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Presenters
Panel 2009
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FRMS
PRESENTERS PANEL
Societies are invited to recommend successful presenters for inclusion in this section. Please note, for those charging a fee there is a modest charge of £10 per entry per annum in the FRMS Bulletin. An entry on the FRMS Website is also offered free. In addition, many record companies, especially the smaller firms, are able to give presentations on application. Contact the companies direct. Officers and committee members of the FRMS are experienced presenters and are generally available to give presentations within reasonable distance of home; two have entries in this list and others can be contacted at the addresses inside the back cover of the Bulletin. This list is intended to be a general guide to programme planning. Reasonable care is taken to ensure accuracy of the details given but neither the FRMS Committee nor the WebMaster can accept responsibility for any circumstances subsequent on the use of the list. |
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ABERDARE - The Berlioz Society |
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APPS 2, Spring Meadows Upper Studley Trowbridge Wiltshire BA14 0HD Tel : 01225 768098 E-mail : roger.apps@hotmail.co.uk FRMS Committee
Member 2008 / Member Bath RMS 2008 |
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TERRY BARFOOT |
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BATEMAN ACIB Cefa 34 Frizley Gardens, Bradford, W. Yorks BD9 4LY Tel: 01274 783285 Email: geoffbateman@blueyonder.co.uk Secretary, Bradford RMS. Current programmes: The Ravel Experience Who Could Ask for Anything More? - the music of George Gershwin The Art of Clifford Curzon Great conductors: Rudolph Kempe, Guido Cantelli, Pierre Monteux, Carlo Maria Guilini The Musical World of Stephen Sondheim No fee; travel expenses only. |
| IAN
BOUGHTON BA (Hons), DipMus 25 Bearton Green, Hitchin, Herts SG5 1UN Tel: 01462 434318 Mobile 07703 584152 E-mail: boughtontrust{at}aol{dot}com Website: www{dot}rutlandboughtonmusictrust{dot}org{dot}uk During the 1920s, Rutland Boughton was the most widely talked about composer in England, surpassing even Elgar and Vaughan Williams. His festivals at Glastonbury (1914-1926) were the first of their kind in England and his opera The Immortal Hour broke a world record that is still held today. Ian Boughton, a grandson of the composer, gives illustrated talks to societies. Expenses only. |
| DEBBIE
BRIDGE BA (Voice) 14 Milnthorpe Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 5HT Tel: 01273 732121: Mobile: 07748 678564 Email: debbie{at}debbiebridge{dot}com Website address: www.debbiebridge.com Professional opera singer/performer . Has toured with companies in the UK and abroad. Member of North American Actors Association, the Royal Society of Musicians, Equity and Spotlight. Keen interest in music from North America. Talks on American classical music include: American Round Up - series 1 and series 2; Northern Lights - an introduction to Canadian composers. Fees £50 plus travel for non-local destinations. |
| ALLAN
CHILD 12 Highfield Road, Derby, DE22 1GZ Tel: 01332 332649 Email: allan.child@thefrms.co.uk FRMS Committee member and Central Region Chairman Among recent programmes are: "Bredon Hill to Egdon Heath" - music inspired by A E Housman and Thomas Hardy "Fly, Envious Time" - musical thoughts on the passage of time "The Sincerest Form of Flattery" - examples of pastiche, parody and homage in music "Words and Music" - a joint presentation by Allan and Ruth Child in which words about music and music inspired by words are woven into an uninterrupted sequence. Other programmes include the music of Scotland, Wales, Spain and Hungary - please ask for details. No fee; expenses minimal. Will travel. |
| MICHAEL
COOKSON 29 Preston Road, Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, FY8 5BL Tel: 07749 269672 Email: michaeldcookson{at}hotmail{dot}co{dot}uk Reviewer for the Musicweb-International website Presenter at Recorded Music Societies in the North West of England. Current programmes: Late Romantic British Music; French Grand Opera, The World of Meyerbeer; Stanford and his European Circle; Lisztian Connections; Ralph Vaughan Williams; Russian Masters; The Lighter Side of Music; Classical and Romantic Masters; Bernstein Glitzy and Serious. No fee. Expenses only. |
| MAGGIE
COTTON 57 Elmfield Crescent, Birmingham B13 9TL Tel; 0121 449 3196 EmaiI: maggie@cottonbeat.freeserve.co.uk Website: www.percussionworkbook.com Maggie was the first professional female percussionist in a UK symphony orchestra. Forty year with the CBSO, eighteen of those with Simon Rattle. Author of :Percussion Workbook: detailed timpani/percussion requirements for the symphonic repertoire Agogo Bells: a guide to percussion instruments in schools Wrong Sex, Wrong Instrument - an autobiography Her presentation: Red Light District lifts the lid off recording sessions: triumphs and terrors, laughter and tears - warts and all. Fee £45; will travel. |
| DINMORE
RECORDS 11 Romsley Hill Grange, Romsley Halesowen B62 0LN Tel/fax 01562 710801 Email: paularden{at}virgin{dot}net Dinmore Records is a small, independent classical record label with its own location recording and post-production facilities, run by a professional musician. Contact Paul Arden-Taylor to arrange a presentation with music from the current catalogue. No fee, but expenses requested over 50 miles. |
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DRURY 31 Kingsley Park, Whitchurch, Hampshire RG28 7HA. Tel: 01256 892267 Email: gdrury2000{at}aol{dot}com Experienced speaker offers audio-visual presentations about one of London's major recording venues, Kingsway Hall, and some of the many classic recordings made there. No fee, but reasonable travelling expenses required. Please contact to discuss your requirements. |
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DVORÁK SOCIETY Promotes the music of all Czech and Slovak composers, past and present. A few of its members are invited on occasion to give talks and lectures to societies at various locations. Enquiries to: David Roberts, Hon Sec, The DvoÍák Society, 13 Church Lane, Knutton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs ST5 6DU. Tel: 01782 622195. E-mail: secretary@dvorak society.org. No fee but expenses may be requested. |
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ELGAR SOCIETY The Society will arrange for experienced presenters to give illustrated talks on general or specific topics concerning Elgar's life and work. Contact Branch Secretaries in the following areas to arrange a speaker from the Society. London Ruth Hellen, 30 King James Avenue, Cuffley,Herts EN6 4LR. West
Midlands North
West CHRISTOPHER
FIFIELD MusB GRSM ARMCM ARCO |
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DAVID FLIGG Leeds College of Music, 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7PD. Tel: 0113 222 3423 Email: d.fligg@lcm.ac.uk Website: www.impulse-music.co.uk/fligg.htm Principal Lecturer in Classical Music at Leeds College of Music Composer and conductor Member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters Contributor to various music magazines and journals. CD sleeve notes and programme notes. Various and wide-ranging entertaining topics. Contact to discuss availability, details of fees and your Society's requirements. |
| JOHN
HUMPHRIES ARIBA, Chartered Architect 10 Drovers, Bolney Street, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH17 5PT. Tel: 01444 881887 Since retirement has made over 500 appearances as baritone soloist and speaker on subjects inc: Charles Villiers Stanford. The life of arguably Britain's greatest all round musician; teacher of most of the best of Britain's early 20th C composers, brilliant organist, composer, conductor and tireless promoter of British music. William Yeates Hurlstone. Outstandingly gifted pupil of Stanford, who might have rivalled Purcell and Elgar had he lived longer. Much of his work was left in manuscript but has since been recorded. 2006 was the centenary of his death. Expenses: negotiable. Will travel anywhere. |
| ERIC
JENNINGS 9 Hillside Road, Frodsham, Cheshire WA6 6AW Tel: 01928 733209 Email: fizneric@tiscali.co.uk For 31 years was principal trombone with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Subjects include: Conductors I have known and worked for The life and times of Beethoven Life in the Orchestra Rio de Janeiro A Musician Becoming Fee: £50.00 plus expenses for non-local presentations. |
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JONES GBSM ABSM Corners, Mount R, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 1HZ. Tel/fax: 01384 393706 Pianist, lecturer and writer. Programmes on: Britain & Russia - a closer affinity than realised? They Went Abroad: ex-pat British composers; Midlands Pianists on air: unpublished 1950/60s recordings; Composers & other Musicians Speaking: archive recordings No fee. Reasonable expenses + accommodation |
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BERESFORD
KING SMITH
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MORLEY 16 Melbourne Road, Halesowen B63 3NB Tel: 0121 550 4482. Email: cfmorley47@aol.com Chief music critic of Birmingham Post; Midlands correspondent for Classical Music and other music publications. Illustrated programmes include: Confessions of music critic Changing critical attitudes to Elgar The Symphonies of Gustav Mahler Composers on record; The problem of bespoke music; Opera Now; Music of the mountains Fee £120, inclusive of all reasonable expenses. |
| ELIZABETH
MUIR LEWIS Manor Barn, 8 Manor Way, Ratton Village, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN20 9BN Tel: 01323 507337 E mail: pridmore789@tiscali.co.uk Website: www.eliz muir lewis.co.uk Elizabeth Muir Lewis talks about the life and voice of Richard Lewis, illustrating with outstanding performance, as well as archive recordings of legendary performances at Covent Garden and Glyndebourne. She illustrates also with amusing and interesting anecdotes. She is the widow of the singer, and a professional musician (singer and conductor). Fee £100 £150 plus travel. |
| DAVID
NASH Queen Anne House, Mill Lane, Shoreham, Kent TN14 7TS; Tel: 01959 523214 Presentation My Father, Heddle Nash - reminiscences of one of England's finest ever tenors, from within his family circle, illustrated with recordings. Fee and expenses by negotiation.` |
| NIMBUS
RECORDS Wyastone Estate Ltd, Wyastone Leys, Ganarew, Monmouth NP25 3SR. Tel: 01600 890007 E-mail: antony@wyastone.co.uk A behind-the-scenes insight co-presented by Adrian Farmer and Antony Smith, who have many years experience working with one of Britain's most influential record labels. Survival techniques, new formats, downloading, amanufacturing processes, recording sessions and working with artists all illustrated with a wide musical selection. No fee or expenses but we do bring discs to sell. |
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OCCOMORE 37 Attlee House, Lansbury Road, Broadfield, Crawley, West Sussex RH11 9JA Tel: 01293 405972; mobile: 07747 388940 E-mail: cliff_occo@yahoo.co.uk Themes of presentations arranged by discussion with programme secretaries. A wide range of interests to accommodate Societies' requirements. No fee. Travel expenses reasonable and negotiable. |
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GEOFF OGRAM, Secretary Stafford RMS 6 Silverthorn Way, Wildwood, Stafford ST17 4PZ Tel: 01785 663423 Email: geoff.ogram@talktalk.net A number of recital programmes are available, with a significant content of 20th C British music. My specialist composer is Gordon Jacob, whose music I discovered in 1956. We became friends and I have just completed a book on his music. The recital on his work is entitled Seventh Son. No fee required, just minimal travel expenses. |
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OKE LRAM |
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LYNNE
PLUMMER |
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POOK (York RMS) 1 Lower Friargate, York. YO1 9SL. Tel: 01904 642407 Email: tonypook@thefrms.co.uk Travelling expenses only. Presentations are from the lesser-known but tuneful repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries. My particular interests are in American, British and Czech music but I also have programmes of Belgian, Finnish, Russian, Slovakian and Spanish music. Featured composers include Uuno Lamia, Amy Beach, Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, Gottschalk, Borodin, Dyson, Dvorák, Fibich, Smetana and Suk. |
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JIM PRITCHARD - THE GUSTAV MAHLER SOCIETY UK 15 David Avenue, Wickford, Essex SS11 7BG Email: jpritchard@mahlersociety.org Website: www.mahlersociety.org Jim Pritchard was Chairman of the Wagner Society for 10 years and edited 100+ issues of Wagner News. In 2001 he was co-founder of the modern Gustav Mahler Society UK. He is its Chairman and also edits the GMS UK magazine, The Wayfarer. He is already well known for his talks on Wagner (such as The Ring Road to Bayreuth). These are available again after a break of several years as well as a new talk on Gustav and Alma Mahler, entitled A Marriage of Convenience? Jim Pritchard also reviews classical music for MusicWeb-International. No fee, but reasonable expenses and hospitality in relation to distance travelled. |
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JOY PURITZ 149e Holland Rd, London W14 8AS Tel: 020 7602 4187 (evening) 020 7494 3130 (daytime). Email: jepuritz{at}tiscali{dot}co{dot}uk Granddaughter of Elisabeth Schumann and translator of her biography (written by the singer's son, Gerd Puritz). Illustrated presentation entitled A Portrait of the Soprano, Elisabeth Schumann has been well received by the Friends of Covent Garden, the National Sound Archive and many recorded music societies. Fee negotiable. |
| PAUL
ADRIAN ROOKE MA (Cantab) Cert. Ed 95 Nightingale Road Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 1RL Tel: 01462 458614; Mobile: 07711 617561 Email: paulrooke{at}hotmail{dot}com Web site: www{dot}pauladrianrooke{dot}com Retired music teacher. Music Adviser, The Rutland Boughton Music Trust. Talks on Rutland Boughton, 19th century British music and most musical subjects. Expenses only. |
| BASIL
TSCHAIKOV Apt. 31, Royal Arch Court, Norwich NR2 3RU Tel: 01603 766123. E-mail bnickt@homecall.co.uk Former member LPO, RPO, Philharmonia (Chairman several years); founder and first Director National Centre for Orchestral Studies; Chairman, now President Emeritus, Music Preserved Archive. Played with Beecham, Stokowski, Klemperer, Karajan, Barbirolli, Davis, Heifetz, Rubenstein, Rattle, Rostropovich, Schwarzkopf. Just published The Music goes Round and Around. Presentation: Recording with Legends. No fee; reasonable expenses requested. |
| CLIVE
WILKES 70 Filching Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN20 8SD. Tel: 01323 724916. Current programmes: Wagner and Liszt, an uneasy friendship; linked to: Wagner and Liszt, their musical legacy. Vienna: Mahler and his contemporaries: linked to: Exiles and émigrés - follows fortunes of composers who fled Vienna and Nazi Germany George Gershwin - Crazy for you Sergei Prokofiev - the prodigal son Golden age of film music Aspects of opera in the 20th Century Viva Verdi! and Viva Verdi! (Encore) Once upon a time: fairytales, myths and legends Dmitri Shostakovich - the great survivor Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) and the Mighty Handful In preparation - The Golden Age of Russian Opera Further details on request. Expenses only. |
| CATHERINE
WILMERS The Brew House, Radwell, Baldock, Herts SG7 5ES. Tel: 01462 730490. E-mail: ccwilmers@bigfoot.com Professional cellist. Recorded award-winning CD A Cello Century of British Women Composers 1884-1984. Features anecdotes about the composers and the making of the CD. Also The Not so Silent Minority: examples of late 19th/early 20th C music by women composers, including Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, and Ethyl Smyth. Travels countrywide. Fees negotiable + expenses. |
| DAVID
WILSON 142 Greenway, Hayes, Middlesex UB4 9HX Tel: 0208 841 9166 Email: drwilson24@googlemail.com Subjects covered include: Kathleen Ferrier; Solomon Adolf Busch and the Busch Quartet Sir Henry Wood; Emmanuel Feuermann No fee. South East England preferred. JACK WOOD 3 Elmwood, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL8 6LD. Tel: 01707 377900 E-mail: thespianjack@fsmail.net Offers a number of programmes under the general title "Music For Your Pleasure" Please phone or e-mail for more information Fee negotiable |
| RALPH
WOODWARD 114 Histon Road, Cambridge CB4 3JP Tel: 07711 384218 Email: ralph{dot}woodward{at}btinternet{dot}com Website: www{dot}ralphwoodward{dot}et Ralph is a young(ish) freelance conductor. Subjects include What I do (his musical background and working life) The music of Benjamin Britten The cantatas of J S Bach. Fee + expenses - will travel. |