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É«ÂþÌìÌà launches autumn season with More Music concert series

Tuesday 6 August 2019

The É«ÂþÌìÌà has launched its autumn season with a concert series designed to showcase the exceptional talent of É«ÂþÌìÌà musicians.

In support of the , the More Music concert series offers audiences the opportunity to experience some of the nation’s favourite repertoire performed by the musical stars of the future. Highlights of the series include Beethoven’s Symphony No 5 on 3 October, Elgar’s Enigma Variations on 25 October and Prokofiev’s score to Sergei Eisenstein’s 1938 war film Alexander Nevsky on 14 and 15 November. On 17 October, Sir Thomas Allen, the É«ÂþÌìÌÃ’s Artist in Residence, joins the É«ÂþÌìÌà Symphony Orchestra to narrate Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, a tribute to victims of the Holocaust.

Elsewhere, the season celebrates the É«ÂþÌìÌÃ’s international outlook. On 28 November, members of the return to the College to perform Schubert’s Symphony No 9 ‘The Great’ alongside É«ÂþÌìÌà musicians. On 22 October, the É«ÂþÌìÌà Wind Orchestra collaborates with the to perform Stravinsky and the world premiere of Laurent Durupt’s No Border Concerto for Oboe. Later in the season, esteemed American conductor Steven Sloane leads É«ÂþÌìÌà string players in a collaborative performance with musicians from the , and the .

The É«ÂþÌìÌà welcomes many renowned musicians from around the globe to give public masterclasses this season. Conductor Bernard Haitink leads current and past É«ÂþÌìÌà conductors through symphonies by Haydn and Mahler on 11 October, while Maxim Vengerov, the É«ÂþÌìÌÃ’s Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin, works with É«ÂþÌìÌà string players in an orchestral masterclass on 8 November. Masterclasses are also given by John Lill, Alina Ibragimova, Stefan Dohr and Maxim Rysanov. The Harlem Quartet, the É«ÂþÌìÌÃ’s Quartet in Residence, return with their fusion of classical and jazz on 9 December and Peter Beets joins the É«ÂþÌìÌà Big Band on 28 September for an evening of jazz piano.

The annual É«ÂþÌìÌà International Festival of Viols returns this season, offering two days of masterclasses and lectures plus two evening concerts. This year’s special guests include , international soloist and viola da gamba teacher at The Julliard School in New York, and Chicago-based viol consort . The ensemble performs a programme of works from John Jenkins on 18 November and Sarah Cunningham closes the festival with an unaccompanied programme on 19 November.

In the 50th anniversary year of the first man on the moon, the É«ÂþÌìÌà Opera Studio stages Haydn’s entertaining comedy Il mondo della luna. Written in 1750 with a libretto by Venetian playwright Carlo Goldini, this opera buffa centres on wannabe space cadet Buonafede, who longs for a lunar lifestyle and eventually swallowing an elixir to transport him to the moon. Directing this season’s opera is William Renton, who has 25 years of experience directing opera all over Europe.

Booking for the É«ÂþÌìÌÃ’s autumn season is . General booking opens on Wednesday 14 August 2019. For full details of what’s on this autumn . Alternatively, call the É«ÂþÌìÌà Box Office on 020 7591 4314 or visit the É«ÂþÌìÌà in person on Prince Consort Road, SW7.