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Music in St Andrews
January–June 2015
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/music
Welcome & Contents
Introduction
Welcome to the second issue of Music in St Andrews: we know from the
positive feedback to last semester’s season brochure that many of you
have enjoyed having the wide range of musical events taking place in
St Andrews presented in this new way, and this semester’s offering is,
if anything, even more varied. Highlights will include the visit of Dutch
organ improvisation virtuoso, Sietze de Vries and the launch of our
very own CD label with a special concert by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century
(© Violet Shears)
music will be a particular focus of the early part of the year, with
our inaugural New Music Week in January and a chance to immerse
yourself for a day in the wonderful music of Olivier Messiaen in February. In April, meanwhile, we present possibly the
largest concert ever mounted in St Andrews: Elgar’s The Apostles, featuring more than 250 performers from town and
University and some of Scotland’s finest soloists. In June, the renamed Byre Opera presents its first production since the
theatre’s re-opening: Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris. This is just one of the many events we will present in the Byre, which now
benefits from a brand new Steinway piano and a state-of-the-art system ensuring optimum acoustics for music as well as
drama. Please come and join us to hear the difference, and look out for the new deals we are offering on food before and
after concerts in the recently relaunched café. We all look forward to welcoming you to this semester’s concerts and are
sure that there will be plenty for everyone to enjoy.
Michael Downes
Director of Music
Contents
St Andrews New Music Week. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6
Olivier Messiaen Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27
Orchestral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
Organ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
Masterclasses, Workshops and Research Seminars . . . . page 30
Chamber and Instrumental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
Music Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
Vocal and Choral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
Music Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
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Byre Box Office
From the start of the new semester, all advance ticket
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from 10:00-16:30, Monday to Saturday (01334 475000).
Tickets for all other events will be available on the door only.
Special Offer ticket deals
Music and Lunch tickets: For all Wednesday lunchtime
concerts in the Byre Theatre and St Leonard’s Chapel:
£6.95 for soup, sandwich or panini and concert ticket.
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Shine: celebrating the international year of light through science, art and music
Music and astronomy have much in common: both use a
medium consisting of waves to communicate. In music,
sound waves produced by voices, instruments and electronics
combine to form compositions. In astronomy, light waves have
travelled for up to billions of years before being captured by
telescopes and transformed into images and spectra. These in
turn tell us about the processes which shape planets, stars and
galaxies. For centuries, music and astronomy have also inspired
each other: Pythagoras developed his model of the Solar
System based on harmonic intervals, while many composers
have composed pieces inspired by celestial phenomena, of
which Gustav Holst’s ‘Planets’ Suite is just one example.
This link between music and astronomy will be celebrated
during the International Year of Light, 2015. Several events will
tell the tales of different aspects of light within science and
the arts. This semester, live music will feature
during the hugely popular Open Nights
at the University Observatory (see page
22). In addition, a new work has been
commissioned from local artist Tim
Fitzpatrick. Follow us on twitter
@shine_iyl2015 and visit our webpage
http://shine.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
to keep up to date with our activities!
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Concert Diary
SEMESTER
DATE
TIMECONCERT
DETAILS
Every Sunday during semester
11:00
University Service sung by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
page 21
Every Sunday during semester
16:00
Choral Evensong sung by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
page 21
Every Wednesday during semester
17:30
Choral Evensong sung by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
page 21
Every Thursday during semester
22:00
Compline sung by St Leonard’s Chapel Choir
page 21
Mondays during semester 17:00
(dates to be announced)
Choral service sung by Children’s Chapel Choir in
St Leonard’s Chapel
WEEK 1
Tuesday 27 January
13:10
Organ recital by George Barrett
page 28
NEW MUSIC WEEK
Wednesday 28 January
13:10
Lunch concert by Ensemble Thing
page 6
NEW MUSIC WEEK
Thursday 29 January
20:00
New Music Ensemble: Amplified
page 6
NEW MUSIC WEEK
Thursday 29 January
22:00
CD launch: Bede Williams, Jonathan Kemp page 7
Friday 30 January
19:30
G&S Society presents HMS Pinafore
page 21
NEW MUSIC WEEK
Friday 30 January
22:00
Choristi…candlelit
page 7
Saturday 31 January
14:30
G&S Society presents HMS Pinafore
page 21
Saturday 31 January
19:30
University of St Andrews G&S Society presents HMS Pinafore
page 21
NEW MUSIC WEEK
Sunday 1 February
11:00
University Service with new music
page 7
NEW MUSIC WEEK
Tuesday 3 February
13:10
Organ recital by Paul Stubbings: Letter from America
page 7
NEW MUSIC WEEK
Tuesday 3 February
14:30
Call for Scores/flute workshop with Richard Craig
page 8
NEW MUSIC WEEK
Wednesday 4 February
13:10
Lunch concert by Richard Craig page 8
NEW MUSIC WEEK
Wednesday 4 February
14:30
Research seminar by Alistair MacDonald
page 8
Friday 6 February
13:10
Music Society Lunchtime Concert
page 32
Saturday 7 February
19:30
Choristi Sanctiandree Spem in Alium
page 22
Sunday 8 February
14:00
Music in Museums – Scholarship Saxophone Quartet
page 16
WEEK 3
Tuesday 10 February
13:10
Organ recital by Alasdair Grant: Music for a Modernist Organ
page 28
WEEK 2
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Wednesday 11 February
10:30
Piano masterclass by Susan Tomes
page 30
Wednesday 11 February
13:10
Lunch concert by students from St Mary’s Music School
page 16
Wednesday 11 February
14:30
Research seminar by Susan Tomes
page 31
Wednesday 11 February 17:30
SCO Early Evening Recital by Su-a Lee (cello) and
Matt Hardy (percussion)
page 16
Thursday 12 February
19:30
St Andrews Concert Series presents the Maggini Quartet
page 16
Friday 13 February
13:10
Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
Friday 13 February
10:00-12:30
Maggini Quartet, Call for Scores Workshop
page 30
OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY
Saturday 14 February
11:30
Vocal Recital by Caroline Taylor, Chris Huggon,
Olivia Clark and Jenny Stewart
page 27
page 27
OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY
Saturday 14 February
14:00
La Nativité du Seigneur
OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY
Saturday 14 February
15:30
Lecture by Stephen Broad: Messiaen in 1930s Paris page 27
OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY
Saturday 14 February
16:30
Flute Recital by Aisling Agnew and Christopher Baxter
page 27
OLIVIER MESSIAEN DAY
Saturday 14 February
18:00
Quatuor pour la fin du temps page 27
HENRY FAIRS in Residence
Monday 16 February
12:00-14:00
Organ masterclass by Henry Fairs
page 29
HENRY FAIRS in Residence
Tuesday 17 February
13:10
Organ concert by Henry Fairs
page 29
Wednesday 18 February 13:10
Lunch concert by Robin Mason (cello) and
Clare Sutherland (piano) page 17
Friday 20 February
13:10
Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
WEEK 5
Tuesday 24 February
13:10
Organ concert by Andrew Macintosh
page 28
Wednesday 25 February
11:00-13:00
Woodwind masterclass by Alison Mitchell
page 30
Wednesday 25 February
13:10
Lunch jazz concert by Richard Michael
page 17
Wednesday 25 February
19:30
Scottish Chamber Orchestra – ‘Brahms Serenade’
page 9
Friday 27 February
13:10
Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
WEEK 4
Sunday 1 March
19:30
Piano and Harpsichord Evening
page 17
WEEK 6
Tuesday 3 March
13:10
Organ concert by Chris Bragg: Mr Muffat’s Remarkable Apparatus
page 28
SIETZE DE VRIES
in Residence
Wednesday 4 March
14:15-15:45
Organ improvisation masterclass by Sietze de Vries
page 29
Wednesday 4 March
13:10
Piano recital by Aleksander Kudajczyk:
Chopin – the Polish influences
page 17
page 31
Wednesday 4 March
14:30
Research seminar by Prof. Don Paterson
SIETZE DE VRIES Thursday 5 March
19:30
Sietze de Vries improvisation concert with Choristi Sanctiandree:
in Residence
Psalms from Geneva to Dundee
page 29
Friday 6 March
13:10
Music Society Lunchtime Concert
page 32
Friday 6 March
19:30
A Cappella Society competition
page 22
Saturday 7 March
10:00-17:00
Conducting workshops with Bede Williams and Gillian Craig
page 30
Saturday 7 March
18:00
Observatory open night with live music for brass by
Eddie McGuire
page 22
Saturday 7 March
20:00
The Seven Last Words Lent concert by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
and the Edinburgh Quartet
page 22
Sunday 8 March
14:00
Music in Museums, Scholarship Wind Quintet
page 18
Sunday 8 March
19:30
Heisenberg Ensemble concert
page 9
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Concert Diary
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WEEK 7
Tuesday 10 March
13:10
Organ concert by Gijs Boelen
Wednesday 11 March
13:10
Lunch concert for Bach’s birthday by Hilary Michael and
Tom Wilkinson
Thursday 12 March
19:30
St Andrews Concert Series presents Chloë Hanslip (violin) and
Danny Driver (piano)
page 18
Friday 13 March
page 28
page 18
13:10
Music Society Lunchtime Concert
page 10
WEEK 8
HOLY WEEK Monday 30 March to
Friday 3 April inclusive
22:00
Compline sung by local choirs
page 21
Tuesday 31 March
13:10
Organ concert by Hannah Gibson
page 28
Wednesday 1 April
13:10
Lunch concert by Jessica Wyatt and Douglas Holligan
page 18
Wednesday 1 April
14:30
Research seminar by Bede Williams
page 31
Friday 3 April
13:10
Music Society Lunchtime Concert
page 32
WEEK 9
Tuesday 7 April
13:10
Organ concert by Tom Wilkinson: Two against Three
page 28
Tuesday 7 April
19:30
MusSoc's Mission Impossible
page 19
Wednesday 8 April
13:10
Thursday 9 April
19:30
Lunch concert by Music Centre scholarship holders
St Andrews Concert Series presents the
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
page 19
Friday 10 April
13:10
page 19
Music Society Lunchtime Concert
page 32
Friday 10 April
19:30
Sunday 12 April
14:00
Sunday 12 April
19:30
University Madrigal Group: Oriana
Music in Museums:
Hetty Buchanan Scholarship String Quartet
Launch of Sanctiandree CD label:
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet
page 23
page 19
WEEK 10
Tuesday 14 April
13:10
Organ concert by Rufus Broderson
page 28
Tuesday 14 April
19:30
Music Society Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert
page 10
Wednesday 15 April
11:00-13:00
Viola masterclass by Jane Atkins
page 30
Wednesday 15 April
13:10
Lunch concert by Music Centre scholarship holders
page 19
Wednesday 15 April
14:30
Research seminar by Dr Ines Jentzsch
page 31
Wednesday 15 April
19:30
Thursday 16 April
19:30
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Mozart and the Horn
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra with
Tom Wilkinson, organ
page 10
Friday 17 April
13:10
Music Society Lunchtime Concert page 32
Friday 17 April
Saturday 18 April
19:30
10:00-15:00
G&S Society presents Patience
Study day on J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor
page 24
page 31
Saturday 18 April
14:30
G&S Society presents Patience
page 24
Saturday 18 April
17:00
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir alumni Evensong
page 21
Saturday 18 April
19:30
G&S Society presents Patience
page 24
Sunday 19 April
19:30
Piano and harpsichord evening
page 20
page 23
page 11
WEEK 11
Tuesday 21 April
13:10
Organ concert by Prof. David Smith
page 28
Tuesday 21 April
19:30
St Andrews Baroque Orchestra
page 11
Wednesday 22 April
13:10
Lunch concert by Sirocco Winds (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Thursday 23 April
19:30
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir and St Andrews Chamber Orchestra:
Bach: His Inspirations, His Credo
page 20
Music Society Lunchtime Concert
page 24
Friday 24 April
19:30
Sunday 26 April
19:30
Monday 27 April
19:30
POST-SEMESTER
Thursday 7 May
19:30
Music Society: Spring into Song
St Andrews Chorus, Choristi Sanctiandree and
the Heisenberg Ensemble present Elgar’s The Apostles
St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra with
Matt Hardy (percussion) St Andrews Concert Series presents Katherine Bryan (flute) and
Scott Mitchell (piano)
page 24
Friday 8 May
09:00-12:00
Flute masterclass by Katherine Bryan
page 31
Friday 8 May
19:30
Tom Wilkinson performs J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations page 20
Friday 24 April
13:10
page 24
page 25
page 11
page 20
Sunday 17 May
15:00
St Andrews Renaissance Singers
page 26
CON ANIMA in Residence Friday 29 May
18:00
Choral Evensong
page 26
with PAUL MEALOR
CON ANIMA in Residence Saturday 30 May
19:00
Concert: The British Bards
page 26
with PAUL MEALOR
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Saturday 13 June
19:30
Concert by Ars Eloquentiae:
in Residence
Concerted Perspectives, Adventures in Concerto Form
page 12
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Monday 15 June
19:00
Byre Opera presents Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris page 13
in Residence
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Tuesday 16 June
19:30
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir, Ars Eloquentiae and
in Residence
the Fitzwilliam String Quartet page 12
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Wednesday 17 June
19:00
Byre Opera presents Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris page 13
in Residence
ARS ELOQUENTIAE Thursday 18 June
19:00
Byre Opera presents Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris page 13
in Residence
(© Oli Walker)
Thursday 25 June
17:30
Graduation Week concert by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
page 26
(© Tim Poirson)
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St Andrews New Music Week
The University Music Centre presents a week of new music designed to challenge, provoke and entertain.
28 January-4 February
Byre Theatre – foyer
Installation: '360° Sunset' Wednesday 28 January
Byre Theatre
– Lawrence Levy Studio, 13:10
Ensemble Thing
Lunch Concert
Thursday 29 January
Byre Theatre, 20:00
Amplified
St Andrews New Music Ensemble
St Andrews Fusion
Bede Williams and
Jonathan Kemp, directors
Angharad Rowlands, soprano
'360° Sunset' is an audiovisual
collaborative piece that scrutinises
the ‘convulsive beauty’ of light when
propagated through silica based
aerogel. The visual artist Nedyalka
Panova investigates this phenomenon
as part of her work in the University’s
Synthetic Optics Group (funded by
EPSRC IAA). The music for the video
is from Nedyalka's collaboration with
musicians Alistair MacDonald (Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland) and Bede
Williams. Part of the International Year of
Light. Ensemble Thing
Glasgow-based new music band
Ensemble Thing present a performance
of John de Simone’s Independence;
an examination of musical, cultural
and national identity in Scotland
from the perspective of its composer,
mixing musical genres, spoken word,
electronics and Ensemble Thing’s
virtuoso musicianship.
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
www.ensemblething.com
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Bede Williams leads the University’s
New Music Ensemble in a programme
of driving amplified post-minimalist
classics including music by Matthew
Hindson, Louis Andriessen, and Steve
Martland’s anarchic Dance Works.
Tickets: £5, £2 (students),
FREE to Music Centre members
Thursday 29 January
Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 22:00
Sunday 1 February
St Salvator’s Chapel, 11:00
Bede Williams, trumpet
Jonathan Kemp, live electronics
University Service
St Salvator's Chapel Choir (© Peter Adamson)
Bede Williams
Jonathan Kemp
Bede Williams and Jonathan Kemp launch their new CD ‘Crystallise’, featuring
ambient tracks for trumpet and electronics by Jonathan Harvey and Michael
Clarke, with a late-night session in the Byre Studio.
Tickets: FREE (including glass of wine), CDs on sale for special price of £5.
All proceeds to Project Zambia.
Friday 30 January
St Leonard’s Chapel, 22:00
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir sing new music by
James MacMillan during the weekly
University Service, led by University
Chaplain, the Rev Dr Donald MacEwan.
Tuesday 3 February
St Salvator’s Chapel, 13:10
Letter from America
Choristi…candlelit
Tom Wilkinson, director
This sixteen-piece chamber choir,
drawn from members of St Salvator’s
Chapel Choir, performs music by
current St Andrews students and by
Paul Mealor.
Tickets: £5, £2 (students and
Music Centre members)
Paul Stubbings, Director of Music at St Mary’s
Music School and an organ graduate of the
Amsterdam Conservatory, performs 20th and
21st century music from the USA, including
William Bolcom’s swinging gospel preludes.
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
(© Oli Walker)
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St Andrews New Music Week
Richard Craig in Residence
Flautist Richard Craig is one of the most innovative and brilliant Scottish
musicians of his generation. Following studies at the RSAMD and the
Conservatoire de Strasbourg, his creative
approaches to the performance of new
music, including the many works he has
commissioned, have led him to perform at
venues including the South Bank in London and
Lincoln Center in New York. His debut recording,
‘INWARD’, was nominated for Scottish Album of
the Year in 2012 and he has broadcast with the
BBC, WDR Cologne, YLE Finland, Radio France,
Radio Nacional de España, Swedish Radio, ARTE
and Icelandic RUV.
Richard Craig (© Alex Craig)
Research Seminar
Dr Alistair MacDonald
Dr Alistair MacDonald (© Lucy Kendra)
Tuesday 3 February Byre Theatre
– Lawrence Levy Studio, 14:30
Wednesday 4 February
Byre Theatre
– Lawrence Levy Studio, 13:10
Call for Scores Workshop
Richard Craig, flute
Composer and Fellow of the Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland, Dr Alistair
MacDonald presents a research seminar
entitled “Designing an improvising
environment for acoustic instruments
and electronics.”
Richard works with composers and
flautists on pieces composed for flute
and electronics in response to the 2015
University of St Andrews Call for Scores.
Lunch Concert
Admission: FREE
Richard Craig demonstrates his
breathtaking virtuosity and incredible
array of techniques in music for flute,
bass flute and electronics by John Croft,
Bruno Maderna and Kaija Saariaho.
www.alistairmacdonald.co.uk
Admission: FREE
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
www.richardcraig.net
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Wednesday 4 February
Byre Theatre
– Lawrence Levy Studio, 14:30
Orchestral
Wednesday 25 February
Younger Hall, 19:30
Pre-Concert talk with Martin Suckling, 18:30
Pre-Concert Performance of a new work composed and performed by pupils
from Waid Academy, Bell Baxter High School and St Leonard’s School, 19:00
Brahms Serenade no. 1 in D, op 11
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Sunday 8 March
Younger Hall, 19:30
Haydn’s ‘Clock’
Heisenberg Ensemble
Gillian Craig, conductor
Nicholas Collon, conductor
Mark Stone, baritone
Heisenberg Ensemble (© Daniel K Oi)
Mark Stone (© Robert Workman)
Mahler arr Britten– What the Wild Flowers Tell Me
Suckling– Candlebird
Brahms
– Serenade No 1 in D op 11
The St Andrews-based Heisenberg Ensemble
perform a programme of music by Mozart and
Haydn, including the latter’s Symphony no. 101.
Tickets: £10, £5 (students). Advance tickets from
the Byre Box Office, 01334 475000.
www.heisenbergensemble.co.uk
Completed 20 years before his First Symphony, Brahms’ Serenade no. 1
represents the composer’s first essay in large-scale orchestral writing. It is
presented alongside the Scottish Premiere of Martin Suckling’s superbly
accomplished song cycle Candlebird, his musical response to words by
Don Paterson.
Tickets: £11-£22, £5 (students)
For information on subscriptions and school group bookings, please contact
the SCO on 0131 557 6802, [email protected]
www.sco.org.uk
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Orchestral
Friday 13 March
Younger Hall, 13:10
Grieg Piano Concerto
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra
Michael Downes, conductor
Maebh Martin, piano
University of St Andrews Music Society
Lunch Concert
Wednesday 15 April
Younger Hall, 19:30
Pre-concert talk by Richard Egarr at 18:30
Mozart and the Horn
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Richard Egarr, conductor
Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn
St Andrews’ ‘town and gown’
Maebh Martin
chamber orchestra warms up for its
tour of Northern Ireland later in the month with a performance
of Grieg’s wonderful Piano Concerto featuring soloist Maebh
Martin.
Admission: FREE
Tuesday 14 April
Younger Hall, 19:30
Spring Concert
University Music Society
Symphony Orchestra
Chris George, conductor
Stephanie Goh, viola
The Music Society’s Symphony
Music Society Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra performs two classics
of the 1920s. Music Centre Concerto Competition winner
Stephanie Goh performs Walton’s breakthough work, his Viola
Concerto of 1929, whilst the concert will also feature George
Gershwin’s riotous An American in Paris…taxi horns and all.
Tickets: £7, £4 (concessions and students)
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Alec Frank-Gemmil (© Thomas Ernst)
Weber
Mozart
Beethoven
– Symphony no. 1 in C
– Horn Concerto no. 2 in E flat K417
– Concert Rondo in E flat K371
– Symphony no. 8
BBC Radio 3 Young Generation Artist and SCO Principal Horn,
Alec Frank-Gemmill takes on the mantle of the greatest horn
player of the late 18th century, Joseph Leutgeb, as he performs
Mozart’s Horn Concerto no. 2, dedicated to his virtuoso
friend. This concert of grand Viennese classics culminates in
Beethoven’s humorous Eighth Symphony of 1812.
Tickets: £11 – £22, £5 (students)
available from the Byre Box Office, 01334 475000.
For information on subscriptions and school group bookings,
please contact the SCO on 0131 557 6802, [email protected]
www.sco.org.uk
Thursday 16 April
Holy Trinity Church, 19:30
Monday 27 April
Younger Hall, 19:30
Poulenc Organ Concerto
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra
StAFCO Spring Concert
Michael Downes and
Bede Williams, conductors
St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra
Gillian Craig, conductor
Matt Hardy, percussion
Tom Wilkinson, organ
University Organist Tom Wilkinson
performs Francis Poulenc’s Concerto
for Organ, Strings and Timpani,
the commission of exceptionally
Tom Wilkinson
colourful sewing machine fortune
heiress Winaretta Singer. Also on the programme is Groundswell
by Australian Paul Stanhope (Scottish Premiere), Delius’ Walk
to the Paradise Garden and Richard Strauss’ Suite for 13 wind
instruments op 4.
Claire Luxford, director
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St Andrews Baroque Orchestra
Join us for a performance in StAFCO's customary and
characteristic style, blending the more serious with the lighter.
Includes music by Haydn and Elgar, with special guest Matt
Hardy, newly appointed Principal Timpanist with the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra.
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Tuesday 21 April
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
StAFCO (© Peter Adamson)
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Tickets: £8, £5 (concessions), £1 (students).
Advance tickets available from the
Byre Box Office, 01334 475000.
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St Andrews’ baroque orchestra is one of the UK’s very few
community ensembles which deals with questions of
performance practice and the use of old instruments. In this
concert they will present Bach’s First Orchestral Suite alongside
music by Fasch, Telemann and Vivaldi.
Saturday 13 June
St Andrews Episcopal Church, 19:30
Tickets: £5, £4 (concessions), £1 (students),
FREE to Music Centre members
Concerted Perspectives:
Adventures in Concerto Form
M MU
Ars Eloquentiae
Leo Duarte, director
See page 12
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Ars Eloquentiae in Residence
Ars Eloquentiae (© Russell Gilmour)
The vibrant young London-based period performance ensemble Ars Eloquentiae, under the artistic leadership of
oboist Leo Duarte, take up residence in St Andrews to perform Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris with Byre Opera, a concert
in St Andrew’s Church exploring aspects of the concerto genre and a performance of the Credo from Bach’s Mass in
B minor with St Salvator’s Chapel Choir.
Saturday 13 June
St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 19:30
Tuesday 16 June
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Concerted Perspectives:
Adventures in Concerto Form
Bach’s Credo
Ars Eloquentiae
Ars Eloquentiae perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no. 5
alongside music by Telemann and Venturini.
Tickets: £12, £8 (concessions),
£5 (students and Music Centre Members)
SPECIAL OFFER: Ticket holders for Iphigenie in Tauris can
purchase tickets for this event at a discount of 50%. Please
present your opera ticket on arrival.
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
Ars Eloquentiae
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Tom Wilkinson, director
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir and Ars Eloquentiae present a
performance of the Credo from Bach’s Mass in B minor.
Tickets: £10, £8 (concessions),
£5 (students and Music Centre members)
SPECIAL OFFER: Ticket holders for Iphigenie in Tauris can
purchase tickets for this event at a discount of 50%. Please
present your opera ticket on arrival.
www.stsalvatorschapelchoir.co.uk
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Byre Opera
Monday 15 June, 19:00
Wednesday 17 June, 19:00
Thursday 18 June, 19:00
Byre Theatre
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Iphigenie in Tauris
Following its successful productions of Britten
and Tchaikovsky in the Byre Theatre, the Music
Centre’s opera company presents Gluck’s
reforming masterpiece – the work that inspired
Mozart’s Idomeneo and Berlioz’s Trojans – in
a new translation by Julia Prest and students
on the ‘Translating French Opera’ module. The
Fitzwilliam String Quartet and Ars Eloquentiae
will provide a period-instrument orchestra,
led by Lucy Russell and conducted by Michael
Downes. Jane Pettegree’s production explores
the contemporary relevance of the opera’s
timeless themes: family, friendship and
national identity.
Tickets: £16, £12 (concessions and Music
Centre members), £6 (students and U26)
Advance tickets for Iphegenie en Tauride
available from the Byre Box Office,
01334 475000.
Special Offer: Opera ticket holders
can enjoy a two-course meal with a
glass of wine for just £12.95 prior to
the performance for which they have tickets.
Please book in advance at the Byre Box Office.
www.ars-eloquentiae.com
www.fitzwilliamquartet.org
byreopera
(© Oli Walker)
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Metropolitan Opera Performance Screenings
The Byre Theatre is delighted to host a season of opera screenings, broadcast live from
the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Byre Theatre, 17:55 except where stated
Tickets: £17, £15 (concessions), £8 (students)
Saturday 31 January
Jacques Offenbach
Les Contes D’Hoffmann
Cast
Conductor: Yves Abel
Olympia: Erin Morley
Antonia/Stella: Hibla Gerzmava
Giulietta: Christine Rice
Nicklausse: Kate Lindsey
Hoffmann: Vittorio Grigolo
Four Villains: Thomas Hampson
Production Team
Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Choreographer: Dou Dou Huang
Saturday 1 March
(Encore, ‘as-live’ screening)
Co-production with
Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Iolanta
Béla Bartók
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
Cast
Conductor: Pavel Smelkov
Iolanta: Anna Netrebko
Count Tristan Vaudemont: Piotr Beczala
Robert: Alexey Markov
René: Alexei Tanovitski
Ibn-Hakia: Elchin Azizov
Judith: Nadja Michael
Bluebeard: Mikhail Petrenko
Production Team
Production: Mariusz Trelinski
Set Designer: Boris Kudlicka
Costume Designer: Marek Adamski
Lighting Designer: Marc Heinz
Video Projection Designer: Bartek Macias
Choreographer: Tomasz Wygoda
Dramaturg: Piotr Gruszczynski
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The Metropolitan Opera House
Sunday 15 March
(Encore, ‘as-live’)
Gioachino Rossini
La Donna del Lago
Cast
Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Elena: Joyce DiDonato
Malcolm Groeme: Daniela Barcellona
Giacomo V: Juan Diego Flórez
Rodrigo di Dhu: John Osborn
Duglas d'Angus: Oren Gradus
Production Team
Production: Paul Curran
Set & Costume Designer: Kevin Knight
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Projection Designer: Driscoll Otto
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Saturday 25 April – at 17:30
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalliera Rusticana
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pagliacci
Cast
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Santuzza: Eva-Maria Westbroek
Turiddu: Marcelo Álvarez
Alfio: Željko Lucic
Nedda: Patricia Racette
Canio: Marcelo Álvarez
Tonio: George Gagnidze
Silvio: Lucas Meachem
Production Team
Production: David McVicar
Set Designer: Rae Smith
Costume Designer: Moritz Junge
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Choreographer: Andrew George
Vaudeville Consultant: Emil Wolk
The Byre Theatre (© Laurence Winram)
The Byre Theatre Restaur
ant and Bar is now open!! Along with our delicious hom
e baking, we also have various menus which are a
vailable to view on www.byretheatre.com Pre theatre lunches and dinn
ers are available in conjunction with theatre prod
uctions, for more informati
on on opening times, menus a
nd to make a reservation, contact the team on: Tel: 01334 468807 Email: restaurantbookings@
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Chamber and Instrumental
Sunday 8 February
MUSA, 14:00
Wednesday 11 February
Younger Hall, 17:30
University Music Centre
Scholarship Saxophone Quartet
Su-a Lee (cello)
and Matt Hardy (percussion)
Music in Museums
SCO Early Evening Recital
Admission: FREE
Tickets: £4-£9.
Advance tickets available from the
Byre Box Office, 01334 475000.
Wednesday 11 February
Byre Theatre, 13:10
Students from St Mary’s Music School
Lunch Concert
Su-a Lee (© Marco Borrgreve)
www.sco.org.uk
Thursday 12 February
Younger Hall, 19:30
The Maggini Quartet
St Andrews Concert Series
Some of Scotland’s most talented young
musicians from St Mary’s Music School in
Edinburgh perform chamber music by
Dvořák and Saint-Saëns.
Tickets: £2, FREE to Music Centre Members
The Maggini Quartet (© Melanie Strover)
www.st-marys-music-school.co.uk
Internationally renowned Grammy nominees, the Maggini Quartet, present a
programme of music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Alan Rawsthorne.
Tickets: £12, £11 (concessions), £3 (students), £1 (children).
www.maggini.net
www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
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Wednesday 18 February
Byre Theatre, 13:10
Sunday 1 March
Younger Hall
– Rehearsal Room, 19:30
Robin Mason (cello)
Clare Sutherland (piano)
Piano and Harpsichord
Evening
Music Centre Associate Tutor
Robin Mason performs a
programme of Latin-inspired
music by Poulenc, Granados and
Piazzolla.
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
Piano and harpsichord students
at the Music Centre perform in an
informal soirée.
Admission: FREE
(© Oli Walker)
Robin Mason
Wednesday 4 March
Younger Hall, 13:10
Wednesday 25 February
Byre Theatre, 13:10
The Wheels on the Bus
Chopin – the Polish influences
Aleksander Kudajczyk – piano
Richard Michael, jazz piano
Aleksander Kudajczyk
Richard Michael
Taking as his inspiration that well known ode The Wheels on the
Bus, Richard will improvise at the piano, in the styles of many of
the great jazz pianists and in those of any classical composers
suggested by the audience, in any key and tempo!
Tickets: £2, FREE to Music Centre members
www.richardmichaelsjazzschool.com
The story of Polish pianist Aleksander Kudajczyk, discovered
whilst working as a cleaner at the University of Glasgow,
captured the nation. Here, he performs music from his
fatherland in the form of Polonaises and Scherzos by Chopin.
Tickets: £2, FREE to Music Centre members
www.aleksanderkudajczyk.com
www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
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Chamber and Instrumental
Saturday 7 March
St Salvator’s Chapel, 20:00
Thursday 12 March
Younger Hall, 19:30
The Seven Last Words
Chloë Hanslip (violin) and Danny Driver (piano)
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
Edinburgh Quartet
St Andrews Concert Series
For more information, please see page 22
Sunday 8 March
MUSA, 14:00
University Music Centre
Scholarship Wind Quintet
Music in Museums
Admission: FREE
Since her BBC Proms debut
at the age of 15, Chloë
Hanslip has performed at
the most prestigious venues
in the world including the
Musikverein in Vienna and
Carnegie Hall in New York.
Her St Andrews recital
includes music by Poulenc,
MacMillan and Beethoven’s
‘Kreutzer’ Sonata.
Chloë Hanslip
(© Benjamin Ealovega) Danny Driver
(© Richard Haughton)
Tickets: £12, £11 (concessions), £3 (students), £1 (children)
www.chloehanslip.com
www.dannydriver.com
www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
Wednesday 11 March
St Leonard’s Chapel, 13:10
Bach’s Birthday
Hilary Michael, baroque violin
Tom Wilkinson, harpsichord
Wednesday 1 April
Byre Theatre, 13:10
A concert to mark
J.S. Bach’s 330th
birthday later this
month, during which
Hilary Michael and
Tom Wilkinson perform
sonatas for solo
violin, and violin and
harpsichord.
Jessica Wyatt and
Douglas Holligan
Jessica Wyatt and Douglas Holligan
perform a programme of rarely
heard music for viola and piano by
Rachmaninov and York Bowen.
Hilary Michael
Tickets: £2,
FREE for Music Centre members
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Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
www.jesswyatt.moonfruit.com
Jessica Wyatt
Douglas Holligan
Tuesday 7 April
Younger Hall, 19:30
Thursday 9 April
Younger Hall, 19:30
MusSoc's
Mission Impossible
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet
University Music Society
Concert Wind Band
Kerr Barrack, Danielle Harper,
Rebecca Anderson, conductors
Music Society Big BUSTA
Ryo Yanagida, conductor
St Andrews Concert Series
One of the world’s longest-established
string quartets and no strangers to
St Andrews, the Fitzwilliam Quartet
open our Strings in Spring weekend
with a programme of music by Purcell,
Nielsen and Beethoven.
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet (© Benjamin Harte)
£12, £11 (concessions),
£3 (students), £1 (children)
www.fitzwilliamquartet.org
www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
Concert Wind Band
Join Concert Wind Band & Big BUSTA on
their mission impossible! Including well
known themes such as The Pink Panther,
James Bond, The Incredibles and of
course Mission Impossible!
Sunday 12 April
MUSA, 14:00
Sunday 12 April
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Hetty Buchanan Scholarship
String Quartet
Gala launch of
Sanctiandree Records
Music in Museums
For more information, please see page 23
Tickets: £3/ £2 (students)
Wednesday 15 April
Byre Theatre, 13:10
Music Centre
scholarship holders
Wednesday 8 April
Byre Theatre, 13:10
Music Centre
scholarship holders
Lunch Concert
Scholarship String Quartet (© Peter Adamson)
The Hetty Buchanan Scholarship
Quartet perform Smetana’s Quartet
‘From My Life’.
Lunch Concert
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
Admission: FREE
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
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Chamber and Instrumental
Sunday 19 April
Younger Hall – Rehearsal Room, 19:30
Thursday 7 May
Byre Theatre, 19:30
Piano and Harpsichord Evening
Katherine Bryan (flute)
Scott Mitchell (piano)
Piano and harpsichord students at the
Music Centre perform in an informal
soirée.
Admission: FREE
Wednesday 22 April
Byre Theatre, 13:10
Sirocco Winds
Lunch Concert
St Andrews Concert Series
Former Juilliard student
Katherine Bryan was
Katherine Bryan Scott Mitchell
appointed Principal Flautist
of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at the age of just 21, a position she combines
with her international solo appearances. Her programme includes music by Martinů,
Pierné and François Borne’s virtuosic Carmen Fantasy.
Tickets: £12, £11 (concessions), £3 (students), £1 (children)
www.katherinebryan.com
www.saint-andrews.co.uk/smc
Friday 8 May
St Leonard’s Chapel, 19:30
Goldberg Variations
Sirocco Winds
Tom Wilkinson (harpsichord)
A lunch concert by Sirocco Winds, a
dynamic wind quintet comprising
Masters students and graduates from
the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
University Organist Tom Wilkinson presents the second
annual performance of J.S. Bach’s monumental Goldberg
Variations.
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
www.thomas-wilkinson.co.uk
Tickets: £5, £2 (students), FREE to Music Centre members
Tom Wilkinson (© Oli Walker)
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Vocal and Choral
Choral Music in the Liturgy
The University of St Andrews has a liturgical choral tradition stretching back to its
foundation in the 15th century. Under the leadership of University Organist Tom
Wilkinson and University Chaplain the Rev Dr Donald MacEwan, this tradition goes from
strength to strength.
Friday 30 January, 19:30
Saturday 31 January, 14:30
Saturday 31 January, 19:30
Boys' Brigade Hall,
Kinnessburn Road, St Andrews
H.M.S. Pinafore
Weekly Services
Special Services
Every Sunday during Semester
Every evening during Holy Week
(30 March – 3 April inclusive)
St Salvator’s Chapel, 11:00
University Service
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
St Leonard’s Chapel, 16:00
Choral Evensong
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
St Leonard’s Chapel, 22:00
Compline
Various local choirs Saturday 18 April
St Salvator’s Chapel, 17:00
Every Wednesday during Semester
St Salvator’s Chapel, 17:30
Choral Evensong
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
Choral Evensong
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir alumni
Friday 29 May
St Salvator’s Chapel, 18:00
Every Thursday during Semester
St Leonard’s Chapel, 22:00
Compline
St Leonard’s Chapel Choir
University of St Andrews
Gilbert and Sullivan Society
Choral Evensong
Con Anima, directed by Paul Mealor
For more information, please see
page 26
Join us as we sail the ocean blue with
a special semi-staged performance
of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic comic
opera H.M.S. Pinafore. This perennial and
uplifting classic explores the conflict
between love and duty as Josephine,
a captain's daughter, has to decide
between the socially advantageous
match to Sir Joseph Porter KCB, the First
Lord of the Admiralty, which her father
proposes for her, and her true love for
Ralph Rackstraw, a humble sailor on
board her father's ship.
Tickets: £7,
£5 (senior citizens/students/under 16s)
http://gilbertandsullivan.wix.com/
standrews
St Salvator's Chapel Choir (© Peter Adamson)
(© Oli Walker)
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Vocal and Choral
Friday 30 January
St Leonard’s Chapel, 22:00
Saturday 7 March
St Salvator’s Chapel, 20:00
Choristi…Candlelit
Seven Last Words
For more information, please see page 7
Edinburgh Quartet
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
Tom Wilkinson, director
Saturday 7 February
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
A concert for Lent featuring Haydn’s
Seven Last Words of Christ performed by
one of the UK’s leading string quartets as
well as penitential music by Rheinberger,
Brahms and James MacMillan’s 2009
setting of words by St Augustine of
Hippo, Who are these Angels?
Spem in Alium
Choristi Sanctiandree and friends perform
a programme of Renaissance English music
culminating in Thomas Tallis’ spectacular 40part motet Spem in Alium.
Tickets: £10, £8 (concessions), £5 (students),
FREE for Music Centre members
Friday 6 March
Younger Hall, 19:30
Scottish A Cappella Championship
Accidentals
After a successful inaugural year, the Scottish
A Cappella Championship returns once
again with groups from all over the country
competing for the title of Scotland's national a
cappella champions.
Tickets: £8, £6 (concessions)
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Tickets: £10,
£8 (concessions), £5 (students),
FREE for Music Centre members
www.stsalvatorschapelchoir.co.uk
www.edinburghquartet.com
…why not pop in…
to the Open Night at St Andrews Observatory on the way? From
18:00 and subject to good weather, visitors will be able to look
through the telescopes at the observatory to explore the night
sky. Astronomers of the School of Physics and Astronomy will be
on hand to offer assistance and
answer questions. And for the
first time, the Open Night will
feature live astronomy-inspired
brass music by Eddie McGuire,
as part of Shine, a celebration of
the connection between Music
and Light for the International
Year of Light, 2015.
University Observatory (© Jan Boelsche)
Friday 10 April
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Sunday 12 April
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Oriana
Sanctiandree – the gala launch
University of St Andrews Madrigal Group
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Tom Wilkinson, director
The University of St Andrews Music Centre launches
its new internationally-distributed CD label with a gala
concert featuring repertoire by Purcell and Pelham
Humfrey drawn from the new CD by St Salvator’s Chapel
Henry Purcell
Choir and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. The repertoire
also includes an 18th century anthem by William Jackson
of Exeter discovered in the University Library’s Special Collections.
The new CD will be available to purchase for a discounted price at this event.
Madrigal Group
The University’s long-established and
nationally admired Madrigal Group present a
concert profiling the English madrigalists and
their musical legacy.
Admission: FREE
www.stsalvatorschapel.co.uk
(Main photo © Ryo Yanagida)
Tickets: £5, £2 (students)
www.madstagroup.weebly.com
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Vocal and Choral
Friday 17 April, 19:30
Saturday 18 April, 14:30
Saturday 18 April, 19:30 Byre Theatre
Friday 24 April
Younger Hall, 13:10
Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs
St Andrews New Music Ensemble
Patience
University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society
The Gilbert and Sullivan Society are thrilled to be returning to
the Byre Theatre for the first time since its production of Princess
Ida in 2012 with a satire on the Aesthetic and pre-Raphaelite
movements. Follow Patience as she learns the true meaning
of love in a world obsessed by celebrity and false pretences.
This production promises a fresh and innovative take on what
is often considered to be one of Gilbert's finest and funniest
libretti combined with one of Sullivan's most charming scores.
Ticket Price: TBC (please e-mail [email protected] or
visit http://gilbertandsullivan.wix.com/standrews
for latest details).
Bede Williams, conductor
Tania Holland Williams, mezzo-soprano
University Music Society and
University Music Centre Lunch Concert
The University of St Andrews’ New Music
Ensemble and mezzo-soprano Tania
Holland Williams perform Luciano Berio’s
Tania Holland Williams
beautiful Folk Songs, composed in 1964
to celebrate the voice of legendary
American singer Cathy Berberian. The concert will also include
the Scottish premiere of Simon Mawhinney’s The Pinkbow at
Backnamullagh.
Admission: FREE
Thursday 23 April
Younger Hall, 19:30
Bach: His Inspirations,
His Credo
Friday 24 April
19:30, St Andrews Town Hall
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra
Tom Wilkinson, conductor
Spring into Song
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra and
St Salvator's Chapel Choir perform music
that inspired J.S. Bach, culminating in
the Credo of his Mass in B Minor.
University of St Andrews Music Society Singers
Ruth Shaw, director
Ukelear Fusion
J S Bach
Tickets: £10, £8 (concessions), £5 (students), FREE to Music
Centre members. Advance tickets available from the Byre Box
Office, 01334 475000.
www.stsalvatorschapelchoir.co.uk
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Join the Society Singers and Ukelear Fusion for an evening filled
with everything from pop to show tunes and from slow ballads
to rock. There really is something for everyone!
Tickets: £3/ £2 (students)
Sunday 26 April Younger Hall, 19:30
Saturday 2 May
Various venues including Scores Hotel
Elgar: The Apostles
St Andrews Chorus
Choristi Sanctiandree
Heisenberg Ensemble
The 2nd Annual Global
Gilbert and Sullivan Day
University of St Andrews
Gilbert and Sullivan Society
Wilma McDougall – Blessed Virgin/Angel
Tania Holland Williams – Mary Magdalene
Jamie McDougall – St John
Jonathan May – St Peter
Brian Bannatyne-Scott – Judas
Ben McAteer – Jesus
Following the immense success of the
Global Gilbert and Sullivan Day concept
around the world, we are thrilled to be
organising flagship events for this year's
celebrations. This global celebration
was the idea of former Gilbert and
Sullivan Society president Laurie Slavin
and from its initial small beginnings
has now blossomed into a major
international event in the Gilbert and
Sullivan calendar. Further events will be
announced soon.
Michael Downes, conductor
Elgar’s 1904 oratorio, The Apostles – the
successor to The Dream of Gerontius,
which the St Andrews Chorus performed
in 2011 – reveals the influence of
Wagner in its scale and dramaturgy. This
performance by Scotland’s largest choral
society and a start cast of soloists offers a
rare chance to hear some of Elgar’s most
heartfelt and stirring music.
Tickets: £12, £10 (concessions),
£3 (students). Advance tickets available
from the Byre box office, 01334 475000.
(© Peter Adamson)
Ticket Price: TBC (please e-mail
[email protected] or visit
http://gilbertandsullivan.wix.com/
standrews
for latest details).
www.standrewschorus.weebly.com
www.heisenbergensemble.co.uk
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Vocal and Choral
Sunday 17 May
St Salvator’s Chapel, 15:00
Tuesday 16 June
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Ascendens Christus
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
Ars Eloquentiae
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
St Andrews Renaissance Singers
Bede Williams, director
Tom Wilkinson, director
Please see page 12 for further information.
Thursday 25 June St Salvator’s Chapel, 17:30
St Salvator’s Chapel Choir
St Andrews Renaissance Singers (© David Stothard)
Tom Wilkinson, director
The St Andrews Renaissance Singers present a programme
including Palestrina’s Missa Brevis and Victoria’s Ascendens
Christus.
St Salvator’s Chapel choir performs Bach’s motet Komm, Jesu
komm BWV 229 and music by Byrd and Palestrina during the
traditional Graduation Week concert.
Admission: FREE
Admission: FREE
www.stsalvatorschapelchoir.co.uk
Con Anima in Residence
Paul Mealor, director
Under the direction of Paul Mealor, the Aberdeenbased chamber choir Con Anima has developed an
enviable reputation for its performances of repertoire
ranging from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary
sacred works by Mealor, Lauridson and others.
Friday 29 May
St Salvator’s Chapel, 18:00
Choral Evensong
Music by Orlando Gibbons
Saturday 30 May
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:00
Concert
The British Bards
Settings of poems by Shakespeare,
Blake and Burns by Vaughan-Williams,
John Tavener, Paul Mealor and others.
Admission: FREE, retiring collection
Con Anima
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www.conanima.org.uk
Paul Mealor (© Gillian Christie)
Olivier Messiaen Day (Saturday 14 February)
A day dedicated to one of the most important composers of the
twentieth century, Olivier Messiaen, whose evocative music,
characterised by its influences both oriental and ornithological will be
explored in programmes featuring song, woodwind and organ and
culminating in a performance of the moving Quartet for the End of Time.
Tickets: £5 for each event, £15 day ticket.
Advance tickets available from the Byre box office, 01334 475000.
Special Offer: Ticket holders for any Messiaen day event
can enjoy a delicious French lunch of Beef Burguignon or a
Provençale vegetarian dish with a glass of wine for
just £6.95. This will be served following the vocal
recital. Please book in advance at the Byre Box Office.
Lecture by Stephen Broad:
Messiaen in 1930s Paris
Recital for flute and piano by
Aisling Agnew and Christopher Baxter:
Byre Theatre, 11:30
La Jeune France contre Les Six
Vocal Recital
Caroline Taylor, soprano
Jenny Stewart, soprano
Olivia Clark, soprano
Chris Huggon, tenor
Maebh Martin, violin
Jakub Gutkowski, piano
Mairi Grewar, piano
Byre Theatre, 15:30 (lecture), 16:30 (recital)
Caroline Taylor
University vocal students Caroline Taylor, Chris Huggon, Jenny
Stewart and Olivia Clark present a programme of Messiaen’s
seldom-heard early vocal music including La Mort du Nombre
(1930) for two voices, violin and piano and the song cycle
Chants de terre et de ciel (1932).
Messiaen expert, Dr Stephen Broad of the
Aisling Agnew
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, explores
the combustible musical politics of 1930s Paris which saw the
rival factions of ‘La Jeune France’ (with whom Messiaen was
associated) and ‘Le Group des Six’ (of which Francis Poulenc
was a prominent member) establish radically different styles.
Virtuoso flautist Aisling Agnew then presents a programme
presenting both sides of this fascinating musical divide.
www.aislingagnew.com
www.christopherbaxterpiano.com
Byre Theatre, 18:00
Quartet for the End of Time
St Salvator’s Chapel, 14:00
The Artisan Trio
Jean Johnson, clarinet
La Nativité du Seigneur
Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps
was composed and premiered in 1941
Jean Johnson
while the composer was a Prisoner of War
at the Stalag VIII-A concentration camp
in Poland. This highly emotional work depicts eschatological
themes as found in the book of Revelation.
Tom Wilkinson, organ
University Organist, Tom Wilkinson
performs Messiaen’s masterful
1935 cycle of nine meditations on
the birth of the Lord.
www.thomas-wilkinson.co.uk
Tom Wilkinson
www.artisantrio.org.uk
www.jean-johnson.com
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Organ
Recitals take place on the 1973 Gregor Hradetzky organ (IV/40)
in St Salvator’s Chapel and, where indicated, on the 1994 Walker
organ (II/9) in St Leonard’s Chapel.
Tuesdays at 13:10
Tickets: £2, FREE for Music Centre members
27 January
George Barrett
Campbell Watterson Organ Scholar
Music by Mendelssohn and
Langlais
3 February
Paul Stubbings
(Edinburgh)
‘Letter from America’
For more information, please see page 7
10 February
Alasdair Grant
Campbell Watterson Organ Scholar
‘Music for a Modernist Organ’ – Music by
Schmidt, Distler, Pärt and Micheelsen
Saturday 14 February – at 14:00
Tom Wilkinson
University Organist
Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur (1935)
For more information, please see page 27
17 February
Henry Fairs
Honorary Professor of Organ
‘Music from Denmark’
For more information, see opposite page
24 February
Andrew Macintosh
Deputy University Organist
Music by Bairstow, Guilmant and Bach
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3 March – St Leonard’s Chapel
Chris Bragg
St Andrews
‘Mr Muffat’s Remarkable Apparatus’
Thursday 5 March – at 19:30
Sietze de Vries
Netherlands
‘Psalms from Geneva to Dundee’
For more information, please see opposite
10 March Gijs Boelen
Netherlands
‘Music from Seven Countries’ –
Music by J.E. Bach, Ruppe, Albinoni and
Bartók (Romanian Dances)
www.gijsboelen.nl
31 March Hannah Gibson
Tayport and Birmingham
Music by Bruhns, Schumann and Messiaen
7 April – St Leonard’s Chapel
Tom Wilkinson
University Organist
‘Two against Three’
www.thomas-wilkinson.co.uk
14 April
Rufus Brodersen
Oundle for Organists prize winner
Music by Buxtehude, Karg-Elert
and Walton
21 April
Prof. David Smith
University of Aberdeen
Music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Phillips
and an improvisation
www.davidjsmith.org.uk
Organists in Residence
Henry Fairs Sietze de Vries Multi international prize-winning
organist and Honorary Professor of
Organ at the University of St Andrews
joins us once again to teach and perform.
The winner of prizes at 15 national and international
competitions, the Dutch organist Sietze de Vries is recognised
as the most important improviser in historic styles in the
world. His visit to St Andrews will see him teach and perform.
Monday 16 February
St Salvator’s Chapel, 12:00-14:00
Wednesday 4 March
St Salvator’s Chapel, 14:15
Thursday 5 March
St Salvator’s Chapel, 19:30
Public organ masterclass
Improvisation masterclass
Psalms from Geneva to Dundee
Sietze de Vries discusses and
demonstrates historic improvisation
techniques with University organists.
Sietze de Vries, organ
Choristi Sanctiandree
Tom Wilkinson, director
Admission: FREE
Sietze de Vries enjoys enormous
worldwide fame for his improvisations
on the melodies from the Geneva
Psalter, the heart of Dutch reformed
hymnody since the Reformation. In
this concert he will improvise in a
variety of historic styles on melodies
from both the Genevan Psalter and the
Scottish Psalter of 1615/1635. Choristi
Sanctiandree will sing settings of these
melodies by Sweelinck and others. If you
only attend one organ concert this year,
make sure it’s this one!
Henry Fairs
Henry Fairs puts the University’s
organists through their paces.
Admission: FREE
Tuesday 17 February
St Salvator’s Chapel, 13:10
Tickets: £10,
£8 (concessions), £5 (students),
FREE to Music Centre members
Recital
www.sietzedevries.nl
A recital of music from Denmark
culminating in Carl Nielsen’s epic and
rarely heard Commotio.
Tickets: £2,
FREE to Music Centre members
Sietze de Vries
www.henryfairs.com
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Masterclasses and Workshops
The University Music Centre regularly presents free public
masterclasses and workshops on a variety of instruments.
Listeners are always welcome!
Wednesday 4 March
St Salvator’s Chapel, 14:15-15:45
Tuesday 3 February
Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 14:30
Please see page 29 for more information
Call for Scores workshop with Richard Craig (flute)
Saturday 7 March
Younger Hall, 10:00 – 17:00
Please see page 8 for more information
Wednesday 11 February
Younger Hall – Rehearsal Room, 10:30
Organ improvisation masterclass with
Sietze de Vries
Conducting workshop with Bede Williams
and Gillian Craig
Piano masterclass by Susan Tomes
Friday 13 February
Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 10:00-12:30
Call for Scores workshop with the
Maggini String Quartet
The Maggini Quartet perform and discuss new works written for
them in response to the University of St Andrews' 2015 Call for
Scores.
Monday 16 February
St Salvator’s Chapel, 12:00-14:00
Organ masterclass by Henry Fairs
Please see page 29 for more information
Wednesday 25 February
Byre Theatre – Conference Room, 11:00-13:00
Woodwind masterclass by Alison Mitchell
(Principal Flute, Scottish Chamber Orchestra)
Alison Mitchell works with Music Centre woodwind students on
a variety of repertoire.
(© Oli Walker)
Bede Williams and Gillian Craig give guidance to conductors
working in music education or community music. Each
participant will receive at least 30 minutes' podium time with
a small ensemble. To register online, please contact Bede
Williams: [email protected]
FEES: £50 including lunch, £20 (students)
Wednesday 15 April
Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 11:00-13:00
Viola masterclass with Jane Atkins
(Principal Viola, Scottish Chamber Orchestra)
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Research Seminars
Saturday 18 April
Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 10:00-15:00
Bach – Study day on the Mass in B minor
An opportunity to study one of the great works of Western
music, as well as to sing and play selected highlights. The day is
led by well-known broadcaster, writer and Bach expert, Sandy
Burnett.
Tickets: £10, £5 for Music Centre members
www.sandyburnett.com
Friday 8 May
Byre Theatre – Lawrence Levy Studio, 09:00-12:00
Flute masterclass by Katherine Bryan
www.katherinebryan.com
The University of St Andrews’ research seminars are steeped in
the rich performance culture here at the Music Centre. These
seminars feature a variety of internal and external speakers
presenting their music-related research, followed by discussion
with the audience. Research seminars are free and open to
everyone!
Wednesdays
Byre Theatre, 14:30
4 February
Dr Alistair MacDonald
Designing an improvising environment
for acoustic instruments and electronics
www.alistairmacdonald.co.uk
11 February 2014
Strings in Spring Observers' Package
9-11 April
An opportunity to gain an insight into string coaching sessions
run by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet and guest tutors John
Todd and Susie Mészáros, as well as a world-class recital given
by the FSQ, a topical lecture and a chance to chat with tutors
and participants over a glass of wine. There is no obligation for
observers to attend all events listed: you may come to as many
as you please. For those who play violin/viola/cello/double bass
to an appropriate level, it may be possible to join in the sightreading and string ensemble sessions.
For more information, please contact Helen Gregory,
[email protected]
To book, please visit:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/music/stringsinspring
Full price: £30
St Andrews Music Club season ticket holders: £25
Susan Tomes
Music and Memory
www.susantomes.com
4 March 2015
Prof. Don Paterson
Translating Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
www.donpaterson.com
1 April 2015
Bede Williams
The conductor’s podium as a
research site
www.bedewilliams.com
15 April
Dr Ines Jentzsch
How does Instrumental Practice affect
our brain? Behavioural and physiological
investigations into psychological benefits
of musical activity.
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Music Society
Music Centre
University of St Andrews Music Society
Friday Lunchtime Concerts
University of St Andrews Music Centre
Younger Hall (except where stated), 13:10
Admission FREE
6 February
Gilbert and Sullivan Society
Byre Box Office, 01334 475000
13 February
Aaron Isiminger, guitar
Dr Michael Downes
Director of Music
Gillian Craig
Music Consultant
20 February (venue tbc)
Vocal students of Jonathan May
Helen Gregory
Music Centre Manager
Chris Bragg
Concerts Administrator
27 February
Richard Jackson, tenor
Bede Williams
New Music Co-ordinator
Ruth Carr
Music Centre Administrator
6 March
Vocal students of Megan Read
Tom Wilkinson
University Organist
Jeni Deards
Administrative Assistant
13 March
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra with Maebh Martin
For more information, please see page 10
Alex Hill
Scottish Chamber Orchestra/
Music Centre Intern
Dr Jonathan Kemp
Music Technology
Co-ordinator
3 April
Maddy Kearns, soprano
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10 April
Raymond Wang, piano
Twitter: @StAndrewsMusic
17 April
Vocal students of Jonathan May
Facebook: University-of-St-Andrews-Music-Centre
24 April
St Andrews New Music Ensemble with Tania Holland Williams
For more information, please see page 24
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