Summer School Week Three Concerts

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07 August – 13 August

Kora player Tunde Jegede presents a programme of his own compositions based on the life and work of Joseph Antonio Emidy. Enslaved as a child from West Africa to Brazil, Emidy ended up living most of his adult life in Cornwall as a prolific and prominent musician and composer. A commission from David Matthews and several works by Harrison Birtwistle also feature this week as well as many other English pieces including Vaughan Williams’ Flos Campi and London Symphony. David Titterington’s performance in St Andrew’s Church in Plymouth continues the theme, including works by Elgar and York Bowen.

Saturday 07 August

Joanna MacGregor – piano

Bach
French Suite no 5 in G major
BWV816
Chopin
Three Mazurkas
Piazzolla
Four Tangos (arr MacGregor)
Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Sunday 08 August

Tunde Jegede with Diana Baroni and Maya Jobarteh

A concert of African and South American classical and folk traditions, performed on baroque flute, kora, guitar and percussion. The music is drawn from Baroni’s recent album, ‘Flor de Verano’ and the African Classical Music Ensemble’s recent album ‘There was a Time’.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Exaudi

Scelsi
Tre canti sacri
Stephen Chase
Jandl Songs (selection)
Amber Priestley
Unloose to the Murmur
Rihm
Sieben Passions-texte
Scelsi
Three Latin Prayers
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Ya-Ou Xie – piano

Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison’s Clocks
Debussy Préludes
Les collines d’Anacapri
La fille aux cheveux de lin
La cathédrale engloutie
Feux d’artifice
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Monday 09 August

Melinda Maxwell – oboe Helen Tunstall – harp Andrew Watts – countertenor

Harrison Birtwistle
Orpheus Elegies
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Matthew Trusler – violin Marcus Andrews – piano

Bartok
Solo Sonata
Romanian Folk Dances
Harvey
Flight Elegy
Saint-Saëns
Sonata no 1 in D minor
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Solstice Quartet

Delius
Late Swallows
Haydn
Quartet op 64 no 6 in Eb major
Janácek
Quartet no 2
Intimate Letters
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Tuesday 10 August

Souvenirs

Alison Stephens mandolin
Craig Ogden guitar
Carlos Vieco
Patasd’hilo (Pasillo)
Pedro Morales Pino
El Fusagasugueño (Bambuco)
Peter Copley
Concert Fantasy
José Antonio Zambrano
Suite Venezolano
Mother & Sister
Manos Hadjidakis
Kemal
Miroslav Tadiç
Walk Dance
Reinhardt (arr Dyens)
Nuage
Armin Kaufmann
Burletta
Mitoka Dragomirna
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

David Titterington – organ

Peter Sulski viola
Preston
Alleluyas
York Bowen
Fantasia (viola & organ)
Guilmant
Marche Funèbre et Chant
Séraphique
Bruch
Kol nidrei (viola & organ)
Elgar
Sonata no 1 in G
8.15pm STANDREW’S CHURCH PLYMOUTH
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

La Mariposa Tango at Dartington 1998-2010

Laura Hansen voice & percussion
Carlos Morera piano & bandoneon
Tango and Argentine Music
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 11 August

Trinity College of Music String Ensemble

Nic Pendlebury – conductor
Helen Reid – piano
Elgar
Chanson du Matin op 15 no 2
Chanson de Nuit op 15 no 1
Finzi
Romance op 11 no 2
David Matthews
Piano Concerto (commissioned by Dartington International Summer School 2010)
Britten
Simple Symphony op 4
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Dartington Festival Orchestra

Diego Masson conductor
Melinda Maxwell oboe
Nadine Mortimer-Smith soprano
Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Strauss
Oboe Concerto
Four Last Songs
Wagner
Parsifal Prelude
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Stephen Stirling – horn Richard Shaw – piano

Dunhill
Cornucopia, a sheaf of miniatures
Martin Butler
Hunding
York Bowen
Sonata for horn & piano
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Thursday 12 August

Harrison Birtwistle Gavin’s Antiphonies

First performed in 1985.
4.00pm MAIN COURTYARD
Admission FREE

Chamber Choir

Rivka Golani viola
Jeremy Walker conductor
Trinity College of Music String Ensemble and tutors from the Wind and Brass Masterclasses.
Vaughan Williams
Toward the Unknown Region
Flos Campi
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Emidy

Tunde Jegede kora
Diana Baroni flute
Maya Jobarteh guitar
Solstice String Quartet
A series of works by Tunde Jegede based on the life and work of Britain’s most famous slave musician, Joseph Antonio Emidy.
Tunde Jegede
Cycle of Reckoning
Exile & Return
3 Short pieces
String Quartet no 2
Lamentation for String Quartet
Fountain of a People’s Hope
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Peter Sulski – viola Mark Fielding – piano

Frank Bridge
Two Pieces
Benjamin Britten
Lachrymae op 48
Rebecca Clarke
Sonata
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Friday 13 August

Stephen Dummer – director

Culmination of this week’s Orchestral Workshop course.
Vaughan Williams
A London Symphony
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Summer School Choir & Dartington Festival Orchestra

Hilary Davan Wetton director
Haydn
Harmoniemesse
Saint-Saëns
Requiem op 54
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved