Festival 2014
Welcome to the fourth Music@Malling Festival – a festival that brings international artists to historical venues in and around West Malling, Kent.
The festival runs from Tuesday 23rd September through to Sunday 28th September. This year we commemorate the centenary of the onset of the First World War with moving music by Ravel and Elgar. JS Bach is a featured composer and will be heard in every programme, including a Bach Pilgrimage with concerts in the stunning churches of Birling, Addington and Trottiscliffe, along the Pilgrim's Way, on Saturday 27th September.
Each year, the festival presents contemporary music alongside the classics. In 2014, world-renowned composer HK Gruber will be introduced with six performances of his iconic ‘pan-demonium’ Frankenstein!!. These concerts will be the culmination of a groundbreaking outreach project involving hundreds of children in schools across Kent with English National Ballet and Chamber Domaine.
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Matthew Sharp - Presenter/Chansonnier
Daniele
Silingardi - Dancer
Fabian Reimar - Choreographer
Thomas Kemp - Conductor
Chamber Domaine
Enter a mad, theatrical world of wacky sounds, exotic instruments, monsters, heroes, and villains – a pandemonium!
Chamber Domaine, English National Ballet and Matthew Sharp join forces in schools concerts to perform schools concerts, including works inspired by the figure of Frankenstein.
Narrated by Matthew Sharp, who was recently praised in The Daily Telegraph for his "astonishingly comprehensive virtuosity", the concerts are a culmination of workshops across Kent that engage hundreds of children with music and ballet, providing access to leading international performers. The collaborating schools for these two performances are from Ashford.
HK Gruber is one of the world's leading contemporary composers and these performances feature new choreography by ENB First Soloist, Fabian Reimar, for dancer Daniele Silingardi and local school children.
Matthew Sharp - Presenter/Chansonnier
Daniele
Silingardi - Dancer
Fabian Reimar - Choreographer
Thomas Kemp - Conductor
Chamber Domaine
Enter a mad, theatrical world of wacky sounds, exotic instruments, monsters, heroes, and villains – a pandemonium!
Chamber Domaine, English National Ballet and Matthew Sharp join forces in schools concerts to perform schools concerts, including works inspired by the figure of Frankenstein.
Narrated by Matthew Sharp, who was recently praised in The Daily Telegraph for his "astonishingly comprehensive virtuosity", the concerts are a culmination of workshops across Kent that engage hundreds of children with music and ballet, providing access to leading international performers. The collaborating schools for these two performances are from Ashford.
HK Gruber is one of the world's leading contemporary composers and these performances feature new choreography by ENB First Soloist, Fabian Reimar, for dancer Daniele Silingardi and local school children.
Matthew Sharp - Presenter/Chansonnier
Daniele
Silingardi - Dancer
Fabian Reimar - Choreographer
Thomas Kemp - Conductor
Chamber Domaine
Enter a mad, theatrical world of wacky sounds, exotic instruments, monsters, heroes, and villains – a pandemonium!
Chamber Domaine, English National Ballet and Matthew Sharp join forces in schools concerts to perform schools concerts, including works inspired by the figure of Frankenstein.
Narrated by Matthew Sharp, who was recently praised in The Daily Telegraph for his "astonishingly comprehensive virtuosity", the concerts are a culmination of workshops across Kent that engage hundreds of children with music and ballet, providing access to leading international performers. The collaborating schools for these two performances are from Ashford.
HK Gruber is one of the world's leading contemporary composers and these performances feature new choreography by ENB First Soloist, Fabian Reimar, for dancer Daniele Silingardi and local school children.
Chamber Domaine
Elgar - Violin Sonata in E, Op. 82
Ravel - Piano Trio in ARavel wrote his stunning Piano Trio in 1914, before becoming an ambulance driver in the French Army. Elgar wrote his Violin Sonata in 1918 at his home in Sussex in the final days of the First World War.
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Following their sell-out performance at last year’s festival, James Pearson and his band - resident at Ronnie Scott's - make a welcome return to Music@Malling with special guest Polly Gibbons. A must for all lovers of jazz!
Richard Harwood - Cello
Steven Devine - Harpsichord
Bach - Cello Suite in G BWV 1007
Bach - Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Ravel - String Quartet in A
Bach - Contrapunctus No.1 from The Art of Fugue
Elgar - String Quartet in E, Op. 83
Thomas Kemp - Violin
Richard Harwood - Cello
Bach - Ciaccona BWV 1004
Ravel - Duo
Enjoy the three chamber concerts featuring Bach’s music in stunning venues along the Pilgrim's Way – an area of outstanding natural beauty. Hear Bach's timeless music in three historic churches alongside the ravishing chamber music of Ravel and Elgar, written in the early 20th century.
Jonathan McGovern – Baritone
Sholto Kynoch – Piano
Thomas Kemp – Violin
Peter Dyer - Actor
An evening of words and music with leading actor Peter Dyer from The Globe Theatre in London and outstanding baritone Jonathan McGovern – whose voice has been described as a "powerful baritone which also could spin a line with ease" by Opera Today. The concert will be preceded by a talk about Shakespeare and music by the festival's Artistic Director Thomas Kemp. The programme includes works by Korngold and Finzi's wonderful Shakespeare setting Let us Garlands Bring. Graham Clarke's new exhibition Theatrickals provides a backdrop to the concert.
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Ravel - Introduction and Allegro
Ravel - Blues
Close to you
The James Pearson Band, resident artists at Ronnie Scott’s, the Tippett Quartet and Matt Ford collaborate on a special programme that recreates Frank Sinatra’s legendary album Close to You. Hear the link between ravishing Ravel and the intimate orchestrations by Nelson Riddle for Capitol Records - pure magic!
See Matt Ford singing with the Tippett Quartet - click here
A talk by Professor Jeremy Begbie about the ways in which JS Bach’s music evokes a particular worldview which reflects the spiritual and cultural influences of his time, and which still speaks powerfully to modern audiences.
Thomas Kemp
Adam Mackenzie
Chamber Domaine
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.3, BWV 1048
Bach - Suite No.2, BWV 1067
Bach - Double Violin Concerto, BWV 1043
Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
A medley of some of Bach’s most famous orchestral works combined with a performance of Prokofiev’s classic Peter and the Wolf: a concert for all the family to enjoy! Kids come free!
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All tickets include a glass of wine/refreshments
Season Ticket for all events £70
Tickets are also available on the door and by post. For details of postal tickets please download a festival brochure.