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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES
“the boldly-beating, hot-blooded cultural heartbeat of the town”
O R C H E S T R A
2018/19
Lesley Selby
oboe and cor anglais
Welcome to the 41st season of Stockport Symphony Orchestra
concerts! We have been busy at Stoller Hall over the summer
accompanying piano concertos for Chethams Summer Piano School
and the season gets off to an unusually early start this year.
Jo Hossle-Standring Paul and Rosie Hickman
viola cello
A WELCOME TO OUR 2018/19 SEASON FROM ORCHESTRA CHAIR, LESLEY SELBY In a new departure, our In the new year are some I would like to share the December concert is a real treats and one or two orchestra’s appreciation Sunday matinée created surprises along the way as for the support of our with all the family in mind, well as our second Young regular audience with Harry Potter and Musicians Competition. members, and welcome all Peter and the Wolf, The inaugural competition comers to this season. alongside Young Person’s was a great success, Stockport Town Hall is a Guide to the Orchestra. attracting entries from as spectacular venue. It’s It’s all presented by BBC far away as Australia and fully accessible, with a bar and Hallé favourite, Tom those of you who heard available for performances Redmond. Come and our finalists will know that and a great place to enjoy a lively afternoon’s these are players of the mingle with the players. music and be sure to bring highest standard. New informally during the children and grandchildren for this year, Patrons will interval, so do come for a too. We will be reserving be given the chance to chat! some seats at the front so hear the semi-finalists at small people can see the close quarters i action! Lesley Pia Oliver Craig Eastwood violin principal trumpet
Sophie Kreppel Leonora Johnson
double bass viola
Anne Lund
double bass
Jill Roberts Andrew Lowcock Lindsay Grainger
oboe timpani flute
Phil Levy trumpet
WE HAVE A FANTASTIC LINE-UP OF
INTERNATIONAL SOLOISTS AND
CONDUCTORS FOR OUR 2018/19 SEASON.
Two themes: “young musicians”
and “competition” are woven into
the year headlined by the second
of our own International Young
Musicians Competition
Peter Donohoe is a name familiar to concert-
goers both locally and internationally. Peter
won many competition prizes culminating in
the medal for the 1982 International
Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, since
when he has built an extraordinary world-wide Arno
career. He is acclaimed as one of the foremost
pianists of our time, for his musicianship, We are equally delighted to announce the return
stylistic versatility and commanding technique. of Jennifer Pike for a second year both as Patron
and judge in our competition and also as
Peter appeared with the SSO in the early days performer in February’s concert, this time in the
of his career and was once persuaded to fill a lovely Korngold violin concerto and paired with
gap by playing off-stage bells in Symphonie the huge melodies of the luminous Second
Fantastique following a concerto performance! Symphony by Rachmaninov.
We are delighted and As many will know, Jennifer, who originally hails
honoured to welcome him back to open from the Stockport area, famously became the
the season.
youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young
Musicians Competition at the age of just 12.
Jennifer has gone on to become a soloist of
international renown, playing at the Proms
and in some of the world’s iconic concert
halls with many of its leading orchestras.
Continuing the theme for November, our
concert of music and remembrance marking
the centenary of the end of WW1 features
2018 BBC Young Musician Strings winner,
Maxim Calver. Maxim will will play the
narrowest of margins so when we needed a
flute soloist to play the lovely “Magic Flute
Dances” she was the obvious choice and it
was great to find she could do the date.
Last but by no means least, Ukrainian pianist,
Slava Sidorenko joins us for the final concert
of the season. With appearances in the
Ukraine, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and
much-loved Elgar cello concerto on this
the UK, Slava has won first prize in numerous
special date.
piano competitions. We are hugely looking
It remains to be seen who emerges from our forward to Shostakovich 2 with him.
own competition this time around but we
And the conductors? From Norway in the
have no doubt it will be another prodigious
north to Australia in the south; from Portugal
talent to follow our previous winner,
in the west to Indonesia in the east.
Konstantin Bruns. Before that you have the
International indeed!
chance to see a 2017 semi-finalist. Hannah
Foster missed out on the final by the
BERNSTEIN ‘CANDIDE’
GRIEG PIANO CONCERTO
SHOSTAKOVICH
Peter Donohoe l piano
Mark Heron l conductor
5
A tribute to the late Leonard Bernstein on his centenary.
One of the world’s great piano concertos played by one of the world’s
great pianists.
The symphony which saved from execution one of Russia’s greatest
composers.
A dramatic and stirring start to our new season.
22 SEPTEMBER 2018
STOCKPORT TOWN HALL 7.30 pm
Matthew Seed photography
10 NOVEMBER 2018 16 DECEMBER 2018
STOCKPORT TOWN HALL 7.30 pm STOCKPORT TOWN HALL 3.00 pm
SUNDAY MATINÉE PERFORMANCE
STOCKPORT REMEMBERS SSO FAMILY CONCERT
THE WWI CENTENARY PRESENTED BY BBC AND HALLÉ
FAVOURITE, TOM REDMOND
Maxim Calver l cello
Rebecca Tong l conductor Robert Guy l conductor
The SSO brings you a concert of music Music for children, parents and
chosen to reflect no less than three grandparents with a family-friendly 3pm
centenaries this evening. A time for start. Tom Redmond, famous for his
reflection as well as for enjoying some lively and exciting style of presentation
iconic pieces. In the programme are joins the SSO to present and narrate
excerpts from The Planets, John some famous music including his own
Williams’ moving ‘Schindler’s List” and narration to accompany Britten’s
at its emotional and dramatic centre, exhilarating Young Person’s Guide.
Elgar’s cello concerto performed by With Harry Potter, wolves, bears and
one of the country’s outstanding massive cannons what could possibly go
young cellists. wrong?
Programme includes Programme includes
Prokofiev
Elgar Peter and the Wolf
Cello concerto Britten
Walton Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Battle of Britain Suite Tchaikovsky
Holst 1812 Overture
The Planets (excerpts) Children’s
Williams tickets £5
Williams Harry Potter Suite
Three Pieces from Schindler’s List Please note that there will be some
reserved seating at the front for
accompanied children. Come early!
26 JANUARY 2019 STOCKPORT TOWN HALL 7.30 pm THE RING IN AN HOUR WAGNER’S RING AND TWO MAGIC FLUTES Hannah Foster l flute Matthew Wood l conductor Ever wanted to know what all the fuss about The Ring was about but couldn’t face the flight to Bayreuth and 15 hours on hard seats? This is for you! Matthew Wood brings you all the essential bits from The Ring in a little over an hour so Mozart there is still time for a magic flute or two! Magic Flute Overture Hannah Foster missed the final of our last Dove young musicians competition by a whisker The Magic Flute Dances so we are thrilled to have the chance to Wagner perform with her Dove’s delightful piece The Ring based on Mozart’s Magic Flute.
23 FEBRUARY 2019
STOCKPORT TOWN HALL 7.30 pm
JENNIFER PIKE’S KORNGOLD
RACHMANINOV 2
Jennifer Pike l violin
Matthew Wood l conductor
After her unforgettable debut with the
SSO last year Jennifer is back with
another romantic masterpiece for violin,
this time by Korngold. Famous for his
film music, Korngold’s violin concerto has
also quickly become a firm favourite with
audiences and performers.
So how do you follow that? With
probably the biggest tunes and most
romantic themes in all of symphonic
history, Rachmaninov’s Second. If you’ve
never heard the sumptuous, glowing
ending of this work, think of his second
piano concerto then double it!
Arno
Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Korngold
Violin concerto
Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 2
“…the British violinist has turned from child prodigy to
superbly graceful virtuoso without airs or affectation."STOCKPORT INTERNATIONAL
YOUNG MUSICIANS
COMPETITION
THE FINAL
The numerous competitors in our 2019 “It was a pleasure to be involved in this
competition have become three. We had fantastic event …What a great standard!””
no idea when we went to press who they Jennifer Pike, Competition Patron
would be but we we do know that we are
looking forward to an evening of three “Thank you for a magnificent evening and truly
well-known concertos played by three inspiring event”
stunning young musicians in the final of our Louise Lansdown President of the British
2019 event. Viola Society and Head of Strings, Birmingham
Conservatoire
Phillip Ellis l conductor
30 MARCH 2019
STOCKPORT TOWN HALL 7.30
WWW.SIYMC.CO.UK19 MAY 2019 15 JUNE 2019 STOCKPORT TOWN HALL 3.00 pm STOCKPORT TOWN HALL 7.30 pm SUNDAY MATINÉE PERFORMANCE BEETHOVEN 5 ENIGMA BEETHOVEN, MILHAUD, ELGAR AND SHOSTAKOVICH WOOLFENDEN Anna Hartmann Slava Sidorenko l piano Laurent Zufferey l conductors Diogo Costa l conductor Simon Beesley l oboe Looking for something to introduce The Enigma Variations are, along with classical music to the younger the cello concerto, Elgar’s most played members of the family? Well there is of compositions and scarcely need something here for everyone from the introducing. Their consistent bizarre image of an ox on a roof (a popularity is well earned. For this terrifically lively piece by Millhaud that evening’s concert we have paired them will set the feet tapping) to one of the with another well-loved work, the best known symphonies; a towering Shostakovich Piano Concerto no. 2 work with a jaw-dropping finale. And in with that slow movement! Ukrainian between? A whimsical concerto for soloist Slava Sidorenko and oboe from a former SSO conductor Portuguese conductor, Diogo Costa follows, then a surprising ending to the are sure to impress. Oh yes, and we first half. What is it? You have to have another (pleasant) surprise in come to find out! store for you… Milhaud Rimsky-Korsakov Le Boeuf sur le Toit Capriccio Espagnol Woolfenden Shostakovich Oboe concerto Piano Concerto No. 2 Beethoven Elgar Symphony No. 5 Enigma Variations
Jez Ainsworth-Moores
horn TICKETS
OUR PRICES
● Full price £15
● Concessionary £13 (available to holders of
JSA, OAPs and leisure key holders)
● Full-time students up to 21 years of age £5
Under 16s are FREE when accompanied by a full
price or concessionary adult (excluding Christmas
and competition).
Competition and Christmas children’s tickets £5.
SEASON TICKETS
8 concerts for the price of 7
Season Tickets are available up to and including our
first concert priced at £105 or £91 (concessionary).
Please contact the Box Office or come and see us
at the table at the back of the hall at the first concert.
GROUP DISCOUNTS
Why not come with a group of friends? Buy 10
tickets, pay for only 9. Contact the Box Office for
details.
OUR TICKETS are available
● Through our online booking system at
www.ticketsource.co.uk/sso
(a small booking fee applies)
● By calling the Box Office on 07947 474574
● By post from 26 Bodmin Avenue, Macclesfield
SK10 3JU (please send SAE and cheque paya-
ble to Stockport Symphony Orchestra)
● From the orchestra stand at the back of the
hall at concerts
● On the door while they last!
This season ticket prices include free
use of the Town Hall car park behind
the hallGeoffrey Smith
principal clarinet
PATRONS OF SSO : BE PART OF IT
We believe the SSO is Competition, back this year,
unique amongst non- we believe we bring
professional orchestras in something unique and
staging a season of eight special to the cultural life of
concerts with great the town.
professional conductors and
If you would like to enjoy a
international soloists. We
closer involvement with the
are only able to do so with
orchestra and help us to
the much-appreciated help
maintain our commitment to
of our audience, Stockport
music in Stockport for the
MBC and our Patrons.
next 40 years, please
We want to continue to consider becoming a Patron
promote our role as part of and buying a season ticket.
the cultural bedrock of
Make Stockport’s Orchestra
Stockport. We provide
your orchestra.
much needed support and
encouragement to young PATRONS
musicians at the early stages
of their careers and with • Reserved seat
recent initiatives like the (excludes competition)
Young Musicians • Acknowledgment in
the programme
• Pre-concert talks on
selected concerts
• Invitation to a post-
concert drink after
two of the concerts,
with an opportunity
to chat to conductor,
leader or soloist.
Minimum donation £65
single £115 joint
For further information
about the Patrons scheme
or sponsorship, contact
Leonora on the email below,
call at the orchestra stand at
the back of the hall or just
speak to a member of the
orchestra.
Helen Brackley Jones sponsorship@stockportsymphony.co.uk
leaderSEASON AT A GLANCE
22 SEPTEMBER I 7.30 PM
GRIEG PIANO CONCERTO l Peter Donohoe l Mark Heron
Bernstein, Candide l Grieg, Piano Concerto l Shostakovich 5
10 NOVEMBER I 7.30 PM
STOCKPORT REMEMBERS l Maxim Calver l Rebecca Tong
Elgar, Cello Concerto l Holst, Planets
Walton, Battle of Britain Suite l Williams, Schindler’s List l Nimrod
16 DECEMBER I 3.00 PM SUNDAY MATINÉE
SSO FAMILY CONCERT l Tom Redmond l Robert Guy
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf l Britten, Young Person’s Guide
Williams, Harry Potter l Tchaikovsky, 1812
26 JANUARY I 7.30 PM
THE RING IN AN HOUR l Hannah Foster l Matthew Wood
Mozart, Magic Flute Overture l Dove, Magic Flute Dances
Wagner’s Ring
23 FEBRUARY I 7.30 PM
JENNIFER PIKE’S KORNGOLD l Jennifer Pike l Matthew Wood
Korngold, Violin Concerto l Rachmaninov, Symphony No. 2
30 MARCH I 7.30 PM
SIYMC 2019 GRAND FINAL l Phillip Ellis
Three young musicians l Three concertos l One winner
19 MAY I 3.00 PM SUNDAY MATINÉE
BEETHOVEN 5 l Simon Beesley l Anna Hartmann l Laurent Zufferey
Martinu, Boeuf sur le Toit l Woolfenden, Oboe Concerto
Beethoven 5
15 JUNE I 7.30 PM
ENIGMA VARIATIONS l Slava Sidorenko l Diogo Costa
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol l Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2
Elgar Enigma Variations
All concerts are at Stockport’s spectacular Town Hall. And remember: there is secure parking right
behind the hall and the fee is included in your ticket price!
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