Shipley Arts Festival
We are delighted to announce that Sir Charles and Lady Burrell will from 2012 be joining our distinguished group of patrons in Mark Burrell DL, Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, and the Earl and Countess of Lytton.
SHIPLEY ARTS FESTIVAL 2012
Box Office 01403 750220
We are greatly looking forward to the 2012 Festival and please contact us through the contact form below if you would like to recieve an invitation to our annual Festival Party for Friends and suporters, kindly hosted by John and Clare Davison at Sedgwick Park on Sunday January 29th 2012. We will be announcing the year's Festival, accompanied by live music from the String Academy, together with fine canapes wine and soft drinks. We will be delighted to introduce you to our Festival Friends group, sponsors, sponsorship opportunities and celebratory community.
Please download 2011 brochure here
Composers' Competition details are here
The Shipley Arts Festival, celebrating its eleventh year, becomes more and more successful as it enhances the Gifted and Talented String Academy with the Yehudi Menuhin School, runs a composing competition with applicants from numerous countries and has the ability to attract excellent professional musicians to its country concerts. There are still several of the concerts in Shipley parish: at St. Mary’s and St. Cuthman’s as usual and two new places this year, Anthony and Louise Burrell’s Lackenhurst and the Quaker meeting house, Blue Idol.
The Festival pamphlet will be out on 1st March. Pamphlets are available at The Capitol in Horsham and St. Mary’s Shipley, but if you would like to order one please e-mail Andrew Bernardi (andrewbernardi@me.com) or Joan Lindsay (jlindsay@dsl.pipex.com).
Sat 30 April 7.30 pm St. Mary’s Shipley. Bernardi Music Group. ‘A Regal Concert for a Royal Celebration’ incl.Tchaikovsky ‘Souvenir de Florence’, Malcolm Singer ‘The Margrave’s Dream’ (Shipley 2010 Commission), J.S. Bach Double Concerto for Violin and Oboe’.
Mon 2 May 7.00 pm Windlesham House School. Yehudi Menuhin School, West Sussex Gifted and Talented String & Dance Academy. Includes Mahler/Schubert ‘Death of the Maiden’, Malcolm Singer’s ‘Margrave’s Dream’ and Jeff Moore ‘Gypsy Fiddles’.
Sun 8 May 6:300 pm St. George’s West Grinstead. Choral project including choral conductor David Wordsworth, his Addison Singers, St. George’s Church Choir, composer Howard Skempton and a professional Chamber Orchestra. If you would like to sing please e-mail Andrew.
Fri 20 May 7.30 pm Blue Idol, Coolham. Words and music from ‘The Time of William Penn’ including Bach ‘Sonata No. 6 in E major’, Mozart ‘Flute Quartet in D major, and Pachabel ‘Canon’ with words read by Lucy West, and musicians Bruce Martin (flute), Jonathan Few (cello) and Andrew Bernardi (violin). SOLD OUT
Fri 27 May 7:300 pm Lakenhurst. ‘Baroque at the Burrell’s:’ Soloists Andrew Bernardi and Andy Laing violinists, Bruce Martin flute in a programme to include J.S.Bach Brandenburg Concerto no.4, Cecilia McDowall ‘Great Hills’ (2008 Shipley Commission) and J.S.Bach Suite for Flute and strings. SOLD OUT
Sun 5 June 6.30 pm St. John’s Coolhurst. ‘A Fourth Night at the Opera,’ with professional soloists and ensemble from OperaUK.
Sat 11 June 7:3.00 pm Bignor Church. An English programme to include Paul Lewis, Vaughan William's ‘Lark Ascending and movements from John Rutter’s ‘Suite Antique’.
Sun 12 June 5.00 pm St. Cuthman’s Coolham. A concert for Shipley to include music by John Ireland and Franz List with Christopher Wellington (viola), Maria Marchant (piano), Andrew Bernardi (violin) and Dr Charles Wood (tenor) .
Sat 18 June 7.30 pm Warnham Church. Professional chamber ensemble and Warnham choir with some music by Warnham composer Mark Browse.
Sat 9 July 6.00 pm St Mary’s Shipley Christ's Hospital Choral Society, conducted by Adrian Bawtree present Gilbert & Sullivan's ever popular 'Gondoliers.' Refreshments provided by ‘Chestnut Tree House’ are before the concert and during the interval. Special number for Tickets for this concert only is: 01403 247434
Sun 10 July 6.30 pm St. Andrew’s Nuthurst. Professional choir of St. Thomas More Chelsea, Bernardi Music Group, Jon Lord, James Whitbourn and the winning composer of the composing competition. Programme to include Jon Lord’s ‘To Notice Such Things’ (Shipley 2009 Commission) and Faure’s ‘Requiem.’
The 2010 Festival:
Our 2009 Shipley commission "To Notice Such Things" by Jon Lord in memory of Sir John Mortimer achieved Classic FM CD of the month in March and is due for release on March 29th. The 10th Anniversary Festival will open with this very fine work. Our local community will again celebrate the arts with performances of international standard and support the creation of a series of new pieces to reflect Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with the aim to perform them again during the 2012 Olympics. Whilst maintaining the concert series, we have new ambitions to expand our efforts to include an all year round String Academy from September 2010. We are very grateful to all our partners and supporters: Horsham District and West Sussex County Councils; Michael Gattrell and his Capitol Box Office team; Trinity College of Music; our composer for this year, Malcolm Singer; the Yehudi Menuhin School; David Heyes, manager of the composers" competition; the John Ireland Trust; above all, our musicians, the Festival Management and the Community. Together these have formed a team which takes forward this rural Festival and makes a lasting contribution to the UK's musical landscape.
April 25th 6.30 p.m. St Mary's Horsham Parish Church: A very special idylic evening of classical string music with flute and led by Jon Lord (former Deep Purple keyboard player) and friends from the Bernardi Music Group and the Festival's Gifted and Talented String Academy to include last year's Shipley Commission "To Notice Such Things" (which is classic FM CD of the week in final week of March 2010) and Vaughan Williams' "Greensleaves".
- Jon Lord "To Notice Such Things"
- Jon Lord "Air on the Blue String"
- Vaughan Williams "Five Variants"
- Jon Lord "For Example"
- Vaughan Williams "Greensleaves"
- Jon Lord "Teleman Experiment"
Jon Lord piano, Bruce Martin Flute, Bernardi Music Group with Festival Academy conducted by Paul Mann.
Tickets: £15.00 (350)
May 1st 7.30 p.m. Shipley Church: Bernardi Music Group perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no.2, Mendelssohn's String Octet, Barber's Adagio together with Ireland's Minuet from the "Downland Suite" next to the composer's resting place outside the South porch of the church.
Tickets £15.00 (200)
May 3rd 7.30 p.m. The Malden Theatre, Windlesham House School: Yehudi Menuhin School and Malcolm Singer with Shipley Arts Festival's Gifted and Talented 'string Academy:" World premiere conducted by the composer Malcolm Singer to mirror Brandenburg Concerto no.2 with the String Academy and pupils of the Yehudi Menuhin School.
- Howard Ferguson for Piano and Strings Op 12
- Allegro
- Theme & Variations
- Allegro giovial
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto K 449 in E flat Major
- Allegro vivace
- Andantino
- Allegro non troppo
New Work commissioned by Shipley Arts festival for Gifted and Talented String Academy and the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestradirected and composed by Malcolm Singer
Frank Proto Variants on Paganini for Double Bass and Strings
- Min Young Bae Piano
- Menachem Rozin Piano
- Rodrigo Moro Martin Double Bass
- The Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra directed by Malcolm Singer
Tickets: £10.00 (300)
May 28th 7.30 p.m. Newbuildings Place, Shipley hosted by the Earl and Countess of Lytton: world premiere piece by Judith Weir and a popular Viennese program with David Heyes and Sarah Poole.
Tickets £30.00 (35)
May 30th 7.30 p.m. St Cuthman's Coolham: Trio recital with Keith Willis (member of RA and member of staff Yehudi Menuhin School) Nick Allen and Andrew Bernardi to include local composer John Ireland, Frank Bridge and the neglected English composer Dunhill. We are very grateful to Denise Mitchel and the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton for hosting this annual celebration of music and community.
- Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K 478
- Thomas Dunhill Phantasy Trio in E flat major for pianoforte,violin & viola
- John Ireland Phantasie in A minor for pianoforte, violin & violoncello
- Frank Bridge Phantasy for piano, violin, viola & violoncello
Tickets £15.00 (100)
June 6th 6.30 p.m. St John's Chapel Coolhurst: Mark Scrase Dickens and community celebrate Opera UK's "A New Night at The Opera" with leading soloists and ensemble.
Tickets £25.00 (120)
June 20th 6.30 p.m. "Music from the Time of Sedgwick Park:" a representation of local English music including Elgar's Piano Quintett, Malcolm Arnold Trio, and US jazz standards - Canapes and interval refreshment are included in the interval at this fabulous stately home with a concert genrously hosted by John and Clare Davison. Sedgwick Park is close to Horsham with parking outside the house - for satnav RH13 6QQ www.sedgwickpark.co.uk
Tickets £25.00 (90)
June 27th 3 pm Final Polo Championship at Knepp Castle 5 pm Concert: Final of polo tournament at 3pm with Concert. Hosted by knepp castle polo club in their 21st year and Shipley Arts Festivals" tenth. The polo club looks forward to celebrating with the shipley arts festival, a truly unique occasion. Music to include: Mendelssohn String Octet and John Ireland in the fields that inspired his music.
Tickets: £20.00 (120)
July 3rd 7.30 p.m. Bignor Church: a String program to include music by John Ireland (minuet from the Downland Suite), Mendelssohn (String Octet) and local film composer Paul Lewis with his "English Suite"
Tickets £15.00 (120)
July 4th 6.30 p.m. St Andrew's Church Nuthurst: Professional Orchestra and Choir including the Bernardi Music Group and the Choir of Our Holy Redeemer, Chelsea with James Whitbourn and David Bevan joining with the community of Nuthurst in a program to celebrate the centenary of American composer Samuel Barber with in his "Adagio" on the occasion of American Independence Day
Tickets £15.00 (180)
2010 Scholarships to study violin
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