Dartington International Summer School

It’s an enormous pleasure to welcome
you to my second programme as Artistic
Director of Dartington International
Summer School.
Dartington is a place of extraordinary beauty and
creativity, and its ancient buildings and dream-like
gardens resonate and shimmer with generations of
musicians and composers, artists and dancers, poets
and writers.
Each year the Summer School sets out to do something unique: to create a
community of all ages and all backgrounds, coming together in a fantastic
atmosphere of study and friendship, celebration and performance. We’re a music
school by day, and a concert hall by night; you can listen to up to three concerts
each evening. This packed four-week programme brings you some very familiar
names – well-loved teachers and artists, like Jane Glover, Robert Hollingworth
and Emma Kirkby – as well as brilliant young musicians: star trumpet-player
Alison Balsom, the wonderful violinist Chloe Hanslip and the fabulous
Heath String Quartet.
We celebrate Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, thrill to Bizet’s Carmen, and experience
the joyful merrymaking of Pirates of Penzance. This year’s choral works range
from Alexander’s Feast by Handel and Haydn’s ‘Nelson’ Mass to Fauré’s romantic
Requiem and Paco Peña’s colourful Flamenca Misa. Our insprirational folk
courses, and the popular folk choir, return. Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir
guides and inspires young composers and instrumentalists. Jazz excitement is
shared between sax warrior Andy Sheppard, cool trumpeter Eric Vloeimans; and
you can enjoy classes in tango, flamenco and Middle Eastern dance.
The 2016 programme offers wide-ranging courses and workshops for musicians of
all interests and varying experience: music really does connect us all.
Apart from music masterclasses and performances, I’m delighted to welcome a
distinguished group of writers and poets, running creative writing courses, led by
Marina Warner. And I look forward to welcoming you all to what will be a wonderful
Summer School!
Joanna MacGregor
Artistic Director
Dartington
International
Summer School
DARTINGTON INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
DARTINGTON HALL, TOTNES, DEVON TQ9 6EL
www.dartington.org/summer-school
COURSE AND ACCOMMODATION BOOKINGS:
01803 847080 | [email protected]
Programme Overview
30th July-27th August 2016
BOX OFFICE:
01803 847070 | [email protected]
2016 Bookings –
Reserve Your Place Now
Priority Booking is open from 5 August 2015 until
16 October 2015.
The key themes of the brand-new 2016 programme
are already in place to enable you to make a priority
booking. If you would like to reserve your place and
accommodation for 2016, just complete and return
this form with a £100 deposit cheque made payable
to Dartington Hall Trust and send to:
John Barnes, Registrar, Dartington International
Summer School, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon
TQ9 6ED. Or alternatively you can call the DISS
Registrar to pay your deposit by card on the course
and accommodation bookings number above.
As soon as the 2016 prices are confirmed in the
autumn we will contact you to confirm whether
you wish to go ahead with your booking. If for any
reason we cannot offer you the accommodation
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of your choice, or if you decide not to confirm the
reservation, we’ll refund your deposit in full. If you
choose to confirm the reservation, the deposit will be
non-refundable and we will send you an invoice for
50% of the total amount due, net of deposit, with the
remainder payable by 27 May 2016.
Priority Booking Schedule 2016
1. £100 Deposit payable upon Priority Booking,
per person, per week.
2. Friday 11 December 2015, 50% of fee payable &
courses selections made.
3. Friday 27 May 2016, outstanding fee balance paid
in full.
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Week 1: 30th July – 6th August
Week 2: 6th–13th August
Week 3: 13th–20th August
Week 4: 20th -27th August
Medieval and Renaissance Music,
Improvisation and Composition, Middle
Eastern Music, Poetry and Creative
Writing; Robert Hollingworth, Emma
Kirkby and The Brook Street Band.
Baroque Orchestra, Baroque Opera,
Folk Music and Poetry; Jane Glover,
Hillary Summers and Members of
the OAE
Conducting, String Orchestra
and Chamber Music; Carmen and
The Pirates of Penzance, Tango
and Samba
Flamenco and Jazz; Wind and Brass
Ensembles; Composition and Multimedia;
Satie’s Birthday and The Soldier’s Tale
Week 2 is a feast of brilliant Baroque music
and opera, folk music and poetry, as well as a
celebration for pianists and chamber musicians.
Conductor Jane Glover directs the Big Choir in
Handel’s sumptuous masterpiece Alexander’s
Feast, and Maggie Faultless, leader of the
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment players,
lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and principal OAE
players provide expert tuition in orchestral training.
Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is our opera project
this week, in a semi-staged performance in the
Great Hall.
A great week for pianists and string players, with
piano masterclasses from the legendary pianist and
teacher Hamish Milne, a piano concerto workshop
with Joanna MacGregor, and tuition in four-hand
and two piano repertoire. Chloe Hanslip gives violin
masterclasses and directs the all-comers string
orchestra, and the Sacconi String Quartet provides
workshops and chamber music tuition.
A fantastic week for singers: the Big Choir is directed
by the ebullient Robert Hollingworth, in a spectacular
programme of Monteverdi’s Venetian Vespers and
Viadana, and vocalists can study Dowland with the
glorious soprano Emma Kirkby.
Bill Lyons directs music and song from Shakespeare’s
time; Emily White and Gawain Glenton direct the
gorgeous polyphony of Andrea Gabrieli for cornets,
sackbuts and voices, while Nicholas Clapton welcomes
singers to his open workshop.
Improvisation and composition courses are led by
the cool Dutch jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, with
composer, fiddle and hurdy-gurdy player Stevie Wishart.
Middle Eastern Music and song is directed by the
Lebanese oud-player Abdul Salem Kheir and Egyptian
singer Merit Ariane Stephanos; Marina Warner runs a
creative writing and poetry course.
There’ll be vocal tuition from the wonderful opera
singers contralto Hilary Summers and soprano
Ruby Hughes; masterclasses and workshops in
Baroque strings, winds, brass, early keyboards;
and recorder ensembles with Jill Kemp.
Singers, instrumentalists, writers, poets and
composers will collaborate with fabulous folk artists.
The immensely popular Folk Choir returns, as well as
sessions in teaching and arranging folk music. Other
courses include chamber music, tuition in strings,
wind and early keyboards and piano, and a creative
writing and poetry course led by the award-winning
poet Jo Shapcott.
The Dartington Festival Orchestra begins its
two-week residency working with Sian Edwards,
who directs the Conductors’ Programme and the
Opera Course, Bizet’s colourful Carmen. George
Vass inspires Week 3’s Choir with Haydn’s ‘Nelson’
Mass and Celia McDowell’s beautiful Ave Maris
Stella. You can even sign up to be a pirate in
Richard Williams’ witty production of Gilbert and
Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance.
Songs from the Musicals returns by popular
demand, as does Latin American Rhythms with
Adriano Adewale, and the music of Tom Jobim
and Piazzolla. Bring your dancing shoes, as there
will be tango dance lessons!
Nigel Perrin directs an enormously exciting choral
programme: Stravinsky’s Mass, Fauré’s Requiem and
Paco Peña’s Misa Flameca, complete with flamenco dancer.
You’ll also be coached in the choruses for Carmen conducted
by Sian Edwards, the climax of our two-week opera course and there will be flamenco dance courses each afternoon.
There’s lots for composers and creative musicians this
week. Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir directs the
Advanced Composition course; there’s open composition
and conducting-for-all courses; and film and multimedia
courses.
The spectacular Alison Balsom leads trumpet masterclasses,
and Paul Archibald directs a brass band course, directing
(amongst other repertoire) Elgar Howarth’s fabulous
arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition. There’s wind
chamber tuition from the Berkeley Ensemble and Wind
Ensemble sessions with Steve Dummer, as well as chamber
music coaching with the Heath String Quartet.
The hugely popular Gospel Course with Black Voices
returns, and über-cool saxophonist Andy Sheppard leads the
Jazz Course in solo and ensemble improvisation, alongside
our regular Big Band. Music theatre opportunities abound
as we celebrate – in a series of concerts and surrealist
‘happenings’ – Satie’s 150th birthday, and Stravinsky’s
The Soldier’s Tale.
More than music...
Each week features vocal, choral and instrumental courses
catering for all ages and abilities; an organised chamber
music programme with professional coaching; large
ensemble opportunities; and composition and improvisation.
Dartington Summer School’s holistic approach also offers
movement classes – yoga, pilates, tai chi - and classes in
dance – Middle Eastern, tango and flamenco. Each week
finishes with a party on Friday night, so you can practice
some new moves. Talks by writers, academics and musicians
complement and deepen the concert programme each week.