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Woodhouse Music's 10th Anniversary

Woodhouse 2010 PDF coverFind all the latest event details and information in the Woodhouse Music 10th Anniversary Programme.
You can download or view a PDF (780k) version of the 8-page publication here:

Woodhouse Music 2000-2010

Please see the Bookings and Enquiries page for more information about tickets for any of the following events.

 

Events during 2010

Irving Berlin
Sun 17th January at 4pm

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


Cabaret at Woodhouse
Sat 30th January at 6pm

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

Emilie Alford and Tyler Clarke at Woodhouse Music

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


Cello and Piano Recital
Sunday 21st February at 4pm

Stephanie

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


Anniversary Piano Recital
Saturday 25th April at 5pm

James Lisney at Woodhouse Music

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

 

Deadly Pleasures - Scenes Natural and Unnatural
Sat 8th May at 7pm

Johanna Lonsky at Woodhouse CopseInternational 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.

Couterpoise at Woodhouse Copse

£15 incl wine & nibbles

 

Trumpet Masterclasses
Sat 5th June from 2.30 to 5pm

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...

Concert with Crispian Steele-Perkins
Sat 5th June at 6.30pm

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 at Woodhouse Music

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 Clipsham at Woodhouse MusicCaroline 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)

 

Children's Event
June - Date TBA

Babar the elephant by F. Poulenc and other stories set to music.

Details TBA

 

Woodhouse 10 Year Anniversary Summer Gala
June - Date TBA

Past and present artists. Programme and date TBA.

Tickets £20 (black tie)

 

OPERA FESTIVAL: Cosi Fan Tutte
September 2nd - 5th September

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. Conductor Joseph Ramadan with singers, chorus and orchestra from RAM and RCM.

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


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

 

Soojin Han - violin recital
30th October at 4pm

Details TBA

Tickets £15

 

Hiroaki Takenouchi - piano recital
Date TBA

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

Tickets £15

 

Masterclass with Janis Kelly
Date TBA

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
Date TBA

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

Newly discovered music by Vaughan Williams and others
8th November 3pm

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.

 

Bring me the Head Of Papa Haydn
29th November 4pm

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.

Opera Festival
3rd - 7th September

This year we celebrate Purcell and Handel.

PurcellDido 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.

Natasha Day as Galatea

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


The world-renowned baritone Sir Thomas Allen will be giving Open Master Classes with singers from various conservatoires. He will be giving master classes on Mozart and beloved opera arias. There will be a gala recital at 7pm with an optional supper and the opportunity to meet Sir Tom and the artists afterward.

Masterclass — 2.30pm
Gala recital, supper and meet the artists — 7pm

 

Flute Day and Gala Concert
May 16th

Flute Day — Open Masterclass
Gala Concert at 7pm
     International Maestro, Wissam Boustany
     Jennifer Raven, flute
     Solos and duets


 

Colin Alexander (cello) and Omri Epstein (piano)

March 29th at 4pm

Bach — Suite Number 4
Beethoven — Sonata for cello and Piano Number 2
Webern — Three Little Pieces
     Sonata for Cello and Piano
Brahms — Sonata for cello and Piano Number 2


Colin started the cello at the age of three and has recently graduated from the Guildhall School of Music. In 2004 Colin won the National Youth String Quartet Competition with The Azurra Quartet. He has performed at The Wigmore Hall, Palace of Versailles, The Chelsea and Cambridge Festivals and in Howard Goodhall's television series, 'How Music Works'.

 

Woodhouse Celebrates
Bach, Purcell and Handel

Laura Mitchell

Laura Mitchell, soprano
Charlotte Forrest

Charlotte Forrest, piano

February 22nd at 4pm


Purcell — Sweeter than roses / The Plaint (The Fairy Queen)
     Ah how sweet it is to love / When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)
     'Twas within a furlong
Bach — Blute nur (St Matthew Pasn) / Zerfliesse, mein Herze (St.John Pasn)
Handel — In darkness deep (Theodora) / Voglio Amor (Elisa, Tolomeo)
     Oh sleep why dost thou leave me (Semele)
     Lascia chio pianga (Almirena, Rinaldo)
     Ho Perduto / L’empio rigor del fato (Rodelinda)

Laura was a scholar at The RCM where she gained a First-class Honours degree and Postgraduate diploma. In 2007 she won the prestigious Song price at Kathleen Ferrier awards and Lies Askonas Prize. She has performed with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and sang Bach's St. John's Passion with Mark Padmore as the Evangelist.

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