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DANTE FESTIVAL SUMMER 2011 - NEWSLETTER Dear Festival followers, We are pleased to announce the dates of our next Dante Summer Festival: 13-17 July 2011. Please do put these dates in your diary, come and join us, and bring along large numbers of friends. We hope that these new dates, slightly later in the summer, will suit you. We will be delighted to see you. Programme planning is nearly done and is looking exciting. In addition to Stoke Climsland, Callington and Trebullett, we will play at two new venues: St Paul’s Church at Yelverton, where there is plenty of space for our Festival Orchestra, and the lovely Old Chapel in Calstock, now a thriving arts centre just next to the great viaduct once painted by Turner. Among our guest artists will be the celebrated Spanish flamenco/jazz guitarist, Eduardo Niebla, with whom we are busy helping to create a new piece for string quartet and guitar. The Dante Festival is a great platform for musical experiments, and we are looking forward to this one. Eduardo will also give a late-night concert and an informal workshop for guitarists. Continuing this theme, we will play some other Spanish music, as well as plenty of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. On the food front, expect not only Cornish cream teas, but delicious Spanish tapas. Our other guest artist will be the wonderful German pianist Lars Vogt. Fresh from touring with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, he will play a Schumann piano trio and Dvorak’s radiant piano quintet with us in our opening concert. Here is the provisional programme: some details may still change. Wed 13th July, 6.30pm: Opening concert in Stoke Climsland Church with pianist Lars Vogt; Schumann trio, Dvorak piano quintet 8.30pm, Stoke Climsland Old School: a concert of Spanish music by the Eduardo Niebla guitar duo, with dinner Thurs 14th July, 6pm, Stoke Climsland Old School: guitar workshop with Eduardo Niebla, all ages and standards welcome 8pm in Trebullett Chapel: explore Beethoven’s Quartet op. 131 with the Dante Quartet Fri 15th July, 7.30pm, Callington Church: "Sounds of Spain": Dante Quartet concert with guitarist Eduardo Niebla, also including a Haydn quartet and virtuosic pieces by Sarasate, Turina and De Falla Sat 16th July, 4.30pm, Calstock Old Chapel: Paint the Music! Creative workshop and concert for adults and children with the Dante Quartet and artist Nigel Edwards. 7.30 pm Dante Quartet plays Mozart’s last quartet, Barber’s famous "Adagio" and Dvorak’s "American" quartet Sun 17th July, 3pm, St Paul’s Church, Yelverton: Dante Quartet with Dante Festival Orchestra plays music by Mozart, Boccherini, Schubert and Dvorak. Followed by cream tea.
Check this website again soon for final programme details! Best wishes, Krysia and the Dante Quartet
SEARCHING... We would like to find someone from the Tamar Valley area willing to do some serious fund-raising for the Dante Summer Festival. Please get in touch if this interests you. Our administrator, David Seward, is also looking for help with Festival publicity. Please tell us if you would like to get involved as a key member of the festival team. Also, volunteers to help distribute leaflets and posters in their own local area would be very much appreciated. Call David Seward on 01579 371134.
DANTE QUARTET CONCERTS IN LONDON... If you are based in London, or happen to be visiting, come and hear us at: Kings Place, 13th Feb Michael Croft Theatre, Dulwich, 7th March Kings Place, 11th March (with Choir of King’s College, Cambridge) Wigmore Hall, 17th June Also we are playing in Chipping Campden on 8th March, and in the Cheltenham Festival on 6th July. We hope to see you at some of these concerts, but most of all at the Festival!
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