Concert Series - Vinehall School
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Concert Series - Vinehall School
Welcome to International Classical Concerts at Vinehall The Vinehall Concert Series now in its 26th year, continues to bring the best of both British and international musicians to East Sussex. Concerts take place in a purpose-built 250 seat theatre with superb piano and intimate acoustic, which has undergone a complete refit in 2014. English Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble Saturday 4th October 2014 at 7.30 p.m. Programme Mozart Serenade No 11 in E flat K. 375 Ravel Tombeau de Couperin Gounod Petite Symphonie for Nine Wind Instruments The ECO Wind Ensemble is a highly versatile and flexible group of musicians which has evolved naturally from the membership of the internationally renowned English Chamber Orchestra (ECO). Since its inception in 1960 the ECO has incorporated a core of accomplished chamber musicians. For over five decades the ECO Wind Ensemble has performed frequently at home and abroad in a variety of different formations, complementing the work of the Orchestra. The Ensemble has collaborated with artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach and Christian Zacharias. If you would like a map/parking guide please tick Parents of children at Vinehall may pay on account. Please tick LOUIS LORTIE HEATH QUARTET / COLLINS LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS HANSLIP / DRIVER BUSCH PIANO TRIO BRENDEL / MADZAR ECO WIND ENSEMBLE Total amount £…………….. Please make cheques payable to ‘Vinehall School Ltd’. ………..at £10 ………..at £10 ………. at £19 ………. at £19 ………..at £10 ………. at £19 ………..at £10 ………..at £10 ………. at £19 ………. at £19 ………..at £10 ………. at £19 ………..at £10 ………. at £19 CHILD/STUDENT TICKET(S) INDIVIDUAL TICKET(S) FIVE-CONCERT OPTION SIX-CONCERT OPTION CONCERT BUSCH PIANO ENSEMBLE Saturday 22nd November 2014 at 7.30 p.m. Programme Programme Dohnanyi Janacek Beethoven Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano No 9 Op. 47 in A major ‘Kreutzer’ Bowen Phantasie for Violin and Piano Op 34 Richard Strauss Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 18 Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 8 in B flat minor Pohádka (Fairy Tale), for cello and piano (1910) Sonata for Cello and Piano No 3 in A major Op. 69 Adrian Brendel studied at Winchester College, Cambridge University and with Frans Helmerson at the Cologne Music Conservatoire. Programme Schubert Beethoven Dvorak Recent appearances include concerts in Calgary, Napa Valley and in the UAE, Syria and Egypt. In Europe, he has performed in Antwerp and across Germany, Switzerland and the UK. He has given performances of the complete Bach cello suites at Lancaster University and The Sage Gateshead, and collaborated with Photo: Liebeck many other artists including Kit Armstrong, Andrej Bielow, Aleksander Madzar and the Jerusalem String Quartet. His piano trio with Till Fellner and Lisa Batiashvili is much in demand throughout Europe. The Busch Ensemble “London-based group the Busch Ensemble gave a passionate performance of the Ravel Piano Trio, beautifully articulated and forcefully conveyed” The Strad He returned to Calgary in October 2012 as part of the jury for the Honens International Piano Competition. Other performances in the 2012-2013 season included concerts with Imogen Cooper, Henning Kraggerud, Kit Armstrong, and with the NDR Symphony Orchestra. He recently shared the stage with his father, Alfred Brendel, for an evening of poetry and music at King’s Place in London. He returns to Düsseldorf for recitals with Kit Armstrong, as well as giving solo recitals in Salzburg, Bensheim and Cambridge. Adrian Brendel is co-founder of ‘Music at Plush’, a summer music festival held every year in Dorset. Aleksandar Madzar was born in Belgrade in 1968. He started playing the piano under the guidance of Gordana Malinovic. He won prizes in Geneva, Leeds, the ‘Busoni’ and ‘Umberto Micheli’ competitions and gave his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 1990. He has since then been performing regularly all over Europe, enjoying a rich and varied career in recital, concertos and chamber music, also touring North and South America, South Africa and the Far East. Aleksandar Madzar teaches at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire in Brussels. CHLOË HANSLIP (Violin) DANNY DRIVER (Piano) Sunday 8th February 2015 at 3.00 p.m. Sponsored by R M and S J Arblaster Sponsored by Alexander Stiller LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS Saturday 14th March 2015 at 7.30 p.m. PLEASE SHOW YOUR CHOICE OF CONCERT(S) ON THE CHART BELOW ………….Full season ticket(s) at £95 …………… Six-Concert Option ticket(s) at £90 ………… Five-Concert Option ticket(s) at £85 Please send: The ECO Wind Ensemble’s discography includes the Mozart Serenade for 13 Winds conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Dvorak Wind Serenade conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, and the Mozart and Beethoven Quintets for Piano and Winds with Murray Perahia. ADRIAN BRENDEL (Cello) ALEKSANDAR MADZAR (Piano) Saturday 1st November 2014 at 7.30 p.m. Adagio in E flat major D.897 ‘Notturno’ Piano Trio No 5 Op. 70 No 1 in D major ‘Ghost’ Piano Trio No 3 in F minor Op. 65 Named after the legendary violinist Adolf Busch, this young piano trio has emerged as the leading British piano trio among the new generation. Winners of the 2012 Royal Overseas League Competition, the trio went on to win several other important prizes. 2014 sees a Purcell Room debut following their major award from the Philharmonia Orchestra and a second Wigmore Hall performance. The trio has performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Sage Gateshead, and in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Denmark. Their recent Wigmore Hall debut was received to critical acclaim and hailed as a “memorable performance showing The Busch Ensemble’s incredible unity, abundant facility and deep musical understanding”. Highlights of forthcoming seasons include a tour of Scotland and collaborations with Michael Collins. In late 2014 the Ensemble will make their debut tour of the major cities of China. Their US debut tour in 2015 will include a performance at the Phillips Collection International Chamber Music Series in Washington DC. As soloists they have been recognized for their achievements and playing of “incredible verve”. email: [email protected] We are most grateful to The Floral Boutique for supplying and arranging our flowers this season HEATH QUARTET MICHAEL COLLINS (Clarinet) Saturday 9th May 2015 at 7.30 p.m. Chloë Hanslip (b. 1987) has already established herself as an artist of distinction on the international stage. Prodigiously talented, she made her BBC Proms debut in 2002 and her US concerto debut in 2003, and has performed at major venues in the UK (Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall), Europe (Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Paris Louvre and Salle Gaveau, St Petersburg Hermitage) as well as Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Arts Space in Tokyo and the Seoul Arts Centre. She has performed Photo: Ealovega with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors with whom she has collaborated include Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Andrew Davis, Mariss Jansons, Paavo Järvi, Charles Dutoit, and Vassily Sinaisky. Chloë records for Hyperion and her first release on the label features Violin Concertos by Vieuxtemps (“beautifully and stylishly played” (The Telegraph). Three further CDs - Glazunov and Schoeck, Medtner Sonatas and York Bowen’s violin works (with Danny Driver) have recently been released with the latter recording receiving recommendations from Gramophone (Choice) and The Strad. Danny Driver is known internationally as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. The exceptional quality of his performances and recordings, the imagination and breadth of his repertoire, and for the individuality of his interpretations of core repertoire works and neglected masterpieces have earned him critical acclaim, being praised for his ‘bold, exuberant and precise’ performances [The Guardian], ‘impeccable technique and musicianship’ [Gramophone], and ‘poise, power, and passion’ [BBC Music Magazine]. “There’s a wholly infectious conviction, spontaneity and panache about these superbly accomplished performances that lend them special distinction” Gramophone Magazine 2013 (York Bowen CD) LOUIS LORTIE (Piano) Saturday 6th June 2015 at 7.30 p.m. sponsored anonymously Sponsored by the Winter Family Programme Beethoven Liszt Photo: Ahlburg Programme Telemann Handel Leclair Vivaldi J.S. Bach Concerto for Flute and Violin in E minor Organ Concerto ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’ Violin Concerto Op.7 No.6 in A major Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C major RV.443 Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major BWV.1050 For over ten years, since making their debut at Handel’s parish church, St. George’s Hanover Square, as part of the London Handel Festival 2000, the London Handel Players have thrilled audiences across the world with their performances and recordings. They perform regularly at the Wigmore Hall and appear at many of the leading festivals in the UK, Europe and North America, collaborating with singers such as Emma Kirkby, James Bowman and Daniel Taylor. The members of the group pursue busy solo and directing careers, work with many of the major early-instrument ensembles in the UK and abroad and are professors at the conservatoires in London. They bring together a wealth of recording experience and their four recent recordings, of Handel and Geminiani, have been highly acclaimed. Concerts have recently included appearances at the Swansea, Newbury, Tilford, Spitalfields and Gregynog Festivals, Birmingham and Brighton Early Music Festivals, for Music at Oxford and in Warwick, at the Palau de la Musica, Barcelona and at the Music and Beyond Festival in Ottawa. They made their US debut in January 2012, with concerts in Los Angeles and the Frick Collection, New York and they returned to Canada last October. They perform at the Wigmore Hall as part of the 2014 London Handel Festival. “I find all the performances well-nigh perfect...the music is absolutely gorgeous.” Piers Burton-Page, International Record Review. “Their consummate musicianship is consistently delightful.” David Vickers, Gramophone Magazine (“Handel at Home”) Programme Mozart Dvorak Mozart Photo: Ealovega Adagio and Fugue String Quartet in G major Op. 106 Clarinet Quintet in A major K. 581 HEATH QUARTET The Heath Quartet is rapidly emerging as an exciting and original voice on the international chamber music scene. Formed in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music, they have undertaken residencies at IMS Prussia Cove with András Schiff and at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh. Selected for representation by YCAT in 2008 they went on to win 1st Prize at the Tromp International Competition in Eindhoven. Most recently, they won the 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists Award. Highlights over the last year have included recitals at Wigmore Hall and over the last two years the Quartet has given recitals at major festivals and venues throughout Europe including Barbican, Bridgewater Hall, Sage Gateshead, Perth Concert Hall and Queen’s Hall Edinburgh, the Musikverein, Konzerthaus, and Esterházy Palace (Vienna). Current engagements include performances at Wigmore Hall, their debut at the Louvre and Musée d’Orsay in Paris, a Beethoven Cycle at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, their debut at Carnegie Hall, New York and the BBC Proms. MICHAEL COLLINS “Michael Collins plays (and conducts) with an irresistible exuberance that I’ve not heard equalled” Gramophone Magazine Michael Collins’ dazzling virtuosity and sensitive musicianship have earned him recognition as one of today’s most distinguished artists and a leading exponent of his instrument. At 16 he won the woodwind prize in the first BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. He has since performed as soloist with many of the world’s most significant orchestras. Collins also has the distinction of being the most frequently invited wind soloist to the BBC Proms, including several appearances at the renowned Last Night of the Proms. In great demand as a chamber musician, his ensemble, London Winds, celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2013. Sonata No 29 in B flat ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata in B minor “Lortie is one of perhaps half a dozen pianists who is worth dropping everything to go and hear” Daily Telegraph VINEHALL INTERNATIONAL CONCERTS BOOKING FORM Please complete as required. Bookings can be made by post, phone or email during the season. A FULL SEASON TICKET provides one seat at each of the seven concerts. The SIX CONCERT OPTION and the FIVE CONCERT OPTION allow you to select six or five different concerts of your choice. SINGLE TICKETS may also be booked for all concerts. Please indicate your choice on the form overleaf. Complimentary refreshments are served at each concert. We regret that we cannot exchange or refund tickets unless a concert is sold out. As concerts are booked many months on advance there may be changes in advertised details. We are able to offer assistance with transport throughout the area and have easy access/parking for the disabled. Please phone for details. Name …………………………………………………………………………...........…..... Address ………………………………………………………………………………………...…. …..……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ..………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Postcode ..............….….......…… Tel: ..................……………………..……….. e-mail ………………………………………………………………..........………............… Please return this form to A. G. Whitehead, Vinehall School, Robertsbridge, East Sussex TN32 5JL Telephone 01580 883092 (theatre and answerphone) 01580 880413 (school office hours) Email: [email protected] The distinguished Clarinettist, Michael Collins, sends the following message: “I have had the pleasure of performing at Vinehall three times over the years and am very much looking forward to returning during this season to play the wonderful Mozart Clarinet Quintet with the talented young Heath Quartet. I really enjoy playing at Vinehall where I know the friendly audience always help lift performers to a higher level. If you haven’t been before, please come along; you will find outstanding musicians performing great music in a fabulous venue. I wish the Vinehall Concert Series every success as it embarks on its Twenty-Sixth Season.” International Classical Concert Series 26th Season 2014 - 15 French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has attracted critical acclaim throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Lortie has performed complete Beethoven sonata cycles at Wigmore Hall, Berlin Philharmonie and the Sala Grande del Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. Die Welt described his Berlin performances as “possibly the finest Beethoven since the time of Wilhelm Kempff.” As both pianist and conductor with the Montreal Symphony, he has performed all five Beethoven concertos and all of the Mozart concertos. Louis Lortie has also won widespread acclaim for his interpretation of Ravel and Chopin. He performed the complete works of Ravel in London and Montreal for the BBC and CBC, and is renowned all over the world for his performances of the complete Chopin Etudes. Louis Lortie has performed with the world’s leading conductors, including Riccardo Chailly, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Sanderling, Neeme Järvi, Sir Andrew Davis, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Sir Mark Elder. He has made more than 30 recordings for the Chandos label, covering repertoire from Mozart to Stravinsky, including a set of the complete Beethoven sonatas and the complete Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage. His disc of works by Schumann and Brahms was named one of the best CDs of the year by BBC Music Magazine, which also named his disc of Chopin Études one of “50 Recordings by Superlative Pianists.” “Louis Lortie, a fantastic Lisztian, performs them [Liszt transcriptions] with confidence and clarity.” New York Times “Louis Lortie’s technique is not in question: the skill and dedication required to master these pieces to this level is enormous[...] Lortie’s sparkling and swarthy playing is impressively glamorous.” BBC Music Magazine at Vinehall School, Robertsbridge TN32 5JL www.vinehallschool.com 01580 883092