The Tetbury Music Festival 2008
2 - 5 October
The dates for the 2008 Tetbury Music Festival are
confirmed as Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th
October 2008.
We hope you will agree with us that we have a
fabulous line-up!
The festival opens with
Radu Lupu, one of the most
illustrious pianists of our day. A Romanian by birth,
he studied in Moscow and won the Van Cliburn competition
in 1966 (at 21) and the Leeds Piano Competition in 1969.
He has settled in England but plays all over the world
with all the world's leading orchestras. We hope you
will all urge your friends to forget that they don't
normally go to concerts on a Thursday evening and
inspire them to come to the opening concert of our
Festival.
We are delighted that
Mark Padmore is coming back, with
Julius Drake this time and the
marvelous horn player,
Richard Watkins, for an
interesting and unusual concert on Friday evening.
On Saturday morning
The Schubert Ensemble,
return to the Festival, with the violinist
Maya Koch,
celebrating their 25th anniversary with piano quintets
by Faure and Schumann
In the afternoon we join with
The Big Draw 2008
and invite you to put down your inhibitions, listen to
the music and DRAW. Join artist
Imogen Harvey-Lewis at
Sir William Romney School for an art and music event
open to all ages where listening provides the stimulus
and drawing is the result. Playing live will be the
violinists Matt Trusler and
Maya Koch, who will perform
poetry and music from their new CD for Children.
The pianist
Charles Owen
joins us for Saturday evening, with two of the younger
stars in the firmament,
Chloe Hanslip, violin, and
Guy Johnston, cello.
This will be a lovely recital.
Sunday evening at 5:00
The Gabrieli Consort,
brings us an unusual and broad-ranging programme of
choral works from the 16th to the 20th centuries,
which they have entitled
The Road to Paradise - a fitting place to end up
at the close of another marvelous Festival.
Three of the concerts last year were sell-outs before
the event, so this year you might want to take
advantage of early booking by becoming a Dolphin.
We look forward to seeing you later this year.
Graham Kean and Elise Smith, Co-Directors
The Tetbury Music Festival -
2008
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