Page 103 - ASMF Marriner 100 Coverage Book

28 March 2024

Marriner 100: the Academy of St Martin in the Fields celebrates the centenary
of its founder
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Sir Neville Marriner

Next month, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields is celebrating the centenary of its
founder Sir Neville Marriner (1924-2016) with a programme events beginning on what
would have been Sir Neville's 100th birthday (15 April 2024), with concerts celebrating
both Marriner and the orchestra's long-standing relationships with other musicians.

Things begin with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at its spiritual home, St Martin in the Fields,
with direction shared between Joshua Bell, Tomo Keller and Jaime Martin in a programme of Handel,
Mozart, Haydn, Vaughan Williams and Errollyn Wallen. Then on 16 April, the ASMF Chamber
Ensemble is joined by Joshua Bell and pianist Murray Perrahia, in what will be his first performance in
six years, at Wigmore Hall for Mendelssohn, Schumann and Sally Beamish [see my
2019 interview where Sally Beamish talks about her personal links with the orchestra].

There is a centenary gala concert at the Royal Festival Hall on 18 April, when the orchestra is joined
directed by Joshua Bell and Tomo Keller, with soloists Douglas Marriner (Sir Neville’s grandson), jazz
drum kit, and Sarah Jane Brandon, soprano, for a programme of Mozart, Saint-Saens and Brahms,
plus the European premiere of Vince Mendoza's Flight of Moving Days. Things move to Lincoln, Sir