Sedbergh Music Festival 2010

Andi Chapple: A Month of Sundays

Event 1 Eve of Festival Barn Dance and Ceilidh

Following 2008’s most successful start to the Festival the Cornerstone Ceilidh will once again get us off to an invigorating start.

Event 2 Mayming

We regret that this performance has been cancelled due to the illness of one of the performers.

Seaming To and Semay Wu, performing as Mayming, are one of the more innovative and inspiring acts in the North West. Semay uses the cello as a subtle and powerful instrument that complements and drives Seaming’s stunning vocals. Both are looped and sampled to create a hypnotic free-form soundscape delivering a consistently emotive human story.

Event 3 Ulverston Choral Society

Ulverston Choral Society, directed by Heather Paynes, will perform Haydn’s Great Organ Mass in E Flat and Jonathan Willcock’s Magnificat.

Event 4 Choral Eucharist - St. Andrew’s Choir. Director of Music Mary Hamilton

Preacher Canon Robert Western

Event 5 Cello Recital

Cellist Jeremy Lamburn returns after his popular series of the complete Bach Solo Suites at the last Festival. Jeremy is this time accompanied by Nigel Spooner in a partnership that has flourished over the past 4 years. They will present two concerts linked by performances of the two magnificent Brahms Sonatas for cello and piano.

Event 6 Five in a Bar

A group of friends with an eclectic taste in music, who have delighted audiences across the North West since 1998, will sing their a capella arrangements of a wide variety of music from folk to contemporary classics and blues.

Event 7 Violin Recital

Julian Cann returns to this year’s Festival in a solo violin performance of Bach’s Partita no. 1 in B minor & Partita no. 2 in D minor.

Event 8 Organ Recital

Carlo Curley, “the Pavarotti of the Organ”, one of the world’s foremost concert organists will be bringing his 3 manual Allen touring organ and will perform in Saint Andrew’s Parish Church on both the touring organ and the Church organ. His repertroire will include works by Buxtehude, Bach, Sousa and Lindblad.

Event 9 Over the Hills and Far Away

A miscellany of music, old and new. Roger and Judith Bush who both studied music at Bretton Hall before pursuing careers in education will introduce us to a wide variety of music and instruments. Roger has played the accordion in the Garsdale Street Band for 25 years and is now a keen player of the hurdy-gurdy. Roger and Judith will be joined by the Cautley Carollers, the Friday Recorder Consort, some crumhorns, a cornetto and a rackett.

Event 10 Muncheon Music

Event 11 Sedbergh Town Band

The Band will perform a variety of music including compositions by the Band Master, Alan Lewis.

Event 12 String Sextet: Julian Cann

Julian Cann returns to this year’s Festival leading his string sextet formed from members of the Castalia Ensemble and the Stonebridge Quartet.

Event 13 Dalston Male Voice Choir

The Choir, which is celebrating its Silver Jubilee, is a very welcome returnee to this year’s Festival. It is one of the leading male voice choirs in the North of England. Its 35 members are drawn from the immediate area around Dalston and it continues under the direction of its founder, Hilary Hodgson.

Event 14 Pepperpot Coffee Concert and the Extreme Cellists

After coffee, the Pepperpot Music Makers and the Sedbergh Festival Players will make music in St Andrew’s. Weather permitting, the Extreme Cellists will be playing from the top of the church tower (or in the bell tower if wet) and afterwards at the Pepperpot. Bring your own picnic

Event 15 Jonathan Coleclough

Over the last 15 years Jonathan Coleclough has made a dozen albums and performed on four continents. He is an alchemist, transmuting the sounds around us into brooding, cinematic epics. For this performance he responds to the “Book Town” idea using electronics, video, heat and water to turn lead type into sonic gold.

Event 16 Andi Chapple and Musicians

An outdoor performance (in church if wet) involving the St. Andrew’s bell ringers and Andi’s usual collaborators in a mix of acoustic and electronic sound which will enhance listeners’ appreciation of the sounds around them – and be a lot of fun.

Event 17 Ripon Cathedral Choir

Sacred music through the centuries.

Event 18 Choral Mattins - Sedbergh School Chapel Choir. Director of Music John Seymour.

Sedbergh School Chapel Choir performs a cathedral choir repertoire every Sunday in the School Chapel. The Choir sings Evensong in cathedrals around the country and tours regularly, most recently to Northern France where they sang in Rouen and Orleans Cathedrals.

Preacher:The Rt. Rev. Bishop David James.

Event 19 Cello Recital

Cellist Jeremy Lamburn returns after his popular series of the complete Bach Solo Suites at the last Festival. Jeremy is this time accompanied by Nigel Spooner in a partnership that has flourished over the past 4 years. They will present two concerts linked by performances of the two magnificent Brahms Sonatas for cello and piano.

Event 20 Recital: A Venetian Journey

Nicholas Hurndall Smith, accompanied by Alexa Wightman, will take us on a musical adventure through songs by Monteverdi, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Faure, Hahn, Gounod and Gilbert & Sullivan.

Event 21 Piano Recital: Christine Stevenson

Christine Stevenson returns to Sedbergh, where she once lived, to give a piano recital which will include works by Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Hewitt Jones, Liszt, Mozart and Schumann.

Event 22 Four Hands One Piano: Alexa Wightman and Helena Morwood

Alexa Wightman and Helena Morwood will entertain with a variety of piano duets.

Event 23 Sedbergh Summer Singers Open Rehearsal

After their recent Gilbert and Sullivan successes the Sedbergh Summer Singers return to the concert platform with performances of Summer Sunday by Horovitz, The Blue Bird by Stanford and The Rhythm of Life by Coleman.

Event 24 Organ Recital

A lunchtime recital on the Saint Andrew’s Parish Church organ by Edward Tambling.

Event 25 Sedbergh Summer Singers

After their recent Gilbert and Sullivan successes the Sedbergh Summer Singers return to the concert platform with performances of Summer Sunday by Horovitz, The Blue Bird by Stanford and The Rhythm of Life by Coleman.

Event 26 Violin and Piano Recital

Julian Cann returns to this year’s Festival in concert, to include Grieg sonata, accompanied by David Chapman.

Event 27 Recital: Emma Kirkby

Emma Kirkby accompanied by Anthony Rooley, theorbo-lute In a newly researched programme the internationally acclaimed duo will perform “Orpheus and Corinna” which explores the classical tradition in song in England in the 17th Century.

Event 28 Chetham’s

“Chets” have been involved in every Music Festival since its beginning in 2000 and we welcome their young musicians for their sixth visit. Originally founded as a Bluecoat orphanage in 1653, Chets was re-founded as a specialist school for young musicians in 1969. Now with over 290 pupils still housed around the historic College building Chets is at the forefront of music education in Britain and Europe.

Event 29 Amabile Girls’ Choir

Join Amabile Girls’ Choir and Poco Amabile as they combine forces to provide an evening of beautiful choral music for treble voices. The programme will include something for everyone – from Bach to Rutter, from Purcell to Jenkins. The programme will also include the Premiere performance of Earth Tide, by Melody Rowe. This four movement work, recently commissioned by Amabile Choirs with the assistance of a BBC Choral Ambitions grant, portrays the changing nature of the seasons as experienced in Cumbria and Lancashire.

Event 30 Vox Novus 60x60

60x60 contains 60 works, each 60 seconds long, from 60 different composers sequenced together to create an hour-long playback performance. It shows the vibrancy of electronic composition today by presenting the diverse array of styles, aesthetics and techniques being used.

Event 31 Westmorland Youth Orchestra

The Youth Orchestra was formed in 1948 and since then has performed throughout Cumbria and inspired many young musicians. It will give a varied concert under its musical director, Noel Bertram.

The Sedbergh Town Junior Band will provide Welcome Music before the the Concert.

Event 32 Choral Eucharist - Casterton School Choir. Director of Music David Chapman.

Casterton School Choir will sing Choral Eucharist in Saint Andrew’s Parish Church.

Preacher:Rev Ernest Lennon.

Event 33 Recital: Alla Kravchuk

Alla, who was lately the Principal Soprano at the Hannover State Opera, will bring the Festival to a close with a concert accompanied by Simon Phillips, piano.