FRIDAY NIGHT CLASSICS: SUMMER CLASSICSSymphony Hall, Birmingham Friday 2 July 2021, 2.00pm & 6.30pm

Supported by

Michael Seal – Conductor

Jonathan Martindale – Violin

Andrew Collins – Presenter

Dvořák Carnival Overture 9’

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending 13’

Elgar Chanson de Matin 3’

Grieg Peer Gynt: ‘Morning’ & ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ 6’

Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream 11’

Vivaldi Summer, The Four Seasons 10’

Price Juba Dance, Symphony No.1 3’

Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers 8’

Summer starts here! This concert of delightful, summery sounds is guaranteed to set spirits soaring and lift even the heaviest of hearts. Featuring much-loved, timeless classics by Vivaldi, Rossini, Vaughan Williams, Tchaikovsky and more, this is, literally, music to your ears.

You are welcome to view the online programme on your mobile device, but please ensure that your sound is turned off and that you are mindful of other members of the audience. Any noise (such as whispering) can be very distracting – the acoustics of the Hall will highlight any such sound. If you use a hearing aid in conjunction with our infra-red hearing enhancement system, please make sure you have collected a receiver unit and that your hearing aid is switched to the ‘T’ position, with the volume level appropriately adjusted.

Audiences are welcome to take photographs before and after the concert, and during breaks in the music for applause. If you would like to take photos at these points please ensure you do not use a flash, and avoid disturbing other members of the audience around you. Please note that taking photographs or filming the concert while the orchestra is playing is not permitted as it is distracting both for other audience members and for the musicians on stage.

Keeping you safe: Please ensure that you are following all of the covid-safe measures that are in place, including: arriving at the time indicated on your ticket, wearing a face covering whilst in the building (exemption excluded), keeping a social distance from other audience members and staff, following signage and/or guidance from staff, and using the hand sanitising stations provided. Thank you.

OUR CAMPAIGN FOR MUSICAL LIFE IN THE WEST MIDLANDSThese socially-distanced concerts have been made possible by funding from Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund, plus generous support from thousands of individuals, charitable trusts and companies through The Sound of the Future fundraising campaign.

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SUMMER CLASSICSSumer is icumen in / Loude sing cuckoo!

It says something about our relationship with the summer that it’s the subject of probably the oldest surviving song in the English language. And who doesn’t think ahead to the months of sunshine and enjoyment without feeling at least a tiny bit like bursting into melody?

In 2021, we could all do with a really great summer holiday – even if we know that whatever our dreams of long, sun-kissed afternoons with cool drinks by blue waters, we’re more likely to end up sheltering in a car clutching a flask of tea while rain blasts sideways over the seafront at Weston-super-Mare.

But composers of all nationalities have responded to summer in their own way. We’ll hear how in Italy, it’s a time of parched soil, blazing heat and savage storms. For the Czechs, the beer flows freely; for the British, perhaps it’s a bit more sweet (one lump or two)? For the Russians and Norwegians, it’s simply a chance to get somewhere – anywhere – that’s a bit warmer. And in the Deep South of the USA, it’s positively sizzling. There’s one thing in common: at the first hint of sunshine, composers around the world just can’t help singing, dancing and maybe going just a little bit cuckoo. Wimbledon rained off? Wasps in the Aperol Spritz? Another four weeks of lockdown? Slap on some Factor 30, and relax: with music, you’re guaranteed instant sunshine, whatever the weather – and even a Staycation can take you around the globe.

The story goes that, towards the end of his life, Antonín Dvořák was returning to his home village of Vysoká in

southern Bohemia, to spend some quality time with his award-winning pet pigeons. The

musicians of the village band, impressed by this visit from a local hero, had practised highlights from his most recent operas. The train pulled in, the great man stepped

onto the platform, and the band struck up. Dvořák shook his head, waved his hands,

and cried “No – please! Play me some village music. That’s what I like”.

And it’s exactly what you get in his Carnival Overture of 1891. Dvořák imagined a story to go with the music: “A wanderer reaches the city at nightfall, where a carnival of pleasure reigns supreme. On every side is heard the sound of instruments, mingled with shouts of joy and the unrestrained hilarity as people give vent to their feelings in songs and dance tunes.” But there’s no doubt that we are really hearing the tingling sounds, riotous rhythms and unstoppable high spirits (nothing beats a pitcher of really good Czech pilsner, served ice-cold) of the “village music” Dvořák loved so much. There’s a brief pause for quiet at the heart of it all – as if he’s stepped out of the dance-hall briefly, to gaze up at the stars of a summer night. And then it’s straight back into the party.

Dvořák’s Bohemia is not all that far – in spirit, if not on the map – from the clear air and rolling fields of the Cotswolds, where Ralph Vaughan Williams was born. On the eve of the First World War, Vaughan Williams read George Meredith’s poem The Lark Ascending and turned it into a “Romance for Violin and Orchestra”. But this was no musical firework display: it’s much more difficult than that. Against a serene orchestral landscape, the solo violin simultaneously becomes the lark, its song, and the spirit of Meredith’s poem:

He rises and begins to round,

He drops the silver chain of sound,

Of many links without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake…

It’s surely the rapturous serenity of this miniature masterpiece that has made it No.1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame for year after year. It all sounds so simple – in those first hazy chords you can almost see the “coloured counties” drowsing under a summer haze. So spare a thought for our soloist Jonathan Martindale as he soars high above the orchestra, endlessly spinning that gleaming, silver thread of music. It’s definitely not as easy as he makes it sound – and it’s a long way down…

That’s the Cotwolds, but if you’re after the spirit of summer a few miles further up the M5 – Worcestershire, to be precise – Edward Elgar’s your man. As a young violin teacher around Worcester, Elgar cycled for miles in the countryside of the Vale of Severn (and occasionally to Wolverhampton for the football – he was a huge Wolves fan. We’ll just have to forgive him for that). “My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us” he said. “The world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require”. The enchanting Chanson de Matin (1899) breathes the air of a fresh summer morning in the Malverns, and does precisely that – taking neither too much, nor too little. Perfection.

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“But there’s no doubt that we are really hearing the tingling sounds, riotous rhythms and unstoppable high spirits (nothing beats a pitcher of really good Czech pilsner, served ice-cold) of the “village music” Dvořák loved so much.”

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Meanwhile, no-one’s quite sure exactly what was in the air in Norway in 1876, when Edvard Grieg wrote the music for Ibsen’s weird psychological fairy-tale Peer Gynt. “The pleasantness of the music must have induced many people to go and see Peer Gynt and get a bit of a shock” comments The Bluffer’s Guide to Music – and when you listen to Grieg’s Morning you can hear why. In the play, a jaded, middle-aged Peer wakes up in the North African desert and watches the sun rise. Listen to Grieg’s rapturously fresh music, though, and you can’t help but think of dewy green meadows and the mist rising off majestic fjords.

As for The Hall of the Mountain King; well, in this case, Peer is fleeing an army of pig-faced trolls (it’s only fair to say that cruises in the Norwegian fjords are usually a lot more pleasant than this). Grieg wrote a three-minute white-knuckle thriller that you might recognise from the adverts for a certain Staffordshire theme park, though Grieg said that it “reeks of cowpats”. Well, after all – that’s an authentic scent of summer, too.

Now for a very different kind of summer excursion: anyone for a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon? Until recently, a summer afternoon in tourist-packed Stratford was a good way to see just how far people are willing to travel to pay homage to Shakespeare. And ever since the late 18th century, Germans have loved the Bard with a passion that puts us to shame. Germany’s greatest poets spoke proudly of unser Shakespeare: “Our Shakespeare”. So did the Mendelssohn family. “From our youth” recalled Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny “we were entwined in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Felix particularly made it his own. He identified with all of the characters”. In 1826 Ein Sommernachtstraum (naturally, the Germans have a single word for it) inspired Felix – at the age of 17 – to create the first “concert overture” in the history of music.

If you know your Shakespeare, you’ll already know the scene. Four luminous chords float on the evening air, each gently tinted a different shade: Four days will quickly steep themselves in night / Four nights will quickly dream away the time. A shimmer of violins fills the night, as fairies dart, rustling and sparkling, through the moonlit woods, and there’s a blazing flourish of sound, as the full orchestra paints the regal splendour of Duke Theseus’s court. And is that the braying of a donkey? It’s all there, in the music of a 17-year old boy, and it’s still magical. And of course, If we shadows have offended / Think but this; and all is mended / That you have but slumb’red here / While these visions did appear…

Antonio Vivaldi knew that music can paint a picture too – though that didn’t stop him having a go at writing some poetry of his own when he published the four violin concertos he called Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) in 1725. Each of these four brilliant concertos is headed with a little poem to tell you exactly what’s going on in each of the three movements (sections). In the first movement of L’estate (Summer), “Men and flocks are sweltering, pines are scorched” (and there’s a cuckoo too). In the second, “gnats and flies buzz furiously around”. And finally, the storm breaks: “the heavens roar, and hailstones beat down the crops in

the fields”. Watch that fiddle fly – you can almost see the flash of lightning.

Florence Price, meanwhile, grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas at the turn of the century, but when she headed north to Boston to study music, she passed herself

off as a Mexican. In the racially intolerant USA of that era, it simply made life easier to pretend that she wasn’t what she was: an African-American, and one of the most extraordinary (and original) of 20th century American composers. Naturally – just as Dvořák put Czech village music into his overtures, and Vaughan Williams distilled Oxfordshire folksongs into his own music – Price put the music of her own childhood into her First Symphony (1932). The Juba Dance (also known as the “Hambone”) was originally performed on the plantations of the Deep South by slaves who – forbidden from owning instruments – stamped, clapped, and slapped out the rhythm on their own bodies. Price made this one into the third movement of her symphony – filling it with warmth, orchestral colour and an unmistakable sense of joy.

But one way or another, we’re probably stuck with a British summer, so let’s finish with a burst of escapism (we could certainly use some). Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker (1892) is a Christmas story, but its final scenes take place in a truly exotic destination: the fabulous Kingdom of Sweets. The flowers are in bloom and the elegant, swaying Waltz of the Flowers certainly sounds like it’s basking on a golden afternoon. Stuck in Moscow, Tchaikovsky loved the southern sun: and if you lived in a city that spends four months of the year with temperatures below zero, wouldn’t you grab any chance for a bit of musical warmth? When Tchaikovsky’s imagination soars, we’re all going on a summer holiday – safe in the knowledge that the Kingdom of Sweets, now and for always, is very definitely on the Green List. Programme note © Richard Bratby

“And finally, the storm breaks: ‘the heavens roar, and hailstones beat down the crops in the fields’. Watch that fiddle fly – you can almost see the flash of lightning.”

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THE PERFORMERSMichael Seal

Conductor

Michael Seal is the Associate Conductor of the CBSO, a unique appointment which recognises his work as Assistant Conductor, and the special relationship he has built with the orchestra.His in-depth knowledge of orchestras from an insider’s position (he was a violinist with the CBSO early in his career) gives him a unique perspective, and he quickly builds rapport and trust with the orchestras he works with. His energy and enthusiasm are infectious and he has built a reputation for outstanding results, delivered with great charm and often on a typically British tight rehearsal schedule.

Seal has worked with many of the UK’s finest orchestras, frequently being invited as guest conductor with the BBC orchestras and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras, as well as with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Ulster Orchestra.

Internationally, he has conducted the Brussels Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Joensuu City Orchestra, Orquesta Académica del Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and both RTÉ Concert and National Symphony Orchestras.

Seal has a special bond with the CBSO Youth Orchestra, conducting them on numerous occasions, and being involved with them since their foundation.

His love of opera led to critically-acclaimed performances of Puccini’s Il Trittico at the Birmingham Conservatoire. He has also assisted both Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons in opera performances of Peter Grimes, Carmen, Der Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tristan & Isolde and The Flying Dutchman.

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Jonathan Martindale

Violin

Jonathan Martindale enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist and orchestral principal. Since joining the CBSO in 2016 he has regularly appeared with them at major concert halls and festivals throughout Europe, China, and Japan, as well as at the BBC Proms and Aldeburgh Festival. Jonathan regularly leads the orchestra and has also performed with them as a soloist. The CBSO’s Centre Stage series has also given him the opportunity to perform chamber music alongside his fellow musicians, as well as visiting artists such as pianist Steven Osborne.

Before joining the CBSO, Jonathan held the position of Principal Second Violin (no.2) with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Whilst there he worked closely with music directors Thomas Zehetmair, Lars Vogt and Julian Rachlin, as well as appearing as a soloist and chamber musician. Jonathan has also been a guest player with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields working with both Sir Neville Marriner and Joshua Bell on tours throughout Europe, the Far East and Australia.

As a soloist Jonathan has performed concertos by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Dutilleux amongst others and has given solo recitals throughout the UK and further afield, notably giving a series of concerts in Melbourne, Australia that included a live broadcast for ABC Classic FM.

In 2006 Jonathan co-founded the Eblana String Trio which has since gone on to fulfil a busy concert schedule of performances throughout the UK, as well as in Europe and South Africa. Currently, the trio are City Music Foundation and Park Lane Group artists and recent concert highlights include performances at the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square and Bridgewater Hall. They have given several live performances on BBC Radio 3 and in 2018 enjoyed a mini-residency at the Lake District Summer Music Festival, giving several concerts and masterclasses.

Andrew Collins

Presenter

Andrew Collins has been working in TV, radio and print for over 25 years. He has honed his experience and expertise in these fields via music journalism, magazine publishing, live radio, and live and scripted comedy. Andrew can be heard every Saturday on Classic FM with his show Saturday At The Movies.

Andrew has worked on both sides of the camera on countless TV programmes, hosting ITV film review show Collins & Maconie’s Movie Club; guesting on The One Show; fronting BBC Four documentary The Making of Life On Mars; appearing as a contestant on Celebrity Mastermind; and anchoring BBC Radio 1’s live coverage of the Brits and the Mercury Prize.

He is the author of three volumes of humorous memoire, Where Did It All Go Right?, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now and That’s Me in the Corner, as well as being the official biographer of musician Billy Bragg.

Establishing himself as a prose writer on publications including the NME, Q, The Guardian, GQ, the New Statesman, Word and The Times, Andrew moved into scriptwriting via BBC radio this led to lengthy writing engagements on soaps Family Affairs (C5) and EastEnders (BBC1). He co-wrote eight-part sitcom Grass for BBC3/BBC2 and helped create and write Not Going Out, currently the longest-running sitcom on TV, with star Lee Mack – for which they won a Rose d’Or and the RTS Breakthrough award. He co-created and wrote Gates for Sky Living with a storylining team including Jennifer Saunders. His first solo sitcom, Mr Blue Sky, ran for two series on BBC Radio 4.

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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Under the baton of its Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is the fl agship of musical life in Birmingham and the West Midlands, and one of the world’s great orchestras.

Based in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, in a normal year the orchestra performs over 150 concerts each year in Birmingham, the UK and around the world, playing music that ranges from classics to contemporary, fi lm music and even symphonic disco. With a far-reaching community programme and a family of choruses and ensembles, it is involved in every aspect of music-making in the Midlands. But at its centre is a team of 75 superb professional musicians, and a 100-year tradition of making the world’s greatest music in the heart of Birmingham.

That local tradition started with the orchestra’s very fi rst symphonic concert in 1920 – conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. Ever since then, through war, recessions, social change and civic renewal, the CBSO has been proud to be Birmingham’s orchestra. Under principal conductors including Adrian Boult, George Weldon, Andrzej Panufnik and Louis Frémaux, the CBSO won an artistic reputation that spread far beyond the Midlands. But it was when it discovered the young British conductor Simon Rattle in 1980 that the CBSO became internationally famous – and showed how the arts can help give a new sense of direction to a whole city.

Home and Away

Rattle’s successors Sakari Oramo (1998-2008) and Andris Nelsons (2008-15) helped cement that global reputation, and continued to build on the CBSO’s tradition of fl ying the fl ag for Birmingham. As the only professional symphony orchestra based between Bournemouth and Manchester, the orchestra tours regularly in Britain – and much further afi eld. The CBSO has travelled to Japan and the United Arab Emirates in previous seasons, and in December 2016 made its debut tour of China. And its recordings continue to win acclaim. In 2008, the CBSO’s recording of Saint-Saëns’ complete piano concertos was named Best Classical Recording of the last 30 years by Gramophone.

Now, under the dynamic leadership of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Associate Conductor Michael Seal and Assistant Conductor Jaume Santonja Espinós, the CBSO continues to do what it does best – playing great music for the people of Birmingham and the Midlands.

Meet the Family

The CBSO Chorus – a symphonic choir made up of “amateur professionals”, trained by Simon Halsey CBE – is famous in its own right. The CBSO Children’s Chorus and Youth Chorus showcase singers as young as six. Through its unauditioned community choir – CBSO SO Vocal in Selly Oak – the CBSO shares its know-how and passion for music with communities throughout the city. The CBSO Youth Orchestra gives that same opportunity to young instrumentalists aged 14-21, off ering high-level training to the next generation of orchestral musicians alongside top international conductors and soloists.

These groups are sometimes called the “CBSO family” – over 650 amateur musicians of all ages and backgrounds, who work alongside the orchestra to make and share great music. But the CBSO’s tradition of serving the community goes much further. Its Learning and Participation programme touches tens of thousands of lives a year, ranging from workshops in nurseries to projects that energise whole neighbourhoods. And everyone’s welcome at CBSO Centre on Berkley Street. As well as being a friendly, stylish performance venue for the lunchtime concert series Centre Stage and contemporary jazz concerts by Jazzlines, the CBSO’s rehearsal base is home to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Ex Cathedra. Having recently enjoyed it’s 100th birthday, the CBSO, more than ever, remains the beating heart of musical life in the UK’s Second City.

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VIOLIN I - LIST TBCJonathan Martindale *Clare ThompsonPhilip BrettColin TwiggJane Wright Stefano Mengoli *Ruth Lawrence *

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Colette Overdijk *Mark Robinson #

Kirsty Lovie *Adam HillSarah Thornett

VIOLIN IIPeter Campbell-Kelly *

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Moritz Pfister Amy Jones *

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Charlotte Skinner *Bryony Morrison *Georgia Hannant *Heather Bradshaw *

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Bethan AllmandEloise ProuseZhivko Georgiev

VIOLAChris Yates *

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Angela Swanson #

Catherine Bower * #

Michael Jenkinson * #

David BaMaung *Amy Thomas #

Elizabeth Fryer * #

Jessica Tickle *

CELLOEduardo Vassallo *

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Miguel Fernandes *Helen Edgar *

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Sarah BergerJoss BrookesPhilippa Schofield David Powell *

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Rachael Calverley

DOUBLE BASSAnthony Alcock *Julian Atkinson *

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Damián Rubido GonzálezJeremy WattJulian Walters *

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Mark Goodchild *#

FLUTEMarie-Christine Zupancic *

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Veronika Klirova *

PICCOLOHelen Benson

OBOEJohn Roberts Emmet Byrne *

COR ANGLAISRachael Pankhurst *

CLARINETOliver Janes *Joanna Patton *

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BASSOONNikolaj Henriques *

Margaret Cookhorn *

HORNElspeth Dutch *

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Philippa Slack Mark Phillips *

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Jeremy Bushell *Martin Wright #

TRUMPETJonathan Holland *

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Stephen Murphy

TROMBONERichard Watkin * Anthony Howe *#

BASS TROMBONEDavid Vines *

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TUBAGraham Sibley *

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TIMPANIMatthew Hardy *

PERCUSSIONAndrew Herbert *Toby Kearney *Cliff Pick

HARPKatherine Thomas *

KEYBOARDJames Keefe

# Recipient of the CBSO Long Service Award

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EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORTERSThe following individuals, trusts and companies have nurtured the CBSO’s world-class excellence and broad community reach by off ering exceptional philanthropic support to the CBSO and the CBSO Development Trust’s private endowment fund over time, either by making major gift s, by leaving a legacy or through sustained annual giving.

City of Birmingham Orchestral Endowment Fund

Rachel Baker Memorial CharityThe late Roy CollinsDunard FundJohn Osborn CBEGarfi eld Weston Foundation

BarclaysThe late Miss G BrantDavid and Sandra BurbidgeJohn Ellerman FoundationEsmée Fairbairn FoundationThe John Feeney Charitable TrustCharles Henry Foyle TrustThe JABBS FoundationAlison and Jamie JusthamBarry and Frances KirkhamMaurice MillwardClive and Sylvia Richards Charity

(Principal Supporter of the CBSO’s work with young people)

Jerry Sykes

The late Mr P S DayDeutsche BankThe late Elnora FergusonThe late Mrs Marjorie HildrethPeter HowThe Helen Rachael Mackaness

Charitable TrustThe late Blyth and Myriam MajorMrs Thelma JusthamThe Leverhulme TrustThe LJC FundChris and Jane LoughranThe late Martin PurdyThe late Norman ThomasThe late Sheri and Mrs Janet TullahThe Roger and Douglas Turner

Charitable TrustWolfson Foundation

MAJOR DONORSWe are grateful to the following supporters for their major gift s this year and over the life of our Sound of the Future campaign.

£250,000+John Osborn (*Gabriel Dyker)David and Sandra BurbidgeClive and Sylvia Richards Charity

(Principal Supporter of the CBSO’s work with young people)

£100,000+Alison and Jamie Justham

(*David Vines)Barry and Frances KirkhamChris and Jane Loughran

(*Jonathan Martindale) £50,000+Peter HowMaurice Millward (*Chris Yates)Jerry Sykes in support of keynote

concert programming (*Catherine Ardagh-Walter)

£25,000+Sir Dominic and Lady Cadbury

MEMBERSOver 1,500 members contribute annually to ensure the orchestra’s vital work both on and off the concert platform can happen. Thank you to each and every one of you.

BENEFACTORS (£10,000+)Lady Alexander of WeedonViv and Hazel Astling (*Graham Sibley)Felonious Mongoose in memory of

Dolores (*Richard Blake)

SYMPHONY CIRCLE (£5,000+)John Cole and Jennie Howe

(*Peter Campbell-Kelly)Gill and Jonathan Evans

(*Charlotte Skinner)Stephen and Stephanie GoldsteinThe Charlotte Heber-Percy

Charitable TrustLen Hughes and Jacquie Blake

(*Anthony Alcock)Sue and Graeme Sloan

and our other anonymous supporters.

CONCERTO CIRCLE (£2,500+)The Barwell Charitable TrustAllan and Jennifer Buckle

(*Jonathan Holland)Mrs Jayne CadburyJill S Cadbury (*Julia Åberg)Isabel, Peter and Christopher in loving

memory of Ernest Churcher(*Elspeth Dutch)

Charlie and Louise Craddock (*Kirsty Lovie)

Mike and Tina Detheridge (*Andrew Herbert)

The ENT ClinicDuncan Fielden and Jan Smaczny

(*Matthew Hardy)David Gregory (*Stefano Mengoli)David Handford (*David Powell)The Andrew Harris Charitable TrustCliff HubboldDavid Knibb in memory of Lorraine

(*Jon Quirk)Valerie Lester (*Jacqueline Tyler MBE)Paddy and Wendy Martin

(*David BaMaung)

Patrick and Tricia McDermott (*Helen Edgar and Rachael Pankhurst)

Carole McKeown and David Low (*Miguel Fernandes)

Carol MillerFrank North (*Kate Suthers)Angela O’Farrell and Michael Lynes

(*Toby Kearney)John Osborn (*Gabriel Dyker)Dianne Page (*Catherine Arlidge MBE)Gerard Paris (*Amy Marshall)Simon and Margaret Payton

(*Julian Atkinson)Robert PerkinGraham Russell and Gloria Bates

(*Ruth Lawrence)Gillian ShawEleanor Sinton (*Adrian Spillett)Mr D P Spencer (*Oliver Janes)Lesley Thomson (*Jessica Tickle)Basil and Patricia Turner

(*Marie-Christine Zupancic)Howard and Judy Vero (*Richard Watkin)Michael WardDiana and Peter Wardley (*Oliver Janes)Robert Wilson (*Emmet Byrne)John Yelland OBE and Anna

(*Catherine Bower)

and our other anonymous supporters.

The following players are supported by anonymous members of theOverture, Concerto and Symphony Circles, to whom we are very grateful:Mark GoodchildJoanna PattonMark PhillipsAdam RömerKatherine Thomas

OVERTURE CIRCLE (£1,000+)Mike and Jan Adams (*Eduardo

Vassallo)Katherine Aldridge in memory of ChrisMichael Allen in memory of YvonneRoger and Angela AllenMiss J L Arthur (*Julian Walters)Kiaran AsthanaMr M K AyersJohn Bartlett and Sheila Beesley

(*Mark O’Brien)Michael Bates

The Sound of the Future is a £12.5m fundraising campaign – launched to mark the CBSO’s centenary – which will ensure the orchestra’s recovery from the pandemic and redefi ne its future for the benefi t of everyone across Birmingham and the West Midlands.

THANK YOU

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Tim and Margaret BlackmoreChristine and Neil BonsallMrs Jennifer Brooks in memory of David

(*Julia Åberg)Helen Chamberlain in memory of Allan

Chamberlain (*Sally Morgan)Gay and Trevor Clarke

(*Bryony Morrison)Dr Anthony Cook and Ms Susan EliasAnn CopseyJohn Cunningham-DexterJulian and Lizzie DaveyAnita Davies (*Jeremy Bushell)Tony Davis and Darin QuallsJenny DawsonDr Judith Dewsbury in memory of Tony

(*Kate Setterfi eld)Alan FaulknerElisabeth Fisher (*Colette Overdijk)Wally FrancisJ GodwinAnita and Wyn Griffi thsMary and Tony HaleTony and Shirley HallKeith and Mavis HughesLord Hunt of Kings HeathBasil JacksonIn memory of Harry and Rose JacobiMr Michael and Mrs Elaine JonesJohn JordanMrs T Justham in memory of David

(*Michael Seal, Associate Conductor)John and Jenny KendallJohn and Lisa Kent (*Veronika Klírová)Charles and Tessa King-FarlowBeresford King-Smith in memory of

Kate (*Heather Bradshaw)Jane LewisRichard LewisJames and Anthea LloydTim Marshall (*Nikolaj Henriques)David R Mayes OBEPhilip MillsPaul and Elaine MurrayIan C NortonAndrew Orchard and Alan JonesRoger and Jenny Otto in memory

of JulietRob PageSir Michael and Lady Joan PerryDr John PetersonJulie and Tony Phillips (*Elizabeth Fryer)Rosalyn and Philip PhillipsClive and Cynthia PriorIan RichardsPeter and Shirley RobinsonMark and Amanda SmithPam and Alistair SmithWilliam SmithColin Squire OBEMr M and Mrs S A SquiresBrenda SumnerTenors of the CBSO Chorus

(*Joanna Patton)Alan Titchmarsh MBE

(*Matthew Hardy)Mr R J and Mrs M WallsMr E M Worley CBE and Mrs A Worley DLMike and Jane Yeomans in memory of

Jack Field (*Michael Jenkinson)Richard and Emma Yorke

and our other anonymous supporters.

GOLD PATRONS(£650+ per year)Peter and Jane BaxterMike BowdenLady CadburyMr C J M CarrierChristine and John CarrollTim CherryTim Clarke and familyProfessor and Mrs M H CullenRoger and Liz DanceyRobin and Kathy DanielsJohn and Sue Del MarProfessor Sir David EastwoodMr G L and Mrs D EvansGeoff and Dorothy FearnehoughNicola Fleet-MilneSusan and John FranklinMr R Furlong and Ms M PenlingtonAveril Green in memory of Terry GreenDr M KershawMiss C MidgleyNigel and Sarah MooresAndrew and Linda MurrayMagdi and Daisy ObeidChris and Eve ParkerPhillipa and Laurence ParkesChris and Sue PayneProfessor and Mrs A RickinsonCanon Dr Terry SlaterMr A M and Mrs R J SmithDr Barry and Mrs Marian SmithPam SnellIan and Ann StandingRimma SushanskayaJanet and Michael TaplinRoger and Jan ThornhillRoy WaltonRevd T and Mrs S WardDavid Wright and Rachel Parkins

and our other anonymous supporters.

SILVER PATRONS(£450+ per year)Mr and Mrs S V BarberRichard Allen and Gail BarronMr P G BattyePaul BondProfessor Lalage BownRoger and Lesley CadburyMr A D and Mrs M CampbellSue Clodd and Mike Griffi thsDavid and Marian Crawford-ClarkeMrs A P CrocksonDr. Margaret Davis and Dr. John DavisMark DevinAlistair DowJane Fielding and Benedict ColemanMrs D R GreenhalghJohn Gregory in memory of JanetCliff HaresignMr and Mrs G JonesBob and Elizabeth KeevilRodney and Alyson KettelRebecca King in loving memory of IanMr Peter T MarshJames and Meg MartineauPeter and Julia MaskellDr and Mrs Bernard MasonCarmel and Anthony MasonAnthony and Barbara Newson

Richard NewtonMrs A J Offi cerLiz and Keith ParkesMr R Perkins and Miss F HughesDr and Mrs PlewesThe Revd. Richard and Mrs Gill PostillKath and Mike PoulterEileen Poxton in memory of

Reg PoxtonDr and Mrs R C ReppRay SmithSheila and Ian SonleyAndy StreetJohn and Dorothy TeshProfessor and Mrs J A ValeWilliam and Janet VincentTony and Hilary VinesPeter WallingJulie and Simon WardStephen WilliamsJohn and Daphne WilsonGeoff and Moira WyattPaul C Wynn

and our other anonymous supporters.

PATRONS (£250+ per year)Mrs Thérèse AllibonDavid and Lesley ArkellVal and Graham BacheLeon and Valda BaileyAndrew BarnellMr P and Mrs S BarnesMr and Mrs Barnfi eldDi BassPaul BeckwithMr I L BednallGareth BeediePeter and Gill BertinatPhilip and Frances BettsMrs Ann BillenMichael and Beryl BloodBridget Blow CBEAnthony and Jenni BradburyDr Jane Flint Bridgewaterand Mr Kenneth BridgewaterMr Arthur BrookerM. L. BrownAnn BrutonMr and Mrs J H BulmerMr G H and Mrs J M ButlerBenedict and Katharine CadburyPeter and Jeannie CadmanElizabeth CeredigCarole and Richard ChillcottDr J and Mrs S ChitnisPeter and Jane ChristopherAnn Clayden and Terry ThorpeDr A J CochranDee and Paul CockingMrs S M Coote in memory of JohnD and M CoppageLuned CorserMr Richard and Mrs Hilary CrosbyMaurice and Ann CrutchlowJudith Cutler and Keith MilesStephen and Hilary DalySue Dalley and Martin WillisRobert and Barbara DarlastonWilf DaveyTrevor DavisKath Deakin

Dr J Dilkes and Mr K A Chipping and family

Brian and Mary DixonTerry Dougan and Christina LomasMr and Mrs C J DrayseyJohn DruryCatherine DukeNaomi and David DykerChris EckersleyLinda and William EdmondsonAlex and Fran ElderRobert van ElstMiss E W EvansDr D W Eyre-WalkerJill Follett and John HarrisChris Fonteyn MBEJack and Kathleen FoxallSusan and John FranklinAgustín Garcia-SanzAlan and Christine GilesProfessor J E Gilkison and

Prof T HockingStephen J GillR and J GodfreyJill GodsallLaura Greenaway in memory of

David RichardsPaul HadleyRoger and Gaye HadleyNigel and Lesley Hagger-VaughanMiss A R HaighMr W L HalesMalcolm HarbourIan HartlandPhil Haywood in memory of AnnKeith R HerbertKeith Herbert and Pat GregoryHanne Hoeck and John RawnsleySusan Holmes in memory of PeterValerie and David HowittPenny HughesDavid HutchinsonHenry and Liz IbbersonMr R M E and Mrs V IrvingKen and Chris JonesMr M N JordanPaul JulerMrs P KeaneMr and Mrs R KirbyMr A D KirkbyProfessor and Mrs R J KnechtBill LaneBrian LangtonMrs D LarkamJennie Lawrence in memory of PhilipEmmanuel LebautM. E. LingMr J F and Mrs M J LloydProfessor David LondonGeoff and Jean MannGeoff and Jenny MasonNeil MayburyMr A A McLintockPatro MobsbyNorah MortonGeoff MullettP J and H I B MulliganMrs M M NairnRichard and Shirley NewbyRichard Newton and Katharine FrancisBrian NoakeMs E Norton OBEIn memory of Jack and Pam Nunn

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Marie and John O’BrienMr and Mrs R T OrmeS J OsborneNigel PackerRod Parker and Lesley BiddleGraham and Bobbie PerryDavid and Julia PowellGill Powell and John RowlattC PredotaRoger PrestonEileen and Ken PriceRichard and Lynda PriceJohn RandallDr and Mrs K RandleKaty and David RicksPeter and Pauline RoeDavid and Jayne RoperJane and Peter RoweHelen Rowett and David PelteretChristopher and Marion RowlattDr Gwynneth RoyVic and Anne RussellMrs L J SadlerCarole and Chris SallnowStephen SaltaireWilliam and Eileen SaundersMargaret and Andrew SherreyDr and Mrs ShrankKeith ShuttleworthElizabeth SimonsMr N R SkeldingEd SmithMary Smith and Brian Gardner

in memory of John and JenRay SmithMatthew Somerville and Deborah KerrLyn StephensonRobin and Carol StephensonAnne StockMr and Mrs J B Stuffi nsJ E SuttonBarbara Taylor in memory of

Michael TaylorBryan and Virginia TurnerJohn and Anne TurneyMrs J H UpwardClive Kerridge and Suzan van HelvertBob and Louise VivianStephen Vokes and Erica Barnett

Tim and Wendy WadsworthKit WardAnn WarneNeil WarrenMrs M L WebbElisabeth and Keith WellingsMr and Mrs J WestRoger and Sue WhitehouseMr William and Mrs Rosemary WhitingPippa WhittakerJohn and Pippa WicksonRichard and Mary WilliamsBarry and Judith WilliamsonJohn WinterbottomIan Woollard

and our other anonymous supportersand our Friends.

DONORS Thank you to those who have chosen to make a gift to the CBSO this year.Katherine AldridgeBaltimore Friends of the CBSOProfessor Dame Sandra DawsonPeter GrahamChris MorleyMembers of the Newport Music Coach

LEGACY DONORSWe’re incredibly grateful to the following individuals who have chosen to remember the CBSO in their will, passing on the baton for music-lovers of the future.In memory of Chris AldridgeIn memory of Peter AshtonThe late Terence BaumThe late Elizabeth Bathurst BlencoweThe late Mr Peter Walter BlackPhilip BowdenAllan and Jennifer BuckleThe late Miss Sheila Margaret Burgess

SmithIsabel ChurcherThe late Colin W Clarke

Mr and Mrs P CockingThe late Roy CollinsDavid in memory of Ruth Pauline HollandTony Davis and Darin QuallsThe late Mr Peter S. DayMark DevinAlistair DowThe late Mary FellowsFelonious MongooseValerie FranklandJill GodsallThe late Colin GrahamDavid and Lesley HarringtonTricia HarveyThe late Mrs Marjorie HildrethMr Trevor and Mrs Linda IngramRobin and Dee JohnsonAlan Jones and Andrew OrchardMs Lou JonesThe late William JonesPeter MacklinThe late Mr and Mrs F. McDermott and

Mrs C. HallThe late Myriam Josephine MajorThe late Joyce MiddletonPhilip MillsThe late Peter and Moyra MonahanThe late Arthur MouldThe late June NorthStephen OsborneGill PowellThe late Mrs Edith RobertsPhilip RothenbergThe late Mr Andrew RoulstoneThe late Thomas Edward ScottMrs C E Smith and Mr William SmithPam SnellThe late Mrs Sylvia StirmanThe late Mrs Eileen SummersMiss K V Swift John TaylorMr D M and Mrs J G ThorneJohn VickersMrs Angela and Mr John WattsPhilip WilsonAlan Woodfi eld

and our other anonymous donors.

ENDOWMENT DONORSWe are grateful to all those who have given to the CBSO Development Trust’s private endowment fund, thus enabling the orchestra to become more self-suffi cient for the long term.Mike and Jan AdamsArts for AllViv and Hazel AstlingThe Barwell Charitable TrustIn memory of Foley L BatesBridget Blow CBEDeloitteMiss Margery ElliottSimon FaircloughSir Dexter HuttIrwin Mitchell SolicitorsThe Justham TrustMrs Thelma JusthamBarry and Frances KirkhamChris and Jane LoughranLinda Maguire-BrookshawMazars Charitable TrustAndrew Orchard and Alan JonesJohn OsbornMargaret PaytonRoger Pemberton and Monica PirottaDavid PettPinsent MasonsMartin PurdyPeter and Sally-Ann SinclairJerry SykesAlessandro and Monica TosoPatrick VerwerR C and F M Young Trust

* Player supporter

Credits correct as of 9 June 2021

Get closer to the music, the orchestra and its musicians – we’d love you to be part of it.

Joining as a member will not only provide vital support to help the CBSO recover from the Covid crisis but your gift will also be matched pound for pound thanks to the generous support of a CBSO member of our campaign board.

Visit cbso.co.uk/membership for more information and to join online.

To make a donation, to join us as a member or for more information on the many ways by which you can support the CBSO, please visit cbso.co.uk/support-us

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Corporate Partners

Trusts and Foundations29th May 1961 Charitable TrustABO Trust’s Sirens ProgrammeMiss Albright Grimley CharityThe Andor Charitable TrustThe Lord Austin TrustThe John Avins TrustBackstage TrustThe Rachel Baker Memorial CharityBite Size PiecesThe Boshier-Hinton FoundationBritish Korean SocietyThe Charles Brotherton TrustThe Edward & Dorothy Cadbury TrustEdward Cadbury Charitable TrustThe George Cadbury FundThe R V J Cadbury Charitable TrustCBSO Development TrustCity of Birmingham Orchestral Endowment FundThe John S Cohen FoundationThe George Henry Collins CharityThe Concertina Charitable TrustBaron Davenport’s CharityThe D’Oyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe W E Dunn TrustJohn Ellerman FoundationThe Eveson Charitable TrustThe John Feeney Charitable TrustGeorge Fentham Birmingham CharityAllan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable SettlementFidelio Charitable TrustThe Garrick Charitable TrustThe Golsoncott FoundationGrantham Yorke TrustThe Grey Court TrustThe Grimmitt TrustThe Derek Hill FoundationThe Joseph Hopkins and Henry James Sayer CharitiesJohn Horniman’s Children’s TrustThe Irving Memorial TrustThe JABBS Foundation

Lillie Johnson Charitable TrustThe Kobler TrustJames Langley Memorial TrustThe Leverhulme TrustLG Harris TrustLJC FundLimoges Charitable TrustThe S & D Lloyd CharityThe Helen Rachael Mackaness Charitable TrustThe McLay Dementia TrustThe James Frederick & Ethel Anne Measures CharityThe Anthony and Elizabeth Mellows Charitable TrustMFPA Trust Fund for the Training of Handicapped

Children in the ArtsMillichope FoundationThe David Morgan Music TrustThe Oakley Charitable TrustThe Patrick TrustThe Misses C M Pearson & M V Williams

Charitable TrustPerry Family Charitable TrustThe Bernard Piggott Charitable TrustPRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for OrganisationsThe Radcliffe TrustThe Rainbow Dickinson TrustThe Ratcliff FoundationClive & Sylvia Richards CharityRix-Thompson-Rothenberg FoundationThe M K Rose Charitable TrustThe Rowlands TrustRVW TrustThe Saintbury TrustThe E H Smith Charitable TrustF C Stokes TrustSutton Coldfield Charitable TrustC B & H H Taylor 1984 TrustG J W Turner TrustThe Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable TrustGarfield Weston FoundationThe Wolfson FoundationThe Alan Woodfield Charitable Trust

Supporter of Schoolsʼ Concerts

Public Funders

www.prsformusicfoundation.com

G lobe f l ow

Partners in Orchestral Development

William King Ltd

THANK YOU The support we receive from thousands of individual donors, public funders, businesses and private foundations allows us to present extraordinary performances and to create exciting activities in schools and communities. Your support makes such a diff erence and is much appreciated.

For more information on how your organisation can engage with the CBSO, please contact Simon Fairclough, CBSO Director of Development, on 0121 616 6500 or sfairclough@cbso.co.uk

Thank you also to our Major Donors, Benefactors, Circles Members, Patrons and Friends for their generous support.

Education Partners

In-kind supporters

Funders

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BOARD Chair David Burbidge CBE DLDeputy Chair David RoperElected Trustees Tony Davis Jane Fielding Susan Foster Joe Godwin Emily Ingram Sundash Jassi Chris Loughran Lucy Williams

Birmingham City Council Nominated Trustees Cllr Sir Albert Bore Cllr Alex Yip

Player Nominated Trustees Elspeth Dutch Helen Edgar

Additional Player Representative Margaret Cookhorn

Hon Secretary to the Trustees Mark Devin

CBSO DEVELOPMENT TRUST Chair Chris Loughran DL

Trustees Charles Barwell OBE Gordon Campbell Wally Francis John Osborn CBE David Pett

Hon Secretary to the Trustees John Bartlett

CAMPAIGN BOARDChair David Burbidge CBE, DL Susan Foster Peter How Jamie Justham Her Honour Frances Kirkham CBE Chris Loughran DL John Osborn CBE

Honorary Medical Advisors:

Dr Rod MacRorie. Association of Medical Advisors to British Orchestras/BAPAM

Professor Sir Keith Porter. Consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham

PLAYERS’ COMMITTEEChair Jo Patton Vice Chair Mark Phillips Richard Watkin Andy Herbert Kirsty Lovie Colette Overdijk Heather Bradshaw Matthew Hardy* Recipients of the CBSO Long Service Award † Part-time employee # Volunteer

MANAGEMENTChief Executive Stephen Maddock OBE*PA to Chief Executive Niki Longhurst*†

Head of Orchestra Management (Maternity Cover) Adrian RutterOrchestra Manager Claire Dersley*Assistant Orchestra Manager Alan JohnsonPlatform Manager Peter Harris*Assistant Platform Manager Robert HowardLibrarian Jack Lovell-Huckle

Head of Artistic Planning Anna MelvillePlanning & Tours Manager Hannah Muddiman†Project Manager Claire Greenwood†Assistant Planning Manager Maddi Belsey-Day

Director of Learning & Engagement Lucy GalliardLearning & Participation Manager Katie LucasCommunity Projects Offi cer Adele FranghiadiYouth Ensembles Offi cer Rebecca NicholasSchools Offi cer Carolyn Burton Chorus Manager Poppy HowarthChildren’s & Youth Chorus Offi cer Ella McNameeResearch Assistant Adam Nagel*†

Director of Marketing & Communications Gareth Beedie CRM & Insight Manager Melanie Ryan*†Publications Manager Jane Denton†Assistant Marketing Manager Harriet GreenDigital Content Producer Hannah Blake-FathersMarketing Volunteer Christine Midgley*#

Director of Development Simon FaircloughHead of Philanthropy Francesca SpickernellMembership & Appeals Manager Eve Vines†Events & Relationship Management Executive Megan BradshawDevelopment Operations Offi cer Melanie AdeyDevelopment Administrator Bethan McKnight†Trust Fundraiser Fiona Fox

Director of Finance Annmarie WallisFinance Manager Dawn DohertyPayroll Offi cer Lindsey Bhagania†*Assistant Accountant Graham IrvingFinance Assistant (Cost) Susan PriceHR Manager Hollie DunsterCBSO Centre Manager Niki Longhurst*†Technical & Facilities Supervisor Tomoyuki MatsuoAssistant CBSO Centre Manager Peter Clarke*Receptionist Sev Kucukogullari†

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