Concerts: Schedule 2008-2009
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Event 1: Municipal Musical Miscellany
Saturday 20th Sept at 7.:30pm
Conductor - Mike Kirby
Soloists - Rachel Milestone and Duncan Boutwood
As part of the celebrations to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Leeds Town Hall, this concert will focus on the music that was performed there during the nineteenth century. Leeds Town Hall was central to music-making in Leeds at this time, enabling people regardless of class, sex and denomination to experience a wide variety of music, en masse. This concert will give a taste of the varied repertoire performed in Leeds Town Hall during the nineteenth - century, from oratorio to minstrelsy, including pieces that have not been publicly performed since that time. The Leeds Town Hall Polka will be a particular highlight!
The Music and the Idea of the North conference was the official celebratory event for the anniversary.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £10, £7 and £3 students and young people.
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Event 2: David Milsom – violin and Jonathan Gooing (pic) -piano
Friday 3rd Oct 1.10pm
A concert of late nineteenth-century music, on period
instruments, focusing on Joseph Joachim’s and Johannes
Brahms’ performing practice. Works to include Brahms
violin sonata in A major, op. 100.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Friday 10 Oct 9.00pm
Louise Gibbs - vocals, Jonathan Gee (pic) - piano,
Trio Literati - readers
“You and the Night and the Music ... And Poetry Too”
Celebrate the thrills and fears
of the night, the upbeat and
the offbeat, with a quirky blend of jazz songs from ‘the
cool’ and poetry from the Beat generation.
For this Light Leeds event Louise Gibbs is joined by her
long-time collaborator, Jonathan Gee, (one of Europe’s
most highly regarded pianists, a composer and bandleader,
who featured on her More Questions Than
Answers album) and actors Maggie Mash, Jane Oakshott
and Richard Rastall. With Louise’s jazz-horn approach to
singing and commitment to improvisational interplay, the
evening guarantees a “one-off” performance.
Light refreshments
available from 8.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 4: Bob Ashworth (pic) - principal Horn, Opera North
and Daniel Gordon - piano
Friday 17 Oct 1.10pm
Sonata for horn & piano by Nicolas de Crufft
Phantasiestück - Elegie Op.35/1 by Louis Bodecker
Sonata for horn & piano Op.178 by Joseph Rheinberger.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Wednesday 22 Oct 1.10pm
In collaboration with London Sinfonietta we welcome an ensemble of the lead musicians from the Ugandan Dance Academy.
This autumn the London Sinfonietta have been working with the Lead Musicians of Uganda Dance Academy - Bernard Kayiggya, Samuel Bakkabulindi, Hakim Kiwanuka, Robert Lubanga, and Mathias Muwonge - in London in the culmination of a two-year collaboration.
We are delighted that audiences in Leeds will have the opportunity to hear the results of this remarkable meeting of Western and African cultures and hear a wonderful repertoire of singing, dancing and instrumental music.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 5: intriplicate
Friday 24 Oct 1.10pm
Claire Fillhart - flute, Sally Richardson - oboe
Claire Dunham - piano
In this the first of our Alumni series we welcome
back pianist Claire Dunham with her colleagues for
a programme that includes music by another Leeds
graduate David Lloyd-Mostyn - his Cheshire Phantasies.
Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano - Jacob,
Fantasie-Impromptu in C # minor - Chopin,
Suite Bourgeoise for Flute, Oboe & Piano - Malcolm Arnold,
Tarantelle - Philippe Gaubert
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Friday 31 Oct 1.10pm
Mieko Kanno - Electric Violin
Sam Hayden - Electronics
Programme: The concert will feature Sam Hayden’s
_schismatics_ for electric violin and live signal processing.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 7: Leeds Guild of Singers
Saturday 1 Nov 7.30pm
Graham Coatman – conductor
Rowena Thornton - soprano
Philip Wilcox - baritone
Andrew Bedford, Alan Horsey - pianos
BRAHMS – A GERMAN REQUIEM
(sung in German) the “chamber” version performed
with Brahms’ own accompaniment for 2 pianos. The
programme also includes
Schütz - Selig sind die Toten
Rautavaara - Lorca Suite
Britten - Hymn to St Cecilia
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £10, £7 and £3 students and young people.
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Event 8: Song recital
Sunday 2 Nov 3.00pm
George Humphreys - baritone, with Timothy End - piano
Programme:-
Earth and Air and Rain - Finzi
Don Quichotte - Ravel
Sleep - Parry
Clown's Songs from 12th Night - Stanford
Joy, Shipmate, joy - Stanford
First Prize winner in the 2008 Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize Competition, programme to be announced.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £10, £7 and £3 students and young people.
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Event 9: Zoe Rahman - piano
Friday 7 Nov 1.10pm
Zoe’s programme will include her own compositions
(from her Mercury Prize nominated album ‘Melting Pot’
and some newer material) as well as music by Abdullah
Ibrahim, JoAnne Brackeen among others with solo
piano versions of the music from her forthcoming album, ‘Where Rivers Meet’
“One of the finest young pianists in Europe” -
Dave Gelly, The Observer
“A superb jazz artist. Totally absorbing. Magnificent.” -
Trudie Squires, Jazzsteps website
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Friday 14 Nov 1.10pm
In a performance of traditional and contemporary material.
In partnership with The Irish Arts Foundation as part of
The 4th Leeds Gathering: a Celebration of Irish Music &
Arts. www.irisharts.org.uk

Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 11: Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra
Sunday 16 Nov 3.00 pm
Directed by Peter Holman
Looking forward to the Handel anniversary in 2009
Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra present Messiah in a period instrument performance utilising the choral
and orchestral forces of Handel’s day and performed on
period instruments.
“What an exciting ensemble, music cunningly articulated …every work delivered different colours and emotions.” -
Yorkshire Post
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £12, £8 and £3 students and young people available from Friends of Leeds Baroque
(email: lbo.friends@ntlworld.com or telephone: 0113
2267564) and at the door.
Friday 21 Nov 1.10pm
A programme of a cappella choral music marking the
centenary of Rimsky-Korsakov’s (pictured) death and the 20th
anniversary of the death of Georgy Sviridov featuring
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Otche nash (Our Father) and
Kheruvimskaya pesn No. 4 (Cherubic Hymn no. 4),
and Sviridov’s Concerto for Choir Pushkinskii venok (A
Pushkin Wreath) sung in Russian.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 13: Dharambir Singh - sitar and Kousic Sen - tabla
Friday 28 Nov 1.10pm
Two of the country’s most respected exponents of North Indian Music join together to give the best of Sitar and Tabla.
Dharambir Singh brings together some innovative ideas within the North Indian Classical music idiom. Tabla accompaniment is by the eminent international virtuoso Kousic Sen.
Light refreshments available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 14: University Philharmonia
Sunday 30 Nov 3.00pm
Conducted by Eno Koço
Note this performance takes place in the Great Hall
A concert marking the retirement of Professor Philip
Wilby and a celebration of his time in the School of
Music. The programme will include - Philip Wilby
Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra, with soloist Dave
Thornton (Black Dyke) and Walton Façade Suites, and
Variations on a Theme of Hindemith
Venue: Great Hall, University of Leeds
Admission: Tickets £10, £7 and £3 students and young people.
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Event 15: Student Showcase
Friday 5 Dec 1.10pm
Chamber music programmes by
students from the School of Music.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Saturday 17 Jan 2.00pm - 5.00pm
As a preliminary to this evening’s concert we offer an
opportunity for all singers to explore plainchant with John
Rowlands-Pritchard of Opus Anglicanum. The foundation
of much of Western choral music, this rich repertoire is
often neglected and this afternoon workshop will give
participants a richly rewarding musical experience and
an opportunity to participate in the evening performance.
During the afternoon participants will work on two pieces
for the concert and a setting of Compline which will be
performed after the concert. Music will be provided.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: For the workshop (singers and observers) £5,
students and young people free. Note Under 18s should
be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Application
form available here - places must be booked in advance.
Saturday 17 Jan 7.30pm
John Touhey - reader; Stephen Burrows - alto; Richard
Butler - tenor; John Bowen - tenor; Roland Robertson -
baritone; John Rowlands-Pritchard - bass.
THE SONG OF THE ANGELS –
Music for voices by Howard Skempton, Patrick Larley,
Palestrina, Russian Orthodox chant, Gregorian chant,
Byrd, and Victoria. A narrated text from Spencer, Suso,
Eliot, Traherne, and Alcuin celebrates angels as invisible
companions and guardians, as spiritual warriors, muses
of creativity and as messengers, heralds, and healers.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £12, £8 and £3 students and young people.
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Event18: Eroica Quartet
Friday 23 Jan 1.10pm
The Eroica Quartet is joined by members of the LUCHIP quartet for the great Mendelssohn Octet. This recital
will be followed by a master-class given by members of
the Eroica to which members of the public are cordially
invited.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Friday 30 Jan 1.10pm
Another recital in our 19th-century music series - Violin
Sonatas by Eberl and Beethoven.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Sunday 1 Feb 3.00pm
“A Celebration of Jewish Liturgical and Folk Music….
Jewish Cantorial and Folk Music through the ages”.
The Shabbaton Choir’s innovative choral sound has been
heard in synagogue services and concerts throughout
the United Kingdom and abroad. The harmonies and
arrangements are written with the aim of bringing out
clearly the mood and meaning of the words.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £14, £10 and £3 students and young people.
For complete booking and payment information click here or to make an online reservation click here
Event 21: The Full Monteverdi
Thursday 5 Feb 7.00pm (Pre show talk) and 7.45pm (Film)
One of the most moving collections
of Renaissance vocal music brought to life as a
contemporary drama specifically for the screen.
A special film showing and introductory talk on the
making of John La Bouchardière’s critically acclaimed
debut film The Full Monteverdi, featuring leading vocal
ensemble I Fagiolini directed by Robert Hollingworth.
Claudio Monteverdi’s Fourth book of Madrigals (1603)
explores differing emotional states of abandoned lovers
through the most dramatic and amazingly modern
music for vocal ensemble. The Full Monteverdi follows
the simultaneous break-up of six couples, from
shocking revelation, vengeful anger and erotic longing
for reconciliation, as an ensemble film. Vulnerable and
disarming, it draws viewers into its emotional journey and
intensely moving portrait of contemporary love.
“Bouchardière’s verité-style direction, reminiscent of
Kieslowski in its bold opening silence and unrelenting in
emotional delivery, has the makings of an award winner” -
Andrew Stewart, Early Music Review
“This brilliant film... sung with consummate artistry...” -
Richard Lawrence, Classic FM Magazine
Venue: stage@leeds - School of Performance and Cultural
Industries
Admission: Tickets £10, £7 and £3 students and young people.
For complete booking and payment information click here or to make an online reservation click here

4-8 Feb Folk Festival II
Special Offer (Save 10%), Folk Festival II Saver ticket: Admission to all Folk Fest events including the workshop (but please fill in a booking form for the workshop) Full price £ £32 Adult concessions £22, Students and young people £14. Email for purchasing details
EXTRA EVENT : Dearman, Gammon and Harrison in concert
Wednesday 4 Feb 7.30pm
Annie Dearman, Vic Gammon and Steve Harrison perform English traditional balads and tunes in a robust and firmly rooted English style, accompanied on various squeezeboxes, banjo and mouth organ. Their repertory comes from folk song collectors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; from manuscript tune and song books , ballad sheets and songs they just happen to hear and like.
Their CD Black Crow White Crow has had great reviews:
'… powerful lusty vocals from Annie Dearman, Steve Harrison's sensitive melodeon accompaniment, distinctive unaccompanied singing of Vic Gammon.... What stands out for me are the wonderful tunes to the largely traditional material ..' (Shreds and Patches)
'A really rather splendid album.... Singers such as Dearman, Gammon and Harrison are producing a new tradition - one based firmly in the older traditions, but also one that displays its own vitality and innovation.' (Musical Traditions)
Note: Vic Gammon will talk about the reprtoire of the English Street Balad and his research on Thursday afternoon (4:30pm in the School of Music) Admission Free - no booking required
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £10 and £7 adult concessions £3 students and young people.
Please Note: Tickets for this event are available on the door
Thursday 5 Feb 4.30pm
An Illustrated Lecture by Dr Vic Gammon (Senior Lecturer in Folk & Traditional Music, Newcastle University)
Adnission Free - No booking required
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 22: Tom Leary & PJ Wright
Friday 6 Feb 1.10pm
Tom Leary & PJ Wright
February Folk Fest: Top “Feast of Fiddles” folk fiddler
Tom Leary (pictured, below) - Fiddle, Mandolin, Guitar, is joined by PJ
Wright (pictured, right) - lead vocalist and guitarist with ace folk-rock outfit
Little Johnny England.
Their programme will include a selection of songs and
instrumentals both traditional and self-penned, mostly
influenced by the traditional music of the British Isles,
played on acoustic guitars, fiddle, mandolin etc...
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 23: Joe Broughton - fiddle and Chris While - vocals and guitar.
Saturday 7 Feb 1.10pm
Joe makes a welcome return, this time with the legendary
singer, guitarist and songwriter Chris While.
“She rises like an angel from the ashes with a voice to match” -
The Guardian
“The voice of her generation” -
Steve Knightley
“Chris While is the best singer in the UK” -
Barbara Dickson
“She has the heart of a poet and the eyes of a painter.
Her writing is literate, credible, forthright and honest. Her
voice is beautiful,...” -
Maverick Magazine
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £7, £5 and £3 students and young people.
Folk Fest Workshop 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Led by Joe Broughton this workshop will provide an
opportunity for players of all instruments to delve deeper
into the performance of traditional music.
The workshop is open to all and observers are welcome.
(We regret that we are unable to accommodate
participants under eighteen unless accompanied by a
parent or guardian)
Tickets £7 including light refreshments (accompanied
under 18s free). For an application form please email the concerts administrator.
For complete booking and payment information click here or to make an online reservation click here
Event 24: Joe Broughton and The Birmingham
Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
Saturday 7 Feb 7.30pm
Directed by Joe Broughton (Albion Band) since 1999,
Birmingham Conservatoire’s Folk Ensemble can already count among its ‘graduates’ musicians like Jim Moray,
winner of two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

The Folk Ensemble’s exceptionally entertaining shows
mix original compositions with inventive arrangements
of traditional music from the UK and around the world,
and its performances at the Conservatoire have regularly
drawn capacity audiences.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £12, £8 and £3 students and young people.
For complete booking and payment information click here or to make an online reservation click here
Event 25: Irish Arts BYO
Sunday 8 Feb 3.00pm
Irish folk Music with Chris O’Malley, Des
Hurley and Friends – and opportunity to hear some of the
best in Irish Folk music. Bring your own instrument and
join the performers for the second half of the concert!
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required

4-8 Feb Folk Festival II
Special Offer (Save 10%), Folk Festival II Saver ticket: Admission to all Folk Fest events including the workshop (but please fill in a booking form for the workshop) Full price £ £32 Adult concessions £22, Students and young people £14. Email for purchasing details
Event 26: Kariosa Ensemble
Friday 13 Feb 1.05pm
Jose Zalba - Flute, Karen Gibbard - Oboe
Iona Garvie - Bassoon, Louisa Lam - Piano
Another concert in the Alumni series in which we invite
recent graduates, now professional performers back
to Leeds. Karen Gibbard returns with colleagues in an
exciting programme for wind instruments and piano
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 27: Empirical
Saturday 14 Feb 7.30pm
Nathaniel Facey-Alto Sax
Tom Farmer-Double Bass
Shaney Forbes-Drums
Lewis Wright-Vibraphone
George Fogel-Piano
Jazz in Clothies: The multi award-winning jazz quintet
Empirical expertly incorporates elements of classical,
African and Cuban musical forms into its original,
sophisticated, fresh-sounding jazz. They perform
with astonishing musical maturity, confidence and
cohesiveness - each member contributing equally, adding
their own facets to the overall sound. With an impressive
international tour programme, if you can’t hear them
in New York you must hear them here! Early booking
advisable.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £14, £10 and £3 students and young people.
For complete booking and payment information click here or to make an online reservation click here
Event 28: TONADILLAS Y GOYESCAS.
Friday 20 Feb 1.10pm
Hilary Thomas - Soprano
Daniel Gordon - Piano
A programmme exploring the TONADILLA or early theatre
songs of the Madrid of Francisco Goya. This is reflected in a performance of the settings by ‘Musician and Artist’
ENRIQUE GRANADOS (pictured) (1867 - 1916) and includes
related songs and music from his piano suite GOYESCAS.
This recital will be followed after a short break by a Master
Class directed by Hilary Thomas. All are invited to attend
free of charge.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
EXTRA EVENT : The Oboe Quartet
Friday 27 Feb 1.10pm
Michael Niesemann - Oboe
Pauline Nobes (pictured) - Violin
Rachel Isserlis - Viola
Nicholas Selo - Cello
Mozart and Friends - music by Wañhal, Mozart,and Miça
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Free - No Booking Required
Event 29: Melvyn Tan
Sunday 22 Feb 3.00pm
Following Melvyn’s highly successful recital with the
Radio 3 lunchtime series last season we are delighted
to welcome him back to be reunited with his Erard
piano.
His programme will include Debussy - Suite
Bergamasque
Schubert (trans. Lizst)
Liebesbotschaft (Love’s message),
Du bist die Ruh (You are the piece),
Sei mir gegrüßt (To be greeted)
Auf dem Wasser zu singen (singing on the water)
Ständchen (Hark, hark, the lark) (words: Shakespeare)
and to celebrate the Chopin anniversary, Chopin - Sonata
in B minor, Op. 58.

This recital will be preceded at 2.00pm by a pre-concert
talk given by Melvyn Tan – free to concert ticket holders.
This concert is promoted in collaboration with Leeds
International Concert Season. Early Booking advisable.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £14, £10 and £3 students and young people.

For complete booking and payment information click here or to make an online reservation click here
Event 30: Patxi del Amo - viola da gamba, Judy Tarling - violin,
Peter Holman - continuo
Friday 6 March 1.10pm
English Seventeenth-Century Music for Violin, Bass Viol
and Organ.
The programme will include works by George Jeffries, Anthony Poole, John Jenkins and Henry Purcell.
Light refreshments available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event 31: The Opera Project
Friday 6 March 7.30pm
Conducted by Clive Brown, Chorus
Master Bryan White
First British performance of Spohr’s opera Pietro von
Abano. The School of Music in collaboration with the
School of Performance and Cultural Industries will stage
two performances of the opera as part of the Opera North-
University of Leeds Partnership. This production will also
commemorate the 150th anniversary of Spohr’s death.
The opera, composed in 1827, was highly controversial.
Fellow musicians and composers (including Meyerbeer), considered it a musical and dramatic masterpiece, but
the risqué nature of the plot offended early 19th-century
sensibilities and prevented it from being performed more
widely.
Venue: The Riley Smith Hall (Students Union).
Event 32: The Opera Project - 2nd night
Saturday 7 March 7.30pm
Conducted by Clive Brown, Chorus
Master Bryan White
First British performance of Spohr’s opera Pietro von
Abano. The School of Music in collaboration with the
School of Performance and Cultural Industries will stage
two performances of the opera as part of the Opera North-
University of Leeds Partnership. This production will also
commemorate the 150th anniversary of Spohr’s death.
The opera, composed in 1827, was highly controversial.
Fellow musicians and composers (including Meyerbeer), considered it a musical and dramatic masterpiece, but
the risqué nature of the plot offended early 19th-century
sensibilities and prevented it from being performed more
widely.
Venue: The Riley Smith Hall (Students Union).
Event 33: Leeds Baroque Orchestra
Sunday 8 March 3.00pm
Handel Anniversary Concert: Handel in Italy a concert
by Handel and his Italian contemporaries including
Pergolesi’s haunting Stabat Mater.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: Tickets £10, £7 and £3 students and young people available from Friends of Leeds Baroque
(email: lbo.friends@ntlworld.com or telephone: 0113
2267564) and at the door.
Event 34: Leeds Baroque Choir
Wednesday 18 March 7.30pm
Chorus Master Clive McClelland
Directed by Peter Holman with members of Leeds
Baroque Orchestra.
A Venetian Vespers of c. 1640. Not the well-known 1610
vespers but a sequence of psalms and motets with a
hymn and a setting of the Magnificat drawn mainly from
music Monteverdi wrote during his years at St Mark’s in
Venice.
Admission: Tickets £10, £7 and £3 students and young people available from Friends of Leeds Baroque (email: lbo.friends@ntlworld.com or telephone: 0113 2267564) and at the door.
Event 35: Judy Cook
Friday 20 March 1.10pm
“Women and the Sea” – a welcome return of this noted
American ballad singer in a programme of songs charting
women’s turbulent relationship with the sea (and sailors!)
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
EXTRA EVENT : David Owen Norris - piano
Saturday 21 March 2.00pm
“Elgar at the Piano”
David Owen Norris will discuss and perform the Concert Allegro and the Five Improvisations, and explain the paradox that such a fluent pianist shout write so little for the piano. The Concert Allegro is an exciting piece which originally dates from 1901. However, following an unconvincing and dubious first performance, Elgar attempted to revise the work by making significant cuts. The work was never published and was soon forgotten. A century on, after considerable research, Norris has succeeded in restoring the piece to its original and inspired conception. The Five Improvisations are similarly the result of Norris’s enthusiasm for forgotten gems and are based on a recording made in 1929 in the Small Queen’s Hall in Central London when Elgar improvised at the piano straight onto HMV’s hot wax. The resulting pieces were not heard live again until 1995 when Norris performed them in the Bergen Festival. This lecture recital promises to be an exciting voyage of discovery for all enthusiasts of Elgar’s music and piano music in general
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Tickets for the whole day (including the recital above) are £23, £18 (adult concessions) and £10 (students and young people – under 18s).
For more details (including tickets) please email: emfyorkshire@parker1.plus.com or telephone Kevin Paynes on 01423 872651.
www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk
Event 36: LUCHIP piano trio
Sunday 19 April 3.00pm
Daniel Gordon, (Piano)
Clive Brown (Violin)
Harriet Cawood (cello)
Another recital in our series highlighting 19th-century
performing practice - Piano trios by Spohr and Brahms
played on period instruments.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Contemporary Music Festival 22nd - 29th April 2009 Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall - The School of Music |
Contemporary Festival Saver Ticket: This ticket will enable you to attend all the following events:
* Trio Atem
* LS2: The School of Music Contemporary Music Ensemble
* The Flautadors
* Ian Buckle, Tim Williams & John Melbourne
* Labyrinth
Event 37: Trio Atem
Wednesday 22 April 7.30pm
Trio Atem were formed in 2007 when regular
collaborators Gavin Osborn - flute and Nina Whiteman
- voice invited ‘cellist Alice Purton to join them for a
performance of Helmut Lachenmann’s temA.
Since
then they have performed a wide variety of repertoire
composed over the last fifty years and have appeared at
festivals across the UK.
They are delighted to be opening the festival with a
programme to include works by Kaija Saariaho, Salvatore
Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event 38: LS2 The School of Music Contemporary Music
Ensemble
Friday 24 April 6.00pm (Rush Hour recital)
Directed by Mic Spencer and Adam Ferguson
Chaya Czernowin (pictured), Afatsim (1996), James MacMillan, …
as others see us.. (1990), plus postgraduate composition.
Light refreshments
available from 5.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event 39: The Contemporary Recorder – a workshop for recorder
players with members of the Flautadors.
Saturday 25 April 2.00pm - 5.00pm
As an introduction to this evening’s recital members of
the quartet will work with recorder players interested in
learning more about twentieth-century and contemporary
repertoire and techniques for the recorder. The workshop
is open to all recorder players with good sight reading
skills. The application form is available here for download.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Admission: £7
Event 40: The Flautadors – Catherine Fleming, Celia Ireland,
Fiona Russell and Ian Wilson – Recorders.
Saturday 25 April 7.30pm
One of Europe’s leading recorder quartets, The
Flautadors, play music from around the globe including
meditative Estonian minimalism, the exotic sound-world
of Japanese music inspired by the shakuhachi and Terry
Riley’s famous work “in C” rarely heard on recorders.
Added to this diverse programme will be the performance
of a brand new work by a young British composer,
together with pieces featuring amazing techniques such
as two recorders played simultaneously by each player.
In all, over 30 instruments will be played in the concert, creating quite a spectacle!
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event 41: Ian Buckle - piano
Richard Casey - piano
Tim Williams - percussion
John Melbourne - percussion
Sunday 26 April 3.00pm
A rare opportunity to hear one of the pinnacles of twentieth-century chamber music - Bartók’s magnificent Sonata for two pianos and percussion, alongside Stravinsky’s quirky and masterful Concerto and John Casken’s Salamandra (1986), subtitled “Fire-haunt” for two pianos.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event 42: Labyrinth
Wednesday 29 April at 7.30pm
Elena Jauregui - violin
Heather Roche - clarinets
Sophia Russell - piano
Labyrinth have been working together as a trio since
2007, and have from the outset made it part of their
ethos to focus on the performance of new works for
their instrumentation. While simultaneously performing
established works for their ensemble by British and
continental European composers, their collaborations with
young composers across the country are a vital and
enjoyable part of their work as an ensemble.
This performance is supported by FOCAM the student
society for composers and musicians.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Contemporary Music Festival 22nd - 29th April 2009 Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall - The School of Music |
Event 43: Student showcase
Friday 1 May 1.10pm
Directed by Daniel Gordon
Another opportunity to hear chamber music
performances by students from the School of Music.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event 44: HengChing Fang - viola
Daniel Gordon - piano
Sunday 3 May 3.00pm
Viola Recital in Memory of Kenneth Roy Cooke 1952-2006.
A varied programme of works for viola and piano
spanning repertoire from the eighteenth to the twentieth
century.
This recital, supported by Dr Shirley Haines-Cooke, is
being held to commemorate and celebrate the life of Ken
Cooke, who died suddenly in April 2006, at the age of 54.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event 45: Alison Stephens - classical mandolin
Steven Devine - fortepiano
Friday 8 May 1.10pm
Alison Stephens is generally considered to be
the leading exponent of the classical mandolin
in the UK. She has played extensively across the UK and
the world in a solo and chamber capacity.
Steven Devine divides his time between professional
performances as an early keyboards specialist,
conducting, and as Assistant Curator at the Finchcocks
Collection of historical keyboard instruments in Kent.
Steven and Alison first met as young musicians at
Finchcocks Museum and have played together regularly
ever since. They released their first CD: “Calace Concertos” together on the Naxos label in August 2007.
The repertoire includes the charming original works for
mandolin and fortepiano by Beethoven and Hummel’s
1810 Grand Sonata performed on fortepiano, a 1933
Luigi Embergher mandolin and a 2008 Martin Bowers
copy of a 1764 Vinaccia mandolin.
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event 46: Renaissance Winds Workshop
Saturday 9 May 10.00am for 10.30am - 4.30pm
A workshop for players of renaissance wind instruments,
led by Richard Thomas. Following studies at the
University of Wales, Bangor, Richard studied at the Royal
Academy of Music, London, with John Wallace, David
Staff, Jeremy West and Ray Allen, and more recently
with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis,
Switzerland.
His expertise, knowledge and engaging
manner will provide an illuminating and enjoyable day.
Repertoire details TBC.
Further information available from http://www.neemf.org.uk/diary where you can download an application form.
Alternatively email: chair@neemf.org.uk or tel: 07979
866303
Event 47: Leeds University Liturgical Choir
Sunday 10 May 3.00pm
Director Bryan White with Quintessential, director Richard Thomas
Susanne un jour.
The noted early brass ensemble Quintessential is joined
by the Leeds University Liturgical Choir for a programme of music inspired by Guillaume Guéroult’s poem Susanne
un jour. The most famous setting of the poem, a chanson
by Orlando di Lasso, became the model for numerous
vocal and instrumental works, including Lasso’s own
Missa Susanne un jour of 1577, which forms the centrepiece of the concert.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event 48: Mercurius Company & Timedance
Saturday 6 June 7.30pm
Directed by Ricardo Barros & Jane Gingell - L'Alma Ardiente

An exciting programme of late 17th- & 18th-century Spanish dance pieces derived from the ‘Escuela Bolera’, which would later flourish into the
Flamenco.
The ensemble of two dancers (in ‘Goya’
costumes and both playing castanets) and four musicians
will provide a spectacle of bravado and energy, both
engaging and uplifting.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Event49: Workshop: stage@leeds - School of Performance and
Cultural Industries
Sunday 7 June 10.00am - 4.00pm
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We regret we will be unable to run the dance workshop due to lack of participants
Event 50: LUUMS
Friday 12 June 1.10pm
Winners of the LUUMS ensemble competition
Leeds Brass Quartet perform a varied programme with music by Tallis, Vaughan Williams, Vinter, Bartok and a new composition by Robert Bushnell.
They will be joined by guests Lucy Barrie on percussion and Liz Moran on piano
Light refreshments
available from 12.30pm.
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
Extra Event: Leeds Baroque - Purcell and Handel, A Celebration
Sunday 14 June 3.00pm
Directed by Peter Holman
Chorus Master Clive McClelland
Celebrating two notable anniversaries the programme will include:
Handel: Dixit Dominus in G minor HWV232 (1707)
&
Henry Purcell: Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem Z46 (1689).
Venue: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music
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