Sunday 2 June                                                   CHESTER
Storyhouse, Hunter Street CH1 2AR, 3.00pm
NORTHERN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Prokofiev          Peter and the Wolf
Northern Chamber Orchestra  01244 409 133  www.ncorch.co.uk/concerts    £17.50 (£12.50)
Monday 10 June                                            LIVERPOOL
Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Sugnall Street L1 9BP, 8.00pm
MIHKEL KEREM – violin
ROBIN GREEN – piano
Strauss           Violin Sonatas
Respighi         Violin Sonatas
Kerem             Without Saying Goodbye
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic   0151 709 3789  www.liverpoolphil.com     £20/£17
Wednesday 19 June                                      LIVERPOOL
The Tung Auditorium, Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, University of Liverpool, 60 Oxford Street L7 3NY, 7.30pm
JACK SHEEN – conductor
JONATHAN AASGAARD – cello
Jack Sheen               A line, a curve, or figure (arr. for
                                  chamber orchestra, world premiere)
Sky Macklay            Microvariations (arr. for chamber
                                   orchestra, world premiere)
Jack Sheen               Études (arr. for orchestra, world
                                   premiere)
Sylvia Lim                Reframe
Timothy Jackson     Traffic Jams and Anagrams (world
                                  premiere)
Stephen Pratt         Noting the Landscape  (world
                                  premiere)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic   0151 709 3789  www.liverpoolphil.com     £20
Saturday 6 July                                           BLACKBURN
Westholme School, Meins Road BB2 6QU, 7.30pm
BLACKBURN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Berlioz                 Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
Tchaikovsky        Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
                             Op 23
Rachmaninov     Symphonic Dances
Blackburn Symphony Orchestra  blackburnsymphony.org.uk    £13 (under 18s free)

Sunday 7 July                                              CARNFORTH
St Oswald’s Church, Main Street, Warton LA5 9PG, 3.00pm
LEVENS CHOIR
GAWAIN GLENTON – conductor
Bruckner and Brahms (programme tbc)
Levens Choir  www.levenschoir.net
£tbc (children and students free)
Friday 19 to Sunday 28 July         SCOTTISH BORDERS
Paxton House, Paxton, Nr Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 1SZ
MUSIC AT PAXTON
Artists to include The Consone Quartet, Music at Paxton Associate Ensemble 2023–2025
Music at Paxton  07719 702 265 www.musicatpaxton.co.uk   £5–£30
Sunday 9 June                                                   BUXTON
St John’s Church Buxton, 6 St John’s Rd SK17 6XN, 7.30pm
SOLOIST FROM CHETHAM’S SCHOOL OF MUSIC
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF BUXTON MUSICAL SOCIETY
MICHAEL WILLIAMS – conductor
SAM HAYES – choral director
Concerto        tba
Supporting choral and orchestral items
Buxton Musical Society  01298 72190  buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/    £15
Saturday 15 June                                                 KENDAL
Kendal Parish Church, Kirkland LA9 5AF, 7.30pm
WESTMORLAND ORCHESTRA
Wagner             Tristan und Isolde ‘Prelude and
                           Liebestod’
Britten               Suite on English Folk Tunes ‘A Time
                           There Was’
Saint-Saëns     Symphony No. 3 (The Organ)
www.WestmorlandOrchestra.org.uk  01539 896299    £0/£15
Saturday 22 June                                          LANCASTER
Ashton Hall, Dalton Square LA1 1PJ, 7.30pm
THE HAFFNER ORCHESTRA
ALEX ROBINSON – conductor
JULIAN CANN – leader
Prokofiev               Peter and the Wolf
Tchaikovsky          Symphony no. 5
Haffner Orchestra
www.haffnerorchestra.org/concerts   
£16 (£5 for students and benefit claimants, Free U18)
Saturday 6 July                                        MANCHESTER
Christ Church West Didsbury, Darley Avenue M20 2ZD, 10.00am–4.30pm
WILLIAM BYRD SINGERS
KEITH ORRELL – musical director
Come and sing Domenico Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater with the Byrds at their 23rd annual workshop, directed by their dynamic conductor, Keith Orrell.
William Byrd Singers  williambyrdsingers.org.uk
£25 inc. music hire (£5 students)
Saturday 13 July                                                  KENDAL
Kendal Parish Church, Kirkland LA9 5AF, 7.30pm
CUMBRIA FESTIVAL CHORUS
IAN JONES – conductor
Rachmaninoff        Vespers
Cumbria Festival Chorus  01539 720168 cumbriafestivalchorus.weebly.com   £15 (students free)
Header photo: Mihkel Kerem

Bradfield Festival of Music
22nd – 29th June 2024
A week of glorious music in a magical setting
The award winning Bradfield Festival of Music is an annual, week-long celebration of classical music held in the last week of June.  Established for over 25 years, the Festival attracts the finest artists from all over the world, who collectively perform a wide range of music genres, broadly within the classical tradition.

All concerts are held in the historic, Grade I listed Parish Church of St Nicholas, High Bradfield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire with its particularly fine acoustics and beautiful views over the undulating landscapes of the Peak District National Park.  

Further details and ticket information can be found on the Festival website.

Event Programme:
Doors open: 18:45, concerts start: 19:30 and end around 21:30, with an interval of 20 minutes.

22 June 2024: Sheffield Chamber Choir
With a well deserved reputation for the beauty of their singing, the Sheffield Chamber Choir open the Festival with sacred choral works by Britten, Vaughan Willams, Elgar and others.

24 June 2024: Jeneba Kanneh-Mason - Piano
We welcome back BBC Young Musician Keyboard finalist 2018 and Proms soloist 2021, who’s emotionally charged and technically brilliant piano playing thrilled us in 2022.  Jeneba will be performing repertoire spanning the last 300 years with works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Grant Still and Prokofiev.

25 June 2024: Ben Goldscheider Duo: Ben Goldscheider - Horn, Richard Uttley - Piano
An exciting evening with this superb Horn player performing some of the most virtuosic works in the repertoire: music in turn that is technically challenging, melodically beautiful, lyrical and flamboyant.

26 June 2024: Lisa Friend Trio
Lisa has gained widespread recognition as a solo flautist, chamber musician and recording artist. With Mark Kincaid (Piano) and Martin Radford (Cello) she performs popular classical and film music, including works by Donizetti, Morricone, Piazolla and Bernstein.

27 June 2024: Camerata RCO
Camerata RCO: the chamber ensemble of the Concertgebouw Orchestra perform intimate string and piano quintets by Dvorak and Schumann.

28 June 2024: Consone Quartet
Experience classical and romantic music expressively performed in period style. The multiple award winning Consone Quartet, the first period instrument ensemble to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, have performed across Europe and America. Their recent recordings of Haydn and Mendelssohn Quartets are highly acclaimed.  With performances variously described as brilliant, exhilarating, sensitive, honest and something special we are delighted to welcome the Consone Quartet to Bradfield performing quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Czerny.

29 June 2024: Tim Kliphuis Trio
The festival closes with the Tim Kliphuis Trio – a unique genre defying blend of classical gypsy jazz and folk music styles with the improvisatory genius of Tim Kliphuis and friends and we look forward to this being an exhilarating finale to a fabulous festival. Tim Kliphuis and his Trio (Nigel Clark (guitar) and Roy Percy (double bass)) present a brand new Pictures at an Exhibition, showcasing the daring innovations of Mussorgsky’s music through a unique and exciting lens followed up with works by Django Reinhardt.

Further details about the concert programme and ticketing are available on the Bradfield Festival of Music Website at https://bradfieldfestivalofmusic.co.uk/