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2019
SPRINGMONTH
WORLD-CLASS YOUNG MUSICIANS WORKING WITH:
MARIN ALSOP RICHARD GOODE ISABELLE PERRIN
BBC SINGERS GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS TREVOR PINNOCK
ALLAN CLAYTON PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE RACHEL PODGER
JAMES EHNES HARTMUT HÖLL CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG
SIR MARK ELDER TASMIN LITTLE ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR
REUBEN FOWLER NASH ENSEMBLE JOHN WILSON
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SPRING 2019 THE PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME
Welcome to Spring at the Academy.
Collaboration, between departments, visiting artists and organisations,
is an integral part of Academy life, enriching our programming and
creating exciting opportunities for our students. Our commitment to
developing these important relationships will be evident in the pages
that follow.
Having performed all the Bach Cantatas over 10 years, we embark on
our new Bach the European series, which opens with Trevor Pinnock
conducting the mighty St Matthew Passion, followed by Bach and the
Extended Family directed by Philippe Herreweghe. Royal Academy
Opera’s double bill of Iolanta and L’enfant et les sortilèges showcases
our exceptional young singers, a series of chamber music and related
talks pay tribute to our theme of Amazing Women of the Academy, and
the Academy Big Band celebrates the 40-year anniversary of Steely
Dan’s Aja with a roof-raising concert.
Our students will also work with some of the most established names in
the profession. Among those sharing their expertise in masterclasses this
term are Richard Goode, James Ehnes, Allan Clayton and Claude-Michel
Schönberg. Composers in Residence Georg Friedrich Haas and Anna
Thorvaldsdottir will work closely with our student composers on several
projects, while Marin Alsop, Sir Mark Elder and John Wilson will put the
Academy Symphony Orchestra through its paces with rousing repertoire
that includes Strauss, Hindemith, Bax and Shostakovich.
This is just a flavour of what’s on offer. If you’re new to the Academy
or haven’t visited for a while, do come and see us at work – you will,
I hope, be persuaded by the quality and range of our programme to
keep coming back.
A final word: we rely on our donors to help fund performances and
events, and are grateful for their generous support. To find out how
you can make an impact on the lives of our students, please visit
www.ram.ac.uk/support.
Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE
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ACADEMY EVENT SERIES SPRING PROGRAMME 2019 JANUARY
Tuesday and
Thursday Series
TUES
series
THURS
series
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WEDNESDAY, 1-2pm 10 JANUARY
THURSDAY, 1.05pm 14 JANUARY
MONDAY, 6-9pm
Our popular series of lunchtime concerts
Drop-in Meraki Trio THURS
series Guitar Masterclass
of music for soloists and small ensembles
Lunchtime Tour Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required
Friday Series FRI
series
Venue Museum Ground Floor
Large-scale performances in the Duke’s Hall Tickets Free, no tickets required. Momoko Arima violin With Fabio Zanon, Visiting Professor of
Maximum of 20 people; places on Yong Jun Lee cello Guitar at the Academy.
Bach the European a first-come, first-served basis Mateusz Duda piano
In collaboration with the Kohn Foundation
and Fondation Meyer
Join this free tour of the museum, which Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op 97,
takes you around all three of the galleries. ‘Archduke’
Meet in the Ground Floor Gallery.
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MONDAY, 6.30-8pm
Strings at Home Spagnoletti,
Events with our distinguished professors of strings
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WEDNESDAY, 6-7.30pm
10 JANUARY
THURSDAY, 2-5pm Paganini, Lindley
Trumpet Venue Museum Strings Gallery
The Loves of Tickets Free tickets available from the
Masterclass Box Office; see page 48 for full details
Mars and Venus
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Peter Sheppard Skærved explores the
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Tickets Free, no tickets required ideas and personalities evoked by the visit
Tickets Free, no tickets required of the del Gesù violin owned by Paolo
With Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet Spagnoletti to the Academy Museum.
The Loves of Mars and Venus by John professor at the Hochschule für Musik,
Weaver was the first modern ballet, Theater und Medien Hannover.
telling a story through dance, gesture
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Theresa Pewal
and music. Its first performance was at
Drury Lane in 1717. The history books JANUARY
say the score and choreography were MONDAY, 2.30-5.30pm
lost, but did they ever exist as such? A
detective story led by Evelyn Nallen. Historical
Performance
Masterclass
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required
With Rachel Podger, internationally
renowned Baroque violinist, the
Gramophone Awards’ 2018 Artist of
the Year and Micaela Comberti Chair
of Baroque Violin at the Academy.
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15 JANUARY
TUESDAY, 10am-1pm 15 JANUARY
TUESDAY, 1.05pm 17 JANUARY
THURSDAY, 1.05pm 17 JANUARY
THURSDAY, 6-9pm
Piano Masterclass Occhi d’amore TUES
series Violin Sonatas THURS
series Violin Masterclass
Venue Duke’s Hall Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets £5 (concessions £4) available from the Box Office;
see page 48 for full details
With Visiting Professor of Piano Richard Goode, one of the finest interpreters Sarah Gilford soprano Kumi Shimizu violin
of Classical and Romantic repertoire. Sarah Anne Champion mezzo-soprano Marina Kan piano With James Ehnes, Visiting Professor of Violin, who gives a nuanced balance
Miriam Nohl cello of practical and visionary ways for students to think about their playing.
Sergio Bucheli theorbo Beethoven Violin Sonata in C minor,
Op 30 No 2
Benjamin Ealovega
Gabrielli Cello Sonata No 1 in G Franck Violin Sonata in A
Strozzi Lagrime mie; Begli occhi;
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Amor non si fugge
Caccini O vive rose; Lasciatemi qui solo JANUARY
Monteverdi O come sei gentile; THURSDAY, 2-5pm
Pulchra es; Pur ti miro from
L’incoronazione di Poppea Harp Masterclass
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Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
JANUARY Tickets Free, no tickets required
THURSDAY, 12.30-2pm
With Isabelle Perrin, professor and Head
Soundbox of Strings and Harp at the Norwegian
Academy of Music in Oslo and Visiting
Venue Museum Strings Gallery Professor of Harp at the Academy.
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Soundbox is a series of events inspired by
the Academy’s Museum and collections.
Presented by Peter Sheppard Skærved,
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FRIDAY, 10.30-11.15am
violinist and Viotti Lecturer, each Academy Tots
event explores the historical and
contemporary relationships between Venue Museum Strings Gallery
performers, composers, instruments Tickets Child £5, adult £3 available
and instrument makers. from the Box Office; see page 48 for full
details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults
per booking
Inquisitive tots and parents are invited
to this interactive session designed
for children aged 2-4. Hear live music
performed by Open Academy Fellows
and explore making music through group
Steve Riskind
play with percussion instruments.
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FRIDAY, 1.05pm 21 JANUARY
MONDAY, 10am 22 JANUARY
TUESDAY, from 10.30am
Marin Alsop Worshipful Choral Conducting Day
conducts Company of Venue Duke’s Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required
the Academy Musicians Harriet
10.30am-1pm: Masterclass
Symphony Cohen Bach Prize 2-3.45pm: Masterclass
4pm: Concert
Orchestra FRI
series Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required The Academy’s choral conducting students work with the BBC Singers and one of
Venue Duke’s Hall the country’s leading choral conductors and pedagogues, Paul Brough, on music
Tickets £7.50 (concessions £5.50) Students present their own choice of from the Romantic and modern eras.
available from the Box Office; keyboard work by JS Bach. This prize is
Sim Canetty-Clarke
see page 48 for full details generously sponsored by the Worshipful
Company of Musicians in memory of
Marin Alsop conductor the distinguished English pianist and
Academy alumna Harriet Cohen.
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite A second prize is awarded as the
Hindemith Symphony ‘Mathis Harold Samuel Prize.
der Maler’
Marin Alsop, Music Director of
the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra and recently
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MONDAY, 7pm
appointed Chief Conductor Organ Recital
of the ORF Vienna Radio
Symphony Orchestra, Venue Duke’s Hall
conducts two orchestral Tickets Free, no tickets required
works often associated
with their operatic Franck Prélude, Fugue et Variation
counterparts, opening in B minor, Op 18; Offertoire in B;
with the suite from Choral No 2 in B minor; Choral No 3
Strauss’s comic opera, in A minor; Sept pièces en la bémol
Der Rosenkavalier. from L’organiste
Unlike Strauss’s more One of a series of recitals featuring the
commonly performed work, complete organ works of César Franck,
Hindemith’s symphony was together with harmonium pieces from
composed before its operatic L’organiste, performed by Academy
partner piece, Mathis der organ students.
Maler. Inspired by the religious
works of German Renaissance
painter Matthias Grünewald,
Adriane White
each movement of the
symphony is based on one
of the artist’s panelled tableaux.
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22 JANUARY
TUESDAY, 11.45am-12.45pm 23 JANUARY
WEDNESDAY, 6.30-7.30pm
JANUARY
Musical Tour: The Actresses’
WEDNESDAY
Development of the Piano Franchise League
Venue Museum Piano Gallery Venue Museum Piano Gallery 10am-1pm 2-5pm 6-9pm
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free tickets available from the
Maximum of 20 people; places on a first-come, first-served basis Box Office; see page 48 for full details Cello Violin Chamber Music
Honorary Research Fellow Dr Elena Vorotko gives a specialist guided tour of the The Actresses’ Franchise League was Masterclass Masterclass Masterclass
Academy Museum’s historic keyboard collection, providing an insight into how founded in 1908 to unite women
the instrument has developed over 300 years. Enjoy a rare chance to both hear from across the theatre professions Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
and see inside our historical keyboards. who wanted to support the Votes for Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required
Women movement. This talk explores
the work of the League, focusing on the With Sung-Won Yang, cellist of Trio With Olivier Charlier, violinist of Trio Owon explore piano trio repertoire.
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musicians, composers and performers Owon and Visiting Professor of Cello Trio Owon.
JANUARY JANUARY who used their talents for the cause, at the Academy.
TUESDAY, 1.05pm TUESDAY, 7pm led by Dr Naomi Paxton, Knowledge
Exchange Fellow at the Royal Central
Buffet Crampon Brahms and Bridge School of Speech and Drama, University
of London.
Prize Winner’s Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Recital TUES
series
Anne-Sofie Søby Jensen mezzo-soprano
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Edward Keenan viola
Tickets Free, no tickets required Leo Nicholson piano
Sam Gillespie clarinet Brahms Heimweh II, Op 63 No 8;
Henry Kennedy basset horn Ständchen, Op 106 No 1; Unbewegte
Katariina Ahjoniemi accordion laue Luft, Op 57 No 8; Vergebliches
Andrei Iliushkin piano Ständchen, Op 84 No 4; Therese, Op 86
Steven Neugarten piano No 1; Die Mainacht, Op 43 No 2;
Zwei Gesänge, Op 91
Mendelssohn Konzertstück in D minor, Bridge Two Pieces for viola and piano;
Op 114 Three Songs for medium voice, viola
Bax Clarinet Sonata and piano
Carter Gra
Lutosławski Dance Preludes
A recital given by the winner of the
2018 Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize,
Sam Gillespie.
TallWall Media
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24 JANUARY
THURSDAY, 1.05pm 25 JANUARY
FRIDAY, 6pm 28 JANUARY
MONDAY, 2-5pm
JANUARY
Academy Pavarotti Prize Clarinet
TUESDAY
Saxophone Venue Duke’s Hall Masterclass
Ensemble THURS
series
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Venue Concert Room COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE:
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Final-year Royal Academy Opera
students sing contrasting pieces from
mainstream operatic repertoire. The
Tickets Free, no tickets required
With Andrew Marriner, Principal Clarinet
GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS
prize of £7,000 is generously donated of the London Symphony Orchestra
In its inaugural concert, the Academy by Joseph and Jill Karaviotis. and Visiting Professor of Clarinet at
Saxophone Ensemble presents a piece the Academy.
written and devised by its members, 1.05pm 3pm 8pm
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which depicts a musical journey around
some of the most interesting locations JANUARY Anachronism In Conversation Solstices
in the Academy building. SUNDAY, 11.30am
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Venue Susie Sainsbury Theatre
London and Vienna Quartet Alliance
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Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets £10 (concessions £8)
JANUARY available from the Box Office;
THURSDAY, 7pm Venue Duke’s Hall Christopher Austin conductor Writer and broadcaster Paul Morley talks see page 48 for full details
Tickets Free, no tickets required Aaron Holloway-Nahum conductor to Georg Friedrich Haas about his life
Academy Academy Manson Ensemble and career. Aaron Holloway-Nahum conductor
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1, Hob III:81 The Riot Ensemble The Riot Ensemble
Horn Ensemble Shostakovich String Quartet No 5 in B flat, Op 92 Bradley Johnson, Alex Hart, Hugh
Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 Millington and Dimitrios Soukaras guitar Georg Friedrich Haas Solstices
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required The Echéa Quartet from the Academy and the Selini Quartett from the Georg Friedrich Haas Anachronism The UK premiere of Georg Friedrich
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien present quartets by Haydn and Georg Friedrich Haas Guitar Quartet Haas’s new 70-minute piece, Solstices,
Michael Thompson director Shostakovich before combining for Mendelssohn’s celebrated Octet, following Plus new works by Academy composers performed by The Riot Ensemble.
two days of intensive rehearsal under the supervision of Johannes Meissl. This Dedicated to Haas’s wife Mollena,
Rossini arr John Humphries Overture to concert will be repeated on Monday 28 January at the Musikverein in Vienna. Two works by the internationally the work is performed entirely from
The Barber of Seville acclaimed Georg Friedrich Haas frame memory in darkness. The music requires
Edward Chance Vinyl Grooves four premieres of new pieces by a process of deep listening from the
Mendelssohn Nocturne and Wedding Academy postgraduate composers, musicians, who slowly tune a series of
March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream written with guidance from Haas overtone chords before the piece breaks
Joseph Landers Nocturne in Blue during a series of workshops with out into a variety of musical games and
and Green The Riot Ensemble. interactions. Co-commissioned by
Barber arr Tony Rickard Adagio The Riot Ensemble, Internationales
Chabrier arr Richard Payne España Musikinstitut Darmstadt, November
Music and Reykjavík Dark Music Days.
Michael Thompson, Aubrey Brain
Chair of Horn, directs Academy horn This concert will be recorded by
students in an eclectic programme of BBC Radio 3 for future broadcast.
original works and arrangements.
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29 JANUARY
31 JANUARY
1 FEBRUARY
STEELY DAN
TUESDAY, 6.30-7.30pm THURSDAY, 1.05pm FRIDAY, 10.30-11.15am
Colour and Music Trios of the 90s THURS
series Academy Tots
Venue Museum Piano Gallery Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue Museum Strings Gallery
Tickets Free tickets available from the Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Child £5, adult £3 available
Box Office; see page 48 for full details from the Box Office; see page 48 for full
James Gilbert clarinet details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults
Deborah Pritchard explores her Miguel Sobrinho viola per booking
synaesthetic approach to composition Alim Beisembayev piano
and collaboration with artist Maggi Inquisitive tots and parents are invited
Hambling. The composer discusses Thierry Escaich Trio Américain (Suppliques) to this interactive session designed
her music maps and visualisations that John Woolrich A Farewell for children aged 2-4. Hear live music
are currently on display as part of the Françaix Trio performed by Open Academy Fellows
museum’s exhibition, accompanied by and explore making music through group
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a performance of her solo violin piece play with percussion instruments.
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Inside Colour. FEBRUARY
JANUARY FRIDAY, 7.30pm
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THURSDAY, 7pm
FEBRUARY Academy Big Band
Academy FRIDAY, 6-9pm
Venue Susie Sainsbury Theatre
Song Circle: Guitar Tickets £10 (concessions £8)
available from the Box Office;
Schubertiade Masterclass
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see page 48 for full details
JANUARY
WEDNESDAY, 7pm Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Reuben Fowler conductor
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required Hamish Stuart vocals
Academy Flute Gareth Lockrane flute
Our annual celebration of Schubert’s With David Russell, Visiting Professor Paul Booth saxophone
Ensemble birthday has become a perennial of Guitar at the Academy. Tom Walsh trumpet
favourite in the Academy calendar.
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall The Academy welcomes legendary
Tickets Free, no tickets required vocalist and songwriter Hamish Stuart
to perform with the Academy Big Band
Programme to include: in a celebration of the music of Steely
Dukas arr Carla Rees The Sorcerer’s Dan. Commemorating 40 years of their
Apprentice seminal album, Aja, plus other classics,
we are proud to invite award-winning
Kate Hill conducts Academy flute composer/arranger and jazz alumnus
students in a programme of original Reuben Fowler to lead the band in his
works and arrangements. new arrangements of the music of Steely
Dan’s composers, Donald Fagen and the
late Walter Becker.
The concert also features special guest
soloists Gareth Lockrane, Tom Walsh and
Paul Booth.
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3 FEBRUARY
SUNDAY, 2pm
‘THE PERFECT
SUNDAY LUNCH
FOR ANY
Bach and the Dramatic Impulse: BACH LOVER’
The Times
St Matthew Passion
Venue Duke’s Hall
Tickets Sold out (returns only); see www.ram.ac.uk/bach for further information
Trevor Pinnock director
Ryan Williams tenor (Evangelist)
Michael Ronan baritone (Christus)
JS Bach St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
What better place to begin our new Bach the European series than with this great
peak of European civilisation? Known within Bach’s circle during his lifetime as
‘the Great Passion’, the St Matthew Passion has been universally recognised as the
pinnacle of Protestant devotional music since its rediscovery in the 1820s. The
first complete performance of the work in England was directed by the Academy’s
Principal, William Sterndale Bennett, in 1854. This is its first Academy performance
of the 21st century.
Performed on historical instruments.
This event will be streamed live on the Academy’s Facebook page.
Supported by the
Matthias von der Tann
Kohn Foundation
and
Fondation Meyer
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MONDAY, 10am-1pm 6-7 FEBRUARY
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, 6pm 7 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY, 1.05pm 8 FEBRUARY
FRIDAY, 1.05pm 8 FEBRUARY
FRIDAY, 2.30-5.30pm
Bassoon Academy Jazz Festival Alumni Network: Academy Viola Masterclass
Masterclass Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall RAM Club Prize Symphonic Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Tickets £5 (concessions £4) available from the Box Office; Tickets Free, no tickets required
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall see page 48 for full details Winner’s Recital THURS
series Wind FRI
series
Tickets Free, no tickets required With internationally acclaimed viola
Now in its fifth year, the annual Academy Jazz Festival continues to go from Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue Duke’s Hall player Nadia Sirota, whose multi-
With Jonathan Davies, Academy strength to strength and has become one of the highlights of our calendar. After Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required faceted approach to classical music
professor and Principal Bassoon of the an intensive week of work, small ensembles showcase the music of their guest led the New York Philharmonic to
London Philharmonic Orchestra. bandleader in two evenings of public performances. This year we welcome Frances Gregory mezzo-soprano Keith Bragg conductor create a new position – Creative
several Academy debuts, including legendary Dublin-based jazz bassist and William Cole piano Partner – especially for her.
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composer Ronan Guilfoyle, leading UK jazz musician and commentator Samuel Milea new work (world premiere)
FEBRUARY Soweto Kinch and American alto saxophonist John O’Gallagher, as well as Hahn Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Strauss Sonatina No 2 in E flat,
Graham Tolbert
TUESDAY, 1.05pm Academy faculty stars of the European jazz scene Jasper Høiby and Jim Hart, À Chloris; Trois jours de vendange ‘Fröhliche Werkstatt’
plus a new album project from Tom Cawley. Loewe Frauenliebe, Op 60
Amanzi Rossini Una voce poco fa from Head of Woodwind Keith Bragg
Wednesday 6 February: Tom Cawley, Jasper Høiby, Soweto Kinch The Barber of Seville conducts a programme of Strauss’s
Quartet TUES
series Thursday 7 February: Ronan Guilfoyle, Jim Hart, John O’Gallagher Sonatina No 2, subtitled ‘Happy
Workshop’, and a new piece by Academy
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall composition student Samuel Milea.
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Gilles Swierc
Tickets Free, no tickets required
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FEBRUARY
Veronica Marziano violin WEDNESDAY, 6.30-9.30pm FEBRUARY
Katie Perrin viola THURSDAY, 2.30-5.30pm
Leah Leong cello Clarinet
XinRu Chen piano Vocal Masterclass
Masterclass
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K 478 Venue Susie Sainsbury Theatre
Fauré Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15 Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Tickets Free, no tickets required
Tickets Free, no tickets required
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With Allan Clayton, international
FEBRUARY With Patrick Messina, international operatic tenor.
WEDNESDAY, 1-2pm soloist, Principal Clarinet of the
Orchestre National de France
Drop-in and Visiting Professor of Clarinet at
the Academy.
Lunchtime Tour
Venue Museum Ground Floor
Tickets Free, no tickets required.
Maximum of 20 people; places on
a first-come, first-served basis
Join this free tour of the museum, which
takes you around all three of the galleries.
Meet in the Ground Floor Gallery.
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FEBRUARY
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MONDAY, 2-5pm 12 FEBRUARY
TUESDAY, 1.05pm 12 FEBRUARY
TUESDAY, 7.30pm
Organ Masterclass Accordion Guitar Chamber
FRIDAY 11am 7pm
Venue St Marylebone Parish Church Chamber Music TUES
Music
In Conversation Academy
series
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Manson Ensemble With Susan Landale, E Power Biggs Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required
Tickets Free, no tickets required Professor Emerita at the Academy.
Venue Duke’s Hall A concert of chamber music with Giuliani Grandes variations concertantes
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Writer and broadcaster Paul Morley Tickets Free, no tickets required classical accordion. Máximo Diego Pujol Suite Buenos Aires
interviews Icelandic composer FEBRUARY Georg Friedrich Haas Guitar Quartet
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Jonathan Berman conductor MONDAY, 6-9pm Celso Machado Danças populares
FEBRUARY brasileiras
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Aequilibra; Chamber Music TUESDAY, 7pm JS Bach Three Fugues, BWV 902, 852
Ró; Sequences and 866
Geoffrey King new work (world premiere) Masterclass Schubert Octet Piazzolla Histoire du tango
Falla Siete canciones populares españolas
Jonathan Berman conducts the Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue Duke’s Hall
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Academy Manson Ensemble in a concert Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required
of music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, FEBRUARY
one of the most original and exciting With György Pauk, Ede Zathureczky Luke English clarinet WEDNESDAY, 10am
composers on the new music scene, as Professor of Violin at the Academy. Matthew Kitteringham bassoon
well as the premiere of a new work by A member of the hugely successful Ben Hulme horn Harold Craxton
Academy composer Geoffrey King. piano trio with pianist Peter Frankl and Jack Greed and Victoria Gill violin
cellist Ralph Kirshbaum for nearly three Kim Becker viola Prize
decades, he shares his experience and Yurie Lee cello
knowledge with student trios. Gyunam Kim double bass Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Schubert Octet in F, D 803
A prize for chamber ensembles with
piano. Students are asked to prepare
COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE: their own choice of complete piano
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ensemble works.
THORVALDSDOTTIR 13 FEBRUARY
WEDNESDAY, 10.30am-1.30pm
Flute Masterclass
Venue Henry Wood Room
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Kristinn Ingvarsson
With William Bennett, international
soloist and Academy professor.
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WEDNESDAY, 1-2pm 13 FEBRUARY
WEDNESDAY, 7pm 14 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY, 12.30-2pm 14 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY, 1.05pm 14 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY, 7pm 14 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY, 9pm
Spencer Series: Academy Song Soundbox Trout Quintet THURS
series Composers’ Comedy, Tragedy
Intriguing Prints Circle: Valentine Venue Museum Strings Gallery Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Project: CHROMA and Really Loud
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required
and Manuscripts Concert Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Electronics
Soundbox is a series of events inspired by Martin Enger Holm tenor Tickets Free, no tickets required
Venue Museum Piano Gallery Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall the Academy’s Museum and collections. Galin Ganchev piano Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required Presented by Peter Sheppard Skærved, Naori Takahashi violin The Composition Department’s long- Tickets Free, no tickets required
violinist and Viotti Lecturer, each Daichi Yoshimura viola standing relationship with dynamic
In the third event in a series of lecture- A recital of songs and duets exploring event explores the historical and Joel Siepmann cello chamber ensemble CHROMA continues Illiam Quane trumpet
recitals by PhD student Fabricio love in its various guises: flirtatious, contemporary relationships between Gyunam Kim double bass in this concert of brand-new works by Hannah Corcoran saxophone
Mattos, the spotlight is on beautiful sentimental, sad, bittersweet and, performers, composers, instruments postgraduate composers for clarinet, Joseph Havlat piano
and interesting examples of music on naturally, romantic. and instrument makers. Schubert Gesänge des Harfners, D 478 piano, violin and cello.
paper. From 18th-century ‘glittering’ Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D 667, ‘Trout’ Postgraduate trumpeter Illiam Quane
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manuscripts to works quickly written presents seven pieces from the New
on a hotel notepad, the audience will FEBRUARY ‘New Manchester “Manchester School”’
be given a glimpse into the quality of THURSDAY, 10am School, a collective of young composers
materials and creativity of composers and performers from Manchester, united
and performers in expressing their Jonathan Myall by a desire to put on concerts of funny,
artistic and aesthetic ideals. With visceral and exciting art music. This
extracts performed on Fabricatore Piccolo Prize intense 45-minute rollercoaster of
and Panormo guitars. brand-new music for trumpet, saxophone,
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall piano and electronics blurs the lines
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Tickets Free, no tickets required between contemporary classical,
FEBRUARY jazz and Celtic folk and is composed,
WEDNESDAY, 1.10pm A prize for solo piccolo, generously curated and crafted to make audiences
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sponsored by Jonathan Myall. Set laugh and cry in equal measure.
Freshers’ Cello repertoire to be announced. FEBRUARY
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THURSDAY and FRIDAY, 6pm
Ensemble
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FEBRUARY
Royal Academy Opera Scenes
Rosa Frank
FEBRUARY FRIDAY, 10.30-11.15am
Venue St James’s Church, 197 THURSDAY, 10am-1pm
Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL Venue Susie Sainsbury Theatre Academy Tots
Tickets Free, no tickets required Trumpet Tickets £7.50 (concessions £5.50) available from the Box Office;
see page 48 for full details Venue Museum Strings Gallery
Josephine Knight director Masterclass Tickets Child £5, adult £3 available
Mark Burns director from the Box Office; see page 48 for full
Programme to include: Venue Henry Wood Room details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults
Works by Bartók, Casals, Delius, Dowland, Tickets Free, no tickets required Under the musical guidance of Director of Opera Gareth Hancock and the per booking
Simon Parkin and James Barralet Repetiteur Fellows, Opera Scenes are a focal point of Royal Academy Opera’s
With Reinhold Friedrich, professor of training, where skills acquired in singing, acting and movement are combined Inquisitive tots and parents are invited
First-year undergraduate cellists, under trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik in a staged setting. Featuring scenes from operas by Handel and Mozart. to this interactive session designed
the guidance of the Academy’s Alfredo in Karlsruhe and Visiting Professor of for children aged 2-4. Hear live music
Piatti Chair of Cello, Josephine Knight, Trumpet at the Academy. performed by Open Academy Fellows
explore the soundworld of massed cellos. and explore making music through group
play with percussion instruments.
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15 FEBRUARY
FRIDAY, 1.05pm 15 FEBRUARY
FRIDAY, 7pm 17 FEBRUARY
SUNDAY, 2.30pm 19 FEBRUARY
TUESDAY, 1.05pm 21 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY, 10am-1pm
Septura FRI
series Chetham’s Richard Lewis/Jean Guitar Trios TUES
series Accordion
Venue Duke’s Hall Symphony Shanks Award and Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Masterclass
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required
Orchestra Webb Award for Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Blow arr Matthew Knight Venus and Adonis: A Mournful Masque Mihael Majetic, Mario Kurtjak and Tickets Free, no tickets required
Fauré arr Matthew Knight Six mélodies Venue Duke’s Hall Accompanists Karlo Kocnar guitar
Tchaikovsky arr Simon Cox/Matthew Knight Swan Lake (excerpts) Tickets £10 (concessions £8) With Friedrich Lips, internationally
available from the Box Office; Venue Duke’s Hall Telemann Trio Sonata in B flat, TWV 42:B4 renowned teacher, professor and
Formed of principal brass players from London’s major orchestras, the Academy’s see page 48 for full details Tickets Free, no tickets required JS Bach Three Fugues, BWV 902, 852 Head of Accordion at the Gnessin
Ensemble in Residence, Septura, has redefined brass chamber music through and 866 Russian Academy of Music in Moscow
the uniquely expressive sound of the brass septet by creating a canon of Stephen Threlfall conductor The final round of the highly prestigious Dyens Varna – Future Memories and Visiting Professor of Accordion at
transcriptions, arrangements and new commissions for this configuration. Today Molin Han violin Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award Ante Čagalj Blues for Three the Academy.
they perform side by side with Academy students in a programme on the theme for postgraduate vocal students at Abreu Tico-Tico no fubá
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of human nature. Britten Four Sea Interludes from the Academy. The award, created to Almarán Historia de un amor
Peter Grimes celebrate the great British tenor Richard Paulo Bellinati Baião de Gude FEBRUARY
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Lewis (1914-1990), is endowed by the THURSDAY, 1.05pm
Op 47 Richard Lewis Trust and the eminent
Amazing Women:
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Elgar ‘Enigma’ Variations, Op 36 pathologist Dr Jean Shanks.
FEBRUARY
Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra A major award for the best accompanist TUESDAY, 4.30-5.30pm Violin and
celebrates the School’s golden jubilee is also generously donated by Brenda
year, marking 50 years of friendship Webb, a close friend and admirer of Family Event: Voice THURS
series
and musical excellence. Britten’s Richard Lewis.
atmospheric Four Sea Interludes lead The Dulcimer See pages 26-27 for full details.
us from the emptiness of dawn to
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a raging storm. Eighteen-year-old Venue Museum Piano Gallery
violinist Molin Han performs Sibelius’s Tickets Free tickets available from the FEBRUARY
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only concerto, known for the beauty Box Office; see page 48 for full details. THURSDAY, 6.30pm
of its Nordic, melodic core. FEBRUARY Maximum of 20 people
MONDAY, 6pm HL Hammond
‘To my friends pictured within’ was The sweet melodies of hammered
Elgar’s dedication to the friends and Textus dulcimers have attracted musicians Prize
family members who inspired each from both the East and West. In this
variation of his most beloved work. Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall event, led by Colin Huehns, hear Venue Susie Sainsbury Theatre
His ‘Enigma’ Variations open with a Tickets Free, no tickets required the beautiful sounds and explore the Tickets Free, no tickets required
palindromic, haunting theme which history of these instruments, and learn
transforms across 14 deeply personal Textus: ‘That which is woven’. to play simple tunes and harmonies For verse speaking – in exploration
sketches, forming both a celebration In his inaugural lecture Professor on them. This is a participatory event of the musicality of language.
of friendship and a complete musical Michael Dussek, Head of Piano aimed at children aged 8 and over. Open to Musical Theatre and Vocal
masterpiece. Now firmly embedded Accompaniment, examines the Faculty students.
within the core orchestral repertoire, individual strands that create musical
the Variations – and especially the structures and their interpretation in
ninth, ‘Nimrod’ – have come to performance, with particular reference
symbolise Edwardian England. to chamber music and song.
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AMAZING WOMEN 2018 marked the centenary of the success of the Women’s Suffrage movement in the
UK, when some women won the right to vote. Our current temporary exhibition in
OF THE ACADEMY the museum, Hitting the Right Note: Amazing Women of the Academy, celebrates some
of the extraordinary Academy women who have blazed a trail in the world of music,
helping to break down barriers and make their mark. This chamber music series continues
the celebration and supports the exhibition, providing a platform for performance and
discussion of the works of women composers.
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THURSDAY, 1.05pm 26 FEBRUARY
TUESDAY, 2.30-3.30pm 28 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY, 1.05pm 5 MARCH
TUESDAY, 1.05pm 7 MARCH
THURSDAY, 1.05pm
Violin and Talk: Amazing Priaulx Rainier THURS
series Recent Works TUES
series Piano Recital THURS
series
Voice THURS
series Academy Women Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall of the Early
Tickets Free, no tickets required Rainier Dance of the Rain; Six Pieces Augusta Read Thomas Plea for Peace Junyan Chen, Xiaowen Shang and
20th Century for wind quintet; String Quartet Roxanna Panufnik Cantator and Amanda Harry Rylance piano
Bright Selected Songs Elena Langer Two Cat Songs
Owen Romance for violin and piano Venue Museum Piano Gallery Eleanor Alberga Suite from Dancing with JS Bach transc Myra Hess Jesu, Joy
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Howell Phantasy for violin and piano Tickets Free tickets available from the the Shadow of Man’s Desiring, BWV 147 (piano
Barns Violin Sonata, Op 24 Box Office; see page 48 for full details FEBRUARY four hands)
THURSDAY, 2.30-3.30pm JS Bach transc Harriet Cohen Sleepers
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Dr Briony Cox-Williams looks at some Awake (piano four hands)
FEBRUARY of the many diverse and productive Talk: Priaulx Bartók Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm
TUESDAY, 1.05pm women musicians of the Academy who Augusta Read Thomas Rain at Funeral –
began their musical careers in the first Rainier and Homage to Morton Feldman; Twitter-
Piano Trios TUES
two decades of the 20th century. This Machines – Homage to David Rakowski
Edith Sitwell
series
event highlights the ways in which such Freya Waley-Cohen Southern Lament
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall composers, performers and teachers Eleanor Alberga It’s Time
Tickets Free, no tickets required as Katharine Emily Eggar, Susan Spain- Venue Museum Piano Gallery Annie Lennox transc Joanna MacGregor
Dunk, Ethel Bartlett and Marjorie Tickets Free tickets available from the Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This);
Torridon Trio Hayward were instrumental in London Box Office; see page 48 for full details Little Bird (piano four hands)
Meraki Trio musical life and beyond. Litolff transc Moura Lympany Scherzo
Academy alumna Fiona Sampson MBE (piano four hands)
Ellicott Piano Trio No 2 in D minor has published 27 books of biography,
Clarke Piano Trio literary non-fiction and poetry. Her work Professor Joanna MacGregor OBE
has been translated into more than introduces the music of influential
30 languages and she has received a female pianists, singers and composers
number of national and international from the Academy. The programme
honours for her writing. In this talk she includes transcriptions by Myra Hess,
discusses how a lucky find in a charity Harriet Cohen and Moura Lympany, as
shop showed her the way in which well as Bartók’s Six Dances in Bulgarian
composer Priaulx Rainier worked on Rhythm, which were famously dedicated
setting verse by poet Edith Sitwell. to, and premiered by, Harriet Cohen.
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22 FEBRUARY
FRIDAY, 1.05pm 22 FEBRUARY
FRIDAY, 2-5pm 23 FEBRUARY
SATURDAY, 6pm 24 FEBRUARY
SUNDAY, 11am
Sir Mark Elder Trumpet Junior Academy: Strings
conducts Masterclass The Soldier’s Tale Performance
the Academy Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Venue Susie Sainsbury Theatre Prize Day
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free tickets available from the
Symphony Box Office; see page 48 for full details Venue Various venues around
With Eric Aubier, international soloist the Academy
Orchestra FRI
series and Visiting Professor of Trumpet at Elias Brown conductor Tickets Free, no tickets required
the Academy. Philip Sheppard director
Venue Duke’s Hall Winifred Small Prize for Violin
Tickets £7.50 (concessions £5.50) Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale Set repertoire: Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in
available from the Box Office; Plus new works by Junior Academy D minor, Op 27 No 3, and own choice of
see page 48 for full details students Telemann Fantasia
Sir Mark Elder conductor A collaboration between students from Theodore Holland Prize for Viola
Junior Academy, the Royal Academy Set repertoire: Penderecki Cadenza for
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem, Op 20 of Dramatic Art and Rambert School solo viola
Bax In memoriam of Ballet and Contemporary Dance
Sibelius Symphony No 7 in C, Op 105 to create a staged performance May Mukle/Douglas Cameron Cello
of Stravinsky’s iconic work. The Sonata Prize
Sir Mark Elder, Music Director of the performance will be preceded by six Set repertoire: Barber Cello Sonata, Op 6
Hallé and Barbirolli Chair of Conducting short pieces composed by Junior
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at the Academy, returns to conduct a Academy students, written especially Double Bass Prize
20th-century programme beginning FEBRUARY for this project and choreographed by Competitors present their own choice
with Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem. FRIDAY, 2.30-3.30pm students from Rambert. of repertoire
Written when Britten was just 26 years
old, the work was commissioned – and Children’s Tour: The day comprises four separate
subsequently rejected – by the Japanese prizes, which take place concurrently.
government for the 2,600th anniversary Development of Please note the start times for
of the Japanese Empire. each competition vary. For further
the Piano information, email prizes@ram.ac.uk or
Bax’s In memoriam is dedicated to visit www.ram.ac.uk/events.
Irish political activist and revolutionary Venue Museum Piano Gallery
Patrick Pearse, who was executed along Tickets Free tickets available from the
with other leaders of the Dublin Easter Box Office; see page 48 for full details.
Rising of 1916. Written in 1917, but not Maximum of 20 people
performed until 1998, the work is one
of Bax’s many pieces on an Irish theme. Come and look into a treasure chest of
The concert finishes with Sibelius’s musical sounds. Younger visitors aged
single-movement Seventh Symphony. 4-8 are invited for this special tour
Receiving its premiere under the title of the Academy Museum’s historic
Benjamin Ealovega
‘Fantasia sinfonica’ in 1924, it is the last of keyboard collection, presented by
his published symphonies, despite being Honorary Research Fellow Dr Elena
written over 30 years before his death. Vorotko. Discover the different sounds
of these wonderful instruments.
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25 FEBRUARY
MONDAY, 12.30-1.30pm 25 FEBRUARY
MONDAY, 7pm 26 FEBRUARY
TUESDAY, 2.30-3.30pm 28 FEBRUARY
THURSDAY, 7pm 1 MARCH
FRIDAY, 2.30-4pm
From Cremona to Organ Recital Amazing Women: Academy Fauré’s Late
London: Specialist Venue Duke’s Hall Early 20th Century Symphonic Brass Song Cycles
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Curator Tour See pages 26-27 for full details. Venue Duke’s Hall Venue Museum Piano Gallery
Franck Prélude, Fugue et Variation Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required
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Venue Museum Strings Gallery in B minor, Op 18; Prière in C sharp
Tickets Free tickets available from the minor, Op 20; Sept pièces en mi from FEBRUARY Mark David conductor An exploration of Fauré’s late song
Box Office; see page 48 for full details. L’organiste; Choral No 1 in E THURSDAY, 12.30-2pm writing through his last song cycles,
Maximum of 15 people Handel arr Howard Snell Suite from including some new transpositions for
One of a series of recitals featuring the Soundbox Water Music the complete edition for Edition Peters,
In this specialist guided tour the complete organ works of César Franck, Takemitsu Garden Rain presented by Dr Emily Kilpatrick and
Museum’s Curator of Instruments, together with harmonium pieces from Venue Museum Strings Gallery Handel arr Elgar Howarth Music for Roy Howat, with short performances by
Barbara Meyer, explores the secrets L’organiste, performed by Academy Tickets Free, no tickets required the Royal Fireworks Academy student singers Michael Ronan
and wonders of the Academy’s stringed organ students. Dukas arr Bourgeois The Sorcerer’s and Camilla Saba Davies.
instrument collection, including the Soundbox is a series of events inspired by Apprentice
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magnificent 1709 ‘Viotti ex-Bruce’ the Academy’s Museum and collections. Falla arr Andrew Cottee Ritual Fire
Stradivari violin. FEBRUARY Presented by Peter Sheppard Skærved, Dance MARCH
TUESDAY, 10am violinist and Viotti Lecturer, each Stravinsky arr Ray Farr The Firebird FRIDAY, 7pm
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event explores the historical and
FEBRUARY Mica Comberti contemporary relationships between Head of Brass Mark David conducts Composers’
MONDAY, 6pm performers, composers, instruments Academy students in a ‘Fire and Water’
Prize and instrument makers. programme of music for brass band. Project: Historical
Sir Henry Wood
Performance
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Venue Henry Wood Room
at 150: The Man
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Tickets Free, no tickets required FEBRUARY
THURSDAY, 1.05pm MARCH MARCH Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
and the Musician A prize for the performance of any FRIDAY, 10am FRIDAY, 10.30-11.15am Tickets Free, no tickets required
complete work by JS Bach for violin, Amazing Women:
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall viola or viola da gamba. Buffet Crampon Academy Tots A programme of new works resulting
Tickets Free, no tickets required Priaulx Rainier THURS
from a collaboration between the
Clarinet Prize
series
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Venue Museum Strings Gallery Composition and Historical Performance
In the first of six events to celebrate FEBRUARY See pages 26-27 for full details. Tickets Child £5, adult £3 available departments, led by Tabea Debus.
the 150th anniversary of the birth of TUESDAY, 1.05pm Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall from the Box Office; see page 48 for full
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Sir Henry Wood, Professor Raymond Tickets Free, no tickets required details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults
Holden surveys the conductor’s Amazing Women: FEBRUARY per booking
remarkable life and career using film, THURSDAY, 2.30-3.30pm Students compete for a clarinet prize
recordings and marked scores. Piano Trios TUES
generously given by Buffet Crampon. Inquisitive tots and parents are invited
Amazing Women:
series
The winner will give a recital at the to this interactive session designed
See pages 26-27 for full details. Academy in 2019-20. Set repertoire to for children aged 2-4. Hear live music
Priaulx Rainier and be announced. performed by Open Academy Fellows
and explore making music through group
Edith Sitwell play with percussion instruments.
See pages 26-27 for full details.
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4 MARCH
MONDAY, 5pm
Hartmut Höll in Residence
Nancy Nuttall
Early Music Prize
4 MARCH
MONDAY, 2-5pm
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required
5
Venue Duke’s Hall
Tickets Free, no tickets required MARCH
TUESDAY, 2-5pm
Generously supported by Nancy Nuttall, Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
for historically informed performances of Tickets Free, no tickets required
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pre-1800 chamber music.
MARCH
WEDNESDAY, 6-9pm
4
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
MARCH Tickets Free, no tickets required
MONDAY, 6.15-7.15pm
Piano accompaniment masterclasses with acclaimed German pianist
String Spaces Hartmut Höll, duo partner of the late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
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Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
MARCH Tickets Free, no tickets required
SUNDAY, 12 noon
In a culmination of workshops and
Bach the European: creative sessions with string students,
Visiting Professor of Viola Garth Knox
Bach and the Extended Family and distinguished violinist Diamanda
La Berge Dramm present Knox’s
Venue Duke’s Hall celebrated series of innovative and
Tickets £20 (concessions £15) available from the Box Office; capricious Violin and Viola Spaces in
see page 48 for full details concert, sharing the platform with
students with whom they have been
Philippe Herreweghe director developing extended techniques and
new soundworlds.
JS Bach Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
JC Bach (elder) Es erhub sich ein Streit
JC Bach (elder) Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
JS Bach Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19
As well as nurturing the younger generation of Bachs, Johann Sebastian was a
committed advocate of the finest music by older members of his extended family.
This concert places two of his cantatas in the context of masterpieces by his
first cousin once removed, Johann Christoph Bach – described as the ‘profound
composer’ in Bach’s obituary – whose works are arguably the most distinguished in
Michiel Hendryckx
JS Bach’s collection of family music, known as the Altbachisches Archiv.
Performed on historical instruments.
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5 MARCH
TUESDAY, 10am-1pm 5 MARCH
TUESDAY, 7pm 6 MARCH
WEDNESDAY, 1-2pm 7 MARCH
THURSDAY, 1.05pm 8 MARCH
FRIDAY, 2-5pm
Flute Masterclasses Composers’ Drop-in Amazing Women: Violin
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Project: London Lunchtime Tour Piano Recital THURS
series Masterclass
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Metropolitan Brass Venue Museum Ground Floor See pages 26-27 for full details. Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
With Emily Beynon, Visiting Professor of Flute at the Academy and Principal Flute Tickets Free, no tickets required. Tickets £5 (concessions £4)
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of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam. Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Maximum of 20 people; places on available from the Box Office;
Tickets Free, no tickets required a first-come, first-served basis MARCH see page 48 for full details
Eduard Uslee
THURSDAY, 2.30-4pm
Three new premieres especially written Join this free tour of the museum, which With Tasmin Little, Visiting Professor
for London Metropolitan Brass, 2018-19 takes you around all three of the galleries. The Lives and of Violin. It is a regular and welcome
Chamber Music Fellows at the Academy. Meet in the Ground Floor Gallery. feature of the Strings Department’s
Music of Blind annual programme to witness her
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inspiring teaching.
MARCH MARCH Musicians in
Benjamin Ealovega
WEDNESDAY, 10am WEDNESDAY, 7pm
Post-War London
Wolfe Wolfinsohn Ibex Brass
Venue Museum Piano Gallery
String Quartet Venue Duke’s Hall Tickets Free, no tickets required
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Prize Find out about the lives of blind
Oliver Davis horn musicians from 1945 to 1970 in this
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Bradley Jones, Katie Lodge, Illiam documentary film following five
Tickets Free, no tickets required Quane and Kaitlin Wild trumpet musicians from different backgrounds,
William Foster, Christian Traute and giving an insight into music in post-war
Set repertoire: any Brahms string quartet Jamie Tweed trombone Britain. The film offers an entertaining
Angus Butt bass trombone and interesting view into the evolution of
Generously supported by the family of Pete Cowlishaw tuba music and the music profession at a time
Wolfe Wolfinsohn, this prize is open to all of social change. Produced by the Baluji
student string quartets at the Academy. Debussy arr Jones Fêtes from Nocturnes Music Foundation, filmed by Marie-
Falla arr Foster Cuatro piezas españolas Cécile Embleton and Oscar Castellino,
5 5 6
Lili Boulanger arr Foster Trois morceaux and with interviews carried out by Linda
MARCH MARCH MARCH Ravel arr Foster Le tombeau de Shanson and Baluji Shrivastav OBE.
TUESDAY, 1.05pm TUESDAY, 6-9pm WEDNESDAY, 10am-1pm Couperin
Amazing Women: Guitar Masterclass Trumpet and Ibex Brass is an ambitious new
10-piece brass ensemble, comprised
Recent Works TUES
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
series Piano Masterclass mainly of postgraduate students at the
Tickets Free, no tickets required Academy. They present a series of new
See pages 26-27 for full details. Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall arrangements of early 20th-century
With Edoardo Catemario, distinguished Tickets Free, no tickets required masterpieces from France and Spain,
guitarist and recording artist. culminating in a bold reimagining of
With Huw Morgan, Principal Trumpet of Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin.
the Sinfonieorchester Basel, and pianist
Rebecca Wilt.
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8 MARCH
FRIDAY, 6.30-9.30pm 10 MARCH
SUNDAY, 12 noon 11 MARCH
MONDAY, 10.30am-1.30pm 12 MARCH
TUESDAY, 11am-1pm
Musical Theatre Masterclass JS Bach: The Flute Masterclass Piano Masterclass:
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall Complete Violin Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Improvising
Tickets Free tickets available from the Box Office; see page 48 for full details Tickets Free, no tickets required
Sonatas – Part 1 to Film
Visiting Professor of Musical Theatre Claude-Michel Schönberg works with With William Bennett, international
students from the Musical Theatre Company on a selection of his repertoire. Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall soloist and Academy professor. Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Tickets £7.50 (concessions £5.50) Tickets Free, no tickets required
available from the Box Office;
see page 48 for full details Newly appointed Visiting Professor of
Piano Neil Brand gives his inaugural
Johannes Pramsohler violin class on improvising to silent film.
Masumi Yamamoto harpsichord
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JS Bach Violin Sonata in B minor,
BWV 1014; Violin Sonata in E, BWV 1016; MARCH MARCH
Violin Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018 TUESDAY, 11.45am-12.45pm TUESDAY, 1.05pm
‘All three voices must carry a fine Ancestral Voices: An Elizabethan
melody, all the while sustaining the
triadic harmony to the utmost extent A Celebration of Song Recital TUES
series
possible.’ Hardly any composer brought
Johann Mattheson’s trio sonata ideal Clara Schumann Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
to such a pitch of perfection as did Tickets Free, no tickets required
JS Bach with his Six Sonatas for violin Venue Museum Piano Gallery
and harpsichord. Johannes Pramsohler Tickets Free tickets available from the Magnus Walker tenor
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takes an excursion from his PhD research Box Office; see page 48 for full details Giacomo Susani guitar
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on early English and French trio sonatas MARCH
MARCH and, together with harpsichordist and MONDAY, 6pm To celebrate the 200th anniversary Dowland Come again; Flow, my tears;
FRIDAY, 7.30pm alumna Masumi Yamamoto, delves into of Clara Schumann’s birth, Honorary Awake, sweet love; In darkness let
the summum opus of the genre. Sir Henry Wood Research Fellow Dr Elena Vorotko me dwell
Academy Jazz Orchestra explores her family life, friendships Britten Second Lute Song of the Earl of
See page 41 for Part 2. at 150: Wood and and busy career. Clara’s compositions, Essex from Gloriana
Venue Duke’s Hall pianism and editorial work will be Giacomo Susani new work
Tickets £10 (concessions £8) available from the Box Office; the Gramophone illustrated on the Romantic fortepianos (world premiere)
see page 48 for full details of the Piano Gallery. Walton Anon in Love
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Keith Nichols conductor Tickets Free, no tickets required
Keith Nichols and the Academy Jazz Orchestra perform arrangements by the King In the second of six events to celebrate
of Swing Benny Goodman. The concert commences with a set of pieces arranged the 150th anniversary of the birth of
in 1935. Only recently discovered, several of them have not been performed for Sir Henry Wood, Professor Raymond
more than 80 years. The second part of the concert features songs from the Holden is joined by Dr David Patmore,
famed 1938 Carnegie Hall concert, including ‘Don’t Be That Way’, ‘Bei mir bist du Peter Quantrill and David Gleeson to
schön’ and ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’. An evening not to be missed. discuss Sir Henry’s fascinating career as
a recording artist.
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12 MARCH
TUESDAY, 2-4pm 13 MARCH
WEDNESDAY, 1-2pm 14 MARCH
THURSDAY, 1.05pm 15 MARCH
FRIDAY, 7.30pm
Choral Spencer Series: Dvořák Quintet THURS
series John Wilson
Conducting Reimagined Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall conducts
Tickets Free tickets available from the
Masterclass Guitars Box Office; see page 48 for full details the Academy
Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall Venue Museum Piano Gallery Ayla Sahin violin Symphony
Tickets Free, no tickets required Tickets Free, no tickets required Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin
Alina Rowe viola Orchestra
With Jeffrey Douma, professor at the The fourth event in a series of lecture- Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Yale School of Music and Director of recitals by PhD student Fabricio Mattos Isata Kanneh-Mason piano Venue Duke’s Hall
the Yale Glee Club, who works with offers the opportunity to listen to rarely Tickets £10 (concessions £8)
the Academy’s postgraduate choral played instruments from the Spencer Dvořák Piano Quintet in A, Op 81 available from the Box Office;
conducting students. Collection, as well as some interesting see page 48 for full details
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facts about the historical periods and
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social realities that allowed them to MARCH John Wilson conductor
MARCH be created. Instruments to be played THURSDAY, 7pm Emily Nebel violin
TUESDAY, 7.30pm include a Terz guitar, an English ‘guittar’,
a six-course guitar, a lyre-guitar and Composers’ Walton Violin Concerto
Accordion a stunningly detailed miniature guitar Shostakovich Symphony No 10 in
barely bigger than Mattos’s hand! Platform E minor, Op 93
Showcase
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Venue Angela Burgess Recital Hall John Wilson, Associate Guest
Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall MARCH Tickets Free, no tickets required Conductor of the BBC Scottish
Tickets £7.50 (concessions £5.50) WEDNESDAY, 7pm Symphony Orchestra and founder of
available from the Box Office; A chance to hear brand-new music the John Wilson Orchestra, conducts
see page 48 for full details Guitar Lecture- written by composition students. two masterworks of the mid-20th
century, beginning with Walton’s
Recital
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Academy accordion students present a Violin Concerto, featuring Emily Nebel,
varied programme of solo and chamber MARCH winner of the David Martin/Florence
music works. Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall FRIDAY, 10.30-11.15am Hooton Concerto Prize 2018.
Tickets Free, no tickets required
Academy Tots Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony
Fifty years after the death of Mario was premiered in December 1953
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Luigi Attademo Venue Museum Strings Gallery and marks a time when support for
discusses the composer’s early works for Tickets Child £5, adult £3 available the composer’s creative stance was
guitar and his relationship with Spanish from the Box Office; see page 48 for full re-emerging, following the death of
virtuoso Andrés Segovia. details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults Stalin some months earlier and
per booking the subsequent relaxation of the
artistic climate.
Inquisitive tots and parents are invited
to this interactive session designed
for children aged 2-4. Hear live music
performed by Open Academy Fellows
and explore making music through group
play with percussion instruments.
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