Music | University Concerts
University of Birmingham and Other Concerts January – April 2012
Saturday 4 February 3.00 pm
University Music Society
Chamber Ensembles
The ever-growing University Music Society presents its latest venture – Chamber Ensembles! This addition to the UMS family encourages students to form new ensembles that perform to each other throughout the year before giving this, their annual concert.
The Barber Concert Hall
Tickets: £6, £4 concessions, £3 students, available only on the door
Friday 10 February 5.30 pm
University Music Society
Big Band
‘Rush Hour Blues’
Unwind in Symphony Hall’s Level 3 Bar and let the sensational sounds of the University Big Band help you find that Friday evening feeling.
Symphony Hall Foyer
Admission FREE
Saturday 3 March 7.30 pm
University Music Society
Wind Band and Brass Band
The University Wind Band and Brass Band share a concert to perform a wide variety of music, including well-known classics, marches and film music.
Programme to include:
Graham
Cry of the Celts
Lovatt-Coope
Skylines
Berlin
Putting on the Ritz
The Great Hall, University of Birmingham
Tickets: £8, £5 concessions, £3 students
Sunday 4 March 3.00 pm
University Music Society
Saxophone Ensemble
This fun ensemble combines the talents of students, staff and the local community as they perform a lively selection of original compositions and arrangements.
The Barber Concert Hall
Tickets: £6, £4 concessions, £3 students, available only on the door
Friday 9 March 7.30 pm
University Music Society
Chamber Choir
Singers from across the University come together to celebrate their love of singing in a concert that combines the traditional with the contemporary. The Chamber Choir lets loose with its own arrangements of songs by such artists as Rihanna, Toploader and Queen!
St George’s Church, Edgbaston,
B15 3DQ
Tickets: £6, £4 concessions, £3 students, available only on the door
Sunday 11 March 6.00 pm
University Music Society
Symphony Orchestra
Ben Palmer conductor
Peter Medland trumpet
Programme to include:
Tomasi
Trumpet Concerto
Stravinsky
Symphony in C
The Symphony Orchestra is conducted by University of Birmingham alumnus, Ben Palmer. They are joined by the winner of this year’s Music Society Concerto Competition, Peter Medland, a Medical student who first read Music at the University of Surrey.
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire,
B3 3HG
Tickets: £12, £8 concessions, £4 students
Friday 16 March 8.00 pm
University Music Society
Big Band
Student band leaders Ben Gaskin and Fred Claridge invite you to kick back and relax for this informal night of big band classics from the recently renamed Jazz Orchestra – which now does what it says on the tin!
The Bristol Pear, Selly Oak
Tickets: £6, £4 concessions, £3 students, available only on the door
Sunday 18 March 6.00 pm
University Music Society
University Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniele Rosina conductor
Haydn
Missa in angustiis (‘Nelson’ Mass)
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5
Haydn’s chief biographer, H. C. Robbins Landon, wrote that this Mass in D minor ‘is arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition’. It was completed in the summer of 1798, a terrifying time for Austria, and given the title Missa in angustiis (‘Mass for Troubled Times’). What Haydn did not know at the time — but what he and his audience had heard by the date of the first performance (15 September) – is that on 1 August Napoleon had been dealt a stunning defeat at the Battle of the Nile by British forces led by Admiral Horatio Nelson. This is why the Mass became known as the ‘Nelson’ Mass.
Town Hall, Birmingham
Tickets: £15, £10 concessions, £5 students, available from THSH (0121 780 3333).