Evening Concert Series - Spring 2007
All concerts at 7:30pm in
Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield
Free parking in Durham Road car park after 5.00pm.
TUESDAY 13 FEBRUARY
New Noise
Louis Andreissen: To Pauline
David Lang: The Anvil Chorus
Rachel Leach: Tourba
Dobrinka Tabakova: Frozen River Flows
Iannis Xenakis: Dmaathen
Adrian Lee: Peace for Vayu
Howard Skempton: Random Girl
George Nicholson: Bagatelles (World Première)
Simon Holt: Banshee
Janey Miller oboe
Joby Burgess percussion
TUESDAY 20 FEBRUARY
Olivier Messiaen: Le Merle Bleu (from Catalogue d'oiseaux)
Richard Barrett: Lost
Claude Debussy: Estampes
Tristan Murail: Territoires de l'oubli
Maurice Ravel: La Valse (transcribed for piano by the composer)
Roderick Chadwick piano
TUESDAY 27 FEBRUARY
Woodwind sound experimentations on Cretan music textures
A combination of musical elements from the East Mediterranean and Western contemporary worlds. Cretan music improvisations meet with contemporary Western interpretations; Western flutes and cane recorders meet with traditional Cretan instruments.
Nikos Katritzidakis cane recorders, Western flutes, voice
George Zacharioudakis Western flute, Cretan pipes, Cretan mandolin
Evagelos Tsagarakis laouto (Cretan lute), voice
TUESDAY 6 MARCH
Sheffield University New Music Ensemble
Varese: Octandre
Webern: Concerto for nine instruments
Plus new music by Sheffield composers
George Nicholson director
SUNDAY 11 MARCH
Sheffield University Chamber Orchestra
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Mozart: Piano concerto in F K459
Pat Moss: Scena for tenor, horn and strings
Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C
Anthony Bennett conductor
Rebecca Peniston piano
Martin Hindmarsh tenor
TUESDAY 20 MARCH
Crossing Continents: Cutting edge composition and performance exchange between British and Australian musicians.
Works by Roger Smalley (AUS), Jim Ledger (AUS), George Nicholson (UK), Dorothy Ker (UK) and Adrian Moore (UK)
Peter Cropper violin
Darryl Poulsen French horn
George Nicholson piano
Roger Smalley piano
Adrian Moore sound diffusion/electronics
TUESDAY 17 APRIL
Ensemble 360
A special concert to welcome the university's new Ensemble in Residence
Beethoven: Serenade for flute, violin and viola
Poulenc: Sextet for winds and piano
Dohnyani: Sextet
Naomi Atherton horn
Marie Bittloch cello
Sara Bittloch violin
Guy Eshed flute
Donald Grant violin
Tim Horton piano
Benjamin Hudson bassoon
Matthew Hunt clarinet
Martin Saving viola
Adrian Wilson oboe
SUNDAY 22 APRIL
Sheffield University Wind Orchestra presents a Grand Celebration of the world of wind music in a special collaboration with the symphonic wind orchestras from the Universities of Manchester and Leeds.
Programme to include the world première of In Nostro Tempo, a major new commission for winds from the international composer Charles Camilleri in celebration of his 75th birthday year.
Each orchestra will play individually, combining to perform David Bedford´s amazing tour de force Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves and the grand finale of Bill Connors´ Tales aud dem Vood Viennoise.
Anthony Houghton conductor (Sheffield)
Philip Robinson conductor (Manchester)
Clare Bennett conductor (Leeds)
TUESDAY 24 APRIL
Sharing Music – Sharing Lives
In this culturally diverse and musically engaging event, Sheffield-based Asylum Seekers from all over the world share their music and their experiences of their journey from the known to the unknown. Proceeds from the concert will go to the charity Assist, which supports destitute asylum seekers in this region.
TUESDAY 1 MAY
Jurgen Brauninger: DdD (World Première)
Frank Lyons: Dazed by the Haze
Michael Alcorn: Crossing the Threshold
Scott Wilson: Flame
Ed Bennett: String Factory
Darragh Morgan violin and electronics
TUESDAY 8 MAY
A programme presenting highlights from the one of the most important song books in the English lute song repertoire, A Musical Banquet by Robert Dowland, son of John Dowland. English Lute songs, French Airs de cour and Spanish and Italian songs (including Caccini´s great Amarilli mia bella) will be interspersed with lute solos by John Dowland.
Catherine King voice
Jacob Heringman lute
SUNDAY 13 MAY
Sheffield University Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Hamlet – Fantasy Overture Op 67
Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26
Stravinsky: Ode
Honegger: Symphony No 3 (Liturgique)
Chris Brain solo violin
George Nicholson conductor
TUESDAY 15 MAY
Carducci Quartet and Matthew Schellhorn
Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 50 No 6
Ian Wilson: Limena
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
Matthew Schellhorn piano
Matthew Denton violin
Michelle Fleming violin
Eoin Schmidt-Martin viola
Emma Denton cello
MONDAY 21 May
Rivoli String Quartet
7.30pm, Firth Hall
Programme to include:
Haydn: Op71 no2
Schulhoff: String Quartet no.1
Schubert: Quartettsatz
Brahms: Op51 no2 in A minor
Free Admission
MONDAY 4th June
Special Evening Concert
7:30pm, St. Johns Church, 5 Ranmoor Park Road, Sheffield
Internationally-renowned ensemble Lontano present a concert of new music featuring works by Dorothy Ker, Laurence Crane and Martin Butler.
Dorothy Ker: solo for cello
Laurence Crane: Estonia (alto/bass fl, cl, vln, cello)
Dorothy Ker: water mountain (cl, vln, cello)
Dorothy Ker: diffracted terrains:quintet (fl,cl,vln,vla,cello)
Martin Butler: Bluegrass Variations (solo violin)
Dorothy Ker: […and…1] (solo clarinet)
Odaline de la Martinez director
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