Music | Summer Festival of Music 2008
Summer Festival of Music 2008
13 - 20 June
Friday 13 June at 7.30pm
New Music Ensemble
To include a selection of new works composed and conducted by students.
Elgar Room (Arts Building).
Admisson free
Saturday 14 June at 1 pm
Wind Band and Brass Band
Adam Morris, Jose Puello conductors
A selection of wind and brass band favourites!
The Bandstand, Cannon Hill Park
Admission free
Saturday 14 June at 7pm
Sunday 15 June at 2pm
Monday 16 June at 7pm
Summer Festival Opera
Ed Nightingale director
Matthew Caulfield musical director
Mozart Don Giovanni (sung in English)
Come and see possibly the most notorious philanderer in his last days before judgement. Mozart’s second Da Ponte opera mixes buffa comedy with a darker side, raising serious moral questions about vengeance and the nature of God. Don Giovanni tricks and cheats his way out of danger (aided by his long-suffering servant Leporello). But there is to be no escape from his final judgement: he must choose either to repent for his sins or to face hell for eternity.
Tickets: £13, £9 (concessions), £5 (students)
Tuesday 17 June at 3pm
Early Music
An afternoon of Renaissance and Baroque music, followed by light refreshments.
Tickets: £5, £4 concessions, £2 students
Wednesday 18 June at 1.10pm
Chamber Ensembles
A selection of chamber music in a variety of genres.
Admission free
Wednesday 18 June at 7.30pm
Jazz
A joint concert by the University Students’ Jazz Orchestra and the Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra, in collaboration with the Jazz and Blues Society of Birmingham University.
Deb Hall, Birmingham University Guild of Students.
Tickets: £4, £3 (concessions/students), £2 (JaBsoc) available from the Barber Institute or on the door
Thursday 19 June at 7.30pm
Symphony Orchestra
Sofie Vilcins clarinet
Jamie Man, Daniel Walton conductors
Tarren In the Loop
Weber Clarinet Concerto No.1
Brahms Symphony No.1
St Nicholas Church, King’s Norton. Tickets: £8, £6 (concessions), £4 (students),
available from St Nicholas Church (0121 458 3289) or on the door
Friday 20 June at 1.10pm
Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Michael Atkinson saxophone
Sarah Griffiths conductor
To include Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto and a selection of choral music.
Admission free
This final concert will be followed by the Summer Festival Buffet. Buffet tickets available from the Barber Institute, £4.