5.30pm book launch | 7.30pm concert
The Royal Academy of Music celebrates the unique contribution to the classical guitar repertoire made by Stephen Dodgson, in his centenary year, with an evening of events comprising:
- roundtable discussion
- book launch
- concert of varied Dodgson guitar chamber works
5.30pm A roundtable discussion, led by Michael Lewin, Head of Guitar, and Stephen Goss, focusing on Dodgson’s long association with the Academy. This will be followed by the launch of the book Born by the Thames: Stephen Dodgson – A Centenary Celebration, edited by Oliver Chandler and Thomas Hyde (de la Porte Publishing, 2024).
7.30pm Performance of wonderfully varied Dodgson guitar chamber works:
- Hymnus de Sancto Stephano (soprano, guitar ensemble)
- ‘High Barbaree’ (recorder, guitar, harpsichord)
- Echoes of Autumn (viola, guitar)
- Promenade (2 guitars)
- Pastoral Sonata (guitar, flute, cello)
- Watersmeet (guitar ensemble)
- London Lyrics (tenor, guitar)
- Quintet (guitar, string quartet)
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(Under month, select ‘May’, then scroll down to 9th May to find event)
The LFCCM commemorates Stephen Dodgson’s centenary with a concert that features several Dodgson sacred choral works alongside works by established and up-and-coming contemporary composers. All performed by a crack team selected from among London’s finest choral singers directed by Alastair Carey.
Tickets will be available nearer the time from the LFCCM website.
Tenor James Gilchrist and guitarist Mark Eden will be performing a selection of Stephen Dodgson guitar songs at St Mary’s Church in Arkengarthdale at 4pm on Wednesday 29 May 2024 as part of the Swaledale Festival. The programme will also include music by Dowland, Schubert and Alec Roth.
James Gilchrist is a leading interpreter of Oratorio and Song, especially the German and English repertoire. He is internationally renowned as one of the evangelists in Bach’s passions and oratorios and maintains an ongoing interest in older music, regularly performing as a soloist with viol consorts, lutenists and period pianos.
Mark Eden is better known as one half of the Eden Stell Guitar Duo and is also a founder member of the VIDA Guitar Quartet. Both ensembles have achieved international acclaim and continue to perform at some of the most prestigious venues, International guitar and music festivals all over the world.
James and Mark both feature on the recently-recorded Dodgson solo song CDs (Volumes 1 and 2 now out, and Volume 3 out in 2024), along with Ailish Tynan, Katie Bray, Marcus Farnsworth, Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn).
Tickets will be available from March 2024 at www.swalefest.org
The Magnard Ensemble and a cast of soloists perform Stephen Dodgson’s short chamber opera Cadilly alongside his Gipsy Songs at Conway Hall. Cadilly, based on one of the Tales from the Fens by W. H. Barrett, tells the story of a beautiful woman and ‘willing maid’ who is loved by the scholars, their tutors and the townsmen alike but jailed for ‘immoral behaviour’! A vibrant and comic piece.
Programme
Dodgson – Sonata
Gipps – The Lady of the Lambs
Vaughan Williams – Ten Blake Songs for Soprano and Oboe
Arnold – Three Shanties
Dodgson – Cadilly
Pre-concert talk – 5.30pm
Concert – 6.30pm
Tickets will be available via the Conway Hall website.