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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2015

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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES

OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2015

I am delighted to introduce another programme of public concerts promoted by the University of Leeds. The Concert Series continues to make a major contribution to the cultural life of the city region, and firmly underlines the University’s commitment to the arts.

The 2015-16 Series reflects a wide range of concert music, with a repertoire which stretches from the 15th to 21st centuries.

Highlights for this year include a masterclass and concert by renowned pianist Martin Roscoe; a series of performances in collaboration with Leeds Lieder; surveying the rich repertoire of the Richard Strauss songbook, featuring Kathleen Ferrier award winning singers Johnny Herford, Louise Alder and Katherine Broderick; a supper concert celebrating the music of Edith Piaf; and an exciting new collaboration with the Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) which will bring some of the best young performers to the magnificent Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall.

As a mark of the developing relationship between the School of Music and Leeds University Union Music Society (LUUMS), from November 2015 the Concert Series will feature all of the Society’s Clothworkers Concerts. Covering the full spectrum of classical performance, these welcome additions to the Series will help promote the talents of University of Leeds students to a new audience.

Next year, University wide events will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. Sopranos Stephanie Smith and Katherine Broderick, and as part of February 2016’s Early Music Festival, tenor Michael Solomon Williams will all perform settings of The Bard’s work.

Building on previous years, the Series will be creating opportunities for the public to be more closely involved in music making, with a selection of practical workshops, masterclasses and pre-concert talks.

The Concert Series is, as ever, grateful for the continued support of the Friends of University Art and Music (FUAM), who do so much to support the development of young classical performers. FUAM identify and nurture artistic talent, and through their generous support of the Series, offer our Concert Series audience the opportunity to hear work from the stars of the future.

My sincere thanks go to all those individuals and organisations that have helped us to fund this year’s programme.

We look forward to welcoming you to the University and another exciting and varied Concert Series.

Sir Alan Langlands Vice-Chancellor

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Opera North trombones in concert Friday 2 October, 1:05pm Blair Sinclair (principal trombone) Robert Burtenshaw (sub-principal trombone) Christian Jones (bass trombone)The trombone section of the Orchestra of Opera North perform music by composers including Daniel Speer and Ray Premru, plus world premieres from Dan Jenkins and Ben Ellin.

Admission Free

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Traditional flute music from East Galway Friday 9 October, 1:05pm Sean Moloney (flute)Sean Moloney is a flute player, teacher and composer from County Galway, Ireland. He comes from a long line of traditional flute players going back five generations and is one of the few remaining exponents of the Ballinakill East Galway regional style.

Sean has been recorded for the Irish National Folklore Archives and has produced five CDs, including one of his own compositions. The most recent is a collection of his father's archival recordings and forms the backdrop for this concert, in which Sean will discuss the East Galway flute tradition and perform pieces from his wide repertoire. Sean plays both Boehme and simple system concert flutes as well as alto flute, tin whistle and fiddle. He is accompanied by his wife Irene on the bodhrán (a wood framed goatskin drum).

Admission Free

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Light Night Leeds 2015Friday 9 October, from 7:30pm The AshatonesAs part of Light Night Leeds 2015 the Clothworkers Concert Hall Foyer host barbershop quartet The Ashatones. Incorporating the classic a cappella four part close harmonies of the barbershop genre, comedy and entertainment, The Ashatones aim to reintroduce barbershop into modern day repertoire. This performance will offer a wide ranging repertoire of music from conventional early twentieth century barbershop songs and arrangements from the 50s and through the decades, to musical theatre numbers and modern day pop arrangements. The Ashatones offer barbershop singing as you've never heard or seen it before.

Admission Free

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Richard Strauss Song Series IThe Juvenilia and the Munich SchoolWednesday 14 October, 7:30pm Johnny Herford (baritone) Joseph Middleton (piano)In association with the Kathleen Ferrier Awards

Songs by Strauss, Mahler, Thuille and Pfitzner

Leeds Lieder begins its fascinating survey of the songs of Richard Strauss with a recital given by Johnny Herford, a recent prize-winner at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. He is accompanied by Leeds Lieder Director Joseph Middleton, curator of this Strauss series.

These three Strauss concerts will present the songs chronologically and open with his first foray into song writing, a childishly innocent, though remarkably assured Christmas song composed when he was just 6. Following other songs written in his youth, the duo present his opus 10 (which includes such gems as Zueignung, Die Nacht and Allerseelen). Next to these early songs are juxtaposed works by two of his friends: the harmonically rich songs of Ludwig Thuille, including his setting of Die Nacht, are performed and these sit alongside the virtuosic passion of Hans Pfitzner’s writing. To compliment this exploration of romanticism in song, a group of Mahler’s early songs will be performed.

Tickets: £20£18 (advance saver - available until 29 September)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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Léon Goossens: A Forgotten SoundworldFriday 16 October, 1:05pm Jonathan Tobutt (oboe) Daniel Gordon (piano)The seventh and final concert in the series of performances dedicated to exploring the extraordinary impact of the oboist Léon Goossens (1897-1988). Short pieces were a popular feature of Léon’s recitals and were his stock in trade for over fifty years; material that would be considered trite and unworthy of a concert platform for modern-day audiences, yet it was rare for Léon not to include at least one medley of ‘lollipops’ in his concerts. Jonathan and Daniel’s concert will reflect Léon’s unique approach to programming and include Franz Reizensten’s Sonatina for oboe and piano and works by Handel, Morgan Nicholas, Thomas Pitfield, Alan Richardson, Alec Rowley and Alec Templeton.

Admission Free

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Sounds Heard: Celebrating the work of Hugh DaviesSaturday 17 October & Sunday 18 October Avant-garde, experimental, electronic and improvised musics and workshops, including performances by celebrated free improviser Steve Beresford, vocalist Phil Minton, sound artist Aleks Kolkowski, members of the Edinburgh-based ensemble Grey Area, and live coding of dot-matrix printers by Alex McLean, as well as an analog disc-cutting and vocal workshop and a film-screening of a 1966 performance of Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I (and possibly a live demo if we can fit it in). Among Davies’ pieces to be performed will be his experimental music-theatre works The Birth of Live Electronic Music and Mobile with Differences, his late-sixties live electronic and vocal pieces Voice and Not to be Loaded with Fish, his 1980s dot-matrix printer piece Printmusic, and other tape-music and/or self-built instrument treats.

These events are part of an AHRC-funded project - ‘Hugh Davies: Electronic Music Innovator’- led by Dr James Mooney, in partnership with Dr Tim Boon of the Science Museum, London. They are also supported by the Stockhausen Foundation, Kürten.

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Amy Welch (violin) Tory Clarke (violin) Laurie Dempsey (viola) Joshua Lynch (cello)Maurice de Sausmarez set up the first department of Fine Art at Leeds during the 1950s, and also played a significant role in liaising with the University's Gregory Fellows in the creative arts, established by Eric Gregory in the same period. Kenneth Leighton was the first Gregory Fellow in Music at the University (1953-56), and the close friendship made between him and de Sausmarez at the time continued until de Sausmarez’s death in 1969.

In 1964 de Sausmarez commissioned Leighton to write a string quartet in memory of his mother Jessie. Its first performance was held at the Byam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing - where de Sausmarez had taken over as Principal - in the main Exhibition Gallery at the close of the 1964 Exhibition of Students’ Work.

Cassia QuartetWednesday 21 October, 7:30pm

This performance by the Cassia Quartet will reproduce the original concert, which consisted of Leighton’s Seven Variations for String Quartet together with Schubert's Quartet no.10 in E flat, and Dvorak's Quartet no.12. The concert is supported by the de Sausmarez family.

This concert follows the opening of the exhibition in the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery on 20th October, celebrating the centenary of the birth of the artist, writer and teacher Maurice de Sausmarez.

Programme:Leighton - Seven Variations for String Quartet Schubert - Quartet no.10 in E flatDvorak - Quartet no.12, op.96 in F major (American)

Tickets: £15£13 (advance saver - available until 6 October)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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Discover Danzi - horn and basset horn sonatasFriday 23 October, 1:05pm ensembleF2: Anneke Scott (natural horn) Jane Booth (basset horn) Steven Devine (fortepiano)ensembleF2 formed in 2009 performing works by Haydn and Mozart across the country including the Wigmore Hall.

ensembleF2 are passionate about period performance practice and endeavour to research, try out, listen and reflect on all the music they play, making their work stimulating and challenging. Assembling and Ensembling with friends and deeply respected colleagues allows them to constantly learn from each other.

The group have recently been Discovering Danzi and have completed two recordings of his music for the Devine Music label. The first focuses on the sonatas for clarinet (op.56 in B flat), horn (op.28 in E flat) and the storming Quintet (op.41 in D minor), whilst the second, newly released, features the sonatas for basset horn (op.62 in F), horn (op.44 in E minor) and the Quintet in (op.54 in D).

Programme: Franz Danzi - Sonata in B flat for fortepiano and clarinet op.56Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Adagio in B minor KV540Franz Danzi - Sonata in E minor for fortepiano and horn op.44

Admission Free

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Sacconi Quartet and FriendsSunday 25 October, 3:00pm Ben Hancox (violin) Hannah Dawson (violin) Robin Ashwell (viola) Simon Rowland-Jones (viola) Cara Berridge (cello) David Waterman (cello)The Sacconi Quartet are joined by two of this country’s finest chamber musicians – violist Simon Rowland-Jones (Chilingirian Quartet) and cellist David Waterman (Endellion Quartet) – in a glorious programme of string music. Beginning with Strauss’ sumptuous Sextet from his opera Capriccio, and culminating in Brahms’ ever popular B flat Sextet, the programme also features a first for Leeds – the northern premiere of Simon Rowland-Jones’ second string quintet, written for the Sacconis last year and delighting audiences wherever it is performed.

The award-winning Sacconi Quartet is recognised for its unanimous and compelling ensemble, consistently communicating with a fresh and

imaginative approach. Formed in 2001, its four founder members continue to demonstrate a shared passion for string quartet repertoire, infectiously reaching out to audiences with their energy and enthusiasm. The Quartet have enjoyed a highly successful international career, performing regularly throughout Europe, at London’s major venues, in recordings and on radio broadcasts.

Tickets: £20£18 (advance saver - available until 10 October)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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This concert has been sponsored by FUAM through the generous assistance of Professor Anthony Ogus.

English SongFriday 30 October, 1:05pm Joel Williams (tenor) Following his success in the Anthony Lewis Memorial Competition at the Royal Academy, the tenor Joel Williams will be performing a concert of English Song from Dowland to 21st century composers.

Joel won this national competition as the representative of Cambridge University, and has since gone on to study at the Royal College of Music.

Described as 'the Mozart tenor of our generation' by James Bowman, and 'a huge talent' by Toby Spence, this promises to be a beautifully crafted and exciting programme.

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Folk Fiddle Workshop with Patrick Rimes10:00am-1:30pmJohn Clare was an accomplished fiddle player and one of the first serious collectors of folk music. This workshop will give fiddle players an opportunity to work on the repertoire from Clare’s own collection under the guidance of the noted folk fiddle player Patrick Rimes. The session will culminate in an informal performance open to those attending the John Clare Day events.

Patrick Rimes is a musician who crosses the boundaries of classical and traditional music. He is a composer, arranger, conductor, classical viola player and traditional fiddle and pipes player. He was Music Director for S4C’s one-off Christmas Special ‘Nadolig Bryn Terfel’ in December. Patrick is in demand as a teacher with both Trac (Wales' traditional music foundation) and Clera (the society for traditional instruments in Wales), giving regular workshops and lessons on style, repertoire and arranging skills.

Tickets: £7 / £5 (observer) - including morning refreshments

Talk by Barry Sheerman2:00pm Introduction and talk on Clare’s life and times

Talk by Dr David Higgins 2:45pm John Clare the ‘ecological’ poet

Talk by Prof. Derek Scott4:00pm John Clare the musician

Meet the Artist: Barry Wenden5:00pm Barry Wenden introduces his current exhibition and discusses the influences of poet John Clare on his work.

Enclosed!: John Clare, poet 7:30pm Trio Literati with Eleanor Rastall (soprano)John Clare, self-taught poet and lyrical observer of nature, also turned his hand to sharp political satire, bawdy dialogue, verse tales, sketches, and an intermittent journal. A remarkable output for a man locked in a 19th century Asylum for almost 40 years!

Trio Literati, with soprano Eleanor Rastall, offer a colourful and unexpected portrait of the man and the vanishing rural England which inspired him.

Trio Literati are full of energy, wit and stylePeter Holman, Opera Restor'd

Tickets: £15£13 (advance saver - available until 16 October)FREE - Students and Under 16s

Fields were the essence of his songThe life, work and influence of poet, fiddler, ecologist and commentator on social change JOHN CLARE (1793 – 1864)

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Student ShowcaseFriday 6 November, 1:05pm Another opportunity to hear work by students on performance courses in the School of Music. Programme to be announced.

Admission Free

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Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson performs new music for clarinetsFriday 13 November, 1:05pm Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson (clarinet, bass clarinet and contra bass clarinet)Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson plays solo contemporary repertoire for the clarinet, bass clarinet and the contrabass clarinet. A roller coaster of styles are presented in this program with a mixture of new and old composers. There are pieces by Hans- Joachim Hespos, Arne Sanders, Elikowski- Winkler (english premiere), Mic Spencer and Helmut Lachenmann. The pieces are extremely short or long, amplified with electronics or on the brink of perceptible softness. Including the piece Dal niente by Helmut Lachenmann the concert is bound to keep ears open.

Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson is an Icelandic clarinet player based in Berlin. As a soloist he has a great preference for the bass clarinet and has initiated and premiered many pieces by composers of his generation. He has played on most prominent festivals of new music like Darmstäder Ferienkurse, März Music Berlin, Ultraschall Berlin and Ultima Oslo. He is a member of Adapter ensemble and has played on many recordings with the ensemble and festivals.

Programme: Hans-Joachim Hespos - sp-aay for solo bass clarinet (2004)Arne Sanders - Etym for solo bass clarinet (2007)Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler - L´HOMME SANS APPARTENANCE for contra bass clarinet and electronics (2014) (english premier)Mic Spencer - Ungrund III b for solo clarinet (2010)Helmut Lachenmann - Dal Niente (Interieur III) (1970) for solo clarinet

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Popular Music of the First World War: Some Remembered and Some Forgotten Wednesday 11 November, 7:30pm The popular music of the First World War is often assumed to be the music specifically produced during 1914-18. Yet music popular in the years before the war also played a part in the entertainments that did so much to boost morale. It is for this reason that this concert spans a period from 1910 to 1918. There are two other assumptions that the concert brings into question. One is that typical songs of this period were largely about patriotism, and the other is that all the songs were of British origin. Many people think first of music-hall songs as typical music of the War. While not neglecting the music hall, this concert also features other popular music of the time: drawing-room ballads, musical comedy numbers and, perhaps surprisingly, music from English adaptations of German operettas.

Tickets: £15£13 (advance saver - available until 27 October)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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6:30pm - Pre-concert talk by Emma Hanna Music and Morale in Britain During the First World War

This concert is supported by the city of Berlin

Handel: Music for State OccasionsSunday 15 November, 3:00pm Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra directed by Peter HolmanIn this special concert Leeds Baroque brings together the four grand anthems Handel wrote for the coronation of George II in 1727 (including Zadok the Priest) with other pieces celebrating other Hanoverian state occasions, including the fine but neglected anthem This is the day, written for the marriage of princess Anne and the Prince of Orange in 1734.

There will also be the first performance of a new work specially commissioned by Leeds Baroque by Christopher Roberts, prize-winning composer and alumnus of the University of Leeds School of Music and the orchestra. It is a setting of an ode on the

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Ensemble InterfaceWednesday 18 November, 7:30pm Bettina Berger (flutes) Andrea Nagy (clarinets)Christophe Mathias (cello) Anna D'Errico (piano) Agnieszka Koprowska-Born (percussion) Diego Castro Magas (guitar)Ensemble Interface, an international collective of musicians founded in 2009 in Frankfurt am Main, is committed to contemporary music through performance, educational activities and research.

The ensemble believe that risk-taking and experimentation are crucial to the artistic process, and interface this framework with everything they are dedicated to: new and existing works, as well as interactions with artistic partners and audiences.

Interface has worked with some of the world’s foremost composers and conductors, including Georges Aperghis, Peter Eötvös, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Pierluigi Billone, Enno Poppe, Rebecca

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Saunders and Lucas Vis. The ensemble has also developed a strong focus on staged performances and music theatre. Interface has appeared in venues all over Europe and in the USA, Eastern Asia and Australia.

Programme: Patricia Alessandrini - Alphabet de Ténèbres for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello and electronicsPedro Alvarez - New forms of asymmetry for solo guitar and ensembleMartin Iddon - crinaeae for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, celloMauricio Pauly - Patrulla palinodia for amplified ensemble, live electronics and pre-recorded audio

Tickets: £12£10 (advance saver - available until 3 November)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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death of Handel, entitled Handel breath’d no more. The text is taken from The Tears of Music: A Poem to the Memory of Mr Handel by the Reverend John Langhorne of Hackthorne, Lincolnshire (dated 18 February 1760 and printed in The Gentleman’s Magazine). Commission supported by Leeds Inspired.

Tickets: £18£16 (advance saver - available until 31 October)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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Panagiotis Giannakakis is a distinguished Greek pianist based in Athens. Following study in the Conservatoire there, and at Trinity College of Music in London, he studied for eight years in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, being taught by, among others, Nasedkin and Ovchinikov.

Panagiotis has given many public performances across the world. As well as performing at many venues in Greece and Cyprus, he has performed in Bucharest, Hamburg, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, and Seattle. He has collaborated with several orchestras, and has participated at festivals in Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, and Italy. He has also performed on Cypriot, Greek, German and Moscow radio.

He has an extensive repertoire of classical, romantic and contemporary piano music. In contemporary music, Panagiotis has a rare ability for learning difficult music quickly, and, as a result, he has given acclaimed first performances of many Greek, American and European compositions for piano.

Programme:Bach - Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major and C sharp minor (1st book)Mozart - Variations KV573Chopin - Etudes op.10 no.1,6,8,11,12Shostakovich - Sonata op.12

Admission Free

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Panagiotis GiannakakisFriday 20 November, 1:05pm

The Vice-Chancellor's ConcertLaurence CummingsSunday 22 November, 3:00pm Laurence Cummings is one of Britain’s most exciting and versatile exponents of historical performance both as conductor and harpsichord player. He has been Artistic Director of the London Handel Festival since 1999 and of the Internationale Händel-Festpiele Göttingen since 2012. He is the William Crotch Professor of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music.

He has conducted productions for English National Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Garsington Opera, English Touring Opera, Gothenburg Opera and Opernhaus Zurich. He regularly conducts the English Concert and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

A sweep around Europe in celebration of the organ. Laurence Cummings presents works from England, Italy, the Low Countries and finishes with the grand D minor Suite from Mr Handel, the truly European master of the keyboard.

Programme:Roseingrave - Voluntary and Fugue in D minor (1728)John Stanley - Voluntary in G major Henry Purcell - Voluntary in D minor, Z718Frescobaldi - Toccata Quarta (il primo libro)Froberger - Toccata VI, FbW112Scheidt - Variations on a Galliard of John DowlandSweelinck - Variations on Unter der Linden grûneHandel - Suite in D minor, HWV428

Tickets: £20£18 (advance saver - available until 7 November)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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6:30pm - Pre-concert talk - Dominic GwynnDominic Gwynn will talk about his research and the challenges of building the Clothworkers Concert Hall Organ.

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Student ShowcaseWednesday 25 November, 6:00pm Another opportunity to hear work by students on performance courses in the School of Music. Programme to be announced.

Admission Free

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The Golden ThreadMusic for GamelanFriday 27 November, 1:05pm The University of Leeds Gamelan Ensemble will perform a collection of traditional music and world premieres of new compositions on the School of Music's Javanese Gamelan. This set of bronze gongs and metallophones, named The Golden Thread in reference to Leeds' strong connections with the textile industry, was hand-crafted in the court city of Surakarta in Central Java twelve years ago. The ensemble is directed by Emily Crossland (MA York), a former student of Dr Neil Sorrell and a performer, composer and educator with various northern gamelans, including York's Gamelan Sekar Petak, the Halle's Gamelan Ruming Laras, and Hull's Gamelan Kyai Sri Jaladri Naga.

Admission Free

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Martin Roscoe - Piano MasterclassSaturday 28 November, 2:00pm Three up-and-coming young pianists from universities and conservatoires work with Martin Roscoe on repertoire of their choice.

Admission Free

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Beethoven and ImprovisationSaturday 28 November, 7:30pm Martin Roscoe (piano)Beethoven's reputation as a pianist and improviser was even greater at the beginning of his time in Vienna than his reputation as a composer, so I thought it would be interesting to compare two of his sonatas and three shorter pieces by him with some Impromptus by the very different composers Schubert, Chopin and Faure, specifically to show the ways in which all four composers used formal structures and yet still managed to give the impression of freedom and chance. The title Impromptu was first used by the Czech composer Voríšek for short character pieces for piano, and Schubert quickly adopted it and made it his own. The Beethoven sonatas in the programme are two of his very greatest and are from each end of his compositional life.

Programme:Beethoven - 3 BagatellesSchubert - Impromptus D.935 no.2&3Beethoven - Sonata in C minor op.13 "Pathetique"Fauré - Impromptus no.1&2Chopin - Impromptu no.2 in F sharp op.36 Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu op.66Beethoven - Sonata no.31 in A flat major, op.110

Tickets: £20£18 (advance saver - available until 13 November)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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This concert has been sponsored by a member of FUAM and is dedicated to the memory of Chris Sheppard.

Grand Union Orchestra

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Undream’d ShoresSunday 29 November, 3:00pm and 7:30pm Grand Union Orchestra with ensembles, musicians and singers from The University of Leeds School of Music and South Asian Arts - UK

Over the centuries, thousands of people have found their way to England, making “a wild dedication of themselves to unpath’d waters, undream’d shores” (as Shakespeare put it), without knowing what lay ahead.

Living in Leeds today, we are reminded daily of the generations of migrants who have helped forge its identity. This spectacular show, created by the Grand Union Orchestra’s composer/director Tony Haynes, explores their musical legacy to tell some of their stories.

First performed in November 2014 to great acclaim at London’s Hackney Empire, Undream’d

Shores paints a vivid musical picture of migration past and present - exciting, daring, colourful, moving, humorous and tragic by turns.

For these performances, the Grand Union Orchestra’s internationally-fêted musicians and singers from every major musical culture worldwide (many of them migrants themselves) are joined by sixty of the University’s finest musicians and singers, and the next generation of brilliant young South Asian performers from SAA-uk.

Transporting you into a world of previously unimagined music and songs, Undream’d Shores celebrates what migration can bring to our society today.

Tickets: £12£10 (advance saver - available until 14 November)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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Louise Alder (soprano) Joseph Middleton (piano)In association with the Kathleen Ferrier Awards

Songs by Strauss, Debussy, Zemlinsky and Thuille

Louise Alder made a triumphant début last summer as the charming Sophie in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at the BBC Proms with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. For the Leeds Lieder Strauss Series she looks to his middle period for inspiration. Alongside such popular songs as Morgen! and Cäcilie, Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton (Director of Leeds Lieder) will perform lesser-known songs by Strauss, including his entrancing set of Mädchenblumen as well as exploring works written at the same time by

Richard Strauss Song Series IIThe middle period, his friends and contemporariesWednesday 2 December, 7:30pm

Debussy (his Ariettes oubliées). Exotic colours are also explored in the songs of the Brahms-inspired Viennese-born composer Alexander von Zemlinsky and his setting of Das Rosenband - a text made famous by Strauss’ song of the same name, will be performed. As in the first concert, there will be the opportunity to hear the sparkling folk-like songs by Strauss’ close friend and unjustly neglected contemporary, Ludwig Thuille.

Tickets: £20£18 (advance saver - available until 17 November)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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LSTwoFriday 4 December, 6:00pm A week-long celebration of the music of Hans Joachim Hespos culminates in a performance of his works that will appeal to academics and the public by the University of Leeds’ student new music ensemble LSTwo. It will include ‚tja‘ for mobile pianos and visuals.

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Leeds University Percussion Ensemble in Concert with Nebojsa ZivkovicSaturday 5 December, 7:30pm Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic and the Leeds University Percussion Ensemble led by Jason Huxtable and Tenley MartinLeeds University Percussion Ensemble is back for another concert combining local talent with internationally-renowned percussionists. We will be joined by vibrant world-famous percussion performer and composer Nebojsa Zivkovic in a concert consisting of not only some of his best-loved pieces, but also a series of British and world premiers. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see this dynamic performer and the ever-popular Leeds University Percussion Ensemble!

Tickets: £10£8 (advance saver - available until 20 November)FREE - Students and Under 16s

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Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic

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Clothworkers Consort of LeedsFriday 11 December, 1:05pm A rare performance of Hugo Distler's (1908-1942) Weihnachtsgeschichte, op.10. Composed in 1933, the work, for unaccompanied choir and soloists, tells the Christmas story in the form an oratorio inspired by the sacred histories of the seventeenth-century composer Heinrich Schütz. The programme also includes Schütz's own Deutsches Magnificat SWV 494 for double chorus, one of the composer's final works included in his collection 'Opus ultimum - Schwanengesang'.

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Student ShowcaseAfter their first year of study, students from the School of Music majoring in solo performance are invited to perform alongside their peers, in Concert Series Showcase events, accompanied by the School Répétiteur, Daniel Gordon*. Participation in the Concert Series gives these students valuable experience in interpretation, stagecraft, performance preparation and mindset. With many of them progressing on to postgraduate conservatoire study or performance related jobs, performing in such a prestigious Series is seen as a key part of these students development.

Finalist PlatformWeekly performance classes in the Concert Hall allow for the sharing of detailed performance critique between students and their peers, and between students and tutors.

As well as regularly taking to the stage as soloists, through performance classes students broaden and deepen their musicianship, of both instrumental / vocal repertoires and genres. In turn, this experience helps students analyse each other’s performance, e.g. classical and jazz students critiquing one another.Finalist Platform concerts celebrate solo performance, with a single student taking centre stage for the entire performance.

*The School of Music has its own Répétiteur, Daniel Gordon: as well as organising and tutoring performance classes, Daniel accompanies student performers in classes, exams, concerts, masterclasses and auditions.

Ensemble PerformanceThe School of Music’s Ensemble Performance modules provide opportunities for students to participate in a range of instrumental and vocal groups led by staff and external practitioners. The ensemble line-up varies from year to year, but can include orchestra, choir and ‘The Band Project’, as well as opportunities to perform contemporary music through LSTwo, and to explore new playing styles and approaches in groups such as Gamelan or Percussion Ensemble. Students are exposed to a broad range of approaches to interpreting music, rehearsal and ensemble performance, and also benefit from the knowledge and insight of staff, many of whom have worked and often continue to work professionally or semi-professionally as conductors and musical directors.

This year we are delighted to be collaborating with the Grand Union Orchestra and SAA-uk on a large choral-orchestral project. Previous collaborations include Martin Pickard (formerly Head of Music at Opera North) and Leeds Baroque (dir. Peter Holman).

Student Showcase, Finalist Platform and Ensemble Performance

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Saturday 31 October10:00am-1:30pm Folk Fiddle Workshop with Patrick RimesA morning workshop culminating in an informal performance.

2:00pm Talk by Barry SheermanIntroduction and talk on John Clare's life and times.

2:45pmTalk by Dr David HigginsJohn Clare the 'ecological' poet.

4:00pmTalk by Prof. Derek ScottJohn Clare the musician.

5:00pmMeet the Artist: Barry WendenBarry Wenden introduces his current exhibition and discusses the influences of poet John Clare on his work.

Wednesday 11 November6:30pmPre-concert talk - Emma Hanna'Music and Morale in Britain During the First World War'.

Sunday 22 November2:00pmPre-concert talk - Dominic GwynnDominic Gwynn of the organ builders Goetz & Gwynn will talk about his research and the challenges of building the Clothworkers Concert Hall Organ (based on an instrument of ca 1760). Dominic studied Modern History at St John’s College, Oxford and started organ building with Hendrik ten Bruggencate in Northampton in 1976, before starting the firm in 1980. He is researching and writing a book on organ building in early modern English society and culture.

Saturday 28 November2:00pmPiano Masterclass - Martin RoscoeThree up-and-coming young pianists from universities and conservatoires work with Martin Roscoe on repertoire of their choice.

Burning Feather by Barry Wenden

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Tickets can be purchased online, by post or telephone.

Advance PurchaseTickets purchased up to 14 days prior to the performance attract a £2 per ticket discount.

OnlineTicketed concerts can be booked and paid for online via the concerts web page at: concerts.leeds.ac.uk

PostSend a note of your ticket requirements, your contact details (phone number/email address) and a cheque made payable to University of Leeds with a self addressed envelope to: The Concert Series Box Office, School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.

TelephoneTickets can be bought over the phone using a debit/credit card by calling 0113 3432584 during box office hours.

On the DoorRemaining tickets are available on the door from 30 minutes before the concert is due to start.

How to book

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Ticket ReservationsTo reserve tickets for any concert email details of your requirements to [email protected] or telephone 0113 3432584. To attract advance purchase discount, payment must be received 14 days prior to the performance. Late reservations (at full price) will be held until 20 minutes before the performance.

SeatingSeating for all performances is unreserved unless otherwise stated.

Students and Young PeopleAll concerts are free to students and young people in full-time education; proof of status (student ID card) may be required.

Concert Series PassMake the most of the diverse range of concerts on offer with a Concert Series Pass. A single payment of £60 provides admission to the entire Series.

Clothworkers BarThe newly appointed, fully licensed Clothworkers Bar will be open for every concert. Serving wines, spirits, mixers, soft drinks, tea and coffee, and a range of snacks, this new facility promises to make the Concert Series experience a more sociable one. Take full advantage and pre-order your interval drinks, avoid queues for the bar, relax and enjoy the break.

AccessibilityThe Concert Hall is fully accessible, with reserved spaces for wheelchair users and their carers. Assistance dogs are welcome.

Programme DetailsPublished details are correct at the time of going to press. The Concert Series reserves the right to vary the programme in the case of unforeseen circumstances and will provide due notice whenever possible.

Car ParkingCar parking on campus is free at evening and weekend events. Reserved parking is available for blue badge holders.

Public TransportThere are regular bus services from the train station and the city centre. Contact Metro/First Bus Tel. 0113 245 7676 www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/leeds/For general visitor information contact: www.visitleeds.co.uk/ Tel: 0113 245 5242

Join us onlineThe Concert Series is online! For news, reviews, competitions, exclusive ticket deals, audio and video clips, photos and lots more - like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, connect with us on SoundCloud, watch concerts online with Livestream, visit our website and sign up to our e-newsletter mailing list.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/UoLConcertsTwitter: @UoLConcerts SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/UoLConcertsLivestream: new.livestream.com/uolWebsite: concerts.leeds.ac.ukE-newsletter: Subscribe to our weekly newsletter at [email protected].

General information

How to find usFrom the south (M1/M621)At J43 the M1 splits. Take the right-hand lanes and follow M621 Leeds Centre. Exit M621 at J3 and follow signs for city centre and universities. Pass under the railway bridges keeping in the outside lane and enter City Square. Take exit signposted ‘University’ (the main Post Office to your right). Turn right at next traffic lights into East Parade. Travel up East Parade in the left-hand lane, straight across the Headrow into Calverley Street (Town Hall will be on your left). Continue past the Leeds General Infirmary (on your left) and turn right at the lights immediately after the Civic Hall (on your right). Turn left at the next traffic lights to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building Tower.

From the M62 eastboundExit M62 at J27 to the M621. Exit the M621 at J2 (signposted Harrogate, York and Skipton) and after a few hundred yards approach major roundabout. Take third exit to city centre and join inner ring road, A58(M). Take exit signposted Skipton A660 which will bring you to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building Tower.

From A1 southbound & from YorkLeave A1 taking A64 towards Leeds and join inner ring road (dual carriageway). Take exit signposted Skipton A660 which will bring you to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building.

From A62 (Huddersfield) & A58 (Halifax)Join inner ring road. Take exit signposted Skipton A660 which will bring you to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building.

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From A61 (Harrogate) & A58 (Wetherby)Follow signs to University. At Merrion Centre traffic lights, a right turn brings you to Woodhouse Lane. The main entrance can be found on your left after a few hundred yards, immediately before the Parkinson Building.

Regular bus services from the city centre stop outside the main entrance (Parkinson Building). For details of timetable and service telephone 0113 245 7676

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FUAM was founded in 1989 to promote and support art and music at the University of Leeds.From informal beginnings as a group of staff members and friends with an interest in helping to foster the University’s musical and artistic life and outreach, FUAM has grown into an active and lively organisation, with a regular wide-ranging programme of events.

Through its fundraising activities it has provided financial support to both The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery and the University of Leeds International Concert Series.

Members receive invitations to pre-exhibition talks held in The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, enjoy occasional special events in connection with individual exhibitions, acquisitions and concerts. In addition a regular programme of off-campus talks and visits explores art and music further afield.

Become a member of FUAMAll are welcome to join and special provision is made to encourage younger members with a reduced subscription for students and those under thirty years of age.

You can join online via the FUAM website: fuam.leeds.ac.uk

As a registered charity FUAM may accept donations and legacies and enhance these, at no cost to the donor, via the gift aid scheme.

FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY ART AND MUSIC

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INTRODUCING TOMORROW’S

KEY PLAYERSTHREE WEEKS OF LIVE HEATS

DISCOVERING THE WORLD’S FINEST YOUNG CLASSICAL PIANISTS

26 August – 13 september 2015greAt HAll, university of leeds

& leeds town HAll

book your live session now! tickets from £5

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THE LEEDSINTERNATIONALPIANO COMPETITION

Leeds International Piano Competition presents

in Recitalwith special guest Federico Colli

“The hottest artist on the classical music planet” NY Times

wednesdAy 9 september 2015 7.30pm at leeds town HAllTickets: £20 – £75 A benefit concert raising funds for Leeds International Piano Competition

Lang Lang

Book now: Visit www.leedspiano.com or call 0113 224 3801

INTRODUCING TOMORROW’S

KEY PLAYERSTHREE WEEKS OF LIVE HEATS

DISCOVERING THE WORLD’S FINEST YOUNG CLASSICAL PIANISTS

26 August – 13 september 2015greAt HAll, university of leeds

& leeds town HAll

book your live session now! tickets from £5

T H E L E E D SI N T E R N A T I O N A L

P I A N O C O M P E T I T I O N

T H E L E E D SI N T E R N A T I O N A L

P I A N O C O M P E T I T I O N

LIPC logo white R-255 G-255 B-255

LIPC logo dark grey R-46 G-45 B-44

THE LEEDSINTERNATIONALPIANO COMPETITION

Leeds International Piano Competition presents

in Recitalwith special guest Federico Colli

“The hottest artist on the classical music planet” NY Times

wednesdAy 9 september 2015 7.30pm at leeds town HAllTickets: £20 – £75 A benefit concert raising funds for Leeds International Piano Competition

Lang Lang

Book now: Visit www.leedspiano.com or call 0113 224 3801

Performing the Jewish ArchiveOut of the ShadowsRediscovering Jewish Music and Theatre

An innovative series of concerts, theatrical presentations and talks in Leeds and York, based on the rediscovered creations of artists in internment, exile or migration in the twentieth century. Featuring the choral music of émigré composers, chamber music and cabarets of the Terezín Ghetto, drama from the Helsinki Jewish archives, and much more.

Performances from the Nash Ensemble of London, the New Budapest Orpheum Society, the Cassia String Quartet, the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds, and students from Leeds and York Universities.

The Nash players are British chamber music royalty

The Sunday Times

The Nash Ensemble Wednesday 8 June, 7:30pmHoward Assembly RoomFeatures music composed and performed in the Terezín Ghetto near Prague, by Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, Erwin Schulhoff, Hans Krasa and Bedrich Smetana.

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stage@leeds

stage@leeds develops and presents award winning theatre, dance, live art and contemporary performance. stage@leeds is located at the heart of the University of Leeds campus. For full details of our programme visit our website.

Coming soon

September30: 20,000 Miles of Rail (Hannah Butterfield)

October02: Ham & Passion (Denada Dance Theatre) 08: In The Middle With You (Hagit Yakira) 09: Feast (Clout)16: Manic Chord (Treading Water)

Box Office: 0113 343 8730 www.stage.leeds.ac.uk

The home of new theatre in Leeds

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Stage your event at the School of MusicLocated on the main campus, the School of Music provides a unique location for conferences and events. Its focal point is the stunning 250-seat Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall. As well as being the perfect venue for musical performances, the Hall is also suitable for large conferences and presentations with comprehensive AV/IT facilities, including recently added HD live video streaming.

The Concert Hall is supported by the Concert Hall Foyer and newly appointed, fully licensed Clothworkers Bar. Featuring Concert Series artwork, a mix of comfortable soft seating, and options to add a bar service and live background music, the Foyer not only provides an attractive space for registration, refreshments and exhibitions, it can also host end of day licensed entertainment. Four AV equipped Lecture Theatres flank the Foyer, and combine with the Concert Hall, Foyer and Clothworkers Bar to make the School of Music the ideal venue for a self-contained event requiring a range of flexible breakout space.

To further support your event, the School works closely with University’s Conference and Catering teams to fulfill accommodation and refreshment requirements. Ensuring the smooth running of your event, the School’s technical team provides a professional and personable service to complement your own planning.

To discuss your event requirements, contact:Dan MerrickOperations / IT Manager0113 343 [email protected]

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