BREMF brochure 2009

www.bremf.org.uk and a celebration of the anniversaries of Purcell, Handel and Haydn

EAST MEETS WEST

EAST MEETS WEST

Celebrate BREMF 09 Day! SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER PAVILION GARDENS FROM 2 - 5 PM

Clare Norburn and Deborah Roberts Artistic Directors

SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER ST GEORGE’S CHURCH, KEMPTOWN 7.30 PM

Fundraising and festival preview concert Help support your festival and get some sneak previews of this year’s young artists.

EVENT 1 Performers include: Alison Bury (see event 11) violin, founder member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and international soloist, plus two exciting new groups who appeared in our Brighton Early Music Live scheme and will have their own concerts this season: Triologue - violin, harpsichord and cello (see event 9).

Three musicians, three countries, three personalities, three instruments, three languages…one ensemble!

Tempus Fugit - (see event 8) An original and enterprising group who fuse vocal and instrumental music, dance and drama into highly entertaining stories.

Tickets: Premium £20 (£18 conc), A £15 (£13 conc), B £12 (£10 conc), C (restricted view) £6 Thank you to our funders Brighton Early Music Festival 2009 is grateful to the following, without whom the festival simply could not take place: The Foyle Foundation The Fidelio Charitable Trust The Stanley Picker Charitable Trust; Brighton Early Music Festival Friends, Supporters, Contributors, Premium Contributors and Event Donors

Cover painting after Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, by Gill Andrews 01872 870539

Pack up a picnic and join us in the Pavilion Gardens for an afternoon of fun and entertainment around this year’s festival themes. Prizes awarded for the best costumes (no pet dragons please, but seagulls provided!).

Relevant musical contributions welcome. Contact 01273 823788 by September 12th if you wish to perform. Players and singers of Oriental music particularly welcome.

More information at www.bremf.org.uk from late August.

Design: Liz Taylor liz22taylor@hotmail.com

The BREMF picnic ‘sur l’herbe’

Chartered Accountants and Business Development Specialists

EVENT 2

£12 (concs £9).

To register see page 22

Joglaresa workshop directed by Belinda Sykes and Jean Kelly Open to singers, harpists and players of other ‘indoor’ instruments from medieval, folk and classical traditions

SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER ST NICHOLAS CHURCH 11 - 5 PM

EVENT 3 £18 (concs £12).

To register see page 22

Purcell anniversary singing day for experienced choral singers led by Andrew Carwood with Nicholas Houghton organ

SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER BRIGHTON UNITARIAN CHURCH 2 – 4 PM

EVENT 4

African mbira, song and dance workshop

£10 (£8 A chance to sing and dance to traditional African conc) music with Zimbabwean legend Stella Chiweshe, a

master of the mbira, the traditional ‘thumb piano’ used in ancestral ceremonies.

A collaboration with World Sacred Music Festival. www.worldsacredmusic.org

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BRIGHTON UNITARIAN CHURCH 2 – 5 PM

EAST MEETS WEST

SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER

FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER ST GEORGE’S CHURCH, KEMPTOWN 8 PM

EVENT 5

Dancing in Tetuàn Joglaresa

Tickets: Premium £20 (£18 conc) A £15 (£13 conc) B £12 (£10 conc) C (restricted view) £6

Belinda Sykes voice Merit Ariane Stephanos voice Jeremy Avis voice Abdul Salam Kheir voice, oud Stuart Hall oud, fidel, Jean Kelly harp Laura Anstee fidel, Tim Garside nay, percussion Judeo-Arabic dance songs, cantigas and laude spirituali, Berber rhythms and Moorish romanzas from Iberia’s cultural diaspora.

Joglaresa has a sound that is at once traditional and contemporary - combining intoxicating elements of Spanish, Italian, North African and Middle Eastern This concert musics. With oud, darabuka, bendir, harp, fidel and is being searing vocals they meld together a sound that is recorded for both extrovert and personal.

later broadcast on BBC "Joglaresa are at the forefront of singers and Radio 3 instrumentalists whose study of improvisation and ethnomusicology informs and shapes their imaginative recreation of medieval music-making." The Times

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SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE 1 PM

BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show EVENT 6 Featuring previous Brighton Early Music Live! artists: 1607 Free event Ensemble, Tempus Fugit and Triologue, see page 22 all appearing in this year’s festival. for booking Interviews, festival news and highlights. details

Live broadcast

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SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER

SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH 7 PM

Glorious Venice – the gateway to the East Tickets: Premium £20 (£18 conc) A £15 (£13 conc) B £12 (£10 conc) C (restricted view, standing or bring a cushion) £3

His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts Jeremy West & Jamie Savan cornetts Abigail Newman, Adam Woolf & Stephen Saunders sackbutts Steven Devine organ

The 1607 Ensemble: Emily Atkinson soprano Andrew Pickett counter tenor Robin Burlton tenor Greg Skidmore baritone

The Esterhazy Chamber Choir Brighton College Chamber Choir Sandy Chenery director

The BREMF Consort Brighton Consort Deborah Roberts director

EAST MEETS WEST

EVENT 7 Polychoral music by Monteverdi and the Gabrielis

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ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH 11 PM

Young Artist Showcase EVENT 8

Tickets: £6

Calcutta Baroque and Indian Classical music meet under the arches of St. Bartholomew's Church to create a magical theatrical production, set in the early days of contact between British and Indian cultures.

Tempus Fugit Emily Baines recorder; Liam Byrne bass viol Jessica Bridge Cicic stage direction & choreography Katherine De La Matter direction and harpsichord Mary Anne Furey puppeteer; Sanjay Guha sitar Andrew Pickett counter-tenor Nina Virdee vocalist David Wish baroque violin Explore music from the streets of Calcutta, where performers from many cultures traded melodies and wound them into their own traditions. Tempus Fugit melds an unusual combination of period music and Indian sitar and song with shadow puppetry, dance and drama to tell a story of a traveller making his way to the musical heart of the City of Palaces.

Following Calcutta, St Bartholomew’s Church will be a quiet space with two events featuring serene music from the monastic Office:

Midnight Compline: chant and polyphony sung by PlainSing

2 am Matins for St Agnes: 6

sung by Celestial Sirens (as featured on the soundtrack to BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of Sarah Dunant's novel ‘Sacred Hearts’).

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Night Saturday 24 October

of venues from the Royal Pavilion to the Bandstand

on and the Stanley Picker Charitable Trust

From approx 10 pm (times and venues TBC) Free events 3 young ensembles featured in BREMF Live! 08 will perform various slots around the city:

Gandolpho virtuoso violin and harpsichord I Flautisti recorders with attitude!

Prince and Pauper

I Flautisti

Prince and Pauper Eleanor Harrison Gandolpho

SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER ST ANDREW’S WATERLOO STREET 1 PM

Young Artist Showcase EVENT 9

Hot, sweet and sour

Tickets: Triologue £10 Karin Björk baroque violin (£8 conc)

Kinga Gáborjáni viola da gamba Paweł Siwczak harpsichord

EAST MEETS WEST

medieval & traditional to Baroque

A fusion of Eastern influenced baroque music including works by Purcell, Rameau, and music from Poland and China. supported by the Fidelio Charitable Trust

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SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER ST GEORGE’S CHURCH, KEMPTOWN 7 PM

EVENT 10

The art of love from East to West Courtiers and courtesans from India and Italy

Tickets: A £15 (£13 conc) B £12 (£10 conc) C £6

Purnima Chaudhuri Thumri vocalist Anureka Ghosh Kathak dancer Udhir Nayak harmonium Hanif Khan tabla

Musica Secreta Deborah Roberts and Kate Hawnt sopranos Claire Wilkinson mezzo soprano David Miller lute and chitarrone Love in all its guises – from anguish and longing to teasing seduction – is the subject of a rich tapestry of sensuous music and vibrant dance. This programme contrasts rather than attempting to fuse the female musical cultures of Italy and India: ❉ Thumri songs (associated with the courtesans of Lucknow) sung by one of India’s most distinguished artists ❉ Kathak dance from a UK based rising star of both traditional and contemporary dance ❉ Italian 16th and 17th – century songs, duets and trios as sung by legendary singing ladies and courtesans from Ferrara to Venice, including music by Luzzaschi, Monteverdi and Strozzi.

In association with the Asian Music Circuit

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FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER ST GEORGE’S CHURCH, KEMPTOWN 8 PM

EVENT 11

Celebrating Haydn

Some of the young musicians in the orchestra are supported by The Foyle Foundation and the Stanley Picker Charitable Trust

EAST MEETS WEST

Tickets: Mhairi Lawson soprano Premium The BREMF Players £22 Directed by Alison Bury violin (£20 conc) A £17 (£15 conc) B £12 (£10 conc) C (restricted view) £6

Marking the bicentenary of Haydn's death, this concert features two of his symphonies: the early 'Le Matin' with its exquisite depiction of sunrise, and the 'Trauer', a dramatic and passionate example of his Sturm und Drang period. Other music from 18th-century Vienna includes an aria from one of his operas, Mozart's joyous motet 'Exsultate Jubilate' and his Symphony no. 44, and Gluck's beautiful 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits'.

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SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER THE UNITARIAN CHURCH 1 PM

Young Artist Showcase EVENT 12

Fairest Isle Tickets: ÂŁ10 Purcell anniversary concert (ÂŁ8 conc) dedicated to the memory of

soprano Tessa Bonner, who loved to sing Purcell and appeared in every BREMF from the very beginning

Le Jardin Secret supported

by The Foyle Foundation and the Stanley Picker Charitable Trust

Elizabeth Dobbin soprano Sofie Vanden Eynde theorbo David Blunden harpsichord Le Jardin Secret wowed audiences and judges alike at the 2007 Early Music Network Young Artist Competition winning both the main and Audience prizes. Today they make their debut in Brighton with a programme of favourite songs by Henry Purcell Sponsored by David Gort for his 70th birthday BREMF donor and volunteer

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SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH 7.30 pm

EVENT 13

Solomon by G F Handel Catherine King mezzo soprano (Solomon) Anna Devin soprano (The Queen & First Harlot) Nicki Kennedy soprano (Queen of Sheba) Katie Trethewey soprano (Second Harlot) Julian Podger tenor (Zadok, the High Priest) Christopher Maltman bass (a Levite) The BREMF Singers The Brook Street Band John Hancorn director

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by The Foyle Foundation and the Stanley Picker Charitable Trust

Completing our weekend trio of anniversary concerts, this performance of Handel’s great oratorio marks the 250th anniversary of his death. For this event, The Brook Street Band is augmented by some of the most promising young players emerging onto the early music scene.

John Hancorn

Catherine King

EAST MEETS WEST

Tickets: Premium £22 (£20 conc) A £17 (£15 conc) B £12 (£10 conc) C (restricted view) £6

The Brook Street Band

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SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER THE OLD MARKET 3.30 PM

EVENT 14

The court of a thousand dreams An alchemy of Spanish cantigas, Sephardic songs, legends and dance

Tickets: Eclipse A £15 Layil Barr recorders & viol (£13 conc) B £12 Joy Smith harps & hammered dulcimer (£10 conc) Smok Smoczkiewicz oud

Andres Ticino percussion Clare Norburn soprano Ulises Diaz-Ropero Conde flamenco singer Natalia Garcia Huidobro flamenco & contemporary dance From the markets of Seville to the monasteries of Galicia; from isolated deserts to the sumptuous delights of the palace. Join us for a magical afternoon of music, legends & dance from the Medieval, Sephardic and Flamenco traditions.

An exciting fusion of ancient melodies transformed by our own modern musical traditions and backgrounds creates this court of a thousand dreams, where old meets new and east meets west.

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SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH 7.30 pm

Tickets: Premium £20 (£18 conc) A £15 (£13 conc) B £12 (£10 conc) C £6

Sacred chants and songs of Ukraine Boyan Ensemble of Kiev Yuriy Kuratch artistic director Valentina Ivanenko soprano Viktor Shuliak tenor Vivienne Carter Vasyl Pudchenko bass Described as “One of the finest male vocal ensembles of its time” this glorious choir has been visiting Brighton for some years. Their concerts were a great favourite with, and supported by our own friend and benefactor, Vivienne Carter, who died earlier this year. We would like to dedicate this concert to her memory with our love and thanks.

EAST MEETS WEST

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“A thrilling gamut of sound–from the loveliest pianissimo to the most exciting fortissimo”

WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH 8 pm

Homage to Henry EVENT 16 Vocal and instrumental music by Henry Purcell and his contemporaries Tickets: Brighton Consort £10 Brighton & Hove Youth Brass Ensemble (£8 conc) Nicholas Houghton organ Deborah Roberts director A concert to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Purcell’s birth, and including his Funeral Music for Queen Mary.

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FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER ST BARTHOLOMEWS CHURCH 8 pm

EVENT 17

Mantra

Musical conversations across the Indian Ocean

The Orlando Consort Matthew Venner alto Mark Dobell and Angus Smith tenors Donald Greig baritone with Kuljit Bhamra tabla, Indian harmonium Jonathan Mayer sitar, sarod Shahid Khan voice The BREMF Singers Tickets: Premium £20 (£18 conc) A £15 (£13 conc) B £12 (£10 conc) C £5 restricted view or floor seating (bring a cushion)

Some 500 years ago Portuguese missionaries arrived in Goa, India. The Orlando Consort and a trio of outstanding British Asian musicians, working in association with the National Centre for Early Music, celebrate the extraordinary cross-cultural musical encounter of Indians and Europeans that flourished in the ensuing years, and apply their experiences to create a radical new dialogue for the 21st century. a perfectly crafted “lesson” in how differing musical traditions can be integrated…mesmerising Salisbury Journal This tour has been supported by Arts Council England and the PRS Foundation for New Music This concert is being recorded for later broadcast on BBC Radio 3

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SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER ST ANDREW’S CHURCH, WATERLOO STREET 1 PM

EVENT 18 Tickets: £10 (£8 conc)

Ashigs from Eastern Azerbaijan Ramin Qarayev soloist and saz player Azer Maharramov saz player Qalandar Zeynalov soloist and saz player Aytekin Akbarova soloist and saz player

Mugham

In association with the Asian Music Circuit

EAST MEETS WEST

Ashigs

Gochaq Askerov soloist Aliagha Sadiyev tar performer Elshan Mansurov kamancha player The art of ashigs is an ancient bardic tradition that belongs mostly to the old Turkic World (Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, Caucasus and North-West China). An ashig is a poet, composer, singer, musical performer and occasionally dancer, who beats on the strings of the saz and improvises serenades and ballads.

The tradition of Azerbaijani ashigs dates back to at least the 14th Century.

Mugham is a traditional musical art form from Azerbaijan.

The word mugham refers both to a melodic style and to a genre of traditional music.

In this UK premiere tour, Ashig and Mugham music from the Eastern school is performed with 7 musicians

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SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER THE MUSIC ROOM, THE ROYAL PAVILION 7.30 PM

EVENT 19

Music from The Forbidden City Jesuit musicians in China

Tickets: A £25 (£22 conc) B £17 (£13 conc) For this event all wheelchair accomLe Baroque Nomade modation is in the B Jean-Christophe Frisch director price zone

The sumptuous chinoiserie of the Royal Pavilion Music Room will form the perfect setting for the Brighton debut of one of the world’s most travelled groups. Their programme presents a fascinating fusion of music that resulted from contact between Jesuit missionaries and Chinese musicans in 17th and 18th century Peking.

Wang Weiping pipa, voice Shi Kelong percussion, voice Francois Picard mouth organ, xiao Jean-Luc Ho harpsichord Jonathan Dunford viola da gamba Lai Longhan dizi Jean-Christophe Frisch transverse flute

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SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER RALLI HALL, HOVE 3 PM

EVENT 20

Dido’s got the blues

Evelyn Nallen recorder David Gordon harpsichord Oli Hayhurst double bass Tom Hooper drums with Gilles Poirier dancer, choreographer

EAST MEETS WEST

Tickets: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas A £15 as a ‘voiceless’ jazz opera (£13 conc) B £12 Respectable Groove (£10 conc)

Not content with being described by BBC Radio 3 as ‘the future of early music’ for their cage-rattling reinterpretation of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, Respectable Groove celebrates Purcell’s 350th birthday with a further development of this remarkable project by collaborating with Gilles Poirier, one of the world’s leading baroque dancers.

‘Much respeck to Respectable Groove, a genre-blending London quartet which uses traditional instruments but gives Purcell’s graceful themes some wily chordal updates.

Rather than spinning in his grave, one imagines old Henry clicking his fingers in approval.’

London Evening Standard Jazz CD of the Week

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SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER ST GEORGE’S CHURCH, KEMPTOWN 7 PM

Purcell, Handel and Haydn "at home"

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Emma Kirkby soprano Tickets: Premium £22 (£20 conc) A £17 (£15 conc) B £12 (£10 conc) C (restricted view) £6

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The London Handel Players Rachel Brown flute Adrian Butterfield violin/director Oliver Webber violin Peter Collyer viola Katherine Sharman cello Laurence Cummings harpsichord Before the advent of recording, music-lovers who wanted to relive the highlights of concerts they had attended would have gathered friends and fellow musicians together to sing or play their favourite works at home. Emma Kirkby joins the London Handel Players in a celebration of three of the major anniversaries of 2009 with works arranged for domestic use, concluding with Salomon's wonderful chamber arrangement of Haydn's London Symphony.

World Sacred Music Festival

Brighton

2009

10-18 October 2009 A feast of music on the theme ‘South’ Highlights include: Music from the Amazon – with Marlui Miranda (10 Oct) Seckou Keita Quintet – sacred music from Senegal (11 Oct) Vocal Explosion – globally inspired music with a kick (14 Oct) Los Desterrados – Sephardic Jewish song (15 Oct) Kartik Seshadri – Indian sitar virtuoso (16 Oct) Tekameli – Catalan Gypsy band (17 Oct) Stella Chiweshe – Zimbabwe’s ‘Queen of Mbira’ (18 Oct)

Dome Box Office 01273 709709

www.worldsacredmusic.org Design Richard Wolfströme (www.wolfi.co.uk) Cover photo Ansuman Biswas at Brighton World Sacred Music Festival 2008 © Raj Virdee

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FESTIVAL VENUES 1 ST ANDREWS CHURCH, Waterloo St, Hove BN3 1AQ Buses: 1/1A 2/2A 5/5A 6 25/25A 46 49 81 2 ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH, Ann Street, Brighton BN1 4GP Buses 5 5A 5B 21 21B 22 22A 24 26 37 46 49/49B 50; also 25/N25 to St Peter’s Church.

Please note that the London Road Shoppers Car park now requires payment throughout the 24 hours.

3 ST GEORGE’S CHURCH, St George’s Road (junction Abbey Road), Brighton BN2 1ED Buses 37; also 1 1A 7/N7 to Royal Sussex County Hospital; 12/12A 14 27/27A along Marine Parade.

4 THE MUSIC ROOM, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton BN1 1EE Buses to Old Steine: 1/1A 2/2A 5/5A 7/N7 12/12A 14 22 24 25/N25 26 27 28/29( not Su) 37 46 46A 47 (daytime, not Su) 49 50 81 5 ST NICHOLAS CHURCH, Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 3JN Buses 14 14B 14C, 50, 56 (daytime) to Dyke Road; 1 1A 1B 12 12A 21/21B 22 24 26 28/29 (not Su) 49B to Old Steine 20

6 THE OLD MARKET Upper Market Street, Hove BN3 1AS Buses: 1/1A 2/2A 5/5A 6 25/25A 46 49 81 7 RALLI HALL Denmark Villas Hove BN3 3TH Buses 2 2A 5 5A 7, 81C to Blatchington Road or Southern Railway train services to Hove Station 8 SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE University of Brighton, 58-64 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 2JY Buses to Old Steine: 1/1A 2/2A 5/5A 7 12/12A 14 22 24 25 26 27 28/29( not Su) 37 46 46A 47 (daytime, not Su) 49 50 81 9 THE UNITARIAN CHURCH New Road, Brighton BN1 1UF Any bus serving Old Steine or North Street including 1/1A 2/2A 5/5A 7 12/12A 14 22 24 25 26 27 28/29( not Su) 37 46 46A 47 (daytime, not Su) 49 50 81

All venues are wheelchair accessible, for extra information ring Pat 01273 304644

Our patron, Emma Kirkby will give a recital, open to Friends, Supporters and Contributors of the Festival. Only a limited number of tickets are available (starting at £10).

Further information and booking details will be sent by post to Friends in August, or upon registration for any new Friend.

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BOOKING INFORMATION Booking for all events other than workshops opens to members of the Friends of the Festival Scheme (see page 19) on 19th August and to the general public on 2nd September.

For information on registration for workshops (events 2-4) please see below.

There are 3 ways to buy tickets in advance for concerts promoted

by Brighton Early Music Festival, including the free BBC Radio 3 broadcast (event 6): 1. On-line at www.bremf.org.uk You will be given the choice of printing off your own e-tickets (no booking fee) or having tickets issued to you (handling charge £1.00) either by mail or on the door.

2. By post using the form on page 23 (no booking fee) 3. By phone (transaction fee £2.25) or in person (no fee) from the Brighton Dome Box Office, New Road, Brighton BN1 1UE (01273 709709), open Mon-Sat 10am to 6 pm.

Brighton Early Music Festival has held prices for 2009 at 2008 levels, and there are some excellent money-saving deals listed below!

Please note that tickets, once paid for, cannot be refunded except in the event of a concert being cancelled.

The festival reserves the right to alter programme details in unforeseen circumstances.

BOOKING FOR WORKSHOPS Pre-registration is essential for the BREMF-promoted workshops (Events 2 & 3). Online registration and details (including deadlines) can be found at: www.bremf.org.uk or phone 01273 833746 for a printed form. Event 4 is promoted by the World Sacred Music Festival and does not require advance registration.

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CONCESSIONARY TICKETS These are available to young people (age 12-25 inclusive), those aged 60 or more and those in receipt of state benefits. Children under 12 are admitted free of charge if accompanied by a paying adult. However, a Child Ticket must be obtained. Unaccompanied children under 16 cannot be the responsibility of the festival.

FESTIVAL TICKET SPECIAL OFFERS Save 40% with our Season Tickets. A Season Ticket giving you a top price ticket to all events (except workshops) is £170 (£150 concessions). Season Tickets can ONLY be obtained from www.bremf.org.uk or by using the postal booking form in this brochure. These deals are subject to tickets in the appropriate price groups remaining available at the time of purchase.

Save 10% by buying tickets for 4 or more different concerts in one transaction. The following do not apply and cannot count towards this total: tickets costing £7 or less, Season Tickets and registration for workshops.

Save up to 20% with our group rate savings for multiple tickets for a single concert - reductions start at 10% for a group of ten. Please phone 01273 833746 for further information.

Bring A First Timer (BAFTer) rewards – introduce a newcomer to BREMF by buying them a concert ticket on-line and receive a special two-for-one ticket offer for another specified concert. See www.bremf.org.uk for details and conditions.

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