Join the Friends of Gloucester Three Choirs Festival for drinks and canapés in the Festival Marquee. This is your opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet fellow choral enthusiasts!

Donald Hunt - Speaker

In aid of the Church Music Society, Donald will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Sebastian Wesley which coincidentally is the following day on August 14th. 

Marcus Barcham-Stevens - Violin
David Powell - Cell0
Robert Markham - Piano

Schumann Piano Trio in D minor
Mendelssohn Piano Trio in C minor

David Powell, sub-principal cellist at the CBSO, has formed Trio Severn for Three Choirs. 

Gloucester Cathedral Youth Choir
Ashley Grote - Conductor

Rubbra Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in Ab
Finzi Lo the Full Final Sacrifice

The Three Cathedral Choirs
His Majestys Sagbuts and Cornetts
Harry Bicket - Conductor

His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts:

Jeremy West - Cornett
Jamie Savan - Cornett
Abigail Newman - Alto & Tenor Sackbut
Adam Woolf - Alto & Tenor Sackbut
Steve Saunders - Bass Sackbut

(Personnel may be subject to change)

This vibrant concert will recreate the excitement, acoustic and atmosphere of St Mark's Basilica in Venice in the late 16th century/early 17th century with music by Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli, Grillo and Monteverdi.

The programme will not only highlight the individual members of the cathedral choirs with numerous solo opportunities, but  demonstrate the lush polyphonic effects of the time and the newly emerging baroque style of the 17th century.

Hilary Smallwood & Jon Watson conductors

Denise Leigh soprano
Herefordshire Community Choirs
Herefordshire Schools

The Gathering Wave is back! This exciting project run by The Music Pool, brings together adult singing groups and children from all round the county working towards the finale of the Three Choirs Festival. 300 amateur singers, young and old, will come together to share their passion for singing, and play their part in the most important event in Herefordshire’s musical calendar.

Supported by the Ernest Cook Trust and Baron Davenport's Charity
Orchestra of the Swan
David Curtis conductor

A programme for strings from Handel to McCabe stopping at Finzi and Vaughan Williams on the way!

Supported by Leominster Town Council

The Tippett Quartet, one of Britain's leading young string quartets, formed in 1998, the year in which they made their Wigmore Hall debut, and are gaining increasing recognition in the world of chamber music.

Suported by the Beckett Bulmer Fund

James Oxley tenor
Caroline Dowdle piano

Winterreise, perhaps the most personal of Schubert's song cycles, is uncompromising in its confrontation of lost love, isolation and despair.

Supported by Mr Jesse Norman

The  highly-acclaimed early music ensemble Stile Antico present Passion and Resurrection, a musical journey through the events of Holy Week.

Motets by Gibbons, Tallis, Morales, Cornysh, Taverner, Victoria and Byrd

John McCabe Woefully Arrayed (world premiere)