Rehearsing in Heidelberg during last year’s tour
We have just headed out on the road for our second European tour with conductor Mark Eager! We left the School of Music at 5am yesterday morning (ouch!) for a 10-day tour, during which we’ll be performing in Heidelberg, Wiesbaden, Baden-Baden and Leuven.
Supported by the University’s Global Opportunities Centre, the tour aims to support outward student mobility through helping facilitate overseas opportunities.
Repertoire for the tour will include Finlandia (Sibelius), If Bach had been a beekeeper (Arvo Pärt), and Seagull Nebula (Michael Csanyi-Willis). We will also be joined by Professor Ken Hamilton, acclaimed pianist and Head of the School of Music, for performances of Liszt’s Totentanz.
Professor Hamilton said: “These tours are excellent opportunities for us to showcase our student talent abroad, while also allowing our student musicians to experience different cultures and perform for new audiences.
“We’re looking forward to building on last year’s tour which was extremely successful and received wonderful feedback from audiences. I remember one audience member I spoke to at last year’s performance in Baden-Baden said he had almost been moved to tears during the concert; another mentioned that it was his 50th wedding anniversary and that the concert had been the best possible present he and his wife could have asked for.”
Last year, Tour Blogger Bronwen Maggs, a then final-year undergraduate at the School of Music, documented the tour for our website. Visit our news section for all of Bronwen’s updates from the road. And remember to keep an eye on this site for updates from our current tour!