Borletti-Buitoni Trust

http://www.bbtrust.com

The Borletti-Buitoni Trust is a unique and prestigious foundation for developing and sustaining the international careers of exceptional young classical musicians. With the backing of an international panel of the highest calibre, the BB Trust has been established to help young performers in as flexible and innovative a way as possible.  Working in partnership with managers, concert promoters,  broadcasters and recording companies, the B B Trust aims to nurture selected musicians by encouraging their musical growth and providing an extended platform of opportunities which will gain them greater public recognition.

DBPR initiates PR campaigns for major projects of every BBT winner including CD launches (e.g. for sopranos Emma Bell and Hyunah Yu, mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, cellist Christian Poltéra, violist Antoine Tamestit, violinist Viviane Hagner and pianist Ralph van Raat),  commissions and premieres (clarinettist Martin Fröst) and concert tours (BBT winners with Mitsuko Uchida in 2004 and Christian Tetzlaff in 2006).




 

 

Hyunah Yu 2003 Award Winner
Korean-American soprano Hyunah Yu made her operatic debut in 2006 in Peter Sellars’ production of Mozart’s Zaide and has received warm praise for her EMI Debut Disc, Bach·Mozart Arias (0946 3 68255 2 6) released in January 2007 :  “a fabulous voice” (The Independent); “Yu’s lightheaded coloratura beams with both touching and fearsome character in the three arias from Zaide… …the best here provides mouth-watering evidence of significant potential.” (Gramophone)

 

 

 

 
 

Martin Fröst 2003 Award Winner
Swedish clarinettis Martin Fröst’s BBT award funded the commissioning of a clarinet concerto from Finnish composer Kalevi Aho which was premiered in April 2006 and also contributed towards the recording of the work.  The resulting CD is released by BIS in February 2007 (BIS-SACD-1463) featuring the Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänska.

www.martinfrost.se

Photo: Mats Bäcker

 

 
 

Viviane Hagner – 2004 Award Winner
German violinist Viviane Hagner is an ardent advocate of neglected, rediscovered and new music. Her first BBT-supported CD (of two) released January 2007:
Bach, Bartok & Hartmann (Altara - ALT 1016)  

www.vivianehagner.de

Press Release

Photo: Ben Ealovega

 

 

 
 

Christian Poltéra  2004 Award Winner
Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra first of four BBT-supported recordings is released  April/May 2007(BIS-CD-1597) featuring both of the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck’s works for solo cello, plus six songs arranged for piano and cello. Forthcoming releases feature unfairly neglected works by two other Swiss composers, Arthur Honegger and Frank Martin.

www.christianpoltera.com

Christian Poltera plays Schoeck

Photo: Marco Borggreve

 

 

 
 

Leopold String Trio  2004 Award Winner
The highly acclaimed Leopold String Trio has utilised its award monies to realise a long held ambition to programme and promote its own concert series. Over the course of three seasons,
beginning 20 November 2005, the trio will celebrate music for its medium in two of the UK’s finest chamber music venues, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Turner Sims Concert Hall in
Southampton.

www.leopoldstringtrio.com

Photo: Eric Richmond

 

 

 
 

Christianne Stotijn  - 2005 Award Winner
Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn’s BBT award supported the recording and release of two CDs – Schubert, Berg, Wolf: Dreams and Fantasy Figures (ONYX 4009), and Mahler - Urlicht  (ONYX 4014) -  both of which met with universal critical acclaim. “Stotijn’s voice – rich and suggestive, sly and sorrowful as required, with shades of Janet Baker’s gravitas, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s candour, and Anne Sofie von Otter’s playfulness – is tailormade for Mahler’s Ruckert Lieder and Das Knaben Wunderhorn.” (Independent on Sunday);  “…a Mahler recital of astonishing range and sophistication” (BBC Music Magazine); “ with a mezzo voice this expressive, flexible, and free of faults no wonder her star is rising.” (The Times).

www.christiannestotijn.com

Photo:Marco Borggreve

 

 
 

Colin Currie – 2005 Award Winner
British percussionist Colin Currie’s BBT award used to fund commissioned works from Lukas Ligeti and Dave Maric for percussion and trumpet (with Håkan Hardenberger), plus another piece from Simon Holt with co-commissioner City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Also supporting the release of an all-Maric CD to be released early Summer 2007.

Photo: Chris Dawes

 

 

 
 

Soovin Kim  2005 Award Winner
BBT award money used to support the release of his CD ‘Niccolò Paganini 24 Caprices’ (ACD-71235) - “A thrilling  debut disc”  (Classic FM Magazine)  - on the Azica label, plus PR, marketing and creation of a new website.

www.soovin.com

 

 

 

 

 
 

Ralph van Raat   2005 Fellowship Winner
Multi-award winning Dutch pianist Ralph van Raat has used his BBT monies to further his passion for contemporary music. His first CD is released in April 2007 (Naxos 8.559285) John Adams Complete Piano Music and his BBT monies are also contributing towards the commissioning of a piano concerto from British composer Gavin Bryars.  

www.ralphvanraat.com

Photo:Marco Borggreve

 

 

 
 

Antoine Tamestit   2006 Award Winner
Bach Ligeti - Chaconne is the title of French violist Antoine Tamestit’s debut solo recording on the Ambroisie label (AM111 AD 098) – the first of a 3-CD series supported by BBT in which he aims to explore the range of work written and arranged for solo viola.  Bach and Ligeti both go to extremes in these virtuosic dance-themed pieces and have been juxtaposed in a single recording to reflect not only Tamestit’s particular fondness for both pieces, but also his keenness not to be confined to any particular era of musical composition.  The CD is released in France, UK, Switzerland and Belgium on 26 Feb and in the US and other territories in March 2007.

Photo: Eric Larrayadieu

Press release

 

     

Press Releases

BBT Projects update September 2007

BBT Connections:  Mostly Mozart, City of London Festival and The Proms

April 2007 Latest audio/video news


2007 Winners announcement


Biographies of 2007 winners

News update on BBT projects

BBT Projects update September 2006


BBT launches new website with audio and video

Christian Tetzlaff leads BBT Tour, Autumn 2006

BBT Connections: Mostly Mozart 2006

BBT Connections: Verbier Festival 2006

Announcement of 2006 winners

2006 winner biographies

BBT award projects - update

2005 winners: press release announcing winners

2005 biographies

Nordic Souls working together:
Martin Fröst and Kalevi Aho

Portfolio of BB Trust projects for artists

Quotes from the 2005 winners

       


 

Olli Mustonen

www.vanwalsum.co.uk/artists/om.php


Finnish musician Olli Mustonen has a unique place on today’s music scene. As a pianist, he has challenged and fascinated audiences throughout Europe and America with his brilliant technique and startling originality. In his role as conductor he founded the Helsinki Festival Orchestra and is Artist in Association with the Tapiola Sinfonietta. As a composer he forms part of a very special line of musicians whose vision is expressed as vividly in the art of re-creative interpretation as it is in their own compositions.  In 2007, his 40th birthday year, his profile in the UK will be enhanced by notable performances and premieres, including Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the British premieres of Rodion Shchedrin’s Piano Concerto No 5 and his own Jehkin Iivana.

 

Further Information

Biography

Profile

What the critics say

Press release: Goldberg Variations

 

 

 

 

 

 

East Neuk Festival

www.eastneukfestival.co.uk

A summer visit to Scotland’s East Neuk is fast becoming a must for classical music lovers who revel in hearing chamber music played by the world’s top artists in some of the quirkiest and most obscure – yet creatively appropriate – venues.  In 2008 a concert of mystical proportions in a HAS (Hardened Aircraft Shelter) on the base at RAF Leuchars might just supersede the notoriety of the 2006 festival evening in Scotland’s Secret Bunker! In the space of just three years the East Neuk Festival has quickly become an established player on the British summer music festival scene (in 2007 it was awarded the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society for Audience Development) and  presents in 2008 an eclectic array of the world’s leading musicians including the Eroica and Skampa Quartets, Anglo-Indian singer Sheila Chandra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) players in various line-ups and acclaimed young Welsh pianist Llyr Williams as artist in residence.
The characterful churches at St Monan’s, Crail, Dunino and Kilconquhar and the magnificent Holy Trinity Church at St Andrews are favourite concert venues from previous years , plus more new stages for the festival’s storytelling theme which is ghost stories.

 

Further Information

East Neuk Festival programme 2008

World Music at the East Neuk Festival 2008

Highlights of 2008 Festival Programme


East Neuk Festival wins prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award

2007 Festival Programme – Move over golf, fishing and
sailing and make way for Mozart...


East Neuk Festival 2007 Highlights

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Hillier

www.paulhillier.net

Paul Hillier is one of the world’s foremost choral conductors. He is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC), Founder and Director of Theatre of Voices and Chief Conductor of Ars Nova Copenhagen. He co-founded The Hilliard Ensemble and during his tenure as musical director the group rose to international prominence. Hillier enjoys close creative relationships with many living composers, most notably Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt, both of whom have written works for him to perform with his various ensembles. Alongside projects with his own ensembles, he enjoys guest conducting with many of the world’s finest choirs.  In 2007 Hillier brings the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir to the UK for a major tour in May and also his two ensembles, Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen, to the Edinburgh Festival.

 

Further Information

Paul Hillier wins Grammy and is awarded Order of the White Cross in Estonia

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir UK Tour – May 2007

Paul Hillier biography

Stockhausen's Stimmung

Theatre of Voices in the UK 2006 – East Neuk Festival and Barbican (Steve Reich @ 60)





 

 

 

 

 



 

San Francisco Ballet

www.sfballet.com

San Francisco Ballet is approaching a milestone anniversary: America’s oldest professional ballet company will be 75 in 2008.
Acclaimed as one of the most innovative and artistically creative classical ballet companies in the world, the Company will present a festival of 10 world premieres by some of the world’s top choreographers, a programme of performances by three international ballet companies, an additional world premiere by San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson, and the Company premiere of Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story Suite. Other major initiatives include a television broadcast, a commemorative book, a four-city American Tour, and a refreshed brand identity that positions San Francisco Ballet as offering “a new way of seeing ballet.” The San Francisco Ballet School will also celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2008.
The company’s last European project was the inauguration of a new annual festival of dance in the heart of Paris - les étés  de la danse de paris. In recognition of its featured  position as the only company performing in the three-week  festival, San Francisco Ballet commissioned three  new works – one  each from choreographers Lar Lubovitch, Paul Taylor and Christopher Wheeldon performed alongside existing repertoire by George Balanchine and San Francisco Ballet’s artistic director Helgi  Tomasson, plus the full-length production of Don Quixote by Tomasson and Yuri Possokhov.  The Company will return to London in Autumn 2009.

 

Further Information

San Francisco Ballet celebrates 75 years

Three weeks, three programmes, three world premieres

Press Release: SFB in London Sept 2004


Critical acclaim for San Francisco Ballet - London Season September 2004

 

 

 

 

 

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Dance East - Rural Retreat

www.danceeast.co.uk

Within the dance profession it has been acknowledged that no-one is every really prepared for what artistic leadership entails.  With the 2008 Rural Retreat (11-14 January at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire) DanceEast produced the first intensive programme for future dance leaders. Never before in the art form have future artistic leaders been brought together to discuss and be given insight into the realities of the top job.  From a list of 75 applicants, 27 participants representing 12 countries and many nationalities, were chosen to reflect a wide cross-section of men and women of varying cultures, ages, backgrounds and experience in order to facilitate lively debate and maximum input. They included dancers, choreographers and producers plus some very recently appointed artistic directors from as far afield as Australia, China, North America and across Europe. The outcome was an inspiring weekend of intense and provocative discussions which left participants positive and committed. Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Tamara Rojo, summed up the weekend: “The art form of dance is not lost and is not adrift. There is vision, there are the people to take it forward, and there are the minds to challenge it, make it relevant to society and to the audiences of this new century. During these four days I had the privilege to share a common passion and see into the future and rejoice in what is coming and the artists that are going to take us there.”
Dance East has also put its money where its mouth is and has organised up to six placements to shadow artistic directors of  leading dance companies worldwide

 

Further Information

Rural Retreat 2008 – The Outcome

DanceEast Secures Placements with Leading Dance Companies Worldwide

2008 Rural Retreat - Future Leaders


Biographies of Rural Retreat participants 2008

Graham Taylor OBE and Zoe van Zwanenberg named as speakers


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norwegian National Ballet

In 2006, under the directorship of Espen Giljane, The Norwegian National Ballet premiered a lavish new production of the iconic classical ballet, The Sleeping Beauty.   Critically acclaimed at the Norwegian premiere in March it was staged by the Company’s ballet master Janek Schergen) and was specially praised for the richly detailed designs and costumes based on the fairy tale volumes of Edmund Dulac.

 

Further Information

Beauty in Wales press release and biographies

Cancellation of Norwegian National Ballet in Cardiff

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Australian Ballet

www.australianballet.com.au

After an absence of more than twelve years, The Australian Ballet returned to the UK  in July 2005 with the international debut of Graeme Murphy’s critically  acclaimed, multiple award-winning new production of Swan Lake. The company won the National Dance Award for Best Foreign Company of 2005 as a result of its this UK season presented at Wales Millennium  Centre and the London Coliseum.
 
Murphy’s Swan Lake was the first ballet  commissioned by David McAllister after becoming The Australian Ballet’s artistic director in 2001. Created to mark  the company’s 40th anniversary in 2002 this powerful interpretation of the iconic ballet sensationally sold out seasons across Australia, won nine major awards in  one year, and moved audiences to tears. Murphy’s  choreography dramatically communicates the passion and  emotion of betrayal and unrequited love: Odette is betrothed  to Prince Siegfried, yet deeply apprehensive of his relationship  with the Baroness von Rothbart. However, it is not until  after the wedding that the true nature of Siegfried and  the Baroness’ relationship is revealed to Odette,  causing her such distress that, by royal command, she is  committed to a sanatorium. There she finds comfort and  escape amongst serene white swans in a frozen dream world.  Australian critics have picked up on more than a hint of  another world famous royal menage à trois that finds  several parallels in this story of adultery, personality  disorders and betrayal of innocence.


Further Information

A Bride, her Prince and his Mistress

Company background and biographies

Australian Critics



 

 

 

 

 



 

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

www.dr.dk/p2/ny_rso/rso/en/aboutdnrso/index.htm

As  part of the Fairy Tales theme of the 2005  BBC Proms season,  the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of chief conductor  Thomas Dausgaard, performed the world premiere of Bent Sørensen’s  The Little Mermaid , a specially commissioned work by DNSO and BBC  Proms, which also celebrated the bicentenary of the world’s most  famous storyteller, Hans Christian Andersen. The Danish National Girls  Choir, Danish soprano Inger Dam-Jensen and tenor Gert Henning Jensen  joined DNSO for a truly Danish event.  Also on the programme were Grieg’s  Piano Concerto  played by celebrated German pianist Lars Vogt and  Nielsen’s Symphony No 5.

Two  other giants of Danish music – Per Nørgård  and Carl Nielsen – were celebrated in the 2002 Proms by the DNSO .  Dausgaard conducted the orchestra in the UK premiere of Per Nørgård ‘s sixth and most recent symphony, and celebrated young Danish violinist Nikolaj  Znaider made his Proms debut with Nielsen’s Violin Concerto, in only its  second ever Proms performance. Brahms’ First Symphony completed the bill.

 

Further Information

DNSO 2005 Proms Release

Background & Biographies

DNSO 2002 Proms Release


 

 

 

 

 

 

From-Sweden

In 1654 England’s Oliver Cromwell and Sweden’s culture-loving Queen Christina signed a historic treaty of peace and trade which has not to this day been revoked. In the spirit of this collaborative agreement, Swedish cellist Mats Lidström, developed an idea for an ambitious music project in London together with financier and music enthusiast Roger Gifford and project managers Van Walsum Management. Entitled From-Sweden, the project’s primary aim is to showcase Swedish music (particularly from the first half of the twentieth century), with the added dimensions of exploring deep-rooted links between English and Swedish composers and showcasing collaborative music-making among artists from both countries. From-Sweden is deliberately different from most music festivals: rather than a concentrated flash of music over a festival weekend or themed week, From Sweden is concentrating on building a momentum and awareness over an extended period with a consistent programme of over 30 events built into the concert seasons October-December 2004 and January-June 2005.

 

Related Links

What the Critics said about From-Sweden


Further Information

Closing gala – Songs for a Summer Night

May concerts

April Concerts


March Concerts From Sweden


February 2005 concerts From Sweden

Launch of the 2005 season and From Sweden brochure

December concerts From Sweden


Christmas and Lucia

November Concerts From Sweden


Jazz From Sweden

Double Debut at the Wigmore - Malena Ernman

Autumn Season at the Wigmore begins

To The Proms From Sweden

Press Release: Christina's Journey

Press Release: NOT a music festival from Sweden


April Concerts From Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

T'ang Quartet

www.tangquartet.com

Hailed as one of the hottest properties on Singapore’s classical music scene, the T’ang Quartet made its British debut at  Wigmore Hall on 26 March 2005 as part of the Singapore Season in London, organised by the National Arts Council, Singapore to showcase its top arts ensembles. Praised for its daring programming and insightful interpretations, the quartet performs to great acclaim in the United States and throughout Asia.



Further Information

T’Ang Quartet makes UK Debut

Singapore Season in London 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Royal New Zealand Ballet

www.nzballet.org.nz


New Zealand’s flagship arts company, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, visited British shores in Spring 2004 with a six-week tour and a programme celebrating strong links with dance creators in the UK. The tour repertory featured works all specially commissioned for Royal New Zealand Ballet from choreographers Christopher Hampson, Mark Baldwin and Javier De Frutos. Hampson’s full-length Romeo and Juliet was world premiered in June 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of the company, while the triple bill programme featured works seen in Britain for the first time: Milagros by Javier De Frutos (nominated for an Oliver Award), Saltarello by Christopher Hampson and FrENZy by Mark Baldwin.



Further Information

Press Release: Tour and Repertoire details

Press Release: Kiwi Season of UK Firsts

Press Release: Split Enz Revival in Kiwi Frenzy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nina Ananiashvili with stars of Russian ballet and Moscow Dance Theatre

One of the world’s most charismatic and accomplished prima ballerinas, Nina Ananiashvili (of the Bolshoi Ballet and American Ballet Theatre) brought Moscow Dance Theatre with Bolshoi principals to the UK for the first time in March 2004 with two programmes of specially commissioned works from three young choreographers currently scaling the heights of international renown and from the far flung corners of the world: Australia’s Stanton Welch, America’s Trey McIntyre and Russia’s Alexei Ratmansky.  Moscow Dance Theatre was founded in 2000 by Nina Ananiashvili and Alexei Fadeyechev, a former director of the Bolshoi Ballet (1998-2000). Numbering approximately 35 dancers in total, it has toured in Russia, Georgia, Japan and the US.



Further Information

Press Release

Biography: Nina Ananiashvili



 

 

 

 


 

 

Ballet Stars of St. Petersburg

For more than two centuries St Petersburg has been a major centre for the establishment and evolution of classical  ballet, producing such legendary dancers as Pavlova, Nijinsky and Nureyev. As part of the UK celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of its most regal city, Russia sent a spectacular line-up of contemporary ballet icons to perform at London's Royal Albert Hall on 7 & 8 May 2003:  Andrei Batalov, Ilya Kuznetsov, Yulia Makhalina,  Irma Nioradze, Daria Pavlenko, Farukh Ruzimatov, Elvira Tarasova, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Igor Zelensky. Accompanied by members of the Kirov corps de ballet and the Russian Chamber Orchestra of London, they performed excerpts from the great classical works by Petipa and Fokine as well as a new one-act ballet by Kirill Simonov specially commissioned for Irma Nioradze and Ilya Kuznetsov.



Further Information

Press Release: Ballet Stars of St. Petersburg

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Georg Solti

www.georgsolti.com

The Hungarian-born maestro Sir Georg Solti, considered one of the greatest orchestral conductors of the modern era, died on 5 September 1997, the very same week that the world mourned the deaths of Diana Princess of Wales and Mother Theresa. In 2002, in what would have been his 90th birthday year, Solti’s legacy was marked with the launch of the offical new website and a host of events in the key cities around the globe associated with landmarks in his life and career.



Further Information

Press Release and Event Summary (issued Sept 2002)

Press Announcement: launch of official website (issued Aug 2002)


 

 

 

 

 

 

Casa

www.sitesakamoto.com

2002: True to his own maxim that the only constant in life is change,  composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto embarks on a new project with fellow musicians Jaques and Paula Morelenbaum which sees him totally immersed in the compositions of  another musician – Brazilian maestro Antonio Carlos (‘Tom’) Jobim. Casa, their new CD on Sony Classical, is a collection of hidden treasures and some previously unrecorded material written by Jobim, recorded at his house in Rio last year on the very piano at which the pioneer of bossa nova composed so much of his material, and performed by Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano, Jaques Morelenbaum on cello and Paula as vocalist. For the trio it was a truly magical experience. The group embarks on a major world tour in September 2002 under the group name of Morelenbaum 2/Sakamoto  (M2/S).



Further Information

CASA press release

CASA Tracks & Tour Dates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The William Walton Centenary 2002

www.waltontrust.org.uk

English  composer William Walton’s centenary was celebrated  in 2002 with musical events the length and breadth of the  UK including two major festivals at London’s South  Bank and in the north of England, as well as concerts,  talks, educational programmes, new CD releases and the  publication of three new books. Lady Walton travelled  the globe with her definitive performances of Facade -  as far afield as the Lebanon, Reykjavik, Schleswig-Holstein  and America as well as the UK.



Further Information

Centenary Press Release

Walton comes home

 

 

 

 


 

La Mortella

www.lamortella.it

The amazing sub-tropical garden of la Mortella was nothing but a stone quarry on the volcanic island of Ischia when William Walton and his young bride first bought the land back in the early 1950s. Now a lush paradise where hundreds of rare and exotic species of trees, plants and flowers grow, la Mortella opens its doors to the public eight months of the year. Lady Walton also opens her home to guests who visit with specialist tour operators to enjoy both the garden and musical weekends which take place as part of the William Walton Trust’s ongoing commitment to young musicians. Autumn 2002 sees publication of the first major photographic book on La Mortella with photography by John Ferro Sims and text by Lady Walton (New Holland Publishing).



Further Information

Publication of new book - La Mortella: An Italian Garden Paradise

The New Mayan Temple

New addition to La Mortella garden for 2002


 

 

 

 

 

 

Handmade in Italy

www.simspix.co.uk

HANDMADE  IN ITALY was published in 2002 by author and photographer  John Ferro Sims (New Holland). Italy is unique in Europe in being  at the forefront of style, fashion and design and yet still steeped enough in its traditional cultures to have preserved  the artisan way of life. This book celebrates the highly  skilled individuals who have chosen the ‘luxury of  going slowly’ in the face of e-commerce, mass manufacture  and globalisation and are still producing items of beauty  and utility in glass, metal, stone, fabric and ceramic.



Further Information

Biography- John Ferro Sims


 

 

 

 

 

 

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Highly acclaimed Seattle-based Pacific Northwest Ballet returned to London with a lavish full-length work, SILVER LINING, choreographed by artistic director Kent Stowell, evoking the spirit of the 1920s and 30s. In the same week, PNB showcased its dancers in a mixed bill programme: DIVERTIMENTO #15 (Choroegrapher: George Balanchine Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), JARDI TANCAT (Choreography: Nacho Duato Composer: Maria del Mar Bonet), LE CORSAIRE PAS DE TROIS (Choreography: After Marius Petipa Composer: Riccardo  Drigo) and FEARFUL SYMMETRIES (Choreography: Peter Martins Composer: John Adams).



Further Information

Announcement

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dame Beryl's Evening

A stunning line-up of international ballet and musical theatre stars in a charity gala directed by Wayne Sleep to celebrate the 75th birthday year of Dame Beryl Grey, one of England’s most popular and accomplished ballerinas, remembered for  her magnificent performing career and cherished for her ongoing commitment to the world of dance. The gala took place on 10 March 2002 at Sadler’s Wells and was in aid of the Dance Teachers’ Benevolent Fund and the Wayne Sleep Dance Scholarship.



Further Information

Press release

Biography

What the Critics Said