Autumn 2016 to Spring 2017 String Quartets in Leamington Early Music in Warwick Leamington Music Prize Winners Christmas & Family Concerts

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Thanks Leamington Music is very grateful for the

crucial support we receive during the year from many people and organisations, including Arts Council England, Warwick District Council, Leamington Town Council, Warwick Town Council, Warwickshire Music, Presto Classical, BAXI, Wright Hassall Solicitors, the St Mary’s Hall Trust, the Low-Beer Trust, the Friends of Leamington Music, the Royal Leamington Spa Decorative & Fine Arts Society, Ann Bailey, Hugh Beale, Michael and Halldora Blair, Roger Cadbury, Murray Campbell, Dawn Curtis, Sheila Deutsch, Nigel Dimmock, Peter Glanfield, Margaret Goode, John Grimshaw, Gaston Hall, John Henderson, Sheila Hill, John Hobley, Helen Hoggarth, Jonathan Holden, Diane Holt, Rose Ledlie, Jennifer Lorch, Richard Lorch, Barbara Lynn, Rosemarie Magee, Roger Massie, David and June Merricks, Fiona Middle, Georgina Middleton, Maurice Millward, Margaret Pringle, Harford Robb, Peter Robinson, Keith Rockett, Sally Siewert, Howard Skempton, Gabrielle Swabey, Sue Thomas, Sylvia Walker, Paul and Jane Watts, Sally Westmacott, David and Gina Wilson and Julia Winter.

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Welcome Leamington Music was launched ten years ago and you are invited to celebrate this with a particularly strong and varied season. The Carducci Quartet returns to set the pace and we welcome back to Leamington’s Royal Pump Rooms, the Elias, Royal, Stamic and Brodsky Quartets, with the Van Kuijk from France, 2015 winners of the London International String Quartet Competition, playing here for the first time. The monthly series at St Mary’s Warwick, sponsored by BAXI, sees Stile Antico, Ex Cathedra and Dame Emma Kirkby back, but a first time for The Telling, the Chelys Consort of Viols, The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments and the Brook Street Band. The seven concerts at the Royal Spa Centre are notable for their range; Family Concerts for all ages, including a Roald Dahl Day, percussion, saxophones and larger scale Classical chamber music. Roderick Williams embarks on the great Schubert song recitals and there is a mini Christmas Festival with the K’antu Ensemble, Ex Cathedra and the Choir of Clare College Cambridge. It promises to be a vintage season.



Richard Phillips MBE, Festival Director

Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington, CV32 4AA

CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET Friday 7 October at 7.30pm Matthew Denton and Michelle Fleming violins Eoin Schmidt-Martin viola, Emma Denton cello Mendelssohn Quartet in F minor Op 80 Shostakovich Quartet in F minor No 11 Beethoven Quartet in C major Op 59 No 3 Winners of the 2016 Chamber Music category award from the Royal Philharmonic Society, the Carducci Quartet appears at the Royal Pump Rooms for the fifth time. The Quartet comes direct from a tour in Spain and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and includes a key work in the Shostakovich cycle that has brought the Quartet such great acclaim in the past year and more. www.carducciquartet.com Tickets: £21.00 and £17.00 reserved central block £13.00 unreserved sides

St Mary’s Church, Warwick, CV34 4AR

SERIES SPONSOR

Royal Spa Centre, Leamington, CV32 4EA

STILE ANTICO

ROALD DAHL’S CINDERELLA AND DIRTY BEASTS

Tuesday 11 October at 7.30pm

5+

Ensemble 360 with Polly Ives narrator Juliette Bausor flute, Adrian Wilson oboe Matthew Hunt clarinet, Amy Harman bassoon Naomi Atherton horn, Tim Horton piano

Stile Antico, an annual visitor here since winning the Audience Prize at the 2005 York Early Music Festival, makes an eagerly awaited return to Warwick, direct from the BBC Proms and continental concerts, after a gap of over twenty months. www.stileantico.co.uk

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“The singing is staggeringly beautiful.” The Sunday Times

ideal for ages

Sunday 30 October at 11.30am

The Touches of Sweet Harmony - An enticing programme for Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary. Music mostly set to his words with works by Morley, Byrd, Dowland, Huw Watkins, Wilbye, Weelkes, Johnson, Tomkins, Ramsey, Nico Muhly and ending with The Silver Swan and What is Our Life by Gibbons.

Tickets: £22.00 and £18.00 reserved central nave £15.00 unreserved rear nave £13.00 unreserved sides

family concert



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Come and meet three of Roald Dahl’s dirtiest beasts before joining Cinderella at the ball…This concert version of his hilarious poems features audience participation and brilliant music by Martin Butler and Rory Boyle. A half-term treat!

www.musicintheround.co.uk Tickets: £10.00 adults, £5.00 children

Royal Spa Centre Studio, Leamington, CV32 4EA LEAMINGTON MUSIC PRIZE Winners Concert

YU-CHENG CHEN and SHIH-HAN LEE

Ideal for ages

Royal Spa Centre, Leamington, CV32 4EA

12-100!

Sunday 30 October at 3.00pm

Tuesday 18 October at 7.00pm Mellow Marimbas and Vibrant Vibes Music by Chopin, Piazzolla and Ravel with more contemporary works by Anders Koppel, Ivan Trevino, Stephen Whibley, Emmanuel Sejourne and Avner Dorman. These virtuoso Taiwanese percussion players will thrill and amaze any audience on marimbas and vibraphone. Aspiring young musicians will find there is life beyond the drum kit! Tickets: £10.00

SPONSORED BY

ROALD DAHL’S EDWARD THE CONQUEROR



CORDELIA WILLIAMS piano SARA KESTELMAN narrator



Edward the Conqueror

One afternoon a mysterious music-loving cat invites himself into Louisa and Edward’s house and a Tale of the Unexpected unfolds. Roald Dahl’s short story (for grown-ups) is narrated by award-winning actress Sara Kestelman with performances of Bach, Schumann, Liszt and Chopin by rising star pianist Cordelia Williams. www.musicintheround.co.uk Tickets: £13.50 adults, £6.00 children £28.00 family of four (to include two children)

King’s High School Performance Hall, The Butts, Warwick, CV34 4HJ

Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington, CV32 4AA

VAN KUIJK STRING QUARTET

RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone IAIN BURNSIDE piano Schubert Winterreise

Friday 4 November at 7.30pm Nicolas Van Kuijk and Sylvain Favre-Bulle violins Gregoire Vecchioni viola, Francois Robin cello Ravel Poulenc Debussy

Quartet in F major Melodies Quartet in G minor

The French winners of the 2015 London International String Quartet Competition give an appropriate French programme. The Quartet has also won prizes in Trondheim and Aix en Provence and are currently BBC New Generation Artists. www.quatuorvankuijk.com

Sunday 13 November at 7.00pm Roderick Williams will sing all three of Schubert’s wonderful song cycles for Leamington Music over the next two years. He starts with Winterreise – a wanderer, unlucky in love, begins a long and lonely journey through a bleak winter landscape that mirrors his own inner world. His sad story unfolds in some of the greatest songs Schubert, or any composer, ever wrote. www.facebook.com/roderick.williams.baritone Tickets: £18.00 reserved, £12.00 unreserved

“Style, energy and a sense of risk…. These four young French men made the music smile.” The Guardian

Concert generously supported by Roger Cadbury

Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington, CV32 4AA

ELIAS STRING QUARTET Friday 25 November at 7.30pm

Tickets: £21.00 and £17.00 reserved central block £13.00 unreserved sides Concert generously supported by Margaret Goode

St Mary’s Church, Warwick, CV34 4AR

SERIES SPONSOR

THE TELLING with JAN CHAPPELL Tuesday 8 November at 7.30pm



CLARE NORBURN soprano YVONNE EDDY soprano LEAH STUTTARD harp

Vision Exploring, through words and music, the extraordinary life of the mediaeval abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, alongside her haunting and distinctive chant. www.thetelling.co.uk Tickets: £20.00 and £18.00 reserved central nave £15.00 unreserved rear nave £13.00 unreserved sides

Sara Bitlloch and Donald Grant violins Martin Saving viola, Marie Bitlloch cello Haydn Britten Beethoven

Quartet in E flat major Op 64 No 6 Quartet No 3 in G major Op 94 Quartet in B flat major Op 130 and Grosse Fuge Op 133

It will be over four years since the Elias last played for Leamington Music, during which time they have toured extensively throughout Europe and the USA and completed their ground-breaking Beethoven Project: performing and recording the composer’s complete string quartets. www.eliasstringquartet.com Tickets: £21.00 and £17.00 reserved central block £13.00 unreserved sides Concert generously supported by Peter Glanfield

Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick, CV34 4BH

K’ANTU ENSEMBLE

Ruth Hopkins soprano, baroque violin and recorder Sarah Langdon alto and recorders Michelle Holloway alto and recorders Ben Mitchell tenor, baroque guitar and charango Andrew Hopper bass and viola da gamba “Terrifically interesting Tymoteusz Jozwiak bass and percussion

and enjoyable... their performances are joyously individual.” Early Music Today Magazine

Tickets: £18.00 unreserved (to include mince pies and mulled wine)

St Mary’s Church, Warwick, CV34 4AR

SERIES SPONSOR

EX CATHEDRA

directed by Jeffrey Skidmore Tuesday 13 December at 7.30pm Nicholas Wearne organ An Elizabethan Christmas - A programme of music by Byrd, Gibbons, Tallis and others explores the grandeur, the emotion and the deep beauty that lay at the heart of Christmas festivities at the court of Elizabeth I. www.excathedra.co.uk Tickets:

CHOIR OF CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE directed by Graham Ross Saturday 17 December at 7.30pm

Friday 9 December at 7.30pm

Dancing and the Divine The origins of the Christmas carol www.kantu-ensemble.co.uk

St Mark’s Church, Rugby Road, Leamington, CV32 6DL

£22.00 and £18.00 reserved central nave £15.00 unreserved rear nave £13.00 unreserved sides (to include mince pies and mulled wine)

Lullaby my Jesus This famous 30 strong choir brings a Christmas concert with music ranging from the ninth century to favourite carols, featuring some sixteen composers including Praetorius, Bach, Mendelssohn, John Tavener, John Rutter, Bob Chilcott and Roderick Williams. www.clarecollegechoir.com Tickets: £22.00 reserved, £16.00 unreserved £10.00 side aisle, restricted view (to include mince pies and mulled wine)

St Mary’s Church, Warwick, CV34 4AR

SERIES SPONSOR

EMMA KIRKBY soprano

CHELYS CONSORT OF VIOLS Tuesday 24 January at 7.30pm Emily Ashton, Ibi Aziz, Jenny Bullock, Alison Kinder, Sam Stadlen viols James Akers lute The Sorrows of John Dowland The Lachrimae pavans of John Dowland with works by Anthony Holborne, John Danyel, and Robert Jones who each ‘borrowed’ Dowland’s theme. “My favourite musician happens to be the same as Shakespeare’s: John Dowland. His songs are sorrowful but heal the soul by their sweetness and courage.” Robert Graves. www.emmakirkby.com www.chelysconsort.co.uk Tickets: £22.00 and £18.00 reserved central nave £15.00 unreserved rear nave £13.00 unreserved sides

Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington, CV32 4AA

St Mary’s Church, Warwick, CV34 4AR

ROYAL STRING QUARTET

THE SOCIETY OF STRANGE AND ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS

Friday 27 January at 7.30 pm

Tuesday 14 February at 7.30pm

Izabella Szalaj-Zimak and Elwira Przybylowska violins Marek Czech viola, Michal Pepol cello Mozart Philip Glass Gorecki Mozart

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Quartet in D minor K421 Quartet No 3 ‘Mishima’ Quartet No 1 Op 62 ‘Already it is dusk’ Quartet in C major K465

Jon Banks santouri, gothic harp and percussion Liam Byrne lirone and treble viol Joy Smith gothic bray harp and triple harp Alison McGillivray violone and viola bastarda

Tickets: £21.00 and £17.00 reserved central block £13.00 unreserved sides

Sound House - A unique concert devised by Clare Salaman exploring the aural illusions that so intrigued Francis Bacon and his contemporaries, with fresh interpretations of 17th century music linked to each other by newly composed pieces by Jon Nicholls, played on unusual and historically appropriate instruments. www.strangeandancientinstruments.com

Concert generously supported by Howard Skempton

Tickets: £20.00 and £18.00 reserved central nave £15.00 unreserved rear nave, £13.00 unreserved sides

The Royal Quartet for Poland is back for its sixth concert in Leamington – a reflection of its popularity. Quartets by Mozart flank Glass’s quartet written for the film Mishima and a quartet commissioned from Polish composer Gorecki by the Kronos Quartet which has been recorded to great acclaim by the Royal Quartet. www.royalstringquartet.pl

“Phenomenal artistry… brimming with style and panache.” Daily Telegraph

Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington, CV32 4AA

STAMIC STRING QUARTET Friday 24 February at 7.30 pm Royal Spa Centre, Leamington, CV32 4EA

Jindrich Pazdera and Josef Kekula violins Jan Peruska viola, Petr Hejny cello

Wednesday 8 February at 7.30pm

Haydn Mucha Dvorak

O DUO

Oliver Cox and Owen Gunnell percussion Bubbling Bach to Bongo Fury! - An action-packed evening of music by Bach, Chopin, Philip Glass, Granados and many others with a sprinkling of original works guaranteed to bring an enthusiastic response, as has happened for them twice in the Last Night of the Proms in Hyde Park. www.oduo.co.uk Tickets: £15.00, £12.00 (£1.00 for students & school children)

Schools Concert at 2.00pm Crash, Bang, Wallop! For details call Leamington Music office on 01926 497000

Quartet in B flat major Op 71 No 1 Quartet No 1 Quartet No 14 in A flat major Op 105

Regular visitors to Warwick and Leamington in the 1990s, the Stamic Quartet returns for the first time since 2006. The quartet by Geraldine Mucha, the first of three, will be of particular interest as she, a young composer born in London, met Jiri Mucha, the Czech writer and son of the famous art nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha, at a party in Leamington in 1941. They married and went to live in Czechoslovakia. www.stamicquartet.cz Tickets: £21.00 and £17.00 reserved central block £13.00 unreserved sides Concert generously supported by David and Gina Wilson

Royal Spa Centre Studio, Leamington, CV32 4EA

BOREALIS SAXOPHONE QUARTET Wednesday 1 March at 7.30pm

Royal Spa Centre, Leamington, CV32 4EA

THE CHIMPANZEES OF HAPPYTOWN Sunday 19 March at 11.30am

family concert ideal for ages

3-7 Ensemble 360 with Polly Ives narrator Alistair Penman, Gillian Blair, Victoria Puttock, Daniel White saxophones Music to include classics by Gershwin, Bach and Barber, alongside original works for saxophone quartet by David Maslanka and Lucy Armstrong. www.borealissaxophonequartet.com Tickets: £10.00 Concert generously supported by the Royal Leamington Spa Decorative & Fine Art Society

St Mary’s Church, Warwick, CV34 4AR

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NICKI KENNEDY soprano SIMON DESBRULAIS trumpet THE BROOK STREET BAND Tuesday 14 March at 7.30pm Rachel Harris and Farran Scott violins Tatty Theo cello, Carolyn Gibley harpsichord Triumph over Tragedy Telemann Bach Handel Bach Handel Handel

Trumpet Concerto in D TWV51:D7 Trio Sonata in D minor BWV527 Cantata La Lucrezia HWV145 Cantata Jauchzet Gott BWV51 Trio Sonata in G minor Op 6 No 2 HWV391 Let the Bright Seraphim (Samson) HWV57

Founded in 1996, the Band takes its name from Brook Street in Mayfair where Handel lived and composed for 30 years. www.brookstreetband.co.uk Tickets: £20.00 and £18.00 reserved central nave £15.00 unreserved rear nave, £13.00 unreserved sides

Live music concert for young children with projected images from the book and some irresistibly catchy songs with actions. Composer Paul Rissmann at his best! Polly Ives and all eleven members of Ensemble 360 tell the story of Chutney the chimp as he and his beautiful tree help to spread colour and happiness throughout the town. Learn the songs and buy the book before the concert at www.musicintheround.co.uk Tickets: £10.00 adults, £5.00 children

Royal Spa Centre, Leamington, CV32 4EA

ENSEMBLE 360 Sunday 19 March at 3.00pm Juliette Bausor flute, Matthew Hunt clarinet, oboe tba, Amy Harman bassoon, Naomi Atherton horn Benjamin Nabarro violin, Ruth Gibson viola Gemma Rosefield cello, Laurène Durantel double bass Tim Horton piano Mozart Mozart Beethoven

Flute Quartet in D major K285 Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds K452 Septet in E flat major Op 20

Last February Ensemble 360 played to its biggest audience in Leamington yet with a thrilling all Schubert programme, including the Trout and the Octet in F. They return with some gorgeous Mozart and Beethoven’s Septet. www.musicintheround.co.uk Pre-concert talk at 2.10pm - Members of Ensemble 360 discuss the programme with the audience. Tickets: £17.50 raised central block, £12.50 at sides Concert generously supported by Murray Campbell, John Hobley, Jonathan Holden, Roger Massie and Margaret Pringle

Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington, CV32 4AA

BRODSKY STRING QUARTET Friday 24 March at 7.30pm Daniel Rowland and Ian Belton violins Paul Cassidy viola, Jacqueline Thomas cello Schubert Quarttetsatz D703 Webern Six Bagatelles Op 9 Zemlinsky Quartet No 4 Schubert Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Last here in the series in February 2015, the Brodsky’s searing performance of Zemlinsky’s second quartet was a highlight of the season. They must be a top choice to do justice to Death and the Maiden to end this season in style. www.brodskyquartet.co.uk

2017

Leamington Music

Festival Weekend

Friday 28 April –Tuesday 2 May 2017 Royal Pump Rooms Leamington Spa The Festival Weekends built on the first bank holiday in May have been a highlight for music-lovers living locally and visiting Leamington since 1990. Central to the 2017 event are two concerts with baritone Roderick Williams, who will follow the performance of Schubert’s Winterreise on 13 November with Die schone Mullerin on 30 April and Howard Skempton’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on 1 May. We will also celebrate Howard Skempton’s 70th birthday which falls in 2017.

Tickets: £21.00 and £17.00 reserved central block £13.00 unreserved sides

Full details of the eleven concerts by leading continental and British musicians will be available by January. Booking opens in February. For news visit www.leamingtonmusic.org

Education Programme

The Friends of Leamington Music

Leamington Music’s Education Programme in partnership with Warwickshire Music has gone from strength to strength in recent years, introducing the next generation to the delights of good music and outstanding artists. This coming winter season, schools are able to book the following groups prior to their Leamington Music concerts: Carducci Quartet, Elias Quartet, K’antu Ensemble, Ex Cathedra, O Duo, Borealis Saxophone Quartet and Ensemble 360 (prior to the performance of The Chimpanzees of Happytown) and Roderick Williams will also be involved. Leamington Music would like to broaden its outreach programme to include schools that have not already participated, so we ask teachers, governors and parents who want to see children involved to make contact with the Leamington Music office. Call 01926 497000 or email [email protected] or visit www.leamingtonmusic.org Leamington Music reserves the right to change artists, programmes or venues if necessary.

The Friends of Leamington Music have been giving invaluable support ever since the organisation was set up in 2006, making a vital contribution by raising funds and helping in many voluntary capacities. Among the benefits, there is priority booking for the Leamington Music Festival Weekend and the winter season and the occasional special event. The Friends are always the first to receive publicity. The Friends year runs from 1 April to 31 March and the annual subscription is £25 for a single person, £40 for a couple. Call 01926 497000 for further details.

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Autumn 2016 to Spring 2017 Join with us in celebrating our special anniversary Leamington Music season International String Quartet Series in Royal Pump Rooms Leamington Early Music Series in St Mary’s Church Warwick Family Concerts at the Royal Spa Centre Leamington Christmas Concerts Music of all ages for all ages

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