Box of Delights
St Barnabas Church
Ranmore RH5 6SP
Click
HERE
for a map
(external link)
Sunday 27th June 2010 at 6.30 pm
With Guest Conductor Ian Assersohn
Jan Assersohn
piano
family ticket £33,
available on the door,
ONLINE HERE
or from Elizabeth Dobson
Tel. 01306 881 479
emddh7@hotmail.com
The Concert
Dorking Camerata once again present their Summer picnic concert in the delightful setting of St Barnabas church on Ranmore Common, next to Denbies vineyard.
This year, the program contains music from four continents, including Rutter’s well-known cycle ‘Sprig of Thyme’, songs from Morten Lauridsen’s ‘Chansons des Roses’, Eric Whitacre’s ‘Lux Aurumque’ and Aaron Copland’ rousing ‘Ching-a-ring Chaw’.
The program has been described as “The most beautiful and inspiring set of modern items we have ever put together.” Come and see if you agree.
Ian Assersohn
Ian Assersohn is a composer, accompanist and conductor who lives in Great Bookham, Surrey with his wife Jan and their family.
As composer and librettist, he is the author of the children’s musical Lancelot Wins Again!, which has received two successful productions at Cottesmore School in Sussex. He has also written a quantity of piano music, chamber music and several songs for full chorus including ‘Four War Poets’ and ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’, both of which were performed at the Leatherhead Theatre in November 2008.
He went to Westminster School, where he produced his first two musical stage shows: ‘Yesterday’s Rainbow’ and ‘Keats’. After school he studied at the Royal College of Music in London with the late John Lambert, and left with a B.Mus and an ARCM in piano teaching.
After the RCM, he spent a year on a Netherlands Government Scholarship at the Koningklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag where he studied composition with Louis Andriessen and Peter Schat. Then after returning from Den Haag, he and Jan founded a music school in Fetcham, Surrey.
As co-founder of Sequenza Music Productions, Ian wrote music for commercials and TV programmes, including Timewatch and two documentaries by the historian Michael Woods.
Ian has written the music for student productions at RADA in London (including Woyczeck and Amadeus) and for a Leeds Playhouse production of The Marat/Sade directed by Helena Kaut-Howson.
Ian’s latest project is The Song of Songs — a 40-minute setting of the Old Testament book for Soprano and tenor soli, choir and instrumental ensemble.