Summer 2022 Season Brochure

Summer 2022

Still to come this Spring

Sun 20 Mar, 3pm

PierreLaurent Aimard

One of our finest living pianists plays Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Sat 5 Mar, 7.30pm

Alexander

Whitley Dance Company

Featuring a dazzling moving light sculpture, this new work

Overflow delves into what it means to be human in the era of big data.

Sun 13 Mar, 7pm

Les Arts

Florissants

Handel’s rarely-heard work on the poetry of Milton is performed by legendary Baroque director William Christie and his French ensemble.

Sun 10 Apr, 7pm

London

Philharmonic Orchestra with Mitsuko Uchida

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto

No.4 and Bruckner’s colossal Sixth Symphony bookend this programme conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

Fri 1 Apr, 8pm

Manchester Collective: The Oracle

South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe spearheads a musical journey that spans genres, generations and continents.

Sat 30 Apr, 7.30pm

English Baroque

Soloists & John

Eliot Gardiner

Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante sits at the centre of a concert filled with some of the 18th century’s most life-affirming music.

Sat 14 May, 8pm

Penguin Cafe

Avant-pop from musician, composer, and producer Arthur Jeffes and his Penguin Cafe ensemble, performing music from their Handfuls of Night record and back catalogue.

Combining folk, classical, and minimalism in a style distinctive to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts craft a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in emotional depth.

Cabaret Table Seating

Sat 21 May, 7.30pm

I Fagiolini Re-Wilding The Waste Land

Robert Hollingworth director Narrator to be confirmed

Programme to include William Byrd Deus, venerunt gentes

Joanna Marsh The World is Charged

Shruthi Rajasekar Ganga’s peace

Tomás Luis de Victoria Tenebrae

Responsories

Ralph Vaughan Williams Silence and Music

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust” - Re-Wilding The Waste Land is I Fagiolini’s creative response to T.S. Eliot’s groundbreaking poem The Waste Land (100th anniversary in 2022), mixing music for voices with the poem and mindful of David Attenborough’s ‘witness statement’ plea to Re-Wild: musical desolation flowers into a subtly positive outpouring of old and new music.

Tickets £20 - £40

Under 25s half price

Presented by Saffron Hall

Tickets from £25

Presented by Saffron Hall

Penguin Cafe

© Alex Kozobolis

Sun 29 May, 4pm

Miloš Homage to Segovia

Miloš guitar

Programme to include Fernando Sor Variations on a Theme by Mozart Op.9

Johann Sebastian Bach

Chaconne

Isaac Albéniz Excerpts from Suite

española Op.47

Heitor Villa-Lobos Five Preludes

When the young Miloš Karadaglic´ first picked up a guitar, he described his reaction as “love at first listen”. Audiences around the world have felt the same way: every generation produces one superstar classical guitarist, but for sheer charisma, there aren’t many that can touch Miloš. Tonight, at Saffron Hall, comes an opportunity to experience his artistry in close-up – and hear for yourself.

Sat 11 Jun, 7.30pm

Royal Air Force In Concert

Royal Air Force Music celebrates The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with the Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment.

Join the full-time professional musicians of the Royal Air Force for a special programme of music to recognise this unique occasion, whilst also helping the RAF Music Charitable Trust raise some much-needed welfare funds.

Sun 12 Jun, 4pm

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Some Enchanted Evening

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Martin Yates director

Gina Beck vocalist

Alice Fearn vocalist

Scott Davies vocalist

Rob Houchen vocalist

Programme to include music from Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music, The King and I, Carousel, South Pacific and more

Broadway comes to Saffron Hall in a glittering programme of excerpts from musicals by Rodgers & Hammerstein.

Join West End stars Gina Beck (Glinda in Wicked), Alice Fearn (Elphaba in Wicked), Rob Houchen (Marius in Les Misérables), and Scott Davis (Phantom in Phantom of the Opera) for this unmissable afternoon.

Tickets £20 - £50

Under 25s half price

Presented by Saffron Hall

Tickets £10 - £35

Under 25s half price

Presented by Saffron Hall

Tickets £16 - £18

Under 25s £12

Presented by RAF Music Charitable Trust

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra © Neil Pugh

Sat 18 Jun, 7.30pm

Saffron Walden Musical Theatre Company Centenary Celebration Concert

Programme including (but not limited to) songs from Fiddler on the Roof, Anything Goes, Les Misérables, Annie, West Side Story and more

The award-winning Saffron Walden Musical Theatre Company (SWMTC), previously known as Saffron Walden Amateur Operatic Society, celebrates 100 years of performing musicals & operettas in our town.

Join members of the company, past and present, including SWMTC’s celebrated Youth Group, for a concert of musical theatre favourites chosen from SWMTC productions performed throughout the years.

Fri 1 Jul, 7.30pm

National Youth Jazz Orchestra celebrates Amy Winehouse

“The National Youth Jazz Orchestra certainly put the youth back into jazz” declared one critic – and it’s always a big night at Saffron Hall when these phenomenal young artists are in town. But this year, it’s personal, as they present an emotionally-charged tribute to one of their greatest alumna, Amy Winehouse – her life, her musical legacy, and her enduring position as one of the UK’s most thrilling and talented musicians.

Sun 3 Jul, 3pm

Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra

Richard Hull conductor

Jill Morton piano

Aaron Copland An Outdoor Overture

George Gershwin Concerto in F

Antonín Dvorˇák Symphony No.9

“From the New World”

An Outdoor Overture was written in 1938 for young musicians to perform and is a beautifully lyrical example of Copland’s work. Gershwin’s Concerto in F was written in 1925, one year after the hugely successful Rhapsody in Blue. It uses jazz styles within it that we all recognise including a bluesy slow movement featuring the trumpet, a cakewalk and ragtime elements. Dvorˇák’s everpopular New World Symphony, full of American folk tunes and the famous Largo brings SWSO’s season to a dramatic close.

Mon 11 Jul, 7.30pm

London Community Gospel Choir

This event is part of this year’s 8 Day Weekend and is taking place on Saffron Walden Common, not at Saffron Hall

Sure to be a highlight of the Saffron Walden Round Table Carnival, the legendary London Community Gospel Choir performs an irresistible programme of Gospel songs in the Festival Marquee. With its rich harmonies, charismatic interpretations and closely unified ensemble, the London Community Gospel Choir is set to light up Saffron Walden with singing that’s vibrant, powerful and life-affirming, reflecting the group’s ethos: “out of many, one voice”.

Tickets £16 - £20

Presented by Saffron Walden Musical Theatre Company

Tickets £10 - £25

Under 25s half price

Presented by Saffron Hall

Tickets £17 - £20

Under 18s £5, 18-25s £10

Presented by Saffron Walden

Symphony Orchestra

Tickets available from

www.8dayweekend.co.uk

Full price £20 - £25

Under 18s half price

Presented by 8 Day Weekend in association with Saffron Hall

Sat 16 Jul, 7.30pm

Saffron Walden

Choral Society

Carmina Burana

Quintin Beer conductor

St Catherine’s College

Girls’ Choir

O Duo & friends percussion

Richard Carr & Simon Howat

pianos

Lucy Cox soprano

Simon Ponsford countertenor

Julian Chou-Lambert baritone

Jonathan Dove Arion and the Dolphin

Carl Orff Carmina Burana

Saffron Walden Choral Society’s first performance under the baton of their new musical director, Quintin Beer, will be Carl Off’s Carmina Burana, set for two pianos and percussion. SWCS will be joined by St Catherine’s College Girls’ Choir and renowned percussion group O Duo.

Sun 31 Jul, 4pm

Aurora Orchestra

Beethoven 5 from memory

Supported by Dominic & Ali Wallis

Nicholas Collon conductor

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin

Tom Service presenter

Iannis Xenakis O-Mega

Dmitri Shostakovich Violin

Concerto No.1

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No.5

Aurora Orchestra never fail to thrill with their engaging playfulness and immediacycharacteristics shared by stunning violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.

BBC 3’s Tom Service and Nicholas Collon walk us through the symphony from it’s famously dramatic opening to its end, harnessing the unique potential of an orchestra playing by heart to get beneath the skin of Beethoven’s music in new and illuminating ways.

Tickets £18 - £25

Under 25s half price

Presented by Saffron Walden

Choral Society

Tickets £14 - £45

Under 25s half price

Presented by Saffron Hall in association with Cambridge Summer Music Festival

Aurora Orchestra © BBC Mark Allan

Coming to Saffron Hall this Summer

Fri 5 Aug, 7pm National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Supported by Professor Sir Barry Ife CBE

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain brings its trademark exuberance and vitality to Saffron Hall almost every summer and, as always, performs a programme full of variety and colour.

Determined to ‘open up orchestral music’ to their generation, this community of players from across the country are joining forces for a unique, boundarybreaking performance. Expect a concert with a difference, with the voices of young people at its heart.

Tickets £10 - £25

Under 25s free

Presented by Saffron Hall

BBC Young Musician is the UK’s foremost competition for musicians 18 and under. Since its inception in 1978, BBC Young Musician has launched the careers of many of the UK’s most prominent classical musicians including Saffron Hall favourites Nicola Benedetti and Jess Gillam. BBC Young Musician brings the Category Finals and Semi Final of the 2022 competition to Saffron Hall in July 2022. Tickets on sale soon

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

© Jason Alden

May

Sat 14, 8pm Penguin Cafe

Sat 21, 7.30pm

I Fagiolini: Re-Wilding The Waste Land

Sun 29, 4pm Miloš

July

Fri 1, 7.30pm

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Sun 3, 3pm

Saffron Walden

Symphony Orchestra

Mon 11, 7.30pm

London Community Gospel Choir

Sat 16, 7.30pm

Saffron Walden

June

Sat 11, 7.30pm

Royal Air Force In Concert

Sun 12, 4pm

Rodgers & Hammerstein: Some Enchanted Evening

Sat 18, 7.30pm

Saffron Walden Musical Theatre Company

Choral Society

Sun 31, 4pm

Aurora Orchestra: Beethoven 5 from memory

August

Fri 5, 7pm

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain