Cotswold Charm

There are a whole myriad of activities and events that you can enjoy in an around Chipping Campden throughout the year –from the very special one day/night events like The Robert Dover’s Games/Cotswold Olimpicks and Scuttlebrook Wake, to the Open Gardens and Creative Campden (Arts & Crafts) weekends, and then the much longer  Chipping Campden Literature and Music Festivals.

On top of this Chipping Campden enjoys something like 98 clubs or associations, each with its own program events that you are generally welcome to join in with.  As a relatively small selection of the many, the Bowls Club (Station Road), Tennis Club (Recreation Ground) welcome guest on most days of the week, the Bridge Club (Wednesday evenings in the Town Hall), the North Cotswold Vintage Motorcycle Club has runs from The Square on most Sunday mornings throughout the summer and there are many, many more.

2012 Events

Until 14 March - Made Not Manufactured - Creative Campden - venue The Gallery at the Guild

• Exhibition by Louisiana Chapman, Jeremy Green and Ros Ingram - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

13 March 20.00 - The Heath Quartet with Matthew Hunt - Campden Music - venue Chipping Campden School

• www.campdenmusic.org.uk

16 March – 25 April - A Feast Of Fun - Creative Campden - venue The Gallery at the Guild

• Exhibition by Sue Calcutt, Tor Hildyard, Peter Lovelock, Kate Risdale

Tuesday 20th March, 10-4pm An introduction to hand block printing - Pattern Power 1 adult workshop by Sophie Blackwell at Court Barn Museum, Church Street, Chipping Campden.

• Inspirational day course introduces the idea of using blockprint as a quick and accessible way of creating surface design on paper and cloth. With a little historical background, information about equipment and materials, everyone is encouraged to immerse themselves in the fascinating process of combining pattern and colour.  All equipment and materials provided – please wear old clothes. Cost £35

Sat 24 March – Sun 25 March “Best of British” Ceramic Design from 1870 at Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden

• A selling exhibition from AD Antiques. The Exhibition will feature Fine British Art Pottery by Factories and Designers such as William De Morgan, Martin Brothers, Wedgwood and Della Robbia

Wed 4th April 10.00 - 17.00  Colour knitting without patterns,  adult workshop by Alison Dupernex at Court Barn Museum, Church Street, Chipping Campden.

• Whether your a beginner or improver join Alison for this one day workshop to become more confident with knitting.  Cost £35

Sat 7 April – Sun 15 April - Design and Decoration in Early 20th century Slipwares at Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden

• A selling exhibition focussing on the graphic quality of early pottery by Cardew and Leach, complimented by contemporary work in a traditional idiom by Andrew McGarva

Sat 14 April 17.45  LECTURE: John Edgeler: Ethel Mairet, Cardew and The New Handworkers Gallery at Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden Tickets £5

Sat 21 April One-on-one: Mick Gittins on Arts & Crafts architectural work in the Cotswolds. Venue Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden

Thurs 26 April – Sun 1 July An Endeavour in Printing; highlights from the Essex House Press Collection Venue Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden

• The Essex House Press was a private printing press set up by the Guild of Handicraft. Its aim was to produce books using handmade paper, traditional printing and binding methods and often specially-designed typefaces. The Museum recently acquired the largest and most important collection of Essex House Press material.  The exhibition looks at highlights of the collection and provides an insight into Ashbee’s ideas and passions

1st May to 6^th May - Chipping Campden Literature Festival

The 2012 theme All for Love examines love as a driving force, exploring how humans experience passion not only for one another, but also for ideas, causes, activities and achievements.

The programme includes:   demonstrations, illustrated talks, a literary lunch, a big read, film, contemporary novels & poetry, the explorations of the lives and works of past writers, a poetry writing day, music and theatre.

By offering lively, entertaining and informative events the Festival aims to achieve a sharing of ideas on the solitary pursuits of reading and writing, and to celebrate the beauty of books, paper, and the printed word.

Vicky Bennett & Mary Gray co-Artistic Directors

'Chipping Campden School is delighted to support the Literature Festival appreciating as we do, the power of the written word in learning, thinking and influencing change.' Annette France, Head of Chipping Campden School.

During the Festival The Court Barn Museum is holding an exhibition on The Essex House Press.

To find out more about the varied and interesting lives of the 2012 Festival participants, their work and writing, please visit http://www.campdenlitfest.co.uk/contentok.php?id=83

Tuesday 1st, May

Fringe: A Novel's Journey, at the Library, Free Event, 10.30 - 12.00(noon)

Sue Johnson talks about her methods of creating stories - and other aspects of a writer's life.

Dickens, at Chipping Campden School Hall,  £7/head  19.00 - 20.00

Claire Tomalin gives the inaugural festival talk, exploring the British love affair with biography with special reference to her latest work Charles Dickens: A Life .

Fringe: The Monarch of Wit, at St James’ Church, Tickets from TIC £7.50 (50% proceeds to St James’ Church),  20.30

Screen and stage actor James Clarkson celebrates the life and mind of John Donne, lover, poet and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. Drawn entirely from Donne’s own words.

FALLING, at  Court Room, Old Police Station Free Entry (Tickets from TIC, 16.30 - 17.30

Experienced performer, Graham Mitchell reads a selection of his own poems and translations of works by Aeschylus, Lorca and Rimbaud. *Retiring collection: The Tectona Trust for adventure sailing for people with mental health or rehab problems.

Wednesday 2nd May

Paper Talk, at Court Room, Old Police Station Tickets from TIC £10 (includes coffee and biscuits), 10.00 – 12.00(noon)

Jonathan Korejko demonstrates how beautiful paper can be created from a variety of ingredients and Gabrielle Falkiner talks about the history of, and her life in paper.

Travel: A Literary History, at The Kings Hotel, Bookings through the hotel: www.kingscampden.co.uk 01386 840256 @ £25,  12.00 noon for 12.30pm

A two-course lunch with wine followed by Peter Whitfield’s presentation of his latest book Travel: A Literary History, the first general survey of the history of travel, demonstrating how travel writers have outgrown their traditional stance of superiority to all things 'foreign', and moved towards a deeper sensitivity to other lands and cultures.

Poetry as an alternative world, at Court Room £3, 15.00 - 15.45

Peter Whitfield, who has written numerous scripts for Naxos Audiobooks, including histories of Poetry, Science and Art, reads from his poetry collections including Transparencies (2011).

Film Matinee, at Court Room, £4, 16.00 − 18.00

Wuthering Heights (1939) Producer Samuel Golding Director William Wyler. First film dramatization of Emily Bronte’s wildly passionate 1847 literary masterpiece, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven.  With thanks to Campden Film Society

Love and War, at Chipping Campden School Hall, £5 , 19.00

Michelle Roberts and Georgina Harding read from their 2012 novels Ignorance and Painter of Silence and discuss the ideas and themes in them with Cicely Havely.

Thursday 3rd May

A Morning with Virginia Woolf, at Upper Room Town Hall (ncludes coffee and cake during the interval at The Kings),  £8,  9.00am - 1pm

Readings by Rosemary Voaden and Alyse Ross from the novels of Virginia Woolf. Followed by Dr Michael Whitworth and Olivia Laing whose talks ‘To the River’ and ‘Virginia Woolf in the Country and the City' put Virginia Woolf into the context of place.

Granchester Mysteries, at  St James’ Church,  £5, 14.30 − 15.30

James Runcie introduces the first of his crime series, Grantchester Mysteries − described as Agatha Christie in cathedrals!

Poetry Please, at Mill House (Mill House residents and by invitation), 2.30 – 4.30pm

Campden School pupils, coached by [Angela France], read favourite poems. Sponsored by Caring Homes

The Big Book Group – BED1, at Church Rooms, £5 , 19.00 − 20.30

David Whitehouse discusses with the readers his debut novel BEDI What makes life worth getting up for? Mal isn't like the other kids. So remarkable is his childhood that his family waits for the incredible things he seems born to do. Then one day he goes to bed, never to get out again. Enchanting, funny, surreal and heartwarming, David Whitehouse's novel presents one of the most thrilling and unique voices to emerge from Britain in years.

Poetry and Pints, at Church Rooms, £5, 21.00

Open Mic with Angela France and Nine Arches Poets Matt Merrit, Maria Taylor and Daniel Sluman

There will be open mic spots for audience members to read their own work, or favourite poems by others - sign up on the door.

Friday 4th May

Industry Morning, at Court Room, Old Police Station, includes interval coffee and biscuits at 11.30, £5,  Doors open 9.30 ....10.00 – 13.00

An insight into how editors choose books and why they sometimes turn down books they really like; the in house process; how to edit a manuscript before sending it to an agent; and how to approach agents and publisher. Q&A

An Afternoon with Miss Austen, at Baptist Church, Interval: Tea & cake kindly organized by the WI £10, 2.00−5.00pm

Illustrated talk on Jane Austen By Professor Fiona Stafford.

Paula Byrne talks about her approach to biography with reference to her forthcoming biography The Real Jane Austen

Q&A and book signings

 

Waltz in my blood, at Upper Room Town Hall, £6 wine & juice bar, 19.00 − 21.00

Mario Petrucci reads from his latest collection of poems and Sheila Hayman’s Write to Life:

Medical Foundation Torture Survivors read their memoirs, poems, and stories.

Saturday 5th May

Hearts, Minds and Eye, at: The Court Room, £5, 10.00 - 11.15

What documentary film can do. Sheila Hayman gives an illustrated talk on the place of documentary making on television and in cinema today.

16 Ways to Write a Poem, at Seymour House, Includes tea and coffee. Please bring a picnic lunch £30* (places limited), 10.30 - 16.00

A poetry master class in which metaphysical poet Mario Petrucci covers all the major ways a new piece of work comes into being.

Residential poetry weekend at Seymour House (Fri 4th & Sat 5th) £290 for two nights B&B based on two sharing a room* Places limited.

*includes festival events: waltz in my blood, 16 Ways to Write a Poem, and Larkin About £290 for two people represents an overall discount of £52 or 15%

For more information: 01386 840064  email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Oscar and the Suitcase, at the Library, free entry children 2−6 years, parents and carer, 11.00

Oscar is not happy. The Green family are going on holiday and it doesn’t include him. So he decides on a plan of action. Artist and illustrator Caroline Green reads her storybook. Book-signing

Capuchin Books, at Court Room, Old Police Station, £5, 14.30 – 15.30

Tom Stacey, founder of Capuchin Classics, talks about the purpose, methods and titles of the Imprint.

The Treasure House, at Chippi gg Campden School Hall, £3 Family Ticket (admits 4 children with parent or guardian), 15.00

Linda Newbery launches her new book with an illustrated talk on how various ingredients come together to make a story. Q & A The Treasure House is for readers aged 9-12 years.

Event sponsored by Orion (TBC)

Larkin' About at Chipping Campden School Hall £10 17.00 − 20.15

A live programme based on the poetry and prose of Philip Larkin set to music. Featuring The Archer’s actors John Telfer (Reverend Alan Franks), and Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy) and musicians Ilone Antonius Jones and Matt Platt. Directed by Sue Wilson.

FRINGE: Creative Cows, at Church Rooms, 20.30 for 21.00 start

Creative Cows presents a Comedy Cabaret.

Bar provided by The Eight Bells.

Tickets: The Eight Bells and Campden Coffee Company.

Telephone: Keyna Doran on 01386 849081 for more details.

Sunday 6th May

FRINGE: A Printers’ Wayzgoose, free entry, 10.00 − 16.30

The Oxford Guild of Printers’ sale of rare and irresistible work: books, posters, cards, bookplates, wood engravings, antiquarian fine press volumes, letterpress equipment and papers.

Throughout the Festival you are invited to: Take a self guided Literary Stroll - Guide Map and Text from Tourist Information at The Old Police Station

All for Love, at St James’ Church, £15, 19.30 − 21.30

A joint event with Chipping Campden Music Festival

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media, talks about his forthcoming book Ballade: Why Amateurs Should Attempt the Impossible. After the talk Alan plays the piece that inspired the book: Chopin’s Ballade No 1 in G Minor Interval

William Fong, head of keyboard at the Purcell School, performs the other three Chopin Ballades

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Monday 7^th to Saturday 19^th May - The 2012 Chipping Campden Music Festival.

The 10th anniversary festival in 2011 was an enormous success both artistically and at the box office, with most concerts selling out and attendance breaking all previous records. So the Festival goes into its second decade in good shape and despite the ongoing difficulties with the economy, confident that it can build on the success of previous years and present concerts of a consistently high standard in this wonderful venue of St. James' Church.

Monday 7 May 20.30 at Chipping Campden School – Set the piano stool on fire (Film) Tickets unreserved £6

An intimate account of the relationship between young composer and pianist Kit Armstrong and the world renowned Alfred Brendel, Set the Piano Stool on Fire captures both the creative process and champions the value of teaching and collaboration. Featuring the only filmed footage of Brendel during his farewell tour, this is highly revealing and essential viewing for anyone interested in classical music.

 "One of the most fascinating films about pianists ever made. One of its protagonists is caught in the act of bowing out (at 80) after a long career as (arguably) Beethoven’s leading exponent, the other is coming in at 18: the tutorial relationship between Alfred Brendel and Kit Armstrong is fraught with significance …the matter of Mark Kidel's film is Beethoven and Schubert, on whose music Brendel is the fount of all knowledge. And to watch the old man demonstrate with graceful theatricality a Schubertian gear-shift – reproduced with variations by the bright-eyed pupil – is to learn something new about the music as well."

Michael Church – The Independent

 

Tuesday 8 May • 19.30 St. James’ Church - Paul Lewis - Piano

This year’s festival concerts open with a recital by our president, Paul Lewis. The programme is part of Paul’s two year project - Schubert and the Piano: 1822-1828 in which he is performing all the mature piano works from the Wanderer Fantasie onwards, including the three Schubert song cycles with Mark Padmore.

One of the hallmarks of great pianism is the ability of the player to take something very old and very familiar and basically reinvent it, with fidelity to the text of course, but producing something brand new, completely revitalized and pulsating with the energy of something freshly minted. And that’s what Paul Lewis did with Schubert’s late, and very great, D major Sonata                                                                                                      Michael Tumelty The Herald

Schubert German Dances D783, Sonata for Piano no.14 in A minor D784 (1823), Allegretto in C minor D915,  Sonata for Piano no.16 in A minor D845 (1825)

Tickets: Reserved £30 & £25 - Unreserved £18 - Students £1

For more information you can visit Paul's website on: http://www.paullewispiano.co.uk/

Wednesday 9 May • 19.30 St. James’ Church - Mark Padmore – Tenor, Paul Lewis - Piano

Staying with the exploration of Schubert’s late works the matchless duo of Padmore & Lewis perform Schubert’s final song cycle. Schwanengesang (Swan song) was composed in 1828 and published in 1829 just a few months after the composer’s death.

Mark and Paul’s recital last year was one of the absolute highlights of the festival, expect this concert to sell out quickly.

Songs including Im Frühling, Abendstern, Die Sterne, Der Jüngling an der Quelle

Tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis may be on their way to cornering the Schubert Lieder franchise for the foreseeable future.                                                                                                        David Vernier, Classics Today

Tickets: Reserved £28 & £23 - Unreserved £15 - Students £1

Click here for more information on Mark Padmore.

 

Thursday 10 May • 19.30 St. James’ Church - Lawrence Power - Violin / Viola & Simon Crawford Phillips – Piano

Lawrence Power has been a regular visitor to the festival over the last decade.  He is joined by his regular duo partner, the outstanding chamber musician Simon Crawford-Phillips. Whilst Lawrence is rightly regarded as one of the world’s finest viola players it is not widely known that he is also a magnificent violinist.

You have the chance to witness his prowess on both instruments. A concert not to miss! ...world-class combination of searingly intense tone, fabulous technique and consummate musicianship.

Andrew Clements, The Guardian!

Beethoven - Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in E flat, Op.12 no.3

Prokofiev - Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in D, Op.94a

Brahms  - Sonata for Viola and Piano in F minor Op.120 no.1

Russian Composers - A selection of short Russian pieces for Viola and Piano by Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Kabalevsky and Stravinsky

Tickets: Reserved £28 & £23 - Unreserved £15 - Students £1

For more information you can visit Laurence's website on: http://www.ingpen.co.uk/artist_detail.php?aid=81

You can also visit Simon's website on: http://crawford-phillips.com/

 

Friday 11 May • 21.30 St. James’ Church - The Elias Quartet and Amy Norrington

Sara Bitlloch Violin, Donald Grant Violin, Martin Saving Viola, Marie Bitlloch Cello ,

Introducing this brilliant young string quartet to the festival audience. The Elias have quickly established themselves as one of the most intense and vibrant quartets of their generation and have been chosen to participate in BBC Radio 3’s prestigious New Generation Artists’ scheme. Our exploration of Schubert’s late works continues with the one of the greatest and most profound chamber works ever written, the C major String Quintet, completed just two months before the composer’s death. The Elias are joined for this performance by the superb cellist Amy Norrington.

Mendelssohn - String Quartet in E flat major op.12

Kurtag - Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky

Schubert - String Quintet in C, D956

The Elias is the best young quartet I have come across in years.

Paul Driver, The Sunday Times

Tickets: Reserved £28 & £23 - Unreserved £15 – Students

For more information you can visit The Elias Quartet's website on: http://www.eliasstringquartet.com/

 

Saturday 12th May • 13.00 St. James’ Church  - Alessandro Taverna – Piano - 3rd prize winner 2009 Leeds piano competition

As always, this Saturday lunchtime recital is reserved for a young artist on the threshold of a major career. Those of you who heard Alessandro’s performance of the Chopin first concerto at the Leeds competition final will know you are in for a wonderful concert. It opens with one of Beethoven’s least played but most lyrical sonatas (and a particular favourite of the composer) and closes with Prokofiev’s magnificent 8th sonata.

Many would have liked to see the first prize go to bronze medallist Alessandro Taverna, who played Chopin’s e minor Concerto with forthright, articulate beauty. He commanded the platform as if it were his by right, and looked to be thoroughly enjoying himself. Remember his name and suspect you will be hearing much more of him in the future.

The Guardian

Beethoven - Sonata in F-sharp major, op. 78

Brahms - Three Intermezzos, op. 117

Chopin - Scherzo No. 4 in E major, op. 54

Debussy - Images (Deuxième Série)

Prokofiev - Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major, op. 84

TICKETS: reserved £25.00 & £20.00 unreserved £15.00 students £1

For more information you can visit Alessandro's website on: http://www.alessandrotaverna.com/

 

Sunday 13th May • from 11.30 Campden House - Jazz Picnic By kind permission of Philip & Mary Smith Campden House (1 mile from Chipping Campden)

Please follow direction signs and enter only via the top road (Tilborough Farm Entrance) not the main Campden House entrance

Fapy Lafertin, Lollo Meier, Tcha Limberger, Dave Kelbie, Andy Crowdy

This quintet brings together for the first time three giants of Western European Gypsy music. Fapy Lafertin and Lollo Meier are arguably the two true ambassadors of the legacy of Django Reinhardt, and multi-instrumentalist Tcha Limberger is a phenomenon who is known for his affecting performances, notably with his Budapest Gypsy Orchestra. Dave Kelbie and Andy Crowdy are the Jaguar and Rolls Royce of British rhythm sections!

The wonderful grounds of Philip and Mary Smith’s house are the setting for this year’s event. You are welcome to gather from 11.30am onwards for picnics. The concert will start at 1.00pm prompt in the marquee. There will be no bar facilities so please bring your own drinks. Please park where directed and enter and leave the grounds only by the designated gates.

Tickets £15.00 (Unreserved seating) students £1

For more information you can visit Fapy's website on: http://www.hotclub.nl/

 

Sunday 13th May • 20.00 St. James’ Church (note later start) - The Sixteen

Harry Christophers, conductor

8 Singers: 2 Violins, Cello/Lirone, Theorbo, Harp, Harpsichord/Organ

There are few ensembles as consistently impressive as the Sixteen and we are delighted that they are returning, for the third time, to Chipping Campden. For this concert an intimate ensemble of eight singers and six instrumentalists presents an evening of exquisite music by Monteverdi. The programme marks a continuation of the group’s exploration of the Selva morale e spirituale collection which contains some of Monteverdi’s most virtuosic and spirited writing. The greatest of the Italian Renaissance composers, Monteverdi revolutionised the music of the theatre and the church by his dramatic and imaginative use of instruments and voices, and by his daring harmonies.

For many listeners, The Sixteen isn’t just another chamber choir, it’s the living embodiment of the great sacred music of the Renaissance. This choir now defines the sound of the music. The Telegraph

Monteverdi - Selva Morale e Spirituale

TICKETS: reserved £35.00 & £30.00 Unreserved £20.00 Students £1

For more information you can visit The Sixteen's website on: http://www.the-sixteen.org.uk/

 

Monday 14th May • 19.30 St. James’ Church - The Academy of Ancient Music   Directed from the Theorbo by William Carter,  with Elin Manahan Thomas - Soprano

The Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics are set to make 2012 a summer of celebration in England - and what better accompaniment than the theatre music of one of England’s greatest composers, Henry Purcell?

For this concert eleven musicians from the AAM, unusually directed from the theorbo by William Carter, are joined by stunning soprano Elin Manahan Thomas in a performance of arias including Dido's Lament and 'If music be the food of love', as well as a suite from Purcell's famous The Fairy Queen

Henry Purcell: Ayres for the theatre

Suite from The Gordian Knot Untied

3 Single Songs: ‘If music be the food of love’, ‘O solitude’, ‘Sweeter than roses’, The Grove Scene from Dido and Aeneas

Suite from The Married Beau Suite from The Fairy Queen

Suite from Dido and Aeneas ‘Nymphs and Shepherds, Come Away’

TICKETS: Reserved £30.00 & £25.00 unreserved £20.00 students £1

For more information you can visit The Academy of Ancient Music's website on: http://www.aam.co.uk/ ,

You can also visit Elin's website on: http://www.elinmanahanthomas.org/home

Tuesday 15th May • 19.30 St. James’ Church - Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra Thomas Hull Conductor, Ruth Rogers – Violin, Imogen Cooper – Piano

The Academy Orchestra project is in its fifth year and is now firmly established as one of the most important aspects of our educational work and indeed of the whole festival. For their first concert of 2012 the Academy, under the baton of their inspirational conductor Thomas Hull, are joined by soloists Ruth Rogers (also our orchestra leader) and, for her second festival appearance, pianist Imogen Cooper.

Something of the real character of Mozart burst upon the audience during the Chipping Campden Music Festival on Wednesday last week when the violinist Ruth Rogers and the viola player Lawrence Power gave an electrifying performance of the maestro’s great 'Sinfonia Concertante'

Preston Witts, Stratford Herald

Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 64

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.21 in C major K467

Mendelsson - Symphony No 4 in A Major (Italian)

TICKETS: reserved £30.00 & £25.00 unreserved £20.00 students £1

For more information you can visit Ruth's website on: http://www.ruthrogers.net/

 

Wednesday 16 May • 19.30 St. James’ Church - Richard Goode Piano

Along with the other two solo recitalists this year, Paul Lewis and Imogen Cooper, Richard Goode falls into the category of pianists who value, and display, artistic integrity, intellectual insight and beauty of sound above showmanship and exhibitions of technique for its own sake. For this reason he may not be as well known outside the regular concert-going world as some pianists. But make no mistake; here is a world-class performer at the height of his considerable powers.

If only more pianists wore their thoughtfulness so lightly. Richard Goode’s ability to clothe the intellectual backbone of his interpretations in playing of airy mercuriality may not be unique, but it is rare and individual enough to make his recitals unmissable.

Erica Jeal, The Guardian

Mozart - Fantasia in C minor K.475

Mozart - Piano Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457

Beethoven - Sonata in E-flat, Op.31, No.3

Brahms - Seven Fantasias, Op.116

Chopin - Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op.60

Tickets reserved £28.00 & £23.00 unreserved £15.00 students £1

For more information you can visit Richard's website on: http://www.intermusica.co.uk/artists/piano/richard-goode/biography

 

Thursday 17th May • 19.30 St. James’ Church - Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra

Thomas Hull conductor, Kate Royal – Soprano, Imogen Cooper - Piano

The second Academy concert welcomes Kate Royal back to Chipping Campden. As well as solo roles at Glyndebourne and the ROH Kate has appeared in prestigious concert engagements with the Berlin Philharmonic under Rattle, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Ticciati and the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Nezet-Seguin. In her third festival appearance Imogen Cooper joins Kate for Mozart’s "Ch'io mi scordi di te?"

Rossini - Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers

Mozart - "O temerario Arbace..." - "Per quel paterno amplesso" K79

Mozart - "Vado ma dove," K583

Mozart - 'Ch'io mi scordi di te...' K505

Beethoven - Symphony No.7 in A major Op.92

Royal has acquired a purity of tone to match her grace of manner, and her big arias now have arresting beauty.

Michael Church, The Independent

Tickets reserved £30.00 & £25.00 unreserved £20.00 students £1

For more information you can visit Kate's website on: http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/artists/singers/soprano/kate-royal

 

Friday 18th May • 19.30 St. James’ Church - The Nash Ensemble - Richard Hosford – Clarinet,    Ursula Leveaux – Bassoon, Richard Watkins – Horn, Marianne Thorsen – Violin, Laura Samuel – Violin,  Dukes – Viola, Paul Watkins – Cello,  McTier - Double bass

The Nash Ensemble has appeared here many times over the last 10 years and their concerts are never anything less than outstanding. Their concert closes with the Festival’s final exploration of another late Schubert work, his largest scale chamber composition, the Octet. Before that Britten’s three divertimenti (written in the 1930s), and Mozart’s wonderful Horn Quintet.

The Nash Ensemble are nothing less than the London regiment of chamber music’s crack troops......"

Gramophone

Tickets reserved £28.00 & £23.00 unreserved £15.0 students £1

For more information you can visit the Nash Ensemble's website on: http://www.nashensemble.org.uk/

 

Saturday 19 May • 19.30 St. James’ Church - Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra

Thomas Hull conductor ,   Marwood – violin

The Festival’s final concert welcomes back the acclaimed violinist Anthony Marwood. Named the Royal Philharmonic Society 'Instrumentalist of the Year' in 2006, Anthony has appeared as a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras and was, until their retirement in January 2012, a member of the superlative Florestan Trio. Tonight he plays one of the most important and glorious works in the violin repertoire. After the interval the 2012 festival closes with Brahms first symphonic masterpiece, one that reputedly took the composer 21 years to complete.

Is there nothing Anthony Marwood cannot do? He plays the violin, acts, dances, and can do all at once. He directs the Irish Chamber Orchestra, plays with the Florestan Piano Trio, commissions composers, jointly runs his own festival and has a network of worldwide collaborators. To cap it all, this consummate artist is blessed with boundless energy, intellectual curiosity and creative wizardry.

BBC Music Magazine

Weber - Overture to Der Freischütz

Beethoven - Concerto for Violin in D major Op.61

Brahms - Symphony No.1 in C minor Op.68

Tickets reserved £30.00 & £25.00 unreserved £20.00 students £1

For more information you can visit the Anthony's website on: http://www.anthonymarwood.com/

Friday 1st June - The 400th

NO ALCOHOL MAY BE CONSUMED ON DOVER’S HILL

Sat 23 June  - One-on-one: Graham Greenall on the history of Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpick Games - venue Court Barn Museum.

Sat 7 July – Sun 22 July - Oxfordshire Originals - venue Court Barn Museum

• A selling exhibition by contemporary designer makers of the Oxfordshire Craft Guild

Sat 28 July - One-on-one: Judith Ellis on life in the Almshouses in Chipping Campden over 400 years - venue court Barn Museum

Thurs 2 August – Sun 7 October - Dream Cotswold; An Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings by F.L. Griggs R.A - venue Court Barn Museum

• This exhibition will display a number of rare, privately owned watercolours . Followers of Grigg’s will find much in this exhibition to deepen their understanding of the artist’s visionary work, based firmly in the Arts & Crafts tradition.

Sat 8 September 5.45pm - The Ashbee Lecture: Peter Cormack "Books and Windows: the Art of Paul Vincent Woodroffe (1875-1954)" - venue Court Room, Old Police Station, High Street, Chipping Campden
Tickets £12 to include a glass of wine

Sat 13 – Sun 21 October - Poetry Made Visible - The Landscape etchings of Samuel Palmer - venue Court Barn Museum

• An exhibition of all of Palmer’s etchings, supplemented by the loan of two of his watercolours, as well as by a selection of prints of the countryside by European and British artists from the16th - 20th centuries.

• This will be Court Barn’s first selling exhibition of original prints.
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Sat 27 October 16.30 - Lecture: Alec Peever “Stone lettering, A practitioner’s perspective, spanning four decades" - venue  Court Barn - Tickets £5

Wed 31 October – Sun 25 November - The Simple Life : a display on the men and their families who were part of the Guild of Handicraft - venue Court Barn Museum

• This display looks at lives of the ordinary men and their families who were part of Ashbee’s Guild; their transition from the East London to Chipping Campden, the role they played in the Guild and what became of them after the Guild disbanded in 1908.

Sat 10 November - One-on-one: Sarah McCormick Healy on the Guildsmen and their families. - venue Court Barn Museum

Sat 1 – Sun 9 December - Designed for Christmas - venue Court Barn Museum

• A selling exhibition from the Worcester Guild of Designer Makers