Dartington International Summer School & Festival Week Three Saturday 12 August - Saturday 19 August 2017

Dartington International Summer School
Week 3:
Saturday 12 August - Saturday 19 August

Conducting and Orchestral Music / Opera
Music Theatre / Brazilian Music

Joe Salmon
Tai Chi Qigong
8am-8.30am every day

CHORAL, VOCAL & OPERA COURSES
(& CONDUCTING)

Susanna Stranders
Advanced Opera Course
Britten Peter Grimes
(with Sian Edwards
& Paul Nilon)
All Sessions

George Vass
The Big Choir
Beethoven Mass in C
Session 1

Paul Nilon
Vocal Masterclass
Session 2

Sarah Gabriel
Vocal Workshop
Session 3

Gavin Roberts
Chamber Choir
Brahms & Schubert
Session 4

Sian Edwards
Advanced Conducting
Course
All Sessions

MUSIC THEATRE &

LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC

Sarah Gabriel
Advanced Music Theatre
Sondheim Sweeney Todd
(with Richard Williams
George Vass &
Sara van Beers)
All Sessions

Sarah Gabriel
Scenes from
Guys & Dolls
& Oklahoma!
(with Richard Williams
& Sara van Beers)
Session 2

Adriano Adewale
Brazilian
Music & Song
(with Jonathan Preiss)
Session 3

Jonathan Preiss
In the Heart
of the Rhythm
(with Adriano Adewale)
Session 4

INSTRUMENTAL COURSES

Quentin Poole
Chamber Music
(with Heath Quartet &
 Bukolika Piano Trio)
Session 1/2/3

Adrian Brendel
String Orchestra
(with Thomas Gould)
Session 1
'Cello Masterclass
Session 2

Thomas Gould
Violin Masterclass
Session 2

Pascal Rogé
Piano Masterclass
Session 2

Florian Mitrea
Piano Workshop
Session 2/3
Music for 2 Pianos
& Piano Duet
Session 4

Joanna MacGregor
Piano Concerto Workshop
Session 3
Dartington Piano
Concerto Competition
(with Sian Edwards
& Dartington
Festival Orchestra
Session 4

Heath Quartet
Violin, Viola & 'Cello Workshops
Session 4

MORE THAN MUSIC

Alfred Brendel
Schubert Winterreise
Lecture
Tuesday 15 August 5.15pm

Joanna MacGregor
Interviews Alfred Brendel
"My Musical Life"
Wednesday 16 August 5.15pm

FULL DETAILS OF ALL WEEK 3 COURSES

All Courses: £440 (student £395, U12 £220)
Individual Courses (if available): £120
Two Session Courses: £160
(Telephone Only - 01803 847070)
Day Observer Pass: £10

ACCOMMODATION

Great Hall Courtyard: £805-£1,505

Higher Close: £555

Foxhole: £325

Camping: FREE

(Catering, per person: £325)

Parking Permit Included

ONLINE BOOKING FORM

GREAT HALL CONCERTS

Saturday 12 August
7.45pm HEATH QUARTET - HAYDN, BEETHOVEN, MENDELSSOHN £14/£18.50
(Violin Oliver Heath & Sara Wolstenholme, Viola Gary Pomeroy, 'Cello Chris Murray)

Sunday 13 August
5pm [Barn Theatre] FILM: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB £6
5.15pm THE HUNGARIAN CONNECTION I - LISZT, LIGETI & DOHNÁNYI £8
(Piano Joseph Havlat)
7.45pm  'CELLO & PIANO RECITAL £14/18.50
('Cello Adrian Brendel, Piano Joanna MacGregor)
10pm  BUKOLIKA PIANO TRIO - CHOPIN, LUTOSLAWSKI & DVORAK £10
(Piano Anna Szalucka, Violin Roma Tic, 'Cello Joanna Gutowska)

Monday 14 August
5.15 SONG RECITAL - CLASSICAL & MUSIC THEATRE £8
(Soprano Sarah Gabriel, Piano Gavin Roberts)
7.45pm LATIN EVENING - TANGO NUEVO £14/18.50
(Percussion Adriano Adewale, Brazilian Guitar Luiz Morais,
   Violin Thomas Gould,'Cello Adrian Brendel, Piano Joanna MacGregor)
10pm FRENCH PIANO MUSIC - SATIE, RAVEL & DEBUSSY £10
(Piano Pascal Rogé)

Tuesday 15 August
5.15 SCHUBERT "DER WINTERREISE" £8
(Speaker Alfred Brendel)
7.45pm SCHUBERT "DER WINTERREISE" £14/£18.50
(Tenor Paul Nilon, Piano Joanna MacGregor)
10pm THE HUNGARIAN CONNECTION II - LISZT, SCHUBERT EtC £10
(Piano Florian Mitrea)

Wednesday 16 August
5.15 "MY MUSICAL LIFE" £8
(Joanna MacGregor interviews Alfred Brendel)
7.45pm DARTINGTON FESTIVAL CHORUS
                 - BRAHMS/PÄRT/BRITTEN /MOZART £14/£18.50

(Sian Edwards & Advanced Conducting Course Students)
10pm THE INSTANT & ETERNAL STRUGGLE WITHIN US
                                                                                - PÄRT/GLAZUNOV £10

(Heath Quartet, 'Cello Adrian Brendel)

Thursday 17 August
5.15 MUSIC FROM BRAZIL £8
(Percussion Adriano Adewale, Brazillian 7-String Guitar Luiz Morais)
7.15pm [Barn Theatre] SONDHEIM SWEENEY TODD £16
(George Vass conducts Advanced Music Theatre Students
                                                           with Richard Williams & Sarah Gabriel)
7.45pm THE HUNGARIAN CONNECTION III
                                                            - KODÁLY, BARTÓK & LISZT £14/£18.50
(The Heath Quartet, Violin Thomas Gould, 'Cello Adrian Brendel,
                                                                                    Piano Joanna MacGregor)
10pm OPERA GALA £10
(Advanced Opera Students, Piano/Director Susanna Stranders)

Friday 18 August
1.30pm [Barn Theatre] SONDHEIM SWEENEY TODD £16
(George Vass conducts Advanced Music Theatre Students
                                                             with Richard Williams & Sarah Gabriel)
4pm [Studio 1, Dartington Space] SCENES FROM "GUYS & DOLLS" - FREE (Book!)
(Musicals Students, Directors Richard Williams & Sarah Gabriel)
5.15pm MASTERCLASS CONCERT Admission FREE (Book!)
(Advanced Course Performers)
7.15pm [Barn Theatre] SONDHEIM SWEENEY TODD £16
(George Vass conducts Advanced Music Theatre Students
                                                                       with Richard Williams & Sarah Gabriel)

7.45pm MOZART/BEETHOVEN/SCHUMANN CONCERTI

                         & BEETHOVEN MASS £14/£18.50 

(Piano Concerto Competition Winner & Dartington Choir & Festival Orchestra)
10.15pm [White Hart] IN THE HEART OF RHYTHM Admission FREE
(Latin Music Students, Director Adriano Adewale)
10.30/11pm FIESTA RESISTANCE! [Vamos Dançar!] £10
(Latin Music Students, Director Adriano Adewale)

BOX OFFICE: 01803 847070

Dartington International Summer School & Festival Week Two Saturday 5 August - Saturday 12 August 2017

Dartington International Summer School
Week 2:
Saturday 5 August - Saturday 12 August

The English Identity / Baroque Music
Folk Music / Creative Writing

Joe Salmon
Tai Chi Qigong
8am-8.30am every day

CHORAL, VOCAL & OPERA COURSES

Laurence Cummings
The Big Choir
Handel: "Samson"
Session 1
Chamber Choir
Session 4

Robert Howarth

Advanced Opera 

(with Carolyn Sampson 

Andrew Watts & 

Richard Williams) 

Purcell: King Arthur 

All Sessions

Gavin Roberts
(& Laurence Cummings)
Opera Chorus
Purcell: "King Arthur"
Session 2
Big Choir Plus
Session 4

Carolyn Sampson
Vocal Masterclass
Session 2

Andrew Watts
Vocal Workshop
Session 3 & 4

Richard Williams
Acting for Opera Singers
Session 4

 PLUS RHIANNON EVANS

"IMPROVE YOUR SIGHT-SINGING"

SESSION 3

FOLK, POETRY & LITERATURE COURSES

Paul Hutchinson
Folk & the Landscape
(with Sally Davies)
Session 1
Accordion Workshop
Session 2

James Runcie
Crime Writing
Session 1
The Visionary Imagination
Milton & Blake
Session 4

Sally Davies
Folk Choir
Session 2

Andy Watts
Folk Baroque
Session 2

Kate Clanchy
Exploring the Short Form
Session 2

Martin & Eliza Carthy
As I Walked Out One Morning
Session 3 & 4

INSTRUMENTAL COURSES

Robert Howarth

Advanced Baroque Orchestra

All Sessions

Rebecca Truscott
Chamber Music
(with Rhiannon Evans
Kate Semmens
Claire Williams
Andy Watts &
Martyna Kazmierczak)
All Sessions

Steven Devine
Introduction to Fortepiano
Session 2
Harpsichord Workshop
Session 3

Jill Kemp
Recorder Ensembles
Session 2 & 3

Ross Brown
Natural Trumpet Workshop
Session 3 & 4

Adrian Butterfield
Baroque Violin Masterclass
Session 3

Richard Tunnicliffe
Baroque 'Cello Masterclass
The Art of Continuo Playing
Session 3

Andy Watts
Baroque Wind Workshop
Session 3

Joanna MacGregor
Piano Workshop:
Baroque Music
Session 3

MORE THAN MUSIC

James Runcie
Last Words (with Joanna MacGregor):
from Keats & Virginia Woolf
to Bach's "The Art of Fugue"
Tuesday 8 August 5.15pm

FULL DETAILS OF ALL WEEK 2 COURSES

All Courses: £440 (student £395, U12 £220)
Individual Courses (if available): £120
Two Session Courses: £160
(Telephone Only - 01803 847070)
Day Observer Pass: £10

ACCOMMODATION

Great Hall Courtyard: £805-£1,505

Higher Close: £555

Foxhole: £325

Camping: FREE

(Catering, per person: £325)

Parking Permit Included

ONLINE BOOKING FORM

GREAT HALL CONCERTS

Saturday 5 August
7.45pm GREAT BAROQUE SONATAS - £14/£18.50
(Adrian Butterfield, Jill Kemp, Sarah Humphries - oboe,
               Andy Watts, Richard Tunnicliffe, Robert Howarth)

Sunday 6 August
5.15pm THE VIRTUOSO RECORDER - £8
(Jill Kemp, Claire Williams Harpsichord, Gavin Roberts Piano)
7.45pm MARTIN CARTHY - £14/£18.50
(Legendary Folk Hero - Guitar & Vocals)
10pm VIENNA vs BERLIN - £10
(Martyna Kaźmierczak piano)

Monday 7 August
5.15pm WITH NOISE OF CANNON - £8
(Ross Brown, Andy Watts, Adrian Butterfield, Rebecca Truscott, Claire Williams)
7.45pm SCHUBERT'S WOMEN - £14/18.50
(Carolyn Sampson soprano, Joseph Middleton piano)
10pm THE 18th CENTURY 'CELLO - £10
(Richard Tunnicliffe, Steven Devine harpsichord)

Tuesday 8 August
5.15pm LAST WORDS - £8
(James Runcie, Joanna MacGregor)
7.45pm FINAL SONGS - £14/£18.50
(Joanna MacGregor, James Runcie)
10pm OF KINGS & PRINCES - £10
(Andrew Watts countertenor, Gavin Roberts piano)

Wednesday 9 August
5.15pm ITALIAN FIRE: STRING VITRUOSITY OVER TWO CENTURIES - £8
(Adrian Butterfield violin, Richard Tunnicliffe 'cello)
7.45pm THE ENLIGHTENED MUSIC MAKER - £14/£18.50
(Musica Domestica, Kate Semmens soprano, Matthew Truscott violin
                                  Rebecca Truscott 'cello, Steven Devine harpsichord)
10pm INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE, LULLABIES & FAIRYTALES - £10
(Carolyn Sampson, Joanna MacGregor)

Thursday 10 August
5.15pm AS I WALKED OUT ONE MORNING - £8
(Dartington Folk Choir & Instrumentalists
       Eliza Carthy director, Sally Davies conductor, Paul Hutchinson accordion)
7.45pm BAROQUE OPERA: PURCELL'S KING ARTHUR - £14/£18.50
(Singers from the Advanced Opera Course & Dartington Baroque Orchestra
     Robert Howarth musical director, Richard Williams director)
10pm PAGODA PROJECT - £10
(Paul Hutchinson accordion, Karen Wimhurst clarinets)

Friday 11 August
5.15pm MASTERCLASS CONCERT - Admission FREE (advance booking)
(Performers from the Advanced Courses)
6.45pm HANDEL'S "SAMSON": PRE-CONCERT TALK (Studio 1) - Admission FREE
(speaker - Ruth Smith)
7.45pm HANDEL'S "SAMSON" - £14/£18.50
(Dartington Choir & Baroque Orchestra,
 Laurence Cummings conductor, Adrian Butterfield leader
 Carolyn Sampson soprano, Andrew Watts alto, Paul Hopwood tenor, Richard Moore bass)
10.30pm TROBHAD DHAN CHÈILIDH CÒMHLA RUINN!
(The Final Night Party: An còmhlan tha a' cluich aig an dannsa - chan eil iad dona!)

BOX OFFICE: 01803 847070

Exeter Chorale "In Praise of Light" Teatime Recital Church of St Michael & All Angels Mount Dinham Sunday 18 June 2017

Exeter Chorale
Musical Director: John Draisey
Afternoon Tea Concert: "In Praise of Light"
Church of St Michael & All Angels, Mount Dinham
Sunday 18 June

Basking in the summer sunshine, tempered by the refreshing coolness of St Michael's Church, and enjoying an afternoon of sensational choral music with organ accompaniment - what a splendid way to enjoy one of the hottest days of the year! John Draisey directed the Exeter Chorale while former conductor, Dr Nigel Browne (who is leaving to become a music examiner), provided organ accompaniment - for the few pieces that were not sung a cappella.

Sixteen sensational voices combined to perform thirteen songs, ancient and modern, all in celebration of "Light". On Thursday evening they will repeat most of the programme at Sidholme Music Room in Sidmouth - where the significance of these choices will become apparent. At John MacGregor's "Sidholme Organ Celebration Week" proceeds from their performance will go towards the renovation of the chandeliers (see below) as part of an on-going schedule of benefit events to raise money to maintain the beautiful Sidholme Music Room as a local community resource.

At St Michael's baroque classics, like Thomas Tallis' "O Nata Lux" and Johann Sebastian Bach's "O Jesus Christ, Light of My Life" were back-to-back with modern masterpieces like James MacMillan's exultant "O Radiant Dawn". There were also pieces for organ played by Dr Nigel Browne and John Draisey. After the lavish feast laid on during the interval, John and Nigel played a delightful duet on piano and organ respectively - Charles-Marie Widor's "Serenade" - while the choir members digested the meal they had shared with the audience.

One rather outstanding moment came during Alex Roth's "Sol Justitiae". Soprano Anne Draisey retired into the transept, but was still heard adding a very precise and resonant melody which echoed around the whole church. Both Anne and her opposite number in the second soprano section, Rachel Johnson, sang with impressive joyousness, especially in Edward Elgar's "Ave Maris Stella" where the two sections (and the altos) took turns to pick up the tune.

Also included in the programme were "Evening Hymn" by Henry Balfour Gardiner (great-uncle of John Eliot Gardiner), "Hail Gladdening Light" by Charles Wood, "Lux Aurumque" by Eric Whitacre, "Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace" by Samuel Wesley (with delightful sections for the two tenors Jo Farquarson & Richard Barnes), "Light of My Soul, Arise" by Robert Lucas de Pearsall, "La Nuict Froide et Sombre" by Orlande de Lassus, "Ecco Mormorar L'Onde" by Claudio Monteverdi (which opened with more beautiful tenor singing, echoed by the altos Jill Green, Deborah Hamilton, Jacqueline Lightband and Penny McDonald).

On the organ, Nigel played the Prelude on "O Lux Beata Trinitas" by Matthias Weckmann during the first half, and John played  "Holy is the True Light" by Willaim Henry Harris and, towards the end of the programme,  the Prelude on "Lucis Creator Optime" by Flor Peeters. The whole recital ended as it began, with the music of Thomas Tallis - "Glory to Thee, My God, This Night".

Throughout the performance, John Draisey not only conducted but also introduced each piece with something witty and informative to say about each piece. The whole experience, with music spanning several centuries and many countries, was spectacular and uplifting and brought infinitely more light into an already sun-drenched afternoon.

Music at St Michael's Mount Dinham continues on Thursday 20 July. when there are plans for the Choir of St James the Greater from Leicester to give a recital of liturgical music as part of their summer tour. Dr Nigel Browne will be giving a talk on Devon Organ Builders at Sidholme Music Room on Tuesday 20 June, and Exeter Chorale will give a slightly abridged reprise of their "In Praise of Light" concert on the evening of Thursday 22 June (details of those two Sidholme events below).

Sidholme Organ Celebration Week

Sidholme Music Room Sidmouth
Sunday 18 June 3.30pm
THE CANTILENA CHOIR
Musical Director: Hannah Stephenson
Monday 19 June 8pm
THE ORGAN BUILDER ENTERTAINS
Michael Farley & Co
Tuesday 20 June 8pm
THE HISTORY OF DEVON ORGANS
Organist: Dr Nigel Browne

Sidmouth Parish Church (!!!)
Wednesday 21 June 8pm
PETER KING IN CONCERT
Organist Emeritus - Bath Abbey
[Admission £8]

Sidholme Music Room
Thursday 22 June 8pm
THE EXETER CHORALE
Conductor: John Draisey
Organist: Dr Nigel Browne
Admission (except Peter King) FREE
Collection for Music Room Restoration



Music at St Michael's

Choir of St James the Greater

St Michael's Church Mount Dinham
Thursday 20 July 7.30pm
CONCERT OF LIGURGICAL MUSIC
Choir of St James the Greater, Leicester
(only provisionally arranged at present)
Details: recitals@stmichaelsmountdinham.org.uk