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Displaying events between 22 November 2024 and 30 November 2024
Academy Voices: 200 Years of Song at the Academy
Academy Voices celebrate the legacy of composers who have taught and studied at the Academy since its establishment in 1822. The programme will include music by Paolo Tosti, Michael Head and current and recent composition students at the Academy.
Dates: Thu 28
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Beyond the Aranjuez
We continue our fascinating survey of guitar concertos composed in the past hundred years, from diverse countries and musical traditions.
Dates: Tue 26
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Hänsel und Gretel
When Hänsel and Gretel find themselves lost in the forest, they happen upon a house made of gingerbread. Unable to resist temptation, the siblings begin to eat the house, only to be captured by the witch who lives inside. This opera made Humperdinck a household name after its first performance in December 1893.
Based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.
Dates: Fri 22
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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 26
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Manson Ensemble Side-by-Side with London Sinfonietta
The Academy Manson Ensemble and London Sinfonietta’s players perform SIDE-BY-SIDE at the Southbank Centre. Written shortly before Morton Feldman's death, For Samuel Beckett is a meditatively shifting work, in which tiny differences between endless rhythmic and harmonic permutations suspend space and time. Feldman’s experiments with scale and entropy led him to an obsession with quietly powerful music: this evocative and mysterious work seems to appear from nowhere and float on elsewhere after its end.
Dates: Fri 29
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Masterclass: Anne-Sophie Bertrand
Visiting Professor of Harp, Anne-Sophie Bertrand, visits the Academy to work with Harp Department students.
Dates: Thu 28
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Masterclass: Joel Quarrington
Visting Professor of Double Bass, Joel Quarrington, has served as the Principal Double Bassist for many orchestras, most recently the London Symphony Orchestra.
Dates: Mon 25
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Dates: Fri 22, Fri 29
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Resounding Shores: Hail, Bright Cecilia
The Academy’s first SIDE-BY-SIDE with the Dunedin Consort presents concerts in Edinburgh and the Duke’s Hall. It will feature Purcell’s Hail, Bright Cecilia!, written in honour of St Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, a work in which all instruments have ‘character’ movements and where singers and instrumentalists play equally dramatic roles. Preceding this famous ode is Sir John Clerk of Penicuik’s relatively little-known cantata, Leo Scotiae Irritatus, depicting Scotland’s unsuccessful venture to set up an empire
in Panama.
Dates: Fri 22
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Resounding Shores: Ode to St Cecilia
Our 2024 series closes with Purcell’s Hail, bright Cecilia!, written in honour of St Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. In this work, all of the instruments have ‘character’ movements where singers and instrumentalists play equally dramatic roles. Preceding this famous ode is Sir John Clerk of Penicuik’s relatively little-known cantata, Leo Scotiae irritatus, which depicts Scotland’s ambitious (and unsuccessful) venture to set up an empire in Panama.
Dates: Sun 24
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Royal Orchestral Society: Breaching Barriers
This is an external production presented at the Royal Academy of Music.
Dates: Sun 24
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Sir Mark Elder Conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder, the Academy’s Barbirolli Chair of Conducting, returns to conduct two mighty tone poems by Richard Strauss. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche tells the story of a folkloric trickster who meets an untimely end after one prank too many; it is followed by Also sprach Zarathustra, the famous opening of which leads into a vast canvas featuring some of the composer’s most opulent orchestral writing.
Dates: Fri 29
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Woodwind Chamber Music
Michael Tippett’s Prelude, Recitative and Aria derives from his astringent opera King Priam, first performed in Coventry. The music of Louise Farrenc is seeing something of a renaissance in recent years, and her Sextet for wind and piano reveals a distinctive compositional voice. André Previn’s Trio reveals his wide-ranging musical interests, with jazz rhythms to the fore in its rambunctious final movement.
Dates: Thu 28
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