Beyond the Dots Recital Series

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1 Beyond the Dots Recital Series

2 Welcome St Anne s College is pleased to present the Beyond the Dots recital series, providing innovative events that open up music through explanation and performance. I am delighted to again be welcoming a range of artists to this year s series, including St Anne s alumnus Jamie Savan, Cornett in His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts (St Anne s, ), double-bass specialist David Heyes, thereminist Lydia Kavina, and both the 2015 and 2016 St Anne s College Performance Scholars (Pippa Hampton French Horn, and Harry Baker Piano). The Cornish American Song Institute also return, showcasing twenty leading US voice students, with a separate recital from Drs David and Lelia Sadlier (University of Texas). We continue to promote innovation in the series, with the St Anne s Camerata again headlining the M@SH Contemporary Music Marathon at the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building (St. Hilda s College). The Camerata (a unique string orchestra, modelled on the more traditional choral foundations, blending professionals, scholars, and county exhibitioners together) performs in several BtD recitals, as well as venturing outside of Oxford for a performance of Handel s Messiah in Troon, Scotland,

3 preparing for a summer tour to Texas, and delivering a composition workshop for Oxfordshire school students. The Beyond the Dots recital series continues to open its doors to school children from across Oxfordshire, working in partnership with the Oxfordshire County Music Service Advanced Musicianship Programme, and Music Plus. Dr John P Traill, Director of Music (September 2016) At a glance Friday 14 th October 2016, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm JAMIE SAVAN (His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts) and the ST ANNE S CAMERATA Friday 4 th November, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm DAVID HEYES (Double Bass) Friday 18 th November, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm PIPPA HAMPTON (Horn), PETER MCMULLIN (Piano) St Anne s College Performance Scholar, 2015 Friday 25 th November, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm OXFORDSHIRE CONCERTO COMPETITION Friday 27 th January, Jacqueline du Pre Music Building,

4 St. Hilda s College, 6.00pm ST ANNE S CAMERATA at the M@SH Music Marathon Friday 24 th February 2017, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm HARRY BAKER (Piano) St Anne s College Performance Scholar, 2016 Friday 10 th March 2017, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm LYDIA KAVINA (Theremin) Friday 2 nd June 2017, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm DAVID SADLIER (Tenor) and LELIA SADLIER (Piano) Workshop and Performance Friday 9 th June 2017, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm CORNISH AMERICAN SONG INSTITUTE Friday 14 th October 2016, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm JAMIE SAVAN and the ST ANNE S CAMERATA Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adagio in C minor, k.546 Johan Daniel Berlin Sinfonia for Cornett and Strings Pietro Baldassare Sonata for Cornett

5 and Strings Peter Warlock Capriol Suite for String Orchestra Friday 4 th November, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm DAVID HEYES (Double Bass) Miloslav Gajdos Solo No.6 (Czech Republic) David Heyes Postcards from Prague (UK) Bert Turetzky Pacific Parables (USA) Bernard Salles Sonatina - In Memoriam Frantisek Posta (France) David Heyes Sahara (UK) Teppo Hauta-aho A Bass Song (Finland) P Kellach Waddle A Vampire was Appalled by the Sommelier's Ignorance of Amontillado - Bagatelle drammatico (USA) WORLD PREMIERE** David Heyes - Hold On... - a Prayer-Song for Bridget (UK) Simon Garcia The Transience of Life - In Memoriam Frantisek Posta (Spain) David Heyes Tintagel (UK) Friday 18 th November, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm PIPPA HAMPTON (Horn), PETER MCMULLIN (Piano) Franz Strauss Nocturno, Op.7

6 Schumann Adagio and Allegro. Op.70 Volker David Kirchner Tre Poemi Bozza En Foret Friday 25 th November, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm OXFORDSHIRE CONCERTO COMPETITION Eight semi-finalists perform in this exciting competition. The finalists will play a concerto in the Sheldonian Theatre, with conductor Marios Papadopoulos (Oxford Philharmonic) and the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra. Friday 27 th January, Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St. Hilda s College, 6.00pm

7 ST ANNE S CAMERATA at the M@SH Music Marathon An innovative programme of new music, with compositions by St Anne s students and lecturers. Friday 24 th February 2017, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm HARRY BAKER (Piano) St Anne s College Performance Scholar, 2016 Debussy Estampes Schubert Sonata in C Minor, D 958

8 Friday 10 th March 2017, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm LYDIA KAVINA (Theremin) Mark Grant Bird of Paradise Jorge Antunes Mixolydia Lydia Ayers Rock Art in the Dream World Jorge Campos Glissandi Friday 2 nd June 2017, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm DAVID SADLIER (Tenor) LELIA SADLIER (Piano) The Sadliers lead a performance workshop for participants of the Oxfordshire County Music Service Advanced Musicianship Programme, followed by a recital on the theme of water. Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin (excerpts) Fauré L'horizon chimerique

9 John Traill Ferry on the Fal Philip Wharton Icicles. Friday 9 th June 2017, MOLT, St Anne s College, pm CORNISH AMERICAN SONG INSTITUTE This recital showcases leading students from universities and conservatoires across America. The 2017 theme is water.

10 About the performers St Anne s College has a vibrant musical life that places outreach and development at the centre of the college s musical values. In partnership with the Oxfordshire County Music Service, the college recital series presents Beyond the Dots, a programme of performance events that illuminate music. As a partner in the Oxfordshire Music Education Partnership (OMEP), St Anne s innovative approach to ensemble music places it at the forefront of practical college music at Oxford. The St Anne s Camerata is modelled on the structure of the more traditional Oxford choral foundations (lay clerks, scholars and choristers). Comprised of professional instrumental musicians, student scholars, and auditioned exhibitioners from the County Music Service, and directed by Dr John Traill (Director of Music) they have performed to capacity audiences at Freemasons Hall, London, and also at Symphony Hall Birmingham and the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building as part of the M@SH Marathon. In April 2014 they were ensemble in residence at the Sao Bento Monastery in Brasilia, Brazil. In addition to working with the Maxwell String Quartet, and OXUS string quartet, through their residencies at St Anne s

11 College, the St Anne s Camerata have also enjoyed collaborations with Simon Desbruslais, Thomas Hyde, Deborah Pritchard, and guest performers/lecturers from the University of Oxford, Open University, the Oxfordshire County Music Service, and the University of Hull. The Beyond the Dots series featured in OMEP being awarded the Paritor Special Achievement Award for New Music in More recently, they have participated in outreach and commissioning projects, with John Traill, supported by Artswork (Arts Council England bridge organization). Recent projects have also included premiers of works by Luke Bedford, John Traill, John McCabe, with distinguished artists that include Clare Hammond, CHROMA, and the Cornish American Song Institute. The St Anne s Camerata are also ensemble in residence for the Oxford Conducting Institute, providing support for workshops and international conferences in conducting studies. Jamie Savan is a member of His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, and founder and director of The Gonzaga Band. He has performed with many other of the world's leading periodinstrument ensembles, including Concerto Palatino, Oltremontano, La Fenice, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and Cantus Cölln to name but a few, and continues to be in great demand as a freelance player of the cornett, mute cornett, and the oft-neglected 'lizard' or tenor cornett. Jamie's main passion is in discovering previously unknown music in old manuscripts and original printed

12 part-books, and in bringing it to life though the process of transcribing, editing, performing and recording. This has led to a number of acclaimed CD productions, including the Complete Instrumental Music and Selected Motets of Giovanni Battista Grillo with His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts (Sfz Music, 2007), and Sacred Garland: Devotional Chamber Music from the Age of Monteverdi with The Gonzaga Band (Chandos, 2009). Since graduating from Oxford University with a first class degree in Music in 1997, he has maintained an interest in academic research and scholarship, whilst developing an international performing career. In 2005, he completed a doctorate in historical performance practice at Birmingham University, where he was also active for several years as a visiting lecturer. Jamie also taught cornett for several years at Birmingham and was professor of cornett at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, before being appointed to his present position as Lecturer in Music and Head of Performance at Newcastle University in Jamie is also a regular guest teacher at the Cantare et Sonare seminar in the Austrian Tyrol and at Wim Becu's Accademia Giovanni Gabrieli in Belgium. Together with Adam Woolf he started the Newark International Early Music Course in 2005, which has since become a hugely successful annual event. Jamie began his musical life as a trumpet player: as an undergraduate he studied with Michael Laird (the renowned pioneer of both the natural trumpet and cornett), and passed the ARCM diploma in trumpet performance with

13 honours. He went on to specialise on the cornett as a postgraduate student of Jeremy West at the Royal College of Music in London, funded by a Leverhulme studentship, and with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, funded by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Musicians' Benevolent Fund. Improvisation is a key aspect of Jamie's approach to historical performance. His doctoral research focused on improvised ornamentation in Renaissance Germany, and his findings were published in the Historic Brass Society Journal (2008). Between 2005 and 2007 he was involved in a world tour of Alain Platel's VSPRS with Les Ballets C de la B, a collaborative improvisation project involving jazz, Gypsy, and 'early' music. He is currently performing with Paula Chateauneuf's 'Division Lobby', which is exploring approaches to improvisation in early seventeenth-century Italy. Jamie's playing has received considerable critical acclaim: a BBC Radio 3 presenter recently described his sound as 'the most beautifully toned cornetto playing I've heard'. A reviewer for the BBC Music Magazine had 'rarely heard mellifluous swing to match cornettist Jamie Savan's', while the Telegraph, in an echo of Mersenne, described his 'superb technique and truly singing tone' as a 'glorious ray of musical sunshine'. David Heyes studied double bass with Laurence Gray and Bronwen Naish, later at the Royal College of Music in London and completed his post-graduate studies in Prague with Frantisek Posta (Principal Double Bass,Czech

14 Philharmonic Orchestra). He has given recitals and masterclassesin 13 countries over the past few years and has been a juror at a number of international competitions, twice as chairman. David has been Specialist Double Bass Tutor at Wells Cathedral Schoolfor 18 years, and for a year was Contemporary Performer-in-Residence at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He is a founder member of Ensemble Bassissimo, Basso Bravura! (with soprano Sarah Poole), Duettino Basso (with Ben Groenevelt) and Artistic Director of Bass-Fest. David's collaborative work gained him a prestigious award from the David Walter Charitable Trust of New York for his pioneering activities as a soloist, teacher, publisher and commissioner of new music for double bass. He works with composers throughout the world and is particularly interested to expand the double bass repertoire, by commissioning new works and by rediscovering forgotten ones. Since 1990 more than 500 works have been written for him - from one to twenty basses and from beginner to virtuoso - and he has premiered nine contemporary concertos with orchestra. David has transcribed more than 200 works for double bass and in recent years has composed a number of original works which have been performed in America, Britain, Spain and Czech Republic. Six works inspired by the centenary of the First World War have been particularly successful and his choral and vocal music has been performed in Britain and America. He was a Featured Composer at 2015 Galicia Graves International Double Bass Competition and composed 'Sahara' as an imposed work for the competition.

15 In 1986 David founded the publishing company Recital Music, which now has the largest catalogue of double bass music in the world, and has written articles and reviews for the leading specialist magazines including The Strad, Bass News, Music Teacher, Double Bassist, ESTA News & Views and Classical Music. David has given recitals, masterclasses and workshops throughout Britain and abroad including UK (Trinity College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Welsh College of Music), USA (University of Montana, University of North Texas), France (Paris Conservatoire), China (Central Conservatory, Beijing), Norway (Norwegian Academy of Music), Netherlands (Rotterdam Conservatoire), Spain (Palma Conservatoire, Inca School of Music), Portugal (Escola Superior de Musica, Porto), Italy (Ancona University), Czech Republic (Janacek Academy of Music, Prague Conservatoire) and Denmark (Carl Nielsen Academy, Aarhus Academy of Music). "... a dazzling display of the instrument's bel canto qualities" [Music & Musicians magazine] "... wonderfully well played, the dazzling passage-work splendidly executed with cheerful geniality" [Bath Chronicle] "...a sparkling performance" [Bath Concertino) "You are doing excellent work for the Bass World. Your students and the Wells Cathedral School students are lucky!!" [Simon Garcia, Spanish composer-bassist]

16 "...a consummate performer, totally committed to today's music every composer's dream. A rare double bassist who connects so directly with his audience, David is a true virtuoso - breath-taking technique alongside passionate expression." [Sadie Harrison, eminent and successful Australian composer] "...You certainly command a wonderful, recreative and innovative double bass section within the String Department of Wells Cathedral School. A seriously brilliant, singular and on-going achievemnt by you in the challenging world of education. Excellent stuff! I look forward to many more workshops under your incomparable, inspiring and guiding leadership." [John Alexander, British composer] "David Heyes...inspirational Godfather of the international double bass world." [Katrina Gordon, Scottish composer and inspirational teacher and educator]. Pippa Hampton is currently in her third year reading music at St Anne s college Oxford. She started playing the French Horn aged 10 and she has played with a number of different orchestras including the National Youth Orchestra, Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra and Oxford University Orchestra. She originally took lessons at her school and in sixth form attended the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music. Pippa was the St Anne s Music Scholar and has performed as soloist with the St Anne s Camerata, and in college recitals a number of

17 times, including giving the world premiere of Dr John Traill s Drei Equale (2013). Peter McMullin read music at LMH, Oxford between 1982 and Since graduating he has been the Printed Music Specialist of Blackwell's Music Shop. When he is not working there he is usually to be found on a piano stool or the business end of a saxophone. In recent years he has specialised in working with young people preparing for examinations or auditions as well as performing with a variety of groups and ensembles. Harry Baker is is reading Music at St Anne's College, Oxford, where he currently holds the 2016/17 Music Scholarship. He started playing the piano when he was 6, attaining Grade 8 with Distinction at age 10 and Dip ABRSM, also with Distinction, at 15. In July 2015 he was awarded an LRSM Diploma. He was a Scholar at the Junior Department of The Royal Academy of Music for 4 years on both the Classical and Jazz courses, and has played in piano trios and quartets at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall and St John's Smith Square. He performed live and was interviewd on BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme in September In addition to piano, Harry also plays organ, clarinet, saxophone and bass guitar. He is a keen composer and has recently become the co-musical Director of The Oxford Gargoyles, a jazz vocal ensemble made up of Oxford students. Russian-born and based in the UK, Lydia Kavina is currently one of the leading performing musicians on theremin. From her age 9, she

18 studied the theremin under the direction of her distant relative, the inventor Léon Theremin himself. Lydia also studied piano and hold a degree in music theory and composition from the Moscow Conservatory. As a solo performer Kavina appeared in such projects as Tuning Up Festival of American Music with Seattle Symphony in 2016, Tim Burton and Danny Elfman s Show with BBC Concert Orchestra and London Symphony at the Royal Albert Hall, Testament by Nicolai Obouhov with Netherlands Radio Orchester under Reinbert de Lewes in 2006, First Symphony by Lera Auerbach with Dusseldorf Philharmonic in 2006, Jeanne d Arc au Bucher by Arthur Honegger with National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under Vladimir Spivakov in 2005, Theremin concert with Orchestratio SOSPESSO at New York Lincoln Centre Festival in 2000, Fourth Symphony by Charles Ives at Barbican Centre in Lydia worked for many theatre productions, among them: ballet The Little Mermaid by Lera Auerbach and John Neumeier, in Copenhagen, Hamburg and Beijing ( ), music drama The Tragedy of a Friendship by Moritz Eggert and Jan Fabre, dedicated to R. Wagner s anniversary (Gent, 2013), opera Baehlamms Fest by Olga Neuwirth in Vienna, Hamburg and Luzern ( ), musicals Alice and Black Rider by Tom Waits and Robert Wilsonin, Hamburg and Cologne ( ). Mrs. Kavina recorded several CDs with original music for theremin with labels MODE records, WERGO, Solnze records and Teleura, and she played for a number of film soundtracks, including Ed Wood and existetnz with music by Howard Shore and ''The Machinist'' by Roque Banos. She also

19 played the role of the theremin performer in film Me and Kaminsky by Wolfgang Becker. Lydia is an active promoter of new experimental music for the theremin and she is a composer herself. Her recent contemporary music project Nicht zy fassen by R. Yusipev and L. Kavina for theremin and accordion was perfomed in Germany, Switzerland, and Ukraine ( ). Kavinas Concerto for theremin and symphony orchestra was first performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra, under Gil Rose in Mrs. Kavina is strongly committed to the educational activities. She constantly integrates master classes, workshops and lectures in her concretising schedule. Her video tutorial Mastering the Theremin, recorded with Moog Music in 1994, is widely used among beginning thereminists. Lydia led several international theremin festivals and is the regular master teacher at the Theremin Academy in Germany, Switzerland and England. Several times a year she gives Theremin Workshops in Oxford Music Faculty, Bate Collection. David Sadlier has been praised for both his vocal and dramatic abilities and hailed as "one of America's leading dramatic tenors" (Oxford Mail). Dr. Sadlier's opera credits include appearances with the Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Chicago Opera Theater, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, New Orleans Opera, Opera Circle of Cleveland, Opera North, and the Baltimore Concert Opera. Fortunate to be involved in many new works, Dr. Sadlier has performed several world premieres including Loss of Eden (Opera Theater of St. Louis), the

20 title role in Thamos: King of Egypt (Opera Circle of Cleveland), Our Town and the collegiate debut of A View From the Bridge (Indiana University). Most recently, Dr. Sadlier appeared in Tosca with the Lyric Opera of Baltimore and both Carmen and Tosca with The Baltimore Concert Opera. He returned to Opera Circle of Cleveland as Edrisi in Szymanowski's Krol Roger where he also performed Tebaldo in I Capuletti e i Montecchi, and the role of Fritz Kobus in L'Amico Fritz. In addition, the tenor covered the role of Siegmund in Virginia Opera's recent production of Die Walküre. Concert appearances include a world premier song cycle, All ye know on Earth with the St. Anne's Camerata (Oxford), Handel s Messiah with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Joanne Falletta;Britten's Serenade under the baton of Richard Hughey, Mozart's Requiem with the Battle Creek Symphony, Britten's Saint Nicolas with the Kokomo Symphony Orchestra, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass and Brahms' Liebeslieder Walzes with the Lafayette Bach Chorale, Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music with the Indianapolis Symphony, and several performances with the Valley Symphony Orchestra. Equally at home on the recital stage, Dr. Sadlier has performed many major works including Die schöne Müllerin, Dichterliebe, An die ferne Geliebte, On Wenlock Edge, and Finzi's O fair to see and been featured at major international venues including London s Church of St. Martin in the Fields, Oxford s Jacqueline du Pré Music Room and The Schumann- Haus in Zwickau, Germany. Dr. Sadlier collaborates in recital with his wife,

21 pianist, Dr. Lelia Molthrop Sadlier. The duo specialize in theme-specific recitals and past performances have featured songs of William Shakespeare and, most recently, World War I. Dr. Sadlier currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where he teaches applied voice, language diction, and serves as operatic conductor and stage director. Dr. Sadlier's students have distinguished themselves as winners of regional competitions, and through admittance to nationally and internationally recognized summer training programs and leading graduate programs such as the Manhattan School of Music, the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, the University of Michigan, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Longy School of Music. Dr. Sadlier continues to serve as a guest clinician and recitalist at universities and institutes throughout the country; including Florida State University, The University of Colorado Boulder, Radford University, University of Southern Mississippi, Nicholls State University, SUNY Geneseo, the Interlochen School for the Arts, Montana State University, Western Illinois University, Albion College, and the Baldwin- Wallace Conservatory. Dr. Sadlier has also served as a guest-lecturer at St. Anne's College, Oxford. In the summer of 2011, Dr. Sadlier founded The Cornish American Song Institute (CASI) based in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK. The Institute is a three-week study of art-song for singers, pianists, and composers. The Institute provides applied music lessons, musical coachings, English Music Classes, tours of

22 historic sites in England, and presents several concerts. In addition, CASI spends one-week in Oxford engaging in lectures and master classes with musical luminaries from the University of Oxford and Trinity College in London. CASI has become a leading training ground for art song performers whose alumni have gone on to distinguish themselves in their young careers. Dr. Sadlier earned the Doctor of Music degree from The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University where he continues to study with Andreas Poulimenos. While at IU he served as an Associate Instructor of Voice for four years. Dr. Sadlier also holds a Masters degree in vocal performance from Indiana University as well as a Bachelor of Music from Loyola University in New Orleans. Lelia Sadlier has served as the Director of Keyboard Studies at Christopher Newport University specializing in Applied and Secondary Piano. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. Sadlier holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Grammy award winning pianist, Emanuel Ax. Dr. Sadlier completed the Doctor of Music degree in Piano Performance at The Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University where she worked with Edmund Battersby. Dr. Sadlier is active as both a soloist and chamber musician and has been praised for her fluid legato and singing tone. She has been featured in recitals at the Church of St. Martin in the Fields (London), the 92 nd Street Y and Steinway Hall in New York, and a recital

23 for former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Other recent performances include the Trinity Artist Series in New Orleans, Boteringe Suite (Gronigen, Holland), St. Anne s Recital Series (Oxford University), the Interlochen Arts Academy, the Performing Arts Center at Texas A&M University, the COFAC Recital Hall at Western Illinois University, Reynolds Recital Hall at Montana State University. In addition, Dr. Sadlier has appeared as concerto soloist with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, the New Orleans Civic Symphony Orchestra, and performed the Gerald Finzi Eclogue for the Finzi Centenary at Indiana University with the composer s son in attendance. This past summer, Dr. Sadlier was the Director of Piano Studies at the Cornish- American Song Institute in Falmouth, UK. An active clinician and speaker, Dr. Sadlier is a guest teacher for the Juilliard School s Music Advancement Program. She has given masterclasses at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Montana State University, Interlochen, and Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. She regularly gives clinics and classes for the Peninsula Music Teacher s Association and is active on local competition jury panels. Many of her students have been accepted to and continued their musical studies at prestigious institutions including The Jacob s School at IU, The College- Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati, Oberlin, the Eastman School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival. Other achievements of Dr. Sadlier include garnering the coveted Chancellor s Fellowship at IU, articles published in Music Teacher

24 Magazine, an ASCAP Young Composer s Competition Finalist award, the distinction of youngest student on the USA Today All-Academic Team (1988), an international audition winner of the TCU/Cliburn Institute, a first-place award in the Music Teacher s National Association Composition Contest, the honor of being the youngest-ever composer to study with Leonard Bernstein at Boston University s Tanglewood Institute (1986), a feature article in Seventeen magazine, and an appearance on the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Dr. Sadlier resides in McAllen, TX with her husband, tenor, David Sadlier, and their two daughters.