Ripon Cathedral, Royal Hall Harrogate, Masham and Villages 1 September - 6 October 2019
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Ripon Cathedral, Royal Hall Harrogate, Masham and villages 1 September - 6 October 2019 Red Priest Sean Shibe Tabea Debus Sky Ingram Jamal Aliyev Kosmos Ensemble Ninebarrow Rhos Male Voice Choir The Outside Track The Yorkshire Shepherdess London Mozart Players - Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita Dvorak ‘New World’ Symphony Principal Sponsor www.riponinternationalfestival.com Ripon Select Foods Limited 1 A WARM WELCOME to Ripon International Festival 2019! Highlights include Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita, The Rhos Male Voice Choir, red-hot baroque Red Priest, an Opera Gala with Sky Ingram , folk The Outside Track, writers, and the London Mozart Players play Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ and Dvorak’s ‘ New World’ symphonies in the thrilling Grande Finale at the Royal Hall. We hope you enjoy the festival’s distinctive atmosphere Photo: Rowan for Hey Tuesday and take happy memories away with you. Susan Goldsbrough - Director and Co-Founder THANK YOU to our Sponsors, Donors, and Friends for your support. Principal Sponsor Ripon Select Foods The Coulthurst Trust Mrs. Christin Thackray Stephen Harker & Janet Cole Anne & Martin Curzon John & Elaine Watson The Festival Friends The W.W. Spooner Trust Artistic Director: Janusz Piotrowicz Director: Susan Goldsbrough President: Sir Derek Jacobi Chairman of Trustees: Rt. Hon. Baroness Cox Festival Office: Holly Howe, Copt Hewick, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 5BY T: 01765 605508 E: [email protected] Registered Charity No 1003265 2 Book tickets: Ripon 01765 605508 Harrogate 01423 502116 Online www.riponinternationalfestival.com Events calendar at a glance Sun 1 Sept 2.00 Family show - Reynard the Fox Grewelthorpe Wed 4 Sept 7.30 The Yorkshire Shepherdess Spa Hotel Thu 5 Sept 7.00 Mystery of Eugene Aram Ripon Library Fri 6 Sept 7.30 Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita Holy Trinity Church Sat 7 Sept 7.30 A Night at the Opera St Johns Sharow Sun 8 Sept 7.30 Sean Shibe - guitars St Johns Sharow Thu 12 Sept 2.30 Tabea Debus baroque trio Markenfield Hall Thu 12 Sept 7.30 Tabea Debus baroque trio Markenfield Hall Fri 13 Sept 7.30 Yu-Wei Hu & Johan Lofving Fewston Church Sat 14 Sept 7.00 Rhos Male Voice Choir Ripon Cathedral Sun 15 Sept 7.30 The Outside Track - folk Masham Town Hall Tue 17 Sept 7.30 Crime Writer Peter Robinson Spa Hotel Wed 18 Sept 7.30 Ninebarrow - folk Sawley Village Hall Thu 19 Sept 7.30 Jamal Aliyev, cello Felixkirk Church Sat 21 Sept 7.30 Red Priest Holy Trinity Church Sun 22 Sept 7.30 Kosmos Ensemble Helperby Fri 27 Sept 7.30 Anne Denholm harp Kirkby Malzeard Sat 28 Sept 2.30 Children’s author Saviour Pirotta Ripon Library Sat 28 Sept 4.30 Madeleine Bunting Island Song Ripon Library Thu 3 Oct 7.30 Black Snow Road Show Masham Sun 6 Oct 7.00 London Mozart Players Royal Hall Harrogate Grande Finale - Mendelssohn ‘Scottish’ & Dvorak ‘New World’ symphonies London Mozart Players - 6th October 3 Book tickets: Ripon 01765 605508 Harrogate 01423 502116 Online www.riponinternationalfestival.com Family shows and writers Sunday 1 September 1.30 – 4.30 Grewelthorpe Village Hall Trouvère Medieval Minstrels – Reynard the Fox Paul Leigh and Gill Page, musicians and Dan Osbaldeston, actor Trouvère perform three different stories about the original wily trickster and antihero of the Middle Ages. A great family show with colourful sets and live music. Indoors, in the spacious performance room, and outdoors by the duck pond if fine. Music from 1.30, first show 2 pm, second show 2.45, last show 3.30 (approx.) Trouvère take part in festivals throughout Europe and the UK, this year taking Reynard the Fox to make his début in Ireland’s famous Kilkenny Castle! Knockabout Comedy, Music, Masks and Mayhem! Tickets: Adult £10 Child £8 Food and drink available from the village hall café The Dollshouse Exhibition – Newby Hall One of the finest collections of dollshouses and miniatures in the world, created by Caroline Hamilton and Jane Fiddick, is located in the heart of the beautiful 25-acre garden next to the Garden Restaurant. Free entry with a Gardens Admission Ticket www.newbyhall.com 4 Book tickets: Ripon 01765 605508 Harrogate 01423 502116 Online www.riponinternationalfestival.com Photo: Ian Forsyth Wednesday 4 September 7.30 Ripon Spa Hotel Amanda Owen – The Yorkshire Shepherdess The best-selling author and TV personality presents her new book about life at the remote hill farm which she runs with her husband, Clive. Mother of nine ‘free range’ children, writer and photographer, Amanda and her family became widely known through the ITV series ‘The Dales’ and Ben Fogle’s ‘New Lives in the Wild’. They were recently the subject of the hit TV series ‘Our Yorkshire Farm’ watched by 2.2 million viewers each week. Life is never dull at Ravenseat so come and hear about her latest exploits! Talk, Slide Show, book signing. Tickets £12 (Student £8) Early menu at the Turf Bar & Bistro 01765 602172 Thursday 5 September 7.00 Ripon Library Step after Step: A Conspiracy to Murder Talk and Slide Show by writer, Amanda Taylor The mystery of Eugene Aram, who lived in Ripon, a schoolteacher and linguistic scholar. He was tried and hanged for murder in 1759. ‘Villany is always progressive and declines from right, step after step’ (Eugene Aram 1759) Was he guilty of the crime? Tickets £6 Also on sale at the library and bookshop In association with Ripon Library and The Little Ripon Bookshop 5 Book tickets: Ripon 01765 605508 Harrogate 01423 502116 Online www.riponinternationalfestival.com Friday 6 September 7.30 Holy Trinity Church, Ripon Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita - ‘SOAR’ ‘a sublime duo of two artists who are masters of their instruments’ London Evening Standard Programme: Bach to Baisso, Clarach, and other tracks from their album SOAR, (FRoots Poll Album of the Year 2018), Les Bras de Mer from Clychau Dibon and other favourites The most popular world music act of the decade, Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora maestro, Seckou Keita, play a spine-tingling selection of music from their album ‘SOAR’ – symbolic of the Osprey which migrates between Wales and West Africa. Exhilarating, enchanting, mesmerizing, this famous duo has touched the hearts of music lovers around the world. Stop Press: SOAR has won the Best Fusion category in the 2019 Songlines Music Award Tickets £20 (Student £10) 6 Book tickets: Ripon 01765 605508 Harrogate 01423 502116 Online www.riponinternationalfestival.com Saturday 7 September 7.30 St. John’s Church, Sharow A Night at the Opera with Sky Ingram Sky Ingram soprano Nicholas Lester baritone Sam Armstrong piano Excerpts from Don Giovanni, Rusalka ‘Song to the Moon’, La Bohème, Le Nozze de Figaro ‘Largo al Factotum’ Eugene Onegin, The Merry Widow, G & S Iolanthe, & more A glamorous night of opera favourites from dazzling young singers, Nicholas Lester (English National Opera: Marcello La Bohème) and Sky Ingram (Opera North, Garsington Opera: Donna Elvira) with pianist Sam Armstrong (Carnegie Hall, New York, Concertgebouw Amsterdam). ‘performances of blazing conviction by Sky Ingram’s Dido’ The Guardian ‘a touchingly vulnerable and pure toned Sky Ingram’ The Telegraph ‘Nicholas Lester’s Marcello oozes vocal charm’ Sky Ingram in La Cenerentola The Guardian by Rossini, Opera North Tickets: £20 £27 including Reception & canapés at 6.45 pm Generously supported by Anne and Martin Curzon 7 Book tickets: Ripon 01765 605508 Harrogate 01423 502116 Online www.riponinternationalfestival.com ‘Shibe is another Bream, or something close. His playing unites finesse and poetry’ Sunday Times ‘genius – a term that should rarely be applied to performing artists, but at 25, he has it’ David Nice, Arts Desk Sunday 8 September 7.30 St John’s Church, Sharow Sean Shibe – guitars ‘softLOUD’ Programme includes J S Bach, the exquisitely lyrical melody ‘Farewell to Stromness’ by Peter Maxwell Davies, gentle Scottish lute music, and a breathtaking interpretation of Steve Reich ‘Electric Counterpoint’. Sean Shibe’s softLOUD recording on Delphian has garnered stunning reviews and is named BBC Music Magazine’s Instrumental Choice. One of the foremost guitarists of his generation, BBC New Generation Artist and winner of the ROSL Gold Medal and the Royal Philharmonic Society Award 2018 (the first guitarist to receive it) Sean Shibe has played concertos with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Trondheim Symphony, BBCSO, BBCNOW, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the RPO and given recitals in major festivals and concerts halls in the UK and abroad. ‘supremely expressive player’ Bachtrack Tickets £16 (Student £8) Sound by Truesounds 8 Book tickets: Ripon 01765 605508 Harrogate 01423 502116 Online www.riponinternationalfestival.com Thursday 12 September 2.30 and 7.30 Markenfield Hall, Ripon Tabea Debus Trio Tabea Debus recorders Alex McCartney theorbo Jonathan Rees cello Music by Caccini, Dowland, Purcell, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Marais Three virtuoso artists present a delightful programme in the uniquely preserved C13th manor house. Tabea ‘a charismatic virtuoso’ The Times, performs widely in Europe, Asia and the USA, with recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Konzerthaus Vienna. Jonathan plays with the AAM, the OAE and Britten Sinfonia. Lutenist Alex McCartney ‘sinewy and sensuous, rich deep tones’ has earned rave reviews around the world. Tickets £24 Generously supported by John and Elaine Watson 9 Book tickets: Ripon 01765 605508 Harrogate 01423 502116 Online www.riponinternationalfestival.com Photos: Aiga Ozo Friday 13 September 7.30 St Michael & St Lawrence Church, Fewston Flauguissimo Duo - A Salon Opera Yu-Wei Hu baroque flute Johan Lofving guitar and theorbo During the 18th century, highly popular operas were often reproduced and performed in intimate salons. Flauguissimo Duo presents flute and plucked string music of court dances and opera scenes from the 18th and 19th century, from the enchanting flute solo from Gluck’s famous opera Orphée et Eurydice to the sentimental songs of Franz Schubert.