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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES

January - June 2018

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I am delighted to introduce another programme of public concerts promoted by the University of Leeds. The Concert Series plays an important role in the cultural life on the University campus and in the broader city region. The Series is committed to high quality and continues to employ high-calibre professional musicians presenting interesting and varied live music performances for students, staff and the general public. The Series is directly related to the teaching and research outputs of the School of Music and other areas of the University, and offers a wide range of musical genres and styles.

The School of Music acquired All-Steinway School status in December 2017, investing in 27 Steinway & Sons pianos, including a new concert grand piano for Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall. The Concert Series will celebrate this prestigious accreditation this season with a variety of piano performances, including our Inaugural Steinway Recital, a performance by the Gould Piano Trio featuring Steinway Artist Benjamin Frith, and a Friday lunchtime concert by Young Classical Artists Trust pianist Daniel Lebhardt.

The two Steinway concert grand pianos can be heard together in concert for the first time as part of a weekend celebrating the music of Claude Debussy to mark the centenary of his death. The weekend, curated in collaboration with Pixels Ensemble, will also include talks, masterclasses and a recital by singer Jane Irwin.

Other highlights of this season include a performance by pianist Federico Colli in an afternoon of events marking the presentation to the University of Leeds of Dame Fanny Waterman’s personal archive. Leeds Lieder return to complete their series exploring the songs of Schubert with a performance by Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton of Schwanengesang. Free Friday lunchtime concerts feature the Solem Quartet performing Beethoven’s Razumovsky Quartet, contemporary guitarist Diego Castro Magas, and clarinettist Matthew Hunt performing a programme of fantasies.

Details of concerts can also be found at concerts.leeds.ac.uk

We look forward to welcoming you to the University and another outstanding Concert Series in 2018.

Sir Alan LanglandsVice-ChancellorUniversity of Leeds

WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2018

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The School of Music, host of the University of Leeds International Concert Series, received a huge boost in December 2017 – acquiring All‐Steinway School status, through investment in 27 pianos designed by Steinway & Sons.

Favoured by the world’s top pianists, a combination of uprights, baby grands and a new concert grand, are now installed throughout the School’s practice rooms, in the new Concert Hall Foyer, and the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall.

The School of Music joins prestigious international institutions such as New York’s Juilliard School in becoming the first member of the UK’s Russell Group of universities to gain this accreditation.

With its new All‐Steinway School status, the School of Music is a step closer to its ambition of providing a world‐class experience for its students, staff and for the University of Leeds International Concert Series audience.

An inaugural Steinway Recital – the centrepiece of the 2017‐18 University of Leeds International Concert Series ‐ will celebrate the arrival of the pianos and the All‐Steinway status.

Dr Karen Burland, Head of the School of Music, said: “We are very excited about the opportunities this

investment affords the School, its students and staff. We know it will help us continue to attract world‐class performers and colleagues. It will also help strengthen our place in the cultural life of the city.”

University Vice‐Chancellor Sir Alan Langlands added: “This investment comes at an exciting time for culture on campus and across the city and will help fulfil two of the three key aims of our new Cultural Institute: the widening of cultural engagement and participation, and the enhancement of the skills of our students. It also responds directly to the demand from students for improved practise facilities in the University.”

The upgraded facilities will enable students across a wide range of courses in the school to practise, perform, compose and record with top quality instruments. Members of the hugely successful Leeds University Union Music Society from across all faculties will also benefit from using the new pianos.

Guido Zimmermann, Vice‐President and Managing Director for Steinway & Sons Europe, said: “There are few places in the world for students to apply where the majority of the school of music’s pianos are new Steinways. It is highly befitting that the University of Leeds is now amongst the elite few, not only enabling musicians to reach their full potential, but also enriching the student experience of every student with a passion for music. We are honoured to be accrediting University of Leeds School of Music as an All‐Steinway School.”


All‐Steinway School of Music UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2018

January Friday 26, 1:05pmSolem Quartet

February Friday 2, 1:05pmStudent Showcase

Friday 9, 1:05pmMusic for two pianos

Friday 9, 3:00pmFlute Masterclass with Fiona Fulton

Saturday 10, 3:00pmPiano Masterclass with Richard Uttley

Saturday 10, 7:30pmJane Irwin and Friends

Sunday 11, 3:00pmPixels Ensemble

Friday 16, 1:05pmMatthew Hunt & Annabelle Lawson

Friday 23, 1:05pmDiego Castro Magas

Sunday 25, 3:00pmMoravian Mystery & English Fantasy

March Friday 2, 1:05pmTchaikovsky Piano Trio

Saturday 3, 7:30pmSchubert Song Series IIIAshley Riches and Joseph Middleton

Wednesday 7, 7:00pmBand Project

Friday 9, 1:05pmStudent Showcase

Friday 9, 7:30pmclose-up: Ensemble Studio6 with Richard Barrett

Saturday 10, 7:30pmThe Mikado

Sunday 11, from 1:30pmA Life in Music - Celebrating Dame Fanny Waterman

Wednesday 14, 7:30pmTerrain: for amplified objects and devices & Mechanical Techno

Friday 16, 1:05pmDaniel Lebhardt

Saturday 17, 7:30pmLeeds Lieder Celebrity RecitalToby Spence & Joseph Middleton

April Friday 20, 1:05pmStudent Showcase

Friday 27, 1:05pmAlgorave Assembly

Sunday 29, 3:00pmMax Reger - "The Last Giant in Music"

MayWednesday 2, 5:30pmStudent Showcase

Friday 4, 6:00pmLSTwo

Friday 11, 1:05pmClothworkers Consort of Leeds

June Sunday 24, 3:00pmThe Gould Trio

Solem QuartetFriday 26 January, 1:05pm Amy Tress (violin) William Newell (violin) Alistair Vennart (viola) Stephanie Tress (cello)

Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet, op 59 no 2 ‘Razumovsky’

Winners of the 2014 Royal Overseas League Ensemble Competition, the Solem Quartet were brought together in 2011 by their studies at the University of Manchester, where they take their name from the University motto “arduus ad solem", meaning “striving towards the sun”. The quartet enjoy a busy concert schedule at venues across the UK and Europe. As an acknowledgement to their name, the Solem Quartet began by learning Haydn's op 20 "Sun" Quartets. Now their repertoire expands widely from early Haydn to living composers such as Emily Howard, whose quartet Afference they recently performed in a BBC Proms Extra broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. They have recorded two CDs of 20th Century British music for Divine Arts record company. They are 2016/17 Park Lane Group Artists and have given recitals at Kings Place, St John's, Smith Square and St Martin-in-the-Fields as part of the PLG recital series. In 2016 they were also selected as Tunnell Trust Artists, through which they will be touring Scotland in 2018.

Admission FreeClothworkers Centenary Concert Hall

Student ShowcaseFriday 2 February, 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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Event 1Concert: Music for two pianosFriday 9 February, 1:05pm Richard Uttley and Ian Buckle (pianos)

Claude Debussy - Six epigraphes antiques, for piano duet Percy Grainger - Suite “In a Nutshell”, for two pianosClaude Debussy - En blanc et noir, for two pianos

Admission Free

Event 2Flute Masterclass with Fiona FultonFriday 9 February, 3:00pm With students from the University School of Music.

Admission Free

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A Celebration of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Friday 9 - Sunday 11 February 2018

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall

Event 3Piano Masterclass with Richard UttleySaturday 10 February, 3:00pm With students from the University School of Music.

Admission Free

Event 4Talk: Robert OrledgeSaturday 10 February, 6:30pm “Claude Debussy and André Caplet: two original minds that worked in perfect harmony”

Leading Debussy scholar Robert Orledge discusses the work of the two composers, and talks about his own work as a ‘creative musicologist’, completing the unfinished theatrical and other projects of Debussy.

Admission Free

Event 5Concert: Jane Irwin and FriendsSaturday 10 February, 7:30pm

Jane Irwin (voice) Fiona Fulton (flute) Ian Buckle (piano)

Claude Debussy - Syrinx, for fluteClaude Debussy - Chansons de Bilitis, for voice and pianoClaude Debussy/Robert Orledge - Toomai des Éléphants, for pianoClaude Debussy/Robert Orledge - Petite Valse, for pianoAndré Caplet - Les prières, for voice and pianoClaude Debussy - Prelude à l’après-midi d’un faune, for flute and piano

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André Caplet - Écoute, mon cœur, for voice and fluteAndré Caplet - Green, for voice and pianoClaude Debussy - Ariettes oubliées, for voice and pianoAndré Caplet - Improvisations, for flute and pianoClaude Debussy - Romance, for voice and pianoAndré Caplet - Viens, une flûte invisible, for voice, flute and piano

Event 6Talk: Julian RushtonSunday 11 February, 2:00pm “Crépuscule d’un impressioniste … the last works of Claude Debussy”

Julian Rushton, Professor Emeritus at the University of Leeds, discusses Debussy’s Sonatas within the context of the composer’s late style.

Admission Free

Event 7Concert: Pixels Ensemble Sunday 11 February, 3:00pm Fiona Fulton (flute) Sophie Rosa (violin) Vicci Wardman (viola) Jonathan Aasgaard (cello) Hugh Webb (harp) Ian Buckle (piano)

Claude Debussy - Sonata for cello and pianoWolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Flute Quartet in D, K285Claude Debussy - Sonata for flute, viola and harp

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Jean Françaix - Quintet for flute, harp and string trioClaude Debussy - Sonata for violin and pianoWolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Quartet in G minor, K478

Tickets (for events 5 and 7): £8 - advance£10 - on the door Free - students and under 16s, unless

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Matthew Hunt & Annabelle LawsonFriday 16 February, 1:05pm Matthew Hunt (clarinet) Annabelle Lawson (piano)

Robert Schumann - FantasiestückeNeils Gade - FantasiestykkerJohn Ireland - Fantasy Sonata Jörg Widmann - Fantasie

“The clarinettist played so beautifully it was as though he wished to make the very air melt” Tokyo Times

One of Europe's leading clarinettists, Matthew Hunt is a distinctive musician, renowned for the vocal quality of his playing and his ability to communicate with audiences. Matthew enjoys an international career as both soloist and chamber musician, and currently holds the position of solo clarinettist of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen.

As a soloist, Matthew has recently collaborated with the conductors Paavo Jarvi, Clemens Schuldt, Alexei Ogrintchuok and Reinhard Goebbel, and with orchestras including the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, the Estonian Festival Orchestra and as a guest of the Berlin Philharmoniker. A distinguished chamber musician, his partners include the Meta4, Chiarascuro, Pavel Haas and Elias quartets, as well as Pekka Kuusisto, Alina Ibragimova, Thomas Adès, Emily Beynon, Nicholas Aldstaedt, Antoine Tamestit, Cedric Tiberghien, Steven Isserlis, Tine Thing Helseth, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alexander Lonquich and the jazz pianist, Iiro Rantala. He has appeared at many of Europe’s most prestigious venues and festivals, and as far afield as Bolivia, India and China.

As a recording artist Matthew has broadcast for radio and television as well as featuring on many film scores; he was the solo clarinettist on the score for the hit film Love Actually. His CD recording for the ASV label of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet was given five stars by BBC Music Magazine and acclaimed as: "the benchmark recording of this much recorded work”.



Diego Castro MagasFriday 23 February, 1:05pm Simon Steen-Andersenin-side-out-side-in... (2001)Scott McLaughlina string vibrates in two directions (2013) Scott McLaughlinat the still point of the turning world (2002) Claus-Steffen MahnkopfMikrotomie (1992)Eric EganIn One 1 (2015/2017) Wieland HobanKnokler (2008-9/2016)

Chilean virtuoso Diego Castro Magas champions challenging, cutting-edge guitar repertoire. Diego’s previous work in the UK includes appearances at festivals such as Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, a CD distributed by NMC recordings and publications on contemporary performance in TEMPO. In this recital he showcases the outputs of his collaborations with British composers including Scott McLaughlin, Eric Egan and Wieland Hoban.


Moravian Mystery & English FantasySunday 25 February, 3:00pm Fantasticus: Rie Kimura (baroque violin) Robert Smith (viola da gamba) Guillermo Brachetta (harpsichord)

Heinrich BiberThe Annunciation for violin and basso continuo (from the Mystery Sonatas)John Jenkins‘Fantasia Suite’ in G minor for treble, bass and basso continuoGeorg MuffatCiaccona in G major for keyboard soloGottfried FingerSonata No.3 in A major for viola da gamba and bassJohn Jenkins‘Fantasia’ in D minor for treble, bass viol and bassJohann Heinrich SchmelzerSonata Quarta for violin and basso continuoHenry PurcellTrio Sonata for violin, bass viol and bass in G minor, Z.780Heinrich BiberSonata 3 for violin and basso continuo in F major (1681)

The mysterious instrumental music from middle-europe of the 17th century is remarkable for its abstraction, free-form and quasi-improvisatory virtuoso flourishes. Nothing epitomises the 'stylus fantasticus' more than the Rosary (or mystery) Sonatas by Heinrich Biber. And on the other side of the continent we find striking similarities in the English Fantasia-Suites that developed independently in England, full of divisions and equally full of mystery.

Tickets: £8 - advance £10 - on the doorFree - students and under 16s


This concert is sponsored by a member of FUAM

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Schubert Song Series IIISaturday 3 March, 7:30pm Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) Joseph Middleton (piano)

Franz Schubert - SchwanengesangLudwig van Beethoven - An die ferne GeliebteSongs by Joseph Haydn

In partnership with Leeds Lieder

A BBC New Generation Artist, bass-baritone Ashley Riches read English at Cambridge University, before studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and as a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Recent appearances have included with the Berlin Philharmonic/Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Philharmonia Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and at Wigmore Hall. Increasingly recognised as a superb song singer, he appears on Graham Johnson’s complete Poulenc Songs for Hyperion. To draw our Schubert series to a close he performs the great non-cycle, Schubert’s Schwanengesang alongside what many label the genre’s first song-cycle, Beethoven’s hymn to a distant beloved.

6:30pm: Pre-concert talk by Dr Clive McClelland



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Tchaikovsky Piano TrioFriday 2 March, 1:05pm Sarah Brandwood-Spencer (violin) Simon Turner (cello) Darius Battiwalla (piano)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio in A minor

Sarah, Darius and Simon have been playing together since their studies at the RNCM, both as a piano trio and as part of the larger Chagall Ensemble. Their programme today consists of one work, Tchaikovsky’s epic Piano Trio, a work with a scope and emotional depth equal to any of his symphonies but made even more touching by its scoring as an intimate conversation of just three players.


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

Admission FreeClothworkers Centenary Concert Hall Foyer

Student Showcase Friday 9 March, 1:05pm Another opportunity to hear work by students on performance courses in the School of Music. Programme to be announced.


close-up: Ensemble Studio6 with Richard BarrettFriday 9 March, 7:30pm Karolina Bäter (recorders) Richard Barrett (electronics) Vladimir Blagojevic (accordion) Nenad Markovic (trumpets) Myriam García Fildalgo (cello) Milana Zaric (harp)

Close-up is the result of a close collaboration between Richard Barrett and the Serbian Ensemble Studio6 which began in April 2013. Each of its six parts explores a different angle on the relationship between pre-composed and spontaneous musical actions, whilst the electronic part explores a range of degrees of flexibility from fixed media to a completely "instrumental" approach.

While not being in any way programmatic or illustrative, many aspects of close-up derive from a contemplation of natural and biological phenomena, and in particular of the ephemeral interventions into the natural world embodied in the sculptures of Andy Goldsworthy, conceiving musical materials as something analogous to the leaves, icicles, thorns and stones which Goldsworthy selects from the natural environment and then returns to it in such a way that the viewer sees them differently from that point on.

Ensemble Studio 6 gathers internationally acclaimed soloists and performers of contemporary composed and improvised music. The ensemble encourages an open dialogue between listening, interpretation and creation in contemporary artistic practices.



WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan - The MikadoSaturday 10 March, 7:30pm School of Music Choir and Orchestra conducted by Ian Sapiro

Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1885 comic opera The Mikado remains one of their most-performed works over 130 years after it premiered at London’s Savoy Theatre. Set in the fictional Japanese town of Titipu, this satire of British politics is told through some of the creators’ best-known songs including ‘Three Little Maids’, ‘A Wand’ring Minstrel’, and, of course, ‘I’ve Got a Little List’. In recent years heightened concerns about the show’s apparent stereotyping of Japanese culture have led to some companies removing all references to Japan. This semi-staged production adopts the same approach, reimagining the story within the environment of a university.



An afternoon of events marking the presentation to the University of Leeds of Dame Fanny Waterman’s personal archive. Dame Fanny, founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition, has given the archive to the University’s Special Collections for future generations of researchers to study. The handover coincides with the accession of the piano competition’s archive by Special Collections.

From 1:30pm

Photographic display of Dame Fanny’s life in music and a display of items from the archive.

Parkinson Court

3:00pm

A conversazione with Dame Fanny and her former pupil Lord Dyson, former Master of the Rolls, honorary graduate of the University and Leeds Grammar School boy.

Great Hall

4:00pm - 5:15pm

Recital by Federico Colli, 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition winner.

Domenico Scarlatti - 6 Sonatas Johann Sebastian Bach - Ferruccio Busoni - Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita no 4 in D major BWV 828

Great Hall

Tickets: £15Free - students and under 16s

A LIFE IN MUSIC CELEBRATING

DAME FANNY WATERMANSunday 11 March

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Terrain: for amplified objects and devices & Mechanical TechnoWednesday 14 March, 7:30pmTerrain: for amplified objects and devicesLee Patterson Patterson uses sound making and recording to devise performances with a selection of amplified objects, devices and processes, from rock chalk to springs, from burning nuts to vibrating metal.

His collaborators have included some of todays' most respected experimental musicians and filmmakers such as Mika Vainio, Jennifer Walshe, Vanessa Rossetto, David Toop, Rhodri Davies and John Butcher, Greg Pope, Benedict Drew, Luke Fowler, Lucio Capece, Rie Nakajima, Angharad Davies, Phil Durrant, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury, Xavier Charles and Tetsuya Umeda. Based in Manchester, UK, he works internationally and has featured on UK TV, BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6, Resonance FM and on radio stations worldwide. Mechanical TechnoGraham Dunning Graham Dunning's live work explores sound as texture, timbre and something tactile, drawing on bedroom production, tinkering and recycling found objects. He also creates visual work, video and installations drawing on these themes. Originally a studio project for making recordings, Mechanical Techno is now also a live performance. Several looping records spin on the same axle, ensuring they stay approximately in time with each other. A precarious machine made of locked groove records, triggers to analogue synths, mechanically played percussion such as a cowbell or a tambourine, and mechanically triggered drum machines. Dunning takes all these inputs and performs a live dub, building the machine and mixing the sonic output on the fly.


Daniel LebhardtFriday 16 March, 1:05pm Franz Liszt - Bagatelle sans tonalitéLudwig van Beethoven - Sonata no 17 in D minor, op 31, no 2 'Tempest'Franz Liszt - Après une lecture du Dante - Fantasia quasi sonata, S161/7

In 2014 at the age of 22 Daniel Lebhardt won 1st Prize at the Young Concert Artists auditions in Paris and New York. A year later he was selected by Young Classical Artists Trust in London and in 2016 won the Most Promising Pianist prize at the Sydney International Competition.

Over the last two years Daniel has given debut recitals at Wigmore Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and Morgan Library in New York; the Kennedy Center, Gardner Museum, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Usedomer Festival and Steirisches Kammermusikfestival. He recorded music by Bartók for Decca and attended IMS Prussia Cove working with Ferenc Rados.

Future engagements include recitals at the Louvre in Paris, Wigmore Hall, the Oxford International and Nottingham International Piano Series. Further afield he undertakes tours of China, Argentina and Chile, and gives concerts in Seattle, Florida and Toronto.

Born in Hungary, Daniel studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and at the Royal Academy of Music with Pascal Nemirovski.


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Leeds Lieder Celebrity RecitalSaturday 17 March, 7:30pm Toby Spence (tenor) Joseph Middleton (piano)

Benjamin Britten - On this IslandFrancis Poulenc - Tel jour, telle nuitBenjamin Britten - O Waly, WalyBenjamin Britten - Sally in our AlleyGerald Finzi - Till Earth OutwearsBenjamin Britten - Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo

Toby Spence’s cleverly constructed recital explores the musical kinship between three of the finest twentieth century song composers. Poulenc, Britten and Finzi all cut their teeth writing miniature forms before turning to larger scale works later in life, and all explored thoroughly individual musical languages while painting the finest words with abundantly colourful accompaniments. Poulenc’s greatest vocal work, a cycle in the line of Winterriese or Dichterliebe, stands alongside one of Britten’s most personal works, one which culminates in a song extolling the perfection and immortality of love. Spence comes to Leeds Lieder fresh from triumphant recent appearances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Edinburgh Festival.

Tickets: £22 £20 - registered unwaged/disabled£5 - students and under 30s


Student ShowcaseFriday 20 April, 1:05pm Another opportunity to hear work by students on performance courses in the School of Music. Programme to be announced.


Algorave AssemblyFriday 27 April, 1:05pm OFFAL and Alexandra Cardenas

OFFAL will create an improvised performance of electronic music using live coding software, TidalCycles, accompanied by responsive visuals projected on the Concert Hall’s giant 8m screen. Alexandra Cardenas will first perform with OFFAL, and then on her own, using SuperCollider, software similar to TidalCycles, also designed for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.

OFFAL is an international collective of female laptop performers who devise performances involving multi‐location collaborative improvisation.

Alexandra Cardenas is a Colombian composer and improviser now based in Berlin, who has followed a path from Western classical composition to improvisation and live electronics. More recently Alexandra has been invited to talk about and perform live coding at events such as the Berlin based Transmediale festival and Ableton sponsored Loop symposium.

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Algorave Assembly, organised by the School of Music’s Operations Manager, Dan Merrick, is a day that brings together invited speakers and performers operating at the forefront of the Algorave scene. Live coding masterclasses, panel discussion, and Concert Hall performance and keynotes will explore and disseminate the latest developments in this emerging form of musical practice.

The day concludes with a spectacular, livestreamed Algorave in the School of Music’s new Concert Hall Foyer featuring live coding by Alex McLean, Joanne Armitage, Alexandra Cardenas, Ryan Kirkbride, Dorien Schampaert, experimental and breakbeat DJ’ing by NikNak, DJ Linkz + guests. Full details to be announced in spring 2018.


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Max Reger - “The Last Giant in Music”Sunday 29 April, 3:00pm Una Barry (soprano) Graham Barber and Daniel Gordon (pianos)

Paul Hindemith’s estimation of Reger (1873-1916) sits uncomfortably with his almost complete neglect in the concert hall. Today’s event showcases this elusive and controversial figure through filmed documentary and live performance. Daniel Gordon and Graham Barber will play his many-faceted Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven, Op.86, for two pianos on the University’s newly paired Steinways, and Una Barry sings a selection of Reger lieder. There will also be filmed performances of organ, orchestral and chamber music on the big screen – in short, a rare feast of expressive and highly charged music!

Tickets: £8 - advance£10 - on the doorFree - students and under 16s


Student ShowcaseWednesday 2 May, 5:30pm Another opportunity to hear work by students on performance courses in the School of Music. Programme to be announced.


LSTwoFriday 4 May, 6:00pm LSTwo, the School of Music's new music ensemble conducted by Mic Spencer, performs newly written work by staff and students of the University of Leeds composed especially for this year's line-up, including a premiere by Scott McLaughlin.


Sacred Music for London and SalzburgFriday 11 May, 1:05pm Clothworkers Consort of Leeds conducted by Bryan White

The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds perform a concert of seventheenth-century sacred vocal music, mixing liturgical music for Salzburg Cathedral with anthems and motets from the English Chapel Royal. The programme includes Heinrich Biber’s stile antico Missa Quadragesimalis, written in the early 1670s, William Turner’s Latin motet ‘Quemadmodum desiderat’, Purcell’s ‘Save me, O God’, and his stunning eight-part anthem ‘Blow up the trumpet in Sion’.


The Gould TrioSunday 24 June, 3:00pm Lucy Gould (violin) Alice Neary (cello) Benjamin Frith (piano) Uwe Grodd (flute)

Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Symphony no 6 in F major, op 68 'Pastorale'Johannes Brahms - Piano Trio in B major, op 8

The Gould Piano Trio is joined by the German Flautist, Uwe Grodd for the premier of his new edition of Beethoven’s 'Pastorale' Symphony arranged for flute, violin, cello and piano by Mozart's star student, Johann Nepomuk Hummel. This chamber music 'translation' of the symphony reflects Beethoven's love for nature in the same way as in the original.

The young Brahms had the burden of living with Robert Schumann's prediction that he would become a second Beethoven, and when he eventually revised his Piano Trio op 8 during his final decade, in 1889, the masterly craftsmanship it displayed reflected that early promise.

These two masterpieces should be an inspired pairing as Brahms declared to Clara that his revision was "not so sad as before - but better!"



This concert is sponsored by members of FUAM

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Clothworkers BarThe 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.

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Our audience support really matters. Without our audience we couldn't continue to offer such a varied programme of high-calibre performers.

Full details of our new Support Us scheme and information about our Inaugural Support Us concert in the spring can be found at concerts.leeds.ac.uk/support-us

How to find usFrom the south (M1/M621)At J43 the M1 splits. Take the right-hand lanes and follow M621 Leeds Centre. Exit M621 at J3 and follow signs for city centre and universities. Pass under the railway bridges keeping in the outside lane and enter City Square. Take exit signposted ‘University’ (the main Post Office to your right). Turn right at next traffic lights into East Parade. Travel up East Parade in the left-hand lane, straight across the Headrow into Calverley Street (Town Hall will be on your left). Continue past the Leeds General Infirmary (on your left) and turn right at the lights immediately after the Civic Hall (on your right). Turn left at the next traffic lights to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building Tower.

From the M62 eastboundExit M62 at J27 to the M621. Exit the M621 at J2 (signposted Harrogate, York and Skipton) and after a few hundred yards approach major roundabout. Take third exit to city centre and join inner ring road, A58(M). Take exit signposted Skipton A660 which will bring you to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building Tower.

From A1 southbound & from YorkLeave A1 taking A64 towards Leeds and join inner ring road (dual carriageway). Take exit signposted Skipton A660 which will bring you to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building.

From A62 (Huddersfield) & A58 (Halifax)Join inner ring road. Take exit signposted Skipton A660 which will bring you to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building.

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From A61 (Harrogate) & A58 (Wetherby)Follow signs to University. At Merrion Centre traffic lights, a right turn brings you to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building.

Regular bus services from the city centre stop outside the main entrance (Parkinson Building). For details of timetable and service telephone 0113 245 7676

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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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Stage your event at the School of MusicLocated on the main campus, the School of Music provides a unique location for conferences, events and exhibitions. Its focal point is the stunning 250-seat Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall. The natural choice for musical performance, the Hall also hosts conference presentation, and fully retractable seating enables a 210 sq.m exhibition space. Comprehensive AV/IT facilities, including HD live video streaming, and recently added big-screen cinematic projection, create possibilities for engaging, media-rich events.

The Concert Hall is supported by the Concert Hall Foyer and fully licensed Clothworkers Bar. The newly refurbished 200 sq.m Foyer, now a technologically-advanced venue in its own right, is an attractive, versatile, social space, perfectly suited to performance, presentation, networking and refreshment. 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 spaces.

To further support your event, the School works closely with University’s Conference and Catering teams to fulfil 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.

To discuss your event requirements, contact:Dan MerrickOperations / IT Manager0113 343 [email protected]


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