SALISBURY Cathedral has a week-long festival in May to mark the centenary of one of the major figures of late 19th and early 20th century English music, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. The festival, from Monday 6th to Sunday 12th May, will include concerts and music by Stanford within the cathedral services. Nowadays, Stanford is largely…
THE 2024 Bath Festival, running from Friday 17th to Sunday 26th May, will take audiences on an astonishing and exciting journey through some of today’s most exciting writers, challenging thinkers, hilarious comedians and brilliant musicians, with subjects that range from the climate crisis to silent horror classic Nosferatu, from the Sky at Night presenter Dr…
THE distinguished conductor Mark Wigglesworth has been announced as the new chief conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He will take up the role at the start of the orchestra’s 2024-25 season in September, when Kirill Karabits, the BSO’s inspiring chief conductor for the past 15 years, becomes Conductor Laureate and artistic director of the…
CONCERTS in the West, the charity that brings rising stars of the chamber music scene and concert platform to venues in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, makes its debut at Shaftesbury in April, when the Gildas Quartet give the fourth concert of their tour, at St Peter’s Church on Sunday 21st April at 3pm. All four…
HURN Court Opera, the company set up to provide performance opportunities for young singers, is this year staging Mozart’s dark comedy, Don Giovanni, at Christchurch Regent Centre on Tuesday 9th April, Theatre Royal, Winchester, on Thursday 11th, both at 7pm, and at Bryanston School’s Coade Hall, Blandford, on Saturday 13th at 4pm. The cast is…
THE Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor Tom Fetherstonhaugh celebrate the Classic FM Hall of Fame in a series of concerts at Poole, Exeter and Portsmouth, from 18th to 20th April, with award-winning pianist Eric Lu (pictured) as guest soloist. The programme, presented b y Classic FM’s Anne-Marie Minhall, begins with Rossini’s delightful overture, The…
DORSET musicians Emily Burridge, cello, and Karen Wimhurst, clarinet, join sound artist Adrian Newton for All Trees Are Clocks, a multi-media performance celebrating ancient trees and woodlands, at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Sunday 21st April at 2.30pm. The musicians play live, accompanying field recordings and video curated byAdrian Newton, documenting how ancient woodlands are changing…
A MUSIC organisation which has been bringing rising stars of the chamber and baroque music scene to Dorset, Somerset and Devon for 18 years, makes its debut at Shaftesbury this year, with two concerts organised in conjunction with Shaftesbury Arts Centre. The first Concerts in the West event in north Dorset will be on Sunday…
MUSICIANS and storytellers Bob Whitley (guitar, tenor guitar and mandola) and Lee MacKenzie (baroque cello) take the audience back to the dangerous Tudor court of King Henry VIII with their new show, Anne Boleyn: Wolf at the Door, which has three dates with Artsreach rural touring arts charity at Milborne St Andrew village hall on…
CHAMBER works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel and Poulenc make up the programme for a three-date Concerts in the West tour in March by violinist Sara Trickey and pianist Ivana Gavric, at Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 15th at 11.30am, Ilminster Arts Centre that evening at 7.30pm and Saturday 16th to Crewkerne’s Dance Centre at…