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Sherborne Abbey Festival held its first concert on Friday, 5th May 2000, and the festival has been held each year since as a four or five day event based around the liturgy and its music. The festival is run by volunteers and aims to bring high quality classical events to the town at a price people can afford. Any profits made are used to fund future festivals and to promote music within the Parish of Sherborne
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Sir Willard White
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In 2008 Sir Willard White will be returning after his stunning performance in 2006, this time he will be giving a concert of 'Favourite Opera Arias', a treat for all to enjoy. Also appearing this year will be the internationally renowned clarinetist Emma Johnson with the South Bank Sinfonia, they will be playing a Mozart programme that includes his beautiful 'Clarinet Concerto' guaranteed to wow any audience. Timothy West, the internationally renowned actor and Sophie Yates (harpsichord) give us their recital of 'The Musical World of Giacomo Casanova' which is bound to be very different.
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Emma Johnson
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This year Sherborne Festival Chorus celebrates the life of Ralph Vaughan Williams who died fifty years ago with their performance of 'A Sea Symphony' and his beautiful 'Serenade to Music' written in 1938. Also included will be 'Tintagel' by Sir Arnold Bax and to complete this programme of works by some of our finest British composers we have James MacMillans 'Magnificat' & 'Nunc Dimittis' performed by the Sherborne Chamber Choir.
Also we will be welcoming Winchester Cathedral Choir consistently thought by many to be in the top three of English cathedral choirs and Tracy Chevalier internationally renowned best selling author of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', and her latest novel 'Burning Bright', plus much, much more. |
Tracy Chevalier |
Winchester Cathedral Choir
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Timothy West
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| The festival runs from Friday 2nd May 2008 to Tuesday 6th May 2008, full details will be found on our programme page as soon as they are available. Tickets may be booked by internet or post from the 1st February 2008 |
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In his book England's Thousand Best Churches, Simon Jenkins lists Sherborne Abbey in the top 18 of England's churches and credits it with some of the finest vaulting in the country. He writes, "I would pit Sherborne's roof against any contemporary work of the Italian Renaissance".
To encounter great music in these beautiful surroundings is something rather special. These moments of real magic are available all too rarely. So why not come and join the growing number of people who return year after year to enjoy our festival in this wonderful setting -- once experienced never forgotten.
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Photo courtesy of Mr Stuart Glasby |
Sherborne Abbey Festival is run in aid of Sherborne Abbey. |
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THE DUNARD FUND