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INTERNATIONALALA CONCERT & DINNERG in aid of the Sheffield Institute Foundation for Motor Neurone Disease and Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience

with Stars of Today and Tomorrow

Lisa Milne Soprano

Ailish Tynan Soprano

Ian Bostridge Tenor

Lorenzo Gatto Violin

Joris van den Berg Cello

James Baillieu Piano

‘2CELLOS’, Luka Šulic & Stjepan Hauser

Friday 14 September 2012at 7pm (please note early starting time)

in the World’s Favourite Recital Hall

Wigmore HallWigmore Street, London W1

Followed by dinner at either of two Five Star Hotels

The Hyatt Regency Hotel, LondonThe Churchill30 Portman Square, London W1 and The Langham Hotel1C Portland Place, London W1

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The Architects, Bond Bryan, the contractors and the other

professionals involved in its construction (ISG, Turner & Townsend, SKM, and Capital Symonds) together with the University of Sheffield received the

RICS Pro Yorkshire Award for Design and Innovation in the Region.

A major opportunity now exists to expand the vital research activity into

Motor Neurone Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and SMA

(the childhood variety of MND) by increasing the number of international scientists

devoting themselves to this research, and this Gala Concert and Dinner aims to provide an

important boost to the funds required.

SHEFFIELD INSTITUTE FOUNDATION FOR MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE

*Company limited by guaranteeregistered in England and Wales no. 6052704Charity Commission registration no. 1118414Registered office: 1St Paul’s Place, Sheffield S1 2JX

Principal Gala Sponsorwho have generously donated

a dinner for 200


The Architects, Bond Bryan, the contractors and the other

professionals involved in its construction (ISG, Turner & Townsend, SKM, and Capital Symonds) together with the University of Sheffield received the

RICS Pro Yorkshire Award for Design and Innovation in the Region.

A major opportunity now exists to expand the vital research activity into

Motor Neurone Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and SMA

(the childhood variety of MND) by increasing the number of international scientists

devoting themselves to this research, and this Gala Concert and Dinner aims to provide an

important boost to the funds required.

The new

state-of-the-art

SITraN building

was opened

by

HM The Queen

and

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh

at the end of

2010


Performing Artists

Lisa Milne MBE, soprano is a Scottish Soprano who studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

She has appeared in leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera and at Glyndebourne, with Scottish Opera, and with Welsh National Opera; further afield, with the Dallas

Opera, Stuttgart Opera and Royal Danish Opera. Concert appearances have included performances with the Boston Symphony under Levine; the Berlin Philharmonic under Rattle; the Rotterdam Philharmonic under Gergiev; the Budapest Philharmonic under

Fischer, and with the New York and Vienna Philharmonics under Harding. Lisa Milne is a regular recitalist at Wigmore Hall.

Ailish Tynan, sopranowas born in Ireland and trained there before coming to the Guildhall School of Music

and Drama; in 2003 she received the Rosenblatt Recital Prize in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World whilst a Royal Opera Young Artist. In opera she has recently

performed Hero in Beatrice and Benedict for Houston Grand Opera, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Tigrane in Radamisto for ENO, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte at La

Scala. This season she has sung Gretel with Scottish Opera and will sing Mme Cortese in Il Viaggio a Reims at Covent Garden. She has appeared regularly on the concert

platform and at Wigmore Hall.

Ian Bostridge CBE, tenor had a distinguished early academic career – Queen’s Scholar at Westminster School, and St John’s and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford (of both of which he is an Honorary Fellow), and St John’s College, Cambridge. At Corpus Christi he was a Post-doctoral Fellow before turning to a professional career as a singer in 1993. He has performed

in most of the leading concert and recital halls, and opera houses of the world to enormous critical acclaim, whether as the Evangelist in Bach’s St John’s Passion at Carnegie Hall or in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest at Covent Garden; he returns often to Wigmore Hall where he has been a much-loved performer for two decades. Ian

Bostridge has recorded extensively, including Britten, and Die schöne Müllerin (with Johnson and with Uchida) and recently he published some of his insightful writings in

A Singer’s Notebook, just reprinted.

INTERNATIONALALA CONCERT & DINNERG


James Baillieu, pianowon the 2009 Pianist’s Prize in the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and

was described as “that magician of the keyboard”. The Daily Telegraph commented that he “is surely the leader of the new generation of accompanists – in a class of his own;

a remarkable pianist.” James Baillieu was born in South Africa and graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2004. He won a full scholarship to the Royal Academy

of Music and so impressed that in 2011 he was appointed a Professor of Piano Accompaniment at the Academy. He has won many major prizes including the Rosario

Marciano Prize in Vienna. He follows in a great line of accompanists from Moore to Parsons and to Johnson and Drake.

Lorenzo Gatto, violin shot to fame when he won the Judges’ First Prize and the Audience’s Prize in the

Final of the First Manchester International Violin Competition in 2005. In 2010 he was the runner-up in the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. He started

studying violin at five and from 12 he has been playing in concert halls throughout Europe. He has made two important recordings - an Enescu-Martinu recording for the Fuga Libera label, and Vieuxtemps’ Concerto No 4 with the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra. Lorenzo Gatto makes his USA debut in September, playing Beethoven’s

Violin Concerto with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra and will have his solo debut at Wigmore Hall next year.

Joris van den Berg, ‘cellowas born into a musical family in the Netherlands in 2006 and after studying, at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, he went to the RNCM in Manchester where he studied with Ralph Kirshbaum, graduating with distinction and receiving the College’s Gold

Medal. Since September 2011 he has been on the International Artists Diploma Course at the RNCM where he is supported by the 2011/12 Dorothy Stone

Scholarship. He has already made his debuts in both the recital and the main halls of the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and at Wigmore Hall.

‘2CELLOS’ Luka Šulic & Stjepan Hausershot to world-wide fame after recording on YouTube their “cross-over” ‘cello version of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal which had 3.5 million “hits” in three weeks. Both

Luka and Stjepan are from Croatia and had been studying classical ‘cello, respectively at the Royal Academy of Music (Luka) and at Trinity College of Music (Stjepan) (where

he was supported by the Stone-Mallabar Charitable Foundation) the Royal Northern College of Music (where he was the 2009/10 Dorothy Stone Scholar). They were

signed by SONY and their first CD which was released in August 2011 has already sold c.200,000 copies; another CD is presently being recorded.

2 Cellos are managed by Rocket Music (Sir Elton John’s management company) and they have been touring and playing worldwide with Sir Elton for nine months.


Patron of the Gala ConcertSir Peter Middleton, GCB

Chancellor of the University of Sheffield

A Committee for the evening has been set up under the aegis of Jonathan Stone, a Founding Patron of the umbrella charity for SITraN,

Sheffield Institute foundation for Motor Neurone Disease (“SIFMND”)

Gala Committee

Lady Middleton, Frances Murphy

(Co-Chairmen)Professor Keith Burnett (Vice Chancellor)

Gareth DavisJojo Grima

Stephen HancockAnthony Henshaw

Professor Paul InceProfessor Pamela Shaw

Stephen Sly (Trustee, SIFMND)J M L Stone (Founding Patron, SIFMND)

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BOOKING FORM

Tickets

_____ Corporate Blocks of ten seats and a full table for dinner £2500

_____ Individual tickets for the concert and dinner £100

However, in order to meet our fundraising goals from this event, we would suggest a donation of at least £150 per person

(to equate with the cost of each seat at a corporate table).

I/We wish to make a donation to SIFMND of £ . . . . . . . . . . .

Gift Aid

If you are a UK taxpayer, please complete this Gift Aid declaration and return it with your ticket order. This will enable us to reclaim the tax you have already paid for every pound you donate. NB You must pay an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax at least equal to the tax that the charity reclaims on your donations in the appropriate tax year.

I want the Sheffield Institute Foundation for Motor Neurone Disease to treat all donations that I make from the date of this declaration until I notify you otherwise as Gift Aid donations. I confirm that I am a UK taxpayer and understand that I may cancel this agreement at any time. PLEASE COMPLETE IN BLOCK CAPITALS.

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Advertising

Please reserve me/us a page of (A4 size) advertising

¨ Back Page £2500 (to include 4 seats for the concert and dinner)

¨ Inside front cover, ¨ inside rear cover £1500 (to include 2 seats)

¨ Run of the programme £1000 (to include 2 seats)

All orders and enquiries to Ruth Davies Gala Co-ordinator21 Upper Brook Street, London W1K 7PY T: 07977 178379 E: [email protected]

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Facilities for Disabled People

For full details please contact House Management, Tel: 020 7258 8210 or Email: [email protected]

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

Director: John Gilhooly, The Wigmore Hall Trust.

Registered Charity No. 1024838. www.wigmore-hall.org.uk


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