arts programme

Arts programmeEvents for everyone

Music ConcertsLiterary eventsPerformancesTalks and workshopsFe

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Disabled visitorsMost areas of the University’s Hull Campus are accessible.Reserved parking bays and/or individual guides may bearranged. Please call us in advance on 01482 462045.

Parking and travelHull CampusFree parking is available on campus after 18:00. On-streetparking can be found on Salmon Grove and Cottingham Road(where there is a limit of two hours). A pay-and-display car parkis situated in F2 on the campus map, available to view atwww.hull.ac.uk.

The campus is 10 minutes by taxi from Hull Paragon Interchange.Bus service 105 (from stand 20) stops at the University’s mainentrance.

Scarborough CampusFree parking is available after 17:15. If you arrive for an eventstarting before 17:15, please report to reception for a permit.

Cancellation policyTickets can be refunded up to 24 hours before a performance.

House rulesAdmission may be restricted after the published start time.For performances in the Donald Roy Theatre, latecomers are notadmitted.

Drama productionsAll productions are performed by students of the Department ofDrama andMusic unless otherwise stated. Ticket holders consentto inclusion in o!cial photographic, visual and audio promotionof the event. Please contact somebody at reception should youwish to be excluded.

Further informationFor up-to-date information on all the latest events please visitwww.ihull.org. To join our mailing list and receive regularinformation about forthcoming events, please [email protected].

DisclaimerThe information in this brochure is subject to change and review.Every e"ort is made to ensure that details are accurate at the timeof publication. The University of Hull cannot accept liability forerrors or omissions.

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Welcome to the Spring/Summer edition of theArts programme – Events for everyone.In this season full of many highlights, we are delighted towelcome Sarah Bakewell, Author ofHow to Live: The Life ofMontaigne, who will be talking to novelist Ray French about herprize winning biography, while the Middleton Hall acts asbackdrop to a collaboration between the Hull University MusicSociety Opera Group and Early Music Ensemble, presenting uswith a modern take on The coronation of Poppea andScarborough becomes the stage for Mission, a tale of spies andespionage.

The Drama Department is organising some amazing productionsas well, details of which can be found on our arts & eventswebsite www.ihull.org/events from the beginning of February.

But please come and see for yourself and while you are oncampus, why not visit both the Art Gallery, one of EastYorkshire’s hidden gems, and the South-East Asia Museum, andhave a refreshing co"ee and a bite to eat in one of our cafes.

Yours sincerely,Marianne Lewsley-StierFaculty Events Co-ordinatorFaculty of Arts and Social SciencesUniversity of [email protected] or 01482 462045

About the Arts programme:The Arts programme is produced by the Faculty of Arts andSocial Sciences at the University of Hull and aims to reach outbeyond the campus boundaries into the community. Invitingeverybody to enjoy and participate in the wide-ranging events ono"er. Events include talks by visiting world-class authors,stimulating lunchtime concerts performed by students as well asleading musicians, wonderful drama productions and insightfulexhibitions.

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1 Feb On the Edge: The End by Michael Pinchbeck

3 Feb Music for Mezzo

4 Feb Hull Chamber Music: Vanbrugh String Quartet

10 Feb Asaf Sirkis Trio

10 Feb Our Famous Five

11 Feb On the Edge: Stacy Makishi: The Making of Bull: The True Story

17 Feb Music from the Berlin Court

18 Feb Hull Chamber Music Society: Min-Jin Kym (violin) and Ian Brown (piano)

21 Feb Adam Roberts: The Best of British Science Fiction

24 Feb Student Showcase III

29 Feb IPC Cluster: RE-playable:Remixing, Referencing, Reaction, Reworking and Recreation in Media Art

2 March Reger and the Second Viennese School

3 & 4March Mission

8 March Sarah Bakewell onHow to Live: The Life of Montaigne

9 March Student Showcase IV

9 March Hull Chamber Music: Piano Masterclass

10 March Hull Chamber Music: Benjamin Frith (piano)

16 March The Dreaming Boys – a musical melodrama

20 March Rick Holland: Writing with Brian Eno

23 March Russian Orchestral Spectacular

18 April Michael JanischWorkshop

18 April Michael Janisch and the New York Standards Quartet

19 April David Mark: Top Crime fromHull

20 April Music for Arpeggione, Cello and Piano

25 April A Cat of Nine Tales

25 April Hull University Music Society

27 April Jazz Standards

4 May Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea (abridgedmatinee for schools)

4 & 5 May Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea

11 May Guitar Workshop – Kathy Dyson

11 May Orchestral ConductingWorkshop – Adrian Brown

17 May Writing Hull

9 June Merge: Beethoven’s Choral Symphony

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[email protected] Start time Enquiries Page

PS1, Scarborough Campus 19:30 01723 357334 7

Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 13:15 01482 462045 8



Artlink, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP 19:30 01482 345104 10

PS1, Scarborough Campus 16:00 01723 357334 10



Art Gallery, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 18:30 01482 462045 12


PS1 & PS3, Scarborough Campus 15:30 01723 357222 13


In the town of Scarborough All day 01723 357334 16

Art Gallery, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 18:30 01482 462045 16





Lyndsey Suite, Sta"House, Hull Campus 16:15 01482 462045 19



Goodfellowship Inn, Cottingham Road,Hull, HU5 4AT 20:30 01482 346239 20

Art Gallery, Hull Campus 18:30 01482 462045 21


Artlink, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP 19:00 01482 345104 22





L201, Larkin Building East, Hull Campus 10:00 01482 462045 24


Tranby Room, Sta"House, Hull Campus 18:30 01482 462045 25

Hull City Hall 20:00 01482 226655 27

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On the Edge presents:

The End byMichael PinchbeckWednesday 1 February 2012Scarborough Campus, Performance Studio 1, 19:30

Inspired by a stage direction from TheWinter’s Tale, ‘Exitpursued by a bear’, The End explores endings and exits and askswhy we perform and howwe will knowwhen to stop. Developedat The Junction (Cambridge), Brighton Dome and Festival, NewArt Exchange and Lakeside Arts Centre (Nottingham).Commissioned by Chester Performs. Selected for the BritishCouncil’s Edinburgh Showcase 2011.

Michael Pinchbeck is a writer, live artist and performance makerbased in Nottingham. He co-founded Metro-Boulot-Dodo in 1997and nowworks with numerous artists and companies as aperformer, deviser and dramaturg. In 2005 he was commissionedby Nottingham Playhouse to write TheWhite Album. He iscurrently working on a second commissioned play – The Ashes.In 2008 he was selected by Arts Council England to represent theUK at the Biennale for Young Artists. In 2009 and 2011, his workwas selected for the British Council’s Edinburgh Showcase.

Michael studied Theatre and Creative Writing at LancasterUniversity. He has a Masters in Performance and Live Art fromNottingham Trent University and is currently studying for a PhDat Loughborough University; his research explores the role of thedramaturg. He is a co-director of Nottingham’s performanceplatform – Hatch.

Tickets £5 / concessions £4Enquiries: 01723 357334 or [email protected]

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.Invited by the University’s School of Arts and NewMedia as partof On the Edge.

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Music for MezzoFriday 3 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Margaret MacDonald (mezzo-soprano)Jan Swynnoe (piano)

The renowned international singer and voice coach MargaretMcDonald returns to Hull for a solo recital of music by MichaelHead, Mahler, Lennox Berkeley, Perrin, Falla and Gershwin.

Active in opera and oratorio as well as recital repertoire, Margarethas performed for Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera,ENO, Opera North, CBTO, Chelsea Opera Group, Scottish Operaand Scottish Opera Go Round and has recorded a variety ofworks for Nimbus, Marco Polo and the BBC. As a vocal coach shehas worked with the Hallé Choir, She!eld Philharmonic Chorusand Huddersfield Choral Society as well as on various musicals,including Amadeus (Crucible Theatre, She!eld),MamaMia(Palace Theatre, Manchester) andmost recently Ghost (OperaHouse, Manchester). For more information, go towww.maggiemcdonald.co.uk).

The recital will be followed by a vocal masterclass for students at14:30. Observers are welcome.

Tickets £5 / senior citizens £4 / other concessions £3Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

Hull Chamber Music: Vanbrugh String QuartetSaturday 4 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:45

This celebrated Irish ensemble, ranking among Europe’s fineststring quartets, has for 25 years been resident quartet for RTÉ,Ireland’s national broadcasting service, and its membersfounded the internationally acclaimedWest Cork Chamber MusicFestival.

Beethoven Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 No 4Shostakovich Quartet No 9 in E flat, Op. 117Arvo Pärt SummaSchubert Quartet in Dminor, D 810

Death and the Maiden

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Asaf Sirkis TrioFriday 10 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Asaf Sirkis (drums)Tassos Spiliotopoulos (guitar)Yaron Stavi (bass)

‘Asaf Sirkis, the world-class drum phenomenon ... [has] takenthe British scene by storm’ – Renaissance Man

‘Sirkis is not only an inventive drummer but also a composerof rigour, wit and surprising delicacy’ –Mojo Magazine

In his long and playful partnership with the saxophonist GiladAtzmon, a recent andmore delicate one with the piano virtuosoJohn Law, the guitar maestro Larry Coryell, the Brit sax playerTim Garland, and in many other settings from improv to fusion,the Israeli expatriate Asaf Sirkis keeps confirming that he is oneof the British jazz scene’s most creative drummers. The way Sirkisjust touches a cymbal is an inspiration, long before he has playeda beat. North African as well as Middle Eastern music played abig part in his early listening, and he was a bass guitarist as wellas a drummer in his teens, so rock and fusion music from thePolice toWeather Report and the Mahavishnu Orchestra wentdeep with him. This trio generates a compelling intensity, andthe leader’s percussion responses to their ideas are dazzlingeruptions of drummastery. For more information, go towww.asafsirkis.co.uk.

The performance will be followed by a rhythmworkshop forstudents at 14:30. Observers are welcome.


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Celebrating LGBT History Month, members of the LGBT Sta"Network come out for their favourite writers. Meet the lives andworks of five lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans writers, and see whythese great artists powered their way into their readers’ hearts.This is a showcase of wisdom, wit, pictures, words and wine.Come along for an alternative evening to make you glad.

Free admissionEnquiries: 01482 345104www.artlink.uk.net

Sponsored by the University of Hull LGBT Sta"Network.

On the Edge and Scarborough Literature Festival present:

TheMaking of Bull: The True Story by Stacy MakishiSaturday 11 February 2012PS1, Scarborough Campus, 16:00

Here lies a true story about lies, Fargo, maps, doughnut holes,murder, secrets, kidnaps and how to get lucky. It’s a tall tale anda love story that goes anywhere but straight. Part mystery, partsatire, part How ToMake A Performance … it’s about partingsand the absence that defines us. The Making of Bull: The TrueStory is a fusion of physical theatre, music, film and text. Thestage is a battleground between truth and lies; what’s spokenand what’s omitted; what’s fiction and what is documentary.

Stacy Makishi finally comes out and tells the whole truth as shebrings forth an elliptical tale trying hard not to tell itself. Justwhat is she hiding? You’ll have to see it to believe it.

Workshop: 14:00 – 17:00.

Tickets £5 (£7 for performance and workshop)Enquiries: 01723 357334 or [email protected]

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Music from the Berlin CourtFriday 17 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Sarah McNulty (baroque flute)Masumi Yamamoto (harpsichord)

C P E Bach Fantasia in Dmajor for harpsichordWq. 117/14Fantasia in Gminor for harpsichordWq. 117/13Sonata in Aminor for flute and basso continuoWq. 128

J F Agricola Sonata in Amajor for flute and basso continuoJ J Quantz Sonata in Eminor for flute and harpsichord

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Repertoire from Frederick the Great’s court, including works byC P E Bach, Quantz, and Agricola – masters of ‘mixed taste’ withGerman, Italian and French influences.

Flautist Sarah McNulty has recently been awarded a PhD inrhetoric and baroque performance practice at the University ofYork. She performs regularly with period instrument orchestrassuch as Newcastle Baroque and the Yorkshire Baroque Soloistsand has presented baroque performance practice seminars andworkshops at the University of York.

Masumi Yamamoto studied music at QueenslandConservatorium, Gri!th University, Australia, and at the RoyalAcademy of Music and Trinity College of Music, London. She iscurrently studying for a PhD at the University of York andperforms across the UK and abroad as a soloist and continuoplayer.

The performance will be followed at 14:30 by a masterclass on18th-century performance practice. Observers are welcome.


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Hull Chamber Music: Min-Jin Kym (violin)and Ian Brown (piano)Saturday 18 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:45

Born in South Korea and raised in the UK, Min-Jin Kym became at16 the youngest student to be awarded a Foundation Scholarshipat the Royal College of Music, and in 2005 she became the firstrecipient of the Heifetz Prize awarded by the Jascha HeifetzFoundation in Los Angeles. Ian Brown is one of this country’sfinest pianists, admired in particular as the pianist of the NashEnsemble.

Debussy Sonata in GminorProkofiev Sonata No 2 in D, Op. 94bFauré Sonata No 1 in A, Op. 13

Tickets £15 / senior citizens £13/ students £7Enquiries: 01482 465631 or [email protected]

Adam Roberts: The Best of British Science FictionTuesday 21 February 2012Art Gallery, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 18:30

As the Larkin Centre boldly goes into sci-fi territory, we aredelighted to host an evening with Adam Roberts.

The Times put him ‘in the tradition of Swift, Orwell and Atwood’.For theMorning Star his is ‘perhaps the most untrammelledimagination in current British science fiction’. By day he isProfessor of 19th-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, but atnight … Come and hear about his new novel, By Light Alone, andfind out what makes him the ‘enfant terrible of British SF’. He willbe in conversation with Martin Goodman.

Book signing to follow.

Free admissionEnquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

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Student Showcase IIIFriday 24 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

A concert by advanced students specialising in performance andcomposition.


RE-playable: Remixing, Referencing, Reaction,Reworking and Recreation as Strategies in Media ArtWednesday, 29 February 2012Scarborough Campus, PS1 & PS3, 15:30 – 19:00

Paidia Institute: Professor Zilvinas Lilas, Tincuta Heinzel, LasseScher!g, Susanna Schoenberg, Björn Theis

Remixing, referencing, reaction, reworking and recreation areimportant strategies in media art; also and especially for workingwith the gamemedium. Paidia Institute uses these strategies inprojects yielding art and artistic research, focusing on diverseforms of play – from deconstructions of the dispositive ofcomputer gaming to performances and site-specificinterventions. In their talk, strategies and art projects fromPaidia’s past will be shown and the concept for a future event willbe presented and put up for discussion. This future event willconsist of a workshop-like setting / interactive laboratory indeveloping formats for the site-specific use of ‘embeddedtechnologies’.

Paidia Institute is a collective of media artists and scientists fromCologne, Germany, who examine, expose and transform aestheticand cultural interrelations of art and technology. The instituteworks as an evolving structure, providing a flexible frameworkfor artistic, academic and administrative activities in a field ofplayable systems, addressing them as both a distinctivetechnique and a significant social and cultural phenomenon.


1st Floor West, Wilberforce Building,Hull Campus

OpenMonday to Friday 9.15 to 13.00Closed on public holidays

Free admission

The University ethnography collections are fromAssam, Burma, China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia andthe Philippines. TheMuseum explores central themesin South East Asian culture, from livelihood to beliefsystems, with strengths in arts and crafts, puppettheatre, costume and textiles.

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Reger and the Second Viennese SchoolFriday 2 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Janet Hilton (clarinet)Jakob Fichert (piano)

‘Rare lightness and grace, shaped with the quiet freedom of agreat singer’ – Financial Times

‘It was the sort of playing that makes you want to get up anddance’ – The Guardian

‘So perfect a blend of emotion and experience that sheinspired her colleagues to a performance of quite unusualmusical intensity and pathos’ – Sunday Telegraph

Alban Berg Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5Arnold Schoenberg Six little piano pieces, Op. 19Max Reger Sonata in B flat, Op. 107

The clarinettist Janet Hilton enjoys worldwide recognitionthrough her extensive series of recordings for Chandos, ASV, EMI,BBC Classics, Clarinet Classics and Naxos and her appearances inmany countries. She is in demand for masterclasses at the ParisConservatoire, the Cleveland Institute and the University ofIndiana, Bloomington, USA, amongmany other prestigiousinstitutions, and as a member of international competition juriesin Canada, Italy and Ireland.

The performance will be followed by a woodwindmasterclass at14:30. Observers are welcome.


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MissionSaturday 3 March & Sunday 4 March 2012In the town of Scarborough: for tips on where to find theperformance, email [email protected]

Mission is the outcome of the School of Arts and NewMedia’sArtist in Working Residence scheme for the academic year2011/12. It is a tale of spies and espionage, a story of covertoperations and of enemies locked in a constant battle of wits. Butdon’t expect to sit cosily back and watch the action unfold beforeyou. It is you whomust solve the clues and look out for the forcesof good ... that is, if you are sharp enough to knowwho is on yourside and who wants to drag you under.

Be part of the adventure, and explore the dark underworld whichhaunts the streets and alleys of a once-familiar coastal town.

Mission is created by students from the School of Arts and NewMedia in collaboration with Bread & Goose.

Free admissionEnquiries: 01723 357334 or [email protected] by the School of Arts and NewMedia. Mission is aCoastival event.

Sarah Bakewell on How to Live: The Life of MontaigneThursday 8March 2012Art Gallery, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 18:30

The New York Times called Sarah Bakewell’s unorthodoxbiography of Michel de Montaigne ‘a delightful conversationacross the centuries’. Sarah believes that this quirky 16th-centurynobleman was the grandfather of all bloggers, considers hisEssays the grandmother of all blogs, and suggests that hisphilosophy can be summarized as ‘Read a lot, forget most ofwhat you read and be slow-witted.’

How to Livewon the National Book Critics Circle Award forBiography in the United States and the Du" Cooper Prize forNon-Fiction in Britain.

Sarah will be in conversation with Ray French and takingquestions from the audience.

Free admissionEnquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected] by the Portland Hotel and the English Department,University of Hull.

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Student Showcase IVFriday 9 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

A concert by students specialising in jazz and popular music.


Hull Chamber Music: PianoMasterclassFriday 9 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 14:30

In anticipation of tomorrow evening’s piano recital, theinternationally renowned pianist Benjamin Frith instructs Hullstudents at this special masterclass event.

Free admissionEnquiries 01482 462045 or [email protected]

Hull Chamber Music: Benjamin Frith (piano)Saturday 10 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:45 (with a pre-concert talk onBeethoven by Professor Brian Newbould at 18:30)

An all-Beethoven programme from amaster pianist whoseplaying never fails to impress. The Eroica Variations are on thesame theme as the variations in the last movement of the EroicaSymphony, and the colossalHammerklavier Sonata is one of themightiest peaks in the entire piano literature.

Beethoven Six Bagatelles, Op 126Variations in E flat, Op 35 EroicaSonata in B flat, Op 106Hammerklavier

Tickets £15/ senior citizens £13 / students £7Enquiries: 01482 465631 or [email protected]

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The Dreaming Boys – amusical melodramaFriday 16 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

The Dreaming Boysa melodrama based on the text by Oskar Kokoschka

Music: Torsten RaschTranslation: Lee Tsang

Portumnus EnsembleLee Tsang (voice, director)

Torsten Rasch, famous for setting text by the controversialpunk/heavy-metal band Rammstein, came to the attention of UKaudiences when his The Duchess of Malfi (2010) won an RPS-award for English National Opera. Written for voice and aninstrumental quintet redolent of Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, hisDie Träumenden Knaben (‘The Dreaming Boys’) (2009)anticipates the spirit ofMalfi:

‘[Malfi]... a collision of worlds old and new, the fracturednarrative, the haphazard whole. His style seems predictable atfirst – Berg-inflected modern music of the old school – but itstrue colours emerge layer by layer, shards from an auralprism...’ – Mark Valencia

In this performance by the Portumnus Ensemble, Rasch’s musicwill be presented in its final version, following revisions inDecember 2011. It will also be presented for the first time inEnglish translation and alongside projections of Kokoschka’sbeautiful images.

Hull Sinfonietta’s Portumnus Ensemble is a spin-o" chambergroup that is dedicated to introducing audiences to newmusic.Named after the Roman god of gates, doors and harbours, it aimsto open up routes to new experiences and understanding byo"ering Janus-like dual perspectives on the past and the future.

14:30 CompositionWorkshop featuring works by studentcomposers led by Dr Tsang and the Portumnus Ensemble.Observers welcome.


In association with Hull Sinfonietta

Rick Holland: Writing with Brian EnoTuesday 20March 2012Lyndsey Suite, Sta"House, Hull Campus, 16:15 – 18:00

Rick Holland breaks the mould of poets on the reading circuit.He feeds words into collaboration with other art forms, so youwill find his lines on gallery walls or in art installations. In 2011,years of working with Brian Eno came to fruition with the releaseof the album Drums Between the Bells and the EP Panic ofLooking. The latest work is collaboration with the band Diode.

Encounter the dynamic world of Rick Holland in music, imagesand readings. He will be in conversation with Martin Goodmanand with you, the audience.


Sponsored by the Portland Hotel.

Russian Orchestral SpectacularFriday 23 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

HUMS (Hull University Music Society) OrchestraPeter Kench, Matthew Ryan (conductors)

Shostakovich Festival OvertureRimsky-Korsakov Scheherezade

Popular Russian repertoire conducted by a student and agraduate from the University of Hull.

The performance will be followed at 14:30 by an ‘Introduction toConducting’ workshop – an opportunity for volunteers from theaudience to conduct the orchestra.

Tickets: £5 / senior citizens £4 / other concessions £3Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

Sponsored by the Department of Drama andMusic.

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Wednesday 18 April 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 14:30 – 16:30

Michael Janisch and his band work with Hull students inadvance of tonight’s gig at Hulljazz. Observers welcome byinvitation. Please contact us in advance if you are interested inattending.



Michael Janisch and the New York Standards QuartetWednesday 18 April 2012The Goodfellowship Inn, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU5 4AT, 20:30

‘These artists clearly relish the opportunity to stretch out, withthe knowledge that they are among highly accomplishedpeers... showing how “the standards” can serve as afoundation for exploration, not just as museum pieces’ –Louisville Music News

The New York Standards Quartet, spearheaded by thesaxophonist Tim Armacost, came together in the autumn of 2006.Its members, four jazz musicians based in New York, havedeveloped a near-telepathic relationship playing together in avariety of settings, including some of the top bands in their homecity. Conceptually, the NYSQ strives to develop its own languageby radically reinterpreting great songs in the tradition of thestandard jazz repertoire.

The special guest on this tour is Michael Janisch on acousticbass. He is one of the most creative musical forces in the UK.Originally from the US, he exploded onto the UK jazz scene in2005 and has been at the forefront of the international jazz sceneas well, playing with the likes of Joe Lovano, KennyWheeler, LeeKonitz, Mark Turner, Phil Robson, John Taylor and Greg Osby.

Tickets £12 / students £3 (purchase on the door)Enquiries: 01482 346239 (Ken)

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David Mark: Top Crime from HullThursday 19 April 2012Art Gallery, Hull Campus, 18:30

The Larkin Centre is delighted to launch amajor new crime writerwith a brand new series. The DarkWinter introduces Highlands-born DS Actor McAvoy. As he works the streets of Hull, out tosolve tough crime cases, McAvoy is obsessed with a need tounderstand the true nature of people and be the ‘good’ man hisfamily deserves.

David Mark walked the scenes of his novel as the Hull crimereporter for the Yorkshire Post. The DarkWinter saw publisherspitched into an international bidding war.

Come and learn of the journey fromHull’s streets to success.David Mark will be in conversation with Martin Goodman.

Book signing to follow.


Music for Arpeggione, Cello and PianoFriday 20 April 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Nicolas Deletaille (cello/arpeggione)Jean-Michel Dayez (piano)

Borthwick New commission for arpeggioneLacuna Lullaby for cello and piano

Debussy SonataJaná!ek Pohádka

This concert combines some early-20th-century classics withworks by the University of Hull’s Head of Composition, AlastairBorthwick. It includes a new commission that explores theunique qualities of the arpeggione, a six-string fretted instrumentthat enjoyed fleeting popularity in the early 19th century.

The critically acclaimed Delataille–Dayez duo regularly performrepertoire from Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Schumann toMartin", Piazzolla, Messiaen and Pousseur. They recorded fiveCello Sonatas by Beethoven for the Contréclisse label in 2005.

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Deletaille, a graduate from the Juilliard School, is also a specialistarpeggione player. In 2006 he recorded the Schubert ArpeggioneSonata on an original instrument with fortepianist Paul Badura-Skoda.

The performance will be followed by a composition masterclass at14:30. Observers are welcome.


A Cat of Nine TalesWednesday, 25 April 2012Artlink, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP, 19:00

To celebrate National Pet Month, Artlink is holding a galleryshowing of the photographs of Dennis Low. From a speciallycommissioned journey to Morocco, Dennis has brought backportraits of stray cats and kittens. ‘Take Me to the Kittens’ runs from7 April to 12 May.

To honour the event, the Larkin Centre hosts an evening of shortreadings from brand-newwriting in poetry and prose. This is workwith the mystique of cats at its very heart. Enjoy Dennis Low’sexhibition as you feel the writer’s words.

Free admissionEnquiries: 01482 345104 or www.artlink.uk.net

Hull University Music Society ‘Proms’ ConcertWednesday 25 April 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:30

A diverse selection of student-run ensembles performmusic with a‘Proms’ theme, including favourites such as ‘Jerusalem’ and Elgar’sPomp and Circumstance March No 1.



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Jazz StandardsFriday 27 April 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Sally Doherty (vocals)Piero Tucci (piano)

‘Faultless intonation ... very beautiful … will appeal to a widespectrum of listeners beyond the usual jazz fans’ – AlanBarnes

‘Mercurial talent’ –Wigan International Jazz Festival

‘Blessed with a voice that is … sensuous andmelodic, Sally isone of the brightest talents on the current music scene’ – Jazzand Bossa Nova FM, Rio de Janeiro

Sally Doherty has toured extensively around the world and hasreleased 10 albums to date. She has shared the stage with CleoLaine and Johnny Dankworth, Alan Barnes, Peter King, NeilYates and AlexWilson. She has also collaborated with manyrenowned artists from di"erent genres, including the MercuryMusic Prize nominee Richard Hawley and the electro artistScanner.

The performance will be followed at 14:30 by a masterclass inpopular singing styles – ‘Interpreting a Jazz Standard’. Observersare welcome.

Tickets: £5 / senior citizens £4 / other concessions £3Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

The Department of Drama andMusic presents:

The Coronation of PoppeaFriday 4 May 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19.30at 13:15 there will be an abridged matinee performance for schools

Saturday 5 May 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:30

Music by Claudio Monteverdi (arr. MatthewMoore)

HUMS Opera Group and Early Music EnsembleDale Christmas (conductor)

Directed by Jake Smith

This new and exciting production of The Coronation of Poppeaaccentuates the sensual and the fatalistic in a story of lust,immorality, ambition, love and death. Displaced from itsconventional Roman setting and influenced by a 1920s aesthetic,the opera centres on the beautiful mistress of Nerone and heryearning desire to seize the Empress’s throne. It is set on thebrink of an era when power is everything, but things are about tochange because of love ... This production will be performed inEnglish. Some scenes may be inappropriate for children underthe age of 12.

Tickets for evening performances:£8 / senior citizens £7 / students £4Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]


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Guitar Workshop – Kathy DysonFriday 11 May 2012L201, Larkin Building East (2nd floor), Hull Campus,10:00 – 12:00 and 13:00 – 16:00

Kathy Dyson is a jazz guitarist, researcher and teacher based inManchester. As well as playing guitar professionally andteaching, she is known for her research and is an active andenthusiastic member of the Musicians’ Union. She was namedJazz Educator of the Year at the 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.

The workshop will be followed at 16:30 by a 30-minute talk onthe Musicians’ Union for students wishing to enter the musicprofession.


Orchestral ConductingWorkshop – Adrian BrownFriday 11 May 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 12:00 – 16:15

Adrian Brown studied and then worked with Sir Adrian Boult. Afinalist in the Karajan Conductors’ Competition, he hasconducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the St PetersburgPhilharmonic Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg, as well as manyleading British orchestras.

The workshop will feature student conductors. Observers arewelcome.


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The Making of Bull: The True Story byStacyMakishi, see page 10 for details

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Writing HullThursday 17 May 2012Tranby Room, Sta"House, Hull Campus, 18:30

• High Drama on the Humber• Growing Up in Barton• The True Story of Madame Clapham• The Passions and History of Hull Fair

Encounter these and other great true-life tales of the region in anevening of high-class readings from top newwriters. This annualpresentation from the University’s MA programme in CreativeWriting is backed by film and photo representations of our area.


Merge: Beethoven’s Choral SymphonySaturday 9 June 2012Hull City Hall, 20:00

Humberside folk songsBeethoven – Symphony No 9 in DMinorConducted by Matthew Ryan

The Merge2012 arts festival – a celebration of Hull’s heritage –promises a not-to-be-missed choral night in the beautiful venueof City Hall.

Having been inspired by the Hull History Centre archives, theevening’s entertainment of Humberside folk songs will treat theaudience to a trip downmemory lane. Continuing the night withBeethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the second half of theperformance will be a stunning 200-strong orchestra and choircomprising talented musicians and singers from Hull and thesurrounding area. Encompassing brotherly love and harmony inBeethoven’s great work, the group showcases its talents andcreates a merging of communities. This event is the culminationof Merge2012.

The archives at Hull History Centre have been central toMerge2012: Our City, Our Story. Many of the evening’s songs canbe found there. To find out more about the Merge Arts Festival,please visit our website at www.mergearts.org.uk.

Tickets £6.50 – £12Enquiries: City Hall Box O!ce

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Middleton Hall,Cottingham Road, Hull Campus

OpenMonday to Friday10:00 – 16:00

Closed on public holidays

Free admission

TheUniversity’s Art Collection is a small butoutstanding collection specialising in paintings,sculpture, drawings and prints produced inBritain 1890–1940. The Camden TownGroupand Bloomsbury artists are particularly wellrepresented. Also shown are the twoThompson collections of Chinese ceramics.

artcaféThe artcafé is open in the basementof Middleton Hall, serving drinksand light refreshments from 9:30 to16:00 and hot food between 12:00and 14:00 on weekdays.

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For details of individual sponsors of the music concerts please see theConcerts & Events section of the music website www.hull.ac.uk/music.

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