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Classical Music on the Jurassic Coast BUDLEIGH SALT E RTON MUSIC FESTIVAL JULY 2015 Friday 10th to Saturday 18th July 2015 Choral Day 9th May Box Office 01395 445275 www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 17th – 20th September 2015 Literary Festival Culture - Culture Tickets available from the Information Centre, Budleigh Salterton from 27th July 2015 Tel: 01395 445275 www.budlitfest.org.uk Tel: 01395 445275 Tel: www.visitbudleigh.com 34 BUS INALTERINE GH S TOS IIG NS E L D D U U B B S S E N B I U S D BU LEIGH IN RETURNING IN 2016 DATES TBC Cookery demos | local produce, beer & wine | Live music Children’s entertainment and much more! | A great foodie family weekend! @budfoodfest budleighfoodanddrinkfestival Box Office 01395 445275 www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk Welcome As the Budleigh Music Festival enters its committee, but also many 11th season, we can truly acknowledge other members of the Budleigh community – either in practical that it has become an international affair. ways or by providing This year’s performers come from China, financial support. New Zealand, Romania and Ireland, as well as Our thanks go to The Norman Family Trust, from all over Britain. Add to this a wealth of Devon County Council, The Exeter & District local talent, and you have a really exciting Classical Music Trust, Palmers, Mr & Mrs Gerald programme in prospect. McEwen, Miss Mary Faulkner, Mr David Many performers enjoy their stay in Budleigh Southern towards hire of the piano, Mr & Mrs and the friendly concert atmosphere so ask if Nichols towards the Schubert concert, Friends they can return. This year we welcome back a of the Festival and all our other benefactors who few friends from past festivals, but also introduce have supported us financially. We would also like you to many new faces. to publicly acknowledge the support of both We are especially delighted that opera returns St Peter’s Church and Temple Methodist Church to the Festival, though not as a stage production. in allowing us the use of their facilities. Devon Opera (re-formed from New Devon Committee members: Opera) will perform highlights from major Nicholas Marshall – Artistic Director; operas as a ‘final night Gala Evening’. Margaret Revell – Friends Secretary; We continue with our ever popular free Michael Demetriou – Treasurer; lunchtime concert programme. So make a David Cornes - Publicity; lovely day of it in beautiful Budleigh with lunch Carol Pearce – Administration; and a walk (or swim) combined with an hour of Jean Quinn – Concert Management; great music! David Wright and Malcolm Dobbins – Trustees. The Music Festival would not succeed without a great deal of work and help from not only the John Pearce (Chairman) Sir John Tavener TRIBUTE DAY Saturday 9th May 2015 9.45am to 6.00pm St Peter’s Church, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 6LR This will be a combination of Choral Day and Tribute Concert, concentrating on the late Sir John Tavener’s music. Whilst being open to all, it is especially suitable for competent and experienced singers and those who wish to pay tribute to John. Music: Mother and Child; and a selection from: Hymn to The Mother of God, Song for Athene, The Lamb, The Magnificat, Today the Virgin, The Lord’s Prayer. Conductors: David Davies (Assistant director of Music Exeter Cathedral) and John Pearce. Registration from 9.45; rehearsals 10.15 to 12.30; 2.00 to 4.30; Free informal concert at 5.00; please invite friends and family. Tea/coffee provided but not lunch. There are plenty of pubs/cafes in Budleigh. Cost £12 including music hire. Pre-booking by May 2nd ensures music availability. Download booking forms from our website – www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk Box Office 01395 445275 1 Friday July 10th | Temple Methodist Church | 7.30pm | £15 The Schubert Ensemble The Schubert Ensemble: William Howard (Piano) Simon Blendis (violin) Jane Salmon (cello) Douglas Paterson (viola) Peter Buckoke (double bass) “American Rounds” for Piano Quintet Martin Butler Piano Quartet Op.47 Schumann Piano Quintet in A D667 “The Trout” Schubert The Schubert Ensemble has established itself as one of the world’s leading exponents of music for piano and strings. Giving around 50 concerts a year, the ensemble has performed in over 40 countries and regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. The Ensemble continues to enjoy a busy international concert and recording schedule. Alongside Schumann’s delightful Piano Quartet and Schubert’s ever popular Trout Quintet, we hear British composer Martin Butler’s Piano Quintet which gives ‘a witty lowdown on the hoe-down’. “...The Schubert Ensemble of London are a marvellously unified ensemble, imparting their energy and lyricism to anything to which they turn their expert hands...“ Classic FM Magazine LUNCHTIME CONCERT Friday July 10th | Temple Church | 12noon | FREE Alice Bell (Cello) & Peter Adcock (Piano) Dances & Dreams We start the 2015 Festival with a young local cellist. Alice enjoys playing chamber music, leading the cello section of the Somerset County Youth Orchestra and playing with the ISCA Ensemble. Peter Adcock is a well known freelance accompanist, and together they will present a programme of national dances and romantic pieces. 2 Box Office 01395 445275 www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk Box Office 01395 445275 3 Saturday July 11th | St Peter’s Church | 7.30pm | £15 Exeter Festival Chorus With Nigel Perrin (Musical Director) Gerald Dickens (Actor) Much Ado About Shakespeare A specially devised programme of songs and readings around the works of Shakespeare. We welcome EFC back as it has gained a reputation as one of the most versatile and highly acclaimed choirs in the South West. They aim to bring choral music of the highest quality to audiences, under the inspired and dynamic musical direction of Nigel Perrin. Performing music from romantic classical to jazz settings, by Schubert, Vaughan Williams, John Rutter, George Shearing and others, the vibrant sound of the Exeter Festival Chorus will be complemented by Gerald Dickens’s engaging commentary and favourite readings from the most famous playwright of all time. Gerald Dickens is a great great grandson of the author Charles Dickens. He has worked as an actor, director and producer for many years and has performed in Budleigh before in the 2008 Music Festival and the 2009 Literary Festival. Friends of the Festival who buy tickets for this concert are invited to an exclusive pre-concert reception, starting at 6.15pm in the church. LUNCHTIME CONCERT Saturday July 11th | Temple Church | 12noon | FREE Flute Cake Flute Fancies Sophie Brewer, Jennifer Campbell and Ruth Molins are a flute trio who play popular classics, folk tunes, and flute trios. They started as three friends wanting more opportunities to play the flute and eat cake! They all live and work locally. They play at weddings, parties and festivals and together they offer a sparkling lunch time recital at our festival. 2 Box Office 01395 445275 www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk Box Office 01395 445275 3 Monday July 13th | Temple Methodist Church | 7.30pm | £15 Sonata, Op.10, No.3 in D Beethoven Scherzo no.2, Op.31 Chopin Alexandra Nutcracker Suite Tchaikovsky, arr. Pletnev Variations Sérieuses Mendelssohn Dariescu Polonaise, Op. 53 Chopin (Piano) We welcome Alexandra Dariescu back as one of the Festival’s favourites. From the Royal Albert Hall in London to Carnegie Hall in New York (and Temple Church, Budleigh), this young Romanian pianist has dazzled audiences worldwide with her effortless musicality and captivating stage presence. Alexandra won the Women of the Future Award in the Arts and Culture category in 2013 and has released two CDs on Champs Hill Records to critical acclaim. “There’s much superb playing to enjoy; [Dariescu] is particularly good at creating atmosphere through her sound, which is cushioned, refined and beautifully balanced.” Jessica Duchen, BBC Music Magazine 2013 LUNCHTIME CONCERT Monday July 13th | Temple Church | 12noon | FREE Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin (Violin) with Martyn Parkes (Piano) A Summer Romance; Memories Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin, is 18 and a student at Chetham’s School of Music. Prishita represented the UK in Sri Lanka in 2013 for Commonwealth Resounds. She has played in master classes with Nicola Benedetti and Chloe Hanslip. She and Martyn performed here in 2013 to much acclaim and we are delighted to hear them again. 4 Box Office 01395 445275 www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk Box Office 01395 445275 5 Tuesday July 14th | St Peter’s Church | 7.30pm | £15 The Festival Orchestra Conducted by Nicholas Marshall With Xuefei Yang (Guitar) A Mediterranean Journey Overture in the Italian Style, D.580 Schubert Concierto de Aranjuez Rodrigo Petite Suite Debussy Capriol Suite Warlock Pavane Fauré Overture, Masques et Bergamasques Fauré Italian Symphony Mendelssohn The Festival Orchestra comes together again, this time to transport you to the warm climes of the Mediterranean! We begin and end our journey in Italy, as seen through the eyes of Schubert and Mendelssohn, stopping in Spain for Rodrigo’s much-loved Guitar Concerto, before going on to France to visit two of her best-known composers, Fauré and Debussy. England also gets a look in through Peter Warlock, whose Capriol Suite is based on old French dance-tunes. Xuefei Yang, ‘One of the most extraordinary guitarists in the world’ New York Sun See next page for biographical details. Friends of the Festival will be admitted to this concert through the Friends Entrance at 6.50pm. LUNCHTIME CONCERT Tuesday July 14th | Temple Church | 12noon | FREE Alison Burnett (Soprano) Funny Thought and Wild Wild Dreams! Alison, from Exeter, is a well known local soprano and vocal tutor who was trained at the Birmingham Conservatoire.