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The Summer School & Festival runs from 23 July – 20 August 2022.
Decide whether you’re attending courses, concerts or both, and then choose a package that’s right for you. You can also choose from a range of accommodation options on our beautiful estate as required.
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Tonight we close 2022's Dartington Music Summer School & Festival with a celebration of Vaughan Williams' 150th anniversary. You'll be treated to a special a cappella performance of his Five Mystical Songs and other songs sung by our Festival Choir, led by critically acclaimed conductor William Vann.
Join us at 7:30pm in the Great Hall for an unmissable evening of choral music!
Tickets: dartington.org/event/vaughan-williams-150/
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{Pictured: The Dartington Festival Chorus and Orchestra at a previous year's Summer School, photographed by Kate Mount}
We're almost halfway through our final week of our Summer Festival, but there are still plenty of musical treats in store for you every evening between now and Friday night!
Join us tomorrow (Wednesday 17 Aug) for an unmissable evening of early 20th-century French chamber music with the exuberant Magnard Ensemble, who'll be joined by pianist Joseph Havlat for Albert Roussel’s intoxicating Divertissement, Francis Poulenc’s jazz-infused sextet, and a heady quintet for piano and winds by their namesake composer, Alberic Magnard.
Book now: dartington.org/event/magnard-ensemble-2/
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60 years ago, electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire visited Dartington to take part in the Music Summer School, bringing with her equipment from the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop to be used in Italian avant-garde composer Luciano Berio’s composition course. Derbyshire was at the start of a career that saw her go on to find fame as the composer of the Dr Who theme tune, and today she is recognised as one of the great original minds in the history of electronic music.
In a special event we're holding in the Great Hall at 9:30pm this coming Thursday (19 Aug), composer John Matthias and his Summer School course participants will re-imagine what Delia Derbyshire’s Dartington experience may have sounded like.
Join us for this unique performance celebrating a true musical pioneer and part of Dartington history: dartington.org/event/the-delia-derbyshire-experience/
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Amidst their packed schedule teaching and performing in Week Three of the Dartington Music Summer School & Festival, the Brodsky Quartet also found time to beat their advanced string quartet students at croquet... Brilliant!
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What an evening! The brilliant Peter Edwards & Friends kicked off the fourth and final week of our annual Music Summer School & Festival tonight, and we couldn't be more excited to continue to explore the realms of modern music and jazz (along with a large dose of Vaughan Williams to celebrate his 150th anniversary) between now and next weekend.
There are plenty of opportunities to join us for some fantastic evening concerts; come and enjoy iconic Hollywood songs, improvised jazz, intimate piano recitals, and a couple of world premieres of new music.
Browse what's on in this, the last week of 2022's Summer Festival, at: dartington.org/summerfestival and swipe through this post to see a few of the artists who will be performing.
With much gratitude to our Week Four sponsors, The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation and RVW Trust.
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This year, the acclaimed Brodsky Quartet has returned to Dartington to celebrate its 50th birthday with an unmissable week-long journey through the complete Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle, presented side-by-side with some of today’s brightest young string players.
We're already several performances in now, but there are still some exciting opportunities to join the Brodsky Quartet and their students this week:
5:30pm Tues 9 Aug: The Advanced Strings Quartet Students from the Dartington Music Summer School perform Shostakovich’s brief Quartet no.7 alongside the feverish Quartet no.10
5:30pm Wed 10 Aug: Brodsky Quartet and students play the deeply profound Quartets, no.11 and no.12 side-by-side.
9:30pm Wed 20 Aug: Brodsky Quartet members and students play the frightening, bleak, and beautiful Quartets no.13 and no.14 side-by-side
9:30pm Thurs 11 Aug: Under cover of darkness, the Brodsky Quartet fills the Great Hall with the radiant sound of Shostakovich’s funereal Quartet no.15.
5:30pm Fri 12 Aug: The Brodsky Quartet’s epic Shostakovich cycle closes with a joyous ensemble performance of Quartet no.8
Tickets available at: dartington.org/summerfestival
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