PETWORTH FESTIVAL Wednesday 12 - 2017 Saturday 29 July

• classical music • jazz • comedy • world music • children’s events • theatre and more

Box Office 01798 344 576 and at www.petworthfestival.org.uk Box Office open from 27 April t is with great pleasure – and no little Welcome to the anticipation – that we present the 2017 IPetworth Festival programme in detail in the following pages.

Those of you who are regulars to the festival The Leconfield Estates 2017 will hopefully be aware that our aim is always The Leconfield Estates high, and that we attempt to devise a fortnight www.leconfieldestates.co.uk which will really bring the very best in so many www.leconfieldestates.co.uk art forms to our beautiful part of the country. The Leconfield Estates is very pleased to be the principal sponsor of the 2017 Festival My personal belief is that with this year’s The Leconfield EstatesPetworth is very pleased Festival. to be the principal sponsor programme we continue to raise the bar in of the 2016 Petworth Festival no uncertain way. It is our huge pleasure to

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Apart from this very obvious exception, I would ordinarily steer away from mentioning specific performances and specific artists as I genuinely think we have 40-plus festival events that are of equal stature and promise, but on this occasion I would like to draw your attention to page 11 where you will find the 2017 ‘Artistic Director’s Trail’. Such has our audience’s commitment been towards finding out the new and the unusual year on year that I have picked out nine individual performances some of which I hope you will sample even if they look unfamiliar on the page. They are all the kind of performances that make the festival special and different, and in no case will you be other than delighted: you may be surprised and you may find the event initially unfamiliar, but the rewards will quickly follow.

Otherwise thank you as ever for your support, and please enjoy what we have to offer!

Stewart Collins Artistic Director

Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 1 Box Office Information Who’s Who Booking Form General Booking opens 27 April 2017 President Lord Egremont Events Name of Event Number of Number of Ticket price Total £ Vice President Lewis Golden Adult under 18 tickets tickets How to book Festival Board Online: from Thur 27 April at Neil Franks Chairman www.petworthfestival.org.uk Alan Bennie Lord Egremont By phone: from Thur 27 April Claudia Golden 01798 344576 Sir Geoffrey Pattie Kate Wardle Telephone box office opening times: Georgina Willis Thur 27 April – Sat 29 July, 10am – 1pm. Closed Sun and Mon Secretary to the Board Sally Newsom Davis By post: from Thur 27 April using the form on Artistic Director page 2 Stewart Collins For further information and to get involved Festival Manager online: www.petworthfestival.org.uk Kate Wardle Artist Liaison and Publications Editor www.facebook.com/petworthfestival Kate Lavender

PR/Publicity Manager @PetworthFest Hannah Ashwell

Event Co-ordinators Sue Higham Festival Venues Alan Veal Souvenir Programme voucher Park Near RH20 1HG Box Office Quantity £5 (Exchange for programme at first event) Champs Hill Coldwaltham, Pulborough RH20 1LY Pam Hampel, Carole Goldthorp, Judy Howard, NB: reserved seating in Leconfield Hall. Please let us know if you have a Church of Sacred Heart Petworth GU28 0BG Imke Sanderson, Deborah Taylor and Kate Grand Total £ Wardle preference for raked or floor seating Kevis House Gallery Lombard Street GU28 0AG Leconfield HallMarket Square GU28 0AH I enclose a cheque made payable to ‘Petworth Festival Ltd’ Rother College North Street Midhurst GU29 9DT Parking Please charge my Mastercard/Visa/Switch/Maestro Card (delete as necessary) Petworth House Petworth GU28 0AE Petworth Limited disabled parking at Card Number St Mary’s Church Petworth GU28 0AD Church Lodge (adjacent to St. Mary’s Petworth). St Mary Church GU29 0AH Please leave entrance to the church free for Issue Number United Reformed Church Petworth GU28 0AW emergency vehicles. Outside the church, please Name on card (Switch/Maestro only) do not park half on the pavement – this is an offence. No parking in Lombard Street opposite. Start Date Expiry Date Tickets There is a large car park in Petworth (GU28 Ticket price bands are shown on ticket price 0AP) and additional free parking by the Sylvia Last 3 digits of security no. (back of card) boxes for St. Mary’s Church Petworth where Beaufoy Centre (GU28 0ET) off the mini Name they apply throughout the brochure. roundabout on the A272 Seating plans for St. Mary’s Church Petworth Address and the Leconfield Hall can be found on pages Other Venues There is ample parking at 42 and 43 of this brochure. Champs Hill, Bignor Park, Easebourne Church For more brochures please telephone and some at . For overflow parking for Midhurst Rother College Post Code Telephone 01798 867643 or 01798 343055 please use Midhurst town car park which is free Cover image: Trygve Wakenshaw and just five minutes’ walk from the College. Email address Photo credit: Fraser Cameron

Please return the completed form to Petworth Festival, 151 Whites Green Lodge, , Petworth GU28 9BD

2 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 3 Wednesday 12 - Saturday 29 July | Kevis House Gallery Mon-Sat 10am-5pm Wednesday 12 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 8.45pm) Impromptu Roderick Williams & Iain Burnside by Frances Hatch Die Schöne Müllerin For this year’s Petworth Festival, Kevis House Gallery presents a series of works on paper by Frances Hatch. IMPROMPTU is a body of work created and inspired by two different experiences, one whilst Hatch was artist in residence at Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth, the other as a member of Safehouse Poole (an experimental collective of musicians and artists). Her responses to sound and movement - swiftly executed in colour and line - are vibrant and fluid, and distinguished by concise and considered mark-making.

Frances Hatch is best known as a plein air painter of landscape: responding to the animation of weather, light, and tide moving across the geology. Based in , she is well known in as a Senior Tutor at West Dean College, .

‘Every movement of the musician and dancer is eloquent and particular- just as is every sun rise. The same attentiveness is required in these very different contexts.’ Hatch 2017

Kevis House Gallery is delighted to be working in partnership with the Petworth Festival to present this unseen body of Hatch’s work of drawings based on dancers and musicians in rehearsal, which will be on show for the entire duration of the Festival.

Roderick Williams (credit: Benjamin Ealovega) Iain Burnside (credit: TallWall Media)

Wednesday 12 - Saturday 15 July | United Reformed Church 12 noon to 5.30pm A stellar curtain raiser as one of our finest baritones and recital singers Roderick Williams combines with pianist Iain Burnside in a performance of Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin – part of the pairing’s three year Schubert project. Since his last appearance in Petworth Roderick Williams’ career Schools Art Pop-Up Exhibition has continued to soar, including winning the prestigious Singer of the Year Award at the 2016 Royal Following the enormous of success of their Philharmonic Society Awards. Similarly celebrated, Iain Burnside interweaves his roles as pianist and Popup Exhibition in 2015, the Young Arts Sony Award-winning broadcaster with equal aplomb. team from Decorative and Fine Arts Society are repeating the event Generously supported by Deborah Godfray and The Leconfield Restaurant & Bar again this year. Fourteen local schools will exhibit a variety of artwork in diverse media celebrating the wonderful work produced by their pupils during the year. Last time the work was vibrant and exciting, so expect no less this year - visitors to the previous exhibition left inspired!

Join us for the opening of this celebratory event which seeks to encourage young artists of the future on Wednesday 12th July at 4.30pm. Tickets: Band A £26, £16, £7.50 (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7.50 seats) There is no interval at this event

4 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 5 Thursday 13 July | St Mary’s 10.00am – 1.00pm Thursday 13 July | Champs Hill Pre-concert talk 7.15pm, concert 8.00pm (Ends approx 9.15pm) Festival Peal Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) The Goldberg Variations St Mary’s bells are considered by many to be the best The jewel that is Mary and David sounding bells in Sussex. Cast in 1924 by Gillett & Johnson at Bowerman’s Champs Hill Music the Croydon bell foundry, with a tenor weighing over 18cwt, the Room opens its doors to the rapidly bells are tuned to a diatonic scale in the key of E and make up emerging international talent, the largest musical instrument in the festival. harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. Responsible for having opened up A ‘peal’ is the term given to a set of 5000 or more changes, the harpsichord to a great deal of starting and ending with the bells ringing in order from treble new interest, Mahan was born in to tenor. Performing the peal will take the Sussex County Tehran in 1984 and received his Association Ringers around three hours of continuous first guidance on the piano from his ringing, requiring all their stamina and mental concentration. father before exploring an interest Seventeenth Century ringers were often fortified with good ale; in the harpsichord as a teenager. today that is enjoyed after the peal! He went on to study musicology and history at Stanford University, If after hearing the peal you would like to experience ringing for yourself then you would be most becoming a BBC New Generation welcome to visit St Mary’s tower (practices occur most Thursday evenings), or try a church with bells Artist from 2008-2010, and a near you. Borletti-Buitoni Trust prizewinner. For more information, see www.scacr.org or search under “English change ringing”. In 2014 Mahan was on the shortlist both for the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year and Gramophone Artist of the Year Thursday 13 July | St Mary’s 7pm – 8.15pm – all firsts for the harpsichord. Following Roderick Williams’ lead, Festival Service Mahan tackles another pillar of the concert repertoire, Bach’s remarkable Goldberg Variations. Everyone is invited to the Festival Service which will celebrate the Festival in readings, prayers and music. Mahan will give a brief introduction to the Goldberg Variations at Speaker: Michael Follis 7.15pm and the concert will commence at 8.00pm. With musical contributions from the Massed Festival Choir with guest director Nick Steinitz, an instrumental ensemble from the Wine included in the ticket price West Sussex Youth Orchestra and Petworth Primary School and served from 6.45pm Choir. Gardens open from 5pm for picnics. Please note, the only The Service will be followed by refreshments in the churchyard interval will take place between the pre-concert talk and the Organised by Petworth Area Churches Together concert.

Generously supported by David & Mary Bowerman Mahan Esfahani (credit: Bernhard Musil & Deutche Grammophon) Michael Follis Tickets: £23 (18 and under £5) There is no interval at this event. Unreserved Seating

6 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 7 Director’sArtistic Trail

Friday 14 July | Leconfield Hall 12 noon (Ends approx 1.00pm) Friday 14 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) Musicians from the Royal L’Avventura & Old Blind Dogs Academy of Music Orpheus Caledonius Lucy Humphris (trumpet) and Harry Rylance (piano)

Respighi (arr Humphris) Ancient Airs and Dances (1st mvt): Balletto Takemitsu Paths Debussy La Cathédrale Engloutie Plog Postcards (1st mvt) Bruch (arr Nakariakon) Canzone Rachmaninov Prelude in G# minor Op.32 No.12 Janáček (arr Humphris) In the Mists Bartok Suite Op.14 Harry James Trumpet Concerto

The first of three lunchtimes concert that celebrate and showcase the remarkable talents of young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music as the festival cements its creative relationship with one of the UK’s foremost musical institutions. The Festival welcomes one newcomer, trumpeter Lucy Humphris, and welcomes back the fine young pianist Harry Rylance.

Generously supported by The Anstruther Family Harry Rylance (credit: Conrad Litchfield)

In a special new collaboration, violinist Žak Ozmo and period instrument ensemble L’Avventura partner up with one of the best known proponents of Scottish folk music, the folk band Old Blind Dogs. Together they present brand new adaptations of music from Orpheus Caledonius, the 18th century collection of Scottish music packed with history, romance, artistry and fun, with musical subjects ranging from war to love. Featuring special guest singer Siobhan Miller - two-time winner of the ‘Scots Singer of the Year’ award - this collaboration mixes the sounds of 18th century high art music and folk, featuring musical instruments that range from bowed baroque strings, recorders, lutes, cittern, and baroque guitar, to pipes, whistles, fiddles, mandolin, acoustic guitar, and an array of percussion instruments: hauntingly beautiful melodies to lively, toe-tapping dances.

Generously supported by Petworth Festival Patrons and Friends

Lucy Humphris (credit: Benjamin Harte)

Tickets: £6 (18 and under £3) Tickets: Band B £21, £13, £7 There is no interval at this event (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7 seats)

8 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 9 Friday 14 July | Leconfield Hall 7.45pm (Ends approx 9.00pm) Saturday 15 July | Leconfield Hall 5.00pm (Ends approx 6.00pm) & 7.45pm Trygve Wakenshaw (Ends approx 8.45pm) Nautilus ‘Reminiscent of the young Jim Carrey... rubber-faced, loose- Jess Robinson limbed and wondrously expressive.’ Impressive Nautilus is the final part of rubber-limbed Trygve Wakenshaw’s A huge hit at successive Edinburgh Festivals, Jess Robinson is ‘underwater trilogy’, the follow-up to two delirious, sell-out physical variously a ball of energy, and a vocal impressionist without compare. comedies, Kraken and Squidboy that have been hits around the world. A Joined by a three-piece supporting band, whether mimicking Julie 75 minute tour-de-force, Nautilus oozes whimsy, drips with charm and is Andrews, Tina Turner or Britney Spears, Jess will bring a joy to your life magnificently and sweetly mad. Trygve is his own animator in a cartoon and a smile to your face. And her Kate Bush… world. A master of risqué innocence, New Zealand-born Trygve trained in Paris with Philippe Gaulier, developing a uniquely eccentric style of Generously supported by Guilt Lingerie mime comedy that has won him a long and growing list of comedy prizes and legions of fans the world over. Why did the chicken cross the road? Nautilus has the definitive answer.

Generously supported by Meghdoots Mystique Masala SECOND SHOW ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!

Tickets: £14 (18 and under £5) Trygve Wakenshaw (credit Ed Moore) There is no interval at this event Tickets: £14 (18 and under £5) There is no interval at this event The Artistic Director’s Trail Saturday 15 July | St Mary’s Church 12.30pm – 4.00pm The Petworth Festival’s audience has always shown a willingness to try the new alongside the familiar. To encourage you to try your hand at the former and in so doing benefit from the full, varied festival experience, we recommend you sample at least some of the following… Come and Sing with Ben Parry Friday 14 July – L’Avventura/Old Blind Tuesday 25 July – The Bisserov Sisters The Sound of Music Dogs: two superb groups from differing musical (Bulgaria) and Maya Youssef (Syria): music traditions combine to fascinating and attractive from two remarkable and contrasting traditions. An opportunity to sport your virtual Dirndls and Lederhosen! Join effect. in with one of the most loved of all Rodgers & Hammerstein film Thursday 27 July – Thomas Gould/Gwilym scores, The Sound of Music, all under the guiding baton of the uber- Sunday 16 July – The Orlando Consort/Joan Simcock: Bach’s music seen through the prism inspirational Ben Parry, director of the National Youth Choir of Great of Arc: a classic 1928 film set to an atmospheric of jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock and festival Britain, Voices and Assistant Choral Director at Kings College and superbly crafted live soundtrack of choral favourite, violinist Thomas Gould. Cambridge. The Downs are Alive. music. Friday 28 July – The Trio Apaches/The O Rehearsals will run from 1.00pm – 3.00pm whether you want to sing in Wednesday 19 July – An A–Z of Orchestral Duo: two ensembles of musicians who have unison or in full, gorgeous four-part harmony, followed by a performance... Triangle Playing: as comic as it sounds! thrilled Petworth audiences in the past return Edelweiss, My Favourite Things, Sixteen Goin’ on Seventeen, Do Re Mi, with a programme of grand and exciting musical Climb Every Mountain... an undisguised musical treat. Thursday 20 July – The AKA Trio: three reductions. The Shostakovich is particularly astonishing musicians from differing ‘world’ extraordinary. The day’s workshop will culminate in a mini-concert at 3.15 – 4.00pm. traditions in a virtuosic and invigorating new Friends and family are welcome to join at 3.00pm for this. collaboration. Saturday 29 July – Voice: the purity of three

Ben Parry (credit Susan Porter Thomas Photography) fine young voices and music from the 14th Generously supported by Petworth Festival Patrons and Friends Sun 23 July – Hollywood Romance: the and 15th centuries as the festival returns to Tickets: £10 acclaimed jazz singer Claire Martin joins the Petworth’s Catholic Church. Tippett String Quartet and a top jazz combo for (18 and under £5) Concert tickets: £3 on the door - Unreserved seating a series of sumptuous ‘American Songbook’ arrangements.

10 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 11 Saturday 15 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) Sunday 16 July | 1.30pm – 5.00pm Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Festival Walk Meet at the Recreation Ground (GU28 0QA) - 1st left after the Foresters Arms Inn

This year’s Festival Walk will be led by Jonathan Golden around the village of Graffham and its surrounding countryside. The walk is about 7 miles and will take us through at the foot of the Downs, on to Stud and Lavington Common before returning past Gallows Hill to the village via wooded streams and through a tunnel of Rhododendron bushes. The going is easy, and the views consistently rewarding. There is free parking at the Graffham Recreation Ground, which is to the left of the War Memorial on the main road through the village. Tea and cake donated by Tiffins Tearoom can also be purchased at the end of the walk at the newly refurbished Cricket Pavilion which has beautiful views of the downs. All proceeds will go to local charities. The walk itself is free, and will be on wet or fine! Boots recommended. Dogs who don’t wander off are welcome.

Graffham School & St Giles from Lavington Stud (credit: Mary FREE – no booking required Butterworth)

Sunday 16 July | Leconfield Hall 3.00pm (Ends approx 4.00pm) Family Event with Matthew Sharp Tommy Foggo Superhero Cédric Tiberghien (credit: Jean-Baptiste Millot) Tommy Foggo & his Cello are a superhero duo. They go on adventures Chopin Sonate No.2 in Bb minor, Op.35 “Funèbre” and overcome impossible odds - and they like to sing a tune and ‘a virtuoso Chopin Scherzo No.2 in Bb minor Op. 31 share the fun with their friends on the way! Tommy’s mum had told him of the arts’ Liszt Csárdás Macabre, S.224 to wait for her at the bus stop and never showed up again. It felt to The Times Bagatelle without Tonality, S.216a Tommy like he’d been stuck there for a zillion years - even after he’d Mephisto Waltz No.4, S.696 been taken to live in the children’s home. La Lugubre Gondola Piano Sonata in B Minor S.178 And then, one day, he ran away – to the seaside. He was looking for an ice-cream but, instead, he found Destino, a talking Cello with a The French pianist, Cédric Tiberghien has been playing the piano since the age of five. He studied mission. Join Tommy Foggo and Destino as they recruit a gang of at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de la Musique in Paris and was awarded the Premier Prix young helpers to travel with them through time and space to find the in 1992, aged just 16. He has subsequently achieved significant competition successes in Bremen, Queen of Lost Atlantis - and save her people from the giant, venomous Dublin, Tel Aviv, Geneva and Milan. A member of the BBC’s prestigious roster of New Generation and cold-blooded Kraken of the Deep. Artists, Cédric Tiberghien’s career spans five continents and has taken him to some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Centre in Washington, the Brought to Petworth by international cellist, singer and actor Matthew Sharp. Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall and Barbican in London, the Salle Pleyel and the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris, Berlin’s Bechstein Hall, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, the Sydney This is a show for adults and children, but recommended for age 7+ Opera and Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan and Asahi Halls. Generously supported by Rountree Tryon Galleries Generously supported by Rodney H Downes, John & Corinne Older and an anonymous donor

Tickets: Band A £26, £16, £7.50 Tickets: £9 (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7.50 seats) (5yrs -18yrs £7, 4yrs and under FREE but do please book)

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Sunday 16 July | St Mary’s Church 8.00pm (Ends approx 9.40pm) Monday 17 July | Champs Hill 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) The Orlando Consort Gillian Keith (soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano) The Passion of Joan of Arc (film event) Elemental

Matthew Venner Countertenor Mark Dobell Tenor Angus Smith Tenor Donald Greig Baritone Robert Macdonald Bass

A stunning audio and visual experience. One of the UK’s leading vocal ensembles, the Orlando Consort, performs a live sound track to a film which was condemned (unseen) in France on its release, vilified by the Catholic authorities and even banned outright in - Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Gillian Keith (credit Clare Park) Simon Lepper La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc. The 1928 film is now widely Grounding. Inspiring. Nurturing. Empowering. A thoughtful and beautifully crafted programme recognised as a silent masterpiece, regularly appearing in lists performed by the award-winning duo, Canadian soprano Gillian Keith and pianist Simon of the top ten greatest films ever made. Lepper. Their recital explores the elements – Earth, Air, Water and Fire - and surveys texts which describe our human position on this planet and the way in which poets and composers have Inspired by Dreyer’s vision, the award winning Orlando responded to the larger-than-life questions that shape our existence. The things we touch, those at Consort presents an entirely new, carefully crafted soundtrack which we gaze in wonderment, that which sustains us, and the force that has power to destroy us - all of music from the era in which the film is set. The intricate these have been depicted in art through the ages. beauty of 15th century works by Binchois and Dufay, together with animated motets and haunting plainsong amplify the The programme includes songs by Schubert, Brahms, Fauré, Wolf, Strauss and Copland, and solo poignant depiction of medieval France and provide a highly piano music by Debussy. evocative accompaniment to a landmark film. Wine included in the ticket price and served from 6.45pm Soundtrack devised and developed by Donald Greig. Gardens open from 5pm for picnics Generously supported by David & Mary Bowerman Generously supported by the Franks Family

Tickets: Band B £21, £13, £7 Tickets: £23 (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7 seats) (18 and under £5) There is no interval at this event Unreserved Seating

14 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 15 Tuesday 18 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.20pm) Tuesday 18 July | Leconfield Hall 7.45pm (Ends approx 8.45pm) The Coull Quartet Bounder & Cad Warning - Implicit Content!

Bounder & Cad is the raffish cabaret duo that 10 Downing St tried to censor - until their jazzy tunes eventually had the PM dancing... (David Cameron, not Theresa May of course). Their stock in trade? Bespoke comedy songs and parodies, written to order and guaranteed to tickle funny-bones, all backed by swingin’ jazz accompaniment at the piano. Guaranteed to shake the tail-feathers, they have entertained two princes, two PMs, and Tim Henman - and now they’re going to sing for us!

‘Every generation needs a classy, charming, original, fresh-faced, stylish and witty musical double-act. We’ve found ours: Bounder & Cad’ Gyles Brandreth

Generously supported by Donovan’s Dental Practice and Middleton Advisors

Tickets: £14 (18 and under £5) There is no interval at this event

Wednesday 19 July | Leconfield Hall 12 noon (Ends approx 1.00pm) Roger Coull violin Philip Gallaway violin Musicians from the Royal Academy of Music Jonathan Barritt viola Nicholas Roberts cello The Pocket Sinfonia Schubert String Quartet in G minor D. 173 Mozart (trans. Hummel) Overture from The Marriage of Figaro Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor Op. 13 Mozart (trans. Hummel) Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor K491 Brahms String Quartet in B flat Op. 67 Grieg The Holberg Suite Op.40 Petworth Festival welcomes the leading string quartet, formed in 1974 by students at the Royal Directed from the piano by Emil Duncomb, the Pocket Sinfonia is a small chamber group consisting Academy of Music under the guidance of renowned quartet leader, Sidney Griller. The Coull Quartet of piano, violin, cello and flute and who play transcriptions of orchestral works, a number of them by rapidly achieved national recognition, and were appointed Quartet-in-Residence by the University of the contemporary of Mozart, Johann Hummel. The group’s aim is to bring larger orchestral works to Warwick in 1977, a post which they still hold today. Their programme takes us on an exquisite journey smaller chamber settings, and to use the added freedom of having fewer players in the group to offer through some of the great quartets of the late classical and early romantic repertoire. a new take on these large pieces of music. Generously supported by The Anstruther Family Generously supported by Lewis Golden Tickets: £6 Tickets: Band B £21, £13, £7 (18 and under £3) (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7 seats) There is no interval at this event

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Wednesday 19 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) Wednesday 19 July | Leconfield Hall 7.45pm (Ends approx 9.00pm) An A to Z of Orchestral Triangle playing with Chloë Hanslip (violin) and Danny Driver (piano) Michael DoranAn inspirational if slightly lunatic 70 minutes! In his exhaustive A - Z of orchestral triangle playing, orchestral percussionist extraordinaire and Principal Percussionist of the English National Opera, Michael ‘Mick’ Doran, lifts the lid on how orchestras really work. And unless all his previous audiences have been completely wrong Mick will have you glued to your seats, and not infrequently helpless with laughter. Above all, you’ll get to know everything you’ll ever need to know about the triangle… and probably a great deal more.

Generously supported by Peter & Jo Lavender

Tickets: £14 (18 and under £5) There is no interval at this event PETWORTH Chloë Hanslip (credit: B Ealovega) Danny Driver (credit Richard Haughton) Schubert Sonatina in D major Op. 68 Widmann Sommersonate FESTIVAL Beethoven Spring Sonata Op. 24 Schubert Fantasy in C D.934 SOUVENIR PROGRAMME The prodigiously talented British violinist Chloë Hanslip made her BBC Proms debut at the age of 15 and her US concerto debut a year later. She has performed at major venues in the UK (Royal …must-have reading to accompany and enhance your Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall), Europe (Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Paris Louvre and enjoyment of all Festival events Salle Gaveau, St Petersburg Hermitage) as well as Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Arts Space in Tokyo and the Seoul Arts Centre. For this attractive programme she is joined by a figure well known to Petworth audiences, pianist Danny Driver. An established soloist in his own right, Danny has been Comprehensive guide described variously as ‘bold, exuberant and precise’ () and of ‘impeccable technique - what’s on, when and musicianship’ (Gramophone). He has earned two Gramophone Award nominations, a National - artist biographies Public Radio Top 10 Award and, most recently, Limelight Magazine’s Instrumental Recording of the - programme notes Year 2014 Award for his recording of Handel’s Eight Great Suites. - covers all Festival events - all for only £5 Generously supported by Ann Bayne On sale at all Festival events, or available to pre-order Tickets: Band A £26, £16, £7.50 when booking tickets at the box office by phone, post (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7.50 seats) or online for collection at your first event.

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Thursday 20 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) Thursday 20 July | Easebourne Church 8.00pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) The European Union Chamber The AKA Trio

Orchestra Antonio Forcione guitar Seckou Keita kora with Piers Adams (recorder) Adriano Adewale percussion directed by Hans-Peter Hofman Three phenomenal musicians come together to form the epic AKA Trio; an energetic, exhilarating and Telemann Recorder Concerto in C major sensational combination of music and musicianship, rich in cultural influences. Handel Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.7 Sammartini Concerto for Descant Recorder The AKA Trio is a high-octane collaboration between three world-renowned virtuosos: Internationally Vivaldi Summer from The Four Seasons acclaimed guitarist Antonio Forcione from Italy is a master of his game, and globally respected for Bach Concerto for Two Violins his compositions; award-winning Seckou Keita from Senegal is one of the world’s most respected Vivaldi Recorder Concerto in C and virtuosic kora players; and Adriano Adewale is a composer/percussionist from Brazil whose natural charisma equals his originality and multi-instrumental skill. Together as the AKA Trio they treat The EUCO gave its first concerts in 1981 and audiences to an exceptional show of musical virtuosity, personality and wit. soon gained a worldwide reputation as a musical ambassador for the European Union. The ensemble Generously supported by The Halfway Bridge – which comprises young professionals from across Europe and is led by Hans-Peter Hofman Tickets: £22, or £15 in restricted view seats – has worked with many leading soloists including (18 and under £5, or £3.50 in restricted view seats) Mischa Maisky, Igor Oistrakh, James Galway, Ivo Unreserved seating Pogorelich, Nicola Benedetti and Emma Johnson. With 21 CDs to its credit for various labels (ASV, Hyperion, Koch and Naxos) they welcome the “The most epic trio of musical prodigious talents of recorder player Piers Adams, perfection I have ever come known to many as the outstanding front man of the across...mesmerised” Three Weeks early music ensemble, Red Priest. “A palpable sense of rapport and Generously supported by Sir Geoffrey & Lady delight in their music-making... Pattie leaving the audience clearly exhilarated” The Scotsman

Piers Adams

Tickets: Band B £21, £13, £7 (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7 seats)

20 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 21 Friday 21 July | Petworth House Stables 6.00pm (Ends approx 10.00pm) Friday 21 July | Champs Hill 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) Comedy in The Stables The Gould Piano Trio with The Rainer Hersch Orkestra, Hal Cruttenden, with Mark Simpson (clarinet) “After twenty years of playing Kieran Hodgson and Toby Hadoke Lucy Gould violin together, what (the Gould Alice Neary cello Piano Trio produces) is truly A huge success on its first outing in 2016, Petworth Festival’s Benjamin Frith piano extraordinary” Washington Post headline open air comedy event returns to Petworth House’s Beethoven Piano Trio No. 1 in Eb Op.1 atmospheric Stable Yard. Featuring no less than four top comedians, Mark Simpson After Avedon the evening is headlined by the Rainer Hersch Orkestra. Brilliant Messiaen Quatuor pour le fin du temps comedian and genius conductor Rainer Hersch takes to the stage with his very own Orkestra of madcap virtuosi. With games, stand- Petworth Festival is delighted to welcome the Gould Piano up comedy and Rainer’s reworking of classics from Tchaikovsky to Trio which is considered one of the finest of its kind performing today. As they celebrate their 25th Titanic, they genuinely deliver an unforgettable evening of laughter anniversary season they are joined for their Champs Hill performance by the composer/clarinettist and superb music. Boasting more than 10 Million hits on YouTube Mark Simpson, who became the first ever winner of both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and to date “you’ll never see another show quite like this”. BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions almost a decade ago and is newly the BBC Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Association. The programme includes Mark Simpson’s new Rainer Hersch Hersch shares the bill with Hal Cruttenden, one of the top comedians work inspired by the photography of Richard Avedon, and one of the most remarkable of all 20th working in the UK today, as well as being a highly accomplished century chamber works, Messiaen’s startling but sobering masterpiece, Le Quatuor pour le fin du writer and actor. Over the last year he’s performed on The John temps. Bishop Show (BBC1) and Live at the Apollo (BBC1 and 2) - his third Wine included in the ticket price and served from 6.45pm appearance on that show - The Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala Gardens open from 5pm for picnics on Channel 10 Australia as well as making a second appearance on Generously supported by David & Mary Bowerman Have I Got News For You (BBC1). He has also frequently been seen on Great British Bake Off – Extra Slice (BBC2) . He will shortly be Tickets: £25 recording Channel 4’s Comedy Gala (C4) in aid of Great Ormond (18 and under £5) Street Hospital in front of an audience of 16,000 at the O2 Arena, Unreserved seating London.

Hal Cruttenden (photo: Steve Ullathorne) Saturday 22 July | Leconfield Hall 12 noon (Ends approx 1.00pm) In an evening of three halves the evening kicks off with warm up sets from Kieran Hodgson and Toby Hadoke.

Hot food will be provided by Badgers of Coultershaw and hot Pete Bellotte drinks by the Vintage Coffee Company. There will be a bar selling The Unround Circle wine, beer and soft drinks. The audience is kindly requested to An opportunity to meet a major figure from the recording industry who has now turned his hand to consume only food and drink purchased on the premises. literature. Having produced hundreds of tracks and written over 350 songs that have been recorded by a whole host of international artists, Pete - now living in – not only has a story or two By kind permission of Lord and Lady Egremont and the National to tell about the music industry, including how he was able to help the year sixteen year old Elton Trust John who was still wearing his school uniform on his first ever overseas gig, but now also has a new collection of stories: The Unround Circle. His background? Pete discovered pop star Donna Summer

Keiran Hodgson and wrote her hits Hot Stuff, I Feel Love, and Love to Love You Baby and has subsequently been inducted into the American ‘Dance Music Hall of Fame’. Producers of the Year in the USA for the two Generously supported by Savills consecutive years with Giorgio Moroder, Pete has been awarded well over 70 Silver, Gold & Platinum Discs worldwide as well as being Grammy Nominated three times.

The Petworth Bookshop will be selling copies of The Unround Circle at this event.

Tickets: £26 Tickets: £11 (18 and under £5) (18 and under £4) Unreserved seating There is no interval at this event Toby Hadoke

22 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 23 Saturday 22 July | Petworth House Stables 6.00pm (Ends approx 9.15pm) Sunday 23 July | Bignor Park 2.30pm (Ends approx 4.15pm) Jazz in The Stables Illyria’s with Alex Mendham & his Orchestra The Emperor’s New Clothes (family theatre) Based on the timeless Hans Christian Andersen story, Illyria first performed this show in 2000 when it was Critic’s choice at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and attracted multiple 5-star reviews on a sellout UK tour.

The Emperor is a lovely man, but he’s not the best judge of character. What keeps him sane is the monthly Grand Parade at which he wears his newest outfit. When two swindlers offer him the ability to identify competence by making him clothes which only the wise can see, what price will he have to pay? Will he end up losing his crown jewels? When someone spins a yarn must everyone be taken in?

All will be revealed in Illyria’s cheekiest ever show!

Illyria was the first company to tour children’s theatre on this scale in the open-air touring sector. Following their enormous successes with Danny The Champion Of The World, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Babe The Sheep-Pig and The Twits they are also regarded as the best. Now in their 26th season they return with one of the most famous cautionary tales ever told. As in so many of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories, beneath the fancy The fantastically popular festival fixture that is Jazz in the Stables is headlined by the slick-and- clothes of the tale lies something more meaningful; human weaknesses are satirised mercilessly; and tremendously-suave Alex Mendham and his Orchestra. Formed under the youthful direction of Alex a capacity for loving is the highest value. There are larger-than-life characters, lots and lots to join in Mendham and now resident orchestra at London’s Savoy Hotel, this 11-piece Orchestra authentically with – and an ending that will leave you helpless with laughter! performs hot jazz and sweet dance band music from the Art Deco era but with a modern energy and passion that comes from younger musicians. As ever the Petworth audience is unlikely to be able to [NB - there is NO nudity in the production - although one of the actors may get a little chilly…] resist the urge to get up and dance to great hits of the 20s and 30s… Recommended for children aged 5+ and their families As in previous years, the evening opens with a set from the West Sussex Music Trust’s remarkable big band of young jazz musicians. The performance is outside. Please bring your own low backed seating or rugs and dress for the Hot food will be provided by Badgers of Coultershaw and hot drinks by the Vintage Coffee weather. Grounds open from 1.00pm for picnics. Light refreshments will be available. Company. There will be a bar selling wine, beer and soft drinks. The audience is kindly requested to consume only food and drink purchased on the premises. By kind permission of Lord and Lady Mersey

By kind permission of Lord and Lady Egremont and the National Trust Generously supported by Alan & Sara Bennie, Lombard Structures, Seaford College and West Sussex Decorative & Fine Arts Society

Generously supported by John Bird Antiques, The Oakapple Trading Co, Petworth Antique Market,

Rugs of Petworth & Sorella Clothing, Alan & Sara Bennie and Peter & Frances Rhys-Evans

Tickets: £26 (18 and under £5) Tickets: £9 Unreserved seating (5yrs - 18 yrs £7, 4 yrs and under FREE but do please book)

24 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 25 Director’sArtistic Trail

Sunday 23 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) Monday 24 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.20pm) Hollywood Romance Natalie Clein (cello) with with Claire Martin Katya Apekisheva (piano) Programme includes: “Claire Martin ranks Debussy Cello sonata among the four or Britten Solo Cello Suite No. 3 five finest female jazz Scriabin Two Impromptus Op.14 vocalists on the planet” Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G Minor Op.19 Jazz Times USA Petworth Festival welcomes the very remarkable British cellist and former BBC Young Musician of the Year Natalie Clein, now an established fixture on the international circuit. A keen recital and chamber performer, she has recently performed Bach’s Complete Cello Suites in London, Southampton and Oxford and has curated a series of four concerts for BBC Radio 3 at LSO St Luke’s. The proud artistic director of her own chamber music festival in Purbeck, Dorset, Natalie has recently been appointed Artist in Residence and Director of Musical Performance at Oxford University.

A regular collaborator with a number of our leading contemporary composers and an energetic contributor to cross-disciplinary projects, Natalie is joined by acclaimed Russian pianist Katya Apekisheva, a prize-winner in the Leeds International and Scottish Piano Competitions, and a London Philharmonic ‘Soloist of the Year’. Natalie Clein (photo: Neda Navaee)

A rich, elegant and beautifully crafted musical project, Hollywood Romance is an entirely original Generously supported by Lewis Golden collaboration which brings together the Tippett String Quartet and some of London’s finest jazz musicians – including Petworth favourite, pianist James Pearson - in partnership with multi award- winning jazz singer and broadcaster Claire Martin. Together they celebrate the golden age of Hollywood with elegant, swinging settings of songs arranged by Callum Au and inspired by the legendary recordings of Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O’Day and Sarah Vaughan.

No stranger to Petworth, Claire Martin is as a tour de force on the UK jazz scene having won many awards including seven British Jazz Awards. Signed to the prestigious Linn Records, she has released 18 CDs, working with musical luminaries including Martin Taylor, John Martyn, Stephane Grappelli, Kenny Barron, Richard Rodney Bennett and Jim Mullen. She has co-presented BBC Radio 3’s flag ship jazz program Jazz Line Up since 2000 and was recently awarded an OBE for her services to jazz.

Generously supported by Phyllis-Anne Dutton-Forshaw and Nicholas & Pat Moore

Tickets: Band A £26, £16, £7.50 Tickets: Band A £26, £16, £7.50 (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7.50 seats) (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7.50 seats) Katya Apekisheva (photo: Karina Gradusova)

26 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 27 Director’sArtistic Trail

Tuesday 25 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.20pm) Tuesday 25 July | Easebourne Church 8.00pm (Ends approx 10.00pm) Leon McCawley (piano) The Bisserov Sisters (Bulgaria) and Natural Selection Gently echoing themes examined by Gillian Keith and Maya Youssef (Syria) Simon Lepper in an earlier festival concert, the stellar British pianist presents a programme recently performed at London’s Wigmore Hall - a wonderfully varied programme of music inspired by nature, incorporating the great centres of musical excellence from the 18th through to the early 20th century: from Beethoven in Vienna, Schumann in Dresden, the travels of the virtuoso Liszt to Switzerland in his ‘Years of Pilgrimage’, Rachmaninov in Moscow and Ravel and Debussy in Paris.

Generously supported by Lady Barbara Bossom

A very special evening of music from two vibrant traditions. Band B £21, £13, £7 Spanning three generations, Mitra, Lyubimka, Vera, Rositsa (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7 seats) and Rosen Bisserov represent one of Europe’s most distinctive Leon McCawley (credit Sheila Rock) musical vocal traditions. Ever since early childhood, the Bulgarian sisters have been performing live, their inherited Petworth Festival is proud vocal skills having been developed within the confines of their family environment and passed down from mother to daughter. We all need to stage its seventh Literary The Bisserov Sisters’ repertoire comes from the rich folk-music Weekend dialect of Bulgaria’s Pirin region, and is themed around significant ‘life events’ - weddings, springtime, Friends! folktales, work, family life, love, religion, hajduks (Serbian warriors), and singing at table. Mitra, Vera Wednesday 1 - and Rositsa additionally play the tambura – a local Bulgarian string instrument originating from South- It is always difficult to finance a Festival of this nature, West Bulgaria with sisters Lyubimka and Rosen playing the tapan and tarambuka drum. due in part to the diversity of the events and the high standard of our artists, combined with the often small, but delightful venues. The Petworth Festival, a Sunday 5 November 2017 The evening commences in the company of a very different instrumental sound world, that of the Syrian Registered Charity, relies on support from businesses kanun, the traditional Syrian 78-stringed plucked zither. Maya Youssef’s extraordinary musical gift and and individuals as well as the box office to finance the To achieve the high quality of speakers and artists we attract and to generosity of outlook, warmth, humour and optimism have brought comparisons with such legendary programme. keep tickets prices low virtuosos as Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin and Meredith Monk. She studied at the High Institute of “Festival Friends”, who give £20 or more each year (per household), are entitled to a priority booking WE NEED SPONSORS Music and Dramatic arts in Damascus, and spent some years teaching and performing in Dubai and period and a 10% discount on tickets bought by post If you would like to support us in this way please contact Oman. Maya has since performed at major UK festivals and venues including Celtic Connections, BBC during that priority period. They receive exclusive Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Bath Festival and Celebrating Sanctuary at the Southbank. preview information early each year and there are also Kate Wardle 01798 343055 Friends’ parties from time to time. Friends who give [email protected] £100 or more – our much-valued Patrons – receive Generously supported by The Halfway Bridge a slightly longer priority booking period. With many for further information Festival events selling out before they go on sale to the general public, this Priority Booking period becomes a Sponsorship from £250 real bonus! * For more information about becoming a Festival Patron Complimentary tickets or Friend please call * Reserved Seats Tickets: £22, or £15 in restricted view seats 01798 343 055 or email * Credit in the Brochure (18 and under £5, or £3.50 in restricted view seats) [email protected] Unreserved seating

28 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 29 Wednesday 26 July | Leconfield Hall 12 noon (Ends approx 1.00pm) Wednesday 26 July | Leconfield Hall 6.00pm (Ends approx 7.10pm) & 8.15pm Musicians from the Royal (Ends approx 9.25pm) The Jay Rayner Quartet Academy of Music Songs of Food and Agony Two chances to meet the award-winning (piano) writer, journalist and broadcaster- Hao Zi Yoh with-a-fine-collection-of-floral-shirts in another guise – that of jazz musician. Jay Rayner has written on everything from crime and politics, through cinema and theatre to the visual arts, but is best known as restaurant critic for the Observer, as chair of BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet, and as a regular judge on BBC’s Masterchef. Also an accomplished jazz pianist he brings to Petworth his highly entertaining sequence of songs about food and drink, and others informed by his experience of growing up with his agony aunt mother, Claire Rayner. He is joined by regular quartet partners Dave Lewis (sax), Robert Rickenberg (bass) and singer Pat Gordon-Smith.

Generously supported by The Hungry Guest Ravel Oiseaux Tristes - from Miroirs Debussy Preludes Book 1 No. 5 Les Collines d’Anacapri No. 6 Des pas sur la neige Chong Lim Ng Fragments from “Rimba” - A Distant Voice of the Rainforest Debussy Preludes Book 1, No. 7 Ce qua vu lent d’ouest Messiaen Le Courlis Cendré Debussy Prelude Book 2, No. 12 Feux d’artifice Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque

Described as a young pianist with great sensitivity to tone colour, Malaysian pianist Hao Zi Yoh presents a programme exploring imageries in music. Debussy is one of the key figures in creating a mysterious harmony between nature and the imagination and this programme interweaves a selection of his Preludes, together with Ravel’s Oiseaux Tristes from Miroirs, Messiaen’s Le Courlis Cendré (from his Catalogue d’Oiseaux which captures the sounds of birds), as well as A Distant Voice of the Rainforest by Malaysian composer Chong Lim Ng in which Hao Zi incorporates elements of improvisation and ethnic singing in the performance.

Generously supported by The Anstruther Family

Tickets: £6 Tickets: £14 (18 and under £3) (18 and under £5) There is no interval at this event There is no interval at these events

30 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 31 Director’sArtistic Trail

Wednesday 26 July | Midhurst Rother College 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) Thursday 27 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) Radio Active featuring Angus Deayton Thomas Gould (violin) and plus Card Ninja Gwilym Simcock (piano) Radio Active ran for seven series on BBC Radio 4 then Baroque Encounters transferred to BBC2 as KYTV. In 2016, Angus Deayton, Helen Atkinson Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope reunited to bring classic scripts from the award-winning radio series back to its Edinburgh Fringe birthplace. Following a sell-out season, they are performing at a few select venues and now come to us live in Petworth (or Midhurst, to be wholly accurate). Expect to catch up with classic characters such as long-suffering radio host Mike Channel, original foodie Anna Daptor, and the hapless Martin Brown, as well as musical parody bands the HeeBee GeeBees and Status Quid.

Supported by ‘the Card Ninja’, Gwilym Simcock Javier Jarquin. Two magnificent musicians – violinist Thomas Gould and pianist Gwilym Simcock - come together for a very special collaboration as they jointly attach their unique skills to the music of JS Bach. Expect an exhilarating genre-bending concert as Gould Thomas Gould (photo: Aga Tomaszek) and Simcock, both well known in their respective fields, explore the intersections between notation and improvisation and between classical and jazz. Drawing on Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard by J.S Bach, as well as other arrangements by Simcock (“a creative genius” according to Chick Corea), this will be a wonderful exploration of Bach’s influence and music.

Programme to include JS Bach Sonata for violin and keyboard 1 in B minor, BWV 1014 JS Bach Sonata for violin and keyboard 4 in C minor, BWV 1017 JS Bach arr. Simcock Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 JS Bach arr. Simcock Jesus bleibet meine Freude, BWV 147

Generously supported by Ian & Caroline McNeil and an anonymous donor

Tickets: £26 (18 and under £5) Tickets: Band A £26, £16, £7.50 Unreserved seating (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7.50 seats)

32 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 33 Director’sArtistic Trail

Thursday 27 July | Leconfield Hall 7.45pm (Ends approx 8.50pm) Friday 28 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.40pm) Dorothy Parker Takes a Trip The Trio Apaches with The O Duo

The immensely versatile singer/actor Sarah Gabriel presents a solo performance of the words of the inimitable Dorothy Parker, the American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist using her letters, essays and poems. The show also incorporates musical accompaniment from contemporary composers written in the three great cities of London, Paris, and New York - including I went to a Marvellous Party (Noel Coward), It’s Only a Paper Moon (Harold Arlen), Our Love is Here to Stay (George Gershwin) and September Song (Kurt Weill). Expect an evening leavened with Parker’s incomparable one-liners and put-downs….

Generously supported by Augustus Brandt Trio Apaches Matthew Trusler violin Sarah Gabriel (credit Raphaelle Photography) Thomas Carroll cello ‘This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.’ Ashley Wass piano O Duo ‘If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.’ Sam Staunton percussion Tim Gunnell percussion Jonny Raper percussion ‘If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.’ Rossini arr. Trio Apaches Overture - William Tell Wagner/Pringsheim Liebesnacht - Tristan and Isolde Glinka Trio Pathetique in D Minor Shostakovich arr. Derevianko Symphony No. 15 The Trio Apaches was officially formed for the 2012 Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival. All well-known musicians to Petworth audiences, the Trio is named after the innovative and often controversial group of Parisian-based artists which formed around 1900. Its members included the composers Ravel, Stravinsky and Manuel de Falla, as well as painters, poets and music critics of the day. The group adopted the name after they’d inadvertently bumped into a newspaper seller who exclaimed “Attention les apaches!”, and was embraced as an appropriate representation of their revolutionary spirit.

They are joined by three equally respected and dynamic musical peers who on this occasion expand the popular O Duo to a trio. Together with the Trio Apaches, their programme is based around transcriptions of substantial orchestral masterpieces, culminating in their huge version of Shostakovich’s towering and final 15th Symphony, and a work notable for its astonishing percussion toccata featuring castanets, snare drum, wood block, xylophone and triangle.

Generously supported by Ann Bayne, Gay Bradley and Jonathan & Claudia Golden Tickets: £14 (18 and under £5) Tickets: Band B £21, £13, £7 There is no interval at this event (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7 seats)

34 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 35 Friday 28 July | Leconfield Hall 7.45pm (Ends approx 8.45pm) Saturday 29 July | St Mary’s Church 7.30pm (Ends approx 9.30pm) The Kagools Martynas Levickis (accordion) & Mikroorkéstra Ensemble Tutti Tango! The Kagools are, quite simply, a deliciously funny and Martynas Levickis accordion sweetly mischievous comedy double act. They were Simas Tankevicius violin created by comedians Nicola Wilkinson and Claire Ford, Rakele Chijenaite violin starting life as recurring characters in their original sketch Mintautas Kriščiūnas viola shows. The Kagools proved so popular with audiences that Igne Pikalaviciute cello in 2013 they started developing a full-length show featuring the characters and their first show,Kagoolio was born. The A sizzling musical finale to the 39th Petworth Festival as the extraordinary virtuoso that is the Lithuanian classical show was so well received at the Edinburgh Fringe that the accordionist Martynas Levickis is joined by four equally duo decided to focus on developing The Kagools further exciting fellow countrymen, from the Mikroorkéstra Ensemble. and are now back with this enchanting show. They present a dynamic programme centred on the timeless ‘Tango Nuevo’ of renowned Argentine composer Astor “It feels like a natural progression for us, and Piazzolla. If ever a programme was designed to bring a festival the great thing about The Kagools is that the to a fitting finale this carefully compiled sequence of popular classical, tango and folk music is certainly it! comedy is universal. Whatever language you speak and however young or old you are, you Georgs Pelecis Flowering Jasmine can follow along and feel a part of the ridiculous Daniel Nelson My inner disco Astor Piazzolla Five Tango Sensations: mess The Kagools get themselves into.” II Love III Anxiety Tickets: £14 V Fear (18 and under £5) Bizet/Rodríguez Habañera from Carmen/ There is no interval at this event La Cumparsita Paganini/Palmer/Hughes Variations on Caprice No. 24 Saturday 29 July | The Church of The Sacred Heart, Petworth 12 noon (Ends approx 1.00pm) in A minor Verdi Overture: La Forza del Destino Vivaldi Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297 L’inverno (Winter) Voice Director’s Trail Artistic Vivaldi Presto from Violin concerto A Life of Love and Joy No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, Victoria Couper, Clemmie Franks & Emily Burn RV 315 L’estate (Summer) Trad. Misirlou (song from the Eastern The Festival returns to Petworth’s Catholic Church for the first time in Mediterranean region) several years for an elegant choral performance by the young and fast Rossini Figaro’s Cavatina “Largo al establishing female acapella ensemble Voice. Formed in 2006, Voice has factotum” from The Barber of Seville established a reputation for performances of secular and non-secular Carlos Gardel Por Una Cabeza Astor Piazzolla Adios Nonino music from the medieval music of Hildegard of Bingen to twenty-first- Richard Galliano Tango Pour Claude century commissions. Their programme – – is a A Life of Love and Joy Dino Saluzzi Gorrion sequence of songs that illustrate both joyful and celebratory settings Astor Piazzolla Oblivion of poetry often using the theme of birds as heraldic symbols and the Richard Galliano La Valse a Margaux recurring topic of unattainable love so often expounded in Medieval Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 Europe. With music by Hildegard of Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut and Lady Gaga Telephone other composers writing in the 14th and 15th centuries. Generously supported by Petworth Festival Patrons and Generously supported by Veronica Henty Friends Tickets: £12 and £5 (restricted view) (18 and under £5 and Free in restricted view seats) Tickets: Band A £26, £16, £7.50 Unreserved seating. There is no interval at this event (18 and under £5 or FREE in adult £7.50 seats)

36 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 37 Programme Advertisers Festival Anderson Rowntree Chichester Stoneworks Golden Leaver LLP Sponsors Great Ballard School Petworth Festival would like to thank the large Community & Education Partners Kirker Holidays number of individuals and corporate organsations The Anstruther Family Lady Penelope Gardening who support the Festival, both financially and in The Bennie Family Trust kind. Without their continued support the Festival The Boltini Trust would not be possible and we remain extremely Steinway Concert Grand Piano grateful. Royal Academy of Music The Steinway concert grand piano chosen and West Sussex Decorative & Fine Arts Society hired by the Petworth Festival for concerts in West Sussex Music St. Mary’s Church is supplied and maintained Principal Sponsor by Steinway & Sons, The Leconfield Estates London. Our thanks to an anonymous donor

Individual Donors who has contributed Mrs Ann Bayne Trusts & Foundations towards its cost. Mr & Mrs Alan Bennie The Bassil Shippam & Alsford Charitable Trust Lady Barbara Bossom Sir Clive & Lady Barbara Bossom Our thanks also to Graphic Design & Printing Mr & Mrs David Bowerman Corporate Partners The Angel Inn John Good Ltd www.johngood.com Mrs Gay Bradley August Brandt Website Mr & Mrs Tony Buckley Donovan’s Dental Practice www.giraffedesign.co.uk Mr Rodney H Downes Guilt Lingerie Mr & Mrs Peter Drummond The Halfway Bridge Mrs Phyllis-Anne Dutton-Forshaw Special Thanks Hennings Wine Merchants Mr & Mrs Robert Evans To David & Mary Bowerman for allowing the use The Hungry Guest Mrs A Ford-Robertson of the Music Room at Champs Hill, the Mersey John Bird Antiques The Franks Family family for the use of Bignor Park, the National Kevis House Gallery Mrs Deborah Godfray Trust and Lord & Lady Egremont for the use of Langhams Brewery Mr & Mrs Jonathan Golden the Petworth House Stable Yard and the Gallery The Leconfield Restaurant & Bar Mr Lewis Golden and Chapel at St Mary’s Church, everyone at Lombard Structures Mr Michael Harting St Mary’s Church, Petworth, everyone at The Meghdoots Mystique Masala Mrs Veronica Henty Church of The Sacred Heart, Petworth, and Middleton Advisors Mr & Mrs David Hunter everyone at St Mary Church, Easebourne. The Oakapple Trading Co Professor & Mrs Peter Lavender Petworth Antique Market Mr & Mrs Ken Lintill The Petworth Bookshop Mrs Anna Luttman-Johnson Rugs of Petworth Mr & Mrs Ian McNeil Rountree Tryon Galleries The Mersey Family Savills Mr & Mrs Robert Moorby Seaford College Mr & Mrs Nicholas Moore Sorella Clothing Mr & Mrs John Older Tiffins Tea Room Mr & Mrs Gordon Owen Upperton Vineyard Sir Geoffrey & Lady Pattie Mr & Mrs Mark Powell Mr & Mrs Christopher Purchas Media Partners Mr & Mrs Peter Rhys-Evans Midhurst & Petworth Observer The Sosland Family Sussex Life Sir Michael & Lady Wright

The Festival would also like to thank all the generous individuals who have made donations and have asked to remain anonymous.

38 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 39 Eating, drinking, and Other local staying in Petworth events Petworth and the surrounding district has a wealth of places in which to extend and further enjoy your visit to the Petworth Festival. Here are just a few of them:

Place to eat Badger’s Inn, Coultershaw 01798 342651 Weald & Downland Living Chichester Festival Theatre Bay Tree Bakery 01798 342260 Museum Festival 2017 April - December Black Horse Inn, Byworth 01798 342424 The Fete in the Park 2017 Saturday 8th July ​ Singleton, Chichester PO18 0EU Chichester’s Festival 2017 offers everyone Cates Delicatessen 01798 343634 Free entry and free parking tel 01243 811363 www.wealddown.co.uk something to enjoy in this especially exciting Coco Café & Sugar Lounge 01798 344006 Gates open at 11.00am A leading museum of the historic rural buildings season. There’s a mix of classic and Halfway Bridge 01798 861281 Event starts at 12.00 noon followed by free of . New visitor centre contemporary plays and musicals, with a wealth The Hungry Guest Café 01798 344564 concert at 5.30pm opening spring 2017 of major revivals. The stellar casts include Meghdoot’s Indian Cuisine 01798 343217 Sharon D. Clarke, Omid Djalili, Marcia Gay Star Public House 01798 342569 ​​https://www.facebook.com/feteinthepark/ Upcoming Events : Harden, Ian McKellen, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Stonemasons Inn 01798 342510 [email protected] Food & Folk Festival, 29 April – 1 May Brian J. Smith and Richard Wilson. Tasty Plaice Fish & Chips 01798 342470 Living History Festival, 3 – 4 June The Angel Inn 01798 342153 Rare Breeds Show, 16 July The Last Drop 01798 343659 Petworth Cottage Museum Tuesdays - Saturdays & Bank Holiday Through the Door, 29 - 30 July The Horseguards, Tillington 01798 342332 Mondays The Leconfield Restaurant 01798 345111 April - October 2.00pm-4.30pm The Lickfold Inn 01789 532535 Cream Tea Weekend Walk into a Leconfield Estate cottage in The Welldiggers Arms, Low Heath 01798 St Bartholomew’s Church, Egdean the High Street, where it is always 1910, Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd July, 2017 344288 and experience the gas-lit atmosphere and 2.30-5.00pm Tiffins Tea Room 01798 344560 coal-fired range of the home of Mrs. Mary In the garden of Church Cottage, Egdean, Nr Cummings, seamstress at Petworth House. , RH20 1TJ. Places to Stay Proceeds in aid of St Bartholomew’s Church. The Angel Inn 01798 342153 £4 (Children £1) The Barn at Roundhurst 01428 642535 www.petworthcottagemuseum.co.uk Treve Art Show 2017 Saturday 15th– Sunday 30th July Buckfold Cottage 01798 344944 Coultershaw Heritage Site and 11.00am – 6.00pm Daily The Garden House 01798 342414 Petworth House & Park Treve Cottage, River Common Halfway Bridge 01798 361281 Beam Pump Known for its internationally important collection [via Tillington], Petworth GU28 9BH. The Horseguards Inn 01798 342332 Wednesday 12 July 6pm – 8pm (entry free) of art and sculpture, the state rooms of the Paintings, Drawings, Etchings, Linocuts, Glass, 73 Sheepdown Drive 01798 342269 Sunday 16 July 11am – 5pm Petworth mansion are saturated with works by Textiles, Ceramics, Woodcarving, Jewellery, Moor Farm 01798 342161 Sunday 6 August 11am - 5pm artists such as Van Dyck, Turner and Blake. Visit the remarkable water-wheel driven pump Sculpture. Old Railway Station 01798 342414 FREE ART WORKSHOPS AT WEEKENDS - Surrounding the grand architecture of the installed in 1782 to supplement the water supply The Stonemasons Inn 01798 342510 LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE. mansion is the expansive 700 acre Capability to Petworth House and the town. It’s still working trevefestival.weebly.com Brown landscaped Pleasure Grounds and and capable of delivering a ‘hogshead a minute’. We hope you will be persuaded to spend a little parkland, home to an historic herd of fallow Enquiries: 01798 861257 longer in this lovely town! Also a modern Archimedes Screw water turbine deer and full of sights and scenes to inspire. generating electricity from a renewable source. Discover life ‘below stairs’ in the Servants’ www.discoverpetworth.org The pump house is located on the A285, just Quarters, relax with a meal and hot drink in the south of Petworth. New displays tell the story of www.petworth.biz café and pick up any souvenirs in the gift shop. www.paada.com the Coultershaw Mill, the Rother Navigation, the Petworth Turnpike and the Railway. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/petworth

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42 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 27 April 43 Petworth Festival 2017 Diary Dates

JULY Booking Wed 12 7.30pm St Mary’s Roderick Williams / Iain Burnside - Die Schöne Müllerin Thur 13 10.00am St Mary’s Festival Peal Information 7pm St Mary’s Festival Service 7.15pm Champs Hill Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) Priority Booking Venues Fri 14 12 noon Lec Hall Musicians from the Royal Academy of Music : 21 March - 26 April There are licensed bars at St. Mary’s Church Lucy Humphris (trumpet) Harry Rylance (piano) Priority bookings for Sponsors, Patrons and Petworth, the Stable Yard at Petworth House, 7.30pm St Mary’s L’Avventura / Old Blind Dogs - Orpheus Caledonius Friends can only be made by post on the Leconfield Hall, Easebourne Church and 7.45pm Leconfield Hall Trygve Wakenshaw - Nautilus (comedy) appropriate form, and should be addressed to: Midhurst Rother College. Sat 15 12.30pm St Mary’s Come & Sing with Ben Parry - The Sound of Music Petworth Festival Box Office, 151 Whites Green Lodge, Lurgashall, Petworth GU28 9BD All venues have accessible toilet facilities. 7.30pm St Mary’s Cédric Tiberghien (piano) 5pm & 7.45pm Leconfield Hall Jess Robinson - Impressive (comedy) All venues have wheelchair access. Sun 16 1.30pm Graffham Festival Walk General Booking opens 3pm Leconfield Hall Family Event with Matthew Sharp - Tommy Foggo Superhero 27 April 2017 8pm St Mary’s The Orlando Consort - The Passion of Joan of Arc (film event) Concessions Mon 17 7.30pm Champs Hill Gillian Keith (soprano) / Simon Lepper (piano) - Elemental For all ticketed events children aged 18 and Tue 18 7.30pm St Mary’s The Coull Quartet How to book under may purchase tickets for £5 or free where Online 24 hours a day: stated – please refer to each concert listing for 7.45pm Leconfield Hall Bounder & Cad - Warning: Implicit Content! details. The lowest priced seats in St. Mary’s Wed 19 12 noon Leconfield Hall Musicians from the Royal Academy of Music: www.petworthfestival.org.uk Church are available to children aged 18 and The Pocket Sinfonia under free of charge, but must be pre-booked. 7.30pm St Mary’s Chloë Hanslip (violin) / Danny Driver (piano) By phone: 7.45pm Leconfield Hall An A to Z of Orchestral Triangle Playing with Michael Doran (comedy) 01798 344576 Thur 20 7.30pm St Mary’s The European Union Chamber Orchestra Telephone opening times: 10am - 1pm Terms & Conditions Once purchased, tickets cannot be exchanged. with Piers Adams (recorder) Closed Sundays and Mondays Refunds are not given unless the event is sold 8pm Easebourne Church The AKA Trio (world music) out and your tickets can be re-sold, or if the Fri 21 Doors 6.00pm PH Stables Comedy in the Stables - Rainer Hersch Orkestra and By post: event is cancelled. The information contained in Hal Cruttenden plus Toby Hadoke and Kieran Hodgson Using the form on page 2 this brochure was correct at the time of printing, 7.30pm Champs Hill The Gould Piano Trio with Mark Simpson (clarinet) but may be subject to subsequent alteration. Wheelchair users are requested to notify the Sat 22 12 noon Leconfield Hall Pete Bellotte - The Unround Circle (literary event) By purchasing a ticket permission is deemed Box Office at the time of booking. Doors 5.30pm PH Stables Jazz in the Stables - WSYM Big Band / Alex Mendham & Orchestra to be given to use photographs taken Sun 23 Doors 1.00pm Bignor Park Illyria’s The Emperor’s New Clothes at events for Petworth Festival publicity only. Most credit and debit cards are accepted 7.30pm St Mary’s Hollywood Romance with Claire Martin Please inform Petworth Festival if you do not Mon 24 7.30pm St Mary’s Natalie Clein (cello) / Katya Apekisheva (piano) accept this condition. Tue 25 7.30pm St Mary’s Leon McCawley (piano) - Natural Selection Tickets 8pm Easebourne Church The Bisserov Sisters (Bulgaria) plus Maya Youssef (Syria) Ticket price bands are shown on ticket price Petworth Festival is a company limited by Wed 26 12 noon Leconfield Hall Musicians from the Royal Academy of Music : Hao Zi Yoh (piano) boxes for St. Mary’s Church Petworth where guarantee. 6pm & 8.15pm Leconfield Hall The Jay Rayner Quartet - Songs of Food and Agony they apply throughout the brochure. Registration number 5710001 and Seating plans for St. Mary’s Church Petworth Registered charity number 1113784. 7.30pm Midhurst Rother College Radio Active (comedy featuring Angus Deayton) plus Card Ninja and the Leconfield Hall can be found on pages Thur 27 7.30pm St Mary’s Thomas Gould (violin) / Gwilym Simcock (piano) 42 and 43 of this brochure. - Baroque Encounters Leconfield Hall Dorothy Parker Takes a Trip (comedy/theatre) 2017 Literary Weekend: 7.45pm For further information and to get involved Wednesday 1 - Sunday 5 November Fri 28 7.30pm St Mary’s The Trio Apaches with The O Duo online: www.petworthfestival.org.uk 7.45pm Leconfield Hall The Kagools - Tutti (comedy) Sacred Heart Voice - A Life of Love and Joy 2018 Summer Festival: Sat 29 12 noon www.facebook.com/petworthfestival Wednesday 18 July - Saturday 4 7.30pm St Mary’s Martynas Levickis (accordion) & Mikroorkéstra Ensemble - Tango! @PetworthFest August OTHER EVENTS Throughout festival Kevis House Gallery Art Exhibition - Impromptu by Frances Hatch Wed 12 – Sat 15 July United Reformed Church Schools Art Pop-Up Exhibition

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