DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
2001/2002 Season
October 2001–June 2002
Promoted by the Department of Music
WELCOME
This season’s University of York Concert Series explores a number of themes
within the usual attractive and unique mixture of concerts by visiting
professionals, university ensembles and programmes featuring students and
staff of the Department of Music. Core repertoire for orchestral, chamber
and solo groups is presented alongside themes of Russian orchestral music
(Rachmaninov: 13 October and 5 December; Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich:
2 November; Mussorgsky: 5 December; Stravinsky: 13 March); jazz (17, 18,
23 November, 8 February, 14 June); seventeenth and eighteenth-century music
for solo violin (16 January, 13 February, 1 May); music for Passiontide
(2, 6 March); and several featured composers including Schubert (31 October;
28 November, 12 December), Brahms (17 October; 23 January) and Bach (16
January, 13 February, 6 March).
Contemporary music always features strongly in the programme and there
are the usual regular appearances by the University’s Ensemble in Residence,
the New Music Players, and the innovative New Music Group. We are delighted
to host again the National New Composers’ Forum with the Orchestra of Opera
North as part of a ‘Spring’ new music festival.
The Central Hall Orchestral Series has three concerts in the earlier
part of the season, featuring programmes by our regular visiting orchestras.
These are complemented by the European Union Chamber Orchestra, which appears
again in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, and by the University Orchestra
(which concentrates on Russian and English repertoire), the University
Chamber Orchestra and University Baroque Ensemble. The University Choir
also contributes to the Central Hall concerts with programmes in combination
with the Northern Sinfonia and Orchestra of Opera North.
Vocal music always forms a strong part of the series and there is a
continuing commitment to song recitals, presented by Stephen Varcoe (28
November) and John Potter (30 January). Other notable vocal contributions
come from Belinda Sykes of Joglaresa (21 November), Thomas Thomaschke (6
March) and, as soloists with resident choirs, Lynne Dawson, Rachel Nicholls,
Jeanette Ager, Susan Bickley, James Gilchrist, Joshua Ellicott, Adrian
Thompson, David Thomas and Andrew Dale Forbes.
We are also delighted to welcome other distinguished artists – including
the Yggdrasil String Quartet, John Wallace, Bernard D’Ascoli, Andy Sheppard,
Django Bates, Billy Jenkins, Andrew Manze, Bradley Creswick, Michael Gerrard,
the Schubert Ensemble, Neely Bruce, and the Kathryn Tickell Band.
This is a particularly exciting season, presenting one of the most varied
and compelling programmes in the country. We look forward to welcoming
you to our audience!
*****
All concerts take place in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall unless otherwise
stated
Central Hall Orchestral Series
Saturday 13 OCTOBER 7.30 pm
Central Hall
BBC PHILHARMONIC
Vasilly Sinaisky – conductor
Ashley Wass – piano
Piano Concerto no. 3
Beethoven
Symphony no. 2
Rachmaninov
The Central Hall Orchestral Series season opens in grand style in Central
Hall with two of the most popular compositions in the orchestral repertoire
conducted by BBC Philharmonic's principal guest conductor. Beethoven’s
dramatic Third Piano Concerto is complemented by the orchestral colour
of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony. The young pianist Ashley Wass is recognised
as one of the rising stars of his generation. Winner of the World Piano
Competition in 1997, he was also only the second British pianist in 20
years to reach the finals of the Leeds Piano Competition (in 2000).
Wednesday 17 OCTOBER 8.00 pm
YGGDRASIL STRING QUARTET
JOHN WALLACE – trumpet
Quartet op. 54 no. 1
Haydn
Quintet for trumpet and strings Peter Maxwell Davies
Quartet in C minor op. 51 no. 1 Brahms
The chamber programme begins with the welcome return of trumpeter
John Wallace, a postgraduate student at York in the early 1970s. Principal
Trumpet of the Philharmonia for nearly 20 years, he is Principal Trumpet
of the London Sinfonietta, director of the Wallace Collection and has recently
been appointed Principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. The trumpet
quintet by Peter Maxwell Davies was specially commissioned by the award-winning
Yggdrasil Quartet and in this programme is set alongside more familiar
string quartets.
Wednesday 24 OCTOBER 8.00 pm
EUROPEAN UNION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Lavard Skoul Larsen – director
Peter Seymour – organ
Concerto grosso in B flat major op. 6 no. 7
Handel
Concerto for organ ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’
Handel
Serenade in C minor K406 (388)
Mozart
Divertimento in B flat major K137
Mozart
The EUCO returns to York with an eighteenth-century programme that
includes both the familiar and less familiar. Mozart’s Serenade
is heard in the composer’s own arrangement of his original wind version.
Wednesday 31 OCTOBER 8.00 pm
BERNARD D’ASCOLI – PIANO
Sonata in B flat D. 960 Schubert
Impromptu in G flat op. 51 Chopin
Fantasie-impromptu in C sharp minor op. 66 Chopin
Ballade no. 4 in F minor op. 52 Chopin
Winner of the Barcelona International Piano Competition in 1978,
Bernard d’Ascoli has a busy international career that this season includes
engagements with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Sydney Symphony
Orchestras. In this welcome return to our chamber series, he presents a
typically attractive programme of piano music from the core of the repertoire.
Central Hall Orchestral Series
Friday 2 NOVEMBER 7.30 pm
Central Hall
NORTHERN SINFONIA
Yuri Bashmet – conductor, viola
Elena Rivech – violin
Symphony no. 3
Schubert
Abii ne vederem
Giya Kancheli
Andante cantabile
Tchaikovsky
Sinfonia in B flat minor for viola and strings Shostakovich
(from String Quartet no. 13)
(arr. A. Tchaikovsky)
Described by The Times as ‘without doubt, one of the world’s greatest
musicians’, Yuri Bashmet has appeared with the world’s leading orchestras
and has inspired many composers to write for him. Since 1992 he has been
director of The Moscow Soloists, which includes the cream of the new generation
of string players at the Moscow Conservatoire; Bashmet himself was the
youngest person ever to be appointed to a professorship at the Conservatoire.
This programme with Northern Sinfonia features an intriguing mix of some
less familiar Russian music alongside a favourite Schubert symphony.
Wednesday 7 NOVEMBER 8.00 pm
NEW MUSIC PLAYERS
7.00 pm Pre-concert talk by Michael Finnissy
Chansons madécasses Ravel
Bagatelles
David Lumsdaine
Grand Duo
Galina Usfolskaya
New work
Michael Finnissy
A programme full of drama and colour: from Ravel’s lyrical and erotically
charged Chansons madécasses to a brand new work specially
commissioned by the New Music Players from the distinguished British composer
Michael Finnissy. The programme is completed by Usfolskaya’s theatrical
Grand
Duo for cello and piano and an important chamber work by David Lumsdaine.
Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 November 8pm
THE ORIENT EXPRESSED
Departmental Practical Project
Co-ordinated by Neil Sorrell
An exploration and reinterpretation of world musics, dance and theatre,
featuring extended use of the visually stunning ‘Black Light’ theatre technique.
Musical accompaniment is provided by instruments from around the world,
as well as voices. There will also be solely musical items focusing on
oriental representations, primarily by western composers.
YORK INTERNATIONAL JAZZ SERIES
Two concerts forming part of York's International Jazz Series.
A co-promotion with the University of York
Saturday 17 NOVEMBER 7.30 pm
ANDY SHEPPARD’S LEARNING TO WAVE
Andy Sheppard (saxophone)
Steve Lodder (piano)
Chris Laurence (bass)
Paul Clavis (percussion)
John Paricelli (guitar)
Kuljit Bhamra (tabla)
Andy Sheppard is Britain’s foremost jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
His new sextet creates a fresh and individual sound featuring his lyrical
composition at its very best, creating irresistible rhythms, virtuoso improvisation,
evocative melodies and powerful resonances of Asian, African and Indian
music.
Sunday 18 NOVEMBER at 4.00 pm
DJANGO BATES – PIANO
Autumn Fires (and Green Shoots)
The Italian press dubbed him ‘the Monty Python of jazz’, the French
press described him as being ‘in full possession of an over-active imagination’,
while the Danes awarded him the Jazzpar Prize (‘the Nobel Prize of jazz’)
in 1997. A virtuoso on the piano, treasured for his off-beat wit, Django
Bates continues to astonish with his vast range of international projects.
This performance features music from his 1994 album Autumn Fires (and
Green Shoots), reviewed at the time as a ‘synthesis of virtuosity, subtle
humour and a wonderful intellect’.
Wednesday 21 NOVEMBER 8.00 pm
JOGLARESA
Al’Andalus: courtly Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish music of medieval Spain
Medieval Spain was an incredible melting pot of culture – Muslims,
Christians and Jews lived together in a harmony that would be unheard of
after the Spanish Inquisition. Medieval specialists Joglaresa present an
exotic mix of the Orient and Occident, performed with traditional European
and Arabic vocal techniques and medieval Mediterranean instruments.
Friday 23 NOVEMBER 8.00 pm
BILLY JENKINS & IAN MCMILLAN
Billy Jenkins – guitar
Ian McMillan – words
Andy Diagram – trumpet, loops, samples
Angie Harrison – knitting needles, viola
A part-improvised and part-scripted performance of words, music
and knitting, produced by Simon Thackray.
On Billy Jenkins: ‘It’s his contempt for conventional method that makes
this unlikely son of Bromley the most original jazz guitar improviser in
Britain today’ Stephen Graham, The Independent
On Ian McMillan: ‘You could call him daft as a brush, but he is as
switched on as a power station’ Charles Hutchinson, Yorkshire Evening
Press
This concert is part of a ‘Breaking Borders’ tour funded
by Yorkshire Arts, Northern Arts, North West Arts and the Arts Council
of England.
Wednesday 28 NOVEMBER 8.00 pm
STEPHEN VARCOE – baritone
PETER SEYMOUR – fortepiano
Winterreise Schubert
Schubert’s most famous song cycle, Winterreise, is a sequence
of ‘terrifying’ songs and, despite its familiarity, is always challenging
for performers and audience alike. Stephen Varcoe is considered by many
to be one of Europe’s finest Lieder singers and has made many memorable
appearances in this series.
Wednesday 5 DECEMBER 8.00 pm
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
John Stringer – conductor
Angelina Marr – piano
Prelude to Khovanschina
Mussorgsky
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor Rachmaninov
Pictures at an Exhibition
Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel)
The University Orchestra presents a colourful Russian programme
that includes Rachmaninov’s ever-popular Second Piano Concerto and Pictures
at an Exhibition in the exuberant orchestration by Ravel.
Friday 7 DECEMBER 1.00 pm
NEW MUSIC GROUP
Admission Free
Featuring works by York students.
Sonata for Cello & Percussion
James Stephenson
Woven
Ian Dickson
Twosie Beats Onesie but Nothing beats Three
Amber Priestley
Same Same, but Different
Eleanor Gussman
A Score of our Time
Chris Bluemel
Friday 7 DECEMBER 8.00 pm
Price Band
B
NEW MUSIC GROUP
Harmonie
Matthew McGaughey
Sounds and sweet Airs
Sungi Hong
Elegy for a Play of Shadows Paul
Mealor
Octandre
Edgard Varese
Six Bagatelles for wind quintet György Ligeti
Verses for Ensembles
Harrison Birtwistle
The New Music Group make its first appearance this season with a
vibrant mix of Birtwistle, Varese and Ligeti, together with some provoking
new works by Yorkís young student composers.
Central Hall Orchestral Series
Saturday 8 DECEMBER 7.30 pm
Central Hall
UNIVERSITY CHOIR
ORCHESTRA OF OPERA NORTH
Peter Seymour – conductor
Lynne Dawson – soprano
Susan Bickley – mezzo soprano
Joshua Ellicott – tenor
David Thomas – bass
Requiem
Verdi
The University Choir and the Orchestra of Opera North have enjoyed
several collaborations over the last few years. In this concert they combine
with a high-calibre team of soloists in a great favourite of the choral
repertoire.
Wednesday 12 DECEMBER 8.00 pm
UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR
UNIVERSITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Jonathan Wainwright – conductor
Symphony no. 5 Schubert
Mass in A flat Schubert
Schubertís ever-popular Fifth Symphony of 1816 is combined
with the Mass in A flat (Missa Solemnis) which was composed between
1819 and 1822, just before Beethoven completed his Missa Solemnis.
Schubert revised the Mass in 1825-6, possibly as part of his unsuccessful
application for a position as Vice-Court Capellmeister in Vienna, and it
is this version that is performed tonight.
Wednesday 16 JANUARY 8.00 pm
ANDREW MANZE – VIOLIN
GARY COOPER – HARPSICHORD
Andrew Manze, Associate Director of the Academy of Ancient Music,
is one of the world’s finest violinists: a player ‘with extraordinary flair
and improvisatory freedom, the Grappelli of the baroque’ (BBC Music
Magazine). This concert, the first of three for violin and continuo
exploring the baroque repertoire, focuses on the late seventeenth and early
eighteenth enturies and on influences from Italy and Bavaria. It will include
sonatas by Uccellini (from op. 5), Schmelzer (from Sonatae Unarum Fidium),
Walther (from Hortulus Chelicus) and Westhoff (from the 1694 collection),
plus solo harpsichord music including the Suite in C by Marcello
and the Fantasia in G attributed to J.S. Bach (BWV 920).
Thursday 17 JANUARY 11.00 am–1.00 pm
BAROQUE WORKSHOP
with Andrew Manze
Admission free
Wednesday 23 JANUARY 8.00 pm
Price Band
D
SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE
Piano Quartet
Judith Weir
Piano Quintet no. 2 in E op. 31
Louise Farrenc
Piano Quartet no. 1 in G minor op. 25 Brahms
Winner of the 1998 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best chamber
group, the Schubert Ensemble has built a strong reputation for innovative
and developmental work, combining classical repertoire for piano and strings
with commissions from leading living composers. In this programme the popular
Brahms quartet is presented alongside two pieces by female composers: Judith
Weir (whose quartet was commissioned by the Schubert Ensemble) and Louise
Farrenc (whose quintets the Ensemble has recently recorded).
‘A vibrant, virtuoso performance’ The Times
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Central Hall
Saturday 26 JANUARY 7.30 pm
ORCHESTRA OF OPERA NORTH
CHORUS OF OPERA NORTH
Philip Sunderland – conductor
OPERA GALA
We welcome the Chorus of Opera North for their first appearance
here, in partnership with their resident orchestra, itself a regular visitor
to York. In a programme that has links with Verdi’s ‘operatic’ Requiem
(8 December), they present operatic favourites for soloists, chorus and
orchestra, including extracts from works by Mozart and Verdi, and from
Beethoven’s
Fidelio and Puccini’s La Bohème.
Wednesday 30 JANUARY 8.00 pm
JOHN POTTER – TENOR
NICKY LOSSEFF – PIANO
La bonne chanson
Fauré’s greatest song-cycle, to poems by Verlaine, is the
main work in a programme that includes songs by Ravel, Debussy, Chausson
and Satie.
Wednesday 6 FEBRUARY 8.00 pm
UNIVERSITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
John Stringer – conductor
Matthew Dibble – clarinet
New work
Andrew Hamilton
Clarinet concerto
Finzi
Two Suites for small orchestra Stravinsky
Tombeau de Couperin
Ravel
The performance of a new work for chamber orchestra by prize-winning
Andrew Hamilton – pupil of Roger Marsh, Gerald Barry and Kevin Volans –
promises to be an exciting event. In a varied programme, it is complemented
by the beauty of the Finzi concerto and the sparkle of the Stravinsky and
Ravel.
Sponsored by Nestle
Friday 8 FEBRUARY 8.00 pm
UNIVERSITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Directed by Tony Myatt
Another opportunity to hear the popular University of York Jazz
Orchestra showcasing the talents of the University’s young jazz musicians.
This feet-stampin’ programme will include contemporary jazz works, new
arrangements and saxophone quartets, along with Latin and Swing classics.
Wednesday 13 FEBRUARY 8.00 pm
BRADLEY CRESWICK – violin
PETER SEYMOUR – harpsichord
Partita no. 3 in E major for solo violin BWV 1006
J. S. Bach
Sonata in B minor for violin and harpsichord BWV 1014
J. S. Bach
Sonata in F minor for violin and harpsichord BWV 1017
J. S. Bach
Sonata in A major for violin and harpsichord BWV 1015
J. S. Bach
The second concert in the violin and continuo series concentrates
on the music of J.S. Bach. It demonstrates Bach’s highly innovative writing
for violin – in structure, contrapuntal complexity and technical challenge.
Bradley Creswick is well known to our audiences as leader of the Northern
Sinfonia.
Sponsored by Smith & Nephew
Wednesday 20 FEBRUARY 8.00 pm
NEW MUSIC PLAYERS
Chamber Symphony op. 9
Schoenberg (arr. Webern)
Four Pieces for clarinet and piano
Berg
Fourteen Ways of Describing Rain Eisler
Light Cuts Through Dark Skies
Edward Dudley Hughes
The Valley of Hatsu-Se
Lutyens
Schoenberg’s single-movement Chamber Symphony (arranged for five
instruments by his pupil Anton Webern) is deeply rooted in nineteenth-century
romanticism, yet verges on the brink of atonality. In contrast, Alban Berg’s
pieces for clarinet and piano are delicate, intimate and modern in tone.
Another Schoenberg pupil, Hanns Eisler, wrote a score for a silent film,
Rain (1929), which was of his most notable works of chamber music;
this concert also features an alternative score for the same film by NMP’s
artistic director Edward Dudley Hughes. The film will be shown at this
pereformance. The programme is completed by a song cycle from one of the
UK’s most outstanding modernist composers of the twentieth century, Elisabeth
Lutyens.
Friday 22 FEBRUARY 8.00 pm
UNIVERSITY WIND ORCHESTRA
John Stringer, Sam Gardner, Ed Potter, James Stephenson, Mike Rofe – conductors
Yiddish Dances Adam Gorb
Dawn Flight
Philip Wilby
Suite no. 2 in F Holst
Emblems
Copland
Divertimento Bernstein
The University Wind Orchestra plays a varied concert that includes several
rousing standards from the wind orchestra repertoire. John Stringer is
joined by four young conductors from the Department of Music.
‘High impact sound’ Yorkshire Post
Sponsored by Banks & Son Music Ltd
Wednesday 27 FEBRUARY 8.00pm
KATHRYN TICKELL BAND
The Kathryn Tickell Band matches digital dexterity with sheer musicality
and creativity. The sound from the four players can range from the driving
intensity of two fiddles or the wonderful blend of pipes and melodeon to
the excitement of the full band with guitar and bass adding depth and rhythmic
complexity. Central to the band’s repertoire are Kathryn Tickell’s own
compositions, but the traditonal tunes of Northumberland and the Borders
are also well represented.
‘Tickell may well be the best living advertisement for English folk
music’ The Daily Telegraph
Central Hall
Saturday 2 MARCH 7.30 pm
UNIVERSITY CHOIR
NORTHERN SINFONIA
Peter Seymour – conductor
Rachel Nichols – soprano
Jeanette Ager – alto
James Gilchrist – tenor
Glenville Hargreaves – bass
Stabat Mater
Haydn
Messiah (Part II)
Handel
The Stabat Mater (1767) is rarely heard but helped
establish Haydn’s reputation as a composer of sacred music. Its combination
of beautiful solo arias with the composer’s usual mastery of choral sonorities
suggests it should appear more regularly in the choral repertory. Handel’s
Messiah
(heard here with Mozart’s orchestration) is much more familiar, though
more usually as part of the Christmas festivities. Part II is a self-contained
unit in which the text concentrates on Christ’s Passion and Resurrection,
concluding with the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus.
Wednesday 6 MARCH 7.30 pm Note starting time
UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR
UNIVERSITY BAROQUE ENSEMBLE
Peter Seymour – conductor
Mieko Kanno – leader
John Potter – Evangelist
Thomas Thomaschke – Christus
St John Passion J.S. Bach
We continue the theme of music for Passiontide with one of the greatest
settings of the biblical narrative. Bach’s St John Passion was his
first in this genre and its turbulent crowd scenes create a vivid backdrop
to the dramatic events of Holy Week.
Friday 8 MARCH 1.00 pm & 8.00 pm
NEW MUSIC GROUP
Women in Music Forum
Music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Judith Weir, Sally Beamish and Yorkís
Nicola LeFanu will feature alongside a commission from the young British
composer Kathy Hinde, who has worked closely with Joanna MacGregor on multimedia
works. The evening concert will be preceded by a series of talks and discussion
panels: further details will be available early 2002 (see the Music Department
website www.york.ac.uk/depts/music for details).
Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 MARCH 10.00 am–12.30 pm, 2.00–4.30 pm
MASTERCLASSES ON GERMAN LIEDER
with Thomas Thomaschke
Admission free
Wednesday 13 MARCH 8.00 pm
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
John Stringer – conductor
Lisa Jacques – cello
Prelude to Act 2 of Saul and David
Nielsen
Cello Concerto
Elgar
The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
Through its vivid orchestration and ritualistic rhythms, the Rite
of Spring is perhaps one of the most famous works in the orchestral
repertoire. Tonight it is coupled with another, very different, twentieth-century
masterpiece, Elgar’s Cello Concerto.
Sponsored by Nestle
Wednesday 1 MAY 8.00 pm
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY
Simon Jones – violin
John Potter – tenor
David Miller – chitarrone
Peter Seymour – organ
The third of the concerts for violin and continuo concentrates on
the earlier years of the violin’s existence. The seventeenth century witnessed
the development of spectacular and innovative music for both solo voices
and solo instruments. This programme explores the contributions by well-known
composers such as Monteverdi and Grandi, alongside those by less familiar
composers such as Pandolfi and Castello. Simon Jones is leader of The King’s
Consort and plays also with Yorkshire Baroque Soloists. John Potter is
a lecturer in the Department of Music at York, combining this with a solo
career and appearances as a member of the Hilliard Ensemble.
Monday 6 MAY to Saturday 11 MAY
SPRING FESTIVAL
The Spring Festival explores the diversity of contemporary music alongside
some established classics of the twentieth century. The Festival aims to
bring new and established audiences closer to the rich palette of new music,
presenting high-calibre performances as well as stimulating workshops and
interviews with the composers. The Festival will focus on new works from
local composers (presented by Black Hair, the New Music Players and the
Goldberg Ensemble) and from those further afield during the second National
New Composers’ Forum (for which the Orchestra of Opera North will be in
residence, conducted by John Carewe and Gary Walker).
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Monday 6 MAY 10.00am
ADMISSION FREE
New Music Players
Full day of composition workshops - open to the general public and all
university students.
Tuesday 7 MAY 10.00am
ADMISSION FREE
Black Hair Contemporary Music Ensemble
Full day of composition workshops- open to the general public and all university
students
Tuesday 7 MAY 10.00am
£1 ENTRY. MUSIC SOCIETY MEMBERS ADMISSION FREE
University of York Music Society Lunchtime Concert
An opportunity to hear student musicians performing a programme of contemporary
works
Tuesday 7 MAY 8.00 pm
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA/NEW MUSIC GROUP
John Stringer – conductor
Nicky Losseff – prepared piano
New work
Ian Dickson
Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra
Cage
The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
This performance of John Cage’s concerto marks the beginning of
a long-term project by Nicky Losseff to perform the complete works for
prepared piano by John Cage.
Wednesday 8 MAY 1.00 pm
BLACK HAIR Contemporary Music Ensemble
Anna Myatt (voice)
Barrie Webb (trombone)
Damien Harron (percussion)
Emma Welton (violin)
John Stringer (oboe)
Catherine Laws (piano)
Quiver for violin and barenbau
Damien Harron
Dancing Bones for solo trombone
Takashi Fuji
3 Recitations for voice
Georges Apherghis
The Bodhi Tree for voice and trombone Roger Marsh
New work for violin, piano and percussion Damien Harron
Signals for oboe
John Stringer
Wednesday 8 MAY 7.00pm
Pre-concert talk
with James Wood
Wednesday 8 MAY 8.00 pm
NEW MUSIC PLAYERS
Underside of Green
Rebecca Saunders
Duo
Rebecca Saunders
Scrivo In Vento
Elliott Carter
Horn Trio
György Ligeti
New work (NMP commission)
James Wood
This concert focuses on Rebecca Saunders’s chamber work, noted for
its delicately modulated timbres. It is set alongside a virtuoso flute
solo by the inventive American composer Elliott Carter, whilst György
Ligeti’s Horn Trio takes the genre to a new threshold of virtuosity in
a piece of intense classicism which also makes colouristic use of ‘natural’
horn effects. The programme concludes with a new piece from the British
composer James Wood, whose work as a composer, conductor and percussionist
is acknowledged internationally.
Wednesday 8 MAY 10.00 pm
JOHN POTTER - tenor
NICKY LOSSEFF – prepared piano
A York Songbook
A concert for voice and prepared piano from a newly commissioned songbook.
Including works by York composers Nicola LeFanu, William Brooks, Roger
Marsh and the first performance of Joanne Metcalf's Doom-begotten Music
Thursday 9 MAY 10.00am
ADMISSION FREE
NATIONAL NEW COMPOSERS’ FORUM
ORCHESTRA OF OPERA NORTH
John Carewe and Gary Walker – conductors
A full day of composers workshops, during which selected pieces by young
composers will be discussed by conductors, composers, orchestra members
and the audience.
PRICE BAND:
£10 (£8 concessions)
GOLDBERG ENSEMBLE
Malcolm Layfield – director
The York Connection: Music for String Ensemble
Nocturne David
Blake
Plenilunio Thoma
Simaku
Canto 1
Roger Marsh
Catena
Nicola LeFanu
Shadow cast Christopher Fox
Friday 10 MAY 10.00am
ADMISSION FREE
NATIONAL NEW COMPOSERS’ FORUM
ORCHESTRA OF OPERA NORTH
John Carewe and Gary Walker – conductors
The second day of composers workshops, during which selected pieces
by young composers will be discussed by conductors, composers, orchestra
members and the audience.
Friday 10 MAY 1.00 pm
£1 ENTRY. MUSIC SOCIETY MEMBERS ADMISSION FREE
Departure Lounge
Departure Lounge (a student ensemble) present a concert of experimental
music from the last 50 years.
Featuring In Between Pieces (Christian Wolff) and new works
by student composers.
For more information visit: http://www.geocities.com/paul_j_abbott2000/departing.html
Friday 10 MAY 8.00 pm
York Vocal Index
directed by William Brooks and John Potter
This new ensemble comprises the university's
finest singers and they will perform a varied programme including a number
of new works for electronics and voices and:
Chant
Paul Mealor
Pour La Paix
Xenakis
Six Geometries
Alvin Lucier
Saturday 11 MAY 3.00 pm
Admission Free
National New Composers Forum 2002
The Orchestra of Opera North
John Carewe and Garry Walker conductors
The third and final day of composers workshops. During
the morning a number of works will be selected from the past two days and
these will then be further rehearsed for performance in the evening concert.
Saturday 11 MAY 3.00 pm
Pre-concert talk
A 'Round Table' discussion with the composer Richard
Causton and the composers whose works will be performed in the evening
concert.
Saturday 11 MAY 3.00 pm
NATIONAL NEW COMPOSERS’ FORUM:
SHOWCASE FINAL CONCERT
ORCHESTRA OF OPERA NORTH
John Carewe and Gary Walker – conductors
A grand finale concert featuring the very best of the new works
presented in the previous three days of composers workshops.
Wednesday 15 May 8.00 pm
NEELY BRUCE – PIANO
Nineteenth-century popular music
Short pieces based on minstrel show tunes, including: Virginia Quickstep(anonymous),
The Banjo (Harris), Miss Lucy Long with Variations (Viereck)
Three Rags: Harlem Rag (Turpin), Sponge (Simon), Heliotrope Bouquet (Joplin/Chauvin)
Louis Chauvin Surveys the Current State of Affairs Neely
Bruce
Furniture Music in the Form of 50 Rag Licks
Neely Bruce
Three Page Sonata
Ives
Danse Ossianique, La Gallina,
Gottschalk
O ma charmante, e’pargnez moi!,
Souvenir de Puero Rico/Marche des Gibaros,
The Last Hope, Le Bananier, The Banjo
Neely Bruce has composed over 600 works, ranging from full-length
operas to miniatures in several different media. A specialist in American
music, he is professor of music and American studies at Wesleyan University
in Middletown, Connecticut. Appearing in York as both composer and pianist,
he presents his own music alongside works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, together
with popular dances and rags from the nineteenth century.
Wednesday 22 MAY 8.00 pm
Price Band D
ARVO PÄRT
Works by Arvo Pärt
Directed by John Potter
Arvo Pärt is currently the most performed living composer.
These performances of instrumental and vocal works given by students on
the Arvo Part project will be directed by John Potter who has worked closely
with the composer for the last 15 years.
Tuesday 28 MAY to Friday 31 MAY
FINALS RECITALS
An opportunity to hear recitals by the University’s final-year students.
Concerts will be scheduled at various times throughout the day. Programme
details will be available from mid-May (see the Music Department website
www.york.ac.uk/depts/music).
Admission free
Wednesday 5 JUNE 8.00 pm
Price Band C
UNIVERSITY BAROQUE ENSEMBLE
Bradley Creswick, Michael Gerrard – directors
Juliet Shortridge – violin
James Stephenson – oboe
‘Spring’ from The Seasons
Vivaldi
Concerto in F for oboe and strings J.S. Bach
The University Baroque Ensemble is here co-directed by guests Bradley
Creswick and Michael Gerrard, respectively leader and principal viola of
the Northern Sinfonia. This programme of baroque music focuses on the developing
concerto form: the Bach oboe concerto is a recreation of a presumed original
and is presented alongside one of the concertos from Vivaldi’s ever-popular
Seasons.
Friday 7 JUNE 8.00 pm
Price Band B
GAMELAN SEKAR PETAK
The University’s Gamelan orchestra creates its own unique sound-world.
Sponsored by Nestle
Wednesday 12 JUNE 8.00 pm
Price Band B
MUSICAL SHOWCASE
The Showcase concert is always one of the most enjoyable of the season,
with student performers demonstrating their considerable skills, innovation
and variety of performing genres. Last season’s programme included a jazz
choir, vocal and baroque ensembles, a cello and piano duo, and voice and
organ solos.
Sponsored by Bettys
Friday 14 JUNE 8.00 pm
Price Band C
JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Directed by Tony Myatt
The University of York Jazz Orchestra will be joined by a leading soloist
from the British jazz scene to perform a dynamic and exciting programme
of jazz arrangements, songs and Latin grooves. The enthusiastic performances
of the Jazz Orchestra have received great support from York jazz audiences:
book early to avoid disappointment.
Wednesday 19 JUNE 8.00 pm
Price Band B
UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR
Peter Seymour – conductor
Mass
Martin
Requiem Duruflé
Duruflé’s familiar and evocative Requiem, together
with Frank Martin’s Mass – which explores some exquisite sonorities
for double choir – provide the centrepieces of a programme derived from
the French tradition.
Friday 21 JUNE 1.00 pm
Price Band
C
NEW MUSIC GROUP
Featuring works by student composers.
Friday 21 JUNE 8.00 pm
NEW MUSIC GROUP
Focus on Scelsi
The Greek Suite by Mark-Anthony Turnage will feature alongside works
by Django Bates.
York Minster
Wednesday 26 JUNE 8.00 pm
Price Band A
UNIVERSITY CHOIR
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
Jonathan Wainwright – conductor
Adrian Thompson – tenor
Intimations of Immortality Finzi
Symphony no. 5
Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams completed his Fifth Symphony in the middle of the
Second World War and a sense of restlessness underlies the modal lyricism
of the symphony – perhaps reflecting its period of composition. Gerald
Finziís sublime Intimations of Immortality, a setting of
words by William Wordsworth, was begun in the 1930s , but only about one-third
of the work was completed before the outbreak of the Second World War.
He returned to the work in 1945 and completed it in short score in May
1950.
By kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of York Minster
LUNCHTIME CONCERTS
As well as lunchtime concerts listed in this brochure, the student-run
University Music Society organises lunchtime concerts by student performers
at 1.00pm each Tuesday and Friday during term time. Tickets for these and
New Music Group lunchtime concerts are £1 (free to Society Members),
on sale at the door only (NOT at the Box Office). For information on the
Music Society and its programme, please write to the Secretary, Music Society,
Department of Music, University of York, YO10 5DD.
22 January
2002