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2021-06-23 08:37:24
Music in an iconic landscape, and you don't even need to travel: Lake District Summer Music
Cellist and conductor Stephen Threlfall took over as artistic director of Lake District Summer Music in October 2020, when founder Renna Kennaway retired. Threlfall's first festival, which takes place from 30 July to 8 August 2021, is thus taking place under challenging circumstances. Not only will there be 28 live events over nine days, but 18 will be streamed on-line. Performers at the festival include the Manchester Collective, the Albion Quartet, Gould Piano Trio, Freeman Quartet, Ruisi Quartet, Connaught Brass, Magnard Wind Ensemble, guitarist Saki Kaiko, mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge, pianist Steven Osborne, cellist Robert Cohen, and Balkan folk-fusion group Paprika. Artist James Mayhew will be creating a live visual response to Schoenberg's Transfigured Night performed by the Manchester Collective, whilst dancer Mayuri Boonham joins the Gould Piano Trio, for Huw Watkins’ Four Fables with her own original choreography. There will be masterclasses from Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Steven Osborne, Robert Cohen and members […]
2021-06-03 06:35:07
Cheltenham Music Festival returns for 2021 with 21 world premieres and free stage concerts
The Cheltenham Music Festival is returning to live music with a festival from 2 to 11 July 2021 which includes 21 world premieres and a number of free stage concerts. Large-scale concerts include Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and Martyn Brabbins and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Other performers include the Carice Singers, pianist Steven Osborne, mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, cellist Matthew Barley, pianist Ivana Gavric, pianist Imogen Cooper, La Serenissima, saxophonist Jess Gillam, the Albion Quartet and 12 Ensemble. There will be world premieres of Matthew Whittall's new choral settings of Robert Louis Stevenson's Songs of Travel, Luke Styles' new work performed alongside Britten's Canticles, plus premieres of music by Lillie Harris, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Jonathan Woolgar, Sarah Nicolls and Maja Bugge, and a UK premiere from Alex Freeman. The Cheltenham Composer Academy returns this year from 5-9 July. The scheme supports early-career composers (aged 18+), offering them […]
2020-08-18 07:13:26
Live music returns to the Two Moors Festival
Exmoor The Two Moors Festival, which presents music events in venues across Dartmoor and Exmoor, was founded in response to the Foot and Mouth crisis which was devastating the area. This year, as the festival approaches its 20th anniversary, it is facing another crisis. In response, the festival is offering two weekends of concerts with limited, socially distanced audiences performed in venues on Dartmoor (26-27 September 2020) and Exmoor (2-4 October 2020). This year is also the first year that the festival has been under the artistic directorship of violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, who was one of the Young Musician Competition winners in the first festival. Concerts at the festival will include the Albion Quartet in final quartets Brahms and Beethoven, cellist Laura van der Heijden in Bach's Cello Suites, pianist Elisabeth Brauss in Scarlatti, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Chopin, tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Christopher Glynn in Schubert's The Fair […]
2020-06-30 08:10:10
Festivals from Massachusetts to Yorkshire are going on-line, enabling us to visit virtually
[…] from 19 July to 26 July 2020, opening on 19 July with Isata Kanneh-Mason. Many of the concerts will be filmed in iconic Yorkshire venues, so there will be violinist Rachel Podger in Biber at Castle Howard, organist Anna Lapwood at St Michael's Church, Coxwold, cellist Abel Selaocoe at All Saints' Church, Helmsley, clarinettist Matthew Hunt and pianist Tim Horton in Schubert, Jorg Widmann and Ireland from the Long Gallery at Castle Howard, and the Albion Quartet in Schubert in the great hall of Castle Howard. Soprano Rowan Pierce will join festival director Christopher Glynn for songs by Purcell, Schumann, Schubert & Grieg, violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen will join Glynn for music by Elgar. Members of Streetwise Opera will join Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn, the Brodsky Quartet and Genesis Sixteen for a virtual performance directed by Freya Wynn-Jones inspired by The Linden Tree from Schubert's Winterreise. Full details from the Ryestream […]