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APRIL 2014
Welcome to the April edition of The Buzz. As this is the month of our annual opera project we have decided to take this opportunity to use this edition as the Opera Special. Our annual opera project is a highlight of the Benslow Music calendar. Each year we assemble a team of non-professional baroque instrumentalists and choral singers, a number of young soloists in the beginning of their professional careers and an eminent team of expert tutors and technical professionals with the aim of creating a performance of a baroque opera in five days and perform it in front of a paying audience. Recent performances have included Handels Semele in 2012, Purcells The Fairy Queen in 2013 and this year we are focussing on a staging of Handels oratorio Theodora. In January we held the auditions for the principal parts and auditioned some truly outstanding young singers. The decision was harder than ever but we now have a very strong team, which is evident from their biographies (inside). This year we will be welcoming Emma Rivlin who is directing the project for the first time and will be working alongside our usual team which is headed by the musical duo of Julian Perkins and Judy Tarling, with Henrik Persson providing the all-important continuo tuition. David Roblou will be working with soloists before the course begins and with the

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chorus during it and Tom Adby returns as our ever-reliable Stage Manager. Millie Else is our designer and Val Campion will be taking care of the wardrobe. Although the week of the project is 21-26 April preparation is already underway. The instrumentalists and singers are currently working on their parts, soloists are due to see David Roblou over the next few weeks for precourse tuition and the tutors and production team are working hard on everything from stage direction to costumes and set design. In previous years the opera has been held in various locations, such as the Queen Mother Theatre and the North Hertfordshire College Centre for the Arts. However, this year we will be based at our campus for the first time in recent history. This is both a challenge as well as a convenience; however we are sure that the production will be of the same high quality as previous years.Tickets are now available for the final performance which will be at 7pm on Saturday 26 April and can be purchased in advance from our box office by calling 01462 459446. Spaces on this years project are currently almost full (although we wouldnt say no to another bass singer for our chorus). However, if you are interested in getting involved in next years production please look out for our January-July 2015 brochure which will be released during the summer. We hope to see you for the performance on 26 April but if not we look forward to seeing you at Benslow Music very soon. Fane Henderson Acting Director of Music

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Theodora - the storY

The 4th century AD.Valens, the governor of Antioch (occupied by the Romans) issues a decree that in honour of Diocletians birthday all citizens will offer sacrifice to Roman goddesses Venus and Flora on pain of punishment, and puts Septimius in charge of enforcing this. Didymus, a soldier asks that citizens whose consciences prevent this be spared punishment, which Valens dismisses. Septimius suspects Didymus is a Christian and affirms his own loyalty to the rule but would also like to be tolerant of others. In the Christian community,Theodora (a princess) and her friend Irene are worshipping when a messenger brings news of Valens decree. Irene prevents them dispersing and they reaffirm their faith. Theodora speaks out when Septimius comes to arrest them - Theodora is not punished by death (an option she would prefer to her actual punishment of enforced prostitution) and is led away. Irene informs Didymus who goes in the hope of either rescuing her or dying with her. The first Act closes with a chorus of Christians praying for the missions success. At the start of the second Act the festival is in full swing.Valens sends Septimius to tell Theodora that if she doesnt join in with the festival by the end of the day, he will send soldiers to rape her, which excites the soldiers.Theodora is frightened in the brothel, but her mood changes in contemplation of the after life. By persuading Septimius of his Christianity and also love for Theodora, Didymus gets access to her cell with his helmet concealing his identity, offering an escape. Fearing threats to her integrity and wishing to stay true to her faith, Theodora asks Didymus to kill her but he convinces her that God will save them. He gives her his uniform, and thus disguised, Theodora escapes, leaving Didymus in her place. As the third part opens the Christians celebrate Theodoras safe return. However she is guilty that she endangered Didymuss life to do this. A messenger informs them Didymus has been captured and Valens has changed her punishment to death. Irene protests, but Theodora goes to offer herself in Didymus place. As Valens sentences Didymus, Theodora enters demanding that she die and Didymus be saved. Both Didymus and Theodora argue that they should die in place of the other. Septimius is moved by this, and pleads for clemency. Valens, however, condemns both to death and they sing a duet to their immortality.

LAST YEARS PERFORMANCE PHOTOS ANTHONY SHIN

- THE FAIRY QUEEN

performance - historY
Handel wrote Theodora during his last period of composition. He was sixty-four years old when he began working on it in June 1749. He had written the oratorios Solomon and Susanna the previous year.Theodora would be his penultimate oratorio. Theodora differs from the former two oratorios because it is a tragedy, ending in the death of the heroine and her converted lover.The music is much more direct than the earlier works, transcending the mediocrity of the libretto (which was true for several of Handels works) so that the characters and the drama are well-defined. Thomas Morell (17031784) had worked with Handel before on several oratorios. He and Handel were good friends; the composer left the librettist 200 in his will. Morells source for the libretto was The Martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus (1687) by Robert Boyle, the scientist. He also borrowed from Corneilles Thodore, Vierge et Martyre. Morell arguably improved on Boyle, eliminating the moralising messages and creating a better structure. Handel finished the oratorio on 31 July 1749, and its premiere was on 16 March 1750. Pityingly, Theodora was a failure and only played three times. There are at least two explanations for this. First, the theme of persecution may have been too progressive for Londoners at the time. Secondly, an earthquake that transpired about a week before the premiere had prevented some of the citys nobility from coming. It was the least performed of all his oratorios, being revived only once in 1755. There are two surviving quotes of Handel about Theodora. Morell quotes Handel as saying The Jews will not come to it because it is a Christian story; and the ladies will not come because it is a virtuous one. Handels colleague Burney took note when two musicians asked for free tickets for Messiah and Handel responded Oh your servant, meine Herren! you are damnable dainty! you would not go to Theodora - there was room enough to dance there, when that was perform! It is reported that Theodora was actually Handels favourite of his oratorios. The composer himself ranked the final chorus of Act II, He saw the lovely youth, far beyond Hallelujah in Messiah.

EMMA RIVLIN - DIRECTOR

Emma studied piano at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, and Music at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Opera has called her a deep-thinking, ingenious young director and Opera Now a young director of palpable talent. Her recent production of Cinderella for OperaUpClose was The Times Critics Choice and described by the independent as fizzing and bubbling with rough brilliance. Emma has directed for Welsh National Opera, the National Opera Studio, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, Buxton Opera Festival, Opera Holland Park, Kings Place and the Chateau de Berbiguieres, Dordogne. She has developed new work and led workshops for Opera North, Welsh National Opera, the Almeida, the Young Vic, Aurora orchestra, English National Ballet and English National Opera. As a staff director Emma has worked at the Royal Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Opera North, with directors including John Copley, Christopher Alden, Calixto Bieito, David McVicar, Phyllida Lloyd, Sally Potter and Anthony Minghella.

Julian PerKins - Musical Director

Julian performs widely as a soloist, conductor and chamber musician. As director of Sounds Baroque, he has launched a series of acclaimed cantata recordings and performed at Londons Southbank Centre and festivals such as Ryedale,York and Tel Aviv. He has performed concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestra of the Sixteen, regularly performs as a continuo player with many of the UKs leading period instrument ensembles, and has performed and recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. For Benslow Baroque Opera, Julian has conducted Purcells Dido and Aeneas, Handels Semele and Theodora. Other conducting engagements have included appearances at the Anghiari Festival and staged productions of Telemanns Pimpinone (Buxton Festival), Mozarts La finta giardiniera (Dutch National Opera Academy), Arnes Artaxerxes (New Chamber Opera), Platts King Fred who never was (New Kent Opera) and Cunninghams The Okavango Macbeth (Cambridge Summer Music Festival). Based in London, Julian teaches harpsichord and vocal studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, is a tutor for the Southbank Sinfonia and has taught at the National Opera Studio. In 2010, Julian was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of his contribution to the music profession. www.julianperkins.com

JANE WILKINSON - THEODORA

Jane trained as a soprano at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and gained a Bachelor of Music with Honours. As a post graduate, she trained at the Royal College of Music, London. Competition successes include winner of the International Godfrey Van Someran Prize for English Song (RCM), Semi Finalist in the BBC Radio2 Kiri Te Kanawa Competition and runner up in the RSAMD Lieder Competition. She performs recitals across the country and has toured South Africa and Europe. She is currently Head of Singing at Chelsea Academy and singing tutor at Imperial College. She trained in the teaching of young voices at the Voices Foundation on a scholarship from the RCM. She founded and conducted the Flora Gardens Youth Choir (Hammersmith) until 2010 after herself being in the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. Jane frequently gives master classes in the UK and abroad. Jane has performed many oratorios and concerts at the Edinburgh Festival and in venues across the country. Recently she has been specialising in contemporary opera and has premiered 3 productions in London last year These Things Happen by Jonathon Pease,The Clown of God and The Mariner both by Louis Mander. Recordings last year included 5 oclock Sun (a folk album with Andrew Keeling) and A Garland of Folk Songs for Soprano, Harp and Violin by Louis Mander. This year, Jane will premier a new song cycle by Robin Walker called Five Songs of Emily Bronte. Jane is also an adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals.

MEILI lI - DIDYMUS
As one of the first countertenors from China, Meili started to study countertenor singing in 2008, while completing a BA in Film Directing at Peking University. From 2011 to 2013. He studied singing under the tuition of Michael Chance in Royal Academy of Music. He was awarded MA and DipRAM in voice with distinction and 100% mark for his final recital. He is currently studying Artist Diploma in opera course of Guildhall School of Music and Drama, under the tuition of Yvonne Kenny. Meili works with Baroque ensemble regularly. Recently, he is invited to perform in London, Hamburg, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Somerset and High Wycombe. He also performs frequently with piano for art songs. His repertoire covers from Renaissance lute songs, Baroque operas, oratorios and Cantatas, to Romantic German Lieder, French songs and contemporary English operas and art songs. His opera roles include Title roles Rinaldo, Riccardo Primo,Tancredi, and Bertarido, Rodelinda, Royal Academy of Music; Marco Fabio Lucio Papirio Dittatore Hasse, Ensemble Serse/LHF, Title role The Little Green Swallow Dove, Olga The Three Sisters Eotvos, Medoro Orlando, Guildhall School. His future plans include Fox/Coachman The Adventure of Pinocchio, title role San Giovanni Battista Stradella, Guildhall School. Didymus, Theodora Handel, Benslow Music. Nireno, Giulio Cesare, Concertgebouw. He is grateful to the Salters Company, the Leverhulme Trust, the Kohn Foundation and the Josephine Baker Trust for their generous support.

HOLLY BINGHAM - IRENE

Holly Marie Bingham BMus (hons) DipABRSM is a Lancashire born Soprano studying on a full tuition fee scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Susan Waters. She is kindly sponsored by the Henry Osborne Award of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, City of London, the Guildhall Trust, the Neil Vint Award 2013, the Musicians Benevolent Fund Postgraduate Award and the Tracey Chadwell Award 2013. Opera and Theatre credits include: Dido, Dido & Aeneas (GSMD opera scenes, dir., Dinah Stabb); Rose and Radio Girl, A Soldier And A Maker (Iain Burnside, broadcast for Radio 3 InTune); Chorus in The Adventures of Pinocchio (Jonathan Dove, GSMD); Hermia, Midsummer Nights Dream (Britten); Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (Mozart); Alcina, Alcina (Handel); Gretel, Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck) (all GSMD Opera Scenes), Poppea and Virt, Lincoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi, GSMD), Ethel Gurney and Enid in the premiere of Iain Burnsides ASAAM, (Barbican Pit Theatre and Cheltenham Arts Festival 2012) and cover of Esmeralda and Chorus member in Smetanas The Bartered Bride for British Youth Opera (Peacock Theatre, Summer 2012). She has performed the semi-chorus from Berliozs Romeo and Juliette with the LSO and Valery Gergiev, Barbican Hall and Salle Pleyel Paris. As a recitalist Holly Marie has performed at The Purcell Room, LSO St Lukes, Holywell Music Room (Oxford Lieder Festival) and at Wigmore Hall. Holly Marie took part in masterclasses with Stephan Loges, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti, Iain Burnside, Roger Vignoles, Sarah Walker and Rudolf Piernay.

WILLIAM BOUVEL - sEPTIMIUS

Tenor William Bouvel performs regularly across the United States and Europe with groups like Opera Lafayette of Washington DC, Haymarket Opera Chicago, Madison Early Music Festival, and Baroque Band. His most recent roles were Reverend Parris in Robert Wards The Crucible and The Sailor in Purcells Dido and Aeneas. He is also a regular Oratorio and Cantata soloist. A current student of Philip Doghan,William is in his final year of Masters of Music study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he recently received a commendation in the Major van Someron-Godfrey English Song Prize. William has particular interest in innovative concert programming. He has created several productions such as The Heart of King David in London and Skeleton Elegies in Chicago. Heralded as an intriguing re-imagining of the song recital idea these Song reCycle performances have added contemporary context to English Song and Baroque Song repertoires respectively. He is also working on a new project using Handels Oratorio repertoire. As a choral singer William has been fortunate to perform with some of the worlds top choirs including The Chicago Symphony Chorus, Apollos Fire, and Oregon Bach Festival.

SIMON GRANGE - VALENS

Simon began singing in choirs at the age of 11 when he joined The Manchester Grammar School Choir. Since then he has sung in a variety of choirs and other ensembles including close harmony groups (both at school and in The Alternotives and Oxchord since coming to university), and his singing has taken him on tour to France, Germany, Spain (twice), Milan, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and America. Other notable performances include singing as part of the chorus for Brittens War Requiem in the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, conducted by Marcus Farnsworth, and as a member of the RNCM opera chorus in their most recent production of Bernsteins Candide. He began formal vocal studies during his gap year with the tenor Jeffrey Lawton at the RNCM and subsequently with David Crown at Oxford. Currently he holds a choral scholarship at Somerville College, and is a member of Keble College where he is in his second year studying English Literature and Language. His other musical activities include playing as a member of the Oxford University Philharmonia Orchestra, and he can be heard as a violinist on the new Naxos release of Wallaces opera Lurline, which was conducted by Richard Bonynge. As well as this he is a keen composer, winning the Manchester Grammar School composition prize which resulted in a performance in St Johns Smith Square, London, and has had a piece performed and recorded by the contemporary music ensemble, Psappha (in residence at Manchester University), in the Cosmo Rodewald Hall in Manchester, as well as being commissioned to write a piece for Stockport Town Halls centenary. Recent commissions include a solo recorder piece for John Turner and a string quartet for the Danel String Quartet, both to be performed within the coming year.

Benslow Baroque Opera presents

THEODORA
by

George Frideric Handel

Director Emma Rivlin Music Directors Julian Perkins and Judy Tarling Vocal Coach David Roblou Theodora Jane Wilkinson Didymus Meili Li Irene Holly Bingham Septimius William Bouvel Valens Simon Grange

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places available
We still have places available on the following March and April courses. Introduction to Wind Chamber Music
(Code 14/231, 11 - 13 April)

Classical Orchestra

(Code 14/315, 14 - 17 April)

Easter Composing Course

(Code 14/316, 14 - 17 April)

I hope you have enjoyed reading about this years opera project and hope to see you for the final performance. Although focus has been on preparations for the opera, we have had plenty going on a Benslow over the past month, with a series of very well attended courses, as well as two outstanding concerts given by the Coull Quartet and the Maggini Quartet. As we finish the first quarter of 2014 course figures have never been better and we have met all targets we have set for ourselves. As a team we are very optimistic about the future of Benslow Music. Aside from the opera we have plenty to look forward to at Benslow during April. A particular highlight is the LuteFest which we wll be running in association with the Lute Society. During the first weekend of April we will be opening our doors to 40+ lutenists, singers, renaissance flautists, recorder players and viols to explore the lute and lute ensemble repertoire, as well as lute song, broken consorts and four-voice ayres with lute. This is always a very special weekend in the calendar and the course will kick-off with a public recital from world renowned lutenist David Miller on Friday 4 April. Another highlight in April is the Classical Orchestra course, which this year will be lead by Tony Halstead, who is joined by Miles Golding and Martin Lawrence to give a course based on Mozarts Haffner Symphony and Beethovens First Symphony. Whilst spaces for wind instruments are currently full we would love to hear from string players who are interested in getting involved with this years course. Another course which we are looking forward to, and is sadly not included in this years brochure, is a course with the Fidelio Trio 28 April 1 May. We are still looking for a few more groups to join us for a few days of intensive work with these world class performers and teachers. Their courses regularly attract non-professional musicians from far afield and those who have benefitted from their tuition on past courses have felt truly privileged. So, if you are a member of a group or know a group who may be interested, please get in touch. Fane Henderson Acting Director of Music

Free up your Playing

(Code 14/234, 28 - 30 April)

Gregorian Chant for Everyone

(Code 14/235, 28 - 30 April) (Code 14/317, 5 - 8 May)

Nic Fallowfields String Orchestra String Quartets with the Wihan

(Code 14/238, 9 - 11 May)

Exploring the Saxophone and its Repertoire

(Code 14/318, 12 - 15 May)

Quintessential Clarinets

(Code 14/319, 12 - 15 May) On most courses we can usually squeeze in a few more so even if the course youre attracted to isnt on this list why not ask in any case?
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BRENDA STEWARTS GROUP QUARTETS I am always happy to re-visit Benslow where I feel at home, greatly because of the nice atmosphere maintained by the staff EARLY STAGES PIANO FOR ADULTS Benslow Music is such a friendly, homely place with fantastic tutors and courses CLASSICAL PIANO This has been a fabulous course from every point of view. Tims insight and coaching style, the general welcome, the food in fact the whole experience JAZZ ENSEMBLES The accommodation, Benslow staff and the food were excellent CONDUCTING FOR TEACHERS Justin Fung is a fantastic tutor. He was very precise in stripping away the bad technique whilst allowing us to add a conductors expression into the music. He helped loads. Thank you

our neXT concerT - FRIDAY 4 APRIL, 8PM DAVID MILLER - LUTE

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he is excellent both as a partner to the voice and as a soloist - The Gramophone ... enchanting, highly polished and most entertaining ... I fail to recall an audience so entranced and focused on listening to music - Kent Guitar Classics David Miller is a long established soloist and well known as an accompanist and continuo player on lute, theorbo and early guitars, flourishing in both the early music world and the mainstream musical scene. He performs and records with all the principal English period instrument orchestras and with many of the finest ensembles, appearing at numerous prestigious European music festivals. Davids musical focus is as a soloist and accompanist. He maintains a busy recital schedule, enjoying collaborations with other solo artists, including singers Paul Agnew, James Bowman, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Grace Davidson, Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas and Stephen Varcoe, harpist Frances Kelly, violinists Elizabeth Wallfisch and Rachel Podger, fellow lutenist Jacob Heringman, and Arab singer and oud player Abdul Salam Kheir. Among numerous recordings are several CDs of English songs and lute music, including John Dowland discs with both James Bowman and Charles Daniels, as well as the complete works of John Danyel with Nigel Short. He has recorded a CD of consort music by Dowland with Concordia and the Kings Singers, and lute works by Francesco da Milano on Concordias Titian disc. As a member of I Fagiolini he included solo lute works by Holborne and Byrd on their acclaimed Triumphs of Orianna disc, as well as Pacoloni trios and other plucked consort music on Carnevale Veneziano. His Wigmore Hall recital with Iestyn Davies was released in the Wigmore Hall Live CD series. Davids disc with Elin Manahan Thomas - Ravishd with Sacred Extasies features devotional songs by Dowland, Campian, Humfrey and Purcell, as well as rarely heard lute and theorbo music by John Lawrence and John Wilson. The recording has been highly acclaimed and, within weeks of its release in August 2010, received the coveted Supersonic Award by Pizzicato Magazine in Luxembourg. In addition, David has over 160 recordings as an accompanist and continuo player, and he can be heard on the soundtracks of Francesco da Mostos Venice, The Canterbury Tales, Bob the Builder, the Samuel Pepys Diaries serialised on Womans Hour, and - much to the delight of his family - Dr Who and Harry Potter! As professor of early plucked instruments at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, David has regularly directed performance projects for the Historical Performance Department, including several large scale productions for the Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival. David is also professor of lute at the Guildhall School, and tutor for the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Since the mid-1990s he has performed at Dartington International Summer School, where his highly regarded lute class continues to inspire the younger generation of lutenists. Forthcoming highlights include duo recitals with soprano Elin Manahan Thomas - at Beverley Early Music Festival in May and Cambridge Early Music Festival in September - and a weekend course with Emma Kirkby at Hawkwood College in June. Following a sell-out solo concert for Music at Oxford in 2011, he returns to the Holywell Music Room in February 2015, to perform music by Dowland and Weiss. This summer David plans to record a CD featuring the music of Weiss - a cross-section from his early and late periods - which will be available from the early autumn. For more information and enquiries, please visit http://ShirleyScottMusicManagement.co.uk

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