Tetbury Music Festival

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