Student Performance Exams

School of Music Performance Exam Recitals
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall

Thursday 28th May

3.45:  Katie Reimann (voice) + Ben Palmer (clarinet), Joseph Cullen (piano)
.   Finzi - Come away death
.   Puccini - Quando me ven
.   Quilter - Come away death
.   Korngold - Come away death
.   Fauré - 5 Mélodies de Venise
.   Margaret Garwood - 6 Japanese songs
.   Dvorak - Mesícku na nebi hlubokém (Song to the Moon)

Friday 29th May:

12.00:  Mollie Narayn (violin) + Daniel Gordon (piano)
.   Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
.   Bartok - Romanian Folk Dances
.   Bruch - Scottish Fantasy (second movement)
.   Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen

2.45:  Dominic Murray (baritone) + Sarah Parkes Bowen (flute), Ashley Jacob, Sam McCagherty and Alex Weston (voices), Daniel Gordon (piano)
Britain and the Americas:  Songs of Love and War
.   Handel - Revenge, Timotheus Cries
.   George Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad
.   Frank Bridge - E'en as a Lovely Flower;  Love went A- Riding;  Come To me In My Dreams
.   Samuel Barber - I hear an Army;  With Rue My Heart Is Laden
.   Charles Ives - He Is There!
.   Stephen Sondheim - Epiphany (Sweeney Todd)

4.30:  Eleanor Sourbutts (soprano) + Chris Mole (tenor), Chris Pelly (tenor), Dom Murray (bass), Claudia Chapman (baroque 'cello), Daniel Gordon (piano/harpsichord)
.   Monteverdi - Lamento della ninfa
.   Faure - Le Secret;  Chanson d'amour;  Après une reve
.   Machonchy - Ophelia's song
.   Strauss - Erstes lied der Ophelia
.   Quilter - How should I your true love know?
.   Donizetti - L'amore funesto
.   [plus a finale...]

Monday 1st June:

12.00:  Claudia Chapman (soprano) + George Kennaway ('cello), Daniel Gordon (piano/harpsichord/chamber organ)
.   Michael Head - Three Songs of Venice
.   Mendelssohn - Venetianisches Gondollied
.   Faure - Gondolier Song
.   Vivaldi - Di Verde Ulilvo (Tito Manlio)
.   Vivaldi - In petto ho un certo from (L'incoronazione di Dario)
.   Monteverdi - Disprezzata Regina from (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

3.45:  Conall Mulvenna (electric guitar) + Alice Higgins (vocals), Will Blackstone (trumpet), Matt Cliff (alto saxophone), Angus Milne (double bass) and Tom Higham (kit percussion)
.   Kenny Garrett - Wayne's Thang
.   Roy Hargrove - Soulful
.   James Yancey - [selected pieces]
.   Prince Nelson - Let's Work
.   Lucinda Williams - Fruits Of My Labor

5.00:  Will Blackstone (trumpet) + Conall Mulvenna (electric guitar), Angus Milne (double bass), Will Howard (tenor saxophone)
.   Eddie Harris - Freedom Jazz Dance
.   Wynton Marsalis - Hesitation
.   Clifford Brown - Joy Spring
.   Richard Rogers - It Never Entered my Mind
.   Miles Davis - Pfrancing

Thursday 4th June:

12.00:  Charlotte Woods (trombone) + Alex Barrie, Elliot Crouch and Charlotte Barker (trombones), Daniel Gordon (piano)
.   Lars-Erik Larsson - Concertino for Trombone and Piano Op. 45 No. 7
.   Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Philip Jones - Three Equali for Four Trombones
.   Jacques Castérède - Sonatine for Trombone and Piano

1.45:  Caitlin Mayall (soprano) + Cheryl Thorne (harpsichord), Daniel Gordon (piano)
.   Rodrigo - De Los Álamos Vengo, Madre
.   Obradors - Canciones Clásicas Españolas nos. 1 and 5
.   Bizet - Chanson D´Avril
.   Ravel - Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques
.   Kodaly - Magyar Népdalok no. 11
.   Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5

5.30:  Alice Higgins (soprano) + Conall Mulvenna (electric guitar), Will Blackstone (trumpet), Roz MacDonald (double bass), Teddy Roberts (bass guitar), Sam Wilson (keys/vocals), Danny Davies (guitar), Mike Deakin (kit percussion), Nicholas Pilkington (saxophone), and the A Cappella vocal group
.   A varied programme of jazz, RnB, soul, etc.

Friday 5th June:

11.30:  John Barry (piano) + Daniel Gordon (piano)
.   Messiaen - Cloches d'angoisse et larmes d'adieu
.   Kapustin - Variations
.   Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

1.15:  Sarah Parkes-Bowen (flute) + Daniel Gordon (piano)
A recital of 20th century flute music
.   Robert Muczynski - Sonata for flute and piano
.   Debussy - Syrinx
.   Frank Martin - Ballade
.   Dutilleux - Sonatine for flute and piano.

5.00:  Edward Roberts (bass guitar) + Alice Higgins (vocals), Danny Davis (guitar), Michael Deakin (kit percussion), Nicholas Pilkington (saxophone) and Sam Wilson (keys/vocals)
.   Victor Wooten - Overjoyed
.   Victor Wooten - The Lesson
.   Jackson - Man In The Mirror
.   Tedeschi Trucks Band - Midnight In Harlem
.   Hiatus Kaiyote - Molasses
.   Sifaka - Beggar Man
.   Badu - Other Side Of The Game.

Monday 8th June:

12.00:  Richard Elson (violin)
.   Mozart - Violin Concerto in G major (first movement)
.   Franck - Violin Sonata in A major (first movement)
.   Beethoven - Romance no.2 in F major
.   Kabalevsky - Improvisation

1.45:  Christopher Mole (tenor) + Cheryl Thorne (harpsichord), Jillian Johnson (viola da Gamba), Daniel Gordon (piano)
.   Moulinié - Airs de Cour (Paisible et Tenebreuse nuit; Enfin la beauté que j'adore)
.   Purcell - Strike the Viol; Not all my torments
.   Anon. (folksong) - Water of Tyne
.   Fauré - Les Roses d'Ispahan;  Au bord de l'eau;  Notre Amour