City Music Society Lunchtime Concerts

CITY MUSIC SOCIETY
Lunchtime Concerts
Tuesdays at 1.05 pm at Bishopsgate Institute
Bishopsgate EC2

Admission to all lunchtime concerts is Free.

The Free admission to Young Artists Series concerts is kindly sponsored by The Bishopsgate Foundation.

A collection will be taken at the end of each young artists' concert at Bishopsgate to benefit the City Music Society.

Seats cannot be guaranteed after 1.00pm.

Limited standing is permitted at the discretion of the Society.

Latecomers are only admitted during a suitable pause in the programme.

All programmes are subject to change at short notice.

The City Music Society reserves the right to refuse admission.

Please note that City Music Society concerts are not suitable for children under the age of 8 and the Society reserves the right to refuse entry to children under that age.

The Society celebrates the extraordinary talent that abounds in the UK in its latest Young Artists Series [YAS]. Come and support these 'stars of the future' and celebrate their joyful music-making in a series of magnificent concerts.

Anniversaries of two major composers dominate our concerts in 2013. The centenaries of Benjamin Britten and Francis Poulenc will enable explorations of both well-known and less familiar works (with more to come in the autumn series). Then we can take advantage of The Alkan Society's enthusiastic advocacy of the prodigiously talented composer-pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan (born 1813), and mark the extraordinary debut of Stravinsky's ballet, The Rite of Spring.

The Society's series of young artists is complemented by a fresh series of Free Winter Concerts in association with the City of London Festival and City of London Sinfonia.

The Free Winter Series concerts are funded and promoted by the City of London and administered by the City Arts Trust.

[FWS] = Free Winter Series
[YAS] = Young Artists Series

15th January 2013 [YAS]
VILLIERS QUARTET JAMES DICKENSON violin TAMAKI HIGASHI violin CARMEN FLORES viola NICK STRINGFELLOW cello

Haydn	Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1
Beethoven	Quartet in B flat Op. 18 No. 6
Recently named Quartet-in-Association with the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra, the Villiers Quartet has created its own ground-breaking chamber music residency and concert series in collaboration with St. Andrew's Church and IntoUniversity in the London borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. In March 2012 the Quartet became a featured ensemble of the UK's Making Music Concert Promoter's Group after being selected from a pool of over 100 applicants.

22nd January 2013 [FWS]
CANTABILE: THE LONDON QUARTET RICHARD BRYAN countertenor STEVEN BROOKS tenor MARK FLEMING tenor MICHAEL STEFFAN baritone

Madrigals by Weelkes, Bennet and Passereau; close-harmony arrangements of Gershwin, Ellington and Lennon & McCartney.
Cantabile have been delighting audiences since 1982 with their amazing range of programmes. From a-cappella favourites to the sacred music of the last millennium they are outstanding in both Comedy and the Classics. Musicals in London's West End, galas aboard Queen Elizabeth 2, concerts in New York's Carnegie Hall, opera in the Covent Garden Festival, jazz with the BBC Big Band, classical parodies in front of 40,000 people at the BBC Proms in the Park or customised cabarets for corporate clients - the Cantabile experience draws gasps of admiration wherever it goes.

29th January 2013 [YAS]
GUILDHALL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CANDIDA THOMPSON director/violin JOSHUA MILLS tenor ALEXANDER EDMUNDSON french horn

Britten	Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31
Shostakovich arr. Barshai	Chamber Symphony in A flat Op. 118a (from String Quartet No. 10)
Former Guildhall School student Candida Thompson is Artistic Director and Konzertmeister of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and brings her experience of working with one of the world's leading chamber orchestras to this concert with current Guildhall students. She links works by two friends and major 20th-century composers, Britten and Shostakovich, with the latter's tenth string quartet presented in an outstanding arrangement Rudolf Barshai made for the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.

5th February 2013 [YAS]
EVA KARELL soprano KATALIN ERTSEY lute HARRY JARDINE speaker

Bishopsgate! An exploration of songs associated with the parish of Bishopsgate with songs by Dowland, Corkine, Maynard, Ferrabosco, Morley, Johnson and Wilson
Eva Karell, from Sweden, and Katalin Ertsey, from Hungary, met whilst studying at the Royal College of Music. A shared interest in early music soon led to them becoming duo partners and they have been performing together ever since. They won first prize in the RCM Early Music Competition in 2007 and have since given many recitals in the UK and Sweden. Their interest in songs of Shakespeare's time has inspired this exploration of the historical and musical associations with the area that surrounds the Bishopsgate Institute, introduced and described by RADA actor, Harry Jardine.

12th February 2013 [FWS]

LESLIE HOWARD piano

Beethoven	Sonata No 13 in E flat Op. 27 No. 1
Beethoven	Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor Op 27. No. 2 (Moonlight)
Alkan	Symphonie pour piano seul, Op. 39 Nos. 4-7 [from Douze Études dans les tons mineurs]
Internationally renowned virtuoso Leslie Howard marks the bi-centenary of Charles-Valentin Alkan, one of the greatest pianists of his day and composer of some of the most difficult solo piano works in the repertoire.
Pre-concert talk on Alkan at 12.15pm by Leslie Howard
Supported by The Alkan Society

19th February 2013 [YAS]
THE BUSCH ENSEMBLE MATHIEU VAN BELLEN violin JONATHAN BLOXHAM cello OMRI EPSTEIN piano
The Eric Falk Award Concert

Haydn	Piano Trio in E Hob XV:2
Schumann	Piano Trio No.1 in D minor Op. 63
Founded in November 2010, the Busch Ensemble has performed in various formations in the Netherlands, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, in halls such as The Sage Gateshead and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. As a trio the ensemble won the ROSL Chamber Competition in 2012 and the second prize and the recording prize at the Salieri-Zinetti Chamber Music Competition. Future projects include releasing their debut CD, continuing to perform and record the works of Adolf Busch, and presenting concerts at the Edinburgh Festival and Wigmore Hall.

26th February 2013 [YAS]
RCM WIND ENSEMBLE SIMON CHANNING director

Beethoven	Octet in E flat Op. 103
Poulenc	Sextuor for piano and wind quintet
The Royal College of Music is renowned for the quality of its many ensembles. Head of Woodwind Simon Channing brings a group of top RCM students to contribute to our celebration of the centenary of Francis Poulenc with his gloriously quirky, joyful sextet.

5th March 2013 [FWS]
JUDITH HALL, flute CRAIG OGDEN, guitar

Poulenc	Mouvements Perpétuels
Benoit Schlosberg	Trois Esquisses
Rodrigo	Serenata al Alba del Día
Philip Houghton	In the Dreaming (Cave Painting)
Robert Beaser	Mountain Songs
It has been said that between Judith Hall and Craig Ogden there is a natural affinity which makes their performances together quite exceptional. Their programmes are lively and intriguing, mixing better-known music with contemporary and exotic pieces. Poulenc's centenary is again remembered alongside an intriguing mixture of modern works.

12th March 2013 [YAS]
TRINITY STRING ENSEMBLE NIC PENDELBURY director

Schnittke	Moz-Art à la Haydn
Britten	Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
From their magnificent base in King Charles Court, part of the Greenwich World Heritage site, the senior string ensemble of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance visits Bishopsgate with two fascinating and strongly-contrasted 20th-century works.

19th March 2013 [FWS]
PIANO 4 HANDS JOSEPH TONG & WAKA HASEGAWA piano duet

Poulenc	Sonata
John McCabe	Two Scenes from Edward II (world premiere)
Stravinsky	The Rite of Spring
On the anniversary of the premiere of Stravinsky's visionary, revolutionary ballet, Joseph Tong & Waka Hasegawa play the composer's own duet arrangement of Le Sacre du Printemps, alongside John McCabe's scenes from his celebrated 1995 ballet and one of Poulenc's earliest works.
Pre-concert talk at 12.15pm with composer John McCabe and pianist Joseph Tong interviewed by Leslie East

26th March 2013 [YAS]
PHILIP HIGHAM cello JEREMY YOUNG piano
Photo: Sussie Ahlburg Photo: Sisi Burn
RPS Young Artists Recital
Debussy	Cello Sonata
Webern	2 Pieces
Webern	Drei Kleine Stücke Op.1
Shostakovich	Cello Sonata in D minor Op.40
Philip Higham is one of the first British cellists in generations to have won top prizes at three major international competitions including 1st Prize in the 2008 Bach Leipzig and 2009 Lutoslawski Competitions, and 2nd Prize in the 2010 Grand Prize Emanuel Feuermann Competition. Born in Edinburgh, Philip studied at the RNCM with Emma Ferrand and Ralph Kirshbaum. He plays a Tecchler cello c.1730. The London-born pianist, Jeremy Young, performs throughout the world as a chamber musician and soloist. He holds the position of Senior Piano Tutor and Head of the International Chamber Music Studio at the Royal Northern College of Music and teaches chamber music at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, UK.
Presented with the support of the Royal Philharmonic Society

For further information about these concerts please contact
citymusicsociety@btopenworld.com

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