


Eliza and the Swans
Conductor
Music: John Barber
Libretto: Hazel Gould
Director: Karen Gillingham
Vocal Director: Suzi Zumpe
Designer: Ruth Paton
Following the success of Silver Birch (Garsington 2017), the Garsington Youth Opera Company has been significantly expanded and will now comprise two companies. Both companies will be given access to world-class participatory workshops with artists from Garsington Opera in two residencies every year, culminating in a performance in August at Wormsley.
http://www.garsingtonopera.org/news/life-changing-opportunities-primary-schools


Roman River Festival Finale
Conductor
Roman River Festival Orchestra
Colne Valley Youth Orchestra
Kensington Brass
Schubert, Symphony No. 8, D759, "Unfinished", 1st movement
Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K412 + 514 (=386b), Soloist, Alec Frank-Gemmill


Evening recital
Piano
Soloist, Vanessa Bowers
Mozart, Exultate jubilate, K165
Liszt, Un sospiro, S144, No. 3
Timothy Bowers, Eight British Folk Songs
Lunchtime recital
Piano
Soloists: Luci Briginshaw, Henry Neill
Strauss, R., Winterweihe, Op. 48, No. 4
Strauss, R., Waldseligkeit, Op. 49, No. 1
Schubert, Ganymed, D544
Schubert, Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D583
Puccini, Vissi d'arte, from Tosca (Tosca)
Verdi, Caro nome, from Rigoletto (Gilda)
Verdi, Tutte le feste - Piangi fanciulla, from Rigoletto (Gilda, Rigoletto)
Mozart, La ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni, Zerlina)
Rossini, Come un ape, from La Cenerentola (Dandini)
Gounod, Mab, la reine des mensonges, from Roméo et Juliette (Mercutio)
Thomas, Doute de la lumière, from Hamlet (Ophélie, Hamlet)
Thomas, A vos jeux, mes amis, from Hamlet (Ophélie)
Mozart, Papagena, Papagena, Papagena, from Die Zaubeflöte (Papageno)
Mozart, Pa-, pa-, pa-, pa-, from Die Zauberflöte (Papageno, Papagena)
Lunchtime recital
Piano
Soloists: Luci Briginshaw, Henry Neill
Strauss, R., Winterweihe, Op. 48, No. 4
Strauss, R., Waldseligkeit, Op. 49, No. 1
Schubert, Ganymed, D544
Schubert, Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D583
Puccini, Vissi d'arte, from Tosca (Tosca)
Verdi, Caro nome, from Rigoletto (Gilda)
Verdi, Tutte le feste - Piangi fanciulla, from Rigoletto (Gilda, Rigoletto)
Mozart, La ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni, Zerlina)
Rossini, Come un ape, from La Cenerentola (Dandini)
Gounod, Mab, la reine des mensonges, from Roméo et Juliette (Mercutio)
Thomas, Doute de la lumière, from Hamlet (Ophélie, Hamlet)
Thomas, A vos jeux, mes amis, from Hamlet (Ophélie)
Mozart, Papagena, Papagena, Papagena, from Die Zaubeflöte (Papageno)
Mozart, Pa-, pa-, pa-, pa-, from Die Zauberflöte (Papageno, Papagena)

Patience
Assistant Conductor / Conductor
Playing in Hackney, Poole, Sheffield, Bromley, Snape, York, Wolverhampton, Leicester, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Guildford, Buxton, Coventry, Canterbury, Durham, Perth, Exeter, Truro and Norwich.
Conducting in Cheltenham (April 21) and Canterbury (May 12)

Tosca
Assistant Conductor / Conductor
Playing in Hackney, Poole, Sheffield, Bromley, Snape, York, Wolverhampton, Leicester, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Guildford, Buxton, Coventry, Canterbury, Durham, Perth, Exeter, Truro, Norwich, Stoke-on-Trent, Ulverston and Blackpool.
Conducting in York (April 8), Cheltenham (April 22), Cambridge (April 28), Buxton (May 4, 5), Durham (May 16), Exeter (May 23), Truro (May 29), Ulverston (June 7)

Silver Electra
Musical Director
Playing at schools, community centres and theatres in Herne Hill, New Cross, Hackney, Vauxhall, Poole (March 18), Rotherham (March 21), Nunhead, Willesden, Snape (April 1), Whitechapel (April 4, 5), York (April 9), Leicester (April 13), Cambridge, Chatteris (April 27), Bishop's Stortford, Glossop, Chatham (May 13), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Perth, Exeter, Newton Poppleford, Norwich, Stoke-on-Trent and Grays (June 13).

Orchestre QuiPasseParLà: Concert Petit Nouvel An
Conductor
Tickets available here
Brahms, Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 and 5
Bizet/Guiraud, Prelude to Act 1 from Carmen
Bizet/Guiraud, 'Farandole', from L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2
Dvorák, Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, No. 2
Saint-Saëns, Danse Macabre
Strauss, Johann (II), The Blue Danube
Vivaldi, Bassoon Concerto in E minor, RV484
Vivaldi, 'Spring', from The Four Seasons



Eugene Onegin, Schools performance
Conductor
Schools Performance
Director: Michael Boyd
Assistant Director: PJ Harris
Designer: Tom Piper
Movement Director: Liz Ranken
Acrobatic Choreographer: Lina Johansson
Eugene Onegin: Benjamin Lewis
Tatyana: Kirsty Taylor-Stokes
Lensky: Elgan Llŷr Thomas
Olga: Katarzyna Balejko
Larina: Elizabeth Lynch
Filippyevna: Ailsa Mainwaring
Prince Gremin: Nicholas Masters
Triquet: James Way
Captain: Dominic Kraemer
Zaretsky: David Ireland
Peasant: Cliff Zammit Stevens
Garsington Opera Orchestra & Chorus

Orchestre QuiPasseParLà
Conductor
Giovanni Bottesini, Duo Concertante for Violin and Double Bass
(Violin: Vanessa de Luze; Double Bass: Pierre-Antoine Blanc)
Modest Mussorgsky, Night on a Bare Mountain
Johannes Brahms, Variations on a theme of Haydn, op. 56
Orchestre QuiPasseParLà
Conductor
Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A major
Mozart, Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major (soloist, Samuel Rueff/Colline Richard)



New Conductors, New Composers
Conductor
Eight new works conducted by eight student conductors.
This concert presents music hot off the press. Each new work has been written in the preceding ten days of St Magnus Composers’ Course and represents an intense collaboration with the Festival Ensemble and the course tutors.
Joanne Sy, Folded (for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola and ’Cello)





Britten, The Rape of Lucretia
Glyndebourne Touring Opera
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
Conductor
Britten, The Rape of Lucretia (Cover show)
Glyndebourne Touring Opera
Ebert Room, Glyndebourne
Conductor
Britten, The Rape of Lucretia (Public dress rehearsal)
Glyndebourne Touring Opera
Glyndebourne
Conductor