What a lot we got! Jam-packed diary at Beaminster Fest

performers including two great young pianists, Ethan Loch, BBC Young Musician finalist, on June 28 at 11.30am and Yuanfan Yang on June 29 at 7.30pm.

If you have any preconceptions about the accordion – forget them! Ryan Corbett, gold medal winner of the 2022 ROSL competition is in huge demand playing music from Bach to

Albeniz with delicacy, verve and virtuosity, (June 29, 11.30am).

Curator Lois Pearson said: “Viola player Timothy Ridout was a rising star when we first tried to invite him a few years ago but he seems to have risen to great heights in the meantime. He recently won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist’s Award, and he is garnering high praise from venues all over the world.”

This concert is the one not to miss as he performs a beautiful programme together with Jonathan Ware, piano, on June 27, at 7.30pm.

The Choir of Clare College Cambridge conducted by Graham Ross are returning with a wonderful programme of sacred and secular choral music on June 26 and the festival finishes on July 2 with a Gala Symphony Concert by the Orpheus Sinfonia including Mozart’s Overture: Marriage of Figaro, and Symphony No. 40 in G minor and the Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1. If you like your music on the lighter side there is a lovely concert including some well-known classics from the Hathor Duo, flute and harp, (June 26, 11.30am), or jazz and cabaret from Dominic Alldis and Friends (June 30, 7.30pm). Really exciting Serb/Roma/Jazz is brought to us by the Faith I Branko quartet also on June 30 at 11.30am, and if you love to dance then go along to Beaminster School on July 1 at 8pm for the brilliant band Zoots, celebrating the sounds of the 60s and 70s.

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