ENGLISH HAYDN FESTIVAL

DIARY NOTE: 2023 Festival Week. 6th to 10th June.

Following on from the brilliant musical performances of this year's Festival, with capacity audiences, we are pleased to announce that the 2023 Festival will commence on Tuesday 6th June, with the finale on Saturday 10th June.

Details of the 2023 Festival concerts will be published shortly.

The English Haydn Festival is run by a group of volunteers who provide all of the necessary skills that are required to produce an outstanding musical experience. This effort is matched by the generosity of a group of Festival Friends who by subscriptions, donations and sponsorships provide the much needed financial support.

St Mary Magdalene Church, with its wonderful acoustics, is set in the beautiful hill-top market town of Bridgnorth overlooking the River Severn and provides a magnificent setting for the Festival. It was designed by Thomas Telford and built in 1792 at a time when Haydn was spending his celebrated years in London.

With the difficulties experienced during the last two years, due to the Covid pandemic, it has been a pleasure to have the support of our regular base of music lovers together with those experiencing for the first time the brilliance of Joseph Haydn's music and that of the other great composers.

The eighteenth century was a time of many great inventions in the fields of exploration, construction, art, science and music, with innovations of that period still influencing our daily lives and enabling us to experience great works of art and music.

The English Haydn Festival seeks to provide an insight into the "Classical" era of music, acknowledged to be from 1745 to 1835, by staging orchestral, quartet and instrumental group performances of compositions by Joseph Haydn together with those of his friends and pupils such as Mozart and Beethoven. This was an innovative period of time which ranged from the mid eighteenth century works by C.P.E. Bach, to the nineteenth century compositions of Felix Mendelssohn.

 THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION RELATES TO THE 2022 FESTIVAL

Consone Quartet

English Haydn Orchestra

English Haydn Piano Trio

Celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Year 2022

Extracts from author Neil Thomas' article in Shropshire's What's What magazine:

HAYDN'S MUSICAL INNOVATIONS
2022 Festival Theme

SIMON STANDAGE

CRISPIAN STEELE-PERKINS

EVA CABALLERO

STEVEN DEVINE & THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA

STEVEN DEVINE made his London conducting debut in 2002 at the Royal Albert Hall and is now a regular performer there – including making his Proms directing debut in August 2007 with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has conducted the Mozart Festival Orchestra in every major concert hall in the UK and also across Switzerland. Steven is Music Director for New Chamber Opera in Oxford and with them has performed repertoire from Cavalli to Rossini. For the Dartington Festival Opera he has conducted Handel’s Orlando and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. He is currently conductor and Artistic Advisor for the English Haydn Festival. Steven works regularly with the Norwegian Wind Ensemble, Trondheim Barokk, the Victoria Baroque Players (BC, Canada) and Arion Baroque Ensemble (Montreal).

Simon Standage

Eva Caballero

The Salomon Quintet

The Festival is indebted to George Ross who was a late replacement for Pavel Serbin.

GEORGE is a British cellist, specialising in period instrument performances, having completed his Master's studies at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague where he received lessons from Jaap ter Linden. Having attained a first-class honours for his Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal College of Music, George has worked with groups such as The King's Consort, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arcangelo, the Hanover Band. George has performed as a solo artist at Wigmore Hall. He also enjoys a busy time as violoncellist with the brilliant Consone Quartet.

SOLD OUT

TUESDAY 7th JUNE 2022
Acton Round Church, Acton Round. 12.30pm
LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Year

THE REVOLUTIONARY WIND MACHINE on period instruments
Soloists: Mark Baigent - oboe   Cait Walker - oboe
Richard Bayliss - horn Clare Penkey - horn
Robert Percival - bassoon Inga Matia Klaucke - bassoon

John Bull The National Anthem “God Save The Queen”
Haydn Austro/Hungarian Empire National Anthem "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser"
Haydn   Divertimento Hob 11: No 23 in F (1765)
Druschetzky   Partita No 21 in G
Haydn   Divertimento Hob 11: No 3 in G (1766)

MARK BAIGENT tours extensively throughout Europe, America and the Far East, performing for festivals, music societies and radio with ensembles including the Sixteen, English Baroque Soloists, The Academy of Ancient Music, and his two chamber groups, the Denner Ensemble and Pipers 3 oboe trio.

CAIT WALKER, a founder member of Northern Baroque, specialises in period performance on the oboe. She has played with the country’s leading ensembles including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the 18th Century Concert Orchestra, Kings Consort, Florilegium, Gabrielli Consort, and the Academy of Ancient Music.

RICHARD BAYLISS studied the horn at the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed with the RPO, LPO, BBCSO, London Mozart Players, English Chamber and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, and, as a natural horn player, with the Gabrieli Consort, English Baroque Soloists, and London Handel Orchestra. Richard is a founder member of the Galliard Ensemble Wind Quintet.

CLARE PENKEY studied at the Royal Northern College of Music where she was introduced to the world of baroque and classical horns. She works with a variety of groups including The Academy of Ancient Music, London Handel Orchestra, The OAE, Gabrieli Ensemble, Hanover Band. Clare also teaches brass and piano.

ROBERT PERCIVAL trained at the Birmingham Conservatoire and at the Royal Northern College of Music, and began playing historical bassoons. He now performs repertoire from Bach to Brahms and Mahler with many leading early instrument groups.

INGA MATIA KLAUCKE is a freelance performer on historical bassoons and recorders, who is also a music tutor for all levels, and chamber performance coach with an emphasis on stylistic awareness, particularly in baroque repertoire.

THE REVOLUTIONARY WIND MACHINE

WEDNESDAY 8th JUNE 2022
St Mary's Church, East Castle St, Bridgnorth. 12.30pm
LUNCHTIME CONCERT
THE REVOLUTIONARY WIND MACHINE on period instruments
Soloists: Mark Baigent - oboe Cait Walker - oboe
Richard Bayliss - horn Clare Penkey - horn
Robert Percival - bassoon Inga Matia Klaucke - bassoon

Mozart Divertimento K270 in Bb (1777)
Salieri Picciola Serenata in Bb (1778)
Haydn Divertimento Hob 11: No 7 in C (1765)

GRAND OPENING SYMPHONY CONCERT

WEDNESDAY 8th JUNE 2022
St Mary's Church, East Castle St, Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING CONCERT

THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor STEVEN DEVINE
Soloists Simon Standage - violin   Ada Witczyk - violin
Pavel Serbin - violoncello
Crispian Steele-Perkins - trumpet

Haydn    Symphony No. 3 in G (1760/62)
J. C. Bach Concertante in G WC32   (1773)

Interval 30 minutes

Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb major  (1796)
Haydn Symphony No.44 in E minor (Mourning) (1801)

PAVEL SERBIN Pavel plays the cello and viola da gamba. He is a teacher at the Moscow Conservatoire, a founder of the ensemble A la Russe and both soloist and artistic director of the orchestra Pratum Integrum. Born in Moscow in 1978, he graduated from the Gnessin Music School and the Moscow Conservatoire. His dissertation was on cello music composed in Russia from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. He has also attended classes at the Royal Academy of Music in The Hague. Pavel won prizes at the Bruges Early Music Competition (1999, as part of the Gassenhauer Trio) and the competitions Premio Bonporti and Van Wassenaar (2000, in a duet with Olga Martynova). With a residence in Hungary, not far from Haydn's birthplace, Pavel now performs extensively in Europe and has captivated audiences at the English Haydn Festival with his newly discovered works by 18th century composers.

CRISPIAN STEELE PERKINS is considered to be the world’s leading player of the Baroque Trumpet. Indisputably he is unique in performing regularly upon genuine antique trumpets. In addition to his work with classical orchestras and period instruments, Crispian has developed a body of television and film work which is universally recognisable today - most famously he played the theme tune to the popular British television programme Antiques Road Show, the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only and the The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Crispian is also a popular presenter giving recitals, lectures and master-classes at schools,
colleges and music venues

THE ENGLISH HAYDN PIANO TRIO

THURSDAY 9th JUNE 2022
St Mary's Church, East Castle St
, Bridgnorth. 12.30pm
LUNCHTIME CONCERT

PIANO TRIO on period instruments
Soloists: Simon Standage - violin
Pavel Serbin - violoncello
Steven Devine - fortepiano

Haydn Trio No. 28 in E (1797)
Beethoven Opus 1 No. 1 in Eb (1793)

THE CONSONE QUARTET

THURSDAY 9th JUNE 2022
St Mary's Church, East Castle St, Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING CONCERT

THE CONSONE QUARTET
Haydn Quartet Opus 71 No. 2 in D (1793)
Mozart Quartet in Bb major KV 589 ( 1790)
Schubert Quartet in Bb major D.112 (1814)

MAGDALENA LOTH HILL studied at the Royal College of Music with Itzhak and Laura Samuel and later took up baroque violin with Adrian Butterfield and Lucy Russell. She graduated in 2013 with first-class honours and in 2015 gained a Master's degree with Distinction. Magdalena has toured Europe, the United States and Bolivia where her two solo recitals, as 'Artist of the Festival', officially opened the 2016 Misiones de Chiquitos Festival. She has performed at all the well known London Music Halls, and Buckingham Palace.

AGATA DARASKAITE Lithuanian-Polish violinist Agata started playing the violin at the age of six and made her solo debut four years later. A prize winner of ten national and international competitions Agata moved to England to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in 2003. Since then she has been performing solo and chamber music across the UK and Europe. In 2009 she performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the LPO's "Between two worlds: Alfred Schnittke" Festival with Valdimir Jurowski conducting. In 2012 as a RCM Concerto Competition winner, Agata performed Berg's violin concerto with the RCM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner.

ELITSA BOGDANOVA moved to London from Bulgaria in 2007 to complete her degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, studying with Alexander Zemstov and Rachel Roberts, and at the same time developed an interest in historical performances with Jane Rogers and Pavlo Beznosiuk. Elitsa has performed on period instruments with ensembles such as the Academy of Ancient Music, and as principal violinist of La Serenissima, specialists in Venetian music. In 2013 Elitsa co-created the Bulgarian interdisciplinary Festival '180 Deg', which features a variety of chamber music and other art forms.

GEORGE ROSS is a British cellist, specialising in period instrument performances, having completed his Master's studies at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague where he received lessons from Jaap ter Linden. Having attained a first-class honours for his Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal College of Music, George has worked with groups such as The King's Consort, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arcangelo, the Hanover Band. George has performed as a solo artist at Wigmore Hall.

THE CONSONE QUARTET with STEVEN DEVINE

FRIDAY 10th JUNE 2022
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 12.30pm
LUNCHTIME CONCERT

THE CONSONE QUARTET & STEVEN DEVINE - fortepiano
Agata Daraskaite - violin Magdalena Loth-Hill - violin
Elitsa Bogdanova - viola George Ross - violoncello

Haydn Quartet Op. 71 No 3 in Eb major (1793)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 11 in F KV413 (1782)

HAYDN'S INNOVATIONS

FRIDAY 10th JUNE 2022
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING CONCERT

THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor STEVEN DEVINE
Soloists Pavel Serbin - violoncello
Steven Devine - fortepiano

Haydn   Symphony No. 38 in C    (1765/69)
Tricklir   Cello Concerto No 6 in G   (1783)

Interval 30 minutes

Beethoven Piano Concerto Opus 15 No 1 in C (1795)
Haydn Symphony No. 48 in C    (1768/69)

STEVEN DEVINE As well as annually conducting the English Haydn Orchestra for the past few years, since 2007 Steven has been the harpsichordist with London Baroque in addition to his position as Co-Principal player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He is also the principal keyboard player for the Gonzaga Band, Apollo and Pan, the Classical Opera Company, and performs regularly with other groups around Europe. His recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations (Chandos) has been critically acclaimed including Gramophone Magazine describing it as "amongst the best". Moreover, Volumes 1 & 2 of the complete harpsichord works of Rameau (Resonus) have both received five-star reviews from BBC Magazine, and his recording of Bach's "Italian" concerto has been voted Classic FM's connoisseur's choice.

PAVEL SERBIN is recognised for not only his orchestral and solo performances, but his passion for research into lost compositions of both Russian and European eighteenth century composers. His achievements include the discovery of “lost” works by Russian Classicism composers and Festival performances of discovered concertos by Woschitka, J. C. Bach, Abel, J. Weoght and C Hoecke, His latest discovery is by the French composer B. Tricklir whose brilliant work was greatly influenced by Joseph Haydn.

THE SALOMON STRING QUINTET

SATURDAY 11th JUNE 2022
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 12.30pm
LUNCHTIME CONCERT

THE SALOMON QUINTET
Simon Standage - violin Catherine Martin - violin
Adam Romer - viola Florence Cooke - viola
Andrew Skidmore - violoncello

Haydn Divertimento Hob 11: No 2 in G (1754)
Beethoven String Quintet Opus 29 in C (1801)

GRAND FINALE SYMPHONY CONCERT

SATURDAY 11th JUNE 2022
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING CONCERT

THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor: STEVEN DEVINE

Douglas Kennedy Overture (2022)
Haydn Symphony No 95 in C minor   (1791)
C. P. E. Bach Flute Concerto in D minor Wq 22 (H 425)   (1747)
Beethoven Violin Romance No 1 in G   (1802)

Interval 30 minutes

Beethoven   Violin Romance No 2 in F   (1798)
Haydn   Symphony No. 98 in Bb major (1792)
Haydn: Austro/Hungarian Empire National Anthem "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser"
John Bull The National Anthem “God Save The Queen”

SIMON STANDAGE is a well known internationally renown violinist specialising in 17th and 18th century music. Leader and soloist with the English Haydn Orchestra, he has fulfilled the same role for many years with the City of London Sinfonia. Simon has recorded solo and chamber music, including all of Mozart's violin concertos, with the Academy of Ancient Music. in 2008 he received a medal for services to Polish culture, was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music in 2009, and in 2010 received the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize from the city of Magdeburg, Germany

EVA CABALLERO has a busy musical career performing with period instrument orchestras and ensembles in the UK and abroad. Eva was awarded a scholarship to study at Trinity College, with Daniel Pailthorpe, gaining a BMus (Hons) degree, continuing her studies on historical flutes with Lisa Beznosiuk at the Royal Academy of Music.

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