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Cambridge University Musical Society

West Road Concert Hall

11 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

www.cums.org.uk

Principal Guest Conductor Sir Roger Norrington CBE

Principal Conductor CUMS Chorus Stephen Cleobury CBE

Principal Conductor CUMS Symphony Orchestra Martin Yates

Principal Guest Conductor Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra

Peter Stark

Directors Cambridge University Chamber Choir Martin Ennis,

David Lowe and Mark Williams

For more information about CUMS, our concerts, booking tickets,

receiving our e-newsletters or getting involved, please visit our website,

www.cums.org.uk, or email Chloe Davidson at [email protected]

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8 Fri 21 Sep 2012, 4.30pm Alumni weekend ‘Come & Sing’ King’s College Chapel

8 Sat 27 Oct 2012, 8pm CUMS Symphony Orchestra: Elgar’s Sea Pictures and

Sibelius’ Symphony No.2 West Road Concert Hall

9 Sat 3 Nov 2012, 8pm Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra performs

Ravel’s Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Symphony No.6 West Road Concert Hall

9 Mon 12 Nov 2012 Sir Colin Davis explores Beethoven West Road Concert Hall

10 Fri 16 Nov 2012, 8pm David Lowe directs Cambridge University Chamber Choir Jesus College Chapel

11 Thu 22 Nov 2012, 8pm Cambridge University Wind Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

11 Sat 24 Nov 2012, 8pm Martin Yates conducts CUMS Symphony Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

12 Tue 27 Nov 2012, 8pm CUMS Concert Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

12 Fri 30 Nov 2012, 8pm Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra performs Ligeti,

Strauss and Mozart West Road Concert Hall

14 Sat 1 Dec 2012, 8pm Stephen Cleobury conducts The Creation King’s College Chapel

15 Sat 19 Jan 2013, 8pm Sir Roger Norrington conducts Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis King’s College Chapel

16 Fri 15 Feb 2013, 8pm Cambridge University Chamber Choir St John’s College Chapel

16 Sat 16 Feb 2013, 8pm Cambridge University Chamber Choir Girton College Hall

16 Mon 25 Feb 2013, 8pm Cambridge and Oxford University Wind Orchestras’ Varsity Concert Trinity College Chapel

17 Sat 2 Mar 2013, 8pm Peter Stark conducts Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

17 Wed 6 Mar 2013 Cambridge University Wind Orchestra Concert for Schools West Road Concert Hall

17 Fri 8 Mar 2013, 8pm Stephen Cleobury conducts CUMS Chorus Wesley Methodist Church

18 Sat 9 Mar 2013, 8pm Peter Donohoe performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3 West Road Concert Hall

19 Tue 12 Mar 2013, 8pm CUMS Concert Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

18 Fri 15 Mar 2013, 7.30pm Peter Donohoe performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3 Cadogan Hall, London

19 Sat 16 Mar 2013, 5.30pm King’s College Foundation Concert King’s College Chapel

20 Sat 11 May 2013, 8pm Peter Ash conducts Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra and

Cambridge University Chamber Choir West Road Concert Hall

21 Thu 16 May 2013, 8pm Cambridge University Wind Orchestra and CUMS Concert Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

21 Sat 15 Jun 2013, 8pm May Week Concert King’s College Chapel

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It gives me great pleasure to introduce the CUMS 2012–13

season, which brings together an exciting and varied

programme of over 40 concerts exploring music from

Monteverdi and Gabrieli to Gershwin and Bernstein.

Our Great Conductors series continues this year with visits

from the legendary conductor Sir Colin Davis, who explores

Beethoven’s Symphony No.6 with the Cambridge University

Chamber Orchestra, and Sir Roger Norrington, who conducts

Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at King’s in January.

In March the Cambridge University Chamber Choir and

Cambridge University Collegium Musicum team up with His

Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts to perform music by

Monteverdi and Gabrieli.

CUCO celebrates the hundredth birthday of Benjamin

Britten – who was a regular CUMS conductor between 1959

and 1971 – with performances of the Cello Symphony and the

Suite on English Folk Tunes. The orchestra is on a high,

having just released its wonderful new recording of Mozart

and Haydn with Sir Roger Norrington.

Under its Principal Conductor Martin Yates the CUMS

Symphony Orchestra performs Rachmaninov’s Piano

Concerto No.3 at London’s Cadogan Hall with acclaimed

pianist Peter Donahoe, and gives the world première of Dead

Resonance by our Composer-in-Residence Ewan Campbell. It

also looks forward to performing two Sibelius symphonies

with our Brenda Charters Conducting Scholar William Cole.

The CUMS Chorus explores three great works under

Stephen Cleobury’s baton – Haydn’s The Creation, Rossini’s

La Petite Messe Solennelle, and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast.

The CUMS Concert Orchestra looks forward to an exciting

programme including Mahler’s Symphony No.4 under Mark

Gotham, and the Cambridge University Wind Orchestra

continues to reach out to the local community with its

popular Concert for Schools. The Cambridge University

Lunchtime Concerts (admission free!) continue to showcase

the best of Cambridge’s musical talent for a growing and

enthusiastic audience.

Reflecting on the importance of CUMS’ work I was

touched to read a blog entry penned recently by one of our

horn players – a student on a one-year exchange programme

from the United States. He wrote:

‘There are quite a few good things about the opportunity of

studying at Cambridge. For me, the largest part of the

experience is the opportunity I’ve had to perform. At home,

I was the only horn player – one out of 1200 students. Here,

however, everything’s different. While not a music school in

purpose, Cambridge is fantastically musical; there are

opportunities to play everywhere. Last Saturday, I

performed Wagner’s Parsifal, Act 3 in an extravagant

concert at King’s College Chapel. The orchestra was made

up of the very best undergraduate players in the whole

University, and will probably be the best I will ever play in

unless I pursue a career in performance. This was a

particularly big event because the man in charge was

famous British conductor Sir Mark Elder. The concert itself

went fabulously. I had a very pronounced solo in the Wagner

and it went off without a hitch. I will remember this

concert for the rest of my life.’

Touching lives with the power of music is CUMS’ raison

d’être. I can’t begin to thank all those whose support, financial

and practical, has enabled us to plan the wonderful season

ahead. I look forward to sharing with you many moving

musical experiences in the year to come.Simon Fairclough

Chairman, Cambridge University Musical Society


Tuesday 5 FebruarySong Cycles by Ewan Campbell (CUMS Composer-in-

Residence)

Tuesday 12 Feburary 1pm–2pmbritten s infonia performs works by Copland and

Shostakovich alongside Britten’s Three Divertimenti

(Ticket prices start at £3. To purchase tickets please visit

www.brittensinfonia .com)

Tuesday 19 February lee hall, wolfson c ollege

Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit and a selection of other works, with

Ben Comeau, piano

Tuesday 26 February 1.10pm–2.15pmPerformances by the finalists of the CUMS Concerto

Competition

Tuesday 5 Marchc ollegium musicum performs Rebel’s Les Caractères de

la Danse

Tuesday 12 March Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence performed by the

capric cio sextet

Easter Term 2013Tuesday 9 April 1pm–2pmClosing britten s infonia ’s At Lunch series is Britten’s

Suite for Harp and two of Bridge’s most loved works



Tuesday 23 April trinity c ollege chapel

Henri Hill, viola, Patrick Milne, piano and Michael

Buchanan, trombone, perform Jean-Michel Defaye’s Deux

Danses and Brahms’ Viola Sonata in E �Tuesday 30 April fitzwilliam museum

Mozart’s String Quintet in D, K 593 with the taylor

quintet

Tuesday 7 May Works for counter-tenor, viola and percussion by Milhaud,

Tarik O’Regan, Saint-Saëns and others, performed by Simon

Nathan, counter-tenor and viola, Susannah Alaghband-Zadeh,

percussion, and Frankie Rogers, percussion

Tuesday 14 MayJanacek’s Piano Sonata (1905) and Prokofiev’s Sixth Piano

Sonata with Patrick Hemmerlé, piano

Please visit our website, www.cums.org.uk, for directionsto all our concert venues. Full programme details will beannounced online shortly before each concert.

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The Cambridge University Lunchtime Concerts showcase the

crème de la crème of student talent in music ranging from

Mozart and Beethoven to Messiaen and John Adams.

Performances take place on Tuesday lunchtimes in West Road

Concert Hall during Full Term.

You can also enjoy a delicious sandwich lunch at West Road

Concert Hall coffee shop prior to each concert, making CULC

the perfect way to spend a relaxing Tuesday lunchtime.

All concerts are in West Road Concert Hall at 1.10pm–1.55pm unless stated

Michaelmas Term 2012Tuesday 23 October Schumann’s Fünf Stücke Im Volkston, Britten’s Cello Sonata

and Jan Vriend’s Joy, with Joy Lisney, cello, and James Lisney,

piano

Tuesday 30 October Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No.23 ‘Appassionata’ with Cameron

Richardson-Eames, piano

Tuesday 6 November Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles, Barber’s Summer Music, Hindemith’s

Kleine Kammermusik and Berio’s Opus Number Zoo, with the

bowker quintet

Tuesday 13 November New works by Sasha Valeri Millwood and John Cage’s First

Construction in Metal conducted by Mark Gotham

Tuesday 20 NovemberClarinet trios by Brahms and William Cole, with Anthony

Friend, clarinet, Robbie Stanley-Smith, cello, and Patrick

Milne, piano

Tuesday 27 November Schubert’s String Quintet in C major with the Grantchester

Quartet and Joe Davies, cello

Tuesday 4 December 1pm–2pmbritten s infonia explores Britten’s Phantasy Quartet and

Sinfonetta



Lent Term 2013Tuesday 15 JanuaryFreshers’ Concert, including the cums symphony

orchestra principals quartet

Tuesday 22 January 1pm–2pmbritten s infonia and Mark Padmore, tenor, perform

works dedicated to Peter Pears and works inspired by Sitwell

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Tuesday 29 January Clarinet trios by Francaix and Schumann with Oliver Pashley,

clarinet, Henri Hill, viola, and Patrick Milne, piano

Cambridge University Lunchtime Concerts (admission free)


Introducing the CUMS ensembles

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Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra is

Cambridge’s flagship orchestra. It attracts the

University’s very best musical talent, works exclusively

with distinguished professional conductors, and achieves

the highest possible standards. Recent highlights have

included a recording of Mozart and Haydn with Sir

Roger Norrington, Wagner with Sir Mark Elder and a

summer tour to Bordeaux.

CUMS Symphony Orchestra is the University’s finest

symphony orchestra. It performs a wide range of

repertoire under its distinguished principal conductor

Martin Yates, its undergraduate conducting scholar, and a

roster of guest conductors which has recently included Sir

Roger Norrington, Sir Mark Elder, Sir Richard

Armstrong and Libor Pesek.

CUMS Chorus brings together singers from town and

gown, and performs at least three concerts a year. The

Chorus often joins the Philharmonia Orchestra in King’s

College Chapel and enjoys regular international tours,

the most recent having been to Paris in April 2012. The

Chorus is directed by its principal conductor Stephen

Cleobury and occasional guest conductors.

Directed by Martin Ennis, David Lowe and Mark

Williams, the Cambridge University Chamber Choirprovides the best student singers with the opportunity to

perform at the highest possible level repertoire that is not

usually undertaken by the Cambridge chapel choirs.

There is an emphasis on secular music and on repertoire

that offers singers the chance to appear as soloists or in

small groups.

CUMS Concert Orchestra, formerly CUMS II, is our

second symphony orchestra. Since its establishment in

1921 the orchestra has always offered an opportunity for

the University’s best young student conductors and

soloists and in the past it has played under the baton of

Sir David Willcocks, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Edward

Higginbottom.

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra is an

ambitious wind ensemble, led by talented student

conductors, which performs repertoire ranging from wind

band classics to new works. Recent highlights have

included music by Bernstein, Dukas, Gershwin, Gorb,

Gregson, Hesketh, Holst, McNeff and John Williams.


CUCO performs Ravel Piano Concerto and

Beethoven Symphony No.6

Stravinsky Four Norwegian Moods

Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major


Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra

Toby Purser conductor

Tom Poster piano

great conductors series

Sir Colin Davis explores BeethovenSir Colin Davis explores Beethoven’s 6th Symphony in

a masterclass with the Cambridge University Chamber

Orchestra. Please note that this masterclass is not open to

members of the public.

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Michaelmas Term 2012

Alumni weekend ‘Come & Sing’Mozart Vesperae Solennes de Confessore

Cambridge University Alumni Chorus

East Anglia Chamber Orchestra

Stephen Cleobury conductor

Paula Downes soprano

Feargal Mostyn-Williams counter tenor

Ruairi Bowen tenor

Daniel D’Souza bass

Parker Ramsay piano/organ

CUMS Symphony Orchestra performs

Elgar Sea Pictures and Sibelius Symphony No.2

Mussorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain

Elgar Sea Pictures

Sibelius Symphony No.2

CUMS Symphony Orchestra

William Cole (CUMS Brenda Charters Conducting Scholar) conductor

Grace Durham mezzo-soprano

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Saturday 3 November 2012at 8pm west road concert hall

Tickets £20, £14, £10

Concessions: £2 reduction of above

prices

£5 Students

Monday 12 November 2012west road concert hall

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Friday 21 September 2012 4.30pm–10.30pmking ’s college chapel

Tickets £12 singers (£3 to hire

music)

£6 audience for 9.30pm performance

For further details and tickets

contact 01223 365110

Saturday 27 October 2012at 8pm west road concert hall

Tickets £20, £14, £10


prices

£5 Students

Sir Colin Davis


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Cambridge University Chamber ChoirRespighi Lauda per la Natività del Signore

with works by Poulenc, Bax and Warlock

Cambridge University Chamber Choir

Instrumental Award Holders for Chamber Music

David Lowe director

Cambridge University Wind OrchestraGregson Festivo

Woolfenden Illyrian Dances

Woolfenden Gallimaufry

Bocock Into the Light

De Meij T-Bone Concerto

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra

Alastair Chilvers conductor

Michael Buchanan trombone

An American Evening with CUMS Symphony

OrchestraEwan Campbell (CUMS Composer-in-Residence) Dead Resonance

(première)

Barber Piano Concerto

Gershwin Porgy & Bess Suite

Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story


Martin Yates conductor

Andrew Goldman (CUMS Concerto Competition joint-winner) piano

Thursday 22 November 2012at 8pm west road concert hall

Tickets £10 (£8 concessions),

£3 Students

Saturday 24 November 2012at 8pm west road concert hall

Tickets £20, £14, £10


prices

£5 Students

Friday 16 November 2012at 8pmjesus college chapel

Tickets £12, £5 students

Members of the Cambridge University Chamber Choir performing

at the Yale International Choral Festival, June 2012


CUMS Concert OrchestraCambridge University Musical Society’s second symphony orchestra

Fauré Pavane

Debussy Première Rhapsodie

Mahler Symphony No.4

CUMS Concert Orchestra

Mark Gotham conductor

David Mears (CUMS Concerto

Competition prize-winner) clarinet


performs Ligeti, Strauss and MozartLigeti Romanian Concerto

Strauss Burleske

Mozart Symphony No.40


Garry Walker conductor

Patrick Milne (CUMS Concerto Competition joint-winner) piano

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Tuesday 27 November 2012at 8pm west road concert hall


£3 Students

Friday 30 November 2012at 8pm west road concert hall

Tickets £20, £14, £10


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Saturday 19 January 2013at 8pm king ’s college chapel

Tickets £35, £30, £20

Students: £4 reduction of above

prices and £5 on the door, subject to

availability

Lent Term 2013

great conductors series

Sir Roger Norrington conducts Beethoven’s

Missa Solemnis

Beethoven Missa Solemnis


Members of CUMS Symphony Orchestra


Cambridge College Choirs

Sir Roger Norrington conductor

Sarah-Jane Brandon soprano

Claudia Huckle mezzo-soprano

Andrew Kennedy tenor

Ashley Riches bass

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Haydn’s The Creation

CUMS Chorus

East Anglia Chamber Orchestra


Raphaela Papadakis soprano

Matthew Sandy tenor

Edward Grint bass

Saturday 1 December 2012at 8pm king s college chapel

Tickets £25, £20, £15


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Saturday 2 March 2013at 8pm west road concert hall

Tickets £20, £14, £10


prices

£5 Students

Wednesday 6 March 2013west road concert hall

A varied programme aimed at

sparking the imagination of

children. Music worksheets and

teacher guidance notes will be

provided.

Friday 8 March 2013at 8pm wesley methodist church


Peter Stark conducts Cambridge University

Chamber OrchestraBritten Suite on English Folk Tunes

Bourgeois Concerto for Double Bass

Brahms Symphony No.3


Peter Stark conductor

Duncan McTier double bass

Schools ConcertOpen to schools by invitation – if your school would like to attend please

contact Simon Smart at [email protected]. The concert is also open to

home-schooled children.


Mark Gotham conductor

Rossini La Petite Messe Solennelle

Rossini La Petite Messe Solennelle

CUMS Chorus


Samantha Crawford soprano

Kate Symonds-Joy mezzo soprano

Joshua Mills tenor

James Platt bass

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The Glories of Venice Works by Monteverdi, Gabrieli and their contemporaries

(including Gabrieli’s 21-part and 33-part Magnificats)


Cambridge University Collegium Musicum (directed by Margaret

Faultless)

His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts (directed by Jeremy West)

Members of the Chapel Choirs of Girton and St John’s Colleges

Martin Ennis director

Oxford and Cambridge Wind Orchestras’ Varsity

Concert Programme to include:

Mozart Gran Partita

Stravinsky Symphonies of Winds

John Adams Chairman Dances


Oxford University Wind Orchestra

Mark Gotham, Andy Warnock conductors

Friday 15 February 2013at 8pm st john ’s college chapel


Saturday 16 February 2013at 8pm girton college hall


Monday 25 February 2013at 8pmtrinity college chapel


£3 Students

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Mark Gotham


CUMS Concert OrchestraCambridge University Musical Society’s second symphony orchestra

Beethoven Coriolan Overture

Glière Harp Concerto



Alastair Chilvers conductor

Anne Denholm harp

King’s College Foundation

Concert Hummel Te Deum

Boccherini Cello Concerto No. 9

Haydn Schöpfungsmesse

King’s College Choral Scholars past

and present



Joseph Crouch cello

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Tuesday 12 March 2013at 8pm west road concert hall


£3 Students

Saturday 16 March 2013at 5.30pm king ’s college chapel

Tickets £30, £22, £15

Students: £5 on the door, subject to

availability

Saturday 9 March 2013at 8pm west road concert hall

Tickets £20, £14, £10


prices

£5 Students

Friday 15 March 2013at 7.30pm cadogan hall, london

Tickets £20, £16, £5 Students

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Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition


Martin Yates conductor

Peter Donohoe piano

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Debussy and Milhaud Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Sibelius Karelia Overture and Suite

Arnold English Dances Set 1

Milhaud Suite Française



Alastair Chilvers & Mark Gotham conductors

May Week Concert: Sibelius Symphony No.7;

Walton Belshazzar’s Feast

Sibelius Symphony No.7

Stravinsky Mass

Walton Belshazzar’s Feast


CUMS Chorus

Stephen Cleobury, William Cole (CUMS

Brenda Charters Conducting Scholar)

conductors

Alastair Miles baritone

Thursday 16 May 2013at 8pm west road concert hall


£3 Students

Saturday 15 June 2013at 8pm king ’s college chapel

Tickets £32, £26, £20


prices and £5 on the door, subject to

availability

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Easter Term 2013

Britten, Copland and NielsenNielsen Pan and Syrinx

Britten Symphony for Cello and Orchestra

Copland Appalachian Spring

Nielsen Springtime in Funen



Peter Ash conductor

Mark Williams chorus master

Guy Johnston cello

Saturday 11 May 2013at 8pm west road concert hall

Tickets £20, £14, £10


prices

£5 Students

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London Recitals

Our exclusive chamber music recitals in London exist to bring the best of

Cambridge music to a wider audience and to provide performance

opportunities for our talented young artists.

Chamber music recital, Tuesday 13 November 2012, 7pm This evening is generously hosted by Mr and Mrs Bob Boas at their

stunning Robert Adam home just off Portland Place in central London.

The evening will begin with a sparkling wine reception, after which a

selection of Cambridge’s finest young musicians will perform in the

spectacular drawing room. Drinks and canapés with the musicians will

follow. Tickets are very limited in number and will cost £40 per person.

To purchase tickets please book through the ADC Box Office, see page 27

for details.

Please check our website www.cums.org.uk for London chamber music

recitals later in the year.

CUMS would especially welcome anyone interested in supporting a

continuing programme of music-making in London by current

Cambridge student soloists and ensembles. For further information please

contact Chloe Davidson at [email protected] or 01223 248945.

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Graeme Jenkins conducts CUMS Symphony Orchestra

and CUMS Chorus in King’s College Chapel, June 2012


Join the CUMS Supporters’ Circle

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Since it was founded in 1843, CUMS has provided unique

opportunities for successive generations of Cambridge

musicians. It has immeasurably enriched the cultural life

of the University and City, and, having launched many of

the biggest careers in classical music, it has played a

pivotal role in the musical world beyond.

CUMS receives no core funding from the University,

and income from ticket sales does not meet the full cost

of delivering a world-class musical education. The CUMS

Supporters’ Circle has been established to address this

pressing financial need.

All those who value Cambridge’s splendid musical

heritage, and want to maintain it for the twenty-first

century, are invited to join the Circle. Membership is

through annual donation. There are seven levels of

donation:

Friend: £50–£99 per annum

Donor: £100-£249 per annum

Friends and Donors enjoy

● contributing membership of the Society, entitling them

to priority booking for performances

● acknowledgement in CUMS concert programmes and on

the website

● invitations to drinks at each performance at West Road

Concert Hall

● the opportunity to buy a full season ticket

● regular updates on key CUMS projects and events

Benefactor: £250–£499 per annum

Principal Benefactor: £500–£999 per annum

All of the above, plus opportunities to sit in on selected

rehearsals

The Stanford Circle: £1,000–£2,499 per annum

The Vaughan Williams Circle: £2,500+ per annum

The Britten Circle: £10,000+ per annum

All of the above, plus the opportunity to be recognised as

the supporter of a specific activity each season.

To become a Member of the CUMS Supporters’ Circle,

please contact Christine Skeen, Secretary, CUMS

Supporters’ Circle, Cambridge University, 11 West Road,

Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

In helping us reach our targets, you will become part of

an extraordinary musical tradition.

Thank you.

CUMS is one of the oldest and most distinguished

university music societies in the world. It offers a world-

class musical education for members of the University

and local residents, nurturing the great musicians of the

future and providing performing opportunities for over

500 Cambridge musicians every year.

The Society has played a pivotal role in British musical

life for almost 170 years. It has educated such luminaries

as Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Sir John Eliot

Gardiner, Edward Gardner, Christopher Hogwood and

Robin Ticciati, has given world or UK premières of works

by Brahms, Holloway, Lutoslawski, Maxwell Davies,

Rutter, Saxton and Vaughan Williams, and has given

successive generations of Cambridge musicians the

experience of visiting conductors and soloists including

Britten, Dvorak, Kodaly, Menuhin and Tchaikovsky. Since

the 1870s, CUMS has enjoyed the leadership of several of

Britain’s finest musicians, including Sir Charles Villiers

Stanford, Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger, and,

from 1983 to 2009, Stephen Cleobury.

In 2009 Stephen Cleobury assumed a new role as

Principal Conductor of the CUMS Chorus, and Sir Roger

Norrington was appointed as Principal Guest Conductor.

Martin Yates, ‘one of the most exciting and versatile

British conductors of his generation’ in the words of The

Times, joined the team as Principal Conductor of the

CUMS Symphony Orchestra; and a Great Conductors

series was launched with the objective of exposing CUMS

members to a succession of world-class visiting

conductors. In February 2010 CUMS entered another new

phase of its development when it merged with the

Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra and

Cambridge University Music Club. In October 2010 the

Society launched the Cambridge University Lunchtime

Concerts – a new series of weekly chamber recitals at

West Road Concert Hall showcasing the University’s

finest musical talent. In 2011 it merged with the

Cambridge University Chamber Choir which is directed

by Martin Ennis, David Lowe and Mark Williams. CUMS

continues to provide opportunities for the University’s

finest student soloists and conductors by awarding

conducting scholarships and concerto prizes, and it

actively encourages new music by running a composition

competition and premièring at least one new work each

year.

Recent highlights have included Wagner’s Parsifal (Act

III) conducted by Sir Mark Elder, a recording of Haydn

and Mozart symphonies with Sir Roger Norrington,

Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Sir Richard

Armstrong, and Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand with

Stephen Cleobury.


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For the CUMS Symphony Orchestra concert on

15 March 2013 please contact the Cadogan Hall Box Office:

www.cadoganhall.com, Tel: 020 7730 4500

Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ

Monday–Saturday: 10am–6pm (to 8pm on performance days)

Sunday: 3pm–8pm (performance days only)

There is a £2.50 transaction fee for telephone bookings (Telephone

bookings are free for Encore members – friends of the Hall).

For the King’s Foundation Concert on 16 March 2013 please contact

The Shop at King’s Box OfficeEmail: [email protected], Tel: 01223 769340

The Shop at King’s, 13 King’s Parade, Cambridge CB2 1SP

Monday–Saturday: 9.30am–5.30pm

Sunday: 9.30am–4.30pm

For all other concerts please contact the ADC box officewww.adcticketing.com

Tel: 01223 300085

ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge CB5 8AS

The ADC Box Office is open Monday 12.30pm–4pm,

Tuesday–Friday 12.30pm–7pm and Saturday 3pm–7pm.

There is a 50p card charge added to the price of each telephone

transaction.

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Booking information Season ticketsCUCO Season ticketBook for all four CUCO concerts in

West Road Concert Hall and save

20% on the total price of your

tickets and guarantee your seats for

the whole year.

Applications close on 26 October

2012 at 5pm.

King’s Season ticket (excludes

King’s Foundation Concert on 16

March 2013)

Book for all three CUMS Concerts

at King’s College Chapel and save

10% on the total price of your

tickets and guarantee your seats for

the whole year.

Applications close on 23 November

2012 at 5pm.

Please book your season tickets

through the ADC Box Office.

Credits: Front cover photo: Anne Denholmand Andrew Goldman (CUMS ConcertoCompetition prizewinners) by Jerome Woodwark.Rehearsal and performance photos by PeterDe Vile, Francis Knights, Matthew Tsim,Ralph Woodward and Jerome Woodwark.

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Thank you to our Supporters and Funders

without whose support this season would not

be possible

ACE Foundation

Britten Pears Foundation

CAM Decorative and Fine Arts Society

Christ’s College

Churchill College

Clare Hall

Corpus Christi College

CUMS Fund

CUMS Supporters’ Circle

Donald Wort Fund

Emmanuel College

Gonville and Caius College

Homerton College

Jesus College

J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust

King’s College

Newnham College

Pembroke College

Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement

St Catharine’s College

St John’s College

Trinity College

University of Cambridge Faculty of Music

University of Cambridge Societies Syndicate


Wolfson College

To find out more about supporting CUMS please

contact Rachel Ambrose Evans at

[email protected]

Sir Mark Elder conducts CUMS

Symphony Orchestra and

Cambridge University Chamber

Orchestra in King’s College

Chapel, January 2012 .

‘I enjoyed a memorable week with

CUMS working with musicians

who responded to challenging

repertoire with great vitality and

freshness. They played with such

commitment and belief in a

gripping performance in King’s

College Chapel.’




11 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

www.cums.org.uk

Principal Guest Conductor Sir Roger Norrington CBE

Principal Conductor CUMS Chorus Stephen Cleobury CBE

Principal Conductor CUMS Symphony Orchestra Martin Yates

Principal Guest Conductor Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra

Peter Stark

Directors Cambridge University Chamber Choir Martin Ennis,

David Lowe and Mark Williams

For more information about CUMS, our concerts, booking tickets,

receiving our e-newsletters or getting involved, please visit our website,

www.cums.org.uk, or email Chloe Davidson at [email protected]

Our newly-designed website is always up-to-date with the latest

Society news, events and contact information for the individual Society

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CDs can be bought at all CUMS concerts at WestRoad Concert Hall or buy on-line via the link atwww.cums.org.uk/about/cums-recording

NEW CD


Documents

Cambridge University Musical Society 2012–13€¢brochure-2012... · The Creation King’s College ... Haydn’s The Creation, Rossini’s La Petite Messe Solennelle, and Walton’s