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Displaying events between 01 October 2024 and 31 October 2024

Brahms Piano Quintet Within Brahms’s extensive output of chamber music, the Piano Quintet stands out for its large scale and its thrilling musical writing.
Dates: Tue 01 Booking and More Information
Masterclass: Jonathan Leathwood Jonathan Leathwood, professor at the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, works with guitar students Dates: Wed 02 Booking and More Information
Dogoda Quintet A 2011 piece by Sally Beamish based on Mozart’s Adagio for glass harmonica is paired here with an arrangement for wind quintet of one of Dvořák’s most well-known works, the ‘American’ string quartet. The remarkable work of Ruth Crawford Seeger has been revived extensively in recent years, including her Suite from 1952. Dates: Thu 03 Booking and More Information
Organ and Film An improvisation to silent film by organ students from the Academy and the University of Music, Lübeck, directed by Visiting Professor of Organ, Franz Danksagmüller. Dates: Fri 04 Booking and More Information
Academy Jazz Orchestra with Dave Holland International Jazz Artist in Residence and NEA Jazz Hall Of Fame inductee, bassist Dave Holland, is one of the most influential jazz musicians in the world.
Since moving from his native England to take a role in Miles Davis’ seminal bands of the late 1960s and 70s, he has forged a career as a composer, instrumentalist and band leader, significantly impacting jazz in the last five decades, and remains as vital and relevant today as ever. At this event, the Academy Jazz Orchestra presents a selection of his original works. Dates: Fri 04 Booking and More Information
Valegro Quartet Haydn’s Op 20 quartets represents some of his foundational works in the genre he helped to define. Beethoven’s Op 127 Quartet is the first of his so-called ‘late quartets’ composed in the last years of his life. In these works, Beethoven plays with sonority, tonality and texture in ways much admired by subsequent composers. Dates: Tue 08 Booking and More Information
Christopher Maltman and Audrey Saint-Gil Grammy award-winning baritone Christopher Maltman is joined by Audrey Saint-Gil to work on Italian operatic arias. Dates: Tue 08 Booking and More Information
Academy Piano Series At Wigmore Hall: Emanuil Ivanov Frederic Rzewski’s soul-stirring work is widely regarded as a modern classic, and one of the most ambitious keyboard compositions of the 20th century. Dates: Wed 09 Booking and More Information
Composer In Residence: Augusta Read Thomas Lunchtime Concert Experience the extraordinary range and vitality of Academy alumna Augusta Read Thomas, one of the most performed composers of her generation. Described by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as ‘one of the most recognisable and widely loved figures in American music’, she is celebrated across these two concerts. Dates: Thu 10 Booking and More Information
Composer In Residence: in Conversation Head of Composition Philip Cashian talks to Academy alumna Augusta Read Thomas about her busy career as a composer, curator and educator. Dates: Thu 10 Booking and More Information
Jonathon Heyward Conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra Jonathon Heyward, Academy alumnus and Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, returns to conduct Mahler’s fourth symphony. Dates: Fri 11 Booking and More Information
Composer In Residence: Augusta Read Thomas with the Academy Manson Ensemble Experience the extraordinary range and vitality of Academy alumna Augusta Read Thomas, one of the most performed composers of her generation. Described by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as ‘one of the most recognisable and widely loved figures in American music’, she is celebrated across these two concerts Dates: Fri 11 Booking and More Information
The Maknickas Family Trio Rachmaninov’s two Trios élégiaques are early works, dating from his late teens and early twenties. Brahms’s First Piano Trio too was completed when the composer was only 20, and contains some stormy and striking music, turbulently concluding in the tonic minor. Dates: Tue 15 Booking and More Information
Jazz Ensembles Academy Jazz ensemble concerts mark the culmination of the small ensemble projects on the Jazz course. Students perform sets of music on which they have been working with a variety of distinguished visiting musicians. Dates: Tue 15, Thu 17, Tue 22 Booking and More Information
Masterclass: Fabio Zanon Visiting Professor of Guitar Fabio Zanon makes a welcome return to work with Academy students. Dates: Tue 15 Booking and More Information
Masterclass: György Pauk Recently retired former Ede Zathureczky Professor of Violin at the Academy, György Pauk, returns to impart his wisdom to students in this violin masterclass. Dates: Wed 16 Booking and More Information
Masterclass: Jonathan Kelly Principal Oboe for the Berlin Philharmonic and Visiting Professor of Oboe, alumnus Jonathan Kelly, returns to work with oboe students. Dates: Thu 17 Booking and More Information
Royal Academy Opera Scenes Under the musical guidance of Head of Opera, Christopher White, members of Royal Academy Opera and the Preparatory Opera course, alongside the Repetiteur Fellows and students from the Conducting Department, present a varied programme of operatic scenes. Dates: Thu 17, Fri 18 Booking and More Information
British Wind Music The Academy Wind Ensemble presents a programme of music ranging from the 17th to 21st century. The music Henry Purcell wrote for the funeral of Mary II in 1695 is some of his most moving. Judith Bingham’s Bright Spirit, from 2001, is similarly inspired, written in memorial to pioneering doctor William Reynish. A 2012 work from the Academy’s own Head of Composition, Philip Cashian, leads into Tippett’s Triumph. This work for concert band takes as its inspiration the composer’s humanist oratorio from the early 1980s, The Mask of Time. Dates: Fri 18 Booking and More Information
Handel Chamber Music A recital of chamber music by Handel, performed by members of the Historical Performance Department. Dates: Tue 22 Booking and More Information
Symphonic Brass with Jeroen Berwaerts Professor in Residence Jeroen Berwaerts conducts Academy Brass for the second time this term in a mixed and varied programme from Elizabethan England through to the work of maverick American composer Charles Ives which closes the programme – his Variations on ‘America’ uses a tune that is surprisingly familiar. Dates: Thu 24 Booking and More Information
Trevor Pinnock Conducts the Academy Chamber Orchestra Trevor Pinnock returns to conduct Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn, followed by Mendelssohn’s immensely successful third symphony celebrating Scottish landscape and history, which premiered in Leipzig in 1842 in the presence of Queen Victoria Dates: Fri 25 Booking and More Information
Resounding Shores: Ye Sacred Muses This programme offers a rare and wonderful taste of music by some of England’s greatest composers, including Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd. The repertoire is sublime and often strange, and is the musical equivalent of a fragile Vermeer portrait, combining exquisite intimacy with enigmatic melancholy. Dates: Sun 27 Booking and More Information
Autumn Piano Festival Curated by Joanna MacGregor, this year’s Autumn Piano Festival opens a two-year project of Robert Schumann’s complete works for solo piano, performed by Academy pianists – over fifteen hours of the greatest and most original piano music ever composed Dates: Tue 29 Booking and More Information
Remembering Osian Ellis (1928-2021) Towards the end of his career, Benjamin Britten enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with the harpist Osian Ellis, who died in 2021 at the age of 92. Britten wrote several works towards the very end of his life for his life partner, Peter Pears, to perform with Ellis, as heart surgery and ill-health prevented Britten from piano accompaniment. These include the last of his five Canticles, and the last set of folksong arrangements. These are set alongside a new work by Academy composer George Parris. Dates: Thu 31 Booking and More Information
Masterclass: Emily Beynon Emily Beynon, Visiting Professor of Flute and Principal Flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, gives one of her regular masterclasses. Dates: Thu 31 Booking and More Information

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