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

Price Band A

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

Price Band D

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

Price Band D

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

Price Band D

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

Price Band A

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

Price Band C

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

Price Band B

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

Price Band D

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.

For more information and music www.andysheppard.co.uk

 

Sunday 18 NOVEMBER at 4.00 pm

Price Band C

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

Price Band C

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

Price Band D

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

Price Band C

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

Price Band C

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

Price Band A

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

Price Band C

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

Price Band D

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

Price Band A

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

Price Band C

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

Price Band B

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.

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Friday 8 FEBRUARY 8.00 pm

Price Band C

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

Price Band C

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.
 

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Wednesday 20 FEBRUARY 8.00 pm

Price Band C

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

Price Band B

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
 

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Wednesday 27 FEBRUARY 8.00pm

Price Band D

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

Price Band A

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

Price Band C

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

Price Band B

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

Price Band C

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.
 

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Wednesday 1 MAY 8.00 pm

Price Band C

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).

Full details of events and venues are available on http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~jcs7/springfest2.html#ED
 

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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

PRICE BAND B

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

PRICE BAND B

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

PRICE BAND C

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

PRICE BAND B

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.
 
 

Thursday 9 MAY  8.00 pm  - Venue: National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, York

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

PRICE BAND B

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

Price Band C

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

Price Band C

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.
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