Crossing Borders with Sikuris sin Fronteras - 29 February 2024 - Event Programme

OUR 2023-24 SEASON

We are pleased to welcome you to our 2023-24 International Concert Series at Royal Holloway.

We, at the Department of Music, cannot wait to showcase the varied talent of our students and staff, but also bringing internationally renowned musicians to the College. For 2023-24, we are back and better than ever with more student and staff opportunities through the creation of 'The Platform', an open opportunity for the community at the Department of Music to share with you what makes us so special. Alongside our popular Midweek Music and Pocket Concert Series, we are excited to continue our special partnerships with the Young Classical Artists Trust and BBC New Generation Artists and continue our alumni recital series by bringing back the epoch ensemble. We are pleased to also bring a wealth of international artists to our series, including pianists Pina Napolitano, Mary Dullea, Sholto Kynoch, Alexander Soares, and Joseph Havlat, violinist Darragh Morgan, guitarist Laura Snowden, clarinettist Jonathan Leibovitz,

sitarist James Pusey, mezzosoprano Helen Charlston, jazz group Solstice, and the London Mozart Players. 2023 also marks the final season for our quartet-in-residence, the Tippett Quartet, as we say farewell to this stellar group with their final concert at Royal Holloway.

All in all, this season is representative of the world-class talent our community at the Department of Music has fostered as we showcase our students and the range of music performance we programme and encourage; from jazz to world music, orchestral performance to solo piano, as well as presenting performers from the international stage We look forward to welcoming you to our series this year.

Dr Nathan James Dearden Music Performance Manager & Curator of the International Concert Series

Crossing Borders

with Sikuris sin

Fronteras and the Royal Holloway Andean Band

International Concert Series 2023-24

Thursday, 29 January 2024

Picture Gallery, Founder’s Building

EVENT PROGRAMME

Culminating with Carnavales

A feast of Andean music which follows the annual cycle of shifting music and dance. We begin with harvest time - in the wake of this year’s Carnival (‘carnavales’), which was a fortnight ago. The concert culminates with Carnival: the principal feast of the year and highpoint of the annual cycle of production.

PART ONE

3rd May: Feast of the Holy Cross –harvest time

Jula julas (4 and 3 tube panpipes)

Northern Potosí, Bolivia

- Suna (Hamichiri community, Chayrapata)

- Kulwa (Chuslonkari, Sacaca)

Estimated finish time: 9 30pm

There will be a short interval during this evening’s performance.

Please no flash photography or visual/audio recording throughout the event.

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- Wayli (Grupo Arawi)

Cerbez patapi – song with charango (Chayanta, Northern Potosí)

Translation from Quechua:

Sing and party, lily, little willow Place the song words, lily, little willow

Beer on beer, we’re single, round I go from house to house

June: Winter solstice

Karwan Choquela - Choquela notch flutes (Department La Paz, Bolivia) SSF

Yamor - San Juanito – song with charango, guitar, quena flutes (Ecuador) SSF

August: simi kichasqa (mouth open) – month of winds & offerings to the earth

Italaque sikus (6 and 7 tube panpipes)

Department La Paz, Bolivia

- Italaquemanta

- Cinco siglos (‘Five centuries’)

Translation from Spanish:

Five centuries resisting, Five centuries of courage

Always maintaining the essence

It is your essence and the seed, and is within us forever

It comes alive with the sun and blossoms in the Pachamama

Palomitay - Cueca song with charango, guitar, quena flutes (Bolivia) SSF

September: patronal feasts –looking ahead to ‘renewal’ ‘Rinuwa’or ‘siku tinku’, groups of sikus (7 and 8 tube panpipes)

Yaku Kantu - Qantu (combined ensemble of 6 and 7 tube panpipes) Department La Paz, Bolivia

PART TWO

1st November: Music for All Saints

– Feast of the Dead

Alma pinkillus or ‘soul flutes’ (Ayllu Qullañan. La Paz Department, Bolivia)

‘Uray mayunta rishani’ – qhata dance song with kitarra (Macha, Potosí, Bolivia)

Translation from Quechua:

I'm going along the lower river to pick broad bean flowers, my siren rose

If there are no broad bean flowers, I shall search for life in death, my siren rose

What cloud? That cloud, darkening from behind, my siren rose

My girl's tears come turning into rain, my siren rose

Christmas: Heavy Rains

Mohoseño flutes, La Paz Department

- Lahuachaka huayño

- Siempre soy (Laymi de Chavi)

Clavelito (‘Carnation flower’) - huayño with charango, guitar, quena flutes (Bolivia) SSF

February/March: Feast of Carnival

– culmination of the growing season (alma kacharpaya –despatch of the souls)

Tarka flutes - for general dancing

Salaki - Carnival song (Northern Potosi, Bolivia) SSF

EVENT PERFORMERS

Sikuris sin Fronteras (‘Panpipes without Borders’) is a London-based community group which is dedicated to transmitting the strength and community spirit of Andean cultures. Most members are originally from Bolivia, Peru or Ecuador, or are of Andean heritage.

The Royal Holloway Andean Band is an extracurricular ensemble and the only university ensemble of its kind in the UK. It meets over lunchtime once a week during termtime and reflects the commitment and enthusiasm of students to learn about and engage with Andean culture. We are delighted to collaborate with Sikuris sin Fronteras, and are deeply grateful for their generosity.