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Sunday Concerts

What’s on Sundays Sept – Dec 2016

NEWChildren’s Events including Little Red Riding Hood

COLLABORATIONSwith the London Mozart Players and the London Festival of Bulgarian Culture

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Welcome to our new look brochure! Inside you will find information not only about our acclaimed Sunday concert series but also pre-concert talks given by leading musicologists, pre-concert recitals further adding to the variety of repertoire on offer and - new for 2016 - children’s workshops presented by exciting young musicians.

I am proud to announce several new partnerships this season. Firstly the London Mozart Players who will give a special afternoon children’s concert featuring Paul Patterson’s colourful setting of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ on December 11th. They will then close our 2016 series with a performance of chamber music greats on December 18th - an event not to be missed!

We will devote three evenings in November to another new collaboration, with the London Festival of Bulgarian Culture. Bringing together some of the UK’s star performers with the best of Bulgarian musicians and combining exciting Bulgarian works with a different piano quintet each week, these concerts promise to delight all who are lucky enough to be there. Book your tickets now!

Another highlight of Autumn 2016 will be an appearance by the Brook Street Band in their twentieth year, for which we will welcome a beautiful harpsichord to Conway Hall. From the Baroque period to cutting-edge modern day technology, we will also live-stream a number of concerts this season, which will remain online to watch for a period after the performance in case you are unable to attend.

Please don’t forget that there are a number of ways of keeping up-to-date with our musical activities at Conway Hall. If you have not already done so, please add your details to our mailing list and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. There are also some great videos of our concerts on YouTube - more information on the next page.

I look forward to meeting you all at Conway Hall this Autumn and to sharing with you some of the finest music!

Simon CallaghanDirector of Music

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Gémeaux Quartet / © Helge Zucker-Nawrot

Linos Trio / © Samuel Bottega

Trio Isimsiz / © Kaupo Kikkas

Alauda Quartet


Concert Listings

September 11th 6.30pm

Gémeaux QuartetArisa Fujita (violin) Francesco Sica (violin) Syliva Zucker (viola) Matthijs Broersma (cello)

Haydn Quartet in F minor Op.20/5Mendelssohn Four Pieces for String Quartet Op.81Brahms Quartet in A minor Op.51/2

+ PRE-EVENT Talk 5.30pm See page 10 for details


Trio IsimsizPablo Hernán Benedí (violin) Michael Petrov (cello) Erdem Misirlioglu (piano)

Mozart Trio in E K542Fauré Trio in D minor Op.120Schumann Trio No.3 in G minor Op.110


Alauda QuartetCristina Prats-Costa (violin) Milan Berginc (violin) Rhoslyn Lawton (viola) Elena Cappelletti (cello)

Haydn Quartet in G Op.76/1Borodin Quartet No.2 in DDebussy Quartet in G minor Op.10

October 2nd 6.30pm

Linos TrioKonrad Elias-Trostmann (violin)Vladimir Waltham (cello) Prach Boondiskulchok (piano)

CPE Bach Sonata in C Wq.89/2Mendelssohn Trio in C minor Op.66Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte, arr. Linos Piano TrioDebussy La Mer arr. Sally Beamish

‘a slow-burning, gripping performance, the playing rich

and passionate’

The Strad on the Linos Trio


October 9th 6.30pm

Musicians from Musique à MarsacTim Crawford (violin) Helena Winkelman (violin) Manuel Hofer (viola) Chiara Enderle (cello) Jānis Tretjuks (clarinet) Alasdair Beatson (piano)

Bach/Mozart Largo and Fugue in Eb K404a/5Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op.132Bartók Contrasts Sz.111Helena Winkelman BacchanaliaFauré Piano Quintet No.2 Op.115

+ PRE-EVENT Talk 5.30pm Helena Winkelman & Alasdair Beatson See page 12 for details

October 16th 6.30pm

Trio MartinuPavel Šafařík (violin) Jaroslav Matějka (cello) Petr Jiříkovský (piano)

Schubert Notturno in E flat D897Brahms Trio in C minor Op.101Dvořák Trio in F minor Op.65

+ PRE-EVENT Recital 5.30pmMegumi Rolfe (violin) Belinda Jones (piano)See page 12 for details

October 23rd 6.30pm

Jubilee QuartetTereza Privratska (violin) Julia Loucks (violin) Stephanie Edmundson (violin) Lauren Steel (cello)

Mozart Quartet in E flat K428Beethoven Quartet in F minor Op.95 ‘Serioso’Bartók Quartet No.4 Sz. 91

* Concert kindly sponsored by The Musician’s Company

+ PRE-EVENT Talk 5.30pm Roderick Swanston Music & Language See page 12 for details

October 30th 6.30pm

Coriolan String TrioSara Wolstenholme (violin) Ruth Gibson (viola) Robin Michael (cello)

Beethoven String Trio in G Op.9/1Helen Grime Aviary Sketches (after Joseph Cornell) Mozart Divertimento in E flat K563

+ PRE-EVENT Recital 5.30pmAdam Brown (guitar) See page 12 for details

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Coriolan String Trio

Alasdair Beatson / ©Georgia Bertazzi

Jubilee Quartet / © Kaupo Kikkas

Trio Martinů


London Festival of Bulgarian CultureWe will devote three concerts in November to our new collaboration with the London Festival of Bulgarian Culture. Bringing together some of the UK’s star performers with the best of Bulgarian musicians and combining exciting Bulgarian works with a different piano quintet each week, these concerts promise to delight all who are lucky enough to be there. Book your tickets now!

November 6th 6.30pm

London Festival of Bulgarian Culture: Concert 1Evgeniy Chevkenov (violin)Devorina Gamalova (viola)Sasho Somov (cello)Julita Fasseva (double bass)Simon Calaghan (piano)

Haydn Trio in G Hob.XV:25 ‘Gypsy Rondo’Franz Drdla Souvenir & Serenade in ADobrinka Tabakova Insight (String Trio)Kreisler La Gitana and Shoen RosemarinSchubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘Trout’

+ PRE-EVENT Talk 5.30pm Michael Round introduces the evening’s programme See page 12 for details


November 13th 6.30pm

London Festival of Bulgarian Culture: Concert 2Pavel Minev (violin)Ivo Stankov (violin)Adriana Andreeva (viola)Guy Johnston (cello)Ashley Wass (piano)

Dohnanyi Serenade Trio Op.10Smetana Macbeth and the WitchesVladigerov Bulgarian Rhapsody ‘Vardar’ Op.16Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op.34


London Festival of Bulgarian Culture: Concert 3Dimitar Burov (violin)Yana Burova (violin)Michael Gieler (viola)Gerard Le Feuvre (cello)Ludmil Angelov (piano)

Mozart Sonata for Piano & Violin in B flat K454Vladigerov Piano TrioDvořák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81



Simon Callaghan & FriendsSimon Callaghan (piano)Jamie Campbell (violin)Rosalind Ventris (viola)Karel Bredenhorst (cello)

Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op.1/3Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat K493Fauré Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor Op.15

This concert will be live-streamed.

+ PRE-EVENT Talk 5.30pm Robert Hugill Music among friends See page 12 for details

December 4th 6.30pm

Delta Piano TrioGerard Spronk (violin)Irene Enzlin (cello)Vera Kooper (piano)

Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No.1Haydn Trio in E minor HobXV:12Mendelssohn Trio in D minor Op.49

December 11th 6.30pm

Brook Street BandLisete da Silva (baroque flute)Farran Scott (baroque violin)Tatty Theo (baroque cello)Carolyn Gibley (harpsichord)

Bach Trio Sonata BWV1038 in GHandel Cello Sonata in GLeclair L’Ainé Deuxième Récréation de Musique d’une exécution facile Op.8 in G minorHandel Trio Sonata Op.2/1 in B minorRameau Pièce de Clavecin en Concerts No.1Telemann Paris Quartet No1 in D TWV43:D3

‘This series of concerts organised by Director and pianist Simon Callaghan goes from strength to strength... I urge all who love chamber music played by first rate artists to attend.’The Schubertian

© Dan Bridge


We are delighted to welcome the London Mozart Players to Conway Hall for the start of what promises to be an exciting, fruitful collaboration.

December 11th, 1pm

Children’s Concert narrated by Rebecca KennyPaul Patterson: Little Red Riding Hood

Particularly suitable for those aged 5-10 but open to all.

December 18th 6.30pm

London Mozart Players Chamber EnsembleMozart Divertimento in D K136Schoenberg Verklärte NachtTchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op.70

© John Laws

‘The London Mozart Players are on the very crest of their

wave, playing with consummate refinement’

International Record Review


Pre-concert Recitals

October 16th 5.30pmMegumi Rolfe (violin) Belinda Jones (piano)

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op.12Elgar Romance in E minor Op.1Bernstein (arr. Raimundo Penaforte) West Side Story Suite

October 30th 5.30pmAdam Brown (guitar)

Solo recital presenting varied dance forms from across Latin America. Performed works will be recorded on a forthcoming album that will include dynamic new arrangements and exciting first recordings.

Pre-concert TalksSeptember 11th 5.30pmJoseph Fort

A curious coincidence connects the Haydn and Brahms quartets on tonight’s programme: both were published when their respective composers were 40 years old and count amongst Haydn’s and Brahms’s earliest published attempts in the quartet genre. This talk will explore how these compositions both carry and throw off their past, and will orient listeners to some key features of the music, before the evening’s performance.

Joseph Fort is College Organist & Director of the Chapel Choir and Lecturer in Music at King’s College London. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard University, where he completed a PhD with a dissertation on dance-music relationships in Haydn’s minuets. At King’s, he lectures on a wide range of topics, and serves as Head of Performance.

October 9th 5.30pm Helena Winkelman & Alasdair Beatson Discussing the evening’s programme

Helena Winkelman was born into a musical family, her father being a Dutch/Italian flautist, her mother a Swiss harpsichordist. Having won national and international violin competitions from a young age, over recent years she has developed her own distinctive voice as a composer. After her formal violin studies Helena embarked on a performing career as a soloist, performing at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris and Zürich’s Tonhalle. Meanwhile, during a study year in New York, she started to compose on a regular basis. On her return to Switzerland she enrolled in a class for composition at Basel Music Academy with Roland Moser and Georg Friedrich Haas.


October 23rd 5.30pmRoderick SwanstonMusic & Language

No one doubts music can communicate, but how and what is often a mystery. Some seek refuge in imagining music in pictures and treat its notes like words or visual images. But this will not do for abstract musical designs. For these we need a more sophisticated understanding of how notes and structures are selected and used, and how they convey meaning and emotion to listeners. This talk will explore these ideas in relation to two great abstract designs, Mozart E flat Quartet K428 and Bartók’s mighty 4th String Quartet in “C”.

Roderick Swanston has lectured in Europe, Asia, the US and Africa. He was a co-founder of the London Song Circle and for seven years the English music lecturer for the Verbier Music Festival. He has written and broadcast over a hundred programmes for the BBC. In 2004 he took early retirement from the Royal College of Music where he had taught for twenty-seven years. He was the President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians serving between 2008-9.

November 27th 5.30pmRobert HugillMusic among friends

The development of the role of the piano in chamber music in the 19th century, with a detailed look at Faure’s Piano Quartet. Mozart’s Piano Quartet was one of the first pieces to be written for that combination, and it was music which was regarded as too difficult for amateurs. So throughout the 19th century composers (many of them pianists) would experiment with various combinations of piano and strings in chamber music, in works aimed at the new breed of virtuoso performers.

Robert Hugill is a London based composer, journalist, blogger, and lecturer. Robert runs the highly regarded classical music blog, Planet Hugill. Robert’s setting of the Advent Prose was premiered by Alistair Dixon and Chapelle du Roi at St John’s Smith Square in December 2014, and they premiered Robert’s setting of Ruth Padel’s Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth in 2015. As a lecturer, Robert has recently completed a five-lecture Introduction to Opera series for The Course, and will be returning to the Conway Hall and St John’s Smith Square for further pre-concert talks.

November 6th 5.30pmMichael RoundIntroduces the evening’s programme

Michael Round teaches at Kingston University, and taught academic studies at Trinity College of Music for eight years. He has given BBC radio talks, including a series for Radio 3 entitled ‘The Celeste-Player’s Guide to the Orchestra’ which in those far-off and gentler days was finally axed for excessive irreverence: the unheard episodes were later serialised in ‘Classical Music’ magazine and are currently being reworked into a book.His arrangements include orchestrations of Ravel piano pieces played in London’s Royal Festival Hall by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin – these have recently been recorded (for the Japan-based Octavia CD label) by Vladimir Ashkenazy, conducting the NHK Symphony Orchestra.


Sunday 9th October 2pm

Workshop with Sergio Serra (cellist) Sergio will introduce the cello and the array of possibilities that come with playing such a great instrument. Children will have the chance to listen to lots of different music and will be introduced to the basics of shaping and controlling music in some fun games!

Sunday 13th November 2pm

Workshop with Alena Lugovkina (flautist) Increasingly in demand for her engaging workshops, Alena will talk about the flute and its history, explore its sound and the many special effects it is capable of. She will take the children on a musical journey including familiar and not-so-familiar pieces. There will be plenty of time for questions, too!

Sunday 11th December 1pm

Childrens’ Concert given by the London Mozart Players

Paul Patterson: Little Red Riding HoodParticularly suitable for those aged 5-10 but open to all.

Children’s Events A new addition for 2016: four fun events for children aged 5-10.

Our young and engaging workshop leaders will present their instruments, play musical games and get everyone involved in a truly memorable introduction to the world of music!

The series will be rounded off with a performance of Paul Patterson’s Little Red Riding Hood by the London Mozart Players, narrated by Rebecca Kenny.

Sunday 18th September 2pm

Workshop with Calum Huggan (percussionist) The perfect way to kick off our new season of workshops, Calum will get everyone on their feet in rhythm games, body percussion and much more in this exciting introduction to the world of percussion.

TICKETS

£5


Conway Hall 25 Red Lion Square Holborn, LondonWC1R 4RLMain: 0207 405 1818www.conwayhall.org.uk

Conway Hall is owned and operated by Conway Hall Ethical Society (formerly South Place Ethical Society), an educational charity whose aims are the study of ethical principles based on humanism and freethought. and the advancement of research and education in all relevant fields.Registered Charity: 1156033www.conwayhall.org.uk

Tickets

£10 or free for people aged 8 - 25 (courtesy of the CAVATINA Ticket Scheme). All tickets for children’s events are £5.

The box office opens at 5.15pm on dates when there are pre-concert events, otherwise the box office opens at 5.45pm on the evening of the performance (cash and credit cards accepted). Tickets will be available from 30 minutes before the start of children’s events.

Tickets are also available online, please see www.conwayhall.org.uk for details. Seating is unreserved.

Access: Conway Hall is accessible by wheelchair

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Tube: Holborn station on the Piccadilly and Central lines (within a five-minute walk).

Buses: 8, 19, 25, 38, 55, 98, 168, 188, 242, 243, 501, 52 (all within a five-minute walk). Parking: Free parking all day on Sundays in Red Lion Square and adjacent streets. (Some parking bays are for residents only and there may be other local parking restrictions.)

Affordable classical music for all

Founded in the 1880s, our concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe.In 1929, Conway Hall, with its fine acoustic, was purpose-built for the concerts and they have continued there to the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains. Simon Callaghan is only the sixth music director since their inception.

Director of Music:Simon [email protected]

Sunday Concert Event Manager:Katie Jones [email protected]

PatronsStephen HoughPrunella Scales CBERoderick Swanston Hiro Takenouchi Timothy West CBE


Calendar of Events A handy summary of our events for your convenience! All concerts are at 6.30pm unless otherwise indicated, and you can find full information about each event inside.

September 11th 5.30pm Joseph Fort + TALK

6.30pm Gémeaux Quartet HAYDN/MENDELSSOHN/BRAHMS

18th 6.30pm Trio Isimsiz MOZART/FAURÉ/SCHUMANN

2.00pm Calum Huggan (percussionist) + CHILDREN

25th 6.30pm Alauda Quartet HAYDN/BORODIN/DEBUSSY

October 2nd 6.30pm Linos Trio CPE BACH /BRITTEN/DEBUSSY

9th 2.00pm Sergio Serra (cellist) + CHILDREN

5.30pm Helena Winkelman & Alasdair Beatson + TALK

9th 6.30pm Musicians from Musique à Marsac BACH/MOZART SCHUMANN/BARTÓK/ HELENA WINKELMAN/FAURÉ

16th 5.30pm Megumi Rolfe (violin) and Belinda Jones (piano) + RECITAL

6.30pm Trio Martinů SCHUBERT/BRAHMS /DVORÁK

23rd 5.30pm Roderick Swanston Music & Language + TALK

6.30pm Jubilee Quartet MOZART/BETHOVEN/BARTÓK

27th 5.30pm Robert Hugill Music among friends + TALK

30th 5.30pm Adam Brown (guitar) + RECITAL

6.30pm Coriolan String Trio BEETHOVEN/HELEN GRIME/MOZART

November 6th 5.30pm Michael Round introduces the evening’s programme + TALK 6.30pm London Festival of Bulgarian Culture: Concert 1 HAYDN/FRANZ DRDLA/DOBRINKA TABAKOVA/KREISLER/SCHUBERT

13th 2.00pm Alena Lugovkina (flautist) + CHILDREN

6.30pm London Festival of Bulgarian Culture: Concert 2 DOHNANYI/SMETANA/VLADIGEROV/BRAHMS

20th 6.30pm London Festival of Bulgarian Culture: Concert 3 MOZART /VLADIGEROV/DVORÁK

27th 5.30pm Robert Hugill Music among friends + TALK

6.30pm Simon Callaghan & Friends BEETHOVEN/MOZART/FAURÉ

December 4th 6.30pm Delta Piano Trio RACHMANINOV/HAYDN/MENDELSSOHN

11th 1.00pm Childrens’ Concert given by the London Mozart Players + CHILDREN

PAUL PATTERSON: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

6.30pm Brook Street Band BACH/HANDEL/LECLAIR L’AINÉ/HANDEL/RAMEAU /TELEMANN

18th 6.30pm London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble MOZART/ VLADIGEROV/DVORÁK

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