Music | Summer Festival of Music 2009
Summer Festival of Music 2009
12 - 19 June
Friday 12 June · 7pm
New Music Ensemble
This ensemble plays exciting contemporary works by both established and up-and-coming composers. The programme will include compositions by current University of Birmingham Music students.
Elgar Room, Arts Building
Admission free
Saturday 13 June · 7pm
Sunday 14 June · 2pm
Monday 15 June · 7pm
Summer Festival Opera
Strauss Die Fledermaus (sung in English)
Johann Strauss’s most celebrated and popular operetta is full of mistaken identities, flirtation and confusion of all kinds, providing a hilarious vehicle for the most captivating of scores. Join Baron von Eisenstein and his companions for an evening of fun and frivolity at the masked ball as Die Fledermaus’s plan for revenge unfolds!
Adaptation for amateur performance by Phil Park and Ronald Hanmer
Tickets £13, £9 (concessions), £5 (students)
Tuesday 16 June · 7.30pm
Symphony Orchestra
The Summer Festival Symphony Orchestra’s programme includes the winning entry from this year’s Summer Festival Composition Competition, along with a dazzling performance from the winner of the Concerto Competition.
St Nicholas Church, Kings Norton
Tickets: £8, £6 concessions, £4 students
Wednesday 17 June · 2.30pm
Early Music Concert
University music students will transport you back to centuries past with an afternoon of Baroque and Renaissance music performed on period instruments. This performance will be followed by light refreshments in the foyer.
Tickets: £5, £4 concessions, £2 students
Thursday 18 June · 1.10pm
Chamber Music Ensembles
The Summer Festival joins forces with members of the Guild of Students Chamber Music Society and with musicians from across the University to perform popular pieces from the chamber music repertory.
Admission free
Thursday 18 June · 7.30pm
Jazz Orchestra
The smooth sounds of the Jazz Orchestra will have you clicking your fingers and tapping your toes. Come and dance the night away to a selection of Jazz, Swing and Big Band classics.
Deb Hall, Guild of Students
Tickets: £5, £4 concessions, £2 students
Friday 19 June · 1.10pm
Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra
Join us for the final concert of the festival given by two of the festival’s most popular ensembles!
Admission free
Friday 19 June · 2.15pm
Summer Festival Buffet
A delicious post-concert buffet in the foyer of the Barber Institute celebrating the culmination of this week-long Summer Festival of Music.
Buffet ticket: £5
Summer Festival Information For more information please e-mail summerfestival@googlemail.com, or go to the festival website: sites.google.com/site/summerfestival2009. Tickets are available from the Barber Institute reception desk and on the door at each venue. |