Dubai Airport’s CEO Paul Griffiths to perform in Westminster Abbey on 13th August at 5.45pm
Organist Paul Griffiths’ day job is running the world’s busiest international airport but this summer he has set himself a different challenge for the holidays: to perform a programme which includes one of the most technically demanding organ works, Maurice Duruflé’s Suite Opus 5 – which includes his fearsome Toccata - at Westminster Abbey on 13th August at 5.45pm.
Read moreDivine Art releases a new album 'Violin Muse' with Madeleine Mitchell featuring 7 world premiere recordings by UK composers
Divine Art is to release a new album, Violin Muse with Madeleine Mitchell, featuring 7 world premiere recordings by UK composers Guto Puw, Michael Nyman, Sadie Harrison, Geoffrey Poole, David Matthews, Michael Berkeley and Judith Weir. As an internationally renowned solo violinist with a critically acclaimed discography, Madeleine has been an inspiration to composers and painters alike over the years, including The Madeleine Series by painter Gerald Marks which were created between 1989-1991. Five of the works, by Puw, Nyman, Harrison, Poole and Matthews were written for and premiered by Mitchell.
Read moreItalian conductor Gianluca Marcianò launches a new festival of music and poetry - Suoni dal Golfo
Italian conductor Gianluca Marcianò launches a new festival of music and poetry - Suoni dal Golfo - in his hometown of Lerici from 25 August to 8 September. The programme of the festival is inspired by the sea and by the poets who were drawn to this emerald coastline. For the first time, Villa Shelley will be opened to the public for a special evening reception on . Suoni dal Golfo provides a summer residency for the newly formed Orchestra Excellence as a training academy for young musicians from across the globe. Following an intense fortnight of concerts with world-class soloists, Suoni dal Golfo closes with Marcianò conducting Orchestra Excellence from a platform on the sea to audiences on the beach and nearby boats.
Read moreHarry Bicket celebrates 10 years with The English Concert with their 2017-18 season
Harry Bicket celebrates 10 years as Artistic Director of The English Concert with a star-studded 2017/18 season featuring Iestyn Davies, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Lucy Crowe, and Andreas Scholl. The English Concert continue their annual Handel opera-in-concert series this year with Rinaldo. Starring Iestyn Davies, Rinaldo travels to Sevilla, Madrid, London and New York. Following the success of Tom Morris’ Messiah in Bristol, the co-production is revived at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall (with the Erebus Ensemble) in spring 2018. Kristian Bezuidenhout has been announced as The English Concert’s new Principal Guest Director, exploring not only classical keyboard works, but chamber music as well.
Read moreLaurence Equilbey announces Insula orchestra’s first season at their new home
Laurence Equilbey announces Insula orchestra’s first season at their critically-acclaimed new home La Seine Musicale celebrating the multi- media capabilities of their Shigeru Ban-designed concert hall to their full potential. The season opens with a rarely staged version of Goethe’s play Egmont with musical interludes by Beethoven directed by Séverine Chavrier on 21 and 22 September, which will tour to Vienna in December.
Read moreJocelyn Pook’s Anxiety Fanfare and Variations for Voices forms part of the PRS New Music Biennial in Hull
A new wristband invention measuring stress and levels of anxiety will be tested at a performance of Jocelyn Pook’s Anxiety Fanfare and Variations for Voices in free public performances as part of the PRS New Music Biennial in Hull on Sunday 2 July and on Sunday 9 July in London in the Southbank Centre’s Clore Ballroom.
Read moreKing's College Cambridge to release new CD with Guy Johnston
The record label of King's College, Cambridge launch a major new series of alumni recordings with an album by cellist Guy Johnston, which celebrates the 300th anniversary of his Tecchler cello. The cello’s homecoming to Rome in January for a recording of Respighi’s Adagio con variazioni with the Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia is the culmination of year-long journey from Cambridge, Hatfield House and London’s Wigmore Hall. Also a homecoming for Guy Johnston, the project begins in Cambridge with a recording of Ola Gjeilo’s O Magnum Mysterium with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Guy Johnston's cello was broken on a trans-Atlantic flight 10 years ago, prompting a long search for a new instrument. Guy was helped to buy the 1714 David Tecchler cello by a consortium of generous patrons and the Royal Society of Musicians.
Read moreLine-up for Incontri in Terra di Siena festival at La Foce announced
Celebrated pianist and new Artistic Director of the Incontri in Terra di Siena, Alessio Bax is inviting musical friends and colleagues Joshua Bell, Radovan Vlatkovic, Henning Kraggerud, Lise Berthaud and Paul Watkins to the Festival's 2017 edition. Located in the Val d'Orcia, the Tuscan chamber music festival runs from 29 July to 5 August. A festival highlight is Sarah Connolly, who is making her first and much-anticipated appearance for a recital with Julius Drake. Set in the buildings and gardens of one of Tuscany's most beautiful estates, villas and churches of the Val d'Orcia, the summer festivities begin with Incontri's founding Director and cellist Antonio Lysy together with new artistic Director Alessio Bax and pianist Lucille Chung. Also making their debut at the festival, the Escher String Quartet joining jazz pianist Dan Tepfer to perform the European premiere of Tepfer's Piano Quintet Solar Spiral.
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