Deal Summer Music Festival - Concerts in 2001

LUNCHTIME AND OTHER EVENTS

Lunchtime Events

BACKBEAT PERCUSSION QUARTET Damian Harron, James Pywell, Barry Russell, Tarik O'Reagan, trad. Zimbabwean With their astonishing array of percussion instruments from all around the world and a lively, virtuosic and almost theatrical style of performance, BackBeat Percussion Ensemble have picked up major prizes at home and abroad. They are among the winners of the 2000 South East Musician's Platform competition. Their concert will be followed (after lunch) by a workshop from 2.30pm to 4.30pm.

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BEN HANCOX violin & LORA DIMITROVA piano Mozart, Prokofiev, David Matthews photo by Clare Green 21-year old Canterbury violinist Ben Hancox is a rising star as a soloist and has already had much experience as a chamber musician. His long-standing duo partner, Bulgarian pianist Lora Dimitrova, has won major European prizes and has had critical acclaim as a concerto soloist.

photo by Christine Donnier-Valentin

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REVIVING THE MUSE
ROGER SCRUTON on the future of music in discussion with DAVD MATTHEWS
Philosopher, novelist, composer, publisher, environmentalist, foxhunter and general controversialist, Roger Scruton is the author of one of the most important books on music ever written, The Aesthetics of Music, and a contributor, with David Matthews, to a new volume of essays on music after modernism. Will new music always alienate its audience? Come and hear why it did, but also why it now doesn't have to.

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CATRIONA SCOTT clarinet & CATHERINE MILLEDGE piano Schumann, Poulenc, David Matthews, Thomas Hyde, Antonin Tucapsky Two fine young artists in our final lunchtime concert. Catriona Scott won a place to read music at Oxford at the age of 16 and graduated in 1999. Last year she was Musician in Residence at Tonbridge School and she is now doing poastgraduate work at the Royal Northern College of Music. Catherine Milledge is on the poastgraduate piano accompaniment course at the Guildhall School of Music.

 

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Other Events

 

CLASSIC FRENCH WINE TASTING with FRANK WARD
If music be the food of love, as Shakespeare wrote, then wine must be its beverage. Certainly, good music and good wine have much in common: depth, harmony, complexity, originality. There's a hedonistic side too: both can give great pleasure. To illustrate this point, Frank Ward, international wine specialist, will again uncork some 10 bottles of handwrought wines to release as many different sets of aromas and flavours. This time he focises on the Loire region, source of some of the world's most delightful and individual wines.
Admission £14.50 (limited to 40 people, so please book early).

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Our annual coach trip to see the The Old Stagers - the oldest surviving amateur dramatic society in the world - has become a great success, and we are repeating it this year. A coach will leave Deal at 6pm and Sandwich at 6.30pm. For more information and ticket prices please ring the Festival Box Office.

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