Canadian-born, German-based clarinetist Heather Roche presents a lunchtime recital of new solo works for clarinets. The pieces represent some of the exciting new work coming out of the UK, with each one approaching the instrument from a completely different direction. Featuring a brand new work by Leeds University’s Martin Iddon, the programme also presents works by Pedro Alvarez, Charlie Sdraulig and Michael Baldwin.

2014-05-09: Heather Roche

‘Songs from a forgotten world’: Jewish choral music, old and new

School of Music Choir directed by Stephen Muir 

In 1928 Cantor Froim Spektor made the arduous journey by land and sea from Rostov-on-Don in Russia, via London, to Cape Town, South Africa, bringing with him his young family, and a case full of music manuscripts, both his own and those of some of his friends. In doing so, he unknowingly ensured the survival of some of the few remaining vestiges of a musical world now almost forgotten – the world of East European and Russian Jewish culture from before World War II.

‘Songs from a forgotten world’ is inspired by this music, and features works from the Jewish choral tradition old and new. Most prominently, the concert includes the modern-day premiere of Dovid Ayznshtat’s Passover Cantata Chad Gadya (One little goat) for mixed choir, in a new edition by Dr Stephen Muir, who has been researching the migration of Jewish musicians from Russia and Poland to South Africa as part of the ‘Music, Memory and Migration’ project. Ayznshtat’s manuscript is among the papers of Froim Spektor, one of whose pieces also features in the concert alongside classics of the Jewish liturgical tradition by Louis Lewandowski and Salomone Rossi, and more recent works by Ian Sapiro and Gregory Rose.


2014-03-14: Jewish Choral Music

16 year old Yuanfan Yang returns to Leeds to give a performance of works by composers including Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Yuanfan Yang.

After achieving his diploma at the young age of 10, in 2008 Yuanfan Yang started studying at Chetham’s School of music with Dr Murray McLachlan. In 2012 he was a BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist.

2014-03-28: Yuanfan Yang

The University of Leeds International Concert Series

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