Wimbledon International Music Festival 2023

“This must be one of the top festivals in the country”

“Definitely punches above its weight”

“World-class performers and great value for money”

Saturday 4Sunday 26 November

Patrons: Alfred Brendel - Michael Collins - John Gilhooly - Rivka Golani - Ian Partridge - Raphael Wallfisch

A WARM WELCOME TO OUR 15th ANNIVERSARY

At the end of the last festival we conducted an on-line survey to guide us looking forward. I was prepared to consider significant changes - but instead the great majority of responses were gratifying, these being typical: “The festival is an absolute gem” - “ This must be one of the top festivals in the country “ -“I feel very privileged to have such top flight performers and inspired and varied programming on my doorstep.”

One change I have most reluctantly had to make is to raise some ticket prices - our only significant source of income - in line with rising costs, and the sad fact that grants are becoming increasingly difficult to get in the capital with the cultural politicisation of levelling up. Nevertheless, I hope that with the quality WIMF offers we will still be seen as “Great Value for Money”.

Questioned on most favoured events almost all categories registered predominantly 5 [highest] and 4, with few in the lower categories: The viola recitals registered in the two highest categories, and indeed came in for praise: “Please keep the viola recitals - a unique and appreciated treat.” I thank the Tertis Foundation for its considerable help not just with the viola events but its generous support for the festival as a whole.

As we have featured many of the world’s greatest violists in recitals, this year we are showcasing the viola in two events, as a soloist in Mozart’s sublime Sinfonia Concertante, and as an inspiration for the rich sonorities of Brahms’ String Quintet, with a guest viola joining the Tippett Quartet, who are celebrating their 25th anniversary year.

Over the years WIMF has featured many of the world’s finest string quartets - to my mind the heart of the chamber music repertoire - and this year I grabbed the opportunity of two spare days in their European tour of the great Juilliard Quartet, celebrating its 75th anniversary, hailed as “the most important American quartet in history.”

If there seemed an overwhelming preference in the survey, it was for early music, and WIMF ‘23 is sure to delight in this regard with Armonico Consort bringing an important Scarlatti discovery, and Vivaldi’s Gloria; a new orchestral transcription of Bach’s Goldberg Variations; Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque offering our two-part event featuring all the Bach concertos with violin; The Wigmore Soloists with Mozart’s exhilarating masterpiece, the Gran Partita for 13 winds, and Regents Opera returning with their touring version of Cosí fan Tutte to close the festival.

But of course there’s much, much more… Romantic music… some new commissions… French, English and Russian masterpieces… Please take your seats at the feast in November.

Anthony Wilkinson Festival Director

A MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAIRMAN

Andrew Lenon Chairman

One of the hallmarks of the Wimbledon International Music Festival is the sheer variety of the concerts which Anthony Wilkinson succeeds in putting together each year. This 15th Festival is no exception. As you will see, the programme ranges from the large-scale choral and symphonic works to be performed by the Academy Choir and the Philharmonia, to a Mozart opera, the traditional jazz evening, a wide variety of chamber groups, solo piano recitals and a virtuoso accordionist. Alongside artists with established international reputations, such as Sofya Gulyak, Roderick Williams and the Chooi brothers we have up and coming young musicians, such as the Morningside Music Bridge Trio, the Meliora Collective and players from the Yehudi Menuhin School. We can look forward to familiar repertoire in the concert of Mozart’s Greatest Wind Music and the Glories of English Song but also opportunities to get acquainted with less well-known masterpieces such as the Cozzolani Vespers, written by a 17th Century nun, to be conducted by Olivia Shotton Contemporary music features in a number of concerts including Ashley Wass’s piano recital. The typically eclectic concert to be given by Lunaris, a virtuoso violin and recorder group, spans music from the 13th to the 20th centuries.

Budding local performers are encouraged to take part in PlayFest, a day of informal music making on Saturday 4 November (see page 12 for details).

The trustees hope that you will indulge yourselves by coming to as many concerts as you can. In this way you will be ensuring the continued success of the Festival which depends on ticket sales as its main source of earned income.

We are hugely grateful to our major benefactors for their wonderful support particularly the Tertis Foundation, The Taylor Family Foundation, and grants from Arts Council England Lottery Fund; and to our longstanding event sponsors, Robert Holmes, Marcus Beale Architects, WSM Private Clients, TWM Solicitors, John Dyer-Grimes Architects, Stephen and Vicky Streater, and huge thanks to our loyal group of Benefactors and Friends.

New Friends and Sponsors are always welcome and would make a significant difference to secure our future and help make Wimbledon a flourishing cultural destination. Details of how to become a Friend are at page 31. You may wish to consider leaving a legacy for the Festival.

Finally, the trustees wish to pay tribute to our superb team of local volunteers who act as ushers and bar staff for all the concerts and without whom the Festival could not proceed. I very much look forward to seeing you at the Festival!

Bringing the BEST to Wimbledonwe need your help

The Trustees of the Wimbledon International Music Festival hope you are as excited as we are about the wonderful programme that our Founder and Director, Anthony Wilkinson, has put together for our 2023 Festival this November. As always since our founding in 2009, we will have the unique pleasure of seeing and hearing world class performers here at our venues in Wimbledon.

Julian Marland Trustee

For this to continue in future years, we really need to ask for your help. As with most classical music concerts, the price of the tickets only covers around half of the full costs the Festival incurs and so we always rely on the generosity of our donors, sponsors, patrons and friends, as well as, historically, grants from the Arts Council, to allow us to continue the high quality of performance to which we aspire. And as you will be aware, the future of live classical music has never been under more threat. Just as music finances have been recovering from the effects of the pandemic, many ensembles, particularly those based in London and the South East, have been hit by severe cuts in funding from the Arts Council and other public bodies. Now more than ever, those of us who love live classical music need to support artists and ensembles, and charities like the Wimbledon International Music Festival, which provide them with a platform for their talents.

This year, we have a particular reason to ask for your help. Since our founding, our most generous and long-standing supporter has been the Wimbledon-based Tertis Foundation, named for the famous British violist, Lionel Tertis, in whose memory we have a viola concert every year. The Tertis Trustees have now decided that time has come to wind up the Foundation and have expressed a willingness to make the Festival a beneficiary of a substantial sum in recognition of our longstanding partnership. The Foundation would like to help us ensure the future financial health of the Festival by giving this as a restricted capital sum which they would expect us to preserve for the long-term. The Tertis Trustees are also giving this in the expectation that Festival raises significantly more than we have raised historically from donors and sponsors.

These two factors, the possible decrease of future Arts Council funding, and the need to respond to the Tertis Foundation’s challenge, means that we are asking you to consider giving generously, and increasing your contribution if you already support us. As trustee with particular responsibility for fundraising, I would be delighted to discuss this with you in more detail at any time. Many thanks!

FAMILY CONCERT with PRISM Ensemble

HANDEL: ISRAEL IN EGYPT Academy Choir, Academy Baroque Players

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA

GLORIES OF ENGLISH SONG

VIENNA TO HOLLYWOOD Tippett Quartet

INTERNATIONAL PIANO RECITAL Sofya Gulyak

JUILLIARD QUARTET Two Last Quartets

JUILLIARD QUARTET Cavatina

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: MORNINGSIDE PIANO TRIO

FRI 17 TUE 21

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: ASHLEY WASS, piano

MON 13

THE VIRTUOSO ACCORDION

Samuel Telari

FRI 17

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: YEHUDI MENUHIN SCHOOL SHOWCASE

WED 22

THE FORGOTTEN SCARLATTI

The Armonico Consort

TUE 14

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: THE MELIORA COLLECTIVE Meera Maharaj, flute

SAT 18

MOZART’S GREATEST WIND MUSIC Wigmore Soloists

THU 23

LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY

Roderick Williams, baritone

Iain Burnside, piano

CHOOI BROTHERS

Nikki & Timothy Chooi, violins

Clayton Stephenson, piano

LUNARIS: Violin and Recorder

Virtuosi take a journey through The FOUR PHASES of the MOON

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: THE COZZALANI VESPERS OF 1650

We thank all our Sponsors and Funders for their generous support

COSI FAN TUTTE Regents Opera

Stephen & Vicky Streater

A call to all performing musicians, professional and amateur PlayFest

2023

A day of informal music making

Following the success of previous years, which revealed some wonderful performing musicians in our community, PlayFest is back in 2023!

CROSS-ARTS WELCOME

Painters, Photographers, Poets. Use these live sessions to inspire your muse!

WIMF is happy to have any genre of music, though reflecting the Festival, we anticipate that the majority will be classical.

We would particularly value chamber music groups as well as solo performers.

We request that works should be rehearsed to performance standard.

Single works, or groups of shorter works, should not exceed 20 minutes.

Please register with Sally Rogers, Festival Producer Email sally.rogers@wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk indicating instrument, composer and work length, and amateur or professional choice of session.

SAT 4

4 sessions (2 hours)

10.30am - 12.30pm

1.30pm - 3.30pm

4.00pm - 6.00pm

7.30pm - 9.30pm

Performers should be Grade 5 or over

St John’s Church, Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ

SUN

5

3.00pm

Centre Court Shopping Centre, SW19 8YE

Gavin Stewart, flute

Richard Lines-Davies, oboe

Rachel Coe, clarinet

Rachel GoodingHurst, bassoon

Lynn Henderson, horn

FAMILY CONCERT: PRISM Ensemble

£8 Children

What do you get when you cross a wind quintet with a shopping centre? This year’s Wimbledon International Music Festival Family Concert finds PRISM Ensemble taking you on an adventure through the sonic world of wind instruments. Featuring music by Florence Anna Maunders, Jennifer Walshe and Thea Musgrave, we’ll be bringing a new light to the sounds our different players can make (not always the ones you might expect). You can however, expect audience-led improvisation, the chance to make your own graphic scores and an extra-special Bonfire Night-themed composition, never to be played again.

Nicola

Benedetti

Book now for our 2023/24 season at the Royal Festival Hall, featuring violinist Nicola Benedetti, soprano Julia Bullock, pianist Mitsuko Uchida and more.

Discover our autumn series Let Freedom Ring: Celebrating the Sounds of America, with music from Aaron Copland to Wynton Marsalis.

Tickets from £10 philharmonia.co.uk 0800 652 6717

Julia Bullock

Rouvali

SAT

11

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: ISRAEL IN EGYPT ACADEMY CHOIR and ACADEMY BAROQUE PLAYERS

8.00pm

Sacred Heart Church

Edge Hill

SW19 4LU

Matthew Best Conductor

Rowan Pierce, soprano

Hugh Cutting, counter-tenor

Ed Lyon, tenor

The Academy Choir under Matthew Best open the festival with Handel’s mighty choral masterpiece, in which Moses battles bloody water, frogs, hailstones and impenetrable darkness, to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.

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With the sheer exuberance of his imagination, the variety and vividness of his choral writing, the power of his storytelling, Israel in Egypt is one of Handel’s most popular and glorious oratorios.

£44 / £38 / £26

£10 Students

7.00pm

Trinity Church

Mansel Road

SW19 4AA

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA JEWELS FROM THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

Marquise

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Symphony No 1 in G Op 11

A beguiling work by the first classical composer of African ancestry, considered by President John Adams “the most accomplished man in Europe.”

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major for violin and viola, K 364 Symphonic in scope, concerto-like in its virtuoso demands, this work thrills with an extraordinary abundance of ideas and sonorities.

Bach’s wondrous set of Variations in a new transcription for orchestra by Robin O’Neill [World Premiere]

Yukiko Ogura is Principal Viola of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Endowed by The Tertis Foundation.

J S Bach Goldberg Variations

£54 / £48 / £32 £10 Students

Robin O’Neill Conductor

Benjamin

Gilmore, violin

Yukiko Ogura, viola

MON 13

1.10pm LUNCHTIME CONCERT

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ

Bach Partita No 1 in B flat major

Shor/Pletnev Piano

Sonata

Beethoven Sonata No 30 in E Major, Op. 109

ASHLEY WASS - PIANO RECITAL

The distinguished pianist, Ashley Wass, has performed at many of the world’s major halls. In this programme featuring works by giants of the past, Ashley champions a new work by pianist and awardwinning specialist in electronic music production and sound design, Alexey Shor, in association with Russian virtuoso Mikhail Pletnev.

£5 minimum

£15 suggested

MON 13

THE VIRTUOSO ACCORDION

7.30pm

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ

Samuele Telari, accordion

Franck Choral No.2

Grieg Holberg Suite

Saint-Saens Danse Macabre

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Samuele Telari makes his instrument speak with the many colours and subtleties of an orchestra. He returns after many requests following his astonishing lunchtime recital in 2021.

“

£32 / £28 / £18

£10 Students

Telari belongs to a generation of astonishing Italian artists whose overwhelming musicality goes beyond their instrument.” Carla Moreni

TUE 14

1.10pm LUNCHTIME CONCERT

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Gyorgy Ligeti Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances

Valerie Coleman

Portraits of Langston

Jessie Montgomery

Strum

Sibelius En Saga

Meera Maharaj, flute with the Meliora Collective

£5 minimum

£15 suggested

TUE 14

THE MELIORA COLLECTIVE

Conceived by flautist Meera Maharaj, the Meliora Collective is a dynamic group of young artists formed of five wind and five string players. This allows a creative flexibility in programming. Today they form a septet: string quintet with flute and clarinet.

En Saga is performed in its original septet version. The music of Valerie Coleman and Jesse Montgomery are becoming more widely known through the work of Chineke!, of which Meera Maharaj is principal flute.

GLORIES OF ENGLISH SONG

7.30pm

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano

Alessandro Fisher, tenor

Sholto Kynoch, piano

English art song saw a rich renaissance in the early years of the 20th century, continuing between the wars.

This programme draws on a treasury of the finest songs of Vaughan Williams, Roger Quilter, George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, Peter Warlock, Gerald Finzi and Benjamin Britten.

£38 / £32 / £22

£10 Students

WED 15

7.30pm

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Mendelssohn Quartet

Op 12 in E flat major

Korngold Quartet No. 3

Brahms Quintet No 2

VIENNA TO HOLLYWOOD

THE TIPPETT QUARTET With Philip Dukes, viola

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£38 / £32 / £22

£10 Students

THU 16

7.30pm

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Sofya Gulyak, piano

Clara Schumann

Variations, op.20

Schumann Fantasiestücke op.111; Allegro op.8

Brahms Klavierstücke op.119

Rachmaninoff Corelli variations op.42

Scriabin op.72

Stravinsky ‘Firebird’

£38 / £32 / £22

£10 Students

To celebrate their 25th anniversary the Tippetts have chosen three works that express the full richness of the Romantic chamber repertoire. Mendelssohn’s First Quartet, an undoubted masterwork written while still a teenager is extraordinary for its dramatic scope.

Korngold, also a teenage prodigy (recognised by Strauss and Mahler) fled Nazi Germany for America and success in Hollywood. His 3rd quartet following Hitler’s death, has a fiery vitality, ending in a jubilant mood. Philip Dukes joins as guest viola in Brahms’ gorgeous 2nd quintet - part of our tribute to the memory of the great Lionel Tertis.

INTERNATIONAL PIANO RECITAL

Russian pianist Sofya Gulyak, hailed as ‘La Grande Dame du Piano’ by La Scène. Sofya was the 1st prize-winner of the celebrated Leeds International Piano Competition in 2009, the first woman in the history of the competition to do so.

Since then Sofya has garnered international praise:

‘A Rach Star is Born…’ Washington Post

‘Phenomenal Sofya Gulyak’ Ruck Muzychny

‘Formidable Artist’ The Guardian

FRI 17

1.10pm

LUNCHTIME CONCERT

YEHUDI MENUHIN SCHOOL

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

This always popular concert showcases the talents of some of the finest young musicians from around the globe.

The celebrated violinist Yehudi Menuhin founded his school to develop his students’ talents to the highest degree within a nurturing and stimulating academic environment, regardless of their economic background.

£5 minimum £15 suggested

FRI 17

8.00pm

Sacred Heart Church

Edge Hill

SW19 4LU

Francesco Scarlatti

Dixit Dominus (1703)

Francesco Scarlatti Messa (1702)

Antonio Vivaldi

Gloria in D Major RV 589

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£48 / £44 / £28

£10 Students

ARMONICO CONSORT: THE FORGOTTEN SCARLATTI

Christopher Monks brings his acclaimed Armonico Consort to perform one of the most remarkable and incredible musical finds of the 20th Century.

The two works by Francesco Scarlatti are for 16 voices, divided into four choirs engaging in all sorts of vocal acrobatics, with a 5-part instrumental accompaniment. The writing has been described as ‘totally awesome’.

The programme concludes with Vivaldi’s ‘glorious’ Gloria.

7.30pm

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Mozart arr O’Neill

Masonic Funeral Music

K477

Mozart Serenade No

12, K.388 ‘Nachtmusik’

Mozart Serenade No

10, K.361 for 13 winds

‘Gran Partita’

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£44 / £38 / £26 £10 Students

MOZART’S GREATEST WIND MUSIC WIGMORE SOLOISTS

Wigmore Soloists is a new chamber ensemble comprising a roster of outstanding musicians, led by Isabelle van Keulen and Michael Collins, and created with Wigmore Hall’s Director, John Gilhooly.

In Mozart’s day, street serenades (collections of light dance music) were common in Vienna, typically for small wind groups. Mozart’s genius transforms his serenade K.388 into a serious, symphonic work for wind octet. The ‘Gran Partita’ is grander still, perhaps the finest wind music ever conceived.

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QUARTET TWO LAST QUARTETS SUN 19

7.00pm

JUILLIARD

Trinity Church Mansel Road

SW19 4AA

Areta Zhulla, violin

Ronald Copes, violin

Molly Carr, viola

Astrid Scheen, cello

Beethoven String quartet in F major No 16 Op. 135

Schubert String quartet in G major No 15 Op.161 D 887

Founded in 1946 and hailed as “the most important American quartet in history,” (Boston Globe) the Juilliard Quartet celebrate their 75th anniversary with two concerts in Wimbledon.

£44

Students

Each Juilliard Quartet concert carries a 20% reduction when both concerts are booked together.

Their first programme concentrates on two astonishing works that bring to a close two mighty cycles of string quartetsboth in their way distillations of what had gone before.

Renowned for championing contemporary composers, the Juilliard’s programme offers the first UK performance of String quartet No 2 ‘Amorphous Figures’ (2022) by Tyson Gholston Davis the young African-American composer who is creating quite a stir in musical circles.

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Pictured: Tim Marshall, Alice Vincent, Clive Myrie, Natalie Haynes, Stephen Mulhern & Katherine Rundell

JUILLIARD QUARTET CAVATINA MON 20

7.30pm

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Areta Zhulla, violin

Ronald Copes, violin

Molly Carr, viola

Astrid Scheen, cello

Beethoven String Quartet No 13 in B major Op. 130

Beethoven Grosse Fuge Op.133

In this wonderful quartet, Beethoven attempts to express the inexpressible in a way that only music can do. Considered by many to be among the finest of humanity’s achievement this was chosen to represent mankind on the ‘golden record’ sent out into space on Voyager.

The Cavatina is the heart of this profoundly moving work, exploring the limits of musical language: Profoundheartbreaking - flawless - finally a consolation of sorts...

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The savage Grosse Fuge (Op. 133) was Beethoven’s original conclusion to the probings of the Cavatina, but was considered too revolutionary by the publisher, so Beethoven offered a more conciliatory final movement. The Grosse Fuge was published separately.

Acclaimed German composer Jörg Widmann was inspired to write short ‘Studies on Beethoven’ String Quartets No 8, and No 10 ‘Cavatina’

£38 / £32 / £22

£10 Students

Each Juilliard Quartet concert carries a 20% reduction when both concerts are booked together.

Photo: Erin Baiano

TUE 21

1.10pm LUNCHTIME CONCERT

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Wojciech Niedziółka, violin

Brandon Leonard, cello

Yoav Roth, piano

MORNINGSIDE MUSIC BRIDGE TRIO

These three extremely talented international musicians, from Poland, USA and Israel, first met at the Morningside Music Bridge international summer school held each year in Boston, which was established to be a ‘bridge’ for exceptional young musicians between East and West.

£5 Minimum £15 suggested

TUE 21

LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY

7.30pm

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Roderick Williams, baritone

Iain Burnside, piano

Fresh from his magnificent performance at King Charles’ Coronation, one of the country’s finest baritones explores the themes of Nature, Connectedness, Love and Sex in the songs of Roger Quilter, Gabriel Fauré, Alma Mahler, Rebecca Clarke, Mélanie Bonis, Claude Debussy and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

£44 / £38 / £26

CHOOI BROTHERS VIOLIN DUO

7.30pm

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Nikki Chooi, violin

Timothy Chooi, violin

Clayton Stephenson, piano

Prokofiev Sonata for 2 Violins

Franck Violin Sonata

Debussy Violin Sonata

Shostakovich Five Pieces for 2 violins

Moszkowski Suite in G for 2 violins

£38 / £32 / £22 £10 Students

THU 23

Canadian violinist brothers Nikki and Timothy Chooi are fast establishing themselves on the international scene. Timothy has won first prize at several important competitions. Nikki, previously Concertmaster of the NY Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, is developing a notable career as soloist and chamber musician.

In this rich and varied programme of Russian and French violin music the brothers are joined by Clayton Stephenson, finalist at the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, praised for his “extraordinary narrative and poetic gifts.”

LUNARIS THE FOUR PHASES OF THE MOON

7.30pm

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

Jorge Jiménez, violin, viella

Anna Stegmann, recorders

Two virtuoso early music specialists take an evocative journey through the phases of the moon, creating a beguiling soundscape which moves from anonymous 13th and 14th century pieces, to Tarquinio Merula, and Biber in the 17th century, and Bach to Ysäye, and Bartók to Berio.

£32 / £28 / £18 £10 Students

FRI 24

1.10pm

LUNCHTIME CONCERT

St John’s Church

Spencer Hill

SW19 4NZ

THE COZZOLANI VESPERS OF 1650

£5 minimum £15 suggested

FRI 24

Olivia Shotton, a rising star choral conductor, directs a group of eight outstanding recent graduates from the Royal Academy of Music.

Chiara Margareta Cozzolani was a nun at the convent of Santa Radegonda in Milan where performances by the nuns drew huge crowds. One of the most original composers of 17th century Italy, she was worthy to keep company with her better known male brethren, Monteverdi, Carissimi and Cavalli. Her Vespers of 1650 has dramatic choruses separated by virtuosic solo movements.

BLUES AND ROOTS ENSEMBLE

8.00pm

JAZZ EVENING

Upper Hall Sacred Heart Church

Edge Hill SW19 4LU

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Blues and Roots Ensemble, a diverse group of nine top international musicians from South Africa to Sicily, India to Cuba. The band has established a reputation for its lively, captivating performances.

Cabaret Seating

All tickets £45

Limited reserved tables for benefactors & friends only.

B.A.R.E specialises in sharing the music of the great bandleader/ composer, Charles Mingus, whose centenary was celebrated recently.

PART ONE

4.00pm INTERVAL

PART TWO

8.00pm

St John’s Church Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ

BACH DOUBLE RACHEL PODGER & BRECON BAROQUE

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Joyous - Profound - Moving : treat yourself to the magic of Bach’s concertos for violin - for oboe - for harpsichord.

Rachel Podger has been described as “the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin” (The Times).

She leads the dynamic ensemble Brecon Baroque with its international line-up of world-class virtuosi in the periodinstrument world, in a double programme which explores the world of Bach’s instrumental concertos.

PART ONE 4.00pm

Concerto for violin in A minor BWV 1041

Concerto for harpsichord in D minor BWV 1052

Concerto for oboe d’amore in A major BWV 1055R

Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV 1043

Interval: Pre-booked Themed Dinner at LIGHT HOUSE Restaurant Available only to concert ticket holders. Book directly with the restaurant 020 8944 6338 - 75-77 Ridgway, Wimbledon Village SW19 4ST

£38 / £32 / £22

£10 Students each concert

20% reduction for both concerts booked together

PART TWO 8.00pm

Concerto for violin in E major BWV 1042.

Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue for harpsichord BWV 903

Concerto for oboe in D minor BW 1059.

Italian Concerto arr for violin and strings in G major BWV 971

Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor BWV 1060.

SUN 26

7.00pm

Trinity Church

Mansel Road

SW19 4AA

Fiordiligi: Christine Buras

Ferrando:

Dominic J. Walsh

Dorabella:

Olympia Hetherington

Guglielmo:

Christian Andreas

Despina:

Francesca Matta

Don Alfonso:

Andrew Mayor

Directed by Sophie Gilpin

Musical Direction by Ben Woodward

£44 / £38 / £26

£10 Students

COSI FAN TUTTE REGENTS OPERA

Mozart’s extraordinary musical gifts and psychological insights transcend the rather silly, misogynistic plot to gift us a masterpiece of comic opera. Cosí fan tutte follows the course of a bet between two brothers engaged to marry two sisters, that women, however faithful, are easily seducible. Cosí fan tutte - “All women are like that” - under Da Ponte’s and Mozart’s comic genius, subtly resolves the bet to suggest that “We are all like that.” The result is Mozart’s most sophisticated achievement as a musical dramatist.

THE KIRKER ISCHIA MUSIC FESTIVAL

A SEVEN NIGHT HOLIDAY | 11 OCTOBER 2023

Our annual visit to the beautiful island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples combines late summer sunshine with a series of exclusive concerts for Kirker clients. This year we host the Maxwell Quartet, pianist Thomas Kelly and violist and composer Simon Rowland-Jones, who will be joined by the Latvian soprano Laura Lolita Peresivana, for concerts given in the music room at La Mortella, Lady Walton’s famous gardens.

Price from £2,920 (single supp. £392) which includes seven nights’ accommodation with breakfast, seven dinners and six private concerts

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• Music & Choral Scholarships available

• Professional standard Performing Arts Centre

• Over 30 orchestras, ensembles & choral groups

• Extensive coach network

Wimbledon Concert Hall

LONDON, SW19

The Future of Music inWimbledon

FRANK GEHRY

“Concert Halls are the most exciting projects for me. To have the opportunity to make this happen in London is very exciting.”

“To have a Frank Gehry-designed concert hall in Wimbledon would be a total transformation of London concert life. It would have a global effect. With these buildings the influence goes way beyond the art form” ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Conductor

The proposal to build a new Gehry concert hall close to Wimbledon station will provide: 1250-seat main hall, 400-seat chamber hall, jazz venue, and exhibitions space in the heart of the community for all forms of live performances, concerts, and education projects.

Like to be part of this international legacy project?

Please contact Ben Wright Global Philanthropic 07813 321092 b.mw@globalphilanthropic.com

Patrons: Dame Darcey Bussell DBE

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WIMF reserves the right to change a programme, or replace an artist, and we regret that no refunds can be made in these circumstances Tickets are not refundable unless a performance is cancelled

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Benefactors, Patrons and Sponsors opens on June 16

Friends booking opens on June 23

General booking opens on June 30

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Tertis Foundation, The Taylor Family Trust, Robert Holmes, Marcus Beale, WSM Private Clients

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To h o n o u r a n d c e l e b r a t e t h e n a t u r a l b e a u t y o f t h e e a r t h ’ s m o s t p r e c i o u s w o o d s , S t e i n w a y & S o n s h a s c r e a t e d t h e M A S T E R P I E C E 8 X 8 c o l l e c t i o n , a l i m i t e d e d i t i o n o f e i g h t g r a n d p i a n o s a n d e i g h t u p r i g h t p i a n o s i n i t s h a n d - c r a f t e d v e n e e r, d e s i g n e d t o s h o w c a s e t h e q u a l i t y a n d u n i q u e p e r s o n a l i t y o f e a c h w o o d a n d b r i n g i t t o l i f e .

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