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Thanks The 2023 Leamington Music Festival is made possible by generous support from Hugh & Jane Beale, Peter Glanfield, Maurice Millward, Peter Robinson, Howard Skempton, Paul & Jane Watts, Maestro! Touring, and Presto Music.

The Advanced Musicians concert forms an important part of our Education Programme which operates in partnership with Warwickshire Music, and is partly funded by Arts Council England.

Leamington Town Council has supported the Festival with grant-aid.

Welcome

The starting point for the Festival this year is Rachmaninov’s 150th anniversary – quite a contrast to last year’s RVW150. Other composers with Ukrainian and Russian roots are programmed and we also celebrate the Leamington-born composer Robin Holloway as he approaches 80. The line-up of musicians includes many old friends and some new faces, with connections to Australia, Belarus, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Russia and Slovenia.

It is beginning to look as if we are returning to our prepandemic heydays and we revive the idea of a Coffee Concert and have a first late night recital. We again include an orchestral concert in All Saints Church with the Sinfonia of Birmingham returning after its wellreceived first visit last year. As always, the Festival is a sociable celebration for music lovers, as we come together to enjoy the outstanding talents of musicians, both established and rising stars.

The Festival Extra return of the Martinů Quartet in midMay is eagerly awaited and, in June, we continue to enjoy our close ties to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, with the Chamber Choir and Opera both appearing in Warwick. After a summer break, we start the 2023/24 Winter Season in early October with the usual Friday evening series of string quartets and Tuesday series of early music with a range of other groups coming to provide the variety of choice that underpins our thriving Education Programme.

Enjoy Leamington Music’s contribution to the musical scene in the heart of England!

Sergei Rachmaninov was born in Oneg, near Novgorod, on 20 March 1873. He died on 28 March 1943 in Beverly Hills and is buried in Kensico Cemetery, New York. Having studied piano and composition in St Petersburg and Moscow, he made his international concert debut in London in 1899. He left Russia after the October Revolution in 1917, never to return. He then lived at various times in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Sunar near Lucerne and was always on the move, touring. He gave his final concert in Knoxville, Tennessee in February 1943.

Robin Holloway was born in Leamington in 1943. He was a boy chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral and went up to King’s College, Cambridge to read music. He stayed on to become a lecturer in music and composition in 1975, and Thomas Adès and Judith Weir were among the students he tutored. Although he retired in 2011, he remains a prolific composer and his works with Opus numbers have now reached 143 and counting. He has been performed several times at the BBC Proms and his opera Clarissa was performed at English National Opera. Simon Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas are among conductors who have championed his works, the latter with performances with the San Francisco Orchestra.

Sunday 30 April

3.30pm

Warwickshire Music

Advanced Musicians Concert

A platform to showcase the cream of Warwickshire Music’s students from across the county, performing works that complement the Festival’s programmes and themes.

Tickets: £4 students and children | £8 adults includes tea, squash and cake

7.30pm Leonore Piano Trio

Benjamin Nabarro violin

Gemma Rosefield cello

Tim Horton piano

Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No 1 in G minor

Arensky Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 32

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor Op 50

‘In Memory of a Great Artist’

The Leonore Piano Trio has become one of the firm Festival favourites for our audience. Established in 2012, the Trio appears regularly at the Wigmore Hall and other major venues, and their recordings - as with the two Piano Trios by Arensky - are highly praised.

The 2023 Festival is launched with an early work of 1892 by Rachmaninov, and his other monumental Trio (of 1907) features in the lunchtime concert on Monday. Arensky’s First Piano Trio (1894) was dedicated to the celebrated Russian cellist Karl Davidoff, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio (1881-2) was written in memory of his great mentor, Nikolai Rubinstein.

Generously supported by Peter Robinson in memory of Gillian

Tickets: £26 reserved centre | £16 unreserved sides