Listings release: The Night Shift 10 June
Wed May 16 2012
The Night Shift: the rules-free classical night where the audience can talk, come and go with drinks and clap when they like during the performance – makes a special appearance at the Royal Festival Hall on 10 June 2012 with an 80-piece orchestra and one of the classical world’s biggest stars, Sir Simon Rattle.
There’ll be a full performance at 10pm of Debussy’s beautiful and evocative depiction of the sea, La Mer, and his famous Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune with chat between the conductor, OAE players, and the audience.
Beforehand, from 9pm, there’ll be music in the foyer, and afterwards a DJ set until midnight (acts to be confirmed).
For further information contact Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9374 or email natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Listings release Night Shift 10 June here.
Press Release: Local Children Embrace Olympic Spirit through Music
Tue May 1 2012
Children from Richard Cobden and Argyle Primary School in Camden will be joined by three other schools and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE), to perform two specially commissioned anthems on Friday 11 May at Kings Place in King’s Cross. The concert is part of the Orchestra’s most ambitious education project to date, Anthem for a Child.
One of the newly commissioned pieces, Twangling Instruments, also uses Caliban’s ‘Be not afeard’ passage from Shakespeare’s Tempest, which is at the heart of the Isles of Wonder themed Olympics Opening Ceremony taking place in July.
For further press information contact: Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9374 or email natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press Release Local Children Embrace Olympic Spirit through Music here.
Press Release: 5000 children, 5000 miles – Orchestra takes music to the nation
Wed Mar 14 2012
Players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) are embarking on their most ambitious education project ever, Anthem for a Child in this Olympic year, passing on the baton in sound to over 5000 children across the country, in an exciting year where music and sport come together.
Working across the country in 9 different locations from Devon to York, the OAE will bring a series of teacher training, workshops and concerts to thousands of children and students of all ages. Building partnerships, the programme has been specially tailored to each area and is focused on musical engagement as well as the creation of a musical legacy within the community long after the Anthem project has finished
The Anthem for a Child project will also be touring schools in a series of concerts from 19 to 27 March, giving children and their families across the country the chance to join together to perform a fanfare and an anthem with OAE musicians, specially commissioned pieces written by composer James Redwood and learnt over the term in class by the children.
For further press information contact: Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9374 or email natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press Release 5000 children, 5000 miles- Orchestra takes music to the nation here.
Press Release: Bacardi and Bach: Orchestra creates classical cocktail
Thu Mar 1 2012
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) are launching their very own cocktail ahead of the Night Shift concert on 4 March at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre.
The exclusive Night Shift cocktail has been created by Skylon bar manager Nebojsa Kutlesic, and contains Bacardi rum infused with hibiscus, Himalayan goji berry liqueur and fresh lime juice in a martini glass, and of course, is in the trademark Night Shift magenta pink.
The late-night series returns on 4 March for a full performance of Bach’s Suite No.3, famous for including Air on a G string, as well as his hugely popular Brandenburg Concerto No.5 with chat between director Laurence Cummings, the players, and the audience who can come and go with drinks and clap at will.
For further information contact Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9374 or email natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press Release Bacardi and Bach- Orchestra creates classical cocktail here.
Listings release: The Night Shift 4 March
Tue Feb 21 2012
Leader of the casual classical movement, The Night Shift blazes into its fifth year, returning to the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 4 March at 9pm after a tour of London pubs and opening the Roundhouse Reverb festival.
There’ll be a full performance of Bach’s Suite No.3, famous for including Air on a G string, as well as his hugely popular Brandenburg Concerto No.5, with chat between director Laurence Cummings, the players, and the audience who can come and go with drinks and clap at will.
Beforehand, from 9pm, eclectic band Silvermoths play the foyer, and afterwards a DJ set from Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne until midnight.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 07834 603 444/020 7239 9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk /natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Listings release Night Shift 4 March here.
Listings Release: The Works – the antidote to the formal concert – explores Air on a G String
Mon Feb 20 2012
The Works – an antidote to the formal concert – returns to the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday 6 March, offering a way into some of the world’s greatest music in a relaxed and informal night out.
Director Laurence Cummings will give a guided tour of Bach’s ever popular Brandenburg Concerto No.5, complete with musical examples by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) and also Suite No.3, famous for including Air on a G String. The musical tour will be followed by a performance of the two pieces.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 07834 603 444/020 7239 9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk /natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press release The Works explores Air on a G String here.
Press Release: Purcell and Pork Scratchings: classical music goes on a pub crawl
Tue Jan 24 2012
Classical music moves out of the concert hall into the pub, courtesy of The Night Shift as players from the world renowned Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment take the music straight to the people on an unprecedented crawl of London’s pubs, covering all four points of the compass from 31 January to 22 February 2012.
Purcell and pork scratchings will be on the menu together as The Night Shift pub tour includes the British composer’s rarely performed bawdy drinking songs, as well some of his more refined pieces. The Orchestra will also play music by famous foreigners who were fêted in England as virtuosos and heroes when they visited the country, including the aptly named Martini, plus Locatelli and Handel.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 07834 603 444/020 7239 9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press release Purcell and Pork Scratchings classical music goes on a pub crawl here.
Press Release: Bodybuilders and Beethoven
Wed Jan 11 2012
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is calling on members of its audience to take part in a radical new marketing campaign.
Tackling head-on the issue of who classical music is for, it will feature OAE fans whose image doesn’t fit the stereotype of a classical music buff, posing alongside the Orchestra’s musicians to publicise the OAE’s 2012-2013 season of concerts at the Southbank Centre.
Anyone with a ‘strong look’ is being asked to step forward, be they a bodybuilder, police officer, drag artist, nurse, pole dancer, or simply someone with an ‘out there’ dress sense.
The recruitment video can be found here.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 07834 603 444/020 7239 9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press release Bodybuilders and Beethoven here.
Listings Release: Purcell and Pork Scratchings
Classical music moves out of the concert hall into the pub, courtesy of The Night Shift as players from the world renowned Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment take the music straight to the people on an unprecedented crawl of London’s pubs, covering all four points of the compass from 31 January to 22 February 2012.
Following The Night Shift pub tour, this ground breaking no rules classical event launches the Reverb festival at the Roundhouse in Camden, London on Friday 24 February 2012.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 07834 603 444/020 7239 9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Listings release Purcell and Pork Scratchings here.
Press Release: Sir Mark Elder conducts a super-size OAE in Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet
Tue Jan 10 2012
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- A 250-strong Chorus and Orchestra
- Saturday 18 February 2012, 7pm
- Royal Festival Hall, London
- Sir Mark Elder conducting plus soloists Sonia Ganassi, John Mark Ainsley, Orlin Anastassov
- BBC Symphony Chorus and Schola Cantorum
Sir Mark Elder will be conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) in a performance of Berlioz’s mammoth Romeo & Juliet on 18 February 2012 at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
Romeo & Juliet was one of Berlioz’s most ambitious projects – the first performance had an orchestra of over 100, a chorus of 101 voices, plus soloists. The OAE will perform his passionate, lush piece in a rare performance by a world renowned period-instrument orchestra.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9375/9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk/natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press Release Sir Mark Elder conducts a super-size OAE in Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet here.
Press Release: The Night Shift returns to the Roundhouse with the symphony of a stalker
Fri Jan 6 2012
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) takes its radical presentation of classical music – The Night Shift – to Camden’s legendary Roundhouse on Friday 24 February 2012 at 9pm, returning after a sell-out performance at the Reverb festival two years ago.
Sir Mark Elder will conduct orchestral extracts from Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, one of the composer’s most ambitious works.
The Night Shift throws out formal concert etiquette and offers a relaxed night out, where the audience are free to clap, cough, chat, clatter, and consume alcohol. “Although we’ve found over The Night Shift’s six year history it attracts a hugely attentive audience, it appreciates not having to wear the classical music straight jacket,” says William Norris, Creative Director.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9375/9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk/natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press Release The Night Shift returns to the Roundhouse with the symphony of a stalker here.
Press release: OAE takes centre stage in Cultural Olympiad with Sally Beamish work inspired by Times columnist
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) has been chosen to take centre-stage in the Cultural Olympiad celebrations with a new commission by award winning composer Sally Beamish as part of PRS for Music Foundation’s New Music 20×12.
Spinal Chords, a piece of music set to a text written by Melanie Reid, a columnist on The Times who broke her neck and back following a horse riding accident, is given its London premiere on Friday 10 February at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre.
For further press information contact: Katy Bell on 020 7239 9373/katy.bell@oae.co.uk or Jo Carpenter at jo@jocarpenter.com
For full information, please download the Press release OAE takes centre stage in Cultural Olympiad with Sally Beamish work inspired by Times columnist here.
Press Release: OAE appoints apprentice conductor
Fri Dec 16 2011
The OAE’s prestigious apprentice conductorship has been awarded to David Reiland, aged 31, from Belgium, who secured the prize after beating four other shortlisted candidates from across Europe.
The self governing OAE players judge the Melgaard OAE Young Conductor competition and the apprentice benefits from the Orchestra’s constructive criticism on their conducting skills over the coming year.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9375/9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk/natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press release OAE appoints apprentice conductor here.
Press Release: Purcell and Pork Scratchings: classical music goes on a pub crawl
Classical music moves out of the concert hall into the pub, courtesy of The Night Shift as the world renowned Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment takes the music straight to the people on an unprecedented crawl of London’s pubs, covering all four points of the compass from 31 January to 22 February 2012.
Purcell and pork scratchings will be on the menu together as The Night Shift pub tour includes the British composer’s rarely performed bawdy drinking songs, as well some of his more refined pieces. The orchestra will also play music by famous foreigners who were fêted in England as virtuosos and heroes when they visited the country, including the aptly named Martini, plus Locatelli and Handel.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9375/9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk/natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press release Purcell and Pork Scratchings here.
Press Release: Celebrate the New Year with the OAE, Vivaldi and Telemann’s canary
Mon Dec 12 2011
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Saturday 31 December 2011, 6pm & Sunday 1 January 2012, 1pm
- Kings Place, Hall One, London
- A festive programme including Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
- Kati Debretzeni director/violin, Matthew Rose baritone
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) returns to King’s Place to celebrate the New Year with Vivaldi’s legendary Four Seasons, following sell-out seasonal concerts at the venue last year.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9375/9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk/natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press release OAE celebrate New Year at Kings Place with Four Seasons and a canary here.
Press Release: Sir Mark Elder appointed Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sir Mark Elder has been appointed a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE).
The appointment builds on Sir Mark’s association with the Orchestra which dates back to 1992 and has included landmark events such as Verdi’s Requiem in 2001 at the Royal Festival Hall; Creation the final concert of the OAE’s Haydn festival at the Southbank Centre in 2009; and most recently conducting the OAE in over twenty different symphonies for the BBC Four series Symphony.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9375/9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk/natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Press release Sir Mark Elder Appointed Principal Artist of the OAE here.
Listings release: Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
Thu Oct 6 2011
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
Friday 4 November, 8pm
Royal Festival Hall, London
A rare opportunity to hear the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment (OAE) join forces with the Philharmonia Chorus to present Beethoven’s epic Missa Solemnis, led by the acclaimed conductor Gianandrea Noseda in his debut with the OAE.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9375/9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk/natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For full information, please download the Listings release OAE and Giandrea Noseda perform Missa Solemnis here.
Listings release: The Night Shift
Tue Sep 27 2011
The Night Shift: no rules classical music
Thursday 29 September 2011, 10pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
The Night Shift – radical rules free classical music where the audience can talk, come and go with drinks, clap when they like, and talk to the orchestra during the performance – returns to the Queen Elizabeth Hall in September for a relaxed hour-long concert.
Following a sold-out pub gig at the start of the month, the late-night event features pianist Robert Levin (who was a huge hit at his last Night Shift appearance back in 2008) playing one of Mozart’s masterpieces, the Piano Concerto No.23 as well as Weber’s moody Overture to Der Freischütz.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9375/9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk/natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For the full release, please download the Night Shift 29 September Listings release here.
Listings release: OAE launches The Works – your guide to the classics
The Works: Your guided tour of the classics
Tuesday 4 October 2011, 8pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is launching The Works on Tuesday 4 October at 8pm, a brand new concert experience offering the chance to get the low down on some of the world’s greatest classical music in a relaxed and informal night out.
At this first outing of The Works, following jazz in the candlelit bar, the audience can bring their drinks into the hall as charismatic pianist Robert Levin gives a guided tour of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.23 complete with musical examples from the Orchestra, before performing this masterpiece.
For further information contact Katy Bell or Natasha Stehr on 020 7239 9375/9374 or email katy.bell@oae.co.uk/natasha.stehr@oae.co.uk
For the full listings release, please download the PDF Orchestra launches new concert experience The Works – your guide to the classics here.