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Music in Norwich this weekend Saturday 22 June/Sunday 23 June plus lunchtime organ recital Monday 24 June

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Saturday 22 June 2019, 7.30pm
Salle Church, Salle near Reepham, Norfolk NR10 4SE
Academy of St Thomas

Telemann Concerto for Viola
Bach Concerto for Viola in Eb major
Dag Wiren Serenade
Dvorak Nocturne
Leroy Anderson Selection

Philip Dukes viola/director

Well known to AST audiences, Philip Dukes returns to perform two lovely baroque viola concertos and direct the rest of a programme ideally suited to the ambience and acoustics of this wonderful Norfolk Church.

Do bring a picnic to enjoy by the cricket green before the concert.

Tickets for all concerts available in person or by phone from St George’s Music Shop, 01603 626414 and online from www.ticketsource.co.uk/ast
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Sponsored by Hilary & Lewis Jarrett

Sunday 23 June 2019, 2.30pm
Norwich Theatre Royal
Norfolk Schools’ Opera Project

The culmination of the Norfolk Schools’ Opera Project sees the world premiere of a brand new children’s version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute performed by over 100 children from Norfolk schools and accompanied by an orchestra of gifted and talented young musicians.

Norfolk Music Hub and Norwich Theatre Royal are working in partnership to support this year-long creative and cultural learning programme in schools through the medium of opera.

Monday 24 June 2019,  St Andrew’s Hall : 1.10pm
Lunchstop Organ Recital : with Richard Bower playing the glorious organ maintained by Friends of St Andrew’s Hall Organ

 

Roddy Williams and Iain Burnside perform Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin at Open Norwich

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Open Norwich is launching a new ambition of hosting classical music concerts as a development of their existing music offer and to kick it off,  leading baritone Roddy Williams and top accompanist Iain Burnside are performing the first concert on 20 November with Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin.

More information and a link to tickets here – http://opennorwich.org.uk/whats-on/gigs-events/roderick-williams/

They will be supported by Norfolk County Youth Orchestra and a composition group from Norwich Music Club.

Coming up at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 12-28 May

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The Norfolk and Norwich Festival runs from Friday 12-Sunday 28 May this year and has a packed classical music and jazz programme as well as some great contemporary and popular music, from the traditional to the ‘right out there’. It’s an exciting time and this is a real chance to try something new. Here are a couple of videos that the Festival has produced to showcase what is coming up which gives you a good idea of what is coming up and who is doing the programming. This is the swan-song Festival for artistic director William Galinsky who is moving on to develop his own work so he has put a lot of energy into the programme this year.

It is worth booking ahead as some things sell out quickly but then, even if something is sold out, it is worth checking back for returns – I just managed to book some Philip Glass tickets as a few became available this week. Theatre Royal Norwich manages all the bookings on 01603 630000 or via www.theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk.

One of the highlights this year is a production by Norwich’s very own Voice Project producers Sian Croose and Jon Baker called In The Arms of Sleep – it’s a classical music/choral sleepover in the Assembly House in Norwich which offers 40 audience members the chance to take a bed, make themselves comfy and fall asleep listening to a 10 hour choral performance, voices permeating their slumbers and waking them with a chorus. Some people might find the idea of sleeping with 39 strangers a bit daunting but it will be an experience – when will you get the chance to do something like this again?

Classical music programmed by Britten Sinfonia


<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/215855029″>NNF17 – Classical Music</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/nnfest”>Norfolk &amp; Norwich Festival</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>

Contemporary music programmed by Serious

 

Into Opera are recruiting for a project based in Norwich and Great Yarmouth

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Music Director and Assistant to the Composer

Into Opera are looking for a dynamic, inspirational and creative Music Director for a
children’s opera and education project taking place in Norfolk from September 2017 –
February 2018. This project will culminate in the professional world premiere of A King’s
Ransom, a new opera by renowned classical composer Patrick Hawes.

More details are on the pdf attached

Job Description – Music Director and Assistant to the Composer

New edition of Music in Norwich is out!

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Please to say that the newest edition of Music in Norwich is now out on the streets in hard copy and is available to pick up free from the Tourist Information Centre, Theatre Royal, St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich Cathedral, Arts Roundup racks and many other place around Norwich and Norfolk as well as a pdf download from this siteMusic in Norwich spring 17.jpg

Sivan Rotem at The Assembly House Thursday 2 March 2017

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When the world’s busiest conductor, Maestro Valery Gergiev, heard that there is a soprano who works on five continents, as does he, he exclaimed with thus supreme authority that “she is the only one”. That classically-trained singer is Sivan Rotem, an Argentinian-born Israeli whose burgeoning career in opera, concerts, recitals, radio, television, cabaret, commercial recordings and master classes has taken her across the Americas via the West Indies and many continental European countries to Egypt, South Africa, China and Australia.

Described by the Salt Lake Tribune following her Brahms Requiem with the Utah Symphony as “a classy vocal talent” with “an angelic soprano voice”, Sivan Rotem is considered one of the most outstanding singers of Israel. Born in Buenos Aires, she started her musical training as a violinist. Graduating from Haifa University in English and Literature and the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University in Singing, she continued her vocal studies in the USA with Ellen Faull.

She made her debut with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and appears regularly with all the leading orchestras of Israel. She also sang many leading roles with the Israeli Opera and in Germany, Finland and the USA.

Sivan Rotem enjoys a successful career worldwide and has sung with symphony orchestras across North and South America and in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Macedonia and South Africa. Recitals have taken her to the USA, UK, Albania, Czech Republic, Spain, Finland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, France, Argentina, Egypt, China and Australia.

Her flamenco quartet Classic Flamenco was invited to Madrid where it sold out at the Suma Flamenco Festival, subsequently appearing in England at the Henley Festival and in London to great acclaim.

Her discography includes Aharon Harlap’s Symphony No 2, “L’Oiseau de la Guerre” for Helicon, a Spanish CD, “Viva el Amor” for Romeo Records, and two CDs dedicated to songs by Giacomo Meyerbeer, the latest released in December, 2016.

The recital will also be given in London the previous evening, Wednesday 1 March.

Concert management Dario Salvi 07424 418863 See http://artaxismusic.com/

Coming up next week at Theatre Royal Norwich – Theater Freiburg: WagnerFest 23 – 28 July 2014

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For opera fans, coming to Theatre Royal Norwich next week is an extravaganza of Wagner. You can book here 

The operas of Richard Wagner represent one of the greatest artistic achievements in the history of European culture.  Their scale dwarfs that of most of the operatic repertoire. The physical size of the casts and orchestra, their musical range and dynamic vision produce performances of great and enduring power.  Wagner’s constant reworking of European myth, symbolism and folklore, his profound exploration of human spirituality, desire and emotion and, above all, his singular musical genius are all displayed in abundance in both of these monumental operas.

We are delighted to welcome the opera company and orchestra of Theater Freiburg, one of Germany’s most acclaimed regional companies, to perform these masterpieces.  They have established an enviable reputation for quality and excellence across Europe as leading interpreters of Wagner’s work.

PARSIFAL (Wed 23 & Fri 25, both at 5pm)
TANNHÄUSER (Sun 27 at 3pm, Mon 28 at 5pm)

Both operas sung in German with English surtitles visible from all seats
All images from the 2013 Theater Freiburg production of Parsifal.  Tannhäuser premieres in Freiburg Spring 2014

Parsifal running time: around 5 hrs, incl two intervals – 1st interval 45 mins, 2nd interval 25 mins
Tannhäuser running time: around 4 hrs 15 mins, incl two intervals – both of 30 mins

“Five hours of performance flew past in boundless joy, ending in a unanimous 15 minute ovation” , Badische Zeitung

“The conductor and orchestra conjure up the most marvellous Wagner sound”, der-neue-merker.eu