St Barnabas Schumann Festival
Friday Saturday & Sunday June 4th, 5th and 6th 2010
We present a major 3-day festival of chamber music, piano music and lieder
to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth on June 8th 1810.
We have 10 hours of music, in 4 concerts, performed by 47 musicians -
21 pianists, 11 violinists, 7 cellists, 4 violists, 3 singers and 1 clarinettist.
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We have
3 evening concerts from 7.00pm (note early start) to 10.00 pm
And a concert on Sunday afternoon from 2.00 to 6.00 pm
Admission : £10 to each session
or £30 for the entire festival
Young people and students half price
No advance tickets will be issued - just turn up !
The church is very large and admission is guaranteed
There are no problems parking near the church.
We have a superb Bosendorfer concert grand piano, previously used by the BBC
The festival will be held 'in the round', with the piano in the nave of the church
There will be frequent breaks, and tea and supper will be available on Sunday
All proceeds will go to the St Barnabas Organ Fund -
we need to raise £300,000 for a historic 'Hill' organ.
PROGRAMME
Session 1 : Friday evening June 4th 7.00 - 10.00 pm
7.00 Fantasiestücke Op 73 - Sarah Williamson (clarinet) Hugh Mather (piano)
7.15 Toccata Op 7 - Ji Liu (piano)
7.25 Symphonic studies Op 13 - Ina Charuashvili (piano)
interval
8.05 Dichterliebe Op 48 - Matthew Sharp (baritone) / Viv McLean (piano)
8.40 ‘Abegg' variations Op 1 - Angela Brownridge (piano)
interval
9.00 Waldszenen Op 82 - Simon Watterton (piano)
9.30 Violin Sonata no 1 Op 105 - Benjamin Wragg (violin) / Kan Tomita (piano)
Session 2 : Saturday evening June 5th 7.00-10.00 pm
7.00 Fantasy Op 17 - Hugh Mather (piano)
7.30 Kreisleriana Op 16 - Konstantin Lapshin (piano)
interval
8.15 Selected lieder - Armin Zanner (baritone) / Danielle Salamon (piano )
8.50 Piano Sonata no 1 Op 11 - Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
interval
9.35 String Quartet no 1 Op 41/1 - The Wu String Quartet
Session 3 : Sunday afternoon June 6th 2.00 - 6.00 pm
2.00 Liederkreis Op 39 - Erica Eloff (soprano) / Mark Nixon (piano)
2.30 Arabesque Op 18 - Denise Patton (piano)
2.40 Papillons Op 2 - Stephen Plaistow
interval
3.15 String Quartet no 2 Op 41/2 - Kokila Gillett & Thomas Hankey (violins) Alexandra Urquhart (viola) Andrew Joyce (cello)
3.45 Carnaval Op 9 - Simon Callaghan (piano)
interval
4.40 Adagio and Allegro Op 70 - Jun Sasaki (cello) Charles Economou (piano)
4.55 Humoresque Op 20 - Pavel Timofejevsky (piano)
5.25 Piano Trio no 2 Op 80 - The Callaghan piano trio
Session 4 : Sunday evening June 6th 7.00-10.00 pm
7.00 Piano Quartet Op 47 - Fenella Humphreys (violin) Nicholas Bootiman (viola) Oliver Coates(cello) Nicola Eimer (piano)
7.35 Piano Trio no 1 Op 63 - Jiafeng Chen (violin) Anna Beryl (cello) Alexis White (piano )
interval
8.25 Violin Sonata no 2 Op 121 - Yuka Matsumoto (violin) Julian Jacobson (piano)
9.00 Fantasy for violin Op 131 arr Kreisler - Yuri Zhislin (violin) Olga Sitkovetsky (piano )
interval
9.30 Piano Quintet Op 44 - Yuri Zhislin (violin) Laura Samuel (violin) Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola) Kristina Blaumane (cello) Mei Yi Foo (piano)
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