EASTER 2019 Music at Fitz - Fitzwilliam College

 
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EASTER 2019 Music at Fitz - Fitzwilliam College
Photograph © Francis Knights, 2019

                                     EASTER 2019
                                                   Music at Fitz
EASTER 2019 Music at Fitz - Fitzwilliam College
All events are open to the general public unless specified

 Mondays | 7pm
 FCMS Informal Student Recitals
 Admission free

 6 MAY | OLD SCR – talented players from the first-year undergraduate cohort,
 including oboist Katrina Mulheran and pianist Bernard Ko, present a collaborative
 recital

 13 MAY | CHAPEL – Organ Scholar Anna Sozańska presents a varied recital
 programme on the Chapel’s fine organ

 20 MAY | OLD SCR – Lucy Crocker (viola), Gwen Baines (cello) and Pierre Riley
 (piano) showcase the writing of English eighteenth-century composer William
 Flackton

 27 MAY | OLD SCR – folk music from a variety of intriguing traditions, played and
 sung by College musicians including melodeonist James Rhodes

 3 JUNE | OLD SCR – those members of the FCMS committee fortunate enough not
 to be engaged in examinations offer a musically stimulating study break to those
 that are

 10 JUNE | OLD SCR – Jonas Amend (violin) and Anna Sozańska (piano) present a
 selection of sonata repertoire
                                                                                     Photograph © John Cleaver, 2019
EASTER 2019 Music at Fitz - Fitzwilliam College
FRIDAY 26 APRIL | 8PM | AUDITORIUM |              FRIDAY 17 MAY | 7.30PM | AUDITORIUM |
ADMISSION FREE                                    ADMISSION FREE
Susanna Pointer                                   Sam Hartley
Third-year Music Tripos reader Susanna            MPhil pianist and composer Sam Hartley plays
Pointer presents the music she will offer for     music by Chopin as well as original material
her Finals performance recital, including
works by Messiaen and Ravel
                                                  SATURDAY 25 MAY | 6.30PM | AUDITORIUM
                                                  | See advertising for admission price
SATURDAY 27 APRIL | 7.30PM |
AUDITORIUM | £12 (general) £8                     Fitzwilliam String Quartet with guest viola
(concessions) £4 (Fitz members)                   player James Boyd
Folk At Fitz: The Askew Sisters                   The Fitzwilliam String Quartet returns to
                                                  College with a concert featuring movements
Acclaimed nationally and internationally as       from JS Bach’s Art of Fugue and Bruckner’s
interpreters of English folk music and            extraordinary String Quintet. As usual,
balladry, Hazel’s (vocals, melodeon,              coaching will be available to student string
concertina) and Emily’s (vocals, fiddles) third   players and chamber ensembles
album ‘In The Air Or The Earth’ won the
Spiral Earth Award for the best traditional
album of 2015. Get tickets here:                  THURSDAY 30 MAY | 8PM | SCR |
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folk-at-fitz-the-          ADMISSION FREE (for Fitz graduate students
askew-sisters-tickets-58799064585                 only)
                                                  Graduate salon
FRIDAY 3 MAY | 7.30PM | AUDITORIUM |              Music and poetry performed by and for
£8 (general) £4 (concessions) £2 (Fitz            graduate students in the convivial
members)                                          surroundings of the SCR. Drinks and nibbles
Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera: The Marriage of        included
Figaro
Mozart’s hilarious, farcical comedy of            SATURDAY 8 JUNE | 7.30PM | CHAPEL |
disguise and mistaken identity is sung in         ADMISSION FREE
Jeremy Sams’ brilliant translation, set in the
1950s, with twelve-piece orchestra. Tickets       Clarinet, cello and piano trio
available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/           A superb all-graduate ensemble of Maurits
fitzwilliam-chamber-opera-the-marriage-of-        Houck, Constantin Kilcher and Pierre Riley
figaro-tickets-59765146161                        delivers Brahms’s op. 114 trio for clarinet,
                                                  cello and piano
SATURDAY 4 MAY | 2.30PM | AUDITORIUM
| £8 (general) £4 (concessions) £2 (Fitz          THURSDAY 13 JUNE | 8PM | AUDITORIUM |
members)                                          £5
Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera: The Marriage of        Barbers/Sirens Cheese and Wine
Figaro
                                                  Fitz’s two much-loved a cappella groups
The second and final performance of               present their popular annual showcase
Mozart’s hilarious, farcical comedy of
disguise and mistaken identity, sung in
Jeremy Sams’ brilliant translation, set in the
1950s, with twelve-piece orchestra                WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE | TIMING AS
                                                  ADVERTISED | GROVE LAWN | ADMISSION
                                                  FREE
SATURDAY 11 MAY | FROM 8PM | BAR |                Billy Day
ADMISSION FREE                                    The FCMS’s annual summer garden party this
Gin & Jazz                                        year forms a component part of the JCR/MCR-
                                                  organised ‘Billy Day’ in celebration of the
This term’s edition of the popular student        College’s 150h birthday. The JCR-organised
jazz open-mic night                               Fitz Sessions will also take place this evening
During the vacation
    SUNDAY 14 – SATURDAY 20 JULY
    Akiko Ono’s Annual Summer School
    Internationally-renowned violinist Akiko Ono hosts her annual summer school at Fitz.
    There will be presentations from local young violinists and from Akiko’s own Yehudi
    Menuhin School studio

    SATURDAY 31 AUG
    Young Women’s Conducting Workshop
    Aspiring young female conductors from Cambridgeshire and Fitz linked schools work
    on technique and repertoire with student string players, culminating in a short
    presentation

                    Catherine Groom, Director of Music
                    Catherine (music@fitz.cam.ac.uk) is always delighted to receive proposals for concerts
                    from any member of College, and enquiries about any aspect of collegiate music-
                    making. Her office is at the back of the Auditorium building and there are almost always
                    biscuits to be found there.

Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DG
E: music@fitz.cam.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1223 765757
    FitzMusicSoc                                                                               Music at Fitz is
                                                                                          kindly sponsored by
    FitzCollMusic                                                                               Hewitsons LLP
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