Programmes

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Friday 5 September 7.30pm – St Illtyd’s Church, Llantwit Major
Chamber Domaine
Ned Rorem	Autumn Music Violin and Piano
Peter Reynolds	Tango (piano)	7'
Ned Rorem	Three Slow Pieces for Cello and Piano
Matthew Hindson	Two Marine Portraits for violin, viola and electronics	10'
Interval
Stephen Montague	Eine Kleine Klangfarben Gigue	10'
Matthew Hindson	Love Serenade for cello and piano	6'
Ned Rorem	Spring Music	20'

At this year’s opening concert, we pay our own tribute to one of the great characters of American music – Ned Rorem who celebrates his 80th birthday this year. Rorem is best known as a song-writer with almost 400 to his name, but this concert redresses the balance with performances of some of his most beautiful instrumental works, heard next to music by this year’s two featured composers – Matthew Hindson and Stephen Montague.

TICKETS: £8 (£6 for over 60s, unemployed, disabled people & their companions, children and students)

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Saturday 6 September 6.45pm – Tythe Barn, St Donats Arts Centre Pre-concert talk by Stephen Montague Saturday 6 September 7.30pm – Bradenstoke Hall, St Donats Castle
Andrew Zolinsky (piano) Isabel Ettenauer (toy piano) Young Pianists from the Vale of Glamorgan
Stephen Montague	Haiku (1987) for piano, electronics and computer tape	13'
Louis Andriessen	The Memory of Roses (1992) for piano and toy piano	8'
John Godfrey	Aria 51 for piano and six tape recorders	12'
Interval
Stephen Montague	Extracts from Autumn Leaves – 13 pieces for young pianists	15'
Rob Smith	Schroeder’s Revenge (toy piano)	5'
Matthew Hindson	Plastic Jubliation	12'

Pianists Andrew Zolinsky and Isabel Ettenauer present an evening of the wacky, wonderful and occasionally just plain weird. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata meets up with Schroeder from Peanuts, whilst Irish composer John Godfrey deconstructs an operatic aria with the help of six old cassette players. And Matthew Hindson has his own revenge – when a critic referred to his music as “having moments of plastic jubilation” he promptly took the words and used them as a title to one of his most energetic and foot-tapping pieces. There is also music by Louis Andriessen and a performance of thirteen new pieces for piano by Stephen Montague, played by pupils drawn from schools in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Isabel Ettenauer appears in association with BMIC Cutting Edge Tour 2003

TICKETS: £8 (£6 for over 60s, unemployed, disabled people & their companions, children and students)

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Sunday 7 September 7.30pm – Llansannor Court
Isabel Ettenauer (toy pianos) Joanne Thomas (soprano) Craig Ogden (guitar) Chamber Domaine
Stephen Montague	Mirabella - a tarantella for toy piano (1995)	3'
Ross Edwards	Blackwattle Caprices for guitar	7'
Matthew Hindson	Chrissietina’s Magic Fantasy for two violins	6'
Errollyn Wallen	Louis’ Loops for toy piano (1999)	4’
Peter Sculthorpe	From Kakadu for Guitar
Interval
Geoff Hannan	Cover Versions (toy piano)	12’
Matthew Hindson	Insect Songs	12’

A concert with an Australian flavour, with music by both Ross Edwards and Matthew Hindson and featuring Australian guitarist Craig Ogden. There is also music for toy piano by Stephen Montague, Errollyn Wallen and Geoff Hannan, whose Cover Versions uses four toy pianos at the same time. And there’s a chance to hear what has become Matthew Hindson’s most popular piece - Chrissietina’s Magic Fantasy for two violins based on techno and death-metal, together with his Insect Songs which depict scurrying ants and the brief life of cicadas, devoted to singing and reproducing.

Isabel Ettenauer appears in association with BMIC Cutting Edge Tour 2003

TICKETS: £9.50 (£7.50 for over 60s, unemployed, disabled people & their companions, children and students)

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Monday 8 September 7.30pm – Bradenstoke Hall, St Donats Arts Centre
Education Event and Discussion Young Performers from the Vale of Glamorgan
Stephen Montague	Snowscape : St. Polten	10’
Matthew Hindson	Lullaby	3’
Stephen Montague	Autumn Leaves – 13 pieces for young pianists	30’

Writing for young people is an important part of both Matthew Hindson and Stephen Montague’s work. Together with performances by young people from the Vale of Glamorgan there is also a chance to catch up with some of the ideas behind this year’s Festival with a discussion between the composers in residence.

TICKETS: £6.00 (£4.00 for over 60s, unemployed, disabled people & their companions, children and students)

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Tuesday 9 September 6.45pm – British Airways Maintenance Cardiff Pre-concert talk by Mathew Hindson Tuesday 9 September 7.30pm – Atrium – British Airways Maintenance Cardiff Cardiff International Airport
SINFONIA CYMRU Gareth Jones (conductor) Chamber Domaine Craig Ogden (guitar)
Mathew Hindson	Whitewater (2000)	20’
Mathew Hindson	Always on Time (Chamber Domaine)	2’
Mathew Hindson	Rush for Guitar and String Quartet (Craig Ogden & Chamber Domaine)	10’
Interval
Mathew Hindson	The Rave and the Nightingale (2001) a fantasy based on Schubert’s Quartet No.15 for String Quartet and String Orchestra	16’
Mathew Hindson	Chrissietina’s Magic Fantasy (members of Chamber Domaine)	8’
Mathew Hindson	Technologic 1-2 (1998) for String Orchestra and percussion	8’


“I do like music to be exciting and interesting, to appeal directly to the emotions. I don’t beat about the bush.” In response to Matthew Hindson’s own views on music, the Vale of Glamorgan Festival are presenting an evening of Hindson’s own explosive pieces in the high-tech environment of British Airways Maintenance Centre at Wales International Airport, given by Cardiff-based Sinfonia Cymru and their conductor Gareth Jones. The music ranges from The Rave and the Nightingale, which envisages what Schubert might sound like were he born two centuries later as DJ Franz writing techno-inspired electronica anthems for the clubs of Europe, through to the playful, up-beat and repetitive rhythms of Rush.

Due to security considerations, the performance at British Airways Maintenance Cardiff must be booked in advance as there will be no on-the-door sales on the night of the concert itself. Please book early to avoid disapointment	This event will include both promenading and seating - please state whether you wish to sit or stand when you book your ticket.

TICKETS: £9.50 (£7.50 for over 60s, unemployed, disabled people & their companions, children and students)

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Wednesday 10 September 7.30pm – Ewenny Priory
O K E A N O S Lucy Wakeford (harp) Jinny Shaw (oboe) Stuart King (clarinet) Kate Musker (viola)
Gabriel Jackson	Luna 21 in the Sea of Serenity (2003)	8’
Paul Archbold	Haar (2002)	7’
Matthew Hindson	n-trance (1998)	6’
Elena Kats-Chernin	Interlude (2002)	2’
Nigel Osborne	Dialogue (2003)	10 – 11’
Interval
Lynne Plowman	floating, turning, spinning (2001)	6’
Anne Boyd	New Work (2003)	8 – 10’
Elena Kats-Chernin	Totschki	2’
Elena Kats-Chernin	25 measures	1’
Howard Skempton	Gleams & Fragments (2003)	8’

Concert by Candlelight

One of the brightest recent additions to the new music scene, Okeanos’ concert is given in the magical surroundings of the thirteenth century Ewenny Priory. From Australia there is the chiselled pulsating rhythms of Elena Kats-Chernin, the quiet meditative voice of Anne Boyd and the trance-like music of Matthew Hindson. From Britain there is music written specially for Okeanos by Lynne Plowman, the epigrammatic music of Howard Skempton and new works by Nigel Osborne and Paul Archbold.

In association with BMIC Cutting Edge Tour 2003

TICKETS: £8.00 (£6.00 for over 60s, unemployed, disabled people & their companions, children and students)

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Thursday 11 September 7.30pm – Stanwell School, Penarth
BBC NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES Pierre-André Valade (Conductor) Gerard McChrystal (Saxophone) Philippa Davies (flute) Catrin Finch (harp)
Anthony Powers	Architecture and Dreams	19’
Stephen Montague	Disparate Dances (2002)	16’
Interval
David Sawer	the greatest happiness principle	18’
John Metcalf	Mobiles for Saxophone and Orchestra	12’
Matthew Hindson	Speed	16’

Heard alongside recent pieces by Anthony Powers and David Sawer, Stephen Montague’s new concerto for flute and harp is inspired by dances from different world cultures – Eastern European in the first movement, Japanese in the second and closing with an Irish/American hornpipe! After his memorable recital at the 2000 Festival Gerard McCrystal returns to the Vale of Glamorgan Festival with a new version for orchestra of John Metcalf’s Mobiles. And there’s a recent orchestral work by Matthew Hindson: Speed – a meditation on the full gamut of post-modern life with all its ever-accelerating, all-senses-impacting, jolting sensation of rush.

Stanwell School’s new theatre space is a superb purpose-built theatre seating over 400 people, equipped with a spacious reception and café area – if you haven’t yet discovered one of the Vale’s best new venues, this is an ideal occasion to come along!

TICKETS: £9.50 (£7.50 for over 60s, unemployed, disabled people & their companions, children and students)

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VALE OF GLAMORGAN	FESTIVAL OF MUSIC 2003	PROGRAMMES