Update: Just in — The 2010 HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival brochure!
Music Festival preview — Directors’ Picks
The full Music programme may not go on sale until April, but there’s already the chance to hear a very special sneak preview of what’s to come.
Festival Director Meurig Bowen has put together his Director’s Picks, featuring his selection of events from a programme of sounds that features everything from edge of the seat to heart on sleeve.
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Check out Jazz and Science too
Like this? See what the directors of the Jazz and Science Festivals have planned. Browse the full print edition of Directors’ Picks.
Coming up this year: 2-17 July
This year, it’s 200 years since Robert Schumann was born. Cellist Steven Isserlis, probably the world’s most celebrated Schumann enthusiast and interpreter, is Guest Director for a series of events based around Schumann’s music.
Also in the Music 2010 programme are Sarah Connolly, Imogen Cooper, Alina Ibragimova and Freddy Kempf — among others — in a wide range of chamber, orchestral and song repertoire, in one of the most vibrant and widely-admired events in Britain’s musical calendar.
For more, read Meurig Bowen’s preview to the festival.
“The venues are beautiful, and the programming has always been very imaginative and satisfying.”
Cellist Steven Isserlis
Painted Quartets exhibition now on tour
Our Painted Quartets are off on their travels to St Ives and Oxford as a touring exhibition.
View the Painted Quartets for details of the instruments and artists.
You can also find out full details about this touring exhibition from our festival blog and find out a little more about the process with some interesting insight from Meurig Bowen, Music Festival Director.
Cheltenham Music Festival on Sky Arts
Sky Arts goes behind the scenes at Cheltenham Music Festival.
The 2009 HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival was profiled in a short film on Sky Arts, our TV media partner in 2009.
Festival Director Meurig Bowen talked about the programme on location at the Pittville Pump Room and Town Hall. There are stunning shots of Cheltenham and the Cotswolds. And there are specially-filmed interviews and performance extracts from soprano Elizabeth Watts, singing Schubert, and the Endellion Quartet, performing Beethoven.
External links
- Chipping Campden Music Festival
- With our recriprical marketing this year we are working closely with the Chipping Campden 9th Annual Music Festival — Monday 10 May to Saturday 22 May 2010.
www.campdenmusicfestival.co.uk for more information - Longborough Festival Opera
- We are also combing marketing efforts with Longborough Festival Opera whose Longborough Opera House will be presenting throughout the summer.
www.lfo.org.uk for more information
