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L-R: Top - Miss Phillipa Legge (Flute), Mr Rodney Beacham (Festival Organsier), Mr Greg Wilson (Piano); Middle - Miss Juliette Bauser (Flute), Mr Rodney Beacham (Festival Organiser), Miss Catrin Finch (Harp, Vice President of Bledington Music Festival); Bottom - Roger Owens (Piano), Rodney Beacham (Festival Organiser), Thomas Trotter (Organ; President of Bledington Music Festival).The tenth Music Festival was a great success...

People came from far and wide – from New Zealand, Australia and Tulsa, USA as well as Bledington, Bourton on the Water, Blockley, Billericay and Birmingham, to name but a few! Three great concerts were complemented by three excellent mini concerts for Bledington School. We are grateful to the artists who are always willing to demonstrate their instruments and talk to the children.


L-R: Mrs Anita Rendall, Canon David Nye, Mrs Janet Nye; Mrs Tonja Fritz-Johnson, Mr Paul Fritz-Johnson, Mrs Kate Stinchcome-Gillies; Mr Simon Davies (Bonhams Fine Arts Auctioneers, Festival Sponsors), Miss Juliette Bauser, (Flute), Mr David Goldwag (Cotswold Pianocraft, piano supplier to the Festival), Miss Ashley Straker.

 

 

 

A full church welcomed the return of our President, Thomas Trotter, on the first night with his guest, pianist Roger Owens. The brightness and humour of the Mozart Concert Rondo encapsulated the mood of the evening and the piano and organ combined beautifully again for the Variations by Marcel Dupré and at the rousing finale by Darius Milhaud, as well as the Warsaw Concerto and arrangements for the organ of Wagner’s works. We were thrilled with Roger Owens’ performance of the Chopin Polonaise, as well as the Nocturne and the Mendelssohn Rondo.

L-R: Mrs Sue Barnes, Mrs Caroline Faircliff, Mrs Zelie Mason; Mrs Nancy Lamoreux, Mrs Sandra Pease, Mrs Mary-Ellen Sims, Mrs Jan Walker Griffith, Mrs Lin Kobsy and Mts Terry Beavins – all from Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; Mr Tony Huffer, Mrs Diane Huffer, , Mr Richard Rose and Mrs Tina Rose; Mrs Nicki Watson, Mrs Rosalba Edwards, Mr William Bartoli-Edwards, Mr James Bartoli-Edwards.; Mrs Lara Greenway, Mr David Richards.

L-R: Mrs Aloyse Packe and Mrs Robyn King; (Mrs King from Marlborough, New Zealand); Mrs Robin McCulloch, Mr Stig Linde-Carlson, Mrs Vivian Linde-Carlson, Mr Michael McCulloch; Mr Jeremy Gould, Mr George Whiteman, Mr Patrick Hickman-Robertson, Mrs Karla Hickman-Robertson, Mr Michael Hart.The Wednesday concert was a revised programme and congratulations to Philippa Legge, flute and Greg Smith, piano on providing an excellent and enjoyable evening of music.

For the final evening the church was once again full to hear the harp of the Festival’s Vice-President, Catrin Finch with her guest artist Juliette Bausor. We enjoyed a wide range of music, from a Sonata for Flute by J.S. Bach to a Tango by Astor Piazzola with much wonderful music in between. The smooth mellifluous tone of the flute in the Bax Sonata and the Fantasie by Fauré were particularly enjoyed and Juliette’s performance of Debussy’s Syrinx brought tears to the eyes of many.
Some said that the final concert of 2010 was the best of the ten years! It was certainly a fitting way to approach the next ten years.
Festival 2011 will be on June 7th, 8th and 9th next year. The artists will be announced in the autumn of 2010.

Posted 5.7.10

Bonhams Valuation Day - Bledington Village Hall
Friday November 5th 2010

Simon Davies, the Senior Valuer for Bonhams Auctioneers and Valuers will be at Bledington Village Hall on 5th November from 10am to 3pm. Simon will be joined by Philip Scott, Head of the Bonham's Music Department.  Valuations cost £2 per item. 

Refreshments will be available.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Posted 8.3.10

Festival Vice President Releases New Recording

Catrin Finch, the acclaimed harpist and Vice President of the Bledington Music Festival, has released a new CD on Deutsche Grammophon featuring her own arrangement for harp of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. A successsful UK tour supported the release.

Posted 19.2.09

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