Concerts at The University - Edinburgh

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The University Of Edinburgh Concert Series
Spring · Summer 2014
SIMON THACKER & JUSTYNA JABLONSKA
DAVID GERRARD
THE EDINBURGH QUARTET
CHRISTINA DUNWOODIE, JEAN JOHNSON
and DEREK WILLIAMS
ST MARY’S MUSIC SCHOOL SENIOR CHOIR
SIMON LEACH
RUTH SLATER, ELLEN O’DELL & JOHN KITCHEN
QUATUOR DIOTIMA
NICHOLAS ASHTON & LAURYNA SABLEVICIUTE
KOSMOS
RICHARD CRAIG
BENJAMIN SHEEN
MAHAN ESFAHANI
PERCUSSION QUARTET
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY SINGERS
THOMAS BOWES & ELEANOR ALBERGA
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH ENSEMBLES
Concerts at
The University
2 · The University of Edinburgh Concert Series
January 2014
Tuesday 21 January, 1.10pm
Reid Concert Hall
Simon Thacker · guitar
Justyna Jablonska · cello
Karmana, Simon Thacker’s new large‑scale
work, harnesses the full expressive
possibilities of these most poetic and tonally
rich instruments, combining elements from
classical, jazz and powerful musical systems
from around the world. At this concert, at least
three movements of Karmana will be given their
world premiere.
admission free
Simon Thacker and Justyna Jablonska
Friday 24 January, 1.10pm
St Cecilia’s Hall
David Gerrard · clavichord and
harpsichord
J.C.F. FISCHER Suite Euterpe (from
Musicalischer Parnassus)
C.P.E. BACH 12 Variationen über die Folie
d'Espagne
LOUIS COUPERIN Suite in D minor
J.C.F. FISCHER Uranie Passacaglia (from
Musicalischer Parnassus)
admission free
David Gerrard
January 2014
The University of Edinburgh Concert Series · 3
Tuesday 28 January, 1.10pm
Reid Concert Hall
The Edinburgh Quartet
Tristan Gurney violin
Gordon Bragg violin
Jessica Beeston viola
Mark Bailey cello
MOZART Quartet No. 15 in D minor K421
JAMES MacMILLAN String Quartet No. 3
admission free
Friday 31 January, 1.10pm
Reid Concert Hall
Medea: Greece Meets West
Christina Dunwoodie soprano
Jean Johnson bass clarinet
Derek Williams piano
Music by KOSTAS REKLEITIS and DEREK
WILLIAMS based on Euripides’ tragedy of the
murderess Medea told through jazz and opera.
admission free
Kostas Rekleitis, Christina Dunwoodie,
Derek Williams, Jean Johnson
February 2014
Tuesday 4 February, 1.10pm
Reid Concert Hall
St Mary’s Music School Senior Choir
Peter Backhouse conductor
Programme to include music by Rachmaninov,
Pärt, John Tavener and some singing in close
harmony.
admission free
St Mary's Music School
Friday 7 February, 1.10pm
Reid Concert Hall
Simon Leach · organ
C.P.E. BACH Sonata in D major Wq 70/5
JOHN BULL Salve Regina (I)
C.P.E. BACH Fugue in G minor Wq 119/5
J.S. BACH O Gott, du frommer Gott partite
diverse soprano il Corale BWV 767
BUXTEHUDE Praeludium in G minor BuxWV 149
admission free
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Memorial Concert
Ruth Slater violin
Ellen O’Dell violin
John Kitchen harpsichord
Programme to include:
CORELLI Sonata da Camera in C, Op.1
FONTANA Sonata for two violins and continuo
GENERAL REID ‘Solo’ No.3 in D
HANDEL Trio sonata
STAMITZ Trio in F, Op.1 No.3
admission free
Ruth Slater
February 2014
Reid Concert Hall
Quatuor Diotima
Yun Peng Zhao violin
Guillaume Latour violin
Franck Chevalier viola
Pierre Morlet cello
Quatuor Diotima (© Molina Visuals)
BEETHOVEN Op.130 and Grosse Fuge Op.133
admission free
Reid Concert Hall
Nicholas Ashton · piano
Lauryna Sableviciute · piano
Nicholas Ashton
MOZART Andante and Molto Allegro in Eb major
CHOPIN Rondo in C major Op.73
STRAVINSKY Sonata for two pianos (1944)
admission free
Reid Concert Hall
Kosmos
Harriet Mackenzie violin
Meg Hamilton viola
Milos Milivojevic accordion
Kosmos have crafted a unique programme
of Gypsy fiddling, Jewish and Greek music
alongside interpretations of Japanese, Polish
and Arabic melodies.
admission free
Kosmos
Saturday 22 February, 7.30pm
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh Contemporary Music
Ensemble
J. SPENCE Melancholia
A. PÄRT Fratres
J. McLEOD The whispered name
W. KILAR Orawa
HINDEMITH Five Pieces for String Orchestra Op. 44
ARAN BROWNING new work
tickets: £10.00 / £5.00 concessions
available on the door
Reid Concert Hall
Richard Craig · flute
BEN ISSACS New work for solo flute
(world premiere)
RICHARD BARRETT Vale for solo flute
BRICE PAUSET Eurydice for solo flute
JOHN CROFT intermedio (sostenuto...infranto)
for bass flute and live electronics
admission free
Richard Craig
February 2014
February 2014
Tues 25, Wed 26, Fri 28 February
and Sat 1 March, 7.00pm,
St Andrew’s and St George’s West
Church, George Street
Edinburgh Studio Opera
William Conway musical director
Thomas Henderson director
STRAUSS Die Fledermaus
This energetic production by Edinburgh Studio
Opera seeks to remind us that the issues of
Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus are far closer
to home than 19th Century Vienna…An invitation
to a Masked Ball at an exclusive club in the city
provides the ‘well-to-do’ of Edinburgh with an
opportunity to forget their woes. However, for
Dr. Falke, the evening is his chance for revenge,
much to the delight of the Ball’s host, Mr Orlofsky.
tickets: £12.00 / £8.00 concessions /
£6.00 students
available at www.xtspro.com and on the door
Wednesday 26 February, 2.00pm
Reid Concert Hall
Tovey Memorial Prize Competition
Final
The Tovey Memorial Prize is awarded annually
to the Music student who shows the greatest
promise in composition or performance.
admission free
Reid Concert Hall
Benjamin Sheen · organ
J.S. BACH Concerto in A minor (after Vivaldi),
BWV 593
FROBERGER Partita ‘Auff die Mayerin’ FbWV 606
J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548
admission free
Tuesday 4 March, 1.10pm
Reid Concert Hall
Gordon Bragg violin
Mark Bailey cello
HAYDN Quartet Op. 74 No. 3
JANÁCEK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
admission free
Wednesday 5 March, 7.30pm
Greyfriars Kirk
Edinburgh University Chamber
Orchestra
30th Anniversary Celebration Concert
William Conway conductor
Alex Robarts soloist
STRAUSS Overture from Die Fledermaus
FINZI L
et us Garlands bring: Five Shakespeare
songs for baritone and strings
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 in D Major
tickets: £8.00 / £5.00 students and
concessions / free for 16yrs & under.
Organ pipes
Feb–March 2014
March 2014
Friday 7 March, 1.10pm
St Cecilia’s Hall
Mahan Esfahani · harpsichord
A recital marking the 300th anniversary of the
birth of C.P.E. Bach.
admission free
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh University String
Orchestra
Mahan Esfahani
William Conway conductor
Julie Aitken flute
Jessica Conway soprano
MOZART Adagio and Fugue
J.S. BACH 'Ich habe Genug' for Soprano and
Flute in E Minor BWV 82
SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony Op.83a
(Barshai arrangement of String
Quartet No.8)
and students available on the door or
from [email protected]
Reid Concert Hall
Percussion Quartet
(Eddy Hackett, Sarah Mason, Barnaby Archer,
Sacha Johnson)
PAUL LANSKY Threads
DAVID LANG So called laws of nature
STEVE REICH Mallet Quartet
admission free
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh University Singers
John Kitchen conductor and organ
Programme to include Renaissance Scottish
part-songs.
admission free
Greyfriars Kirk
Edinburgh University Music Society
Symphony Orchestra
Russell Cowieson conductor
Louise Alder soprano
WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan
and Isolde
CANTELOUBE Chants d'Auvergne
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
tickets: £10.00 / £5.00 (concessions,
students and under 26)
[email protected]
Percussion Quartet
March 2014
March 2014
Saturday 15 March, 7.30pm
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh University Music Society
Sinfonia
Peter Keenan conductor
WAGNER Overture to Die Meistersinger Von
Nürnberg
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4 (1841 version)
tickets: £10.00 / £5.00 (concessions,
students and under 26)
[email protected]
Reid Concert Hall (© Stewart Bremner)
Reid Concert Hall
Performances by music students from the
University of Edinburgh
admission free
Thursday 20 March, 7.45pm
Canongate Kirk
Edinburgh University Renaissance
Singers
Andrew Bennett director
'The Woes of David'
Music by JOSQUIN, TOMKINS and WEELKES.
tickets: £8.00/ £5.00 concessions
available on the door or at
http://eurs.eusa.ed.ac.uk
March 2014
Reid Concert Hall
Thomas Bowes · violin
Eleanor Alberga · piano
BRAHMS Sonata in G major Op. 78
ALBERGA No-man's-land Lullaby (1996)
BARTÓK Second Rhapsody for violin and piano Sz 89
admission free
Thomas Bowes and Eleanor Alberga
Friday 21 and Saturday 22 March,
6.30pm
Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College,
South Bridge
Memories are made of this
Live experimental performance at The University
of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery.
An exploration in sound of The False Memory
Archive, an exhibition by artist Alasdair Hopwood.
Includes 70 performers from Music in the
Community, Graphic Design (ECA), Digital Design
and Media at the University of Edinburgh and
children from Hermitage Park Primary School.
Please note this is a promenade performance
beginning in the The University of Edinburgh,
Old College Quad, South Bridge, Edinburgh,
EH8 9YL. Dress warmly.
www.trg.ed.ac.uk,
www.facebook.com/Music in the Community
tickets in advance and limited,
£5.00 from brownpapertickets.co.uk
Edinburgh University Old College Quad
(© www.nealesmith.com)
March 2014
Saturday 22 March, 7.30pm
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh University Brass Band
Angus Tully conductor
The programme will feature an entertaining
mixture of traditional brass band favourites,
classics from the stage and screen, and some
well-known contemporary tunes.
tickets: £5.00 / £3.00 students
available on the door or contact
[email protected]
Reid Concert Hall
Gordon Bragg violin
Mark Bailey cello
DVORÁK Waltzes Op. 54
MENDELSSOHN Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80
admission free
March–APRIL 2014
Wednesday 26 March, 2.00pm
Reid Concert Hall
The Margaret Fletcher Schola Cantorum of Edinburgh Lieder
Prize 2014
incorporating
The Elizabeth King Prize for Lieder performance
Sir Timothy O’Shea Honorary Patron
Eric von Ibler and Patricia MacMahon adjudicators
£100 awarded annually for the best performance
of Three German Lieder in competition — one
to be chosen from the works of Franz Schubert,
Richard Strauss or Johannes Brahms.
admission free
Friday 28 March, 7.30m
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh University Wind Band
Morven Bell conductor
Programme of well-known wind band pieces,
movie scores and arrangements of popular songs.
Tuesday 1 April, 7.30pm
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra
Yati Durant conductor
Programme to include works by TORU TAKEMITSU,
YATI DURANT and guest composers performed
live to screen. For further information please
visit www.efmo.co.uk
entry by donation
April 2014
Thursday 3 April, 7.30pm
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh University Composers’
Orchestra
Michael Graham conductor
A concert showcasing new works by student
composers from the University of Edinburgh
admission free
donations welcome
Saturday 5 April, 8.00pm
Reid Concert Hall
The Michael Shea Scholarship
Winner's Recital
in collaboration with Schola Cantorum of
Edinburgh
Julie Moote soprano
SCHUMANN Frauenliebe und Leben
POULENC Deux Poèmes de Louis Aragon
Canadian Folksongs
MOZART songs and arias
tickets: £10.00 / £5.00 students
Julie Moote
Thursday 17 April, 8.00pm
McEwan Hall
"Separation — Integration"
Simon Smith and Grey Area (Owen Green,
Emma Lloyd, Nikki Moran, Armin Sturm, Shiori
Usui, Sean Williams, Martin Parker)
STOCKHAUSEN ‘Klavierstück XVI’ from Freitag
aus Licht for synthesizer and tape
DAVID C. JOHNSON ‘Telefun’ for four channel tape
SEAN WILLIAMS ‘Gemini 8’ for ensemble
STOCKHAUSEN ‘Unlimited’ for ensemble
McEwan Hall
admission by donation. Tickets
available via eventbrite.com and on the door.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/de-compositiontickets-9747558209
Part of the ‘Dialogues’ series of concerts.
Saturday 3 May, 8.00pm
Canongate Kirk
Edinburgh University Chamber Choir
Eric von Ibler conductor
A Celebration — 6 World Premieres
PAUL MEALOR My Song
LINDA DOWDELL Desire’s Lightning Feet
DEE ISAACS Across the Sky
ED JONES Go, Lovely Rose
JENNIFER MARTIN A New Work
STUART HOPE 3 Scots Songs
ERIC VON IBLER In Solcher Nacht
ERIC VON IBLER What eye beholds the Spring
Alex Kinnear and Lee Blakey narrators
ANDRÉ PREVIN Two Remembrances
AMY BEACH Two Scots Songs Op.12
Vocali3e
tickets £8.00 / £5.00 concessions
[email protected]
http://chamber.eusa.ed.ac.uk
Canongate Kirk
April–May 2014
May 2014
Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21 and
Thursday 22 May, times TBC
Reid Concert Hall
Final Year BMus Recitals
admission free
0131 650 2427
Sypert Summer Concert Series 2014
There will be a series of three summer evening
recitals at St Cecilia’s Hall, in May and June
using instruments from the Raymond Russell
Collection of Early Music Instruments.
Reid Concert Hall
See website for further information:
www.ed.ac.uk/eca/music/news-events
These concerts are generously supported by
George and Joy Sypert
18 · museums and related events
MUSEUMS
MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY:
Museums and Related Events
St Cecilia’s Hall
Museum of Instruments
Other Events at
Edinburgh College of Art
St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, Cowgate,
Edinburgh eh1 1lj
For other events at the Edinburgh
College of Art please visit the
website:
St Cecilia’s Hall houses a world-famous
collection of over seventy-five early keyboard
instruments and a display of harps, lutes and
guitars. Many of the keyboard instruments are
maintained as playing examples. View some of
the most important, richly decorated and best
preserved instruments from Britain and Europe.
‘Must see’ items include the earliest surviving
British-made grand piano.
open Wednesdays and
Saturdays 2–5 pm
admission free
0131 650 2806 / [email protected]
Reid Concert Hall
Museum of Instruments
Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square,
Edinburgh eh8 9ah
The world’s oldest purpose-built museum of
musical instruments displays its collection in
Victorian cases still containing their original glass.
European wind, bowed string and percussion
instruments are on display. A separate gallery
houses a collection of bagpipes and folk
instruments from around the world.
open Wednesdays 3–5 pm,
Saturdays 10 am–1 pm
admission free
0131 650 2806 / [email protected]
www.ed.ac.uk/eca/events
CONCERTS DIARY
· 19
date time venue
event [concerts in colour are free]
21Jan
24 Jan
28 Jan
31 Jan
4 Feb
7 Feb
11 Feb
14 Feb
18 Feb
21 Feb
22 Feb
25 Feb
25, 26, 28
Feb, 1 Mar
26 Feb
28 Feb
4 Mar
5 Mar
7 Mar
7 Mar
11 Mar
14 Mar
14 Mar
15 Mar
18 Mar
20 Mar
21 Mar
21, 22 Mar
22 Mar
25 Mar
26 Mar
28 Mar
1 Apr
3 Apr
5 Apr
17 Apr
3 May
20–22 May
Simon Thacker, guitar & Justyna Jablonska, cello
David Gerrard, clavichord and harpsichord
Medea: Greece Meets West
St Mary’s Music School Senior Choir
Simon Leach, organ
Reid Memorial Concert
Quatuor Diotima
Nicholas Ashton and Lauryna Sableviciute, piano
Kosmos
Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble
Richard Craig, flute
1.10pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
7.30pm
1.10pm
7.00pm
2.00pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
7.30pm
1.10pm
7.30pm
1.10pm
1.10pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
1.10pm
7.45pm
1.10pm
6.30pm
7.30pm
1.10pm
2.00pm
7.30m
7.30pm
7.30pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
TBC
Reid Concert Hall
St Cecilia's Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
St Andrew’s and St
George’s West Church
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Greyfriars Kirk
St Cecilia's Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Greyfriars Kirk
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Canongate Kirk
Reid Concert Hall
Talbot Rice Gallery
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
Reid Concert Hall
McEwan Hall
Canongate Kirk
Reid Concert Hall
Tovey Memorial Prize Competition Final
Benjamin Sheen, organ
Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra
Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord
Edinburgh University String Orchestra
Percussion Quartet
Edinburgh University Singers
Edin. University Music Society Symphony Orchestra
Edinburgh University Music Society Sinfonia
Music students from the University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers
Thomas Bowes, violin and Eleanor Alberga, piano
Memories are made of this
Edinburgh University Brass Band
Lieder Prize 2014
Edinburgh University Wind Band
Edinburgh University Composers’ Orchestra
The Michael Shea Scholarship Winner's Recital
Simon Smith and Grey Area
Edinburgh University Chamber Choir
Final Year BMus Recitals
contact
Concert secretary:
Moira Landels
Contact address:
The University of Edinburgh: Reid School of Music Edinburgh College of Art Alison House 12 Nicolson Square Edinburgh EH8 9DF
concert venues
1St Andrew’s and St George’s
West Church, George Street
2 Canongate Kirk
3St. Cecilia’s Hall
4Greyfriars Kirk
5 Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
6 McEwan Hall
7Reid Concert Hall
8 Alison House
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Concerts at The University - Edinburgh

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