Event Programme - Jazz Session with Undergraduated - 21 March 2024

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

Jazz Session at

Royal Holloway with Undergraduated

International Concert Series 2023-24 with

The Undergraduated Big Band Niamh Baulf Singer

Thursday, 21 March 2024

Windsor Building Auditorium

EVENT PROGRAMME

John Kander: Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag from Chicago

Fred Ebb and John Kander (arr. Don Costa): New York, New York

Maynard Ferguson and Nick Lane (arr. Nick Lane): Gabriel

Irving Berlin (arr. Roger Holmes): Blue Skies – INTERVAL –

Estimated finish time: 10.00pm

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

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

For news about our future events, please visit royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Quincey Jones: Moanin’

David Paich and Jeff Porcaro (Toto) (arr. Steve Wright): Africa

Gordon Goodwin: Mueva Los Heusos

Who’s Who?

Trumpets

Laura Kee *

James McPherson

Emma Varley

Joe Marks

Lucy Wootton

Oscar Wells (alumni)

Trombones

Michael Hews

Anjeli Valydon

Ivan Smith

Rory Arthur

Clarinets

Maria Custodio *

Katie Mair

Ben Hall

Alto Saxophones

Pippa Brown

Tom Sheppard

Jessica Harding

Jocelyn Hails

Chen Shing To Joshua

Margarida Raposeira

Georgie Taylor

Tenor Saxophones

Alice Bennet

Lucy Anderson

Jimmy Davies

Who’s Who?

Baritone Saxophone

Annabel Mullett *

Piano

Dhruv Gajjar

Drums/Percussion

Joseph Milne

Neel Anand

(Todd Lucas-Philips *)

Guitar

Oliver Vesey

Seb Clemson

Bass

Gregory McCrorie-Shand *

Accordion

Killian Wright

* Undergraduated Committee Member

EVENT PERFORMERS

Formed in 1995, the Undergraduated Big Band has been the home of jazz on campus for almost 30 years! The band today welcomes all players with an interest in performing jazz / more popular styles of music. Alongside our termly concerts in Windsor Auditorium, members of the band perform regularly in the Crosslands bar on campus, at the market in Egham and for local private events. The band is currently preparing for our summer tour to Europe with the Royal Holloway Brass Band! We meet every Friday evening in the Boilerhouse Auditorium and our doors are always open for new players!