The Diamond Jubilee Music Festival 2012
Box Office 015396 20125Tickets for these events are available from the Sedbergh Tourist Information Centre.
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This year's Music Festival, from 3rd to 17th June, will celebrate Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee with an exciting programme ranging from Tasmin Little, the world renowned violinist, who will perform her solo repertoire ‘The Naked Violin’ - to the Cottontown Chorus, winners of the Gold medal at the British Association of Barbershop Singers four times in six years, who will also be joined by Crossfire, a male barbershop quartet who are the current British Champions. Many locally based musicians who have performed in earlier Festivals will be returning and our own Town Band and Orchestra also feature in the programme. Young musicians will include our own Pepperpot concert, students from Chetham's who have featured in every Festival and Tahira Osborne, an outstandingly talented soprano currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music and holder of the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary. The climax of the Festival will be a performance of Mozart's Requiem conducted by Jeremy Jackman, for ten years counter-tenor with The King's singers and now Director of the English Baroque Choir.
The Festival is dedicated to providing opportunities to the local community to enjoy quality music both as performers and audiences and with particular care taken to be totally accessible and inclusive.
The St Andrew’s catering ladies will again be providing dinners and light lunches during the Festival. Dinners will be available in the Parish Room before the evening concerts on June 7th, 8th, 11th and 15th and must be booked in advance from the Tourist Information Office or our online box office. Lunches will be available before the recitals from 12.00 noon in the Parish Room on June 4th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 14th and 15th.
- Free admission for children under 18 for all performances except event no. 9.
- Season ticket for all performances - £65.
- Details of events
- Special Offers
- Booking information
- How to find us
- Eating In or Eating Out in Sedbergh
- Next Festival
- Acknowledgements & Sponsors
Details of events
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Sunday 3rd June
Event 1, Heading East
Jeremy Lamburn, cello, accompanied by Nigel Spooner, piano, will start the Festival with a two-part programme with pieces by composers from Russia, Poland, Slovakia and Romania.
“Each player sure-footedly sought the soaring melodic lines and worked with subtle awareness of the complex rhythms to achieve a fine symbiosis.” - Stewart Manger, Westmoreland Gazette
The second recital will take place in St Andrew’s on Sunday 10 June.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 3:00pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
Event 2, Choral Evensong
St Andrew’s Choir and friends will sing Choral Evensong.
Admission: Free
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Monday 4th June
Event 3, Lunchtime Recital
Lizzie Hosker (nee Thornely), violin, accompanied by her brother, Richard Thornely, piano, will give a recital comprising works by Brahms, Schumann and Dvorak.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 1:00pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
A pre-performance lunch will be available at 12:00 noon.
Event 4, The Cobweb Orchestra Baroque Ensemble in concert
The Cobweb Orchestra is an award winning community orchestra which is open to all players regardless of ability or experience. It runs regular rehearsals for orchestras, study days, residential courses, and gives public concerts. It also offers other activities, such as an enthusiastic composers and arrangers group, a cabaret group, and the baroque group. The latter began during a residential weekend, when a number of string players were at a loose end, and tried the experiment of playing some Vivaldi from facsimiles of the original edition. They had so much fun that They decided to meet again and gradually became a regular group.
Venue: URC Church, 7:30pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
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Tuesday 5th June
Event 5, Evening Concert
The Robson Duo, gifted twins, will play two piano duets: Beethoven’s Symphonies No1 and No 9, the Choral.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 7:30pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
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Wednesday 6th June
Event 6, Lunchtime Recital
We welcome back Julian Cann, violin, in three concerts. His first performance in the intimate surroundings of the United Reformed Church will be a solo violin recital.
Venue: URC Church, 1:00pmTickets: £5:00, Children free
Event 7, An Evening of Slovenian Folk Music
Performers from Slovenia drawn primarily from the area of Zrece, Sedbergh’s twin town, will entertain with a programme of folk music.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 7.30 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
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Thursday 7th June
Event 8, Organ Recital
Mark Swinton, formerly organist at Kendal Parish Church and now Assistant Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, will explore the versatility of the recently restored organ in St Andrew’s with works drawn from Bairstow, Langlais, Saint-Saens, Mozart and Bach.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 1.00 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
A pre-performance lunch will be available at 12:00 noon.
Event 9, The Naked Violin
Tasmin Little “a formidable soloist” (New York Times) introduces your audience to the violin in its purest and unadorned form. Her revolutionary project,‘The Naked Violin’ – offering free CD downloads across the Internet – won the 2008 Classic FM Gramophone Award for Audience Innovation. The subject of the acclaimed ITV television show, South Bank Show, it subsequently became a unique musical journey, taking Little off the beaten track to unlikely venues from homeless shelters to oil rigs. Now Tasmin brings this interactive venture to audiences worldwide in a recital of performance and conversation. To meet one of the world’s leading players “up close and personal” is an opportunity not to be missed.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 8.00 pmTickets: £15.00, Children £10.00
A pre-performance dinner will be available at 6:45pm, price £7.00. Please note that dinner tickets must be obtained in advance from the Tourist Information Office or our online box office.
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Friday 8th June
Event 10, La Serenata Trio
Charles Edmonson’s trio of keyboard, flute and voice will give a varied programme.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 1.00 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
A pre-performance lunch will be available at 12:00 noon.
Event 11, Recital
We welcome back to this year’s Festival Alla Kravchuk accompanied by Simon Phillips, who need no introduction to Sedbergh. Alla, who is now based in England, will start her programme with a specially commisioned cycle, Einzige Tage, by the English composer Francis Pott, which had its world premier on 12 November 2011. In the second part of her programme she will sing five settings of songs by Shakespeare arranged by Quilter and some Brahms Lieder
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 8:00 pmTickets: £7.00, Children free
A pre-performance dinner will be available at 6:45pm, price £7.00. Please note that dinner tickets must be obtained in advance from the Tourist Information Office or our online box office.
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Saturday 9th June
Event 12, Cottontown Chorus and Crossfire
The Bolton Barbershop Harmony Club, aka Cottontown Chorus, is one of the leading barbershop groups in the UK. It has won the much sought after Gold medal at the British Association of Barbershop Singers four times in six years and represented the UK twice at the Barbershop Harmony Society Convention in the USA. They promise stirring harmonies, emotional lyrics and exciting choreography during their performance when they will also be joined by Crossfire, a male barbershop quartet who are the current British Champions..
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 7.30 pmTickets: £8.00, Children free
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Sunday 10th June
Event 13, Heading East
The second recital of Jeremy Lamburn and Nigel Spooner’s programme.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 3.00 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
Event 14, Recital - ‘If music be the food of love’
Nicholas Hurndall Smith, tenor, accompanied by Alexa Wightman, piano, returns to St Andrew’s with a programme of romantic songs from both sides of the Channel.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 7.30 pmTickets: £7.00, Children free
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Monday 11th June
Event 15, Lunchtime Recital
Julian Cann, violin, accompanied by David Chapman, piano, will perform a variety of works.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 1.00 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
A pre-performance lunch will be available at 12:00 noon.
Event 16, Jadid Ensemble
Formed by guitarist and composer Glenn Sharp, the Jadid Ensemble is a unique group of musicians, based in Northwest England, who have a passion for the music of other nations and cultures. Their training in flamenco, Indian and Arabic musical traditions, coupled with their classical and jazz backgrounds, allows for traditional melodic styles to be reworked into something fresh and new.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 8.00 pm Tickets: £7.00, Children free
A pre-performance dinner will be available at 6:45pm, price £7.00. Please note that dinner tickets must be obtained in advance from the Tourist Information Office or our online box office.
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Tuesday 12th June
Event 17, Four Hands One Piano
Alexa Wightman and Helena Morwood return with their inimitable mix of fun and imagination at the keyboard.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 1.00 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
A pre-performance lunch will be available at 12:00 noon.
Event 18, Sedbergh Town Band
Sedbergh Town Band will perform a variety of music, including compositions by the Bandmaster, Alan Lewis.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church,7:30 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
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Wednesday 13th June
Event 19, Pepperpot Teatime Concert
The primary-age Pepperpot orchestra, directed by Elizabeth Dodd and Anthea Meuli, will play some favourite pieces from their repertoire, followed by afternoon tea.
Admission: Free
Event 20, The Stonebridge Quartet
The quartet of Julian Cann and Jane Cull, violins; Allison Calderbank, viola; and Jeremy Lamburn, cello, return to this year’s Festival with a programme of music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Dvorak.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 7.30 pmTickets: £7.00, Children free
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Thursday 14th June
Event 21, Chetham’s
One of the traditions of the Festival is the appearance of the astonishingly gifted young musicians from Chetham’s who have featured in every Festival. We look forward to a varied programme of exciting music.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 1.00 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
A pre-performance lunch will be available at 12:00 noon.
Event 22, The Sedbergh Orchestra - a Jubilee Concert
This will be the Sedbergh Orchestra’s inaugural performance at the Festival. Formed in October 2010 the Orchestra has made remarkable progress under the direction of Peter Crompton and is now a musical force to be reckoned with. We look forward to a varied and exciting programme which will feature soprano Jennifer Ward, (nee Morris), and include music by Sibelius, McDowell, Rodrigo, Handel and Gade.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 8.00 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
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Friday 15th June
Event 23, The Playing of the Merry Organ
Roger Bush, organist of St Andrew’s, Dent, will give a recital of enjoyable and unusual music.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 1.00 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
A pre-performance lunch will be available at 12:00 noon.
Event 24, Recital
Tahirah Osborne has a remarkable talent and we look forward to a vibrant and exciting performance which will include works by Mozart, Handel, Schubert, Quilter and Hahn, plus Spanish songs and Negro spirituals. She will be accompanied on the piano by Pablo Garcia-Berlanga, another young and exceptionally talented musician.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 8.00 pmTickets: £7.00, Children free
A pre-performance dinner will be available at 6:45pm, price £7.00. Please note that dinner tickets must be obtained in advance from the Tourist Information Office or our online box office.
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Saturday 16th June
Event 25, Mozart’s Requiem
The climax of the 2012 Festival will be a performance of Mozart’s Requiem under the direction of Jeremy Jackman, for ten years counter-tenor with the King’s Singers and now Director of the English Baroque Choir. The performance will be given by The Sedbergh Summers Singers and friends, who will rehearse throughout the day, when Jeremy will take the opportunity to examine the path to good choral singing. The performance will also include an excerpt from Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers, the Ave Maris Stella. The organ continuo will be played by Mark Swinton.
Venue: St. Andrew’s Church, 7.30 pmTickets: £5.00, Children free
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Sunday 17th June
Event 26, Choral Eucharist
Sedbergh School Choir will bring the Festival to a close.
Admission: Free
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Special Offer
Season tickets
- Season tickets may be purchased at a price of £65 per person.
- Season tickets are non transferable.
- Season tickets holders may attend any Music Festival performance free of charge.
- Season tickets do not include pre-performance dinners, these must be ordered and paid for separately.
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Booking information
- Using our online box office www.sedberghbooktown.co.uk/webshop
- By phone to 015396 20125 using a credit card.
Please note that the Information Centre is normally open daily (except Tuesdays) from 10:00am to 3:00pm but since we depend on volounteer staffing there may be some days when it will not be possible to open. - By personal visit.
- By post to:
Sedbergh Tourist Information Centre,Cheques should be made payable to Sedbergh Book Town.
72 Main Street,
Sedbergh,
Cumbria
LA10 5AD.
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How to find us
Sedbergh is on the A684. Leave the M6 at Junction 37 and drive 5 miles east through the stunning Howgill landscape to the town … it couldn’t be simpler! The nearest train stations are Oxenholme (Lake District) 10 miles, Garsdale 10 miles and Kirkby Stephen 12 miles.
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Eating In or Eating Out in Sedbergh
Happy Valley, (Takeaway Chinese food)
14-16 Main Street, 015396 21277
Sun - Thu 5pm - 11pm (closed Tues),
Fri & Sat 5pm - 11.30pm
Brown's Coffee Shop
26 Main Street, 015396 20406
Open weekdays 9am - 5pm,
Sat & Sun 9am - 4.30pm
The Sedbergh Café
30 Main Street, 015396 21389
Free internet access and wireless internet connection for customers’ use
Open every day 10am - 6pm
Taj Mahal Indian Restaurant
30a Main Street, 015396 20000
Open Sun - Thur 5.30pm -10.30pm,
Fri & Sat 5.30pm - 11.30pm
Duo Café Bar & Bistro
32 Main Street, 015396 20552
Open daily in summer (closed Tuesdays from 1st of October until the 21st of March
Free wireless internet connection for customers’ use
Snacks, coffee and cakes with a selection of home made fresh foods
Evening meals Thursday to Sunday 6:00pm ’til late.
On a Roll
46 Main Street, 07587 819091
Open seven days a week, serving baguettes freshly baked on the premises to takeaway.
'hOwGiLLs' Bakery & Tea Room
57 Main Street, 015396 21058
Open weekdays 9am - 5:30pm,
Sat 8.30am - 6:30pm, Sun 10am - 5:30pm
White Rose Fisheries & Café
Main Street, 015396 20468
Weavers Tea Room
Farfield Mill Arts & Heritage Centre,
Garsdale Road, 015396 21958
Open every day 10am - 5pm
Town Centre Pubs:
The Bull, The Dalesman and The Red Lion.
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Next Festival
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Acknowledgements & Sponsors
We would like to acknowledge the help and support of the many organisations which have supported the Festival. We are also grateful to those individuals who have supported the Festival in particular the Tourist Information staff, the Music Festival Committee and our patrons.
