An appearance by TV historian Lucy Worsley will be among the highlights of this year’s Northern Aldborough Festival.
The line-up for the nine-day festival, which is one of the annual highlights of the Harrogate district arts scene, was revealed today.
Ms Worsley will give a talk on crime writer Agatha Christie on June 19.
Trumpeter Matilda Lloyd, pianist Sunwook Kim and the Armonico Consort will also head to the Roman village for the festival, which runs from June 15 to 24.
Now in its 29th year, the event offers audiences the chance to experience performances normally seen in the world’s biggest concert halls in a rural village setting.
Tickets went on sale for Friends of the Festival today and will be available to the wider public on March 27.
Italian opera and Beethoven
BBC Young Musician of the Year brass winner, trumpet-player Matilda Lloyd will perform a programme from Italian Opera.
Matilda Lloyd. Pic credit: Benjamin Ealovega
The first Asian winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, Sunwook Kim will play Beethoven’s final sonatas in St Andrew’s Church.
There will be a rare double bill of Haydn’s comedies, The Diva and The Apothecary, presented by the nationally-renowned, Bampton Classical Opera company.
This year also includes the inaugural New Voices Competition, a nationwide hunt for the best classical vocal talent.
Festival director Robert Ogden outside St Andrew’s Church
The jazz ensemble, The Tim Kliphuis Sextet, will perform at the Old Hall in North Deighton and the vocal ensemble, Armonico Consort, will perform Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in St Andrew’s Church.
Further details are available here.
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Oz Clarke and the Armonico Consort toast music with ‘Gin & Phonic’
A top wine critic and broadcaster is set to team up with a choir and instrumental ensemble to explore the relationship between music and gin.
Held in association with Harrogate’s Slingsby Gin, the event will see Oz Clarke and the Armonico Consort investigate the highs and lows of the connection between gin, music, and humans over the centuries.
Gin and Phonic will take place in The Spiegeltent, in Crescent Gardens, Harrogate, on the evening of Monday, July 4, as part of the Harrogate Music Festival.
Slingsby Gin will be providing two free gin tastings for each audience member, which can be sipped whilst listening to the music of Purcell, Handel and Dowland.
Whilst William Slingsby discovered the unique properties of the natural spring water from Harrogate’s Tewit Well in 1571, more than 40 years later Slingsby Gin captured the ‘Spirit of Harrogate’, synonymous with its beautiful and restorative nature, in a variety of different gins.
Tickets cost £28 and are available here or by calling the Harrogate International Festivals box office on 01423 562303.
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