2022 Festival concerts
Date & time | Performers | Programme |
Thursday 7 July, 3.00-4.00pm | Open rehearsal with Fibonacci Quartet | |
Friday 8 July, 7.00pm | Fibonacci Quartet with Elise Batnes (violin), Ellie Fagg (violin), Louisa Tuck (cello), Rachel Roberts (viola) & Anna Tilbrook (piano) | Shostakovich – Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57 Mendelssohn – Octet in E flat major Op 20 |
Saturday 9 July, 2.00-5.00pm | Choral composition workshop with VOCES 8 and Paul Mealor | |
Saturday 9 July, 7.00pm | VOCES8 | “Stardust” – choral music celebration |
Monday 11 July, 7.00pm | Ashford Youth Jazz Orchestra | |
Thursday 14 July, 7.00pm | Lucy Crowe (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor), JAM Sinfonia & Anna Tilbrook | Walton – Façade ✫ A song for the Lord Mayor’s Table |
Saturday 16 July, 7.00pm | The Holst Singers, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (mezzo), Onyx Brass, Simon Hogan (organ), conducted by Nicholas Cleobury | Paul Patterson – The Fifth Continent |
2021 Festival concerts
Saturday 10th July 7.30pm | Canterbury Cathedral Choir Elizabeth Bass (harp) • Simon Hogan (organ) • Owen Gunnell (percussion) • David Newsholme (conductor) Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Benjamin Britten: Festival Te Deum Jonathan Dove: Missa Brevis Judith Weir: Lord bade me welcome Sir William Henry Harris: Faire is the heaven | |
Sunday 11th July 7.00pm | Chamber Music from WWI and WWII Anna Tilbrook (piano) • Michael Collins (clarinet) • Simon Blendis (violin) • Harriett MacKenzie (violin) • Sally Pendlebury (cello) Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84 Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time | |
Tuesday 13th July 7.30pm | Organ and Brass Francesca Massey (organ) • Onyx Brass Eugène Gigout: Grand Choeur Dialogué Judith Weir: Wild Mossy Mountains Charlotte Hardings: Rhombus Francis Pott: Empyrean Malcom Arnold: Brass Quintet No.1, Op.73 Maurice Duruflé: Choral varié sur le Veni Creator, Op.4 Rory Boyle: Tallis’ Light (commissioned by JAM in 2011) – conducted by John Frederick Hudson | |
Saturday 17th July 8.00pm | Mealor conducts Mealor and Dove Caritas Choir • Onyx Brass • Simon Hogan (organ) Jonathan Dove: The Far Theatricals of Day Paul Mealor: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Jack Oades: Between the stormclouds and the sea (World premiere 2021) | |
Sunday 18th July 3.00pm | That Latin Temperament Michal Rogalski (oboe) • Fábio Fernandes (guitar) Argentinian and Brazilian music juxtaposing rhythms of bossa nova, including songs and tangos by Piazzolla, Machado and Villa-Lobos |