Lake District Summer Music Festival 2007 Programme

Young Professionals of tomorrow in recital in this beautiful church

Solos and chamber music performed by emerging young professionals of our Summer School create a special atmosphere in this beautiful church. The programme includes Philip Higham in solo cello works by Bach and John Maxwell Geddes.

A special recording of BBC Radio 3's
much admired workshop programme

The Royal Quartet explores Mozart's Dissonance Quartet in C, K465 as part of a special event in collaboration with this popular BBC Radio 3 programme. Presented by Stephen Johnson.

Red Priest

The baroque period was one of wonderful experimentation: performers competing against one another, stealing and re-writing each other's work, mixing and developing new styles. Red Priest take stolen masterworks and long-lost jewels of the baroque era and perform them with swashbuckling virtuosity!

Works by BACH, HANDEL, VIVALDI,
TARTINI, COUPERIN and others.

Sponsored by Ascent

Outstanding guitarist makes a welcome return to LDSM

Morgan Szymanski, one of the leading solo classical guitarists of his generation, now follows a world-wide career. His charismatic performances and presence convey all the moods of classical, Spanish and Latin American music up to the twentieth century with breathtaking technique and ease. His programme includes works by Giuliani, Iannarelli, Mangoré, Piazzolla, Tárrega and Albéniz.

"Morgan Szymanski's guitar playing is amongst the best I have heard in a long time" (IRISH TIMES)

Sponsored by Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel
& Mr and Mrs Stephen Broughton

Our first-ever Masterclass involving YSV students

Takako Yamasaki, well known to LDSM audiences for her outstanding performances and violin classes, works with students from the Young String Venture Course. LDSM is forever grateful to Sam and Marion Forrester who laid the foundations in 1985 of the student scholarship fund, which now supports so many students each year. Attending YSV concerts was always a source of special pleasure for Sam Forrester and his enthusiasm for these young musicians was tangible. This is the first public masterclass for the Young String Venture students.

With Nicola Eimer (piano)

Christoph Richter follows in the pedigree traditions of his teachers André Navarra and Pierre Fournier. Winner of prestigious prizes, he is in demand as soloist and chamber musician, working regularly with András Schiff and Heinz Holliger, appearing at many European festivals and making many recordings.

The pianist Nicola Eimer, founder of the Eimer Piano Trio, has performed in venues from New York to Salzburg. Nicola is currently Hodgson Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music.

BRAHMS Sonata in E minor, Op.38
WEBERN Two Pieces (1899)
WEBERN Three Pieces, Op.11
MENDELSSOHN Sonata in D, Op.58

Red Priest

A late summer night in the Parish Church completes a rare Festival evening. The world premiere of Red Priest’s new all-Bach programme with their inimitably theatrical and flamboyant style guarantees total enjoyment.

Sponsored by Burn How Garden House Hotel