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  • Awakening Shadow

    St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Wales
    George Vass (conductor)

    Luke Styles & Benjamin Britten: Awakening Shadow
    semi-staged performance

    Awakening Shadow is a fusion of newly composed scenes by Luke Styles and Britten's Canticles, for five singers and four instrumentalists

    Nova Music Opera
    Donna Lennard, soprano
    Ralph Thomas Williams, countertenor
    Christopher Bowen and Bradley Smith, tenor
    Felix Kemp, baritone
    Nova Music Ensemble
    Richard Williams, director
    George Vass, conductor

    Part of the 2021 Presteigne Festival

     

  • Awakening Shadow

    St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Wales
    George Vass (conductor)

    Luke Styles & Benjamin Britten: Awakening Shadow
    semi-staged performance

    Awakening Shadow is a fusion of newly composed scenes by Luke Styles and Britten's Canticles, for five singers and four instrumentalists

    Nova Music Opera
    Donna Lennard, soprano
    Ralph Thomas Williams, countertenor
    Christopher Bowen and Bradley Smith, tenor
    Felix Kemp, baritone
    Nova Music Ensemble
    Richard Williams, director
    George Vass, conductor

    Part of the 2021 Presteigne Festival

  • Presteigne Festival Orchestra at Leominster Priory

    Leominster Priory 24 Church Street, Leominster, Herefordshire, England
    George Vass (conductor)

    Jessie Montgomery: Starburst
    Cecilia McDowall: Off the Ground
    Malcolm Arnold: Concerto for two violins and string orchestra, Op 77
    Huw Watkins: Three Welsh Songs
    Gary Carpenter: as dreams are made on
    Presteigne Festival co-commission ∙ World premiere
    Michael Tippett: Little Music

    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    Fenella Humphreys & Francesca Barritt, violin
    George Vass, conductor

    Part of the 2021 Presteigne Festival

  • Presteigne Festival Orchestra at Leominster Priory

    Leominster Priory 24 Church Street, Leominster, Herefordshire, England
    George Vass (conductor)

    Jessie Montgomery: Starburst
    Cecilia McDowall: Off the Ground
    Malcolm Arnold: Concerto for two violins and string orchestra, Op 77
    Huw Watkins: Three Welsh Songs
    Gary Carpenter: as dreams are made on
    Presteigne Festival co-commission
    Michael Tippett: Little Music

    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    Fenella Humphreys & Francesca Barritt, violin
    George Vass, conductor

    Part of the 2021 Presteigne Festival

  • Festival Gala Concert

    Hereford Cathedral Cathedral Close, Hereford, England
    George Vass (conductor)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No 13 in F, K112
    Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella
    Matthew Taylor: Oboe Concerto
    World premiere
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K618
    Malcolm Arnold: Sinfonietta No 1, Op 48
    Cecilia McDowall: Shipping Forecast

    Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    James Turnbull, oboe
    Christopher Good, narrator
    George Vass, conductor

    Part of the 2021 Presteigne Festival

  • Festival Gala Concert

    Hereford Cathedral Cathedral Close, Hereford, England
    George Vass (conductor)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No 13 in F, K112
    Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella
    Matthew Taylor: Oboe Concerto
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K618
    Malcolm Arnold: Sinfonietta No 1, Op 48
    Cecilia McDowall: Shipping Forecast

    Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    James Turnbull, oboe
    Christopher Good, narrator
    George Vass, conductor

    Part of the 2021 Presteigne Festival

  • Nova Music Opera Ensemble, Presteigne Festival

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    George Vass (Conductor)

    Julian Philips: Looking West (Welsh premiere)

    Rebecca Bottone, soprano
    Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, mezzo
    Alexander Knox, actor
    Nova Music Opera Ensemble
    George Vass, conductor

  • Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Leonore Piano Trio

    David Matthews: Piano Trio No 2, Op 61
    Joseph Phibbs: Violin Sonata
    Freya Waley-Cohen: Sardine
    Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, Op 120

  • Presteigne Festival Orchestra

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    George Vass (Conductor)

    Dani Howard: Silver Falls
    Ralph Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto in A minor
    Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D
    Gabriel Jackson: Doonies Hill Antiphon
    John Ireland: Concertino Pastorale

    Nicholas Daniel, oboe
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    George Vass, conductor

  • Presteigne Festival Orchestra

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    George Vass (Conductor)

    Edward Elgar: Serenade in E minor, Op 20
    Tarik O’Regan: Chaâbi
    Gabriel Jackson: Countless and wonderful are the ways to praise God
    Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
    James Francis Brown: The Heavens and the Heart

    Olivia Jageurs, harp
    Bath Camerata
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    George Vass, conductor

  • Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Leonore Piano Trio

    Huw Watkins Piano Trio No 2 – world premiere
    Joseph Phibbs Cello Sonata
    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade Bewegt – world premiere
    Maurice Ravel Piano Trio

  • Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Tim Horton (piano)

    Arnold Schönberg: Six Little Pieces, op. 19

    Julian Philips: Barcarola

    Homages to Hugh Wood (world premiere performances)
    — Thomas Hyde: Cantinlena
    — David Matthews: A Fugue for Hugh
    — Francis Pott: A Sort of Rainbow

    Franz Schubert: Drei Klavierstücke, D.946

  • Presteigne Festival Orchestra

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    George Vass (Conductor)

    Sarah Frances Jenkins: Trallali, Trallaley, Trallalera
    Gerald Finzi: Three Soliloquies from ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’
    Tarik O’Regan: ‘Machine’, concerto for soprano saxophone and string orchestra (World premiere)
    Ralph Vaughan Williams: Violin Concerto in D minor
    Julian Philips: Divertissement

    Amy Dickson, saxophone
    Benjamin Nabarro, violin
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    George Vass, conductor

  • Presteigne Festival

    St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Wales

    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade: Reginald, The Musings of an Edwardian Gentleman
    David Matthews: The Sleeping Lord, Op 58

    Zoe Drummond, soprano
    Christopher Good, narrator
    Presteigne Festival Ensemble
    George Vass, conductor

  • Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Rachel Roberts (viola)

    Rachel Roberts (viola)
    Mark Wilde (tenor)
    Alexei Watkins (horn)
    Julien Van Mellaerts (baritone)
    Choir of King’s College, London
    Festival Orchestra
    George Vass (conductor)

    Benjamin Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra, Op. 31
    Edward Gregson: Viola Concerto (world premiere)
    Adrian Williams: The Innocent Fields (world premiere)
    Grace Williams: Sea Sketches for string orchestra

  • Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Rachel Roberts (viola), Robert Plane (clarinet)

    Robert Plane (clarinet)
    Rachel Roberts (viola)
    Chris Hopkins (piano)

    Huw Watkins: Speak Seven Seas
    John Hawkins: Urizen (for viola and piano)
    Michael Berkeley: Trio for clarinet, viola and piano (world premiere)
    Witold Lutoslawski:: Dance Preludes
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat, K. 498, Kegelstatt

  • 2024 Presteigne Festival

    St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Wales

    Julian Philips: Melodys of Earth and Sky – suite for actor and chamber ensemble (World premiere)
    Walton: Façade - an entertainment

    Anton Lesser, actor
    Sarah Gabriel & Alexander Knox, reciters
    Presteigne Festival Ensemble
    George Vass. conductor

  • 2024 Presteigne Festival

    St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Wales

    William Mathias: Prelude, Aria and Finale, Op 25
    Britten: Young Apollo, Op 16
    Joseph Phibbs: Flame and Shadow
    Richard Blackford: Mirror of Perfection

    Rebecca Bottone, soprano
    Nicholas Mogg, baritone
    Huw Watkins, piano
    Choir of Royal Holloway
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    George Vass, conductor

  • 2024 Presteigne Festival

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales

    Sarah Frances Jenkins: Dancing with Playford (World premiere)
    Tayla-Leigh Payne: Blodeuo (World premiere)
    Richard Blackford: Songs of Nadia Anjuman
    Adrian Sutton: Sap and Sinews
    Lynne Plowman: Harp Concerto (World premiere)
    Britten: Sinfonietta, Op 1

    Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, mezzo-soprano
    Anne Denholm, harp
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    George Vass, conductor

  • Scenes from Under Milk Wood at Presteigne Festival

    St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Wales

    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade: Scenes from Under Milk Wood

    Nova Music Opera
    Nova Music Ensemble
    George Vass, conductor
    Harvey Evans, director

    Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Humphreys, baritone
    Osian Clarke, actor
    Madeleine Morgan, actor
    David Prince, narrator

  • Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Leonore Piano Trio

    James B Wilson New work (World premiere)
    Eleanor Alberga: No Man’s Land Lullaby
    Judith Weir: Piano Trio No 1
    Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40

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    Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Robert Plane (clarinet) and the Goethe Quartet

    Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703
    Eleanor Alberga: String Quartet no. 2
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581

  • Bath Camerata and Presteigne Festival Orchestra

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales

    Cheryl Frances-Hoad: With What Sudden Joy
    Eleanor Alberga: Violin Concerto No 2 'Narcissus'
    Aaron Copland: Quiet City
    Cecilia McDowall: Da Vinci Requiem

    Benjamin Nabarro, violin
    Elinor Rolfe-Johnson, soprano
    Thomas Humphreys, baritone
    Kate Bennington, cor anglais
    Katie Lodge, trumpet
    Bath Camerata
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    George Vass, conductor

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    Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Robert Plane (clarinet) and the Leonore Piano Trio

    Robert Plane clarinet ꞏ Leonore Piano Trio

    Dani Howard: Unravelled (World Premiere)
    Mark Simpson: An Essay of Love
    David Matthews: A Song for Barrie (World Premiere)
    Igor Stravinsky: Suite from The Soldier’s Tale
    Huw Watkins: Three Caprices for Clarinet and Piano
    Dmitry Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67

  • Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Tim Horton (piano)

    Piano in the Afternoon

    Dmitry Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in C major, op. 87, no. 1
    Dmitry Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in D flat major, op. 87, no. 15
    Helen Grime: 10 Miniatures
    Derri Joseph Lewis: An die Musik (World Premiere)
    Eleanor Alberga: Oh Chaconne!
    Frédéric François Chopin: Sonata no. 3 in B minor, op. 58

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    Presteigne Festival: Powys

    St Andrew's Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Powys, Wales
    Robert Plane (clarinet)

    Festival Finale

    Robert Plane clarinet ∙ Emma Roijackers & Laura Rickard violin
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra ∙ George Vass conductor

    Benjamin Britten: Prelude and Fugue, op. 29
    Huw Watkins: Concertino for clarinet and string orchestra (World premiere)
    Edward Gregson: Aubade (World premiere)
    Steve Reich: Duet for two violins and string orchestra
    Dmitri Shostakovich/BarshaiChamber Symphony in C minor, Op 110a

  • Presteigne Festival Finale

    St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne Broad Street, Powys, Wales

    Benjamin Britten: Prelude and Fugue for 18 solo strings, Op 29
    Huw Watkins: Clarinet Concertino (world premiere)
    Edward Gregson: Aubade (World premiere)
    Steve Reich: Duet for two violins and string orchestra
    Dmitri Shostakovich/Barshai: Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op 110a

    Robert Plane, clarinet
    Emma Roijackers & Laura Rickard, violin
    Presteigne Festival Orchestra
    George Vass, conductor