Attend all events included in the Liberation Festival, Jersey, from 7th - 10th May 2010. VIP or Standard prices available.
ABOUT THE LIBERATION FESTIVAL
The second Liberation Festival stars 10 internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings combined with community & educational events in the beautiful island of Jersey. The Festival's theme explores the artistic freedom and the power of music to liberate the spirit. Listen to exciting young rising stars including Nicola Benedetti the former Classic FM Artist of the Year, the multiple award winning soprano Elizabeth Watts, and the acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.
Promenade at the Fête de la Musique at Mont Orgueil Castle, enjoy a stunning night of concertos starring six soloists and the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, picnic to jazz at Hamptonne, or go to sea for a yacht concert in the Bay of St Aubin.
A musical feast of multiple performances all over the medieval castle features, at the centre, a concert of Opera arias from the Royal Opera House star Elizabeth Watts. Elizabeth who has won multiple awards including the Singer of the World Lieder Prize, will be performing classic Opera highlights from Mozart’s Don Giovanni to the Marriage of Figaro as well as other popular arias accompanied by the Eden Sinfonia.
The dramatic setting in a marquee overlooking Grouville Bay will make this an evening to remember. Guests can enjoy the surrounding Fete de la Musique with over two hundred Jersey musicians performing chamber music from quartets, harp recitals, choirs, to trumpet fanfares and ending with some Jazz with the Well Swung Jazz Orchestra. Eat your fill from the Hog Roast in the Middle Ward or enjoy a selection of food and fine wines.
Opera concert programme:
Soloist: Elizabeth Watts
“One of the most beautiful voices in a generation” International Record Review
Eden Sinfonia
Conductor: Daniel Cohen
Tickets are available in the Marquee for the Opera concert or as just a ground pass into the castle for all performances excluding the Opera.
VIP Tickets include champagne reception with the soloists before the concert from 6.30pm, in the interval and after the concert.
ABOUT THE LIBERATION FESTIVAL
The second Liberation Festival stars 10 internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings combined with community & educational events in the beautiful island of Jersey. The Festival's theme explores the artistic freedom and the power of music to liberate the spirit. Listen to exciting young rising stars including Nicola Benedetti the former Classic FM Artist of the Year, the multiple award winning soprano Elizabeth Watts, and the acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.
Promenade at the Fête de la Musique at Mont Orgueil Castle, enjoy a stunning night of concertos starring six soloists and the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, picnic to jazz at Hamptonne, or go to sea for a yacht concert in the Bay of St Aubin.
A stunning Gala concert to celebrate the Liberation of Jersey features music written in times of peace between the wars. Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, written in 1905, is one of his most beautiful works. It draws on transcendent welsh folk melodies as well as paying considerable homage to Bach by the use of a dramatic fugue. The double violin concerto is one of the master’s great works - with the majestic slow movement separating virtuoso playing and sparring between the two violins and the orchestra. The final concerto in the programme, Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin and Piano, was written by the man who played a significant part in Bach’s revival. It is a tour de force of adolescent brilliance written after the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
The soloists include the recent Classic FM Artist of the Year Nicola Benedetti, the members of the highly acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio, as well young rising star Wen Xiao Zheng a recent prize winner at the ARD international festival.
A pre-concert talk by one of the soloists will take place in the main auditorium at 7pm.
VIP Tickets include champagne reception with the soloists in the Berni Suite at the Opera House before the concert from 7.30pm, in the interval and after the concert.
Programme:
Elgar - Introduction and Allegro (1905)
Soloists: Nicola Benedetti (Violin), Alexander Sitkovetsky (Violin), Wenxiao Zheng (Viola) & Leonard Elschenbroich (Cello)
J.S. Bach - Double Violin Concerto in D minor (1730)
Soloists: Nicola Benedetti & Alexander Sitkovetsky
Mendelssohn - Concerto for Violin and Piano in D minor (1823)
Soloists: Wu Qian & Alexander Sitkovetsky
Jersey Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Cohen
ABOUT THE LIBERATION FESTIVAL
The second Liberation Festival stars 10 internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings combined with community & educational events in the beautiful island of Jersey. The Festival's theme explores the artistic freedom and the power of music to liberate the spirit. Listen to exciting young rising stars including Nicola Benedetti the former Classic FM Artist of the Year, the multiple award winning soprano Elizabeth Watts, and the acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.
Promenade at the Fête de la Musique at Mont Orgueil Castle, enjoy a stunning night of concertos starring six soloists and the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, picnic to jazz at Hamptonne, or go to sea for a yacht concert in the Bay of St Aubin.
A family day of jazz at the beautiful Jersey Heritage site Hamptonne. Jacqui Dankworth & her Trio perform popular jazz classics and a stunning collection of originals either written or co-written by Jacqui, along with a selection from her favourite songwriters including James Taylor, Sting and Randy Newman.
Already established as one the country’s leading jazz vocalists, Jacqui’s live concert showcases her unique versatility and effortless mastery of a wide spectrum of genres, drawing on jazz, folk, soul and blues, as well as her acute sensibility as a songwriter and lyricist.
Come with a hamper and a bottle of champagne or enjoy the delicious catering provided by Jersey Potteries. Doors open at 12.30.
Children Free.
Lawn ticket holders are advised to bring a picnic blanket.
VIP Tickets include a food buffet and wine as well as a chance to meet the soloists.
Programme:
Jacqui Dankworth and her Jazz Trio
“Just Fantastic”, Michael Parkinson
ABOUT THE LIBERATION FESTIVAL
The second Liberation Festival stars 10 internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings combined with community & educational events in the beautiful island of Jersey. The Festival's theme explores the artistic freedom and the power of music to liberate the spirit. Listen to exciting young rising stars including Nicola Benedetti the former Classic FM Artist of the Year, the multiple award winning soprano Elizabeth Watts, and the acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.
Promenade at the Fête de la Musique at Mont Orgueil Castle, enjoy a stunning night of concertos starring six soloists and the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, picnic to jazz at Hamptonne, or go to sea for a yacht concert in the Bay of St Aubin.
The Sitkovetsky Trio and celebrated friends perform Schubert’s celebrated “Trout” Quintet based on the story of a trout’s attempt to escape to freedom as well as Tchaikovsky’s passionate Trio relating to the loss of an artist.
The “Trout” is one of Schubert’s most delightful works describing a fish darting joyously about in a clear stream to elude a fisherman. The repeated melody is effortless, thoroughly enchanting and further enlivened by a leaping, joyous figure evoking the trout darting across the stream.
Tchaikovsky’s Trio pays tribute to a former teacher, paying tribute to his skills with a virtuoso piano part, as well as rejoicing in his love of folk like themes recalling a day when the two friends had gone for a picnic in the mountains near Moscow and were given an impromptu performance of folk music by peasants.
The soloists include Nicola Benedetti - the recent Classic FM Artist of the Year, Stacey Watton - one of the great Double Bass players of his generation, the highly acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio, as well as young rising star Wen Xiao Zheng - a recent prize winner at the ARD international festival.
The concert will be preceded by a question and answer session with the soloists at 7pm.
VIP Tickets include champagne reception with the soloists.
Programme:
Schubert - “Trout” Quintet in A Major
Tchaikovsky - Trio in A minor
Soloists: Sitkovetsky Trio, Nicola Benedetti (Violin), Wenxiao Zheng (Viola) & Stacey Watton (Double Bass)
ABOUT THE LIBERATION FESTIVAL
The second Liberation Festival stars 10 internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings combined with community & educational events in the beautiful island of Jersey. The Festival's theme explores the artistic freedom and the power of music to liberate the spirit. Listen to exciting young rising stars including Nicola Benedetti the former Classic FM Artist of the Year, the multiple award winning soprano Elizabeth Watts, and the acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.
Promenade at the Fête de la Musique at Mont Orgueil Castle, enjoy a stunning night of concertos starring six soloists and the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, picnic to jazz at Hamptonne, or go to sea for a yacht concert in the Bay of St Aubin.
UNITE is an exploration, through music, of exile, emigration and movement in space and time across Europe, mixing traditional music from the British Isles and Eastern Europe with electronic beats. Familiar traditional songs and forgotten popular songs are given a new and radical twist with breakbeat and dubstep influences. Expect and eclectic array of artists; inclucing Tim and Hamid from TGU, singer-songwriter Jim Moray, Martin Furey, the Perunika trio, visuals and more surprises!
Saxophonists Andy Schofield and Jo McCallum have created a dynamic new 17 piece jazz orchestra. The line-up unites established artists with the finest of the region's young emerging talent, as they storm through a selection of original works by North West composers and arrangers.
Their new project for 2010, supported by Arts Council England profiles two national guitar greats, Mike Walker (Jacqui Dankworth, Mike Gibbs, etc.) and Stuart McCallum (Cinematic Orchestra, Don Weller, etc.). The music of these artists has been arranged for the jazz orchestra with guest appearances from these incredible musicians.
This collaboration between the great French jazz trumpeter Erik Truffaz and the extraordinary funk/soul/blues beatbox stylings of Simple Spirit's vocalist Sly Johnson has thrilled audiences across the world.
Erik Truffaz mines the world to create his unique form of jazz - the so-called 'European sounds' are really the sounds of the global village in the digital age. Fusing these world, electronic and ambient influences with an ongoing love for the music of Miles Davis and an incredible minimalist style, has led to a sound that is all his own and exemplified beautifully in this wonderful partnership with Sly Johnson (aka The Mic Buddah/The Beatboxologist) - a member of the acclaimed French rap collective Saian Supa Crew.
Band on the Wall is now delighted to bring this sensational duo to its Manchester stage.
"Truffaz plays less like Miles than a jazz-rock [Brian] Eno, making rapturous atmospheres from a minimum of notes ... a jazz with brawn, soul and plenty of wide open space." - David Fricke
The launch of a brand new Manchester-based record label Caserta Red.
Formed in and run from Manchester the label have their own inhouse PR team and have already established themselves as a home for quality music whose artist portfolio includes some of the regions's most loved artists including acclaimed Failsworth rock band Puressence.
This evening features a live performance by James Mudriczki & Lowell Killen followed by Caserta's latest signing - young guitar band Glass who will showcase their debut album Teenage Galaxies.
The band features Paul Baird on vocals/guitar, Martin Cowan on bass and Chris Norwood on drums.
£10 admission includes a copy of Glass' album (to be collected upon arrival).
Performing collaboratively for the first time, prepared piano player Hauschka, 12-string guitarist James Blackshaw, and singer/songwriter Nancy Elizabeth play their beautifully matched music together in a contoured programme of solo and ensemble performances.
The Kept Impulses tour brings together three gifted young music makers who weave traditional folk, contemporary classical and modern song into textured, emotional and transfixing songs and musical suites. The prepared piano player Hauschka (FatCat) from Germany, singer/multi-instrumentalist Nancy Elizabeth (Leaf Label) from Manchester, and the 12-string guitarist James Blackshaw (Young God) from Hastings, Kent are brought together for this special tour to entice concert halls with their beautifully matched music. All three have the endearing talent of being able to harness wild impulses into measured and musical journeys that run deep.
Each artist will perform their own material each night, with the other two musicians guesting on selected tracks. The ensemble will also perform material devised collaboratively together for the very first time. The acts are distinct but musically complimentary and these collaborations are an exciting prospect, combining Hauschka's percussive piano interventions with James Blackshaw's cascading acoustic guitar and Nancy Elizabeth's pure and emotive vocals.
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