Etchingham Arts Festival 2010 Programme

		Saturday 3 July – 7.30 pm The Mitrea Piano Quartet The opening Concert features students from the Royal Academy of Music who form The Mitrea Piano Quartet and they will be joined by a fourth string player. Together this ensemble will play two superb works; one by Schumann, the Quartet in in E flat major, op.47, followed by that great chamber classic the ‘Trout’ Quintet by Schubert. Tickets £12.50 & £10.00 concessions
		Sunday 4 July – 7.00 pm Piano Recital – Peter Katin This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of Fredric Chopin, arguably the greatest writer of solo piano works, and who better to perform a selection of his pieces than one of the world’s finest pianists, Peter Katin, Patron of the Etchingham Arts Festival. Tickets £12.50 & £10.00 concessions
		Wednesday 7 July – 8.00 pm The Marian Consort A few years ago we heard a Bach Cantata sung in Etchingham Church and we have had many requests for more Bach! This Concert will feature the well-established Marian Consort singing a number of Bach motets together with the Requiem Mass for 4 voices by Charpentier. Tickets £12.50 & £10.00 concessions
		Saturday 10 July – 7.30 pm Supper Concert For our penultimate concert we welcome the acclaimed soprano Madeleine Pierard back with a brilliant Swedish baritone Joa Helgesson and their accompanist Joseph Middleton. This always popular evening looks like being a spectacular concert! Book as soon as you can. Tickets – One Price £17.50 including Supper
		Sunday 11 July – 6.00 pm Wadhurst Chorale Following on from last year’s very moving presentation of poetry and song this year we present a specially devised programme of poems and choral works using the themes of The Seven Ages of Man speech from ‘As you like it’, by Shakespeare. Performed by a group of readers and the Wadhurst Chorale under the direction of Robert Fuller. Admission Free

Mission Statement

• • The Etchingham Arts Festival aims to bring a broad range of both classical and contemporary musical styles into a very rural area.
• • We aim to keep ticket prices at a reasonable cost to offset travel costs.
• • Our prima facie objective is to encourage young performers and composers, with local Schools and the Music Colleges from further a field.
• • We work in consultation with similar Festivals in the area, and are grateful to the counsel from The Mayfield Festival, as well as the on-going support from Rother Council.