WELCOME Welcome to Bernardi Music Group's website. The music group are currently touring Ireland on a seven week trip with Barber of Seville whilst managing and performing in the Shipley Arts Festival. We are also continuing to provide opportunity for young players through the String Academy. The Festival encompasses the events below and we very much look forward to the closing moments when we will be premiering Jon Lord's new work in memory of Sir John Mortimer 'To Notice Such Things.' Jon has been voted sixth best living composer by Classic FM and he will play piano with our professional String Orchestra and soloist Bruce Martin for the world premiere on July 5th at 6.30 pm in St Andrew's Nuthurst close to Horsham. Please download the festival brochure and book tickets on 01403 750220. Concerts have largely sold out this year and we very much look forward to giving a warm welcome to you and your family. Further details and a map are on brochure and below. Andrew Bernardi SHIPLEY ARTS FESTIVAL and ACADEMY Box office c/o Capitol Theatre and HDC 01403 750220 Tuesday 21st April at 7.30 pm The Countryman Inn, Shipley ‘Jazz with Dinner’ accompanied by the ‘Stardust Hotshots’, kindly hosted by Alan Vaughan. Tables for this popular evening may be reserved by tel. 01403 741383. [x] Close Thursday 23 April at 7.30pm Lancing College Featuring the Shipley Arts Festival String Academy, Ian Morgan - Williams, Andrew Bernardi and all the Academy Tutors in a concert of string orchestral music to inaugurate the Festival Composer’s Award. There will also be a performance of Purcell’s Chacony in G minor arranged for String Orchestra by Benjamin Britten. Britten was commissioned to write the cantata ‘St Nicolas’ by Lancing College for the centenary of its founding in 1949. We now celebrate 60 years since its premiere in Lancing College Chapel. John Ireland, whose grave is at Shipley, was one of Britten’s tutors. So it is entirely appropriate that we are encouraging new music to be born out of the ancient settlement of Shipley and at the heart of West Sussex by inaugurating this prestigious Composer’s Award. Shortlisted new works will be performed in Lancing’s magnificent chapel in front of an audience and a distinguished panel of internationally renowned musicians. Tickets £5 [x] Close Saturday 2 May at 7.30pm Shipley Church A popular family programme to include J.S.Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.3, the Shipley Commission for 2009 featuring international flautist Bruce Martin, Benjamin Britten’s edition of Henry Purcell’s ‘Chaconny in G minor’, a Hymn from ‘St Nicholas’ and many popular pieces. The Shipley Commission will eventually comprise four movements culminating in 2012 with an ‘olympic’ performance of the whole work! Sussex writer Elizabeth Clarke Melville has accepted our commission for the new work, and we are very grateful to her. Our links with John Ireland, Benjamin Britten, Lancing College, our own String Academy, and the professional members of the Festival Orchestra will set the context alongside the Composer’s Award for this year’s festival, which resonates throughout the county of West Sussex opening new musical avenues to a wider following. Tickets £15 [x] Close Sunday 3 May at 5.00pm St Cuthman’s,Coolham A recital of chamber music given by the String Academy tutors, Andrew Bernardi, Keith Willis and Nick Allen. The programme will include Haydn’s ‘Gypsy Trio’, one of Mendelssohn’s Piano Trios, and short pieces by Elgar and Kreisler. We are very grateful to Denise Mitchell, Director of St Cuthman’s, and the Diocese of Arundel for hosting this very special and intimate concert. Tickets £15 [x] Close Monday 4 May at 6.00 pm The Malden Theatre, Windlesham House School We welcome Trinity College of Music String Ensemble, Nic pendlebury, Justine Reeves, The Festival’s String Academy and West Sussex County Youth Dance Company. They will perform an innovative and creative choreographed concert of music to include a previous Shipley Commission ‘Great Hills,’ Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen. We are grateful to Head Master Richard Foster, his staff and School Governors for the facilities provided, and their hospitable welcome offered to the Festival. West Sussex Education Department have formerly accepted our String Academy into their programme of ‘Gifted and Talented Courses’ for which we are also honoured. Trinity College of Music and Trinity Laban have received the awards as the UK’s leading conservatoire for three successive year’s and we are very grateful for to the Pirncipal of Trinity College of Music Derek Avis and Head of Strings Nic Pendlebury for their continued support of this festival. Tickets £5 [x] Close Friday 29 May at 7.30pm New Buildings, Shipley An exclusive ‘Country House’ recital generously hosted by Earl and Countess Lytton at New Buildings, Shipley. The programme will include Bach’s Oboe and Violin Concerto, and popular works to celebrate our community through the Arts. Tickets £30 [x] Close Sunday 31 May at 6.30pm St John’s Chapel, Coolhurst We welcome back ‘Opera UK’ for ‘A Night at the Opera’. A spectacular musical event at which this stunning group of six singers takes us on an unforgettable operatic tour of the best loved arias from the world’s best loved operas. Each of them are professionals in their own right who have embarked on international careers from our own opera houses, and who have now formed this exquisite vocal ensemble. A treat in store! Tickets £25 [x] Close Sunday 14 June at 6.30pm Sedgwick Park Andrew Bernardi, Helen Reid, Zoe Peate and the Amici Voices perform a programme of popular music to include Elgar’s Violin Sonata ‘The Snow’, and many popular pieces which reflect the golden age of this newly renovated stately home. We thank John and Clare Davison for inviting the Festival to return to Sedgwick for a second year. Tickets £25 [x] Close Wednesday 24th June at 7.30 pm The Selsey Arms, Coolham An evening of Jazz, when we shall also remember Campbell Burnap who was a founding member of Shipley Arts Festival, as well as an outstanding musician, band leader and trombonist. We are deeply grateful to Inn Keeper, Tony Woods for being a wonderful host since the start of the festival in 2001. Dinner reservation or Free admission [x] Close Sunday 5th July at 6.30pm St Andrew’s Church, Nuthurst This year’s concluding festival concert includes a world premiere by former Deep Purple keyboard player and writer Jon Lord. Jon has been voted sixth most popular living composer by Classic FM and we are delighted to be premiering his ‘To Notice Such Things’ for Flute Strings and with himself playing piano. We will also have the Choir of Our most Holy Redeemer Chelsea, the Bernardi Chamber Orchestra, and composer/conductor James Whitbourn and pianist Maria Marchant. Music from Henry Purcell, Handel’s ‘Zadock the Priest’, Bach , Gerald Finzi’s Eclogue to bring to a close this the eighth year of the Shipley Arts Festival. We hope very much that it will provide a very enjoyable experience for all the Festival’s visitors. Tickets £15 [x] Close Enter on Foot [x] Close |
