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.
Programme: Scenes with Cranes from ‘Kuolema’ Violin Concerto (soloist: David Le Page) Symphony No. 2
Tom Hammond
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.
David Le Page
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Programmes for the BBC Proms 2018 have been announced, and several popular works by Sibelius are included. All of the concerts listed take place at the Royal Albert Hall.
Click the Prom numbers for links to the BBC Proms website and to book tickets (general booking opening: 19 May 2018).
Richard Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture Franz Schubert: Songs
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Symphony in One Movement Franz Schubert: ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy (arr. Liszt) Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 Elizabeth Watts, soprano Louis Lortie, piano BBC Philharmonic / John Storgårds
Sunday 29 July 2018 at 1 pm – Prom 19 Sunday 29 July 2018 at 5 pm – Prom 20
Music by Kerry Andrew, Mason Bates, Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges, Copland, Dvořák, Elgar, Orff, Purcell, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky Naomi Wilkinson, presenter Ten Pieces Children’s Choir BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra / Rafael Payare
‘Ten Pieces Prom’
Arvo Pärt: Symphony No. 3 Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 Khatia Buniatishvili, piano Estonian Festival Orchestra / Paavo Järvi
