Dartington Arts

The late night concerts in #DISS18 are really ones to watch.
Tonight at 10.00pm the gifted pianist, and BBC Radio 3's In Tune regular, Florian Mitrea plays a delightfully Mozartian programme. https://bit.ly/2Nlph4D
Tomorrow night at the same time we have a fabulous prospect of Adrian Brendel & Quatuor Hermès playing Schubert's Quintet in C major. https://bit.ly/2MKnFSi
... Then on Thursday at 10.00pm it's our annual Opera Gala, with show-stopping arias from across the repertoire, directed by Mark Austin, and performed by the advanced students many of whom are destined to go on to be operatic stars in their own right. https://bit.ly/2w5tUJe
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Great article in the latest After Nyne Magazine about the forthcoming installation here at The Dartington Hall Trust which opens this Sunday. Get the full low-down on the composer and artist Freya Waley-Cohen (of Listenpony / Signum Records) and the inspiration behind this fascinating and unmissable fusion of music and architecture. https://afternyne.co.uk/

70 years of the Dartington International Summer School... Tonight's first event at 5.15pm in #DISS18 is a Short History of the Summer School, a talk by Gavin Henderson, our long-serving Artistic Director (1985-2010). https://bit.ly/2w1OAlr
Then at 10.00pm we celebrate the indomitable Dorothy Elmhirst, whose energy, imagination and generosity made Dartington into such an extraordinary artistic environment, with a concert drawing on music by her friends and artists she sponsor...ed and worked with. https://bit.ly/2Mh3u2k
While you are here, be sure to visit the exhibition about our 70 year history in the visitor centre. Lots of archive photos like these are on show. The Dartington Hall Trust
Photos by Catherine Scudamore courtesy of the Dartington International Summer School Foundation
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Great new website https://goodevening.info/ now features listings of all #DISS18 concerts alongside a excellent selection of other classical music events around the world. Well worth checking out!
Includes tonight's concerts with Joseph Havlat at 10.00pm https://bit.ly/2KMYOva
... goodevening.info
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Catch up with one of the coolest chamber groups around at the moment TRIO GASPARD with this video we made of them performing Saint-Saëns' Piano Trio No. 2 during their stay at Dartington Hall over the past week.
There's lots of chamber music here throughout the Summer School with Quatuor Hermès currently in residence and the Heath Quartet Official joining us next week too: https://bit.ly/2OrornF
#DISS18
... Film by Aubrey Simpson
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Listen in at 4pm this afternoon to Soundart Radio 102.5 FM | Community Radio Station for Totnes for the Dartington Arts Platform, which this week features lots of exclusive recordings from Dartington International Summer School & Festival, including TRIO GASPARD playing Saint-Saëns, and experimental virtuoso recorder music from Jill Kemp. We will also have a visit from the Bloodaxe Books published nature poet, Katrina Porteous. The Dartington Hall Trust

#DISS18 in pictures Photography by Kate Mount and Aubrey Simpson

The Pagoda Project take our late night slot tonight at 10.00pm with their enchanting fusion of trad. folk combined with jazz improvisation. Come for a late night chill-out in The Dartington Hall Trust's Great Hall, which is guaranteed to be filled with a really warm and dynamic sound as the last of the evening light fades away. Tickets and info: https://bit.ly/2nlmDRI

Last minute availability on a few courses in week four of this year's Summer School #DISS18
- Jazz Piano and Keyboards workshop - Jazz Drumming - Multimedia installations
... Call the Summer School Office on 01803847080 to book. Find out more about these courses here: https://bit.ly/2OUfaWb
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Following their hugely successful concert last Saturday, Gillian Keith and Tom Randle perform a magical late night concert at 10pm tonight in the Great Hall with Joanna MacGregor.
The concert features Ballades, Blues & Broadway: A century of American song. The concert draws on the rich history of iconic music that the American soundscape has to offer. Includes music by Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Stephen Sondheim.
Tickets available here: https://bit.ly/2M3F8sG...
Photo by Kate Mount
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At 7.45pm tonight we are exploring the Great Baroque Sonatas with a star studded cast of musicians from some of the leading institutions in the land...
With music from... Telemann, Handel, Purcell, Bach, Humfrey and Geminiani
... Performed by... Robert Howarth, Devine Music, Jill Kemp, Pavlo Beznosiuk of Royal Academy of Music, Richard Tunnicliffe of Royal College of Music, and soprano Gillian Keith
Tickets and info: https://tinyurl.com/y8ny274u
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Tonight's 5.15pm concert in #DISS18 features Devine Music from soprano Kate Semmens and harpsichordist Stephen Divine. They perform a smorgasbord of Early English morsels. Watch a youtube video of the pair performing one of the songs on the programme with a beautiful animation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFsoYqrcS VU
For more info and to book tickets: https://bit.ly/2OQIM6X

Tonight's concerts in #DISS18 At 5.15pm we are very excited to have James Runcie giving a lively lecture on #Bach, man and myth, with illustrations from Joanna MacGregor playing from the Well-Tempered Clarvier and other favourites. The Goldbergs meet #Granchester. https://bit.ly/2MqsuQH
This talk will set the scene perfectly for the next in our Bach's Influence series at 7.45pm, in which Joanna MacGregor looks at #Beethoven and beyond. This will be a magnificent concert and i...s not to be missed! https://bit.ly/2vq7LGa
If anyone can follow all of this, it's The Madness of... Andrew Watts. At 10.00pm the internationally recognised star countertenor will explore all aspects of the transformed and troubled mind, as depicted through four centuries of music, accompanied by the ever-dependable (and brilliant) Gavin Roberts on the piano. https://bit.ly/2Mnmyrv
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Continuing our Bach's Influence series this year in #DISS18....
Tonight at 10.00pm, the fantastic, critically acclaimed cellist Richard Tunnicliffe of Royal College of Music performs with Joanna MacGregor, in a programme that looks at how the romantic composers, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Schumann and Brahms, were responding directly to Bach in their compositions and arrangements.
The result will be a beautifully, atmospheric concert as the last of the evening light fades around th...e Great Hall. What could be more romantic?
Still time to book: https://bit.ly/2uOWXA2
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Tonight's concerts #DISS18
We start out at 5.15pm with the virtuoso recorder playing of Jill Kemp - Recorder, who covers music from Telemann all the way through to a rendition of Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen. https://bit.ly/2OgoOS2
The 7.45pm concert features the young and highly talented TRIO GASPARD exploring Bach's influence on later composers Saint-Saëns and Schubert. https://bit.ly/2NklNiX
... Then for the late night concert from 10.00pm, we have more Bach-inspired music played by cellist Richard Tunnicliffe and Joanna MacGregor. The programme is made up of romantic music and will be played in the perfect setting, the Great Hall at dusk. https://bit.ly/2uOWXA2
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Thanks Classical Music Magazine for a great write up with James Runcie speaking about his play The Great Passion which will be performed this week in #DISS18. Tickets still on sale for this Thursday's 7.45pm performance: https://bit.ly/2AKAt9x

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Steven Devine, principal keyboard player for The Classical Opera Company, starts the first of our series Bach’s Influence in the Great Hall tonight 10pm I Fagiolini Devine Music #Bach

Harbottle & Jonas perform in the Great Hall tonight at 7.45pm - we can't wait.

There is something so very special about this wonderful place. I count myself to have been so very fortunate to have been led here as a student. My relationship with Dartington spans almost forty years and yet still it resonates, still it continues to teach me, and even now draws me forward on my creative journey. It is wonderful to experience that.

Lovely

It's a wonderful and fulfilling experience for everyone . And incredibly useful for young musicians in a myriad of ways.

DISS changed my life, and became crucial point in my musical development. Because of it, I can say that I am who I am today.

There is something so very special about this wonderful place. I count myself to have been so very fortunate to have been led here as a student. My relationship with Dartington spans almost forty years and yet still it resonates, still it continues to teach me, and even now draws me forward on my creative journey. It is wonderful to experience that.

Lovely

It's a wonderful and fulfilling experience for everyone . And incredibly useful for young musicians in a myriad of ways.

DISS changed my life, and became crucial point in my musical development. Because of it, I can say that I am who I am today.

There is something so very special about this wonderful place. I count myself to have been so very fortunate to have been led here as a student. My relationship with Dartington spans almost forty years and yet still it resonates, still it continues to teach me, and even now draws me forward on my creative journey. It is wonderful to experience that.

Lovely

It's a wonderful and fulfilling experience for everyone . And incredibly useful for young musicians in a myriad of ways.

DISS changed my life, and became crucial point in my musical development. Because of it, I can say that I am who I am today.