March 2010 26/27
Tuesday 2nd March Thursday 4th March Friday 5th March Friday 5th March
CoMA London Solstice Quartet Chamber Music Composers’ Platform
7.30pm 6.00pm with Harp 6.00pm
David Josefowitz Recital Hall David Josefowitz Recital Hall David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Tickets £6 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box Free, no tickets required 1.05pm Free, no tickets required
Office, see p.36, and from www.ram.ac.uk/events Duke’s Hall
Solstice Quartet: Free, no tickets required Join the Academy’s Composition Department for
A concert of new music specially written for CoMA Jamie Campbell and Daniel Roberts violin an informal concert featuring music by our student
London Ensemble (Contemporary Music-making for Meghan Cassidy viola Academy Chamber Ensembles composers, and animation shorts created in
Amateurs) by Academy postgraduate composition Gregor Riddell cello collaboration with students from Bristol School of
students, as part of CoMA’s Open Score project. Debussy arr. David Walter Prélude à l’après-midi Animation.
The Solstice Quartet, Fellows at the Academy, perform d’un faune
new pieces written by MMus composition students. Bax Elegiac Trio
Wednesday 3rd March Britten Canticle V op.89, ‘The Death of Saint Narcissus’ Friday 5th March
Clarinet Masterclass
Schmitt Suite en Rocaille, op.84
Academy Symphonic
Academy harpists collaborate with fellow students
2.30–5.30pm and 6.30–9.30pm in a programme celebrating diverse harp chamber Wind
Henry Wood Room repertoire from the last two centuries.
Free, no tickets required 7.30pm
Duke’s Hall
With Andrew Marriner, Principal Clarinet of the Tickets £6 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Box
London Symphony Orchestra and Visiting Professor Office, see page 36. You can now buy tickets
of Clarinet at the Academy. at any time from www.ram.ac.uk/events
Solstice Quartet (Sussie Ahlburg)
Academy Symphonic Wind
Friday 5th March Keith Bragg conductor
Thursday 4th March
Re-defining the Oboe
St James Wind Quintet
Academy Big Band with Milhaud Suite français
2.30–4.00pm Françaix Wind Quintet no.1
Tom Cawley Piano Gallery Ben Hollway new work (world première)
Free, no tickets required Gounod Petite symphonie for wind instruments
7.30pm
Duke’s Hall As part of Christopher Redgate’s ongoing AHRC Academy Wind, under the direction of Head of
Andrew Marriner Tickets £6 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, this Woodwind Keith Bragg, present a programme of works
Box Office, see page 36. You can now buy tickets event will explore the practicalities and concepts of celebrating the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-
at any time from www.ram.ac.uk/events instrumental development and redesign. Chaired century French vogue of wind instrumental writing.
Wednesday 3rd March by Dr David Gorton, guest speakers will include
Academy String
A concert showcasing recent student transcriptions Jos Zwaanenburg, who helped design the Kingma
of Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint and the Sinner quarter-tone flute, and Patrick Ozzard-Low, co- Monday 8th to Tuesday 16th March
Orchestra
Lady, led by Tom Cawley. founder of the Centre for New Musical Instruments.
Thomas Brandis in

7.30pm Friday 5th March Friday 5th March Residence
David Josefowitz Recital Hall
Tickets £6 (concessions £4) from the Academy’s Vocal Masterclass Orchestral Magicians Various times and venues
Box Office, see p.36. You can now buy tickets at any A limited number of sessions will be open to the
time from www.ram.ac.uk/events 10.00am–1.00pm 6.00–7.30pm public. For further information please contact
Henry Wood Room Piano Gallery strings@ram.ac.uk or telephone 020 7873 7395
Academy String Orchestra Free, no tickets required Free, no tickets required
David Strange conductor Thomas Brandis — Griller Chair of Chamber Music
With Robert Tear CBE, Visiting Professor of Opera. In conjunction with the current Orchestral Magicians at the Academy, former Concertmaster of the Berlin
Programme of string quartets and exhibition, John Carnelley discusses Sir George Philharmonic Orchestra and Professor of Violin at
Daniel McCallum new work (world première) Smart’s tour of Germany in 1825. This will be followed the Musikhochschule, Lübeck — presents his termly
Mendelssohn String Symphony no.7 in D minor by an exploration of the score of Mendelssohn’s work with Academy string quartets and violinists.
First Violin Concerto by Peter Sheppard Skærved.
Throughout this term, first-year Academy string players The Mendelssohn score is a jewel in the Academy’s
have worked together as six quartets. Tonight they collections, and is currently displayed in the exhibition.
present some of the works they have prepared
alongside a new work by Academy student Daniel
McCallum and Mendelssohn’s Seventh String Symphony.
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