WELCOME Andrew Bernardi formed the Bernardi Music Group in 2001 to bring together solo orchestral chamber music and charitable courses including what was the newly formed Shipley Arts Festival which was established by Andrew and a strong team in 2001. The group is exceptionally creative in repertoire and presentation. We delight in sharing our enthusiasm for outstanding music making. The Bernardi Music Group has become a vibrant and forward looking international level professional orchestra with String Chamber Academy and a charitable outreach through Shipley Arts Festival in the heart of West Sussex. The Bernardi Music Group has enjoyed a highly successful tour of Ireland in recent weeks and a wide variety of engagements and tours abroad in 2008. The Bernardi Music Group is a mixed blend of the UK’s leading players from conservatoire staff and the London Orchestras. We are very grateful to all our many supporters for attending concerts and sharing in a vision of bringing together communities through music. We have had a busy year with another tour planned, and numerous concerts through the summer. We have a very special concert with an extension of the String Chamber Academy which proved such a success this year. Please download posters here for our September 20th Concert which celebrates Vaughan Williams and his connections with Horsham. We are very grateful to Horsham Folk Club and also Horsham District Council for supporting this event, and welcome string players of grade six and above standard to join the Bernardi Music Group for this exceptionally creative event. Please email for further details or call 01403 741685 The Shipley Arts Festival opened Monday March 17th at 7.30 in Windlesham House school with a celebration of the peak of Youth String with music performed by the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra and pupils. We have two concerts remaining on June 27th and July 6th, and we welcome you to download posters and brochure below. Shipley Arts Festival 2008
Monday March 17th at 7.30 pm The pupils of the Yehudi Menuhin School perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Vaughan Williams Concerto Grosso. Festival Academy: The Festival’s inaugural chamber music course for outstanding musicians from West Sussex and with leading international professorial staff on April 8th and 9th The Countryman Inn April 17th: From 7.30 pm hear the Stardust Hotshots with supper booked in advance at the Inn on 01403 741383. May 3rd 7.30 pm St Mary’s Church Shipley Tickets £15.00 with concessions for students under 18 Celebrity Classical Concert - Programme to include: Benjamin Britten: Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings, Vaughan Williams ‘Lark Ascending,’ Vaughan Williams, Cecilia McDowall New Commission World Premier from Shipley Arts Festival. Peter Warlock Society to attend. May 3rd The Peter Warlock Society hold AGM in Shipley and have supper in ‘the Countryman’ after the Hilaire Beloc poem set to music by Peter Warlock. May 4th 5 pm St Cuthman’s Tickets limited to 60 are £15.00 Maria Marchant returns to play a piano recital by popular demand. May 5th 6.30 pm Windlesham House Malden Theatre OperaUK Youth Opera: Our resident composer Cecilia McDowall’s environmental opera ‘King Leo’ will be performed by Horsham Children’s Choir local schools, and Youth Chamber Musicians from the Arts Festival’s inaugural Academy. The concert will be narrated by Michael Cochrane, and conducted by Derek Cardin, Nick Allen, Victoria Rawlins and Andrew Bernardi with soloists Millie Than Alexandra Mountain. The programme will also include Mendelssohn’s String Octet, Bach's D minor Concerto for two violins and A minor Concerto plus 'Pirates of the Caribbean.' May 10th New Buildings Tickets are limited to forty and refreshments are included £20.00 – A Concert to celebrate Lord Byron and music from the time of New Buildings and hosted by hosts the Earl and Countess of Lytton. SOLD OUT Sunday 11th may 4 pm West Grinstead – Refreshments are available at tickets are £12.00 Organ recital by Duncan Patterson with International String Ensemble celebrating the two fine organs in the church. Music to include Mendelssohn's string octet and Handel's Organ Concerto "The cuckoo and the Nightingale". Windmill Opening Sunday & Monday May 4th & 5th Sunday June 15th St John’s Coolhurst Tickets are £20.00 OperaUK stage an evening of Opera to include favourite items such as 'Nessum Dorma,' 'the Pearl Fisher's Duet,' 'Habanara from Carmen' and performed by leading Opera Singers. Sunday June 22nd St Andrew’s Nuthurst at Sedgwick Park Open day £5.00 entry tbc June Friday 27th 7.30 Sedgwick Park: We are delighted to invite you to this very special concert which will celebrate our community with music from the time of Sedgwick Park. John and Clare Davison have very kindly invited the Festival to the Ball Room of Sedgwick Park, the view from which was described as the finest in England by Lord Rotherwick. There will be virtuoso solos including Kreisler’s Prelude and Allegro, Debussy’s L’ll Joyeuse, Flanders and Swann, Sullivan, and Wienawski’s Polonaise Brilliante. Vaughan William’s Lark Ascending will be played to celebrate the 50 years since his death, and also folk songs collected locally in Horsham. Additionally composer Cecilia McDowall will be present for a performance of one of her recent works for piano. The soloists will include young musician of the year finalist Helen Reid, violinists Andrew Bernardi and Peter Hembrough, plus the Sara Reynolds Singers. There will be canapés and champagne included in the ticket price of £20.00 which can be reserved by leaving your name and telephone number on 01403 741782 or at The Manning’s Heath Village store. We look forward to seeing you for this very special evening of light music for the whole family. Sunday July 6th St Andrew’s Church Tickets £15.00 and £10.00 student concession: Classical Orchestral concert to include Mozart Concertos 27 and the slow movement of 21 on a ‘Pleyel Piano’ with Sharona Joshua, a world premier of Haydn Double Bass Concerto, Vaughan Williams ‘Monks Gate,’ 'Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus,' Shipley Arts Festival 2008 Commission for Cecilia McDowall: ‘Descending Blue.’
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