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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES

January -June 2016

I am delighted to introduce another programme of public concerts promoted by the University of Leeds. The Concert Series continues to make a major contribution to the cultural life of the city region and firmly underlines the University’s commitment to the arts.

The 2015-16 Series reflects a wide range of concert music, with a repertoire which stretches from the 15th to 21st centuries.

Highlights for this year include a series of performances in collaboration with Leeds Lieder; surveying the rich repertoire of the Richard Strauss songbook, featuring Kathleen Ferrier award winning singer Katherine Broderick; a cabaret concert celebrating the music of Edith Piaf; and an exciting new collaboration with the Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) which will bring some of the best young performers to the magnificent Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall.

As a mark of the developing relationship between the School of Music and Leeds University Union Music Society (LUUMS), the Concert Series will feature all of the Society’s Clothworkers Concerts. Covering the full spectrum of classical performance, these welcome additions to the Series will help promote the talents of University of Leeds students to a new audience.

University wide events will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. Sopranos Stephanie Smith and Katherine Broderick, and as part of February’s Early Music Festival, tenor Michael Solomon Williams will all perform settings of The Bard’s work.

The Concert Series is, as ever, grateful for the continued support of the Friends of University Art and Music (FUAM), who do so much to support the development of young classical performers. FUAM identify and nurture artistic talent, and through their generous support of the Series, offer our Concert Series audience the opportunity to hear work from the stars of the future.

My sincere thanks go to all those individuals and organisations that have helped us to fund this year’s programme.

We look forward to welcoming you to the University and another exciting and varied Concert Series.

Sir Alan Langlands Vice-Chancellor

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Orchestra of Opera NorthSunday 17 January, 4:00pmConducted by Jac van SteenJessica Burroughs (solo cello)Banish the January blues with a delightful afternoon filled with some of the finest classical music from Yorkshire’s very own symphony orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North.

Regarded as Tchaikovsky’s cello concerto, the Variations on a Rococo Theme are a neo-classical homage to Mozart and a wonderfully challenging work-out for both soloist and orchestra. Performed between two classic symphonies, this concert is designed to lift the spirits and resolutely rekindle the New Year!

Programme:Haydn - Symphony no.87 in A majorTchaikovsky - Variations on a Rococo Theme op.33Mozart - Symphony no.40 in G minor

Tickets: £20 FREE - Students and Under 16s

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3x3 Sheffield - Electroacoustic Music from the University of Sheffield Sound Studios Wednesday 27 January, 7:30pmAn eclectic mix of electroacoustic music by Adrian Moore, Adam Stansbie and doctoral students at The University of Sheffield Sound Studios, presented via multiple loudspeakers surrounding the audience.

3x3 is a collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York (the White Rose group of universities), showcasing electroacoustic music research and practice at those three institutions. Over the course of 18 months, there will be three specially curated concert programmes, one each curated by Leeds, Sheffield and York.

This concert, representing the first programme in the series, is curated by Sheffield. The next programme, curated by York, is scheduled for performance in Autumn 2016, with the Leeds-curated programme completing the first cycle of concerts in early 2017.

Programme:Adrian Moore - CounterattackDimitris Savva - TelchinesChris Bevan - Parted ReflectionsAlejandro Albornoz - La LumièreAdam Stansbie - Foundry Flux

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The Thurston ConnectionFriday 29 November, 1:05pm Nicholas Cox (clarinets) Ian Buckle (piano) Nicholas Cox and Ian Buckle present two of the finest English clarinet sonatas, inspired by the playing of the great Frederick Thurston; alongside David Horne's essay in sonority for the basset clarinet.

Programme:Arnold Bax - Sonata for clarinet and pianoDavid Horne - Chime, for basset clarinet and pianoHerbert Howells - Sonata for clarinet and piano

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Ji LiuSaturday 30 January, 7:30pm Young pianist Ji Liu will perform works by Rzweski, Debussy, Chopin and Saint-Saëns. This performance will follow the release of Ji Liu’s third CD. In 2014 his debut CD Piano Reflections was released by Classic FM and immediately topped the classical charts.

Programme:Rzweski - Winnsboro Cotton Mill BluesDebussy - Suite BergamasqueChopin - 2 Waltzes op.32, no.2 and op.64, no.2Saint-Saëns - Danse MacabreChopin - Polonaise in A, op.40, no.1 “Military”Chopin - Sonata no.2Chopin - Polonaise in A flat, op.53 “Héroïque”

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Leeds Finalist’s PlatformFriday 5 February, 1:05pm Alicia Higgs (flute) Daniel Gordon (piano)Alicia is a final year BMus flautist at the University of Leeds studying with Jennifer George. She spent the 2014-15 academic year studying flute with Nikolai Jaeger and piccolo with Benjamin Plag at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Franz Liszt’ Weimar in Germany. During her year abroad Alicia spent a great deal of time not only improving all technical aspects of her playing but also exploring new musical ideas and expanding her knowledge of pieces beyond the standard core repertoire for flute.

This programme features less well-known sonatas for flute and piano by the Dutch-Jewish composer Leo Smit and Czech composer Jindrick Feld alongside one of André Jolivet’s most widely performed pieces in the flute repertoire.

Programme:Leo Smit - Sonata for flute and pianoJindrick Feld - Sonata for flute and pianoAndré Jolivet - Chant de Linos

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Masterworks for Piano and Wind Instruments Sunday 7 February, 3:00pmWind Quintet from Northern Chamber Orchestra: Amina Hussain (flute) Anna Cooper (oboe) Elizabeth Jordan (clarinet) Naomi Atherton (French horn) Rachel Whibley (bassoon) with Daniel Gordon (piano)The wind soloists of the Northern Chamber Orchestra are joined by the University of Leeds' own Daniel Gordon on piano in a programme which includes two of the favourites in the chamber repertoire for both wind players and pianists. Mozart wrote in a letter to his father of the Quintet in E flat major K.452 ''I consider it to be the best thing I have ever written in my life". Praise indeed as he had already achieved much by the age of 28 when it was written. Poulenc's Sextet was written between the two world wars and, while exuding his Gallic wit, also contains a good deal of emotional depth.

Tickets: £15£13 (advance saver - available until 23 January)FREE - Students and Under 16s


Student ShowcaseWednesday 10 February, 6:00pm Another opportunity to hear work by students on performance courses in the School of Music. Programme to be announced. Admission Free


Amy HarmanFriday 12 February, 1:05pm Amy Harman (bassoon) Jonathan Ware (piano)Born in London, Amy studied at the Royal College of Music with Andrea de Flammineis and Martin Gatt, and with František Herman at the Akademie Múzických in Prague. In 2011 she was appointed principal of the Philharmonia Orchestra and in 2014 was selected by YCAT.

Sought after as a song accompanist and chamber musician, Jonathan Ware studied at the Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School and at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin, where he now teaches. He won the Pianist’s Prize at Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song and Das Lied Competitions, and in 2014 won first prize in the International Hugo Wolf Competition and was selected by YCAT.

Programme:Bach - Viola da gamba Sonata no.2 in D BWV1028Olaf Berg - Vertigo for solo bassoonSchubert - 3 songs from Schwanengesang D.957Saint-Saëns - Sonata for bassoon and piano, op.168

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PIAF ~ The Songs Cabaret ConcertSaturday 13 February, 7:30pm Eve Loiseau sings the songs of Edith Piaf with Fiona Barrow (violin) Murray Grainger (accordion)Edith Piaf has become synonymous with French Cabaret of the 1940s & 50s and remains France’s most popular singer. This powerful celebration comes from a company whose credentials include Kneehigh Theatre and Canteve Vocale. The show features La vie en rose, Sous le ciel de Paris, Bal dans ma rue, Autumn Leaves, Padam Padam, C’est merveilleux, L’accordéoniste, Non je ne regrette rien and more.

Since her debut at the Royal Festival Hall in February 2002, Eve Loiseau has given recitals in England, New York & France and has featured on BBC Radio 3, WNYC Radio, PMW Music and the BBC production, The Roman Mysteries. Eve performs with Canteve Vocale and the baroque ensemble, Duo Dolcetini.

The concert hall will be transformed and the tiered seating removed so the audience can enjoy a relaxed atmosphere and a glass of wine.

Tickets: £15 (including a glass of wine)£13 (advance saver - available until 29 January)FREE - Students and Under 16s


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The clarinettist in collaborationFriday 12 February, 7:30pm Heather Roche (clarinet and bass clarinet)Heather Roche presents a recital of new works for clarinets and electronics, the results of two major collaborative projects conducted over the last year. The first, the result of a year-long project with University of Leeds composers Scott McLaughlin and Mic Spencer: two very different compositional minds worked together to create a new piece for clarinet. The second, the results of the first Heather Roche International Composition Competition: six composers (including the University of Leeds' own Oliver Thurley) were chosen out of 270 applicants from around the world, in order to write new pieces.

Tickets: £8£6 (advance saver - available until 28 January)FREE - Students and Under 16s


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Revival in Retrospect Friday 19 February, 1:05pmNaomi Okuda (recorders) Pawel Swiczak (harpsichord)For more than a century the Early Music movement has influenced a steady move towards playing music from earlier times on original instruments or carefully crafted copies.

In this concert Naomi and Pawel look back at the revival of interest in period instruments, using a pair of original instruments typical of the mid 20th century contrasted with excellent copies of 18th century instruments.

Using an original Dolmetsch recorder and Goble harpsichord with leather plectra, paired with historically informed copies of a Flemish harpsichord and treble recorder, Naomi and Pawel explore aspects of the early music revival presenting not only 18th, but also 20th century music played on period instruments.

Admission Free



The Harpsichord and its History, Development and RevivalFriday 19 February, 2:30pm Harpsichord Workshop by Andrew WoodersonAn exploration of the history, construction and development of the harpsichord from the Renaissance to the present, illustrated by musical examples.

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Cries and Teares Saturday 20 February, 7:30pm I Fagiolini, Fretwork and James Johnstone (organ)I Fagiolini’s glorious voices join with the soaring beauty of Fretwork's viols, accompanied by internationally acclaimed organist James Johnstone, in this very special concert. 'Cries and Teares' moves from the familiar to the unexpected: from street cries by Gibbons, Dering and Cobbold to the first-ever public performance of songs from Martin Peerson's innovative, intriguing - and today virtually unknown - songbook Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique (1630).

Peerson (c1572-1651) was a professional musician, highly respected by his contemporaries and for 25 years Almoner and Master of the Choristers at St Paul’s cathedral during the deanship of the poet

John Donne. He was also one of a small number of Trustees for the Blackfriars Theatre Company at the same time as his neighbour William Shakespeare.

Peerson was chosen by his patron, the privy counsellor Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628), to set his Caelica poems exploring the subject of human love: the resulting songbook has been virtually unknown for over 300 years, and in fact was nearly lost forever! As the work neared completion Greville was killed, stabbed by a trusted servant and inadvertently finished off by the doctors four weeks later. Colourful times, and music to match.

The conjunction of these internationally-acclaimed, stellar musical forces and the quality of the music will make this Festival headline concert truly an occasion to remember.

Tickets: £25£23 (advance saver - available until 5 February)FREE - Students and Under 16sClothworkers Centenary Concert Hall

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Twenty Waies Upon the BelsSunday 21 February, 3:00pm Pellingmans' Saraband: Faye Newton (soprano) Susanna Pell (viol) Jacob Heringman (lute)Susanna Pell, Jacob Heringman, Faye Newton and guest singers present a vivid glimpse of sixteenth and seventeenth-century domestic music making. The programme includes ingenious rounds by Thomas Ravenscroft, lute songs by Campion, Lanier and others, and instrumental solos and duos in a fascinating virtuoso exploration of the popular chord progressions (or “grounds”) of the day.

Jacob Heringman and Susanna Pell have been musical colleagues for almost 25 years and have both enjoyed distinguished careers at the forefront of the early music movement; Jacob as a soloist and with many prominent period ensembles; Susanna as a freelance performer and member of the pioneering groups, Fretwork and The Dufay Collective. Between them they've made 150 recordings for major record labels and played in many prestigious concert series and music festivals throughout the world.

Tickets: £15£13 (advance saver - available until 6 February)FREE - Students and Under 16s


Et in Arcadia Ego: Italian sonatas and cantatas Wednesday 24 February, 7:30pm Concentus VII: Emily Atkinson (soprano) Belinda Paul (oboe & recorder) Louise Strickland (recorder) Amélie Addison (cello) Dan Tidhar (harpsichord)Concentus VII performs small scale baroque works for wind instruments, voices, strings and continuo. Their repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to C. P. E. Bach, and is drawn from the intimate, often virtuosic and experimental music composers wrote for the enjoyment of their friends, families and colleagues. Members perform with leading early music ensembles (The Academy of Ancient Music, New London Consort, Il Giardino Armonico, Gabrieli Consort and Players, The Tallis Scholars, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin).

The Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi (The Academy of Arcadia) was an Italian literary society established in Rome in 1690. The Academy advocated a simpler, direct style and to this end took inspiration from the simple lives of peasants –an idealised world of rural innocence peopled with shepherds and nymphs and burbling streams; in short a recreation of an imagined Arcadian Golden Age replete with classical forms and mythological themes. George Frideric Handel attended meetings of the Academy while he was in Italy; Alessandro Scarlatti was also a member. The works in this programme are all based on the pastoral themes typical of the Academy’s house style.



Time to Time: Elizabethan song across the agesFriday 26 February, 1:05pm Michael Solomon Williams (voice) Emily Baines (recorders) Naomi Burrell (violin) Arngeir Hauksson (guitars) Seth Bennett (double bass)This exciting London-based group brings together English secular song from both Elizabethan ages, celebrating the English lyric in ayres, serenades, poems and dances. The individual members of the group are all specialists in Renaissance, folk and improvising traditions and combine these elements in a unique and stimulating style.

The Elizabethan song tradition is central to the group's repertoire. This anniversary concert will feature several original Shakespeare settings, as well as songs and music by John Dowland, Nick Drake and many more.

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Concert Spirituel Sunday 28 February, 3:00pm Leeds Baroque Orchestra and Choir directed by Peter HolmanLeeds Baroque explores some of the wonderful sacred music written by eighteenth-century French composers, much of it performed not in church but at the Concerts Spirituel, founded in 1725 and held at the Tuileries Palace in Paris. Large-scale grand motets by Rameau and Mondonville are contrasted with delicate petit motets by François Couperin and Boismortier ending with Corrette's Laudate Dominum, a reworking of Vivaldi's Spring concerto for chorus and orchestra.



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A Celebration of Female Composers for International Women's DayFriday 4 March, 1:05pm Stephanie Smith (soprano) As part of International Women's Day, join us as we explore the development of European song through the repetoire of female composers.

Stephanie, a graduate of the RNCM will perform Sechs Lieder by Clara Schumann, with texts from Heine, Geibel and Rückert and Lied by Fanny Mendellson.

This lunchtime concert will also feature favourites from the English operatic soprano and song composer, Liza Lehmann, such as The Lily of the day and Fairies at the bottom of the garden. 2016 sees the 400th commemoration for Shakespeare's death. Stephanie will be performing Three Shakespeare Songs by Amy Beach, the American composer and pianist to mark the writers death.

Due to the restrictions of society, female composers haven't always received the same recognition as their male counterparts. We would be delighted for you to join us in this exploration of song.

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Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula FanFriday 4 March, 7:30pmThis recital by Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan will include Schumann’s song cycle, Dichterliebe, Finzi’s song cycle, Let Us Garlands Bring (marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death), a world premiere by Martin Iddon (supported by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust) and Britten folk song arrangements.

Jeremy Huw Williams studied at St John's College, Cambridge, at the National Opera Studio, and with April Cantelo. He made his debut with WNO as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and has since appeared in more than sixty operatic roles. He has given performances at major venues in North and South America, Australia, Hong Kong, and most European countries.

Paula Fan has appeared as soloist and chamber musician on five continents. As the first accompanist-coach to be invited to an emerging China, she performed in the earliest concerts of Western chamber music and art song to be heard there for decades. She has recorded twenty albums and has broadcast for the BBC, National Public Radio, Radio Television China, and international stations from Bosnia to Australia. As one of the first recipients of the doctorate in Collaborative Piano, she has lectured on the subject worldwide. She is Regents’ Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona.

Tickets: £12£10 (advance saver - available until 18 February)FREE - Students and Under 16sClothworkers Centenary Concert Hall

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The Band ProjectWednesday 9 March, 7:00pm The band ensemble project returns for a fourth year, again under the mentorship of Hayden Minett. The programme features short sets by seven bands working in a variety of styles and genres, who will showcase their performing and creative abilities through a selection of instrumental and vocal covers, arrangements and original compositions at this exciting event.

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Crux fidelisA sequence of early a cappella choral music for Holy WeekFriday 11 March, 1:05pm School of Music Project Chorus directed by Clive McClellandThe music written for the liturgy of Holy Week provides us with a rich and varied repertoire, from the urgency of the Palm Sunday crowds to the deeply reflective mood of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, and ultimately to the celebratory spirit of Easter Day. In this concert, a range of unaccompanied choral music from the late Renaissance and early Baroque will be performed, beginning with two ‘Hosanna’ settings by Weelkes and Gibbons, and including the first set of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis, Purcell’s Hear my Prayer and the poignant Crucifixus by Lotti. There are also two contrasting settings of O vos omnes by Victoria and Gesualdo, and works by Monteverdi, Byrd, Juan IV of Portugal and Andrea Gabrieli. The concert concludes with Giovanni Gabrieli’s splendid 8-part Jubilate Deo.

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Flute EnsembleFriday 11 March, 6:00pm Under the mentorship of Jennifer George, a number of flautists associated with the School of Music have combined forces under the banner of the School’s ‘Ensemble Performance’ modules to present this concert. The programme will comprise a range of works from various genres arranged for different combinations of flute.

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School of Music Chamber Orchestra conducted by Edward VennSunday 13 March, 3:00pm This programme combines later symphonies from the late 18th and early 19th Centuries of two of orchestral music’s most prolific composers. Mozart’s final symphony, K.551, is characteristic of his later symphonic works in showcasing: the orchestra as both an ensemble of individual players and as a unit; and his compositional style of the late 1780s. Comprising an allegro vivace, an andante cantabile, a minuetto allegretto and a molto allegro finale, the subsequently dubbed ‘Jupiter’ Symphony particularly illustrates facets of the aforementioned compositional traits through the contrapuntal writing heard at the end of the final coda. Premiered some 25 years later, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony consists of a first movement labelled poco sostenuto - vivace, and subsequent allegretto, presto and allegro con brio movements. Often drawing upon dance-like rhythms, this work too provides clear demonstration of the power and elegance provided by the orchestral forces being employed at this time.

Programme:Mozart - Symphony no.41 in C, K.551Beethoven - Symphony no.7 in A, op.92

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Vocal Masterclass with Katherine Broderick and Joseph MiddletonTuesday 15 March, 7:00pm Up-and-coming student singers from the University of Leeds work with soprano Katherine Broderick and pianist Joseph Middleton on repertoire of their choice.

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Richard Strauss Song Series IIIWednesday 16 March, 7:30pm In association with the Kathleen Ferrier AwardsThe Autumn Years and the Four Last SongsKatherine Broderick (soprano)Joseph Middleton (piano)Late songs by Strauss and early songs by Berg and SchoenbergWell-known to Leeds audiences through her singing at Opera North, particularly as a Wagnerian soprano, Katherine Broderick brings her blazing voice and musical intelligence to Leeds Lieder’s final Strauss Series recital. Performing alongside regular collaborator Joseph Middleton, she will give a rare performance of the towering Four Last Songs in their version with piano. Earlier in the recital they perform a Strauss masterpiece, Befreit, and honour the Shakespeare anniversary by offering the haunting Ophelia Lieder. As with the recitals earlier in the series, Strauss’ songs are put into historical context by placing his works alongside that of his contemporaries. Here heady romanticism meets the dawn of a new compositional language as we explore early, tonal works by Schoenberg, and the Seven Early Songs of Berg: Viennese composition at its most decadent.

Tickets: £20£18 (advance saver - available until 1 March)FREE - Students and Under 16s


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Student ShowcaseFriday 18 March, 1:05pm Another opportunity to hear work by students on performance courses in the School of Music. Programme to be announced.

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Leeds Finalist’s PlatformFriday 22 April, 1:05pm Conor Jordon (guitar) Jess Clarke (vibraphone and percussion) Leon Davies (kit percussion)Having all spent a year studying music abroad in North America Conor, Jess and Leon arrived back in Leeds feeling inspired and excited to share their musical ideas. Drawing from a wide variety of styles they have begun to compose and perform together regularly during their final year.

This program includes both original compositions and works by other musicians. As composers, a lot of their work stems from group improvisation and collaborative spontaneity. Special attention is paid to harmonic structure and the exposure of interesting colour tones. The use of different, often clashing, time signatures is another feature that they feel is a significant aspect to their playing.

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A Viennese Quartet PartySunday 24 April, 3:00pm Revolutionary Drawing Room with Alistair McGowanAdrian Butterfield (violin) Kathryn Parry (violin) Rachel Stott (viola) Ruth Alford (cello)The Revolutionary Drawing Room string quartet, now in its 25th year, performs ‘A Viennese Quartet Party’, featuring works by Haydn, Mozart, Dittersdorf and Vanhal, four composers who played quartets together at a party in Vienna in the 1780’s.

Actor/comedian Alistair McGowan plays the part of the ebullient Irish tenor Michael Kelly, a guest at the party, who played billiards with Mozart, went riding with Haydn and chatted amiably with Emperor Joseph II, and also appeared in the premiere of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.

His account of how a chance escapade at the quartet party led to a role in the Emperor’s opera company makes fascinating listening. The ensemble recreates the exuberant spontaneity of late 18th century social music-making, while also communicating the depths of feeling expressed by that period’s greatest composers.

Tickets: £20£18 (advance saver - available until 9 April)FREE - Students and Under 16s



Student ShowcaseWednesday 27 April, 6:00pm Another opportunity to hear work by students on performance courses in the School of Music. Programme to be announced.

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Flute and Piano RecitalFriday 29 April, 1:05pm Jennifer George (flute) Daniel Gordon (piano) Jennifer George has played with various orchestras in the UK and USA, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera North, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Oregon Symphony. She has a keen interest in contemporary music and has performed as soloist and Principal Flute with the Remix Ensemble (Portugal), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG), and is a member of Radius (UK).

Daniel Gordon is a Teaching Fellow and the resident keyboard player at the University of Leeds. He is also the accompanist of Huddersfield Choral Society, organist of St. John the Baptist, Adel, and a deputy keyboard player for many organisations, including Black Dyke Band, the CBSO chorus, and Leeds Festival Chorus. Admission Free


Trio IsimsizFriday 6 May, 1:05pmPablo Hernán Benedí (violin) Michael Petrov (cello) Erdem Misirlioglu (piano)Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, under the guidance of Louise Hopkins, Carole Presland and Alasdair Tait. In 2013 they were selected by YCAT and in 2015 won 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition.

The Trio has undertaken residencies at the Banff Centre, Canada and Mozarteum, Salzburg, and participated in masterclasses with Andras Schiff, Steven Isserlis, Menahem Pressler, Thomas Riebl, Wolfgang Reddick, the Gould Piano Trio and Takács Quartet. In 2015 the Trio attended IMS Prussia Cove working with Ferenc Rados.

Concert highlights over the last year have included recitals at Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Purcell Room, the Newbury Spring, Peasmarsh and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals. They collaborated with Anthony Marwood, Richard Lester and Aleksander Madzar.

Programme:Schubert - Notturno in E flat, D.897Dvorák - Piano Trio in F minor, op.65

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The World of William ShieldFriday 10 June, 1:05pmAkenside Players: Anne Marie Christensen (violin) Rebecca Eves (violin) Amélie Addison (cello)Akenside Players take their name from the poet and physician Mark Akenside, whose essay on 'The Pleasures of the Imagination', inspired by the Northumberland countryside, had a far-reaching effect on eighteenth-century ideas about the perception of beauty. The ensemble formed in 2012 with harpsichordist Masumi Yamamoto, winning that year’s Broadwood Ensemble Competition with a programme of English baroque trio sonatas, and going on to be featured as Musicians of the Month for April 2013 at London’s Handel House Museum.

In 2014 Akenside Players became a string trio exploring repertoire by later eighteenth-century composers: recent highlights include performing in an aquarium at Silkeborg Festival, Denmark!

This programme draws inspiration from Amélie’s research here at the University of Leeds into the life and works of the British string-player and composer William Shield (1748-1829): presenting works by composers who influenced him, and exploring his life-long interest in traditional folk music or ‘national airs.’

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Clothworkers Consort of Leeds directed by Bryan WhiteHans Gál (1890 –1987) was one of a generation of Austrian Jewish composers forced to flee when the Nazis invaded the country. No stranger to composing for the voice, he produced four operas, several solo songs, and some 27 works for choir, alongside a large amount of orchestral and instrumental music.

A private student of Eusebius Mandyczewski (a close friend of Johannes Brahms), Gál immersed himself in the Austro-German classical tradition stemming from Bach, Schütz, Mozart, and Beethoven.

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Mestisa with The Leeds University Percussion EnsembleSaturday 11 June, 7:30pmJoin the Leeds University Percussion Ensemble and Mestisa, Leeds based Latin American quartet, as they explore the folk music of South America. Both groups are known for their energetic and accessible performances, suitable for all age groups, ensuring a colourful and invigorating experience for all. This concert will include a range of new works showcasing the collaborations developed between the two ensembles.

Tickets: £10£8 (advance saver - available until 27 June)FREE - Students and Under 16s


subsequently banned, Gál and his family fled Austria in 1938, settling in Edinburgh. Despite a period of internment as “enemy alien”, Gál became a regular Edinburgh musical figure, helping to establish the International Festival in 1947.

This programme celebrates Gál’s love of choral music, placing some of his own works amidst the music he most admired. Schütz, Haydn, Schumann and Brahms sit alongside five of Gál’s most diverse choral works, from serious settings of texts by Matthias Claudius, Shakespeare, Blake, and Ben Johnson, to lighter, often humorous settings of texts by Lessing, Shelley, and Queen Elizabeth I.

Tickets: £10 (adults) £8 (over 60s) £5 (under 18s, students and unwaged)


Performing the Jewish Archive Out of the Shadows Make once more my heart thy home: The Choral Music of Hans GálSunday 5 June, 3:00pm


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Performing the Jewish Archive Out of the Shadows‘Looking forward through the past’: New Operas from the Jewish ArchiveThursday 23 June, 8:00pm Singers and instrumentalists from the Royal Northern College of MusicStudents from the University of Leeds and the Royal Northern College of Music present a programme of newly-composed opera scenes depicting stories of Jewish migration, internment and exile.

Taking the latest archival discoveries of the Performing the Jewish Archive team as inspiration some of the finest young composers in the region have created a series of powerful and moving scenes for mixed voices and small instrumental ensemble, under the supervision of Professor Adam Gorb and Dr Stephen Muir.

This concert represents the culmination of a month’s music and theatre, “Out of the Shadows”. Having looked back to the archive of Jewish musical and theatrical heritage, we bring the festival full circle, combining the two artforms and, looking forward through the past, begin to create the Jewish musical-theatrical archive of the future.

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Performing the Jewish Archive Out of the Shadows Fate and Fairytales: the music of Wilhelm Grosz and Zikmund SchulFriday 17 June, 1:05pmFleeing Nazi persecution, Zikmund Schul chose Czechoslovakia as his safe haven. After 5 years in the Berlin recording industry, Wilhelm Grosz fled back to Vienna, and from there to London in 1934. This concert presents chamber works of two composers in very different conditions of exile, examining their aesthetic interests during uncertain times.

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Performing the Jewish Archive Out of the ShadowsThe New Budapest Orpheum Society: Jewish Cabaret Tradition Saturday 18 June, 7:30pmJulia Bentley (mezzo soprano) Philip V. Bohlman (artistic director) Stewart Figa (baritone) Danny Howard (percussion) Iordanka Kissiova (violin) Ilya Levinson (music director and piano) Mark Sonksen (double bass) Don Stille (accordion)The New Budapest Orpheum Society, an Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Chicago, draws upon a wide range of repertories, many forgotten, others preserved in European archives, all poignantly bearing witness to the great tradition of Jewish cabaret. The NBOS will perform works from their repertoire and works recently rediscovered by ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’ researchers.

Tickets: £10 (adults) £8 (over 60s) £5 (under 18s, students and unwaged)


Claudio Monteverdi, Il ballo dell Ingrate (1608) & John Blow, Venus and Adonis (c.1683)Sunday 19 June, 3:00pmLeeds Baroque Orchestra and Choir directed by Peter HolmanTwo magical pieces of music theatre written for seventeenth-century courts. Il ballo delle Ingrate is a cautionary tale in which Venus asks Pluto to release a group of Mantuan court ladies from Underworld as a terrible warning against being hard-hearted in love. The goddess of love also appears in the masque Venus and Adonis, written for Charles II's court, played by his mistress Moll Davies with their young daughter Lady Mary Tudor as Cupid. Cupid has accidentally wounded his mother with one of his arrows, which causes her to fall in love with the hunter Adonis. Tragedy strikes when she sends him off hunting, only for him to be fatally wounded by a boar.

Tickets: £18£16 (advance saver - available until 4 June)Free - Students and Under 16s


Family Concert:Myths and Legends Sunday 26 June, 4:00pm Opera North Children’s ChorusJustin Doyle (conductor) Jenny Martins (piano)The acclaimed Opera North Children’s Chorus performs a short work based on the same myths and legends as Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Wagner’s Ring cycle.

Come and hear about gods, giants, dwarves and strange creatures… Singing a sequence of folksongs from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia, the Chorus presents the story of the creation of the world as described in Icelandic traditional tales. This is magical, captivating music that will appeal to adults and children alike. Tickets: £8£6 (advance saver - available until 11 June)FREE - Students and Under 16s



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Student ShowcaseAfter their first year of study, students from the School of Music majoring in solo performance are invited to perform alongside their peers, in Concert Series Showcase events, accompanied by the School Répétiteur, Daniel Gordon*. Participation in the Concert Series gives these students valuable experience in interpretation, stagecraft, performance preparation and mindset. With many of them progressing on to postgraduate conservatoire study or performance related jobs, performing in such a prestigious Series is seen as a key part of these students development.

Finalist PlatformWeekly performance classes in the Concert Hall allow for the sharing of detailed performance critique between students and their peers, and between students and tutors.

As well as regularly taking to the stage as soloists, through performance classes students broaden and deepen their musicianship, of both instrumental / vocal repertoires and genres. In turn, this experience helps students analyse each other’s performance, e.g. classical and jazz students critiquing one another.Finalist Platform concerts celebrate solo performance, with a single student taking centre stage for the entire performance.

*The School of Music has its own Répétiteur, Daniel Gordon: as well as organising and tutoring performance classes, Daniel accompanies student performers in classes, exams, concerts, masterclasses and auditions.

Ensemble PerformanceThe School of Music’s Ensemble Performance modules provide opportunities for students to participate in a range of instrumental and vocal groups led by staff and external practitioners. The ensemble line-up varies from year to year, but can include orchestra, choir and ‘The Band Project’, as well as opportunities to perform contemporary music through LSTwo, and to explore new playing styles and approaches in groups such as Gamelan or Percussion Ensemble. Students are exposed to a broad range of approaches to interpreting music, rehearsal and ensemble performance, and also benefit from the knowledge and insight of staff, many of whom have worked and often continue to work professionally or semi-professionally as conductors and musical directors.

This year we are delighted to be collaborating with the Grand Union Orchestra and SAA-uk on a large choral-orchestral project. Previous collaborations include Martin Pickard (formerly Head of Music at Opera North) and Leeds Baroque (dir. Peter Holman).

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Advance PurchaseTickets purchased up to 14 days prior to the performance attract a £2 per ticket discount.

OnlineTicketed concerts can be booked and paid for online via the concerts web page at: concerts.leeds.ac.uk

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Students and Young PeopleAll concerts are free to students and young people in full-time education; proof of status (student ID card) may be required.

Concert Series Half Season PassMake the most of the diverse range of concerts on offer with a Concert Series Half Season Pass. A single payment of £45 provides admission to the remainder of the 2015-16 Series.

Clothworkers BarThe newly appointed, fully licensed Clothworkers Bar will be open for every concert. Serving wines, spirits, mixers, soft drinks, tea and coffee, and a range of snacks, this new facility promises to make the Concert Series experience a more sociable one. Take full advantage and pre-order your interval drinks, avoid queues for the bar, relax and enjoy the break.

AccessibilityThe Concert Hall is fully accessible, with reserved spaces for wheelchair users and their carers. Assistance dogs are welcome.

Programme DetailsPublished details are correct at the time of going to press. The Concert Series reserves the right to vary the programme in the case of unforeseen circumstances and will provide due notice whenever possible.

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The Smoke of HomeSaturday 16 April, 7:00pm and Sunday 17 April, 8:00pm and 9.30pm Clifford’s Tower, York

A recently rediscovered one-act play written in the Terezín ghetto.

Gideon Klein: Portrait of a ComposerWednesday 1 June, 7:30pm Holy Trinity Church, Leeds

Cassia String QuartetAn intimate, moving, and occasionally humorous portrait of the Czech-born composer and pianist, tragically murdered at the age of 25 in Auschwitz.

Harlequin in the GhettoThursday 2 June - Sunday 5 JuneThe Black Box, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York

In 1942, a young prisoner in the Terezín ghetto wrote a commedia dell'arte-inspired play: would Harlequin, the lovable clown, escape the clutches of the Capitano? These new works, based on preserved fragments of the script, engage with the question: what are we to make of a comedy written during the Holocaust?

Make once more my heart thy home: The Choral Music of Hans GálSunday 5 June, 3:00pmClothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds Friday 10 June, 7:30pmNational Centre for Early Music, York

Clothworkers Consort of LeedsHans Gál was one of a generation of Jewish composers forced to flee Austria when the Nazis invaded. This programme celebrates Gál’s love of choral music.

The Nash Ensemble: Music in the Terezín GhettoWednesday 8 June, 7:15pm Howard Assembly Room, Leeds

Described as ‘chamber music royalty’ (Sunday Times), the Nash Ensemble presents music from the Terezín ghetto by Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullman, and Hans Krása, alongside Smetana’s Bartered Bride overture, frequently performed in Terezín.

Mother Rachel and Her Children: A rediscovered oratorioThursday 9 June, 7:30pmLeft Bank Leeds

This piece takes the viewer on a journey with scenes from the two thousand years of suffering of the Jewish people that culminates in the death camps of the Third Reich.

The New Budapest Orpheum Society: Jewish Cabaret TraditionThursday 16 June, 7:30pm National Centre for Early Music, YorkSaturday 18 June, 7:30pm Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds

The New Budapest Orpheum Society draw upon a wide range of repertories, many forgotten, others preserved in European archives, all poignantly bearing witness to the great tradition of Jewish cabaret.

Fate and Fairytales: the music of Wilhelm Grosz and Zikmund SchulFriday 17 June, 1:05pmClothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds

This concert presents chamber works of two composers in very different conditions of exile, examining their aesthetic interests during uncertain times.

From Anne Frank to Terezín Theatre: The History of the Holocaust from the InsideTuesday 21 June - Wednesday 22 June, 7:30pm Bootham School, York

In this collaboration between Bootham School, the Anne Frank Trust and the University of York, students will develope a performance based on scripts written in the Terezín Ghetto.

‘Looking forward through the past’: New Operas from the Jewish ArchiveThursday 23 June 2016, 8.00pmClothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds

Students from the University of Leeds and the Royal Northern College of Music present a programme of newly-composed opera scenes depicting stories of Jewish migration, internment and exile.

Performing the Jewish ArchiveOut of the ShadowsRediscovering Jewish music and theatreAn exciting and innovative series of concerts, theatrical presentation and talks in Leeds and York based on the rediscovered creations of artists in internment, exile or migration in the twentieth century. Featuring choral music of émigré composers, chamber music and cabarets of the Terezin Ghetto, drama from the Helsinki Jewish archives and much more.

For further information contact us:0113 343 2581

[email protected] ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals/leeds-york-2016

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FUAM was founded in 1989 to promote and support art and music at the University of Leeds.From informal beginnings as a group of staff members and friends with an interest in helping to foster the University’s musical and artistic life and outreach, FUAM has grown into an active and lively organisation, with a regular wide-ranging programme of events.

Through its fundraising activities it has provided financial support to both The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery and the University of Leeds International Concert Series.

Members receive invitations to pre-exhibition talks held in The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, enjoy occasional special events in connection with individual exhibitions, acquisitions and concerts. In addition a regular programme of off-campus talks and visits explores art and music further afield.

Become a member of FUAMAll are welcome to join and special provision is made to encourage younger members with a reduced subscription for students and those under thirty years of age.

You can join online via the FUAM website: fuam.leeds.ac.uk

As a registered charity FUAM may accept donations and legacies and enhance these, at no cost to the donor, via the gift aid scheme.

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A celebration of the 400 year legacy of William Shakespeare and the 60th anniversary of the opening and ground breaking work of the University of Leeds

‘Man Made Fibres’ building.

The stage@leedscompany uses Shakespeare’s first folio, the work of Sculptor and Artist Mitzi Cunliff (whose ‘Man Made Fibres’ sculpture adorns the Man Made

Fibres building to this day) and the PCI Fashion Archive as inspiration and resource material for a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s elemental comedy full of

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Stage your event at the School of MusicLocated on the main campus, the School of Music provides a unique location for conferences and events. Its focal point is the stunning 250-seat Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall. As well as being the perfect venue for musical performances, the Hall is also suitable for large conferences and presentations with comprehensive AV/IT facilities, including recently added HD live video streaming.

The Concert Hall is supported by the Concert Hall Foyer and newly appointed, fully licensed Clothworkers Bar. Featuring Concert Series artwork, a mix of comfortable soft seating, and options to add a bar service and live background music, the Foyer not only provides an attractive space for registration, refreshments and exhibitions, it can also host end of day licensed entertainment. Four AV equipped Lecture Theatres flank the Foyer, and combine with the Concert Hall, Foyer and Clothworkers Bar to make the School of Music the ideal venue for a self-contained event requiring a range of flexible breakout space.

To further support your event, the School works closely with University’s Conference and Catering teams to fulfill accommodation and refreshment requirements. Ensuring the smooth running of your event, the School’s technical team provides a professional and personable service to complement your own planning.

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