Celebrating its 200th anniversary, Ipswich Choral Society performs Haydn’s masterpiece, The Creation – joined by soprano Anna Dennis and Britten Sinfonia.

Ipswich Choral Society is delighted to welcome back Halifax Choral Society to sing together at Snape Maltings again - a truly momentous occasion featuring and celebrating Britain’s two oldest choral societies. They will be joined by soprano Anna Dennis and Britten Sinfonia.

Ipswich Choral Society
Halifax Choral Society
Britten Sinfonia

Anna Dennis soprano
Dan D’Souza bass
Ryan Vaughan Davies tenor
Robin Walker music director

Haydn: The Creation (100’)

Tickets and more info: https://brittenpearsarts.org/events/ipswich-choral-society-presents-haydns-the-creation

Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
Samuel Barber Violin Concerto
Interval – 20 minutes
Serge Rachmaninoff Symphony No 2

Sir Antonio Pappano  conductor
Janine Jansen  violin
London Symphony Orchestra

Tickets and more info: https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/springtime-romance-boulanger-barber-rachmaninoff/

Wynton Marsalis Trumpet Concerto (UK premiere)*
Interval – 20 minutes
Maurice Ravel Daphnis and Chloé – complete ballet

Sir Antonio Pappano  conductor
Alison Balsom  trumpet
Tenebrae
London Symphony Orchestra

Thurs 11th April - London Barbican: https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/bewitching-rhythms-marsalis-and-ravel/

Friday 12th April - Bristol Beacon: https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/sir-antonio-pappano-alison-balsom-bristol/

Imogen will perform as the soloist for Stephen Dodgson’s Trumpet Concerto in the finale/gala concert of the Barnes Music Festival 2024.

The concerto was written for Imogen, commissioned by the Thames Youth Orchestra, and premiered in August 2011.

Tickets and more info: https://barnesmusicfestival.com/events/festival-gala-legends-of-barnes/

Imogen will lead a trumpet class at the Royal College of Music in January.

(This class is not open to the public).

Imogen will perform alongside soprano Jessica Cale and the St Martin’s Players for a concert featuring well-known repertoire for trumpet and soprano.

Programme to include:

Bach - Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (BWV 51)

Handel - Eternal Source of Light Divine

Handel - Let the Bright Seraphim

More info coming soon…

Programme:

Bach Concerto in F minor for keyboard and strings, BWV 1056
Chaminade 'Autrefois' for solo piano
Farrenc Nonet in E-flat major, op.38

Interval

Fanny Mendelssohn Adagio in E major for violin and piano
Mendelssohn Concerto in D minor for violin, piano and strings

Tickets and more info here.

Imogen and her husband Rupert will perform Trumpet & Trombone duets at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, as part of Britten Sinfonia’s ‘Music for Wellbeing’ project.

Throughout the day they will be visiting various spaces including wards and waiting areas to provide light, musical relief and positive interactions with patients, staff and visitors.

Imogen will perform Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with the Bushey Symphony Orchestra.

More details and tickets: https://busheysymphony.org.uk/

Imogen has been invited by the Herefordshire Composers’ Workshop to give a solo recital on 12th October 2023.

The recital will take place in the Grand Hall of the Bishop’s Palace, Hereford, and will feature seven compositions by members of the Workshop. The programme will also include works by Fauré, Haydn, Maxwell Davies and Gershwin.

Tickets are available on the door for £10.

A dramatic and musical exploration of Igor Stravinksy’s The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (from memory)

Nicholas Collon conductor
Aurora Orchestra

Actors to be announced

Jane Mitchell concept and script
Jane Mitchell and James Bonas directors
Anouar Brissel projections
David Bishop lighting
Iain Farrington music arrangements

Tickets and more info: https://www.auroraorchestra.com/event/the-rite-of-spring-bbcproms/

Info from Aurora Website:

This summer Aurora returns to the BBC Proms for its greatest challenge to date: a world-first performance by heart of Stravinsky’s iconic ballet The Rite of Spring. Harnessing the full potential of an orchestra performing from memory, Aurora’s Rite promises a revelatory new take on Stravinsky’s masterpiece.

The premiere of the Rite in 1913 was the scandal that sounded the beginning of modern music – a riot onstage, as well as off. In the first half of this very special concert, we invite listeners under the skin of the iconic score with a newly-created dramatic and musical introduction,  featuring actors voicing the words of the composer and his collaborators. With the help of movement, design, lighting and newly-commissioned projections by Anouar Brissel, we illuminate the context and ideas behind the piece’s creation, its unprecedented use of rhythm, harmony and dissonance, and the story of its notorious premiere. This unique living programme note sets the stage for a performance of the whole ballet entirely from memory, without sheet music, stands or chairs. 

Don’t miss what promises to be an unforgettable highlight of this Proms season. 

Performers

Tickets and more info: https://www.brittensinfonia.com/events/three-concerti

Pavel Kolesnikov Piano

Jonathan Bloxham Conductor

Programme

Britten Young Apollo, Op. 18

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat, K.271 'Jeunehomme'

Arvo Pärt Lamentate

In this programme Britten’s Young Apollo for piano, string quartet and string orchestra, written when he was just 26, is followed by Mozart’s Jeunehomme, which has a youthful energy to match Britten’s. Finally Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s Lamentate is an homage to Anish Kapoor and his sculpture Marsyas. Pärt’s work was originally commissioned by Tate Modern, and was premiered in the Turbine Hall where the monumental Marsyas was installed in 2003.

Imogen will join the Knussen Chamber Orchestra as Principal Trumpet for symphonies by Haydn and Brahms, plus the UK premiere of Ligeti's Little Serenade, and the world premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's Vignettes de Jules Renard.

Haydn: Symphony No.83 in G minor 'The Hen' (24’)

Ryan Wigglesworth: Vignettes de Jules Renard (Britten Pears Arts commission, world premiere)

Ligeti: Little Serenade (UK premiere) (5’)

Brahms: Symphony No.3 in F, Op.90 (35’)

Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Roderick Williams baritone
Knussen Chamber Orchestra

Tickets and more info: https://brittenpearsarts.org/events/knussen-chamber-orchestra-haydn-brahms-wigglesworth

Imogen will perform with the LSO for their performance in Trafalgar Square.\

BMW Classics
Trafalgar Square & Online

Igor Stravinsky Fireworks
John Adams Harmonielehre
Eloise Gynn Light Dancing (world premiere) *
Claude Debussy La Mer
Maurice Ravel Boléro

Sir Simon Rattle conductor
LSO On Track Musicians *
London Symphony Orchestra

More info: https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalrepeat.detail/2023/06/10/2581/-/bmw-classics-2023.html

Berlioz                    Harold in Italy                                                                                 
Elgar                       In the South
Respighi                Pines of Rome
 
DANIELE RUSTIONI                CONDUCTOR
TIMOTHY RIDOUT                   VIOLA
 
Ulster Orchestra’s 2022/23 draws to a close with Music Director Daniele Rustioni acting as tour guide for a musical visit to Italy.
 
Byron’s Childe Harold inspires the first two works in this concert, with violist Timothy Ridout taking on the role of Harold in Berlioz’s Harold in Italy, observing the changing Italian scenes around him in music that is joyful and stirring. Elgar’s In the South brings a little romantic melancholy and stormy drama to proceedings, while Respighi’s Pines of Rome conveys the light and shade of the trees in various locations around the Eternal City – you’ll sense the warmth of the sun on your skin as we reach our final destination of the Appian Way!

Tickets and more info: https://www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk/whats-on/bella-italia/

Imogen will visit Birmingham Conservatoire to give a trumpet class to the students.

“St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble and director Andrew Earis present Handel’s magnificent Water Music suites. Originally composed for a royal boating excursion on the River Thames in 1717, these orchestral suites are a joyful showcase of Baroque vibrancy and variety. The ensemble is joined by esteemed soloist Imogen Whitehead for a performance of the dazzling Trumpet Concerto by Czech composer Johann Baptist Georg Neruda.”

Programme

Handel – Suites from ‘Water Music’
Neruda – Trumpet Concerto in Eb
Purcell - Trumpet Sonata in D

Performers

St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble
Imogen Whitehead Trumpet
Andrew Earis Director

Please note the 7:00 start. The concert will last approximately 60 minutes and there will be no interval

Tickets and more info: https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whatson-event/handel-water-music-by-candlelight-2/?whatson-event-date=2023-04-21&whatson-event-time=7:00%20PM

Imogen will join the RPO for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.2 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Tickets and more info: https://www.rpo.co.uk/whats-on/eventdetail/1529/82%7C83/journeys-of-discovery-transcendence

Mahler Symphony No.2, ‘Resurrection’

Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Elizabeth Watts Soprano
Jennifer Johnston Mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Chorus

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Imogen will perform as the soloist for Michael Omer’s Trumpet Concerto with Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra in November.

More info coming soon…

On Saturday 29th October, Imogen will be performing a recital in Édon, France, alongside pianist Helen Leek.

Programme TBA.

Celebrate 60 years of the James Bond film franchise with a charity concert that will showcase the iconic music of Bond, headlined by the legendary Dame Shirley Bassey.

Curated by five-time Bond composer David Arnold and produced by EON Productions, the concert will feature Bond soundtrack artists including Garbage, as well as special guests including Celeste, putting their own interpretation on classic theme songs, backed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Dodd.

The date marks the anniversary of the world premiere of the first 007 film, Dr. No held on 5 October 1962.

Tickets and more info: https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2022/the-sound-of-007-in-concert/