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THE NEWSLETTER OF THE ALDERLEY EDGE ORCHESTRA ISSUE 15 MARCH 2014www. ae . aeo rches t r a .o rg .uk
DVORAKConcert Overture:In Nature’s Realm
Op 91
ELGARCello Concerto in E minor,
Op 85Soloist: Lucy Arch
BORODINSymphony No 2 in B minor
Venue: Alderley Edge Methodist Churchat 7.30 pm
WORKSHOP
MAHLERSymphony No 5
Conductor: Timothy Kendal
Venue: Honford Hall, Handforth9.30 am to 5.00 pm
Saturday, 22nd November 2014 Saturday, 24th January 2015 Saturday, 7th March 2015
BEETHOVENOverture: Leonora No 3
R STRAUSSHorn Concerto No 1
in E flatSoloist: Angela Barnes
R STRAUSSSerenade for Wind, Op 7
HAYDNSymphony No 100in G
'Military'Venue: Alderley Edge Methodist Church
at 7.30 pm
Saturday, 16th May 2015
WEBEROverture: Der Freischutz
MENDELSSOHNPiano Concerto No 1 in G minorSoloist: Natalia Strelchenko
SIBELIUSSuite: Karelia
MOZARTSymphony No 35 in D
'Haffner'Venue: Alderley Edge Methodist Church
at 7.30 pm
which were consideredcarefully by theCommittee before thefinal programme wasassembled.Once again, we have
been able to line up anoutstanding group ofsoloists for next season.
LUCY ARCH
LUCY ARCH will beplaying the Elgar
Cello Concerto in ourconcert on 22ndNovember.Lucy Arch started
playing the cello at theage of 7 and currentlystudies at the RoyalNorthern College of
Music with Christopher Hoyle andHannah Roberts.She played for several years in
the National Youth Orchestra ofGreat Britain, performing at majorvenues all over the UK undereminent conductors.Lucy has a keen interest in
chamber music, twice winning the
SIMON CONNINGwill be making histhird visit on 17th
May 2014 to join us for aperformance ofBeethoven’s SecondPiano Concerto.Simon has been busy
over the past year. Henow has a recording dealwith Meridian Records inLondon, for whom he hasrecorded Muzio Clementipiano sonatas as his firstrelease.He commenced his
studies with Marjorie Kellyin Macclesfield, thencontinued at the RoyalCollege of Music’s JuniorDepartment with MarjorieClementi. He later studied at theRoyal College of Music in Londonwith Yu Chun Yee.Simon’s involvement in Musical
Theatre as keyboardist andMusical Director has seen himcollaborate with many establishedartists on diverse productions inEurope and throughout the UK
but mostly in London’s West End.
Our 2014-15 Season
FULL details of ourforthcoming season are given
below.As always, we should like to
thank players for the wide-ranginglist of suggested works, all of
Orchestral notes
Welcome back to pianist Simon Conning
Supported by
ALDERLEY EDGEINST I TUTE TRUST
ensemble prize at Junior RNCM,and performing the SchumannPiano Quartet at the WigmoreHall. This year her string quartet,The Clara String Quartet, havewon the Hirsch Prize for the bestperformance of a BeethovenQuartet and have just returnedfrom a course in Germany wherethey represented the RNCM .Solo performances have includedthe Schumann concerto at theRNCM, and several recitals. Lucyis an experienced orchestralplayer, leading a wide range ofthe classical, romantic and 20thcentury repertoire with RNCMchamber, symphony and classicalorchestras, as well as manyothers. This year she hasundertaken work with the Royal
Liverpool PhilharmonicOrchestra.
ANGELA BARNES
ANGELA BARNES willobe omaking a
welcome return visit on 7thMarch 2015 as soloist inRichard Strauss’s First HornConcerto.
It is now some 15 yearssince Angela – then atChetham’s School of Musicin Manchester – played aMozart horn concerto withthe orchestra.In January 2005, at the
age of 21, Angela was appointedsecond horn of the LondonSymphony Orchestra, becomingthe first female member of theorchestra’s brass section in theorchestra’s hundred-year history.She has worked regularly with
most of the major Britishorchestras, appearing as a guestprincipal with the LondonPhilharmonic Orchestra, the RoyalPhilharmonic Orchestra, the Cityof Birmingham SymphonyOrchestra, and the RoyalLiverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.Angela’s career combines
orchestral, solo and chambermusic playing. As well asfeaturing in the second instalmentof the Cala Records ‘‘LondonHorn Sound’’ series, she has also
recently recorded Britten’sCanticle for Tenor, Horn andPiano, with tenor Allan Clayton, aspart of the BBC Radio 3 NewGeneration Artists scheme.Angela, from Rossendale,
Lancashire, began horn lessonswith her mother at the age ofeight, before entering Chetham’sSchool of Music, Manchester, in1994 to study with ElizabethDavis.She then went on to study with
Hugh Seenan, Richard Bissill,
How much do YOU know about Alexander Borodin?
PROBABLY the answer is “not very much”, apart perhaps fromthe fact that he was a Russian chemist who only composed
music in his spare time. But did you know that he was theillegitimate son of a Russian prince? That his research work onpolymers was some of the finest undertaken in the 19th century?That he reserved his finest music for his pianist wife EkaterinaProtopopova to whom he had a long and happy marriage? That helived life to the full but died at a masked ball at the early age ofonly 53? And musically, did you know that the his SecondSymphony – which we’ll be playing in our concert on 22ndNovember – is unique in starting with a pause on its very first note;and its third movement is the only piece of 19th century classicalmusic scored with a time signature of 1/1?You can learn more about Borodin and his Second Symphony in a fascinating‘Discovering Music’ presentation by Stephen Johnson with the BBCPhilharmonic Orchestra on www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glzhv.
Lucy Arch
Angela Barnes
OUR NEXT WORKSHOP
WE received many usefulsuggestions for the 2015
workshop.Eventually, and after further
consultation, the choice wasMahler’s Fifth Symphony and weare sure it will prove a fascinatingand worthwhile challenge for allsections of the orchestra.Composed in 1901/2, it’s a
massive work, over an hour inlength. It’s scored for four flutes,three oboes , three clarinets,three bassoons, six horns, threetrombones, tuba, percussion andstrings.The fourth movement is
arguably Mahler's most famoussingle piece of music, and is themost frequently performedextract from Mahler’s works. It isperhaps best known for its use inthe 1971 Luchino Visconti filmDeath in Venice.
The Children’s Society
WE have been approachedby The Children’s Society
who have asked if we could helpthem with their fundraising.The Children’s Society is a long-
established charity (set up in 1881)which runs over 36 children’scentre around the country andworks in association with 40 localauthorities to help children of allfaiths and none, including childrenat risk on the streets, disabledchildren, young refugees, youngcarers or those within the youthjustice system.We have agreed to help them
to promote this good cause at ourNovember concert, when they willhave a display stand in the foyerand accept donations fromconcert-goers.
Jeffrey Bryant and JonathanLipton at the Guildhall School ofMusic and Drama in London, fromwhere she graduated with a FirstClass Honours degree in July2005.Angela has given numerous
solo and chamber musicperformances, and was a memberof both the National YouthOrchestra and the EuropeanUnion Youth Orchestra.In 2002, she won both the
Liverpool Young Musiciancompetition and the Brass sectionof the BBC Young Musician of theYear competition, which saw herperform Richard Strauss’ SecondHorn Concerto with the BBCSymphony Orchestra in theBarbican Hall, London, as part ofthe Concerto Final, which wasbroadcast live on BBC televisionand radio.Highlights of recent seasons
include performances ofSchumann’s Konzertstuck for FourHorns and orchestra with the BBCPhilharmonic in Manchester’sBridgewater Hall (broadcast onBBC Radio 3), and of Brahms’Horn Trio with pianist MartinRoscoe and violinist NicholasWright as part of the RibbleValley International Piano Week.
She was also honouredto perform in Memphis,Tennessee during thesummer of 2013 as aFeatured Soloist at the45th annual symposium ofthe International HornSociety.
NATALIASTRELCHENKO
THOSE of youattended the
‘Planets’ workshop inJanuary will rememberthe virtuosity of pianistNatalia who filled ininnumerable parts on thekeyboard.We now welcome her
back in a more conventional role:to play Mendelssohn’s First PianoConcerto in our concert on 16thMay 2015.Natalia Strelchenko is a
Norwegian pianist of Russianorigin and considered to be oneof the country’s most renownedsolo pianists of internationalcalibre. She made her debut atage 12 with the St. PetersburgSymphony OrchestraNatalia graduated from Saint
Petersburg State Conservatoireand Norwegian Academy ofMusic.She has given many
international solo recitalsincluding performances of TwelveTranscendental Etudes by FranzLiszt at New York’s Carnegie Hall(2008) and solo recitals atLondon’s Wigmore Hall. HerLondon recitals elicited a rarefive-star review from TheIndependent.Natalia is also a musicological
researcher in the area of historicalpiano techniques and has beenawarded a research degree fromNorway’s leading music academy.Public exposure includes
eleven CDs, essays and articles,and ongoing TV and Radiobroadcasts in around the world.
Natalia Strelchenko
The Alderley Edge Festival
THE Alderley Edge Festival isone of the longest
established and most successfulfestivals of its kind in the country.Our own orchestra has historic
links with the Festival which dateback to 1922 when, according toThe Alderley Edge Advertiser “ameeting of the Alderley EdgeMusical Festival committee hastaken place to discuss theformation of an Orchestra. Itreported that Mr WO West(organist of St Philip’s Church,Alderley Edge) has consented toconduct. Weekly rehearsals willbegin in the autumn.”We have recently held meetings
with the Alderley Edge Festival tore-affirm our links to the benefit ofboth organisations. We willadvertise each other’s activities inour programmes and Festivalbrochures (see below), and alsohave links beetween ourrespective websites.We shall be exploring other
ways of working together in themonths ahead.
Whatever recommendationsyour committee decides to make,it is important that they have thefull support of the orchestra. Wetherefore propose to convene anExtraordinary General Meeting atthe start of the rehearsal onThursday, 22nd May 2014 whenwe will be able to discuss ourproposals in some detail.This is an important time of
change for the orchestra and wehope that members will makeevery effort to attend the EGM.
�� The 2014 Alderley Edge Festival will
be held from Tuesday, 6th May to
Saturday, 10th May 2014. For full details
see www.alderleyedgefestival.com.
Conductors in 2014/15
MEMBERS of the orchestrawill be aware from earlier
discussions of Tim Kendal’s wishto step down his conductingcommitments after 30 years onthe rostrum.We therefore invited our
President Richard Howarth toconduct the March 2014 concert –the first professional conductor inthe orchestra’s long history.Thanks also to a wonderful
performance of Vaughan Williams’Lark Ascending, the concert wasan outstanding success with avirtually capacity audience.Your committee will be meeting
on 19th May to discuss conductingarrangements for the 2014-15season. In terms of the further useof professional conductors, ourplans will of course hinge cruciallyon the financial performance ofthe orchestra over the 2013-14season.
Richard Howarth
The Alderley Edge Festival has been running for over 100 years. This year between 6th and 11th May we will be host to over 2600 young performers. We are proud to support Richard Howarth in making his first public performance as conductor of The Alderley Edge Orchestra .
2014 Alderley Edge Festival We look forward to welcoming you to this prestigious annual event. If you would like to volunteer to help during 6th 11th May 2014 , please e-mail [email protected]
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