Summer School Week Five Concerts

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21 August – 29 August

In our last week, we welcome Viktoria Mullova and Julian Joseph to Dartington for the first time, with Matthew Barley. Meanwhile, our Viennese theme continues – Linda Hirst and the Mercury Quartet perform Pierrot Lunaire, Andrew Zolinsky presents Schoenberg’s complete piano music, and no Summer School would be complete without the Viennese Ball – or a Tea Dance on the lawn! Finally, we mark the end of the remarkable period of Gavin Henderson’s Artistic Directorship with Verdi’s Requiem directed by Graeme Jenkins, and Diego Masson conducting our final performance of The Marriage of Figaro.

Saturday 21 August

Stanford Quartet

Haydn
Quartet op 20 no 5 in F minor
Webern
Langsamersatz
Schubert
Quartet no 14 in D minor
‘Death and the Maiden’
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Sunday 22 August

Patrick Ozzard-Low – piano

Ruth Wiesenfeld
New work (world première)
Webern
Klavierstucke op posth
Patrick Ozzard-Low
Sonata no 3 (world première)
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Chaconia Brass

Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Trinidad & Tobago
Paul Archibald trumpet
Tom Rainer trumpet
Adam Walters horn
Aidan Chamberlain trombone
Nick Etheridge tuba
An eclectic programme comprising Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Brass Quintet, works by other composers also associated with Summer School, and arrangements of traditional music from Trinidad and Tobago.
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Andrew Zolinsky piano

Wagner/Liszt
Isolde’s Liebestod
Schoenberg
Three Piano Pieces op 11
Brahms
Selection of late piano pieces
Schoenberg
Six Little Piano Pieces op 19
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Matthew Barley – cello Stephen De Pledge – piano

Improvisation
John Metcalfe
Tracing the Outline
Arvo Part
Spiegel im Spiegel
John Metcalfe
Kite
Constant Filter
10.30pm STUDIO 3
£5.00 unreserved

Monday 23 August

By way of Brighton Pier – Lecture

Gavin Henderson, a personal reflection.
3.45pm BARN THEATRE
Admission FREE

Adrian Thompson – tenor
Hein Meens – piano
Schubert
Die schöne mullerin
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Mercury Quartet Linda Hirst – voice Hannah Grayson – flute

Anderson
The Bearded Lady
Schoenberg
Pierrot Lunaire op 21
Anderson
The Colour of Pomegranates
Messiaen
Quatour pour la fin du temps
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Andrew Zolinsky – piano

Scriabin
Five Préludes op 74
Schoenberg
Piano Pieces op 33a & op 33b
Brice Pauset
Three Canons
Schoenberg
Five Piano Pieces op 23
John Cage
Two Pieces
Schoenberg
Suite op 25
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Tuesday 24 August

Krzysztof Chorzelski – viola Andrew Zolinsky – piano

Schumann
Marchenbilder op 113
Brahms
Sonata op 120 no 2 in Eb major
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Jack Liebeck – violin Stephen De Pledge – piano

With the Stanford String Quartet
Mozart
Violin Sonata K 301 in G major
Arvo Pärt
Fratres
Herbert Howells
Violin Sonata no 1 in E major
op 18
Chausson
Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet op 21 in D major
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Rolf Hind – piano

Thomas Adès
Still Sorrowing
Helmut Lachenmann
Guero
John Woolrich
Pianobook 3
Per Nørgård
Grooving
John Woolrich
Pianobook 4
Julian Anderson
Four Etudes
Rolf Hind
A single hair, a jasmine petal, seven mattresses, a pea
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Linda Hirst – voice John Flinders – piano

John Ashton Thomas
New Work
Tennyson
Enoch Arden (with music by Richard Strauss)
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 25 August

Light Orchestra

5.00pm STUDIO 31
£8.00 unreserved

The Peasant Girl

Viktoria Mullova violin
Matthew Barley cello/arranger
Julian Joseph piano
Paul Clarvis percussion
Sam Walton percussion
Bartok
5 Duos (violin & cello)
Weather report
Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat
Bartok
4 Duos (violin & cello)
John Lewis/Bratsch
Django
Weather Report
The Peasant
Kodály
Sonata for violin and cello
Bratsch
Er nemo klantz
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

12 Landscape Préludes

Stephen De Pledge piano
The UK première of the Landscape Préludes, twelve short pieces by twelve different New Zealand composers. The work was premièred in its complete version at the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in 2008. The composers are: Jack Body, Lyell Cresswell, Eve de Castro Robinson, Gareth Farr, Ross Harris, Samuel Holloway, Victoria Kelly, Dylan Lardelli, Jenny McLeod, Michael Norris, John Psathas and Gillian Whitehead.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Thursday 26 August

Tea Dance

The Dartington Festival Light Orchestra plays for your dancing pleasure. Quicksteps, foxtrots, samba, cha-cha, the tango, a ladies invitation waltz and the gay Gordons.
4.00pm GREAT LAWN, DARTINGTON
Admission FREE

Chaconia Brass and Brodowski Quartet

Programme to include a new work by David Bedford, a commission supported by the Foundation for Sports & the Arts.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro

Alexander Oliver director
Dartington Festival Orchestra
Mozart’s brilliant comic setting of one day at the castle of the Count Almaviva. Figaro and Susanna are to be married; this would be a simple affair were it not for the interventions of the Count, the Countess, the love-struck Page Boy and many more in the household. Will true love win through? Tonight’s performance is given by students on the Advanced Opera course, conducted by students from the Advanced Conducting course directed by Diego Masson.
7.30pm GREAT HALL
£25 reserved/£18.50 unreserved

Salsa Band & Gospel Choir

The climax of this week’s courses.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Friday 27 August

Advanced Composition

The Mercury Quartet
Hannah Grayson flute
play works from the Advanced Composition class.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Summer School Choir and Dartington Festival Orchestra

Graeme Jenkins conductor
Verdi
Requiem
Pippa Longworth alto
Adrian Thompson tenor
Ian Comboy bass
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Grand Viennese Ball

Dartington Festival Light Orchestra
Alan Gout director Waltz, polka and gallop the night away. A glorious conclusion to this popular course. Costumes optional but highly desirable.
10.30pm STUDIO 31
For Summer School participants only

Saturday 28 August

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro

Alexander Oliver director
Mozart’s brilliant comic setting of one day at the castle of the Count Almaviva. Figaro and Susanna are to be married; this would be a simple affair were it not for the interventions of the Count, the Countess, the love-struck Page Boy and many more in the household. Will true love win through? Tonight’s performance is given by students on the Advanced Opera course, conducted by students from the Advanced Conducting course directed by Diego Masson.
7.30pm GREAT HALL
£25 reserved/£18.50 unreserved
Not included in the Summer School package

Sunday 29 August

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro

Diego Masson conductor
Alexander Oliver director
Mozart’s brilliant comic setting of one day at the castle of the Count Almaviva. Figaro and Susanna are to be married; this would be a simple affair were it not for the interventions of the Count, the Countess, the love-struck Page Boy and many more in the household. Will true love win through? Tonight’s performance is given by students on the Advanced Opera course, conducted by students from the Advanced Conducting course directed by Diego Masson.
Marking Diego Masson’s farewell to Dartington and to the orchestra of which he has developed over a period of 27 years.
7.30pm GREAT HALL
£25 reserved/£18.50 unreserved
Not included in the Summer School package