SPRING 2019
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Credit: Libby Chubb (Form 7 Art Scholar)
Credit: Jessica Gilbert (Artist-in-Residence)
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FORM 7 PRE-U MID-YEAR SHOW
‘NOTICING THE UNNOTICED’
Monday 7 January to Monday 4 February
Monday 7 January to Saturday 26 January
A chance to see the progression of Oakham’s Form 7 Pre-U artists pushing their skills in their chosen discipline of Painting or Textiles that they have developed in their independent projects. There will be a broad variety of work on show, with students working on different scales and being experimental with approaches and media.
Jessica Gilbert, Oakham’s Artist-in-Residence, will mount an exhibition in the Smallbone Library over three weeks developing her ideas in response to the school and its inhabitants. Jessica is currently exploring the school through collaborating with students and using collected words and materials from her day-to-day life at Oakham.
Wheelhouse Gallery Mon to Fri 10.00am – 5.00pm Sat 9.00am – 12.30pm & 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Smallbone Library
Free, tickets not required (All enquiries to the Richard Bull Centre, 01572 758611)
Free, tickets not required
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Mon to Fri 10.00am – 5.00pm Saturday 10.00am – 12.00pm
MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL
MUSIC OUT AND ABOUT
BRANDENBURG FESTIVAL CHORAL CONCERT OLD OAKHAMIAN CHARITY CONCERT Saturday 19 January Old Oakhamian Matthew Curtis tenor is currently completing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, and he has curated a charity performance given by a selection of fellow OOs from the classes of 2012 to 2017. It promises to be an attractive and varied concert of solo music performed by a range of singers and instrumentalists, culminating in an ensemble finale in which they will all join together. With their former Director of Music, Peter Davis, at the piano, it promises to be a brilliant evening of music-making raising funds for the National Foundation for Youth Music. Chapel 7.30pm Free, tickets not required (retiring collection)
Thursday 24 January Chamber Choir Darke As the leaves fall Ešenvalds Lux aeterna Rutter Requiem Peter Davis conductor, Harry Jacques organ The Brandenburg Festival once again welcomes Oakham’s award-winning Chamber Choir to perform a concert of music for remembrance at one of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious choral celebrations. The concert will feature Rutter’s meditative setting of the Requiem, one of the bestloved late 20th Century choral works which reflects on the themes of life and death. The Chamber Choir will also perform a recent setting of Lux aeterna by Latvian composer Eriks Ešenvalds, and a forgotten masterpiece by Harold Darke, As the leaves fall, arranged for organ accompaniment by our own Director of Music. St Stephen Walbrook, Bank
6.00pm
£19 (premium), £14 (un-reserved), £5 (child) Brandenburg.co.uk/festival
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Credit: Daniella Hamson (Form 5)
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MIDDLE SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION Monday 28 January to Saturday 16 February The Middle School Exhibition allows those students taking GCSE Fine Art and Textiles in Forms 4 & 5 to present some of the highlights from their developing coursework portfolio. With exquisite textiles, dramatic paintings, detailed prints and powerful sculptures, this promises to be a diverse exhibition. Smallbone Library Free, tickets not required
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Mon to Fri 10.00am – 5.00pm Sat 10.00am – 12.00pm
MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL
ENSEMBLES AROUND EUROPE Friday 1 February Chamber Choir, Chamber Orchestra & Symphony Orchestra Holst St Paul’s Suite, op. 29 no. 2 extracts Rutter Requiem Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 22 (movts 2 & 3) Schumann Symphony No. 4 extracts Vienna Chan piano Martin Cropper & Peter Davis conductors The first major Chapel concert of the Spring term promises to be one of great variety and talent. Drawing on music from around Europe, our ensembles will visit the UK, France and Germany, performing a programme of music which showcases the versatility of both classical music and our musicians. Highlights will include accomplished Form 7 pianist Vienna Chan, who will join our Symphony Orchestra to perform movements from Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2, as well as a performance of Rutter’s Requiem from our award-winning Chamber Choir. Chapel
7.45pm
Free, tickets required
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MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL
Credit: Sally He (Form 7)
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ENGLISH SONG COMPETITION RECITAL
OPEN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Sunday 3 February
Tuesday 5 February to Saturday 9 March
Come and celebrate in a recital to end a fantastic day of vocal talent, featuring prize-winners and selected competitors from the year group classes chosen by our distinguished visiting adjudicators. Chapel Free, tickets not required
6.00pm
This open exhibition will give members of the Oakham community an opportunity to demonstrate their photography skills in a show in the Wheelhouse Gallery. With photography being such an accessible medium, the Art Department wants to encourage students, teachers and support staff alike to share their take on the world. Wheelhouse Gallery Mon to Fri 10.00am – 5.00pm Sat 9.00am – 12.30pm & 2.00pm – 5.00pm Free, tickets not required
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THEATRE
OAKHAM STUDENT ARTS FESTIVAL Monday 11 February to Wednesday 13 February Now in its eighth year, the Oakham Student Arts Festival is back again. With the responsibility for choosing, producing, directing and designing the competing shows, the students are handed the reins for one week only as they showcase the School’s performing talents in a variety of venues. The three day festival will conclude with a post-show discussion on Wednesday evening where audience and theatre makers alike can reflect on their experiences. Please see www.oakham.rutland.sch.uk/drama for venues and show times. Free, tickets not required
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MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL
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LOWER SCHOOL SHOWCASE Friday 15 February Cantamus Lower School Brass Ensemble Lower School Choir Lower School Guitar Ensemble Lower School Percussion Ensemble Lower School Strings Lower School Woodwind Ensemble
PIANO DUET COMPETITION Thursday 28 February
After a bustling first half of term, our talented Lower School musicians bring the final week to a close with this lively concert, showcasing everything that they have been working on in rehearsals so far this year. There will be an array of music for brass, choir, guitar, percussion, strings and woodwind, as well exciting performances from our Form 2 class African drumming and samba groups. Chapel Free, tickets required
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2.30pm
We are delighted to welcome Kathryn Page from Chetham’s School to judge our eleventh annual piano duet competition. The competition offers an opportunity for all our pianists to play together in pairs, as well a chance to hear more of the new piano duets which were commissioned for the event in 2018. Parents, friends and members of staff are invited to come along to individual sessions to support those taking part. Studio 2 School only (tickets not required)
4.30pm
Credit: Ella Turner (Form 5 Art Scholar)
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ART SCHOLARS’ EXHIBITION Monday 25 February to Tuesday 23 April To showcase the exceptional talent at Oakham, the Art scholars have an opportunity to show their work in an exhibition in the Smallbone Library. With work from across the year groups, students will present their own personal work using their preferred methods and revealing their emerging interests as artists. Smallbone Library
Mon to Fri 10.00am – 5.00pm Sat 10.00am – 12.00pm
Free, tickets not required
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GALA CONCERT
GALA CONCERT Sunday 3 March Chamber Orchestra Chapel Choir Concert Band Form 3 Singers Symphony Orchestra arr. Barker The Symphonic Gershwin Buckley Jitterbug! Mendelssohn Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise Rodgers You’ll never walk alone (Carousel) Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 22 (movts 2 & 3) Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre, op. 40 Vivaldi ‘Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 418 Vienna Chan piano Alina Maries-Reim ‘cello Lily McNeill & Beth Whitlock soprano William Collison tenor Martin Cropper, Peter Davis & Keith Slade conductors This year we head to the Albert Hall in Nottingham for our ever-popular and celebratory Gala Concert. Our musicians will gather en masse to provide a concert of great diversity and finesse. From the outset, we will be launched into the all-encompassing soundworld of America by the Concert Band in their performances of The Symphonic Gershwin and Jitterbug! The smaller forces of the Chamber Orchestra promise Baroque brilliance in one of Vivaldi’s many attractive concerti, leading to the Symphony Orchestra’s celebration of the music of Saint-Saëns in partnership with Form 7 piano soloist, Vienna Chan. Our Form 3 singers will join the Chapel Choir for a choral performance of the iconic music theatre song, You’ll never walk alone, leading to a grand Romantic finale featuring the music of Mendelssohn, bringing together the choir and leading pupil soloists in his triumphant Hymn of Praise. We can promise an evening of great talent and great music – book now! Albert Hall, Nottingham Tickets £12
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5.30pm
MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL
Credit: Sally He (Form 7)
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IB | FINAL EXHIBITION Monday 18 March to Friday 29 March
FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT Friday 8 March Big Band Competition Winners Polyphonix Wind Band Steve Foster & Lyndsey Evans conductors Join us in the Chapel to enjoy a light-hearted evening of music performed by four of Oakham School’s brilliant ensembles. Polyphonix will present vocal vitality with jazz and pop arrangements, bound to appeal to the carefree element inside us all, and both the Wind Band and recent winners from English Song and Piano Duet Competitions promise further entertainment. As always, the justly popular Big Band will end the concert on a high with a lively set of swing, pop and jazz tunes. Chapel 7.45pm
Four international student artists will exhibit their work which explores a wealth of ideas from cultural heritage to identity, from memory to happiness. The exhibition is an important element of the course and students have to consider how their work is seen. Having developed their own work across a range of materials and techniques, they then bring their work to the Wheelhouse Gallery as a group exhibition. The artists will explain their work in a presentation in the gallery from 1.30-2.00pm on Wednesday 20 March. Wheelhouse Gallery Mon to Fri 10.00am – 5.00pm Sat 9.00am – 12.30pm & 2.00pm – 5.00pm Free, tickets not required
MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL
RUTLAND SINFONIA: SONG AND DANCE! Saturday 16 March Chapel 7.30pm For ticketing information, please see www.rutlandsinfonia.org.uk
Free, tickets required
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PROFESSIONAL MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL
RESOLUTION 88 Thursday 14 March Tom O’Grady keyboards Tiago Coimbra electric bass Ric Elsworth drums Alex Hitchcock tenor sax We are incredibly excited to be welcoming back Resolution 88 for this term’s professional concert. Formed in 2012 as an original funk jazz group and led by keyboard player and former Oakham teacher, Tom O’Grady, the sound of Resolution 88 is influenced heavily by Herbie Hancock, the Headhunters and many more. Their music is based around the sound of the Fender Rhodes piano, incorporating complex changes, heavily syncopated funk and broken beats. Resolution has achieved great success since 2012, performing a double bill with Kaidi Tatham for the main show at Ronnie Scott’s, headlining at Pizza Express in Soho as well as performing twice at London Jazz Festival and many more… this is not one to miss! “This is the best thing I have heard for ages!” Eddie Piller (Acid Jazz Records) Chapel 7.30pm £10 (free for school-age children)
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SPLENDOURS OF THE BAROQUE Sunday 24 March Oakham Choral Society & Orchestra J S Bach Mass in F major, BWV 233 J S Bach Cantata: Jauchzet Gott, BWV 51 Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor Vivaldi Magnificat, RV 610a Beth Whitlock soprano, Emilia Hubbard oboe Harry Jacques conductor Join the Oakham Choral Society and Orchestra in the Chapel for a concert showcasing the splendours of the Baroque era in which we will be treated to music by some of the greatest composers and key figures of the period. Significant choral works by J S Bach and Vivaldi bookend the programme. The so-called Lutheran mass by Bach derives much of its music from earlier cantata movements, and is an impressive setting of the Kyrie & Gloria of the mass. Vivaldi’s famous Magnificat was composed some 20 years earlier, and despite smaller instrumental forces, sets this important liturgical text in nine attractive movements. Two of our talented music award holders will perform solo works by Bach & Marcello with the orchestra to complete the programme. Chapel £8
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7.30pm
THEATRE
HANDBAGGED by Moira Buffini UPPER SCHOOL DRAMA SCHOLARS’ PRODUCTION: HANDBAGGED by Moira Buffini Monday 25 March to Thursday 28 March Handbags, hairspray and sensible shoes. The monarch - Liz. Her most powerful subject - Maggie. One believed there was no such thing as society. The other had vowed to serve it. Opening the clasp on the antipathy between two giants of the 20th Century. Queen Elizabeth Theatre
7.45pm
£10
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ADVANCED DATES FOR SUMMER 2019 BIG BAND IN CONCERT
SPEECH DAY CONCERT
Sunday 28 April 2019 Venue tbc
Saturday 25 May 2019 7.30pm
Music by Mendelssohn, Schubert & Will Todd Chapel
FRIDAY NIGHT CLASSICS Friday 3 May 2019
Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band, Polyphonix, Wind Band Chapel 7.45pm
MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSICAL RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET Tuesday 7 May to Friday 10 May 2019 Queen Elizabeth Theatre
7.45pm
PROFESSIONAL MUSIC Elizabeth Bass | HARP 7.30pm
Friday 24 May 2019
LOWER SCHOOL LIVE IN CONCERT Thursday 6 June 2019 Chapel
7.15pm
ORCHESTRAL SOUNDS Friday 21 June 2019
Chamber & Symphony Orchestras Music to include: Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne, series 1 Schumann Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120 Chapel
7.45pm
Saturday 22 June to Tuesday 25 June 2019
7.30pm
7.45pm
BIG BAND CONCERT Thursday 27 June 2019 Marquee
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Queen Elizabeth Theatre
LEAVERS’ CONCERT Chapel
10.00am
LOWER SCHOOL PRODUCTION
Friday 17 May 2019 Chapel
7.45pm
BOOKING INFORMATION JOIN OUR MAILING LIST (contacts below) AND RECEIVE AN ARTS CALENDAR 3 TIMES A YEAR HOW TO GET YOUR TICKETS Phone
CONCERTS: 01572 758820 | THEATRE: 01572 758653
boxoffice@oakham.rutland.sch.uk | For theatre tickets please email: theatretickets@oakham.rutland.sch.uk
In person Foyer, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (Mon to Fri, 9.00am to 5.00pm) P Post Please send your written order and payment to: Box Office, The Barraclough, Ashwell Road, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6QG Schanschieffs
Online (For CONCERTS ONLY) wegottickets.com (No booking fee for free concerts) Farside Playing Fields
Locally Walkers Bookshop, 27 High St, Oakham 01572 723957
Kilburn Road
JERWOOD SCHOOL OF DESIGN THE WHEELHOUSE GALLERY
Cutts Close
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Most seating is unreserved and audiences are advised to arrive early. Latecomers will be admitted as appropriate. Chapel seating is not padded but some Oakham Railway Station cushions are available for professional concerts; please note that, although the Chapel is heated, it can be cool during the colder months. A ramp is available at the Chapel for wheelchair users. There are several stairs up to the QET auditorium. Please contact the Box Office if you have particular requirements. Refreshments are available at most QET performances and some Chapel concerts. Toilet facilities are eet Str available near the Chapel and in the QET.
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MUSIC AT LUNCHTIME All Saints’ Church, 1.30pm, Free Ben Richardson piano & Ensemble Wednesday 9 January Jazz for a January lunchtime
Jessica Carr flute & Alexandra Dowell piano Wednesday 27 February
William Collison tenor Wednesday 16 January
Enesco Cantabile & Presto Martinu Scherzo (Divertimento) Haydn Presto (Sonata in E minor, Hob. XVI:34) Scarlatti Sonata in E, KP162
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte, op. 98
Oliver Brunt trombone Wednesday 23 January
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Chamber Choir Wednesday 6 March
Weber Romance Jim Parker Dances with Bears David Mitcham A Latin Heart
Music for Ash Wednesday J S Bach Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (Sinfonia & Chorus) Walton A Litany Rutter O Lord, thou has searched me out
Rupert Fell piano & Martin Cropper violin Wednesday 30 January
Beth Whitlock soprano Wednesday 13 March
Beethoven Sonata No. 1 in D major, op. 12 no. 1
Horn Players Wednesday 6 February Bozza En Irlande Mozart Andante (Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat, K417) Saint-Saëns Romance, op. 36 and music for horn quartet
Lily McNeill soprano Wednesday 13 February Copland Three Poems of Emily Dickenson Handel Heart, the seat of soft delight (Acis & Galatea) Howells King David W A Mozart Una donna a quindici anni (Così fan tutte)
The Sacred Soprano J S Bach Cantata: Jauchzet Gott, BVW 51 Music by Britten & Mendelssohn
String Players Wednesday 20 March Unaccompanied music by J S Bach
Ethel Marzaganov piano Wednesday 27 March Haydn Sonata in F, Hob.XVI/23 (movt 1) Chopin Nocturne in E flat, op. 9 no. 2 Khachaturian Toccata
INFORMAL CONCERTS Monday 21 January | Wednesday 6 February | Wednesday 6 March | Monday 18 March Studio 2, 7.30pm (School only) Designed and produced by theagencyforeducation.co.uk