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Most areas of the University’s Hull campus are accessible. Reservedparking bays and/or individual guides may be arranged. Please call us inadvance on 01482 462045.

Parking and travelHull CampusParking is free after 18:00. Free parking can be found on Salmon Groveand Cottingham Road (where there is a limit of 2 hours). A pay anddisplay carpark is situated in F2 on the campus map.The campus is 10 minutes by taxi from Hull Interchange Station. BusService 105 (from stand 20) stops at the University’s main entrance.Scarborough CampusFree parking is available after 17:15. If you arrive for an event startingbefore 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. Forperformances in the Donald Roy Theatre, latecomers are not admitted.

Drama productionsAll productions are performed by students of the Department of Dramaand Music unless otherwise stated. Ticket holders consent to inclusion inofficial photographic, visual and audio promotion of the event. Pleasecontact somebody at reception should you wish to be excluded.

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

DisclaimerThe information in this brochure is subject to change and review. Everyeffort is made to ensure details are accurate at time of publication. TheUniversity of Hull cannot accept liability for errors or omissions.

Scarborough Campus eventsDuring Spring/Summer 2013 the Scarborough Campus will host a seriesof arts events and public lectures. The events will be open to everyoneand are free of charge. Details are available online atwww.hull.ac.uk/scarborough.

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At a glance | 2

February | 6

March | 14

April | 20

May | 28

June | 33

July | 35

Our sponsors | 37

The Department of Drama and Music proudly celebrates 50years of Drama at the University of Hull with events taking placethroughout 2013 with a special graduate weekend event taking

place during June 7 – 9 2013. More details to follow.

Visit the following links for the latest information

www.facebook.com/hulluni.drama

www.twitter.com/dramahulluni

www.culturenet.co.uk

Interested in being part of the next 50 years?See our courses here:

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1 Feb Music Kate Peters Septet

2 Feb Music Hull Chamber Music Society: Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano)

8 Feb Music Segovia – father of the modern classical guitar

13 – 16 Feb Performance Graceland

15 Feb Music Student Showcase III

16 Feb Music Hull Chamber Music Society: Neil Heyde (cello) Roy Howat (piano)

21 Feb Film/ The Labyrinth, introduced by Martin Goodman Literature

22 Feb Music The Electro-Acoustic Piano

25 Feb – Performance Making Performance 15 March

28 Feb Literature WRITING HULL - The Book Launch

1 March Music Student Showcase IV

7 March Literature First Chance to Hear – the Poetry Session

8 March Music 20th Century British Poets in Music Festival: Portumnus Ensemble: Larkin in Song I

9 March Music Hull Chamber Music Society: Fibonacci Sequence

11 March Music Piano Day with Caroline Clemmow

13 March Music Organ Day with Ann Elise Smoot

15 March Music University Orchestra: La France!

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Music ConcertsPerformancesFilmPhilip Larkin Centre for Creative WritingFestival

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Venue Start time Enquiries Page(All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 6

Middleton Hall 19:45 01482 465998 8

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 9

The Donald Roy Theatre, 19:30 01482 466607 / 10The Gulbenkian Centre (prompt) 01482 466141

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 10

Middleton Hall 19:45 01482 465998 11

Wilberforce Lecture Theatre LT12 18:30 01482 462045 12

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 14

Venues and Times TBC Please check 01482 466607 / 14 www.culturenet.co.uk for more details 01482 466141

The Art Gallery, Middleton Hall 18:30 01482 462045 15

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 16

The Art Gallery, Middleton Hall 18:30 01482 462045 16

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 18

Middleton Hall 19:45 01482 465998 18

Larkin L201 09:30 – 16:30 01482 462045 19

University Chapel 15:00 – 18:00 01482 462045 19

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 20

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11 April Literature First Chance to Hear – the Fiction Session

12 April Music The Modern Saxophone: exploring lyricism

17 – 20 April Performance The Wedding Story

19 April Music Journey of Love – a song recital

20 April Music Hull Chamber Music Society: Florin Ensemble String trio

23 April Performance Drama 50 Anniversary Celebrations: The Grand Inquisitor

24 April Performance The Mystery of Space

24 April Music Hull University Music Society

26 April Music Music for flute and harp

3 & 4 May Music / THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Performance

10 May Music Conducting Masterclass with Simon Wright

16 & 17 May Performance Theatre Practice: Musical Rehab

20 May – Performance Theatre Practice: Commedia dell’arte 03 June

24 May Music Flights of Fancy

20 June Music Midsummer Music: VISTA - Music for Reed Trio

27 June Music Midsummer Music: Portumnus Ensemble – Larkin in Song II

27 – 29 June Festival 20th Century British Poets in Music

4 July Music Midsummer Music: Flights of Fancy

11 July Music Midsummer Music: Prizewinners’ concert

18 July Music Midsummer Music: Shakespeare and Women – a Song Recital

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The Art Gallery (TBC), Middleton Hall 18:30 01482 462045 20

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 21

The Donald Roy Theatre 19:30 01482 466607 / 22The Gulbenkian Centre (prompt) 01482 466141

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 22

Middleton Hall 19:45 01482 465998 23

Please check www.culturenet.co.uk 19:30 24for more details


Middleton Hall 19:30 01482 462045 26

Middleton Hall 13:15 01482 462045 26


Middleton Hall and University Chapel 11:00 – 01482 462045 3116:15


Touring – Venues and Times TBC 01482 466607 / 22 Please check www.culturenet.co.uk 01482 466141

for more details

Our Lady Of Lourdes Church, 19:00 01482 462045 32Cottingham Road, Hull

Beverley Minster, Beverley 13:15 01482 462045 33


Venues and Times TBC 34Please check www.culturenet.co.ukfor more details




Venue Start time Enquiries Page(All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)

Kate Peters SeptetFriday 1 February 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Kate Peters - (vocals)Matt Anderson - (tenor sax)Ian Chalk - (trumpet)Aubin Vanns - (guitar)Zezo Olimpio - (piano)John Marley - (bass)Sam Gardner - (drums)

The Kate Peters Septet was formed in late 2010 by bass player JohnMarley to showcase the exceptional vocal capabilities of Kate Peters withsome of the north’s finest Jazz musicians. The band recorded their debutalbum in March 2011 and self released it to great critical acclaim. Theband plays a mix of standard jazz repertoire and songs by popularperformers such as Radiohead, Portishead and Bob Dylan. The albumreceived fantastic reviews and a great deal of airplay on Jazz FM with thetrack ‘Money Talks’ being featured heavily. The album was also placed12th in Jazz FM presenter, Bob Sinfield’s 2011 countdown.

Since the release of the album, the band has played live across thecountry in venues such as The Troubadour (London), Hoochie Coochie(Newcastle), and Seven Arts (Leeds) to great success, selling severalhundred CDs at the gigs. The band has also been nominated in the ‘BestBand’ category at this year’s Jazz Yorkshire Awards. Kate has beennominated in the ‘Best Vocalist’ category and John Marley in the ‘BestMusician’ category.

14:30 Masterclass/Workshop. Observers welcome.

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

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‘A fantastic album!’ –Bob Sinfield, Jazz FM

‘Her own vocal prowessallows her to injectsoulfulness in tostandards and popsongs alike.’ – ChrisParker, London Jazz Blog

‘On Moanin’ the girlscats with the intensityof a Lee Morgan trumpetsolo over a Blakey stylerhythm section...impressive.’

‘A band to look out for ata gig near you.’ – LanceLiddel, BeBop SpokenHere Blog

‘It’s fantastic!’ – TheLeeds Guide

‘Jazz album of the year -Vocalist Kate delightswith her contemporarytake on standards andlesser-known pieces.Her young seven-pieceband is pure gold – grabthis before she leavesYork for super-stardom.’– Ron Burnett, YorkPress

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ry Hull Chamber Music Society: Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) &Simon Lepper (piano)Saturday 2 February 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:45

Gustav Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Berlioz Songs from Les nuits d’été Alma Mahler Five songs Zemlinsky Serenade; Liebe und Frühling Wagner Wesendonck-Lieder

International Scottish mezzo Karen Cargill and fine accompanist SimonLepper bring a programme featuring songs by Berlioz, Gustav Mahler andWagner with their original piano accompaniments—a rare chance for usto hear music by three great composers who do not often feature in achamber music concerts! Rarely-heard songs by Alma Mahler andZemlinsky complete the programme.

“A fabulous voice, lustrous tone, unbelievable breath control andseamlessly-nuanced dynamics”. Glasgow Herald, March 2012

The Society’s annual general meeting will precede this concert at 18:30.

Tickets: £17/ senior citizens £15 / students, disabled, unwaged £9(season tickets available)Enquiries: 01482 465998 or [email protected]

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Segovia – father of the modern classical guitarFriday 8 February 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Craig Ogden (guitar)

‘ A worthy successor to Julian Bream’ BBC Music Magazine

‘... superb, agile technique, the range of tonal shading he brings to hisplaying is of rare richness and subtlety’ The Telegraph

‘flawless’ Gramophone

‘as a performer in the specialised realm of the classical guitar, he hasopened our ears to the instrument’s breadth of repertory and to itsexpressive potential’ The Daily Telegraph

An exploration of some of the most timeless music in the guitarrepertoire inspired by the work of Andrés Segovia. His transcriptionsand commissions created a body of work that provided a foundation forthe growth of the modern classical guitar.

Programme to include works by Scarlatti, Bach, Albeniz and Turina.

Australian born guitarist Craig Ogden is one of the most exciting artistsof his generation. His many recordings for Virgin/EMI, Chandos,Nimbus, Hyperion, Sony and Classic FM have received wide acclaim.Ogden’s Classic FM albums The Guitarist and Summertime both shotstraight to no.1 in the UK classical chart in summer 2010 and 2011respectively. Craig Ogden has performed concertos with all of the mainUK orchestras plus many abroad and has presented on BBC Radio 3and on ABC Classic FM (Australia). He is Principal Lecturer in Guitar atthe Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and Visiting Lecturerat London’s Royal College of Music.



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How much of our history can be seen in the way we walk? What can youlearn by watching someone brush their hair from their forehead?Graceland is a devised piece of physical theatre exploring therelationship between the body and memory.

Tickets: £5 full price, £3 concessionsBox Office: Telephone bookings (01482) 466607/(01482) 466141Box Office Open: 12.30 – 1.30 pm Mon 11th Feb - Fri 15th Feb 2012www.culturenet.co.uk

Student Showcase IIIFriday 15 February 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

A selection of repertoire performed by students taking the advancedperformance module as well as new works by our student composers.


Free Admission – All Welcome!Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

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Hull Chamber Music Society:Neil Heyde (cello) Roy Howat (piano)Saturday 16 February 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:45

Debussy Intermezzo; Nocturne-Scherzo Britten Suite no 1 for solo cello op 72 Faure Valse-caprice no 4 for solo piano op 62

Romance op 69; Sérénade op 98 Cello Sonata no 1 op 109

Free pre-concert talk at 6.30 pm: The artists will talk about theevening’s programme

Tonight’s perfomers are renowned both for their superb performancesand for their scholarly expertise, particularly in the music of Fauré andDebussy.The programme opens with some little-known Debussy piecesfor cello and piano that Roy Howat is editing for the new DebussyEdition. It also marks the Britten centenary in 2013 with the first of thethree suites for solo cello written for Rostropovich.

“.. imagination and elegance characterise Howat’s playing, andeverywhere we are allowed to hear what the composer seems to havewanted us to hear”. International Piano Quarterly


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Thursday 21 February 2013Wilberforce Lecture Theatre LT12, Hull Campus, 18:30

A Polish Catholic, Marian Kolodziej was prisoner number 432 inAuschwitz. 50 years later he captured his experiences of those deathcamp years in an astounding series of drawings that now fill the cellars ofa nearby monastery. This award-winning film takes the viewers on a tourof The Labyrinth with the artist’s testimony as a guide. Introducedthrough slides and a talk by Martin Goodman, who experienced theexhibition as part of a week-long retreat in the concentration camp.

Free Admission – All Welcome! Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

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Friday 22 February 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Keith Kirchoff (piano)

Programme to include:Keith Kirchoff White CanvasRobert Seaback Glitches with AppendagesMC Maguire Short History of Lounge

The Electro-Acoustic Piano (EAP) is an ongoing project which supportsand promotes new works for piano and electronics. Started in 2009, theproject has already commissioned fifteen composers and has beenpresented throughout the United States, Canada, Belgium, Germany, andEngland.



Making PerformanceMonday 25 February – 15 March 2013Various venues – go to www.culturenet.co.uk

This year’s Making Performance festival will take place over three weeks.The festival will present the work of our final year students on the BAHons Degree in Drama and Theatre Practice. Incorporating differentstyles, genres, spaces and skills, and focusing on different topics andcontemporary issues this new and exciting work is a must-see!

Making Performance is chance for our graduating students to show youwhat they can do. Tickets are free but only available to an invitedaudience and Friends of the Donald Roy Theatre. If you would like to jointhe Friends, please email: [email protected].

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WRITING HULL– The Book LaunchThursday 28 February 2013The Art Gallery, MiddletonHall, Hull Campus, 18:30

Sixteen writers from theUniversity’s MA in CreativeWriting headed out into thewilds of the city and beyond(Barton to Scarborough toSpurn Head to the sea). Thisbook WRITING HULL, fromBarbican Press, is anexciting assembly of vividwriting as they report backfrom their journeys. Theirtales spin from the MIDDLEAGES to now, from theyoung to the old, from thedesperate to the heroic.Come and meet thesewriters and hear whatspurred them. Learn how they met the challenges of delivering true-lifetales.

Introduced by Martin Goodman. Includes a booksigning by thesewriting stars of tomorrow.


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Student Showcase IVFriday 1 March 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Performances and compositions by students specialising in Jazz andPopular Music.

Free Admission – All Welcome!Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

First Chance to Hear – the Poetry SessionThursday 7 March 2013The Art Gallery, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 18:30

Please come and join the poets on Hull’s creative writing team as theyshare work so new that the presses sizzle and the ink is wet. A chance toexperience Cliff Forshaw, Kath McKay, Mary Aherne and Brian Lavery infull poetic flight.


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Portumnus Ensemble: Larkin in Song IFriday 8 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Lee Tsang (baritone)Anthony Thompson (trumpet)Rachael Drury (violin)Eva Budniak (piano)

New works for baritone, piano, trumpet and violin by Thomas Simaku,Ronald Corp, Alastair Borthwick and Richard Tsang. The event willcoincide with an exhibition of works related to a new short animatedmusic-film The Trees (Sylvia’s Lament), directed by Lee Tsang andillustrated by Charlotte Tsang.

This event is part of the ‘20th-c British Poets in Music’ festival.

http://www.hullsinfonietta.org.uk/Events.asp


Tickets: £5 / senior citizens £4 / other concessions £3 Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected] by: Philip Larkin Society, CASH Music Fund, ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong, Hull Sinfonietta

Hull Chamber Music Society: Fibonacci Sequence. Piano, Clarinet& String QuartetSaturday 9 March 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:45

Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K 478Puccini Crisantemi (for string quartet)Prokofiev Overture on HebrewThemes (for sextet)Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor op 115

Free pre-concert talk at 6.30 pm: Prof. Brian Newbould on Brahms andProkofiev

The Fibonacci Sequence, founded in 1994 by pianist Kathron Sturrock, iswell established as one of the foremost chamber ensembles in thecountry.Their programme opens and closes with two of the greatest of allchamber works, and also contains two comparative rarities—Puccini’sChrysanthemums and Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes in itsoriginal form for chamber ensemble.

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...dazzlingly good chamber ensemble...exuberantly expressive,intimate style...gorgeously idiomatic playing. The Times


Piano Day with Caroline ClemmowMonday 11 March 2013Larkin L201, Hull Campus, 9:30 – 16:30

An event specialising in piano duo work and accompaniment. CarolineClemmow has been described by the Daily Telegraph as “the idealchamber music partner” and her celebrated duo with husband AnthonyGoldstone has been described by Gramophone as “dazzling”.

Observers welcome.Free Admission – All Welcome! Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

Organ Day with Ann Elise SmootWednesday 13 March 2013University Chapel, Hull Campus, 15:00 -18:00

14:00 – 16:00 Organ masterclass featuring Hull students.Observers welcome.

16:00 – 17:00 Organ demonstration workshop with internationally-renowned concert organist Ann Elise Smoot.

Ann Elise Smoot has been described as “a tour-de force” The OrganMagazine and praised for her “deep musical maturity” The AmericanOrganist and “excellent technique and sensitivity” Belfast Telegraph.


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Friday 15 March 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

University OrchestraPam Waddington Muse (mezzo soprano)Elaine King (conductor)

Debussy Prelude à l’aprés-midi d’un faunePoulenc La Dame de Monte CarloSaint-Saens Danse MacabreBizet Carmen Suite No. 2

An all-French programme featuring Debussy’s sensuous tone poem, aquirky monodrama about an ageing courtesan (text by Cocteau, music byPoulenc) and popular showpieces by Saint-Saens and Bizet.


First Chance to Hear – the Fiction SessionThursday 11 April 2013The Art Gallery, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 18:30

Welcome to the Art Gallery as the fiction writers on Hull’s creative writingteam spin yarns to delight and affront you. Simon Kerr, Ray French,Martin Goodman and Sarah Walton deliver cutting-edge tales that are hotoff the mint. Experience fiction as it breaks new ground.


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prilThe Modern Saxophone: exploring lyricismFriday 12 April 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Sarah Markham (saxophone)Paul Turner (piano)

Matthew Hindson Repetepetition Hilary Tann In the First, Spinning Place Rachel Stott Flight Mode Edison Denisov Sonata Roberto Molinelli Tango-Club

Sarah Markham was the wind section winner of the Royal Over-SeasLeague Music Competition in 1995, where her duo with Paul Turner alsowon the Erik Falk Trust award. Their busy performing schedule hasincluded concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, as wellas internationally, and they have performed live on Classic FM andRadio 3.

The works for this concert focus on how composers have begun toincorporate contemporary ideas (such as multiphonics and quartertones) whilst maintaining the lyrical nature of the saxophone.



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Wednesday 17 April – Saturday 20 April 2013The Donald Roy Theatre, the Gulbenkian Centre, 19:30 prompt(Latecomers not admitted)

Family, friends, holidays, birthdays, Christmases, first day of school,graduations, first dates, first kisses and weddings. We cherish thesememories, document them and speak of them fondly when we gettogether. These shared experiences and memories some would argue iswhat makes us human. So what happens when you start to struggle toremember what happened this morning or your nearest and dearestbecome unrecognisable?

When the devil that is Alzheimer’s visits Evelyn Swan, her family are leftdevastated. The slightly less than normal family cope day to day the onlyway they know how; Love, Laughter and Casablanca.

Tickets: £5 full price, £3 concessionsBox Office: Telephone bookings (01482) 466607/(01482) 466141Box Office Open: 12.30 – 1.30 pm Mon 15 April - Fri 19 April 2013

Journey of Love – a song recitalFriday 19 April 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Christopher Turner (Tenor)Jonathan Fisher (Piano)

Vaughan-Williams Songs of TravelBeethoven An Die Ferne Geliebte, Op. 98

Following his successful engagements in major solo roles for EnglishNational Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera Holland Park and Opera North,prizewinning Hull graduate Chris Turner returns to Hull for a recital thatfeatures Beethoven’s pioneering To the Distant Beloved and perhaps themost famous and well-loved of all Vaughan-Williams’ songs.



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Beethoven String Trio in C minor op 9 no 3Kodály AdagioHoward Skempton Winter SunriseMozart Divertimento for string trio in E flat K

This highly-acclaimed group brings a programme that opens with oneof Beethoven’s powerful early trios and culminates in Mozart’s greatDivertimento K 563, a late work that despite its title is a serious large-scale composition in six movements. In between are two more recentattractive and contrasting short pieces.

...such a fine intense performance as this brings out [Mozart’s]mastery...the hushed intensity of the playing of the Adagio, beautifullysustained at its measured pace, bears witness to the mastery of thethree players. Gramophone, March 2012 (review of Florin’s CD of theMozart and Skempton works)


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Directed by one of Britain’s most celebrated theatre makers, thisperformance stages the passage from Dostoevsky’s The BrothersKaramazov that imagines Jesus returning during the Spanish Inquisition.

“Brook’s production and Bruce Myers’s performance have an austeregrandeur.” The Guardian

“Myers, a veteran of Brook’s international company, combines the verbaldexterity of a John Gielgud with the humanistic depth of someone whohas performed in (and been transformed by) such Brook landmarks asthe The Mahabharata, The Man Who and The Conference of the Birds”. LATimes

Tickets: £7 / concessions £5

Distinguished Drama Lecture 2013Professor Pamela Howard OBE

The Mystery of Space:Mapping the Scenographic Landscape in Production and PerformanceThursday March 14 2013 14:15 – 16:05Donald Roy Theatre, Gulbenkian Centre, Hull Campus

Known as a Theatre Designer for major theatres in UK, Europe and theUnited States of America, Professor Pamela Howard was awarded an OBEin 2008 for services to Drama. She has worked as a Stage Designer in theUK, Europe and the USA since 1960, and has realised over 200productions, working at all the major national and regional theatres,including the creation of several large-scale site-specific works inGlasgow with the late John McGrath.

Since 2000, Professor Howard has been developing in particular herwork as Director and Scenographer for twentieth century opera andmusic theatre—and has staged numerous major works at the CzechNational Theatre (Prague and Brno), the Reduta and La Fabrika theatres(Prague); the Opera of Thessaloniki; the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland;

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The Department of Drama and Music proudly celebrates 50 years of Dramaat the University of Hull with events taking place throughout 2013 with aspecial graduate weekend event taking place during June 7 – 9 2013.More details to follow. Visit the following links for the latest information

www.facebook.com/hulluni.drama

www.twitter.com/dramahulluni

www.culturenet.co.uk

Interested in being part of the next 50 years?See our courses here:

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and Tricycle Theatre (London). In 2006 she was Visiting Professor inDrama at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) where shestaged works by Bohuslav Martinu at the Pittsburgh Gallery ofContemporary Art. She has held further distinguished VisitingProfessorships at the University of the Arts (Belgrade) and the NationalTheatre School (Copenhagen). She is author of the key textbook: Whatis Scenography (second edition, Routledge 2009) and is ProfessorEmeritus of the University of the Arts, London.

Enquiries: Dr Christian M. Billing Department of Drama and Music (Drama)[email protected] +44 (0)1482 466 210

Hull University Music SocietyWednesday 24 April 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:30

A range of student-run ensembles perform music on a film-basedtheme.


Music for flute and harpFriday 26 April 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 13:15

Alex Jakeman (flute)Vicky Lester (harp)

Programme to include works by Bach, Damase, Debussy and Piazzolla.

Alex Jakeman is a member of the Buxton Ensemble and Vicky Lester hasplayed with many of the UK’s finest orchestras including the RoyalPhilharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, ScottishOpera and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.



1st Floor West, WilberforceBuilding, Hull Campus

OpenMonday to Friday9:15 to 13:00Closed on public holidays

Free admission

The University ethnographycollections are from Assam, Burma,China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei,Indonesia and the Philippines. TheMuseum explores central themes inSouth East Asian culture, fromlivelihood to belief systems, withstrengths in arts and crafts, puppettheatre, costume and textiles.

University of HullSouth-East AsiaMuseum

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The Department of Drama and Music presents:

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZAFriday 3 May 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:30at 13:15 there will be an open rehearsal for schools only

Saturday 4 May 2013Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 19:30

Opera and Music Theatre Group and University OrchestraMusic direction by Chris Rodaway and Tim ShawTheatre direction by Amy Skinner

When 21-year-old Clara Johnson arrives in Florence for her summervacation, she and her mother enter a world of art, music, and beauty.An accident on a windy day leads Clara to local boy Fabrizio Narccelli,who is captivated by the American visitor. But this is a love story with adifference. There is something unusual about Clara, and Clara’s motherwill do anything to keep her daughter’s secrets hidden. Combining thelight of the Italian summer with the dark struggles of mental illness,Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza is one of thestand-out musicals of the new millennium. In this production, music,dance, and puppetry welcome you to Florence in 1953. Explore thestreets, linger in the squares, and look at the world through Clara’seyes, as she tries to discover what it means to fall in love wheneverything about you is not quite as it seems.

Tickets: £8 / concessions £7 / students £4Gulbenkian Box Office: Telephone bookings 01482 466607/01482 466141Box Office Open: 12.30 – 13.30 Monday 29 April – Friday 3 May 2013

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Book by CRAIG LUCASMusic and Lyrics by ADAM GUETTEL

Produced by arrangement with TurnerEntertainment Co. Owner of the original motionpicture “Light in the Piazza”

Based on the Novel by Elizabeth Spencer

Presented by arrangement with JOSEFWEINBERGER LIMITED on behalf of R & H

THEATRICALS of New York

The World Premiere of The Light in thePiazza was produced by the Intiman

Theatre, Seattle, Washington.Opening Night: June 14, 2003Bartlett Sher, Artistic Director.Laura Penn, Managing Director

and The Goodman Theatre,Chicago, Illinois.Opening Night: January 20,2004 Robert Falls, ArtisticDirector.Roche Schulfer, ExecutiveDirector

Developed with the Assistanceof the Sundance InstituteTheatre Laboratory

Theatre PracticeThis year’s Theatre Practice work by second year single honoursstudents offers another chance to see a variety of theatre andperformance.

The American Method Outcome (Friends of the Donald RoyTheatre only)Thursday 25 April 19.30 & Friday 26 April 16.00 and 19.30 Minghella Studio

This performance will explore the contemporary relevance of theAmerican Method for theatre makers. Students will stage scenes createdin response to their study of Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adlerand Uta Hagen. (Invited audience only)

Greek ComedyThursday 2 May 19.30 & Friday 3 May 16.00 and 19.30Donald Roy Theatre

Aristophanes comedies are the subject of this performance outcome.Investigating complex topics such as race, gender, violence, sexualdesire and social class the second years work will consider thechallenges and opportunities presented in investigating practically acomic text written over 2,400 years ago. Is the world really so different?

Musical RehabThursday 16 May 19.30 & Friday 17 May 16.00 and 19.30Donald Roy Theatre

Featuring a musical currently not in vogue this performance will aim tomake an outdated and kitsch musical a culturally relevant and thought-provoking piece of new theatre. Drama and Music staff engage with thestudents to present a thoroughly modern working of an old classic.

Commedia dell’arte From 20 May – 3 JuneTouring

Based upon Commedia Dell’arte, this performance will be touring to localand national venues across two weeks at the end of May (please lookoutfor individual flyers for details). The performance sets out to re-envisionand reclaim Commedia Dell’arte as comedy which lampoonscontemporary society.

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ayConducting Masterclass with Simon WrightFriday 10 May 2013Middleton Hall and University Chapel Hull Campus, 11.00–16.1511.00 Orchestra (Middleton Hall)14.00 Choir (Chapel)

In the UK, Simon Wright has conducted many British orchestrasincluding the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, EnglishNorthern Philharmonia, Manchester Camerata, Northern Sinfonia andNorthern Chamber Orchestra. He has been Musical Director of theBritten Singers since 1992, a choir which he has established as one ofthe most versatile choral groups in the UK. He holds two otherimportant positions, as Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the LeedsFestival Chorus and as Musical Director and Principal Conductor of theCity of York Guildhall Orchestra. He is deeply committed to the music ofthe 20th century and has conducted many orchestral and choralpremières.

This masterclass features Hull students. Participants for the orchestraand choir are welcome to contact us for further details.

Observers welcome.Free Admission – All Welcome! Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

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May Flights of Fancy

Friday 24 May 2013Our Lady Of Lourdes Church, Cottingham Road, Hull, 19:00

Saturday 25 May 2013Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival, Beverley Minster, 15:00

Sunday 26 May 2013The Foundling Museum, London, 15:00

University of Hull Early Music EnsembleŽak Ozmo, director

The early seventeenth century was a period in which there was awidespread belief in the magic of music, and in music’s power to controlhuman passions—now harsh, now sweet, now cheerful, now sad – inaccordance with the will of the performer. This programme featuresentertaining, imaginative, and uncommonly beautiful music composedwith these goals in mind. Included will be striking chamber works byBiagio Marini and Tarquinio Merula, haunting vocal monodies by ClaudioMonteverdi, sprightly dances by Gasparo Zanetti and Santino Garsi,inspired improvisations on seventeenth-century grounds, and muchmore.

This concert will last c. 60 minutes.

Tickets: £5 / senior citizens £4 / other concessions £3 (Hull)£10 / concessions £8 / students £5 (Beverley)Free admission (London)Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected]

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Midsummer MusicVISTA - Music for Reed TrioThursday 20 June 2013Beverley Minster, Beverley, 13:15

Beatrice Hubble (oboe), Caroline Waddington (clarinet), Christina Marroni (bassoon)

Programme:Mozart Divertimento No. 3, mvt ITansman Suite for trio Szalowski DivertimentoBozza Suite Breve en TrioJacob Trio

VISTA is currently part of a University of Hull doctoral research projectexploring co-performer empathy in expert ensembles. In thisentertaining concert, the ensemble explores repertoire for reed triofrom around Europe.

Free Admission - Donations invited.Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected] by Beverley and East Yorkshire Concerts and University ofHull

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June 27–29 June 20th Century British Poets in Music Festival

For more details see www.culturenet.co.uk. Programme to include:

Portumnus Ensemble – Larkin in Song IIThursday 27 June 2013Beverley Minster, Beverley, 13:15

Sarah Leonard (soprano)Colin Blamey (clarinet)Jonathan Gooing (piano)

A concert featuring music by emerging composers Raymond Yiu, NathanielSeaman, Louis Johnson, Marcello Messina, and Chris Hutchings.

The above five composers were selected to write new commissions onLarkin poetry following a memorable concert and workshop at the RoyalMusical Association Students’ Conference 2012 in Hull last season.


Free Admission – Donations invited.Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected] by Beverley and East Yorkshire Concerts, Philip LarkinSociety, University of Hull, Royal Musical Association

20th Century British Poets in Music, RMA Study DayFriday 28 June 2013Hull Campus, 13:15

An interdisciplinary event, bringing together musicologists, literaryscholars, postgraduate students and composers interested in theconnections between poetry and music. Michael Tippett once wroteprovocatively that one of the primal gifts of the song writer is the abilityto destroy all the verbal music of the poetry or prose and to substitute themusic of music. We aim to consider the transformation of referentialwords into musical sounds from a number of practical and theoreticalperspectives, with a keynote lecture by Professor Stephen Banfield.


Enquiries: Dr Freya Bailes, Department of Drama and Music,[email protected], 01482 466398Sponsored by The Royal Musical Association

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Flights of FancyThursday 4 July 2013Beverley Minster, Beverley, 13:15

University of Hull Early Music EnsembleŽak Ozmo, director

An opportunity to hear an abridged version of the concert previouslyfeatured in the Early Music Ensemble’s May tour.

The early seventeenth century was a period in which there was awidespread belief in the magic of music, and in music’s power to controlhuman passions—now harsh, now sweet, now cheerful, now sad - inaccordance with the will of the performer. This programme featuresentertaining, imaginative, and uncommonly beautiful music composedwith these goals in mind. Included will be striking chamber works byBiagio Marini and Tarquinio Merula, haunting vocal monodies byClaudio Monteverdi, sprightly dances by Gasparo Zanetti and SantinoGarsi, inspired improvisations on seventeenth-century grounds, andmuch more.

Free Admission – Donations invited.Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected] by Beverley and East Yorkshire Concerts

Prizewinners’ concertThursday 11 July 2013Beverley Minster, Beverley, 13:15

A varied selection of works performed by this year’s University of Hullmusic graduates. Prizewinners include holders of the Andrew BrownMemorial Prize for Distinction in Performance, the Special Prize foroutstanding achievement in academic and practical music, and theMike Somerton Prize for Jazz Performance.

Free Admission - Donations invited.Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected] by Beverley and East Yorkshire Concerts and University ofHull.

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Middleton Hall, Cottingham Road, Hull Campus

OpenMonday to Friday10:00 – 16:00

Closed on public holidays

Free admission

The University’s Art Collection is a smallbut outstanding collection specialisingin paintings, sculpture, drawings andprints produced in Britain 1890–1940.The Camden Town Group andBloomsbury artists are particularly wellrepresented.

artcafé

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

University of HullArt Collection

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Shakespeare and Women – a Song RecitalThursday 18 July 2013Beverley Minster, Beverley, 13:15

Pam Waddington Muse (mezzo-soprano)Evgenia Roussou (piano)

Songs focusing on Shakespeare’s female characters and settings of histexts by female composers. Programme to include songs by Brahms,Vaughan Williams, Beach, Clarke and Dring, among others.

Free Admission – Donations invited.Enquiries: 01482 462045 or [email protected] by Beverley and East Yorkshire Concerts and University ofHull.

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