1 st 3 rd March 2019 Saffron Walden County High School

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1 1 st 3 rd March 2019 Saffron Walden County High School Entry forms available at

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3 S A F F R O N W A L D E N M U S I C F E S T I V A L 2019 This will be County High s seventh Music Festival and the Winners Concert will be held in Saffron Hall, our magnificent concert venue. We are all very much looking forward to involving the local community in this great opportunity to showcase the musical talents of young people and give them the opportunity to demonstrate their musical abilities in this inspiring and exciting auditorium. A B O U T T H E F E S T I V A L The Music Festival is divided into six sections with an adjudicator for each one: Piano, Brass, Woodwind, Vocal, Strings and Guitar. This year, due to the popularity of our Piano section, we will be splitting this into two Pre-Grade 1 to Grade 4 and Grade 5 and above. We have six professional musicians coming to adjudicate throughout the weekend. The adjudicators will listen and give feedback to all of our entrants and award medals to performers whom they feel are particularly outstanding. Every performer will receive written feedback and a certificate. Each instrument section has various classes ranging from Pre-Grade 1 to advanced level. The winner of the Challenge Cup (Grade 7-8) will receive a trophy. The adjudicators will choose an overall winner from each section to go forward to the Winners Concert.. T H E W I N N E R S C O N C E R T The Festival culminates in the Winners Concert, which will be held in Saffron Hall.at 5pm on the Sunday afternoon. The six section winners of the Festival, chosen by the adjudicators, all perform in a Young Musician of the Year style final. An overall Festival winner is chosen by the panel of adjudicators to receive the prestigious Saffron Walden Music Festival Trophy. Our concert adjudicators this year will be Jane Patterson and Philip Sunderland.

4 S A F F R O N W A L D E N C O U N T Y H I G H S C H O O L Saffron Walden County High School is hugely excited to once again be hosting the Saffron Walden Music Festival. SWCHS has a deserved reputation for musical excellence. Over 320 pupils receive instrumental tuition and the school has 17 different musical ensembles. Students are also given numerous opportunities to perform in any of the four annual concerts or as part of a more informal lunchtime recital series. We are also extremely proud of our successful Music Academy Programme, which continues to draw in high numbers of the most talented musicians from across Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. In recent years, the school s musical reputation has also been enhanced by the addition of Saffron Hall. The Hall and its programme has allowed our pupils to not only perform in a world-class concert venue but also to work together with professional musicians of the highest standard. It is in collaboration with Saffron Hall that we have greatly enhanced singing and string playing in the school over the last few years. In addition to this, we are proud to work in partnership with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Saffron Hall and Essex Music Hub to host the Saffron Centre for Young Musicians (SCYM), a specialist Saturday school offering high quality musical training to students aged 5 to 18. Music is at the heart of SWCHS and the Music Festival chimes perfectly with the ethos of the school. Not only does it provide young people with the opportunity to compete with each other in a friendly atmosphere but it also gives them the opportunity to learn more about themselves as performers and how to communicate successfully to an audience. We look forward to hearing what this year s musicians can achieve. Caroline Derbyshire Executive Headteacher Polly Lankester Associate Headteacher

5 F E S T I VA L C O M M I T T E E Ellie Morrow Hilary Curtis Jacquie Lucas Amanda Shaw Karen Semken

6 F R I D A Y 1 S T M A R C H B R A S S S E C T I O N ADJUDICATOR : CRISPIAN STEELE-PERKINS Crispian Steele-Perkins began playing the trumpet at the age of 10 and, after training at the Guildhall School of Music in London, he became a member of the English National Opera, the Royal Philharmonic and the English Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist Crispian s purity of tone and artistic subtlety have received widespread critical acclaim for more than four decades. On October 10th 2015 the BBC's 'CD Review' concluded that of all worldwide available recordings of Haydn's famous Trumpet Concerto his was 'the one to have'. Crispian collects and restores antique trumpets upon which he has performed and recorded with The Academy of Ancient Music, The Kings Consort and The English Baroque Soloists. Appropriately, he plays the theme tune to one of the BBC s longest-running and most popular TV programmes, the Antiques Roadshow. In the world of cinema Crispian participated in more than 80 classic film scores such as Jaws, Gandhi, Star Wars Episode IV, Batman, Monty Python s Life of Brian, Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers and no less than six films from the James Bond series.

7 B R A S S S E C T I O N Trumpet, Cornet, Trombone, Tenor Horn, French Horn, Euphonium, Tuba Description Pre-Grade 1 To perform any one piece that is pre-grade 1 standard. Grade 1-2 Grade 3-4 Grade 5-6 Challenge Cup Baroque and ical Romantic and Modern Ensemble To perform one piece from any current Grade 7 8 exam syllabus. To perform one piece from the Baroque or ical period. To perform one piece from the Romantic or Modern period. To perform in a group of up to 5 players an ensemble piece of any style.

8 S A T U R D A Y 2 N D M A R C H S T R I N G S E C T I O N ADJUDICATOR : SUE DOREY Cellist Sue Dorey studied at the Menuhin School with Maurice Gendron, and on Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music with David Strange. She completed her studies with Jaqueline du Pre in London and Wolfgang Mehlhorn in Hamburg. Sue s career has embraced chamber music, orchestras and teaching, and she is now also curating the music programme at Omnibus Theatre in Clapham. She was a founder member of piano trio Trio Zingara which won the Munich International Competition, and spent many years touring and broadcasting in the UK and abroad. Performances included Beethoven Triple concerto in Berlin, Buxton and London and numerous broadcasts for the BBC. She was the cellist of Ambache Chamber Ensemble, recorded for BBC Music Magazine and Oboe ics, and was a member of the cello octet of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. For many years Sue was a member of two of London s busiest Chamber Orchestras. She was Principal cello of City of London Sinfonia for 17 years, with whom she made numerous recordings and toured UK and abroad. And for over twenty years she was a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, collaborating with Murray Perahia, Iona Brown and many other distinguished musicians. Her career as a freelance cellist has included Principal cello of Kent Opera and Ambache Chamber Orchestra and numerous engagements with the major London Orchestras.

9 S T R I N G S E C T I O N Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass Description Pre-Grade 1 To perform any one piece that is pre-grade 1 standard. Grade 1-2 Grade 3-4 Grade 5-6 Challenge Cup Baroque and ical Romantic and Modern Ensemble To perform one piece from any current Grade 7 8 exam syllabus. To perform one piece from the Baroque or ical period. To perform one piece from the Romantic or Modern period. To perform in a group of up to 4 players an ensemble piece of any style.

10 S A T U R D A Y 2 N D M A R C H W O O D W I N D S E C T I O N ADJUDICATOR: EMMA HALNAN In demand flautist Emma Halnan first came to prominence as the woodwind category winner of BBC Young Musician She has since appeared at major venues worldwide, and has performed concertos with orchestras including the London Mozart Players, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Other competition successes include first prize in the Sir Karl Jenkins/Arts Club ical Music Award 2016, in association with ic FM. As a result, she recorded and broadcast on ic FM a piece specially composed for her by Sir Karl Jenkins. Emma has also been selected as a Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Young Artist Emma was principal flute of the European Union Youth Orchestra She has also performed as guest principal of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and guest principal piccolo of English National Opera. In recital, Emma has worked with pianist Daniel King Smith since Together, they have performed at venues including St. David s Hall (Cardiff), Gower Festival, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the La Côte International Flute Festival 2016 (Switzerland). Emma also works regularly with harpist Heather Wrighton and violist Jordan Sian (the Aurora Trio); they held a prestigious Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music for Emma is also a highly reputed and very dedicated teacher, her pupils having gained places in the National Children s Orchestra, National Children s Wind Orchestra and at Junior Trinity. Emma has taught students at Cambridge University and King s College London, and given numerous masterclasses, most recently at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Emma studied at the Royal Academy of Music with William Bennett and Kate Hill, and afterwards with Robert Winn. She has been generously supported by the Hattori Foundation and the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. Emma also won the 2014 Kenneth Loveland Gift, and is a City Music Foundation Artist. (Photograph with kind permission from Ian Dingle)

11 W O O D W I N D S E C T I O N Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxaphone Description Pre-Grade 1 To perform any one piece that is pre-grade 1 standard. Grade 1-2 Grade 3-4 Grade 5-6 Challenge Cup Baroque and ical Romantic and Modern Ensemble To perform one piece from any current Grade 7 8 exam syllabus. To perform one piece from the Baroque or ical period. To perform one piece from the Romantic or Modern period. To perform in a group of up to 5 players an ensemble piece of any style.

12 S A T U R D A Y 2 N D M A R C H G U I TA R S E C T I O N ADJUDICATOR : VINCENT LINDSEY-CLARK English guitarist Vincent Lindsey-Clark is well known for his compositions for the instrument. He writes music for both students and professionals, much of which, has been used extensively by the major exam boards and performed all round the world. He has also written two guitar concertos and gave the first performance of both works himself. He is published by Montague Music Publishing in the UK and Les Produtions d Oz in Canada. In 2003 he was asked to compose a piece for 100 young guitarists, for a Gala concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In 2009 he was commissioned to write the set pieces for the Beatty Guitar Competition in Washington DC and his very popular Five Pictures of Sark were recorded by one of the world s leading guitarists, Berta Rojas from Paraguay. Other distinguished performers that have played his music include The English Guitar Quartet, David Russell, Craig Ogden Amanda Cook, Detlev Bork, Davis Owen Norris and The Agostino Duo. As a performer he made his London debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1983 and has travelled extensively since then, including a tour of Venezuela as a member of The Segovia Guitar Trio. He is a regular visitor to the Hong Kong Guitar Festival where he gives concerts and master classes. He also performs with The Modern Guitar Trio and has recorded several CDs. For a period of ten years he regularly appeared at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as an on stage musician playing for the Royal Ballet and Darcy Bussell. Vincent Lindsey-Clark s teaching positions include Southampton University, London s Centre for Young Musicians and Eton College.

13 G U I T A R S E C T I O N ical Guitar, Lute Description Pre-Grade 1 To perform any one piece that is pre-grade 1 standard. Grade 1-2 Grade 3-4 Grade 5-6 Challenge Cup Baroque and ical Romantic and Modern Ensemble To perform one piece from any current Grade 7 8 exam syllabus. To perform one piece from the Baroque or Modern period. To perform one piece from the Baroque or Modern period. To perform in a group of up to 5 players an ensemble piece of any style.

14 S U N D AY 3 R D M A R C H S E N I O R P I A N O S E C T I O N ADJUDICATOR: JOHN YORK Following studies in London, Paris (where he won the International Debussy Prize) and Vienna, John York`s career has taken him around the world, the majority of his work being with cellist Raphael Wallfisch and York 2 piano duo. His most recent recordings are all on Nimbus. York 2 were recently released in their unique four-hands repertoire of 20 th century `orchestral` blockbusters including Le sacre du printemps and The Planets. With Raphael the catalogue grows exponentially from the complete Beethoven cycle to the works of Schnittke and James MacMillan, including world premieres, rarely heard 19 th Century works and major cello and piano masterpieces. Before these duos became established, some 25 years ago, he had played concertos with such orchestras as the London Mozart Players and the LPO, founded the successful York Piano trio and Quartet and accompanied a list of illustrious performers. He was Senior Music Head at St Paul`s Girls` School, a position from which he retired in He is a composer, festival adjudicator and lecturer, and has no intention of letting up on any of these activities, even though his commitment to St Paul`s Girls` School has come to an end. He fully intends to develop these aspects and enjoy his grandchildren, now that he has a little more time.

15 P I A N O S E C T I O N Description Pre-Grade 1 To perform any one piece that is pre-grade 1 standard. Grade 1-2 Grade 3-4 Grade 5-6 Challenge Cup Baroque and ical Romantic and Modern Duo To perform one piece from any current Grade 7 8 exam syllabus. To perform one piece from the Baroque or ical period. To perform one piece from the Romantic or Modern period. To perform one duet of any style.

16 S U N D AY 3 R D M A R C H J U N I O R P I A N O A N D V O C A L S E C T I O N S ADJUDICATOR: PHILIP SUNDERLAND Philip Sunderland was born in Norwich and attended the Cathedral School. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music as an undergraduate and postgraduate and it was here that he caught the opera bug which took him to the National Opera Studio upon graduation from the Academy. Philip began professional work as a repetiteur and worked extensively for English National Opera, Opera North and Glyndebourne. His first professional engagement was with English Touring Opera who took him under their wing and encouraged him to conduct The Marriage of Figaro was his conducting debut and he continued to conduct several more operas for the company. Philip then moved to Leeds, appointed as Chorus Master to Opera North where, as well as training and managing 36 choristers, he conducted and organised concerts with the chorus and orchestra most notably the Durufle Requiem in Leeds Parish Church and the Brahms Requiem in York Minster. He also conducted Sweeney Todd and La Traviata during his time with the company. Philip now lives in Saffron Walden and continues a busy freelance career. Most notably he recently conducted Paul Bunyan for English Touring Opera and won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. He returned to the company this year with Offenbach s Tales of Hoffmann. Philip s second opera The Glass Knight, with a libretto by Gareth Prior, was performed in Saffron Hall in 2016 with a cast of over 300 students and professionals. It was designed by Neil Irish. Philip is currently Head of Vocal Faculty and Preparatory Opera at the Royal Academy of Music.

17 V O C A L S E C T I O N ical Song 11 and under Songs from the Shows 11 and under ical Song years Songs from the Shows years ical Song years Songs from the Shows years ical Song years Songs from the Shows years Challenge Cup Description To perform one piece from the classical period. Time limit 2 minutes. To perform one piece from any musical. Time limit 2 minutes. To perform one piece from the classical period. Time limit 2 minutes. To perform one piece from any musical. Time limit 2 minutes. To perform one piece from the classical period. Time limit 4 minutes. To perform one piece from any musical. Time limit 4 minutes. To perform one piece from the classical period. To perform one piece from any musical. To perform one piece from any current Grade 7 8 exam syllabus. Duo To perform one duet of any style.

18 SAFFRON WALDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL RULES 2019 CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES 24 TH JANUARY 2019 General Rules i. You must perform by yourself and not in a group unless you are taking part in the ensemble class. ii. You can enter any number of classes but only one entry per class. iii. You are responsible for your instruments and belongings on the day of the competition. Saffron Walden Music Festival and Saffron Walden County High School cannot accept any liability for them in any way before, during or after the competition. iv. To enter, you must be attending a school in Essex, Hertfordshire, Suffolk or Cambridgeshire or attend SCYM. v. By entering the competition, you agree that should you win your section, you will be available to take part in the Winners concert on the Sunday. (Concert time to be confirmed) vi. You agree that any official photography taken will be allowed to be used for publicity purposes. Accompanying and Photocopies vii. You may bring your own accompanist, or you can use our official accompanist. viii. If you use our accompanist, all music and the relevant fees must be received with your entry form by the closing date. ix. Backing tracks will not be permitted. x. You must bring an original, purchased copy of your music for the adjudicator on the day, otherwise you will not be allowed to perform. Application Forms & Fees xi. All applications must be on an official entry form, or a copy of the official entry form, duly signed by your parent/guardian. xii. To be accepted, your application, music and fee must be received by the closing date on the application form. You will be contacted regarding all relevant dates and times. xiii. If posting your entry, please ensure that the correct postage is paid. We will not collect from a sorting office if undelivered. xiv. The fee for each class entered is 6.00 xv. The fee for our official accompanist is an additional per class. This fee includes a rehearsal prior to the festival. xvi. Cheques should be made payable to SWCHS, these fees are non-refundable. xvii. The Winners Concert is open to the public and there is no entry fee. We will collect any donations at the door. All proceeds will go towards funding the next festival. xviii. Applications will be accepted on a first come first served basis. es may be amalgamated or split depending on the number of applications received. Rules xix. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the time of your class. xx. We welcome audiences to all classes and sections, please feel free to come and listen. Programmes for the festival will be available once all applications have been received and times confirmed. xxi. The adjudicators decision is final, they reserve the right to cut short a performance if they feel that they have heard enough to make a valid adjudication. This will only occur should time be running short. Certificates, Cups & Medals xxii. Each applicant will receive written feedback and a certificate at the end of their class. xxiii. Medals will be awarded to those candidates whom the adjudicator feels are most deserving, these medals will be presented at the Winners Concert. xxiv. Challenge Cup class winners will receive a cup. The winner of this cup is not necessarily the section winner. xxv. Ensemble classes will not be put forward to the Winners Concert.

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20 A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S We would like to say a very big thank you to everybody who has helped to make this event possible. Some have helped by giving their time and others have helped financially. Thanks go to all of our participants, without your enthusiasm for music, this festival would not be able to happen. We wish you all the best of luck and we hope that you all enjoy the festival. Thank you, too, to the parents of our young musicians, who support and encourage them in their musical journey. Finally, particular thanks to Saffron Walden County High School for their continued support and to Saffron Hall for allowing us to use their wonderful venue. C O N T A C T D E TA I L S : musicfestival@swchs.net Saffron Walden County High School Audley End Road Saffron Walden Essex CB11 4UH Keep updated with news about the Festival on Facebook and Twitter: