Capstone Theatre Autum 2013 Season

The Capstone Theatre Liverpool’s International Arts Venue Autumn Season September December 2013

Events Calendar September 12 Thursday

18 Wednesday 28 Saturday

8.00pm MANTIS & 9.00pm 7.30pm Magnus Öström 1.00pm Milapfest presents Tarang

October Mediva: A Dance to the Music of Time PARRJAZZ presents The Robert Castelli Boom Quartet John Turville Trio The Albion Band Sell a Door presents Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts Merseyside Dance Initiative presents Northern Dances Martin Speake Trio Grand Union Orchestra Trembling Bells and Mike Heron: The Circle is Unbroken RLPO Ensemble 10/10: The New Mersey Sound Uncanny Theatre presents Instructions for a Better Life John Law’s Congregation Milapfest presents Samyo Too Sonic Interactions

21 Thursday 7.30pm

22 Friday 7.30pm

24 Sunday 7.30pm

30 Saturday 1.00pm

Cornerstone Arts Festival presents How to Flee from Sorrow: Corelli Talks to Stradella Cornerstone Arts Festival presents St Cecilia’s Day Concert: Britten and Purcell Cornerstone Arts Festival presents Joanna MacGregor: The Goldberg Variations Milapfest presents Snehasish Mozumder

December 14 Saturday

7.30pm

Cornerstone Arts Festival Choral Concert

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2 Wednesday 7.30pm 3 Thursday 7.30pm

4 Friday 7.30pm 5 Saturday 7.30pm 7 Monday 7.30pm 10 Thursday 7.30pm

11 Friday 7.30pm 12 Saturday 7.30pm 15 Tuesday 7.30pm

16 Wednesday 7.30pm

24 Thursday 7.30pm

25 Friday 7.30pm 26 Saturday 1.00pm 28 Monday 7.30pm

November 1 Friday 7.30pm The Necks 2 Saturday 7.30pm Jimmy Carl Black Memorial Barbeque

Band: Screening and Concert 3 Sunday 7.30pm Liverpool Guitar Society: Introspection 5 Tuesday 7.30pm Northern Baroque: Baroque and Roll 8 Friday 7.30pm Matt Ridley Quartet 12 Tuesday 7.30pm Branka Parlić: The Cone Gatherers 14 Thursday 7.30pm Traffic of the Stage presents Shakespeare’s

Much Ado About Nothing 15 Friday 7.30pm Double Bill: Natasha Davis and Two

Destination Language

MANTIS

Magnus Öström

Thursday 12th September, 8pm and 9pm £11.50 (£8.50 concessions)

Wednesday 18th September, 7.30pm £16.50 (£14 concessions)

MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents two consecutive concerts of electroacoustic music featuring composers based at the NOVARS Research Centre (University of Manchester), as well as works selected from an international call. The concerts present a purely sound-based experience, where there is no performer in the traditional sense or other visual stimuli, featuring music and sounds developed from the widest possible range of sources using cutting edge technologies.

The works will be interpreted and diffused in the listening space by the composers in realtime on large-scale multi-loudspeaker system (an orchestra of loudspeakers) using the MANTIS sound diffusion system, providing for an exciting and immersive listening experience.

Andreas Hourdakis - guitar Daniel Karlsson - piano Thobias Gabrielsson - bass Magnus Öström - drums Jupiter was King of the Gods for the Romans; the heavenly father, the bringer of light. It was Jupiter you invoked when the Goddess of Fate had unexpectedly intervened in your life. So it was with the Swedish drummer Magnus Öström, who was dealt a stroke of fate almost five years ago when his close friend, pianist Esbjörn Svensson, was killed in an accident.

They had stormed the jazz world since 1993 with e.s.t. - the Esbjörn Svensson Trio.

It took two years for Öström to find his way back to music after that tragic event, and to release his first solo album, Thread of Life. It is a work of mourning, adorned with melancholy, which seeks its own path, falling back on artrock and electronic elements and a closer link to sounds than melodies. Öström went on to win the 2012 Echo Jazz Award for Best International Drummer. BBC Radio 3 said of Öström's post-e.s.t work, "What an utterly beautiful and compelling album this is. The playing is immaculate, the compositions truly inspired, the arrangements magical."

Öström now presents his follow-up, Searching For Jupiter, which was recorder at Stockholm´s well-known Atlantis studio with engineer Janne Hansson, and Ake Linton mixing the tracks at Bohus Sound Recordings in Gothenburg. His loss is still palpable in heavy, yearning tracks like Mary Jane Doesn't Live Here Anymore or Hour Of The Wolf, but Öström has taken some decisive steps forward. He now has a strong and tight band together with guitarist Andreas Hourdakis, bassist Thobias Gabrielson and pianist Daniel Karlsson.

They have rigorously pursued a jazz rock and progressive rock leaning - The Moon (And The Air It Moves), for example, is reminiscent of Pink Floyd not only in name, and there is more optimism again, with melodies playing an important role (Dancing At The Dutchtreat).

Even major-key cheerfulness shines through from time to time (Happy And The Fall), and the album ends with an anthem of hope with At The End Of Eternity.

Magnus Öström is pretty close to making his peace with the bringer of light, Jupiter.

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Milapfest presents Tarang Saturday 28th September, 1.00pm Free Admission Milapfest presents Tarang; an ensemble of brilliant emerging musicians, who are making Indian music accessible and relevant to modern Britain.

Featuring a range of instruments from across the Indian subcontinent and Western music, the ensemble plays specially composed pieces that showcase the wealth of inspiration offered by the Indian music genre. Composers for Tarang have included many world-renowned musicians such as Tarun Bhattacharya, Pandit Ranajit Sengupta, Rajeeb Chakraborty and Gaurav Mazumdar.

In this concert, Tarang will perform a selection of new pieces, which demonstrate the technical brilliance and inspirational energy of its members.

A delicious Indian lunch is available from Mayur restaurant in The Capstone Foyer from 12.00pm.

For more information and events from Milapfest please visit www.milapfest.com

Mediva: A Dance to the Music of Time Wednesday 2nd October, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions) Ann Allen (director) - recorders and shawm Emily Askew - fiddle, recorders and shawm Tim Garside - percussion Sophie Brumfit - singer Dancing has always been an intrinsic part of cultures and societies. In this concert, Mediva takes you on a European 'grand tour', looking at songs and instrumentals that would have provided the music for dancing in the Middle Ages, featuring pilgrim songs, May Day celebrations and even reconstructing some of the first choreographies ever recorded in writing.

Mediva has been a fun loving, imaginative and successful medieval group for over ten years, performing a range of music from the 12th - 15th centuries. Concerts are always full of energy, passion and a love of life. The group has appeared in many of the major Early Music festivals in the UK and in Europe and was a finalist in the Early Music Network (EMN) Young Artists Competition at the York Early Music Festival and the Antwerp International Young Artists Presentation, as well as being selected for the EMN

Showcase in Brighton. Members of the ensemble perform with many of the leading Early Music groups in Europe and America and are recognised soloists and leaders in their field.

Innovation and diversity are Mediva's key characteristics, powered by the creative vision and energy of Ann Allen, one of the most cutting edge performers on the Early Music scene.

‘‘Joydeep's virtuosity on the surshingar is quite remarkable

- The Economic Times

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Thursday 3rd October, 7.30pm £8 (£5 concessions) Brandon Allen - sax Nic Meier - guitar Davide Mantovani - bass Robert Castelli - drums PARRJAZZ is delighted to present American drummer/ composer Robert Castelli and his all-star Boom Quartet at The Capstone Theatre for what will surely be an explosive and exhilarating show, bringing Big Apple street funk together with influences from Latin, Brazilian, African and Eastern music in a truly original way.

Robert Castelli's recordings as a leader have received critical acclaim from some of the most widely read magazines and websites in the USA, UK and Europe, including Jazzwise Magazine London, Drummer Magazine UK, The Jazzman website and Time Out London.

His collaborators for this project have worked with some of the most famous names in music today including Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Soweto Kinch, Baaba Maal, Zoe Rahman, Andy Sheppard, Gilad Atzmon, Asaf Sirkis and Mark Lockheart.

For details of a related music workshop please visit www.parrjazz.co.uk

John Turville Trio Friday 4th October, 7.30pm Tickets: £14 (£11.50 concessions)

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John Turville - piano Chris Hill - bass Ben Reynolds - drums

The John Turville Trio is one of the leading contemporary jazz ensembles in the UK. Its debut Midas won the Best Album category of the 2011 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, and the group's second album, Conception, received four and five star reviews in the press including winning MOJO’s #3 Best Jazz Album of 2012. The trio has played at many major UK venues and festivals, including Scarborough, Manchester, London, Kings Place, Ronnie Scott's, Pizza Express, along with national and European clubs and theatres. The music is distinguished by its breadth, lyricism, empathy and a deep communication among the trio, coming from over ten years of touring and rehearsing, and its scope is broad, from fiery tangos and spiky rhythmic compositions reminiscent of Phronesis and Avashai Cohen to poignant ballads evoking the writing of Julian Arguelles and John Ireland.

exquisite… consistently inventive and beautifully ‘‘ World-class… performed throughout, Conception is one of the best jazz recordings I've heard in 2012. (John Adcock, Jazz Journal) *****

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PARRJAZZ presents The Robert Castelli Boom Quartet

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The Albion Band Saturday 5th October, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions) With a history stretching back forty years, The Albion Band has seen some of the great names in English Folk appear in its ranks, from Martin Carthy to Show of Hands' Phil Beer. The fortieth anniversary of the band's founding sparked the idea of a revamped, new line-up bringing together some of the finest talent in folk music from a new generation of performers. Under the watchful eye of founder member Ashley Hutchings, the baton is passed on to his son Blair Dunlop (guitar and vocals) along with five of England's most promising musicians: Gavin Davenport (guitar and vocals), Tom Wright (drums and vocals), Katriona Gilmore (fiddle and vocals), Tim Yates (bass and melodeon) and Benjamin Trott (electric guitar).

This new line-up recaptures the spirit of The Albion Band’s heyday with a rockier, edgier approach to traditional English folk music. With the highly acclaimed album The Vice of The People, this new line-up takes the unique character of classic era Albion Band and fuses it with award-winning song writing and a contemporary rock and indie vibe, which is the new sound of 21st century English folk-rock.

Their live show has prompted people to suggest they are “the best line-up since Rise Up Like The Sun”.

playing ‘‘ Tightly-drilled and some vividly potent original writing.

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BBC Music

Sell a Door presents Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts Monday 7th October, 7.30pm £11.50 (£9.50 concessions) Adapted by Alfred Enoch from William Archer’s translation.

Following sell out tours of Spring Awakening, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lord of the Flies, Sell a Door Theatre Company concludes its 2013 touring season with this exciting adaptation of one of Henrik Ibsen’s greatest works.

“Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.”

Helen Alving is trapped in a world where the ‘dead ideas’ preached by Pastor Manders rule outright, and her own family’s insidious legacy threatens scandal. She is desperately trying to conceal her husband’s philandering past by building an orphanage in his name, under the pastor’s guiding hand.

But the celebrated return of her estranged son Oswald brings Helen’s ghosts back to haunt her, and all hopes of success are reduced to ashes.

Though penned in 1881, it is not hard for us to see many parallels in our own society, with the story remaining fervently relevant to today’s audience.

Alfred Enoch, best known for playing Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter film franchise, masterfully adapts Ibsen’s Ghosts for this autumn 2013 tour.

Merseyside Dance Initiative presents Northern Dances Thursday 10th October, 7.30pm ÂŁ11 (ÂŁ9 concessions) A platform of dance works exposing some of the most interesting work being created by northern-based dance makers, featuring dance companies and artists from Liverpool, Manchester, Yorkshire, Newcastle and Edinburgh.

Merseyside Dance Initiative (MDI) is committed to developing new ways of presenting work form the region.

This is a partnership with Yorkshire Dance (Leeds), Dance City (Newcastle) and Dance Base (Edinburgh).

The evening should be one of provocation, laughter, and most importantly, dancing!

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Martin Speake Trio Friday 11th October, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions) Martin Speake - sax Mike Outram - guitar Jeff Williams - drums This unusual trio of alto saxophone, guitar and drums brings together all of Martin Speake’s musical influences alongside his favourite musical partners. The three musicians are committed to improvising in the moment and the performance will feature compositions from their new double CD Always A First Time, which was released on Speake's Pumpkin label.

Meditative ballads, trance like grooves, free improvisation, minimalism, jazz standard songs, Arabic influenced music, heavy metal guitar, unaccompanied solos from each player and more are featured.

Martin Speake first came to public attention as a founder member of the award winning saxophone quartet Itchy Fingers during the height of the UK's so called '80s Jazz Revival', when a host of young musicians including Courtney Pine, Andy Sheppard, Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and the big bands of the Jazz Warriors and Loose Tubes were acclaimed as the leaders of an emerging generation of UK jazz talent.

Mike Outram is one of the UK’s foremost guitarists and has appeared on over a hundred CDs for Universal, Sony, Candid, Blue Note Records and others, and was awarded Granada Jazz Festival’s Best Group in Europe award.

He has a vast experience of working in varied, challenging and interesting settings.

Jeff Williams performed and/or recorded with John Abercrombie, Cedar Walton, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, Michel Petrucciani,

Randy Brecker, Paul Bley, John Scofield, Kenny Barron and many others. Since establishing a second home in London in 2005, Jeff has appeared in the UK with Phil Robson, Martin Speake, Nikki Iles, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, Hans Koller and more. Williams' latest CD, Another Time, was selected as 2011 CD of the Year by UK Jazz Radio, a Top 10 CD by All About Jazz and received a four star review in Downbeat.

Grand Union Orchestra

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Saturday 12th October, 7.30pm £13.50 (£10.50 concessions and £7.50 under 16s) Internationally-celebrated world musicians and jazz soloists from the Grand Union Orchestra blend the wide range of musical styles they specialise in, bringing an extraordinary exchange of music from around the world to Liverpool.

Sinuous Indian ragas intertwine with Latin-American salsa, Chinese melodies grow spine-tingling jazz harmonies, Bengali songs sport reggae bass-lines, soca and township music meet West African drumming and chant, while bhangra and samba go head to head with stunning jazz improvisation!

Musicians include: sitar virtuoso Baluji Shrivastav, tabla maestro Yousuf Ali Khan, Rui Jun Hu (Chinese flutes, erhu), Daniel Louis (steel pans), charismatic South African Claude Deppa (trumpet, African drums), Australian jazz star Louise Elliott (tenor saxophone, flute) and multi-instrumentalist Gerry Hunt, the Latin-American rhythm section of Andres Lafone (bass guitar) and Carlos Fuentes (drums), led by Grand Union’s composer/director Tony Haynes (piano, trombone).

An evening to move the feet and lift the heart, presented in collaboration with Milapfest and Samyo.

BBC Asian Music Network

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together and sound so wonderful.

out to areas of the music and of life, that lesser ensembles would shy from Duncan Heining, Jazzwise Magazine

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Trembling Bells and Mike Heron: The Circle Is Unbroken Tuesday 15th October, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions) Acclaimed folk-rock group Trembling Bells teams up with Mike Heron (Incredible String Band) for their first fully collaborative concert tour The Circle Is Unbroken. The show debuted to glowing reviews at Celtic Connections in January, and celebrates Mike Heron’s legacy in his 70th year. The concert highlights their musical sympathies, as they exchange material in an evening comprised of classic string band songs, and the contemporary tunes of Trembling Bells.

Trembling Bells is an acclaimed indie folk rock band that references late 1960s psychedelia and British folk revival acts such as Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band.

Lavinia Blackwall's soaring vocal style has drawn comparisons to Sandy Denny, and she took part in the recent tour The Lady: A Homage to Sandy Denny.

The Circle is Unbroken tour follows on from the release of Trembling Bells' acclaimed collaborative album and tour with Bonnie Prince Billy, The Marble Downs, on Honest Jon’s Records last year.

Mike Heron is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work in the Incredible String Band. The group built a considerable following, especially within the British counter-culture in the 60s and 70s and was a pioneer of psychedelic folk, integrating a wide variety of traditional music forms, blending rock, folk and world music into an atmospheric whole. A new Incredible String Band album, Live at The Filmore 1968, was released on Hux this year.

double bill, matching one of the originators of the experimental ‘‘ AnBritishintriguing psych-folk scene against its most interesting current exponents **** The Guardian

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RLPO Ensemble 10/10: The New Mersey Sound

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Wednesday 16th October, 7.30pm £10 Stephen Pratt - Chant de Printemps (world premiere) Ian Stephens - Thea Dances (world premiere) Anthony Gilbert - New work (world premiere) Edwin Roxburgh - Serenata Benjamin Gait - Till Night is Overgone (world premiere) Ben Gaunt - New work (world premiere) Clark Rundell - director

Did you realise that we’re living in a quiet golden age for contemporary classical music in the North West? In this performance, Ensemble 10/10 salutes some of its freshest and most inventive voices. Edwin Roxburgh’s Serenata dates from 1982, and is already a powerful modern classic. As for Stephen Pratt and Anthony Gilbert – well, their music is so new that we can’t tell you what to expect, other than their renowned imagination and vibrant energy. The same goes for Ian Stephens’ tribute to the late great clarinettist Thea King, who loved telling limericks. Not that here on Merseyside any composer ever needed an excuse for a wry joke or two…

Tickets available from www.liverpoolphil.com

Uncanny Theatre presents Instructions for a Better Life Thursday 24th October, 7.30pm £11.50 (£9.50 concessions) Uncanny Theatre has lived a life of believing stories that turned out to be ridiculous. As people struggle to make sense of their lives, Uncanny has lept into action looking at what people believe without question and attempt to unpick the oddity of what we think we think.

If your feet hurt one day when the wind blows, it doesn’t mean that the wind hurts your feet… does it?

Part “choose-your-own-adventure”, part shadow play and part manic romp through human psychology, Uncanny stretches the logic to breaking point in a show that is visually arresting, absurdly funny and full of low-tech interventions.

This is all about us, everyone, thinking that something is true…when it isn’t.

This is a true story!

John Law’s Congregation Friday 25th October, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions) John Law - piano Tom Mason - bass Tim Giles - drums John Law’s Congregation includes Tom Mason, long-term bassist in Robert Mitchell's groups, on bass and Tim Giles, jazz prodigy who won The Telegraph Young Jazz Composer of the Year when he was 12, on drums. In this concert, they will present some of John’s best original material, taken from his recent acclaimed trio CD Three Leaps of the Gazelle, as well as some completely new material from a forthcoming album, which will contain some of John’s most popular compositions to date; hard-hitting, exciting, powerful tunes with the simplicity of rock, mixed with the complexity and delicacy of classical music.

John Law is known as one of Europe’s most

there’s one jazz ensemble on the ‘‘ IfBritish scene that wows you with sheer technical brilliance, it’s surely this one.

Ivan Hewitt, The Telegraph

creative jazz pianist/composers and has worked with people such Tim Garland, Evan Parker, Andy Sheppard. Originally a classical piano prodigy, John now tours with his trio all over Europe, appearing at major concert halls and festivals. Combining both incredible precision and a wonderfully loose feel, the trio manages to steer a path between jazz, classical and rock, covering all the areas from poised, classical sounding ballads, through jazz grooves, to rock-like anthems.

The concert and tour are supported by Jazz Services and Arts Council England.

Milapfest presents Samyo Too Saturday 26th October, 1.00pm Free Admission Samyo Too is a select ensemble of leaders of The National Youth Orchestra for Indian Music. Their music demonstrates the best of a new and unique Indian genre, which combines original compositions, and an imaginative contrast of Indian classical, contemporary and experimental music.

Samyo is the only youth orchestra in Britain to combine North and South Indian music traditions with Western influences and orchestral elements, leading the way for the next generation of Indian musicians in the UK through training, performance and collaborative projects.

Samyo celebrates its 10th year in 2013 with a programme of performances, workshops and training. To find out more about the orchestra please visit www.milapfest.com/ samyo

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Friday 1st November, 7.30pm £16.50 (£14 concessions) Chris Abrahams - piano Lloyd Swanton - bass Tony Buck - drums

Sonic Interactions Monday 28th October, 7.30pm £11.50 (£9.50 concessions) Sonic Interactions, now in its fourth season, presents a variety of electroacoustic works from the contemporary repertoire. Acousmatic works, for loudspeakers alone, will be projected and diffused across a multichannel array around the theatre, while mixed works for instruments and electronics will immerse the audience in new sonic environments and structures.

This year’s showcase welcomes bass clarinetist, Marij Van Gorkom from the Netherlands, who will present works from the current Sonic Spaces project.

The concert will also feature a range of UK- based composers and student works from Liverpool Hope.

Together for 25 years, the Australian cult trio, The Necks, have enthralled audiences worldwide with their compelling style of improvisation. Defying orthodox description, not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz, the group’s music is regularly described internationally as simply unique.

Featuring lengthy pieces of slow-form development, which build in mesmerising, epic fashion, frequently underpinned by an insistent deep groove, the trio’s performances are never less than phenomenal.

‘‘ One of the most extraordinary groups on the planet...not so much a trio as a revolutionary consortium redefining music...

The Guardian

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The Necks

In recent years, along with regular international touring, The Necks have been invited by Nick Cave to appear at All Tomorrows Parties and collaborated with Brian Eno in PURE SCENIUS at Sydney Opera House and Brighton Festival. They release their 18th album to coincide with their UK tour.

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Jimmy Carl Black Memorial Barbeque Band Saturday 2nd November, 7.30pm £11.50 (£9.50 concessions) Carlo Bowry - guitar Martin Smith - trumpet Andy Frizell - bass Tilo Pirnbaum - drums This concert will feature the UK premiere screening of Where’s the beer and when do we get paid, in which Sigrun Köhler and Wiltrud Baier (also known as “Firecrackers and Bread”) followed and filmed rock and roll Legend Jimmy Carl Black (The Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, The Muffin Men and Honorary Wizard of Twiddly) around Europe and the UK over a two year period creating what they describe as a "tragi-comic" portrayal of life at the end of a long road of gigs, hotel rooms, endless Zappa questions and keeping a “sweet sweet steady beat”.

The film features Jimmy Carl Black, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner and Roy Estrada, Eugene Chadbourne, Moni Black, and many more.

Providing musical relief will be the 'Jimmy Carl Black Memorial Barbeque Band' featuring Ex Muffin Men and Wizards of Twiddly’s Carlo Bowry (guitar), Martin Smith (trumpet) Andy Frizell (bass) and Tilo Pirnbaum (drums).

This line-up played with Jimmy for nearly ten years and has performed every year to celebrate and commemorate their friend JCB and enjoy the music they played together.

Liverpool Guitar Society: Introspection Sunday 3rd November, 7.30pm £5 (£3 concessions) (Door) Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack Gavin Bryars - Glorious Hill Richard Harding - November Pieces by Pachelbel, Debussy and Ravel

Liverpool Guitar Society presents an evening of calm, meditative stillness provided by the gentle sounds of the classical guitar.

Members of the Liverpool Guitar Society will perform, with guests from Liverpool's musical community, a selection of special ensemble arrangements reflecting upon the human condition.

Northern Baroque: Baroque and Roll Tuesday 5th November, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions) Cait Walker - oboe and recorders Amanda Babington - violin and recorders Claire Babington - cello David Francis - harpsichord For its programme Baroque and Roll: Toe Tapping Tunes of the 18th Century, Northern Baroque is joined by guest artist, soprano and baroque dance expert Frauke Jürgensen.

In the baroque period, many musical forms were inspired by contemporaneous dance types.

These relationships often went beyond simple matters of rhythm, tempo and form, to evoke the complex associations of dance with affect, rhetoric, and even socio-political connotations.

This concert explores the relationship between dance and music by juxtaposing theatrical dances with instrumental and operatic numbers based on the same dance types. The programme includes both unfamiliar pieces and some of the "greatest hits" of the baroque, presented in a slightly different light.

Northern Baroque was founded in 2003 as a chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of 18th century music on authentic instruments. The ensemble’s historically-informed approach to the interpretation of music from this period feeds naturally into a strong educational interest and its members give regular concerts and workshops in performance practice at

the University of Liverpool, University of Manchester and Aberdeen University. Over the years its success has led to requests to provide music for choirs and so Northern Baroque has developed the flexibility that enables it to perform works involving larger forces, such as Handel’s Messiah, Dixit Dominus and Israel in Egypt, J. S. Bach’s Magnificat and St John Passion and Vivaldi’s Gloria.

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Matt Ridley Quartet Friday 8th November, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions) Since graduating from Trinity College of Music in 2005, Matt Ridley has established himself of one of the leading young bassists on the UK jazz scene, working with a veritable who’s who of jazz including Alan Barnes, Brandon Allen, Bobby Wellins, Kit Downes and many others. He has also recorded and toured extensively with Darius Brubeck, son of jazz über-legend, Dave Brubeck.

He recently recorded his debut album Thymos, showcasing his original compositional style.

"I envisaged a sound encompassing the exotic flavours and emotions of Middle Eastern music, with the jazz sensibility of improvisation on complex structures," says Ridley on the inspiration behind his original music on Thymos.

By fusing the modal and rhythmic elements of Middle-Eastern music with the harmonic complexities of jazz, Ridley's composition Siddhartha was born, and there followed a stream of ideas that aligned themselves into the other music on the album, with influences as diverse as funk, modern jazz, and 20th century minimalism.

Ridley's trio project is full of ‘‘ Matt spirited energy and clearly etched

interplay, sometimes augmented

by Jason Yarde on sax. Their music is certainly modern, yet appealing to older ears attuned to acoustic jazz and its long exploratory history... This is clearly the work of someone eager and able to say something original in the jazz tradition.

Darius Brubeck (Jazz pianist, and son of the legendary Dave Brubeck)

soloist who also ‘‘ Anrootsimaginative the band with strength and simplicity.

Alison Bentley, London Jazz Blog

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Jason Yarde - sax John Turville - piano Matt Ridley - bass Nick Smalley - drums

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Branka Parlic: The Cone Gatherers Tuesday 12th November, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions) E. Satie (1866-1925) - Gnossiennes No. 7 (1891), No. 5 (1889) A. Pärt (b. 1935) - Fur Alina (1976) J. van Veen (b. 1969 - Minimal Prelude No. 18 (2001) G. Fitkin (1963) - The Cone Gatherers (1987) P. Glass (b. 1937) - Metamorphosis No. 1, 2, 3 (1988) P. Glass (b. 1937) - Mad Rush (1979)

Pianist Branka Parlić is one of the most prominent interpreters and promoters of new music in the ex-Yugoslavian region. She graduated from the Faculty of Music Art, University of Art in Belgrade in the late 1970s, studying under Professor Olga Mihailović. She later honed her craft at the Summer Music Academy in Nice under Paris Conservatory Professor Pierre Sancan.

Since 1986, she has devoted her work to the music of French composer Erik Satie, as well as to 20th and 21st century new music – minimalism and post minimalism. Her recorded releases include the vinyl Initiés and later the CD Initiés ’88 - Initiés ‘99 with music by Satie and the CD Metamorphosis featuring Philip Glass’s piano pieces. Her CDs and concert videos are regularly broadcast on major radio stations and television in the region, as well as on the British C Music TV station. Release of her new vinyl Satie & Beyond is expected soon.

Branka Parlicć- piano

Traffic of the Stage presents William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Thursday 14th November, 7.30pm £11.50 (£9.50 concessions) With Harry Meacher and Judi Bowker Swordfights, flamenco dancing, romantic guitar music and cloak and dagger intrigue are the key ingredients in this fast paced production of Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing.

Set in 18th century Spain with its colour, passion and energy, Traffic of the Stage presents Judi Bowker (Clash of the Titans) and Harry Meacher (The Scarlet Pimpernel) as the Bard’s sparring lovers, Beatrice and Benedick, in this cautionary tale of love and self-deception.

“I will die a bachelor” announces Benedick at the beginning of the play, but pride comes before a fall and all the characters have lessons to learn. Sparks fly, tempers flare and heady emotions are unleashed in this lively period production with its stirring action and exciting lighting and sound effects.

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Double Bill: Natasha Davis and Two Destination Language Friday 15th November, 7.30pm £13.50 (£11.50 concessions)

Natasha Davis: Internal Terrains

Two Destination Language: Near Gone

Created, written and performed by Natasha Davis Bob Karper - sound Branislava Kuburovic - written documentation Elisa Gallo-Rosso - objects Lucy Cash - movement Marty Langthorne - lights

Text / Devising - Two Destination Language Dramaturgy - Charlotte Vincent Outside eye - Sheila Ghelan

What cracks and dents appear in the density of everyday pressures and ageing? Why is the body sometimes sensitive to every sound? Internal Terrains explores life as a choreography of decades, in search of what’s at stake as we move from one decade to another. Poetic and sensual, the performance plays chords with films and installations, crows' cages and electric shocks.

Natasha Davis has presented performances, films and installations in numerous venues and festivals in the UK and internationally, most recently in Greece, Ireland and California.

A visiting lecturer at Birkbeck and Brunel, Natasha Davis has delivered talks and workshops across the world.

Commissioned by Chelsea Theatre London, Colchester Arts Centre and Live Collision Dublin. Supported by Arts Council England, Hosking Houses Trust, Warwick University and Littoral.

Near Gone is a heartfelt story about survival.

Two performers have a difficult story to tell; they come on stage and launch themselves into an hour long attempt to put into words the utterly unspeakable.

Delivered in English and Bulgarian, this show will make you sit on the edge of your seat.

Highly physical and highly emotional, Near Gone is a piece about dealing with loss.

Performed with 400 fresh carnations, this story is delivered with humorous twists along the way and impressive energy.

Near Gone is a Colchester Arts Centre commission, supported by Arts Council England and The Point, Eastleigh.

Near Gone is winner of the Pulse Fringe Suitcase Prize 2013.

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Liverpool International 27/02 - 02/03 2014 Jazz Festival Blue Touch Paper Stuart McCallum

Tickets available from

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How to Flee from Sorrow: Corelli Talks to Stradella

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cornerstone arts festival 2013 Highlights

Thursday 21st November, 7.30pm £10 (£8 concessions)

Cornerstone Arts Festival The Cornerstone Arts Festival returns to the unique Creative Campus, home to Liverpool Hope University’s creative and performing arts subjects, which include Fine Art, Creative and Performing Arts, Dance, Drama and Theatre Studies and Music. The 2013 Cornerstone Festival Programme aims to present an innovative combination of arts in high standard performances, exhibitions and participatory workshops, with an emphasis on showcasing new artists and their work, alongside established performers and repertoires.

The Cornerstone Arts Festival 2013 runs from Wednesday 20th November to Saturday 14th December. If you would like to join our mailing list and receive updates about activities and events, please contact us.

T: 0151 291 2096 E: cornerstonefestival@hope.ac.uk www.hope.ac.uk/cornerstonefestival

Screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce’s writing career began as a journalist for Living Marxism, followed by a stint as one of the writers for popular soap Coronation Street.

Later, he began to produce film screenplays, penning the critically acclaimed Hilary and Jackie and working with acclaimed directors Alex Cox (Revengers Tragedy) and Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). He went on to collaborate further with Boyle as the script writer for the opening ceremony of the British 2012 Olympics.

For this special concert, he joins violinist and musicologist Alberto Sanna in a sequel to The Stradella Project, presented to great acclaim in the Cornerstone Arts Festival 2012.

In this original musical-literary show, you will hear the voices of two very talented composers from late 17th century Italy – Arcangelo Corelli and Alessandro Stradella – alongside their extraordinary music and fascinating life stories. © Raymond Farley

Joanna MacGregor: The Goldberg Variations

Friday 22nd November, 7.30pm £10 (£8 concessions)

Sunday 24th November, 7.30pm £10 (£8 concessions)

The centenary of Benjamin Britten will be the most widely celebrated anniversary of a British composer ever seen. His 100th birthday is on 22nd November 2013 and The Cornerstone Arts Festival with the University Chamber Choir, prepare to honour him.

J. S. Bach (1685 - 1750) - The Goldberg Variations BWV 988

The Choir, joined by soloists and instrumentalists and directed by Philip Duffy, will perform Britten and Purcell's compositions. Britten was influenced strongly by the music of Henry Purcell, and this is reflected in the programme, which will include Purcell’s Abdelazaar Suite (from which Britten took the theme he later used in his Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra), Britten’s own Simple Symphony and his Hymn to St Cecilia, and one of Purcell’s large-scale Odes.

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Liverpool Hope’s Professor of Musical Performance, Joanna MacGregor performs at The Capstone, which is the perfect venue for The Goldberg Variations; acoustically excellent and boasting a Steinway D Grand Piano.

In 2012, Joanna was the soloist in three BBC Proms, and earlier this year, her performance of the Goldberg Variations was broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall. She is thought of as one of the world’s most innovative musicians, committed to expressing musical connections in increasingly diverse and original programmes.

cornerstone arts festival 2013 Highlights

St Cecilia's Day Concert: Britten and Purcell

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cornerstone arts festival 2013 Highlights

Milapfest presents Snehasish Mozumder Saturday 30th November, 1.00pm Free Admission Milapfest presents Snehasish Mozumder as he explores the rich mellow sound of the mandolin, a rare instrument in Hindustani music.

The mandolin was adopted into Indian classical music in the mid-20th century, and has since become a popular instrument with many adaptations developed for the genre. Traditionally used in Carnatic music, Mozumder has blended the mandolin seamlessly into the Hindustani style. He plays an oversized mandolin with four pair strings, where two pairs are thick, and the other two are standard, resulting is an alteration in tuning that creates a deep mellow sound.

Snehasish will be accompanied by highly acclaimed tabla maestro, Kousic Sen. A delicious Indian lunch is available from Mayur restaurant in The Capstone Foyer from 12.00pm.

Cornerstone Arts Festival Choral Concert Saturday 14th December, 7.30pm Tickets: ÂŁ10 (ÂŁ8 concessions) An irreplaceable performance and experience for all Liverpool Hope music students! It has become a wonderful tradition to celebrate the final day of the festival with the Choral Concert.

Liverpool Hope University Choir will perform with members of the Metropolitan Cathedral Cantata Choir.

Conducted by Stephen Pratt, the programme offers a Handel Celebration including the Foundling Hospital Anthem (Blessed are they that considereth the poor), Zadok the Priest and opera arias.

Venue Information

How to Book Tickets TicketQuarter operates the Box Office for most events at The Capstone Theatre.

Accessibility

Facilities are fully accessible for wheelchair users. When booking tickets, please advise TicketQuarter staff of your requirements. The Theatre has a number of accessible seats with space next to them to accommodate wheelchair users. For each ticket booked for one of these spaces, you will be offered a free ticket for an accompanying carer, if required.

An induction loop system is in operation at The Capstone Theatre.

If you have any further questions about venue accessibility please contact us on 0151 291 3578.

Times of Events

Times indicated are performance start times. Venue doors open 45 minutes before the performance start time. Theatre doors typically open 30 minutes before the performance start time.

Venue staff reserve the right to restrict entry into the theatre for performances that have started, to avoid disruption.

Parking

There is limited parking available on site from 45 minutes prior to evening performances. This is available on a first come first served basis and a small fee is normally charged.

Alternatively you may wish to park at Q-Park on Epworth Street, off Erskine Street, Liverpool L6 1LY and take advantage of our Liverpool Hope visitor discount vouchers to reduce your parking fee. These vouchers are available from the Security Lodge as you enter the campus.

For cyclists, there is also a small bike parking area next to the main entrance of the Theatre.

The information in this brochure is provided by the artists and edited by Liverpool Hope University.

Tickets can be purchased in advance by: 1 Visiting the Box Office

TicketQuarter, Merseytravel Centre, Queen Square, Liverpool L1 1RG

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Calling 0844 8000 410 Online at www.ticketquarter.co.uk

Please note that when tickets are purchased with debit/credit cards a £2.25 handling fee is applied to each transaction.

Where indicated, concessionary ticket rates are available to people under 18 years old, students and senior citizens. Please be prepared to provide proof of eligibility.

A Box Office will be available at the venue on the evening of events, provided there are tickets still available. The evening Box Office normally opens 45 minutes before the start of an event.

If an event is listed where tickets are available via an alternative Box Office, details of how to purchase tickets for that event will be available at www.thecapstonetheatre.com

Join The Capstone Theatre Mailing List Joining the mailing list means we can keep you updated on forthcoming events and offers. It is very easy to join; simply email “mailing list” to capstone@hope.ac.uk. If you would like to receive information through the post, please indicate your postal address details in your email or speak to a member of staff at the venue.

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By Car

Finding Us

Directions from the M62: Continue onto Edge Lane (A5047). Turn right onto Low Hill (B5340) and continue to follow Low Hill. Continue onto Erskine Street (A580).

Turn right onto Shaw Street. The Capstone Theatre is almost immediately on the left.

Directions from the M56: At Junction 15 join the M53.

At Junction 2 (M53) exit toward Hoylake/West Kirby. At the roundabout take the fourth exit. Merge onto the M53.

Continue onto the A59 (Kingsway Tunnel). Keep right at the fork and follow signs for City Centre/Manchester/ Widnes/Liverpool Airport/M62/A561 and merge onto Scotland Road (A59). Take a slight left onto Hunter Street.

Continue onto New Islington (A580). Turn left onto Shaw Street. The Capstone Theatre is almost immediately on the left.

By Public Transport Bus: From Liverpool City Centre (Queen Square) the buses travelling to the Creative Campus are the 12, 13, 14, 14a, 14b, 17 and 19a which stop on Brunswick Road (near to Staples). A two minute walk from Staples down Shaw Street will lead to the venue (on the left opposite the Collegiate).

The 21 and 345 from Queen Square travel along Shaw Street and can drop you directly in front of the venue.

Rail: The Creative Campus is around ten minutes’ walk from Liverpool’s largest and main railway station, Liverpool Lime Street. The main entrance to Liverpool Lime Street is opposite Queen Square Bus Terminal from where you can travel by bus (see above).

The Capstone Theatre Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP T: 0151 291 3578 E: capstone@hope.ac.uk

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