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Booking information

We recommend you visit our website, www.cums.org.uk

for the latest information about booking, as well as

our online booking system for concerts at West Road

Concert Hall.

Box office for concerts in West Road Concert Hall, JesusCollege Chapel and St John’s College Chapel and for

the Wagner Insight DayTel: 01223 365110

Email: [email protected]

Online: www.cums.org.uk

Box office for King’s Foundation Concert on 17 March

2012 and CUMS Chorus concert on 27 April 2012

Shop at King’s

13 King’s Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1SP

Tel: 01223 769342


Box office for all other concerts in King’s College ChapelCambridge Corn Exchange Box Office

Wheeler Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QB

Tel: 01223 357851

Online: www.cambridge.gov.uk/boxoffice

Box office for concert at Ely CathedralCambridge Corn Exchange Box Office

Wheeler Street, Cambridge CB2 3QB

Tel: 01223 357851


and Ely Cathedral Box Office

Tel: 01353 660349 (Mon-Sat 9.30am–4pm)


Online: tickets.elycathedral.org

Cambridge University Musical Society

West Road Concert Hall

11 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

www.cums.org.uk Cambridge University Musical Society 2011–12

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Cambridge University Musical Society Season 2011–12

6 Fri 23 Sep 2011, 4pm Alumni weekend ‘Come & Sing’ King’s College Chapel

6 Sat 22 Oct 2011, 8pm Season Launch: CU Chamber Orchestra and CU Chamber Choir West Road Concert Hall

7 Fri 28 Oct 2011, 7.30pm Festival of Ideas Concert King’s College Chapel

7 Sat 29 Oct 2011, 8pm Martin Yates conducts CUMS Symphony Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

8 Fri 25 Nov 2011, 8pm Sir Roger Norrington conducts Mozart and Haydn West Road Concert Hall

9 Sat 26 Nov 2011, 7.30pm Stephen Cleobury conducts Verdi Requiem Ely Cathedral

9 Tue 29 Nov 2011, 8pm CU Wind Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

9 Sat 3 Dec 2011, 8pm Harry Ogg conducts CUMS Symphony Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

10 Sat 28 Jan 2012, 8.15pm Sir Mark Elder conducts Wagner and Debussy King’s College Chapel

12 Sat 25 Feb 2012, 8pm CUMS Chorus and Prime Brass Jesus College Chapel

13 Sat 3 Mar 2012, 8pm CUMS Symphony Orchestra performs Shostakovich No.7 West Road Concert Hall

13 Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8pm CU Chamber Choir & CU Collegium Musicum perform

St Matthew Passion St John’s College Chapel

13 Sat 10 Mar 2012, 8pm Peter Stark conducts CU Chamber Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

14 Mon 12 Mar 2012 CU Wind Orchestra Schools Concert West Road Concert Hall

14 Sat 17 Mar 2012, 5.30pm King’s College Foundation Concert King’s College Chapel

15 Fri 27 Apr 2012, 7.30pm CUMS Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra King’s College Chapel

15 Sat 5 May 2012, 8pm CU Chamber Orchestra performs Mendelsshon and Beethoven West Road Concert Hall

16 Thu 10 May 2012, 8pm CU Wind Orchestra and CUMS Concert Orchestra West Road Concert Hall

16 Sat 16 Jun 2012, 8pm Graeme Jenkins conducts CUMS Symphony Orchestra and

CUMS Chorus King’s College Chapel

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2011–12 promises to be another vintage year of music-

making at Cambridge.

This year we are delighted to welcome to the CUMS

family the Cambridge University Chamber Choir – a

superb, small choir bringing together Cambridge’s finest

choral scholars. Highlights include a six-concert tour of

Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Israel Camerata, and

USA performances at Yale and in New York.

In November our Principal Guest Conductor Sir Roger

Norrington launches our new recording programme,

conducting CUCO in a CD of music by Haydn and

Mozart. He is joined this year by two fellow alumni

conductors: Sir Mark Elder, Music Director of the Hallé

Orchestra, returns for the first time to conduct part of

Wagner’s Parsifal; and Graeme Jenkins, Music Director

of Dallas Opera, conducts the May Week Concert.

The CUMS Chorus goes from strength to strength

under Stephen Cleobury’s leadership. Forthcoming

highlights include Verdi’s Requiem at Ely Cathedral, a

gala concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and a tour

to Paris with Prime Brass. The CUMS Symphony

Orchestra looks forward to highlights with its Principal

Conductor Martin Yates including Shostakovich’s

monumental Symphony No.7 and Elgar’s Cello Concerto

with Raphael Wallfisch. The Cambridge University

Lunchtime Concerts continue to bring chamber music of

the highest quality to West Road Concert Hall on

Tuesday lunchtimes – admission free!

This year we showcase the best of Cambridge music-

making in London with concerts at the homes of Bob and

Elisabeth Boas and of Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis – turn to

page 18 for more information. CUCO ends the year with

a week-long residency at the Orpheus and Bacchus

Festival in the heart of the Bordeaux countryside, around

which we are able to offer up to 24 guests a summer

holiday of glorious music, fine wine and good company

on the luxurious Domaine Le Faure estate. Turn to page

20 to find out more.

I would like to thank the many people whose

involvement with CUMS makes so ambitious a season

possible: our volunteers, our conductors and our generous

supporters. But in particular I would like to thank the

wonderful young musicians of Cambridge University for

all that they do to enrich the life of the University, the

region, and the world beyond. The future of classical

music is in good hands!

Simon FaircloughChairman, Cambridge University Musical Society

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Tuesday 31 JanuaryLeighton Fantasia Contrappuntistica and works by Bach

and Hindemith, with Lliam Paterson, piano

Tuesday 7 FebruaryMozart Symphony No. 29 and Strauss Oboe Concerto with

Will Ball, oboe, and the cuc o chamber ensembleand Will Cole, conductor

Tuesday 14 February 1.10pm – 2.15pmPerformances by the finalists of the CUMS Concerto

Competition

Tuesday 21 FebruarySchubert Quartettsatz and Mozart Clarinet Quintet, with

Oliver Pashley, clarinet

Tuesday 28 FebruaryChamber music by Handel and Corelli, with

cu c ollegium musicum

Tuesday 6 MarchGeorge Artavanis, piano, and a presentation of works by

Oliver Weeks, CUMS Composer-in-Residence

Tuesday 13 March 1pm – 2pmbritten s infonia performs music by Luke Bedford

and Franck Piano Quintet (tickets prices start at £3)

Easter Term 2012Tuesday 1 May 1pm – 2pmbritten s infonia performs music by Warlock and

Jonathan Dove, and Vaughan Williams Ten Blake Songs

(tickets prices start at £3)

Tuesday 8 MayMendelssohn Octet with the cuc o string ensemble

Tuesday 15 MayLecture-recital on the piano works of Chopin with John

Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies at the

Faculty of Music

Full programme details will be announced on ourwebsite shortly before each concert(www.cums.org.uk)

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After a highly successful first season, the Cambridge

University Lunchtime Concerts return to West Road

Concert Hall with an exciting and diverse programme of

music ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Messaien

and John Adams. Performances take place on Tuesday

lunchtimes during Full Term, and admission is free.

You can also enjoy a delicious sandwich lunch at the

concert hall coffee shop in the foyer prior to the concert,

making CULC the perfect way to spend a relaxing

Tuesday lunchtime in the middle of a busy week.

All concerts 1.10pm – 1.55pm unless stated.

Michaelmas Term 2011Tuesday 18 OctoberViolin sonatas by Janácek and Debussy, with Konrad

Wagstyl, violin, and Harry Ogg, piano

Tuesday 25 OctoberQuintets for piano and winds by Mozart and Beethoven,

with the cuc o wind ensemble

Tuesday 1 NovemberJohn Adams Gnarly Buttons and Son of a Chamber

Symphony, with Joe Shiner, clarinet, and the new musicensemble and Stephen Craigen, conductor

Tuesday 8 NovemberSong-cycles by Jeremy Thurlow and Misha Mullov-

Abbado, with Catherine Harrison, soprano

Tuesday 15 November 1pm – 2pmbritten s infonia performs works by Strauss and

Charlie Piper, as well as Bruch Septet (tickets prices start

at £3)

Tuesday 22 NovemberPoulenc Banalités and Debussy Fêtes Galantes, with

Nicholas Mogg, baritone, and Harry Ogg, piano

Tuesday 29 NovemberMessaien Visions de l’Amen, with Freddie Brown and

Rosie Breckon, pianos

Lent Term 2012Tuesday 17 JanuarySchoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, with Raphaela Papadakis,

soprano

Tuesday 24 January 1pm – 2pmbritten s infonia performs trios by Handel, Poulenc

and André Previn (tickets prices start at £3)

Cambridge University Lunchtime Concerts


Cambridge University Chamber Choir at the

Festival of Ideas A guide to the history of classical music hosted by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

from BBC Radio 3, with contributions from the Cambridge University

Chamber Choir, directed by Mark Williams, and leading instrumentalists

from the University.

Elgar Cello Concerto Lili Boulanger D’une soir Triste

Elgar Cello Concerto

Ravel La Valse

Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919 version)

CUMS Symphony

Orchestra

Martin Yates conductor

Raphael Wallfisch cello

Alumni weekend ‘Come & Sing’Fauré Requiem

Cambridge University Alumni Chorus

East Anglia Chamber Orchestra

Stephen Cleobury conductor

Raphaela Papadakis soprano

Matthew Sandy tenor

Ashley Riches bass

Season Launch Concert Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music

Mozart Concerto for two pianos

Stravinsky Symphony in C

Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra

Cambridge University Chamber Choir

Peter Ash conductor

Tom Poster piano

Cordelia Williams piano

Cordelia Williams Martin YatesRaphael Wallfisch

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Michaelmas Term 2011

Friday 23 September 20114pm–10.30pmking ’s college chapel

Tickets £12 singers (£15 with music)

£5 audience for 9.30pm performance

For further details and tickets

contact CUMS Box Office 01223

365110, [email protected]

Saturday 22 October 2011 at 8pmwest road concert hall

Tickets £16 (£13 concessions),

£5 students

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Friday 28 October 2011at 7.30pmking ’s college chapel

Tickets: register for your free ticket

online at comms.group.cam.ac.uk/

festivalofideas/ or telephone – 01223

766766

Saturday 29 October 2011at 8pm west road concert hall


£5 students

Tom Poster

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Verdi Requiem CUMS Chorus

East Anglia Chamber Orchestra


Rachel Nicholls soprano

Madeleine Shaw mezzo-soprano

Justin Lavender tenor

Jamie Hall bass

Cambridge University Wind OrchestraTimothy Jackson Passacaglia

Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite

Arutunian Trumpet Concerto

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man

Nia Llewelyn Jones conductor

Matt Letts trumpet

Grieg Piano ConcertoOliver Weeks (CUMS Composer-in-Residence)

New Work (premiere)

Grieg Piano Concerto

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 ‘Pathethique’

CUMS Symphony Orchestra

Harry Ogg conductor (CUMS Brenda Charters Conducting Scholar)

John Chen piano (CUMS Concerto Competition prizewinner)

Saturday 26 November 2011at 7.30pm ely cathedral

Tickets £32, £26, £20, £8

Students: £4 reduction of above

prices and £5 on the door, subject to

availability

Tuesday 29 November 2011at 8pm west road concert hall


£3 students

Saturday 3 December 2011at 8pm west road concert hall


£5 students

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Friday 25 November 2011at 8pm west road concert hall


£5 students

Sir Roger Norrington will

subsequently conduct CUCO in a

studio recording of this programme.

great conductor series

Sir Roger Norrington conducts Mozart and HaydnMozart Symphony No.38 ‘Prague’

Mozart Violin Concerto No.5

Haydn Symphony No.101 ‘The Clock’


Sir Roger Norrington conductor

Charlie Siem violin

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Wagner Insight DayThis is a rare chance to meet Sir Mark Elder and attend his final

rehearsal in King’s College Chapel before the evening’s performance.

There will also be a fascinating talk by Wagner specialists John

Deathridge and Robin Holloway, chaired by David Trippett, who will

help us to discover Wagner’s masterpiece Parsifal. We recommend you

book early as tickets are very limited in number.


Sir Mark Elder conducts Wagner and Debussy Debussy La Damoiselle élue

Wagner Parsifal (Act III)



Cambridge University Chamber Choir and Cambridge College Choirs

Sir Mark Elder conductor

Joan Rodgers soprano

Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano

Simon O’Neill tenor

Robert Hayward bass-baritone

Robert Lloyd bass

Saturday 28 January 201212.30pm – 5pm king ’s college chapel andkeynes hall, king ’s college

Tickets £7, £3 Students

Saturday 28 January 2012at 8.15pm king ’s college chapel

Tickets £32, £26, £20, £10


prices and £5 on the door, subject to

availability

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Picture credits:aClive BardabAnne-Marie Le BlécFritz CurzondTom GibsoneLes CampbellfLisa Kohler


Shostakovich Symphony No.7Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.1

Shostakovich Symphony No.7


Martin Yates conductor

Josie Robertson violin (CUMS Concerto Competition prizewinner)

Cambridge University Chamber ChoirJS Bach St Matthew Passion

Soloists and chorus of the Cambridge University Chamber Choir

Cambridge University Collegium Musicum

Tim Brown director

Margaret Faultless leader, co-director

Stefan Kennedy evangelist

Cambridge University Chamber OrchestraBrahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn

Copland Clarinet Concerto

Schubert Symphony No.9

Peter Stark conductor

Joseph Shiner clarinet (winner of the CUMS Concerto Competition)

Sponsored by CAM Decorative and Fine Arts Society

Saturday 3 March 2012at 8pm west road concert hall


£5 students

Friday 9 March 2012at 8pm st john ’s college chapel

Tickets £20, £15, £5 unsighted


prices and £5 on the

door, subject to availability

Saturday 10 March 2012at 8pm west road concert hall


£5 students

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CUMS Chorus and Prime BrassPaul Patterson Paris Fanfare

Parry I Was Glad

Vaughan Williams Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge

Walton Coronation Te Deum

Wayne Marshall Psalm 150

Paul Patterson Magnificat


Alexander Berry organist

Saturday 25 February 2012at 8pm jesus college chapel

Tickets £12, £5 unsighted,

£5 students


Gala Charity ConcertBruckner Motets

Strauss Oboe Concerto

Verdi Pater Noster

Puccini Messa di Gloria

Philharmonia Orchestra

King’s College Choir

CUMS Chorus


Nicholas Daniel oboe

Mendelssohn and BeethovenMendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Beethoven Violin Concerto

Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’


Stephanie Gonley director and violin

Friday 27 April 2012at 7.30pm king ’s college chapel

Tickets £60, £50, £40, £25

Students: £5 on the door, subject to

availability

Saturday 5 May 2012at 8pm west road concert hall


£5 students

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Monday 12 March 2012west road concert hall

Open to schools by invitation – if

your school would like to attend

please contact Simon Smart at

[email protected]

Saturday 17 March 2012at 5.30pm king ’s college chapel

Tickets £30, £25, £18

Students: £5 on the door, subject to

availability

CUMS Concert for Schools Cambridge University Wind Orchestra

Will Cole conductor

A varied programme aimed at sparking the imagination of children.

Music worksheets and teacher guidance notes will be provided.

King’s College Foundation ConcertParry I Was Glad

Brahms Piano Concerto No.2

Elgar Coronation Ode

King’s College Choir and former Choir members



Tom Poster piano

Easter Term 2012

Nicholas Daniel


Thursday 10 May 2012at 8pm west road concert hall


£3 students

Saturday 16 June 2012at 8pm king ’s college chapel

Tickets £32, £26, £20

Students: £4 reduction of above prices

and £5 on the door, subject to

availability

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Strauss Waltzes Cambridge University Wind Orchestra

CUMS Concert Orchestra

Ennio Morricone Moment for Morricone

Gershwin Strike Up the Band

Bernstein Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story’

J Strauss Waltzes | Roses from the South | Künsterleben | On the Beautiful

Blue Danube

Will Cole & Nia Llewelyn Jones conductors


May Week ConcertDebussy La Mer

Berlioz Te Deum


CUMS Chorus

Sawston Village College Choir

Graeme Jenkins conductor

Christopher Gillett tenor

Ralph Woodward chorus master, organist

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Sir Richard Armstrong conducts Elgar The Dream of Gerontius with Cambridge College Choirs,

CUMS Symphony Orchestra and Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra, January 2011.


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CUMS Concert OrchestraFormally CUMS II, this is the Society’s second symphony

orchestra. The orchestra performs popular symphonic

works, and is led by some of the University’s best young

conductors and soloists. This season, the orchestra will

perform three concerts at West Road Concert Hall

including a joint concert with the Cambridge University

Wind Orchestra in the Easter Term. (see page 16)

Thursday 1 December 2011 at 8pmMendelssohn Hebrides Overture and Symphony No.3 and

Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No.3 with Julian Azkoul,

violin, and Will Cole, conductor

Wednesday 14 March 2012 at 8pmBeethoven Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus and

Symphony No.7 and R Strauss Horn Concerto No.2 with

Stephen Craigen, horn, and Nia Llewelyn Jones conductor


£3 students

London RecitalsThis season we are holding two exclusive chamber music

recitals in London to bring the Society’s work to a wider

audience and to provide performance opportunities for

our talented young artists.

Chamber concert and supper, Tuesday 8 November2011, 7pmThis evening is generously hosted by Mr and Mrs Bob

Boas at their stunning Robert Adam home just off

Portland Place in central London. The evening will begin

with a sparkling wine reception, after which Cambridge’s

finest young musicians will perform in the spectacular

drawing room. An optional two-course supper with the

musicians will follow. Tickets are very limited in number

and will cost £40 per person for the concert and drinks

reception or £75 per person with supper.

Choral and chamber music concert and supper,Monday 12 March 2012, 7pmThis evening is generously hosted by Sir Vernon and Lady

Ellis in South Kensington. The evening will begin with a

sparkling wine reception, after which the Cambridge

University Chamber Choir and other Cambridge

musicians will perform in the music room. A two-course

buffet supper with the musicians will follow. Tickets are

very limited in number and will cost £50 per person.

Tickets are available online at www.cums.org.uk or from

Chloe Davidson at [email protected] or 01223 248945.

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International toursSt Matthew Passion in Israel with the CambridgeUniversity Chamber Choir and Israel Camerata17–27 March 2012 Cambridge University Chamber Choir will join the Israel

Camerata – Israel’s leading chamber orchestra – for six

performances of JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion in

Jerusalem, Haifa, Rohovat and Tel Aviv.

CUMS Chorus and Prime Brass in Paris 10–13 April 2012 Following the success of recent tours to Prague, Tuscany

and Tallinn, the Chorus will join forces with Prime Brass

for a programme of English music conducted by Stephen

Cleobury at Notre Dame, Saint Eustache and the

American Cathedral in Paris.

Cambridge University Chamber Choir in the UnitedStates, 21–26 June 2012The Cambridge University Chamber Choir will make its

USA debut representing Europe at a world festival of

choral music at Yale University, New Haven. Further

concerts in the New York area are planned.

Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra inBordeaux, France, 30 June – 6 July 2012 Why not spend your summer holiday enjoying music

from Cambridge’s finest young musicians, exploring the

wines of some of France’s foremost chateaux and

enjoying luxurious accommodation and fine food in the

heart of the Bordeaux countryside? The Cambridge

University Chamber Orchestra will be in residence at the

Orpheus & Bacchus Festival at Domaine Le Faure, near

Gensac, from 30 June–6 July. Ian Christians (Clare 1962)

invites up to 24 guests to join him at his beautiful

eighteenth-century estate, which includes three

swimming pools, tennis court, croquet lawn, a private 16-

acre valley and a music salon containing Alfred Brendel’s

old Steinway. Concert programmes will include

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’ and Beethoven

Violin Concerto with violinist Jerome Woodwark.

In the words of The Times, ‘I have been as close as I am

ever likely to get to having been on visiting terms with

the Margrave of Brandenburg, the Esterhazys, and other

aristocratic musical patrons of the past. Thanks to Ian

Christians, a modern-day benefactor, I have enjoyed the

extraordinary privilege of hearing world class classical

musicians playing in a private salon for an audience

numbered in tens, not hundreds, and seated on

comfortable sofas and easy chairs rather than in rows of

concert hall seating. For immediacy and intimacy this has

to be as good as musical holidaymaking can possibly get.’

More information about all our tours will be available in

October at www.cums.org.uk.

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CUMS is one of the oldest and most distinguished

university music societies in the world. It offers a world-

class musical education for members of the University and

local residents, nurturing the great musicians of the future

and providing performing opportunities for over 500

Cambridge musicians every year.

The Society has played a pivotal role in British musical

life for almost 170 years. It has educated such luminaries as

Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner,

Edward Gardner, Christopher Hogwood and Robin Ticciati,

has given world or UK premieres of works by Brahms,

Holloway, Lutoslawski, Maxwell Davies, Rutter, Saxton and

Vaughan Williams, and has exposed successive generations

of Cambridge musicians to visiting conductors and soloists

including Britten, Dvorak, Kodaly, Menuhin and

Tchaikovsky. Since the 1870s, CUMS has enjoyed the

leadership of several of Britain’s finest musicians,

including Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir David Willcocks,

Sir Philip Ledger, and, from 1983 to 2009, Stephen

Cleobury.

In 2009 Stephen Cleobury assumed the new role of

Principal Conductor, CUMS Chorus, and Sir Roger

Norrington was appointed as Principal Guest Conductor.

Martin Yates, ‘one of the most exciting and versatile British

conductors of his generation’ in the words of The Times,

joined the team as Principal Conductor, CUMS Symphony

Orchestra; and a Great Conductors series was launched with

the objective of exposing CUMS members to a succession of

world-class visiting conductors. In February 2010 CUMS

entered another new phase of its development when it

merged with the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra

and Cambridge University Music Club. In October 2010 the

Society launched the Cambridge University Lunchtime

Concerts – a new series of weekly chamber recitals at West

Road Concert Hall showcasing the University’s finest musical

talent. In 2011 it took on the Cambridge University Chamber

Choir. CUMS continues to provide opportunities for the

University’s finest student soloists and conductors by

awarding conducting scholarships and concerto prizes, and it

actively encourages new music by running a composition

competition and premiering at least one new work each year.

Recent highlights have included the world premiere of

The Sorcerer’s Mirror, a major new CUMS commission from

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Andrew Motion; the

opening concert of the 2009 City of London Festival; tours to

Prague and Tuscany; choral concerts with Stephen Cleobury,

the Philharmonia Orchestra and soloists including Bryn

Terfel in Cambridge and at the Royal Albert Hall; Mahler’s

monumental Symphony No.8 at Ely Cathedral under Stephen

Cleobury; Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with Sir Roger

Norrington and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Sir

Richard Armstrong.


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CUMS Supporters and Funders For more information about CUMS, our

concerts, booking tickets, receiving our e-

newsletters or getting involved, please see our

website: www.cums.org.ukOur newly-designed website is always up-

to-date with the latest Society news, events

and contact information. Alternatively, you

can contact individual Society ensembles:

Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra –

Jonathan Dumbrill ([email protected])

CUMS Symphony Orchestra – Chloe

Davidson ([email protected])

CUMS Chorus – Caroline Goulder

([email protected])

Cambridge University Chamber Choir –

Nicholas Mogg ([email protected])

Cambridge University Lunchtime Concerts –

Will Cole ([email protected])

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra – Ned

Booker ([email protected])

CUMS Concert Orchestra – Sarah Yetman

([email protected])

ACE Foundation

CAM Decorative and Fine Arts Society

Christ’s College

Clare Hall

CUMS Fund

CUMS Supporters’ Circle

Donald Wort Fund

Gonville and Caius College

Homerton College

Jesus College

King’s College

Newnham College

Pembroke College

Sidney Sussex College

St John’s College

Trinity College

University of Cambridge Faculty of Music

University of Cambridge Societies Syndicate


Wolfson College

Since it was founded in 1843, CUMS has provided unique

opportunities for successive generations of Cambridge

musicians. It has immeasurably enriched the cultural life

of the University and City, and, having launched many of

the biggest careers in classical music, it has played a

pivotal role in the musical world beyond.

CUMS receives no core funding from the University,

and income from ticket sales does not meet the full cost

of delivering a world-class musical education. The CUMS

Supporters’ Circle has been established to address this

pressing financial need.

All those who value Cambridge’s splendid musical

heritage, and who want the University to provide

opportunities for the finest young musicians of the

twenty-first century, are invited to join the CUMS

Supporters’ Circle. Membership of the Circle is through

annual donation to CUMS. There are six levels of

donation:

Friend: £50–£99 per annum

Donor: £100–£249 per annum

Friends and Donors enjoy

● contributing membership of the Society, entitling them

to priority booking for performances

● acknowledgement in CUMS concert programmes and on

the website

● invitations to drinks at each performance at West Road

Concert Hall

● an invitation to the annual CUMS Garden Party

● regular updates on key CUMS projects and events

Benefactor: £250–£499 per annum

Principal Benefactor: £500–£999 per annum

All of the above, plus opportunities to sit in on selected

rehearsals

The Stanford Circle: £1,000–£2,499 per annum

The Vaughan Williams Circle: £2,500+ per annum

All of the above, plus the opportunity to be recognised as

the supporter of a specific activity each season.

To become a Member of the CUMS Supporters’ Circle,

please contact Christine Skeen, Secretary, CUMS

Supporters’ Circle, Cambridge University, 11 West Road,

Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

You will become part of an extraordinary musical

tradition.

Join the CUMS Supporters’ Circle

Front cover photo: Josie Robertson (CUMSConcerto Competition Prizewinner) byJerome Woodwark

Rehearsal and performance photos byFrancis Knights


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Booking information

We recommend you visit our website, www.cums.org.uk

for the latest information about booking, as well as

our online booking system for concerts at West Road

Concert Hall.

Box office for concerts in West Road Concert Hall, JesusCollege Chapel and St John’s College Chapel and for

the Wagner Insight DayTel: 01223 365110


Online: www.cums.org.uk

Box office for King’s Foundation Concert on 17 March

2012 and CUMS Chorus concert on 27 April 2012

Shop at King’s

13 King’s Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1SP

Tel: 01223 769342


Box office for all other concerts in King’s College ChapelCambridge Corn Exchange Box Office

Wheeler Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QB

Tel: 01223 357851


Box office for concert at Ely CathedralCambridge Corn Exchange Box Office

Wheeler Street, Cambridge CB2 3QB

Tel: 01223 357851


and Ely Cathedral Box Office

Tel: 01353 660349 (Mon-Sat 9.30am–4pm)


Online: tickets.elycathedral.org



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