Cheltenham Music Festival 2014

CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL

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Alan Cadbury Trust Royal Philharmonic Society The HDH Wills 1965 Charitable Trust The Helena Oldacre Trust The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation The Notgrove Trust The Reed Foundation

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WELCOME Cheltenham Music Festival reaches its 70th this year. It’s a fine old age to get to; but, like a lot of 70-yearolds nowadays, we arrive at this landmark in excellent health – bursting with vitality and the spirit of adventure.

This 70th Festival recognises our heritage, in particular with the opening Town Hall concert featuring music from our very first concert in 1945. But it is more about classical music’s vibrant present and future, with a programme that emphasises a new generation’s immense talent and magnetism. This is no more apparent than with our Artistin-Residence, Nicola Benedetti, a self-confessed ‘crusader for classical music’ (Desert Island Discs) and superb role model for excellence and application in young people.

Huge thanks are due to a wide range of supporters for making this programme possible, and notably HSBC for their sponsorship of our new Festival Proms series. Six hugely varied performances feature the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Miloš, Michael Morpurgo, Nicola Benedetti, the John Wilson Orchestra and more – a celebratory launch in the grand Edwardian venue where it all started in June 1945.

Meurig Bowen Festival Director

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NICOLA BENEDETTI

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2014

“I am hugely looking forward to my residency in Cheltenham this year. It will be a real pleasure to bring together different aspects of my musical life – playing concertos, enjoying chamber music with friends, and working with young musicians – in one lovely place over a few days.”

NICOLA’S CHELTENHAM RESIDENCY Beethoven’s Triple Concerto page 11 M02 Chamber music by Brahms, Shostakovich and Sierra page 13 M05 VIP Lunch at Ellenborough Park page 14 MT03 A weekend of workshops with young string players page 8 MF03 Recital featuring Mozart, Elgar and Prokofiev page 22

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FIND YOUR STYLE INTERNATIONAL Tokaido Road page 20 M15 Buskaid Soweto Strings page 31 M30 Son Yambu page 36 M38 Trio Mediæval & Arve Henriksen page 37

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SOMETHING DIFFERENT Different Trains page 15 M08 The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble page 18 M13 A Tribute to John Tavener page 33 M34 James Mayhew paints Carnival of the Animals page 8 MF04

RISING STARS Flute & Harp at Quenington page 12 M04 Benjamin Grosvenor page 20 M14 Gloucestershire Young Musicians page 22 M20 Radio 3 New Generation Artists pages 26 M22 28 M25 30 M28 Composer Academy Showcase page 27 M23

SPECTACULAR SOUNDS AND SPACES Duruflé Requiem in Gloucester Cathedral page 27 M24 Anniversary Baroque at Owlpen Manor page 22 M19 Pärt & Tavener in Tewkesbury Abbey page 29 M27 Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble in Gloucester Cathedral page 32 M33 4

BIG NIGHTS OUT Town Hall Festival Proms pages 11 M02 13 M05 15 M07 17 M12 21 M17 Miloš page 23 M21 The Planets & The Great Animal Orchestra page 35 M37 Festival Proms in association with

NEW MUSIC In our 70th year, a wide range of new music remains at the heart of the Cheltenham Music Festival. This includes 28 premieres and focuses on John Tavener, Graham Fitkin and women composers.

Kerry Andrew, Hannah Kendall, Dobrinka Tabakova, Judith Weir Four Marian Antiphons page 27 M24 Tony Banks new orchestral work page 17 M12

Roxanna Panufnik Memories of my Father page 16 M09 Arlene Sierra Butterflies UKP page 13 M05 Tom Stewart piano trio page 16 M10

Richard Blackford The Great Animal Orchestra page 35 M37

Tavener Scatter Roses Over My Tears UKP page 33 M34

Graham Fitkin quintet page 15 M08

Huw Watkins song cycle page 32 M31

Will Gregory work for Moogs page 18 M13

John Woolrich Pluck from the Air page 14 M06

Gavin Higgins The Ruins of Detroit page 16 M10 Nicola LeFanu Tokaido Road page 20 M15

Composer Academy Showcase 12 new works page 27 M23 (World premieres unless indicated otherwise)

Plus other works by Philip Cashian, Graham Fitkin, Will Gregory, Jonathan Harvey, Piers Hellawell, Karl Jenkins, Steve Martland, Andrzej Panufnik, Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, Arlene Sierra, Bent Sørensen, John Tavener and Michael Zev Gordon.

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CHAMBER MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS Steven Osborne page 10 M01 Nash Ensemble page 14 M06 Brodsky Quartet page 16 M09 Nicola Benedetti & Alexei Grynyuk page 22 M18 Mark Padmore & Huw Watkins page 32 M31 Trio con Brio Copenhagen page 34 M35

Arts and Humanities Research Council TALKS We are happy to announce a new partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). AHRC-funded researchers discuss current and recent research in a series of four pre-concert talks, with ample opportunity for questions from the audience.

Mozart Outside page 12 MT02 British Military & Brass Bands page 21 MT07 Composing Women page 27 MT09 The Listening Experience Database page 32 MT11

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VENUES ‘The Festival’s morning recitals at the Pump Room are its continuing glory.’

The Sunday Times, 2011

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PITTVILLE PUMP ROOM

CHELTENHAM TOWN HALL

1820s Regency elegance — a crystal-clear acoustic, the wow factor of a high central cupola, a lovely colonnade and stunning park views.

Early 20th century Edwardian elegance — the classic ‘shoebox’ concert hall.

Seating capacity: 400

Seating capacity: 950

Perfect for: the world’s finest pianists, singers and chamber ensembles.

Perfect for: symphony orchestras at full throttle — thrilling clarity and impact.

PARABOLA ARTS CENTRE

GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

State-of-the-art 21st century theatre meets 19th century foyer and gallery space. Intimate, versatile and classy.

Begun in 1089 and remodelled over four centuries, its architectural magnificence encompasses Norman and English Gothic styles. Steeped in history — from royal coronations and burials to Harry Potter film sets.

Seating capacity: 300

Seating capacity: 1000

Perfect for: everything from cabaret and opera to talks, film and family events.

Perfect for: grand musical events featuring choirs and orchestras.

VENUES TEWKESBURY ABBEY A stunning Abbey church, consecrated in 1121.

Elementally huge pillars supporting Norman arches in the nave, beautifully located on the edge of town.

GETTING TO THE FESTIVAL For information on public transport and car parks go to cheltenhamfestivals.com/your-visit

POSTCODES WITHIN CHELTENHAM

BEYOND CHELTENHAM

Cheltenham Town Hall GL50 1QA

Tewkesbury Abbey GL20 5RZ

Pittville Pump Room GL52 3JE

Gloucester Cathedral GL1 2LX

Seating capacity: 750

Parabola Arts Centre GL50 3AA

Quenington Church GL7 5BN

Perfect for: roof-raising, bliss-inducing choral and organ music.

Cheltenham College Chapel GL53 7LD

Owlpen Manor GL11 5BZ

Ellenborough Park Hotel GL52 3NH

Painswick Church GL6 6UT

CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHAPEL High, soaring late Victorian Gothic — externally based on the chapel of King’s College, Cambridge.

Seating capacity: 500 Perfect for: choirs, brass... and choirs again.

FESTIVAL DATES FOR YOUR DIARY… CHELTENHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL 30 APRIL – 5 MAY 2014 THE TIMES CHELTENHAM SCIENCE FESTIVAL 3-8 JUNE 2014 CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2-13 JULY 2014 THE TIMES CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL 3-12 OCTOBER 2014 7

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MICHAEL MORPURGO PRESENTS PRIVATE PEACEFUL Michael Morpurgo narrator Coope, Boyes & Simpson vocal trio Town Hall 11am-12.30pm £15 (£7.50 children)

PERCUSSION EXTRAVAGANZA

Members 10% off Ideal for ages 8+

O Duo percussion

Private Peaceful in words and music

Parabola Arts Centre 11am-12.15pm £8 (£5 children) Members 10% off Ideal for ages 5+

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See percussionists O Duo whizz around the stage as you’ve never seen before! With a marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, drum kit, African and Brazilian drums and a multitude of handheld percussion, the pair perform a huge range of music, including pieces by Bach, Chopin and Philip Glass.

‘Phenomenal artistry ...Brimming with style and panache.’ Daily Telegraph

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Master-storyteller and best-selling author Michael Morpurgo is joined by the outstanding English a cappella trio Coope, Boyes & Simpson for a telling of Morpurgo’s moving First World War tale Private Peaceful.

The trio’s songs match and intensify Morpurgo’s inspired narration as the story of Tommo Peaceful moves between humour and tragedy – from childhood in a Devon village to the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War.

Festival Proms in association with

THE BENEDETTI SESSIONS Princess Hall, Cheltenham Ladies’ College 4-5pm MF03 FREE (ticket required) Following a weekend of rehearsals and workshops, Nicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich and Holst with a large ensemble of young string players from Gloucestershire.

See page 42 for further details.

FAMILY EVENTS

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JAMES MAYHEW PAINTS CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS

PARTY IN THE PARK In and around Pittville Pump Room 1-4pm FREE Ideal for ages 5+ Come and enjoy a huge range of music, craft activities from Art Playground, food and drink at this free, family-friendly event. With a certain international flavour, there will be performances by Festival artists, our Indonesian Gamelan, our Surround Sound Great Animal Orchestra education project and local choirs, theatre groups and more.

James Mayhew illustrator Alex Kirk piano Jonathan McNaught piano Rebecca McNaught cello Parabola Arts Centre 11am-12pm £8 (£5 children) Members 10% off Ideal for ages 5+

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Saint-Saëns (Painted) Carnival of the Animals Author and illustrator James Mayhew (creator of the much-loved Katie and Ella Bella Ballerina series) brings a whole carnival of animals to life before your eyes!

Lions, tortoises, elephants, fish, kangaroos and more... James will paint them to live music from Saint-Saëns' suite.

Full details will be available nearer the time at cheltenhamfestivals.com/parkparty

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FILM

STEVEN OSBORNE PLAYS SCHUBERT & BEETHOVEN

PIANOMANIA Parabola Arts Centre 5-6.40pm £6

Steven Osborne piano Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £28 £23 £16 Members 10% off

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Schubert Hüttenbrenner Variations, D 576 15’ Schubert Andante in A, D 604 5’ Beethoven Piano Sonata No 28 in A, Op. 101 9’ Beethoven Piano Sonata No 29 in B flat, Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ 45’ The 70th Cheltenham Music Festival launches with a Schubert and Beethoven showcase from Scottish pianist Steven Osborne. With his second Gramophone Award in 2013, as well as the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year award, Osborne has clearly scaled new heights of artistry and acclaim.

After a recent Wigmore Hall Beethoven recital, the Guardian wrote of the pianist’s ‘poetry in sound, absolutely astonishing’ and the Observer went further:

‘The audience, as one, was agog... Osborne's attack is ferocious and fearless, his tenderness beyond words.

His self appears subsumed in service to the composer.

This is the best it gets.’

Supported by Dora and Jack Black & Neil and Ann Parrack

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A captivating portrait of Vienna-based Steinway piano technician Stefan Knüpfer – his meticulous, even obsessive quest for perfection in meeting the needs of demanding pianists such as PierreLaurent Aimard, Lang Lang and Alfred Brendel.

You’ll never look at pianos, pianists or piano tuners the same way again.

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THE OPENING NIGHT PROM

Beethoven Leonore Overture No 3 14’ Beethoven Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56 ‘Triple’* 33’ Panufnik Heroic Overture 6’ Elgar Enigma Variations 30’

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Benedetti/Elschenbroich/Grynyuk Trio Kirill Karabits conductor Town Hall 7.30-9.30pm £40 £35 £18 £14 Members 10% off

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Beethoven’s magnificent Triple Concerto is a fitting way to usher in Nicola Benedetti’s Cheltenham residency and our Festival Proms series. She is joined here by the other members of her piano trio, Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk, the in-form Bournemouth orchestra and their celebrated principal conductor, Ukrainian Kirill Karabits.

Also featured are the two pieces that opened and closed the first ever Cheltenham Music Festival concert in June 1945 – Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No 3 and Elgar’s Enigma Variations – and an overture

by Andrzej Panufnik, whose birth centenary is marked this year.

Concert sponsored by

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and supported by Celia and Andrew Curran

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THURSDAY3JULY TALK:

MOZART OUTSIDE Oval Room, Pittville Pump Room 10-10.40am £5 Members 10% off MT02

A key moment in Miloš Forman's film of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus has Salieri fictionally overhearing a performance of the slow movement of the Serenade for 13 wind instruments, and this triggers a soliloquy on Mozart's unattainable mastery. Mark Everist, Professor of Music at Southampton University and author of Mozart’s Ghosts, asks what effect such cinematographic moments have on our understanding of the composer.

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MOZART’S SERENADE FOR 13 WINDS

FLUTE & HARP AT QUENINGTON

New London Chamber Ensemble + guest players from London conservatoires* Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £25 £20 £14 Members 10% off

Thomas Hancox flute Rachel Wick harp St Swithin’s Church, Quenington 3-4.15pm £12 (unreserved)

THE CLIFFORD TAYLOR Young Artist Series

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C.P.E. Bach Sonata in G major 8’ Alwyn Naides 12’ Jongen Danse Lente 5’ Fauré Une châtelaine en sa tour 5’ Debussy Syrinx 3’ Bax Sonata for flute and harp 19’ François Borne Fantaisie brillante sûr ‘Carmen’ 12’

Mozart arr. Cashian Andante for mechanical organ 7’ Mozart arr. Beamish Adagio for glass harmonica 8’ Mozart arr. Butler Adagio/Allegro for mechanical organ 9’ Philip Cashian Dectet ‘Settala’s Machine’* 11’ Mozart Serenade No 10 ‘Gran Partita’* 50’ Mozart and Machines could be the subtitle to this intriguing programme of music for wind instruments. Beginning with arrangements for wind quintet of works that Mozart wrote originally for mechanical organ and glass harmonica, it ends with the beloved Serenade for 13 winds (well, actually 12 winds and double bass). Philip Cashian’s rhythmic, witty work takes its inspiration from another mechanical curiosity, Settala’s Machine, a 17th century mechanical devil.

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Hear some of the ‘Mechanical Mozart’ arrangements online at cheltenhamfestivals.com/music

This talented young duo introduce a varied programme of works for flute and harp that includes Debussy's shimmering Syrinx – the first work to be written for solo flute since C.P.E. Bach's works 150 years earlier.

After the concert The Quenington Old Rectory Gardens will be open and teas and homemade cakes will be available.

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AN EVENING WITH NICOLA BENEDETTI Festival Proms in association with

Nicola Benedetti violin Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Benjamin Gilmore viola Leonard Elschenbroich cello Alexei Grynyuk piano Town Hall 7.30-9.30pm £40 £30 £25 £12 £10 Members 10% off

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Brahms Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op. 25 40’ Arlene Sierra Butterflies (UK premiere) 12’ Shostakovich Piano Quintet Op. 57 29’ In September 2013, Nicola Benedetti performed a sell-out concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Over 5000 people were wowed by her performances of chamber music with some select musical friends, and this second Town Hall concert in her residency will re-unite them for this highly-charged but intimate experience. Nicola will share with the audience why she is passionate about the particular pieces being played, enabling listeners to get closer to the music.

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SCHUBERT’S TROUT QUINTET The Nash Ensemble Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £28 £23 £16 Members 10% off

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Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op. 76/4 ‘Sunrise’ 24’ John Woolrich Pluck from the Air (premiere) 11’ Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D 667 ‘Trout’ 40’ As their last Cheltenham performance showed again in 2012, the supreme individual talents of Nash members merge with impeccable and sophisticated ensemble skills to produce the highest calibre music-making. A brand new piano quintet by John Woolrich, specially commissioned by Cheltenham in his 60th birthday year, is flanked by two Austrian chamber classics.

‘The Nash are chamber music royalty.’

The Sunday Times Supported by Mary Mackenzie, Richard Walton and Friends John Woolrich commissioned with the support of

FESTIVAL LUNCH WITH SPECIAL GUEST NICOLA BENEDETTI Ellenborough Park 1-3.15pm

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Guests will be seated at 1.30pm £35. Price includes set two-course lunch with a glass of Prosecco on arrival

After a superb lunch in the sumptuous, exquisite surroundings of Ellenborough Park’s Beaufort Dining Room, enjoy this in-conversation event with Classical BRIT Award winner and Artist in Residence Nicola Benedetti.

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DIFFERENT TRAINS

CELEBRATING SINATRA

The Smith Quartet Joby Burgess percussion

Festival Proms in association with

Parabola Arts Centre 10-11.15pm £18 Members 10% off

John Wilson Orchestra Matthew Ford singer John Wilson conductor Town Hall 7.30-9.30pm £30 £25 £12 £10 Members 10% off

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Martland Starry Night 20’ Steve Reich Different Trains 27’ Graham Fitkin new quintet (premiere) 15’ M07

With guest singer Matthew Ford – widely regarded as the finest big band vocalist in the UK – John Wilson and his extraordinary, hand-picked orchestra present an evening of hits made famous by Old Blue Eyes himself.

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Moog synthesizer pioneer Bernie Krause introduces a fascinating film about an instrument particularly close to his heart – and 50 years old this year. Focused around the instrument’s inventor, Robert Moog, this portrait features contributions from Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and other synthesizer virtuosos.

Memory and reflection run through this evening of rhythmic, dancing music. Reich’s powerful, haunting Different Trains weaves the recorded recollections of Pullman Porters, a 1940s nanny and holocaust survivors through the colours of the string quartet, while Martland’s work for marimba and quartet dances through memories of Africa beneath a starry sky.

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Some of the world’s best loved songs – Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Night & Day, I’ve Got you Under My Skin, The Lady is a Tramp – are heard in the original orchestrations created for Sinatra by such master arrangers as Nelson Riddle and Billy May.

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FIDELIO TRIO Darragh Morgan violin Robin Michael cello Mary Dullea piano Pittville Pump Room 3.30-5.30pm £15 (unreserved) Members 10% off

Graham Fitkin Lens 15’ Michael Zev Gordon Roseland 5’ Tom Stewart new trio (premiere) 10’ Piers Hellawell Etruscan Games 17’ Arlene Sierra Avian Mirrors 10’ Gavin Higgins The Ruins of Detroit (premiere) 15’

BRODSKY QUARTET Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £28 £23 £16 Members 10% off

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A. Panufnik String Quartet No 3 ‘Wycinanki’ 11’ Schubert String Quartet in A minor, ‘Rosamunde’ 35’ Roxanna Panufnik Memories of my Father (premiere) 12’ Brahms String Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op. 51/1 32’ Alongside substantial works by Schubert and Brahms, the Brodskys present a pair of quartets by the Panufniks, father and daughter. Andrzej Panufnik, born 100 years ago this year, took as the inspiration for his 3rd string quartet a lifelong attachment to the rustic art of Poland: ‘especially the papercuts ("Wycinanki" in Polish) – symmetrical designs of magical abstract beauty and naive charm’.

With references to Gesualdo and the Greek folk music encountered on family holidays, Roxanna Panufnik’s new work is a two-part tribute to her father, and in particular to his own string quartets.

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‘Phenomenal artistry ...Brimming with style and panache.’

Supported by Sir Michael and Lady McWilliam

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See percussionists O Duo whizz around the stage as you’ve never seen before! With a marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, drum kit, African and Brazilian drums and a multitude of handheld percussion, the pair perform a huge range of music, including pieces by Bach, Chopin and Philip Glass.

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The Fidelio Trio, one of the UK’s foremost ensembles committed to contemporary music, presents a hugely varied programme of recently written and brand new duos and trios. Tom Stewart is the 2013 recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, and the works by Zev Gordon and Sierra were commissioned by long-time Music Festival supporter Elizabeth Jacobs.

Supported by Elizabeth Jacobs Stewart supported by Susan Bradshaw Composers’ Fund

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CLASSICAL FAVOURITES Festival Proms in association with

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Miloš Karadaglic´ guitar Maxime Tortelier conductor Town Hall 7-9pm £30 £25 £12 £10 Turfed Area £15 (bring a blanket or cushion) Members 10% off

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Repertoire to include: Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez 23’ Tony Banks new work (premiere) 12’ and repertoire to be voted on by audience

FREE entertainment in Imperial Gardens from 5pm with Dutch marching band Drum Fanfare Jong Leven

In this exclusive Festival Proms concert, you get to choose the music! When you vote for your dream programme, will you choose popular classics such as Barber's Adagio for Strings, Sibelius' Finlandia, the magnificent Nimrod

by Elgar or other favourites by Bizet, Dvorak, Grieg, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky or Wagner? For the full list visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/music Relaxing perhaps in a 'turfed' section of Cheltenham Town Hall, be serenaded by chart-topping classical guitarist Miloš in a stunning performance of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. We are also joined by Tony Banks (see also MT05, pg.18), founder keyboardist of 70s rock giants Genesis, for the premiere of his first ever publicly performed symphonic work. Watch interviews with artists Miloš and Tony Banks online at cheltenhamfestivals.com/music Supported by The Chairman’s Friends and The Patrons of Cheltenham Festivals

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THE WILL GREGORY MOOG ENSEMBLE Parabola Arts Centre 9.30-11.30pm £18 Members 10% off

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50 years after Robert Moog first presented his monophonic synthesizer to the world, Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory brings together no fewer than 10 Moogs on stage.

TONY BANKS & BRIAN MOORE Parabola Arts Centre 5.45-6.30pm £8 Members 10% off

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It’s not every day that a rugby legend interviews rock royalty in a (mostly) classical music festival.

But there’s a first time for everything, as avowed Genesis fan Brian Moore discusses Banks’ new orchestral piece, his relationship with classical music and his legacy with Messrs Collins, Gabriel, Hackett and Rutherford.

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With a lineup including composer Graham Fitkin and Portishead’s Adrian Utley, the Ensemble performs Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No 3, excerpts from John Carpenter’s sci-fi fantasy Escape From New York and a new piece by Gregory featuring a specially developed device that synchronises the synths together like a huge player piano. The second half features a score by Will Gregory played live to a poignant film The Service Of Tim Henman.

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FESTIVAL LUNCH WITH SPECIAL GUEST ´ MILOŠ KARADAGLIC Ellenborough Park 1-3.15pm

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Guests will be seated at 1.30pm £35. Price includes set two-course lunch with a glass of Prosecco on arrival

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After a superb lunch in the sumptuous, exquisite surroundings of Ellenborough Park’s De La Bere Court, enjoy this in-conversation event with classical chart-topping guitarist Miloš Karadaglić.

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MICHAEL MORPURGO PRESENTS PRIVATE PEACEFUL Festival Proms in association with Master-storyteller and best-selling author Michael Morpurgo is joined by the outstanding English a cappella trio Coope, Boyes & Simpson for a telling of Morpurgo’s moving First World War tale Private Peaceful.

Michael Morpurgo narrator Coope, Boyes & Simpson vocal trio Town Hall 11am-12.30pm £15 (£7.50 children) Members 10% off Ideal for ages 8+

Private Peaceful in words and music

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The trio’s songs match and intensify Morpurgo’s inspired narration as the story of Tommo Peaceful moves between humour and tragedy – from childhood in a Devon village to the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War.

THE BENEDETTI SESSIONS Princess Hall, Cheltenham Ladies’ College 4-5pm MF03 FREE (ticket required) Following a weekend of rehearsals and workshops, Nicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich and Holst with a large ensemble of young string players from Gloucestershire.

See page 8 for further details.

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Supported by The Helena Oldacre Trust

BENJAMIN GROSVENOR Benjamin Grosvenor piano Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £28 £23 £16 Members 10% off

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Traditional Japanese Music 30’ Nicola LeFanu Tokaido Road (premiere) 50’ Okeanos is an ensemble which mixes traditional Japanese instruments, such as koto, sho and shamisen, with western ones. They open this event with a taste of traditional Japanese music, before composer Nicola LeFanu and librettist Nancy Gaffield discuss how this distinctive soundworld influenced the creation of this new multimedia opera, Tokaido Road.

Taking its name from the series of vivid woodblock prints by Japanese artist Hiroshige, the opera brings Hiro – the figure present in every picture – to life.

Journeying from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto against a backdrop of old and new images, Hiro tells of his encounters – humorous, amorous, tragic – through mime, dance, speech and song.

“Step into the picture – I’ll show you the way.”

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Mendelssohn Andante & Rondo capriccioso 6’ Schubert Impromptu in G flat Op. 90, No 3 6’ Schumann Humoreske Op. 20 25’ Mompou Paisajes 11’ Medtner 2 Fairy Tales Op. 51/3, Op. 14/2 7’ Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales 14’ Liszt Valse de l’opéra Faust (after Gounod) 10’

Parabola Arts Centre 4.30-6.30pm £20 Members 10% off

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‘Grosvenor, you can tell, is a Romantic pianist, almost from another age. He doesn’t deconstruct, or stand at a distance. He jumps inside the music’s soul.’

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The first half of Benjamin Grosvenor’s wide-ranging programme is grounded in the 19th century, and centred around Schumann’s enigmatic and emotionally-rich Humoreske. The second half starts out with colourful, virtuosic writing by a pair of lesser-known composer-pianists – the Russian Nikolai Medtner and the Catalan Federico Mompou – and closes with extravagant takes on the waltz by Ravel and Liszt. Grosvenor describes Liszt’s transcription of the waltz from Gounod’s Faust as ‘brilliantly summarising the opera: the orgiastic opening, the innocence of Marguerite's song, and the demonic nature of the virtuosic close’.

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THE CENTENARY PROM THE SOUNDS OF 1914 Festival Proms in association with

Flowers Brass Band Cheltenham Bach Choir TBA tenor Nicholas McCarthy piano Joseph Middleton piano Stephen Jackson conductor

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BRITISH MILITARY & BRASS BANDS Venue tbc 6-7pm £5 Members 10% off

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Brass and military bands had an impact on British music that has been largely overlooked. In 1914 they were ubiquitous. They entertained, educated, caused real musical change and created an expansion in professional music that was unprecedented. Trevor Herbert, Emeritus Professor of Music at the Open University, discusses how they emerged and why their achievement is so important.

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Programme to include: Holst Mars from The Planets Elgar The Fourth of August (Spirit of England) Humperdinck Song of the Black Eagle Rachmaninov Vespers (selection) Gurney Selection of songs and Roses of Picardy, St Louis Blues & a singalong of marching songs (Long Way to Tipperary, Pack Up Your Troubles etc) This is the concert when Gloucestershire marks the centenary of the start of World War One – a broadreaching musical snapshot of the sounds of 1914, and of music that arose out of war.

Outstanding local performers will be joined by the remarkable one-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy, who will pay tribute to musicians such as Paul Wittgenstein who lost limbs in battle.

Supported by The Oldham Foundation

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ANNIVERSARY BAROQUE AT OWLPEN MANOR Bruno Procopio harpsichord Jennifer Morsches cello Holy Cross Church, Owlpen Manor 3-4.15pm £12 (unreserved) Members 10% off

NICOLA BENEDETTI AND ALEXEI GRYNYUK Nicola Benedetti violin Alexei Grynyuk piano Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £30 £24 £18 Members 10% off

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Mozart Violin Sonata No 21 in E minor Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 1 Elgar Violin Sonata The skittering colours and moods of Elgar’s sonata and the brooding beauty of Prokofiev’s showcase the intensity and virtuosity of this close-knit duo.

The beautifully balanced partnership of Benedetti and Grynyuk is perfect, too, for the conversational subtlety of Mozart’s Sonata.

Supported by Diana Woolley

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Programme to include: C.P.E. Bach sonatas for piccolo cello and continuo Rameau works for solo harpsichord Two highly accomplished baroque music specialists come together to mark the 300th anniversary of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s birth and the 250th anniversary of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s death.

American cellist Jennifer Morsches is a principal member of the UK’s top early music chamber group Florilegium, and Bruno Procopio is a Brazilian harpsichordist whose studies with Christophe Rousset at the Paris Conservatoire have since established him in France and beyond.

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS Catriona Holsgrove soprano Emily Harding trumpet Pittville Pump Room 6-7pm £6 (unreserved) Members 10% off

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Winners of the 2013 Keith Nutland Award are joined by the winner (tba) of the 2014 Gloucestershire Young Musician competition in a showcase from the county’s finest young performers.

After the concert the Cyder House Restaurant will be open and teas and homemade cakes will be available.

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MILOŠ Miloš Karadaglic ´ guitar Pittville Pump Room 8-10pm £28 £23 £16 Members 10% off

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Sor Grand Solo 9’ Gerhard Fantasie 5’ Bach Chaconne BWV 1004 15’ Granados Danza Andaluza; Danza Oriental 12’ Rodrigo Invocation and Dance (homage to de Falla) 9’ De Falla Danza del Molinero; Homenaje; Danza Española No 1 11’ Miloš first appeared at the Cheltenham Music Festival in 2010 in Quenington Church... seating capacity nudging 100. Four years later, and after the steepest, most thrilling trajectory of international success, he now plays to huge audiences around the world – from the Royal Albert Hall to the Hollywood Bowl. His latest Cheltenham appearance presents this enticing programme in the elegantly intimate surroundings of the Pittville Pump Room.

Supported by Graham and Eileen Lockwood

MONDAY7JULY COMPOSER ACADEMY

PULSE/RANTS Venue tbc 8pm 'til late FREE

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This double-bill evening opens with a screening and discussion of film short PULSE, followed by a special Cheltenham Composer Academy edition of RANTS. RANTS are compelling three-minute opinion pieces delivered on a wide variety of cultural topics, which are then opened up to the room for debate.

PULSE is a noir-like collaboration between composer Dobrinka Tabakova and filmmaker Ruth Paxton, a cinematic poem exploring the energy and diversity of modern city life and the human desire to connect.

See page 43 for more details about the Composer Academy. To see what topics will be covered, and a trailer for PULSE, go to cheltenhamfestivals.com/ music

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RADIO 3 NEW GENERATION ARTISTS Louis Schwizgebel piano Zhang Zuo piano Elena Urioste violin Lise Berthaud viola Guy Johnston cello Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £23 £18 £12 Members 10% off

Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3

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Schubert Fantasie in F minor for piano duet 20’ Brahms Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op. 78 28’ Dvorˇák Piano Quartet No 2 in E flat, Op. 87 34’ The first of three consecutive Pittville mornings featuring BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists is a typically international gathering. Louis Schwizgebel is Swiss-Chinese. Zhang Zuo is Chinese and currently based in New York. The string players are, respectively, American, French and English – Guy Johnston having been an NGA with the Aronowitz Ensemble from 2006-8.

The Schubert Fantasie and Brahms Sonata precede Dvořák’s beloved Op.87 piano quartet, a work overflowing with lyricism, exuberance and a strong infusion of Bohemian folk spirit.

Supported by Elizabeth Jacobs

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COMPOSER ACADEMY SHOWCASE Sanders Room, Cheltenham Ladies’ College 3-5pm £6 Members 10% off

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This showcase presents hot-off-the-press music from emerging composers, created during the previous five days of the Composer Academy.

See page 43 for more details.

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COMPOSING WOMEN Parliament Rooms, Gloucester Cathedral 6-7pm £5 Members 10% off

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Sally Taylor – Executive Director of the Culture Capital Exchange and Chair of the PRS for Music Foundation – discusses with Kerry Andrew, Hannah Kendall and Dobrinka Tabakova what it’s like for women composers in Britain today.

DURUFLÉ REQUIEM IN GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

Tallis Videte miraculum 10’ Victoria Ave Maria 5’ Palestrina Alma redemptoris Mater 3’ Parsons Ave Maria 5’ Four Marian Antiphons (premiere) 15’ Judith Weir Ave Regina Caelorum Hannah Kendall Regina Caeli Kerry Andrew Salve Regina Dobrinka Tabakova Alma redemptoris mater Tavener Two Hymns to the Mother of God 5’ Tavener Song for Athene 6’ Duruflé Requiem* 33’

Choir of Merton College, Oxford St Cecilia Singers* Oriel Singers* Esther Brazil mezzo-soprano* Nicholas Morton baritone* Guy Johnston cello* Carleton Etherington organ* Benjamin Nicholas conductor Gloucester Cathedral 7.30-9.30pm £25 £20 £18 £14 (unreserved) M24

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This choral feast is very much a concert of two halves.

The first, sung by Oxford’s Merton College choir, is a sequence of pieces honouring the Virgin Mary – ancient and modern, English, Italian and Spanish. Two fine local choirs and the magnificent Gloucester Cathedral organ join the Merton forces in the second half for a performance of Maurice Duruflé’s sublime Requiem.

Supported by Michael and Angela Cronk

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SCHUBERT, PANUFNIK & VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

RADIO 3 NEW GENERATION ARTISTS Apollon Musagete Quartet Robin Tritschler tenor Louis Schwizgebel piano Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £23 £18 £12 Members 10% off

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Gossec String Quartet in A, Op. 15/6 10’ Schubert Lieder selection 20’ A. Panufnik String Quartet No 1 20’ Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge 21’

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The soft-grained lyric qualities of Irish tenor Robin Tritschler will be beautifully on display here, first in a selection of Schubert songs and then in Vaughan Williams’ highly individual settings of A.E. Housman for voice and piano quintet.

Much-admired Polish ensemble, the Apollon Musagete Quartet, performs the first of their compatriot Andrzej Panufnik’s quartets, and a work by Haydn’s close contemporary, FrançoisJoseph Gossec.

Supported by The Aquarius Group

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PÄRT & TAVENER IN TEWKESBURY ABBEY

The Hilliard Ensemble BBC Singers Carducci String Quartet David Hill conductor Tewkesbury Abbey 7.30-9.45pm £35 £30 £22 £18 (unreserved) Members 10% off

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

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Arvo Pärt Stabat Mater 24’ Tavener Ikon of Light 40’ Arvo Pärt Miserere 35’ The exquisite music of Arvo Pärt and John Tavener has defined the sound of ‘holy minimalism’ in recent years, and this concert presents three of their finest, most seminal works – all from within a few years of each other in the 1980s.

Tavener’s Ikon of Light – which was premiered at the 1984 Cheltenham Music Festival in Tewkesbury Abbey – is a mystical statement of ritual and wonder for choir and string trio. The Hilliard Ensemble premiered Pärt’s equally luminous and reflective settings of the Stabat Mater and Psalm 51 in 1985 and 1989.

With an added choral Dies Irae, Miserere’s remarkable lineup also features five solo voices and an 11-piece ensemble that includes electric and bass guitar, percussion, winds and brass.

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SOWETO STRINGS Oval Room, Pittville Pump Room 6-7.10pm MT10 £5 Members 10% off This documentary tells the extraordinary and moving story of the South African music project, Buskaid. From its establishment in 1997 by British viola player Rosemary Nalden, the film follows Buskaid’s work over two years, as it succeeds in inspiring and transforming the lives of young musicians living in exceptionally difficult circumstances.

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Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £23 £18 £12

Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3

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Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit 22’ Debussy L’isle joyeuse 6’ Bacewicz Piano Quintet No 1 25’ Dvorˇák String Quartet in C, Op. 61 33’

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Schwizgebel and the Apollon Musagete Quartet combine in this programme for a highly regarded quintet by the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, a close contemporary of Andrzej Panufnik and a distinguished violinist herself.

Supported by Sir Peter and Lady Marychurch

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| ALICE COOTE | COLIN CURRIE | PAUL LEWIS | Now in its 15th year, BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist scheme has nurtured the talents of over 100 instrumentalists, singers and ensembles. The gilt-edged careers of many alumni are a fine indicator that the current crop, coming to Cheltenham in 2014, are destined for great things too.

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ALINA IBRAGIMOVA | STEVEN OSBORNE | JANINE JANSEN

Apollon Musagete Quartet Louis Schwizgebel piano

Like the Apollon Musagete Quartet, pianist Louis Schwizgebel’s career is on a steep upward curve. Second prize winner at the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition, while still studying at New York’s Juilliard, he has since given performances with many fine orchestras and at prestigious festivals such as Bergen, Gstaad and Verbier.

ALISON BALSOM | BELCEA QUARTET | NATALIE CLEIN

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Programme to include: Rameau, Bach, Saint-Saëns, Karl Jenkins, Kwela and Gospel

BUSKAID SOWETO STRINGS Soweto String Ensemble Rosemary Nalden director Pittville Pump Room 7.30-9.30pm £23 £18 £12 Members 10% off

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The inspirational Soweto String Ensemble sprang up from the Buskaid project, which gives children from impoverished backgrounds in South African townships the opportunity to learn string instruments to the highest possible standard. As part of a UK tour marking the 20th anniversary of democracy in South Africa – and following previous Cheltenham performances in 2004 and 2007 – this extraordinary ensemble showcases a programme that ranges

from baroque composers Bach and Rameau through to Karl Jenkins’ Soweto Suite and African Kwela and Gospel music.

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MARK PADMORE & HUW WATKINS

JAN GARBAREK & THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE

Mark Padmore tenor Huw Watkins piano Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £28 £23 £16 Members 10% off

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Purcell arr. Britten Morning Hymn; Job's Curse; Evening Hymn 12’ Huw Watkins new work (premiere) 12’ Tippett The Heart's Assurance 18’ Schumann Dichterliebe 30’

THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE DATABASE Oval Room, Pittville Pump Room 10-10.45am £5 Members 10% off

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The Listening Experience Database Project includes private records of people’s experiences of listening to music of all kinds, from any culture or period. David Rowland, Ivan Hewett and Simon Brown consider how music affects people in their everyday lives, and how we capture the listening experiences that the critics miss.

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The Hilliard Ensemble Jan Garbarek saxophone Gloucester Cathedral 7-8.30pm £35 £30 £22 £18 (unreserved) Members 10% off

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With his sensitivity to text, emotional honesty and interpretative authority, Mark Padmore is a singer who guarantees total engagement from his audiences. In this recital, he joins composer-pianist Huw Watkins for a programme of rich musical and poetic contrast.

20 years ago, Norwegian jazz saxophone legend Jan Garbarek collaborated for the first time with the four solo voices of The Hilliard Ensemble, creating one of the most distinctive and acclaimed ‘crossover’ projects.

With the Hilliards retiring later in 2014, this performance in the resonant and lofty spaces of Gloucester Cathedral will be one of the last ever. A very special occasion.

Michael Tippett’s radiant, dramatic cycle was premiered in 1951 by Peter Pears, with Britten playing the demanding piano part.

‘A cross-cultural combination that produces some of the most beautiful acoustic music ever made’

Supported by Diana Woolley

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A CANDLELIT TRIBUTE TO JOHN TAVENER Cavaleri Quartet with Celan Quartet* Gildas Quartet* Quatuor Hermes* Gloucester Cathedral 9-10.15pm £18 (unreserved) Members 10% off

THE CLIFFORD TAYLOR Young Artist Series

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Harvey Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco 10’ Tavener Scatter Roses Over My Tears (UK premiere) 15’ Tavener Towards Silence* 35’ In the immensity of Gloucester Cathedral’s darkening, candlelit nave, be transported by this sonically spatial, mystical sequence reflecting on life and death.

‘I feel very close to this music,’ wrote John Tavener of Towards Silence, a poignant meditation on the Four States of Being for four surround-sound string quartets and Tibetan Bowl.

Scatter Roses Over My Tears is one of Tavener’s last completed works, and the 12th Cheltenham premiere of his music since the first in 1970.

Tavener’s music is complemented here by the extraordinary creation for multi-track tape by his near contemporary Jonathan Harvey. Computerprocessed music has never been more human and transcendent than this audience-enveloping mosaic from 1980, featuring Harvey’s chorister son and Winchester Cathedral’s awesome tenor bell.

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JAMES MAYHEW PAINTS CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS James Mayhew illustrator Alex Kirk, Jonathan McNaught piano Rebecca McNaught cello

MENDELSSOHN & SCHUBERT PIANO TRIOS

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Saint-Saëns (Painted) Carnival of the Animals Ideal for ages 5+ See pages 8-9 for more information.

Trio Con Brio Copenhagen Pittville Pump Room 11am-1pm £25 £20 £14 Members 10% off

Parabola Arts Centre 11am-12pm £8 (£5 children) Members 10% off

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Bent Sørensen Phantasmagoria 18’ Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 2 in C minor 32’ Schubert Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D 898 31’

See pages 8-9 for details of our free Party in the Park from 1-4pm in and around Pittville Pump Room – fun for the family with appearances from Festival artists and a range of local performers.

MUSIC AT ART COUTURE Quatuor Hermes

Danish composer Bent Sørensen conjures up a mysterious, dreamlike scene in this opening piece written especially for award-winning ensemble Trio Con Brio Copenhagen. Alongside it, one of Schubert’s final works and Mendelssohn’s second Trio, the finale of which features a melody known to many as the hymn tune ‘Old Hundredth’.

‘Sensational playing from Korean sisters Soo-Jin Hong and Soo-Kyung Hong and Danish piano wizard Jens Elvekjaer.’ Classic FM Supported in celebration of the wedding of John Mumford & Penny McCracken

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St Mary’s Church, Painswick 3-4.20pm £12 (unreserved) Members 10% off Haydn String Quartet in B minor, Op. 33/1 21’ Beethoven String Quartet in G, Op. 18/2 23’ Debussy String Quartet in G minor 25’ A recital from the Paris-based Hermes Quartet to mark the opening of the vibrant Art Couture Painswick Festival.

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THE PLANETS: A 360° VIEW

AN AFTERNOON SYMPOSIUM Parabola Arts Centre 3-5.30pm £10 Members 10% off

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Holst’s inspiration for The Planets was more mythological than scientific, and yet a hundred years on his music seems to capture perfectly the ethereal beauty of our neighbouring worlds as revealed by the latest space missions.

Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, explores how Holst’s music remains as popular with astronomers as it does with the general public.

Writer/broadcaster Stephen Johnson focuses on cultural-historical context and the music itself – its originality and its widespread influence, from Britten to Hollywood’s John Williams. Holst scholar and composer Raymond Head discusses the composer’s fascination with astrology and its influence on The Planets.

Programmed in partnership with the Holst Birthplace Museum

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THE PLANETS

& THE GREAT ANIMAL ORCHESTRA BBC National Orchestra of Wales Savitri Singers Martyn Brabbins conductor Town Hall 7-9.15pm £35 £28 £14 £12 Members 10% off

This final evening concert in the 70th Cheltenham Music Festival is a vivid orchestral voyage around our own planet and beyond.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

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Richard Blackford The Great Animal Orchestra (premiere) 25’ preceded by an introduction featuring Richard Blackford and Bernie Krause

Holst The Planets 55’

Richard Blackford’s The Great Animal Orchestra is inspired by the work of American environmentalist and soundscape recordist Bernie Krause. This five movement symphony combines live orchestra with Krause’s recordings from around the world – including the Sumatran rainforest, American Pacific tree frogs, African elephants and gorillas, and a range of exotic, South American birds.

Gustav Holst composed three movements of his Planets suite – Mars, Venus and Jupiter – in 1914,

so this performance marks the centenary of this masterpiece’s inception. From the menacing start of Mars, the Bringer of War to the bewitching fade-out of Neptune, the Mystic, it will be wonderful to hear one of the greatest pieces of orchestral music ever written in the Town Hall of Holst’s home town.

Concert sponsored by Messier-Bugatti-Dowty

The Great Animal Orchestra supported by

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SON YAMBU

AUTHENTIC SOUND OF CUBA Son Yambu Cuban Band Pittville Pump Room 9-11pm £15 cabaret seating & dancefloor Members 10% off

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Son Yambu play authentic Cuban son, the intoxicating Afro-Cuban sound that gave rise to salsa. Described as 'the UK's very own Buena Vista band', the group come mainly from Santiago de Cuba – a cradle of music in a country whose music expresses its soul.

Expect infectious melodies and grooves, irresistible music with a contemporary edge – the authentic sound of Cuba.

‘With a lineup of expat Cuban musicians playing rootsy Cuban son, Son Yambu had dancers twirling from the off.’ Evening Standard

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TRIO MEDIÆVAL & ARVE HENRIKSEN Trio Mediæval Arve Henriksen trumpet Cheltenham College Chapel 11am-12.20pm £18 Members 10% off

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Trio Mediæval made a great impression when they performed in the 2008 Cheltenham Music Festival.

So it’s great to welcome them back, this time with Norwegian trumpeter/singer Arve Henriksen in a unique musical meeting where medieval, contemporary and improvised elements beautifully merge. 800 year old music from Italy and England is performed alongside Norwegian-Swedish folk songs, a couple of newly commissioned pieces and Henriksen’s remarkable, atmospheric improvisation.

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WALKS All walks begin at 3pm from the Town Hall Steps.

Walks are taken at a gentle pace, but please come prepared for inclement weather and with appropriate footwear. All walks are free, but a ticket is required and places strictly limited.

Walks are presented by Cheltenham Civic Society

CHELTENHAM 1945 Wednesday 2 July Tuesday 8 July

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1945 was a momentous year both politically and musically. The War in Europe ended on May 8th and five weeks later, on June 13th, the first Cheltenham Festival of Music began. Roger Jones looks at Cheltenham as it recovered from the War and reflects on the changes that have taken place since then.

CHELTENHAM: A MODEL FOR THE GARDEN CITY? Wednesday 9 July Friday 11 July

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Dr Roger Woodley tours Cheltenham’s unmissable architecture and will refer, on the centenary of The Planets, to Gustav Holst’s musical presence during his early life here. A particular focus will be on Cheltenham’s unique role as Britain’s first ‘garden town’.

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EXHIBITIONS

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All of our exhibitions appear in the foyers of Parabola Arts Centre, and can be viewed during normal opening times as well as from an hour before any Festival event until 45 minutes after the event finishes.

The Planets 2014: Celebrating 100 Years of Holst’s Masterpiece

ELIZABETH JACOBS

The Planets Exhibition

Long-standing photographer of the Festival behind-the-scenes, Elizabeth Jacobs displays her pick of musicians in rehearsal during the 2013 Cheltenham Music Festival.

June 28th - October 11th 2014 6HH WKH RULJLQDO PDQXVFULSW RI WKLV VLJQLÀFDQW piece of classical music, on loan from The Bodleian Library, together with diaries and letters from The British Library, The Royal College of Music and The Britten-Pears Foundation.

WYNN WHITE: JAPAN

Listening Booth Trail April – October 2014

Explore Cheltenham while listening to The Planets! There will be 7 listening booths in locations associated with Holst for you to discover. Each will play a movement from the suite.

70: A CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVE Opening times

Feb - May & Oct - Mid Dec : Tues - Sat, 10am - 4pm June - Sept : Tues - Sat, 10am - 5pm & Sun 1.30pm - 5pm open Bank Holiday Admission Adults : £5.00 | Concessions : £4.50 | Family Ticket : (2+3)£12.00 Children : Under 5 FREE | Under 16 : £2 Guided tours welcome by appointment

01242 524846 | www.holstmuseum.org.uk Holst Birthplace Museum, 4 Clarence Road, Cheltenham, GL52 2AY curator@holstmuseum.org.uk

Beautiful, arresting black and white photography from the artist creating the ‘now’ of Tokaido Road’s visual backdrop (M15, pg.20). Wynn’s images capture serene, majestic moments from nature and the everyday, and this exhibition focuses solely on his travels in Japan.

An exhibition looking at the wide range of styles and designs that have graced the Festival brochure covers over the years, alongside details from each year of the Festival. From iconic mid-century fonts to bold, modernist geometry and graceful watercolours, the display charts a course through post-war graphic design history as it explores key moments in the Festival’s history.

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Saturday 28 June 6pm Church venue tbc FREE retiring collection

Saturday 5 July 12noon-9pm Montpellier Gardens FREE

Cheltenham Youth Choir Beauregard Singers Rachel Bowen & Vicki Beauregard directors

Other repertoire to be announced.

WINTERREISE Thursday 3 July 4.30pm Bethesda Methodist Church GL51 2AP £6 John Cox tenor Sara Harris piano

A chance to experience Schubert’s last and greatest song cycle, Winterreise: an epic journey by an unnamed wanderer whose love was rejected, and who finds few comforts before a final meeting with an organ grinder.

DUO KARADYS Friday 4 July 7.30pm Pate's Grammar School GL51 0HG £10 (£5) Carol Hubel-Allen viola Alan MacLean piano Works by Schubert, Handel and Rebecca Clarke David Earl Sonata for Viola and Piano (premiere)

A fun-filled day for the whole family – a range of music, dance displays, activities and have-a-go sports sessions, alongside a varied marketplace and a range of food and drink.

JOYCE GRENFELL MONOLOGUES Saturday 5 July 7pm St Matthew's Church GL50 3PL £7

British actress Mary Gifford Brown performs the work of this much loved comedienne and song writer.

CHELTENHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saturday 5 July 7.30pm Bredon Village Hall £14 (£7) David Curtis conductor Dag Wiren Serenade for Strings R. Strauss Suite for Wind in B flat Haydn Symphony No 104 in D

PORTRAIT OF PARRY: THE IDYLL, & THE TUNEFUL WAR Saturday 5 July 7.30pm Tewkesbury Abbey £15 (£8) The Waynflete Singers David Owen Norris conductor Carleton Etherington organ

This programme looks at Parry’s Edwardian idyll, and its interruption by the Great War. It features rarities such as A Hymn for Aviators and Six Modern Lyrics, as well as his iconic settings of I Was Glad and Jerusalem.

JUBILATE CHAMBER CHOIR Saturday 5 July 7.30pm St Mary's Church Charlton Kings GL53 8JJ £8 (£7) Ian Higginson conductor

Programme to include works by Vierne and Faure.

COTSWOLD CONNECTIONS Friday 11 July 7.30pm All Saints Church Cheltenham Phoenix Recorder Orchestra Pam Smith conductor

The Phoenix Recorder Orchestra, celebrating its 10th birthday, consists of 30 of the country's finest recorder players playing the full range of recorders from the tiny sopranino to the mighty sub contrabasses.

This programme will include a wide range of light classical music by a variety of composers with Cotswold links, from Gustav Holst to Steve Marshall.

MUSICA VERA Saturday 12 July 7.30 pm St Peter's Church Leckhampton GL53 0QJ £12 David Dewar conductor Programme to include: Monteverdi Beatus Vir works by Handel and Purcell

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EDUCATION TAKE PART

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To find out more and to take part in any of these opportunities, go to cheltenhamfestivals.com/education/take-part

MUSIC WORKSHOPS IN SCHOOLS

CONCERT FOR SCHOOLS AND MUSIC EXPLORERS

June 2014, free*

Friday 11 July 10.30-11.30am Cheltenham Town Hall free*

NICHOLAS MCCARTHY One-handed Paralympics closing ceremony superstar pianist, and Royal College of Music graduate, Nicholas is passionate about engaging children and young adults in classical music.

Challenging and inspiring, he will deliver a workshop tailor-made for your pupils, whatever their age and ability.

JAMES MAYHEW We are delighted that James is returning to lead Painting to Music workshops in local schools. We are reserving some workshops for schools where over 15% pupils are eligible for FSM, and where possible James will stay longer in these schools so that parents can take part.

All day Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July £20/participant**

Music Explorers 11.45am and 12.45pm Cheltenham Town Hall free* Captivating, inspiring, and joyous – it’s a stellar line-up for this year’s Concert for Schools.

James Mayhew will paint Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, accompanied by brilliant young Gloucestershire pianists Jonathan McNaught and Alexander Kirk; young musicians from the Soweto string ensemble Buskaid will dazzle you with their vibrant sounds; and Birmingham Conservatoire’s Associate Ensemble, the Atéa Quintet, will raise the roof with their high-energy repertoire of surprising pieces.

Give your pupils an introduction to a range of orchestral instruments at a Music Explorers session following the concert, with expert guidance provided by specialists. Why not bring lunch with you and picnic in the beautiful gardens behind the Town Hall too?

*Free activities are subject to a £25 administration fee. **We have a bursary fund so that cost is not a barrier.

More information on our website.

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NICOLA BENEDETTI SESSIONS

Nicola Benedetti, one of the world’s finest young musicians, is leading two days of workshops for young string players, which will culminate in a performance on Sunday 13 July.

Nicola’s unshakeable belief in the transformative effect that quality music experiences can have on young lives forms the foundation of her education work, and this weekend will be a unique opportunity for Gloucestershire’s young string players to learn from the best.

If you are, or know of, a string player (grade 2–8+, age 8–18) with commitment, energy and enthusiasm who would relish the opportunity of this inspiring and interactive learning opportunity, you can find more information and an application form at cheltenhamfestivals.com/education/take-part

COMPOSER ACADEMY

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GAMELAN WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS

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Year-round, Pittville Pump Room

SURROUND SOUND

Gamelan, tuned bronze percussion instruments from Indonesia, is a versatile tool for music education at all levels. The simplicity of the playing technique makes the instruments instantly accessible to children and adults, whatever their level of musical ability, so why not bring your pupils to a workshop to explore new sounds, make music together and have fun at the same time?

What do teachers say?

‘This was a fantastic experience for our pupils, not only in the use of this musical equipment, but the way the session was taught, they were playing as a group & able to produce music.’

The Great Animal Orchestra (see pg.35) education project, Surround Sound, is a unique opportunity for children and young people from National Star, Bettridge School, and St Thomas More Catholic Primary School to make music and art. Exceptional artists and music educators will encourage and develop the participants’ listening, creative and music-making skills in response to the sounds of the natural world, and their compositions and visual art will form the core of a very special performance at Cheltenham Music Festival on Saturday 12 July at Pittville Pump Room.

David Walker, The Milestone School, 2014.

Find out more at cheltenhamfestivals.com/gamelan

EDUCATION PARTNERS Buskaid residency supported by

Following a hugely successful pilot in 2013, the Composer Academy will open its doors to even more aspiring young composers in 2014.

The Academy will this year create 12 brand new works with the Fidelio Trio and a second flexible ensemble, as well as offering discussion sessions, access to established composers and industry professionals, and tickets to Festival premieres for a further 20 emerging composers.

Join the Academy for two public events, the Composer Academy Showcase (M23, pg. 27) and an evening of film and debate (MT08, pg. 23).

Find out more at cheltenhamfestivals.com/ composer-academy Supported by

The Notgrove Trust The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation The Reed Foundation 70th Festival Appeal Donors

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PATRONS Join this exclusive group of supporters and make a real difference to our artistic programming and education work • Dedicated ticket line with advance booking • Access to hospitality areas at the Literature and Jazz Festivals • Invitations to special events and parties throughout the year From £67 per month, your patronage covers all four Festivals.

To find out more please contact Arlene McGlynn, Patrons Manager on 01242 537252 arlene.mcglynn@cheltenhamfestivals.com or visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/patrons

We would like to thank all our Patrons for their generous support: Life Patron Mark and Sue Blanchfield Peter and Anne Bond Dominic and Jannene Collier Colin Doak Charles Fisher David and John Hall Jeremy and Germaine Hitchins Jonathan and Cassinha Hitchins Stephen and Tania Hitchins Graham and Eileen Lockwood Fiona McLeod The McWilliam family in loving memory of Ruth McWilliam John and Susan Singer Mark and Elizabeth Philip-Sørensen

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Steven and Linda Jones Hugh and Sue Koch Hayden and Tracy McKinnes Sir Michael and Lady McWilliam Janet and Charles Middleton Keith Norton The Helena Oldacre Trust Ian and Sarah Passmore Shelley and Paul Roberts Sharon and Toby Roberts Esther and Peter Smedvig Andrew Smith Andy and Ali Stalsberg Phil and Jennifer Stapleton Meredithe Stuart-Smith Giles and Michelle Thorley Diego Vargas Michael and Rosie Warner Steve and Eugenia Winwood Richard and Fiona Yorke

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Kate Adie Sir John and Lady Aird David and Zany Anton-Smith Alison Besterman Michael H Bond David and Jane Bruce Jonathan and Daphne Carr Robert Cawthorne and Catherine White Andrew and Jan Clift Simon Collings Mr and Mrs Andrew and Jacqueline Coyle Lady Curtis Mark and Cindy Davies Debra Drew and Nigel Browne Simon Firkins Carol and Isabella Freeman Clive and Stella Gardner Jamila Gavin Dr Ken and Jean Gray

Chris and Bridgette Sunman Fiona and David Symondson Ludmila and Hodson Thornber The Walker Family

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If you are passionate about Cheltenham Music Festival then please consider making a donation when you book your tickets.

Professor A C Grayling Alex and Hattie Hambro Roger and Jane Hanks Sam and Sarah Hanks Dr Dawn Harper and Dr Graham Isaac Mike and Sally Hatcher Mr and Mrs Riff Heber-Percy Mark Heywood Mike and Judie Hill Marianne Hinton Andrew and Caroline Hope Jeff and Keren Iliffe Pip Isherwood Mr and Mrs JNP Kirkpatrick Hazel and Jeremy Lewis Juliet and Jamie McKelvie Hazel Merrison Professor Keith Millar and Professor Margaret Reid Mr and Mrs Philip Monbiot Professor Angela Newing Jonjo and Jacqui O’Neill Robert Padgett Liz Parker Sir David and Lady Pepper Leslie Perrin Hugh Poole-Warren Jonathon Porritt Patricia Routledge CBE Khal and Zoe Rudin Elizabeth Saunders Lavinia Sidgwick Sharon Studer and Graham Beckett Jonathan and Gail Taylor Robert and Julia Van Gils Paul D. Voyce Brian Watson Professor Lord Winston We would also like to thank all our Patrons who have chosen to remain anonymous.

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SAFEGUARD THE FUTURE OF CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL Please consider a gift in your will By remembering Cheltenham Music Festival in your will you can ensure that future generations will be as inspired by the Festival as today’s audience.

Every year the Music Festival depends on donations and gifts in wills to present an enterprising programme, giving opportunities to young artists, premiering new pieces of music and fostering the next generation of musicians through our education work.

Making a will or updating an existing will is easy and inexpensive to arrange and can make a lasting difference to our work. You can make a gift which directly benefits Cheltenham Music Festival, or if you prefer to remember all of our Festivals then your gift can give vital support where it is most needed by our charity.

We understand that your loved ones will come first, but a gift of any size would be greatly appreciated and can help to safeguard the future of this magnificent Festival.

GIFTS IN WILLS

Emerging composers and musicians working together to develop new work at our 2013 Composer Academy

To talk in confidence about gifts in wills please contact Richard Smith, Head of Individual Giving, on 01242 537262 or email richard.smith@cheltenhamfestivals.com Registered charity number 251765

As a charity, every gift, no matter what size, makes a real difference to our work. Thank you.

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BOOKING INFORMATION MEMBERS’ PRIORITY BOOKING: From 12 noon, 24 March 2014

Festival Director Meurig Bowen

PUBLIC BOOKING: From 12 noon, 31 March 2014

Festival Manager Alexis Paterson

HOW TO BOOK Online cheltenhamfestivals.com Save time and buy your tickets with a single click. Use our new quick booking system and create your event Wish List before booking opens. See how it works here: cheltenhamfestivals.com/booking

Phone 0844 880 8094 If you have specific seating requirements, such as wheelchair access, please call Box Office on the above number.

In Person Before the Festival: CF Ticketing, 15 Suffolk Parade, Cheltenham, GL50 2AE During the Festival: At venues, from 45 minutes before the start of an event Booking fees per transaction apply. Visit our website for full details: cheltenhamfestivals.com/box-office OPENING TIMES Online booking is available 24/7. Box Office opening times may vary. Visit our website for full details.

TERMS & CONDITIONS Full T&Cs available online: cheltenhamfestivals.com/box-office MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS For full Membership T&Cs, including discounts and ticket entitlement, visit our website: cheltenhamfestivals.com/membership CONCESSIONS - Limited numbers of £5 Under 30 tickets are available for each concert. cheltenhamfestivals.com/under30 - Groups: 10% discount applies when booking for parties of 10 or more - Registered disabled bookers may request a free ticket for a support worker or personal assistant at time of booking.

(Support workers will be required to pay the charge for food at an event, where applicable.) Please call Box Office.

DONATIONS Cheltenham Festivals is a registered charity. Your support makes a huge difference and is greatly appreciated. A suggested voluntary donation will be added to your order. Visit our website for full details: cheltenhamfestivals.com/box-office

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Development Manager Louisa Hancox Development Officer Laura Popperwell With many thanks to all the staff at Cheltenham Festivals, those at each venue and the Festival volunteers, all of whom help make the Festival happen.

Cheltenham Festivals Board of Trustees Peter Bond – Chair Dominic Collier – Vice Chair Susan Blanchfield Lewis Carnie Oli Christie Peter Elliott Prof Russell Foster Edward Gillespie (Chair of Music Festival) Prof Averil Macdonald Dame Gail Rebuck Dr Diane Savory OBE Margaret Austen – Company Secretary Festival Advisory Group Jonathan Freeman-Attwood Christopher Cook Sally Groves Rosemary Johnson Mark Kilfoyle Judith Serota David Sigall Harriet Smith

Cross-Festival Advisory Group Pamela Armstrong Jane Bailey Dr John Bicknell Christine Chambers Jane Churchill Catherine Coates Dominic Collier Maurice Gran Kate Hicks Beach Marianne Hinton Tania Hitchins Charmaine Murphy Lavinia Sidgwick Anita Syvret The 70th Cheltenham Music Festival is presented by Cheltenham Festivals, a company limited by guarantee.

Registered Office 28 Imperial Square Cheltenham GL50 1RH Company No. 456573 Charity No. 251765 VAT Registration No. 100114013 Main Switchboard No. 01242 511211 Contact If you have specific comments about any aspect of the Festival, please email: Meurig Bowen music@cheltenhamfestivals.com Photo Credits Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/ photos for a full photo credit list.

A number of events at Cheltenham Music Festival 2014 are co-productions with New Build Productions

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SEATING PLANS Cheltenham Town Hall

Pittville Pump Room

Gloucester Cathedral

Parabola Arts Centre

Tewkesbury Abbey

A section of the seating will be removed for M12 (Classical Favourites) and replaced by artiďŹ cial turf.

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