Nothing to fear! Jeremy Sams is a celebrated composer for film and stage. Here’s what he says about his latest composition, People and Paintings, which will be premiered at Whittington on Saturday May 18th ‘This is a piece about Venice where I’m lucky enough to teach every year. It’s a gondola ride up a very …
Act Now! Tickets for Four Seasons Plus, the first concert of the 2024 season, are selling fast so if you are a lover of Baroque music or if you particularly want to hear Braimah Kanneh-Mason play, you’ll need to book soon https://thelittleboxoffice.com/whittingtonmusicfestival/ However, more tickets are available for the other concerts. Braimah will also be playing …
Steven Isserlis CBE, celebrated cellist and our Honorary Patron says of the 2024 festival:‘As always, the festival offers a wonderfully fresh and enticing blend of the familiar and the unfamiliar, presented by a very special group of (mostly young) musicians who will give the music their all. It promises to be a marvellous and memorable …
Thanks to everyone who has renewed their membership as a Friend, Benefactor, Donor or Sponsor, the twelfth Whittington Festival will begin on Thursday May 16th 2024. We were also delightedly surprised to learn recently that our application to Arts Council England for a smaller grant had been successful! Flyers are at the printers and will …
The 2024 festival will open with Vivaldi’s ever-popular Four Seasons and closes with Mendelssohn’s prodigious Octet. And between those two classics is a wealth of glorious music, some of it well-known and some less so, but all performed with the hallmark excellence of our festival musicians. We are delighted that our three violinists, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, …
The programme for the 2024 festival is now on the website https://www.whittingtonmusicfestival.org.uk/festival-programme/. The festival opens on Thursday May 16 with a concert including the iconic Four Seasons by Vivaldi, and other baroque delights. The other concerts offer a wide variety of music. Don’t miss the world premiere of a song cycle for voice, flute, piano and …