What's On - Spring 2014 - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

International Artists
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Tues 21 January 7.30pm
Sergei Nakariakov
trumpet / flügelhorn
Maria Meerovitch piano
Tatarinova Suite in
Russian Folk Style
Schumann Adagio and
Allegro Op. 70
Böhme Tarantella
Beethoven Seven variations on
‘Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen’
Poulenc Deux Mélodies
Arban Fantaisie Brillante
Following a stunning debut with
us in 2012, Sergei Nakariakov
and Maria Meerovitch return. To
be called ‘the Paganini of the
trumpet’ is one thing – but to be
dubbed ‘the Caruso of the
trumpet’ on top of that is
something seriously out-of-theordinary!
But that’s Sergei
Nakariakov: the astonishing
young Russian trumpeter
whose playing is as gloriously
songful as it is flamboyant.
Tickets £12 £10 concessions*
Dora Stoutzker Hall
Sergei Nakariakov is the Jane
Hodge International Chair in
Trumpet at the Royal Welsh
College of Music & Drama
Generously supported by Antoine
Courtois instruments, Paris
*Transaction fees may apply
Thurs 23 January 7.30pm
Ian Bostridge and
Fretwork perform
Dowland
Liam Byrne, Asako Morikawa,
Reiko Ichise, Richard
Tunnicliffe, Richard Boothby
viols, with Ian Bostridge tenor
Elizabeth Kenny lute
Passionate, poetic and
heartbreakingly beautiful, the
music of Tudor composer
John Dowland has inspired
generations of British
composers. For the pioneering
viol consort Fretwork, this is
quite simply some of the
loveliest chamber music ever
written – and you’ll never hear
Dowland’s songs performed
with more piercing insight than
by the supreme living British
tenor, Ian Bostridge.
The greatest music you’ve
never heard?
Tickets £18 £15 concessions*
Dora Stoutzker Hall
Mon 27 January 7.30pm
Emerson String
Quartet
Mozart String Quartet
No.16 in E flat major K 428
Shostakovich String Quartet
No.15 in E flat minor
Beethoven String Quartet
No.9 in C major Op.59 No.3
The Emerson String Quartet
stands apart in the history
of string quartets with an
unparalleled list of
achievements over three
decades: more than thirty
acclaimed recordings, nine
Grammy’s (including two for
Best Classical Album), three
Gramophone Awards, the
Avery Fisher Prize, Musical
America’s ‘Ensemble of the
Year’, and collaborations with
many of the greatest artists of
our time. Now featuring new
member Paul Watkins, our
Jane Hodge International
Chair in Cello.
Tickets £15 £12 concessions*
Dora Stoutzker Hall
Sergei Nakariakov & Maria Meerovitch, the
Mariinsky Brass Ensemble and the Mariinsky
Wind Quintet are presented as part of the
UK-Russia Year of Culture 2014
Thurs 13 February 7.45pm
Eduardo Catemario
guitar
Think of the classical guitar
and you think of Spain: but
Eduardo Catemario comes
from Naples, and he’s part of
an equally vibrant tradition. In
today’s concert, Catemario
makes a welcome return to
the Dora Stoutzker Hall and
pays homage to three
centuries of Italian inspiration
for the guitar, from Scarlatti’s
timelessly brilliant sonatas to
the warmth, colour and sheer
emotion of Catemario’s fellow
Neapolitans Ferdinando
Carulli and Enzo Amato.
Tickets £12 £10 concessions*
Dora Stoutzker Hall
Thurs 20 February 1.15pm
Mariinsky Brass
Ensemble
Beethoven Symphony No.5
arranged for brass ensemble
There’s nothing quite like
Russian brass playing – and
there’s definitely nowhere
quite like St Petersburg’s
Mariinsky Theatre: its
musicians have become an
international byword for
virtuosity, passion and flare.
This rare UK appearance by
the Mariinsky Brass Ensemble
would be a special occasion,
whatever they were playing
– but with a programme
featuring an electrifying brass
version of Beethoven’s Fifth
Symphony, it’s practically selfrecommending.
Tickets £8 in advance
£10 on the day*
Dora Stoutzker Hall
Fri 21 March 1.15pm
Mariinsky Wind Quintet
Haydn Divertimento in
B-flat major
Milhaud Suite from La
chimenée du roi René, Op 205
Ligeti Six Bagatelles
The musicians of St Petersburg’s
Mariinsky Theatre are one of
the world’s great operatic
ensembles – famed around
the globe for their superb
technique and body-and-soul
commitment to everything
they play. But they don’t just
do grand passions and epic
drama, and this lunchtime
concert finds five of their wind
players exploring a more
intimate side of their artistry,
in music of poetry, elegance,
and real wit. Unmissable.
Tickets £8 in advance
£10 on the day*
Dora Stoutzker Hall
Thurs 27 March 7.30pm
Chroma
Michael Zev Gordon
Glass Mountain
Raymond Yiu
Les Etoiles au Front
Helgi Ingvarsson
Castle in Air
Not every contemporary music
group features an accordion
– but then, not every new
music group is CHROMA, an
ensemble whose virtuosity is
matched only by its sense of
theatre. And no other group
could deliver a programme
quite like this, ranging from the
half-remembered klezmer
festivities of Michael Zev
Gordon to the ear-opening
new soundscapes of the young
Icelandic composer Helgi
Ingvarsson. One concert: three
extraordinary worlds.
Tickets £12 £10 concessions*
Dora Stoutzker Hall
Sergei Nakariakov, Photo Thierry Cohen
Ian Bostridge, Photo Ben Ealovega
Emerson Quartet, Photo Lisa Mazzucco
Eduardo Catemario
Mariinsky Brass Ensemble
Mariinsky Wind Quintet