HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival brochure 2010 by Cheltenham Festivals

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WELCOME WELCOME TO HSBC CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL An old medicine bottle containing mercury. A bejewelled dagger. The spike of a cello. An iconic Italian car. Putting together a programme like this is – like the assembled items on the front cover – an intricately-combining balancing act. If you turn the page, the apparently random components of our cover’s ‘thematic sculpture’ are dismantled and explained. You’ll see how and why this year’s HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival takes as its main starting point the anniversaries of three composers, and the uncanny coincidence that all three of them were, in their different ways, more than a little bit mentally unstable.

Musically you’ll be spoilt for choice; but with people like Simon Callow, Patricia Routledge, Andrew Motion and Robert Winston coming to town too, I urge you to turn these pages and be amazed. Donna Renney Chief Executive Cheltenham Festivals

You also wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to have Steven Isserlis, the world’s most distinguished Schumann expert and enthusiast, in residence during the bicentenary year of the great German composer’s birth. See below for how Steven’s performances are at the heart of this festival’s 200th birthday celebration for Schumann. And follow the trail in the coming pages, to see how a fortnight of 80 hugely varied events adds up to a festival of cogent quality, surprise and delight.

Meurig Bowen Festival Director

SCHUMANN IN CHELTENHAM 2010 It is a great pleasure to be returning to Cheltenham this summer; and particularly exciting to be returning for the birthday party of one of my very favourite people – Robert Schumann. The concerts I am devoting to him, with a range of musical friends, will include a mixture of the familiar and the unusual, as befits a composer half of whose output is curiously neglected. The repertoire will range from the magical Cello Concerto to some exotic songs and piano duets, and my friend and fellow-Schumanniac Simon Callow will join us for an evening of words and music focusing on the complicated relationships of Robert, his wife Clara and Brahms. To most musicians, Schumann is a ‘beloved friend’; if he has not always held quite the same position in the hearts of audiences (or at least of concertpromoters!), that is an aberration that hopefully will soon be swept into the void. Nice to think that we’ll be doing our bit at Cheltenham! Steven Isserlis

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Meurig has created a programme of immense riches - whatever your cultural interests, I think you will be astounded by its diversity.

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This 2010 Music Festival brochure is a treasure-trove.

But all creative types are a bit on the edge, I hear you say, so why focus on these three in particular? Well, that can be part of the debate we’ll be having in our series Sound Mind, a sequence of events focusing on music, the brain and the mind, generously funded by the Wellcome Trust. Professor Ray Tallis has helped me put these events together: when you get the opportunity to work on a project with someone cited recently in Intelligent Life magazine as one of the world’s Top 20 Polymaths, believe me, you seize it fast!

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Monteverdi’s Vespers…Alfie Boe…Cape Town Sings The Gruffalo…Brendel Lectures…Werner Herzog

NORTH BY SOUTH-WEST

TIBET CALLING

SOUND MIND

Norway comes to Cheltenham

Tashi Lhunpo Monks Residency

Getting inside music’s head

Cheltenham Festivals are delighted to be in partnership with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in 2010. This celebration of Norway’s rich musical life includes saxophone maestro Jan Garbarek with The Hilliard Ensemble M13, pianist Gunilla Sussmann performing Chopin’s first concerto M16, a bicentennial focus on virtuoso violinist Ole Bull M15, and music by Grieg and Rolf Wallin M24/26/60.

It’s not every day that a group of Tibetan monks spend a week in Cheltenham. They’ll be performing in the Town Hall M65, constructing a sand mandala in the Queen’s Hotel, and holding culture workshops that include prayer flag-making, calligraphy and a meal cooked for you by the monks themselves!

Carlo Gesualdo brutally stabbed his wife and her lover one night in October 1590. Apparently spending the remaining decades of his life in deranged solitude, the extraordinary music he wrote was tortured and way ahead of its time. Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf – born 200 and 150 years ago respectively – fought terrible bouts of depression, and after suicide attempts both ended their days in asylums. Alongside a range of music by these three composers – and others affected by melancholy and extreme emotional states such as Dowland, Gurney and Warlock – our series Sound Mind brings together leading neuroscientists and music experts to discuss everything from the history of Musical Melancholy and influence of Neurosyphilis on 19th-century music to the benefits of Music Therapy in our own time.

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Robert Fripp…Jan Garbarek…Gwilym Simcock War Horse…Rodgers & Hammerstein…Robert Winston

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BELLA ITALIA

RENEWING THE EXPERIENCE

Anniversaries & Arias

New venue for 2010 The Music Festival has a wonderful new venue at its disposal this year. The Cheltenham Ladies College’s Parabola Arts Centre seats 300 on two levels. You can hear anything from pianists Piers Lane, Gwilym Simcock and James Rhodes to Patricia Routledge and Fascinating Aida. What’s more, the Parabola Arts Centre is bang next door to the enticing eating and drinking options of Hotel du Vin. Ticketbuyers for marked Parabola events receive a voucher, redeemable at Hotel du Vin on that concert day for a glass of house wine/beer/soft drink.

Three anniversaries form the basis of an Italian focus this year. Not to be confused with the funky retro mopeds found in every piazza, Monteverdi’s Vespers were composed 400 years ago, and will be performed in Tewkesbury Abbey M28. The same day, also in Tewkesbury, we hear the Stabat Mater of Pergolesi – 300 years old this year M27. And the 450th anniversary of Carlo Gesualdo’s birth triggers a number of events M23/24/36/57. The Italian strand also features Vivaldi’s Four Seasons paired with Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence M19, Wolf’s Italian Songbook M54 and a finale of opera arias and choruses featuring tenor Alfie Boe and the Philharmonia M77.

Big screens Last year, we introduced big screen broadcasts of the Town Hall concerts, and many people enjoyed getting closer to the performances – especially further back. In 2010, the following concerts will be filmed: CBSO M7, Tibetan monks M65, Alfie Boe/Philharmonia M77. Tiered seating Additionally, in Cheltenham Town Hall this year we are installing 14 rows of tiered seating at the back of the main floor area. This will dramatically improve sightlines for those sitting further back ‘on the flat’. At a time to suit you The Festival boasts over 80 performances by outstanding musicians in daytime family concerts and matinees, midweek rush-hour recitals and late-nights, ranging from a full evening of music to just one hour ‘bite-sized’ concerts to enjoy after work and before supper.

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MUSIC @ SCIENCE IN JUNE DAVID OWEN NORRIS GIVES THE ULTIMATE PIANO LESSON

MEMBERS’ EVENT IMOGEN COOPER

M2 Pittville Pump Room 7.30pm (ends approximately 9.20pm)

Thursday 10 June S33 Parabola Arts Centre 7.45pm (ends approximately 9pm)

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£12 (£10 concessions) – tickets on general sale now

This concert is exclusively for Cheltenham Festivals Members. To save £££s at every festival and book ahead for all events, join today from £15. See page 40 for details.

The piano has come a long way since its late 18thcentury beginnings, and technological innovation continues to drive piano design in the 21st century. There’s no-one better than David Owen Norris – distinguished pianist, broadcaster and professor at Southampton University – to trace the piano’s technological journey, and to dazzle with accompanying performances on Cheltenham Ladies’ College’s industry-leading Fazioli piano. For contrast’s sake, he’ll also play on an early piano from 1781!

Imogen Cooper Piano Debussy Four Preludes c.12’ Schumann Humoreske Op. 20 28’ Schubert Sonata in B flat D 960 41’ Imogen Cooper first came to Cheltenham in 1973 as a masterclass student of Alfred Brendel. After many subsequent appearances we welcome her back in July 2010, shortly after her 60th birthday season, and we look forward to a performance of characteristic refinement and poise.

She is an outstanding artist, one of the finest pianists now playing. Go, listen, and wonder how many better pianists there are alive in this country, or anywhere. The Daily Telegraph

FESTIVAL EVENSONG

Cheltenham College Chapel 5.30pm (ends approximately 6.15pm) Free no ticket required

IMOGEN COOPER PIANO BLISS AT THE PUMP ROOM

Cheltenham College Chapel Chamber Choir Alexander Ffinch Director Music by Victoria, Einojuhani Rautavaara and Pawel Lukaszewski

FILM & CONCERT CAPE TOWN SINGS: THE FEZEKA CHOIR M1 St Matthew’s Church 5.45pm Film (ends approximately 7.10pm) 7.30pm Concert (ends approximately 8.30pm) £8

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We welcome the Fezeka High School Choir to Cheltenham as part of their two week UK tour. With equal passion and discipline, the 45 choristers perform a wide range of African and Western music. Before their festive, opening-night concert, we screen Fezeka’s Voice, a new film about the choir’s visit to the Salisbury Festival in 2008 – a moving account of the highs and lows of preparations back home, the inspirational drive of the director Phumi Tsewu, and the heartwarming success of their Salisbury visit.

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Football-oriented eyes will be focused on South Africa this summer, but an extraordinary group of teenagers from Cape Town’s Gugulethu township is coming our way.

SATURDAY 3 JULY

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FILMS AT THE EXMOUTH RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN DOUBLE BILL

PRE-CONCERT TALK ELIZABETHAN GARDEN GAMES

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M3 Pittville Campus, University of Gloucestershire 10 –10.40am £5

Oklahoma 2pm (ends approximately 4.30pm) State Fair 5pm (ends approximately 6.40pm)

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Trea Martyn presents the beguiling story of how Elizabeth I’s two great courtiers fought a lifelong duel for her affections – with their gardens. Lord Robert Dudley set out an intoxicatingly romantic garden at Kenilworth and threw spectacular outdoor parties for his queen; at Theobalds, Sir William Cecil countered by building a sumptuous palace with amazing gardens overseen by the most famous gardener in the country, John Gerard. For Elizabeth, these gardens were places of love and rivalry, power play and spectacular design.

No ticket required - entry on the door of £1 per film, including popcorn. N.B. We regret that there is no disabled access to this venue

FAMILY CONCERT SACCONI QUARTET

M5 St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier, Cheltenham 3pm (ends approximately 4pm)

Elizabeth in the Garden by Trea Martyn is published by Faber and Faber

£3

Adults and children, unreserved seating Suitable for age 6+

The Sacconi Quartet and the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust are passionate about communicating to young people how two violins, a viola and a cello can create such amazing sounds together. Their interactive family concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall are always a sell-out, so come along and get drawn in to this special musical world.

MUSICIANS OF THE GLOBE ALL IN A GARDEN GREEN M4 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm) £15 £20 £25

JOHN WILSON SOME ENCHANTED EVENING

Philip Pickett Director, Recorder Joanne Lunn Soprano Adrian Chandler Violin Lynda Sayce Lute Elizabeth Pallett Bandora, Lute Henrik Persson Viol The Elizabethan Garden in music and words Grand Elizabethan gardens, with their walkways, artificial mounds, outdoor banqueting houses, galleries and mazes, were designed for the delight of the aristocracy, and many – such as Kenilworth, Nonsuch and Theobalds – were described by contemporary chroniclers in lavish detail. The imagery of the garden and its pleasures was a favourite theme of Elizabethan poets and musicians, and this specially-assembled programme, featuring music by Morley, Campion, Dowland and Holborne, illustrates the enormous variety, beauty and subtlety of the conceit.

KIM CRISWELL QUEEN OF THE MUSICALS

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SATURDAY 3 JULY

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SACCONI / SIMCOCK

M6 Parabola Arts Centre 3pm (ends approximately 4.20pm) £20

M8 Parabola Arts Centre 9.30pm (ends approximately 10.30pm) £15 includes Hotel du Vin drink voucher – see page 45

Patricia Routledge Actress Piers Lane Piano

Sacconi Quartet Gwilym Simcock Piano

Legendary actress Patricia Routledge and pianist Piers Lane tell the extraordinary story of Myra Hess and the wartime National Gallery concerts that she established. In Dame Myra’s own words – compiled by her greatnephew, composer Nigel Hess – and with piano music by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann and Chopin, we hear how the ‘great adventure’ of these 1,600 lunchtime concerts began, and how it continued while bombs rained down on London. This staging is directed by Christopher Luscombe.

Programme includes Wolf Italian Serenade 6’ Ravel String Quartet, 2nd movement 6’ Gwilym Simcock Piano Quintet premiere 15’ Smetana Quartet No 1 ‘From my Life’ 3rd movement 9’ Dvořák Quartet No 12 ‘The American’ 4th movement 6’ Simcock Fundero 8’ The Sacconis, one of the finest of the latest crop of young British string quartets, join forces with outstanding jazz pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock for a relaxed, late-night musical sequence. Alongside improvised piano interludes from Simcock, and movements from beloved quartets by Ravel, Smetana and Dvořák, is the first performance of a Music Festival commission from Simcock.

Supported by Sir Peter & Lady Marychurch and the Alan Cadbury Trust

A RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN GALA M7 Cheltenham Town Hall 7pm (ends approximately 9pm)

£15 * with big screen A limited number of restricted view tickets available: £5, £8

PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE A TRIBUTE TO MYRA HESS

50% concessions apply – see page 45 Special opening night ticket prices for this event! A family of 4 get the best seats for a total of only £45

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Kim Criswell Vocals Brent Barrett Vocals John Wilson Conductor From Oklahoma! to The Sound of Music Following John Wilson’s outstanding appearance with his own orchestra in the 2009 Festival, he returns with the CBSO for a celebration of the work of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. From their first collaboration in 1943, Oklahoma!, to their last in 1959 with The Sound of Music, Rodgers & Hammerstein created some of the 20th century’s most attractive and enduring stage works.

GWILYM SIMCOCK

In the John Wilson Orchestra’s televised Prom this August, Kim Criswell’s powerful charisma and vocal riches contributed significantly to a remarkable evening. Together with fellow American Brent Barrett – currently starring in the Broadway production of Chicago – they perform beloved songs such as ‘Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’’ (Oklahoma!), ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ (South Pacific), ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ (Carousel) and, of course, favourites from The Sound of Music.

* Members’ discount does not apply to this event.

PIERS LANE

SUNDAY 4 JULY

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FAMILY PERCUSSION CONCERT THEY’VE GOT RHYTHM

IBRAGIMOVA & TIBERGHIEN

M9 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.50pm) £16 £23 £30 Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme – see page 45

M10 Parabola Arts Centre 11am (ends approximately midday) £8 £4 for children – suitable for age 5+

Alina Ibragimova Violin Cedric Tiberghien Piano

O Duo – Owen Gunnell, Oliver Cox O Duo’s repertoire spans more than 300 years and is a mix of popular classics and accessible contemporary music played on two marimbas, vibraphone and a huge array of percussion.

Schumann Sonata in D minor Op. 121 31’ Szymanowski Mythes 24’ Brahms Sonata in G Op. 78 30’ Alina Ibragimova’s previous Cheltenham appearances – with her recital partner Cedric Tiberghien in 2007 and the following year with the Bruch Concerto and the Philharmonia – showed an emerging talent of exciting proportions. Recent critical acclaim for Bach and Szymanowski CDs, together with a Classical BRIT award and a South Bank Show Breakthrough Award nomination, confirm The Times’ recent claim that ‘in the last 12 months Alina Ibragimova has gone from dazzling prodigy to consummate virtuoso.’

Previous winners of ‘Best Music Act of the Fringe’ at the Edinburgh Festival, this energising and inventive duo was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist award in 2006. Their interactive concerts for children and adults are celebrated for their ability to entertain and educate.

We welcome her back for a three-concert residency in 2010, as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist.

SOUND MIND 1 DOES MUSIC MAKE YOU BETTER?

M11 Parabola Arts Centre 2.30pm (ends approximately 3.30pm) £6

The rise of this impassioned, intelligent and inquisitive young Russian is a joyous breath of fresh air blowing through our concert halls. Richard Morrison in The Times, January 2010

There is increasing evidence of the therapeutic benefits of music in illness. This first Sound Mind event investigates the clinical effects of music in conditions such as depression, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinsonism, as well as music therapy’s current and possible future roles in health care. There will be presentations from Simon Lovestone, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at King’s College London (and consultant for The Lion’s Face, see page 28); Paul Robertson, Medici Quartet violinist and music therapy expert; and Kate Newell from the Wigmore Hall’s Music for Life programme.

Supported by Graham & Eileen Lockwood

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA

O DUO

SUNDAY 4 JULY

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JAN GARBAREK & THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE

CHELTENHAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA M12 Pittville Pump Room 4.30pm (ends approximately 6pm) £10 £14 £18

M13 Gloucester Cathedral 7.30pm (ends approximately 9.15pm) £8 £10 £15 £20 £25 £30

Benedict Nelson Baritone Toby Purser Conductor

With their groundbreaking collaboration on the 1994 ECM album Officium, vocal quartet The Hilliard Ensemble and Norwegian saxophone master Jan Garbarek completely redefined ‘crossover’ with music of great beauty and sophistication.

Wolf Selected orchestrated Lieder 20’ Bridge There is a willow grows aslant a brook 10’ Beethoven Symphony No 7 36’

This Officium project moves into a new phase in 2010 with the forthcoming release of a third album on ECM New Series. Gloucester Cathedral’s lofty stone spaces and resonant acoustic will be the perfect partner for these five remarkable musicians.

Cirencester-raised baritone Benedict Nelson is emerging as one of the most exciting vocal talents of his generation – he was rated Best Newcomer in The Daily Telegraph’s 2009 Opera Highlights, and was second prize-winner in the prestigious Wigmore International Singing Competition. He joins the Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra and Toby Purser for a selection of orchestrated songs by Hugo Wolf. Frank Bridge’s exquisite tone poem reflects on Ophelia’s lovelorn drowning, described by Queen Gertrude in Act 4 of Hamlet.

A cross-cultural combination that produces some of the most beautiful acoustic music ever made. Evening Standard

BUSKING AT THE BREWERY

12 noon – 3pm Come and hear some free live music at The Brewery, Henrietta Street, Cheltenham.

FILMS AT THE EXMOUTH RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN DOUBLE BILL Exmouth Arms, Bath Road 01242 528149

Carousel 4pm (ends approximately 6.10pm) This 1956 tear-jerker features such beloved songs as ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ and ‘If I Loved You’.

JAN GARBAREK SOARING HIGH IN GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

The King and I 6.40pm (ends approximately 8.50pm) The 5 times Oscar winner starring Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr and Rita Moreno. No ticket required - entry on the door of £1 per film, including popcorn. N.B. We regret that there is no disabled access to this venue

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THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE

MONDAY 5 JULY

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CONCERT, TALK & FILM A LOAD OF OLE BULL

CHIAROSCURO QUARTET

M14 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm) £13 £18 £22 Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme – see page 45

M15 Pittville Pump Room/Pittville Campus 3pm (Recital ends approximately 4pm, Talk and Film at Pittville Campus end approximately 5.30pm) £12 unreserved seating

Haydn Quartet in D Op. 64 No 5 ‘Lark’ 20’ Mozart Quartet in A K 464 32’ Schubert Quartet in A minor D 804 ‘Rosamunde’ 35’

Ole Bull, born 200 years ago, was Norway’s first superstar. An ardent nationalist, workaholic and womaniser, his bath-water was sold in perfume bottles to his many fans. His violin playing was compared to Paganini’s, and he made a fortune as an international soloist in the mid-1800s. He then lost it all in a doomed attempt to establish a Norwegian colony in Pennsylvania.

The second concert of Alina Ibragimova’s Cheltenham residency features her string quartet, which she established with fellow students – from Spain, Sweden and France – at the Royal College of Music in 2005. Remarkably, given that her burgeoning success as a soloist is on a ‘modern’ violin, Ibragimova’s Chiaroscuro Quartet performs on period instruments, and therefore focuses exclusively on late 18th-/early-19th century quartet repertoire.

This three-part event comprises: a recital by the Junior section winner of the Menuhin Competition, with accompanist Gordon Back; a talk on Ole Bull by his biographer Harald Herresthal; and a screening of Aslak Aarhus’s compelling 2006 documentary, which tells the story of Bull’s extraordinary life with fine musical contributions by violinist Henning Kraggerud.

The Times has hailed the Chiaroscuro Quartet as ‘destined to be a force in the classical music firmament for decades to come’.

The Menuhin Competition takes place in Oslo in June. The winner, and the recital programme, will be announced soon afterwards on cheltenhamfestivals.com/music

Supported by Mary Mackenzie, Richard Walton & friends

CHIAROSCURO QUARTET

BOURNEMOUTH / KARABITS

M16 Cheltenham Town Hall 7pm (ends approximately 9pm) £12 £17 £22 £27 £32

50% concessions apply – see page 45 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Gunilla Sussmann Piano Kirill Karabits Conductor

GUNILLA SUSSMANN DAZZLING BICENTENARY CHOPIN

Liadov The Enchanted Lake 6’ Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 39’ Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 50’ Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits has made a huge impact as the new Music Director in Bournemouth, and so it is exciting to welcome this pairing to Cheltenham at the end of Karabits’ first full season. As part of the Norwegian focus in this year’s festival, young pianist Gunilla Sussmann tackles the mighty brilliance of Chopin’s first concerto. Supported by The Oldham Foundation

TUESDAY 6 JULY

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FOUR SEASONS & A SOUVENIR

SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE

M17 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm) £15 £20 £25 Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme – see page 45

M19 Cheltenham Town Hall 6pm (ends approximately 7.50pm) £8 £12 £17 £22 £26

Dohnanyi Piano Quintet No 2 in E flat minor Op. 26 24’ Joe Cutler Piano Quartet premiere c.10’ Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 40’

50% concessions apply – see page 45 Side-stage seating plan – see page 41 European Union Chamber Orchestra Alina Ibragimova Violin Andrew Motion Reader

The Schubert Ensemble bring to Cheltenham one of Erno Dohnanyi’s two piano quintets, works that they recorded in the mid-1990s for Hyperion and which they hold in high esteem. Dohnanyi’s first quintet was championed by Brahms, no less, and yet his long life – he died in 1960 – took him from that era of late romanticism to an emigré life in the rock ‘n’ roll era of America.

Vivaldi The Four Seasons 50’ Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence 33’ Alina Ibragimova’s final concert of her residency brings her together with the EU Chamber Orchestra and Andrew Motion for a special performance of Vivaldi’s remarkable pictorial evocations of the four seasons. Motion’s specially commissioned poems will set the scene before each concerto. Moving on a couple of centuries, and heading south from Venice to Florence, EUCO perform the orchestral transcription of Tchaikovsky’s string sextet, his affectionate and richly sonorous tribute to the Tuscan city.

Joe Cutler is Head of Composition at Birmingham Conservatoire, and his previous work for the Schubert Ensemble, a quintet from 2002, was praised in The Daily Telegraph as ‘an engrossing alternation of energy and contemplation.’

MILOS KARADAGLIC

M18 St Swithin’s Church, Quenington 3pm (ends approximately 4.10pm) £10 unreserved seating Programme includes music by Bach, Villa-Lobos and Dobrinka Tabakova. The 26 year-old guitarist Milos Karadaglic is from former Yugoslav Montenegro on the Adriatic coast. His precocious talent gained him a scholarship to London’s Royal Academy of Music, and with a highly praised Wigmore debut in January this year, he is poised for a major solo career. Teas will be served afterwards in the Rectory (£2) Supported by Quenington Sculpture Trust

MILOS KARADAGLIC

BBC RADIO 3’S DISCOVERING MUSIC A BRETT DEAN DOUBLE BILL M20 Pittville Pump Room 8.30pm (ends approximately 10.15pm)

Free Tickets should be booked in advance Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Brett Dean Conductor Claire Booth Soprano Sara Mohr-Pietsch Presenter Brett Dean Wolf Lieder; Recollections UK premiere Kicking off Brett Dean’s residency in Cheltenham, Radio 3’s illuminating Discovering Music programme takes apart and puts back together two of his works for mixed ensemble. Recollections is an investigation of memory, and features a fragment of piano music by Clara Schumann. Andrew Clements has described Wolf Lieder in The Guardian as ‘a vivid portrait of crumbling insanity’, and The Times’ Hilary Finch praised it as a ‘hyper-sensitive, thrillingly imaginative exploration of Wolf’s music and his madness.’ A perfect piece for the thematic preoccupations of this year’s festival!

ANDREW MOTION

WEDNESDAY 7 JULY BBC RADIO 3 NEW GENERATION ARTISTS ATOS TRIO

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ATOS TRIO

M21 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm) £13 £18 £22

Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme – see page 45

Haydn Trio in F sharp Hob. XV:26 18’ Suk Trio in C minor Op. 2 17’ Schubert Trio in E flat Op. 100 43’ The ATOS Trio was formed in 2003 by violinist Annette von Hehn, cellist Stefan Heinemeyer and pianist Thomas Hoppe. After two years of studies with the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne, the trio quickly established itself as one of Europe’s finest young ensembles, and in 1997 they scooped up all the major prizes at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. They joined Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme earlier this year. Supported by Patricia Routledge

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WEDNESDAY 7 JULY

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TRINITY COLLEGE CHOIR, MELBOURNE

FILM & PRE-CONCERT TALK BRETT DEAN & GESUALDO

M22 All Saints Church, Pittville, Cheltenham 5pm (ends approximately 6pm) £10 unreserved seating

M23 Pittville Campus, University of Gloucestershire 6.45pm (ends approximately 8.15pm) £6 unreserved seating

Programme includes Byrd Haec Dies Parsons Ave Maria Victoria Salve Regina a 8 Palestrina Tu Es Petrus Schütz Selig Sind Die Toten Bach Komm, Jesu, Komm Howells Blessed Are The Dead Duruflé Tu Es Petrus Gabriel Jackson Salve Regina

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices A film by Werner Herzog 60’ Come and spend 90 minutes in the company of the Italian Renaissance’s most notorious composer, Germany’s most iconoclastic filmmaker and the 2010 Music Festival’s featured composer. Brett Dean and Meurig Bowen talk about their fascination with Carlo Gesualdo, and how his life and music inspired Dean’s study for strings and recorded voices, Carlo. They discuss the whole of the evening concert’s programme, and introduce Werner Herzog’s extraordinary Gesualdo portrait – probably the most eccentric, but utterly absorbing, music film ever made.

We welcome to Cheltenham Australia’s finest university choir as part of their fourth UK tour. Directed by former King’s College Cambridge choral scholar Michael Leighton Jones, their programme is a broad crosssection of beloved Anglican choral repertoire, kept very much alive in the College chapel; it wasn’t just cricket that got successfully exported down-under.

FESTIVAL ACADEMY 1 BACK TO THE FUTURE

M24 Pittville Pump Room 8.30pm (ends approximately 10.10pm) £15 £20 £25

BRETT DEAN FEATURED COMPOSER & VIOLIST

Festival Academy Strings Brett Dean Viola Neil Thomson Conductor Britten Lachrymae Op. 48a 15’ Gesualdo Asciugate i begli occhi 3’ Brett Dean Carlo 20’ Warlock Capriol Suite 10’ John Woolrich Ulysses Awakes 6’ Grieg From Holberg’s Time: Suite in olden style 21’ The Festival Academy Strings’ first concert is an investigation of the past through the present – or, in the case of Grieg, Warlock and Britten, the relatively recent. Britten’s work for viola and strings reflects on the stately melancholy of a John Dowland song. Warlock, himself responsible for the first modern edition of Dowland’s Lachrymae, recreates an Elizabethan musical world in his Capriol Suite. John Woolrich reworks music from Monteverdi’s opera The Return of Ulysses. Grieg pays homage to the 18th-century world of Norwegian/Danish playwright Ludvig Holberg. And Brett Dean’s Carlo is a hugely imaginative psychological tone poem for strings and recorded voices, reflecting on the life and work of Italian renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo.

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THURSDAY 8 JULY

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SOLSTICE / DAVID CAMPBELL

PERGOLESI’S STABAT MATER

M26 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm) £13 £18 £22 Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme – see page 45

M27 Tewkesbury Abbey 5pm (ends approximately 5.45pm) £8 unreserved seating

Solstice String Quartet David Campbell Clarinet

Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum Ben Nicholas Conductor

Rolf Wallin The Curiosity Cabinet UK premiere 10’ Michael Langemann new work premiere 10’ Richard Blackford Clarinet Quintet 20’ Brahms Clarinet Quintet 35’

As part of the 2010 festival’s Italian focus, and preceding Monteverdi’s Vespers, the Tewkesbury Abbey choristers perform Pergolesi’s most popular work, his Stabat Mater, in the 300th anniversary year of his birth.

Winners of the 2009 Royal Overseas League Competition, the Solstice String Quartet’s first violinist, Jamie Campbell, is the son of renowned clarinettist David Campbell. They join for Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet and a new work by Richard Blackford inspired by Caradog Prichard’s novel Full Moon. Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin wrote The Curiosity Cabinet as the test piece for 2009’s Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition, and Michael Langemann’s new work is a Royal Philharmonic Society/Susan Bradshaw Composers’ Fund commission.

MONTEVERDI’S 1610 VESPERS

M28 Tewkesbury Abbey 7pm (ends approximately 8.50pm) £10 £15 £20 £25 £30 Magdelena Consort including Elin Manahan Thomas Soprano Julia Doyle Soprano Charles Daniels Tenor James Gilchrist Tenor Nicholas Mulroy Tenor Peter Harvey Baritone/Director

PRE-CONCERT TALK The composers discuss their new works. M25 Oval Room, Pittville Pump Room 10.15 – 10.45am Free Tickets should be booked in advance

Tewkesbury Abbey was already a few centuries old when Claudio Monteverdi composed, 400 years ago this year, his superb ceremonial sequence in honour of the Virgin Mary.

Supported by Diana Woolley

The 1610 Vespers are sure to sound magnificent in the abbey’s lofty spaces – performed here by a top-notch line-up of specialist singers and instrumentalists, and featuring that sonorous 17th-century ‘horn section’ of cornetts and sackbuts.

JAMES GILCHRIST THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY…

Supported by The Oldham Foundation

FESTIVAL ACADEMY AT THE STAR COLLEGE

M29 National Star College, Ullenwood 7.30pm (ends approximately 10pm) Free Tickets should be booked in advance through the Box Office Festival Academy musicians, Star College creative and performing arts students and conductor William Carslake present the culmination of a series of creative workshops in an evening of music, drama, dance and art. See page 33 for further details. Supported by The Steel Charitable Trust

THURSDAY 8 JULY

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ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS …IN TEWKESBURY ABBEY

FESTIVAL ACADEMY 2 TROUT VARIATIONS

M30 Pittville Pump Room 9.30pm (ends approximately 10.45pm) £15 unreserved seating Festival Academy Soloists Alexandra Wood Violin Cian O’Duill Viola Robin Michael Cello Peter Buckoke Double Bass Huw Watkins Piano Brett Dean Voices of Angels 23’ Huw Watkins Variations on a Schubert song 5’ Schubert Quintet D 667 ‘The Trout’ 39’ Brett Dean’s 1996 work for ‘The Trout Quintet’ line-up was premiered by members of the Berlin Philharmonic (Dean included) and pianist Imogen Cooper, and is an intensely atmospheric and dramatic reflection on words by Rainer Maria Rilke: ‘Angels (it’s said) are often unable to tell whether they move amongst the living or the dead.’ Huw Watkins’ work, likewise, is written for the same ‘Trout’ line-up. Supported by The Steel Charitable Trust

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FRIDAY 9 JULY

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COLLINS / DEAN / WATKINS

SOUND MIND 2 WHEN MAHLER MET FREUD

M31 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm) £15 £20 £25 Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme – see page 45

M32 Pittville Campus, University of Gloucestershire 5.30 – 6.40pm £6

Michael Collins Clarinet Brett Dean Viola Huw Watkins Piano

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A music critic once got himself into Private Eye’s Pseuds Corner for stating that ‘for the thinking man at least, Mahler is to Freud as Bruckner is to Jung’. Stephen Johnson and Ray Tallis take as their starting point Mahler’s famous encounter with Sigmund Freud in 1910. What were Freud’s conclusions? And can they help us understand Mahler as man and as composer?

Schumann Märchenbilder Op. 113 15’ Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 12’ Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op. 132 14’ Kurtág Homage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d 10’ Kurtág Jelek Op. 5 7’ Brahms Clarinet Sonata No 1 Op. 120 22’ This programme builds itself around the music Schumann wrote for viola and clarinet with piano – and, most unusually, the three instruments together. Two distinguished performer-composers join one of the world’s finest clarinettists, and Michael Collins’ appearance here kicks off a mini-residency by his quintet London Winds (see M33/34/42/43) Supported by Elizabeth Jacobs

ISSERLIS & SCHUMANN 1

M33 Pittville Pump Room 7pm (ends approximately 9pm) £18 £25 £32 Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme – see page 45

MICHAEL COLLINS

Katharine Gowers Violin Magnus Johnston Violin Brett Dean Viola Steven Isserlis Cello Guy Johnston Cello Nicholas Korth Horn Denes Varjon Piano Izabella Simon Piano Sarah-Jane Brandon Soprano An all-Schumann programme, to include: Fantasiestücke Op. 88 for piano trio 16’ Andante and Variations Op. 46 23’ Bilder aus Osten for piano duet 22’ Three songs Op. 95 7’ Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44 28’ Steven Isserlis’ affinity with the music of Robert Schumann makes him the perfect musician to bring to Cheltenham for a series of performances marking the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. This all-Schumann programme combines well-known works such as the Piano Quintet with the rarely-performed Andante and Variations, with its unusual line-up of two pianos, two cellos and horn. Steven is Artistic Director of the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove in Cornwall, and he is joined in this programme by a number of instrumentalists he works closely with there. South African soprano Sarah-Jane Brandon is the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier prize winner.

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FRIDAY 9 JULY

SATURDAY 10 JULY

FESTIVAL ACADEMY 3 ENGLISH ELEGIES

PRE-CONCERT TALK CAPONS, COUNTER-TENORS AND BEE GEES

M34 Thirlestaine Long Gallery 9.30pm (ends approximately 10.50pm) £15 unreserved seating

M35 Pittville Campus, University of Gloucestershire 10 – 10.40am £5

Festival Academy Soloists Philippa Davies Flute Gareth Hulse Cor Anglais James Gilchrist Tenor Anna Tilbrook Piano

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Prior to Iestyn Davies’ concert with Fretwork, Festival Director (and very occasional counter-tenor) Meurig Bowen tells the story of the high male voice, from the castrati to the Bee Gees. With some light-touch technical background and a wide range of audio snippets – from the exquisite to the downright weird – this talk will sort the men from the eunuchs, the haute-contres from the male sopranos, and the Jeff Buckleys from the heavy-me(n)talist shriekers.

Bliss Elegaic Sonnet 8’ Britten Six Hölderlin Fragments Op. 61 12’ Warlock The Curlew 22’ Bliss Piano Quartet in A minor 15’ Gurney Ludlow and Teme 18’

MUSIC FOR A WHILE

This is a programme of exquisite warmth and bleak beauty, bound together in the background by the mental torment of Warlock, Gurney and German romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin. Bliss’s Elegaic Sonnet was written after the suicide of the young Australian pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. Gurney’s Shropshire Lad settings are easily a match for those of Vaughan Williams, written for the same forces, and Warlock’s W.B.Yeats setting is one of most eloquent statements of desolation in all music.

M36 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.40pm) £15 £20 £25 Iestyn Davies Counter-tenor Fretwork Viol Consort William Lawes Two Consort setts in 6 parts 24’ Gesualdo Beltà, poi che t’assenti; Sparge la morte; Dolcissima mia vita 9’ Dowland The King of Denmark’s Galliard; Flow my tears; Can she excuse my wrongs; If my complaints; Shall I strive with words 12’ Wolf Ein altes Bild; Gebet 6’ Purcell Fantazia in 4 parts; Music for a while; In Nomine 8’ Warlock Sleep 5’ Britten The trees they grow so high; O Waly, waly 6’

Festival Academy supported by The Steel Charitable Trust and The Aquarius Group Supported by The Arthur Bliss Society

Those who heard Iestyn Davies’ performances in the Handel Celebration in the 2009 Festival will know what an increasingly compelling artist he is. Now coming into his prime as a counter-tenor, and with engagements stacking up into the future with opera houses around the world – including The Met in New York – this specially-programmed collaboration with Fretwork is sure to be a festival highlight.

STEVEN ISSERLIS SELF-CONFESSED ‘SCHUMANNIAC’

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SATURDAY 10 JULY

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FAMILY EVENT JULIA DONALDSON SINGALONG

FAMILY EVENT SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL

M37 Parabola Arts Centre 11am (ends approximately 12 noon) £5

M38 & M40 The Queen’s Hotel 2pm & 3.30pm (ends approximately 3pm & 4.30pm respectively)

Adults and children – suitable for age 5+

£5

Fans from 5 to 105 will delight in this fun-filled family event with Julia Donaldson, author of the nation’s favourite bedtime story, The Gruffalo. Julia and her husband will treat the audience to a selection of songs from her best-loved picture books and song books, bringing them to life with some fabulous props, actions and, of course, a little help from her audience! Julia began her career as a songwriter for television and has also produced two albums for adults.

Adults and children – unreserved seating suitable for ages 3–6

Come and join in the fun with shakers, rattlers, tappers and flappers and make all sorts of music using recycled and reclaimed materials. Sue Nicholls will take you through this interactive workshop with a range of vocal and music-making activities from her new book Pat-acake, Make and Shake from A & C Black. You’ll be amazed at what you can do with packaging and junk!

FAMILY EVENT MIDSUMMER FIESTA IN MONTPELLIER

40 PARTS AND COUNTING

M39 Cheltenham College Chapel 2.30pm (ends approximately 3.30pm) £15 unreserved seating

Montpellier Gardens 12 noon – 9pm

Following on from the success of the Fiesta in Pittville Park last year, we are collaborating again with Cheltenham Strategic Partnership and Cheltenham Borough Council for another major free community event, this time in the heart of town.

New London Chamber Choir James Weeks Conductor Gabriel Jackson Sanctum est verum lumen 10’ Taverner Dum Transisset 7’ Ligeti Lux Aeterna 10’ Sheppard Libera nos I and II 8’ Michael Zev Gordon Allele premiere 20’ Tallis Spem in Alium 10’

Look out for further information at cheltenhamfestivals.com/fiesta nearer the time. There will be a huge range of family entertainment, sports activities, food stalls and a celebration of musical and cultural diversity – from choirs and bands to gamelan and samba.

The New London Chamber Choir and their acclaimed conductor James Weeks bring to Cheltenham a programme that combines renaissance English music by Tallis, Taverner and Sheppard with Gabriel Jackson’s 40-part motet, Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna (as featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey) and a fascinating new work by Michael Zev Gordon. Allele, also a 40-part work, is a collaboration with poet Ruth Padel in which each singer’s part was created using their own DNA coding. Allele was created as part of the Wellcome Trust project Music from the Genome, which also entails research into the genetic determinants of musical ability.

FRETWORK

PRE-CONCERT TALK With composer Michael Zev Gordon, poet Ruth Padel and geneticist Andrew Morley Hardy Lecture Theatre (adjacent to the chapel) 1.45 – 2.15pm Free to concert ticketholders

SATURDAY 10 JULY

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SOUND MIND 3 SHIVERS DOWN THE SPINE

FESTIVAL ACADEMY 5 ISSERLIS & SCHUMANN 2

M41 Pillar Room, Cheltenham Town Hall 4.30pm (ends approximately 5.30pm) £6

M43 Cheltenham Town Hall 7.30pm (ends approximately 9.15pm)

unreserved seating

£10 £15 £20 £25 £30

Shivers down the spine: the science of the musical brain

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What can the study of the brain tell us about our appreciation of music? To what extent does brain science, including observation of composers with brain damage, ‘explain’ music - our ability to create and understand it, the pleasure that it gives, the significance it has in society at large? Ray Tallis is joined by Adam Zeman, Professor in Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology at the Peninsula Medical School, and author of Yale University Press’s recent A Portrait of the Brain.

Festival Academy Strings London Winds with the Winds of Southbank Sinfonia IMS Prussia Cove guests Steven Isserlis Cello Neil Thomson Conductor Schumann Overture: Julius Caesar Op. 128 9’ Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 25’ Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor Op. 120 29’ The Festival Academy Strings are augmented here by the wind players of London Winds and Southbank Sinfonia for a unique collaboration of ‘chamber philharmonic’ proportions. They begin with a rarely heard overture to Shakespeare’s play, and after his performance of Schumann’s Cello Concerto, Steven Isserlis will join the orchestral ranks - alongside Brett Dean, Michael Collins et al. - for the Fourth Symphony.

FESTIVAL ACADEMY 4 SCHUMANN & DEAN

Supported by The Steel Charitable Trust

M42 Cheltenham Town Hall 6pm (ends approximately 6.45pm) £8

Supported by The Patrons of Cheltenham Festivals

unreserved seating

Thomas Hobbs Tenor London Winds Alexandra Wood Violin Robin Michael Cello Huw Watkins Piano

POWERPLANT

M44 Parabola Arts Centre 10pm (ends approximately 11pm) £15 includes Hotel du Vin drink voucher – see page 45

Brett Dean Winter Songs; Demons 24’ Schumann Piano Trio No 3 in G minor Op. 110 25’ This short pre-concert concert features the last of Schumann’s piano trios, written adjacently to the orchestral works that follow. Brett Dean’s Winter Songs, for tenor and wind quintet, are settings of e e cummings, and Demons is for solo flute.

Joby Burgess Percussion Matthew Fairclough Sound Design Kathy Hinde Visual Artist Matthew Fairclough The Boom and The Bap premiere 6’ Gabriel Prokofiev Voyage V ‘Fanta’ from ‘Import/Export’ 7’ Graham Fitkin Chain of Command 12’ Javier Alvarez Temazcal 8’ Conlon Nancarrow Piece for Percussion 3’ Dominic Murcott Armed Response premiere 7’ Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint 14’

Supported by The Steel Charitable Trust Thomas Hobbs supported by Countess of Munster Musical Trust

JOBY BURGESS / POWERPLANT PERCUSSION ELECTRONICA

Virtuoso percussionist Joby Burgess’s genre-busting collaboration with electronics and video is a fresh encounter with new sounds – a ‘multimedia makeover’ for electronic music, as one writer described Powerplant. With Burgess playing the xylosynth – a 21st-century treasure trove of sound – and with the interface of Matthew Fairclough’s sound design and Bristol-based video artist Kathy Hinde, Powerplant ingeniously brings club, concert hall, craft and technology together in one compelling whole.

SUNDAY 11 JULY

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FAMILY EVENT MICHAEL MORPURGO’S WAR HORSE

TWO PIANOS FOUR HANDS

M45 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.50pm)

M46 Cheltenham Town Hall 2pm (ends approximately 3pm)

£13 £18 £22 Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme – see page 45

£10 £5 Children – suitable for age 9+

Joseph Tong & Waka Hasegawa Piano Duo Robin Michael Cello*

Michael Morpurgo Reader John Tams & Barry Coope Musicians

Chopin Rondo in C major 9’ Debussy (arr. Ravel) Two Nocturnes 11’ Saint-Saëns The Swan from Carnival of the Animals* 4’ Lord Berners Valses Bourgeoises 8’ Ravel La Valse 11’ Stravinsky The Rite of Spring 35’ Lutosławski Paganini Variations 6’

This is a unique event combining extraordinary storytelling and heart-rending music. Through the eyes of a horse, Michael Morpurgo tells of how life on a farm in Devon moves to survival on the Western Front in the First World War. Award-winning author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo is joined by 2008 BBC Radio 2 Duo of the Year, John Tams and Barry Coope, in an adaptation for the concert stage by John Tams. Their rousing yet haunting songs were specially written by John for the National Theatre’s production of War Horse.

Described in The Times as ‘precision-tooled piano duettists’, Tong and Hasegawa team up at their twin Steinways for a programme with Paris and dance at its heart. Of all these composers, only the second Pole in the programme, Lutoslawski, didn’t have a close relationship with the French capital – his plans to study there were thwarted by Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Both Ravel and the ‘English Satie’ Lord Berners take a brilliantly alternative look at the past glories of the 19th-century waltz. And Stravinsky – who praised the Berners waltzes for their ‘impertinence’ – changed the world of dance, and music, altogether with his 1913 ballet for Diaghilev.

M47 Pittville Pump Room 3pm (ends approximately 4.15pm)

Supported by The Berners Trust

£10 £15 £20

LECTURE RECITAL ALFRED BRENDEL

Following his retirement from the concert platform, we welcome Alfred Brendel back for a lecture recital he has entitled On Character in Music. With a range of examples given on the piano, Brendel sets out to show that in musical performances, the perception of character and atmosphere is no less important than that of form and structure. ‘The pianist’s task,’ Brendel says, ‘becomes related to that of a character actor identifying with different roles, with an ever-widening awareness of the staggering emotional and psychological variety great music has to offer.’

JOSEPH TONG & WAKA HASEGAWA A DOUBLE STEINWAY WORKOUT

MICHAEL MORPURGO’S WAR HORSE

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SUNDAY 11 JULY

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SOUND MIND 4 THE SOUND OF MELANCHOLIA

ISSERLIS & SCHUMANN 3 BRAHMS, ROBERT AND CLARA

M48 Pillar Room, Cheltenham Town Hall 5.30pm (ends approximately 6.30pm) £8

M50 Cheltenham Town Hall 7.30pm (ends approximately 9.20pm) £10 £14 £18 £23 £28

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Stephen Johnson and Robert Winston explore the relationship between music and the emotions, from the ecstatic highs to the soul-searching lows. Using a range of audio samples and case histories, they focus particularly on examples of pathological sadness - historically termed ‘melancholy’, more recently called ‘depression’ - and reflect on how, paradoxically, this finds expression in some of the most beautiful music ever written.

Side-stage seating plan – see page 41 PRE-CONCERT DINNER M49 Drawing Room, Cheltenham Town Hall 6.15pm Two-course dinner, with dessert during the £27 interval, plus a glass of wine and coffee Katharine Gowers Violin Steven Isserlis Cello Brett Dean Viola Denes Varjon Piano Simon Callow Narrator Brahms Scherzo in E flat minor Op. 4 9’ Schumann Declamation Op. 122 No 2 (Die Fluchtlinge) 3’ Brahms Scherzo from the FAE sonata 6’ Schumann Intermezzo from the FAE sonata 3’ Schumann Variations in E flat for piano 18’ Schumann Gebet Op. 135 No 5 2’ Clara Schumann Romance Op. 21 No 1 for piano 12’ Brahms Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor Op. 60 31’

ROBERT WINSTON INSIDE MUSIC’S HEAD

This programme explores the relationship between Schumann, Brahms and the woman they both loved, Clara. Steven Isserlis’s script, read by Simon Callow, links extracts from the three-way correspondence they had in the final years of Schumann’s life, including the final traumatising years of Schumann’s residence in the Endenich asylum.

ALFRED BRENDEL A WELCOME RETURN

SIMON CALLOW MAN OF LETTERS

MONDAY 12 JULY

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STEVEN ISSERLIS

AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET £13 £18 £22 Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme – see page 45

M52 St Andrew’s Church, Naunton 3pm (ends approximately 4pm) £20 unreserved seating

Australian String Quartet Brett Dean Viola

Steven Isserlis Cello Warwick Cole Harpsichord

M51 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm)

Bach Viola da Gamba sonata in G BWV 1027 15’ Britten Cello Suite No 3 22’ Bach Viola da Gamba sonata in D BWV 1028 15’

Haydn Quartet in G Op. 77/1 20’ Brett Dean Epitaphs for string quintet European premiere 15’ Bruckner Quintet in F 45’

Steven Isserlis’s final performance of his residency pairs a solo cello suite by Britten, written for Rostropovich in 1971, with two of Bach’s gamba sonatas. This instrument (a ‘viola between the legs’, six of which are featured in Fretwork’s concert, page 19) was already somewhat archaic in Bach’s time, but he wrote some of his finest music for its mellow, fretted tone. In addition to three sonatas, two of them played here on the cello by Isserlis, there are some stunning gamba solos in the St John and St Matthew Passions and a pair of them feature in the 6th Brandenburg Concerto.

Following their two performances in the 2008 festival, the outstanding Australian String Quartet return to perform the European premiere of Brett Dean’s new quintet, featuring two violas and Dean himself in the final appearance of his residency. Contemporaneous with his 5th and 6th symphonies, Bruckner’s String Quintet is one of the great late-romantic chamber works – symphonic in scale, and with a justly-celebrated Adagio of great serenity. Supported by Eleanor Budge and the George Budge Trust

SOUND MIND 5 VENUS, MERCURY & ST CECILIA

HENK NEVEN SONGS OF A POET’S LOVE

M53 Pillar Room, Cheltenham Town Hall 7pm (ends approximately 8.15pm) £8

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Neurosyphilis caused appalling suffering in the 19thcentury, and it was one of the major causes of serious psychiatric illness, accounting for a large proportion of asylum inmates - Schumann and Wolf included. Starting from neurosyphilis, and placed within the broader context of understanding illness in the 19th-century, the session will examine romantic notions of the connections between art and illness. Ray Tallis and Steven Isserlis are joined by Simon Shorvon, Professor in Clinical Neurology at University College, London, and the Cambridge University medical historian Richard Barnett.

AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET

JAMES RHODES PARABOLA PROMISE

TUESDAY 13 JULY

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE YOUTH ORCHESTRA

BBC RADIO 3 NEW GENERATION ARTISTS CHRISTENSEN / NEVEN / VIGNOLES

M57 Cheltenham Town Hall 7.30pm (ends approximately 9.30pm)

M54 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.35pm)

£8

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unreserved seating

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Malin Christensen Soprano Henk Neven Baritone Roger Vignoles Piano

Thérèse de Souza Violin Glyn Oxley Conductor Gesualdo/Stravinsky Monumentum pro Gesualdo 7’ Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade 42’ Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition 35’

Schumann Widmung; Der Nussbaum; Lied der Suleika; Du bist wie eine Blume 10’ Schumann Dichterliebe 25’ Wolf Italian Songbook (selection) 35’

This colourful programme from the GYO is essentially all-Russian, but with Italian, French and exotic flavouring. Stravinsky’s Monumentum pro Gesualdo is an orchestration of three madrigals by the Italian renaissance composer, made in 1960 for the 400th anniversary of his birth, and returning in 2010, the 450th!

We welcome two new members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme – highly charismatic singers from Sweden and the Netherlands, and collaborating here with master Lieder pianist Roger Vignoles. Separately, they sing Schumann songs. Together, they present a selection from Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook, settings of earthy, popular love lyrics that are ideally suited to a male-female singer pairing.

Supported by Sir Michael McWilliam

FILMS AT THE EXMOUTH SHINE

Exmouth Arms, Bath Road 01242 528149 8pm (ends approximately 9.45pm)

PARABOLA RUSH HOUR 1 JAMES RHODES

M55 Parabola Arts Centre 6pm (ends approximately 7.10pm)

Based on the true story of David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush), this much-garlanded 1996 movie tracks the Australian pianist’s mental and professional highs and lows with great sensitivity.

£12.50 includes Hotel du Vin drink voucher – see page 45 James Rhodes Piano

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Beethoven Sonata in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ 25’ Bach/Busoni Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C BWV 564 19’ Chopin Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49 14’

MALIN CHRISTENSEN SWEDISH SONGBIRD

James Rhodes is in the process of re-defining what kind of audience a young classical pianist can attract. In 2009 he was the first pianist to give a recital at the newly opened Roundhouse in London, and his first album Razor Blades, Little Pills, Big Pianos quickly became No 1 on iTunes’ classical download chart. Watch out for his forthcoming Chopin documentary on BBC4. One to watch…a classical pianist with a rock-star attitude Classic FM Magazine

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Supported by John Eaden, Kamala ChelliahBoardman and Rosemary Harvey

WEDNESDAY 14 JULY

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FASCINATING AIDA

GOING DUTCH

M58 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm)

M61 Parabola Arts Centre 8.30pm (ends approximately 10.15pm)

£13 £18 £22

£20 includes Hotel du Vin drink voucher – see page 45

Calefax Reeds Quintet

Pre-concert dinner from 6.30pm at Hotel du Vin Two courses £17.50, call 01242 588450

Mendelssohn (arr. Althuis) Overture ‘The Hebrides’ 10’ Bach (arr. Hekkema) Suite from The Goldberg Variations 20’ Debussy (arr. Boekhoorn) Suite Bergamasque 16’ Graham Fitkin new work Festival Society commission 10’ Tchaikovsky/Duke Ellington (arr. Boekhoorn) Nutcracker Jazz Suite 12’ Steve Reich (arr. Hekkema) New York Counterpoint 11’

In the perfect environment for musical cabaret, Cheltenham Ladies College’s Parabola Arts Centre, Dillie Keane and her two collaborating chanteueses present their matchless brand of outrageous, sophisticated satire.

Those who witnessed Dutch reeds quintet Calefax in 2008 will know how distinctive and musically satisfying their performances are. As a wind quintet with a difference – i.e. no flute or horn, but including saxophones – their sound is unique and their presentation of a wide range of repertoire wholly captivating.

See them before you die otherwise your life will have been meaningless. The Mail on Sunday Quite simply, Fascinating Aida are the tops. The Daily Telegraph

FILMS AT THE EXMOUTH THE SOLOIST

PARABOLA RUSH HOUR 2 GOING DUTCH 2

Exmouth Arms, Bath Road 01242 528149 8pm (ends approximately 10pm)

M60 Parabola Arts Centre 6pm (ends approximately 7pm)

Based on the true story of schizophrenic, Juillardtrained cellist Nathaniel Ayres, The Soloist (2009) features fine performances from Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.

£12.50 includes Hotel du Vin drink voucher – see page 45 TOEAC Renée Bekkers & Pieternel Berkers Accordions Programme includes Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor 10’ Grieg Holberg Suite 21’ Piazzolla Tangos selection 12’ New work by Sound & Music shortlist composer 10’

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TOEAC KEYS, BUTTONS & BELLOWS

TOEAC is an abbreviation, in Dutch, for Two Accordions – which is exactly what this remarkable young duo is. To have one brilliantly captivating Dutch chamber group – Calefax – in Cheltenham is one thing. To have two on the same day is…double Dutch!

CALEFAX

THURSDAY 15 JULY

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TIBETAN MONKS OF TASHI LHUNPO

BBC RADIO 3 NEW GENERATION ARTISTS ELIAS STRING QUARTET

M65 Cheltenham Town Hall 7.30pm (ends approximately 9.15pm)

M62 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm)

£5

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£8 £10 £13 £16

with big screen

50% concessions apply – see page 45

Haydn Quartet Op. 64 No 6 20’ Debussy Quartet 25’ Schumann Quartet No 3 32’

An evening of Tibetan music and dance This concert is the climax of a six-day long residency in Cheltenham by eight monks from the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery – founded in Tibet in the 15th-century and re-established in exile in South India three decades ago.

The Elias Quartet, who made their Cheltenham debut in 2008, have now joined the Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme. Recordings and performances in the meantime confirm their status as a quartet of great depth and maturity.

The sacred world of Tibet is filled with the chanting of Buddhist texts, the recitation of mantras, the ringing of bells and cymbals, the blowing of long horns and the beating of drums. This evening of music, dance, extraordinary costumes and masks – with explanatory commentary by the group’s UK representative Jane Rasch – will bring alive this astonishing culture.

PARABOLA RUSH HOUR 3 AQUARELLE GUITAR QUARTET

M63 Parabola Arts Centre 6pm (ends approximately 7pm)

£12.50 includes Hotel du Vin drink voucher – see page 45

St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier, Cheltenham M56 Tuesday 13 July 6.30 – 8pm M59 Wednesday 14 July 12 noon – 1.30pm M67 Friday 16 July 12 noon – 1.30pm

Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Kanengiser) Capriccio Espagnol 15’ Andy Scott New work premiere 14’ C McKay (arr. M Baker) The Swan LK243 5’ Piazzolla La Muerta del Angel 3’ M Tadic (arr. Bessas) Two Balkan Pieces 6’ Bellinati A Furiosa 5’

£10 (£5 concessions) Numbers are limited, so advance booking is essential

Like the other musicians in this Parabola Rush Hour series, the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet’s choice of repertoire and communicative powers trample on all sorts of barriers between classical and non-classical genres. Their latest Chandos CD, Spirit of Brazil, has recently been nominated for a Latin Grammy, and this programme of popular classics, tangos and world-folk is sure to captivate.

SAND MANDALA – see page 32 for more information. Supported by Neil & Ann Parrack

AQUARELLE GUITAR QUARTET

STAR COLLEGE FUNDRAISER ROBERT FRIPP & THEO TRAVIS

M64 Gloucestershire College, Gloucester Campus 7pm (ends approximately 8pm) £15 unreserved seating Profits go to the National Star College See page 29 for concert information.

FRIDAY 16 JULY

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KEITH NUTLAND AWARD WINNER & GLOUCESTERSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIAN

BBC RADIO 3 NEW GENERATION ARTISTS PIKE / PIEMONTESI

M68 Cheltenham Town Hall 2pm (ends approximately 3.15pm)

M66 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm)

£8

£13 £18 £22

unreserved seating

Rosie Breckon Piano Thérèse de Souza Violin

Jennifer Pike Violin Francesco Piemontesi Piano

Programme includes Beethoven Sonata No 14 ‘Moonlight’ 14’ and music by Bloch, Chopin and Wienawski

Programme includes Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on BACH 12’ Ysäye Sonata for Solo Violin Op. 27/2 14’ Debussy Three Preludes 10’ Tchaikovsky Souvenir d’un Lieu Cher 16’

Rosie Breckon, 2009 Keith Nutland Award Winner, studied at Pate’s Grammar School, and is now in her first year reading music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Violinist Thérèse de Souza is the 2010 Gloucestershire Young Musician competition winner, and is also a student at Pate’s.

Jennifer Pike became the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2002, at the age of only twelve. Now aged nineteen, she is widely regarded as one of the finest violinists of her generation. She is joined in this recital by fellow New Generation Artist, Swiss-Italian pianist Francesco Piemontesi, who will play solo Liszt and Debussy. In recognition of The Leonora Society

NEW OPERA THE LION’S FACE

M69 Parabola Arts Centre 6pm (ends approximately 8pm)

JENNIFER PIKE

£15 The Opera Group present The Lion’s Face Music by Elena Langer Libretto by Glyn Maxwell Compassionate, heartfelt, strikingly dramatic and often witty, The Lion’s Face is a musical tale of love and loss that focuses on the social, emotional and physical impacts of Alzheimer’s disease. When a man loses his way home it seems a trivial thing, but one which signals an irreversible return to childhood. Told through theatre and music, this is a dramatic and richly-textured take on ageing, memory and the incomprehension of getting old in the minds of the young. This new production, conducted by Nicholas Collon and directed by John Fulljames, comes from The Opera Group, winners of the 2008 Evening Standard Best Musical Award. PRE-CONCERT INTRODUCTION LED BY ELENA LANGER AND GLYN MAXWELL Parabola Arts Centre 5.15 – 5.45pm Free to ticketholders

FRIDAY 16 JULY

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STAR COLLEGE FUNDRAISER ROBERT FRIPP & THEO TRAVIS

CONNOLLY / MARTINEAU

M72 Cheltenham Town Hall 8.30pm (ends approximately 10.15pm)

M71 All Saints Church, Pittville, Cheltenham 8pm (ends approximately 9.30pm) £20 unreserved seating

£10 £14 £18 £23 £28 Side-stage seating plan – see page 41 PRE-CONCERT DINNER M70 Drawing Room, Cheltenham Town Hall 7.15pm Two-course dinner, with dessert during the £27 interval, plus a glass of wine and coffee.

Profits go to the National Star College Robert Fripp Electric Guitars Theo Travis Alto Flute, Soprano Saxophone with VOICE trio

Sarah Connolly Mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau Piano

Legendary King Crimson founder Robert Fripp joins with Theo Travis for a duo project especially conceived for resonant acoustic spaces. Crossing the divide between ambient electronica and experimental improvisation, Fripp and Travis create an ethereal world of clusters, atmospheres and melodic beauty.

Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart 10’ Schumann Frauenliebe und Leben 24’ Warlock Sleep 5’ Bridge Three Songs 9’ Gurney By a Bierside; Sleep 6’ Britten A Charm; The Salley Gardens; Corpus Christi Carol 10’ Howells Lost Love; King David; Come Sing and Dance 10’

Like two colourists sharing the canvas, they painstakingly blend their respective approaches into a result that is beautiful, delicate, sometimes wistful and occasionally forbidding. Jazzwise

Sarah Connolly’s stature as a singer of immense expressive and vocal powers continues to grow. With recent Glyndebourne successes, a compelling appearance at the 2009 Last Night of the Proms, and a New York Met debut behind her, we are delighted to welcome her back with Malcolm Martineau. Their recital revisits Schumann repertoire that Connolly recorded for Chandos a couple of years ago, but also focuses on English song – her latest Chandos recording project.

The All Saints Pittville performance is preceded by a performance by female a capella trio VOICE, whose repertoire ranges from Hildegard von Bingen to European folksongs.

Supported by Diana Woolley

THE LION’S FACE NEW OPERA AT THE PARABOLA

SARAH CONNOLLY VOCAL MASTERCLASS

SATURDAY 17 JULY

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STORYTELLING FOR THE FAMILY SALLY POMME CLAYTON

KEMPF PLAYS CHOPIN

M73 Pittville Pump Room 11am (ends approximately 12.45pm)

M74 Parabola Arts Centre 11am (ends approximately 12 noon)

£17 £23 £28

£5 children – suitable for age 7+ Sally Pomme Clayton’s vibrant performance takes the audience on Persephone’s dramatic journey to the underworld and back. You will meet Greek Gods and explore the Greek landscape and Ancient Greek traditions on the way. Sally Pomme combines spoken word with unusual musical instruments and strange sounds that evoke the mysterious world of ancient Greece. Her dynamic performances introduce children to the spoken word – developing the imagination, and giving a powerful experience of how body, gesture and voice bring a tale to life. This event is based on Sally Pomme Clayton’s latest dramatic picture book, Persephone. A journey from winter to spring. £7

Freddy Kempf Piano An all Chopin programme Ballade No 1 9‘ Ballade No 3 7‘ Sonata No 3 Op. 58 27‘ Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Op. 22 14‘ Polonaise fantasie in A flat Op. 61 13‘ No music festival in the Chopin bicentenary year would be complete without a recital devoted to his dazzling, affecting solo piano music. Kempf has the maturity and musicality with which to harness his gifts to artistic ends. He has the fearless exuberance of youth. He is prepared to take risks, a readiness that brings spontaneous combustion to his playing; but he has sensitivity, too. The Daily Telegraph Supported by Michael & Angela Cronk

FREDDY KEMPF PASSION & VIRTUOSITY

FOUR HANDS AND AN ARCHER

M75 Parabola Arts Centre 3pm (ends approximately 4.10pm) £15 Bibby Piano Duo Carole Boyd Reader

‘Out of my sorrow have I made these songs…’ Ivor Gurney Nicola and Alexandra Bibby’s sibling piano duo is joined by actress Carole Boyd – known to many as Linda Snell in The Archers – for a programme of words and music that reflect the festival’s focus on music, melancholy and the mind. Their programme includes beautiful music and readings by Satie, Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson, Schumann, Poulenc, Gurney and Mozart.

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SATURDAY 17 JULY

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EVENING HYMN

OPERA GALA FINALE ALFIE BOE & THE PHILHARMONIA

M76 Cheltenham College Chapel 5pm (ends approximately 6pm)

M77 Cheltenham Town Hall 7.30pm (ends approximately 9.30pm)

£10 unreserved seating

£12 £17 £22 £28 £36

Choir of the Eton Choral Course Alexander Mason Organ Ralph Allwood Conductor

with big screen

50% concessions apply – see page 45 Cheltenham Festival Chorus Philharmonia Orchestra Alfie Boe Tenor Gareth Hancock Conductor

Programme includes Arvo Pärt Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis’ Schumann An die Sterne Op. 141/1 Gesualdo O vos omnes Ramsey Sleep, fleshly birth Peerson Man, dreame no more Finzi Lo! the full, final sacrifice Brahms Geistliches Lied

Programme includes Wagner Procession and Chorale (Die Meistersinger) Wagner Bridal Chorus (Lohengrin) Lehar Selection of Arias including ‘You are my heart’s desire’ & ‘Love unspoken’ Bizet March of the Toreadors & Flower Song (Carmen) Donizetti Una furtiva lagrima (L’elisir d’amore) Verdi Anvil Chorus (Il Trovatore) & Slaves Chorus (Nabucco)

Eton Choral Courses provide vibrant vocal training and choral experience to enthusiastic young singers from a range of backgrounds. One of the courses this year is taking place at Cheltenham College, and their week of rehearsals, workshops and evensongs culminates in this final performance.

and music from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Madam Butterfly & Turandot Tenor Alfie Boe, whose recent performances of La Bohème and La Traviata with English National Opera and Welsh National Opera have been acclaimed, comes to Cheltenham for a festive opera finale. Gareth Hancock, who conducted Boe’s first solo album and led the Festival Chorus in Carmina Burana in 2008, is at the helm with the Philharmonia.

ALFIE BOE ROMANTIC LEAD, TENOR HEROICS

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GARETH HANCOCK

VISUAL ARTS & EXHIBITIONS

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BEST OF BRITISH MONOCHROME

TIBETAN SAND MANDALA

With over 200 prize-winning prints and 300 projected digital images, this exhibition presents the best of British monochrome photography, and a special selection of Cotswold Monochrome members. Summerfield Gallery, Pittville Campus, Albert Road

Alongside their performance and Tibetan culture workshops (see page 27), a highlight of the Tashi Lhunpo monks’ week-long residency will be their creation of a sand mandala. This is a ‘painting’ created from millions of grains of coloured sand, and painstakingly laid in place over several days. Simultaneously an astonishing work of art and a Buddhist act of Tantric meditation, the mandala is ritually destroyed once completed. It’s a fascinating spectacle, observing the monks’ work on the mandala, and some of you will find that you want to drop in to The Mercure Queen’s hotel every day to monitor progress.

Saturday 10 – Saturday 17 July 10am – 4pm

PAINTED QUARTETS

Regency Suite, The Mercure Queen’s (admission free) Monday 12 – Friday 16 July: 10am – 7pm Saturday 17 July: Final viewing 9am Destruction ceremony 9.30 – 10.30am

Another chance to see the 24 violins, violas and cellos that were exhibited in the 2009 Music Festival. Artists include PJ Crook, Ana Bianchi, Bob Devereux, Anthony Frost, Mila Judge-Furstova, Richard Parker Crook, Lincoln Seligman, Peter Swan, and Gillian Lever.

Coinciding with the monks’ visit, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum displays items acquired on the Younghusband expedition to Tibet, 1903–4. They include an amulet box, a ritual dagger used when making a mandala, and a spectacular golden Buddha.

Parabola Arts Centre, The Cheltenham Ladies’ College Viewing possible on Parabola performance days (30 minutes before and after concert start and end times). See website for additional viewing times. In late September, the instruments will be auctioned at a charity dinner at The Daffodil restaurant in Cheltenham. The main beneficiary will be the National Star College, as well as Cheltenham Festivals’ music education programme.

1 July – 15 August www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk

The Queen’s

OPEN STUDIOS

Sampler Art Exhibitions curated by Cheltenham Open Studios. A selection of work by member artists

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Summerfield Gallery, Albert Road, Cheltenham This exhibition runs from Friday 2 to Wednesday 7 July.

Cheltenham-based artist Rob Goldsmith will attend rehearsals and performances in the first 10 days of the festival, preparing a series of musician portraits for display in the final few days.

Everyman Theatre, Regent Street, Cheltenham This exhibition runs from Monday 28 June to Monday 9 August.

Wednesday 14 – Saturday 17 July Pittville Pump Room

Star Gallery, Cheltenham General Hospital, Sandford Road, Cheltenham This exhibition runs from July - October 2010 Star Gallery is situated by the Link Corridor between College Road Wing and West Block. For more details about COS membership and other exhibitions please visit cheltenhamopenstudios.org.uk

EDUCATION

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GAMELAN

We are delighted to be collaborating with Good Vibrations again, taking our fabulous Javanese gamelan to HMP Eastwood Park where prisoners will take part in a week of intensive music workshops aimed at developing teamwork and communication skills. Cheltenham Community Gamelan Players will join the prisoners for a short concert to mark the end of the project, and will also be playing the Fiesta in Montpellier Gardens on Saturday 10 July when the public can also come and have a go.

THE BANDWAGON 6, 7, 8 July

The Bandwagon, a bus carrying a ‘pop-up’ ensemble of young, talented musicians from Gloucestershire senior schools led by professional conductor William Carslake and supported by young composer Hannah Kendall, is an innovative approach to providing young children with a vibrant, exciting experience of classical music, by bringing it to them. Following a day of rehearsals, the ensemble will spend three days touring local schools in Cheltenham and Gloucester. These visits will follow a ‘flash mob’ model – unexpected, fun, and with the appearance of being totally spontaneous. For many children this is likely to be their first experience of seeing and hearing an orchestra playing live. This way, the young audience will see the musicians as fun, approachable and unstuffy.

CHOIRS IN A DAY

Young singer and composer Hannah Kendall (pictured below) will lead a day of inspiring singing workshops in two primary school classes, each class becoming a choir in a day. Beginning with some lively ice-breaking activities, Hannah will help the children to find and warm up their voices before teaching them some rousing songs that they will perform in front of their peers, teachers and parents at the end of the day. Singing workshops will also take place at the Midsummer Fiesta in Montpellier Gardens on Saturday 10 July, when members of the public can learn the same songs and perform them together with the children.

For more details visit the Bandwagon web page at cheltenhamfestivals.com/bandwagon

FREE FOR SCHOOLS

FESTIVAL ACADEMY AT THE NATIONAL STAR COLLEGE

Cheltenham Music Festival is committed to making music accessible to all, and once again we are offering free tickets for accompanied school groups across the entire programme. This is a fantastic opportunity for pupils to experience the thrill of live music. Tickets subject to availability. Booking opens on 17 May 2010.

Summer Showcase National Star College, Ullenwood Thursday 8 July, 7.30pm (ends approximately 10pm) Free, but tickets must be booked in advance through the Box Office.

Book online at cheltenhamfestivals.com/education or contact Jo Hilton on 01242 775095.

Festival Academy musicians, Star College creative and performing arts students and conductor William Carslake present the culmination of a series of creative workshops at this evening of music, drama, dance and art in the grounds of the Star College campus at Ullenwood. This is the 6th year of collaboration between the college and Cheltenham Music Festival and the partnership has gone from strength to strength – always promising so much and delivering considerably more! Come along and be part of the experience, as a richly diverse group of young people showcase their creativity.

For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/ education or telephone 01242 775822/91. The Steel Charitable Trust

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FAMILY EVENTS

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SATURDAY 3 JULY SACCONI QUARTET

SUNDAY 11 JULY MICHAEL MORPURGO’S WAR HORSE

M5 St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier, Cheltenham 3pm (ends approximately 4pm) £3 Adults and children, unreserved seating Suitable for age 6+

M46 Cheltenham Town Hall 2pm (ends approximately 3pm)

£10 £5 Children – suitable for age 9+ Michael Morpurgo Reader John Tams & Barry Coope Musicians

Award-winning author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo is joined by 2008 BBC Radio 2 Duo of the Year, John Tams and Barry Coope, in an adaptation for the concert stage by John Tams. Their rousing yet haunting songs were specially written by John for the National Theatre’s production of War Horse.

SUNDAY 4 JULY THEY’VE GOT RHYTHM

THURSDAY 15 JULY TIBETAN MONKS OF TASHI LHUNPO

M10 Parabola Arts Centre 11am (ends approximately 12 noon) £8 £4 for children, suitable for age 5+

M65 Cheltenham Town Hall 7.30pm (ends approximately 9.15pm) £5

O Duo – Owen Gunnell, Oliver Cox

TIBETAN CULTURE WORKSHOPS WITH LUNCH/SUPPER Join the monks for a fascinating workshop, trying out Tibetan dancing and calligraphy, prayer flag printing and constructing a sand mandala. The monks will cook you a Tibetan meal too! St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier, Cheltenham M56 Tuesday 13 July 6.30 – 8pm M59 Wednesday 14 July 12 noon – 1.30pm M67 Friday 16 July 12 noon – 1.30pm

SATURDAY 10 JULY JULIA DONALDSON SINGALONG M37 Parabola Arts Centre 11am (ends approximately 12 noon)

£10 (£5 concessions) Numbers are limited, so advance booking is essential

£5 for children

Fans from 5 to 105 will delight in this fun-filled family event with Julia Donaldson, author of the nation’s favourite bedtime story, The Gruffalo.

SATURDAY 17 JULY SALLY POMME CLAYTON

MIDSUMMER FIESTA IN MONTPELLIER

M74 Parabola Arts Centre 11am (ends approximately 12 noon)

Montpellier Park Noon – 9pm

£7

Look out for further information at cheltenhamfestivals. com/fiesta nearer the time for full details.

£5 children – suitable for age 7+

Persephone – and other Greek Myths Performance storytelling for children over 7 and their families

SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL

M38 & M40 The Queen’s Hotel 2pm & 3.30pm (ends approximately 3pm & 4.30pm respectively) £5

50% concessions apply

An evening of Tibetan music and dance

O Duo’s repertoire spans more than 300 years and is a mix of popular classics and accessible contemporary music played on two marimbas, vibraphone and a huge array of percussion.

£5

£8 £10 £13 £16

Adults and children, unreserved seating Suitable for ages 3–6

Come and join in the fun with shakers, rattlers, tappers and flappers and make all sorts of music using recycled and reclaimed materials.

ACADEMY SUPPORTERS The Festival Academy brings together the finest young musicians from the UK’s conservatoires with professionals for an intensive week of rehearsals, workshops and performances. HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival is deeply grateful to those who gave with exceptional generosity to this special cause. Anonymous Michael and Sylvia Baldwin Roderick Barrand John Beard Jack and Dora Black Ria Brockbank June and Douglas Brooks Enid Castle Simon Collings Mrs M.A. Collins Paul Collins Alan Cook Gill Corney Mary and Duncan Douglas Dr A. Dunn Errol Edwards Elisabeth Gemmill M and W.E. Goss Mr and Mrs N. Graham Mr and Mrs J.M.A. Gregson Mr and Mrs J.S. Harrison Jim Hawkins Beverley and Peter Hodson-Cottingham Anthea Jones

Graham and Eileen Lockwood Sir Michael McWilliam Mary Mackenzie and Richard Walton June and Peter Marychurch Jo Miller Robert Padgett Ken Plant John Ricketts Tony Ridlington Mr and Mrs R.J. Smith Richard Smith and Judith Ginatt Dennis Southwick Penny Steer Miss C.M. Stewart Michael Storm Janet and Peter Thornton Dr D.P. Walton Philip Wilkinson John and Gina Wilson Margaret Winterbourne Diana Woolley Caroline and Christopher Yapp

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FUNDING THE FUTURE

Maybe this is your first experience of Cheltenham Music Festival, or perhaps you first came many years ago, and now bring your children and grandchildren. Ever since the Second World War, Cheltenham Music Festival has been delighting audiences of all ages with the enthralling musical legacies left to us by great composers. Legacies of all sizes play a valuable role in ensuring that the Festival will continue to inspire the performers, composers and conductors of the future. If you choose to remember Cheltenham Music Festival in this valuable way, please contact Rose Wood in confidence. Rose Wood, Legacy Officer, Cheltenham Festivals, 109 Bath Road, Cheltenham GL53 7LS rose.wood@cheltenhamfestivals.com

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FESTIVAL PLUS

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Here are some more cultural events taking place in and around Cheltenham during the festival period - presented in association with Cheltenham Arts Council.

ST MARKS BELLRINGERS Saturday 10 July Admission Free

A FULL PEAL OF BRISTOL SURPRISE MAXIMUS, CONSISTING OF 5040 CHANGES. St Mary’s Church, Cheltenham 10am – 1.30pm

THE CAPPELLA SINGERS

BELL RINGING WORKSHOP AND TOUR

Ashley Grote Organ/Piano Philip Colls Conductor

St Mark’s Church, Cheltenham 2 – 4.30pm Suitable for children aged 12+

All Saints Church, Pittville, Cheltenham Saturday 3 July 4pm

For one day only, St Mark’s bell tower is open to visitors for tours of the historic bells, bell ringing demonstrations and the chance to have a go at making this unique and ancient form of music.

From Wesley to Presley - a programme featuring music by Schumann, Wesley, Elgar, Dyson, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Scott Joplin and songs made famous by Elvis Presley.

A WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF ‘CHELTENHAM INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL SURPRISE MAJOR’

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St Peter’s Church, Leckhampton, Cheltenham 6.30 – 7.15pm

This music, specially composed for this event, will be performed by the St Mark Bellringing association. The concert will be preceded by a short talk about bell ringing and music.

CHELTENHAM CONNECT

The Bath Road and The Suffolks, Cheltenham Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 July Experience the spirit of a thriving local community as Cheltenham Connect hosts a community, craft and music festival. Events will be held at venues in The Bath Road and The Suffolks.

CHELTENHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Anna-Liisa Bezrodny Violin David Curtis Conductor

For more information, please visit www.cheltenhamconnect.co.uk

Village Hall, Bredon Saturday 10 July 7.30pm

VIOLA AND PIANO RECITAL

Mozart Overture to Bastien and Bastienne Beethoven Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No 3

Featuring Carol Allen and Alan MacLean Park House, Thirlestaine Road, Cheltenham, GL53 7AS Wednesday 7 July 3pm

Tickets £12 (students £6, children 15 and under free) from 01684 772272

Programme includes the Sonata for Viola and Piano by Sir Arthur Bliss. Sponsored by the Arthur Bliss Trust.

MUSICA VERA

Tickets £10, available on the door and refreshments provided. For further details call 01242 515771

Oliver Mason Conductor St Peter’s Church, Leckhampton, Cheltenham Saturday 17 July 7.30pm Jonah-Man Jazz and other choral frolics. Tickets £9, to include refreshments Tel. 01242 522878 from 1 June Proceeds to Sue Ryder Care Leckhampton Court Hospice.

PATRONS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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PATRONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Life Patron Charles Fisher Graham and Eileen Lockwood Corporate Patron HSBC Willans LLP Solicitors Platinum Patron Peter and Anne Bond Jennifer Bryant-Pearson Dominic Collier in memory of Karen Hood Michael and Angela Cronk Simon and Emma Keswick Jeremy Hitchins Jonathan and Cassinha Hitchins Steven and Tania Hitchins Howard and Jay Milton In memory of Jørgen Philip-Sørensen Gold Patron Anonymous David and Clare Astor Jack and Dora Black Sue and Mark Blanchfield Eleanor Budge Charlie Chan Clive Coates and Ann Murray Stuart and Gillian Corbyn Janet and Jean-François Cristau Michael and Felicia Crystal Wallace and Morag Dobbin Mr and Mrs P J Elliott Lord and Lady Hoffmann Elizabeth Jacobs Sir Peter and Lady Marychurch Fiona McLeod Sir Michael McWilliam The Helena Oldacre Trust Esther and Peter Smedvig Fiona and David Symondson Giles and Michelle Thorley Janet Wedge and Charles Middleton Steve and Eugenia Winwood Peter and Alison Yiangou

Festival Patron Kate Adie Anonymous Chris Baylis Mark and Maria Bentley Stephen and Victoria Bond Jonathan and Daphne Carr Robert Cawthorne and Catherine White Simon Collings Christopher Dreyfus Viscount and Viscountess Esher James Fleming Kate Fleming Professor A C Grayling Huw and Nicki Gwynn-Jones Marianne Hinton Stephen Hodge Anthony Hoffman and Dr Christine Facer Hoffman Richard and Peta Hoyle Michael and Elizabeth Jones Martin Knight Lady Elaine Marriott Rosamund and Geoff Marshall Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke Mary and Timothy Mitchell Professor Angela Newing Robert Padgett Sir David and Lady Pepper Leslie Perrin Maggie Phillips Hugh Poole-Warren Jonathon Porritt Patricia Routledge CBE Keith Salway Lavinia Sidgwick Jonathan and Gail Taylor Professor Lord Winston Anne Wood Michael and Jacqueline Woof

Cheltenham Festivals President Dame Judi Dench CH Cheltenham Festivals Board Sir Michael McWilliam Chair Peter Bond Lewis Carnie Jonathan Carr Christopher Cook Peter Elliott James Heneage Virginia Isaac Martin Knight Gill Samuels David Wood Chief Executive Donna Renney Vice-Presidents Eleanor Budge Charles Fisher Edward Gillespie Graham Lockwood Sir John Manduell CBE Sir Peter Marychurch KCMG Ion Trewin Brand and Festival Design Document Brand Consultant Howard Milton Company Secretary Margaret Austen Auditors Hazlewoods

Main Switchboard Number 01242 774400 HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival Festival Chairman Christopher Cook Festival Director Meurig Bowen Festival Manager Holly Traynor Development Manager Nicola Lawson 01242 775858 Festival Assistant Robin Purser Children’s Events Consultant Jane Churchill PR Consultant Colman Getty 020 7631 2666 Music Festival Advisory Group Brian Carvell Christopher Cook Jim Harrison Kate Hicks-Beech Lyndon Jones Mary Mackenzie Ben Nicholas Diggory Seacome Paul Smith With many thanks to all the staff at CBC, those at each venue and the festival volunteers, all of whom help make the Festival happen. HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival is a member of The British Arts Festivals Association www.artsfestival.co.uk and the Association of British Orchestras.

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Front-facing seating plan:  M7 A Rodgers & Hammerstein Gala   M16 Bournemouth / Karabits  M43 Isserlis and Schumann 2   M57 Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra  M65 Tibetan Monks of Tashi Lhunpo  M77 Alfie Boe & the Philharmonia Side-stage seating plan:  M19 Four Seasons & A Souvenir   M46 Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse  M50 Isserlis & Schumann 3   M68 Keith Nutland Award Winner and Gloucestershire Young Musician  M72 Connolly / Martineau

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TEWKESBURY ABBEY

PITTVILLE PUMP ROOM

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GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

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Event

Date

Time

Event

Venue

S33

Thur 10 June

7.45pm

The Ultimate Piano Lesson

Parabola Arts Centre

5.30pm

Festival Evensong

Cheltenham College Chapel

Film & Concert: The Fezeka Choir

St Matthew’s Church

Imogen Cooper - Members Only Event

Pittville Pump Room

Fri 2 July

5.45/7.30pm

7.30pm

10am

Talk: Elizabethan Garden Games

Pittville Campus

11am

Musicians Of The Globe: All in a Garden Green

Pittville Pump Room

2pm

Films At The Exmouth: Rodgers & Hammerstein

Exmouth Arms

3pm

Sacconi Quartet Family Concert

St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier

3pm

Admission: One Shilling - A Myra Hess Tribute

Parabola Arts Centre

7pm

A Rodgers & Hammerstein Gala

Cheltenham Town Hall

9.30pm

Sacconi / Simcock

Parabola Arts Centre

11am

Ibragimova & Tiberghien

Pittville Pump Room

M10

11am

They've Got Rhythm: O Duo

Parabola Arts Centre

M11

2.30pm

Sound Mind 1: Does Music Make You Better?

Parabola Arts Centre

Sat 3 July

Sun 4 July

Films At The Exmouth: Rodgers & Hammerstein

Exmouth Arms

M12

4.30pm

Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra

Pittville Pump Room

M13

7.30pm

Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble

Gloucester Cathedral

11am

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Pittville Pump Room

3pm

A Load Of Ole Bull: Concert, Talk & Film

Pittville Pump Room / Pittville Campus

M16

7pm

Bournemouth / Karabits

Cheltenham Town Hall

M17

11am

Schubert Ensemble

Pittville Pump Room

M18

3pm

Milos Karadaglic

St Swithin’s Church, Quenington

6pm

Four Seasons & A Souvenir

Cheltenham Town Hall

BBC Radio 3's Discovering Music

Pittville Pump Room

M14 M15

M19

Mon 5 July

Tues 6 July

4pm

M20

8.30pm

M21

11am

ATOS Trio

Pittville Pump Room

M22

5pm

Trinity College Choir, Melbourne

All Saints Church, Pittville

6.45pm

Film & Talk: Brett Dean & Gesualdo

Pittville Campus

M24

8.30pm

Festival Academy 1: Back To The Future

Pittville Pump Room

M25

10.15am

Pre-Concert Talk

Pittville Pump Room

M26

11am

Solstice String Quartet / David Campbell

Pittville Pump Room

M27

5pm

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

Tewkesbury Abbey

7pm

Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers

Tewkesbury Abbey

M23

M28

Wed 7 July

Thurs 8 July

M29

7.30pm

Festival Academy At The Star College

National Star College, Ullenwood

M30

9.30pm

Festival Academy 2: Trout Variations

Pittville Pump Room

Collins / Dean / Watkins

Pittville Pump Room

Sound Mind 2: When Mahler Met Freud

Pittville Campus

Isserlis & Schumann 1

Pittville Pump Room

M31

11am

M32

5.30pm

M33

Fri 9 July

7pm

M34

9.30pm

Festival Academy 3: English Elegies

Thirlestaine Long Gallery

M35

10am

Talk: Capons, Counter-Tenors And Bee Gees

Pittville Campus

11am

Music For A While

Pittville Pump Room

11am

Family Event: Julia Donaldson Singalong

Parabola Arts Centre

Midsummer Fiesta In Montpellier

Montpellier Gardens

Pre-Concert Talk

Hardy Lecture Theatre

M36 M37

Sat 10 July

12 noon - 9pm

1.45pm

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Event

Venue

M38

Date

2pm

Family Event: Shake, Rattle & Roll

The Queen's Hotel

M39

2.30pm

New London Chamber Choir

Cheltenham College Chapel

3.30pm

Family Event: Shake, Rattle & Roll

The Queen's Hotel

4.30pm

Sound Mind 3: Shivers Down The Spine

Pillar Room, Cheltenham Town Hall

M42

6pm

Festival Academy 4: Schumann & Dean

Cheltenham Town Hall

M43

7.30pm

Festival Academy 5: Isserlis & Schumann 2

Cheltenham Town Hall

M44

10pm

Powerplant

Parabola Arts Centre

M45

11am

Two Pianos Four Hands

Pittville Pump Room

M46

2pm

Family Event: Michael Morpurgo's War Horse

Cheltenham Town Hall

3pm

M40 M41

Sat 10 July contd

Lecture Recital: Alfred Brendel

Pittville Pump Room

5.30pm

Sound Mind 4: The Sound of Melancholia

Pillar Room, Cheltenham Town Hall

M49

6.15pm

Pre-Concert Dinner

Drawing Room, Cheltenham Town Hall

M50

7.30pm

Isserlis & Schumann 3: Brahms, Robert And Clara

Cheltenham Town Hall

M51

11am

Australian String Quartet

Pittville Pump Room

M47 M48

Sun 11 July

3pm

Steven Isserlis

St Andrew’s Church, Naunton

M53

7pm

Sound Mind 5: Venus, Mercury & St Cecilia

Pillar Room, Cheltenham Town Hall

M54

11am

Christensen / Neven / Vignoles

Pittville Pump Room

M55

6pm

Parabola Rush Hour 1: James Rhodes

Parabola Arts Centre

6.30pm

Tibetan Culture Workshop

St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier

M57

7.30pm

Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra

Cheltenham Town Hall

8pm

Films At The Exmouth: Shine

Exmouth Arms

M58

11am

Going Dutch: Calefax Reeds Quintet

Pittville Pump Room

26 27

M52

M56

Mon 12 July

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Tues 13 July

M59 M60

Tibetan Culture Workshop

St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier

6pm

Parabola Rush Hour 2: Going Dutch 2

Parabola Arts Centre

Films At The Exmouth: The Soloist

Exmouth Arms

Fascinating Aida

Parabola Arts Centre

12 noon Wed 14 July

8pm

M61

8.30pm

M62

11am

Elias String Quartet

Pittville Pump Room

6pm

Parabola Rush Hour 3: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

Parabola Arts Centre

7pm

Robert Fripp & Theo Travis

Gloucestershire College

M63 M64

Thurs 15 July

25 27 25

M65

7.30pm

Tibetan Monks Of Tashi Lhunpo

Cheltenham Town Hall

M66

11am

Pike / Piemontesi

Pittville Pump Room

M67

12pm

Tibetan Culture Workshop

St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier

M68

2pm

Keith Nutland & GYM winners

Cheltenham Town Hall

5.15pm

Talk: Elena Langer & Glyn Maxwell

Parabola Arts Centre

New Opera: The Lion's Face

Parabola Arts Centre

Pre-Concert Dinner

Drawing Room, Cheltenham Town Hall

Robert Fripp & Theo Travis

All Saints Church, Pittville

M69

Fri 16 July

6pm

M70

7.15pm

M71

8pm

M72

8.30pm

Sarah Connolly / Malcom Martineau

Cheltenham Town Hall

M73

11am

Kempf Plays Chopin

Pittville Pump Room

11am

Storytelling For The Family: Sally Pomme Clayton

Parabola Arts Centre

3pm

Four Hands And An Archer

Parabola Arts Centre

M76

5pm

Evening Hymn

Cheltenham College Chapel

M77

7.30pm

Opera Gala Finale: Alfie Boe & The Philharmonia

Cheltenham Town Hall

M74 M75

Sat 17 July

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Discounts & Concessions Concessions Concessions apply to selected festival events, subject to availability. Proof of eligibility will be required. Only one concession may apply per ticket. Young People 25 & Under, Students (NUS) and Unemployed 50% discount is available on the following events:

Members’ tickets on sale from 9am Wednesday 7 April 2010 Tickets on sale from 9am Monday 19 April 2010

M7, M16, M19, M43, M57, M65, M77.

Remember to book early for the best seats

Cavatina Free Ticket Scheme at the HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival Cavatina Chamber Music Trust sponsors FREE tickets for 8 to 25 year olds at selected concerts (marked in the event listings pages). Please fill in the Cavatina ticket form at the box office on arrival at the concert, with the name of your school or student ID. Tickets can be booked in advance through the box office, quoting ‘CAVATINA’.

Festival Box Office Online www.cheltenhamfestivals.com Get the latest and most complete information online and book 24hrs a day. No concessions are available online Phone

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Disabled Patrons & Support Workers/Assistants Disabled patrons are entitled to 50% off their ticket price and a free ticket for their support worker/assistant on production of relevant ID (excluding events M49 and M70). These tickets need to be collected in person. For information about access please see our website for venue contact details.

7 April – 25 April Mon-Fri 9am - 8pm, Sat 9.30am - 6.30pm, Sun 11am-4pm From 26 April Mon – Fri 10am – 8pm, Sat 9.30 – 5.30pm, Sun closed In Person Town Hall, Imperial Square, Cheltenham GL50 1QA Public Opening Times Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm Wednesday 7 April Box Office opens at 9am (During the festival the box office will close at 7.45pm or 15 mins after the start of the last Town Hall event)

Children Please adhere to the age range specified for events M5, M10, M37, M38, M40, M46 and M74. Children under 12 years must be accompanied by a responsible person aged 16 or over approved by the parent/guardian, and prices are kept as low as possible to allow for this. Any such person can accompany a maximum of 6 children to an event.

Other options available until 48hrs before the event Email boxoffice@cheltenham.gov.uk Fax 01242 573902 – using booking form Post using booking form & including a SAE

Cheltenham Festivals maintains a Child Protection Policy, but cannot act in loco parentis or take responsibility for unsupervised children. If your child is disruptive you may be asked to leave the event.

Refunds The Festival cannot refund money or exchange tickets, except in the case of a cancelled performance.

Free For Schools All events have a limited number of free places for accompanied school groups – contact Jo Hilton on 01242 775095 for information from Monday 17 May.

Membership Members are entitled to a 20% discount on full price tickets at their choice of five events. Discounted tickets can only be used by the Member, and cannot be applied on tickets which include food or drink in the price. Members also enjoy a 20% discount at five events at The Barclays Cheltenham Jazz Festival, ten events at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival and fifteen events at The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. Membership packages are available for individuals, couples and families and start from just £15 for a cycle of four festivals; visit the Town Hall Box Office or cheltenhamfestivals. com/membership to find out more.

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