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Donate to the summer school onlineSummer School Week One Concerts - 26 July to 01 August

A week of extremes – of diverse cultural cross-currents and many different genres, and we look forward to the return of SAMYO, the UK’s National South Asian Music Youth Orchestra and Tarang.

There is an underlying emphasis on the “high baroque” with a crowning glory of Schutz’s Dresden Vespers. We welcome the Henschel quartet’s first visit to Dartington and return of Martino Tirimo.

PLEASE NOTE times in the table below are approximate, please check the individual listing for the exact time of performance.

Date 3:45pm 5:00pm 8:15pm 10:30pm
Sat 26 - - The Dufay Collective & Rajeeb Chakraborty -
Sun 27 - Simon Young & Leigh O’Hara Henschel Quartet -
Mon 28 - Indian Strings EXAUDI Couple In Spirit
Tue 29 Lecture: Gesualdo Rose Consorts of Viols Sprezzatura Walter Reiter & Andrew Clark
Wed 30 - Bach: Friends & Acquaintances Martino Tirimo The Lewis Riley Trio
Thu 31 - Rose Consorts of Viols SAMYO Nicholas Clapton & Jonathon Watts
Fri 01 - Tarang Summer School Choir Jazz
Saturday 26 July

8:15pm

The Dufay Collective & Rajeeb Chakraborty

The opening concert of the Summer School spans many centuries and continents, with performances of Indian music interspersed with dance and song from Medieval Europe given by the Dufay Collective, introduced by fanfares by the Early Brass players. The Dufays will be performing music as heard in medieval courts and streets, from Coventry to Cadiz – delicately amorous songs by troubadours from Occitan, cantigas from Alfonso el Sabio’s Spain, wild istanpittas, salterellos and trottos from fourteenth century Italy to sentimental songs from fifteenth century England.

GREAT HALL
£18 reserved / £13 unreserved

Sunday 27 July

5:00pm

Simon Young & Leigh O’Hara

Simon Young piano
Leigh O’Hara piano

Music for two pianos including transcriptions of Bach and Stravinsky’s Sonata for two pianos.

GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

8:15pm

Henschel Quartet

Christoph Henschel violin
Markus Henschel violin
Monika Henschel-Schwind viola
Mathias D. Beyer- Karlshøj cello

Shostakovich Quartet no 7
Schulhoff Quartet no 1
Schubert Quartet in G Major D887

GREAT HALL
£18 reserved, £13 unreserved

Monday 28 July

5:00pm

Indian Strings

Gaurav Mazumdar
Jayanthi Kumaresh

Led by Milapfest tutors on the SAMYO and Tarang retreat, this concert features performances by leading exponents of the Sitar and the Veena.

GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

8:15pm

EXAUDI

James Weeks director
Jonathan Watts chamber organ

The Juice of the Pomegranate

Victoria Vidi speciosam
Schütz Ego dormio
John Habron Con beso de su boca
Monteverdi Nigra sum
Lassus Osculetur me
Guerrero Trahe me post te
Skempton Rise up, my love
Lassus Surge, propera
Gombert Hortus conclusus
James Weeks New work (first performance)
Monteverdi Pulchra es
Skempton The Song of Songs
Victoria Vadam et circuibo
Schütz Stehe auf, meine Freundin

GREAT HALL
£18 reserved, £13 unreserved

10:30pm

Couple In Spirit

Keith Tippett piano
Julie Tippetts voice/percussion

A concert of spontaneous composition.

GREAT HALL
£5 unreserved

Tuesday 29 July

3:45pm

Gesualdo:The Torments of Love-Music, Murder and Madness

Ruth Thorpe Lecture with James Weeks and members of EXAUDI

BARN THEATRE
Admission FREE

5:00pm

Rose Consort of Viols

Sweet Delightful Ayres and Sublime Discourses

Fancies, In Nomines and dance music by the last great English consort composers – commended by Thomas Mace in Musick’s Monument of 1676 – including John Ward, John Jenkins and William Lawes, as well as the incomparable Henry Purcell.

GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

8:15pm

Sprezzatura

Evelyn Tubb soprano
Michael Fields lute & theorbo
David Wright harpsichord
David Hatcher viola da gamba
Sweet, stay a while

A concert of 17-18th century English song, including works by Thomas Campion, Henry & Daniel Purcell, John Dowland, William Boyce, John Weldon, Robert Johnson, Henry Lawes and John Eccles.

GREAT HALL
£18 reserved, £13 unreserved

10:30pm

Walter Reiter, Andrew Clark

Walter Reiter baroque violin
Andrew Clark harpsichord

A selection of Mystery Sonatas by Biber.

GREAT HALL
£5 unreserved

Wednesday 30 July

5:00pm

Bach: Friends and Acquaintances

Colin Booth harpsichord
Johann Mattheson Two suites from Harmony’s Monument
Buxtehude Variations in C
Telemann Fantasia in G minor
Georg Boehm Suite no 4

GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

8:15pm

Martino Tirimo piano

Schubert Sonata in Bb D960
Schumann Fantasy in C major Op17

GREAT HALL
£18 reserved, £13 unreserved

10:30pm

The Lewis Riley Trio

Lewis Riley piano
Ben Clark drums
Dave Goodier bass

An evening of jazz from the Lewis Riley Trio.

Thursday 31 July

5:00pm

Rose Consort of Viols

With Evelyn Tubb soprano
Music for lyra viols by Tobias Hume, John Dowland and their contemporaries.

GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

8:15pm

SAMYO: the UK’s national South Asian Orchestra

SAMYO is a unique orchestra, including instruments and musicians from both the North and South Indian traditions. It returns to Dartington to perform a selection of old and new works, including works-inprogress by world-renowned sitarist and composer, Gaurav Mazumdar.

GREAT HALL
£18 reserved, £13 unreserved

10:30pm

Nicholas Clapton and Jonathan Watts

Nicholas Clapton countertenor
Jonathan Watts piano

A recital of songs by Vaughan Williams, Devon based composer, Nicholas Marshall, and other figures of the English song tradition.

GREAT HALL
£5 unreserved

Friday 01 August

5:00pm

Tarang: the UK’s Indian Classical Music Ensemble

A performance by Tarang, the UK’s leading ensemble of advanced up-and-coming musicians trained in Indian Classical Music. Tarang plays music which is dynamic, serene and unique, combining elements of classical and folk music and featuring new compositions for the four seasons by Dr Rajeeb Chakraborty.

GREAT HALL
£7.50 unreserved

8:15pm

Summer School Choir and Dartington Baroque Orchestra

Schutz Dresden Vespers
James Weeks director

Schutz’s monumental Psalmen Davids, a polychoral extravaganza for multiple choirs of voices, brass and strings, forms the backbone of this imaginary Vespers – conceived along the lines of Monteverdi’s famous 1610 publication as a showcase for Schutz’s glorious and wideranging art.

GREAT HALL
£18 reserved, £13 unreserved

10:30pm

Jazz

Performances by the students on the Jazz and Jazz Improvisation course, directed by Lewis Riley and Keith Tippett.

STUDIO 30
For Summer School participants only

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