Our 10th Birthday

Events during 2010

An illustrated talk by D Candlin with vintage video excerpts. Tea and mulled wine will be served in the interval.

Songs, duets and entertainment from Weil to Cole Porter to Irving Berlin. Dress up, sip a cocktail and whoop it up!

Emilie Alford - mezzo-soprano
Emilie graduated from the RSAMD in Glasgow in 2008, and is now at the Royal College of Music, London, studying with the acclaimed soprano Janis Kelly and has sung with world-class musicians including Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray, David Daniels, Roger Vignoles, Sarah Walker, Della Jones, and Mark Padmore.
She recently covered the role of Elisa (Tolomeo) for English Touring Opera's 2009 Handelfest; other operatic experience includes Cis (Albert Herring, RSAMD/Landestheater Salzburg). Emilie won the RCM Concerto Competition, the RCM's Lieder Prize, and in 2009 was a finalist in the Ozone Les Azuriales Young Artists Competition in Nice, France. Upcoming engagements include Ravel Shéhérazade with the RCM Symphony Orchestra, and Eurilla (Il Pastor Fido, RCM).

Tyler Clarke - tenor
Tyler is currently the Gisela Gledhill Vocal Scholar at the Royal College of Music International Opera School and studies with Timothy Evans-Jones. He held the Peter Pears Scholarship, the Drapers’ De Turckheim Vocal Scholarship. Roles include La Resurrezione (London Handel Festival), Aminta Atalanta (London Handel Festival), Il Podesta La Finta Giardiniera (RCM) and Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RCM), the title role in Albert Herring for Co-Opera Company, debut recital at the Crush Room, Royal Opera House, Elijah at the Royal Festival Hall with Kurt Masur, Tamino Die Zauberflöte (RCM). His prizes include Les Azuriales Trust Prize 2009.

Joseph Ramadan - piano

Repertoire: French, American and German

Stephanie Oade - cello
Stephanie Oade is a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music. She is the recipient of awards from the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund, Countess of Munster Musical Trust, Craxton Memorial Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
She was awarded a first class honours degree from the Royal Northern College of Music where she was awarded the Leonard Rose Cello Prize for the highest Final Recital mark. In 2009 she gained a PGDip (Performance) with Distinction and became a Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music, earning the right to add the letters FRSM to her name.
She regularly performs with the BBC Philharmonic, Liverpool Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras and her chamber groups (cello and guitar and piano trio) perform widely across the UK. Stephanie’s debut CD is due for release early in 2010.

Bach: Sonata for Gamba in G major (BWV 1027)
Samuel Barber: Sonata (Op 6)
Mendelssohn: Song Without Words in D major (Op109)
Chopin: Sonata in g minor (Op 65)
Encore: slow movement of the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata.

Duncan Glenday - piano
Since completing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Duncan has performed extensively throughout England and Scotland, in recital and as concerto soloist. Concerto performances include Beethoven's second piano concerto with the English Philharmonic Orchestra on the Isle of Man, Brahms’ concerto no1 with the Oldham Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s “Emperor” with the Halifax Symphony Orchestra, concertos by Mozart with the Amadeus Orchestra, and Copland and Dohnanyi with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded for BBC Radio 2, has performed at the International Lake District Summer Music Festival, the Ryedale Festival, the Belfast Festival. Duncan has enjoyed success in various prizes and competitions, including first prize in the 1994 John Ireland Competition, and was a semi-finalist in the 2002 Calabria International Piano Competition in Italy.

£15 incl wine & nibbles

Chopin - Polonaises opus 263, Polonaises opus 40, Sonata in b, opus 58
Schumann - Fantaisie in C, opus 17

James Lisney - piano

"I havenothing but praise for James Lisney`s piano playing; he combines velvet touch and wide range of colour with complete understanding of phrasing and dynamic shading. This is someone who can really give the mechanical box of wires and wood a singing soul" The Telegraph October 18th, 20.15, Amsterdam Concertgebouw - www.concertgebouw.nl

£15 incl wine & nibbles

 

International actress Johanna Lonsky stars with Alexandra Wood (violin), Kyle Horch (saxophone), Deborah Calland (trumpet), and Iain Farrington (piano).

John Casken: Deadly Pleasures, based on a narrative poem by Pushkin in a graphic translation by
D. M. Thomas, conjures the sultry, sensuous world of Cleopatra’s court.

Schumann: melodramas Ballade vom Heideknaben and Die Flüchtlinge unfold mysterious scenarios on moorland and water, ‘Grand’ Second Violin Sonata was described by Joachim as ‘overflowing with noble passion’, its last movement reminding one off the sea ‘with its glorious waves of sound’, and the delightful ‘Forest Scenes’ for piano solo complete the programme.

£15 incl wine & nibbles

 

Trumpet Masterclasses by Crispian Steele-Perkins - trumpet(s) and Caroline Clipsham - piano. No programme as students will bring music.

£15 (£25 for combined ticket to Masterclass + Concert below)

There will be a Tea and Picnic interval, followed by...

Handel - Sinfonia in D
Purcell - Trumpet Overture
Gershwin - Prelude No 2
A demonstration of the techniques used to perform the famous Trumpet
Tunes of the 17th & 18th centuries
Haydn - Trumpet Concerto in Eb
Charpentier - Prelude to “Te Deum”
Mozart - Posthorn Sonata
Handel - Trumpet Suite
Gershwin - Medley

Crispian Steele-Perkins - trumpet
A trumpet soloist who is world-renowned for the quality of his performances and wide-ranging musical experience.Education Guildhall School of Music His interest in collecting and restoring antique trumpets led him to begin performing on them - you may have heard Crispian’s playing introducing the BBC’s ‘The Antiques Roadshow’. His unique performances and recordings on genuine historic instruments led Continuo Magazine to describe him as ‘the world’s leading player of the Baroque trumpet’. Playing alongside some of the world’s greatest singers, Crispian’s purity of tone and artistic subtlety has received critical acclaim for more than three decades. Recordings of Handel’s ‘Let the Bright Seraphim’ with Dame Kiri te Kanawa and ‘Eternal source of Light Divine’ with James Bowman are familiar to many. More recently his performances with Emma Kirkby, Lynne Dawson, Carolyn Sampson, Bryn Terfel and Lesley Garrett have firmly established his reputation. His work in the studios has included more than 80 film, TV scores and commercials, appearing alongside Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Bob Geldof, Sir Harry Secombe, Kate Bush, Elaine Page, Chris Rea and Lulu. His many Solo recordings extend from Purcell to Gershwin and his largest "live" audience was 133,000 at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Caroline Clipsham - piano
After attending Chethams School of Music, Caroline was awarded a scholarship to study with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. There she won numerous awards and prizes including Claud Beddington Prize for Beethoven, the Gregory Salzman Piano award and the Sheriff’s Prize for the highest final recital marks.
Caroline has performed at the Wigmore Hall and St. John’s, Smith Square in London, the National Concert Hall, Dublin; Chichester Cathedral; Dorking Halls; Guildford International Music Festival, the International Holland Music Sessions and also in South Africa as well as performances around Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and a tour of Eastern Europe.
Caroline has made a documentary for Carlton television which featured her playing Chopin’s original piano. She has recorded for ORF (Austrian National Radio) and has performed with the Ulster Orchestra in "Sonorities", Festival of Contemporary Music, for BBC Radio 3. She has also recorded a solo piano CD and a DVD, and has performed recently for Cherie Blair, and in the Middle East where she played for the Emir of Qatar.

£15 incl wine & nibbles
(£25 for combined ticket to Masterclass + Concert)

 

Babar the elephant by F. Poulenc and Childrens Corner by Claude Debussy. The day's theme is Africa, so please dress up!

Pianist: Akino Baker Kitahara.
Narrator: Daniel Baker.

Free - retiring donation for children"s charity at your discretion.

 

Past and present artists. Programme and date TBA.

Tickets £20 (black tie)

 

We will stage Cosi fan tutte as part of our 10 Years of Woodhousemusic Celebrations during 2010.

A sumptuous, fully-staged production beside the lake, performed in English, introducing exciting stars of tomorrow. Fully-staged in period setting with orchestra.

Fiordiligi: Susan Parkes, Dorabella: Martha Jones, Guglielmo: Edward Grint, Ferrando: David Webb, Despina: Helen Jane Howells, Conductor: Joe Ramadam
Producer and Director: Monika Saunders

With singers, chorus and orchestra from RAM and RCM.

Pre-opera talk by Monika Saunders at 3.15pm in the Concert Hall.

There will be a picnic interval from 5pm to 6:30pm. The opera will finish at about 8:15pm.

 

Tickets: Opera £30.
Dress rehearsal on Sept 2nd £18.
London date and venue TBA

 

Details TBA

Tickets £15

 

Played on the occasion of the Wigmore Hall Circle of friends visit to Woodhouse.

Schumann: Fantasy in C Op.17
Albéniz: Selections from Iberia
Chopin: Sonata No.3 in B minor Op.58

www.hiroakitakenouchi.com

Tickets £15

 

Janis Kelly, professor at RCM often sings principal roles at ENO and ROH, last heard in Gianni Schicchi with Sir Thomas Allen.

Tickets £15

 

John Amis, the well-known and much-loved music journalist, raconteur and critic, will entertain and amuse us with his wit and anecdotes about musical life in England and beyond. He has known them all!

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Events during 2009

Alan Rowlands and Alistair Sims will perform new found piano music by English Composers, including Ralph Vaughan Williams. They will perform on two pianos and this will be a historic event prior to their recording the concert on the Albion Label on 14th November here at Woodhouse. Alan Rowlands was,of course,a close friend of John Ireland and world premiered some of his works.

£15 incl wine & nibbles.

 

An entertaining and witty black humour music theatre, devoted to Papa Haydn written by Piers Burton-Page, broadcastor and music critic who has worked at the BBC and the Proms.

Performed by the author and Gerald Davidson, actor and playwright. This play is preceded by an introduction from Piers about the life and works of Haydn, whose anniversary year it is. Includes musical samples.

£15 incl wine & nibbles.

This year we celebrate Purcell and Handel.

Purcell — Dido and Aeneas, semi-staged.

Acis and Galatea
6th and 7th September

Handel's Acis and Galatea with singers and Orchestra from the RCM, Sunday 6th September at 4pm, with Natasha Day as Galatea, Alex Cadden as Acis, Jimmy Holliday as Polyphemus and Oli Johnston as Damon. Alasdair Gemmel Kitchen conducts.

A fully staged production in the grounds of Woodhouse Copse, with food, wine and picnics on the lawn. London performance at 49 Queensgate Terrace on Mon 7th September.

 

Sir Thomas Allen

May 30th, 2.30pm, 7pm

Flute Day and Gala Concert

May 16th

Colin Alexander (cello) and Omri Epstein (piano)

March 29th at 4pm

Woodhouse Celebrates

Bach, Purcell and Handel

Laura Mitchell, soprano

Charlotte Forrest, piano

February 22nd at 4pm

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