Dartington Summer School

Dartington International
Summer School
A Music School by Day, A Concert Hall by Night
1 – 29 August
Welcome
Contents
It’s an enormous pleasure to welcome you to this year’s
Dartington International Summer School. Dartington is
a place of extraordinary beauty and creativity, and the
Summer School is for everyone: professional musicians,
music students of all ages, people who love to play, and
people who love to listen. There are writing and poetry
courses, film and multimedia courses, Yoga and Tai Chi
Qigong, talks and dance workshops; you can come and
watch classes too.
Your Time at
Summer School
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Week 1
Sat 1 - Sat 8 August
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Week 2
Sat 8 - Sat 15 August
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Week 3
Sat 15 - Sat 22 August
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Week 4
Sat 22 - Sat 29 August
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It’s possible to take part in all kinds of ways: there are
masterclasses with celebrated performers, ensemble
workshops, improvisation sessions and music theatre courses. There are choirs of all kinds, open
to everybody: you can sing in Mozart’s Requiem, a folk or a gospel choir, and in Russian opera.
Come and experience everything, from medieval and renaissance music, to lindy hop and salsa;
experience talks by the legendary pianist Alfred Brendel, jazz classes with cool sax player Andy
Sheppard, and folk sessions with the wonderful Kathryn Tickell.
A school by day, from 5.15pm Summer School becomes a place for socialising and entertainment. There
are up to three performances a day, ending around 11pm, and some of the world’s best musicians, singers,
poets and thinkers are here. You can find the four-week concert programme at the end of this brochure.
I look forward to welcoming you all to what will be a wonderful Summer School.
Joanna MacGregor, Artistic Director
Thank you to our current supporters
Andor Charitable Trust, Anonymous, Barbara
Whatmore Charitable Trust, Behrens Foundation,
Boltini Trust, Bruce Wake Charity, John S Cohen
Foundation, Kenneth Counter, Richard Creed,
Dartington Hall Trust, Dartington International
Summer School Foundation, Daphne Oram Trust,
Rodney Davidson, Elmgrant Trust, Eversley Trust,
Fidelio Charitable Trust, Friends of the Summer
School at Dartington, Mrs W Godfrey-Payton Trust,
Christopher Hanson-Abbot, Andrew Hayman,
Harold Hyam Wingate Charity, Idlewild Trust,
Ingpen and Williams, KET Charitable Trust,
Kingsdown Trust, Mirhane McLaren-Howard,
Catherine Meek, David Morris, Frances RuckKeene, RVW Trust, William and Judith Scheide
Fund, Etain Todds, Trinity Laban College of Music,
Barbara-Sue and Lynn White.
Bursary awards for
outstanding students
Endowments from a legacy or from the
following individuals and their families were given
specifically to support bursaries. In addition
to these we receive funding for bursaries from
individuals, trusts and foundations, including
the Dartington Hall Trust and the Dartington
International Summer School Foundation.
Tomas Tavoroch Avis Trust Fund, Elizabeth
Clough, Else and Leonard Cross, Charles Davis,
Robert Eliot, Alfred Ensor, Richard Gardner,
William Glock, Lucille Graham, Gavin Henderson,
Christopher Kite, Andras Milhaly, Busenhart
Morgan Evans, Clifton Parker, Ernest Rainer,
Esther Salaman, William and Judith Scheide
Fund, Louisa Schmidt, Jenny Wood.
Please see page 29 for information on how
to apply for a bursary.
Fees and
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Accommodation Concert Programme
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Your Time at Summer School
For newcomers and old-timers
The Course Timetable
How does it work?
Four Sessions a Day
Concerts and Talks
The day is divided into four main sessions,
starting around 9am, 11am, 2pm and 3.30pm.
There’s also an early morning session for Yoga
or Tai Chi Qigong. Unless you’re on an Advanced
Course, which might take up three sessions a
day, you can fill your day with different courses
and be as active as you want.
There are concerts and talks at 5.15pm, 7.45pm
and 10.00pm. Performances are by artists teaching
at the Summer School, as well as student
performances towards the end of the week. See
page 30 for the concert programme and events.
Open Courses, Advanced Courses,
Workshops and Masterclasses
Everyone is welcome to sing in the Big Choir.
It rehearses straight after breakfast providing
a joyous choral upbeat to each day’s activities,
and culminates in a performance at the end of
the week.
Open Courses like the Folk Choir, Gospel
Choir, Brazilian Music, Dance and Improvisation
courses are open to absolutely everybody.
Summer School participants in the medieval courtyard
Dartington International Summer School is all
about being creative during the day, in week-long
courses, workshops and masterclasses. Every
evening you can listen to up to three concerts,
and perhaps perform in some of them too. The
range of music covers classical, jazz, world music
and folk, as well as courses in multimedia, film,
visual arts and creative writing.
Your Summer School 'courses and concerts'
pass means you can take part in any of the
courses, or just observe, as well as attend all
the concerts and events. If you want to take
time out, Dartington estate is perfect for
walking, and Dartmoor, Totnes and Torquay are
all easily accessible if you fancy going a bit
further afield.
The Summer School brings together an
extraordinary mix of people; from professional
and non-professional musicians to emerging
artists, writers and poets, in the beautiful
surroundings of Dartington Hall – a medieval
estate in Devon. You can be an active participant
or choose to observe any of the courses. The
community you’ll be part of is one of learning,
sharing, performing and socialising - you
may find yourself queuing alongside a major
international artist at coffee time, or enjoying a
drink with a rising star in the bar after a concert.
The Course and Concert fee for the Summer
School includes all courses and concerts. The
Accommodation and Catering fees include all
meals, from Saturday dinner at the start of the
week to Saturday breakfast at the end. The only
other expenses might be drinks at The White
Bar which stays open late after every concert,
and music from the music shop.
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We very much look forward to welcoming you.
Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
Advanced Courses like Opera, Conducting,
Baroque Orchestra - are for music students,
professionals and people playing/singing at
an equivalent level. Application details for
each course are outlined in the brochure and
although there is no application deadline,
places are limited so please apply early.
Workshops like keyboards, strings, voice, jazz
are open to everybody, but you’ll probably
want to have around Grade 5 or above to get
the most you can from them.
Masterclasses with singers and instrumentalists
are for advanced students, and will often have
an application process.
Please read the course descriptions - they will
help you decide which course is the right one
for you.
Observers
All of the classes welcome a small audience,
and you do not need to sign up to a course in
order to observe it.
The Big Choir
The Big Choir Plus
More learning time for those singing in the
Big Choir, and to build your confidence for
the performance! It is possible to attend all
or some of these sessions.
Chamber Choir
The chamber choir is aimed at experienced
choral singers. Numbers are limited and
singers are selected in advance by sending
details of their choral experience with their
application form.
Chamber Music
Chamber Music for singers and instrumentalists
takes place each week. Please complete the
Chamber Music booking form when you make
your on-line application, so that groups and
repertoire can be most effectively prepared.
Pre-formed groups are also very welcome.
Every group will be offered one formal session
every day with coaching, with other sessions
for rehearsal and coaching when available.
'Expanded' chamber music with doubling of
parts, take place regularly in Session 1.
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Week
01 – 08 August
Medieval and Renaissance Music,
Improvisation, Jigs, Poetry – and Ecology
Week 1 combines the energy and brilliance of the Middle Ages,
the Venetian grandeur of Gabrieli, and the incredible ‘wall of sound’
created by Thomas Tallis’s massive 40-part motet, Spem in Alium,
guided by conductor Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra. Medieval
and Renaissance players, singers and ensembles (and modern
players and singers too) can receive expert tuition and guidance
from The City Musick, Fretwork, Carolyn Sampson, Nicholas Clapton,
Stevie Wishart and Carole Cerasi, then explore improvisational
courses in the afternoon. Whether springboarding from Chaucer’s
poetry with Alice Oswald, enacting the stage jigs and bawdy songs
of 16th century theatre with Lucie Skeaping, fusing John Dowland
and cool jazz with trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, or discovering fairy
tales, medieval miracles and talking animals in Marina Warner’s
lecture, this week will be colourful, action-packed and exciting.
There’s a theme of greenery and ecology too, running through
the programming: from sustainable instruments created by Junk
Music, pastoral madrigals and nature poetry in the ancient gardens
of Dartington, to Alec Roth’s stunning choral work Earthrise.
The concerts, too, encompass the pioneering early world,
presenting European and South American motets performed by
Ex Cathedra, Fretwork charting Sir Francis Drake’s 1577-80 journey
on The Golden Hinde, Bach’s alpha-omega Goldberg Variations and
Carolyn Sampson’s The History of the World in Seventeen and a
Half Songs. And we literally encircle the Great Hall in our climactic
Friday night concert, with Tallis, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, and choral
poetry performed in the round, soaring to the rafters.
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Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
Choral and Vocal Courses
The Big Choir: Thomas Tallis
and Earthrise
Vocal Ensembles
Vocal Masterclass
Improve Your Sight-singing
Vocal Workshop
Chamber Choir: Gabrieli motets
The Big Choir Plus
Jeffrey Skidmore
Session 1
Ex Cathedra
Session 2
Carolyn Sampson
Session 2
Rhiannon Evans
Session 2
Nicholas Clapton
Session 3
Jeffrey Skidmore
Session 4
Jonathan Watts
Session 4
The City Musick
Session 1
FRETWORK
Session 1, 2 & 3
William Lyons,
Nicholas Perry and Tom Lees
Session 2
Richard Thomas
Session 2
Stevie Wishart
Session 2
Carole Cerasi
Session 2 & 3
QUENTIN POOLE, RHIANNON EVANS,
CLAIRE WILLIAMS, RICHARD
TUNNICLIFFE
Session 1, 2 & 4
Instrumental Courses
Advanced Renaissance
Wind Band
Viol Consorts
Renaissance Reeds, Recorders,
Brass and Strings
The Natural Trumpet
Hurdy Gurdy
Clavichord and Harpsichord
Chamber Music
Improvisation, Dance and Words
Junk Music
The Elizabethan Stage Jig
Chaucer and Jazz
Mr Dowland’s Midnight
Michael Freeman
Session 2 & 3
Lucie Skeaping and Jon Banks
Session 3
Alice Oswald
Session 3
Eric Vloeimans and
Joanna MacGregor
Session 3 & 4
Marina Warner
3 AUG 5.15PM
Justin Dalton
7.45am-8.30am
More than Music
Lecture: Runaway Girls and
Singing Bones
Yoga
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Choral and Vocal Courses
Improve Your Sight-singing
The Big Choir
Do you struggle with the demanding multitasking activity that is sight-singing? Is recognising
rhythms, pitching intervals and reading the
text all at once a daunting challenge? This
course is open to all, especially singers who are
not fluent readers, and anyone wishing to brush
up on their sight-singing skills.
Jeffrey Skidmore
The popular and internationally-acclaimed
conductor of Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore,
returns to Dartington to work on Thomas
Tallis’s celebrated 40-part motet Spem in
Alium, which The Big Choir will perform twice,
in the round: in Latin, and in English, as Sing
and Glorify Heaven’s High Majesty. Alec Roth’s
beautiful and powerful choral work Earthrise,
directly linked to the Tallis, brings drama to the
concert in the medieval Great Hall, alongside The
City Musick’s Advanced Renaissance Wind Band.
Session 1
Vocal Ensembles
Ex Cathedra
Ex Cathedra coach singers of all ages and abilities
in smaller ensembles, focussing on early
madrigals and motets.
Session 2
Vocal Masterclass
Carolyn Sampson
The operatic soprano Carolyn Sampson, fêted
all over the world for her performances of
Monteverdi, Purcell, Bach and Mozart, directs
this week’s masterclass for advanced singers.
Students are selected in advance for this course:
please send two contrasting recordings, and a
short CV to [email protected].
Session 2
Rhiannon Evans
Instrumental Courses
Advanced Renaissance Wind Band
THE City Musick
Vocal Workshop
William Lyons and the ever-popular City
Musick members return to direct canzonas,
toccatas and sonatas from 17th century
Venice; Gabrieli’s grand Canzona a22 will be
performed antiphonally in the Great Hall. For
cornetts, sackbuts, reeds and strings. Students
are selected in advance for this course: please
send a short CV to [email protected].
Nicholas Clapton
Session 1
Session 2
‘Ever since coming to Dartington for the first time
in 1995, I’ve always encouraged participants in
my class to perform a wide and varied repertoire
of their choice, on which we can work both
technically and interpretatively. Aged from 16
to 80+, they have responded with everything
from Machaut to Maxwell Davies - fabulous!’
Session 3
Viol Consorts
Fretwork
The brilliant and ground-breaking viol consort
Fretwork supervise and lead tuition at all levels.
Repertoire will include English, French, Italian and
German music of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Sessions 1, 2 and 3
Chamber Choir
Jeffrey Skidmore
Jeffrey Skidmore directs two Giovanni Gabrieli
masterpieces - the 16-voice Omnes Gentes, and
his most famous composition, In Ecclesiis - for a
performance in the Friday night choral concert.
Students are selected in advance for this course:
please send a short CV to
[email protected].
Session 4
The Big Choir Plus
Jonathan Watts
Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big
Choir repertoire, with Dartington’s wonderful
choir repetiteur Jonathan Watts.
Session 4
Renaissance Reeds, Recorders,
Brass and Strings
William Lyons, Nicholas Perry and
Tom Lees
Group and individual tuition with members
of The City Musick, on shawms, crumhorns,
dulcian, rackett, recorders, early violin, cornetts,
sackbuts, bagpipes and renaissance percussion.
Session 2
The Natural Trumpet
Richard Thomas
This is a rare and fantastic opportunity to play,
in ensemble, the trumpet without any modern
adaptations or compromises. The course is
suitable for modern players wishing to try their
hand at the natural instrument as well as
much more accomplished players, hoping to
experiment, challenge and refine their skills.
Session 2
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Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
Carolyn Sampson
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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with a cast of whores, lechers, housewives,
ruffians and bumpkins. This course is suitable
for solo singers of all levels, singer-actors
and instrumentalists (particularly pluckers,
strummers, blowers, bass viol and fiddlers),
with an interest in folk, popular styles and
improvisation. We’ll examine some of the nine
existing jig scripts, recently reunited with their
music for the first time in 400 years, and aim to
rehearse one (or possibly two) complete jigs for
an informal performance at the end of the week.
Session 3
Chaucer and Jazz
Eric Vloeimans
Hurdy Gurdy
Stevie Wishart
Hurdy gurdy player, improviser, composer, and
Hildegarde of Bingen scholar – the multifaceted Stevie Wishart leads a class in this
extraordinary medieval instrument, as well
as improvisational techniques.
Session 2
Clavichord and Harpsichord
Carole Cerasi
One of the world’s foremost early keyboard
players focuses on the music of Bach and
Handel, Scarlatti, and the early French school.
Carole Cerasi is a keyboards professor at
the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal
Academy of Music.
Sessions 2 and 3
Chamber Music
The chamber music programme is open to all
singers and instrumentalists; there are large
ensemble opportunities, and daily coaching is
available (see page 5 for this week’s tutors).
Sessions 1, 2 and 4
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Improvisation,
Dance and Words
Junk Music
Michael Freeman
This course, open to musicians and nonmusicians alike, will draw on the ancient human
tradition of finding objects to make music.
Whereas our ancestors used organic wood,
dried fruits and animal skin, we’ll be exploring
the resonant qualities of modern materials like
plastics, metals and cardboard. There’s great
scope for combining junk instruments with
singers and conventional instrumentalists too –
all are welcome.
Sessions 2 and 3
The Elizabethan Stage Jig
Lucie Skeaping and Jon Banks
Nowadays the word ‘jig’ has come to mean
simply a dance or instrumental piece - but in
the late 16th century the term also referred
to a short musical play. Comical, bawdy and
sometimes libellous, the Stage Jig was sung
to popular tunes of the day and featured
elements of dance, slapstick and disguise,
Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
Alice Oswald
A course open to anyone interested in writing,
poetry, and performance with words. The wonderful
poet and charismatic performer Alice Oswald
will be looking at the nature poetry of the medieval
writer Geoffrey Chaucer, and creating new work
built around his themes. There’ll also be a chance
to collaborate with the improvisation course run
by the Dutch jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans,
leading to a short performance combining words
with music at the end of the week.
Session 3
More Than Music
Lecture: Runaway Girls and
Singing Bones - From Medieval
Romancing to Modern Fairy Tales
The scholarly writer and cultural historian
Marina Warner explores the deep connections
of Cinderella and other stories to medieval
saints and miracles, magical things, and wise,
speaking animals.
August 3rd 5.15pm
Yoga
Justin Dalton
This course, based on the gentle, fluid Scaravelli
approach to yoga, is suitable for participants
of all ages and abilities, and can be practised
wearing loose clothing. (Yoga mats will be
available, or bring your own.) Yoga has been
practised by many musicians – most famously
Yehudi Menuhin – and it’s a great chance to
loosen up the body before a day’s music-making.
7.45am-8.30am
Mr Dowland’s Midnight
Eric Vloeimans and
Joanna MacGregor
The brilliantly creative, world-class jazz
trumpeter Eric Vloeimans arrives from
Amsterdam to build a loose, easy-going
improvisation class with Artistic Director
Joanna MacGregor around the bluesy works
of Elizabethan composer John Dowland, and
Eric’s own subtle, atmospheric music. Eric’s
collaborations stretch from the Holland
Baroque Society in the Concertgebouw to the
Blue Note in New York; his class is open to all
musicians with a taste for exploration, colour
and cool. He’ll also be collaborating with the
poet Alice Oswald.
Sessions 3 and 4
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Week
Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses
The Big Choir:
Handel and Rameau
Vocal Masterclass
Vocal Workshop
Improve your Sight-singing
Advanced Opera Course:
Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica
Chamber Choir:
Bach and Charpentier
The Big Choir Plus
LAURENCE CUMMINGS
Session 1
EMMA KIRKBY
Session 2
ANDREW WATTS
Session 3
RHIANNON EVANS
Session 2
MHAIRI LAWSON, RICHARD
WILLIAMS AND ADRIAN CHANDLER
Session 1, 2 & 3
LAURENCE CUMMINGS
Session 4
JONATHAN WATTS
Session 4
SALLY DAVIES
Session 2
KATHRYN TICKELL AND
MARILYN IMRIE
SALLY DAVIES
Session 3 & 4
ROBERT HOWARTH
Session 1, 2 & 3
DAVID MILLER
Session 2
MAGGIE COLE
Session 2
JILL KEMP
Session 2 & 3
ADRIAN CHANDLER
Session 3
RICHARD TUNNICLIFFE
Session 3
KATY BIRCHER
Session 3
LARS Henriksson
Session 3
MAGGIE COLE
Session 3
JOANNA MACGREGOR
Session 3
QUENTIN POOLE, RHIANNON EVANS,
CLAIRE WILLIAMS, RICHARD
TUNNICLIFFE, KATY BIRCHER,
LARS HENRIKSSON
Session 1, 2 & 4
JAMES RUNCIE
10 Aug 5.15pm
JAMES RUNCIE
Session 4
MATTHEW ROCHFORD
8am-8.30am
08 – 15 August
Folk Courses
Folk Choir
As I Walked Out One Morning
Arranging Folk Music
Session 4
Instrumental Courses
Baroque Orchestra, Baroque Opera,
Folk Music and Creative Writing
Week 2 is dramatic: it brings operatic virtuosity and brilliance to
Dartington, alongside poetry, literature, Scottish ballads and
storytelling. Laurence Cummings leads The Big Choir and Baroque
Orchestra in dazzling, quasi-operatic choral works by Handel,
Rameau and Charpentier. This week is about the art of singing:
the sublime Scottish soprano Mhairi Lawson coaches the Advanced
Vivaldi Opera, while Emma Kirkby imparts her elegant wisdom
to singers. There’s a team of Baroque tutors giving masterclasses
in strings, winds, lutes and keyboards, and a Bach theme too, with
Richard Tunnicliffe focussing on the Cello Suites, Maggie Cole on
the Six Partitas and Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor running a
Bach on the Piano course.
Folk, poetry and literature are an important part of the programme:
Northumbrian pipes-player and fiddler Kathryn Tickell runs a
folk course with Scottish theatre director Marilyn Imrie, and Sally
Davies directs a Folk Choir. The writer James Runcie leads a creative
writing course. Concerts burn with a poetic intensity, from John
Dowland’s Lute Songs, Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid settings
to Kathryn Tickell’s new ensemble, The Side, bringing together folk
and classical worlds. A feast of folk music, poetry, Baroque brilliance
and operatic fireworks.
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Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
Baroque Orchestra
Lute and Lute Ensembles
Introduction to Fortepiano
Recorder and Recorder Ensembles
Baroque Violin Masterclass
Baroque Cello Masterclass
Baroque Flute Workshop
Baroque Oboe Workshop
Harpsichord Workshop
Bach on the Piano
Chamber Music
More Than Music
Lecture: Poetry and Silence
Creative Writing Course:
Music and Literature
Tai Chi Qigong
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Choral, Vocal
and Opera Courses
The Big Choir
Laurence Cummings
The ebullient Glyndebourne and ENO conductor,
Laurence Cummings, directs The Big Choir in
a fizzing combination of two great opera
composers, Handel’s lively Alceste and a choral
suite from Rameau’s glittering Les Boréades.
Laurence is one of the most exciting exponents
of historical music, both as a harpsichord player
and conductor; his music-making has been
described as ‘both witty and compassionate,’
and he will bring a laser-like focus to the choir.
Session 1
Vocal Masterclass
Emma Kirkby
‘I feel lucky that my career was characterised
from the start by ensemble singing, especially
with my first love, the lute; so we’ll have a joint
session with David Miller’s class of accomplished
lute and theorbo players early on, as well as
collaborate with Maggie Cole’s harpsichord and
fortepiano students. I’m happy to coach students
in their choice of repertoire; there will also be a
student concert later in the week, and I’ll send
beforehand a choice of ensemble pieces.’ Students
are selected in advance for this course: please
send two contrasting recordings, and a short CV
to [email protected].
Improve Your Sight-singing
Chamber Choir
Rhiannon Evans
Laurence Cummings
Do you struggle with the demanding multitasking activity that is sight-singing? Is
recognising rhythms, pitching intervals and
reading the text all at once a daunting challenge?
This course is open to all, especially singers who
are not fluent readers, and anyone wishing to
brush up on their sight-singing skills.
Laurence Cummings directs two masterpieces,
Charpentier’s Le Reniement de St Pierre and
Bach's Singet dem Herr'n, for a performance in
the Friday night choral concert. Students are
selected in advance: Please send a short CV to
[email protected].
Session 2
Advanced Opera Course:
Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica
MHAIRI LAWSON, ADRIAN CHANDLER AND
RICHARD WILLIAMS
This exciting course will rehearse one of Vivaldi’s
greatest operas, Catone in Utica for a concert
performance in the Great Hall with the Baroque
Orchestra, later in the week. Premièred to
huge success in Verona in 1737, its gloriously
rich music depicts Roman history, passion
and political intrigue. The closing date for
applications is Monday 5th January 2015, after
which a shortlist of singers will be auditioned in
London on Sunday 18th January 2015. Please
send two contrasting recordings, and a short CV
to [email protected].
SessionS 1, 2 & 3
Session 4
The Big Choir Plus
Jonathan Watts
Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big
Choir repertoire, with Dartington’s wonderful
choir repetiteur Jonathan Watts.
Session 4
‘When you arrange a song, you are a composer.
Having sung the polyphonic songs of the Caucasus
and The Balkans, I felt there was a crying need
for British folk songs to have something of
the bite and power of these Eastern European
arrangements. It’s my intention to infuse English
folk songs with some of these harmonic elements!’
Sally Davies’ course is for musicians with some
experience of arranging, and you’ll be looking
at creating open harmonies for different-sized
ensembles.
Instrumental Courses
Sally Davies
Sally Davies is an extremely experienced singer,
composer and choir leader, and directs the
Cecil Sharp House Choir with her distinctive
and original arrangements of folk songs.
The Folk Choir course will provide an intense
and rewarding learning experience; you’ll be
rehearsing folk songs from England and Eastern
Europe, in spine-tingling a cappella harmony,
for a concert later in the week.
As I Walked Out One Morning
Andrew Watts
Kathryn Tickell and Marilyn ImrIe
Open to singers of all ages and abilities, the
superb countertenor Andrew Watts – acclaimed
performer and Voice Teacher at the Jette Parker
Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera
House – will improve your vocal technique and
performance skills in a relaxed, supportive and
informative atmosphere.
The wonderful virtuoso Northumbrian pipesplayer, fiddler and singer Kathryn Tickell joins
forces with the prolific Scottish theatre director
and radio producer Marilyn Imrie, to lead this
exciting folk course. Devoted to storytelling,
song writing and instrumental tuition, the class
offers the chance for poets, songwriters and
Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
Sally Davies
Folk Choir
Vocal Workshop
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Arranging Folk Music
Session 4
Session 2
Kathryn Tickell
Session 3 & 4
Folk Courses
Session 2
Session 3
players to study and rehearse traditional music
and poetry, as well as collaborate and create new
work. There's a concert later in the week, shared
with the Folk Choir.
Baroque Orchestra
Robert Howarth
Robert Howarth has amassed a huge amount
of experience as a conductor and continuo
player with the world’s leading early music
ensembles, orchestras and opera houses,
most recently with the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment and Hamburg State Opera.
He rehearses the Baroque Orchestra for two
major concerts in the Great Hall: Vivaldi’s
highly virtuosic Catone in Utica on Thursday,
and works by Handel, Rameau, Charpentier
and Bach - conducted by Laurence Cummings
- on Friday. A very busy schedule, but thrilling!
Students are selected in advance for this
course: please send a short CV to
[email protected].
Sessions 1, 2 & 3 (Session 3 for
masterclasses or sectionals)
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Lute and Lute Ensembles
David Miller
David Miller's course provides a unique
opportunity for players of early plucked
instruments to develop their accompanying
and continuo skills, whilst recreating the lush
and sumptuous qualities of a large 17th century
continuo group, with lutes, archlutes, chitaroni
and guitars. There will be opportunities to
collaborate with singers from Emma Kirkby
and Andrew Watts’ vocal classes.
Session 2
Introduction to Fortepiano
Maggie Cole
This class is open to all keyboard players who
are curious about the fortepiano, and want to
gain new insights into Classical repertoire.
Diverse repertoire is very welcome; composers
ranging from CPE Bach, JC Bach, Scarlatti and
Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were all being
seduced by the new instrument, and we’ll be
examining this fertile period of change. As well
as solo pieces, we’ll aim to work on songs with
participants in the vocal classes.
Session 2
Recorder and Recorder Ensembles
JILL KEMP
Open to all recorder players this class covers
breathing, coordination, extended techniques,
ornamentation and any other areas, or repertoire,
that students would like to cover. Please bring a
treble at A440 and any other recorders you may
have. There will be ensemble work as well as
individual coaching.
Session 2 & 3
Baroque Violin Masterclass
technical and stylistic aspects of solo Baroque
violin-playing, in a relaxed environment.
Students are selected in advance for this
course: please send two contrasting recordings,
and a short CV to [email protected].
Session 3
Baroque Cello Masterclass
Richard Tunnicliffe
Since Pablo Casals’ ground-breaking recording
in the 1930s, Bach’s six Cello Suites have
been at the centre of cello literature. Richard
Tunnicliffe has studied and performed these
seminal works for over thirty years, and his
experience of more than five centuries of music
(as both cellist and gamba-player) enables
him to set these evergreen works within the
traditions of 17th century music - and relate
them to many later works. Richard will be giving
a complete performance of the Cello Suites in
two late-night concerts. Students are selected
in advance for this course: please send two
contrasting recordings, and a short CV to
[email protected].
Session 3
Baroque Flute Workshop
Katy Bircher
Katy Bircher is a leading performer on
early flutes, appearing worldwide performing
concertos with the European Brandenburg
Ensemble, La Serenissima, and Concerto
Copenhagen. As principal flute of the Gabrieli
Consort, she’s contributed to many awardwinning recordings on Deutsche Grammophon.
She is professor of the Baroque flute at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and
the Centre of Early Music Performance and
Research at Birmingham University.
Session 3
Adrian Chandler
The brilliant Baroque violinist Adrian Chandler
founder of La Serenissima to explore the work
of Vivaldi gives a masterclass focussing on all
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Baroque Oboe Workshop
Chamber Music
Lars Henriksson
The chamber music programme is open to all
singers and instrumentalists; there are large
ensemble opportunities, and daily coaching is
available (see page 11 for this week’s tutors).
‘I grew up in a very musical family; I played
various instruments, but at 16 I finally saw
the light. My dad had some recordings of Bach
cantatas that I loved - the oboe playing was
wonderful and I was hit by lightening.
Subsequently I was accepted as an oboist at
Gothenburg conservatoire. It didn’t go very well
there, so I fled into the world of Baroque music,
where I saw the light for the second time. The
Baroque oboe has taken me to most of the
“civilized” corners in the world. It has truly been
an amazing journey!’
Session 3
Harpsichord Workshop
Maggie Cole
The popular early keyboard performer and
pedagogue Maggie Cole returns to Dartington, to
lead an open class for players with some experience
of the harpsichord. A portion of each lesson will be
devoted to the Six Partitas of Bach - don’t be shy of
bringing a movement or two. There’ll also be time to
look at whatever other repertoire participants bring.
Session 3
Bach on the Piano
Joanna MacGregor
An open course led by Artistic Director and Head
of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music Joanna
MacGregor, examining the multiple approaches to
performing Bach on the piano. Students are invited
to bring any solo Bach piece to perform (including
keyboard concertos), and we’ll also discuss why
Bach performances are so radically different,
touching on the interpretations of Edwin Fisher,
Maria Yudina, Roslyn Tureck and Glenn Gould.
Joanna will be giving a complete performance of
the French Suites in two late-night concerts.
Session 3
Sessions 1, 2 and 4
More Than Music
Lecture: Poetry and Silence
What happens between the words? Silence
matters in literature as much as it does in
music. In his illustrated lecture, James Runcie
probes the balance between speech and silence
– the art of using words musically.
10th August 5.15pm
Creative Writing Course
James Runcie
Writer and Head of Literature at the Southbank,
James Runcie, runs a creative writing course on
stories with music at their heart. Each day we’ll
discuss a short story, then allow it to lead to
some creative writing. We’ll include Alice Munro’s
Dance of the Happy Shades, Chekhov’s The
Black Monk (structured like a sonata, and much
admired by Shostakovich), Crooner by Kazuo
Ishiguro and Every Good Boy by David Nicholls.
Session 4
Tai Chi Qigong
Matthew Rochford
Matthew Rochford, director of Tai Chi Nation,
offers an early morning class, designed to
relax the body and focus the mind. A dynamic
form of moving meditation, Tai Chi Qigong is
accessible to people of all ages and ideal for
musicians, bringing great benefits for good
practice and performance in the day ahead.
8.00am-8.30am
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Week
15 – 22 August
Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses
The Big Choir:
Mozart Requiem and Bob Chilcott
Vocal Masterclass
Advanced Opera Course:
Eugene Onegin
Vocal Workshop
Chamber Choir: Eric Whitacre
and James MacMillan
The Big Choir Plus
Nigel Perrin
Session 1
Della Jones
Session 2
Sian Edwards and Della Jones
Session 2 & 3
Sarah Gabriel
Session 3
Nigel Perrin
Session 4
JONATHAN WATTS
Session 4
Sian Edwards
Session 1, 2 & 3
Conducting
Advanced Conducting Course
Music Theatre and Brazilian Music
Advanced Brecht and Weill Course
Songs from the Musicals
Brazilian Music:
In The Heart of Rhythm
Richard Williams,
QUENTIN POOLE & Sarah Gabriel
Robert Purvis
Session 1, 2 & 3
Adriano Adewale
Session 3 & 4
Adrian Brendel
Session 1
Madeleine Mitchell
Session 2
Adrian Brendel
Session 2
Steven Osborne
Session 2
Florian Mitrea
Session 2
Joanna MacGregor
Session 3
HEATH QUARTET
Session 3
Jean Johnson
Session 3
Quentin Poole, Heath Quartet,
Barbara Sue White, Jean Johnson,
Florian Mitrea
Session 1, 2 & 4
Alfred Brendel
18 Aug 5.15pm
Alfred Brendel
19 Aug 5.15pm
Alfred Brendel
20 Aug 5.15pm
MATTHEW ROCHFORD
8am-8.30am
Kevan Kennedy
Session 4
Session 2
Instrumental Courses
Conducting and Orchestral Music, Opera,
Music Theatre and Brazilian Music
Week 3 is a treat for pianists - with three superb lectures by the
legendary Alfred Brendel, and Steven Osborne, Florian Mitrea, and
Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor all giving classes – and string
lovers, with the wonderful Heath Quartet, cellist Adrian Brendel,
violinist Madeleine Mitchell, and Dartington Festival String
Orchestra. Sian Edwards opens the two-week Advanced Conducting
Course rehearsing Elgar, Piazzolla and Bartók; Mozart’s music runs
throughout the week with a Mozart Piano Concerto class, the
Requiem and the tender A major concerto, K488, as does Schubert.
The Advanced Opera Course begins, with the popular operatic
mezzo Della Jones coaching Tchaikovsky’s dramatic Eugene Onegin.
Music Theatre courses offer performance opportunities for actors
and singers, exploring the world of musicals, Brecht and Kurt Weill,
and political dissidents; and the charismatic master percussionist
Adriano Adewale sets us on fire with his Brazilian Music class, teaming
up with salsa dance workshops for a glorious end-of-week party.
Don’t forget your dancing shoes….
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Open String Orchestra
Violin Masterclass
Cello Masterclass
Piano Masterclass
Piano Workshop
Mozart Piano Concertos
Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops
Clarinet Workshop
Chamber Music
More Than Music
Lecture: Schubert’s Last Sonatas
Lecture: Liszt - From Exuberance
to Asceticism
Lecture: A Pianist’s Alphabet
Tai Chi Qigong
Dance workshop: Salsa
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Choral, Vocal
and Opera Courses
The Big Choir
Nigel Perrin
Original King’s Singer and seasoned choirmaster
Nigel Perrin conducts one of the most loved
of all choral masterpieces - Mozart’s Requiem
– for the Friday night concert. ‘You may have
sung Mozart’s Requiem many times,’ Nigel
says, ‘but I like to analyse all the vocal techniques
in it – it’s a workout for choirs, and I never fail
to find it enthralling!’ Nigel will also direct Bob
Chilcott’s Animal Crackers, witty little pieces
that will be performed - in surprising places throughout the week.
Session 1
Vocal Masterclass
Della Jones
Admired as one of the foremost bel canto
mezzos of her generation, Della Jones’s repertoire
extends from Monteverdi to Mussorgsky, Gilbert
and Sullivan to contemporary opera. She puts
Summer School singers through their paces
in a warm, supportive setting. Students are
selected in advance for this course: please send
two contrasting recordings, and a short CV to
[email protected].
Session 2
Advanced Opera Course:
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
SIAN EDWARDS AND DELLA JONES
Sian Edwards and Della Jones direct the first week
of this two-week Advanced course. Eugene Onegin
is a masterpiece of Russian romanticism, and
receives a full concert performance in the Great Hall
on August 28th. The closing date for applications
to this course is Monday 5th January 2015, after
which a shortlist of singers will be auditioned in
London on Sunday 18th January 2015. Please
send two contrasting recordings, and a short CV to
[email protected].
Sessions 2 and 3
Vocal Workshop
Sarah Gabriel
As at home in Mozart or Britten opera as she is in
music theatre - Sarah Gabriel made her European
debut as Eliza in My Fair Lady at the Théâtre du
Châtelet, opposite Alex Jennings. Her vocal class is
open to all singers; Sarah is particularly interested
in being authentically yourself onstage, and in
how to express your individuality. You can see her
in action in Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine, Britten’s
Les Illuminations and Kurt Weill songs this week.
Session 3
Chamber Choir
Nigel Perrin
Nigel Perrin directs popular Eric Whitacre works
and James MacMillan, for performance in the
Friday night choral concert. Students are selected
in advance for this course, please send a short
CV to [email protected].
Session 4
The Big Choir Plus
Jonathan Watts
Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big
Choir repertoire, with Dartington’s wonderful
choir repetiteur Jonathan Watts.
Sian Edwards
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Conducting Courses
Songs from the Musicals
Advanced Conducting Course
A boisterous journey through the world of
musical theatre, open to all singers of all
abilities and ages. The course will focus on
several musicals, looking at chorus and solo
numbers; one-to-one coaching is available
outside of ensemble sessions. There will be a
performance later in the week.
Sian Edwards
Two weeks of intense study with Sian Edwards,
Head of Conducting, Royal Academy of Music,
for six conductors. Two programmes will be
prepared and performed with the Dartington
Festival Orchestra: the first – Elgar’s Introduction
and Allegro, Britten’s Les Illuminations, Mozart’s
Divertimento K 136 and Piazzolla’s Seasons; the
second - Stravinsky’s Octet, Varese’s Octandre,
Milhaud’s Création du Monde. The major work
running through both weeks will be Tchaikovsky’s
Eugene Onegin; the performance in the Great
Hall will be conducted by Sian Edwards, but
students will be involved in all stages of the
musical preparation with singers from the
Advanced Opera Course. The closing date for
applications is 5 January 2015, after which
auditions will be held in London on Sunday 11
January. Alternative arrangements will be made for
those unable to attend. Please send a video file or
link and a CV to [email protected].
Sessions 1, 2 and 3
Music Theatre and
Brazilian Music
Robert Purvis
Session 2
Brazilian Music:
In the Heart of Rhythm
Adriano Adewale
Adriano Adewale is a master percussionist
from Brazil, fêted all over the world for his
Africa-inflected jazz and sensational virtuosity.
In the Heart of Rhythm is open to everybody –
percussionists, instrumentalists, singers, and
those who don’t play an instrument - and will
be based on Afro-Brazilian rhythms such as
samba, ijexa and forro. Playing on conventional
and non-conventional instruments, exploring
rhythmic games, vocal and body percussion, it’ll
be a fun and challenging way of making music.
Towards the end of the week we’ll be combining
with the salsa dance course (Session 4), for a
party night on the final Friday.
Sessions 3 and 4
Advanced Brecht and Weill Course
Richard Williams, Quentin Poole and
Sarah Gabriel
Richard Williams, Quentin Poole and Sarah Gabriel
direct ‘Mr Brecht, are you now or have you ever
been...?’, charting Brecht’s dramatic and humorous
interview with the House UnAmerican Activities
Committee in 1949. With a performance later
in the week, actors and singers will work on
songs by Hans Eisler and Kurt Weill – including
Mack the Knife, Bilbao Song, Surabaya Johnny,
Pirate Jenny, September Song. Students are
selected in advance: please send two contrasting
recordings, and a short CV to
[email protected].
Sessions 1, 2 and 3
Adriano Adewale
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Instrumental Courses
Mozart Piano Concertos
Open String Orchestra
Mozart’s Piano Concertos demand a supple
technique, chamber music skills, a singing tone
– and the ability to improvise cadenzas! Pianists
are invited to bring all or part of a Mozart concerto,
which we’ll work on with two pianos, discussing
style, ornamentation, colour, touch and tempo
– and conducting from the keyboard (teaming
up with Sian Edwards’ conducting course for
a session). We’ll also consider the contrasting
interpretations of Wilhelm Kempf, Clara Haskil
and Daniel Barenboim.
Joanna MacGregor
Adrian Brendel
The cellist Adrian Brendel leads the all-comers
String Orchestra. Repertoire will include staples
of the orchestral string repertoire – the Tchaikovsky
and Elgar Serenades – as well as short and
spicy 20th century pieces.
Session 1
Session 3
Violin Masterclass
Madeleine Mitchell
Madeleine Mitchell has a distinguished career
as a soloist and chamber musician, and is a
professor at the Royal College of Music. She
will coach violinists in core solo repertoire,
concertos and contemporary music. Madeleine
will be performing movements of Piazzolla’s
wonderful tango-inflected concerto Seasons
during the week. Students are selected in
advance for this course: please send two
contrasting recordings, and a short CV to
[email protected].
Session 2
Cello Masterclass
Adrian Brendel
One of the most versatile and original cellists
of his generation, Adrian Brendel has travelled
the word as soloist, collaborator and teacher. A
fine classical and romantic player, his discovery
of contemporary music as a teenager opened a
new and vital avenue he continues to explore,
alongside his passion for jazz and world music.
Adrian will coach advanced students in all areas of
cello repertoire, including concertos. Students
are selected in advance for this course: please
send two contrasting recordings, and a short CV
to [email protected].
Session 2
Steve Dummer conducts the wind band
Piano Masterclass
Steven Osborne
Steven Osborne’s standing as one of today’s
finest young pianists was publicly affirmed in
2013 with The Royal Philharmonic Society’s
Instrumentalist of the Year and his second
Gramophone Award, for Mussorgsky’s Pictures
at an Exhibition and works by Prokofiev. An
exemplary classicist, with a taste for contemporary
music, his masterclasses will be fascinating and
rewarding. Students are selected in advance
for this course: please send two contrasting
recordings, and a short CV to
[email protected].
Session 2
Piano Workshop
Florian Mitrea
The young Rumanian pianist Florian Mitrea is a
winner of many international competitions, and
a Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music. Florian
will guide pianists of all abilities in a relaxed and
friendly atmosphere. He will coach anything
from Bach to Bartók, but particularly likes the
Viennese school of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Florian performs Mozart’s popular Concerto in
A major K488 in the Friday night concert.
Session 2
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Violin, Viola and Cello Workshops
Heath QUARTET
Oliver Heath and Cerys Jones (violin), Gary
Pomeroy (viola) and Christopher Murray (cello),
of the award-winning Heath Quartet, offer string
players of all abilities a friendly and supportive
workshop environment, in separate instrumental
classes. The Heath Quartet will open Week 3
with a recital of Haydn, Bartók and Tchaikovsky
on Saturday night.
Session 3
Clarinet Workshop
Jean Johnson
The young Scottish clarinettist Jean Johnson
has been a guest principal with the Bergen
Philharmonic, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra,
the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and has
just recorded Brahms’s clarinet sonatas. Her
friendly and informal workshop is aimed at
clarinettists of all ages and abilities.
More Than Music
Lectures
ALFRED Brendel
We’re thrilled that Alfred Brendel, one of
the greatest pianists of all time, is visiting
the Summer School to give three 70-minute
lectures, which will be as warm and witty as
they will be enlightening. Illustrated with
recorded excerpts, he illuminates composers
close to his heart, as well as taking a humorous
look at central musicological and performance
issues in A Pianist’s Alphabet.
18th August 5.15pm Schubert’s Last Sonatas
19th August 5.15pm Liszt: From Exuberance
to Asceticism
20th August 5.15pm A Pianist’s Alphabet
Tai Chi Qigong: Matthew Rochford
See page 15 for more information.
8.00am-8.30am
Dance Workshop: Salsa
Dance tutor Kevan Kennedy gets us ready for
the Brazilian party on Friday night, teaching
participants – at any level – the scorching
moves of salsa.
Session 4
Session 3
Chamber Music
The chamber music programme is open to all
singers and instrumentalists; there are large
ensemble opportunities, and daily coaching is
available (see page 17 for this week’s tutors).
Sessions 1, 2 and 4
Alfred Brendel
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Week
Choral, Vocal and Opera Courses
The Big Choir: the Russian School
Gospel Choir
Advanced Opera Course: Eugene Onegin
Vocal Workshop
Chamber Choir: John Tavener
The Big Choir Plus
Jonathan Berman
Session 1
Carol Pemberton & Celia Wickham-Anderson
Session 2
Sian Edwards
Session 2 & 3
Jessica Cash
Session 3
Stephen Pratt
Session 4
Jonathan Watts
Session 4
Sian Edwards
Session 1, 2 & 3
Jonathan Berman
Session 2 & 3
Conducting Courses
Advanced Conducting Course
Open Conducting Course
22 – 29 August
Composition, Film and Multimedia Courses
Advanced Composition
Open Composition
Multimedia, Art and Sound Design
Improvising and Working with Silent Film
Hugh Wood and Stephen Pratt
Session 1, 2 & 3
John Ashton Thomas
Session 2
Mira Calix, Kathy Hinde & Matthew Fairclough
Session 1 & 2
Neil Brand
Session 3 & 4
Andy Sheppard, Steve Lodder, Martin France
Session 2
Andy Sheppard
Session 3
Steve Lodder
Session 3
Martin France
Session 3
Steve Dummer
Session 4
Open Wind Band
The Contemporary Piano
Violin Masterclass
Piano, Violin and Cello Workshops
Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon
and Horn Workshops
Steve Dummer
Session 1
Joanna MacGregor
Session 2
Thomas Gould
Session 2
THE FOURNIER TRIO
Session 3
Berkeley Ensemble
Session 3
Brass Workshop
Chamber Music
Paul Archibald
Session 3
Quentin Poole, Barbara Sue White,
Fournier Trio, Berkeley Ensemble, Thomas
Gould, Veronika Shoot and Florian Mitrea
Session 1, 2 & 4
Neil Brand
24 AUG 5.15PM
Tom Phillips
25 AUG 5.15PM
Matthew Rochford
8am-8.30am
Jane and Derek Narramore
sESSION 4
Jazz Courses
Russian Opera, Composing, Film
and Multimedia, Gospel and Jazz
Week 4 definitely has a Russian theme, with a performance
of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin as the climax of our
Advanced Opera Course, and a choral concert of Russian
Orthodox music and the Prologue to Mussorsgsky’s amazing
Boris Godunov. But most of all we celebrate musical creativity
in all its forms: from multimedia courses led by Mira Calix
and artist Kathy Hinde, to music created and improvised in
Neil Brand’s Improvising and Working with Silent Film Course;
from Hugh Wood’s Advanced Composition Course, coaxing
new chamber works into life, to the roaring return of the Jazz
Course, led by the titanic saxophonist Andy Sheppard.
Singers can go from Orthodox liturgy to Gospel music, then
into operatic choruses; instrumentalists can perform in
masterclasses in the morning, then improvise in different
styles, all afternoon. Wind and brass players can play in
Renaissance ensembles and wind bands, then let their
hair down in the Big Band. However you choose to spend
your time, there’s an enormous amount of stimulation, fun,
partying and dancing in store for you, in this final week of
the 2015 Summer School.
Jazz Ensembles
Saxophones
Jazz Piano and Keyboards
Jazz Drumming and Percussion
Open Big Band
Instrumental Courses
More than Music
Lecture: The Silent Pianist Speaks
Lecture: The Art of the Graphic Score
Tai Chi Qigong
Lindy Hop and Swing Dancing
Photo: Andy Sheppard
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Choral, Vocal
and Opera Courses
The Big Choir
Jonathan Berman
The Big Choir work towards two concerts, both
steeped in Russian music. A Thursday latenight exploring the Orthodox liturgy of part of
Rachmaninov’s Vespers, followed by the prologue
of Mussorgsky’s mighty opera Boris Godunov,
an absolute tour-de-force for chorus and bass
baritone, and the choruses for Tchaikovsky’s
Eugene Onegin, performed as the exciting
culmination of the Advanced Opera Course on
Friday night.
Session 1
Gospel Choir
Carol Pemberton and
Celia Wickham-Anderson
Uplifting, harmonious, soul-stirring,
challenging and fun all describe the power
and appeal of the Gospel Choir sessions, led
by Carol Pemberton, Music Director of the
internationally-acclaimed a cappella group
Black Voices. The workshops will cover a range
of black music traditions that influence and
shape what today we call Black Gospel. Black
Voices will perform on Wednesday night.
Vocal Workshop
JESSICA CASH
Jessica Cash’s students have included Emma
Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb and Lesley Garrett. Her
expert tuition addresses any energy blocks,
tensions or stresses, freeing the body to sing
beautifully. Students are asked to bring an aria
from an opera or oratorio to sing from memory,
and another piece of their choice.
Session 3
Chamber Choir
Stephen Pratt
Choir master and composer Stephen Pratt works
on John Tavener’s Svyati and other pieces, for
performance in the Thursday night choral concert.
Students are selected in advance, please send
a short CV to [email protected].
Session 4
The Big Choir Plus
Jonathan Watts
Some extra rehearsal opportunities for The Big
Choir repertoire, with Dartington’s wonderful
choir repetiteur Jonathan Watts.
Session 4
Session 2
Conducting Courses
Advanced Opera Course
Advanced Conducting Course
SIAN EDWARDS
Sian Edwards
The second week of this two week course
directed by Sian Edwards with repetiteur
Richard Shaw, leading to a complete concert
performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
on Friday night.
The second week of the Advanced Conducting
course – see page 18 for details.
Sessions 2 and 3
Open Conducting Course
Sessions 1, 2 and 3
Jonathan Berman
An open conducting course for those with
some conducting experience, led by Jonathan
Berman, whose recent performances have been
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at the Royal Opera House and Tanglewood.
We will be working on Haydn and Mozart
symphonies, general conducting technique,
and selected repertoire from Eugene Onegin.
Sessions 2 and 3
Composition, Film
and Multimedia
visual artist and composer, and Matthew
Fairclough, composer and sound artist, to
provide a collaborative space in which to
create innovative new work. This course is for
musicians of all backgrounds interested in
electronica, composition and art installation.
We will aim to create short new works to exhibit
and perform by the end of the week.
Sessions 1 and 2
Advanced Composition
Improvising and Working
with Silent Film
Hugh Wood and Stephen Pratt
Neil Brand
This immersive course will focus on creating new
music for piano trios (with the brilliant Fournier
Trio) and solo piano (with outstanding pianist
Christina McMaster) for performance at the end
of the week. Hugh Wood is a hugely celebrated
figure in British musical life, and a consummate
composer of chamber and symphonic work; he
is assisted by one of his former students, the
composer and teacher Stephen Pratt. Students are
selected in advance: please send two scores and
– if available - two recordings, and a short CV to
[email protected].
A rare chance to work with one of the world’s
foremostexponents of live film music, and the
presenter of BBC4’s series The Sound of Cinema.
This course offers composers and pianists (and
other instrumentalists) the opportunity to study
selected silent classic films, discussing the art
of improvisation and ‘reading’ a film. We will
aim to create new music around excerpts of film,
for performance at the end of the week.
Sessions 1, 2 and 3
Jazz Courses
Open Composition
John Ashton Thomas
This class is accessible for people who like
composing classically, as well as those who enjoy
arranging and song-writing – expert guidance
is at hand, in a friendly and collaborative
atmosphere. Students will showcase their work
in an informal concert at the end of the week.
Session 2
Multimedia, Art and Sound Design
Mira Calix, Kathy Hinde and
Matthew Fairclough
Sessions 3 and 4
Jazz Ensembles
Andy Sheppard, Steve Lodder and
Martin France
The fabulously cool, creative saxophonist Andy
Sheppard revives Dartington’s famous and longrunning Jazz Course, together with keyboard guru
Steve Lodder and virtuoso drummer Martin France,
focussing on jazz improvisation and ensemble
playing. The week’s jazz courses also feed into
the Big Band, for a final stonking performance on
Friday night.
Session 2
Mira Calix works in multimedia and visual
art, and incorporates classical orchestration
into her work for installation pieces, film
soundtracks, theatre and opera. Here she
combines with Kathy Hinde, the imaginative
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Saxophones Workshop
Andy Sheppard
The ECM recording artist, world-renowned
bandleader and composer Andy Sheppard
offers one-to-one and ensemble tuition to all
saxophonists. Andy is one of jazz’s greatest
collaborators, and his characteristic sense of
lyricism, alongside very personal use of rhythms
from Asia, Africa and South America, will be
inspiring for young and older saxophonists alike.
Session 3
Jazz Piano and
Keyboards Workshop
Steve Lodder
Having started as an organ scholar at Cambridge,
Steve Lodder is a leading jazz pianist, synth player
and teacher, working with some of the coolest
names in jazz: Carla Bley, Django Bates, George
Russell, Naná Vasconcelos, and many more. His
course is open to all pianists and keyboard players
who wish to develop their improvisation skills and
that includes classical pianists!
Session 3
Jazz Drumming and
Percussion Workshop
Martin France
Professor of jazz drumming at the Royal
Academy of Music, Martin France has worked
with the finest and most creative musicians in
the world - including Elvis Costello, Evan Parker,
Dave Holland and Nils-Petter Molvaer - as well as
many classical orchestras. His class is open to all
drummers and percussionists who’d like to hone
their jazz skills.
Session 3
Open Big Band
Steve Dummer
Steve Dummer will be mixing standard
arrangements with some Andy Sheppard
numbers, with Andy himself soloing, in the final
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Friday night bash. Absolutely unmissable fun, and
open to all alto, tenor and baritone saxes, trumpets
and trombones, and piano, bass and drums.
Session 4
Instrumental Courses
Open Wind Band
Steve Dummer
A great opportunity to dust off an instrument
that hasn’t been played for a few years, improve
ensemble playing, and play some great music.
Grade 5 standard or above is ideal. This year we’ll
be looking at Milhaud’s Suite Française and Joseph
Horowitz’s Fête Galante, amongst other pieces.
Session 1
The Contemporary Piano
Joanna MacGregor
An open class for anyone interested in modern
piano music - of all styles - with Joanna MacGregor,
Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music.
Pianists are invited to bring early 20th century
music onwards, for performance and coaching.
We’ll also look at extended techniques in Crumb
and Cage, and the best ways to study and prepare
brand new music. Composers are also welcome
to this class.
Session 2
Violin Masterclass
Thomas Gould
Described as ‘staggeringly virtuosic’ by The
Guardian and ‘a soloist of rare refinement’ by
The Sunday Times, Thomas Gould is one of the
brightest young violinists around. His masterclass
will cover core repertoire, contemporary work, and
violin music in jazz and world traditions too.
Students are selected in advance for this course:
please send two contrasting recordings, and a
short CV to [email protected].
Session 2
Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
Piano, Violin and Cello Workshops
The Fournier Trio
More Than Music
Chiao Ying-Chang (piano), Sulki Yu (violin) and
Pei-Jee Ng (cello), members of the outstanding
Fournier Trio and all brilliant performers in their
own right, lead individual instrumental classes
with a relaxed and supportive atmosphere.
The Silent Pianist Speaks
Session 3
24th August 5.15pm Barn Cinema
Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon
and Horn Workshops
The Art of the Graphic Score
Berkeley Ensemble
Sarah Bennington (flute), John Slack (clarinet),
James Turnbull (oboe), Andrew Watson (bassoon)
and Paul Cott (horn) offer wind players of all
abilities a relaxed and supportive workshop
environment, in individual instrumental classes.
Improve your technique, hone your performance
skills, and discover new repertoire!
Session 3
Neil Brand gives an illustrated lecture on his
extraordinary life and art as a pianist and composer,
using clips from his favourite Silent Era films.
A seminal visual artist, musician and composer
since the 1960s, Tom Phillips has produced
a number of important Graphic scores. This
illustrated lecture reveals their mystery and
beauty, with live performances.
25th August 5.15pm UPPER GATE HOUSE
Tai Chi Qigong
Matthew Rochford
See page 15 for more information.
Brass Workshop
8.00am-8.30am
Paul Archibald
A chance to work on the great brass repertoire
for trumpets, horns and trombones, ranging
from antiphonal music by Gabrieli and the
Italian Renaissance school to the brass music
of Paul Patterson. There’ll be opportunities for
performances in the beautiful outdoor spaces
of Dartington too!
Lindy Hop and Swing Dancing
Session 3
Session 4
JANE AND DEREK NARRAMORE
Everyone is invited to get ready for the final
Big Band party on Friday night by learning the
cool jazz and charleston moves of Swing and
Lindy Hop.
Chamber Music
The chamber music programme is open to all
singers and instrumentalists; there are large
ensemble opportunities, and daily coaching is
available (see page 23 for this week’s tutors).
Sessions 1, 2 and 4
Celia Wickham-Anderson
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Fees and Accommodation
We want to make the programme as accessible
as possible to all participants, so we offer a
wide variety of pricing options. The prices
shown reflect charges once subsidies, possible
through fundraising and the support of the
Dartington Hall Trust, have been applied.
The Courses & Concerts package allows you
to participate in or observe all courses, and
attend all concerts in one week. Courses begin
on Sunday morning and finish on Friday
afternoon. Prices are per person.
The Accommodation & Catering package is for 7
nights, checking in from 14:00 on the Saturday
of your week and checking out by 10:00 the
following Saturday. All meals are included from
dinner on Saturday night to breakfast the
following Saturday. Prices are per room.
The Catering Only option is available to nonresidents or campers who have booked the full
Courses & Concerts package, and to a second
person sharing a double or twin room.
Accommodation
We offer a wide range of accommodation from
hostel style and camping to luxury hotel suites.
This year for the first time a second person
sharing a double or twin room pays nothing for
their accommodation. Our bursary scheme is
designed to support individuals for whom the
cost may be prohibitive.
Medieval Courtyard
The medieval Courtyard is situated at the heart
of the Dartington estate offering well-appointed
rooms of 3-4* hotel quality with various
accommodation options. Location: Central
Higher Close
Higher Close comprises of single rooms with
shared bathrooms, furnished in a simple and
functional style. Location: Central
Foxhole Courtyard/White House
Foxhole Courtyard/White House provides basic
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'Accommodation and Catering'
2015 Price
Courtyard Deluxe Room,
Double En suite facilities
£1,450
Courtyard En suite Twin
£1,265
Courtyard En suite Double
£1,265
Courtyard En suite Single
£1,145
Courtyard Private
Bathroom Double
£1,085
Courtyard Private
Bathroom Single
£960
Courtyard Shared
Bathroom Single
£785
Higher Close Single Room,
Shared Bathroom
£555
Foxhole Courtyard, Single Room,
Shared Bathroom
£300
Foxhole Courtyard, Twin Room,
Shared Bathroom
£300
Foxhole Whitehouse, Single
Room, Shared Bathroom
£300
Foxhole Whitehouse, Twin
Room, Shared Bathroom
£300
Camping (No Food Included)
Free
Catering Only
£300
'Courses and Concerts'
2015 Price
Standard
£425
Student
£385
Under 12's
£215
but functional hostel style accommodation
with shared bathrooms. Location: 15 minute
walk from dining and teaching areas
Camping
A brand new camp site for up to 60 pitches on
the estate is available with purpose built toilets
and showers. Location: 15 minute walk from
dining and teaching areas.
Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
Catering
Participants staying in the Medieval Courtyard
eat at the White Hart. Those staying at Higher
Close, Foxhole and camping, or choosing the
Catering Only option eat at Higher Close
Refectory - canteen style dining. We can cater
for all dietary requirements; please provide full
information upon booking.
+44 (0)1803 847080. You will receive confirmation
of your booking upon receipt of a 50% deposit.
Please note that we do not keep payment
details on record in accordance with regulator
guidelines. Any remaining balance will NOT
be automatically taken and must be made by
yourself before 31st March 2015. After this date
full payment is required to make your booking.
Each day you will be able to tuck into a full
cooked English breakfast and a selection of
cereals and fruit. A light lunch might include
home-made soup served with fresh crusty
bread, quiche with side salad, baked-potatoes
with a choice of fillings. Fresh fruit, tea and
coffee will be available. For dinner you will enjoy
a full three course evening meal using fresh,
seasonal and local ingredients. Throughout the
daytime, teas, coffees and light refreshments
are available from the Roundhouse Cafe. The
White Hart Bar is open from 12 noon until late.
Concerts and Day Tickets
Non-resident Booking
Bursaries
If you wish to organise your own off-site
accommodation you can purchase a Courses
& Concerts package to access all the courses
and concerts.
If you wish to apply for a bursary please send two
contrasting recordings or scores and a short CV to
[email protected]. The closing date
for applications is 31st March 2015. All successful
bursary applicants will be accommodated in
Foxhole and are required to pay a minimum
contribution of £100 towards course fees.
Students
Students in full-time education receive a
10% discount on the Courses & Concerts
package. Student discounts do not apply to
Accommodation & Catering packages.
Children and Young People
We welcome children of all ages and can offer
a 10% discount to 12s and overs. There's a 50%
discount for anyone under 12 and under 4s go
free. Under 18s must be accompanied by a
responsible adult.
Your Booking
To book your place on-line please go to
www.dartington.org/summer-school/booking.
You can pay by debit or credit card for which
there is no additional charge. If you do not have
access to the internet or you wish to pay by BACS
transfer please phone the Summer School on
Individual concert tickets and day observer
tickets are available through our website
www.dartington.org/summer-school.
5.15pm and 10pm concerts/talks – £8.
7.45pm concerts – £14 (unreserved)
£18.50 (reserved).
Day observer ticket – £10
Please note the Courses and Concerts package
includes all courses and concerts.
Cancellations and Charges
All bookings are non-refundable after May 29th
2015. We advise all participants to take out
holiday insurance which includes cancellation
cover above the value of the total booking. Any
booking cancelled before May 29th is subject
to a 10% of total booking cancellation fee.
Any changes to your booking will be subject to
course and accommodation availability and may
incur additional costs.
All information contained within this leaflet
was correct at time of publication. Changes in
circumstances after the time of publication
may impact on the accuracy of the information
which may be subject to change without
notice. We will do our upmost to communicate
key changes via online communication but
cannot accept liability for the accuracy of
information stored by the reader.
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Concerts and Events
DATE
TIME
VENUE
CONCERT TITLE
DESCRIPTION
01 Aug
7.45pm
Great Hall
In a Strange Land:
Heaven and Earth
Conflict and resolution in early Europe,
Bolivia and Mexico, including Byrd Mass
ARTIST
Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey
Skidmore: choral music
02 Aug
5.15pm
Great Hall
Musica Transalpina
Sacred and secular music from
Renaissance Italy: Monteverdi and
Marenzio
Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey
Skidmore: vocal ensemble
WEEK ONE
04 Aug
05 Aug
06 Aug
DESCRIPTION
ARTIST
08 Aug
7.45pm
Great Hall
Great Sonatas
of Venice
Adrian Chandler leads dazzling
performances of Vivaldi, Albinoni and more
La Serenissima: Baroque string
ensemble and harpsichord
09 Aug
5.15pm
Great Hall
The Virtuoso Recorder
From Baroque - Telemann, Handel,
Bach - to the 20th century
Jill Kemp, Claire Williams:
recorder and harpsichord
7.45pm
Great Hall
Kathryn Tickell
& The Side
The great Kathryn Tickell and her new
band bring together folk and classical
Northumbrian pipes,
accordion, cello and harp
10.00pm
Great Hall
Lute Music of the
German Baroque
Sylvius Leopold Weiss, great lute
composer and Goethe
David Miller: lute, and
writer James Runcie
5.15pm
Great Hall
Poetry and Silence
Speech, silence, and the art of using
words musically
James Runcie:
illustrated lecture
7.45pm
Great Hall
Haydn, Mozart, Scots
and Schumann
Lieder, Robert and Clara Schumann,
Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid
Mhairi Lawson, Joanna
MacGregor: soprano and piano
10.00pm
Great Hall
Complete Bach Cello
Suites I
The touchstone of cello literature Suites 1, 3 and 5
Richard Tunnicliffe:
baroque cello
5.15pm
Great Hall
Baroque Flute and
Oboe Music
Baroque sonatas by Telemann and Bach
Katy Bircher, Lars Henriksson,
Rob Howarth: flute, oboe
and harpsichord
7.45pm
Great Hall
Early Classicism:
The Quiet Revolution
Mozart, Haydn and Schubert - songs
and instrumental music
Emma Kirkby, Maggie
Cole, David Miller: soprano,
fortepiano and baroque guitar
10.00pm
Great Hall
Complete Bach Cello
Suites II
The touchstone of cello literature Suites 4, 2 and 6
Richard Tunnicliffe:
baroque cello
5.15pm
Great Hall
Bach and his
soloist, Pisendel
Bach Partita No. 5 and Pisendel
unaccompanied violin sonata
Maggie Cole, Adrian
Chandler: harpsichord,
baroque violin
7.45pm
Great Hall
Something Old,
Something New ..
Dowland Lute Songs and
Britten folk arrangements
Andrew Watts, David
Miller, Jonathan Watts:
countertenor, lute and piano
10.00pm
Great Hall
Bach French Suites I
Bach's most elegant, intimate keyboard
works - Suites 1, 2 and 3
Joanna MacGregor: piano
5.15pm
Great Hall
As I Walked Out One
Morning
A cappella folk choir, folk poetry and
new songs, Kathryn Tickell students
Folk Choir, Kathryn Tickell ,
Marilyn Imrie, folk students
Great Hall
The World Encompassed
Francis Drake on The Golden Hinde:
journeys around early and new music
Fretwork: viol consort
10.00pm
Great Hall
All in a Garden Green
English and French music with a
botanical scent
Carole Cerasi: harpsichord
5.15pm
Great Hall
Runaway Girls and
Singing Bones
The great historian on Cinderella, saints
and miracles, and magical animals
Marina Warner: illustrated
lecture
7.45pm
Great Hall
Bach's
Goldberg Variations
Bach's dazzling and encompassing
masterpiece: Alpha et Omega
Joanna MacGregor: piano
10.00pm
Great Hall
Strings, Wheel
and Fingers
Medieval music, improvisation,
and guest artists
Stevie Wishart: hurdy gurdy
and violin
5.15pm
Great Hall
Bass Viol Duos
The intoxicating world of Marais, SainteColombe, Finger and Schaffrath
Richard Tunnicliffe, David
Hatcher: bass viols
7.45pm
Great Hall
History of the World in
17 and a half songs
From Hildegarde von Bingen and
Monteverdi, to Strauss and Gershwin
Carolyn Sampson, Joanna
MacGregor: soprano and piano
10.00pm
Great Hall
Tithonus:
Waiting for the Dawn
Greek myth meets Samuel Beckett in
this amazing re-telling, with music
Alice Oswald, Griselda
Sanderson: spoken poetry
and nykelharpa
5.15pm
Upper Gate
House
The Story of the Jig
The rumbustious world of the theatre
jig: bawdy, witty and noisy
Lucie Skeaping, Jon Banks:
illustrated lecture
7.45pm
Great Hall
Los Ministrillos: City
and Court Music
The variety and splendour of music in
Renaissance Spain
The City Musick: early music
band
10.00pm
Great Hall
French and English
Romantics
Duparc, Quilter, Britten folk song
arrangements from England and France
Nicholas Clapton, Jonathan
Watts: countertenor and piano
Elizabethan
Dramatic Jigs
A lively performance of 16th century
theatre jigs: songs, verse and dance
Lucie Skeaping, Jon Banks
and students
7.45pm
Great Hall
Sounds and Sweet Airs
The funky Dutch jazzer plays new and
old music, with guest poet Alice Oswald
Eric Vloeimans,
Joanna MacGregor: jazz
trumpet and piano
Vivaldi Opera:
Catone in Utica
Vivaldi's masterful opera of Roman
intrigue, politics and passion
Advanced Opera Course
students with the Baroque
Orchestra
10.00pm
Great Hall
Bach French Suites II
Bach's most elegant, intimate keyboard
works - Suites 4, 6 and 5
Joanna MacGregor: piano
5.15pm
Great Hall
Masterclass Concert
A mixed programme of the week's
liveliest students: all kinds of music
Performers from the
advanced courses
5.15pm
10.00pm
5.15pm
7.45pm
10.00pm
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CONCERT TITLE
7.45pm
7.45pm
07 Aug
VENUE
WEEK TWO
DATE
03 Aug
TIME
Great Hall
Great Hall
Ship
Studio
Father, Son and Pupil
Great Hall
Masterclass Concert
Great Hall
White
Hart Bar
10 Aug
11 Aug
12 Aug
13 Aug
JS Bach, CPE Bach and Müthel on this
elfin keyboard instrument
Carole Cerasi: clavichord
A mixed programme of the week's
liveliest students: all kinds of music
Performers from the
advanced courses
7.45pm
Great Hall
Earthrise:
Glorify the Heavens
Mighty concert in the round: 40-part
Tallis, Gabrieli and Roth's Earthrise
The Big Choir, Chamber Choir,
Renaissance Wind Band
Handel's Alceste,
Rameau's Les Boréades
Colourful, vibrant choral and operatic
works
Big Choir, Chamber Choir,
Baroque Orchestra
10.00pm
Great Hall
Ceilidh
Final Night Party, with dancing
Caller and folk band
Tavern Night:
Medieval Partying
Entertaining medieval songs and dances,
washed down with mead (or wine..)
The City Musick, singers
and students
Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
14 Aug
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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DATE
TIME
VENUE
CONCERT TITLE
DESCRIPTION
ARTIST
DATE
TIME
VENUE
CONCERT TITLE
DESCRIPTION
ARTIST
WEEK FOUR
WEEK THREE
15 Aug
7.45pm
Great Hall
Hadyn, Bartók,
Tchaikovsky
A trio of quartet masterpieces, played
by this superb young quartet
Heath Quartet
22 Aug
7.45pm
Great Hall
The Russian Connection:
Shostakovich
Haydn's Gypsy trio, Hugh Wood, and
Shostakovich's famous piano trio no. 2
Fournier Trio: violin, cello
and piano
16 Aug
5.15pm
Great Hall
The Virtuoso Violin
Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev Cinq Melodies
and other virtuoso works.
Madeleine Mitchell, Florian
Mitrea: violin and piano
23 Aug
5.15pm
Great Hall
Russian Piano Music
Medtner, Scriabin and Prokofiev from
this talented young concert pianist
Veronika Shoot: piano
7.45pm
Great Hall
Schubert, Dohnányi,
Wagner, Piazzolla
Virtuoso cello music: from the
Arpeggione to Le Grand Tango
Adrian Brendel, Joanna
MacGregor: cello and piano
7.45pm
Great Hall
Great Wind Quintets
Classics from wind and piano repertoire
with 20th/21st century British works
Berkeley Ensemble
10.00pm
Great Hall
The Romantic Clarinet
Two the Brahms clarinet sonatas,
and Schumann Romances
Jean Johnson, Steven
Osborne: clarinet and piano
10.00pm
Great Hall
Late Night Jazz
Scintillating improv from three of the
jazz scene's greatest players
5.15pm
Great Hall
Forbidden Music
The fate of Schubert, Berg and
Schoenberg songs under the Reich
Sarah Gabriel, Jonathan
Watts: soprano and piano
Andy Sheppard, Martin
France, Steve Lodder: sax,
drums and keyboards
5.15pm
Adriano Adewale, master
percussionist and Joanna
MacGregor, piano
The Silent
Pianist Speaks
Celebrated pianist and composer
demonstrates the art of film and live piano
Neil Brand: illustrated lecture
Afro-Brazilian music infused with
contemporary jazz and world music
Barn
Theatre
7.45pm
Great Hall
The greatest love film ever made, with
live music from the Deep River album
Conflict: Late Schubert
and Prokofiev
Schubert's A minor Sonata D.784,
Prokofiev's great War Sonata, the 6th
Florian Mitrea: piano
American Silent
Classic film: Sunrise
(1927)
Andy Sheppard, Joanna
MacGregor: sax, piano,
electronica
10.00pm
Silent Film with Music
The legendary Alfred Brendel on his love
of Schubert's late work
Alfred Brendel: lecture
Silent film shorts accompanied by the
NFT's celebrated pianist and composer
Neil Brand: piano and film
Schubert: The Last
Three Sonatas
Barn
Theatre
5.15pm
Upper Gate
House
The Art of the
Graphic Score
Seminal artist and composer analyses
his beautiful graphic scores
Tom Phillips: illustrated
lecture, with performance
7.45pm
Great Hall
The Virtuoso Violin
Beethoven, Prokofiev, Steve
Reich:'staggeringly virtuosic' The Guardian
Thomas Gould, Stephen De
Pledge: violin and piano
10.00pm
Great Hall
Ultramarine
Multimedia concert including Japanese
haiku and piano music by Takemitsu
and Messiean.
Mira Calix, Kathy Hinde,
Matthew Fairclough,
Joanna MacGregor
5.15pm
Studio 1
Piano Plus:
Battling the Double
Cage and contemporary piano: the
pianist battles her screen piano double
Christina McMaster: piano
and multimedia
7.45pm
Great Hall
The Creation
of the World
Stravinsky Octet, Varese's Octandre,
Milhaud's jazzy Création du Monde
Dartington Festival Wind
Orchestra, Sian Edwards'
Conducting Course students
10.00pm
Great Hall
Gospel Music
Timeless gospel classics from the
internationally-acclaimed vocal ensemble
Black Voices:
a cappella vocal ensemble
5.15pm
Great Hall
Pärt, Rachmaninov,
Schnittke
A stunning mix of Pärt's Mozart-Adagio
with Russian composers
The Jørgensen Trio: piano trio
7.45pm
Barn
Theatre
Silent Classics
with Live Musc
Film and live music from the Improvising
and Composing for Film course
Neil Brand and students
10.00pm
Great Hall
Russian Orthodox
and Opera
Tavener, Rachmaninov Vespers
movements, Boris Godunov Prologue
Big Choir, Chamber Choir,
Jonathan Berman
5.15pm
Great Hall
New Chamber Music
New chamber music music from
Advanced Composition students
Fournier Trio, Christina
McMaster, Hugh Wood
7.45pm
Great Hall
Tchaikovsky's
Eugene Onegin
Concert performance of the
great Russian opera
Advanced Opera course,
Big Choir, Dartington Festival
Orchestra, Sian Edwards
10.00pm
Great Hall
Big Band and
Lindy Hop
Final Party Night: Stonking Big Band
and dancing
Big Band directed by
Steve Dummer with
Andy Sheppard sax
17 Aug
7.45pm
10.00pm
18 Aug
19 Aug
20 Aug
21 Aug
5.15pm
Great Hall
Great Hall
In the Heart of Rhythm
25 Aug
7.45pm
Great Hall
Late Schubert
Piano Music
Schubert Impromputus D.935 and the
last Sonata in B flat, D.960
Steven Osborne: piano
10.00pm
Great Hall
Schubert String Quintet
in C major D.956
Schubert's most famous and loved
masterpiece
Adrian Brendel cello and
Heath Quartet
5.15pm
Great Hall
Liszt: From Exuberance
to Asceticism
An examination of the extraordinary
life and work of Liszt
Alfred Brendel: lecture
7.45pm
Great Hall
Mozart, Elgar, Britten,
Piazzolla
String orchestra concert, including Les
Illuminations and Piazzolla's The Seasons
Dartington Festival
Orchestra, Madeleine
Mitchell, Sarah Gabriel
10.00pm
Great Hall
Mozart and
Rautavaara Quintets
Late night transcendence: Mozart and
revered Finnish composer Rautavaara
Jean Johnson clarinet, Adrian
Brendel cello, Heath Quartet
5.15pm
Great Hall
A Pianist's Alphabet
A humorous look at musicological and
performance issues for pianists
Alfred Brendel: lecture
7.45pm
Barn
Theatre
Mr Brecht! Are you now
or have you ever been...?
Poulenc's La Voix Humaine and Brecht
and Weill's greatest hits
Sarah Gabriel,
Advanced Music Course
10.00pm
Studio 1
Songs from
the Musicals
Solo and ensemble performances from
popular musicals
Open Music Theatre students
5.15pm
Great Hall
Masterclass Concert
A mixed programme of the week's
liveliest students: all kinds of music
Performers from the
Advanced courses
7.45pm
Great Hall
Mozart's Requiem and
A major concerto K488
Choral celebration: Mozart masterpieces,
Eric Whitacre and James MacMillan
Big Choir & Chamber Choir,
Dartington Festival Orchestra,
Nigel Perrin, Florian Mitrea
10.00pm
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Great Hall
Great Hall
Salsa and Samba Party
Final Night Party, with dancing
Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
24 Aug
Adriano Adewale and
Brazilian Rhythm and
Dance students
26 Aug
27 Aug
28 Aug
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080
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Support Dartington International Summer School
The Summer School would not be possible
without the continued support of individuals,
companies and trusts. Here are just some of
the ways you can support us:
Sponsor a Concert
As an individual, a company or as a group of
friends you could sponsor a concert and make
a real contribution to those great performances
in the Great Hall.
Support a Bursary Student
Help a young student at a crucial time in
their development and invest in the future
of classical music.
Leave a Legacy
Legacies can be used for bursaries, concerts or
to support a particular genre of music in the
programme. A will is your chance to help the
organisations that have been important to you
in your lifetime.
Join the Friends of the Summer School
The Friends are amongst our most loyal
supporters and help us to make these
wonderful concerts and courses possible.
Please contact us, or visit our website, for
more information on how to support the
Summer School.
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Dartington International Summer School is a
programme of The Dartington Hall Trust which
is registered in England as a company limited by
guarantee and a registered charity. Company No.
1485560. Charity No. 279756. Registered office: The
Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, TQ9 6EL.
Dartington International Summer School
Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL
Information and on-line booking: www.dartington.org/summer-school
Email: [email protected]
Enquiries: +44 (0)1803 847080