Shipley
Arts Festival 2008 The former site of the Knight’s Templar at St Mary’s in Shipley was our first concert venue over seven years ago and we have greatly enjoyed bringing together the ancient corners of the region whose history stretches back over 1000 years. We are delighted to be able to serve Nuthurst, Steyning, Coolham, Horsham and Shipley and welcome our new additional venues in Plummers Plain, Monks Gate, Sedgwick Park and West Grinstead. The 2008 Shipley Arts Festival will be celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the life of local visitor and composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Vaughan Williams collected folk songs from this area and we will be performing many of his works including ‘Monks Gate’ named after one of our communities. We will continue the revival of new music in the area with our second world premiere by Cecilia McDowall who is also our first composer in residence. Our second commission by Cecilia will be performed at the central concert on May 3rd in St Mary’s Shipley. We will also be playing the world premiere of a newly completed Haydn Double Bass Concerto at the 2008 closing concert in St Andrew’s Nuthurst. The concerto has been completed by English composer Tony Osborn. John Ireland’s music will feature as our most local composer resting at St Mary’s in Shipley. The Festival grows ever richer with Youth Music, Jazz, Opera, Classical Concerts and a number of historic venues, contributing to a celebration of art within the community. We very much look forward to sharing these events with you over the Festival period. Yours, Andrew Yours, Andrew Bernardi Box office: 01403 741 782
Monday March 17th 7.30 pm Tickets £12.00 and students £2.00. Tues 8th Wed - 9th April 10.00 am. The Festival’s inaugural chamber music course for outstanding musicians from West Sussex and the Southeast will enjoy the fabulous surroundings of the Long House near Cowfold whilst studying with leading international professorial staff on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th April in preparation for a very special concert on Monday May 5th at Windlesham House. Please contact Andrew Bernardi for further details through the festival office Tel: 01403 741685. Thursday April 17th 7.30pm The ‘Stardust Hotshots’ perform at the Inn hosted by Alan Vaughan. The Inn won a Le Routier Pub award in 2005. Tables for this very popular evening can be reserved for a minimum cost of £8.00 per person. Tel. 01403 741383. Saturday May 3rd 7.30 pm The Bernardi Chamber Ensemble, Addison Singers with Shipley Festival Choir, conducted by Nic Pendlebury, David Wordsworth with soloists Richard Wainright (horn), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Andrew Bernardi (violin) and Sarah Corps (soprano). This family programme will include Benjamin Britten’s ‘Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings,’ Vaughan Williams’ ‘Lark Ascending,’ and Cecilia McDowall’s second World Premiere piece for Shipley. There will be popular music for all the family and both John Ireland and Peter Warlock’s music will be heard in the concert together with Howard Goodall’s setting of Psalm 23. We are delighted that the Addison Singers and friends from across the Southeast are joining to form Shipley Festival Choir. The audience too can expect to sing at this very special concert. Tickets £15.00 and £5.00 for students under 18. Saturday May 3rd 2.00pm. The Peter Warlock Society hold its AGM in Shipley Mill and have supper in ‘the Countryman’ after the Hilaire Belloc poem set to music by Peter Warlock. Sunday May 4th 5.00 pm Maria Marchant (formerly Redman) returns to perform a piano recital including Beethoven's Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2 No 2, Chopin's 3rd Scherzo in C sharp minor and Liszt's 2nd Ballade in B minor. We are very grateful to Denise Mitchell and the RC Diocese of Arundel & Brighton for hosting this concert. Tickets £15.00. Limited to sixty. Monday May 5th 6.30 pm Our resident composer Cecilia McDowall’s environmental opera ‘King Leo’ will be performed by Horsham Children’s Choir together with pupils from local schools and narrated by Michael Cochran. The performance will be conducted by Derek Cardin who is renowned for his youth music work with the Royal Opera House and English National Opera. Youth Chamber Musicians from the Arts Festival’s inaugural Academy will perform Mendelssohn’s youthful masterpiece the String Octet. Directions to the venue are at www.windlesham.com Tickets £5.00 per adult and accompanied children £1.00 Saturday May 10th 7.30 pm Leading violin soloist Madeleine Mitchell and the festival’s ensemble perform music including Bach violin concertos from the time of New Buildings Place. The concert is generously hosted by the Earl and Countess of Lytton. Tickets £20.00 including refreshments. Limited to forty. SaturdayMay10th7.30pm Oliver Heath violin Tickets on 01903 812 662 Adult £10 Students £2 Saturday May 12th 8.00 pm Julian Bliss & Simon Lepper At the age of 17 Julian Bliss is already establishing himself on the international concert scene having made highly successful debuts at the Wigmore Hall and Verbier Festival, as well as appearing as soloist with major orchestras here and abroad. A favourite of the Royal Family, Julian has performed at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and was among the distinguished artists invited to perform at the Queen's Jubilee Celebrations in 2002. Julian has clarinet lessons in Lubeck with Saline Meyer, studies at the RAM and takes his A level examinations next summer. He will be joined by award winning accompanist Simon Lepper who has an impressive list of engagements with high profile singers and instrumentalists. Their programme includes Brahms' Sonata No. 1 and works by Poulenc and Debussy. Tickets on 01403 252602: Adults £18, Students £10, Under 16s £2.50 Sunday May 11th 4.00pm Shipley Organ recital by Duncan Patterson with String Ensemble celebrating the two fine organs in the church. Music will include Mendelssohn's String Octet and Handel's Organ Concerto ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’ together with virtuoso organ solos. Tickets £12.00 with refreshments available. Sunday 25th May 6.00 pm Shipley’s Trinity College of Music students, Flora Cooke (cello) and Mark Andrew (Piano) perform a programme to include: Wednesday June 11th 7.30pm, By popular request Campbell Burnap and his quintet make their annual appearance at the Selsey Arms, Coolham with generous hospitality from our very own Mr Tony Woods. Campbell and his players are leading exponents of traditional jazz, and Campbell is a regular raconteur and presenter for Jazz Radio. Tables can be reserved on 01403 741537. Sunday June 15th 6.30pm A two hour journey through the good and the great, the passion and the profundity, the funny and the fiery and, above all, the joyous and the jubilant world of opera. Six of our talented singers take you on an unforgettable operatic tour of the Opera’s The Good the Bad and the Ugly. This hugely successful production will include a professional ensemble and soloists who have embarked on international careers from our opera houses. Directions: Take the A 281 Horsham to Cowfold. Turn down Doomsday Lane on the edge of Horsham at the top of the Hill by Hilliers Garden Centre and opposite Sedgwick Lane. At the end of the Lane turn right into Hammerpond Road and keep on past the Horsham Rugby Club on the left and then the Church is on the right. There will be signs to the Church from the A 281 Tickets £20.00 with refreshments. Limited to 100. Friday June 27th 7.30 pm Music from the time of Sedgwick Park including the locally written Piano Quintet by Sir Edward Elgar with award winning musicians including Helen Reid (former piano finalist with Young Musician of the Year). Each member of the ensemble will additionally perform virtuoso music from the same period including Wienawski’s ‘Polonaise Brilliante,’ Kreisler’s ‘Prelude and Allegro’ plus a short works by Cecilia McDowall and Dominic Sewell. We are delighted to be sharing the promotion of the concert with the Horsham Rotary Club and our hosts John and Clare Davison. Tickets £20.00 including a glass of champagne. Limited to ninety. Sunday July 6th 6.30pm Celebrity Classical Concert conducted by John Parsons and Andrew Bernardi to include Mozart Concerto No.21 performed by Sharona Joshua on her Pleyel Piano. There will be a world premiere of a Haydn Double Bass Concerto completed by Tony Osborne and played by David Heyes together with his arrangement of Bottessini’s Grande Duo for violin, bass and orchestra. Vaughan Williams collected folk songs locally and we will hear his work ‘Monks Gate’ together with Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus. There will also be the opportunity to hear Cecilia McDowall’s Shipley Arts Festival 2008 commission. Tickets £15.00 and £10.00 for students under 18 |
