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AUTUMN 2021 NOVEMBER/ DECEMBER CONCERTS AND EVENTS
CONTENTS 3 WELCOME 5 NOVEMBER 23 DECEMBER 27 JAZZ 29 MASTERCLASSES 32 DONORS 34 MORE INFORMATION BOOKING POLICY – NEW! We are pleased to be able to welcome audiences back to the Academy. Please note that booking is now compulsory for all events. See page 34 for more information on how and when to book. Programmes may be subject to change or cancellation in line with the latest coronavirus guidance. Please check our website for the most up-to-date information.
WELCOME TO AUTUMN
TERM AT THE ACADEMY
Chris Christodoulou
professors and guest artists. The Strings
Department enjoys a particularly rich
schedule this half-term, with Ning Feng,
Simone Lamsma and our regular visiting
professor James Ehnes among those
who will be sharing their expertise over
the coming weeks. See pages 29 to 31
for the full line-up.
Our 200 PIECES project, which is part of
our Bicentenary celebrations, continues
apace, with works by Brett Dean, Michael
Finnissy, Roxanna Panufnik and Gwilym
Simcock among the world premieres
being performed before the end of term.
For the second part of our autumn diary
of events, which covers November and I remain grateful for all of your
December, we are finally able to welcome astonishing support and much look
audiences back into the Academy. The forward to seeing you in the Academy
feeling of delight is incalculable! very soon.
To keep everyone safe we have made Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE
a few changes, the most important of Principal
which to note is that all events, whether
free or paid for, must now be booked.
Please see page 34 for more information
about how to do this.
As well as attending our varied
programme of concerts in person, there
are also opportunities for you to book a
place at one of our masterclasses, during
which students hone their craft under
the guidance of inspirational visiting
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200 PIECES AS PART OF OUR BICENTENARY CELEBRATIONS, WE’VE COMMISSIONED 200 COMPOSERS TO WRITE 200 WORKS FOR SOLO INSTRUMENT OR VOICE. IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, THESE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING WORKS: Julian Anderson Sky Piece Elena Langer L’armoire de Couperin Judith Bingham I Wear the Chain I Forg’d Stuart Macrae Evergreen the Ways in Life Leonardo Marino New work for Darren Bloom New work for solo bass solo cello clarinet Silvina Milstein New work for Richard Bullen New work for solo viola solo organ Gareth Moorcraft Ways Things Go Philip Cashian Short Stories Des Oliver Iconoclast Joe Cutler Overture for Louis Roxanna Panufnik On a Star Brett Dean New work for Matthew Perrett Three Birdsongs solo harpsichord Gwilym Simcock Prayer for The Senses Gabriel Erkoreka QUARTZ Howard Skempton Unbroken Evelyn Ficarra Submerged David Soley Laberinto VII Edmund Finnis Preludes I-V Jane Stanley New work for solo violin Michael Finnissy Our Proximity Joby Talbot New work for solo oboe to Gothic Joan Tower Beauty and the Beast Isabella Gellis Dead Horses Bryn Harrison a coiled form II Tom Harrold SANAIGMORE Carmen Ho To Nowhere 4
BOOKING
NOVEMBER ESSENTIAL
TUES 2 NOV, 1PM
MON 1 NOV, 6.30PM SONGS AND SOLOS
TRANSCENDING BORDERS:
AUSTRIA ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE
DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
FREE Mia Serracino-Inglott and Hera
Protopapas mezzo-soprano
Performers to include:
Elliot Teo and Tiffany Qiu piano
Daniel Vening bass
Megan Humphries harp
Programme to include:
Elliot Teo A Beethovian Credo; Musings
200 PIECES Judith Bingham I Wear
past Midnight; Songs of Twilight
the Chain I Forg’d in Life
(world premiere)
(world premiere)
Tiffany Qiu Four Songs for mezzo-
soprano and piano
In 2018, a partnership was born
Tiffany Qiu/Elliot Teo Impromptu for
between the Royal Academy of Music
piano, four hands
and the Italian Cultural Institute in
London to present ‘Transcending
Borders’, a concert series celebrating
Europe through song. From then until
TUES 2 NOV, 6.30PM
the end of 2019, 18 concerts took
BRITISH MUSIC FOR FLUTE
place in the Italian Cultural Institute’s
AND HARP
elegant salone in Belgrave Square, ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
each annual series culminating FREE
in a programme entitled ‘United
Esther Beyer, Aisha Palmer, Mared
in Diversity’, offering a musical
Pugh-Evans and Anwen Thomas harp
metaphor for the international bonds
Lucy Driver, Timur Dzhafarov, Ieva
that the series aims to cement. This
Kuprevičiūtė and Katie Taunton flute
autumn, the Academy will continue
the series with four concerts, Alwyn Naiades
featuring works from Austria, Italy 200 PIECES Joe Cutler Overture for
and France, as well as compositions Louis (world premiere)
in English. Each concert also includes Andy Scott Sonata for flute and harp
premieres from the 200 PIECES Richard Bissill Panoply
project, celebrating the Academy’s
Bicentenary in 2022.
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BOOKING
Credit
ESSENTIAL
Frances Marshall
WED 3 NOV
AUTUMN PIANO FESTIVAL:
THE ART OF TRANSCRIPTION
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE
Joanna MacGregor CBE introduces
the 2021 Autumn Piano Festival, a day
examining the art of piano transcription.
There are jewel-like transcriptions of
Bach and sumptuous reimaginings
of Mahler, Verdi and Wagner. Mei-Ting
Sun talks about his transcriptions of
Richard Strauss and Joanna MacGregor
gives a lecture-recital stepping through
the jazz world of Mary Lou Williams,
Nina Simone and Astor Piazzolla.
We finish with students’ own work
on Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat,
reimagined for piano and actors.
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AUTUMN PIANO FESTIVAL BOOKING
ESSENTIAL
11AM
Alamy
LECTURE-RECITAL: RICHARD
STRAUSS TRANSCRIPTIONS
Mei-Ting Sun, professor and pianist,
introduces and analyses his acclaimed
virtuosic arrangements of Strauss’s
Four Last Songs and the final act of the
opera Elektra.
1.05PM
BACH DIALOGUES
Bach’s chorales, organ preludes
and instrumental music are seen
here through a late-Romantic lens.
This programme includes intimate
transcriptions by Siloti, Busoni,
Rachmaninov, Weissenberg, Kempff,
Myra Hess and Harriet Cohen.
3.30PM
LECTURE-RECITAL:
IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES
2.30PM
WAGNER, VERDI, MAHLER Joanna MacGregor connects early
keyboard music ‘transcribed’ onto
Wagner/Kocsis Flowermaidens’ Scene
the modern piano with her own jazz
and Finale from Parsifal
and tango transcriptions, featuring
Wagner/Liszt Liebestod from Tristan
illustrations from the Fitzwilliam Virginal
und Isolde
Book, Mary Lou Williams’s (pictured)
Verdi/Michael Finnissy La donna è
bebop Zodiac Suite, Piazzolla tangos
mobile from Rigoletto; Me pellegrina ed
and Nina Simone.
orfana from La forza del destino
Mahler/Alissa Firsova Adagietto from
Symphony No 5
5PM
STRAVINSKY’S SOLDIER’S TALE
These audacious reworkings of Hear the premiere of Academy pianists’
symphonic and operatic music include own transcription of Stravinsky’s
Wagner reimagined by Liszt and the L’Histoire du soldat, the brilliantly satirical
great Hungarian pianist Zoltán Kocsis; parable created in 1918. With Richard
Michael Finnissy’s visionary, modernist Williams, Sarah Gabriel and actors from
Verdi; and Mahler from Alissa Firsova, Drama Centre London.
an Academy alumna.
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BOOKING
NOVEMBER ESSENTIAL
THURS 4 NOV, 1PM THURS 4 NOV, 6.30PM
ACCORDION CHAMBER MUSIC COMPOSERS IN RESIDENCE
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE FREE
Flávio Rodrigues, Jinjie Kang, Bernardo Simões New work
Emmy-Constantin Dumitru, Alise Siliņa (world premiere)
and Iulian Ciobanu accordion Gavin Higgins Fanfare, Air and Flourishes
Emanuele Addis guitar Lisa Illean février
Daniel Kidane Links
Sergey Akhunov Two Keys to One Poem
Dai Fujikura ele (world premiere)
by J Brodsky
Tansy Davies Grand Mutation
200 PIECES Des Oliver Iconoclast
(world premiere)
The first of three concerts focusing on
Rhian Samuel Mist on the Hills
Daniel Kidane, Tansy Davies, Lisa Illean
Arvo Pärt Fratres
and Gavin Higgins, who are this year’s
200 PIECES Howard Skempton
Composers in Residence. Four richly
Unbroken
diverse, exciting and distinctive musical
Petr Fiala Metamorphoses
voices that reflect the complexities of
Mikołaj Majkusiak Rhythms of Doubt
the modern world.
(third movement)
MON 8 NOV, 6.30PM
TRANSCENDING BORDERS:
FRANCE
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE
Performers to include:
Clara Orif soprano
Programme to include:
200 PIECES Isabella Gellis Dead Horses
(world premiere)
This recital combines French mélodies
with a new work by Isabella Gellis as part
of the 200 PIECES project.
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FRI 5 NOV, 1PM
SIR MARK
ELDER
CONDUCTS
THE
ACADEMY
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
DUKE’S HALL
£8 (CONCESSIONS £6)
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Sibelius Pohjola’s Daughter, Op 49;
Symphony No 3 in C, Op 52
Music Director of the Hallé and
the Academy’s Barbirolli Chair of
Conducting, Sir Mark Elder conducts
the Academy Symphony Orchestra in
an all-Sibelius programme. Pohjola’s
Daughter is one of many of Sibelius’s
works to be inspired by the great Finnish
national epic, the Kalevala. The Third
Symphony heralded a shift towards
a more compressed, motivically
saturated style.
Benjamin Ealovega
BOOKING
ESSENTIAL
9BOOKING
SUN 7 NOV, 11.30AM ESSENTIAL
BACH THE
EUROPEAN:
BACH
AND THE
DRAMATIC
IMPULSE
DUKE’S HALL
£20 (CONCESSIONS £15)
PERFORMED ON
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS
Philippe Herreweghe director
Bach St John Passion, BWV 245
Following the huge success of our
performance of the St Matthew Passion
in the first ‘Bach the European’ concert
in February 2019, we continue the
theme of Bach’s ‘dramatic impulse’
with the telling of the Passion of Christ
according to the Gospel of John.
Written for Bach’s first Good Friday in
Leipzig, the St John Passion is known
for its expressive immediacy and
urgency of narrative. Celebrated Bachian
Philippe Herreweghe, founder and
Artistic Director of Collegium Vocale
Michiel Hendryckx
Gent, directs.
Please note that this performance does
not include an interval.
10BOOKING
ESSENTIAL
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Pianist Tamara Stefanovich curates and performs in this year’s Chamber Music
Olja Radmanović
Festival, focusing on creating elemental micro-soundworlds. Miniatures by Hungarian
composers György Ligeti and György Kurtág are the common thread throughout the
week, set in their evolutionary context with several of their larger works, as well as in
comparison with their predecessor, Béla Bartók.
TUES 9 NOV, 1PM WED 10 NOV, 1PM
GAMES BRAHMS AND BEYOND
DUKE’S HALL DUKE’S HALL
FREE FREE
Performers to include: Performers to include:
Guylaine Eckersley bassoon Meadow Brooks vibraphone
James Gilbert clarinet Ryan Delgado Barreiro bassoon
Ligeti Musica ricercata (extracts); Ligeti Musica ricercata (extracts)
Bagatelles 200 PIECES Bryn Harrison a coiled
200 PIECES David Soley Laberinto VII form II (world premiere)
(world premiere) 200 PIECES Matthew Perrett Three
200 PIECES Gareth Moorcraft Ways Birdsongs (world premiere)
Things Go (world premiere) Brahms Horn Trio in E flat, Op 40
György Kurtág Játékok (extracts)
TUES 9 NOV, 6.30PM WED 10 NOV, 6.30PM
COSMIC CONTRASTS FRAGMENTS
DUKE’S HALL DUKE’S HALL
FREE FREE
Péter Eötvös Kosmos György Kurtág 12 Microludes;
Bartók Contrasts Kafka Fragments (extracts)
Ligeti Musica ricercata (extracts) Bartók String Quartet No 2
Bartók Sonata for two pianos Ligeti Horn Trio
and percussion
11BOOKING
NOVEMBER ESSENTIAL
THURS 11 NOV, 1PM THURS 11 NOV, 6.30PM
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MUSIC FOR
PIANO QUINTET DISTRACTED TIMES
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE FREE
Emma Baird violin Salwa Quartet:
Inis Oírr Asano viola Ilhem Ben Khalfa and Caroline Heard
Danushka Edirisinghe cello violin
James Trowbridge double bass Cameron Howe viola
Xiaowen Shang piano Abigail Lorimier cello
200 PIECES Jane Stanley New work for Tomkins Pavan in F
solo violin (world premiere) Geoffrey King New work for solo viola
200 PIECES Joan Tower Beauty and the Martinů No 2 from Three Madrigals for
Beast (world premiere) violin and viola, H 313
Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet in Gabriella Smith Carrot Revolution
C minor Tomkins A sad pavan for these
distracted times
Geoffrey King New work for string quartet
Tomkins Fantasia No 2 for six viols
12BOOKING
ESSENTIAL
Fraser Gordon conductor
Joo Lee Kim piccolo
Academy Wind Ensemble
Eleanor Alberga Nightscape
(The Horniman Serenade)
200 PIECES Gabriel Erkoreka QUARTZ
(world premiere)
FRI 12 NOV, 1PM Prokofiev arr Peter Franks
Cinderella Suite
NIGHTSCAPE In its first of two appearances this
term, the Academy Wind Ensemble
performs Eleanor Alberga’s 1993 work
DUKE’S HALL
Frances Marshall
for the London Mozart Players,
FREE
Nightscape, alongside an arrangement
of selections from one of Prokofiev’s
lesser-known ballets.
13BOOKING
SAT 13 NOV, 1PM ESSENTIAL
SIDE BY
SIDE: NASH
ENSEMBLE
WIGMORE HALL
£5; TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
WIGMORE HALL
Performers to include:
Yurie Lee cello
Junyan Chen piano
Nash Ensemble
200 PIECES Julian Anderson Sky Piece
Gabriel Williams At Night I Dream of
You, But in the Morning You Are Still
Dead (world premiere)
Helen Grime To See the Summer Sky
200 PIECES Philip Cashian Short Stories
Electra Perivolaris Sculptures for a
Changing Planet (world premiere)
Members of the Nash Ensemble,
Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Ensemble in
Residence, perform at its London home
alongside Academy students for this
all-contemporary programme. New
works by Academy composition students
are juxtaposed with repeat performances
of two commissions from the ongoing
200 PIECES project.
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Kaupo Kikkas
Director John Gilhooly
The Wigmore Hall Trust is a registered charity, No 1024838
14BOOKING
NOVEMBER ESSENTIAL
MON 15 NOV, 6.30PM TUES 16 NOV, 6.30PM
TRANSCENDING BORDERS: CAPRICHOS
ENGLISH, NOT ENGLISH
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
FREE
FREE
Performers to include:
Performers to include:
Louise Cournarie harpsichord
Lauren Macleod mezzo-soprano
Bruno Pancek guitar
Programme to include:
Brett Dean Three Caprichos
200 PIECES Stuart MacRae Evergreen
after Goya
the Ways (world premiere)
200 PIECES Elena Langer L’armoire
de Couperin (world premiere)
This concert explores songs written in
Brett Dean Demons
English by composers from around the
Louise Drewett Tree of Hundreds
globe, along with the first performance
200 PIECES Brett Dean New work for
of Stuart MacRae’s contribution to the
solo harpsichord (world premiere)
Academy’s 200 PIECES project.
Gary Carpenter Blue
Brett Dean Gertrude Fragments
TUES 16 NOV, 1PM Works by Australian composer
NORDIC LANDSCAPES Brett Dean, including a 200 PIECES
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL premiere, frame this concert of
FREE contemporary music, including
compositions for guitar, voice,
Ensemble Renard:
harpsichord and flute.
Eleanor Blamires flute
Francesca Cox oboe
Holly Isherwood clarinet
Patrick Bolton bassoon
George Strivens horn
Anders Hillborg Six Pieces for
Wind Quintet
Hans Abrahamsen Landscapes –
Woodwind Quintet No 1
Marie Samuelsson Cat: Nine Lives
Nielsen Wind Quintet, Op 43
15BOOKING
NOVEMBER ESSENTIAL
WED 17 NOV, 1PM THURS 18 NOV, 1PM
LAST SONGS HARP CHAMBER MUSIC
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE FREE
Julia Surette soprano Aisha Palmer and Ersilia Mikrou harp
Angharad Rowlands mezzo-soprano Jamile Costa Destro and Ezo Sarici violin
Wonsick Oh bass-baritone Inis Oírr Asano viola
Aron Goldin piano Samuel Vincent cello
Wolf Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo Gustavo Leone Red Quintet
R Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria 200 PIECES Michael Finnissy Our
Stuart, Op 135 Proximity to Gothic (concert premiere)
C Schumann An einem lichten Morgen; Caplet Conte fantastique
Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort
Strauss September; Malven
Tchaikovsky The Sun has set; Again, as
before, alone THURS 18 NOV, 6.30PM
Vaughan Williams Hands, Eyes, and AMATI 401
Heart; Tired
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
Schubert Die Taubenpost
FREE
Brahms Vier ernste Gesänge, Op 121
Join professor of viola Paul Silverthorne
as he explores the 1620 Brothers Amati
WED 17 NOV, 6.30PM viola he has played for 30 years of his
COMPOSER SHOWCASE performing career. It was loaned to him
from the Academy’s collection, and is
DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
justly celebrated as part of the postponed
FREE
‘Amati 401’ project.
Academy student composers
showcase their new work, exhibiting
the range of their influences and the
flair of their imagination.
16BOOKING FRI 19 NOV, 6.30PM ESSENTIAL ACADEMY MANSON ENSEMBLE DUKE’S HALL FREE Timothy Weiss conductor Louise Drewett The Ancient Yew (world premiere) Kaija Saariaho Lichtbogen Lisa Illean Januaries Gavin Higgins What Wild Ecstasy Contemporary music specialist Timothy Weiss conducts the Academy Manson Ensemble in a programme exploring instrumental works from the last 35 years, including a world premiere from Academy doctoral student Louise Drewett and Saariaho’s seminal Lichtbogen, inspired by the Northern Lights. iStock.com/Gerald Corsi 17
BOOKING
NOVEMBER ESSENTIAL
MON 22 NOV, 6.30PM TUES 23 NOV, 1PM
TRANSCENDING BORDERS: EDENIS QUARTET
ITALY ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL FREE
FREE
Mio Takahashi and Kynan Walker violin
Performers to include: Dorota Kolinek viola
Isla MacEwan soprano Gerard Flotats cello
Programme to include: 200 PIECES Leonardo Marino New work
200 PIECES Roxanna Panufnik On a Star for solo cello (world premiere)
(world premiere) 200 PIECES Silvina Milstein New work
for solo viola (world premiere)
The ‘Transcending Borders’ series ends Beethoven String Quartet No 10 in E flat,
with a concert of opera extracts in Italian, Op 74, ‘Harp’
along with the world premiere of On a
Star by Roxana Panufnik, written as part
of our 200 PIECES project.
18BOOKING
TUES 23 – FRI 26 NOV, 7PM ESSENTIAL
ROYAL
ACADEMY
OPERA:
L’HEURE
ESPAGNOLE
AND GIANNI
SCHICCHI
SUSIE SAINSBURY THEATRE
£35 (CONCESSIONS £30)
Stephen Barlow director
Alice Farnham conductor
Yannis Thavoris designer
Jake Wiltshire lighting designer
Ravel L’heure espagnole
Puccini Gianni Schicchi
In L’heure espagnole, the time has
come for Torquemada to repair the
municipal timepieces. His wife has
© Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2020
arranged a quick tryst with her
lover but her timing is off as two Time has run out for the rich Buoso
more men show up. Pressed Donati. When the recently deceased
for time, she is determined to relatives realise they will all be
be satisfied, but with whom – disinherited, they concoct an illegal
the poet, the banker or the scheme with the eponymous lawyer
labourer? Ravel’s first opera to rewrite his will and redistribute the
is a charming conversation wealth. What could possibly go wrong?
piece underpinned by Time flies and melodies flow in Puccini’s
dazzling and exotic Gianni Schicchi, a tautly woven, fast-
orchestration that was paced farce which is perhaps the finest
ahead of its time. and funniest one-act opera ever written.
19BOOKING
NOVEMBER ESSENTIAL
THURS 25 NOV, 1PM
WED 24 NOV, 6.30PM CELLO AND CELLOS
ACADEMY STRING
ORCHESTRA ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE
DUKE’S HALL
FREE Performers to include:
Sheku Kanneh-Mason and
Jo Cole conductor
Samuel Vincent cello
Sally Beamish The Day Dawn
Rob Lane Northern Lights
Pēteris Vasks Epifania
200 PIECES Gwilym Simcock Prayer for
Still Danzas de Panama
The Senses (world premiere)
200 PIECES Evelyn Ficarra Submerged
The Academy String Orchestra makes
(world premiere)
its first appearance this academic
200 PIECES Edmund Finnis Preludes I-V
year with a varied programme of
(world premiere)
works from the last 80 years. Sally
Rebecca Farthing Cello Octet
Beamish’s The Day Dawn is based
(world premiere)
on an old Shetland fiddle tune of the
same name, traditionally played at
the Winter Solstice. Pēteris Vasks’s
sonorous and tranquil work is
THURS 25 NOV, 7.30PM
followed by William Grant Still’s set
VIENNA STORIES
of dances based on Panamanian DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
folk tunes. £5
Anneleen Lenaerts harp
In conjunction with her latest album,
Vienna Stories, Visiting Professor of Harp
Anneleen Lenaerts celebrates her life in
Vienna with a programme of operatic
fantasies on Faust, La bohème, Eugene
Onegin and Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg, and symphonic poems by
Liszt and Smetana.
20FRI 26 NOV, 1PM R Schumann arr Simon Cox March in
E flat, Op 76 No 1
Mendelssohn arr Simon Cox Organ
SIDE BY SIDE: Sonata in C minor, Op 65 No 2
Geoffrey King New work for brass septet
ONE EQUAL C Schumann arr Simon Cox Piano
Sonata in G minor
MUSIC Members of brass ensemble Septura
and Academy students present a
DUKE’S HALL counterfactual history, placing the music
£8 (CONCESSIONS £6) of Clara Schumann alongside that of
two of her historically more celebrated
male contemporaries and imagining all
three had written for brass. This side-
by-side programme also features a
new composition for brass septet by
Academy composer Geoffrey King.
Matthew Lloyd
BOOKING
ESSENTIAL
21BOOKING
NOVEMBER ESSENTIAL
MON 29 NOV, 6.30PM TUES 30 NOV, 6.30PM
ORGAN RECITAL W1 BRASS
DUKE’S HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE FREE
Charles Maxtone-Smith, Jozef Gaszka, James Nash and Holly Clark trumpet
Jason Tang, Edward Carew, Joshua Johan Stone horn
Simoes and Joshua Ryan organ Hannah Stell trombone
Christopher Barron tuba
Diana Burrell Arched Forms with Bells
Paul Patterson Intrada, Op 7; Lutosławski Mini Overture
Interludium, Op 15; Jubilate, Op 5 200 PIECES Tom Harrold SANAIGMORE
200 PIECES Carmen Ho To Nowhere (world premiere)
(world premiere) Elliot Teo Petals in the Sun (world
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent premiere)
Media vita Ellen Drewe Les rêves d’origine
200 PIECES Richard Bullen New work absolument psychique n’existent pas
for solo organ (world premiere) (world premiere)
Roxanna Panufnik Gloria cum jubilo Marketa Conkova The Rhythm Game
(world premiere)
Joe Duddell Still Life
TUES 30 NOV, 1PM
PEARL TRIO
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE
Bríona Mannion violin
Leo Kerr clarinet, bass clarinet
Timothy Rumsey piano
Khachaturian Trio in G minor for clarinet,
violin and piano
200 PIECES Darren Bloom New work for
solo bass clarinet (world premiere)
Milhaud Suite for violin, clarinet and
piano, Op 157b
Arutiunian Suite for clarinet, violin
and piano
22BOOKING
DECEMBER ESSENTIAL
WED 1 DEC, 1PM THURS 2 DEC, 1PM
PROUD SONGSTERS THE CHANGING AESTHETIC
OF BRITISH QUARTET MUSIC
DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
FREE ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE
Johannes Moore baritone
Ilan Kurtser piano Clova Quartet:
Gabriel Bilbao and Rodrigo Checa Lorite
Finzi Earth and Air and Rain, Op 15
violin
Vaughan Williams The House of Life
Edgar Francis viola
Hugh Mackay cello
WED 1 DEC, 6.30PM Purcell Chacony in G minor
GUITAR CHAMBER MUSIC Britten String Quartet in F
Thomas Adès The Four Quarters
DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
FREE
Clarice Assad Danças Nativas THURS 2 DEC, 7.30PM
Elena Langer The Evening Flower ACCORDION TANGO
Judith Weir Gentle Violence
DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
Barbara Kolb Umbrian Colors
£5
Sofia Gubaidulina Repentance
Thea Musgrave Five Love Songs Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi bandoneon
Elise Quartet:
Miles Ames and Maria Reinon Roig violin
Luca Wadham viola
Gloria Kim cello
Accordion and string students combine
to celebrate the allure of the tango.
The first half of the programme
features tangos by Jukka Tiensuu,
Ishii, Stravinsky, Uroš Rojko and
Graciane Finzi, before world-renowned
bandoneon player Mario Stefano
Pietrodarchi joins students to celebrate
the centenary of Piazzolla, whose work
grew to define the genre.
23BOOKING FRI 3 DEC, 1PM ESSENTIAL DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION DUKE’S HALL FREE Fraser Gordon conductor Emily Stephens oboe Academy Wind Ensemble Michael Daugherty Dead Elvis 200 PIECES Joby Talbot New work for solo oboe (world premiere) Beethoven Funeral March from Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 55, ‘Eroica’ Strauss arr George Strivens Tod und Verklärung This programme juxtaposes arrangements of orchestral works by Strauss and Beethoven with Michael Daugherty’s madcap Dead Elvis, in which the King of Rock and Roll is portrayed by a solo bassoon. Frances Marshall 24
BOOKING ESSENTIAL SUN 5 DEC, 12 NOON BACH THE EUROPEAN: BACH AND INCARNATION DUKE’S HALL £20 (CONCESSIONS £15) PERFORMED ON MODERN INSTRUMENTS Iain Ledingham director Bach Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (Parts 1, 2 and 6) The final ‘Bach the European’ concert of 2021 promises to be a festive event that won’t disappoint. Iain Ledingham directs Parts 1, 2 and three, along with the Ascension Oratorio 6 of the Christmas Oratorio, depicting and Easter Oratorio. This, the longest the Birth of Jesus, the Annunciation of and most complex of the trio, contains the Shepherds and the Adoration of the music from earlier (mostly secular) Magi. Written for Christmas 1734, the compositions, with new words to present work was composed as one of a set of the story of the Christ Child. 25
MON 6 DEC,
2.30PM AND 7.30PM
‘HELLO, JERRY!’
A CELEBRATION OF HERMAN
SUSIE SAINSBURY THEATRE
£15 (CONCESSIONS £12.50)
The Royal Academy Musical Theatre
Company performs an end-of-term
concert celebrating the work of
legendary Broadway composer and
lyricist Jerry Herman. Tony-award-
winning Herman is known for his
seminal musical theatre classics including
Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles, and
the company will showcase his work in
their first ensemble public performance
of the year.
.
BOOKING
ESSENTIAL
Alamy
FRI 10 DEC, 2PM
RONALD WILLIAM
WHITE PRIZE
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
FREE
Join us for an array of student
performances as part of the
Academy’s prize for a musical theatre
song with dramatic content.
Alamy
26BOOKING JAZZ ESSENTIAL The Academy’s Jazz Department has produced an incredible array of versatile, creative jazz musicians since its foundation in 1987. See the stars of tomorrow in live performances. TUES 9 NOV, 6PM THURS 18 NOV, 6PM TUES 23 NOV, 6PM ACADEMY JAZZ ENSEMBLES CONCERT ROOM £5 The celebrated Academy jazz ensemble concerts mark the culmination of the small ensemble projects on the jazz course. Students perform a set of music on which they have been working with a variety of distinguished visiting musicians. See the Academy website and social media for details of each concert. 27
FRI 12 NOV, 8PM
ACADEMY
BIG BAND
WITH
JASON
YARDE
DUKE’S HALL
£12 (CONCESSIONS £10)
Jason Yarde composer, saxophone
Nick Smart conductor
Composer, arranger, producer, musical
director and saxophonist Jason Yarde has
been at the forefront of jazz innovation
in the UK for more than two decades.
He composes across a variety of styles,
including jazz, classical, hip hop, R&B,
reggae and soul, and creates music that
has been described as powerful, spiritual
and formidable. He was awarded the
inaugural prize for Contemporary Jazz
Composition at the British Composer
Awards as well as a prestigious
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for
Composers, and was nominated for the
Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival
and the Jazz on 3 Innovation Award at
the BBC Jazz Awards. We are delighted
to welcome Jason Yarde to work with
the acclaimed Academy Big Band for a
concert featuring several of his works
for jazz orchestra.
BOOKING
ESSENTIAL
28BOOKING
MASTERCLASSES ESSENTIAL
Artists at the top of their game work
with Academy students, discussing
musical interpretation, exploring new
perspectives and drilling down on detail.
Selected string and small department
masterclasses are open to the public
in November. See page 34 for more
information about booking your place.
Otto van den Toorn
Felix Broede
MON 1 NOV, 2PM TUES 2 NOV, 10AM
NING FENG SIMONE LAMSMA
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
£5 £5
Distinguished alumnus Ning Feng is Academy alumna Simone Lamsma
recognised internationally as an artist returns to work with a range of
of great lyricism, innate musicality and violin students on a diverse selection
stunning virtuosity. We are delighted to of repertoire.
welcome him back to the Academy to
work with some of our violinists.
29BOOKING
MASTERCLASSES ESSENTIAL
WED 3 NOV, 6PM TUES 9 NOV, 6PM
JUAN-MIGUEL HERNANDEZ ROBERTO AUSSEL
DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
£5 £5
Visiting professor of viola Juan-Miguel In collaboration with the Iberian and Latin
Hernandez makes a welcome return visit American Music Society, we welcome
to the Academy during his European tour. renowned Argentinian guitarist Roberto
Aussel for his first Academy masterclass.
Benjamin Ealovega
Jack Liebeck
MON 8 NOV, 10AM WED 10 NOV, 2PM
ADRIAN BRENDEL JAMES EHNES
DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL
£5 £5
Visiting Professor of Chamber Music Gifted with a rare combination of
at the Academy, cellist Adrian Brendel stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism and
devotes his attention in this class to an unfaltering musicality, James Ehnes’s
Michael Johnson
varied repertoire for cello and piano. inspirational and positive classes are a
highlight in the Academy’s diary.
30BOOKING
MASTERCLASSES ESSENTIAL
Marco Borggreve
Knut Utler
THURS 11 NOV, 1.30PM FRI 26 NOV, 6PM
GARTH KNOX ANNELEEN LENAERTS
ANGELA BURGESS RECITAL HALL DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
£5 £5
Garth Knox, a former member of Recently appointed visiting professor of
the Arditti Quartet and a specialist harp, Anneleen Lenaerts is Solo Harpist
in contemporary repertoire and of the Vienna Philharmonic and the
improvisation, returns to the Academy Vienna State Opera. She works with harp
to work with viola students. students on a range of repertoire.
FRI 19 NOV, 6PM TUES 30 NOV, 10AM
TILMAN HOPPSTOCK MARIO STEFANO
PIETRODARCHI
DAVID JOSEFOWITZ RECITAL HALL
£5 CONCERT ROOM
The Academy is delighted to welcome £5
back Tilman Hoppstock, a professor World-renowned accordionist and
at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Visiting Professor of Bandoneon at the
Darmstadt, Germany, and a world- Academy, Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi
renowned guitarist and scholar. returns to work with students.
31DONORS
Philanthropy plays an important role in the life of the Academy. We wish to thank
the donors listed who have given £1,000 or more over the past 12 months
to 29 June 2021.
REGENTS’ COURT CHK Foundation The Clarence
OF BENEFACTORS Winifred Christie Trust Myerscough Trust
Backstage Trust The Clemence Orbis Pictus Trust
John and Helen Burgess Charitable Trust The Pitt-Rivers
Matthew and Sally Ferrey The Cosman Keller Art and Charitable Trust
The Gatsby Music Trust The Portrack Charitable Trust
Charitable Foundation The D’Oyly Carte Q Charitable Trust
Estate of the late Charitable Trust Graham and Dianne Roberts
Christopher Hogwood Derwent London plc Charitable Settlement
Sir Elton Hercules John CH, The Desmond Family The Rose Foundation
CBE and David Furnish Foundation The Rothschild Foundation
Kohn Foundation Disney Theatrical Santander UK
Leverhulme Trust Productions The Martin G Smith
The National Lottery The Drapers’ Charitable Fund Foundation
Heritage Fund The Duet Foundation Snowdon Trust
Lady Sainsbury of Turville CBE Emerton-Christie Charity Sophie’s Silver Lining Fund
Lord Sainsbury of Turville EUBO Development Trust The Steel Charitable Trust
Sir Martin Smith and Fairfield Trust Surrey Square
Lady Smith OBE Toni V Fell Musical Charitable Trust
The Thompson Family Charitable Trust Eric Thompson Charitable
Charitable Trust Fernside Trust Trust for Organists and
Anthony and Peta Travis Gerald Finzi Charitable Trust Organ Music
Fishmongers’ Company’s The Constance Travis
ORGANISATIONS Charitable Trust Charitable Trust
The American Society for The Albert and Eugenie Frost Universal Music UK
the Royal Academy of Music Trust Sound Foundation
Music (ASRAM) Future of Russia Foundation Jo Weinberg Flute Award
Anson Charitable Trust The Grand Duo Charitable Alex and William de
Ambrose and Trust and Suzanne Winton Trust
Ann Appelbe Trust Skelton Masterclass The Wolfson Foundation
Associated Board of the Royal Harbour Foundation Henry Wood
Schools of Music (ABRSM) The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Accommodation Trust
Avedis Zildjian Company The Honourable Society of The Worshipful Company
Norman Ayrton Knights of the Round Table of Musicians
Scholarship Trust The Howard de Yamaha Music Europe
The Band Trust Walden Estate
The Lionel Bart Foundation International Music and INDIVIDUALS
The Sir John Beckwith Art Foundation Dame Jenny Abramsky DBE
Charitable Trust International Students House Anthony Aldridge
Maria Björnson Khodorkovsky Foundation Dr Heather Allan
Memorial Fund John Lewis Partnership Lisa Andrews
The Blyth Watson The Richard Lewis/ Nicholas Armour
Charitable Trust Jean Shanks Trust Craig Armstrong OBE
British Council The Lynn Foundation The Athena Scholarship
The John Brockway The Helen Rachael Ray Atkinson
Huntington Foundation Mackaness Charitable Trust Angela Baker
Calleva Foundation The Mills Williams Foundation Mikhail Bakhtiarov and
The Carr-Gregory Trust GM Morrison Charitable Trust Svetlana Besfamilnaya
CAVATINA Chamber The Countess of Munster Nicholas Berwin
Music Trust Musical Trust Stephan von Bismarck and
Chapman Charitable Trust Nilufer von Bismarck OBE
32Lord and Lady Blackwell Joseph and Jill Karaviotis Barry Sterndale-Bennett Richard Blurton Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Lord and Lady Stevenson Alain de Botton de Morixe of Coddenham Gillian Braithwaite Claire Kitchin Penny Stott Dr Nicholas and Christopher Lawrence The Rt Hon the Lord Joanna Breach Geoffrey Lawrence Sumption OBE, PC and Estate of the late Molly Bridge Chung Nung Lee Lady Sumption Sir Alan Budd GBE Estate of the late Dr Matthias von der Tann Lord and Lady Burns Brenda Lewis Eric Thiman Memorial Fund Christopher Campbell CBE Kirsty and Russell MacDonald Marjorie Thomas Art of Lord and Lady Carnwath of Cathy Mackerras Song Prize Notting Hill Joanne Manoukian Valentine Thomas Russ and Linda Carr Raffy Manoukian Jonathan Thorne John and Vera Chown Suresh and Richard McMillan William Tilden Gordon Clark Scholarships for Opera Mary Tredennick, in honour In memory of our mother, and Music of her sister, Joy Eta Cohen Jane and David Metter David Wakefield Jennifer Constance Vincent Meyer Grace Walquist Miranda Curtis Nikita Mishin The Revd John Wates OBE Ina De and James Spicer Philip Mitchell and Carol Wates Ingrid and Amit De Estate of the late Jill Mora Simon and Glenda Weil Geoffrey and Anne De’Ath Marliese Myerscough Rywa Weinberg Nigel Doggett Barbara Ann Nash Peter and Bessie White Heather Du Pré James Newton Howard In memory of Martin Williams Eaton Music Scholarship William Robert Ogden Owen Williams-Ellis and the Mark and Margaret Elliott Judith Parker late Veronica Williams-Ellis Dr Paul Ellison Estate of the late David Wilson-Johnson The Enlightenment Sheila Ann Partridge Damian Wisniewski Scholarship Anthony Pitt-Rivers OBE Richard and Diana Faber Professor Richard Portes CBE Jacqueline Worswick Christopher A Field Claire Randall Elizabeth Wright Denys and Vicki Firth John and Susan Reizenstein Barbara Fisher OBE Vanda Renton We also thank those The Fordyce Award Jane Roberts Michael Foss Sir Simon Robey KBE donors who wish to Neil and Debbie Franks Jacqueline Robinson remain anonymous. Henrietta Freeman-Attwood In memory of Alex Ross Professor Jonathan The Rt Hon the Lord Freeman-Attwood CBE Rothschild OM, GBE Gloria Freilich Sir George Russell CBE and Joyce Fretwell Lady Russell Professor Michael Gilsenan Stuart Saint and In memory of Timothy Gilson Johanna Quintrell Kyoko Gledhill The Samworth Foundation Estate of the late Sam Schwartz David McLeod Godfrey Sarah Seddon Nic and Deb Grabien Estate of the late Charles and Analida Graham Jennifer Sharp Dr David Green Dr Oli Sigurdsson Estate of the late Estate of the late Sylvia Simon Alexis Gregory Estate of the late Nigel Hall Joan Heather Sivil Estate of the late James and Chloe Smillie Desmond Hancock Richard Smith Hilary Hart Tim and Lynda Smith Brian Hartley Nicholas Snowman OBE Rosamund Hattey Stephanie Sobey-Jones The Earl and Countess Howe The late Lady Valerie Solti The Julien Award Darlene Steele Jonathan Julyan Anne Sterndale-Bennett 33
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We are delighted to be welcoming
Online: from 8am on Wednesday
in-person audiences back to the
15 September 2021 at ram.ac.uk/
Academy from 1 November onwards.
events (please note that there is no
Please rest assured that we will
telephone service between 8am
continue to prioritise the safety of our
and 10am).
visitors, students and staff to ensure a
comfortable experience for everyone.
By telephone: from Wednesday
As part of this process, booking is now
15 September 2021, 10am to 4pm.
compulsory for all events.
We have a telephone queuing system;
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Please note that it is not currently
events 48 hours before booking opens
possible to buy tickets in person
to the public: Monday 13 and Tuesday
from our Box Office.
14 September, from 8am at ram.ac.uk/
events, or by telephone from 10am. It
After booking, you will receive a
will not be possible to book in person
confirmation email, which will include
at the Box Office. If you are interested
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for some events and will be listed on Academy competitions. Details are
the booking page of our website. subject to change, so please visit
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