Upbeat Spring 2013 - Royal College of Music

On 21 April Head of Strings Mark
Messenger is running the London
Marathon once again to raise money to
support extraordinary young musicians.
This year it coincides with the RCM’s
Super String Sunday: throughout the
day you will be able to track his progress
round the course while enjoying a
feast of music making. Hopefully he’ll
make it back to the RCM in time for
the final performance! You can support
Mark at uk.virginmoneygiving.
com/madviolinist or find out more
about the event at www.rcm.ac.uk/
superstringsunday
Head of Historical Performance Ashley
Solomon performed with the RCM
Ensemble in Association Florilegium
at the launch of Kings Place’s 2013 Bach
Unwrapped series. The programme
featured two seasonal cantatas, in which
the group was joined by four solo singers
including alumni Elin Manahan Thomas,
Sally Bruce-Payne and Jimmy Holliday.
Florilegium
Head of Opera Michael Rosewell has
conducted performances of Britten’s
Albert Herring at the Royal Opera House
together with the award-winning Aurora
Orchestra. The cast featured alumni Mark
Wilde (in the title role), Martha Jones
and Rosie Aldridge. Rupert Christiansen
from the Telegraph said “Michael
Rosewell’s conducting of an excellent band
sustains the dramatic impetus admirably
as well as honouring its crystalline
instrumental detail”.
The Tippett Quartet, featuring Junior
Department violin teacher Jeremy
Isaac and alumnus John Mills, has been
appointed Artists in Residence at Sidney
Sussex College, Cambridge. Working
closely with students and musical director
David Skinner, they will give a series of
concerts, workshops and masterclasses,
and expand their impressive discography.
Area Leader in Composition for Screen
Vasco Hexel has composed music for the
Discovery Channel’s feature documentary
Terror in the Sky – the 9/11 Tapes. His
music was also featured on BBC One’s
Panorama and in the Christmas campaign
of Channel 4 subsidiary S4/C, Wales.
Language coach Norbert Meyn has been
appointed Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy (FHEA) after completing
a course on teaching and learning in
higher and professional education at the
Institute of Education.
Our goal is to provide world class
education to students who want to
learn from internationally acclaimed
musicians and pedagogues. Our
distinguished professors are experts
in developing to the full the talent of
modern-day, award-winning
performers.
The Masterclasses take
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pressures of the outside world,
students are able to learn and
work in a relaxed, stimulating
and contemplative environment.
Jersey International Masterclasses
- Piano and Strings -
26th July 2013 to 5th August 2013
Patron: Vladimir Spivakov
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Dmitri Bashkirov
Piano (Russia/Spain)
Vanessa Latarche
Piano (UK)
Yekaterina Lebedeva
Piano (UK)
Leonid Margarius
Piano (Italy)
Zakhar Bron
Violin (Russia/Germany)
Viktoria Grigoreva
Violin (UK)
Mark Messenger
Violin (UK)
Leonid Gorokhov
Cello (Germany/UK)
Junior
Department
violin teacher
Viktoria
Grigoreva
has founded
a new
summer
course in
Jersey. The
course aims
to provide
world class
education to
students from internationally acclaimed
musicians. This year it will be held from
26 July to 5 August, and invited professors
include Zakhar Bron, Leonid Gorokhov,
Leonid Margarius, Dmitry Bashkirov,
Mark Messenger, Vanessa Latarche and
Katya Lebedeva.
www.jerseymasterclasses.com
Assistant librarian Monika Pietras has
graduated from City University with
an MSc in Information Management in
the Cultural Sector, accredited by CILIP.
She also had an abridged version of her
dissertation published jointly with Dr
Lyn Robinson in the Library Review vol.
61 (8) – Three views of the musical work
– bibliographical control in the music
domain.
Junior Department recorder teacher
Rebecca Austen-Brown has performed
on the soundtrack of two current box
office hits: Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit and
Tom Hooper’s recent interpretation of
Victor Hugo’s epic tale Les Misérables.
Deputy librarian Peter Horton has had
two book chapters published: a study
of the way anthem texts changed in the
19th century (in Martin Clarke (ed.),
Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century
Britain) and a study of English song in
the 1840s (in Bennett Zon (ed.), Music
and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-
Century Britain). The latter volume
is a Festschrift in honour of the 80th
birthday of the distinguished musicologist
Nicholas Temperley.
Spotlight on…
Prince Consort Professor Sarah
Walker CBE celebrates her 70th
birthday at Wigmore Hall on 13
March. Following similar events for
her 50th and 60th birthdays, she is
yet to decide whether to wait ten
years for the next, or to go for a
75th…?
Sarah, who retired from performing
a few years ago, now spends most
of her energy imparting wisdom
to RCM students, but she will be
taking an active part in this concert
supported by what she calls ‘a cast
of thousands’! The distinguished
actress Eleanor Bron leads a line-up
that includes two former members of
the RCM International Opera School
Laura Mitchell and 2012 Kathleen
Ferrier winner Kitty Whately,
alongside baritone Stephan Loges,
pianist Graham Johnson, a girls’ choir
and two violinists.
The music and texts for this
programme have been adapted
by Graham from one of his most
popular Songmakers Almanac
concerts: Let us Garlands Bring – a
Shakespearian extravaganza which
includes repertoire ranging from John
Dankworth’s The Complete Works to
Joseph Horowitz’s dramatic scena
Lady Macbeth.
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