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Music Festival Celebrates the World of Lewis Carroll

Mr Carroll Invites…
…You to come and meet your favourite characters from Alice in Wonderland

Saturday 26 March 11.30am & 3.30pm
FREE EVENT at the Castle Grounds!

Guildford International Music Festival has teamed up with Powerhouse Theatre Company, Guildford Museum, The Electric Theatre, Guildford Borough’s Parks and Leisure Services and Guildford House Gallery to stage Mr Carroll Invites…, a FREE interactive event for all the family at Guildford’s historic Castle Grounds. There will be two performances on Saturday 26 March – 11.30am and 3.30pm.

This community production tells the story of Lewis Carroll’s life and his visits to Guildford and features professional actors, Guildford Vox Choir and young performers from local Surrey schools.

Look out for your favourite characters from Alice in Wonderland – walk around and you might just bump into the Mad Hatter, or the White Rabbit. You will also meet Lewis Carroll himself who will tell you his very own special story. The performances will last approximately 80 minutes with promenade activities leading to the main show with Lewis Carroll.

Admission is free but you are welcome to make a donation at the end. The public also has a chance to contribute to the event – audiences are invited to bring along a home-made flower to plant in Mr Carroll’s flower pots, or even home-made decorated fans to show the White Rabbit!

The performance is suitable for all ages and promises to be a real treat. Please note this is a promenade event and the main show is not seated but you may bring a cushion to sit and watch Mr Carroll on the grass. For more information, please call the Tourist Information Centre on 01483 444334 or visit www.guildfordinternationalmusicfestival.co.uk

This project has been made possible by the generous support of the Surrey Community Arts Fund, the Community Foundation for Surrey, the University of Surrey Arts Office and Widening Participation Fund.

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Event Number: 59

Rhapsody! Queen Tribute Band - charity event

University of Surrey Rubix, 8pm
£20 full/senior citizens, £15 concessions
£5 students

Rhapsody is the foremost Queen tribute band in the UK, and this performance at the Surrey University Students’ Union has special significance. The band is sponsoring the work of a wonderful young man, Daniel Eley, who has done extensive volunteering with street children in Latin America . Daniel had a tragic accident last year and is still in rehabilitation to overcome great physical disability. Funds from this concert will enable him to continue his work providing support and education for the street children in Colombia .

For more information on his charity work and activities, please visit www.danieleley.co.uk

STILL TICKETS AVAILABLE - BUY THEM NOW ONLINE

Event Number: 58

Barbican Brass
Philip Cobb trumpet, Chris Evans trumpet
Andrew Littlemore French horn, Steven Haynes trombone
David Kendall tuba

University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 7.30pm
£12 full/senior citizens, £5 concessions

Bach trans Ronald Romm                       Little Fugue in g minor
Trad                                                     Hymn setting
Brinsford                                              Quintet – Barbican Brass commission
Kamen                                                  Quintet
Mozart trans Arthur Frackenpohl             Turkish Rondo
INTERVAL
Lutoslawski                                           Mini Overture
Crespo                                                   Suite Americana
Trad arr Paul Campbell                            The Londonderry Air
Gershwin arr Stephen Bulla                     Quintessential Gershwin

Barbican Brass comprises five of the most exciting young brass players in the UK today, all renowned soloists and orchestral leaders in their own right. They are all passionately keen on promoting new music alongside more familiar classics and their sublime playing communicates that enthusiasm to their audiences. Tonight they perform a typically eclectic and attractive programme, combining works by Bach, Mozart and Gershwin with more recent works including the Quintet they commissioned from Andrew Brinsford.  A real opportunity to hear some of the best brass players in the world at the start of their careers.

www.barbicanbrass.co.uk

*THIS EVENING SCREENING HAS BEEN CANCELLED*

Event Number: 46

The Wizard of Oz

The Electric Theatre, 7.30pm
£6.50

Why should the children have all the fun? Grown-ups can dress up too! Dust off your red shoes, and come along to Guildford’s own interactive version of this wonderful film (now a major West End musical), repeated for an older audience. Join in all the songs – (you know you already know all the words!).   Relive the journey down the Yellow Brick Road and get in the mood with one of the Electric’s special Wizard of Oz themed cocktails.  A great film, good music, irresistible fun.

Suitable for children aged 12+

You’re invited to celebrate with us...
500 days to the Olympics

Tuesday 15 March 2011 from 5.30pm, Guildford High Street

Programme of events:
Performances under Tunsgate Arch from 5.30pm:
“The North Wind and the Sun”, a Hip Hop tale by Jo Read - a Woking Dance Festival commission.
Escola de Samba - Surrey’s youth samba band
Performances of international songs -

Guildford Museum, Quarry Street, free tour 5.30pm:
Join Mary Alexander for an informal tour of the ‘100 years’ exhibition

The Guildhall, from 5.30pm:
The University of Surrey’s iFestival - international students and stalls

Finale on the Town Bridge from 6.30pm:
A magical lighting of 500 lanterns to celebrate 500 days to 2012
This is a Lockwood Arts project. Please view from the High Street.

Other things happening on the 15th:
Guildford Spectrum launch their 500 day countdown clock, 10am
Surrey Youth Games launch at Surrey Sports Park, 3-5pm
Henri Oguike Dance Company at The Electric Theatre, 7.30pm

For more information on these and other 2012 celebrations:
www.guildfordarts.org.uk
www.guildfordinternationalmusicfestival.co.uk
www.guildfordmuseum.co.uk
www.guildfordspectrum.co.uk
www.lockwoodarts.org.uk
www.surrey2012.info
www.surreycc.gov.uk/arts
www.electrictheatre.co.uk
www.visitsurrey.com
www.wokingdancefestival.co.uk

Monday 7 March, 7.30pm

PATS Studio One
£10, full, £8 senior citizens, £5 concessions
Tickets available from the University Box Office only: 01483 686876

Programme:

TOM ARMSTRONG Divertissements (World Première)
MICHAEL NYMAN Time Will Pronounce
EVAN ZIPORYN Typical Music
plus music by student composers selected from workshops with The Fidelio Trio

The ‘virtuosic Fidelio Trio’ (The Sunday Times) presents a vigorous and colourful programme of works for piano trio including the world première of Tom Armstrong’s
Divertissements. This year the Trio has recorded the complete Michael Nyman piano trios for MN Records,
and performed them at Huddersfield Festival. They gave the UK première of Evan Ziporyn’s Typical Music, which they will perform at New
York’s Symphony Space, during their US tour in February 2011.

This concert also features music by student composers from the University of Surrey chosen from workshops with the Trio.

www.fideliotrio.com

Event Number: 29

Vox Chamber Choir
Sebastian Forbes conductor
Maureen Galea piano
Nathaniel Brawn piano
Julian Cooper organ

*Please note: change of venue. This event will now take place in St Nicholas' Church, Guildford.*

St Nicholas' Church, Guildford, 2.30pm
£10 full/senior citizens, £5 concessions

Schubert                  Psalm 23
                                Part Songs
Mendelssohn           Hear my prayer
Brahms                    Motets
Brahms                    Liebesliederwaltzer

This small chamber choir was formed some eight years ago and Sebastian Forbes, well known to Guildford audiences for many years, took over its conductorship last summer.  This concert focuses on three everlasting favourites from the Austro-German school:  Schubert's Psalm 23, Mendelssohn's Hear my prayer, and Brahms's Love song Waltzes, together with a few lesser known works by these great composers in the ideal acoustic of Guildford's United Reformed Church.

Event Number: 53

Talk by Barbican Brass

*Please note: change of venue. This event will now take place in the Teaching Block, Room 6, University of Surrey. Not Studio One*

University of Surrey, Teaching Block Room 6, 2 - 4 pm
Free

Members of Barbican Brass visit the University prior to their concert on Wednesday 23 March (event no 58) to talk about their musical journeys.