The Village Voice June July 2018

DIARY PLANNING
Solent Music Festival
19th-23rd September 2018
September sees the return of the Solent
Music Festival to Lymington. The festival,
directed by Sophia Pagoni, features
internationally-renowned artists
performing in the intimate setting of St
Thomas Church.
This year Michael Portillo will be appearing
with the festival’s Artistic Director, pianist
Sam Haywood. Cellist Steven Isserlis will be
joined by Anthony Marwood and others
for a chamber music feast of Beethoven,
Faure, Schumann and Brahms. Members of
the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightement
will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and
Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and
Irish soprano Ailish Tynan will sing
Schubert and Schumann Lieder with
clarinettist Katherine Spencer.
Katherine has participated in every festival
since it was founded in 2013.
'I've always liked to think of my audience
as individuals, I suppose it's a way of
controlling nerves. But what I realise every
time I come to play at the Solent Music
Festival is that yes, I'm playing/connecting
with the individual as I always try to, but
the SMF audience are a collective
experience too. A family. A warm vibrant
community that are hungry to have good
music. I can't wait to be part of it all again.'
Tickets are now on sale from the Solent
Cellar and online via the festival’s
website solentmusicfestival.com.
Early booking advised.
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