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July 2021 magazine has arrived
Sibelius One’s July 2021 Magazine is now ready and is being despatched to subscribers.
For more information, to add the magazine to your membership or order back issues please click here: https://sibeliusone.com/sibelius-one-magazine/
The new issue contains the following articles:
- Khadra and Sea Change: Sibelius’s music at Sadler’s Wells – Eija Kurki
- Sustaining the dramatic arch – Sasha Mäkilä
- Japanese Rhapsody: Jean Sibelius, Kojiro Kobune and Akira Ifukube – Erik Homenick
- If you like Sibelius… – Peter Frankland
Merry Christmas 2020
JSW Music for Violin/Cello & Piano
The latest volume in Breitkopf & Härtel’s critical edition of Sibelius’s music features all the opus-numbered music for violin (his own instrument) or cello and piano. Click here to read our review.
Merry Christmas
Sinfonia Tamesa all-Sibelius concert
Sinfonia Tamesa, one of London’s leading amateur symphony orchestras (est. 2001) will give an all-Sibelius concert at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London on Saturday 10 November 2018 at 7.30 pm. The conductor will be Tom Hammond.
Programme:
Scenes with Cranes from ‘Kuolema’
Violin Concerto (soloist: David Le Page)
Symphony No. 2

After his selection by Sir Charles Mackerras as the first Junior Fellow in Conducting at Trinity Laban Conservatoire (2006–08), Tom Hammond has developed a rich and musically diverse career. He is currently music director of the Essex, Hertford and St Albans Symphony Orchestras and the award-winning Yorkshire Young Sinfonia. He also holds positions with the Palestine Youth Orchestra and Ingenium Academy International Summer School, and regularly guest conducts with many groups including the Britten Sinfonia Academy and Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra. In 2018 he was appointed conductor emeritus of Sinfonia Tamesa, of which he was music director between 2007 and 2017.

Born on the island of Guernsey, David Le Page began playing the violin at the age of seven. He was offered a place at the Yehudi Menuhin school when he was twelve and has since forged a diverse career as a performer, composer, producer and arranger. He appears regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader and has formed a number of ensembles of his own.
Tickets cost £15 (concessions £10) and can be booked online until 1 hour before the performance begins. Click here to book tickets.
Click here for directions to the concert venue.
Sibelius in Killing Eve
Keen Sibelians watching the hit BBC thriller Killing Eve will no doubt have spotted that music by Sibelius featured in Episode 5, ‘I have at thing about bathrooms’. To accompany the scene where the assassin Villanelle is talking about death while preparing to kill Frank, the opening of Valse triste (slowed-down and stylized) is heard in the background.
Hear it for yourself here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06kcg94/killing-eve-series-1-5-i-have-a-thing-about-bathrooms
The extract from Valse triste is heard at approx. 33’54 until 36’11.
Minutes of 2018 AGM
Members may read or download minutes of the 2018 AGM by clicking this link.
Please note that you must be logged in to the site in order to access the page.
Also available on the same page are short accounts for 2018 and an updated version of Sibelius One’s constitution.
Sibelius One AGM 2018
Our Annual General Meeting 2018 will take place at 12 noon on Thursday 6 September 2018 at Hesan kamari, Ainola, Järvenpää, Finland. All members are welcome.
Arts in Residence in Birmingham

A course about Sibelius and Nielsen will be organized by Arts in Residence in Birmingham on 9–11 April 2019 (Tuesday–Thursday).
It will be based at Jurys Inn, Broad Street, Birmingham, and given by Terry Barfoot. Also included is a concert by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Michael Seal, featuring Sibelius’s Third and Nielsen’s Fifth Symphonies along with Mahler songs.
Terry Barfoot writes widely on music for Britain’s leading journals, orchestras,
festivals and record companies. He lectures at venues throughout the country, is
publications consultant to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the director of
Arts in Residence.
Click here for pdf details of this course.
Price: £295.00 per person (twin/double rooms), £320.00 (single rooms) to
include all meals, wine, course fees and accommodation.
Concert tickets are included.
Booking: Arts in Residence, 25, Mulberry Lane, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 2QU.
£50.00 per person deposit with booking. (Cheques payable to Arts in Residence.)
Enquiries: 02392 383356
Email: info@artsinresidence.co.uk
www.artsinresidence.co.uk