Award-winning vocal collective SANSARA join forces with United Strings of Europe and Syrian oud player Basel Saleh to present a powerful sequence of choral and instrumental music on the timely and enduring themes of sanctuary, solidarity and displaced peoples.

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With music by renowned Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, the programme will feature the European premiere of Caroline Shaw’s striking To the Hands – a six movement cantata responding to Dietrich Buxtehude’s Ad manus from his Membra Jesu nostri. The concert will also include the world premiere of The Journey by Lebanese composer Houtaf Khoury, commissioned by United Strings of Europe.

A groundbreaking re-staging of Stravinsky’s ballet ‘Apollo and His Muses’ by United Strings of Europe and members of Gandini Juggling, exploring the essential role the arts play in a world recovering from tragedy and isolation.

Tickets £22 (£5 for under-26s)

Osvaldo Golijov Tenebrae
Igor Stravinsky Apollon musagète
Joanna Marsh Another Eden (USE commission)

Maya Youssef, ‘Queen of the Qanun’ plays music from her latest album Finding Home. The qanun (a 78-stringed plucked instrument from the Middle East) is at the heart of Maya’s evocative soundworld, which is infused with a sense of loss for her Syrian homeland and inspired by a more universal sense of home.
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Elizabeth Nott – Percussion
Mikele Montolli – Bassist
Shirley Smart – Cello/Cellist
Al MacSween – Piano/Pianist
Hamsa Mounif – Singer/Voice
Catrin Meek – Harp
United Strings of Europe

A groundbreaking re-staging of Stravinsky’s ballet ‘Apollo and His Muses’ by United Strings of Europe and members of Gandini Juggling, exploring the essential role the arts play in a world recovering from tragedy and isolation.

Tickets £19.50-34.50

Osvaldo Golijov Tenebrae
Igor Stravinsky Apollon musagète
Joanna Marsh Another Eden (USE commission)

Val Jauregui, juggler, Owen Reynolds, juggler, Lynn Scott, juggler, Yu-Hsien Wu, juggler, United Strings of Europe,

Bill Barclay director and librettist, Julian Azkoul music director, Ruth Paton costumes and props, Sean Gandini juggling adviser

Supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, the Marchus Trust, Help Musicians and the PRS Foundation

The United Strings of Europe with British soprano Ruby Hughes give their debut on Geneva’s main stage, as part of the city’s Concerts du Dimanche series.

Caroline Shaw Entr’acte
Osvaldo Golijov Three Songs for soprano and string orchestra
Carlo Gesualdo (arr. Wiancko) Tristis est anima mea
Arnold Schönberg Verklärte Nacht
Caroline Shaw (arr. Azkoul) and the swallow

Tickets CHF 10 - 25

Festival Finale in the Old Palace
USE join the ORA Singers and other festival artists

Boccherini Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid

Piazzolla Selection from L’Histoire du Tango

JP Jofre String Quartet and bandoneon No 1

Grieg, Vivaldi, Bartok and Bach Medley

Joseph Phibbs World première for Cello and Choir

Shruthi Rajasekar World première for Veena and Choir

Morten Lauridsen Lux Aeterna

Tickets £43 front stalls, £30 middle stalls, £19 rear stalls

Concert #4 Marble Hall – Tickets
With traditional Scandinavian folk instruments, the Lodestar Trio with UK’s own Max Baillie, will treat us to an evening of Baroque music in folk style, with Bach and other Baroque composers re-imagined for this unique combination. This will be followed by Argentinian Bandoneon player JP Jofre joined by United Strings of Europe and other artists in residence for his own music from South America. This is set to be a memorable evening of musical influences from around the world.

Tickets £38 front stalls, £19 rear stalls

Concert #3 St Etheldra’s Church, Hatfield – Tickets

FAMILY CONCERT ONCE UPON A TUNE

United Strings of Europe perform with young musicians from the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music

Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Rimsky-Korsakov The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade – The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship
Rossini William Tell Overture

James Mayhew author and illustrator, The Purcell School of Young Musicians, RAM Ensemble Renard, Paul Hoskins director

Tickets £12 adults, £5 4 – 18 year olds. Unreserved seating

Concert #2 - Marble Hall Tickets

The United Strings of Europe present their acclaimed programme ‘Renewal’ as part of their residency at Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival

Pēteris Vasks Viatore
Osvaldo Golijov Last Round
Caroline Shaw Entr’acte
Purcell Dido’s Lament (arr. Stokowski)
Mendelssohn String Quartet Op. 80 (arr. for string orchestra)

Tickets £38 front stalls, £19 rear stalls

Concert #1 Marble Hall - Tickets

With members of United Strings of Europe and other festival guest artists

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor, D 703
Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B flat
Bach, Couperin, and Nordic folk tunes with the Lodestar Trio
Robin Holloway Flute Quartet world première
Dvořák Waldesruhe Op. 68 no 5
Jessie Montgomery Strum
JP Jofre Double Concerto for Clarinet and Bandoneon, string quintet and piano

Adam Walker flute, Julian Bliss clarinet, JP Jofre bandoneon, Lodestar Trio, Guy Johnston cello, Mishka Rushdie Momen piano, Kathryn Stott piano, United Strings of Europe

Tickets £38 front stalls, £19 rear stalls

The Michael J. Waudby Gala Concert | 7.30pm | £20
Southrepps Festival’s ever-popular Gala returns with a usual mix of opera arias, ensembles and this year a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Trial by Jury’. Tom Primrose conducts the Southrepps Sinfonia and Singers.

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