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The Festival presents principally classical and jazz music through a programme of concerts, as well as education and outreach work, bringing artists of the very highest calibre to the South Lakes.

Artistic Director's welcome to the 2013 Festival

With so much classical music having its root in dance forms, it makes perfect sense to incorporate a mini dance festival - ‘ExtravaDanza’- into this year’s 10th Ulverston International Music Festival. Ballet, Tango, Waltz and Flamenco will be some of the dance styles on display in a scintillating two days of dance events to kick off the Festival. We’ll cover the whole gamut of styles from Baroque dance - which was the foundation of forms and rhythms in much of the Classical music we know today - right through to an ambitious outdoor Contemporary dance atop the town’s landmark monument, the Hoad.
The traditional part of the Festival commences from Sunday 2 June with an ever-present dance thread. The origins of dance had a combative element, so it’s fitting that Martin Roscoe and I will return in ‘The Best of Piano Duel’ which includes Ravel’s ‘La Valse’. The Ulverston Festival Chorus will sing Borodin’s ‘Polovtsian Dances’ and the ‘Waltz Scene’ from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin; there’ll be Ravel’s ‘Pavane’, and some transcriptions of popular Ballet Music. Folk Dance - such an important influence on 19th century classical music onwards - will be presented in a unique context with a musical adaptation of Jessica Duchen’s novel, ‘Hungarian Dances’. And don’t bet against a Chopin Mazurka or Waltz for an encore, even for ‘just a minute’!
The Family Concert - presented by Travelling by Tuba - will give local school children the chance to try their hands at salsa and samba rhythms using percussion instruments, tone chimes, and even broomsticks, and there’s sure to be plenty of toe-tapping material when the David Newton Trio appears for ‘Jazz Night’ alongside the smokey vocal strains of Claire Martin.
Lunchtime concerts at the Parish Church are fast becoming known as the place to sample up-and-coming talent, and this year we showcase The Rose Trio. Murray McLachlan, distinguished pianist and Head of Keyboard at Chetham’s School of Music, has done much to support young pianists in Britain and will give a piano recital followed by a master class.
This year’s ‘Celebrity’ artist is cellist Steven Isserlis, who makes a rare appearance in the region. Steven is one of the world’s most cherished musicians, not onlyin our time, but in any era, and to have the chance to savour his artistry on our doorstep is a real privilege.
Anniversary composers Britten, Lutosławski, Wagner and Verdi are all honoured in our concerts this year and it’s with Britten and a resounding British theme that the Festival concludes on Sunday 9 June with his ‘Simple Symphony’. Vaughan Williams’ velvety ‘Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis’ and Elgar’s ‘Introduction and Allegro’ complete the British flavour, all performed by Festival débutants The Orchestra of the Swan, who we are delighted to welcome.
As well as the incredible talent that will waltz in from across the country and beyond, we also include local amateur pianists in a charity concert ‘Pay and DisPlay’. The aim: for pianists to ask their friends to donate an amount per minute they play our Steinway Concert Grand on stage.
Whether it’s instrumental recitals, chamber music, orchestral, choral, jazz, or pay-per-minute, there’ll be over 1000 minutes of music on offer this year, and a unique chance for you our audience to make a real song and dance over this year’s Ulverston International Music Festival.
Anthony Hewitt
Artistic Director

Friday 31st May to Sunday 9th June 2013

Fri May 31 and Sat June 1: 'ExtravaDanza' - a mini dance festival within the Festival


Friday 31st May
Hoad Hill 4pm
Hoad Down
UVHS Dancers; Christine Jameson, choreography
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Barrow Sixth Form College 7:30pm
Dance through the Ages
Chalemie, Baroque Dance; The Ballet Pod, Ballet; Amor Flamenco; Christine Jameson; Ulverston Victoria High School Dancers & Sounding Motion, Contemporary Dance


Saturday 1st June
Coronation Hall 11am
Invitation to the Dance
UlMF Waltz Quartet; Anthony Hewitt, piano
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Coronation Hall 2pm
Lakeland Steps
Clogs and Co.
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Coronation Hall 7:30pm
Tango!
Tango Trio: Eduardo Garcia, bandoneon; Anthony Hewitt, piano; Ruth Rogers, violin; Miriam Y Dante, dancers


Sunday 2nd June
Coronation Hall 9.30am until 2pm
Charity Concert: Pay and DisPlay
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Coronation Hall 7.30pm
Chamber Music: Idyllic Elgar
Jack Liebeck, violin; Ruth Rogers, violin; Sarah-Jane Bradley, viola; Thomas Carroll, cello; Anthony Hewitt, Piano
Beethoven: String Trio in G Major Op. 9 no. 1
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll (arranged for Piano Quintet by Alfred Pringsheim)
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84

Tuesday 4th June
Coronation Hall 7:30pm
The Best of Piano Duel
Martin Roscoe and Anthony Hewitt, pianos
Mozart: Sonata in D Major K448
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn Op. 56 (St. Anthony Variations)
Lutoslawski: Paganini Variations
Ravel: La Valse
Grainger: Fantasy on Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’


Wednesday 5th June
Family Day
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Parish Church 1pm
Piano Recital: The Art of Encore
Murray McLachlan, piano
Rachmaninov: Three Preludes: C sharp minor Op. 3 no. 2, D major Op. 32 no. 4, G minor Op. 23 no. 5
Scriabin: Nocturne for the left hand alone, Op. 9
Busoni: Elegy no. 4; Chamber Fantasy on Bizet's ‘Carmen’
Francis George Scott: Four Songs, transcribed by Ronald Stevenson -
‘Milkwort and Bog Cotton', ‘Crowdieknowe', ‘Aye Waukin' o' ‘There's News, Lasses, News'
Chopin: Etude in E major, op. 10 no. 3, Polonaise in A flat, op. 53 'Heroic'
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Ulverston Parish Church 3-6pm
Piano Master Class for school children with Murray McLachlan
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Coronation Hall 6pm
Family Concert: Travelling by Tuba
‘Travelling by Tuba’ – Chris Cranham, Tuba; Stewart Death, piano
Ensemble from local schools



Thursday 6th June
Parish Church 1pm
Woodwind Recital: The Rose Trio
Rebecca Thorn, clarinet; Suzanne Thorn, oboe; Tamsin Thorn, bassoon
Mozart: Divertimento No. 1 K. 439b
Tansman: Suite Pour Trio D'Anches
Francaix: Divertissement
Farkas, arr. Thorn: Serenade
Seiber, arr. Thorn: Dances
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Celebrity Cello: Steven Isserlis
Coronation Hall 7:30pm
Steven Isserlis cello; Ian Brown, Piano
Bach: Gamba Sonata No.2
Ravel: Deux Melodies Hebraiques
Bridge: Sonata
Bloch: From Jewish Life
Saint-Saens: Sonata No.1


Friday 7th June
Parish Church 1pm
Organ Recital: Pipe Dreams
John Gibbons
Liszt: Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H
Walton: March from Richard III
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Franck: Chorale No. 3 in A minor
Karg-Elert: Harmonies Du Soir
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Coronation Hall 7:30 pm
Jazz Night: David Newton Trio and Claire Martin


Saturday 8th June
Coronation Hall 11am
Hungarian Dances: The Story of a Gypsy Violinist
Adapted from the novel “Hungarian Dances" by Jessica Duchen
David Le Page Violin; Anthony Hewitt, piano; Jessica Duchen, Narrator
Ernst von Dohnányi: Andante Rubato alla Zingaresca
Grigoras Dinicu: The Lark
Vittorio Monti: Czardas
Fritz Kreisler: Marche Militaire Viennoise
Claude Debussy: Extract from Sonata for Violin and Piano
Franz von Vecsey: Valse Triste
Bela Bartók: Romanian Dances
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance no.2
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane
Jenö Hubay: Hejre Kati
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Parish Church 7:30pm
Choral Concert
Ulverston Festival Chorus
John Gibbons, conductor; Adrian Self, Organ; Anthony Hewitt, piano
Verdi: Triumphal Scene from ‘Aida’
Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme
Ravel: Pavane pour une enfante défunte (solo piano)
Grainger: Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's "Flower Waltz" from the the ‘Nutcracker Suite’ (solo Piano)
Tchaikovsky: Waltz Scene from the opera ‘Eugene Onegin’;
Verdi: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from the opera ‘Nabucco’
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from ‘Prince Igor’


Sunday 9th June
Coronation Hall 7:30pm
Orchestral: Around Britten and Bach
Orchestra of the Swan
David Curtis, Director; Anthony Hewitt, piano
Britten: Simple Symphony Op. 4
Bach: Keyboard Concerto no. 1 in D minor BWV 1052
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro Op. 47

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