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INTERNATIONAL
CONCERT SERIES
January -June 2016
03 WELCOME
Welcome to the University of Leeds
INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2015-2016
30 STUDENT PERFORMANCE
I am delighted to introduce another programme of
public concerts promoted by the University of
Leeds. The Concert Series continues to make a
major contribution to the cultural life of the city
region and firmly underlines the University’s
commitment to the arts.
University wide events will mark the 400th
anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
Sopranos Stephanie Smith and Katherine
Broderick, and as part of February’s Early Music
Festival, tenor Michael Solomon Williams will all
perform settings of The Bard’s work.
32 BOOKING INFORMATION
The 2015-16 Series reflects a wide range of
concert music, with a repertoire which stretches
from the 15th to 21st centuries.
The Concert Series is, as ever, grateful for the
continued support of the Friends of University Art
and Music (FUAM), who do so much to support the
development of young classical performers. FUAM
identify and nurture artistic talent, and through
their generous support of the Series, offer our
Concert Series audience the opportunity to hear
work from the stars of the future.
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34 HOW TO FIND US
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University of Leeds Alumni Event
Current student performance
Highlights for this year include a series of
performances in collaboration with Leeds Lieder;
surveying the rich repertoire of the Richard
Strauss songbook, featuring Kathleen Ferrier
award winning singer Katherine Broderick; a
cabaret concert celebrating the music of Edith
Piaf; and an exciting new collaboration with the
Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) which will bring
some of the best young performers to the
magnificent Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall.
As a mark of the developing relationship between
the School of Music and Leeds University Union
Music Society (LUUMS), the Concert Series will
feature all of the Society’s Clothworkers Concerts.
Covering the full spectrum of classical
performance, these welcome additions to the
Series will help promote the talents of University of
Leeds students to a new audience.
My sincere thanks go to all those individuals and
organisations that have helped us to fund this
year’s programme.
We look forward to welcoming you to the University
and another exciting and varied Concert Series.
Sir Alan Langlands
Vice-Chancellor
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Orchestra of Opera North
Sunday 17 January, 4:00pm
Conducted by Jac van Steen
Jessica Burroughs (solo cello)
Banish the January blues with a delightful
afternoon filled with some of the finest classical
music from Yorkshire’s very own symphony
orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North.
Regarded as Tchaikovsky’s cello concerto, the
Variations on a Rococo Theme are a neo-classical
homage to Mozart and a wonderfully challenging
work-out for both soloist and orchestra. Performed
between two classic symphonies, this concert is
designed to lift the spirits and resolutely rekindle
the New Year!
Programme:
Haydn - Symphony no.87 in A major
Tchaikovsky - Variations on a Rococo Theme op.33
Mozart - Symphony no.40 in G minor
Tickets: £20
FREE - Students and Under 16s
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
3x3 Sheffield - Electroacoustic
Music from the University of
Sheffield Sound Studios
Wednesday 27 January, 7:30pm
An eclectic mix of electroacoustic music by Adrian
Moore, Adam Stansbie and doctoral students at The
University of Sheffield Sound Studios, presented via
multiple loudspeakers surrounding the audience.
3x3 is a collaboration between the Universities of
Leeds, Sheffield and York (the White Rose group of
universities), showcasing electroacoustic music
research and practice at those three institutions.
Over the course of 18 months, there will be three
specially curated concert programmes, one each
curated by Leeds, Sheffield and York.
This concert, representing the first programme in
the series, is curated by Sheffield. The next
programme, curated by York, is scheduled for
performance in Autumn 2016, with the Leedscurated programme completing the first cycle of
concerts in early 2017.
Programme:
Adrian Moore - Counterattack
Dimitris Savva - Telchines
Chris Bevan - Parted Reflections
Alejandro Albornoz - La Lumière
Adam Stansbie - Foundry Flux
Admission Free
Jessica Burroughs
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The Thurston Connection
Ji Liu
Nicholas Cox (clarinets) Ian Buckle (piano)
Nicholas Cox and Ian Buckle present two of the
finest English clarinet sonatas, inspired by the
playing of the great Frederick Thurston; alongside
David Horne's essay in sonority for the basset
clarinet.
Young pianist Ji Liu will perform works by Rzweski,
Debussy, Chopin and Saint-Saëns. This performance
will follow the release of Ji Liu’s third CD. In 2014 his
debut CD Piano Reflections was released by Classic
FM and immediately topped the classical charts.
Friday 29 November, 1:05pm
Programme:
Arnold Bax - Sonata for clarinet and piano
David Horne - Chime, for basset clarinet and piano
Herbert Howells - Sonata for clarinet and piano
Admission Free
Saturday 30 January, 7:30pm
Programme:
Rzweski - Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Debussy - Suite Bergamasque
Chopin - 2 Waltzes op.32, no.2 and op.64, no.2
Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
Chopin - Polonaise in A, op.40, no.1 “Military”
Chopin - Sonata no.2
Chopin - Polonaise in A flat, op.53 “Héroïque”
Tickets: £15
Ji Liu, photography by Kevin McDaid
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Leeds Finalist’s Platform
Friday 5 February, 1:05pm
Alicia Higgs (flute) Daniel Gordon (piano)
Alicia is a final year BMus flautist at the University
of Leeds studying with Jennifer George. She spent
the 2014-15 academic year studying flute with
Nikolai Jaeger and piccolo with Benjamin Plag at the
Hochschule für Musik ‘Franz Liszt’ Weimar in
Germany. During her year abroad Alicia spent a
great deal of time not only improving all technical
aspects of her playing but also exploring new
musical ideas and expanding her knowledge of
pieces beyond the standard core repertoire for flute.
This programme features less well-known sonatas
for flute and piano by the Dutch-Jewish composer
Leo Smit and Czech composer Jindřick Feld
alongside one of André Jolivet’s most widely
performed pieces in the flute repertoire.
Programme:
Leo Smit - Sonata for flute and piano
Jindřick Feld - Sonata for flute and piano
André Jolivet - Chant de Linos
Masterworks for Piano and
Wind Instruments
Student Showcase
Amy Harman
Another opportunity to hear work by students on
performance courses in the School of Music.
Programme to be announced.
Amy Harman (bassoon) Jonathan Ware (piano)
Born in London, Amy studied at the Royal College of
Music with Andrea de Flammineis and Martin Gatt,
and with František Herman at the Akademie
Múzických in Prague. In 2011 she was appointed
principal of the Philharmonia Orchestra and in 2014
was selected by YCAT.
Wednesday 10 February, 6:00pm
Sunday 7 February, 3:00pm
Wind Quintet from Northern Chamber Orchestra:
Amina Hussain (flute) Anna Cooper (oboe) Elizabeth
Jordan (clarinet) Naomi Atherton (French horn)
Rachel Whibley (bassoon) with Daniel Gordon (piano)
The wind soloists of the Northern Chamber Orchestra
are joined by the University of Leeds' own Daniel
Gordon on piano in a programme which includes two
of the favourites in the chamber repertoire for both
wind players and pianists. Mozart wrote in a letter to
his father of the Quintet in E flat major K.452 ''I
consider it to be the best thing I have ever written in
my life". Praise indeed as he had already achieved
much by the age of 28 when it was written. Poulenc's
Sextet was written between the two world wars and,
while exuding his Gallic wit, also contains a good
deal of emotional depth.
Admission Free
Sought after as a song accompanist and chamber
musician, Jonathan Ware studied at the Eastman
School of Music, The Juilliard School and at the
Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin, where he
now teaches. He won the Pianist’s Prize at Wigmore
Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song and Das
Lied Competitions, and in 2014 won first prize in the
International Hugo Wolf Competition and was
selected by YCAT.
Programme:
Bach - Viola da gamba Sonata no.2 in D BWV1028
Olaf Berg - Vertigo for solo bassoon
Schubert - 3 songs from Schwanengesang D.957
Saint-Saëns - Sonata for bassoon and piano, op.168
Tickets: £15
£13 (advance saver - available until 23 January)
Admission Free
Admission Free
Amy Harman, photography by Kaupo Kikkas
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The clarinettist in collaboration
PIAF ~ The Songs
Cabaret Concert
Heather Roche (clarinet and bass clarinet)
Heather Roche presents a recital of new works for
clarinets and electronics, the results of two major
collaborative projects conducted over the last year.
The first, the result of a year-long project with
University of Leeds composers Scott McLaughlin and
Mic Spencer: two very different compositional minds
worked together to create a new piece for clarinet.
The second, the results of the first Heather Roche
International Composition Competition: six
composers (including the University of Leeds' own
Oliver Thurley) were chosen out of 270 applicants
from around the world, in order to write new pieces.
Saturday 13 February, 7:30pm
Eve Loiseau sings the songs of Edith Piaf with
Fiona Barrow (violin) Murray Grainger (accordion)
Edith Piaf has become synonymous with French
Cabaret of the 1940s & 50s and remains
France’s most popular singer. This powerful
celebration comes from a company whose
credentials include Kneehigh Theatre and
Canteve Vocale. The show features La vie en
rose, Sous le ciel de Paris, Bal dans ma rue,
Autumn Leaves, Padam Padam, C’est
merveilleux, L’accordéoniste, Non je ne regrette
rien and more.
Tickets: £8
Since her debut at the Royal Festival Hall in
February 2002, Eve Loiseau has given recitals in
England, New York & France and has featured on
BBC Radio 3, WNYC Radio, PMW Music and the
BBC production, The Roman Mysteries. Eve
performs with Canteve Vocale and the baroque
ensemble, Duo Dolcetini.
IN THE HANDS OF LOISEAU, HER MEMORY
LIVES ON AMONG ADORING FANS AND NEW
BORNS. I'LL DRINK TO THAT! A VOTRE SANTÉ!
Phil Hopkins, The Yorkshire Times
The concert hall will be transformed and the tiered
seating removed so the audience can enjoy a
relaxed atmosphere and a glass of wine.
Tickets: £15 (including a glass of wine)
Eve Loiseau, photography by John Batten
Heather Roche, photography by Inga Geiser
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Early Music Festival
Revival in Retrospect
The Harpsichord and its History,
Development and Revival
Naomi Okuda (recorders) Pawel Swiczak (harpsichord)
For more than a century the Early Music movement
has influenced a steady move towards playing
music from earlier times on original instruments or
carefully crafted copies.
Harpsichord Workshop by Andrew Wooderson
An exploration of the history, construction and
development of the harpsichord from the Renaissance
to the present, illustrated by musical examples.
In this concert Naomi and Pawel look back at the
revival of interest in period instruments, using a
pair of original instruments typical of the mid 20th
century contrasted with excellent copies of 18th
century instruments.
Admission Free
Using an original Dolmetsch recorder and
Goble harpsichord with leather plectra, paired
with historically informed copies of a Flemish
harpsichord and treble recorder, Naomi and Pawel
explore aspects of the early music revival presenting
not only 18th, but also 20th century music played on
period instruments.
Admission Free
Saturday 20 February, 7:30pm
I Fagiolini, Fretwork and James Johnstone (organ)
I Fagiolini’s glorious voices join with the soaring
beauty of Fretwork's viols, accompanied by
internationally acclaimed organist James Johnstone,
in this very special concert. 'Cries and Teares'
moves from the familiar to the unexpected: from
street cries by Gibbons, Dering and Cobbold to the
first-ever public performance of songs from Martin
Peerson's innovative, intriguing - and today virtually
unknown - songbook Mottects or Grave Chamber
Musique (1630).
Peerson (c1572-1651) was a professional musician,
highly respected by his contemporaries and for 25
years Almoner and Master of the Choristers at St
Paul’s cathedral during the deanship of the poet
John Donne. He was also one of a small number of
Trustees for the Blackfriars Theatre Company at the
same time as his neighbour William Shakespeare.
Peerson was chosen by his patron, the privy
counsellor Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628), to set
his Caelica poems exploring the subject of human
love: the resulting songbook has been virtually
unknown for over 300 years, and in fact was nearly
lost forever! As the work neared completion Greville
was killed, stabbed by a trusted servant and
inadvertently finished off by the doctors four weeks
later. Colourful times, and music to match.
The conjunction of these internationally-acclaimed,
stellar musical forces and the quality of the music
will make this Festival headline concert truly an
occasion to remember.
Tickets: £25
£23 (advance saver - available until 5 February)
I Fagiolini, photography by Keith Saunders
Cries and Teares
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Early Music Festival
Twenty Waies Upon the Bels
Pellingmans' Saraband: Faye Newton (soprano)
Susanna Pell (viol) Jacob Heringman (lute)
Susanna Pell, Jacob Heringman, Faye Newton and
guest singers present a vivid glimpse of sixteenth
and seventeenth-century domestic music making.
The programme includes ingenious rounds by
Thomas Ravenscroft, lute songs by Campion, Lanier
and others, and instrumental solos and duos in a
fascinating virtuoso exploration of the popular chord
progressions (or “grounds”) of the day.
Jacob Heringman and Susanna Pell have been
musical colleagues for almost 25 years and have
both enjoyed distinguished careers at the forefront
of the early music movement; Jacob as a soloist
and with many prominent period ensembles;
Susanna as a freelance performer and member of
the pioneering groups, Fretwork and The Dufay
Collective. Between them they've made 150
recordings for major record labels and played in
many prestigious concert series and music
festivals throughout the world.
Tickets: £15
Et in Arcadia Ego: Italian
sonatas and cantatas
Time to Time: Elizabethan
song across the ages
Concentus VII: Emily Atkinson (soprano) Belinda
Paul (oboe & recorder) Louise Strickland (recorder)
Amélie Addison (cello) Dan Tidhar (harpsichord)
Concentus VII performs small scale baroque works
for wind instruments, voices, strings and continuo.
Their repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to C. P. E.
Bach, and is drawn from the intimate, often
virtuosic and experimental music composers wrote
for the enjoyment of their friends, families and
colleagues. Members perform with leading early
music ensembles (The Academy of Ancient Music,
New London Consort, Il Giardino Armonico, Gabrieli
Consort and Players, The Tallis Scholars, Akademie
für Alte Musik Berlin).
Michael Solomon Williams (voice) Emily Baines
(recorders) Naomi Burrell (violin) Arngeir
Hauksson (guitars) Seth Bennett (double bass)
This exciting London-based group brings together
English secular song from both Elizabethan ages,
celebrating the English lyric in ayres, serenades,
poems and dances. The individual members of the
group are all specialists in Renaissance, folk and
improvising traditions and combine these elements
in a unique and stimulating style.
Leeds Baroque Orchestra and Choir
directed by Peter Holman
Leeds Baroque explores some of the wonderful
sacred music written by eighteenth-century French
composers, much of it performed not in church but
at the Concerts Spirituel, founded in 1725 and held
at the Tuileries Palace in Paris. Large-scale grand
motets by Rameau and Mondonville are contrasted
with delicate petit motets by François Couperin and
Boismortier ending with Corrette's Laudate
Dominum, a reworking of Vivaldi's Spring concerto
for chorus and orchestra.
The Elizabethan song tradition is central to the
group's repertoire. This anniversary concert will
feature several original Shakespeare settings, as
well as songs and music by John Dowland, Nick
Drake and many more.
Tickets: £18
Wednesday 24 February, 7:30pm
The Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi (The Academy
of Arcadia) was an Italian literary society
established in Rome in 1690. The Academy
advocated a simpler, direct style and to this end
took inspiration from the simple lives of peasants –
an idealised world of rural innocence peopled with
shepherds and nymphs and burbling streams; in
short a recreation of an imagined Arcadian Golden
Age replete with classical forms and mythological
themes. George Frideric Handel attended meetings
of the Academy while he was in Italy; Alessandro
Scarlatti was also a member. The works in this
programme are all based on the pastoral themes
typical of the Academy’s house style.
Concert Spirituel
Admission Free
Tickets: £15
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A Celebration of Female Composers
for International Women's Day
Friday 4 March, 1:05pm
Stephanie Smith (soprano)
As part of International Women's Day, join us as we
explore the development of European song through
the repetoire of female composers.
Stephanie, a graduate of the RNCM will perform
Sechs Lieder by Clara Schumann, with texts from
Heine, Geibel and Rückert and Lied by Fanny
Mendellson.
This lunchtime concert will also feature favourites
from the English operatic soprano and song
composer, Liza Lehmann, such as The Lily of the day
and Fairies at the bottom of the garden.
2016 sees the 400th commemoration for
Shakespeare's death. Stephanie will be performing
Three Shakespeare Songs by Amy Beach, the
American composer and pianist to mark the writers
death.
Due to the restrictions of society, female composers
haven't always received the same recognition as
their male counterparts. We would be delighted for
you to join us in this exploration of song.
Admission Free
Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan
This recital by Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula
Fan will include Schumann’s song cycle,
Dichterliebe, Finzi’s song cycle, Let Us Garlands
Bring (marking the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare’s death), a world premiere by Martin
Iddon (supported by the Ralph Vaughan Williams
Trust) and Britten folk song arrangements.
Jeremy Huw Williams studied at St John's College,
Cambridge, at the National Opera Studio, and
with April Cantelo. He made his debut with WNO
as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and has since
appeared in more than sixty operatic roles. He has
given performances at major venues in North and
South America, Australia, Hong Kong, and most
European countries.
Paula Fan has appeared as soloist and chamber
musician on five continents. As the first
accompanist-coach to be invited to an emerging
China, she performed in the earliest concerts
of Western chamber music and art song to be
heard there for decades. She has recorded twenty
albums and has broadcast for the BBC, National
Public Radio, Radio Television China, and
international stations from Bosnia to Australia.
As one of the first recipients of the doctorate
in Collaborative Piano, she has lectured on the
subject worldwide. She is Regents’ Professor
Emerita at the University of Arizona.
Tickets: £12
Jeremy Huw Williams, photography by Christina Raphaelle
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The Band Project
Flute Ensemble
The band ensemble project returns for a fourth year,
again under the mentorship of Hayden Minett. The
programme features short sets by seven bands
working in a variety of styles and genres, who will
showcase their performing and creative abilities
through a selection of instrumental and vocal
covers, arrangements and original compositions at
this exciting event.
Under the mentorship of Jennifer George, a number
of flautists associated with the School of Music have
combined forces under the banner of the School’s
‘Ensemble Performance’ modules to present this
concert. The programme will comprise a range of
works from various genres arranged for different
combinations of flute.
Wednesday 9 March, 7:00pm
Admission Free
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall Foyer
Crux fidelis
A sequence of early a cappella
choral music for Holy Week
School of Music Project Chorus directed by Clive
McClelland
The music written for the liturgy of Holy Week
provides us with a rich and varied repertoire, from
the urgency of the Palm Sunday crowds to the deeply
reflective mood of Maundy Thursday and Good
Friday, and ultimately to the celebratory spirit of
Easter Day. In this concert, a range of
unaccompanied choral music from the late
Renaissance and early Baroque will be performed,
beginning with two ‘Hosanna’ settings by Weelkes
and Gibbons, and including the first set of the
Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis, Purcell’s
Hear my Prayer and the poignant Crucifixus by Lotti.
There are also two contrasting settings of O vos
omnes by Victoria and Gesualdo, and works by
Monteverdi, Byrd, Juan IV of Portugal and Andrea
Gabrieli. The concert concludes with Giovanni
Gabrieli’s splendid 8-part Jubilate Deo.
Admission Free
Admission Free
Vocal Masterclass with Katherine
Broderick and Joseph Middleton
Tuesday 15 March, 7:00pm
Up-and-coming student singers from the
University of Leeds work with soprano Katherine
Broderick and pianist Joseph Middleton on
repertoire of their choice.
Admission Free
Richard Strauss Song Series III
School of Music Chamber Orchestra
conducted by Edward Venn
Sunday 13 March, 3:00pm
This programme combines later symphonies from
the late 18th and early 19th Centuries of two of
orchestral music’s most prolific composers. Mozart’s
final symphony, K.551, is characteristic of his later
symphonic works in showcasing: the orchestra as
both an ensemble of individual players and as a
unit; and his compositional style of the late 1780s.
Comprising an allegro vivace, an andante cantabile,
a minuetto allegretto and a molto allegro finale, the
subsequently dubbed ‘Jupiter’ Symphony particularly
illustrates facets of the aforementioned
compositional traits through the contrapuntal
writing heard at the end of the final coda. Premiered
some 25 years later, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
consists of a first movement labelled poco sostenuto
- vivace, and subsequent allegretto, presto and
allegro con brio movements. Often drawing upon
dance-like rhythms, this work too provides clear
demonstration of the power and elegance provided
by the orchestral forces being employed at this time.
Programme:
Mozart - Symphony no.41 in C, K.551
Beethoven - Symphony no.7 in A, op.92
Admission Free
Wednesday 16 March, 7:30pm
In association with the Kathleen Ferrier Awards
The Autumn Years and the Four Last Songs
Katherine Broderick (soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)
Late songs by Strauss and early songs by Berg
and Schoenberg
Well-known to Leeds audiences through her
singing at Opera North, particularly as a
Wagnerian soprano, Katherine Broderick brings her
blazing voice and musical intelligence to Leeds
Lieder’s final Strauss Series recital. Performing
alongside regular collaborator Joseph Middleton,
she will give a rare performance of the towering
Four Last Songs in their version with piano. Earlier
in the recital they perform a Strauss masterpiece,
Befreit, and honour the Shakespeare anniversary
by offering the haunting Ophelia Lieder. As with
the recitals earlier in the series, Strauss’ songs are
put into historical context by placing his works
alongside that of his contemporaries. Here heady
romanticism meets the dawn of a new
compositional language as we explore early, tonal
works by Schoenberg, and the Seven Early Songs of
Berg: Viennese composition at its most decadent.
Tickets: £20
£18 (advance saver - available until 1 March)
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Student Showcase
A Viennese Quartet Party
Revolutionary Drawing Room with Alistair McGowan
Adrian Butterfield (violin) Kathryn Parry (violin)
Rachel Stott (viola) Ruth Alford (cello)
The Revolutionary Drawing Room string quartet,
now in its 25th year, performs ‘A Viennese Quartet
Party’, featuring works by Haydn, Mozart, Dittersdorf
and Vanhal, four composers who played quartets
together at a party in Vienna in the 1780’s.
Admission Free
Leeds Finalist’s Platform
Friday 22 April, 1:05pm
Conor Jordon (guitar) Jess Clarke (vibraphone
and percussion) Leon Davies (kit percussion)
Having all spent a year studying music abroad in
North America Conor, Jess and Leon arrived back in
Leeds feeling inspired and excited to share their
musical ideas. Drawing from a wide variety of
styles they have begun to compose and perform
together regularly during their final year.
This program includes both original compositions
and works by other musicians. As composers, a lot
of their work stems from group improvisation and
collaborative spontaneity. Special attention is paid
to harmonic structure and the exposure of
interesting colour tones. The use of different, often
clashing, time signatures is another feature that
they feel is a significant aspect to their playing.
Sunday 24 April, 3:00pm
Actor/comedian Alistair McGowan plays the part of
the ebullient Irish tenor Michael Kelly, a guest at
the party, who played billiards with Mozart, went
riding with Haydn and chatted amiably with
Emperor Joseph II, and also appeared in the
premiere of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
His account of how a chance escapade at the
quartet party led to a role in the Emperor’s opera
company makes fascinating listening. The
ensemble recreates the exuberant spontaneity of
late 18th century social music-making, while also
communicating the depths of feeling expressed by
that period’s greatest composers.
Tickets: £20
£18 (advance saver - available until 9 April)
Admission Free
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Trio Isimsiz
Pablo Hernán Benedí (violin) Michael Petrov
(cello) Erdem Misirlioglu (piano)
Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009 at the Guildhall
School of Music & Drama, under the guidance of
Louise Hopkins, Carole Presland and Alasdair Tait. In
2013 they were selected by YCAT and in 2015 won
1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the Trondheim
International Chamber Music Competition.
Wednesday 27 April, 6:00pm
Admission Free
Flute and Piano Recital
Friday 29 April, 1:05pm
Jennifer George (flute) Daniel Gordon (piano)
Jennifer George has played with various orchestras
in the UK and USA, including the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera North, the City of
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Oregon
Symphony. She has a keen interest in contemporary
music and has performed as soloist and Principal
Flute with the Remix Ensemble (Portugal),
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG),
and is a member of Radius (UK).
Daniel Gordon is a Teaching Fellow and the
resident keyboard player at the University of Leeds.
He is also the accompanist of Huddersfield Choral
Society, organist of St. John the Baptist, Adel, and
a deputy keyboard player for many organisations,
including Black Dyke Band, the CBSO chorus, and
Leeds Festival Chorus.
Admission Free
Friday 6 May, 1:05pm
Trio Isimsiz, photography by Kaupo Kikkas
Student Showcase
The Trio has undertaken residencies at the Banff
Centre, Canada and Mozarteum, Salzburg, and
participated in masterclasses with Andras Schiff,
Steven Isserlis, Menahem Pressler, Thomas Riebl,
Wolfgang Reddick, the Gould Piano Trio and Takács
Quartet. In 2015 the Trio attended IMS Prussia
Cove working with Ferenc Rados.
Concert highlights over the last year have included
recitals at Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Purcell Room,
the Newbury Spring, Peasmarsh and MecklenburgVorpommern Festivals. They collaborated with
Anthony Marwood, Richard Lester and Aleksander
Madzar.
Programme:
Schubert - Notturno in E flat, D.897
Dvořák - Piano Trio in F minor, op.65
Admission Free
DVOŘÁK'S PIANO TRIO IN F MINOR
IS A TRUE CONVERSATION IN MUSIC
WHICH THE TRIO ISIMSIZ PLAYED
SUPERBLY WITH ELEGANCE AND
UNDERSTANDING
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The World of William Shield
Performing the Jewish Archive
Out of the Shadows
Make once more my heart thy home: The Choral Music of Hans Gál
Sunday 5 June, 3:00pm
Clothworkers Consort of Leeds directed by
Bryan White
Hans Gál (1890–1987) was one of a generation of
Austrian Jewish composers forced to flee when the
Nazis invaded the country. No stranger to
composing for the voice, he produced four operas,
several solo songs, and some 27 works for choir,
alongside a large amount of orchestral and
instrumental music.
A private student of Eusebius Mandyczewski (a close
friend of Johannes Brahms), Gál immersed himself
in the Austro-German classical tradition stemming
from Bach, Schütz, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Dismissed by the Nazis from the directorship of the
Mainz Conservatory in 1933, and his works
subsequently banned, Gál and his family fled
Austria in 1938, settling in Edinburgh. Despite a
period of internment as “enemy alien”, Gál became
a regular Edinburgh musical figure, helping to
establish the International Festival in 1947.
This programme celebrates Gál’s love of choral
music, placing some of his own works amidst the
music he most admired. Schütz, Haydn,
Schumann and Brahms sit alongside five of Gál’s
most diverse choral works, from serious settings
of texts by Matthias Claudius, Shakespeare,
Blake, and Ben Johnson, to lighter, often
humorous settings of texts by Lessing, Shelley,
and Queen Elizabeth I.
Tickets: £10 (adults) £8 (over 60s)
£5 (under 18s, students and unwaged)
Friday 10 June, 1:05pm
Akenside Players: Anne Marie Christensen (violin)
Rebecca Eves (violin) Amélie Addison (cello)
Akenside Players take their name from the poet and
physician Mark Akenside, whose essay on 'The
Pleasures of the Imagination', inspired by the
Northumberland countryside, had a far-reaching
effect on eighteenth-century ideas about the
perception of beauty. The ensemble formed in 2012
with harpsichordist Masumi Yamamoto, winning that
year’s Broadwood Ensemble Competition with a
programme of English baroque trio sonatas, and
going on to be featured as Musicians of the Month for
April 2013 at London’s Handel House Museum.
In 2014 Akenside Players became a string trio
exploring repertoire by later eighteenth-century
composers: recent highlights include performing in
an aquarium at Silkeborg Festival, Denmark!
Mestisa with The Leeds University
Percussion Ensemble
Saturday 11 June, 7:30pm
Join the Leeds University Percussion Ensemble
and Mestisa, Leeds based Latin American quartet,
as they explore the folk music of South America.
Both groups are known for their energetic and
accessible performances, suitable for all age
groups, ensuring a colourful and invigorating
experience for all. This concert will include a
range of new works showcasing the collaborations
developed between the two ensembles.
Tickets: £10
£8 (advance saver - available until 27 June)
This programme draws inspiration from Amélie’s
research here at the University of Leeds into the life
and works of the British string-player and composer
William Shield (1748-1829): presenting works by
composers who influenced him, and exploring his
life-long interest in traditional folk music or ‘national
airs.’
Admission Free
Clothworkers Consort of Leeds,
photography by Adam Nagus
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Out of the Shadows
Fate and Fairytales:
the music of Wilhelm Grosz
and Zikmund Schul
Fleeing Nazi persecution, Zikmund Schul chose
Czechoslovakia as his safe haven. After 5 years in
the Berlin recording industry, Wilhelm Grosz fled
back to Vienna, and from there to London in 1934.
This concert presents chamber works of two
composers in very different conditions of exile,
examining their aesthetic interests during
uncertain times.
Admission Free
Out of the Shadows
The New Budapest Orpheum
Society: Jewish Cabaret Tradition
Julia Bentley (mezzo soprano) Philip V. Bohlman
(artistic director) Stewart Figa (baritone) Danny
Howard (percussion) Iordanka Kissiova (violin)
Ilya Levinson (music director and piano) Mark
Sonksen (double bass) Don Stille (accordion)
The New Budapest Orpheum Society, an Ensemblein-Residence at the University of Chicago, draws
upon a wide range of repertories, many forgotten,
others preserved in European archives, all
poignantly bearing witness to the great tradition of
Jewish cabaret. The NBOS will perform works from
their repertoire and works recently rediscovered by
‘Performing the Jewish Archive’ researchers.
Tickets: £10 (adults) £8 (over 60s)
£5 (under 18s, students and unwaged)
Claudio Monteverdi, Il ballo dell
Ingrate (1608) & John Blow, Venus
and Adonis (c.1683)
Leeds Baroque Orchestra and Choir directed by
Peter Holman
Two magical pieces of music theatre written for
seventeenth-century courts. Il ballo delle Ingrate is
a cautionary tale in which Venus asks Pluto to
release a group of Mantuan court ladies from
Underworld as a terrible warning against being
hard-hearted in love. The goddess of love also
appears in the masque Venus and Adonis, written
for Charles II's court, played by his mistress Moll
Davies with their young daughter Lady Mary Tudor
as Cupid. Cupid has accidentally wounded his
mother with one of his arrows, which causes her to
fall in love with the hunter Adonis. Tragedy strikes
when she sends him off hunting, only for him to be
fatally wounded by a boar.
Tickets: £18
Free - Students and Under 16s
Out of the Shadows
‘Looking forward through the past’:
New Operas from the Jewish
Archive
Thursday 23 June, 8:00pm
Singers and instrumentalists from the Royal
Northern College of Music
Students from the University of Leeds and the
Royal Northern College of Music present a
programme of newly-composed opera scenes
depicting stories of Jewish migration, internment
and exile.
Taking the latest archival discoveries of the
Performing the Jewish Archive team as inspiration
some of the finest young composers in the region
have created a series of powerful and moving
scenes for mixed voices and small instrumental
ensemble, under the supervision of Professor Adam
Gorb and Dr Stephen Muir.
This concert represents the culmination of a
month’s music and theatre, “Out of the Shadows”.
Having looked back to the archive of Jewish
musical and theatrical heritage, we bring the
festival full circle, combining the two artforms and,
looking forward through the past, begin to create
the Jewish musical-theatrical archive of the future.
Admission Free
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Family Concert:
Myths and Legends
Opera North Children’s Chorus
Justin Doyle (conductor) Jenny Martins (piano)
The acclaimed Opera North Children’s Chorus
performs a short work based on the same myths
and legends as Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and
Wagner’s Ring cycle.
Come and hear about gods, giants, dwarves and
strange creatures… Singing a sequence of
folksongs from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland
and Estonia, the Chorus presents the story of the
creation of the world as described in Icelandic
traditional tales. This is magical, captivating
music that will appeal to adults and children alike.
Tickets: £8
Opera North Childrens Chorus, photography by Brian Slater
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Student Showcase
After their first year of study, students from the School
of Music majoring in solo performance are invited to
perform alongside their peers, in Concert Series
Showcase events, accompanied by the School
Répétiteur, Daniel Gordon*. Participation in the
Concert Series gives these students valuable
experience in interpretation, stagecraft, performance
preparation and mindset. With many of them
progressing on to postgraduate conservatoire study or
performance related jobs, performing in such a
prestigious Series is seen as a key part of these
students development.
Finalist Platform
Weekly performance classes in the Concert Hall allow
for the sharing of detailed performance critique
between students and their peers, and between
students and tutors.
As well as regularly taking to the stage as soloists,
through performance classes students broaden and
deepen their musicianship, of both instrumental /
vocal repertoires and genres. In turn, this experience
helps students analyse each other’s performance, e.g.
classical and jazz students critiquing one another.
Finalist Platform concerts celebrate solo performance,
with a single student taking centre stage for the
entire performance.
Photograph by Ryan Blackwell
Student Showcase,
Finalist Platform and
Ensemble Performance
Ensemble Performance
The School of Music’s Ensemble Performance modules
provide opportunities for students to participate in a
range of instrumental and vocal groups led by staff
and external practitioners. The ensemble line-up
varies from year to year, but can include orchestra,
choir and ‘The Band Project’, as well as opportunities
to perform contemporary music through LSTwo, and to
explore new playing styles and approaches in groups
such as Gamelan or Percussion Ensemble. Students
are exposed to a broad range of approaches to
interpreting music, rehearsal and ensemble
performance, and also benefit from the knowledge
and insight of staff, many of whom have worked and
often continue to work professionally or semiprofessionally as conductors and musical directors.
This year we are delighted to be collaborating with the
Grand Union Orchestra and SAA-uk on a large
choral-orchestral project. Previous collaborations
include Martin Pickard (formerly Head of Music at
Opera North) and Leeds Baroque (dir. Peter Holman).
*The School of Music has its own Répétiteur, Daniel
Gordon: as well as organising and tutoring
performance classes, Daniel accompanies student
performers in classes, exams, concerts,
masterclasses and auditions.
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How to book
General information
Tickets can be purchased online, by post or telephone.
Contact Us
Advance Purchase
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Ticketed concerts can be booked and paid for online via the concerts web page at: concerts.leeds.ac.uk
Accessibility
The Concert Hall is fully accessible, with reserved
spaces for wheelchair users and their carers.
Assistance dogs are welcome.
Programme Details
Send a note of your ticket requirements, your contact details (phone number/email address) and a cheque made
payable to University of Leeds with a self addressed envelope to: The Concert Series Box Office, School of Music,
University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
To reserve tickets for any concert email details of your
requirements to [email protected] or telephone
0113 3432584. To attract advance purchase discount,
payment must be received 14 days prior to the
performance. Late reservations (at full price) will be
held until 20 minutes before the performance.
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Tickets can be bought over the phone using a debit/credit card by calling 0113 3432584 during box office hours.
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Remaining tickets are available on the door from 30 minutes before the concert is due to start.
Seating for all performances is unreserved unless
otherwise stated.
All concerts are free to students and young people in
full-time education; proof of status (student ID card)
may be required.
Concert Series Half Season Pass
Make the most of the diverse range of concerts on
offer with a Concert Series Half Season Pass. A single
payment of £45 provides admission to the remainder
of the 2015-16 Series.
Clothworkers Bar
The newly appointed, fully licensed Clothworkers Bar
will be open for every concert. Serving wines, spirits,
mixers, soft drinks, tea and coffee, and a range of
snacks, this new facility promises to make the Concert
Series experience a more sociable one. Take full
advantage and pre-order your interval drinks, avoid
queues for the bar, relax and enjoy the break.
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Published details are correct at the time of going
to press. The Concert Series reserves the right to
vary the programme in the case of unforeseen
circumstances and will provide due notice
whenever possible.
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How to find us
Library Pub
C Clothworkers Centenary
Concert Hall (School of Music)
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From the south (M1/M621)
At J43 the M1 splits. Take the right-hand lanes
and follow M621 Leeds Centre. Exit M621 at J3 and
follow signs for city centre and universities. Pass
under the railway bridges keeping in the outside
lane and enter City Square. Take exit signposted
‘University’ (the main Post Office to your right). Turn
right at next traffic lights into East Parade. Travel up
East Parade in the left-hand lane, straight across
the Headrow into Calverley Street (Town Hall will
be on your left). Continue past the Leeds General
Infirmary (on your left) and turn right at the lights
immediately after the Civic Hall (on your right). Turn
left at the next traffic lights to Woodhouse Lane. The
main entrance can be found on your left after a few
hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson
Building Tower.
From the M62 eastbound
Exit M62 at J27 to the M621. Exit the M621 at J2
(signposted Harrogate, York and Skipton) and after
a few hundred yards approach major roundabout.
Take third exit to city centre and join inner ring
road, A58(M). Take exit signposted Skipton A660
which will bring you to Woodhouse Lane. The main
entrance can be found on your left after a few
Building Tower.
From A1 southbound & from York
Leave A1 taking A64 towards Leeds and join inner
ring road (dual carriageway). Take exit signposted
Skipton A660 which will bring you to Woodhouse
Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left
after a few hundred yards, immediately before the
Parkinson Building.
From A62 (Huddersfield) & A58 (Halifax)
Join inner ring road. Take exit signposted Skipton
A660 which will bring you to Woodhouse Lane. The
main entrance can be found on your left after a few
Building.
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via School of Music,
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From A61 (Harrogate) & A58 (Wetherby)
Follow signs to University. At Merrion Centre traffic
lights, a right turn brings you to Woodhouse Lane.
The main entrance can be found on your left after
a few hundred yards, immediately before the
Parkinson Building.
Regular bus services from the city centre stop
outside the main entrance (Parkinson Building).
For details of timetable and service telephone
0113 245 7676
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Out of the Shadows
Rediscovering Jewish music and theatre
An exciting and innovative series of concerts, theatrical presentation and talks in Leeds and
York based on the rediscovered creations of artists in internment, exile or migration in the
twentieth century. Featuring choral music of émigré composers, chamber music and
cabarets of the Terezin Ghetto, drama from the Helsinki Jewish archives and much more.
The Smoke of Home
Saturday 16 April, 7:00pm and
Sunday 17 April, 8:00pm and 9.30pm
Clifford’s Tower, York
A recently rediscovered one-act play written in the
Terezín ghetto.
Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer
Wednesday 1 June, 7:30pm
Holy Trinity Church, Leeds
Cassia String Quartet
An intimate, moving, and occasionally humorous
portrait of the Czech-born composer and pianist,
tragically murdered at the age of 25 in Auschwitz.
Harlequin in the Ghetto
Thursday 2 June - Sunday 5 June
The Black Box, Department of Theatre, Film and
Television, University of York
In 1942, a young prisoner in the Terezín ghetto wrote
a commedia dell'arte-inspired play: would Harlequin,
the lovable clown, escape the clutches of the
Capitano? These new works, based on preserved
fragments of the script, engage with the question:
what are we to make of a comedy written during the
Holocaust?
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Make once more my heart thy
home: The Choral Music of Hans Gál
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds
National Centre for Early Music, York
Clothworkers Consort of Leeds
Hans Gál was one of a generation of Jewish
composers forced to flee Austria when the Nazis
invaded. This programme celebrates Gál’s love of
choral music.
The Nash Ensemble: Music in the
Terezín Ghetto
Fate and Fairytales: the music of
Wilhelm Grosz and Zikmund Schul
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Wednesday 8 June, 7:15pm
Described as ‘chamber music royalty’ (Sunday
Times), the Nash Ensemble presents music from the
Terezín ghetto by Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullman, and
Hans Krása, alongside Smetana’s Bartered Bride
overture, frequently performed in Terezín.
Mother Rachel and Her Children:
A rediscovered oratorio
Left Bank Leeds
This piece takes the viewer on a journey with scenes
from the two thousand years of suffering of the
Jewish people that culminates in the death camps of
the Third Reich.
The New Budapest Orpheum
Society: Jewish Cabaret Tradition
National Centre for Early Music, York
The New Budapest Orpheum Society draw upon a
wide range of repertories, many forgotten, others
preserved in European archives, all poignantly
bearing witness to the great tradition of Jewish
cabaret.
This concert presents chamber works of two
composers in very different conditions of exile,
examining their aesthetic interests during uncertain
times.
From Anne Frank to Terezín Theatre:
The History of the Holocaust from
the Inside
Tuesday 21 June - Wednesday 22 June,
7:30pm
Bootham School, York
In this collaboration between Bootham School, the
Anne Frank Trust and the University of York, students
will develope a performance based on scripts written
in the Terezín Ghetto.
‘Looking forward through the past’:
New Operas from the Jewish Archive
Thursday 23 June 2016, 8.00pm
Students from the University of Leeds and the Royal
Northern College of Music present a programme of
newly-composed opera scenes depicting stories of
Jewish migration, internment and exile.
For further information contact us:
0113 343 2581
[email protected]
ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/leeds-york-2016
Tickets will be on sale from 17 February
FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY ART AND MUSIC
FUAM was founded in 1989 to promote and support art and music at the University of Leeds.
From informal beginnings as a group of staff members and friends with an interest in helping to
foster the University’s musical and artistic life and outreach, FUAM has grown into an active and lively
organisation, with a regular wide-ranging programme of events.
Through its fundraising activities it has provided financial support to both The Stanley & Audrey Burton
Gallery and the University of Leeds International Concert Series.
Members receive invitations to pre-exhibition talks held in The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, enjoy
occasional special events in connection with individual exhibitions, acquisitions and concerts. In
addition a regular programme of off-campus talks and visits explores art and music further afield.
Sunday 31 January 2016
Chamber & Piano Competition Final
Become a member of FUAM
All are welcome to join and special provision is made to encourage younger members
with a reduced subscription for students and those under thirty years of age.
Sunday 1 May 2016
Chamber Orchestra
You can join online via the FUAM website: fuam.leeds.ac.uk
Sunday 8 May 2016
Concert Band & Brass Band
As a registered charity FUAM may accept donations and legacies
and enhance these, at no cost to the donor, via the gift aid scheme.
Sunday 5 June 2016
Chorus & Sinfonia
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A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
A celebration of the 400 year legacy of William Shakespeare and the 60th
anniversary of the opening and ground breaking work of the University of Leeds
‘Man Made Fibres’ building.
The stage@leedscompany uses Shakespeare’s first folio, the work of Sculptor
and Artist Mitzi Cunliff (whose ‘Man Made Fibres’ sculpture adorns the Man Made
Fibres building to this day) and the PCI Fashion Archive as inspiration and resource
material for a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s elemental comedy full of
contemporary humour, 1950’s glamour and timeless magic.
...what fools these mortals be
Thur 18 - Sat 20 Feb
7.30pm
Stage One, stage@leeds
£10.00 (£7.50)
Box Office: 0113 343 8730
Stage your event at the
School of Music
Located on the main campus, the School of Music
provides a unique location for conferences and
events. Its focal point is the stunning 250-seat
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall. As well as
being the perfect venue for musical performances,
the Hall is also suitable for large conferences and
presentations with comprehensive AV/IT facilities,
including recently added HD live video streaming.
The Concert Hall is supported by the Concert
Hall Foyer and newly appointed, fully licensed
Clothworkers Bar. Featuring Concert Series artwork,
a mix of comfortable soft seating, and options to add
a bar service and live background music, the Foyer
not only provides an attractive space for registration,
refreshments and exhibitions, it can also host end
of day licensed entertainment. Four AV equipped
Lecture Theatres flank the Foyer, and combine
with the Concert Hall, Foyer and Clothworkers Bar
to make the School of Music the ideal venue for a
self-contained event requiring a range of flexible
breakout space.
To further support your event, the School works
closely with University’s Conference and Catering
teams to fulfill accommodation and refreshment
requirements. Ensuring the smooth running of
your event, the School’s technical team provides a
professional and personable service to complement
your own planning.
To discuss your event requirements, contact:
Dan Merrick
Operations / IT Manager
0113 343 8212
[email protected]
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