AAM 2011-12 season announced

We are delighted to unveil our 2011-12 London and Cambridge concert season. Over the coming months we will perform music ranging from Monteverdi's madrigals to Beethoven's 'Eroica' symphony, welcoming some remarkable guest artists along the way.

Musical Revolutions

At the heart of the season is Musical Revolutions — a series which explores periods from the dawn of the baroque to the beginning of the nineteenth century which gave birth to the concerto and the symphony, produced the glories of the French baroque and the Italian cantata, and inspired the earliest passions of the Romantic era.

Birth of the symphony: AAM Music Director Richard Egarr opens the season by exploring an extraordinary period of musical development from JS Bach and Handel to Mozart and Haydn (London & Cambridge)

Awakening of the Romantic hero: Shunské Sato is the soloist in Paganini’s virtuosic Violin concerto No.2 in October 2011, in a programme also featuring Beethoven's 'Eroica' symphony (London & Cambridge)
Rise of the concerto: in February 2012 Alina Ibragimova makes her AAM debut directing a programme charting the earliest days and some of the greatest achievements of the baroque concerto (London & Cambridge)
Dawn of the cantata: Jonathan Cohen joins us for the first time in April 2012 to direct a collection of deliciously sensual vocal music from early seventeenth-century Italy (London & Cambridge)
Age of the French baroque: the Choir of the AAM returns to perform works from the golden age of French music in July 2012 (London & Cambridge)

Other 2011-12 London & Cambridge concerts

In addition to the concerts in the Musical Revolutions series, we'll be giving keynote festive performances of Handel's Messiah and JS Bach's St Matthew Passion, and teaming up with soprano Sumi Jo.

Witches and devils: we welcome the bewitching soprano Rebecca Bottone for a special Halloween concert celebrating the role of the occult and extraordinary in inspiring great music, including Tartini's infamous 'Devil's trill' sonata (London & Cambridge)
Sumi Jo sings Mozart: we perform an array of Mozart's most cosmopolitan music with Korean soprano Sumi Jo in November 2011, including opera arias and instrumental music (London)
Handel's Messiah: in December 2011 AAM Music Director Richard Egarr directs Handel’s timeless masterpiece at the Barbican Concert Hall (London)
JS Bach's St Matthew Passion: we renew our association with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge in a performance of JS Bach's magisterial St Matthew Passion in April 2012 (Cambridge)

Find out more

Click here for more details about all AAM concerts, or download our 2011-12 season brochure here.