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INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018

Exceptional music in beautiful venuesaround the Surrey Hills

THURSDAY 3 MAY • FRIDAY 4 MAY

FRIDAY 11 MAY • SATURDAY 12 MAY

www.iimf.co.ukRegistered Charity No. 1171264

"The performance itself was outstanding,

possibly the finest I have ever heard."

[Messiaen: Quartet for the end of Time, 2013]

"World-class performance.”

[Denbies,2014]

Professor Sebastian Forbes, Surrey Advertiser

Thursday 19 April 7.30pm for 8pm talk The LODGE, SHERE, GU5 9JA

ADVANCE RESERVATIONS ONLY, AS SPACES ARE LIMITED.

Email julia@iimf.co.uk to reserve and pay cash on the door.Silent Pool Distillers, Albury, will add spirit to the evening by offering acomplimentary gin tasting before the talk.

Presented by Sandy Burnett,

musician, author and former

BBC Radio 3 presenter

FESTIVAL INSIGHT EVENING

Sandy returns to the Festival to explore the music of this year's season in a fascinating conversation that will sparkle with good humour and scholarship.

Sandy is one of the UK’s most authoritative broadcastersin the field of classical music. His broadcasts, interviews,and lectures are all underpinned by the practicalunderstanding that comes from his busy life as apractising musician.

Join us for an informative evening and friendly company in the Chairman’s home

Tickets £5

THURSDAY, 3 MAY 7.30PMTHE MENUHIN HALL, STOKE D' ABERNON, KT11 3QQ

Widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest string ensembles, the Belcea Quartet have wowed critics for twenty years.

“There’s a huge range of colour in their quieter playing, but in louder faster passages the tendency is to go straight for the music’s jugular….”(Erica Trent, The Guardian)

For their first appearance with the IIMF, they deserve nothing less than the fineacoustic of the Menuhin Hall, a place once so familiar to their co-founderCorina Belcea who was a student at the Yehudi Menuhin School in theearly 1990’s.

Corina Belcea, violinKrysztof Chorzelski, violaAxel Schacher, violin Antoine Lederlin, cello

THE BELCEA QUARTET

PROGRAMME

Join us for a fabulous evening of exceptiona l music making

W.A. Mozart, String Quartet No.22 in B-flat minor K.589L. JanACek, String Quartet No.1, “Kreutzer Sonata”F. Mendelssohn, String Quartet in F minor, Op.80

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Tickets £25, £5 for under 21's. Doors Open 7.00pm

Pre-concert dining: A complimentary glass of Prosecco is available atThe March Hare, Guildford, GU1 3SY, for all concert-goers who pre-book supper before the performance and show their tickets on arrival.

friDAY, 4 MAY 7.30PMHOLY TRINITY CHURCH, GUILDFORD, GU1 3RR

Love songs for voices and piano some written for four hands will make for an enchanting evening in a beautiful setting. Brahms’ Liebeslieder are written in waltz style and this evening’s programme will also include equally romantic works by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn.

Lieder specialist mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley, will join Festival favourites and top-flight opera singers Anna Patalong, Ben Nelson and Guildford’s own Paul Curievici. International soloist Wu Qian and Festival Director Tessa Marchington perform together on the piano.

Tickets £25, £5 for under 21's. Doors Open 7.00pm

Anna Huntley, mezzo-soprano, Anna Patalong, soprano Ben Nelson, baritone, and Paul Curievici, tenor, with Wu Qian, piano and Tessa Marchington, piano

AN EVENING OF SONG

PROGRAMME

Join us to hear EXQUISITE WORKS FROM THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

F. Schubert, Richard LOwenherz, D907, Cronnan, D282, Gretchen am spinnrade, Op 2. D118, and Nacht und trAume, D827

R. Schumann, Spanisches Liederspiel, Op 74F. Mendelssohn, Songs withou t words arranged for four hands by Czerny, Op.30, No.1F. Mendelssohn, Andante et Allegro Brillant, Op. 92 for four handsJ. Brahms, Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 and Op. 65

Pre-concert dining: A complimentary glass of Prosecco is available atThe March Hare, Guildford, GU1 3SY, for all concert-goers who pre-book supper before the performance and show their tickets on arrival.

friDAY, 11 MAY 7.30PMHOLY TRINITY CHURCH, GUILDFORD, GU1 3RR

How fitting that Brahms was inspired to write the first movement of the Horn Trio whilst walking in the woods and that we should have this emotionally expressive piece played during this Festival which celebrates our own Surrey Hills. This exciting programme also includes the purity of one of Beethoven’s Piano Trios and the European premiere of a work by the celebrated young American composer Andy Akiho. The concert opens with Stravinsky’s concert suite from his elegiac 1918 composition L’Histoire du Soldat, based on a Russian folk tale.

The much admired Sitkovetsky Trio, recently returned from an acclaimed Australasian tour, are joined by pre-eminent clarinetist Michael Collins and horn player Katy Wooley , who makes her first appearance at the Festival.

The Sitkovetsky Trio Alexander SitkovetskyWu Qian and Isang Enders with Michael Collins, clarinet, and Katy Woolley principal horn from the Philharmonia Orchestra, London

The Sitkovetsky Trio and Friends

PROGRAMME

Join us on a journey through a breathtaking musical landscape.

I. Stravinsky, L’Histoire du SoldatJ. Brahms, Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op.40Andy Akiho, “Lost on Chiaroscuro Street” (European Premier)L. van Beethoven, Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 70, No. 2

Tickets £25, £5 for under 21's. Doors Open 7.00pm

saturDAY, 12 MAY 7.30PM St Teresa’s, Effingham, KT24 5PN

World renowned cellist Leonard Elschenbroich will conduct the superbLondon Mozart Players with star soloists, from Madrid violinist Leticia Moreno and Ukrainian-British violist Maxim Rysanov.

Moreno - “Fiery interpretation, exalted lyricism and expressivity. Captivating power, virtuosity and brilliance.” (El Pais)

"Rysanov is a prince among viola players..." (Gramophone August 2017)

In the Sinfonia Concertante, Mozart has written one of the most influential works of his early career giving equal billing to viola and violin. Along with two much-loved opera overtures this fabulous evening concludes with Beethoven's light hearted Symphony No.8.

conducted by Leonard Elschenbroich with Leticia Moreno, violin, and Maxim Rysanov, viola.

GALA CONCERT The London Mozart Players

PROGRAMME

Join us for a glorious evening of orchestra l music and stunning solo performances.

W. A. Mozart, Don Giovanni OvertureW. A. Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364G. Rossini, Barber of Seville OvertureL. van Beethoven, Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93

Tickets £29, £5 for under 21's. Doors Open 7.00pm

The London Mozart Players

PURCHASING TICKETSFOR THE 3 MAY BELCEA QUARTET ONLY:

Please call the Menuhin Hall Box Office on 08700 842020 or go onto the Menuhin website www.themenuhinhall.co.uk.

Please note:

The Menuhin Box Office is open for telephone bookings Monday to Friday10am - 3pm, except Wednesday 10am - 12.30pm.Closed for lunch 12.30-1.00pm daily.

FOR ALL OTHER CONCERT TICKETS:

Please contact the Festival Box Office at the Guildford Tourist Information Centre, 155 High Street Guildford. Tickets can be purchased in person or by phone 01483 444334, or via the website tickets.visitguildford.com.

‘Sublime’

‘A highlight of the Musical Year’

‘To have such easy access to such brilliantperformers is really a wonderful bonus’

‘Congratulations on another brilliant Festival, itgets better every year!’

Comments from audience members on past performances

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INVESTEC

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018

Bringing world-class music to intimate venues in the Surrey Hills

www.iimf.co.ukRegistered Charity No. 1171264