Summer School Week Five Concerts - 22 August to 29 August

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The Japanese flavour colours this week culminating in the opera presentation of Madama Butterfly. We welcome the Okeanos Ensemble, bringing classical Japanese instruments.

A number of new works will be premiered – including pieces by David Bedford and Victor Kioulaphides for mandolin virtuoso Alison Stephens, a string quartet (for the Stanford Quartet) by Gerald Busby, and works for Okeanos by Howard Skempton, Dai Fujikura and Christina Athinodorou.

As ever, the Summer School concludes with a week of RockShop – in which some sixty or so new songs will be created and performed.

Saturday 22 August 8.15pm GREAT HALL £18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

From Far Beyond
Chrysanthemums
Matthew Trusler violin
Marcus Andrews piano
Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor
Takemitsu

From Far Beyond
Chrysanthemums
November Fog
Messiaen
Theme and Variations
Saint-Saens
Violin Sonata
Tchaikovsky
Serenade Melancolique
Saint-Saens
Rondo Capriccioso

Sunday 23 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Alison Stephens classical mandolin
Carl Friedrich Abel Suite in D Minor
Raffaele Calace Piccola Gavotta op 73
Victor Kioulaphides
Suite for Ali (world première)
Nawata Masaji
Sakura
David Bedford
Toccata (world première)
Raffaele Calace
Prelude no 1 op 45

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Stanford Quartet
Laura Stanford violin
Eleanor Stanford violin
Amy Stanford viola
Jessica Cox cello
Haydn
G minor op 20 no 3
Dai Fujikara
Another Place
Somei Satoh
Shirasagi
Shostakovich
String Quartet no 6 in G

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved
Marcus Andrews piano
Debussy
Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq.
PPMPC & Canope from
Preludes Book II
Carl Vine
Five Bagatelles
Satoh
Choral
Sculthorpe
Night Pieces
Debussy

A Selection of Preludes

Monday 24 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Ian Watson accordion
Pieces by Yuji Takahashi, Stravinsky, Jurgen Ganzer and Somei Satoh.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Raphael Wallfisch cello
Helen Yorke piano
Martinu
Cello Sonata no 1
Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata no 1 in Bb
Stravinsky
Suite Itallienne
Korngold
Suite from Much Ado About Nothing

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Okeanos Ensemble
Clive Bell shakuhachi
Bridget Carey viola
Melissa Holding koto
Kate Romano clarinet
Jinny Shaw oboe
Robin Thompson sho, sangen, bass koto
Kumiko Mendl storyteller

A programme of Japanese ghost stories & folk tales, with improvisation from
Japanese instrumentalists.

Tuesday 25 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Helen Yorke piano
Bach
Partita no 1 in Bb
Schubert
Four Impromptus op 90
Chopin
Etudes op 25 no 1, op 10 no 3,
op 10 no 9
Nocturnes op 15 no 1,
op 15 no 2
Rodrigo
Cuatro piezas para piano

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Okeanos Ensemble
Dai Fujikura
Touch of Breeze Cutting Sky
Okeanos Breeze
Traditional
Kumoijishi (The Cloud & the Lion)
Michio Miyagi
Haru No Umi (The Sea in Springtime)
Howard Skempton
Fragments

Also works by Somei Satoh, Judith Bingham and Akiko Ogawa and traditional Edo music including Rokudan, Kumoijishi and Midare.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Krzysztof Chorzelski viola
Andrew Zolinsky piano
Toru Takemitsu

A Bird came down the Walk Shostakovich
Viola Sonata

Wednesday 26 August 5.00pm STUDIO 3 £8.00 unreserved

Stanford Quartet
A programme including string quartets by Peter Copley and Gerald Busby, and Jonathan Dove’s Out of Time.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir
Stephen Jackson director
Bach
Komm, Jesu, komm
Brahms
Fest- und Gedenksprüche
Imogen Holst
Five Songs
Giles Swayne
Ave Verum
Debussy
Trois Chansons
Richard Rodney Bennett
The Garden

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Andrew Zolinsky piano
Jo Kondo
High window
Tango mnemonic
Debussy
Images Book 2
Somei Satoh
Bridges 4
(British première)
Karen Tanaka
Crystalline 1
Messiaen
Regard de L’ Esprit de Joie
(From ‘Vingt Regards sur
l’Enfant-Jésus’)

Thursday 27 August 3.30pm GREAT LAWN, DARTINGTON Admission FREE

Tea-time Gig
Rockshop Big Band & Rockshop Choir
Basie, Glenn Miller, Bill Haley, Blues Brothers and more.
Jitterbug contest with prizes.

5.00pm
GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Chamber Choir
Jeremy Walker director
John Flinders piano
Fine Arts Brass
Stravinsky
Mass
Norman Dello Joio
To Saint Cecilia

7.30pm
GREAT HALL
£25 reserved/£18.50 unreserved

Madama Butterfly Concert Performance
Dartington Festival Orchestra
Alexander Oliver director

Not only a heartbreaking tale of innocence betrayed, Madama Butterfly also portrays a tragic clash of cultures. Tonight’s performance is given by students on the Advanced Opera course, accompanied by the Dartington Festival Orchestra and conducted by students from the Advanced Conducting course.
please note early start time.

10.00pm
STUDIO 31

For Summer School participants only

Barn Dance
The Barnacles
Val Orchin caller
Loosen up and mosey on down for the time of your life.
please note early start time.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Fine Arts Brass
Simon Lenton trumpet
Angela Whelan trumpet
Chris Parkes horn
Katy Jones trombone
Sam Elliot tuba

A programme to include music by John Casken, Philip Wilby, John McCabe and Stravinsky.

Friday 28 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Okeanos Ensemble
Okeanos plays works from the Advanced Composition class.

5.00pm
TEACHING STUDIO / OUTSIDE
Admission FREE

Taiko
Concert with course participants.

7.30pm
STUDIO 31

For Summer School participants only

RockShop’s Big Night Out
Herbie Flowers director
RockShop 09’s Grand Finale

Concert, showcasing the student compositions from the week.
Please note early start time

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Summer School Choir
Dartington Festival Orchestra
Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir

Stephen Jackson director
Diego Masson conductor
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Somei Satoh Listening To Fragrances of the Dusk
Judith Bingham First Light

Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms is the best known of his religious works. Its energies are imposingly devout, but with a factual and inexorable quality, rather than a confessional one. The three movements represents St Paul’s exhorting virtues: love, hope and faith.

Saturday 29 August 7.30pm GREAT HALL £25 reserved/£18.50 unreserved

Not part of the Summer School package.

Madama Butterfly Concert Performance
Dartington Festival Orchestra

Alexander Oliver director

please note early start time.