Music at Fitz

Lent 2019

All events are open to the general public unless specified

Mondays | 7pm Presented by the FCMS Admission free unless otherwise specified

20 Jan | Old Scr – Historic and contemporary music from Scotland ahead of Burns Night

27 Jan | Old Scr – Peter Coppola performs some of his original acoustic compositions

3 Feb | Old Scr – Jonathan Jolly, 2019-20 Avshalom Hertzwold Saxophone Scholar, presents a solo saxophone recital

10 Feb | Old Scr – Soprano Abi Crook and baritone Rob Nicholas present songs and arias

17 Feb | Chapel – Junior Organ Scholar Theo Williamson makes his recital debut at Fitz

24 Feb | Old Scr – A student recital as part of the University-wide Minerva festival of music by female and non-binary composers, including music by Leonora Duarte and Calliope Tsoupaki

9 March | Chapel – a concert by Fitz piano trio George Bird, Lucy Crocker and Pierre Riley, and string quartet George Bird, Pedro Rendon-Aragon, Lucy Crocker and Rebecca Severy, who have been coached by the renowned Fitzwilliam String Quartet on their 5-6 March visit to the College

2 March | Chapel | £4 students (£8 general public)

A Damned Mob Of Scribbling Women

A professional recital as part of the University-wide Minerva festival of music by female and non-binary composers. Mezzo-soprano Lucy Goddard and pianist Siwan Rhys present a recital centred around Laura Bowler’s British Composer Award-nominated A Damned Mob Of Scribbling Women, with new works by Lisa Illean

Thursday 30 Jan | 8pm | Scr | admission free to Fitz MCR members only

Fitz’s termly Graduate Salon of music and poetry, with drinks and nibbles

Saturday 1 Feb | 7.30pm | West Road Concert Hall | £8 (student) £16 (concession) £18 (general)

Fitz’s Chapel Choir performs in Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 with the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, along with the choirs of St. Catharine’s, Girton and Corpus Christi colleges

Thursday 6 Feb | from 8pm | Bar | admission free

Fitz’s termly Gin & Jazz evening, with music from Fitz Swing and opportunities for College jazz soloists

Saturday 22 Feb | 7.30pm and Sunday 23 Feb | 2pm | Auditorium | ticket prices TBC by the performers

A Musical Guide to Cambridge Degrees

Fitz’s active student-led musical theatre community follows their successful Cambridge Colleges showcase of 2018-19 with a light-hearted look at Cambridge’s Tripos-based stereotypes through the prism of musical theatre

Thursday 27 Feb |8pm and Friday 28 Feb |7.30pm | Auditorium | ticket prices TBC by the performers

Fitz Barbershop and Fitz Sirens present their annual showcase

Friday 6 Mar | 6.30pm | Auditorium | admission free to Fitz members; general admission TBC by the quartet

The distinguished Fitzwilliam String quartet makes the first of its twice-annual coaching and concert visits to Fitz. This concert features Haydn’s Divertimento in C major op. 1/6, Mozart’s Quartet in E-flat K.428 and Shostakovich’s Quartet no. 12

Saturday 7 Mar |1pm | Chapel | admission free

Anna Sozańska (piano and organ) and Jonas Amend (violin) in performance

Tuesday 10 Mar | 9pm | Chapel | admission free

Soprano Rebecca Severy with Director of Music Catherine Groom (mezzo-soprano and medieval harp) presents medieval English Lenten music by candlelight. Of particular interest to English Tripos readers taking Early Medieval Literature papers

Wednesday 11 Mar | 7.30pm | Auditorium |ticket prices TBC by the orchestra

The Hill Colleges’ Orchestra-on-the-Hill presents its termly concert

Look out for the JCR-led Fitz Sessions at the beginning and end of term

Please see the Chapel term card for events including the Minerva Festival Evensong of music by female liturgical composers

Jack & Master

A new venture in actor-musicianship from Fitz Classicist Emily Beck

Saturday 18th Jan | 1pm-4pm | Auditorium | open to all

Actor-musician workshop 1

Join the newly-formed Jack & Master ensemble for an introduction to actor-musicianship. Led by Emily Beck

Saturday 8th Feb | 1pm-4pm | Auditorium | open to instrumentalists

Actor-musician workshop 2

This second workshop from Jack & Master is for musicians who act, actors who play instruments and any instrumentalists interested in combining the two. Led by Emily Beck

Sunday 8th March | timings TBC | Auditorium | Applications to Emily Beck

Actor-musician workshop 3: Jeremy Harrison

Jack & Master’s final workshop of term is being run by Jeremy Harrison, leader of the Actor-Musicianship programme at Rose Bruford College and author of the definitive book on actor-musicianship

Catherine Groom, Director of Music

Catherine (music@fitz.cam.ac.uk) is always delighted to receive proposals for concerts

from any member of College, and enquiries about any aspect of collegiate music-

making. Her office is in K block and there are almost always biscuits to be found there.

Music at Fitz is

kindly sponsored by

Hewitsons LLP

Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DG

E: music@fitz.cam.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)1223 765757

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Looking Ahead to Easter Term

Friday 1 May – Saturday 2 May Cosí fan tutte Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera presents Mozart’s romantic comedy

Contacts

Fitz Barbershop Caolan McConnaughie (Junior President)

Fitz Chamber Opera Catherine Groom (Director of Music)

Fitz Chapel Choir Catherine Groom (Director of Music), Anna Sozańska (Senior Organ Scholar), Theo Wil-liamson (Junior Organ Scholar)

Fitz Music Society Pierre Riley (Junior President)

Fitz Sessions JCR Exec

Fitz Sirens Sophie Metcalfe (Junior President)

Fitz Theatre/Fitz Musical Theatre Daniel Ellis and Cerian Craske (Junior Presidents)

Jack & Master Emily Beck (founding director)

Orchestra-on-the-Hill Lucy Crocker (Fitz representative)