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ST VALENTINE'S DAY 2018 - HUGH LAURIE Mansion House With Special Guest - City Music Foundation
ST VALENTINE’S
    DAY 2018
     Mansion House

    With Special Guest

   HUGH LAURIE
ST VALENTINE'S DAY 2018 - HUGH LAURIE Mansion House With Special Guest - City Music Foundation
CMF Team
Dr Clare Taylor         Managing Director

Tabitha McGrath         Artist Manager

Philip Barrett          Executive Assistant

Trustees
Sir Mark Boleat

Sir Roger Gifford

Sir Nicholas Kenyon

Sir Andrew Parmley

Advisory Board
Guy Harvey              Partner, Shepherd and Wedderburn

Wim Hautekiet           Managing Director, JP Morgan

Alastair King           Chairman, Naisbitt King Asset Management

Kathryn McDowell CBE    Managing Director, London Symphony Orchestra

Lizzie Ridding          Board Member, City Music Foundation

Ian Ritchie             Artistic Director and Music Curator, Setubal Music Festival

Seb Scotney             Editor, London Jazz News

Philip Spencer          Development Consultant

Adrian Waddingham CBE   Partner, Barnett Waddingham

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WELCOME

 Welcome to the Mansion House and to a celebration of
all that is good about life! Not least the wonderful music
  we are going to hear in the splendour of the greatest
       surviving Georgian town palace in London.

The City Music Foundation – CMF – is just five years old and it was created in this house.
Its mission is to turn talent into success by giving training in the “business of music” to soloists
and ensembles at the start of their professional careers, as well as promoting them extensively in a
modern and professional manner. Several - the Gildas Quartet, Michael Foyle, and Giacomo Smith
with the Kansas Smitty’s, are playing for us this evening.

This year CMF hopes to move into a more permanent home in the City at St Bartholomew the Less,
within the boundaries of St Bartholomew’s Hospital – and within the City of London’s ‘Culture
Mile’. This anticipates the relocation of the Museum of London to its new site in Smithfield and the
creation of a new Centre for Music on the south side of the Barbican – all exciting developments
in the heart of the Capital. CMF intends to play its role alongside these institutions and we look
forwards to hearing from Sir Nicholas Kenyon about these plans during the evening.

We are delighted that CMF Patrons the Brodsky Quartet and Iain Burnside have joined us tonight
and thrilled that Hugh Laurie is here with us as a special guest, and he will be performing with Iain
later this evening.

And it is St Valentine’s Day – so let’s enjoy the connection between music and love,
food and good living.

And again, welcome.

Alderman Sir Roger Gifford
Founder, City Music Foundation

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IAIN BURNSIDE
                                                             Iain Burnside is a pianist who has
                                                             appeared in recital with many of
                                                             the world’s leading singers (“pretty
                                                             much ideal” BBC Music Magazine).

He is also an insightful programmer with an instinct for the telling juxtaposition. His recordings
straddle an exuberantly eclectic repertoire ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to the cutting
edge, as in the Gramophone Award-winning NMC Songbook. Recent recordings include the
complete Rachmaninov songs (Delphian Records) with seven outstanding Russian artists (“the
results are electrifying” The Daily Telegraph). Iain’s passion for English Song is reflected in
acclaimed CDs of Britten, Finzi, Ireland, Butterworth and Vaughan Williams, many with baritone
Roderick Williams.

Away from the piano Iain is active as a writer and broadcaster. As presenter of BBC Radio 3’s Voices
he won a Sony Radio Award. For Guildhall School of Music & Drama Iain has devised a number of
singular theatre pieces. A Soldier and a Maker, based on the life of Ivor Gurney, was performed at
the Barbican Centre and the Cheltenham Festival, and later broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Armistice
Day. His new project Swansong has been premiered at the Kilkenny Festival and will play in Milton
Court in November.

Future highlights include performances of the three Schubert songcycles with Roderick Williams
at Wigmore Hall. A Delphian release of songs by Nikolai Medtner launches a major series of
Russian Song in the 2018 Wigmore Hall season. Other forthcoming projects feature Ailish Tynan,
Rosa Feola, Andrew Watts, Robin Tritschler and Benjamin Appl.

Iain is Artistic Director of the Ludlow English Song Weekend and Artistic Consultant to Grange
Park Opera.

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HUGH LAURIE
                                                                The award-winning, multitalented
                                                                Hugh Laurie has had an exceptional
                                                                career as an actor, producer, writer,
                                                                musician and composer.

Hugh’s film credits include: Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, Walt
Disney’s 101 Dalmatians, box office hit The Man in the Iron Mask, Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, Flight of
the Phoenix, and Monster vs. Aliens, which made a staggering $198 million at the US box office alone.

Hugh’s television credits include playing the infamous character of Bertie Wooster in an impressive
four series of Jeeves and Wooster, which aired on PBS’s “Masterpiece Theatre” from 1990 to 1995. He
has also starred in Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, Tracey Takes On..., and
Friends. He has taken part in three series of Saturday Night Live and in 2010 starred in A Bit of
Fry and Laurie, which he co-wrote for the BBC with Stephen Fry. Hugh is arguably best known
internationally for his performance in the FOX series, House, which ran for eight seasons.

Although Hugh is a predominantly self-taught pianist, he has gone on to have an incredibly
successful music career. In 2011, he released a New Orleans Blues album, Let Them Talk, which was
distributed worldwide by Warner Bros Records. After the huge success of his debut album, Hugh
released his second album, Didn’t It Rain, in May 2013 with Warner Music Entertainment.

In April 2015, Hugh returned to US television to star as vice-presidential candidate, Senator Tom
James, opposite Julia Louis-Drefus in the much-anticipated fourth season of HBO’s award-winning
Veep. In February 2016 Hugh played a leading role in the award-winning BBC/AMC TV series
adaptation of John Le Carré’s novel The Night Manager. Hugh’s supporting role was acknowledged
internationally and he received over six nominations for his performance, including an EMMY
and this year he collected a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
in a Limited Series. Hugh has led two seasons of the primetime television series Chance based on
the psychological thriller of the same title by Kem Nunn. The show launched on streaming service
Hulu in 2016, with a two season, 20-episode order.

Hugh’s latest film Holmes and Watson is due for release later this year. A humorous take on Arthur
Conan Doyle’s classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. The title also stars
Ralph Fiennes and Will Ferrell.

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MICHAEL FOYLE
                                                             Praised for “playing of compelling
                                                             conviction” (The Daily Telegraph) and “full
                                                             of sparkling detail, with tonal beauty and
                                                             incisive rhythmic clarity, balancing wit and
                                                             poetry” (The Strad), Michael Foyle won
                                                             The Netherlands Violin Competition 2016.

His acclaimed performance of Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No.1 with the Rotterdam Philharmonic
Orchestra led to an immediate invitation to give his debut recital at The Concertgebouw,
Amsterdam. In December 2017, he returned to the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Korngold’s
Violin Concerto and in May of this year he makes his debut with the English Chamber Orchestra
at Cadogan Hall, playing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Other London appearances this season
include performances of the Beethoven, Dvorak, Elgar and Tchaikovsky concerti.

In the past two seasons, Michael has made his recital debuts at Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre,
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Bridgewater Hall, Usher Hall and Buckingham Palace. Abroad, he has
performed Brahms’s Violin Concerto in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and has given
recitals for the Cervantino Festival in Mexico, New York Chamber Music Festival, and Evgeny
Mravinsky Festival in Tallinn and St. Petersburg. This year, he records his debut CDs: the complete
works for violin and piano by Lutosławski and Penderecki for Delphian Records, and a World War
One centenary release for Challenge Records.

Born in Ayrshire in 1991, Michael gave his concerto debut in Edinburgh Festival Theatre aged eight.
He went on to win the BBC Young Musician of the Year Tabor Award 2008 and to lead the National
Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, before studying at the Vienna Konservatorium with Pavel
Vernikov and at the Royal Academy of Music in London where, upon graduation, he was awarded
the Regency Prize for Excellence and the Roth Prize for the highest violin mark of the year. At
the same time, Michael won the Royal Overseas League String Competition, while his acclaimed
duo with pianist Maksim Štšura won the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Competition and the
Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition. He subsequently performed as a Park
Lane Group, Kirckman Concert Society and Making Music Young Concert Artist, and is currently a
City Music Foundation ambassador.

Michael plays a Gennaro Gagliano violin (1750) on loan from a CMF supporter, and is represented
by Interartists Amsterdam.

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BRODSKY QUARTET
                                                                Daniel Rowland, violin (not playing
                                                                tonight)
                                                                Ian Belton, violin
                                                                Paul Cassidy, viola
                                                                Jacqueline Thomas, cello

Since forming in 1972, the Brodsky Quartet have performed over 3,000 concerts on the major stages
of the world and have released more than 60 recordings. A natural curiosity and an insatiable
desire to explore has propelled the group in a number of artistic directions and continues to
ensure them not only a prominent presence on the international chamber music scene, but also
a rich and varied musical existence. Throughout their career of more than 40 years, the Brodsky
Quartet have enjoyed a full international performing schedule, touring major festivals and venues
throughout Australasia, North and South America, Asia, South Africa, and Europe, as well as in
the UK, where the quartet is based. Over the years they have undertaken numerous performances
of the complete cycles of quartets by Schubert, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Britten, Schoenberg,
Zemlinsky, Webern and Bartok. It is, however, the complete Shostakovich cycle that has now
become synonymous with their name: their 2012 London performance of the cycle resulted in
their taking the prestigious title ‘Artistic Associate’ at London’s Kings Place.

The Brodsky Quartet have had an extensive recording career and currently enjoy an exclusive and
fruitful relationship with Chandos Records. Releases on the label include recordings of quartets
by Debussy, Verdi, Paganini, Wolf, Puccini, Dvorak, Copland, Gershwin, Brubeck, Zemlinsky, and
Brahms. 2016 saw the Quartet tour a new programme of original songs set to texts by poet Judith
Wright, sung by renowned Australian singer Katie Noonan; the recording With Love and Fury
was released to great critical acclaim in Australia. Awards for recordings include the Diapason
D’Or and the CHOC du Monde de la Musique for their recordings of string quartets by Britten,
Beethoven and Janáček, and, for their outstanding contribution to innovation in programming, the
Brodsky Quartet have received a Royal Philharmonic Society Award.

The Quartet have taught at many international chamber music courses and have held residencies
in several music institutes including, at the start of their career, the first such post at the University
of Cambridge and, more recently, at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where they are visiting
International Fellows in Chamber Music. The Quartet took their name from the great Russian
violinist Adolf Brodsky, the dedicatee of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and a passionate chamber
musician. The Brodsky Quartet appears by arrangement with Hazard Chase Ltd.

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GILDAS QUARTET
                                                             Christopher Jones, violin
                                                             Gemma Sharples, violin
                                                             Kay Stephen, viola
                                                             Anna Menzies, cello

The Gildas Quartet have performed to critical acclaim across the UK and Europe at major venues
including the Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall, Wigmore Hall, and live on BBC Radio 3.

Praised for their “refreshing approach” and “exciting precision”, they are fast establishing
themselves as one of the most exciting young ensembles to emerge in recent years. Passionate
exponents of a diverse and varied repertoire, the Quartet have had the privilege of working with
composers including Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Colin Matthews and Howard Skempton, performing
their works at London’s Southbank Centre and The Forge.

They have recently given recitals at international festivals such as the Two Moors Festival, Oxford
Lieder Festival, and the Cheltenham Festival, and they were invited to teach and perform at
Dartington Summer Music last August. With generous support from the Britten Pears Foundation,
the Quartet is delighted to have been able to commission a new quartet from Philip Cashian; they
were invited to give its première performance last June at the St Magnus Festival, Orkney. The
Quartet have recently completed a debut recording of two works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad to be
included in a disc of the composer’s music for the Champs Hill label.

The Gildas Quartet are City Music Foundation Artists and have recently finished their tenure as
Junior Fellows at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. They have frequently been featured by the
Park Lane Group Young Artists scheme and are grateful for awards and support from the Tunnell
Trust, the Richard Carne Trust and the Royal Northern College of Music. In larger chamber music
collaborations, the Gildas Quartet have joined musicians such as Alexander Baillie, Robin Tritschler
and Matthew Barley. Ongoing partnerships include quintets with clarinettist Jack McNeill, soprano
Raphaela Papadakis and pianist Sholto Kynoch, in addition to a number of exciting projects with
the New English Ballet Theatre.

The Quartet are delighted to have been selected as Making Music Featured Artists for 2017/18
as well as being selected to take part in the final of the 2018 Wigmore Hall International String
Quartet Competition, and Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.

Christopher plays a Bernardo Calcani violin (1755) through the Stradivari Trust facilitated by CMF.

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KANSAS SMITTY’S
                                                             HOUSE BAND
                                                             Giacomo Smith, alto sax
                                                             Dave Archer, guitar
                                                             Ferg Ireland, bass
                                                             Pete Horsfall, trumpet
                                                             Joe Webb, piano
                                                             Will Cleasby, drums

Founded by City Music Foundation Artist Giacomo Smith, Kansas Smitty’s are quietly carving out
a name for themselves as one of the driving forces in the UK jazz scene.

Their reputation, built on their incendiary live shows, including four sold-out main shows
at Ronnie Scott’s, has recently been cemented by the release of their full debut album and the
opening of their own bar venue in East London.

Both bar and band have received praise across the jazz and mainstream press, with extensive
coverage from The Evening Standard, and reviews in The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. The
Band’s debut record was nominated as one of the top jazz albums of 2015 by The Daily Telegraph.
The Sunday Times summed it up nicely, saying “Conservatories or cocktails? If jazz is to survive it
will need more bands [like this one]”.

The House Band don’t like to be boxed in. As their debut album exemplifies, they make wide use
of the sour mash of styles that has allowed them to cross the divides between generations and
dispositions. Moving through sounds of swing, blues, R&B, New Orleans ethnic music, and gospel,
they relentlessly pursue a sound of their own, seeking out and creating a genre-blind audience for
their music.

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MENU

       Confit salmon cured with beetroot
fennel purée, wasabi crème fraiche, pickled cockles
                 Macon-Lugny, Louis Latour, 2015

                  Champagne Sorbet

                       Fillet of beef
with asparagus, kale, wholegrain mustard croquette,
  oyster hollandaise sauce, tomato, mushroom and
                   tarragon salad
          Lirac Vignoles Abeille 2015, Châteauneuf-du-Pape

         Chocolate and chilli fudge cake
       sweet chilli caviar, coconut ice cream

Colston Bassett stilton mousse, toasted brioche
                          Fonseca Bin 27
PROGRAMME
                                         Salon
                                        6.45pm
                                         Cocktails

                                  Old Ballroom
                                        7.15pm
                       Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
                            i. Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
                                       ii. Andante
                                       iii. Scherzo
                                        iv. Presto
     Performed by Michael Foyle, members of the Brodsky Quartet & the Gildas Quartet

                                  Egyptian Hall
                                        8.00pm
                                            Dinner
Poulenc’s The Story of Babar the Little Elephant performed by Hugh Laurie and Iain Burnside
Elgar’s Salut d’Amour and Kreisler’s Liebeslied performed by Michael Foyle and Iain Burnside

                                       10.00pm
                                        Speeches
                          Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Sir Roger Gifford

                                       10.10pm
                                          Auction
                                  followed by Loyal Toast

                                         Salon
                                       10.40pm
                         Jazz from the Kansas Smitty’s House Band

                                       11.45pm
                                         Carriages
AUCTION                       Auctioneer: Giorgia Parodi Brown

                                                  Lot 1                                                                   Lot 2

The Foyle-Štšura Duo.                                                  Two premium stalls tickets for the
                                                                       Last Night of the Proms.
Michael Foyle, whom you have just heard, with duo partner              Two of the most sought after, impossible to buy tickets, for the
pianist Maksim Štšura, will play a recital for you and your            culmination of the world’s greatest classical music festival.
guests at your private party or function. Since starting               Join the incredible atmosphere and participate in rousing
their collaboration in 2012, Michael and Maksim have won               patriotic singing, as well as hearing world-renowned soloists
multiple prizes and performed in prestigious venues such               such as Nigel Kennedy, Janine Jansen, Jonas Kaufmann, and
as The Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and London’s Wigmore                  Juan Diego Florez.
Hall. The recital (not background music!) will be for up to one
hour, will be taken at a mutually convenient time and date,            The Last Night of the Proms is on 8th September 2018.
and in central London.

                                                                       Lakeside in Winter.
                                                  Lot 3                Etching by Norman Ackyord CBE RA

                                                                       Ackroyd attended Leeds College of Art before continuing his
                                                                       studies at the Royal College of Art, where he was later elected
                                                                       Senior Fellow. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1988,
                                                                       appointed Professor of Etching at University of the Arts in
                                                                       1994, and in 2007 was made CBE for services to engraving and
                                                                       printing. As well as etchings, he is famed for his watercolours,
                                                                       murals, and reliefs. His work can be found all over the world,
                                                                       including at the Tate and the British Museum, the Museum
                                                                       of Modern Art in New York, Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and
                                                                       Queensland Art Gallery.

                                                                       Lakeside in Winter is a limited edition etching of Lake
                                                                       Windermere (65/90). Exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts’
                                                                       Summer Exhibition 2017.

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Lot 4

Skellig in Sunlight.                                                  A limited edition (90) etching of Skellig Islands of the coast of
                                                                      South West Ireland – artist’s proof.
Etching by Norman Ackyord CBE RA

                                                                      Exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition
                                                                      2017.

                                                 Lot 5                                                                   Lot 6

A half-day photoshoot with                                            A box for 4 at English National Opera
Benjamin Ealovega.                                                    with backstage tour.
If you’ve purchased a classical album in the last 10 years,           Experience a night of spectacular theatre at English National
you’ll doubtless have seen Benjamin’s work already, many              Opera. On arrival, you and three guests will be treated to an
times over. Benjamin has shot portraits and album covers              exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the beautiful London
for world-class artists such as Alfred Brendel, Ian Bostridge,        Coliseum, London’s largest theatre and ENO’s home. A
Edward Gardner, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mitsuko Uchida, and               bottle of champagne will be waiting for you as you take your
Tasmin Little. Benjamin has also photographed politicians,            seats in one of the theatre’s boxes to enjoy one of ENO’s
royalty, actors, and writers including Tony Blair, HRH The            iconic productions. Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Mozart’s The
Duchess of Cornwall, Michael Palin, and Philip Pullman. A             Marriage of Figaro, and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw are
half-day outdoor photoshoot at a mutually convenient time,            playing in the coming months.
and a location within the M25, for you and your family –
children and dogs can be included! You will receive 6 edited,         The prize is redeemable for 4 guests in total and can be
finished, high-resolution, digital photographs to use and             enjoyed on any night in ENO’s 2018 season (February –
reproduce as you wish.                                                December 2018), subject to availability.

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Three silver Cavendish Picture
Frames, made by Grant Macdonald.
                                                                                                                       Lot 7
Silversmith Grant Macdonald began learning his craft in
1949, aged 14. After attending the Central School of Art in
London and perfecting his skills restoring fine antique
pieces and exhibiting silver artworks in the 1960s, his first
workshop was founded in Palmers Green under the name
Silverform. In 1966, Grant began taking commissions from
the City of London’s famous guilds and livery companies,
who required the highest standards of workmanship for
their ceremonial chains and coats of arms. In 2015, Grant
Macdonald Silversmiths was awarded the Royal Warrant
to HRH The Prince of Wales, acknowledging both its work
and commitment to environmentally sustainable processes
within the precious metal industry.

Frames made of sterlng silver and mahogony measuring
10 x 15 cm, 13 x 18 cm and 18 x 24 cm.

Tours for prospective undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge.

Know a precious teenager, keen to study at Oxford or Cambridge? Despite their fame and intrigue, these ancient universities
can seem something of a mystery and possibly even intimidating. These tours will be tailored to the interests of the prospective
student, visiting the most relevant colleges, chapels, libraries, dining halls, bars, rooms, faculties and exploring popular student
haunts in town, to give a sense of what it really feels like to live and study there.

                                                  Lot 8                                                                Lot 9

Tour of Oxford University.                                             Tour of Cambridge University.

This bespoke personal tour with a 2017 graduate and current            This personal tour with a recent graduate and current post
undergraduate will include a visit to the Deanery Garden               graduate student will include an all-access tour of King’s
of Christ Church Cathedral, where the real-life Alice in               College Chapel, including the roof and inside the famous
Wonderland played as a child.                                          fan-vault, to which there is no public access.

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Lot 10                                                                 Lot 11

The Gildas Quartet.                                                 A box for 10 at the BBC Proms 2018.

The Quartet, heard earlier this evening in the Octet, will          In a box for 10 in the Grand Tier, next to the Royal Box, with
play a recital for you and your guests at your private party        champagne on arrival, watch a 2018 BBC Proms concert in
or function. Selected to take part in the final of the 2018         style.
Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, they
are fast establishing themselves as one of the most exciting        Concert to be chosen from a selection of 4 Proms, to be
young ensembles to emerge in recent years.                          offered once the 2018 programme has been announced in
                                                                    late April.
The recital (not background music!) will be for up to one
hour, and will be taken at a mutually convenient time and
date, and in central London or Manchester.

                                                                    Commission a new work from Misha
                                              Lot 12                Mullov-Abbado.

                                                                    A 2014 City Music Foundation Artist and current BBC Radio 3
                                                                    New Generation Artist, Misha is a rising jazz double-bassist,
                                                                    composer and arranger. Having studied music and
                                                                    composition with Robin Holloway and Jeremy Thurlow, as well
                                                                    as writing for his own band, Misha has been commissioned
                                                                    by a variety of musicians and ensembles including Viktoria
                                                                    Mullova, Thomas Larcher, the LSSO, the Pelleas Ensemble,
                                                                    the Hermes Experiment, and the North Sea Ensemble. “Both
                                                                    his composing talents and his propulsive bass-playing are
                                                                    currently such hot UK jazz news” (The Guardian).

                                                                    You will meet with Misha, as his muse, and discuss the kind
                                                                    of piece you want and possible titles. Once written you will be
                                                                    given the sheet music, and the piece will be recorded by
                                                                    Misha’a band and presented to you on CD.

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CMF EVENTS IN 2018

                      TUESDAY 10th APRIL 2018

     Tabea Debus Album Launch.
                     Dr Johnson’s House, 6.30pm

                     WEDNESDAY 16th MAY 2018

 Mihai Ritivoiu and Michael Foyle with
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by
            Michael Collins.
                        Cadogan Hall, 7.30pm

                 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2

                   Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1

                    Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

               MONDAY 23rd - FRIDAY 27th JULY 2018

    CMF Summer Residency at the
        Wallace Collection.
        A series of lunchtime concerts, including a celebration
         of the bicentenary of the birth of Sir Richard Wallace

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Our mission is to turn                     Following a rigorous annual audition process, successful
                                           applicants join the innovative two-year CMF Artists Programme,
exceptional musical talent                 which provides artistic and business mentoring, professional
into professional success                  development workshops, professional performing engagements,
                                           promotional tools – website, CDs, films – plus support developing
by equipping outstanding                   a unique musical project.
musicians with the tools, skills,
                                           CMF’s key position in the City means that we can use our
experience and networks they               experience, knowledge and connections within the music
need to build and sustain                  industry, as well as the City’s cultural network and business
                                           institutions, to provide unique and unrivalled support and
rewarding and profitable                   education for our musicians.
careers.
                                           A high proportion even of the most talented musicians fail to
                                           convert their great talent and extensive training into a career in
                                           music. We believe that by investing in these talented musicians
                                           early in their professional careers we can not only secure their
                                           employment, but help to ensure the future of quality music in
                                           the UK and beyond.

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City Music Foundation are especially grateful
   to Hugh Laurie, Iain Burnside and Giorgia
   Parodi Brown from Sotheby’s for their very
        generous support of this event.

        And thank you to all those who have made donations for the auction:

                              Norman Ackroyd
                             Benjamin Ealovega
        Christ Church College Oxford and Frederick Waxman
                          English National Opera
                            Charles Fairweather
                              Foyle- Štšura Duo
             King’s College Cambridge and Philip Barrett
                                Roger Gifford
                                Gildas Quartet
                              Grant MacDonald
                           Misha Mullov-Abbado

    We would also like to thank members of the Brodsky Quartet,
Michael Foyle, the Gildas Quartet, and the Kansas Smitty’s House Band
                 for their wonderful music this evening.

          And finally we are most grateful to The Rt Hon. The Lord Mayor,
         Alderman Charles Bowman for allowing us to use Mansion House,
                 and to Kings Place for the loan of the cello risers.

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