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Petworth Festival 2019 Tuesday 16 July - Saturday 3 August Box Office www.petworthfestival.org.uk and on 01798 344 576 Box Office open from 9 May Welcome to the The Leconfield Estates Petworth Festival www.leconfieldestates.co.uk The Leconfield Estates is very pleased to be the principal sponsor again in 2019 and to 2019 have sponsored the Petworth Festival for each of its 41 years. y any measure the 40th anniversary Petworth Festival was a great success; hugely well received events, larger audiences than ever and press coverage that Visit our website for information about activities on the Estates which include let Breached way beyond the confines of West Sussex. But as the following pages will hopefully properties and peaceful fly fishing on the River Rother & the lakes at Petworth, and also demonstrate, we have no intention of pausing for breath or even – perish the thought – of retrenching. Far from on the Derwent, an excellent salmon river in Cumbria. it. Petworth Festival continues to grow and to extend its ambitions. The elements that make the festival what it is of course continue to be honoured, but as we enter our fifth decade we hope fully to further excite new audiences, present wonderful new artists and ensembles, and to push the boundaries of what we do. We hope you will join us on the journey. Rather remarkably this year marks my 10th at the helm. All I can say is that I must be having fun as I genuinely haven’t noticed the passage of time! As on previous occasions you’ll find an ‘Artistic Director’s Trail’ inside and I hope a goodly number of you will dip into this as it describes Petworth’s own form of ‘cultural tapas’: many, many different and fine tastes across the festival, all of which – to continue the culinary metaphor – are well worthy of Michelin stars. Bon appetit! Stewart Collins Artistic Director 2 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 9 May 1 Petworth Festival Booking Form Events Name of Event Number of Number of Ticket price Total £ Adult 18 & under tickets tickets 2019 Artistic Director’s Trail Who’s Who President Lord Egremont The Petworth Festival is many many things, but our Festival Board hope is always that our audiences will attend both Neil Franks Chairman what they know they like as well as some of the Alan Bennie events that are out of their natural comfort zone – Lord Egremont but always in the knowledge that everything comes Claudia Golden with the ‘quality assured’ mark of the Petworth Sir Geoffrey Pattie Festival. Here is something of everything in 12 Kate Wardle events: Georgina Willis Wednesday 17 July | St Mary’s Artistic Director Viktoria Mullova and Misha Mullov-Abbado Stewart Collins Thursday 18 July | Leconfield Hall Festival Manager The Dad’s Army Radio Show Kate Wardle Saturday 20 July | St Mary’s Event Coordinator & Publications Editor Chineke! Kate Lavender Sunday 21 July | St Mary’s Assistant to the Festival Manager John Etheridge’s Sweet Chorus Hettie McNeil Monday 22 July | St Mary’s Technical Manager I Fagiolini – Leonardo da Vinci: Shaping the Peter Hall, Rhino Audiovisual Souvenir Programme voucher Quantity £5 Invisible Venues & Volunteers Manager (Exchange for programme at first event) Tuesday 23 July | Sofas & Stuff Liz Harris NB: reserved seating in Leconfield Hall. Please let us know if you have a Grand Total £ The Brook Street Band – Zimmerman’s Kaffeehaus Secretary to the Board preference for raked or floor seating Wednesday 24 July | St Mary’s Sarah Matthews Imogen Cooper Box Office I enclose a cheque made payable to ‘Petworth Festival Ltd’ Monday 29 July | St Mary’s Pam Hampel, Carole Field, Judy Howard, Hettie McNeil, Please charge my Mastercard/Visa/Switch/Maestro Card (delete as necessary) Julian Bliss Septet - Gershwin Imke Sanderson, Deborah Taylor & Kate Wardle Tuesday 30 July | Easebourne Card Number Kabantu 2019 Literary Week: Issue Number Name on card Wednesday 31 July | St Mary’s 26 October – 3 November (Switch/Maestro only) Matthew Barley with Soumik Datta & Ustad Sukhvinder Singh Start Date Expiry Date 2020 Summer Festival: Thursday 1 August | Bignor Park 15 July – 1 August Much Ado About Nothing Last 3 digits of security no. (back of card) Friday 2 August | Leconfield Hall For further information and to get involved see our Name Riot in Petworth! website at www.petworthfestival.org.uk Address www.facebook.com/petworthfestival Petworth Festival is a company limited by guarantee. Registration number 5710001 and Registered @PetworthFest Post Code Telephone charity number 1113784. petworthfestival Email address Cover image: MILOŠ. Photo credit: Andy Earl/Mercury Classics Please return the completed form to Petworth Festival, 151 Whites Green Lodge, Lurgashall, Petworth GU28 9BD 2 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 9 May 3 Artistic Director’s Trail Tuesday 16 July Wednesday 17 July “To hear Mullova play Bach is, simply, St Mary’s Church St Mary’s Church one of the greatest things you can 6.30pm (ends approx 7.30pm) 7.30pm (Ends approx 8.50pm) experience” The Guardian Festival Service Viktoria Mullova (violin) with We launch the 2019 Festival, as usual at St Mary’s, with our ecumenical Festival Service of Songs of Praise: an hour of music, readings and prayer. Misha Mullov-Abbado (bass, composer, arranger) We welcome this year our Artistic Director, Stewart Collins, who will reflect on the role of the Petworth Festival ‘Music we love’ and his ten years at the helm. Matthew Cooke, Director of Music at St Mary’s, will direct the Festival Choir. One of the world’s greatest violin virtuosos, Viktoria Mullova works regularly with the period ensembles such as Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Il Giardino Armonico, Accademia Bizantina and Venice Baroque as well as Everyone is invited to this service of Celebration which will be followed as ever with a glass of wine and canapés on appearing each season with top international orchestras and conductors. another lovely summers evening. Come and sing with us! Jazz bassist, composer and arranger Misha comes from an impeccable musical heritage, his parents being the legendary conductor Claudio Abbado and Viktoria Mullova. A 2017 BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Misha is an accomplished band-leader and a versatile sideman who has performed at London’s top venues including Ronnie Scott’s, the Vortex, 606 Club, Pizza Express and Royal Albert Hall. Having won the 2014 Dankworth Prize for jazz Wednesday 17 – Wednesday 31 July composition Misha is an experienced composer and is influenced by jazz, classical and pop music. Kevis House Gallery Together Viktoria and Misha have created a programme that will include arrangements by composers such as Bach Tuesdays – Saturdays 10.00am – 4.30pm and Schumann, contemporary jazz, original music and arrangements from around the world - South America, Eastern Europe and the Middle-East. Hitchens: Alfred, Ivon, Viktoria either plays on her ‘Jules Falk’ 1723 Stradivarius or a Guadagnini violin. Ivon Hitchens, Untitled, from ‘For John Constable’, 1976, screenprint on paper, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (Lucas Bequest, 1995) © The Estate of www.viktoriamullova.com John and Simon (exhibition) Ivon Hitchens www.mishamullovabbado.com Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) moved to live near Petworth, deep in the woods at Graffham, after his London home was There is no interval at this event. bombed in 1940. He continued to live and work there until his death in 1979. The Kevis House Gallery exhibition is being held to coincide with Pallant House Gallery’s major exhibition Ivon Hitchens: Space through Colour; Pallant Generously sponsored by Rodney H Downes, Christopher & Joan Hampson and Kate & Canice Hogan House Gallery and private owners are lending some of Ivon Hitchens’s post-war landscape paintings, featuring the swathes of bright colour for which he is best known. The exhibition will cover four generations of the Hitchens Tickets: Band B £28, £18, £7.50 (18 and under £5, FREE in adult £7.50 seats) family. It will show paintings by Ivon’s father, the portrait and pastel artist Alfred Hitchens (1861-1942), by his son John Hitchens, and new drawings by his grandson the sculptor Simon Hitchens. Work will also be shown by other artists inspired by Ivon Hitchens, including Peter Iden (1945-2012), Jill Bray, Emma Jamison and Tuëma Pattie. See also below for the introductory talk by exhibition curator Anne Goodchild. Wednesday 17 July Leconfield Hall 11.15am (Ends approx 12.15pm) Ivon Hitchens: Space through Colour (lecture) In an exciting new collaboration, the festival partners up with the Kevis House Gallery and Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. To coincide with the major Ivon Hitchens exhibition at Pallant House this summer, the curator Anne Goodchild explores the artist’s engagement with the Sussex landscape, primarily around Petworth. Following the pathway from his lyrical landscapes of the Downs near Heyshott and Didling to his vibrant abstract paintings of the 1960s and 70s, Anne will provide new insights into one of Britain’s most loved modern artists. Tickets: £10 to include tea/coffee Viktoria Mullova (photo: Henry Fair) Misha Mullov-Abbado (photo: Ben Ealovega) 4 Book tickets at www.petworthfestival.org.uk or on 01798 344 576 from 9 May 5 Artistic Director’s Trail Thursday 18 July Thursday 18 July Leconfield Hall St Mary’s Church 5.00pm & 8.00pm 7.00pm (Ends approx 8.20pm) The Dad’s Army Radio Show (comedy theatre) Armonico Consort – Beowulf Two highly versatile actors play all 25 characters in this special staging of favourite episodes from the legendary A major new project featuring Petworth Festival friends the Armonico Consort BBC TV series. Celebrating 50 years of Croft and Perry’s quintessential sit-com - which won the ‘Best One-Liner’ who so memorably opened the 40th anniversary festival with their ‘surround- accolade in a poll conducted by TV station Gold for the immortal words ‘Don’t tell him, Pike’ - double Edinburgh sound’ choral experience in Petworth House’s Stable Yard.