Anglia Contemporary Theatre

His Dark Materials (in two parts)

Part One:
Friday 11 January, 19.30
Saturday 12 January, 14.30 & 19.30

Part Two:
Friday 18 January, 19.30
Saturday 19 January, 14.30 & 19.30

Venue: Mumford Theatre

Tickets: £10.00 (£7.00 concessions, £5.00 Anglia Ruskin students and children)
Bookings: Mumford Theatre website, Part One - Part Two (or call the Box Office on 0845 196 2320, Monday to Friday, 14.00-17.00)

A two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's best-selling trilogy of novels. An epic story, set in parallel worlds, populated by daemons and witches, armoured bears and rebellious angels, this production is assessed work by Anglia Ruskin University's 2nd year Drama and Performing Arts students.

Suitable for ages 12+

Anglia Ruskin Orchestra and Chorus

Bach (arr. Maxwell Davies) - Two Preludes and Fugues
Haydn - Symphony No. 49 in F Minor (La Passione)
Eisler - Suite No.2, Op.24 (Niemandsland)
Orff - Carmina Burana

Conducted by Paul Rhys and Alan Rochford.

Date: Wednesday 20 March
Time: 19.30pm
Venue: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Tickets: £10.00 (£7.00 concessions, £5.00 Anglia Ruskin students and children)
Tickets are available from the Mumford Theatre Box Office on 0845 196 2320 or from the Mumford Theatre website.

Anglia Ruskin Orchestra and Chorus begin their spring concert season with the beautiful arrangement of two of Bach's Preludes and Fugues by Master of the Queen's Music, Peter Maxwell Davies. Haydn's Symphony No. 49 (La Passione), the darkest of his Sturm und Drang symphonies, foreshadows music of the romantic generation. Eisler's Suite No.2 Op.24 (Niemandsland), written for a 1931 film telling a story of soldiers from both sides of the First World War finding a safe haven in a dug-out in the no-man's land between opposing lines, brings the first half to a rousing, if bittersweet, close.

The concert concludes with a performance of Carl Orff's most popular work, the scenic cantata Carmina Burana, in the version for chorus, two pianos and percussion. Originally intended as a staged work involving dance, choreography, visual design and other stage action, Carmina Burana has established itself as one of the cornerstones of twentieth-century classical music repertoire.

Anglia Chamber Choir

Date: Thursday 9 May
Time: 19.30
Venue: the Unitarian Church, Emmanuel Rd, Cambridge

Tickets: £8.00 (£5 concessions), available on the door.

The Anglia Chamber Choir will perform a concert of sacred music, from Palestrina to Benjamin Britten in the beautiful setting of Cambridge Unitarian Church. All are welcome.

Peter Zinovieff 80th Birthday Concert

A career-spanning overview of Peter Zinovieff's pioneering electronic music

Date: Saturday 11 May 2013
Time: 19.30 pm
Venue: Helmore 029

Bookings: Anglia Ruskin Online Store

This concert is part of the Symposium on Electronic and Computer Music, EMSAR 2013, and is free to anyone who books onto the symposium.

This concert will be the first to present an overview of Zinovieff's pioneering compositional and collaborative computer controlled electronic music from the late 1960s to his most recent works of the last few years.
Included in the concert will be early works such as Agnus Dei (1966) and Zinovieff's recent concerto for violin and electronics, OUR (2010).

Among the other highlights will be early work rarely heard in public, and Zinovieff's recent Good Morning, Ludwig (2012), for surround-sound multichannel electronics. All works will be performed by the composer, including a live collaboration on OUR with acclaimed violinist Aisha Orazbayeva.

About Peter Zinovieff

In the late 1960s electronic music pioneer Dr Peter Zinovieff co-founded Electronic Music Studios (EMS), London. EMS created the world's first affordable portable synthesizer, the EMS VCS3, used in popular music by such artists as Pink Floyd as well as the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. In its short history, EMS produced many other innovative products, however Dr Zinovieff should be equally celebrated as an electronic music facilitator and collaborator. Alongside EMS' synthesizers Zinovieff established in the mid 1960s an innovative computer controlled studio, out of which arose electronic music collaborations between Zinovieff and contemporary classical composers Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Hans Werner Henze, among others. Peter Zinovieff's remarkable early career is the subject of the award-winning documentary on EMS, What the Future Sounded Like (2006), directed by Matthew Bate.

A Musical Celebration

Date: Saturday 18 May
Time: 19.00
Venue: St Peter's Church, Great Walsingham, Norfolk

Tickets: £10.00 (including refreshments), available from Eleanor Richards and on the door.

Students, graduates and staff from the Department of Music Therapy perform music from a wide range of cultures and traditions, together with new pieces created in workshops with members of the local community.

Anglia Opera

Carmina Burana (staged version)
Carl Orff

Conducted by Paul Jackson
Directed by Simon Bell
Designed by John Clarke

Date: Friday 24 & Saturday 25 May
Time: 19.30
Venue: Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

Tickets: £12.00 (£8.00 concessions)
Tickets are available from the Mumford Theatre Box Office on 0845 196 2320 or from the Mumford Theatre website.

Carl Orff's secular cantata, Carmina Burana, was originally conceived by the composer as an example of 'Theatrum Mundi', a dramatic concept in which music, acting, dance, masks, costumes, and sets were inseparable. A setting of 13th century songs and poems collected under the same name, Orff's Carmina Burana is subtitled Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images. Whilst the piece has gained near universal popularity, notably through its use in film and television, staged versions are rarely undertaken. Anglia Opera's production presents Orff's masterpiece as originally intended; a mesmerising visual and aural feast, celebrating the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of Spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling and lust.

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