Mon 24th November 2008: CUMS II: Delius, Rautavaara, Dvorak

20:00, West Road

Delius Walk to the Paradise Garden
Rautavaara Piano Concerto No. 1
Dvorak Symphony No. 9

CUMS II

Mark Biggins, Fergus Macleod conductors
Kate Whitley piano

Tickets £10 (£8 conc) Students £5 on the door

Wed 26th November 2008: CUMS I: Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky

20:00, West Road

Stravinsky Firebird Suite
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony

Free pre-concert talk in the Concert Hall at 7pm by Mark Austin and Carlos del Cueto

CUMS I

Mark Austin, Carlos del Cueto conductors

Tickets £10 (£8 conc) Students £5 on the door

Thu 27th November 2008: CUWO: Hidas, Ellerby, Reed - with Prime Brass

20:00, West Road

Frigyes Hidas Quintetto Concertante for Brass Quintet and Symphonic Band
Martin Ellerby Paris Sketches
Alfred Reed Russian Christmas Music
Gillingham Apocalyptic Dreams

CUWO
Prime Brass

Simon Thomas Jacobs conductor

Tickets £7 (£5 conc) Students £4 on the door

Mon 1st December 2008: The Philharmonia Orchestra with CUMS Chorus and King's Voices

19:30, King's College Chapel

Elgar The Kingdom

Free pre-concert talk in Keynes Hall at 7pm

The Philharmonia Orchestra
CUMS Chorus
King's Voices
Choir of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury conductor
Rachel Nicholls Soprano
Louise Crane mezzo soprano
Justin Lavender tenor
Peter Savidge bass

Tickets £35, £30, £22

On sale from Cambridge Corn Exchange Box Office 01223 357851 from 1st September 2008

Thu 18th December 2008: CUMS Chorus at the Royal Albert Hall

19:30, Royal Albert Hall

Programme to include excerpts from
Haydn The Creation (Part 1)
Mendelssohn Overture to St. Paul
Franck Panis Angelicus
Bach Ave Maria
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Rimsky-Korsakov Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden

Ruby Hughes, John McMunn, Giles Underwood Soloists
Philharmonia Orchestra
King's College Choir
CUMS Chorus
Philharmonia Chorus

Stephen Cleobury conductor

Tickets £45, £44, £39.50, £37, £35, £29, £25, £20, £14,50, £11.50

On sale from Box Office for Royal Albert Hall 0207 589 8212

Sat 17th January 2009: CUMS I: Beethoven Missa Solemnis with Christopher Robinson

20, King's College Chapel

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

CUMS I
Chorus to include Trinity College Choir, Queens' College Choir, Magdalene College Choir, and Sidney Sussex College Choir

Christopher Robinson conductor

Mezzo Kate Symonds-Joy
Tenor Andrew Staples
Bass David Soar

Sat 21st February 2009: CUWO: Vaughan Williams

20:00, Trinity Chapel

Programme to include:

New Work for Symphonic Wind Band and Chamber Choir (World Premiere) - Léon Charles
English Folk Song Suite - Vaughan Williams

CUWO
With Oxford University Wind Orchestra

Simon Thomas Jacobs conductor

Sat 7th March 2009: CUMS Chorus: Walton, Rutter, Bruckner - with Prime Brass

20:00, Trinity Chapel

Walton Coronation Te Deum
Henri Tomasi Procession Nocturne
Winning work in the CUMS Choral Composition Competition 2008-09
Rutter Gloria
Bruckner Four motets
Schoenberg Fanfare on motifs of Die Gurrelieder,
Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium
Timothy Brown Jesus Christ's Expostulation
Arvo Pärt De Profundis
Walton Jubilate Deo

Prime Brass
CUMS Chorus

Tim Brown conductor
Soloists taken from CUMS Vocal Soloists Competition.

Thu 12th March 2009: CUMS I: Rachmaninov, Elgar, Resphighi - with Martin Andre

20:00, King's College Chapel

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Elgar Sea Pictures
Respighi Fountains of Rome

Free pre-concert talk in Keynes Hall at 7pm

CUMS I

Martin André conductor
Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo soprano
Mateusz Borowiak piano

This concert has been made possible through the generous support of Cambridge Water. The proceeds from this performance will support Wateraid.

Fri 13th March 2009: CUMS II: Wagner, Schumann, Borodin

20:00, West Road

Wagner Rienzi Overture
Schumann Cello Concerto
Borodin Symphony No. 2

CUMS II

Carlos del Cueto, Fergus Macleod conductors
Sophie Gledhill cello

Wed 20th May 2009: CUWO: Hess, Bernstein

20:00, West Road

Programme to include
Overture to 'Candide' - Bernstein
Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin
La Fiesta Mexicana - Herbert Owen Reed
East Coast Pictures - Nigel Hess

CUWO

Simon Thomas Jacobs conductor
Richard Uttley piano

Sat 13th June 2009: CUMS I and Chorus: Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Sir Peter Maxwell Daviews world premiere

19:30, King's College Chapel

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies new work, commissioned by CUMS in celebration of the University of Cambridge's 800th anniversary (world première)
Beethoven Symphony No.9

Free pre-concert talk in Keynes Hall at 6.30pm by Robert Culshaw

CUMS I
CUMS Chorus

Lynne Dawson soprano
Madeleine Shaw mezzo
Andrew Staples tenor
Gerald Finley bass

Stephen Cleobury conductor

Wed 17th June 2009: CUMS II: Wagner, Stravkinsky, Vila-Lobos, Strauss

20:00, West Road

Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Stravinsky Octet
Villa-Lobos Brachianas Brasileiras No. 9
Strauss Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite

CUMS II

Daniel Hill conductor

Mon 22nd June 2009: 2009 City of London Festival

19:30, Royal Albert Hall

CUMS I and Chorus will be opening the 2009 City of London Festival alongside King’s College Choir with a repeat performance of our new Maxwell Davies piece and sections of Haydn’s The Creation.