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Wimbledon Music Festival 2011

| On 10, Oct 2011

The third annual Wimbledon Music Festival offers a feast of world-class music making

Saturday 12 November – Sunday 27 November

In 2010 Wimbledon Music Festival’s audience more than doubled, and the stellar line up of concerts and family events planned for 2011 are set to secure the festival’s reputation as one of the most up-and-coming musical celebrations in Europe.

 

The International Wimbledon Music Festival is pleased to announce the programme for their third festival, which takes place from 12th to 27th November 2011. For sixteen nights, the festival offers a range of events bringing world-class artists to SW19. Concerts vary from the Baroque to world premieres of works commissioned by the festival. The jam-packed programme features not only leading classical artists, but family events, debates, comedy and a jazz concert.

 

Highlights of the festival include the return of the innovative Juice Vocal Ensemble who team up with the Kosmos Ensemble to perform the world premiere of a commissioned work by Robert Fokkens Thwok – a setting of a poem by Matthew Harvey inspired by Wimbledon’s other major annual offering – tennis. Wimbledon Music Festival prides itself on its co-commissioning scheme, which in association with the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and the El Paso Pro-Musica in Texas, offers talented composers a platform to have new works performed on three continents – a testimony to the truly international flavour of the festival.

 

A celebrity recital from Mikhail Rudy sees the Russian virtuoso perform Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition alongside projections of the paintings of Viktor Hartmann which originally inspired the composer, and the painting of Wassily Kandinsky, which were inspired by the music.

 

Benjamin Britten’s famous setting of the story of Noah and the Ark – Noye’s Fludde – will see audiences participating in a very visual production featuring a children’s chorus almost 100-strong, in costumes and masks, led by puppets especially created by the Wimbeldon College of Art for the festival. A troupe of dancers forming the waves and opera singers David Wilson-Johnson and Catherine Wyn-Rogers will be accompanied by the Brodsky Quartet, the percussion ensemble Ensemblebash, and children ‘basheurs’ playing tuned coffee mugs and cups to create the sound of the first raindrops.

 

Ensemblebash make another festival appearance where they will be joined by one of the world’s most exciting and charismatic pianists – Joanna MacGregor. In a unique collaboration they will mix together the rhythms of Bach and Shostakovich with the rhythms of Africa and South America.

 

Celebrated harpsichordist and director of the world-renowned English Concert, Trevor Pinnock gives a recital featuring works by Bach, Couperin, Handel and Scarlatti in a musical feast which celebrates the virtuosity of this distinguished musician.

 

The festival’s annual jazz concert sees legendary jazz pianist Claude Bolling bring his trio to SW19, with guest flautist Wissam Boustany, who will join them to perform Bolling’s Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio.

 

The festival opens with Bach’s magnificent Mass in B Minor and ends with a celebratory concert by chamber ensemble London Winds. In between there is Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Korean pianist Sunwook Kim, a viola recital, a debate on What Makes a Great Quartet? and much, much more.

 

BOOKING INFORMATION: Tickets for all performances are available online at www.wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk and from the Box Office 0844 871 7685.