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The Sunday Concerts New music in Cambridge
Errollyn Wallen singer, composer, musician, Renaissance woman of contemporary British music (The Observer)
Welcome to the 2014 New Music series at Kettle’s Yard. We hope you will be enticed to come and hear innovative contemporary music in the beautiful setting of the house at Kettle’s Yard. Don’t miss the opportunity to discover carefully selected pieces alongside world premières of works by a wide range of living composers performed by some of the best musicians around, from the acclaimed Chroma Ensemble to award winning singer and composer Errollyn Wallen. This series is programmed by New Music Associate, Richard Causton, an acclaimed composer who has worked with a wide range of musicians from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to Britten Sinfonia. He is currently Lecturer in Musical Composition at the University of Cambridge. The series is based around several distinct themes: the music of Jeremy Dale Roberts in celebration of his 80th birthday; composers’ works presented alongside those of their teachers; Italian 20th century music and connections with the visual arts, including the Kettle’s Yard collection. We are also delighted to be commissioning many pieces this year and thank all our supporters, who made this possible.
26 January
Chroma Ensemble Franco Donatoni: Arpège (12’) Richard Causton: Phoenix (13’) Niccolò Castiglioni: Tropi (10’) Andrew Thomas: Kettle’s Yard Commission (8’) Fabio Vacchi: Dai calanchi di sabbiuno (UK première 7’) Chroma is one of the most dynamic new music ensembles working in the UK at the moment. An Italian programme including the UK première of Fabio Vacchi’s hauntingly beautiful ‘Dai calanchi di sabbiuno’, an elegy to the victims of a wartime massacre in Bologna. Richard Causton’s ‘Phoenix’ (the recipient of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award) and works by one of his teachers Franco Donatoni and one of his students: Andrew Thomas. 16 February
Anton Lukoszevieze, cello & Mark Knoop, piano The Michael Harrison Concert New works by John Woolrich, Camberwell Composers Collective, Richard Baker, Kenneth Hesketh, Anton Lukoszevieze and Stephen Montague. World premières of new works especially written as tributes to the late Michael Harrison, former Director of Kettle’s Yard, by each of the composers he appointed as Kettle’s Yard New Music Associates, played by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze (also formerly a Kettle’s Yard New Music Associate).
… Knoop plays a new idea of virtuosity. Where to pluck that string exactly, hit the wooden frame exactly; how to place those isolated, out-ofcontext chords on the keyboard for maximum impact – each sound first felt, then diligently executed and heard (Philip Clark, Gramophone)
Mark Knoop – photo Yatzek
2 March • Pre-concert talk by Jeremy Dale Roberts at 11.30am
Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno musicale di Annalibera (14’) Jeremy Dale Roberts: Oggetti: omaggio a Morandi (20’) John Hopkins: Disjunct Variations (12’) Edwin Roxburgh: Studies (16’) Niccolò Castiglioni: Come io passo l’estate (9’) Jeremy Dale Roberts’ homage to the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi alongside music by Morandi’s contemporary Luigi Dallapiccola. The brilliant series of ‘Studies’ by Dallapiccola’s pupil Edwin Roxburgh, music by Cambridge-based John Hopkins and Niccolò Castiglioni’s colourfully eccentric suite whose title translates as ‘How I Spend my Summer’. 27 April
Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin & Roderick Chadwick, piano Richard Causton: Seven States of Rain (10’) Franco Donatoni: Ciglio III (5’) Priaulx Rainier: Elegy (7’) Jeremy Thurlow: Primavera (7’) Kate Honey: Kettle’s Yard Commission (10’) made possible by support from the PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music Fund Jeremy Dale Roberts: Capriccio (10’) Niccolò Castiglioni: Undici danze per la bella Verena (7’) A substantial new work from Kate Honey (a Cambridge undergraduate in her third year), music by two other Cambridge-based composers, Jeremy Thurlow and Richard Causton, whose ‘Seven States of Rain’, won a British Composer Award. Also a rare opportunity to hear the beautiful ‘Capriccio’ by Jeremy Dale Roberts. 11 May
Trevor Wishart Trevor Wishart presents a selection of his electroacoustic works including the world première of his newly commissioned work in memory of Richard Orton. Trevor Wishart is the holder of numerous prizes and awards, including the main prizes at the: Euphonie d’Or (Bourges Festival, Bourges, 1992), Golden Nica Award (Ars Electronica, Linz, 1995) and the Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music 2008. Wishart is a true pioneer – an artist who has consistently ploughed his own furrow and who has never shied away from tackling complex contemporary issues in his work.
Hiroaki Takenouchi – photo Ealovega
Solo piano: HiroAKI Takenouchi
What a wonderful pianist, who combines complete understanding of the style of music he is playing with a rare subtlety and brilliance of execution (Sir Roger Norrington, composer)
25 May
Kreutzer String Quartet with cellist Bridget MacRae Priaulx Rainier: String Quartet (15’) Jeremy Dale Roberts: String Quintet (15’) Leosˇ Janácˇek’: Quartet no. 2 Intimate Letters (25’) Jeremy Dale Roberts’ inventive and vibrant ‘String Quintet’ was recently premiered by the Kreutzers and draws for its inspiration on the art of Edvard Munch along with Virginia Woolf, Marina Tsvetayeva and Janácˇek – hence its pairing in this programme with Janácˇek’s ‘Intimate Letters’. Priaulx Rainier, Dale Robert’s teacher, lived in St. Ives and was a close friend of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. 15 June
Errollyn Wallen: Songs with piano Errollyn Wallen presents a selection of songs from the Errollyn Wallen Songbook. The final concert in the series features a selection of music composed and performed by singer/songwriter Errollyn Wallen MBE, who recently received an Ivor Novello Award.
Book online: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/newmusic
Chroma play superbly, bringing out the wit and sense of fun as well as the drama of the music (What’s On Stage)
Booking 01223 748100 and www.kettlesyard.co.uk/newmusic Tickets £8 (£5), also available on the door Concerts begin at 12.15pm. Doors open 11.45am, with the opportunity to view the current exhibition in the gallery. Refreshments served as part of the ticket price. Concerts are about an hour long. Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ The Kettle’s Yard New Music Programme is supported by: The Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, The RVW Trust, The Radcliffe Trust, PRS for Music Foundation, The Holst Foundation, Dr Shirley Ellis, The Michael Harrison Concert is supported by the Friends of Kettle’s Yard