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DIGITAL CONCERTSBEETHOVEN’S SEVENTH This concert forms part of the CBSO Symphonic Collection, and was filmed in Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Michael Seal – Conductor

Eugene Tzikindelean – Violin

Berlioz Overture ‘Rob Roy’ 13’

Ravel Tzigane 10’

Beethoven Symphony No.7 38’

Rob Roy was an outlaw – and when Hector Berlioz tells his tale in music, you can feel every ounce of drama, adrenalin and (of course) romance. It’s a stirring way to begin a real swashbuckler of a concert: because music doesn’t get wilder or more life-affirming than Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Contemporaries thought Beethoven had gone mad. Today, this white-knuckle ride of a symphony has never been more popular – and believe us, when Michael Seal conducts it, he never holds back! First though, the CBSO’s brilliant new leader Eugene Tzikindelean sends the passion off the scale in Ravel’s fiery Tzigane. Hold onto your seats…

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Hector Berlioz (1803-69)

Overture ‘Rob Roy’

The Scottish folk hero Rob Roy (Robert Roy MacGregor), who acquired international fame through Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy, was a real person. He fought with the Jacobites in support of the deposed Stuart King James II, and later became an outlaw – like the English Robin Hood, but with more potent nationalist associations. Like many 19th century romantics, Berlioz was strongly drawn to the image of the proud, heroic Scottish nation, officially subject to England, yet defiant in spirit, with a rich treasury of legend and folk music. Berlioz composed his Rob Roy Overture in 1831, not long after the sensational premiere of his shockingly autobiographical Symphonie Fantastique. It was first performed at the Paris Conservatoire in 1834, but it went down badly, and Berlioz withdrew it soon afterwards, dismissing it as ‘long and diffuse’. It is perhaps less tautly structured than some of his other, better-known overtures, but it’s possible that Berlioz’s disappointment at the music’s humiliating reception was a significant influence on his decision to withdraw the score.

Until Berlioz’s day, the word ‘overture’ normally meant an orchestral piece written to introduce something much more substantial, most commonly an opera or an oratorio. But like the ‘prelude’ in romantic piano music, the term ‘overture’ began to take on a new significance for the romantics. The success of Beethoven’s ‘Leonore No.3’ (originally intended as the overture to the opera that eventually became Fidelio) as a self-standing concert work, telling the story of the opera as grippingly as any later romantic ‘tone poem’, opened up new possibilities. Berlioz’s Rob Roy was imagined in a similar vein: a musical character-study of its hero, conveying the excitement of some of his adventures. As such it is vivid and atmospheric, and it certainly doesn’t deserve its neglect. Scottish listeners (and perhaps a few Sassenachs as well) will recognise one of the most famous of all national folk songs: ‘Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled’ (initially evoked by martial-sounding horns), which Berlioz doesn’t simply quote, but uses it as a motif for symphonic development. There’s also a soulful melody for cor anglais, which Berlioz re-used in his Byron-inspired symphony Harold in Italy. Rob Roy ends with an exhilarating, galloping coda – the folk hero hailed in fiction as ‘The Highland Rogue’ rides in triumph again.

Programme note © Stephen Johnson

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Tzigane

Ravel’s Tzigane – his ‘Hungarian rhapsody’ as he called it – was conceived in a drawing room in London, probably in Holland Park. It was there that he usually stayed when he visited London in the 1920s and 1930s, and it might well have been there that, in June 1922, he spent an evening with the Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi. Anyway, wherever it was exactly, she played Hungarian-Gypsy music to him until five in the morning and he was so fascinated that he promised himself he would write a virtuoso piece for her in the same style.

It took him nearly two years to get round to it but, armed with Paganini’s solo-violin Caprices and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies, he did complete Tzigane just in time for a concert Jelly d’Arányi was giving in London in April 1924. It was a sensation – which is no more than it aimed to be. Ravel assumes the style so self-consciously, parading the characteristic Hungarian rhythms and the Gypsy scale from the beginning, and puts on such an obvious display of bravura violin technique that it would have been embarrassing if the piece had not taken a significant proportion of breath away. The two main tempi – a slow introduction for violin alone and a quicker dance section linked by an inspired transitional passage – represent the lassu and friss of the traditional Hungarian rhapsody. The similarly traditional acceleration at the end, after an unfailingly entertaining succession of Gypsy-style fiddle tunes, is brilliantly effective.

Programme note © Gerald Larner

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92Poco sostenuto – Vivace

Allegretto

Presto – Assai meno presto

Allegro con brio

For much of his adult life, Beethoven was tormented by ill health. Aside from his famous deafness, he suffered from persistent ringing in the ears (tinnitus), headaches, abdominal disorders, rheumatic attacks and various other ailments, not all easily diagnosed. He was also prone to depression – not surprisingly, one might say, given all that pain and frustration. But he was clearly also constitutionally robust, fighting off infections and rising above other tribulations. Sometimes it was work that saved him – as Beethoven admits in his famous private confession, the so-called Heiligenstadt Testament.

At other times the experience of recovery gave new energy to composition. It was in just such a period of recuperation that Beethoven wrote his Seventh Symphony. In 1811, the prominent Viennese physician, Dr Giovanni Malfatti, recommended that Beethoven spend the summer in the Bohemian spa-town of Teplitz, famous for its ‘cure’. It was also a place of relative peace in troubled times. During the Napoleonic wars, diplomats from all sides met there, seeing it as neutral territory. The visit obviously gave Beethoven a personal and musical boost, as he returned to Vienna with plans for two symphonies. He began writing the Seventh almost immediately, while making notes about ‘a second symphony in D minor’. The latter did not fully materialise until 12 years later, as the choral Ninth Symphony; but as soon as Beethoven had finished No.7, in May 1812, he began work on the equally buoyant Eighth. Whatever else he may have been suffering from, there was no shortage of creative energy.

One has to be careful about making direct comparisons between Beethoven’s supposed mood at a particular time and the character of the music he produced then. When Beethoven wrote that despairing Heiligenstadt Testament he was also working on his Second Symphony – a work not without its struggles, but, most commentators agree, overwhelmingly positive and full of vitality. But it is hard to avoid the feeling that Beethoven’s renewed dynamism after his stay in Teplitz found direct expression in his Seventh Symphony – the symphony Wagner famously described as

‘the apotheosis of the dance’. The sheer physical energy of the work – expressed in bracing muscular rhythms and brilliant orchestration – can, in some performances, border on the unnerving. Confronted with one of the Symphony’s many obsessively repeating passages (possibly the final build-up in the first movement), Beethoven’s younger contemporary Carl Maria von Weber pronounced him ‘ripe for the madhouse’. There are darker elements, expressed in the music’s recurring tendency to lean towards the destablising keys of C and F major. But the overall effect is of a spiritual victory. It is tempting to steal a title from one of Shelley’s poems and sum up the whole work as ‘The Triumph of Life’.

At first there seems to be little of the dance about the Seventh Symphony. Slow woodwind phrases are brusquely punctuated by chords from the full orchestra, but then faster string figures galvanise the music into physical action. Eventually this (relatively) slow introduction settles on a single note – an E, repeated by alternating woodwind and strings. But this soon develops into a sprightly dotted rhythm, and the Vivace begins. This rhythm – basically an emphatic long note followed by two short ones – not only dominates this first movement, but plays a crucial part in the other three movements. You can also hear it (in a slightly different form) in main theme of the following Allegretto, after the initial minor key wind chord calls us to attention. This magically atmospheric movement was such a success at its first performance that it had to be repeated. It left a huge imprint on the young Schubert, who echoed its slow, but strangely weightless tread in quite a number of his later works.

After the Allegretto, the Presto bursts into life. This has all the racing forward momentum of a typical Beethoven Scherzo. It is twice interrupted by a slower Trio section (with another version of the LONG, short-short rhythmic pattern in its main theme), and yet its vitality seems irrepressible: a third and final attempt to establish the slower Trio theme is magnificently dismissed by five crisp orchestral chords. The Scherzo is, however, in the ‘wrong’ key – the destablising F major. It is now the finale’s task to ram home the Symphony’s tonic key, A major. The result is magnificent bacchanal, pounding almost to frenzy at the Symphony’s seminal rhythmic pattern: LONG, short-short. The final build up culminates in two huge full-orchestra climaxes, both marked triple forte – fff – the first time such an extreme dynamic had been used in orchestral music, and entirely appropriate for an ending that is both logical and dazzlingly affirmative. Programme note © Stephen Johnson

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THE PERFORMERS

Michael SealConductor Michael Seal is the Associate Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), a unique appointment which recognises his work as Assistant Conductor, and the special relationship he has built with the orchestra.

His in-depth knowledge of orchestras from an insider’s position (he was a violinist with the CBSO early in his career) gives him a unique perspective and he quickly builds rapport and trust with the orchestras he works with. His energy and enthusiasm are infectious and he has built a reputation for outstanding results, delivered with great charm and often on a typically British tight rehearsal schedule.

Seal has worked with many of the UK’s finest orchestras, frequently being invited as guest conductor with the BBC orchestras and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras, as well as the Academy of St.Martin in the Fields, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Ulster Orchestra.

Internationally, he has conducted the Brussels Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, KBS Symphony

Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Joensuu City Orchestra, Orquesta Académica del Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and both RTÉ Concert and National Symphony Orchestras.

Seal has a special bond with the CBSO Youth Orchestra, conducting them on numerous occasions, and being involved with them since the orchestra’s foundation.

His love of opera led to critically-acclaimed performances of Puccini’s Il Trittico at the Birmingham Conservatoire. He has also assisted both Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons in opera performances of Peter Grimes, Carmen, Der Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tristan & Isolde and The Flying Dutchman.

Recent highlights include debuts with the Malaysian Philharmonic and WDR Funkhausorchester. Seal also makes return visits to Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Trondheim Symphony and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Eugene TzikindeleanViolin

Eugene Tzikindelean is the CBSO’s Leader. Born into a musical family in Romania and educated in Bucharest and Paris, Tzikindelean won top prizes in international competitions including the Enescu Competition in Romania, the Carl Nielsen International Competition in Denmark and France’s Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition.

After holding a position with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, he has been Leader of the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark since 2012. He also keeps a busy schedule as a soloist, chamber musician and guest leader with ensembles around the world including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, and Århus and Norrkoping Symphony Orchestras, and at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg.

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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN IEugene TzikindeleanJonathan Martindale *

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Philip BrettColin TwiggMark Robinson #

Ruth Lawrence * #

Julia Åberg *Jane Wright Stefano Mengoli *

VIOLIN IIKate Suthers*Julian Gil RodriguezMoritz Pfister Gabriel Dyker *

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Georgia Hannant *Bryony Morrison *Kirsty Lovie *Adam Hill

VIOLAAdam Romer *

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Catherine Bower *Michael Jenkinson *

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Angela Swanson #

Elizabeth Fryer * #

Jessica Tickle *

CELLODavid Powell *

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Kate Setterfield * #

Miguel Fernandes *Helen Edgar *

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Catherine Ardagh-Walter * #

DOUBLE BASSJulian Atkinson *

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Damián Rubido GonzálezSally Morgan *

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Mark Goodchild *#

FLUTEMarie-Christine Zupancic *

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Veronika Klirova *

OBOEEmmet Byrne *Amy Roberts

COR ANGLAISRachael Pankhurst *

CLARINETOliver Janes *Joanna Patton *

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BASSOONNikolaj Henriques *

Margaret Cookhorn *

HORNElspeth Dutch *

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Mark Phillips * #

Jeremy Bushell *Martin Wright #

TRUMPETJonathan Holland *

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Jonathan Quirk * #

Jonathan Sheppard

TROMBONERichard Watkin * Anthony Howe *#

BASS TROMBONEDavid Vines *

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TUBAGraham Sibley *

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TIMPANIMatthew Hardy *

PERCUSSIONAndrew Herbert *

HARPKatherine Thomas

CELESTEJames Keefe

# Recipient of the CBSO Long Service Award * Supported player

Under the baton of its Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham and the West Midlands, and one of the world’s great orchestras.

Based in Symphony Hall, the ochestra gives over 150 concerts each year in Birmingham, the UK and around the world, playing music that ranges from classics to contemporary, film music and even symphonic disco. With a far-reaching community programme and a family of choruses and ensembles, it is involved in every aspect of music-making in the Midlands. But at its centre is a team of 75 superb professional musicians, and a 100-year tradition of making the world’s greatest music, right here in the heart of Birmingham.

That local tradition started with the orchestra’s very first symphonic concert in 1920 – conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. Ever since then, through war, recessions, social change and civic renewal, the CBSO has been proud to be Birmingham’s orchestra. Under principal conductors including Adrian Boult, George Weldon, Andrzej Panufnik and Louis Frémaux, the CBSO won an artistic reputation that spread far beyond the Midlands. But it was when it discovered the young British conductor Simon Rattle in 1980 that the CBSO became internationally

famous – and showed how the arts can help give a new sense of direction to a whole city.

Home and Away

Rattle’s successors Sakari Oramo (1998-2008) and Andris Nelsons (2008-15) helped cement that global reputation, and continued to build on the CBSO’s tradition of flying the flag for Birmingham. As the only professional symphony orchestra based between Bournemouth and Manchester, the orchestra tours regularly in Britain – and much further afield. The orchestra has travelled to Japan and the United Arab Emirates in previous seasons, and in December 2016 made its debut tour of China. And its recordings continue to win acclaim. In 2008, the CBSO’s recording of Saint-Saëns’ complete piano concertos was named the best classical recording of the last 30 years by Gramophone.

Now, under the dynamic leadership of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, associate conductor Michael Seal and assistant conductor Jaume Santonja Espinós, the CBSO continues to do what it does best – playing great music for the people of Birmingham and the Midlands.

Meet the Family

The CBSO Chorus – a symphonic choir made up of “amateur professionals”, trained by Simon Halsey cbe – is famous in its own

right. The CBSO Children’s Chorus and Youth Chorus showcase singers as young as eight. Through its unauditioned community choir – CBSO SO Vocal in Selly Oak – the CBSO shares its know-how and passion for music with communities throughout the city. The CBSO Youth Orchestra gives that same opportunity to young instrumentalists aged 14-21, offering high-level training to the next generation of orchestral musicians alongside top international conductors and soloists.

These groups are sometimes called the “CBSO family” – over 650 amateur musicians of all ages and backgrounds, who work alongside the orchestra to make and share great music. But the CBSO’s tradition of serving the community goes much further. Its Learning and Participation programme touches tens of thousands of lives a year, ranging from workshops in nurseries to projects that energise whole neighbourhoods. And everyone’s welcome at CBSO Centre on Berkley Street. As well as being a friendly, stylish performance venue for the lunchtime concert series Centre Stage and contemporary jazz concerts by Jazzlines, the CBSO’s rehearsal base is home to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Ex Cathedra. Now in its Centenary year, the CBSO, more than ever, remains the beating heart of musical life in the UK’s Second City.

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EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORTWe are particularly grateful for theexceptional support of the following people this year:

£50,000+David and Sandra BurbidgeAlison & Jamie Justham (*David Vines)Barry and Frances KirkhamChris & Jane Loughran

(*Jonathan Martindale)Maurice Millward (*Chris Yates)John Osborn in support of the Osborn

Music DirectorshipClive & Sylvia Richards Charity(Principal Supporter of the CBSO’s

work with young people)Jerry Sykes in support of keynote

concert programming (*Catherine Ardagh-Walter)

£20,000+Peter How

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Dolores (*Richard Blake)

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of BirminghamGill & Jonathan Evans

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memory of Ernest Churcher (*Elspeth Dutch)

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(*Catherine Bower)and our other anonymous supporters.

The following players are supported by anonymous members of theOverture, Concerto and Symphony Circles, to whom we are very grateful:Mark GoodchildJoanna PattonMark PhillipsAdam Römer

OVERTURE CIRCLE (£1,000+)Mike & Jan Adams (*Eduardo Vassallo)Katherine Aldridge in memory of ChrisMichael Allen in memory of YvonneRoger & Angela AllenMiss J L Arthur (*Julian Walters)Kiaran AsthanaMr M K AyersMr & Mrs S V BarberJohn Bartlett & Sheila Beesley

(*Mark O’Brien)Michael BatesTim & Margaret BlackmoreChristine & Neil BonsallMrs Jennifer Brooks in memory of

David (*Julia Åberg)Helen Chamberlain in memory of Allan

Chamberlain (*Sally Morgan)Gay & Trevor Clarke (*Bryony Morrison)Dr Anthony Cook & Ms Susan EliasJohn Cunningham-DexterJulian & Lizzie DaveyAnita Davies (*Jeremy Bushell)Tony Davis & Darin QuallsJenny DawsonDr Judith Dewsbury in memory of Tony

(*Kate Setterfield)Alan Faulkner

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(*Michael Seal, Associate Conductor)John and Jenny KendallJohn & Lisa Kent (*Veronika Klírová)Charles and Tessa King-FarlowBeresford King-Smith in memory of

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LEGACY DONORSIn memory of Chris AldridgeThe late Terence BaumThe late Elizabeth Bathurst BlencoweThe late Mr Peter Walter BlackAllan & Jennifer BuckleThe late Miss Sheila Margaret Burgess

SmithIsabel ChurcherThe late Colin W ClarkeMr and Mrs P CockingThe late Roy CollinsDavid in memory of Ruth Pauline

HollandTony Davis & Darin QuallsThe late Mr Peter S. DayMark Devin

Alistair DowThe late Mary FellowsFelonious MongooseValerie FranklandJill GodsallTricia HarveyThe late Mrs Marjorie HildrethMr Trevor & Mrs Linda IngramRobin & Dee JohnsonAlan Jones & Andrew OrchardMs Lou JonesThe late William JonesPeter MacklinThe late Mr & Mrs F. McDermott &

Mrs C. HallThe late Myriam Josephine MajorThe late Joyce MiddletonPhilip MillsThe late Peter & Moyra MonahanThe late Arthur MouldThe late June NorthStephen OsborneGill PowellTony Davis & Darin QuallsThe late Mrs Edith RobertsPhilip RothenbergThe late Mr Andrew RoulstoneThe late Thomas Edward ScottMrs C E Smith & Mr William SmithPam SnellThe late Mrs Sylvia StirmanThe late Mrs Eileen SummersMiss K V SwiftJohn TaylorMr D M & Mrs J G ThorneJohn VickersMrs Angela & Mr John WattsAlan Woodfieldand our other anonymous donors.

ENDOWMENT FUND DONORSMike & Jan AdamsArts for AllViv & Hazel AstlingThe Barwell Charitable TrustIn memory of Foley L BatesBridget Blow cbeDeloitteMiss Margery ElliottSimon FaircloughSir Dexter HuttIrwin Mitchell SolicitorsThe Justham TrustMrs Thelma JusthamBarry & Frances KirkhamLinda Maguire-BrookshawMazars Charitable TrustAndrew Orchard & Alan JonesJohn OsbornMargaret PaytonRoger Pemberton & Monica PirottaDavid PettPinsent MasonsMartin PurdyPeter & Sally-Ann SinclairJerry SykesAlessandro & Monica TosoPatrick VerwerR C & F M Young Trust

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Corporate Partners

Trusts and Foundations29th May 1961 Charitable TrustABO Trust’s Sirens ProgrammeMiss Albright Grimley CharityThe Andor Charitable TrustThe Lord Austin TrustThe John Avins TrustBackstage TrustThe Rachel Baker Memorial CharityBite Size PiecesThe Boshier-Hinton FoundationBritish Korean SocietyThe Charles Brotherton TrustThe Edward & Dorothy Cadbury TrustEdward Cadbury Charitable TrustThe George Cadbury FundThe R V J Cadbury Charitable TrustCBSO Development TrustCity of Birmingham Orchestral Endowment FundThe John S Cohen FoundationThe George Henry Collins CharityThe Concertina Charitable TrustBaron Davenport’s CharityThe D’Oyly Carte Charitable TrustDunard FundThe W E Dunn TrustJohn Ellerman FoundationThe Eveson Charitable TrustThe John Feeney Charitable TrustGeorge Fentham Birmingham CharityAllan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable SettlementFidelio Charitable TrustThe Garrick Charitable TrustThe Golsoncott FoundationGrantham Yorke TrustThe Grey Court TrustThe Grimmitt TrustThe Derek Hill FoundationThe Joseph Hopkins and Henry James Sayer CharitiesJohn Horniman’s Children’s TrustThe Irving Memorial TrustThe JABBS Foundation

Lillie Johnson Charitable TrustThe Kobler TrustJames Langley Memorial TrustThe Leverhulme TrustLG Harris TrustLJC FundLimoges Charitable TrustThe S & D Lloyd CharityThe Helen Rachael Mackaness Charitable TrustThe McLay Dementia TrustThe James Frederick & Ethel Anne Measures CharityMFPA Trust Fund for the Training of Handicapped

Children in the ArtsMillichope FoundationThe David Morgan Music TrustThe Oakley Charitable TrustThe Patrick TrustThe Misses C M Pearson & M V Williams

Charitable TrustPerry Family Charitable TrustThe Bernard Piggott Charitable TrustPRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for OrganisationsThe Radcliffe TrustThe Rainbow Dickinson TrustThe Ratcliff FoundationClive & Sylvia Richards CharityRix-Thompson-Rothenberg FoundationThe M K Rose Charitable TrustThe Rowlands TrustRVW TrustThe Saintbury TrustThe E H Smith Charitable TrustF C Stokes TrustSutton Coldfield Charitable TrustC B & H H Taylor 1984 TrustG J W Turner TrustThe Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable TrustGarfield Weston FoundationThe Wolfson FoundationThe Alan Woodfield Charitable Trust

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Strategic Partners

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Partners in Orchestral Development

William King Ltd

THANK YOU The support we receive from thousands of individual donors, public funders, businesses and private foundations allows us to present extraordinary performances and to create exciting activities in schools and communities. Your support makes such a difference and is much appreciated.

For more information on how your organisation can engage with the CBSO, please contact Simon Fairclough, CBSO Director of Development, on 0121 616 6500 or sfairclough@cbso.co.uk

Thank you also to our Major Donors, Benefactors, Circles Members, Patrons and Friends for their generous support.

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BOARDChair David Burbidge cbe dlDeputy Chair David RoperElected Trustees Tony Davis Jane Fielding Susan Foster Joe Godwin Emily Ingram Sundash Jassi Chris Loughran Lucy Williams

Birmingham City Council Nominated Trustees Cllr Sir Albert Bore Cllr Alex Yip

Player Nominated Trustees Elspeth Dutch Helen Edgar

Additional Player Representative Margaret Cookhorn

Hon Secretary to the Trustees Mark Devin

CBSO DEVELOPMENT TRUSTChair Chris Loughran dl

Trustees Charles Barwell obe Gordon Campbell Wally Francis John Osborn cbe David Pett

Hon Secretary to the Trustees John Bartlett

CAMPAIGN BOARDChair David Burbidge cbe, dl Susan Foster Peter How Jamie Justham Her Honour Frances Kirkham cbe Chris Loughran dl John Osborn cbe

Honorary Medical Advisors:

Dr Rod MacRorie. Association of Medical Advisors to British Orchestras/BAPAM

Professor Sir Keith Porter. Consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham

PLAYERS’ COMMITTEEChair Jo Patton Vice Chair Mark Phillips Richard Watkin Andy Herbert Kirsty Lovie Colette Overdijk Heather Bradshaw Matthew Hardy* Recipients of the CBSO Long Service Award † Part-time employee # Volunteer

MANAGEMENTChief Executive Stephen Maddock obe*PA to Chief Executive Niki Longhurst*†

Head of Orchestra Management (Maternity Cover) Adrian RutterOrchestra Manager Claire Dersley*Assistant Orchestra Manager Alan JohnsonPlatform Manager Peter Harris*Assistant Platform Manager Robert Howard Librarian Jack Lovell-Huckle Co-Librarian William Lucas

Head of Artistic Planning Anna MelvillePlanning & Tours Manager Hannah MuddimanProject Manager Claire GreenwoodAssistant Planning Manager Maddi Belsey-Day

Director of Learning and Engagement Lucy GalliardLearning & Participation Manager Katie LucasCommunity Projects Officer Adele FranghiadiYouth Ensembles Officer Rebecca NicholasSchools Officer Carolyn Burton Chorus Manager Poppy Howarth Children’s & Youth Chorus Officer Ella McNameeResearch Assistant Adam Nagel*†

Marketing Consultant Katy Raines Director of Marketing and Communications Gareth Beedie Interim Head of Marketing Maria HowesCRM and Insight Manager Melanie Ryan*†Publications Manager Jane Denton†Digital Content Producer Hannah Blake-Fathers Marketing Volunteer Christine Midgley*#

Director of Development Simon FaircloughHead of Philanthropy Francesca Spickernell Membership & Appeals Manager Eve Vines†Events & Relationship Management Executive Megan BradshawDevelopment Operations Officer Melanie AdeyDevelopment Administrator Bethan McKnight† Trust Fundraiser Fiona Fox

Director of Finance Annmarie WallisFinance Manager Dawn DohertyPayroll Officer Lindsey Bhagania†Assistant Accountant Graham IrvingFinance Assistant (Cost) Susan PriceHR Manager Hollie DunsterCBSO Centre Manager Niki Longhurst*†Technical and Facilities Supervisor Tomoyuki MatsuoAssistant CBSO Centre Manager Peter Clarke*Receptionist Sev Kucukogullari†

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