ENGLISH HAYDN FESTIVAL
Bridgnorth
ENGLISH HAYDN FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL NOTICE
The 2021 Festival Programme has been cancelled and rescheduled for the week commencing 6th June 2022.
Due to Covid restrictions this years Festival has been replaced by a one day event on Saturday 11th September 2021 featuring a lunchtime Consone Quartet concert, at 1pm, and an evening Orchestral concert, at 7pm. Further details are published on this website.
The Festival acknowledges the continued generosity of Festival Friends, and many others who donated their refunded ticket purchases towards securing the future of this World class event.
Unfortunately, because Government restrictions are not due to end until 21st June 2021, we would have been subject to a reduction in audience numbers, and confined with masks and social distancing. We did investigate the possibility of delaying the Festival by a few weeks but found this impossible to organise, so we have rescheduled the programme for 6th to 11th June 2022 and apologise if this has caused any inconvenience.
In recognition of the difficulties faced by musicians during this long period of restrictions, the English Haydn Festival has organised a one day event on Saturday 11th September 2021, in St Mary's Church, Bridgnorth, incorporating a Lunchtime concert by the Consone Quartet, and an evening Orchestral, Beethoven/Haydn, concert in celebration of Beethoven's 250th anniversary year.
The programme details are shown below.
On behalf of The English Haydn Festival
M. C. Proudman
mike@englishhaydn.com
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HAYDN/BEETHOVEN/MOZART
Saturday 11th September 2021
A BEETHOVEN 250th ANNIVERSARY YEAR EVENING CONCERT
SATURDAY 11th SEPTEMBER 2021
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 1pm
LUNCHTIME CONCERT
THE CONSONE QUARTET
Mozart: Quartet No 19 K465 in C (Dissonance) (1785)
Haydn: Quartet Opus 33 No 4 in Bb major. (1781)
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 1pm
LUNCHTIME CONCERT
THE CONSONE QUARTET
Mozart: Quartet No 19 K465 in C (Dissonance) (1785)
Haydn: Quartet Opus 33 No 4 in Bb major. (1781)
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 Batchelor 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.
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 Batchelor 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.
SATURDAY 11th SEPTEMBER 2021
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 7pm
EVENING CONCERT
THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor: STEVEN DEVINE
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture Opus 62 (1807)
Beethoven: Romance Opus 50 No 2 in F (1798)
Soloist: SIMON STANDAGE
Beethoven: Symphony Opus 36 No 2 in D (1801/02)
INTERVAL: 30 minutes.
Haydn: Piano Concerto No 11 in D (Hob XV111/11) (1780/83)
Soloist: STEVEN DEVINE
Haydn: Symphony No 104 in D (Hob 1/104) (1795)
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 7pm
EVENING CONCERT
THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor: STEVEN DEVINE
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture Opus 62 (1807)
Beethoven: Romance Opus 50 No 2 in F (1798)
Soloist: SIMON STANDAGE
Beethoven: Symphony Opus 36 No 2 in D (1801/02)
INTERVAL: 30 minutes.
Haydn: Piano Concerto No 11 in D (Hob XV111/11) (1780/83)
Soloist: STEVEN DEVINE
Haydn: Symphony No 104 in D (Hob 1/104) (1795)
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 Geog Phiipp Telemann Prize from the city of Magdeburg, Germany
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 recordings 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.
Booking commences 1st May 2021
AN 18th CENTURY EXPERIENCE
The Old Castle Inn are pleased to provide pre-concert meals. Phone: 01746 711420 www.oldcastlebridgnorth.co.uk
or Pre-Book meals at:
Castle Tea Rooms & Restaurant, 1 East Castle Street.
Phone: 01746 763161
Castle Tea Rooms & Restaurant, 1 East Castle Street.
Phone: 01746 763161