• 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

  • 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

  • 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, 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

  • 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

  • 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