A season ticket
covering the whole week's events is available for £55.00 (a saving of £10.50 on the
individual prices)
Tickets Available From:
The Cumberland Building Society, 19 Front
Street, Brampton and branches in:
Haltwhistle, Keswick, Penrith & Carlisle (English Street and Fisher
Street).
or by post
from:
Keep Cottage, Lanercost Road, Brampton,
CA8 2EY.
Wednesday 18th June 2008, Evening
7.30pm
Ticket Price: £9.00 (2 children free with every paying
adult)
Stop Press:
Peter Moore, the young trombonist pictured here at The Lanercost
Festival in 2007, has won the 2008 BBC Young Musician Of The Year
Competition. A video of his performance can be seen at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/sites/news/
Peter is the youngest ever winner, and the fourth from Chetham’s.
The audience at last year’s Chetham’s concert knew that they had
heard something very special that evening, not only from Peter, but
from all of his amazingly talented friends, and we are anticipating
an equally inspirational concert this year.
With 290 students, aged 8 - 18, Chetham's is the largest specialist
music school in the UK and the only music school based in the north
of England. It provides today's young musicians with the best
opportunities to develop and reach their full potential.
We are delighted to welcome back to the festival the younger
students from Chetham's to give what promises to be another
sparkling and high-quality recital.
Thursday 19th June 2008, Evening
7.30pm
Ticket Price: £12.00
'From Italy ... with Love' – Ida Maria Turri and
Wyn Davies.
Returning to her home town, award-winning Ida-Maria
Turri not only brings her own sparkling personality to the Lanercost
platform but also as her accompanist, international conductor and
pianist, Wyn Davies, in a scintillating programme of operatic arias,
lieder, Itailan song and popular favourites. A ’must be there’ evening
is promised.
Ida-Maria Turri - Mezzo soprano
Ida-Maria
Turri was born in Carlisle of Italian parents. She started singing
at an early age, continued her studies at the Royal Northern College
of Music and subsequently at the National Opera Studio. Ida
currently studies with her coach Ludmilla Andrew in London and the
great Italian soprano Katia Ricciarelli.
On the concert platform she has performed with
some of the Country’s leading orchestras including the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Northern Sinfonia.
Her work abroad includes a live broadcast with
the Danish Radio Orchestra singing the role of Mercedes in Carmen,
Fenena in Nabucco and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony with the Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra. She recently sang the mezzo soprano role in
the Verdi Requiem at Montecassino to mark the 60th anniversary of
the Second World War bombings and the Pergolesi Stabat Mater
alongside Katia Ricciarelli. Other broadcasts include performances
on both Radio 3 and Classic FM.
Recordings include “Il Tramonto” by Respighi on
the Fonè label and Bel Canto…Brahms..& Broadway a recital of grand
opera, lieder and songs from the shows with her husband, Malcesine-born
pianist Stefano Romani.
Wyn Davies - Piano
Wyn
Davies was born in South Wales. Since his début with Welsh National
Opera, he has conducted most major British opera companies and many
orchestras including the Hallé, the Northern Sinfonia and the
Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
He spent two years
conducting at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and two seasons in
Canada where he conducted an award-winning production of Weill’s
Threepenny Opera in Toronto. He was appointed Director of Music to
New Zealand Opera in 2005.
In Britain, he conducts
regularly at the Buxton Festival. He is also a noted pianist and
cabaret performer. Other notable projects include Kern’s Show Boat
for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North, on tour and in
the West End; Animated Operas and the Theresienstadt children’s
opera Brundibar for S4C television. Wyn Davies has prepared
performing editions of works as diverse as L’Incoronazione Di Poppea
and The Beggars’ Opera.
Future plans include
productions for the English National Opera, Opera North and Scottish
Opera.
Friday 20th June 2008, Evening
7.30pm
Ticket Price: £12.00
A recital by Korean piano virtuoso Young-Choon Park.
featuring works by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, including
his "Pathétique" and "Appassionata" sonatas.
Praise for this gifted, young pianist:
“…the piano technique was dazzling with its insatiable
strength and energy, her technical skill and accuracy were shown to
be irreproachable…” La Libre Belgique
“…individually refreshing, while demonstrating real passion and
style as well as outstanding technical proficiency…” Sunday Times
“…seductive clarity without falling into dryness or pedantry –
not only power, fire and passion but also proportions and form…” Suddeutsch Zeitung
“…her technical ability is beyond dispute, as is her pleasant
touch and her ability to make the tone sing. Young-Choon Park – a
name to remember…” Arnhemse Courant
The South Korean-born pianist Young-Choon Park began the study
of the piano at the age of four and gave her first full recital when
she was seven. She played the Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 with the
Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine. The young child prodigy
studied at the Juilliard School in New York and later gained the
highest masters degree at the Hochschule in Munich.
Since 1993 she has toured extensively, giving over 50 concerts each
year in Europe, Scandinavia and the United States. She makes many
return visits to major concert venues including the Birmingham
Symphony Hall, St. David’s Hall in Cardiff, Belfast Waterfront Hall,
Alice Tully Hall and Lincoln Centre in New York, de Doelen in
Rotterdam, Athenaeum Hall in Bucharest, Tivoli Koncertsalen in
Copenhagen, Gasteig in Munich, Musikverein in Vienna and the
Troldhaugen in Bergen.
Young-Choon Park has broadcast for radio and television in many
countries, performed with many leading orchestras and she is
currently recording the complete Mozart piano concertos for Duchesne
World Records in Belgium.
Saturday 21st June 2008,
9.30 am
Pay at the door: £3.50
Young Musicians Competition
Last year's winner, Andrew Ritson, receives his certificate from
Grant Seaton of the Cumberland Building Society
An opportunity to perform in the beautiful setting of
Lanercost Priory. A programme of your choice will be assessed by the
distinguished adjudicator Marilynne Davies.
The following categories are
eligible: piano, strings, woodwind, brass, guitar, accordion, vocal.
There are two classes, one for fifteen years and under (programme up
to 10 minutes, guideline grade 5/6 standard) and one for nineteen
years and under (programme up to 12 minutes, guideline grade 7/8).
Accompanists Cilla Grant and Martin Johnson are available for
rehearsal and performance, if required.
Six valuable cash prizes will be
awarded (three in each class) and the overall winner will receive
the title “Lanercost Young Musician of the Year”. Click on the link
for an entry form and rules.
One of the oldest and most famous brass bands in
the world.
Programme details to be announced.
Sunday 22nd June 2008
10.00am
Festival Eucharist
Sunday 22nd June 2008
7.30pm
Ticket Price: £14.50
Edward I - The Musical Spectacular
A welcome return for the concert
that stunned audiences in September 2006 at the 700th anniversary
celebrations of Edward 1’s 6-month stay at Lanercost.
