
Leo Duarte, director
See page 12
11Ars Eloquentiae in Residence
Ars Eloquentiae (© Russell Gilmour)
The vibrant young London-based period performance ensemble Ars Eloquentiae, under the artistic leadership of
oboist Leo Duarte, take up residence in St Andrews to perform Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris with Byre Opera, a concert
in St Andrew’s Church exploring aspects of the concerto genre and a performance of the Credo from Bach’s Mass in
B minor with St Salvator’s Chapel Choir.
Saturday 13 June Tuesday 16 June
St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 19:30 St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Concerted Perspectives: Bach’s Credo
Adventures in Concerto Form St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
Ars Eloquentiae Ars Eloquentiae
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Ars Eloquentiae perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no. 5
Tom Wilkinson, director
alongside music by Telemann and Venturini.
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir and Ars Eloquentiae present a
Tickets: £12, £8 (concessions),
performance of the Credo from Bach’s Mass in B minor.
£5 (students and Music Centre Members)
Tickets: £10, £8 (concessions),
SPECIAL OFFER: Ticket holders for Iphigenie in Tauris can
£5 (students and Music Centre members)
purchase tickets for this event at a discount of 50%. Please
present your opera ticket on arrival. SPECIAL OFFER: Ticket holders for Iphigenie in Tauris can
purchase tickets for this event at a discount of 50%. Please
present your opera ticket on arrival.
www.stsalvatorschapelchoir.co.uk
12Byre Opera
Monday 15 June, 19:00
Wednesday 17 June, 19:00
Thursday 18 June, 19:00
Byre Theatre
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Iphigenie in Tauris
Following its successful productions of Britten
and Tchaikovsky in the Byre Theatre, the Music
Centre’s opera company presents Gluck’s
reforming masterpiece – the work that inspired
Mozart’s Idomeneo and Berlioz’s Trojans – in
a new translation by Julia Prest and students
on the ‘Translating French Opera’ module. The
Fitzwilliam String Quartet and Ars Eloquentiae
will provide a period-instrument orchestra,
led by Lucy Russell and conducted by Michael
Downes. Jane Pettegree’s production explores
the contemporary relevance of the opera’s
timeless themes: family, friendship and
national identity.
Tickets: £16, £12 (concessions and Music
Centre members), £6 (students and U26)
Advance tickets for Iphegenie en Tauride
available from the Byre Box Office,
01334 475000.
Special Offer: Opera ticket holders
can enjoy a two-course meal with a
glass of wine for just £12.95 prior to
the performance for which they have tickets.
Please book in advance at the Byre Box Office.
www.ars-eloquentiae.com
www.fitzwilliamquartet.org
byreopera
(© Oli Walker)
13Metropolitan Opera Performance Screenings
The Byre Theatre is delighted to host a season of opera screenings, broadcast live from
the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Byre Theatre, 17:55 except where stated
Tickets: £17, £15 (concessions), £8 (students)
Saturday 31 January Saturday 1 March
(Encore, ‘as-live’ screening)
Jacques Offenbach
Les Contes D’Hoffmann Co-production with
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Cast
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Olympia: Erin Morley Iolanta
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Nicklausse: Kate Lindsey
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Iolanta: Anna Netrebko
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Choreographer: Tomasz Wygoda
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Production: Paul Curran
Set & Costume Designer: Kevin Knight
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Projection Designer: Driscoll Otto
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15Chamber and Instrumental
Sunday 8 February Wednesday 11 February
MUSA, 14:00 Younger Hall, 17:30
University Music Centre Su-a Lee (cello)
Scholarship Saxophone Quartet and Matt Hardy (percussion)
Music in Museums SCO Early Evening Recital
Admission: FREE Tickets: £4-£9.
Advance tickets available from the
Su-a Lee (© Marco Borrgreve)
Byre Box Office, 01334 475000.
Wednesday 11 February
www.sco.org.uk
Byre Theatre, 13:10
Students from St Mary’s Music School
Lunch Concert Thursday 12 February
Younger Hall, 19:30
The Maggini Quartet
St Andrews Concert Series
Some of Scotland’s most talented young
musicians from St Mary’s Music School in
Edinburgh perform chamber music by
Dvořák and Saint-Saëns.
Tickets: £2, FREE to Music Centre Members The Maggini Quartet (© Melanie Strover)
www.st-marys-music-school.co.uk Internationally renowned Grammy nominees, the Maggini Quartet, present a
programme of music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Alan Rawsthorne.
Tickets: £12, £11 (concessions), £3 (students), £1 (children).
www.maggini.net
www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
16Wednesday 18 February Sunday 1 March
Byre Theatre, 13:10 Younger Hall
– Rehearsal Room, 19:30
Robin Mason (cello)
Clare Sutherland (piano) Piano and Harpsichord
Evening
Music Centre Associate Tutor
Robin Mason performs a Piano and harpsichord students
programme of Latin-inspired at the Music Centre perform in an
music by Poulenc, Granados and informal soirée.
Piazzolla.
Admission: FREE
Tickets: £2, (© Oli Walker)
FREE to Music Centre members Robin Mason
Wednesday 4 March
Younger Hall, 13:10
Wednesday 25 February
Byre Theatre, 13:10 Chopin – the Polish influences
Aleksander Kudajczyk – piano
The Wheels on the Bus
Richard Michael, jazz piano
Aleksander Kudajczyk
Richard Michael
The story of Polish pianist Aleksander Kudajczyk, discovered
Taking as his inspiration that well known ode The Wheels on the whilst working as a cleaner at the University of Glasgow,
Bus, Richard will improvise at the piano, in the styles of many of captured the nation. Here, he performs music from his
the great jazz pianists and in those of any classical composers fatherland in the form of Polonaises and Scherzos by Chopin.
suggested by the audience, in any key and tempo!
Tickets: £2, FREE to Music Centre members
Tickets: £2, FREE to Music Centre members
www.aleksanderkudajczyk.com
www.richardmichaelsjazzschool.com www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
17Chamber and Instrumental
Saturday 7 March Thursday 12 March
St Salvator’s Chapel, 20:00 Younger Hall, 19:30
The Seven Last Words Chloë Hanslip (violin) and Danny Driver (piano)
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir St Andrews Concert Series
Edinburgh Quartet
Since her BBC Proms debut
For more information, please see page 22 at the age of 15, Chloë
Hanslip has performed at
the most prestigious venues
Sunday 8 March in the world including the
MUSA, 14:00 Musikverein in Vienna and
Carnegie Hall in New York.
University Music Centre Her St Andrews recital Chloë Hanslip Danny Driver
Scholarship Wind Quintet includes music by Poulenc, (© Benjamin Ealovega) (© Richard Haughton)
Music in Museums MacMillan and Beethoven’s
‘Kreutzer’ Sonata.
Admission: FREE
Tickets: £12, £11 (concessions), £3 (students), £1 (children)
www.chloehanslip.com
Wednesday 11 March www.dannydriver.com
St Leonard’s Chapel, 13:10 www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
Bach’s Birthday
Hilary Michael, baroque violin Wednesday 1 April
Tom Wilkinson, harpsichord Byre Theatre, 13:10
A concert to mark
Jessica Wyatt and
J.S. Bach’s 330th
Douglas Holligan
birthday later this
month, during which Jessica Wyatt and Douglas Holligan
Hilary Michael and perform a programme of rarely
Tom Wilkinson perform heard music for viola and piano by
sonatas for solo Rachmaninov and York Bowen.
violin, and violin and
Tickets: £2,
harpsichord. Hilary Michael
FREE to Music Centre members Jessica Wyatt Douglas Holligan
Tickets: £2,
www.jesswyatt.moonfruit.com
FREE for Music Centre members
18Tuesday 7 April Thursday 9 April
Younger Hall, 19:30 Younger Hall, 19:30
MusSoc's The Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Mission Impossible St Andrews Concert Series
University Music Society
One of the world’s longest-established
Concert Wind Band
string quartets and no strangers to
Kerr Barrack, Danielle Harper,
St Andrews, the Fitzwilliam Quartet
Rebecca Anderson, conductors
open our Strings in Spring weekend
Music Society Big BUSTA with a programme of music by Purcell, The Fitzwilliam String Quartet (© Benjamin Harte)
Ryo Yanagida, conductor Nielsen and Beethoven.
£12, £11 (concessions),
£3 (students), £1 (children)
www.fitzwilliamquartet.org
www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
Sunday 12 April Sunday 12 April
Concert Wind Band
MUSA, 14:00 St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Join Concert Wind Band & Big BUSTA on
their mission impossible! Including well Hetty Buchanan Scholarship Gala launch of
known themes such as The Pink Panther, String Quartet Sanctiandree Records
James Bond, The Incredibles and of Music in Museums For more information, please see page 23
course Mission Impossible!
Tickets: £3/ £2 (students)
Wednesday 15 April
Byre Theatre, 13:10
Music Centre
scholarship holders
Lunch Concert
Wednesday 8 April Scholarship String Quartet (© Peter Adamson)
Byre Theatre, 13:10 Tickets: £2,
The Hetty Buchanan Scholarship
FREE to Music Centre members
Quartet perform Smetana’s Quartet
Music Centre ‘From My Life’.
scholarship holders
Admission: FREE
Lunch Concert
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
19Chamber and Instrumental
Sunday 19 April Thursday 7 May
Younger Hall – Rehearsal Room, 19:30 Byre Theatre, 19:30
Piano and Harpsichord Evening Katherine Bryan (flute)
Scott Mitchell (piano)
Piano and harpsichord students at the
Music Centre perform in an informal St Andrews Concert Series
soirée. Former Juilliard student
Admission: FREE Katherine Bryan was Katherine Bryan Scott Mitchell
appointed Principal Flautist
of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at the age of just 21, a position she combines
Wednesday 22 April with her international solo appearances. Her programme includes music by Martinů,
Byre Theatre, 13:10 Pierné and François Borne’s virtuosic Carmen Fantasy.
Tickets: £12, £11 (concessions), £3 (students), £1 (children)
Sirocco Winds
www.katherinebryan.com
Lunch Concert
www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
Friday 8 May
St Leonard’s Chapel, 19:30
Goldberg Variations
Sirocco Winds Tom Wilkinson (harpsichord)
A lunch concert by Sirocco Winds, a University Organist Tom Wilkinson presents the second
dynamic wind quintet comprising annual performance of J.S. Bach’s monumental Goldberg
Masters students and graduates from Variations.
the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Tickets: £5, £2 (students), FREE to Music Centre members
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members www.thomas-wilkinson.co.uk
Tom Wilkinson (© Oli Walker)
20Vocal and Choral
Choral Music in the Liturgy Friday 30 January, 19:30
Saturday 31 January, 14:30
The University of St Andrews has a liturgical choral tradition stretching back to its
Saturday 31 January, 19:30
foundation in the 15th century. Under the leadership of University Organist Tom
Boys' Brigade Hall,
Wilkinson and University Chaplain the Rev Dr Donald MacEwan, this tradition goes from
Kinnessburn Road, St Andrews
strength to strength.
H.M.S. Pinafore
Weekly Services Special Services University of St Andrews
Gilbert and Sullivan Society
Every Sunday during Semester Every evening during Holy Week
(30 March – 3 April inclusive)
St Salvator’s Chapel, 11:00
University Service St Leonard’s Chapel, 22:00
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir Compline
Various local choirs
St Leonard’s Chapel, 16:00
Choral Evensong Join us as we sail the ocean blue with
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir Saturday 18 April
a special semi-staged performance
St Salvator’s Chapel, 17:00 of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic comic
Choral Evensong opera H.M.S. Pinafore. This perennial and
Every Wednesday during Semester
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir alumni uplifting classic explores the conflict
St Salvator’s Chapel, 17:30
between love and duty as Josephine,
Choral Evensong
Friday 29 May a captain's daughter, has to decide
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
between the socially advantageous
St Salvator’s Chapel, 18:00
match to Sir Joseph Porter KCB, the First
Choral Evensong
Every Thursday during Semester Lord of the Admiralty, which her father
Con Anima, directed by Paul Mealor
St Leonard’s Chapel, 22:00 proposes for her, and her true love for
Compline For more information, please see Ralph Rackstraw, a humble sailor on
St Leonard’s Chapel Choir page 26 board her father's ship.
Tickets: £7,
£5 (senior citizens/students/under 16s)
http://gilbertandsullivan.wix.com/
standrews
St Salvator's Chapel Choir (© Peter Adamson) (© Oli Walker)
21Vocal and Choral
Friday 30 January Saturday 7 March
St Leonard’s Chapel, 22:00 St Salvator’s Chapel, 20:00
Choristi…Candlelit Seven Last Words
For more information, please see page 7 Edinburgh Quartet
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
Tom Wilkinson, director
Saturday 7 February A concert for Lent featuring Haydn’s
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30 Seven Last Words of Christ performed by
one of the UK’s leading string quartets as
Spem in Alium well as penitential music by Rheinberger,
Choristi Sanctiandree and friends perform Brahms and James MacMillan’s 2009
a programme of Renaissance English music setting of words by St Augustine of
culminating in Thomas Tallis’ spectacular 40- Hippo, Who are these Angels?
part motet Spem in Alium. Tickets: £10,
Tickets: £10, £8 (concessions), £5 (students), £8 (concessions), £5 (students),
FREE for Music Centre members FREE for Music Centre members
www.stsalvatorschapelchoir.co.uk
www.edinburghquartet.com
Friday 6 March
Younger Hall, 19:30
…why not pop in…
Scottish A Cappella Championship to the Open Night at St Andrews Observatory on the way? From
18:00 and subject to good weather, visitors will be able to look
through the telescopes at the observatory to explore the night
sky. Astronomers of the School of Physics and Astronomy will be
on hand to offer assistance and
answer questions. And for the
first time, the Open Night will
feature live astronomy-inspired
Accidentals brass music by Eddie McGuire,
as part of Shine, a celebration of
After a successful inaugural year, the Scottish
the connection between Music
A Cappella Championship returns once
and Light for the International
again with groups from all over the country
Year of Light, 2015.
competing for the title of Scotland's national a
cappella champions. University Observatory (© Jan Boelsche)
Tickets: £8, £6 (concessions)
22Friday 10 April Sunday 12 April
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30 St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Oriana Sanctiandree – the gala launch
University of St Andrews Madrigal Group St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Tom Wilkinson, director
The University of St Andrews Music Centre launches
its new internationally-distributed CD label with a gala
concert featuring repertoire by Purcell and Pelham
Humfrey drawn from the new CD by St Salvator’s Chapel
Choir and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. The repertoire Henry Purcell
also includes an 18th century anthem by William Jackson
of Exeter discovered in the University Library’s Special Collections.
The new CD will be available to purchase for a discounted price at this event.
Admission: FREE
Madrigal Group
www.stsalvatorschapel.co.uk
The University’s long-established and
nationally admired Madrigal Group present a (Main photo © Ryo Yanagida)
concert profiling the English madrigalists and
their musical legacy.
Tickets: £5, £2 (students)
www.madstagroup.weebly.com
23Vocal and Choral
Friday 17 April, 19:30 Friday 24 April
Saturday 18 April, 14:30 Younger Hall, 13:10
Saturday 18 April, 19:30
Byre Theatre Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs
St Andrews New Music Ensemble
Patience Bede Williams, conductor
University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society Tania Holland Williams, mezzo-soprano
The Gilbert and Sullivan Society are thrilled to be returning to University Music Society and
the Byre Theatre for the first time since its production of Princess University Music Centre Lunch Concert
Ida in 2012 with a satire on the Aesthetic and pre-Raphaelite The University of St Andrews’ New Music
movements. Follow Patience as she learns the true meaning Ensemble and mezzo-soprano Tania
of love in a world obsessed by celebrity and false pretences. Holland Williams perform Luciano Berio’s
This production promises a fresh and innovative take on what beautiful Folk Songs, composed in 1964 Tania Holland Williams
is often considered to be one of Gilbert's finest and funniest to celebrate the voice of legendary
libretti combined with one of Sullivan's most charming scores. American singer Cathy Berberian. The concert will also include
Ticket Price: TBC (please e-mail gssocmail@st-andrews.ac.uk or the Scottish premiere of Simon Mawhinney’s The Pinkbow at
visit http://gilbertandsullivan.wix.com/standrews Backnamullagh.
for latest details). Admission: FREE
Thursday 23 April
Younger Hall, 19:30
Bach: His Inspirations, Friday 24 April
His Credo 19:30, St Andrews Town Hall
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra Spring into Song
Tom Wilkinson, conductor University of St Andrews Music Society Singers
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra and Ruth Shaw, director
St Salvator's Chapel Choir perform music Ukelear Fusion
that inspired J.S. Bach, culminating in
Join the Society Singers and Ukelear Fusion for an evening filled
the Credo of his Mass in B Minor. J S Bach
with everything from pop to show tunes and from slow ballads
Tickets: £10, £8 (concessions), £5 (students), FREE to Music to rock. There really is something for everyone!
Centre members. Advance tickets available from the Byre Box
Tickets: £3/ £2 (students)
Office, 01334 475000.
www.stsalvatorschapelchoir.co.uk
24Sunday 26 April Saturday 2 May
Younger Hall, 19:30 Various venues including Scores Hotel
Elgar: The Apostles The 2nd Annual Global
St Andrews Chorus Gilbert and Sullivan Day
Choristi Sanctiandree University of St Andrews
Heisenberg Ensemble Gilbert and Sullivan Society
Wilma McDougall – Blessed Virgin/Angel
Following the immense success of the
Tania Holland Williams – Mary Magdalene
Global Gilbert and Sullivan Day concept
Jamie McDougall – St John
around the world, we are thrilled to be
Jonathan May – St Peter
organising flagship events for this year's
Brian Bannatyne-Scott – Judas
celebrations. This global celebration
Ben McAteer – Jesus
was the idea of former Gilbert and
Michael Downes, conductor Sullivan Society president Laurie Slavin
Elgar’s 1904 oratorio, The Apostles – the and from its initial small beginnings
successor to The Dream of Gerontius, has now blossomed into a major
which the St Andrews Chorus performed international event in the Gilbert and
in 2011 – reveals the influence of Sullivan calendar. Further events will be
Wagner in its scale and dramaturgy. This announced soon.
performance by Scotland’s largest choral Ticket Price: TBC (please e-mail
society and a start cast of soloists offers a gssocmail@st-andrews.ac.uk or visit
rare chance to hear some of Elgar’s most http://gilbertandsullivan.wix.com/
heartfelt and stirring music. (© Peter Adamson)
standrews
Tickets: £12, £10 (concessions), for latest details).
£3 (students). Advance tickets available
from the Byre box office, 01334 475000.
www.standrewschorus.weebly.com
www.heisenbergensemble.co.uk
25Vocal and Choral
Sunday 17 May Tuesday 16 June
St Salvator’s Chapel, 15:00 St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Ascendens Christus St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
St Andrews Renaissance Singers Ars Eloquentiae
Bede Williams, director Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Tom Wilkinson, director
Please see page 12 for further information.
Thursday 25 June
St Salvator’s Chapel, 17:30
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
St Andrews Renaissance Singers (© David Stothard) Tom Wilkinson, director
The St Andrews Renaissance Singers present a programme St Salvator’s Chapel choir performs Bach’s motet Komm, Jesu
including Palestrina’s Missa Brevis and Victoria’s Ascendens komm BWV 229 and music by Byrd and Palestrina during the
Christus. traditional Graduation Week concert.
Admission: FREE Admission: FREE
www.stsalvatorschapelchoir.co.uk
Con Anima in Residence Friday 29 May
St Salvator’s Chapel, 18:00
Paul Mealor, director
Under the direction of Paul Mealor, the Aberdeen- Choral Evensong
based chamber choir Con Anima has developed an Music by Orlando Gibbons
enviable reputation for its performances of repertoire
ranging from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary Saturday 30 May
sacred works by Mealor, Lauridson and others. St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:00
Concert
The British Bards
Settings of poems by Shakespeare,
Blake and Burns by Vaughan-Williams,
John Tavener, Paul Mealor and others.
Admission: FREE, retiring collection
Con Anima www.conanima.org.uk Paul Mealor (© Gillian Christie)
26Olivier Messiaen Day (Saturday 14 February)
A day dedicated to one of the most important composers of the
twentieth century, Olivier Messiaen, whose evocative music,
characterised by its influences both oriental and ornithological will be
explored in programmes featuring song, woodwind and organ and
culminating in a performance of the moving Quartet for the End of Time.
Tickets: £5 for each event, £15 day ticket.
Advance tickets available from the Byre box office, 01334 475000.
Special Offer: Ticket holders for any Messiaen day event
can enjoy a delicious French lunch of Beef Burguignon or a Byre Theatre, 15:30 (lecture), 16:30 (recital)
Provençale vegetarian dish with a glass of wine for
just £6.95. This will be served following the vocal Lecture by Stephen Broad:
recital. Please book in advance at the Byre Box Office. Messiaen in 1930s Paris
Recital for flute and piano by
Byre Theatre, 11:30 Aisling Agnew and Christopher Baxter:
La Jeune France contre Les Six
Vocal Recital
Messiaen expert, Dr Stephen Broad of the Aisling Agnew
Caroline Taylor, soprano Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, explores
Jenny Stewart, soprano the combustible musical politics of 1930s Paris which saw the
Olivia Clark, soprano rival factions of ‘La Jeune France’ (with whom Messiaen was
Chris Huggon, tenor associated) and ‘Le Group des Six’ (of which Francis Poulenc
Maebh Martin, violin was a prominent member) establish radically different styles.
Jakub Gutkowski, piano Virtuoso flautist Aisling Agnew then presents a programme
Mairi Grewar, piano Caroline Taylor presenting both sides of this fascinating musical divide.
University vocal students Caroline Taylor, Chris Huggon, Jenny www.aislingagnew.com
Stewart and Olivia Clark present a programme of Messiaen’s www.christopherbaxterpiano.com
seldom-heard early vocal music including La Mort du Nombre
(1930) for two voices, violin and piano and the song cycle Byre Theatre, 18:00
Chants de terre et de ciel (1932).
Quartet for the End of Time
St Salvator’s Chapel, 14:00 The Artisan Trio
Jean Johnson, clarinet
La Nativité du Seigneur
Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Tom Wilkinson, organ was composed and premiered in 1941
University Organist, Tom Wilkinson while the composer was a Prisoner of War Jean Johnson
performs Messiaen’s masterful at the Stalag VIII-A concentration camp
1935 cycle of nine meditations on in Poland. This highly emotional work depicts eschatological
the birth of the Lord. themes as found in the book of Revelation.
www.thomas-wilkinson.co.uk Tom Wilkinson www.artisantrio.org.uk
27
www.jean-johnson.comOrgan
Recitals take place on the 1973 Gregor Hradetzky organ (IV/40) 3 March – St Leonard’s Chapel
in St Salvator’s Chapel and, where indicated, on the 1994 Walker Chris Bragg
organ (II/9) in St Leonard’s Chapel. St Andrews
‘Mr Muffat’s Remarkable Apparatus’
Tuesdays at 13:10
Tickets: £2, FREE for Music Centre members
Thursday 5 March – at 19:30
Sietze de Vries
27 January
Netherlands
George Barrett
‘Psalms from Geneva to Dundee’
Campbell Watterson Organ Scholar
For more information, please see opposite
Music by Mendelssohn and
Langlais
10 March
Gijs Boelen
3 February
Netherlands
Paul Stubbings
‘Music from Seven Countries’ –
(Edinburgh)
Music by J.E. Bach, Ruppe, Albinoni and
‘Letter from America’
Bartók (Romanian Dances)
For more information, please see page 7
www.gijsboelen.nl
10 February
31 March
Alasdair Grant
Hannah Gibson
Campbell Watterson Organ Scholar
Tayport and Birmingham
‘Music for a Modernist Organ’ – Music by
Music by Bruhns, Schumann and Messiaen
Schmidt, Distler, Pärt and Micheelsen
7 April – St Leonard’s Chapel
Saturday 14 February – at 14:00
Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson
University Organist
University Organist
‘Two against Three’
Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur (1935)
www.thomas-wilkinson.co.uk
For more information, please see page 27
14 April
17 February
Rufus Brodersen
Henry Fairs
Oundle for Organists prize winner
Honorary Professor of Organ
Music by Buxtehude, Karg-Elert
‘Music from Denmark’
and Walton
For more information, see opposite page
21 April
24 February
Prof. David Smith
Andrew Macintosh
University of Aberdeen
Deputy University Organist
Music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Phillips
Music by Bairstow, Guilmant and Bach
and an improvisation
28 www.davidjsmith.org.ukOrganists in Residence
Henry Fairs Sietze de Vries
Multi international prize-winning The winner of prizes at 15 national and international
organist and Honorary Professor of competitions, the Dutch organist Sietze de Vries is recognised
Organ at the University of St Andrews as the most important improviser in historic styles in the
joins us once again to teach and perform. world. His visit to St Andrews will see him teach and perform.
Monday 16 February Wednesday 4 March Thursday 5 March
St Salvator’s Chapel, 12:00-14:00 St Salvator’s Chapel, 14:15 St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Public organ masterclass Improvisation masterclass Psalms from Geneva to Dundee
Sietze de Vries discusses and Sietze de Vries, organ
demonstrates historic improvisation Choristi Sanctiandree
techniques with University organists. Tom Wilkinson, director
Admission: FREE Sietze de Vries enjoys enormous
worldwide fame for his improvisations
on the melodies from the Geneva
Psalter, the heart of Dutch reformed
hymnody since the Reformation. In
this concert he will improvise in a
variety of historic styles on melodies
Henry Fairs from both the Genevan Psalter and the
Henry Fairs puts the University’s Scottish Psalter of 1615/1635. Choristi
organists through their paces. Sanctiandree will sing settings of these
melodies by Sweelinck and others. If you
Admission: FREE only attend one organ concert this year,
make sure it’s this one!
Tuesday 17 February Tickets: £10,
St Salvator’s Chapel, 13:10 £8 (concessions), £5 (students),
FREE to Music Centre members
Recital www.sietzedevries.nl
A recital of music from Denmark
culminating in Carl Nielsen’s epic and
rarely heard Commotio.
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members Sietze de Vries
www.henryfairs.com
29Masterclasses and Workshops
The University Music Centre regularly presents free public Wednesday 4 March
masterclasses and workshops on a variety of instruments. St Salvator’s Chapel, 14:15-15:45
Listeners are always welcome! Organ improvisation masterclass with
Sietze de Vries
Tuesday 3 February Please see page 29 for more information
Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 14:30
Call for Scores workshop with Richard Craig (flute) Saturday 7 March
Younger Hall, 10:00 – 17:00
Please see page 8 for more information
Conducting workshop with Bede Williams
and Gillian Craig
Wednesday 11 February
Younger Hall – Rehearsal Room, 10:30
Piano masterclass by Susan Tomes
Friday 13 February
Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 10:00-12:30
Call for Scores workshop with the
Maggini String Quartet
The Maggini Quartet perform and discuss new works written for
them in response to the University of St Andrews' 2015 Call for
Scores.
Monday 16 February
St Salvator’s Chapel, 12:00-14:00 (© Oli Walker)
Organ masterclass by Henry Fairs Bede Williams and Gillian Craig give guidance to conductors
working in music education or community music. Each
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participant will receive at least 30 minutes' podium time with
a small ensemble. To register online, please contact Bede
Wednesday 25 February Williams: bw23@st-andrews.ac.uk
Byre Theatre – Conference Room, 11:00-13:00
FEES: £50 including lunch, £20 (students)
Woodwind masterclass by Alison Mitchell
(Principal Flute, Scottish Chamber Orchestra)
Wednesday 15 April
Alison Mitchell works with Music Centre woodwind students on Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 11:00-13:00
a variety of repertoire.
Viola masterclass with Jane Atkins
(Principal Viola, Scottish Chamber Orchestra)
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