Chopin Bicentenary EVENTS
Sat 6 March at 7.30 pm
Featuring Martino Tirimo
Includes Rondo, Ballade No 2,
6 Études from Op 10, Sonata No 3
Donations to Sue Ryder Care (Registered Charity 1052076) for Poland
Wed 7 April at 7.30 pm St George's Bristol
Chopin, Schumann, Contemporary works and Improvisations
Due to severe hand trauma, Mark Latimer is sorry to have to announce a change of programme for the forthcoming concert at St George's Bristol on Wednesday 7 April. The new programme will now include major works by Chopin and Schumann, the latter being represented by the performer’s own reconstruction of the manuscript of Variations on a Theme of Schubert (a world premiere), and contemporary improvisations of his own invention.
Wed 7 April at 7.30 pm St George's Bristol
Tickets only available from St George's Bristol Box Office Tel: 0845 402 4001
Sat 24 April at 7.30 pm
Featuring Martino Tirimo
Includes 6 Études from Op 25, Barcarolle,
'Military' Polonaise, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Scherzo No 2
If the audience exceeds 200, £2 per ticket will be donated to the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (Registered Charity 1000340), otherwise £1.50.
Sat 15 May at 7.30 pm
Featuring Martino Tirimo
Includes Bolero, Impromptus, Scherzo No 1, Preludes
Donations to the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside with guests Jadwiga Lopata and Sir Julian Rose attending the grand finale
TICKETS are available at the door on the evenings of these concerts at Holy Trinity Church, Whitecross Road,
Hereford, HR4 0DF. ADULTS £12 each STUDENTS £7 each.
If the audience exceeds 200, £2 per ticket sold be donated to the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside, otherwise £1.50.
Associated Seminar
Sun 16 May at 3 pm at The Studio Theatre, The Courtyard, Hereford
Tickets £5 (£3 concessions) only available from The Courtyard Box Office
Tel: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk
All ticket revenue donated to the ICPPC.
The Future of Food and Farming in Europe: the Polish example
Presented by Jadwiga Lopata, who has just received the Golden Cross of Merit from the Polish President for her voluntary work and Sir Julian Rose, of the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside (ICPPC). This coalition was initiated by 41 organizations from 18 countries.
The speakers are also the special guests attending the grand finale of the Complete Chopin on 15 May.
Jadwiga Lopata is the Polish initiator of the ICPPC and President of ECEAT-Poland (the European Centre for Ecological Agriculture and Tourism-Poland), a member of ASHOKA-Innovators for the Public. Jadwiga is the owner of a small organic farm.
Sir Julian Rose is a farmer, forester, writer and social entrepeneur. He is an early UK pioneer of organic farming methods, commencing the conversion of his UK farm in 1975. He started out as an actor and teacher in holistic thinking, before taking on the management of the Hardwick Estate, a family property in South Oxfordshire. Julian has served on many national committees concerned with the British rural economy. He has advised government and founded three organisations specifically related to helping protect and advance the needs of family farms and quality foods. He broadcasts and writes extensively and is the author of a book entitled "Changing Course for Life - Local Solutions to Global Problems" (Publication Jan. 2009) Enormous efforts have been made to create a national and international campaign to protect the Polish countryside. Real gains have been made. 480 Polish and international organizations representing over 30 million people have been supporting ICPPC and have signed its "CHARTER 21 - Manifesto for the Polish Countryside 21st Century". In April 2002, ICPPC was awarded the Goldman Prize - Ecological Nobel - for its international campaign to protect the Polish, small, family farms.
In June 2002, ICPPC's headquarters in Stryszow were visited by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
Concerts for Refugee Week
Wed 16 June at 7.30 pm St George's Bristol
Zoran Jancic brings beautiful and pioneering works back to the concert platform. He returns from the Balkans to St Georges in Refugee Week long after his exile from Sarajevo to Britain, to pay tribute to another composer/pianist in exile, Chopin, during his bicentenary year, to Hummel, who had an enormous influence on Chopin with his ground breaking romantic compositions, and to Vorisek, who invented the impromptu.
Zoran Jancic was Professor of Piano Studies at the Academy of Music in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was one of last staff to continue teaching in spite of the war. At great personal risk he continued to give performances during the siege of Sarajevo until he left the city in the spring 1993.
Tickets only available from St George's Bristol Box Office Tel: 0845 402 4001
Sat 19 June at 7.30 pm Holy Trinity Church Hereford
Vorisek Fantasia Op 12 (Andante)
Hummel 24 Preludes
Hummel La Bella Capricciosa - Polonaise
Hummel Variations on a Theme from Gluck's Armide
Hummel Sonata in F minor Op.20
Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Op.22
Tickets: Adults £12 Students £7
If the audience exceeds 200, £2 per ticket will be donated to Humanitarian Aid Hereford (Registered Charity 1062350), otherwise £1.50.
Autumn 2010
Border Bicentenary Piano Festival
Featuring unique musician Mark Latimer and accomplished Hereford-born pianist Tom Cooper, the concerts feature composers contemporary or influential to Chopin and also those who were inspired by him, including Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Bach, Field, Hummel, Mozart, Kalkbrenner, Debussy, >Fauré, Thalberg, Latimer and, of course, Chopin himself.
Tickets: Adults £12 Students £5
All events start at 3.30 pm
Saturday 16 October 2010 at 3.30 pm and Saturday 27 November 2010 at 3.30 pm
Holy Trinity Church, Whitecross Road, Hereford,HR4 0DF
Mark Latimer – piano recitals
Works by Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Latimer
For each ticket sold for Mark’s two concerts, £1.50 will be donated to Humanitarian Aid Hereford (Registered Charity 1062350) which helps to support the Red Cross in Mostar and the Mothers of Srebrenica, based in Sarajevo.
Sunday 17 October 2010 at 3.30 pm
The Great Hall, The Palace, Hereford, HR4 9BN
(Please note that there is no car park at this venue.)
Tom Cooper - piano recital with informative introductions
Drawing on and quoting from Chopin's letters and contemporary descriptions of his playing and teaching, the first recital covers the influences on Chopin of composers such as Field and Kalkbrenner.
Bach Prelude in C major, BWV 846/1, The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
Chopin Study in C major, Op.10 No.1
Bach Prelude in C minor, BWV 847/1, The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
Chopin Study in C minor, Op.25 No.12
Hummel Fantasie in B flat major
Kalkbrenner Rondo in C major
Chopin Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op.22
Field Nocturne No.4 in A major
Chopin Nocturnes Op.9
Mozart Fantasie in D minor, K397
Chopin Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
Sunday 28 November 2010 at 3.30 pm
The Great Hall, The Palace, Hereford, HR4 9BN
Tom Cooper - piano recital with informative introductions
The second recital explores the influence of Chopin on some of his less frequently heard contemporaries, such as Thalberg, as well as on major figures such as Rachmaninov and Debussy.
Chopin Study in A flat major, Op.10 No.10
Debussy Etude ‘Pour les degrés chromatiques’
Etude ‘Pour les Octaves’
Chopin Study in B minor, Op.25 No.10
Study in E flat minor, Op.10 No.6
Rachmaninov Prelude in F sharp minor, Op.23 No.1
Chopin Prelude in F sharp major, Op. 28 No.13
Rachmaninov Prelude in D major, Op.23 No.4
Prelude in G minor, Op.23 No.5
Chopin Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op.44
Thalberg Nocturne in D flat major, Op.21 No.2
Chopin Nocturne in A flat major, Op.32 No.2
Nocturne in C minor, Op.48 No.1
Fauré Nocturne No.4 in E flat major, Op.36
Chopin Impromptu in A flat major, Op.29
Fauré Impromptu in A flat major, Op.34
Barcarolle in A flat major, Op.44
Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op.60
The pieces will be introduced by Tom, who uses his wide experience as a lecturer to give his audiences a greater insight into the context of the music than programme notes alone can usually provide. A recent review commented that 'Tom Cooper’s introductions to each item were most informative and fascinating' and that his playing 'explored the poetic content of all the music with unhurried tempos and eloquently shaped phrasing' (Petersfield Post, 23 June 2010).
Tom was brought up near Monmouth. He studied for several years with local teachers: the celebrated pianist Mantle Childe and the composer and pianist Patrick Piggott before going on to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he gained a place on the piano performance course. After several years as a professional pianist, performing in England, Wales, France, the U.S. and Iceland, and being broadcast on radio, Tom took a Master's degree in performance studies at the Royal College of Music where he was awarded a distinction. He then studied for his PhD at the University of Liverpool with French music expert Robert Orledge before joining the staff of the Open University where he has taught for 16 years. He has featured as an author in several books on French music and on the music of Chopin.
Tom is particularly delighted to be playing at the Bishop's Palace as Hereford is his own birth-place. 'I have known Hereford well all my life,' he says. 'My mother was closely related to the Harding family who were famous ironmasters in the city in the nineteenth century.' (Older readers may remember the Harding Brothers hardware store in the centre of the city, which closed in the 1960s.) Tom's grandfather, J.G. May, ran a successful antique business in Church Street from 1929 until his retirement in the 1940s. His mother, grandmother and great-grandmother are all commemorated in the cathedral via the sponsorship programme, in stone - and in one of the organ-pipes! 'I always feel that a visit to Hereford is like coming home,' says Tom. 'I feel very privileged and thrilled to be able to offer Hereford some of my reflections on Chopin's supremely moving music about which I have felt so passionate since I first heard it as a child.'
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