Concert Listings 2009/10

University Chorus with Bangor Baroque in performance of Handel's Messiah, December 2007

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This is a list of events which have been held at Bangor University since October 2009 and organised by the University or affiliated groups and open to the public.

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Celebration Weekend - Event to commemorate the 125th Anniversary of the founding of Bangor University.

Date: Thursday 15 October 2009
Time: 09:00:00
Location:

The Celebration Weekend is one of a series of special events, organised by the University to mark the 125th anniversary.

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Cantorion Monteverdi Singers.

Date: Thursday 5 November 2009
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powys Hall,
Bangor University.

John Huw Davies (conductor)
Catherine Barnett (piano)

Mendelssohn: Four Sacred Pieces
Robin Milford: Songs of Escape
Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia
Malcolm Williamson: Symphony for Voices
Pieces by Sebastian Forbes, John Hywel, and William Mathias

The locally-based Monteverdi Singers present a typically eclectic programme of choral music, including works by three former staff members of Bangor University’s School of Music.

Ensemble Cymru.

Date: Thursday 12 November 2009
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.

Brahms: Horn Trio, op. 40

Alun Hoddinott: Dream Wanderer

Huw Watkins: Horn Trio

Debussy: Violin Sonata

The horn takes centre stage with the music of Johannes Brahms and Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott, whilst Debussy's masterwork adds a maelstrom of conflicting emotions.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales - 125th Anniversary Concert.

Date: Friday 13 November 2009
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall,
Main Arts Building.

* Tim Thorpe (horn)
* Garry Walker (conductor)

Guto Puw: New work
Haydn: Symphony No. 70 in D major
William Mathias: Horn Concerto
Mozart: Concert Rondo for Horn and Orchestra in E flat, K. 371
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major

A new work by Guto Puw - a lecturer in Bangor University's School of Music and recent winner of the BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award - opens this special concert in which the BBC National Orchestra of Wales contributes to the University's anniversary celebrations. The evening is themed around the French horn: one of the orchestra's most versatile instruments. The BBC NOW's first horn player Tim Thorpe performs works by Mozart and Bangor's former Professor of Music William Mathias. Two symphonies complete the evening's programme: Haydn's Seventieth, written to mark the building of a new opera house at Eszterháza, and Beethoven's Second, which heralds that composer's inimitable mastery of the symphonic genre.

Tickets: full price £12, senior citizen £9.50, benefit claimants £9.50, disabled £9.50, disabled companion £9.50, BBC staff (15% off) £10.20, readers of BBC Music Magazine (10% off) £10.80, student £6.00, family (1 adult + 1-2 children) £11, family (2 adults + 1-4 children) £16.50. Group discount: buy 10, get the 11th free.

On sale in advance from The Muse (01248 362072) or from the BBC on freephone 0800 052 1812. It is strongly recommended that tickets are bought in advance, as there is no guarantee that tickets will be available on the door on the night of the concert.

Not included in the Music at Bangor season ticket .

Jana Frenklova (piano) - POSTPONED.

Date: Thursday 19 November 2009
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 14 No. 1
Debussy: Selections from Préludes, Books 1 and 2

Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13

In her first concert this season Jana Frenklova performs Beethoven's early E major piano sonata (later rearranged as a string quartet by the composer himself), excerpts from Debussy's wonderfully evocative Préludes, and Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, written at the age of 24 and based on a theme by Baron von Fricker, the guardian of the composer's then sweetheart Ernestine.

*We regret to announce that this concert is being postponed.*

Opus Anglicanum.

Date: Saturday 21 November 2009
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Sea Music: Ships and the Sea, Sailors and Fishermen

Music at Bangor are pleased to welcome Opus Anglicanum ('the English work') - five men a capella and a storyteller -- described recently as 'one of the most intriguing and entertaining ensembles currently performing' (Choral Journal of America). The group presents a sequence of traditional sea songs, chanties and spirituals, alongside Gregorian chant and contemporary music commissioned by Opus Anglicanum, full of light and shade and variety. Full details of this delightful programme are available on the Music at Bangor website.

2pm-5pm: Workshop. John Rowlands-Pritchard leads a friendly and enjoyable afternoon's experience open to everyone, young and old, singers and non-singers, beginners and also those already with experience of the chant. It includes a short monastic afternoon service, as well as an antiphon chant, a hymn, and a respond for the feast day of St Nicholas, patron saint of seafarers. Participants will have the opportunity to join Opus Anglicanum for a couple of items in the evening concert. Participation is free of charge to concert ticket holders, or for those purchasing season tickets.

7.30pm: Concert.

Programme

The Herrings Head (traditional)
Bound away

Fisherman Peter (spiritual)
Names

Tu es Petrus (antiphon chant)

Judith Bingham: Tu es Petrus (from Necklace of Light, 2000 Opus Anglicanum commission)
Wednesday 24 June 1992

David Bednall: Put Out into the Deep (Opus Anglicanum commission)
Getting into one of the boats

Like Peter (spiritual)
A coin

Tom Bawcock (traditional, Mousehole, Cornwall)
September 1992; Padstow boat Peganina

The Padstow Maysong (traditional, arr. Peter Nardone)
Lia-G

Sally Beamish: Sea Psalm (Opus Anglicanum commission)

EGWYL

Báidín Fheilimí (traditional Irish Gaelic)
My heart is broken (Riders to the Sea by John Synge)

Cum quidam fluctuantia (Chant: Hymn to St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors)
The Plymouth blockade

Ward the pirate (traditional)
The storm

William J Kirkpatrick: Will your anchor hold
Breakfast

Sasha Johnson Manning: The Sea Woman
Voyage end

Leave her, Johnny, leave her (traditional ship shanty)

Programme devised and produced by John Rowlands-Pritchard

Opus Anglicanum website.
Bangor University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Date: Saturday 28 November 2009
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.
'1884': A concert to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Bangor University

Chris Collins (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Overture '1812'

Bruckner: Te Deum

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

The University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus presents a festive concert of works composed in the decade of Bangor University's foundation, as part of the institution's 125th anniversary celebrations. Bruckner's majestic choral Te Deum (1884) is framed by two of the best loved works in the orchestral repertoire: Tchaikovsky's rousing 1812 Overture (1882), depicting in spectacular detail the defeat of Napoleon's forces by the Russian Imperial Army, and Brahms's Fourth Symphony (1885), perhaps the finest symphonic work since Beethoven.

Free pre-concert talk (Main Arts Lecture Theatre, 6.30pm): Bangor University's Registrar, Dr David Roberts, outlines the University's 125-year role in the cultural life of the city. Copies of Dr Roberts's new book on the history of the University will be available at the interval.

Rachel Hair & Delyth Jenkins.

Date: Thursday 3 December 2009
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
An evening of traditional and contemporary harp music from Wales and Scotland.

Starting her musical career with the Swansea-based band Cromlech, Delyth Jenkins later combined with two of the members to form the highly acclaimed instrumental trio "Aberjaber". Alongside this, she developed her own successful solo career, performing across Europe and the States, as well as closer to home. To date she has two solo albums and a third in the pipeline, combining her love of traditional music and her own contemporary compositions.

Hailing from the Scottish Highland village of Ullapool, Rachel Hair's eclectic mix of Scottish, Irish and original music, highly influenced from both her time studying alongside jazz, folk, rock and classical musicians and her mixed Scots and Irish parentage, has led her to be described as 'one of the most innovative young musicians to have emerged over the last few years' (The Irish Music Review).

Early Music Bangor and Bangor Baroque.

Date: Saturday 5 December 2009
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
The University's newly expanded Early Music ensemble presents an eclectic programme of music from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century, including Renaissance polyphony, Baroque instrumental music by Bach and Couperin, and an early Mozart symphony.

Free pre-concert talk (Main Arts Lecture Theatre, 6.30pm): Professor Thomas Schmidt-Beste, director of the University's Centre for Research into Early Music (CREaM), discusses some of the questions faced by performers of ancient music.

Bangor University Chamber Choir.

Date: Saturday 12 December 2009
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.
Chris Collins (conductor)

Fauré: Requiem

Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de noel and other works

In a concert of French music, the University Chamber Choir is joined by members of the University Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Fauré's beautiful Requiem, in its original scoring for small orchestra without violins. The performance also celebrates the spirit of the Christmas season with Francis Poulenc's atmospheric Quatre motets pour le temps de noël and other seasonal works. A special evening of spine-tingling choral music, not to be missed.

Bangor University Music Society.

Date: Sunday 13 December 2009
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.
The Choir and Orchestra of the student-run Music Society present a varied programme of classical, folk and popular music. Tickets available on the door: £5 adults; £3 students and children.

Not included in the Music at Bangor subscription ticket.
Bangor University String Ensemble and Friends invite you to a concert...

Date: Friday 18 December 2009
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Pritchard-Jones Hall.
Izzy Hirst (director)

Alex Jarrett (conductor)

Jana Frenklova (piano)

Mozart Overture to the Magic Flute

Mozart Piano Concerto no. 27 in B flat, K.595

Puccini Chrysanthemums

John Ireland Concertino Pastorale

Admission: Adults £2

Concessions 50p

The price includes refreshments in the interval.

Allegri Quartet. Music at Bangor.

Date: Wednesday 3 February 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Main Arts Building
Bangor University.
The world-renowned Allegri Quartet return to Bangor for an extended residency including two concerts on the 3 & 4 February 2010.
Beethoven Quarter in Bb majr Op.18.6
Zemlinsky Quartet no 3 Op.19
Brahms Quartet No 3 in Bb major Op.67
tickets £10 concessions £7 students £5 One child admitted free with every accompanying adult. Additional children £2 Tickets available on the door.

Ensemble Cymru.

Date: Thursday 11 February 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
A wonderfully evocative and superbly crafted series of contrasting dances by the Croatian-Serbian composer Tajčević (1900-1984).

More details coming soon.

Brabant Ensemble.

Date: Saturday 20 February 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Bangor Cathedral.
This professional choral group presents unique discoveries from the Chirk Castle collection (including music by Tallis, Byrd, Parsons, Hooper, Tomkins and Tye) alongside newly edited music by the early seventeenth century composer, Adrian Batten.

More details coming soon.

Bangor University Symphony Orchestra.

Date: Saturday 27 February 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.
Programme to include Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with soloist Nicholas Hardisty.

More details coming soon.

Izzy Hirst MPhil Recital.

Date: Thursday 4 March 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Izzy Hirst MPhil Recital (violin)

This exciting programme of English music from teh early Baroque period is the result of extensive study of the original manuscripts and perfromance practice.

Free admission.

Ensemble Cymru.

Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Pianist Harvey Davies is joined by a quartlet of string players for a performance of Schubert's much-loved 'Trout' Quintet.

Free pre-concert talk (7.30pm, Powis Hall).

New Faces: Gary O'Shea.

Date: Saturday 13 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
New Faces: Gary O'Shea (Piano)

Music at Bangor is delighted to welcome Gary back for his first professional recital in the city.

Bangor New Music Festival.

Date: Tuesday 16 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Presents...

Gwilym Simcock Trio 'Forever Young'

Gwilym Simcock - Piano / Yuri Goloubev - Double Bass / James Maddren - Drums

Tickets on the door: £10 (Adults), £7 (Pensioners), £5 (Students), £2 (Under 18)

Online: www.bnmf.co.uk

Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk

Bangor New Music Festival.

Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Presents...

Electroacoustic Wales 'A Portrait of Michael Alcorn'

Composers: Michael Alcorn, Andrew Lewis and Bangor University Music Students.

Tickets: £10 (Adults), £7 (Pensioners), £5 (Students), £2 (Under 18's).

Online: www.bnmf.co.uk

Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk

Bangor New Music Festival.

Date: Thursday 18 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Presents...

Iwan Llewelyn-Jones

'Etudes Et Paysage' - Solo piano works

Tickets: £10 (Adults), £7 (Pensioners), £5 (Students), £2 (Under18's)

Online: www.bnmf.co.uk

Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk

Bangor New Music Festival.

Date: Friday 26 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales - 'Current Trends'

Presents...

BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Grant Llywellyn and Raphael Wallfisch

Pwyll ap Sion

Andrew Lewis

Guto Pryderi Puw

Adrian Williams

Tickets: £12.50 (Adults), £9.50 (Pensioners), £6 (Students), £3 ( Under-18's)

Online: www.bnmf.co.uk

Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk

LUCHIP Ensemble.

Date: Thursday 15 April 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
This ensemble from Leeds University's Centre for Historically-Informed Performance presents classical and early romantic music on period instruments.
Free pre-concert talk (7.15pm, Powis Hall)

Early Music Bangor and Bangor Baroque.

Date: Saturday 17 April 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
The University's early music ensembles continue their exploration of favourite and lesser-known music from before 1800.

Bangor University Chamber Choir.

Date: Thursday 22 April 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Bangor University Chamber Chori spring concert.

Brass Bands of Beaumaris, Deiniolen, & Menai Bridge.

Date: Saturday 24 April 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.
A gala concert featuring North West Wales's three leading brass bands.

Jana Frenklova (piano) - POSTPONED.

Date: Thursday 29 April 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
In her second recital of the season, Jana Frenklova presents Schumann's fascinating and virtuosic pieces.
*We regret to announce that this concert is being postponed*.

Patsy Reid - Bridging The Gap.

Date: Saturday 1 May 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.
Commissioned by Celtic Connections 2008, composer, Patsy Reid, combines her love of traditional and classical music on Bridging the Gap, comprising nine original melodies, each based on one of the seven modern modes of music: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian.

Bangor University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Date: Saturday 8 May 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.
The 100-strong University Chorus is joined by a cast of professional soloists for a major performance of Verdi's Requiem.

End-of-year Gala Concert.

Date: Friday 4 June 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.
The season draws to its traditional close with performances by the University Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir and Music Society - with a free glass of cava for everyone.