st mary's cathedral festival lunchtime recitals week 2

There will be a retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music.

Lunchtime

Recitals at

St Marys Cathedral

5 to 10 August 2013

1.10pm


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Monday 5 August, 1.10pm

CincoSax

Neil Pennock

Ollie Copeland

Jamie Semark

Programme

Arr Pennock: Theme from 'New York, New York'

Arr Sylvester: Get Happy

Arr Gould: My Funny Valentine

Arr Pennock: Over The Rainbow

Arr Sylvester: Autumn Leaves

Arr Copeland: Nimrod

Arr Pennock: Fly Me To The Moon

Arr Pennock: Send In The Clowns

Nestico: Fairplay

This is the seventh year that Neil will be performing at St Mary's as

part of the Festival and the second year that CincoSax has

performed. The group perform an eclectic mix of music, most of

which is specifically arranged for the group by its members.

Neil Pennock is a professional musician and educator originally

from Scarborough but now based in Hertfordshire. His work

centres around encouraging and supporting 16-18 year old musicians

as they embark on their careers in music and their progression onto

studying music at either conservatoire or university. Neil has

performed extensively in the UK and overseas including tours to

Canada, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Chile.

Ollie Copeland is a multi-instrumentalist (bass, sax, piano, clarinet

and guitar) and in the past year has performed across London as a

session musician and in theatres for a variety of shows. His

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aspirations to make it into the music business are clear, as is his

determination to work hard to perfect his skills as both a performer

and teacher.

Jamie Semark has performed at St Mary's in the previous two

years in both clarinet and saxophone groups. He has been working

in theatre pits since the age of 15 as a woodwind multi-

instrumentalist and has performed in chamber ensembles across the

UK.

Cathedral Meditations by Candlelight August 12 & 19 2200 (1hr) 10.00 (8.00)

Duprs Le Chemin de la croix (Aug 12) with organist Duncan Ferguson followed by Couperins Leons de tnbres (Aug 19) with sopranos Susan Hamilton and Emma Versteeg. End a busy Festival

day in the still beauty of the Cathedral.

Cathedral Choristers in Concert August 20 1500 (1hr) 8.00 (5.00)

The critically-acclaimed Choristers of St Marys Cathedral present a programme of choral, secular and instrumental music. You will have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than

this (International Record Review).

Celebrity Organ Recitals Sundays August 11, 18 and 25, 1645 (1hr) Free

Three afternoon recitals on St Marys magnificent Father Willis organ, with Duncan Ferguson (11th August), Tim Byram-Wigfield

(18th August) and Donald Hunt (25th August).

Cathedral Tours - Free

Every Tuesday at 10am and Thursday at 2.15pm (45 mins).

Meet at the West Door of the Cathedral.


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Tuesday 6 August, 1.10pm

Lunchtime Jazz @ St Mary's

Neil Pennock sax

Ollie Copeland bass

Phil Short guitar

Anna Lowry vocals

Programme

I Got Rhythm

Misty

Autumn Leaves

Summertime Embraceable You

Fly Me To The Moon

I Know Why

Here's That Rainy Day

At Last

The Lady Is A Tramp

This promises to be an exciting event, bringing jazz to St Mary's as

part of the Festival and featuring some talented musicians from

Hertfordshire.

Neil Pennock is a professional musician, Musical Director and

educator originally from Scarborough but now based in

Hertfordshire. His work centres around encouraging and

supporting 16-18 year old musicians as they embark on their

careers in music and their progression onto studying music at

either conservatoire or university. Neil has performed extensively

in the UK and overseas including tours to Canada, Ireland, Spain,

Germany, Austria, Belgium and Chile.

Ollie Copeland is a multi-instrumentalist (bass, sax, piano,

clarinet and guitar) and in the past year has performed across


London as a session musician and in theatres for a variety of shows.

His aspirations to make it into the music business are clear, as is his

determination to work hard to perfect his skills as both a performer

and teacher.

Phil Short is a talented guitarist who, unlike most young guitarists,

enjoys performing across a range of genres from rock to musical

theatre to jazz. That range of skills has been put to good use in the

last year when he has performed in the band of a London

pantomime, for a London-based pop singer and a number of jazz gigs

locally and nationally.

Anna Lowry is making a name for herself as a singer with a superb

voice and unique approach to performance. As well as a keen jazz

singer, Anna is involved in the organisation Clockworks under the management of Tom Prior where she is developing her talents as a

pop singer on the London scene.

Bach before Bed Aug 21-24 22:30 (45mins)

10.00 (8.00)

Following last years highly successful before breakfast series, John Bryden returns at the keys of the

Cathedrals Steinway for the complete Book II of J.S. Bachs Well-Tempered Clavier spread over four evenings.

Luxuriate in Bachs sublime harmonies - with hot chocolate beforehand.


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Wednesday 7 August, 1.10pm

PHILOMUSICA of EDINBURGH

Programme

Vivaldi Concerto for two trumpets

Ruari Wilson and Pamela Brown trumpets

Michael Garrett Galla Water (arr. for soprano and string orchestra)

Ishbel Maltman soprano

Glazunov Idyll for horn and strings

Neil Mantle horn

Rheinberger Cantilena from Organ Sonata No. 11

(arr for trumpet and strings) Ruari Wilson trumpet

Arthur Butterworth Romanza for horn and strings

Neil Mantle horn

Michael Garrett Listening for soprano and string orchestra (words by

John Freeman)

Ishbel Maltman soprano

Leroy Anderson Bugler's Holiday

David Hume MBE (1937-1999) founded the orchestra in 1976 primarily

to give his pupils, and other young musicians of a high calibre, the

opportunity of playing in a small chamber orchestra. Philomusica of

Edinburgh has toured throughout Britain, performed at the Edinburgh

Festival Fringe each year, and has played for many choral societies in

Edinburgh and elsewhere, and performed in charity concerts and concerts

for children.

The orchestra's director since 1999 is Lawrence Dunn. He studied with

David Hume and joined the orchestra in 1978, performing as a soloist, and

for many years as principal second violin.

Lawrence Dunn studied violin with David Hume in Edinburgh and

Malcolm Layfield in Manchester. He gives regular solo and chamber

recitals during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and throughout Scotland on

both modern and baroque instruments. As a freelance player he has

performed with various orchestras including the Scottish Baroque Players,

City of Glasgow Symphony Orchestra and Newcastle Baroque. He has


been leader of the Edinburgh Light Orchestra since 1999 and is Director of

Philomusica of Edinburgh. He is a founder member of Gladstone's Bag - a

group specialising in Victorian popular music, and TV and radio signature

tunes, and providing live music for silent films. He also works outside the

field of classical music, having performed regularly as a folk singer when a

student, taken part in Celtic Connections, and toured and recorded with

the band "The Pearlfishers". He also recently appeared on the BBC

History of Scotland series, acting the part of a pictish druid. For the last

two years he has been arranging and performing music with silent films in

Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bo'ness. Michael Garrett was born in Leicestershire in 1944 and has been

composing and performing as a pianist since the age of 12. and his works

encompass a wide range of styles. He has written symphonic, chamber,

instrumental and vocal music and has contributed extensively to the

literature of the piano. Since his early compositional experiments in the

1960s, using serial techniques, he has traversed into a more cheerful and

melodic sphere incorporating Jazz and 'Rock' elements. From the 1980s he

has embraced a highly developed 'European' style with respect for

traditional forms. His main inspirations have evolved from nature and the

night. In summation: His art is that of music to enable one to forget.

Neil Mantle began conducting at the age of fifteen when he formed his

own Chamber Orchestra. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and

later at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, where he won the

conducting prize. Later he was awarded the second prize in the Leeds

Conducting Competition in 1986: this led to engagements with various

Scottish Orchestras. He has conducted for both BBC Radio 3 and Radio

Scotland with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and has appeared

frequently with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In 1994 he made his

debut with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. In the June 2008 Queen's

Birthday Honours List, he was awarded an MBE for services to Music in

Scotland.

Ishbel Maltman has been described as a World Class Soprano. Also she

is a harpist, pianist, composer and tutor. Ishbel is an exuberant, multi-

talented and first class musician described as a classic charismatic maestro who brings music alive. Ishbel has made many recordings.


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Thursday 8 August, 1.10pm

Dark Inventions Chamber Ensemble

Programme

J.S. Bach Prelude from Cello Suite No. 5

Martin Scheuregger From its present pathway (World Premiere)

Ravel Sonata for violin and cello

Berg Four pieces for clarinet and piano

Christopher Leedham But still sonorous (World Premiere)

Dark Inventions is a young chamber ensemble that highlights the links

between traditionally disparate music. Focused on combining music of

different periods, the ensemble curates projects that aim to entertain

and inspire audiences whilst introducing some hidden gems of past and

present repertoire.

The ensemble has recently recorded their debut EP, Hinterland

(released in Summer 2013). Three ensemble works are interspersed

with four haunting songs that pick up on and feed into the themes of

the collection. Dark Inventions has performed the Hinterland

programme in concert and are planning further performances in the

2013-14 season. In May 2013 they presented a theatrical version of

Schoenbergs Pierrot Lunaire as part of the York Spring Festival.

Members of Dark Inventions are: Neil Thomas Smith (flutes); Jonathan

Sage (clarinets); Rebecca Smith (violin); Samuel Thompson (piano);

Cecily Smith (cello); Christopher Leedham and Martin Scheuregger

(Artistic Directors).


Friday 9 August, 1.10pm

Sarah Park Piano

Taylor Maclennan Flute

Julian Scott Oboe

Calum Robertson Clarinet

Thomas Porter Bassoon

Programme Andr Caplet 1878-1925 Quintet for Piano and Winds

Allegro; Adagio; Scherzo; Finale Allegro

Sarah Park Born in Edinburgh, Sarah began her studies at St Marys Music School in 2005 with Margaret Wakeford. She has distinguished herself as a

soloist as well as chamber musician enjoying numerous successes at St Marys and competitions around Scotland receiving many prestigious awards. Over the

past few years, she has performed in venues around the UK including RNCM

concert hall, Queens Hall, Amaryllis Hall, and Steinway Hall, with future engagements. As well as solo performance, Sarah has collaborated with her

colleagues to work with Garry Walker on a number of occasions, and as part

of the Scottish International Piano Competition, was invited to perform in a

chamber music masterclass with Susan Tomes at the RCS. Sarah is generously

funded by the Donald Dewar Arts Awards, and will continue her studies with

Norma Fisher after a successful first year at the Royal College of Music.

Taylor MacLennan is in his fourth year at the Royal College of Music. Taylor

has also recently undertaken a period of study at the Sibelius Academy in

Helsinki. He began his musical training in 2005 at St Marys Music School in Edinburgh. In 2008 he was awarded the Directors Recital Prize of St Marys Music School and in 2010 won the British Flute Societys annual competition, which led to a performance in that years BFS International Convention. Taylor has collaborated with conductors Lionel Friend and Prof John Butt and has

performed under the baton of Bernard Haitink and Sir Roger Norrington.

Taylor has appeared at many of the UKs leading festivals, such as the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh Festival and the Rest is Noise Festival and has been involved

in numerous BBC broadcasts. He also plays the baroque flute and performs

with the Britten Pears Baroque Orchestra. For the past three years, Taylor has

been the recipient of a Donald Dewar Arts Award.


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Julian Scott graduated from St. Annes College, Oxford with a first class honours degree in Music in 2012. He was taught oboe from a young age by

Rosie Staniforth and Steven West in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Formerly

principal oboe in the National Childrens Orchestra of Scotland and the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, he joined the National Youth Orchestra of

Great Britain in 2008 and was principal oboe during the 2009/10 concert

series. Throughout his bachelors degree, Julian was taught by Christopher

Cowie, principal oboist in the London Philharmonia and the Academy of St.

Martin in the Fields. Julian is currently studying with Jonathan Kelly, principal

oboist in the Berlin Philharmonic, at the Hochschule fr Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin.

Calum Robertson completed his Bachelor of Music with Honours 1st class

(July 2011) and his Masters in Performance (November 2012) studying

clarinet with John Cushing at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He

freelances with The RSNO and Scottish Opera and has played with The Royal

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. He has taken part in the BBC Scottish

Symphony Orchestra apprenticeship scheme and played with The Young

Musicians Symphony Orchestra in London. In July 2011 he took part in the

London Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Academy. In January 2010 he

performed Carl Nielsens clarinet concerto with the BBC SSO as a joint scheme with the RCS. That same month he was interviewed and broadcast

James MacMillans From Galloway for BBC Radio 3. At the RCS he has won The Classical Concerto Competition, The Governors Woodwind Recital Prize and the Mary D. Adams Prize for chamber music. In The Edinburgh

Competition Festival he was winner of the Traves Half-Hour recital and the

concerto final. As organist he is Assistant at Old Saint Pauls Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, and is part of the organ and trumpet duo Pistons and Pipes with Tom Poulson.

Thomas Porter is a recent graduate of the RCS where he was awarded a

scholarship for the MMus Performance course studying bassoon with David

Hubbard (Principal RSNO). He also studies Contrabassoon with Alan

Warhurst (Orchestra of Scottish Opera). Before coming to Scotland Thomas

was a Graduate Music Assistant at Wells Cathedral School and he also read

Music and French for his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol.

As part of his degree Thomas spent a year studying in La Rochelle, France,

with bassoonist Roland Ferrand. While in France he developed a love for

cycling (as well as the bassoon) and this remains a firm favourite despite the

more challenging weather conditions here in Scotland.


Saturday 10 August, 1.10pm

Ben Kearsley Classical Guitar

Programme

Guiliani Allegro in A minor

Sor Study in B minor

Trad. Spanish Spanish Romance

Trad. Spanish Malaguena

M. Williams Classical Gas

A. Karas The Third Man

J.S.Bach: Bouree in E minor; Minuet in G

Music by the Beatles:

Yesterday (Lennon & McCartney);

Here comes the sun (Harrison)

Music by Tarrega: Gran Vals; Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Bolivian Music: Artega Ojos Azules; Ecos Celia

Robert Burns My love is like a red, red rose

A. York Sunburst

Ben Kearsley was born in Edinburgh and studied classical guitar

with Norman Quinney and Ian Smith before four years study at

the Birmingham Conservatoire with Simon Dinnigan.

From 1999 to 2001 Ben lived and gave concerts in Bolivia and

Spain. Ben has seven CDs on the Shore Sounds Music label and

one DVD of a concert he gave at the Ateneo in Madrid.

Today Ben will play music from his new CD - Classical Gas.

www.benkearsley.com


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The Choir of

St Marys Cathedral

A Tribute to Kenneth Leighton

Aug 22 2030 (1hr) 12.00 (10.00) (5.00 C)

The internationally-

renowned Choir of

St Marys Cathedral pays homage to

composer Kenneth

Leighton, who died 25

years ago this August.

Join the choir of humans who sing like angels (The Times) in a concert

celebrating this remarkable

composer.

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