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Lake District Summer Music

The Lake District, Cumbria, 01 to 15 August 2009

Lake District Summer Music  

Web site: www.ldsm.org.uk

Lake District Summer Music celebrates its Silver Jubilee this August with public sales of its 2009 International Festival programme launched on Monday 1 June. Heralded in the national press as one of the top three UK classical music festivals, organisers are seeking to ensure that the combination of world music across five centuries, performed by world artists, plus the inspirational backdrop of our beautiful Lake District, is an irresistible recipe.

The 25th International Festival runs from 31 July to 15 August and once again draws top international musicians and groups to perform in this “Festival painted on the canvas of the Lake District”.

Festival highlights for 2009 include performances by Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner, cellists Robert Cohen, UK, and Christoph Richter, Germany, Trio di Parma from Italy, and South-African born double bass virtuoso Leon Bosch. Soprano Lesley-Jane Rogers sings in three concerts across the Festival, including performances of 3 world premieres. Young composer Nirmali Fenn also has her new string quartet premiered by the Vardanyan Quartet, LDSM’s new MBF Ensemble Associate.

LDSM is also extending the birthday celebrations well beyond its own Silver Jubilee. The programme marks the genius of Haydn, who died in 1809, with a Haydn Celebration presenting some of his most popular works including the Nelson Mass and Trumpet Concerto. The concert is being conducted by Denis McCaldin, Director of the Haydn Society of Great Britain and blogger-in-residence for Radio 3 during this 200th anniversary year. Without access to such things as radio, CDs, or ipods, classical composers relied on ingenious ways to help their music ‘travel’. Florilegium’s performance of 3 of Haydn’s ‘London’ symphonies, arranged by Johann Peter Salomon who brought the composer to the UK, presents ideal examples.

The boy prodigy Mendelssohn, who was born in 1809, is celebrated in another key Festival strand. A performance of his Octet brings together the Chilingirian Quartet, resident artists with LDSM across its 25 years, with one of the finest young professional ensembles, the Vardanyan Quartet and also marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of Friends of the Lake District.

Other anniversaries include Pro Nobis Singers’ 40th, Chaconne Brass’s 25th, and the 500th of Henry VIII’s coronation in a concert held in the shadows of Kendal Castle, home to the family of Katherine Parr, Henry’s sixth and surviving wife.

LDSM’s reach extends well beyond its heart in Ambleside and the Central Lakes. The event is the widest spread music Festival in the UK, reaching 13 towns and villages across the county - from Kirkby Lonsdale to Penrith, Keswick to Ulverston – in over 50 events. Its impact is felt well beyond these geographical boundaries too. Over 10,000 people attend LDSM’s offering of thrilling concerts in inspiring locations, and its showcasing of some 180 young musicians from over 20 countries give the event a unique quality.

Renna Kellaway, LDSM’s Founder and Artistic Director, was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours for services to music. Renna says: “A quarter of a century – of course we should celebrate. What greater good or pleasure can there be in absorbing the genius of inspired composers brought to us in live, committed performances by artists at the height of illustrious careers and new generation musicians who will illuminate our 21st century? Music touches us all. It is timeless and ageless.”

Tickets can be purchased online from www.ldsm.org.uk, or by calling the box office on 08456 44 21 44.

Concerts

01/08/2009 11:00 Ambleside Parish Centre, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Indian Strings
01/08/2009 20:00 Coronation Hall, Ulverston Lake District Summer Music: Haydn Celebration
02/08/2009 17:30 Theatre by the Lake, Keswick Lake District Summer Music: Pre-Concert Talk
02/08/2009 20:00 Theatre by the Lake, Keswick Lake District Summer Music: Mantra - Musical Conversations Across the Indian Ocean
02/08/2009 20:00 Kendal Town Hall, Kendal Lake District Summer Music: The Galliard Wind Ensemble
03/08/2009 11:00 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Organ Recital
03/08/2009 15:30 Storyteller's Garden, Grasmere Lake District Summer Music: Music Tales
03/08/2009 19:30 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Nelson Goerner Recital
03/08/2009 22:00 Ambleside Parish Centre, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Late Night Music India - Music for the Mind and Soul
04/08/2009 11:00 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Shakespeare - His Sonnets & Music of His Time
04/08/2009 17:30 Kendal Parish Church, Kendal Lake District Summer Music: Mendelssohn - The Boy Prodigy
04/08/2009 20:00 Kendal Parish Church, Kendal Lake District Summer Music: Chilingirian Quartet
05/08/2009 11:00 Ambleside Parish Centre, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Celebrity Coffee Concert
05/08/2009 14:30 University of Cumbria, Ambleside, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Sam Forrester Masterclass
05/08/2009 20:00 St. Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere Lake District Summer Music: An Indian Serenade
05/08/2009 20:00 Kendal Parish Church, Kendal Lake District Summer Music: Henry VIII - The 500th Anniversary Tour
06/08/2009 11:00 Ambleside Parish Centre, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Celebrity Morning Recital
06/08/2009 14:30 University of Cumbria, Ambleside, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Nelson Goerner Masterclass
06/08/2009 15:30 Kirkby Lonsdale Parish Church, Kirkby Lonsdale Lake District Summer Music: Kirkby Market Day Recital 1
06/08/2009 20:00 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: LDSM Artists Ensemble
06/08/2009 20:00 Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands Lake District Summer Music: Vardanyan Quartet
07/08/2009 14:30 University of Cumbria, Ambleside, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Robert Cohen Masterclass
07/08/2009 20:00 Kendal Town Hall, Kendal Lake District Summer Music: From Brass to Beyond: Chaconne Brass – Celebrating 25 Years
07/08/2009 20:00 Methodist Church, Penrith Lake District Summer Music: Trio di Parma
08/08/2009 11:00 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Celebrity Morning Recital
08/08/2009 20:00 Coronation Hall, Ulverston Lake District Summer Music: Chilingirian Quartet
09/08/2009 14:30 University of Cumbria, Ambleside, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Discovering Music
09/08/2009 20:00 Theatre by the Lake, Keswick Lake District Summer Music: The Menuhin Concert
10/08/2009 11:00 Parish Church, Grasmere Lake District Summer Music: Rising Star - Philip Higham
10/08/2009 17:30 Kendal Parish Church, Kendal Lake District Summer Music: Haydn - Father of the Symphony
11/08/2009 11:00 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Rising Star 2
11/08/2009 14:30 University of Cumbria, Ambleside, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Gyorgy Pauk Masterclass
11/08/2009 20:00 Methodist Church, Penrith Lake District Summer Music: Kuss Quartet
12/08/2009 10:00 Kendal Town Hall, Kendal Lake District Summer Music: Meet the Composer
12/08/2009 11:00 Kendal Town Hall, Kendal Lake District Summer Music: Vardanyan Quartet
12/08/2009 14:30 University of Cumbria, Ambleside, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Kuss Quartet Masterclass
12/08/2009 19:30 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Trio di Parma
12/08/2009 22:00 University of Cumbria, Ambleside, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: The Cunning Little Vixen
13/08/2009 15:30 Kirkby Lonsdale Parish Church, Kirkby Lonsdale Lake District Summer Music: Kirkby Market Day Recital 2
13/08/2009 15:30 St. Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere Lake District Summer Music: Music in our Time
13/08/2009 19:30 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Christoph Richter Recital
13/08/2009 22:00 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Pro Nobis Singers
14/08/2009 20:00 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Christopher Rowland Candlelight Serenade
15/08/2009 11:00 Ambleside Parish Church, Ambleside Lake District Summer Music: Celebrity Morning Recital
15/08/2009 17:30 Coronation Hall, Ulverston Lake District Summer Music: Rossini's Barber
15/08/2009 19:30 Coronation Hall, Ulverston Lake District Summer Music: Rossini's Barber of Seville