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The 19th

North Norfolk Music Festival

9 - 16 August 2024

BOX OFFICE WILL OPEN MONDAY 25th MARCH

All concerts will be held at

Church of Our Lady St Mary, South Creake


Friday 9 August 5.30pm - Gala Concert to open the 19th NNMF

12 Ensemble and Mary Bevan, soprano

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The 12 Ensemble, expanded to 15 for this special concert, are returning to NNMF to perform Vaughan Williams’ richly-textured Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, a late Beethoven slow movement from Op.132 string quartet, and Dowland’s Lachrimae Antiquae (arr. Ruisi). Distinguished soprano, Mary Bevan, will join the Ensemble for Benjamin Britten’s song cycle Les Illuminations, his magnificent, colourful setting of poems by Arthur Rimbaud.

Friday 9 August 7.30pm - Friends of NNMF Party

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Join us as our guest for post-concert drinks and canapés in the Festival Marquee after the Gala Concert.

Our annual party for The Friends provides a chance for everyone to get together. This is free for Friends but places MUST be booked in advance. If you are not already a member, see our website for details on how to join.


Saturday 10 August 5.45pm – Festival Supper      

Saturday 10 August 7pm - James Newby, baritone    Simon Lepper, piano

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James Newby returns to NNMF with a wide ranging and inventive programme built around kings and queens called ‘A Royal Recital,’ made up of songs by Schubert, Schumann, Elgar, Purcell and others. This season James will sing the title role in Eugene Onegin at the Staatsoper, Hannover, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Garsington Opera and will give a recital in the Mahler Festival at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.


Sunday 11 August 4.30pm - Kleio String Quartet

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We are delighted to welcome the Kleio Quartet for their NNMF debut. They were winners of the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition in 2023 and were recently a quartet in residence at Snape Maltings. In the first of their two concerts they will play Britten’s 3 Divertimenti, Simon Rowland-Jones’ 6 Miniatures (première), and Dvořák’s tuneful String Quartet in G, Op.106.

Sunday 11 August 5.45pm – Festival Supper       

Sunday 11 August 7pm - Emanuil Ivanov, piano

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The brilliant young Bulgarian pianist, Emanuil Ivanov, is launched on an impressive international performing career since winning the 2019 Busoni Competition.  Emanuil has recently made extensive tours in Bulgaria,

South Africa, Japan and Italy. We will hear him play works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Etudes by Canadian virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin, as well as Rachmaninov’s Etudes Tableaux.


Monday 12 August 5.45pm – Festival Supper        

Monday 12 August 7pm - Kleio String Quartet, Bartholomew Lafolette, cello, Simon Rowland-Jones, viola

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For their second concert at the 19th NNMF the Kleio Quartet will play Schubert’s Quintet in C, D.956 together with cellist, Bartholomew Lafolette, already familiar to NNMF audiences from two previous appearances. The second part of the concert will be entirely devoted to Brahms’ magisterial Sextet in G major, Op.36, when they will be joined by violist and Joint Festival Director, Simon Rowland-Jones.


Tuesday 13 August 4.30pm - Will Duerden, double bass Svitlana Kosenko, piano

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Will studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and is currently completing his MA at the Royal College of Music with Caroline Emery and Rodrigo Moro Martin. Last year he was selected by Young Classical Artists’ Trust (YCAT) as one of their new artists.  The programme will include romantic pieces by Russian composer Glière, Hertl, Boulanger and a new work by Simon Rowland-Jones.


Tuesday 13 August 5.45pm – Festival Supper        

Tuesday 13 August 7pm - Alexandra Lowe, soprano James Baillieu, piano

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Le Voyage - Songs by Ravel, Bizet, Koechlin, Debussy and Viardot and a selection of arias.

Alexandra Lowe studied at the Royal Northern College Music before joining the Opera Course at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She joined the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera Covent Garden where she appeared in many roles and worked with conductors such as Sir Anthony Pappano and Sir Mark Elder. Recent highlights include Donna Anna at Glyndebourne in 2023 and Fiordiligi for Opera North in 2024. 


Wednesday 14 August 5.45pm – Festival Supper  

Wednesday 14   August 7pm - Daniel Lebhardt, piano

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Hungarian pianist Daniel Lebhardt is already a favourite of NNMF audiences from his two previous magnificent recitals. The New York Times noted that he played with “power, poetry and formidable technique.”  He has a busy international career as soloist and chamber musician, and we will hear him in both those roles at this year’s NNMF. He will be playing works by Liszt, and by Clara and Robert Schumann.


Thursday 15 August 4.30pm - Castalian String Quartet

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Stalwarts of NNMF, the wonderful Castalian String Quartet are back for two concerts this year.  They begin with an all-quartet programme made up of three of the most outstanding works of the string quartet repertoire: Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op.95 ‘Serioso’, Janacek No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’, Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op.76 No.4 ‘Sunrise.’

Thursday 15 August 5.45pm – Festival Supper     

Thursday 15 August 7pm - Mithras Trio

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The Mithras Trio are making their second foray to the Festival having already delighted audiences at our Winter Series, Wells Maltings. Established in 2017 they won first prize at the 10th Trondheim Chamber Music Competition and were BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists for the 2021-2023 seasons. They will play Haydn’s E Flat Trio, Schoenberg’s early romantic work Verklärte Nacht (arr. by Eduard Steuermann) and Schubert’s iconic Piano Trio in B flat.


Friday 16 August 4.30pm - Laura Lolita Perešivana, soprano William Vann, piano

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Laura is returning to Norfolk for the second time. The Latvian soprano joined the prestigious Academy at La Scala, Milan this season and has already made her debut there in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. She was asked to cover the role of Magda in La rondine within days of her arrival in a new production - clearly La Scala loves Laura as much as we do! 

Songs by William Walton, Rossini, Duparc, Flanders and Swann, Stephen Sondheim, and arias from Manon by Massenet and La rondine by Puccini, and Quattro canzoni popolari by Luciano Berio.

Friday 16 August 5.45pm – Festival Supper           

Friday 16 August 7pm - Castalian String Quartet Daniel Lebhardt, piano Will Duerden, double bass

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We seized the opportunity of bringing together several of our 2024 ‘artists in residence’ in order to end the 19th NNMF with our first ever performance of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. Also included in the programme are one of Haydn’s most joyful masterpieces, Op.20 No.6 in A, and Bartók’s 5th quartet, noted for its extraordinary stylistic variety and phenomenal energy.