Summer School Week Four Concerts

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14 August – 20 August

The Summer School has always fostered development in chamber music, in particular string quartets. This season a new generation – the Barbirolli, Stanford and Solstice quartets – are with us. The week also sees the Elysian Quartet improvising to archive film as well as the Duke and Brodsky quartets embracing a Viennese theme. We welcome back Katharina Wolpe to perform Berg’s Piano Sonata and Miriam Kramer to play Berg’s Violin Concerto with the Festival Orchestra. Choreographer, composer and director Meredith Monk also joins us to present her Songs of Ascension.

Saturday 14 August

Israel Piano Trio

Mozart
Trio in C major K548
Schubert
Trio in Bb major D898
Brahms
Trio in C major op 87
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Sunday 15 August

Souvenir de Paris

Laurence Perkins bassoon
Lynda Coffin flute
John Flinders piano
A programme of French music featuring works by Dutilleux, Debussy and Farrenc.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Karine Georgian – cello John Lenehan – piano Alan Hacker – clarinet

Beethoven
Variations on Mozart’s Ein
Mädchen oder Weibchen
Brahms
Sonata no 1 in E minor op 38
Korngold
Four pieces ‘Viel Larm um Nichts’
Beethoven
Trio in E flat op 38
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Elysian Quartet

Meredith Monk
Stringsongs
Keith Tippett
String Quartet
Improvisation to Dartington Film Archive footage.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Monday 16 August

Trio D’art

Paul Archibald trumpet
John Kenny trombone
Helen Reid piano
Peter Swan
Trio (world première)
Juraj Filas
Panta Rei
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Duke Quartet

Volans
Third Quartet – Songlines
Webern
Five Pieces op 5
Berg
Lyric Suite
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Gerard McCrystal – saxophone Jonathan Watts – piano Joby Burgess – percussion

David Maslanka
Sonata
Takashi Yoshimatsu
Fuzzy Bird Sonata
Barry Cockroft
Kuku
Jason Rebello
Integration
Ida Gotkovsky
Brilliance
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Tuesday 17 August

Alan Hacker – clarinet Jonathan Watts – piano Rivka Golani – viola

Stanford
Caoine
Brahms
Sonata No 2 in Eb op 120
Berg
Four Pieces op 5
Bruch
Eight pieces op 83 no 8
‘Abschied’ for clarinet, viola & piano
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Katharina Wolpe – piano

Beethoven
Sonata op 109 in E
Berg
Sonata in B minor op 1
Schubert
Drei Klavierstücke D946
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Joby Burgess – percussion

Conlon Nancarrow
Piece for Percussion
Dominic Murcott
Armed Response
Frederic Rzewski
To the Earth
Gabriel Prokofiev
Voyage V ‘Fanta’ from Import/Export
Graham Fitkin
Chain of Command
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 18 August

David Owen Norris – piano

Elgar
Four Pomp & Circumstance Marches (tr DON)
Constant Lambert
Piano Sonata
Walton
Valse from Façade
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Dartington Festival Orchestra

Diego Masson conductor
Miriam Kramer violin
Anderson
The Crazed Moon
Berg
Violin Concerto
Schubert
Symphony no 9 in C major
D944 ‘the Great’
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Richard Edgar Wilson – tenor

John Flinders piano
David Owen Norris piano
Menahem Breuer violin
Eschmann
Three songs Op 34
Berg
Seven Early Songs
Julian Anderson
Somewhere near Cluj
I’m nobody, who are you?
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Laura Moody – cello/voice

Laura Moody (of the Elysian Quartet) explores what is possible using only solo cello and voice to create unique, acoustic, avant-pop music. Performing songs from her debut album, she combines the two instruments in physical and theatrical ways.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Thursday 19 August

New work by Stephen Montague

Commission supported by the Foundation for Sports and the Arts.
4.00pm MAIN COURTYARD
Admission FREE

Bruckner Symphony no 8

Richard Heason director
Culmination of this week’s Orchestral Workshop course.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Brodsky Quartet

John Metcalfe viola
tbc cello
Schubert
Quartettsatz in C minor D703
Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht op 4
Schubert
String Quintet in C major D956
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Chamber Choir

Bob Chilcott director
Lindy Tennent Brown piano
Anderson
Bright Morning Star
Schubert
Gebet
Christ ist erstanden
Chilcott
Aesop’s Fables
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Friday 20 August

Songs of Ascension Meredith Monk

Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble with the Elysian Quartet.
Songs for Ascension was developed at Dartington in 2008 with support from the Transatlantic Arts Consortium.
5.00pm STUDIO 31
For Summer School participants only

Sarah Francis – oboe

Paul Archibold trumpet
Mark Fielding piano
Lennox Berkeley
Sonatina for oboe & piano
Pavel Haas
Suite for oboe & piano
Roland-Manuel
Suite dans le gout espagnol
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Summer School Choir and Dartington Festival Orchestra

With Soloists from the Ferrier Awards Competition
Bob Chilcott director
Piotr Anderszewski piano
Brahms
Alto Rhapsody (arr Bob Chilcott)
Mozart
Piano Concerto tbc
Schubert
Mass in Eb
This concert is dedicated to the memory of Michael Tillett.
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Songs from the Shows and Theatre Music

Robert Purvis director
Finale of this week’s courses.
10.30pm STUDIO 30
£5.00 unreserved