North Norfolk Music Festival

The North Norfolk Music Festival take place annually in August and features a programme of classical recitals and music-related talks. Events take place in a variety of venues around the Burnhams, the Creakes and Holkham.  

16^th NORTH NORFOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL,10-21 AUGUST 2021 OUTLINE PROGRAMME

WE ARE CURRENTLY PLANNING TO OPEN BOOKING FOR THE 16th NNMF ON 1st MAY

ALL EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE AT ST MARY'S CHURCH, SOUTH CREAKE

 

Tuesday 10th August

15.00 – 18.00 PIANO AND STRING QUARTET MASTERCLASSES

MELVYN TAN and SIMON ROWLAND-JONES will be working with two young pianists THOMAS KELLY and ANA MANASTIREANU both from the Royal College of Music, and the CLOVA QUARTET from the Royal Academy of Music. You may well remember Thomas from his previous visit to NNMF in 2019.

 

Wednesday 11th August

15.00 – 18.00 PIANO AND STRING QUARTET MASTERCLASSES

MELVYN TAN and SIMON ROWLAND-JONES will be working with two young pianists THOMAS KELLY and ANA MANASTIREANU both from the Royal College of Music, and the CLOVA QUARTET from the Royal Academy of Music. You may well remember Thomas from his previous visit to NNMF in 2019.

 

Thursday 12th August

15.00 CLOVA QUARTET

Beethoven String Quartet in A, Op.18 No.5, Bartók String Quartet No.2    

18.00 THOMAS KELLY piano

Schumann Nachtstücke Op.23, Berg Sonata Op.1, Beethoven "Eroica" Variations Op.35

 

Friday 13th August   

11.30 ANA MANASTIREANU piano, CLOVA QUARTET        

The programme will include works for solo string instruments and piano as well as the Wolf Italian Serenade and the Schumann Piano Quintet

15.00 JAMES ATKINSON baritone SIMON LEPPER piano

Dring Three Shakespeare Songs, Schubert Gesänge des Harfners aus "Wilhelm Meister", Clara Schumann An einem lichten morgen, Finzi Let Us Garlands Bring, Brahms Vier ernste Gesänge                       

18.00 MELVYN TAN piano

Debussy Suite Bergamasque, Couperin Pieces de clavecin, Ravel Tombeau de Couperin, Chopin Ballade No.1, Scherzo No.4, Ballade No.4

 

Saturday 14th August

15.00 ANDREA MASTRONI bass baritone IAIN BURNSIDE piano   

Schubert Winterreise

18.00 TRIO ONDINE

Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op.1 No.3, Rowland-Jones Aniwaniwa for cello and piano, Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 “Archduke”

 

Sunday 15th August

15.00 TRIO ONDINE, SIMON ROWLAND-JONES viola

Norgaard Spell, Haydn Piano Trio in C, Hob:XV:27, Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K478

18.00 ALESSANDRO FISHER / SHOLTO KYNOCH

Songs by Clara and Robert Schumann, Donizetti, Bellini, Tosti, Hahn

 

Monday 16th August

15.00 KARSKI QUARTET

Haydn String Quartet in G, Op.77 No.1, Rowland-Jones String Quartet No.3, Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor, Op.13   

18.00 JUSTINA GRINGYTE mezzo soprano GARY MATTHEWMAN piano

Opera star from Lithuania, Justina Gringyte, last appeared at NNMF in 2017 in a Royal Opera House Gala. Justina's recital will include songs by a selection of Russian composers including Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, songs from her native Lithuania and some arias from her favourite operas.

 

Tuesday 17th August

11.30 PETER MALLINSON viola MATTHIAS WIESNER viola

A programme of Viola Duos

Glinka Ruslan & Ludmilla Overture (arr. Taylor-Cohen), Rowland-Jones Sonata for two violas, Tertis Variations on a Passacaglia of Handel, Schubert Three Songs (arr. Taylor-Cohen), Druzhinin Sinfonia a Due

15.00 ROMAN KOSYAKOV

Shostokovich 2nd Piano Sonata in B minor, Op.61, 2 Rachmaninov Preludes, Tchaikovsky "Grand Sonata" in G, Op.37

18.00 MAXWELL QUARTET

Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op.74 "Harp", Dvorak String Quartet in G, Op.106

 

Wednesday 18th August     

11.30 MAXWELL QUARTET

Haydn String Quartet in G minor, Op.74 No.3 "Rider", Joey Roukens “Visions at Sea” (2011) Maxwell Quartet their own arrangements of folk music 

18.00 LOUIS SCHWIZGEBEL

Beethoven Sonata in D minor, Op.31 No.2 “Tempest”, Debussy Estampes, Souvenir du Louvres, L’isle Joyeuse, Schumann Symphonic Etudes Op.13

 

Thursday 19th August

15.30 BEETHOVEN FEST Part 1 CARDUCCI QUARTET

String Quartet in F minor, Op.95, String Quartet in A minor, Op.132          

18.00 BEETHOVEN FEST Part 2 CARDUCCI QUARTET, JAMES ATKINSON baritone

String Quartet in C minor, Op.18 No.4, An die ferne Geliebte in a new transcription for voice and string quartet, String Quartet in C, Op.59 No.3 ‘Razumovsky’

 

Friday 20th August     

18.00 TIM HORTON piano SIMON ROWLAND-JONES viola

Haydn F minor Variations Schubert Piano Sonata in G D.894 Rowland-Jones An Elegy for William Birtles

 

Saturday 21st August

18.00 ELIZABETH WATTS soprano SHOLTO KYNOCH piano

The programme will include songs by Grieg, Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss and a selection of English folksongs arranged by Benjamin Britten 

*Details correct at time of listing 21/4/21