Wigmore Hall Learning Brochure September - December 2012

September – December 2012

Activities for Early Years Family Events Young People’s Events Pre-Concert Events Behind the Music Come and Sing

HOW TO BOOK Wigmore Hall Box Office, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Booking opens on 21 June IN PERSON 7 days a week: 10 am – 8.30 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm

BY TELEPHONE 020 7935 2141 7 days a week: 10 am – 7 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm There is a non-refundable £2 administration charge for each transaction

CALENDAR OF EVENTS SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2012 Thu 13 Sep

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

Fri 21 Sep

PRE-CONCERT TALK: RICHARD EGARR

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OPEN HOUSE DAY

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Sat 22 Sep ONLINE www.wigmore-hall.org.uk. There is a £1 administration charge online

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Fri 2 Nov

HALF-TERM FAMILY DAY: AND THE KITCHEN SINK!

Sat 3 Nov

FAMILY CONCERT: JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER

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Wed 7 Nov

THOMAS QUASTHOFF MASTERCLASS

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Thu 8 Nov

THOMAS QUASTHOFF MASTERCLASS

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BOX OFFICE ENQUIRIES 020 7935 2141

Wed 26 Sep PRE-CONCERT TALK: FRANK BRIDGE

WIGMORE HALL LEARNING ENQUIRIES 020 7258 8240

Sat 29 Sep

JENNIFER VYVYAN STUDY DAY

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Tue 2 Oct

PRE-CONCERT TALK: ORLANDO GIBBONS

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Sat 10 Nov

PRE-CONCERT TALK: MENDELSSOHN

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Thu 4 Oct

TODDLER BOP

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Tue 20 Nov

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

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Wed 21 Nov CHAMBER TOTS

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN OUR FREE WIGMORE HALL LEARNING MAILING LIST please call the Box Office or visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning/brochure/post

We would like to thank the following for their support of Wigmore Hall Learning programme.

Their involvement is greatly appreciated.

The Andor Charitable Trust Arts Council England Cavatina Chamber Music Trust Charities Advisory Trust City of Westminster Charitable Trust The Elton Family The Equitable Charitable Trust The Gordon Foundation The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation John Lyon’s Charity Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Milton Damerel Trust

The Monument Trust Valerie O’Connor and Jeanette McIntosh The Rayne Foundation Rothschild The Sampimon Trust The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust The S E Franklin Charitable Trust No 3 Tower Hamlets Arts Music and Education Service Marie-Luise Waldeck Westminster City Council The Zochonis Charitable Trust And several anonymous donors

Photo Credits: All images except Jennifer Vyvyan, Midori and Benjamin Britten © www.benjaminharte.co.uk.

Jennifer Vyvyan © Angus MacBean; Midori © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Benjamin Britten © Clive Strutt

The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.

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Sat 6 Oct

FAMILY DAY: SOUNDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES

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Sat 24 Nov

MIDORI: MASTERCLASS

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Wed 10 Oct

ANN MURRAY MASTERCLASS

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Sat 24 Nov

MIDORI: IN CONVERSATION

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Sat 13 Oct

COME AND SING: LUTE SONGS AND PARTSONGS

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Thu 29 Nov

CHAMBER TOTS

Sat 1 Dec

BRITTEN STUDY DAY

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Wed 17 Oct

CHAMBER TOTS

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WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

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Fri 26 Oct

CHAMBER TOTS

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Wed 5 Dec

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Tue 30 Oct

HALF-TERM COURSE: JAZZ JUNCTION

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PRE-CONCERT TALK: BRITTEN SINFONIA

Thu 6 Dec

CHAMBER TOTS

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Wed 31 Oct

HALF-TERM COURSE: JAZZ JUNCTION

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Sat 8 Dec

CAVATINA FAMILY CONCERT

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Wed 31 Oct

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: REBECCA SAUNDERS

Tue 11 Dec

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

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Thu 13 Dec

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

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Please note that tickets for events on these pages will go on sale both online and via phone from 10.00 am on 21 June.

For 2 – 5 year olds Maximum 4 tickets per booking for each event £6 per child – no ticket required for accompanying adult

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! For parents and babies up to 1 year old £6 per adult – babies come for free A series of concerts performed by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music for parents and their babies. Each lasting 45 minutes, parents can enjoy a programme of beautiful chamber music in a calm and accommodating environment. Although the music will be appropriate for babies, please note that these concerts are not interactive.

Thursday 13 September Tuesday 20 November

11.00 am – 11.45 am 11.00 am – 11.45 am

TODDLER BOP For 1 – 2 year olds £6 per child – no ticket required for accompanying adult Interactive music, movement and play workshops for young children and their parents with Chamber Tots in the Community workshop leader and guest musicians.

Thursday 4 October workshop repeated 2

CHAMBER TOTS

10.15 am – 11.00 am 11.45 am – 12.30 pm

Workshop leader Natasha Zielazinski and young performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama present these popular music workshops for toddlers and their carers. Sessions include a short performance in the Auditorium and an interactive workshop in the Bechstein Room including singing, playing percussion and a chance to meet the musicians and see their instruments close up.

Activities for Early Years

Activities for Early Years

Activities for Early Years

Please note: These workshops are for parents/carers and their toddlers to make music together. Please avoid bringing younger siblings if at all possible.

Wednesday 17 October

10.00 am – 11.00 am 2 – 3 year olds 11.30 am – 12.30 pm 3 – 5 year olds

Friday 26 October

10.00 am – 11.00 am 2 – 3 year olds 11.30 am – 12.30 pm 3 – 5 year olds

Wednesday 21 November 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm

2 – 5 year olds

Thursday 29 November

10.00 am – 11.00 am 2 – 3 year olds 11.30 am – 12.30 pm 3 – 5 year olds

Thursday 6 December

10.00 am – 11.00 am 2 – 3 year olds 11.30 am – 12.30 pm 3 – 5 year olds

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Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

OPEN HOUSE DAY Saturday 22 September 11.00 am – 3.30 pm

AND THE KITCHEN SINK! Friday 2 November 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

HALF-TERM FAMILY DAY For age 5 plus

Adults £12 Children £8

Spend the day making homemade instruments from junk and household items!

Join musician Rus Pearson for this rhythmic day of family fun.

Admission free

JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER FAMILY CONCERT

A unique opportunity to visit Wigmore Hall and experience the rehearsal process in an open rehearsal with the Nash Ensemble. You can also take part in a creative workshop in the Bechstein Room with Neil Valentine! All ages welcome.

Saturday 3 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Open rehearsal entrance times: 11.00 am; 12 noon; 1.00 pm Workshop times: 11.20 am – 11.50 am 12.20 pm – 12.50 pm 1.20 pm – 1.50 pm

Family Events

Family Events

Family Events

For age 5 plus Adults £7 Children £5 Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber has entertained audiences around the world and collaborated with a huge range of musicians including Elton John and Yehudi Menuhin. Hear him play in an interactive concert as he shares some of his favourite cello pieces, including The Swan by Saint-Saëns.

Presented by Rachel Leach.

CAVATINA FAMILY CONCERT SOUNDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES

Saturday 8 December 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Saturday 6 October 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

For age 5 plus Adults £7 Children £5

FAMILY DAY For age 6 plus Adults £12 Children £8

Be inspired by the Lawson Trio as they’re joined by soprano Sophie Daneman, double bassist Adam Wynter and violist Jon Thorne. Discover some beautiful chamber music, including Schubert’s Trout Quintet, and join in with singing and music-making games in this interactive one hour concert.

Join visual artist Marc Woodhead and musician Luke Crookes to collect musical and visual ingredients from the galleries of the Wallace Collection, before mixing them together at Wigmore Hall in the afternoon to create your own original work of musical art!

In partnership with The Wallace Collection

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CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber music to young people and young people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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Sunday 9 September 7.30 pm

Artemis Quartet Mendelssohn, Beethoven

JAZZ JUNCTION Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm both days

HALF-TERM COURSE

Monday 24 September 1.00 pm Julian Lloyd Webber cello John Lenehan piano Ireland, Delius Wednesday 10 October 7.30 pm

For ages 11 – 16

Cuarteto Casals String Quartet

Calling all budding young musicians! Join professional musicians from Ignite as they collaborate with contemporary jazz artists to create and perform brand new music inspired by jazz. Join a creative ensemble, meet other young musicians and take your new music to the Wigmore Hall stage! £40 for the two-day course Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE! CHAMBER ZONE: Ticket Scheme for 8 – 25 year olds Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust.

Free tickets are available to 8 – 25 year olds for the specially selected Wigmore Hall series concerts on the facing page. Please note that there is a limited number of Chamber Zone tickets available per concert. To book, call the box office on 020 7935 2141, quoting ‘Chamber Zone’.

This offer is also available to schools, with a free workshop in school.

Please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone for more information.

Early Schubert String Quartets

Saturday 24 November 7.30 pm

Tokyo String Quartet

Tuesday 23 October 7.30 pm

Bartók, Haydn

Endymion Vaughan Williams, Philip Venables, Dohnányi Wednesday 24 October 7.30 pm Alina Ibragimova violin Stephen Kovacevich piano Brahms, Takemitsu Wednesday 31 October 7.30 pm

Monday 3 December 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet Samuel West narrator Britten String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 3 Wednesday 5 December 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia

Arditti Quartet & JACK Quartet

Britten, Lutosl´awski, Dobrinka Tabakova

Contemporary repertoire

Saturday 8 December 7.30 pm

Saturday 3 November 7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet Katya Apekisheva piano

Michelangelo Quartet Cherubini, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven

Young People’s Events

Young People’s Events

Young People’s Events

Haydn, Smetna, Shostakovich Saturday 15 December 7.30 pm

Wihan Quartet Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel

For full programme listings please see www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

CAVATINA

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Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free Chamber Zone concerts listed on facing page

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PRE-CONCERT TALK: RICHARD EGARR Friday 21 September 6.30 pm – 7.00 pm Free (separate ticket required) Richard Egarr introduces the Academy of Ancient Music’s evening concert programme.

Saturday 29 September 2.30 pm – 6.45 pm

JENNIFER VYVYAN AND THE WORLD OF ENGLISH SINGING IN THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY

Tuesday 2 October 6.00 pm – 6.45 pm £3

Led by critic and broadcaster Michael White, the chief authority on Vyvyan, this study day will examine her career, her relationship with Britten, her complicated life – born into the landed gentry with an ancient family seat, riddled with secrets – and look broadly at the world of English singing to which she belonged. There will also be an exhibition based on a recently discovered cache of Vyvyan’s personal effects, with a chance to view original letters, diaries, scores and other memorabilia relating to this extraordinary singer.

Richard Boothby discusses Orlando Gibbons, one of Jacobean and early Stuart England’s greatest composers.

2.30 PM – 3.30 PM JENNIFER VYVYAN: A LIFE REDISCOVERED Illustrated talk by music critic Michael White

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: REBECCA SAUNDERS

3.30 PM – 4.00 PM REMEMBERING MY MOTHER Jennifer Vyvyan’s son Jonathan Crown in conversation with Michael White

PRE-CONCERT TALK: FRANK BRIDGE Wednesday 26 September 6.00 pm – 6.45 pm £3 Pre-concert talk on Frank Bridge with Stephen Banfield.

PRE-CONCERT TALK: ORLANDO GIBBONS

Wednesday 31 October 6.00 pm – 6.45 pm £3 Composer Rebecca Saunders in conversation with Tom Service.

PRE-CONCERT TALK: MENDELSSOHN Saturday 10 November 5.45 pm – 6.45 pm £3 Richard Stokes on Mendelssohn, as part of ‘A Celebration of Mendelssohn Song’.

PRE-CONCERT TALK: BRITTEN SINFONIA Wednesday 5 December 12.15 pm – 12.45 pm Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) An Introduction to the lunchtime concert, featuring the London première of a new work by Dobrinka Tabakova co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia.

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Jennifer Vyvyan Study Day

Behind the Music

Pre-Concert Events

Pre - Concert Events

4.00 PM – 4.45 PM THE BRITTEN CONNECTION A panel discussion presented by Michael White, with James Bowman and John Copley 5.15 PM – 6.00 PM ENGLISH SINGING IN THE 1950s/60s Round table chaired by Michael White, with James Bowman, Noelle Barker and John Copley 6.00 PM – 6.45 PM THE RECORDED LEGACY Michael White explores Jennifer Vyvyan on disc Study Day Ticket £15 Jennifer Vyvyan as Donna Anna, Sadler’s Wells 1952

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Midori Saturday 24 November 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

ANN MURRAY MASTERCLASS Wednesday 10 October 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Please note – this event was previously advertised on a different date – 10 October is the correct date.

Postgraduate singing students from Britain’s music colleges are set to gain from Ann Murray’s interpretive vision and the fruits of an illustrious career that began in the early 1970s. Her masterclasses are famed for their heady blend of wit, charm, vital energy and total engagement with the hearts and minds of young singers. £7 concessions £4

THOMAS QUASTHOFF MASTERCLASSES Wednesday 7 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Thursday 8 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm With post-graduate singers from UK music colleges and other selected singers.

Thomas Quasthoff, who retired from concert performance at the beginning of 2012, continues his essential work as teacher and inspiration to the next generation of singers.

Revelatory insights and wise words about the art of song interpretation are sure to flow through the great German bass-baritone’s Wigmore Hall masterclass sessions. £7 concessions £4 per session

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH In 1992 Midori established an organisation to bring music education to deprived areas of New York. Over the past two decades, Midori & Friends has reached out to thousands of underprivileged children and others routinely excluded from making music. The violinist’s inspirational outreach initiative harmonises with the aims and objectives of Wigmore Hall Learning, which has arranged a series of informal performances for Midori to give to local schools and community centres and related concerts at Wigmore Hall. Midori also marks 20 years of community projects with a morning of masterclasses and a frank discussion of her outreach work.

Behind the Music

Behind the Music

Masterclasses

10.30 am – 1.00 pm

MASTERCLASS WITH LONDON MUSIC COLLEGE STUDENTS Adults £7 concessions £4 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

IN CONVERSATION WITH MIDORI Join Midori for a discussion on her community programmes and why this work continues to be of vital importance both in the UK and internationally.

Ticket price £3 Full day ticket £8 concessions £6

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Behind the Music

Britten Study Day

Wigmore Study Group

Saturday 1 December 10.30 am – 5.15 pm

Tuesday 4 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 11 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 13 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Hall was something of a second home to Benjamin Britten during his early career. The venue hosted the first performance of the student composer’s Holiday Diary in November 1934 and went on to present a succession of landmark premières. Britten often appeared in recital at Wigmore Hall, playing celesta in a concert of new French music during the Second World War and regularly performing thereafter with his partner Peter Pears. The composer also led a ‘concert-introduction’ to Peter Grimes at Wigmore Hall in May 1945.

Wigmore Hall’s Benjamin Britten Study Day, curated by the composer Julian Philips, offers personal recollections, expert analysis and critical insights into the composer’s unique position in 20th-century British music and his enduring influence on today’s composers, performers and audiences.

10.30 am – 11.15 am

PAULA BEST, Head of Archive at Wigmore Hall, and PAUL BANKS, from the Royal College of Music’s Centre for Performance History, talk about Britten as a performer and his association with Wigmore Hall.

11.45 am – 12.45 pm

COLIN MATTHEWS explores his own lifelong association with Britten in conversation with JULIAN PHILIPS, and assesses Britten’s impact on composers working today.

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Masterclass with MARK PADMORE with performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

4.15 pm – 5.15 pm

Panel discussion on Britten’s Legacy, with JULIAN PHILLIPS, COLIN MATTHEWS and the Opera Group’s new director FREDERICK WAKE-WALKER. Tickets for each event £3 concessions £2

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All Day Ticket £10 concessions £5

THE PIANO DUETS OF FRANZ SCHUBERT The first Wigmore Study Group of the season is devoted to Schubert’s remarkable output of marches and dances, fantasies and sonatas for piano duet, a genre that preoccupied the composer throughout his short life. Hosted by composer Julian Philips, participants will explore this unique repertory over three afternoons, with live illustrations in Wigmore Hall performed by postgraduate pianists from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, together with lively contributions from distinguished visiting Schubertians. This study group culminates with Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis’s piano duet recital on Thursday 13 December, a programme which features Schubert’s Grand Duo D812 of 1824 – a work which will provide a particular focus for this study group.

Series ticket price £53 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 13 December.

Come and Sing Saturday 13 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

LUTE SONGS AND PARTSONGS Isabelle Adams leads a day of singing workshops for adults inspired by John Dowland and the English renaissance. Learn some new songs, join in with fun vocal warm-ups and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £18 concessions £10

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WIGMORE HALL 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 • www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Elizabeth McCall Head of Learning • Learning Tel: 020 7258 8240 The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No. 1024838 Facilities for Disabled People. For full details please call 020 7258 8210