Christopher Avison trumpet
Jason Evans trumpet
Alex Hamilton french horn
Matthew Lewis trombone
Ross Knight tuba

Winners of the brass quintet masterclass at Worcester in 2011, we are delighted to welcome this highly talented quintet from the Royal Academy of Music. The quality of their performance in 2011 was outstanding and this concert should not be missed.

Hannah Roper violin
Joanne Sealey Piano

Programme to be confirmed

This teenage violinist from Hereford is a recipient of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, administered by the Philharmonia Orchestra to encourage and support young talent nationally. We are delighted to recognise her considerable achievements with this solo recital.

Dobrinka Tabakova composer
Joseph Phibbs composer
Judith Bingham composer

We are delighted to welcome 3 highly regarded composers to this chaired symposium on modern music, all of whom have their new works being performed during festival week.

Reverend Stephen Williams speaker

A lecture on the early history of the festival. When did it really start and can this debate be resolved?

Reiko Ichise
Asako Morikawa
Susanna Pell
Richard Boothby
Richard Tunnicliffe

Kindly supported by the Dean of Hereford Cathedral's sponsored walk

J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations

For over 20 years, all around the globe, Fretwork has brought music for viols to life through live concerts, recordings and broadcasts. Their repertory includes anything and everything that can be played on viols, from the first printed music in Venice in 1501 to music composed for them today. 

Three Cathedral Choirs
Adrian Lucas conductor
Adrian Partington conductor
Christopher Allsop organ
Amy Swallow trumpet

Richard Lloyd Christ is the Morning Star
Richard Shephard Responses
Parry Evening Service in D (‘the Great’)
Richard Shephard Ye choirs of new Jerusalem

£5

Evelyn Tinker

The first in a series of four recitals given by prize-winning young players selected by the Royal College of Organists.

Hot and cold drinks and snacks will be available in the church before and after this concert.

£19/£15

William Dazeley baritone
Iain Burnside piano

Kindly supported by the RVW Trust

Finzi (from Earth and Air and Rain)   
Summer Schemes
When I set out for Lyonesse
Waiting Both
To Lizbie Browne
The Clock of the Years
Proud Songsters

Barber Three Songs Op. 10                                    
Rain has fallen
Sleep now
I hear an army

Percy Grainger                                
British Waterside
Six dukes went a-fishin’
The pretty maid milkinʼ her cow
Hard-hearted Barb’ra Ellen

Somervell (From A Shropshire Lad)     
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry now
In Summer-time on Bredon
The Street sounds to the Soldiersʼ tread
On the idle hill of Summer
Into my Heart an Air that kills

Barber Three Songs Op. 45                                   
Now have I fed and eaten up the rose
A Green Lowland of Pianos
O Boundless, Boundless Evening

Daryl Runswick          Marineland
Celius Dougherty       The Bird and the Beast
Kit and the Widow     Swansong
Richard Peirson          Chicken
                                             The Little Dogʼs Day
Charles Ives                   Slow March

Three Cathedral Choirs
Adrian Lucas  conductor
Christopher Allsop  organ

Howells The Lord is my Shepherd
Howells Requiem Aeternam
Tomkins Responses
Naylor Evening Service in A
Jackson Hill Still in remembrance (festival commission, world premiere)

This service will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

Ticket Price: £25/£20/£10

Eton Choral Course
Tim Johnson  conductor
Tom Winpenny organ

Kindly supported by Miss Katharine Wedgbury

Weelkes Hosanna to the Son of David
Byrd Justorum animae
Tomkins When David heard
Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in C minor (organ solo)
Elgar The Spirit of the Lord
Stanford Beati quorum via
Rubbra Magnificat in A flat
Howells Rhapsody No 1 in D flat (organ solo)
Howells I love all beauteous things
Morten Lauridsen O magnum mysterium
Tavener A Hymn to the Mother of God
Finzi God is gone up

The Eton Choral Course provides vibrant vocal training and choral experience to enthusiastic young singers aged between 16 and 20 and we are delighted to welcome these young singers back to the Worcester festival.