Dartington Festival Orchestra
Rita Castro Blanco*, Ilya Ram, Finan Jones, I-han Fu, Sam Raegan, Dominic Ellis-Peckham conductors
W.A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro* (1st Act)
Dartington Festival Orchestra
Rita Castro Blanco*, Ilya Ram, Finan Jones, I-han Fu, Sam Raegan, Dominic Ellis-Peckham conductors
J. Brahms - Symphony No.4*
L.v. Beethoven - ‘Emperor’ Piano Concerto*
F. Liszt - Piano Concerto No.1
Assistantship: Estágio Gulbenkian
Orchestra do Estágio Gulbenkian
Dietrich Paredes Conductor
M. Durão - Iggdrassil
W.A. Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
M. Ravel - Suite No.1 and No.2 Daphnis et Chloé
EGO – Estágio Gulbenkian para Orquestra 2018
A Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian organiza mais uma edição do Estágio Gulbenkian para Orquestra, que decorrerá na Universidade de Aveiro, entre 16 e 30 de julho, sob a direção artística da maestrina Joana Carneiro.
Criado em 2013, o Estágio Gulbenkian para Orquestra tem como objetivo promover a experiência orquestral e o desenvolvimento do nível artístico entre jovens instrumentistas portugueses. Cerca de 80 instrumentistas de talento excecional com idades compreendidas entre os 16 e os 26 anos são escolhidos através de rigorosas provas de seleção. O Estágio integra tutores especializados com alargada experiência, que, em colaboração com Joana Carneiro, orientam os participantes na preparação das obras a executar na digressão nacional que se realizará no final do Estágio.
Northern Ballet Sinfonia
Rita Blanco*, Tjeerd Barkmeijer, Rory Storm, Melvin Tay, Peter Woffenden, Daniel Parkinson conductors
Gabriel Fauré - Masque et Bergamasques*
Gabriel Fauré - Pelleas et Melisande
Aaron Copland - Clarinet Concerto
George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess Fantasy
Faure’s incidental music to Maeterlinck’s classic play Pelleas et Mellisande is one of his most popular works, written at breakneck speed for the stage production in 1893. The play hit a nerve and inspired some amazing music by Debussy, Schoenberg & Sibelius.
The wonderful symphonic suite from Gershwin’s epoch defining Porgy and Bess is just that, a continuous orchestral suite of the show’s biggest hits, arranged for orchestra and made popular by the hugely talented Ian Farrington. Gerswhin’s own suite, Catfish Row, missed out all the best numbers, so this is a little correction on behalf of history!
Stockport Symphony Orchestra
Rita Castro Blanco*, Tjeerd barkmeijer conductors
W.A. Mozart - Symphony No.40*
E. Elgar - Introduction and Allegro
J. Brahms - Serenade No.2
Assistantship: Hallé
Hallé Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder Conductor
Hong Xu Piano
F. Schubert - Symphony No.8, ‘Unfinished’
W.A. Mozart - Piano Concerto No.18, K456
F. Mendelssohn - Symphony No.3, ‘Scottish’
RNCM Engagements with professional orchestras
In addition to conducting student instrumental and vocal performances, the most valuable gift you can receive is the opportunity to lead exceptionally experienced players within professional orchestras. This is why our partnerships with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé , Manchester Camerata, Psappha and Foden’s Brass Band are an integral part of our offer.
Postgraduates and Junior Fellows work as assistant conductors with these orchestras throughout the year, and masters students currently take their final examinations in concert with the BBC Philharmonic.
RNCM New Ensemble
Clark Rundell, Rita Castro Blanco*, Rory Storm conductors
M.A. Turnage - Two Baudelaire Songs
M.A. Turnage - Col
M.A. Turnage - Eulogy
M.A. Turnage - Release*
(in the presence of the composer)
The Royal Northern College of Music and Wigmore Hall present a day of music to celebrate the work of composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, one of the best known and most prolific British composers.
Turnage has a distinctive musical personality, with aggressive and energetic qualities contrasted with lyricism and tenderness, projected across his large catalogue of orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works, as well as two large-scale operas. He is known for combining jazz, popular and classical elements in his music, often appealing to young audiences.
This study day features chamber music and orchestral works performed by students from the RNCM.
Rosamund Prize concert
Rita Castro Blanco conductor
Athanasia Kontou - Antimusical
RNCM student composers collaborate with Creative Writing students from Manchester Metropolitan University to create new works in this annual prize.
Assistantship: RLPO
Royal Philharmonic Symphonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Nobuyuki Tsujii Piano
W. Walton - Johannesburg Festival Overture
P.Y. Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1
D. Shostakovitch - Symphony No.5
RNCM Engagements with professional orchestras
In addition to conducting student instrumental and vocal performances, the most valuable gift you can receive is the opportunity to lead exceptionally experienced players within professional orchestras. This is why our partnerships with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé , Manchester Camerata, Psappha and Foden’s Brass Band are an integral part of our offer.
Postgraduates and Junior Fellows work as assistant conductors with these orchestras throughout the year, and masters students currently take their final examinations in concert with the BBC Philharmonic.
Assistantship: BBC Philharmonic (Copy)
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson Conductor
Andrew Haveron Violin
A. Copland - Appalachian Spring: Suite for orchestra
E.W. Korngold - Violin Concerto
R. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.5
RNCM Engagements with professional orchestras
In addition to conducting student instrumental and vocal performances, the most valuable gift you can receive is the opportunity to lead exceptionally experienced players within professional orchestras. This is why our partnerships with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé , Manchester Camerata, Psappha and Foden’s Brass Band are an integral part of our offer.
Postgraduates and Junior Fellows work as assistant conductors with these orchestras throughout the year, and masters students currently take their final examinations in concert with the BBC Philharmonic.
Assistantship: BBC Philharmonic
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson Conductor
A. Copland - Connotations
RNCM Engagements with professional orchestras
In addition to conducting student instrumental and vocal performances, the most valuable gift you can receive is the opportunity to lead exceptionally experienced players within professional orchestras. This is why our partnerships with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé , Manchester Camerata, Psappha and Foden’s Brass Band are an integral part of our offer.
Postgraduates and Junior Fellows work as assistant conductors with these orchestras throughout the year, and masters students currently take their final examinations in concert with the BBC Philharmonic.
8³: New Music and Science
Rita Castro Blanco conductor
I. Benito Gutierres - Ma(ris)ma
Following the huge success of last season’s The Music of Proof: What Does Maths Sound Like? we embarked on another interdisciplinary collaboration during British Science Week, with 8³ – New Music and Science.
In this, our second PRiSM event, scientists from Manchester Metropolitan University collaborated with eight RNCM composers in the creation of eight new compositions involving eight RNCM performers. So, more music shaped by science and more opportunities to be the first people to hear these brand new works.
Psappha Ensemble Composer's Workshop
Psappha Ensemble
Rita Castro Blanco Conductor
Adam Gorb Tutor
Royal Northern College of Music composers have the opportunity to hear their new pieces played by the Psappha Ensembel, while receiving feedback from their tutor Adam Gorb and the players on their writing.
5 new pieces by:
Carmel Smickersgill
Grave Evangeline Mason
Athanasia Kontou
Caroline Bordignon
Shaun Davies
Assistantship: Manchester Camerata
Manchester Camerata
Jessica Cottis Conductor
F. Mendelssohn - Overture: The Hebrides
J.N. Hummel - Trumpet Concerto
J. Haydn - Trumpet Concerto
F. Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 “Scottish’”
RNCM Engagements with professional orchestras
In addition to conducting student instrumental and vocal performances, the most valuable gift you can receive is the opportunity to lead exceptionally experienced players within professional orchestras. This is why our partnerships with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé , Manchester Camerata, Psappha and Foden’s Brass Band are an integral part of our offer.
Postgraduates and Junior Fellows work as assistant conductors with these orchestras throughout the year, and masters students currently take their final examinations in concert with the BBC Philharmonic.
Assistantship: RLPO
Ensemble 10/10
Jessica Cottis Conductor
M. Kerem - Lamento for Cello and Strings
A. Clyne - Within Her Arms
E. Kats-Chernin - Zoom and Zip
G. Lentz - Birrung
O. Knussen - Scriabin Settings
G.E. Mason - New Piece (world premiere)
I. Stravinsky - Concerto in E-flat major for Chamber Orchestra “Dumbarton Oaks”
RNCM Engagements with professional orchestras
In addition to conducting student instrumental and vocal performances, the most valuable gift you can receive is the opportunity to lead exceptionally experienced players within professional orchestras. This is why our partnerships with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé , Manchester Camerata, Psappha and Foden’s Brass Band are an integral part of our offer.
Postgraduates and Junior Fellows work as assistant conductors with these orchestras throughout the year, and masters students currently take their final examinations in concert with the BBC Philharmonic.
Short Film Festival
RNCM Ensemble
Rita Castro Blanco*, Tjeerd Barkmeijer conductors
D.Tjiok - new score to Vormittagsspuk*
C.Bordignon - new score to Entr’acte*
P. Rousiamanis - new score for Emak-Bakia
A. Breeze - new score for Un chien andalou
As the RNCM continues to research interesting programming ideas for our French Connections season, we thought why not curate our own original evening of 1920s Surrealist short films complete with brand new live scores composed and performed by our students?
Our programme will include Luis Buuels Un chien andalou (co-written by Salvador Dal), Man Rays Emak-Bakia, Ren Clairs Entracte and Hans Richters Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast). Some of the shorts featured may not be that well-known but were extremely innovative for the time they were made and will be a very interesting watch.
Brand New Orchestra
Rita Castro Blanco Conductor
C. Smickersgill - How to start a quest you always wanted* (World premiere)
M. Brown - Beverly Meadow* (World premiere)
(In the presence of the composers)
Our Brand New Orchestra showcases the work of RNCM Composition students, allowing our audience to experiment and to hear brand new works before they are performed anywhere else.
Free admission, no ticket required
RNCM Opera Scenes
Rita Castro Blanco conductor
Silvia Magagni repetiteur
G. Puccini - La Boheme (excerpt fro Act 1)
Sam Jackson Marcello
Iain Henderson Rudolfo
Eugene Dillon-Hooper Colline
Lionel Ott Schaunard
Tim Bagley Benoit
Assistantship: RLPO
Royal Philharmonic Symphonic Orchestra
Elim Chan Conductor
Kathryn Stott Piano
S. Prokofiev - Suite from Lieutenant Kijé
D. Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No.2
N. Rimsky-Korsakov - Suite from The Snow Maiden
F. Delius - Sleigh Ride
RNCM Engagements with professional orchestras
In addition to conducting student instrumental and vocal performances, the most valuable gift you can receive is the opportunity to lead exceptionally experienced players within professional orchestras. This is why our partnerships with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé , Manchester Camerata, Psappha and Foden’s Brass Band are an integral part of our offer.
Postgraduates and Junior Fellows work as assistant conductors with these orchestras throughout the year, and masters students currently take their final examinations in concert with the BBC Philharmonic.
RNCM New Ensemble
Clark Rundell, Rita Castro Blanco*, Rory Storm conductors
M.A. Turnage - Two Baudelaire Songs
M.A. Turnage - Col
M.A. Turnage - Eulogy
M.A. Turnage - Release*
(in the presence of the composer)
The Royal Northern College of Music and Wigmore Hall present a day of music to celebrate the work of composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, one of the best known and most prolific British composers.
Turnage has a distinctive musical personality, with aggressive and energetic qualities contrasted with lyricism and tenderness, projected across his large catalogue of orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works, as well as two large-scale operas. He is known for combining jazz, popular and classical elements in his music, often appealing to young audiences.
This study day features chamber music and orchestral works performed by students from the RNCM.
Assistantship: BBC Philharmonic
BBC Philharmonic
Simone Young Conductor
B. Dean - Testament
L. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 1 in C major
S. Beamish - Piano Concerto no. 3 "City Stanzas”
E. Elgar - Enigma Variations
RNCM Engagements with professional orchestras
In addition to conducting student instrumental and vocal performances, the most valuable gift you can receive is the opportunity to lead exceptionally experienced players within professional orchestras. This is why our partnerships with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé , Manchester Camerata, Psappha and Foden’s Brass Band are an integral part of our offer.
Postgraduates and Junior Fellows work as assistant conductors with these orchestras throughout the year, and masters students currently take their final examinations in concert with the BBC Philharmonic.
Assistantship: BBC Philharmonic
BBC Philharmonic
Simone Young Conductor
A. Webern - Passacaglia
A. Berg - Three Fragments from 'Wozzeck'
J. Marx - Feste im Herbst
RNCM Engagements with professional orchestras
In addition to conducting student instrumental and vocal performances, the most valuable gift you can receive is the opportunity to lead exceptionally experienced players within professional orchestras. This is why our partnerships with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé , Manchester Camerata, Psappha and Foden’s Brass Band are an integral part of our offer.
Postgraduates and Junior Fellows work as assistant conductors with these orchestras throughout the year, and masters students currently take their final examinations in concert with the BBC Philharmonic.