Members of Royal Northern Sinfonia
Harpsichord: Mahan Esfahani
The concert will be dedicated to Abdol Hossein Sardari, an Iranian diplomat who saved thousands of Jewish people during the war and was given the title “Schindler of Iran”.
7pm: Pre-concert talk by Mahdieh Zare ZardinyProducer of documentary "Sardari's Enigma"
in conversation with Hamid Sabi,
Chairman of Iranian Jewish Center in London
Programme:
| E. Schulhoff: Bass Nightingale (solo contrabassoon) |
| H. Winterberg: Suite for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon & harpsichord |
| P. Haas: Wind Quintet |
| H. Krása: Kammermuziek (7 instruments) |
Collaboration with Cobweb Orchestra
Artists:Cobweb Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Jackson
Soloists: Alexandra Raikhlina (violin), Liubov Ulybysheva (cello), Yoshie Kawamura (piano)
| E. von Dohnányi: Hungarian Festive Overture Op.31 |
| L. van Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op.56 |
Cast: Philip Harrison, Arabella Arnott, Laura Lonsdale, Louis Roberts, Mick Liversidge, Mark Cronfield, Eilish Stout-Cairns, Sol Taibi, Chris Connel, Sarah Bulmer
Artists: Alexandra Raikhlina (violin), Liubov Ulybysheva (cello), Dov Goldberg (clarinet), Yoshie Kawamura (piano), Jan Bradley (percussion)
“The Last Cyclist” is a play based on a cabaret
written in 1944 in the Terezín Concentration Camp
by the young Czech playwright, Karel Švenk, who
was murdered by the Nazis a year later.
This play is a daring, gallows-humor, absurdist
allegory that expands on the “Jews and the
cyclists” theme, making cyclists the victims of the
inmates of a mental asylum who escape and take
over the outside world. They hound, oppress, exile
or kill everyone who rides a bicycle and anyone
who has ever had anything to do with cyclists for
many generations back.
The play, in a non-confrontational way, makes
clear to today’s audiences that it is the personal
responsibility of every human being to fight
intolerance, prejudice, bullying and racism.
Cast: Philip Harrison, Arabella Arnott, Laura Lonsdale, Louis Roberts, Mick Liversidge, Mark Cronfield, Eilish Stout-Cairns, Sol Taibi, Chris Connel, Sarah Bulmer
Artists: Alexandra Raikhlina (violin), Liubov Ulybysheva (cello), Dov Goldberg (clarinet), Yoshie Kawamura (piano), Jan Bradley (percussion)
10am: Schools Matinee Performance
7:30pm: repeat performance
Jack Liebeck (violin), Alexandra Raikhlina (violin), Philip Dukes (viola), Liubov Ulybysheva (cello), Shelly Ezra (clarinet), Fabian van de Geest, Peter Francomb (horn), Daniel Grimwood (piano)
This concert will be dedicated to Sir Nicholas George Winton who organised kindertransports.
7pm: Hall 2, Pre-concert performance by
Opera North Youth Choir
The Opera North Youth Chorus will be working with
composer Michael Betteridge and writer/director
Anna Pool to create a piece around the theme
‘Standing Together’, commissioned as part of the
Holocaust Memorial Day 2020.
Chorus Master: Nicholas Shaw
| L. van Beethoven: Clarinet Trio |
| G. Ligeti: Horn Trio |
| E. von Dohnányi: Sextet in C Major op.37 (violin, viola, cello, clarinet, horn, piano) |
| Brundibár Arts Festival
Special Commission
by Samuel Quartermaine Smith 'You will be loved' Conductor: Mark Edwards |
