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OUTSIDE BACK OUTSIDE FRONT

The world’s most talented young musicians working with

Nicola Benedetti | Laurence Cummings Colin Currie | Doric String Quartet Sir Mark Elder | Bengt Forsberg Reinhold Friedrich | Clio Gould Gareth Hancock | Ralph Kirshbaum Oliver Knussen | Robert Levin Gareth Lockrane | Manuel López-Gómez London Sinfonietta, Sian Edwards & Rolf Hind | Nash Ensemble | Trevor Pinnock Rachel Podger | Pascal Rogé Bent Sørensen | Maxim Vengerov Christopher Warren-Green


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w At Wigmore Hall, we join the Nash Ensemble for a Viennese evening from the early twentieth century, and Richard Lewis Song Circle perform Stanford, Herbert and Quilter, introduced by the author Claire Tomalin.

w Our Manson Ensemble collaborates with London Sinfonietta under Head of Conducting Sian Edwards for Thomas Adès’s In Seven Days at the Royal Festival Hall.

w Royal Academy Opera returns to the glorious Hackney Empire for the all-singing, all-dancing Orphée aux enfers by Offenbach.

Our talented students will perform in masterclasses with top performers including Nicola Benedetti, Ralph Kirshbaum, Simon Keenlyside and many of our other illustrious Visiting Professors. Join us for lectures with Professor Oliver Knussen, the Academy’s Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, and Sir Mark Elder, Barbirolli Chair of Conducting.

Meanwhile, work continues apace on our new theatre and recital hall in the heart of the Academy. If you would like to support the final stages of this transformational construction project, please see page 39 for details about our ‘Inspiring People’ seat campaign.

Our website has details about even more events than we can list here, and for the very latest news keep an eye on our social media channels.

We hope to see you soon and promise to offer you a combination of enlightenment, entertainment and education as well as a collective and boundless enthusiasm for seeking to make music at the highest level.

Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood

Principal

Welcome to 2017 at the Academy. We have plenty to look forward to this term, and I open with advance news of a special summer concert of Mahler’s mighty Symphony no.2, ‘Resurrection’, at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 22nd June with Academy Symphony Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov. Tickets are on sale now from the Southbank Centre box office. This term offers our usual diverse blend of performances, masterclasses, discussions and other events. I’ve picked out a few highlights here: w Our Chamber Music Series explores two

centuries of Russian composers from Glinka onwards.

w Colin Currie leads percussion students in solo and ensemble works.

w Our latest collaboration with The Juilliard School features a dazzling programme of Venetian brass ‘classics’ directed by Reinhold Friedrich.

w Maxim Vengerov leads Brahms quintets.w Laurence Cummings directs Music for the

'Sun King'.w Trevor Pinnock conducts Haydn and Mozart.w Manuel López-Gómez conducts Ravel,

Debussy and Falla and Christopher Warren-Green, music by Johann Strauss II.

w Nick Smart presents our third Academy Jazz Festival and we also mark thirty years of jazz at the Academy: look out for special events over the next year.

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09 Monday 6.00PM FREE

The Henry Wood Lectures: Joanna MacGregor

Venue David Josefowitz Recital Hall

TICKeTS Free, no tickets required

The Academy’s Head of Piano, Professor Joanna MacGregor OBE, discusses with Professor Raymond Holden her remarkable career.


organ Recital

Venue Duke’s Hall


Andrzej Malitowski, James Orford and Marko Sever organ

JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546 JS Bach Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614 JS Bach In dir ist Freude, BWV 615Widor Organ Symphony no.9 in C minor, op.70, ‘Gothique’

We continue our series of concerts by Academy organ students, presenting the ten organ symphonies of Charles-Marie Widor.

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Lachrimae



Alexander Simpson countertenorOlwen Foulkes, Oscar Gormley and Kristina Greally recorderSarah Walsh violinSamuel Pierce cornettJacob Garside, Camilla Morse-Glover and Alice Trocellier viola da gambaRachel Kay celloFrederick Ouellette bass sackbutLucie Chabard, Julie Pumir and Benedict Williams chamber organ

Holborne Pavane, ‘The Image of Melancholy’; The New-Yeeres Gift; Spero; The Tears of the Muses; LullabyDowland Lachrimae antiquae; The King of Denmark’s Galliard; Mr Giles Hobies Galliard; The Earl of Essex GalliardAllison Pavan dolorosaMorley La corantoSimpson VoltaLocke Fantazie; Courante

Exploring sixteenth- and seventeenth-century repertoire for ‘broken consort’.

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Violin Masterclass with nicola Benedetti


TICKeTS Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: telephone 020 7873 7300 from Tuesday 3rd January; these tickets will not be available online

As well as being one of the most dynamic and engaging violinists of her generation, Nicola Benedetti is fiercely committed to music education and to developing young talent, making her one of the most influential classical artists of today. At the start of this masterclass she will be presented with Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music by the Principal.

11 Wednesday 1.00–2.00PM FREE

Drop-in Lunchtime Tours

Venue Museum Ground Floor

TICKeTS Free, no tickets required. Maximum of 20 people

Join this free tour of the Museum which takes you around all three of the galleries. Meet in the Ground Floor Gallery; places on a first-come, first-served basis.


Guitar Masterclass



The Academy is delighted to welcome for the first time the Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas, winner of the prestigious Parkening Award and Tarrega Competition. He has performed with many leading orchestras, including the New York, Los Angeles and Israel Philharmonic orchestras, and his debut album, Americano for Harmonia Mundi, has been a best-seller.

12 THuRsday 12.30–2.00PM FREE

soundbox

Venue Museum Piano Gallery


Soundbox is a series of events inspired by the Academy’s Museum and collections. Presented by Peter Sheppard Skærved, violinist and Viotti Lecturer, the events explore the historical and contemporary relationships between performers, composers, instruments and instrument-makers.

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R.a.M. Club Prize Winners’ Recital: Vickers Bovey Guitar duo



Julian Vickers and Daniel Bovey guitarOndine Quartet*

Scarlatti transcr. Julian Vickers/Daniel Bovey Sonata in D minor, K.141Ravel arr. Stephen Goss Alborada del gracioso from MiroirsDodgson PastourelleMario Ferraro On that Old Oak by the Roadside (world premiere)*Nikita Koshkin Concertino for two guitars

A concert given by the winners of the 2016 R.A.M. Club Prize, featuring a world premiere by Mario Ferraro for guitar duo and string quartet, commissioned by the Academy’s Guitar Department.


Harp Recital



Elizabeth Bass harp

Scarlatti Sonata in E, K.380; Sonata in A, K.24Albéniz Torre bermeja from Doce piezas características, op.92 Sancan Thème et Variations Liszt Liebestraum no.3 Paul Patterson Spiders Posse Variations on The Carnival of Venice

A recital by Elizabeth Bass, current student and winner of the Silver Medal at the USA International Harp Competition in Bloomington 2016.

13 FRiday 1.00PM FREE

Composers’ Project: Blossom street

Venue Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London W1C 2DJ


In a project overseen by Judith Weir and conducted by Hilary Campbell, Blossom Street premieres new pieces for a capella choir by Academy student composers.

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About Academy Masterclasses

The Royal Academy of Music is a full-time educational institution. Every day during term-time, our students work intensively with their tutors, professors, Visiting Professors and other experts.

Most of our work takes place out of the public eye, in an environment that enables our students to explore their individual creative identities. Our masterclasses give you insights into these thought processes, and into the sophisticated technical details that must be perfectly

executed to make a performance complete. We are delighted to share them with you, but please note that they do not normally include opportunities for audience participation. Performers and repertoire details are posted at www.ram.ac.uk before each event.

The Academy’s programme of masterclasses is kindly supported by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust and the American Society for the Royal Academy of Music.

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Royal academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantatas

Venue Duke’s Hall

TICKeTS £15 (concessions £12) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/bach at any time, telephone 020 7873 7300 reopening Tuesday 3rd January; see page 37 for full details

Iain Ledingham directorRachel Podger leaderCharlotte Bowden sopranoPatrick Terry countertenorHiroshi Amako tenorTimothy Murphy bass-baritone

JS Bach Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136JS Bach Ach, ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162JS Bach Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178

Performed on historical instruments.

January

16 Monday 10.00aM–1.00PM FREE

Cello Masterclass



Ralph Kirshbaum, distinguished international artist and teacher, visits the Academy from Los Angeles to work with cellists and chamber groups. This masterclass is kindly supported by the Leche Charitable Trust.

17 Tuesday 1.05PM FREE

By Royal appointment: Handel, ariosti and Bononcini in London



Edward Edgcumbe countertenorOlwen Foulkes recorderLouise Ayrton violinCamilla Morse-Glover celloEmmanuel Sowicz theorboJulie Pumir harpsichord

Ariosti Il naufragio vicinoHandel Agitato da fiere tempeste from Riccardo primo, HWV 23Handel Trio Sonata in F, HWV 389Handel Per le porte del tormento from Sosarme, HWV 30Handel/Bononcini arr. Olwen Foulkes Aria SuiteBononcini Pietoso nume arcier

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Viola Masterclass

Venue Henry Wood Room


Visiting Professor of Viola Garth Knox gives another of his engaging and popular masterclasses at the Academy.

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Mozart and Janác ek



Amy Yule fluteAmy Roberts oboeMatthew Wilsher clarinetCharlie Dale-Harris bass clarinetJoel Roberts hornAngharad Elin Thomas bassoonCristian Sandrin piano

Mozart Quintet in E flat, K.452Janácek Mládí, JW VII/10

20 FRiday 10.00aM–1.00PM FREE

oboe Masterclass



With Jonathan Kelly, Principal Oboe of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Visiting Professor of Oboe at the Academy.

20 FRiday 2.30–6.00PM FREE

Flute Masterclass



With William Bennett, international soloist and Academy professor.

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Collections up-Close: Witness to History



Viotti Lecturer Peter Sheppard Skærved introduces the second event in this termly series celebrating the Academy’s extraordinary collections. Each event will focus on an instrument from the string collection, fanning out to themes and objects which that instrument introduces.

The 1734 Habeneck Stradivari

An afternoon of music and discussion inspired by the 1734 Stradivari instrument played by François-Antoine Habeneck. Habeneck was one of the first generation of violinists to graduate from the newly founded Paris Conservatoire. He introduced the performance and, crucially, rehearsal of Beethoven symphonies in Paris, leading to the founding of the Société des Concerts. He was the last great conductor to direct large orchestras from the violin, and in this way directed some of the most significant premieres of the day, including the first performance of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. His ‘method’ included a facsimile of Giovanni Battista Viotti’s unfinished guide to violin playing.

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Christopher Warren-Green conducts academy symphony orchestra

Venue Duke’s Hall

TICKeTS £5 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Tuesday 13th December, telephone 020 7873 7300 from Tuesday 3rd January; see page 37 for full details

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Christopher Warren-Green conductorIlona Revolskaya soprano

Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus OvertureJohann Strauss II Die LibelleJohann Strauss II Mein Herr Marquis from Die FledermausRichard Strauss Waltz Sequence no.1 from Der Rosenkavalier Johann Strauss II Unter Donner und BlitzJohann Strauss II Spiel ich die Unschuld vom Lande from Die FledermausJohann Strauss II An der schönen blauen Donau

Christopher Warren-Green, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the London Chamber Orchestra, returns to conduct Academy Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Viennese music by Johann Strauss II, including arias from Die Fledermaus featuring Academy postgraduate soprano Ilona Revolskaya. These works are complemented by Richard Strauss’s Waltz Sequence no.1 from the comic opera Der Rosenkavalier.

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Royal academy of Music Richard Lewis song Circle at Wigmore Hall

Venue Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

TICKeTS £15 from Wigmore Hall Box Office. How to book:In person 7 days a week: 10.00am–8.30pm.Days without an evening concert: 10.00am–5.00pm.No advance booking in the half-hour prior to a concert.Telephone 020 7935 2141. 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. Days without an evening concert: 10.00am–5.00pm. The £3 administration fee for phone bookings includes return of tickets by post if time permits.Online www.wigmore-hall.org.uk. 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. The £2 administration fee for online bookings includes return of tickets by post if time permits.

Nika Goric sopranoKatie Stevenson mezzo-sopranoNicholas Mogg baritoneMichael Mofidian bass-baritoneYi-Shing Cheng and Michael Pandya piano Stanford To the Soul, op.97 no.4; The Pibroch, op.157 no.1; La belle dame sans merci; The Clown’s Songs from Twelfth Night, op.65 Herbert Renouncement; I think on thee in the night; Six Children’s Songs; Rose kissed me today; How beautiful is night; When Death to either shall come Quilter Autumn Evening, op.14 no.1; Now sleeps the crimson petal, op.3 no.2; Go, lovely rose, op.24 no.3; Music, when soft voices die, op.25 no.5; Love’s Philosophy, op.3 no.1

Charles Villiers Stanford, acclaimed composer and teacher of generations of students in Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music, became a pillar of late Victorian and Edwardian society. His songs are performed in company with works by his pupils Muriel Herbert and the man she loved, Roger Quilter. Herbert’s daughter, the author Claire Tomalin, introduces this recital.

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Restoration or Preservation? — a Curator’s Tour


TICKeTS Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: telephone 020 7873 7300 from Tuesday 3rd January; these tickets will not be available online. Maximum of 15 people

A specialist guided tour of the Academy Museum’s historic keyboard collection, providing an insight into how the instrument has developed over 300 years. This tour will have a particular focus on our 1792 Broadwood square piano, allowing visitors to discover ways in which a centuries-old instrument can be brought back to life.


Chamber Music Masterclass



Student piano trios have the chance to work with acclaimed ensemble Trio Owon. 23 Monday 6.00–9.00PM FREE

Violin Masterclass



With Olivier Charlier, violinist of Trio Owon and professor of violin at the Paris Conservatoire.

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Piano Masterclass

Venue Duke’s Hall


With Orit Wolf, international solo, chamber and concerto musician.


The abingdon Quintet



Epsie Thompson fluteImogen Davies oboeSamuel Gillespie clarinetSarah Hoyle bassoonMaude Wolstenholme horn

Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik, op.24 no.2Mozart Adagio and Allegro in F minor, K.594 Ibert Trois pièces brèvesBarber Summer Music, op.31


Composers’ Project: Recorders



A concert of new works for recorders. Meaker Fellow Tabea Debus leads a project with composition students creating new works for this much neglected instrument in contemporary repertoire.

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The Barbirolli Lectures: The Principal’s interview — oliver Knussen



The Academy’s Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, Professor Oliver Knussen, discusses his life and career with Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood.

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TICKeTS Child £5, adult £3 from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Tuesday 13th December, telephone 020 7873 7300 from Tuesday 3rd January; see page 37 for full details. Maximum 3 children and 2 adults per booking

Come and discover the exciting world of instruments at the Royal Academy of Music. Inquisitive tots and parents are invited for this interactive session designed for 3- to 5-year-olds. Set in the inspiring Piano Gallery at the Academy’s Museum, we will discover instruments and explore making music as a group. Led by Open Academy Fellows and the Museum team, please bring your singing voices and listening ears!


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Piano Recital



Adrian Brendle and Anna Geniushene piano

JS Bach transcr. Busoni Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639Mozart Allegro in B flat, K.400, ‘Sophie and Constanze’Prokofiev Piano Sonata no.4 in C minor, op.29Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178


Clavichord Lecture-Recital



Steven Devine presents an overview of the intimate world of the clavichord, exploring the unique expressive capabilities of this remarkable instrument. With repertoire ranging from all periods of the clavichord literature, Steven will demonstrate how the instrument fired the imagination of composers and performers for many hundreds of years — and continues to do so. Steven will be joined by the maker of the two Academy clavichords, Peter Bavington.

Supported by the British Clavichord Society.


Harp Masterclass



With Isabelle Perrin, professor and Head of Strings and Harp at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and Visiting Professor of Harp at the Academy.


academy symphonic Wind

Venue Duke’s Hall


Keith Bragg conductor

Strauss Suite in B flat, op.4Haydn arr. Timothy Jones Symphony no.92 in G, Hob.I:92

Head of Woodwind Keith Bragg conducts Richard Strauss’s Suite in B flat for thirteen wind instruments followed by an arrangement of Haydn’s Symphony no.92 by the Academy’s Deputy Principal, Professor Timothy Jones. The work is popularly known as the ‘Oxford’ Symphony, as Haydn conducted a performance of it at a ceremony in 1791, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate at Oxford University.

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Ronald William White Prize



For the performance of a musical theatre song with dramatic content.

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Colin Currie

Venue Duke’s Hall

TICKeTS £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/events from Tuesday 13th December, telephone 020 7873 7300 from Tuesday 3rd January; see page 37 for full details

Colin Currie conductor/percussionLaura Bradford, Jacob Brown, Matthew Farthing and Emmanuel Joste percussion

Carter Figment V Per Nørgård Fire Over Water from I ChingToshio Hosokawa ReminiscenceBruno Mantovani Moi, jeu…Joseph Pereira Mallet QuartetXenakis Rebonds BSteve Reich Mallet QuartetStockhausen Vibra-ElufaRolf Wallin Realismos mágicos


Buffet Crampon Prize Winner’s Recital



Jernej Albreht clarinetJoseph Havlat piano

Reger Clarinet Sonata in F sharp minor, op.49 no.2Smit Trio for clarinet, viola and pianoLutosławski Dance Preludes

A clarinet recital given by the winner of the 2016 Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize.

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academy Manson ensemble with London sinfonietta

Venue Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX

TICKeTS £25, £20 and £15 (concessions 50% off) from Southbank Centre: www.southbankcentre.co.uk, telephone 020 7960 4200; booking fees apply

Sian Edwards conductorRolf Hind pianoAcademy Manson EnsembleLondon Sinfonietta

Thomas Adès In Seven Days

Renowned for his unique way of making the familiar seem fresh and unknown, Thomas Adès may prove to be one of the most distinctive voices of the twenty-first century. His take on the biblical story of the Creation is typically idiosyncratic. ‘It’s not a sort of chaos’, he says, ‘but like a meteorite. The story is as much scientific as it is religious.’ In Seven Days takes the complexity of the world as its starting point, pulling apart its intricate details before piecing it back together. The result is a kaleidoscopic work that is at once distinctive, eloquent and beautiful.

This project is the most recent collaboration in a series of side-by-side concerts and mentoring experiences for senior Academy students with London Sinfonietta, which began in 2002.

Part of Southbank Centre’s Belief and Beyond Belief festival.

Pre-eminent percussionist and Artist in Association at Southbank Centre and Academy professor Colin Currie performs a range of virtuosic works for solo percussion. He is joined by Academy student percussionists for two quartets by American composers Joseph Pereira and Steve Reich.

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Worshipful Company of Musicians Harriet Cohen Bach Prize



Students present their own choice of a keyboard work by JS Bach. This prize is generously sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Musicians in memory of the distinguished English pianist and Academy alumna Harriet Cohen. A second prize is awarded as the Harold Samuel Prize.

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about academy Competitions

The public are welcome to attend Academy competitions. All details are subject to change, so please visit www.ram.ac.uk/events or contact the Prizes Administrator before travelling: telephone 020 7873 7308, email [email protected]

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accordion Masterclass



With Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi, professor of accordion at the Conservatorio Torrefranca, Vibo Valentina, Italy.


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english Heritage from the Twentieth Century



Luke Hsu violinSofia Silva Sousa violaThomas Isaac celloMałgorzata Garstka piano

Walton Two Pieces for Violin and PianoClarke Viola Sonata Britten Cello Sonata, op.65

Hodgson Fellow Małgorzata Garstka presents a concert of twentieth-century English works with Academy string players.

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accordion Recital: The art of Tango



Academy accordion students present a concert alongside bandoneon virtuoso Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi.

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Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize



Students compete for a clarinet prize generously given by Buffet Crampon. The winner will give a recital at the Academy in 2017/18. Set repertoire to be announced.

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Venetian extravaganzaacademy and Juilliard Brass

directed by Reinhold Friedrich

Venue Duke’s Hall


Since 2004 the Academy and The Juilliard School have collaborated on a series of major transatlantic projects: the co-commissioning of Kommilitonen! by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and concerts at the BBC Proms, Lincoln Center and Radio City with Sir Elton John, Sir Colin Davis and John Adams. They have also worked together on numerous chamber and early music projects, including the 2015 Bach tour of New York, Boston, Leipzig and London with Masaaki Suzuki and Rachel Podger. Today’s concert is the latest collaboration, with brass players from the Academy and The Juilliard School directed by International Visiting Professor, world-renowned soloist and Principal Trumpet of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra Reinhold Friedrich on music by Giovanni Gabrieli and his contemporaries.

During the following week the ensemble will make a commercial recording of this repertoire as part of the Academy’s series with Linn Records.

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Royal academy opera at Hackney empire: orphée aux enfers

Venue Hackney Empire, 291 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ

TICKeTS £20, £22.50, £25 (concessions £15, £17.50, £20) from Hackney Empire Box Office: www.hackneyempire.co.uk, telephone 020 8985 2424. Booking fees apply; no fee for booking in person

Gareth Hancock conductorMartin Duncan directorSteve Elias choreographer Alex Doidge-Green designer

Offenbach Orphée aux enfers

Royal Academy Opera returns to the legendary Hackney Empire for Jacques Offenbach’s famous ‘opéra bouffe’, Orpheus in the Underworld. This irreverent satire was unleashed on Parisian audiences in 1858 to a combination of shock and delight: ‘a profanation of holy and glorious antiquity’, ‘a coarse and grotesque parody’, said the critics. Its many memorable set-pieces include the risqué Infernal Galop, better known as the ‘can-can’ — one of the most famous dance tunes of all time.

This new production is conducted by Gareth Hancock, Director of Royal Academy Opera. The director, Martin Duncan, promises to bring us an entertaining show that is ‘funny, colourful, all-singing and all-dancing’.

Sung in the original French with surtitles. Dialogue in English translation.

Further performances:Saturday 4th February, 7.00pmSunday 5th February, 4.00pmMonday 6th February, 7.00pm

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TICKeTS £15 (concessions £12) from the Academy’s Box Office: www.ram.ac.uk/bach at any time, telephone 020 7873 7300 reopening Tuesday 3rd January; see page 37 for full details Iain Ledingham directorMadeleine Easton leaderJoseph Beech organ*Eleanor Broomfield sopranoStefan Kennedy tenorPaul Grant baritone

JS Bach Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet, BWV 212JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 545*JS Bach Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40


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Musical Theatre Masterclass



Founder of the Musical Theatre course and Sondheim Professor of Musical Theatre Vocal Studies Mary Hammond works with MA students on a range of repertoire.

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organ Recital

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Daniel Cook and Peter Holder organ

JS Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538 JS Bach Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV 721Widor Organ Symphony no.10 in D, op.73, ‘Romane’

We welcome back two distinguished Organ Department alumni, Daniel Cook (sub-organist of Westminster Abbey) and Peter Holder (sub-organist of St Paul’s Cathedral) for the finale of our series of recitals featuring the organ symphonies of Charles-Marie Widor.


Tagus Quartet



Ariel Lang and André Pereira violinJoseph Griffin violaPedro da Silva cello

Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K.421Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor, op.44 no.2

A concert given by 2016/17 Academy Chamber Music Fellows the Tagus Quartet.

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ancestral Voices:scarlatti — 260 years later



This lecture-recital will explore the influences that formed Scarlatti as a risky virtuoso, daring harmonist, ingenious inventor and divine lyricist. Despite the relative isolation of the Spanish Court, Scarlatti’s music made an impression on his contemporaries Handel and JS Bach and later composers Soler, Clementi, Brahms and Ravel. Dr Elena Vorotko will explore Scarlatti’s legacy as well as the influences that gave rise to his genius.


Clarinet Masterclass



With Andrew Marriner, Principal Clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra and Visiting Professor of Clarinet at the Academy.


Piano Recital



Alim Beisembayev and Isata Kanneh-Mason piano

Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp, op.60Brahms Variations on a Theme of Paganini, op.35Chopin Piano Sonata in B flat minor, op.35

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The Barbirolli Lectures: Conducting at the academy since 1826



For his inaugural professorial lecture Professor of Public Engagement Professor Raymond Holden traces the fascinating history of conducting at the Academy, from the visit of Carl Maria von Weber in 1826 to the present day.

FEbRuaRy 10 FRiday 2.30–4.00PM FREE

instruments and ideas: aspects of the Bow



A new series at the Academy’s Museum. Peter Sheppard Skærved considers a variety of violin bows, from the seventeenth century to the present day. How do they work? What can we learn from them?


Composers’ Project: Pianistic innovations



Acclaimed new music pianist and Honorary Research Fellow Dr Zubin Kanga performs a recital of new works by Master’s students. This is the culmination of an extended collaborative project with the composers, exploring extended techniques on and inside the piano, as well as extensions to the piano using multimedia and interactive technologies.

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Brahms Chamber Music with Maxim Vengerov

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Andrei Iliushkin pianoMaxim Vengerov and Naoko Aoki violinSophia Rees violaCharlotte Kaslin cello Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, op.34 Charlie Dale-Harris clarinetMaxim Vengerov and Cristian Grajner De Sa violinAnita Kurowska violaPatrick Dunlea cello Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op.115

In a culmination of his years as Menuhin Professor of Music at the Academy, during which he inspired over 300 string students, Maxim Vengerov performs major chamber works by Johannes Brahms with students from three Academy departments.

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Gillian Moore presenterClaire Booth sopranoPlayers from the Nash Ensemble Academy student instrumentalists

Berg Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, op.5 Webern Piano Quintet Schoenberg Die eiserne Brigade; Ein Stelldichein; Brettl-Lieder

An introductory talk by Gillian Moore MBE, Director of Music at Southbank Centre, writer and broadcaster, followed by a concert of chamber works from the Second Viennese School. Academy students play side-by-side with members of the Nash Ensemble in Webern’s Piano Quintet and Schoenberg’s Ein Stelldichein.

This event is linked to the evening concert at 7.30pm at Wigmore Hall; see www.wigmore-hall.org.uk for further details.

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Vocal Masterclass



With Dennis O’Neill CBE, international operatic tenor and Richard Lewis Visiting Professor of Singing at the Academy.


Material Matters: Pigments and Varnish


TICKeTS Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: telephone 020 7873 7300 from Tuesday 3rd January; these tickets will not be available online Senior Research Conservator at the National Portrait Gallery Sophie Plender compares the techniques and materials used by artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in order to explore the violin varnish used by the great masters during the same period.

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Josephine Knight and Felix Schmidt directors

Programme to include:Beethoven arr. Stephen Watkins Allegretto from Symphony no.7 in A, op.92Popper arr. Valter Dešpalj Polonaise de concert, op.14Monteverdi arr. James Barralet Pur ti miro, pur ti godo from L’incoronazione di PoppeaCristóbal Halffter Fandango

Two of the Academy’s distinguished cello professors direct Academy Cello Ensemble in an assortment of original works and arrangements for a chorus of cellos. Students are selected by audition for coveted places in this elite ensemble.

The Alumni Network provides all former students of the Academy with a wide-ranging professional support service and social network, whether they graduated many decades ago or within the last few years. Alumni can keep in touch via our Online Alumni Portal and social media groups, and enjoy many exclusive benefits including an Alumni Card.

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academy song Circle: ‘Love loves to love’



‘Love loves to love’ — James Joyce

A recital to celebrate Valentine’s Day including songs and duets in English, French and German which explore the theme of love in a variety of moods: flirtatious, sentimental, sad, bitter and, of course, romantic.


Historical Performance Masterclass



Rachel Podger, expert historical musician and Micaela Comberti Chair of Baroque Violin, works with Academy students on repertoire by JS Bach and his contemporaries.

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Now in its third year, the Academy Jazz Festival has become an annual fixture and this year it takes on an international flavour with a host of especially invited guests representing France, the USA, Brazil and the UK.

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Jazz Festival ensemble



The first night of concerts for our 2017 Academy International Jazz Festival. Students are placed in mixed year groups and work intensively with a host of distinguished international visiting artists. Tonight’s guest ensemble leaders are leading Paris-based drummer André Charlier, renowned Brazilian guitarist Lupa Santiago and our very own vibes and drum superstar Jim Hart, now based in France.


Jazz Festival ensemble



Tonight’s guest ensemble leaders are the London-based MOBO-nominated US bassist Michael Janisch, celebrated French pianist/organist Benoît Sourisse and global vibraphone legend Joe Locke.

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Piano Masterclass



With Pascal Rogé, master and ambassador of modern French piano repertoire and Visiting Professor of Piano at the Academy.


Mica Comberti Prize



A prize for the performance of any complete work by JS Bach for violin, viola or viola da gamba.

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Chetham’s Chamber orchestra

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Stephen Threlfall conductorLia Tang violin

Walton Suite from Henry VProkofiev Violin Concerto no.1, op.19 Korngold Tänzchen im alten StilGinastera Variaciones concertantes, op.23

The Academy is delighted to welcome senior students from Chetham’s School of Music, the UK’s largest specialist music school, bringing their youthful flair and astonishing virtuosity to London with a programme opening with Walton’s Suite from Henry V, written for the 1944 film. The fluid virtuosity of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto is followed by the vibrant energy of Korngold’s pastiche of traditional Viennese dances. Finally Ginastera’s variations, each one reflecting the distinctive character of a different instrument, develops through ever-evolving moods the rich melodies of Argentina.


The spencer Collection: a Musical Banquet —a Curator’s Tour



Join Museum Curator Joanna Tapp for this guided tour of our current exhibition which explores the extraordinary collection of lutenist and guitarist Robert Spencer. Hear about the process of creating the displays and learn more about the objects on show. There will also be an opportunity to view the exhibition film, which features many of Spencer’s friends and collaborators.


The Henry Wood Lectures: david strange



Renowned cellist and much respected pedagogue Professor David Strange reflects on his long and distinguished life and career with Professor Raymond Holden.

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Russian Chamber Music



This is the first performance in a series focusing on Russian chamber music. See pages 22–23 for full details.


Piano accompaniment Masterclass



With Bengt Forsberg, distinguished Swedish pianist and Visiting Professor of Ensemble Piano at the Academy.

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Russian Bayan Lecture



Friedrich Lips, professor at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and Visiting Professor of Accordion at the Academy, gives a lecture on Russian bayan repertoire.

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Cello Masterclass



Steven Doane, Visiting Professor of Cello at the Academy, gives one of his renowned masterclasses.


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Guitar students delve behind the scenes at the Museum and present their findings at this event. The Academy’s Spencer Collection is the focus of their explorations — a wondrous array of instruments and music from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, amassed by lutenist and guitarist Robert Spencer. The students will perform their discoveries and discuss the process of working with original materials. This event complements our current exhibition, The Spencer Collection: A Musical Banquet, on display in the Academy’s Museum.


Composers’ Project: CHRoMa



Award-winning ensemble CHROMA return to the Academy to give a concert of new works by composition students.

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This year the Academy’s annual chamber music festival focuses on Russia, following the relatively short journey from Glinka, ‘the father of Russian music’, through to the present day. Our earliest selected work is Glinka’s unmistakably Chopinesque Trio pathétique for piano, clarinet and bassoon, written in 1832. Like Chopin, Glinka’s influences included Hummel, John Field and Bellini. The elegance of early European Romanticism was a continuing influence on Russian music throughout the nineteenth century, evident not only in Tchaikovsky, whose First String Quartet is said to have moved Pushkin to tears, but also in Arensky’s Piano Trio in D minor of 1894. Pre-dating this masterpiece by two years was the first Trio élégiaque of Arensky’s student Rachmaninov, written at the age of nineteen and already indicative of the supreme pianistic heights to which he would raise the bar. Whilst Rachmaninov and Glazunov persisted with their Romantic musical styles long into the twentieth century, others explored more acerbic, ironic musical languages, reflecting the turmoil of war, revolution and political upheaval. The conflict between the harshness of life under Stalin and the perceived need to placate him is particularly evident in the works of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Sofia Gubaidulina, unquestionably one of the most important composers of the second half of the twentieth century, along with Schnittke, was bravely unconcerned by the demands of political leaders. Along with Efrem Podgaits she continues to represent Russian music well into the twenty-first century. Please join us as our students celebrate Russia’s unique musical contribution of the past 200 years.


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Doric String QuartetBehn QuartetPedro da Silva cello

Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet, op.11 Glazunov Quintet, op.39

We are delighted to welcome the Academy’s Teaching Quartet in Association, the Doric String Quartet, to perform with Chamber Music Fellows the Behn Quartet in Shostakovich’s Two Pieces for String Octet. Pedro da Silva will then join them for a performance of Glazunov’s Quintet.


de Profundis



Katariina Ahjoniemi, Junchi Deng, Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade, Iosif Purits, Benjamin de Souza and Ilona Suomalainen accordionHenry Hargreaves celloWilliam White clarinet

Zolotaryov Sonata no.3 (excerpts)Sofia Gubaidulina De ProfundisEfrem Podgaits Ave Maria; Rendezvous with HaydnZolotaryov Rondo capriccioso

This concert will be followed by a lecture on Russian bayan repertoire by Visiting Professor of Accordion Friedrich Lips; see page 21.


shostakovich Chamber Music



Joel Siepmann celloFee Blumenthaler piano Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor, op.40 Bella Tang pianoAna Beatriz Rola violinCarolyn Ronning cello Shostakovich Piano Trio no.1 in C minor, op.8

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Fitzroy and Kirkman Quartets



Fitzroy Quartet Kirkman Quartet Ariel Lanyi piano

Tchaikovsky String Quartet in D, op.11Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, op.57


Russian Wind Music



Jagoda Krzemin ´ska, Imogen Morrall, Jack Reddick, Rachel Susser and Amy Yule fluteJernej Albreht clarinetHalcyon QuartetAnna Geniushene and Harry Rylance piano

Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes, op.34Sofia Gubaidulina Quartet for Four FlutesProkofiev Flute Sonata in D, op.94


Romances and Poems



Milly Forrest and Ilona Revolskaya sopranoAda Maria Witczyk violinKalle-Pekka Koponen celloZuzanna Basin ´ska and Cameron Richardson-Eames piano

Shostakovich Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok, op.127 Prokofiev Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova, op.27


a Russian elegy



Anna Szalucka pianoRoma Tic violinJoanna Gutowska cello Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque no.1 in G minor Alexandra Gracheva pianoFitzroy Quartet Schnittke Piano Quintet

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Hao Zi Yoh pianoMakoto Nakata violinDaryl Giuliano cello Arensky Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, op.32 Charlie Dale-Harris clarinetMatthew Kitteringham bassoonAmiran Zenaishvili piano Glinka Trio pathétique for clarinet, bassoon and piano Andrei Iliushkin pianoJure Oštir violinCharlotte Kaslin cello Shostakovich Piano Trio no.2 in E minor, op.67

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Trevor Pinnock conducts academy Chamber orchestra

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Haydn Symphony no.52 in B flat, Hob.I:51Mozart Symphony no.39 in E flat, K.543

The Academy’s Principal Guest Conductor, Trevor Pinnock, returns to conduct Academy Chamber Orchestra in Haydn’s Symphony no.51 as part of our project to perform all of the composer’s symphonies. This is accompanied by Mozart’s Symphony no.39, the first of a set of three symphonies (the composer’s last) written in 1788.

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Joan Chissell schumann Lieder Prize: Final



Including the Rex Stephens Prize for Accompanists. Founded in memory of Joan Chissell, revered critic and Schumann authority, and Rex Stephens, former Academy professor of accompaniment. Selected students will each perform a recital of Lieder lasting 25–30 minutes, including works by Schumann.


Trumpet Masterclass



With Eric Aubier, international soloist and Visiting Professor of Trumpet at the Academy.


accordion Masterclass



With Friedrich Lips, renowned Russian accordionist, Visiting Professor of Accordion at the Academy and professor at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow.

26 sunday 11.00aM–6.00PM FREE

strings Performance Prize day

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Winifred Small Prize for ViolinTheodore Holland Prize for ViolaMay Mukle/Douglas Cameron Cello Sonata PrizeDouble Bass Prize

The day will comprise four separate prizes, which will take place concurrently. For further information, please email [email protected] or visit the website. Please note the start times for each competition will vary. Set repertoire to be announced.

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Jane Cowan Remembered

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Steven Doane leads a musical tribute to the inspirational cello teacher Jane Cowan with reminiscences from former pupils including Steven Isserlis and David Waterman. Presented in partnership with the London Cello Society.

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HL Hammond Prize



A prize for verse speaking, in exploration of the musicality of language. Open to Musical Theatre and Vocal Faculty students.







american experimentalism study day



A series of talks and performances around the music of John Cage and Morton Feldman. David Cline will present his new book on Feldman’s graphic notation; Martin Iddon and Philip Thomas will discuss their major research collaboration on Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra; and Anthony Gritten will give a paper on Cage and Marcel Duchamp. There will also be a round-table discussion and performances of some of the music featured during the day by members of the Academy’s Performing Experimental Music class.

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A prize for solo piccolo, generously sponsored by Jonathan Myall. Set repertoire to be announced.







organ Masterclass

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With Bine Katrine Bryndorf, acclaimed Danish organist and Visiting Professor of Organ at the Academy.

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With Patrick Messina, international soloist, Principal Clarinet of the Orchestre National de France and Visiting Professor of Clarinet at the Academy.


Harold Craxton Prize



A prize for chamber ensembles with piano. Students are asked to prepare their own choice of complete piano ensemble works.


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Venue Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London W1C 2DJ


Mark David conductor

Bernstein arr. Eric Crees West Side Story SuiteProkofiev arr. Paul Archibald Romeo and Juliet Suite

Head of Brass Mark David conducts Academy Symphonic Brass at The Salvation Army’s Oxford Street venue, Regent Hall, in a programme of popular suites arranged for brass ensemble.

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Iain Ledingham directorMargaret Faultless leaderMarko Sever organ*Lorena Paz Nieto sopranoAlexander Simpson countertenor Emanuel Heitz tenorMichael Mofidian bass-baritone

JS Bach Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren, BWV 154JS Bach O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, BWV 656*JS Bach Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215


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With Susan Bullock CBE, international dramatic soprano and Marjorie Thomas Visiting Professor of Singing.

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30 years of Jazz: academy Big Band presents the Music of Gareth Lockrane

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Nick Smart conductorGareth Lockrane fluteAcademy Big Band

The first concert commemorating thirty years of jazz at the Academy is a suitably special occasion. Flautist and composer Gareth Lockrane graduated from the Academy in 1998. He has since steadily forged an international reputation as a jazz musician, not only as one of the leading exponents of his instrument anywhere in the world, but also as one of the most dazzlingly fluent and virtuosic improvisers on the contemporary scene. He is a member of the Jazz Department’s teaching faculty and Director of Junior Jazz.

In a career that has spanned the jazz and pop worlds Gareth Lockrane has collaborated and recorded with artists including Bheki Mseleku, Jack DeJohnette, Phil Robson, Tommy Smith, Laurence Cottle, Christine Tobin, the James Taylor Quartet, Incognito, Michael Kiwanuka and many more. He has released three of his own critically acclaimed albums: with his Grooveyard band (Put the Cat Out in 2003 and Mojo Jazz Album of the Year The Strut in 2012) and with his septet (No Messin', Parliamentary Jazz Album of the Year in 2010), and most recently recorded the debut album with his own big band, due for release later this year.

Gareth Lockrane is equally celebrated as a composer and arranger. He first formed his big band in 2008 (after completing an MA in Film Composition at the National Film and Television School), and they have performed many concerts in London and around the UK including a number of sell-out dates at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. Tonight we are delighted to present this concert featuring many of Gareth’s most recent works featuring the acclaimed Academy Big Band.

‘... Lockrane is an exceptional soloist with an improvisatory confidence that’s quite startling.’ — Peter Vacher, Jazzwise Magazine

‘... Flute phenomenon!...’ — Jack Massarik, London Evening Standard

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TICKeTS Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: telephone 020 7873 7300 from Tuesday 3rd January; these tickets will not be available online Writer and broadcaster Paul Morley interviews internationally acclaimed Danish composer Bent Sørensen.


Flute Masterclass



With Emily Beynon, Visiting Professor of Flute at the Academy and Principal Flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam.

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Guitar Chamber Music



Leo Brouwer Acerca del cielo, el aire y la sonrisaElgar Sevillaña, op.7Giuliani Concerto in A, op.30Gnattali SonataStephen Goss Carmen FantasyNikita Koshkin L’istesso tempoGiacomo Susani Five Miniatures Songs by Dominick Argento, Britten, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Schubert

Academy guitarists collaborate with vocal and string students to present a richly varied programme.






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Composer in Residence: Bent sørensen

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Christopher Austin conductorIosif Purits accordion

Bent Sørensen Sinful SongsBent Sørensen Looking on Darkness Rubens Askenar new workBent Sørensen Pantomime — Papillons

Esteemed Danish composer Bent Sørensen is in residence for three days working with composition students and performers, culminating in this evening’s concert of his work. Also featuring a new commission by Academy MPhil composer Rubens Askenar.

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Wolfe Wolfinsohn string Quartet Prize



Generously supported by the family of Wolfe Wolfinsohn, this prize is open to all student string quartets at the Academy, who are asked to prepare either Szymanowski’s String Quartet no.1 in C, Kodály’s String Quartet no.2 or Bartók’s String Quartet no.3.

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A prize for solo oboe. Set repertoire to be announced.


academy Baroque orchestra

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Margaret Faultless directorHenry Tong violin

Haydn Symphony no.22 in E flat, ‘The Philosopher’, Hob.I:22 Haydn Violin Concerto in C, Hob.VIIa:1Haydn Symphony no.30 in C, ‘Alleluia’, Hob.I:30

The Academy’s Haydn symphonies project continues with a performance on historical instruments of two distinctive symphonies, plus the composer’s Violin Concerto in C. Symphony no.22, ‘The Philosopher’, is striking for its unusual texture featuring two oboes da caccia in the opening movement, and contrasts with no.30, the joyful ‘Alleluia’ Symphony, with its more conventional scoring but typically inventive use of instrumental colours.


From Cremona to London — a Curator’s Tour

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In this specialist guided tour the Museum’s Curator of Instruments, Barbara Meyer, explores the secrets and wonders of the Academy’s stringed instrument collection.

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João Lima, Merlin Miller and Giacomo Susani guitar

Gibbons A FancyTippett The Blue Guitar Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland, op.70Walton Five Bagatelles

This concert continues the Academy’s unique series of programmes featuring music from the two Elizabethan eras.


Jazz ensembles



Following collaboration with distinguished musicians, the Jazz Department’s Ensemble Concert Series begins with performances from our students.


Fortepiano Masterclass



Pianist and conductor Robert Levin, renowned for his improvised embellishments and cadenzas in Classical period repertoire, coaches fortepianists and other Academy students in what promises to be a fascinating masterclass.

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The Barbirolli Lectures: sir Mark elder at 70



In the first of three interviews to mark his seventieth birthday, Sir Mark Elder discusses his approach to the great German masters with Professor Raymond Holden.


academy symphonic Brass

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Mike Lovatt director

Allan Botschinsky Interlude no.4; October Sunshine; Kubismus 502; Don’t Shoot the Banjo Player; Toot your Roots; Lady in Blue; Alster Promenade; Chops à la Salsa; Love WaltzBrahms arr. Allan Botschinsky Wiegenlied

Mike Lovatt, Principal Trumpet of the John Wilson Orchestra and Derek Watkins Chair of Trumpet at the Academy, directs Academy Symphonic Brass in a programme of original music and arrangements by Danish jazz trumpeter, conductor and composer Allan Botschinsky from the First Brass album of 1986, which also featured former Academy professor Derek Watkins, Bart van Lier and Erik van Lier.


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Kilian van Rooij violinCostanza Principe piano

Brahms Violin Sonata in D minor, op.108Clara Schumann Three Romances for violin and piano, op.22Brahms Scherzo from F-A-E Sonata


double Bass Masterclass



With Joel Quarrington, Visiting Artist in Double Bass.


nancy nuttall early Music Prize

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Generously supported by Nancy Nuttall, this prize is for historically informed performances of pre-1800 chamber music.

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Royal academy opera scenes

Venue Rudolf Steiner Theatre, 35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT


Oliver Gooch conductorBruno Ravella director

Singers from Royal Academy Opera work with conductor Oliver Gooch and director Bruno Ravella in excerpts from a range of operas.

An additional performance will take place on Friday 17th March at 6.00pm.


Cello Masterclass



Hannah Roberts gives an inaugural masterclass to celebrate her appointment to the Academy cello faculty. This is one of our Strings at Home classes showcasing the talented teachers in the Strings Department.


sainsbury Royal academy soloists

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Clio Gould director/violinSoloists to be announced

Grieg Holberg Suite, op.40Phi Bui new workShostakovich Piano Concerto no.1, op.35

The Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists are the Academy’s elite string ensemble, directed from the violin by eminent soloist and orchestral leader Clio Gould. Today’s concert features Grieg’s work in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Danish-Norwegian humanist playwright Ludvig Holberg, subtitled ‘Suite in olden style’, followed by a new commission by Academy postgraduate composition student Phi Bui. Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto no.1 concludes the programme, noted for its neo-Baroque combination of instruments. Despite its title, the work is really a concerto for piano and trumpet, the latter playing a central role in its virtuosic interjections throughout the piece.

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Listening to Recordings: samuil Feinberg plays Bach’s ‘48’



Introducing a new termly series, each event considering a significant recording. Daniel-Ben Pienaar discusses and plays excerpts from Samuil Feinberg’s highly personal and thoroughly pianistic 1959–62 reading of Bach’s iconic collection.

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Royal academy opera scenes

Venue Rudolf Steiner Theatre, 35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT


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Berio Folk influences

Venue Duke’s Hall


Hannah Bennett mezzo-soprano

Silvija Šcerbavici –ut e fluteCharlie Dale-Harris clarinetOscar Holch violaThomas Isaac celloElizabeth Bass harpLaura Bradford and Jacob Brown percussion

Berio NaturaleBerio Folk Songs

Final-year undergraduate viola student Oscar Holch presents a concert of music by Italian composer Luciano Berio.


Guitar Recital: Music for shakespeare



Bernstein arr. Richard Storry West Side Story SuiteStephen Goss Songs of OpheliaNed Rorem Romeo and JulietWilliamson Three Shakespeare Songsand other settings by Johnson, Morley, Purcell, Schubert, Sibelius, Carter and Fricker

Academy guitarists join vocal and woodwind students in a fascinating sequence of songs and instrumental music to celebrate William Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary.

18 saTuRday 3.45PM FREE

Junior academy symphony orchestra

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Howard Williams conductor

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

After a number of hugely successful years conducting the Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra, this concert marks Howard Williams’s farewell to the Junior Academy.

20 Monday 10.30aM–1.30PM FREE

Flute Masterclass



With William Bennett, international soloist and Academy professor.

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Musical Tours: British and Viennese Fortepianos — The Battle of inventions


TICKeTS Free tickets available from the Academy’s Box Office: telephone 020 7873 7300 from Tuesday 13th January; these tickets will not be available online. Maximum of 15 people

In this musical tour Dr Elena Vorotko will highlight the differences between the British and Viennese early fortepianos. The battleground of sound and textures between the rival firms was the hub of inspiration for Classical composers. The musical commentary to the story will be given through works by JC Bach, Clementi, Field, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.

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academy Composers’ Platform

Venue The Forge, 3–7 Delancey Street, London NW1 7NL

TICKeTS £10 (concessions £7) from www.forgevenue.org

A performance of original works by composition students.

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Brass Chamber Music



Cameron Johnson, Jason Owen Lewis and Samuel Pierce trumpetJamie Tweed and Benny Vernon trombone Joshua Cirtina bass tromboneStuart Beard tuba

Britten Fanfare for St EdmundsburyHandel arr. Simon Cox Suite from Rinaldo, HWV 7Prokofiev arr. Simon Cox Suite from Ten Pieces for Piano, op.12Oskar Böhme Brass Sextet in E flat minor, op.30

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Harp Chamber Music



Cras Quintet for harp, flute, violin, viola and celloIbert Trio for violin, cello and harpRichard Bissill Three Dance Sketches for harp quartet

The Harp Department collaborates with string and woodwind students.


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With Simon Keenlyside HonRAM, international operatic baritone. This is a Sterndale Bennett Masterclass.

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Manuel López-Gómez conductor

Ravel La valseDebussy La merFalla El sombrero de tres picos: Suite no.2

Venezuelan conductor Manuel López-Gómez makes his second appearance with Academy Symphony Orchestra in a programme of French and Spanish music from the early twentieth century.

Ravel’s ‘poème choréographique’, inspired by the Viennese waltz style, was initially conceived as a ballet but is now more often performed as a concert work. Following this will be Debussy’s three symphonic sketches inspired by the sea and composed in France and then Eastbourne. The programme concludes with Manuel de Falla’s Suite from The Three-Cornered Hat, a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and choreographed by Léonide Massine, influenced by traditional Spanish dance.

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nicholas Blake ensemble Prize



A prize for woodwind instrumental ensembles. Students are asked to prepare a fifteen-minute recital of their own choice.


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Following collaboration with distinguished musicians, the Jazz Department’s Ensemble Concert Series continues with performances from our students.

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Music for the ‘sun King’

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London Handel PlayersAcademy Baroque EnsembleLaurence Cummings directorAdrian Butterfield violinRachel Brown fluteMilly Forrest sopranoMary Collins and Steven Player dancers

Handel’s music served London’s fashionable society and its tastes. Despite a German monarchy and an essentially Italian opera-loving British public there was still an insatiable appetite for French dance. Pierre Rameau’s 1725 dance manual, Le maître à danser, states proudly: ‘There is hardly a court in Europe where the dancing master is not French.’ King Louis XIV’s passion for dancing had inspired not only much of Europe to dance with him but also many of Europe’s composers to write exquisite dance music.

Academy Baroque Ensemble performs side-by-side with the London Handel Players in a collaboration with choreographer Mary Collins and her dancing partner Steven Player performing dances written for Louis the ‘Sun King’. We will see and hear the influence his court had on music across Europe in repertoire by Handel, Lully, Couperin, Rebel, Purcell and Corelli. Directed by Laurence Cummings, who is the Academy’s William Crotch Professor of Historical Performance.

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Material Matters: Paper



Book, manuscript and paper conservator Veronica Zoppi examines the use of this versatile material for musical manuscripts and instrument labels in her talk, entitled ‘Paper, a long-lasting love through centuries’.






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March/ april How to bookMost events are free, with no tickets required.

PATrOnS’ PriOriTy BOOkingPriority booking day for Patrons, for all ticketed events:monday 12th December. Open 10.00am–4.00pm, by telephone 020 7873 7300 and in person.

generAl BOOkingwww.ram.ac.uk/events at any timeOnline from 10.00am on Tuesday 13th December. Please note that events that are free, but with tickets required, cannot be booked online.

Telephone 020 7873 7300 or in person:10.00am–4.00pm, Monday–Friday. Open for bookings by phone and in person from 10.00am on Tuesday 3rd january for all ticketed events. The Academy has a telephone queuing system: your call will be answered as soon as the previous customer’s transaction has been completed.

Bach Cantatas, www.ram.ac.uk/bach2017 performances are on sale online now. Booking by phone and in person will resume on Tuesday 3rd january.

Tickets can be collected during Box Office hours,or from 45 minutes before the performance.Doors open 30 minutes before the performance.

Detailed information on attending events, step-free access, travelling to the Academy and more is available at www.ram.ac.uk/events

The Academy reserves the right to alter advertised programmes. To check details please visitwww.ram.ac.uk/events or call the Box Office.

Filming and photographyMany of our events are filmed and/or photographed for the Academy’s archive and promotional purposes. No unauthorised photography or recording is permitted.

Hire our musiciansTo hire Academy performers for your event, please contact the External Bookings Manager: telephone 020 7873 7304 or email [email protected]

Keep in touchTo receive Academy event updates by post oremail, please send your contact details [email protected] or telephone 020 7873 7318.

SOCiAl MediAfacebook.com/royalacademyofmusictwitter.com/RoyalAcadMusicinstagram.com/royalacademyofmusic snapchat.com/add/royalacadmusic

How to find usThe Academy stands at the edge of Marylebone Village on Marylebone Road, a few minutes’ walk from either Baker Street or Regent’s Park tube station.

STeP-free ACCeSSMuseum and York Gate rooms: ramped access via the side entrance.David Josefowitz Recital Hall: there is ramped access via the side entrance to the Museumand wheelchairs can be easily accommodated.Duke’s Hall and Henry Wood Room: wheelchair access is also through the side entrance to the Museum.

Alumni Networkwww.ram.ac.uk/alumni

The Alumni Network provides all former students of the Academy with a wide-ranging professional support service and social network, whether they graduated many decades ago or within the last few years. Alumni can keep in touch via our Online Alumni Portal and social media groups, and enjoy many exclusive benefits including an Alumni Card.

Alumni Network Extra Events Tuesday 14th February Academy Cello Ensemble

We look forward to welcoming alumni of all generations at our new series of mini-reunion events, featuring exclusive post-performance social opportunities to meet and greet performers, conductors, associated artists, staff and each other. Book via www.ram.ac.uk/alumni

Visit our MuseumExplore unique instruments, manuscripts and art, and discover behind-the-scenes stories from the Academy, the UK’s oldest conservatoire:

— Three themed galleries

— Temporary exhibitions

— Guided tours

— Keyboard demonstrations

— Special events and lecture-recitals

— Family days and children’s trails

The Museum is open weekdays 11.30am–5.30pm and Saturdays 12.00 noon–4.00pm (closed December and public holidays).

Our current temporary exhibition, The Spencer Collection: A Musical Banquet, is open from Tuesday 3rd January 2017 to Saturday 31st March 2018. The exhibition celebrates Robert Spencer’s important part in the early music revival and his wondrous collection of artefacts held at our Museum. The Spencer Collection is a feast for the senses, particularly rich in the development of plucked string instruments and the early guitar. See a Baroque lute from 1585 that may have provided entertainment at a Tudor banquet, and a Panormo guitar from 1848 that was perhaps the favourite instrument of an accomplished young lady. Pique your curiosity with guitar songs printed on playing cards, and with one of only two surviving examples of the handwriting of the great English Renaissance musician John Dowland (1563–1626).

Admission is free. More information about the Museum, its collections and activities is available at www.ram.ac.uk/museum

On the ground floor of the Museum, the Academy Chimes shop has a wide range of printed music, books and accessories, as well as Academy-themed gifts. Open weekdays 9.00am–5.30pm and Saturdays 9.00am–4.00pm; telephone 020 7873 7400. www.ram.ac.uk/academy-chimes


Iain Ledingham directorMargaret Faultless leaderHannah Bennett mezzo-soprano Tenor and bass soloists to be announced

JS Bach Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103JS Bach Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135JS Bach Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104


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Bach Cantatas, in collaboration with the Kohn Foundation

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A special chance to name your own seat in our new Theatre and recital Hall or pay homage to someone who has inspired you. Our dazzling new Theatre and Recital Hall will open in early 2018. The careers of countless young musicians will be launched within these world-class performance spaces, and unforgettable musical memories created for students and audiences alike.

To enable us to reach our final fundraising target, we are now inviting you to name a seat in our new Theatre or Recital Hall. It could bear your own name, or you could dedicate the seat to someone who has inspired you. Perhaps your mentor or teacher? Someone you have known well or have admired from afar? A living legend or a musician who flourished many generations ago? A member of your family or a friend...? every gift will

have a huge impact on the inspiring young musicians and their inspirational teachers who make the Academy so special.

To find out more, visit

www.ram.ac.uk/inspiring or contact us:telephone 020 7873 7334 email [email protected]

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Gustav Mahler Symphony no.2, ‘Resurrection’

Thursday 22nd June 20177.30pm

VENUE Royal Festival hallTICKETS £20, £15, £10, £7.50 (concessions 50% off) from Southbank centre: www.southbankcentre.co.uk, telephone 020 7960 4200; booking fees apply

Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists Semyon Bychkov conductor

academy Symphony Orchestra, chorus and Soloists perform mahler’s monumental and kaleidoscopic reflections on life, redemption and resurrection.

There is no interval in this performance, which ends at approximately 9.00pm

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Thursday 22nd June 20177.30pm

VENUE Royal Festival HallTICKETS £20, £15, £10, £7.50 (concessions 50% off) from Southbank Centre: www.southbankcentre.co.uk, telephone 020 7960 4200; booking fees apply

Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists Semyon Bychkov conductor

Academy Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists perform Mahler’s monumental and kaleidoscopic reflections on life, redemption and resurrection.

There is no interval in this performance, which ends at approximately 9.00pm

Hear top young musicians from 'one of the world’s greatest conservatoires'

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I am a UK Tax Payer. Please treat as Gift Aid Donations all qualifying gifts of money made to the Academy today, in the past 4 years and in the future. Note to supporter: You must pay an amount of Income Tax for each year that is at least equal to the amount of tax that the Academy will reclaim. (The tax reclaimed is currently 25p for every 100p you give). If you pay less Income and/or Capital Gains Tax in the current tax year than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all your donations, it is your responsibility to pay any difference.

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As we aim to remain at the forefront of the leading international conservatoires, your contribution will provide a vital source of support for Academy students, who will in turn become the artists of tomorrow.

We hope you choose to play a role in the future of the Academy and its students.

Please return this form to:Joana WitkowskiHead of Fundraising Royal Academy of Music Marylebone RoadLondon NW1 5HT

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Level 1: £100— Priority booking for performances— Academy Bulletin and termly Diary of Events

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Level 4, 5 and 6: Gifts of £1,000, £5,000 and £10,000In addition to receiving all the benefits above, high-level Patrons are invited to private events with our inspiring young musicians and illustrious alumni and Visiting Professors — some of the leading musicians of our time. They also enjoy privileged access to our Patrons’ Room and to the treasures in our Library and Museum collections, as well as other benefits tailored to enhance their enjoyment of the great world of music the Academy has to offer.

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