40 Parsonage
Road,
Heaton Moor,
Stockport,
Cheshire
SK4 4JR
ANTHONY GILBERT A 70th
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
The Barbirolli Room, The Bridgewater
Hall, Manchester, Saturday October 16th
2004, at 2.00pm.
The distinguished composer
Anthony Gilbert was, incredibly, 70
on 26th July. Tony has, in
a career spanning some forty years,
produced a succession of wonderfully
stimulating scores in a multitude of
genres from opera to solo instrumental
works, which have won the enthusiastic
admiration of his contemporaries and
the critics, as well as the love and
respect of his performers (even though
he sometimes stretches them to the uttermost!)
His presence has contributed enormously
to the richness of musical life in the
northwest of England, where he was Head
of Composition at the Royal Northern
College of Music until his retirement
in 1999, even though performances have
not been as frequent as his many admirers
would have liked. His students at the
RNCM have included some of the most
distinguished composers working in Britain
today, including Martin Butler and Simon
Holt.
The artists taking part
in the event, which will be attended
by the composer, are:
Lesley-Jane Rogers
(soprano), John McCabe (piano),
Peter Lawson (piano), Janet
Simpson (harpsichord/piano), John
Turner (recorder), Jonathan Price
(cello), and the Camerata Ensemble
(string quartet).
The programme will include
Anthony Gilberts Piano Sonata No.
1, String Quartet No. 3,
and the first performance of his Cantata
Ondine. In addition the programme
will include Stravinskys Three Pieces
for string quartet and Serenade in
A for piano, Robin Walkers I
Thirst, and special tributes by
the Australian composers Anne Boyd and
David Lumsdaine, as well as Sir John
Manduell, Adam Gorb, David Ellis, and
Anwen Lewis.
I hope that you can
come and share this special event with
Tony and his friends. And I hope too
that you will stay to join us for light
refreshments after the concert. Please
let me know how many complimentary tickets
you require by returning the attached
slip to this address, if possible by
the end of August.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Turner
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