Cambridge Philharmonic Society Saturday 26th May 2007 - 7.30pm West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge BBC Young Musician of the Year Finalist plays Beethoven Piano Concerto PATTERSON: Jubilee Dances BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Soloist: Cordelia Williams RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances The Society welcomes Cordelia Williams, finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition 2006 and winner of the piano final. This is a great opportunity to hear this young soloist at the start of her career. She joins the orchestra to play Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3. Her BBC Young Musician 2006 Final performance with the Northern Sinfonia under Yan Pascal Tortelier led to an invitation from the orchestra to return in 2007 and in 2008 for concertos with conductor Thomas Zehetmair. 2006 also saw her Wigmore Hall debut and her first foreign tour. The BBC commissioned Patterson's Jubilee Dances for the Golden Jubilee season of the BBC Concert Orchestra. They have that blend of accessibility and sophistication which has made Patterson's music universally popular. Rachmaninov's last work, the Symphonic Dances, is a concerto for orchestra in all but name. Its three movements, originally intended to represent Midday, Twilight and Midnight, are brillantly scored and weave in musical themes from throughout the composer's life. Tickets: 12 pounds, students on the door/children 6 pounds, available online here: http://www.cam-phil.org.uk/programme.html?showpayments or from the Cambridge Arts Theatre Box Office (01223 503333, http://www.cambridgeartstheatre.com Saturday 16th June 2007 - 7.30pm Ely Cathedral To Celebrate Edward Elgar's 150th Birthday ELGAR: Dream of Gerontius Soloists: Anna Burford (Mezzo-soprano), Christopher Lemmings (Tenor), Daniel Grice (Baritone) 2007 celebrates Edward Elgar's 150th birthday and the Cambridge Philharmonic Society presents Elgar's magnificent Dream of Gerontius. This oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra was written for Birmingham's Triennial Festival in 1900. Elgar's text came from Cardinal Newman's famous poem of spiritual discovery. He set slightly less than half of the poem, cutting whole sections and shortening others to focus on its central narrative: the story of a man's death and his soul's journey into the next world. The atmospheric setting of Ely Cathedral, three talented soloists and the combined forces of the Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus are destined to make this a concert to remember. Tickets: 20 15 10 5 pounds from the Ely Cathedral Box Office (01353 660349, box.office@cathedral.ely.anglican.org )