2011 International Festival Archive
Dear Friends, Artists, Colleagues and Music Lovers,
Welcome to our 27th Festival.
This festival introduces new genres, new venues and artists coming to eturn of close colleagues and looks forward to new arts collaborations in Cumbria.
In 1985, the Canadian ‘Orford’ String Quartet opened the first LDSM Festival. Their second concert established Rosehill Theatre as a festival venue for many years. In 2011, the young string players of Whitehaven will renew the partnership between Rosehill and LDSM with their showcase concert ‘Sea Strings’.
Joan Rodgers, world-acclaimed soprano from Cockermouth, gives a celebrity recital – the first in a series of vocal recitals, when words and music, poets and musicians become one. Poetry Reading links LDSM and the Wordsworth Trust in a new collaboration before a Rising Star violin recital in Grasmere.
Wine and dine at Fellinis before indulging in opera and ballet from the great opera houses and concert halls of the world. A new film venture.
Brass Band features in LDSM for the first time. Zone One Brass includes acclaimed virtuoso Euphonium soloist, Robert Childs.
Psappha returns with the world premiere of Sally Beamish’s ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ with Sam West star of stage and screen.
We celebrate the Chilingirians at 40! Blackwell hosts two cocktail hour concerts.
Solo recitals, ensembles, masterclasses, talks, Vivaldi Four Seasons, Purcell’s Dido, Dvorák’s serenades, Mozart’s clarinet quintet, Liszt, Ravel, Prokofiev, Britten ….
Rejoice with us in the riches of music, ‘the greatest good that mortals know’.
Renna Kellaway,
Artistic Director
Friday, 11 February 2011
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Friday, 29 July 2011
Saturday, 30 July 2011
11.00am
St Martin’s Church, Bowness-on-Windermere
1.30pm
Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside
Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
Sunday, 31 July 2011
7.00pm
Kendal Town Hall
Monday, 1 August 2011
4.00pm
Blackwell Arts & Crafts House, near Bowness
7.00pm
Lakes Hall, Troutbeck Bridge
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
10.00am
Ambleside Parish Centre
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
1.30pm
Windermere School
2.30pm
Ambleside Parish Centre
'In the Shadow of the Guillotine'
7.00pm
Kendal Parish Church
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Friday, 5 August 2011
9.00am
Jerwood Reading Room, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
7.00pm
Coronation Hall, Ulverston
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Monday, 8 August 2011
4.00pm
Blackwell Arts & Crafts House, near Bowness
