Guildford International Music Festival 2007
Events for Wednesday 21 March 2007
Musical Strides
Event numbers: 50-53
Contemporary Music Day
University of Surrey, PATS Studio One
David Lovatt Composition Prize
Gemini
Ian Mitchell clarinets
Caroline Balding violin, Robin Michael cello, Julian Jacobson piano
Event number: 50
University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 1.10pm
Free
Stephen Goss The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Sadie Harrison Owl of the Hazels
Witold Lutoslawski Subito
World première of David Lovatt Prize winner
This concert commemorates a much-loved University of Surrey student who graduated two decades ago, but who sadly died in summer 2002. David Lovatt was a keen and gifted composer, and this 
award in his memory complements the University's other prizes in composition with a world première and CD recording of the winning work by Gemini, the University's Artists in Residence. Curtain raiser – see no 34.
Composition Workshop
with Roger Smalley, George Nicholson, Jim Ledger and Adrian Moore
Event number: 51
University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 2.30pm
Free
These composers visit the University to work with students from the Department of Music and Sound Recording.
Crossing the Boundary
Event number: 52
University of Surrey , PATS Studio One, 7.30pm
£6 full/senior citizens, £3 concessions
Peter Cropper and Paul Wright violins, Darryl Poulsen horn, Peter Hill piano, and Roger Smalley piano
Roger Smalley Trio for horn, violin and piano; Lament for horn and percussion; Echo IV for horn with digital delay
George Nicholson Work for horn, violin and piano
Geoffrey Poole Violin Solo
Dorothy Ker Violin, horn and resonance
Adrian Moore Electroacoustic Interludes for piano and tape
James Ledger Piano and Horn Sonata
Rising from the Ashes, world-class composers and players from the UK and Australia unite to play on British and Australian soil. The evening includes works for the 21st century which demonstrate motor co-ordination, top-spin and excellent teamwork. The composers will be at the performance to introduce their works. The programme will tour in Australia later in the year.
The Voice of Slavery
Robert Gibbs violin, Adrian Bradbury cello, Oliver Davies piano,
Event number: 53
Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, 7.30pm
£15
This concert commemorates the bi-centenary of the abolition of the slave trade on 25 th March 1807. Featuring music by former slaves Ignatius Sancho and ‘Blind Tom' Bethune, it also includes arrangements of spirituals and plantation songs by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, H T Burleigh and other distinguished black composers of the early 20th century. Some of these transcriptions, made for artists such as Kreisler, Zimbalist, Percy Grainger and Beatrice Harrison and famously played by them in their world tours, will be revived for the first time in this unique and moving programme.
To book tickets please visit www.cobbecollection.co.uk and print off a booking form or send a cheque made out to The Cobbe Collection Trust with sae to Cobbe Collection Trust, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon GU4 7RT.
Royal Grammar School Chorus and Orchestra
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man
Conductor Peter White
Event number: 54
Guildford Cathedral, 7.30pm
£12, £8 students/ES40s
An increasingly popular vocal work by one of the UK's contemporary composers.
Tickets available from RGS Office 01483 880600, Cathedral Box Office 01483 547870, or at the door.
Quiet, Please!
Srishti Dance Company
Event number: 55
The Electric Theatre, 8pm
£12, £10 senior citizens, £6 concessions
Live music, vibrant visuals and award-winning dance featuring Quick! Winner of The Place Prize 2006
…its stamping percussive energies and mimetic animation are filled with frantic testosterone vanity and the high-powered stress of the modern businessman. Rajarani's take on classical Indian dance is invigorating. The Times
Fresh from winning The Place Prize 2006 (Europe's largest choreographic competition), Nina Rajarani presents her company Srishti in Quiet, Please! This vibrant work weaves two choreographies into a romantic love triangle, with live music, riveting visuals and energetic, entertaining dance. The frenetic pace of the London business world that is driven by aggression and competition is captured in Quick! Four male Bharatanatyam dancers and four musicians in business dress appear on stage juxtaposed with the unfolding cinematic love story.
The Place Prize judges called it a work of unstoppable energy… a dance work with something new to say about how the world is today…
