2010 Summer Festival Event Guide

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Featuring: Lesley Garrett Julian Lloyd Webber Peter Cincotti Alan Bennett Alex Wilson Sir Willard White Jacques Loussier Arcadi Volodos Australian Youth Orchestra Sir Mark Elder Dame Fanny Waterman DBE

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Welcome music | literature | arts | fringe | culture

Welcome,

Embrace

the

Festival

Spirit!

In our ever-changing times - the uncertainty of the economy, the upheaval of political change – there’s one thing that will always endure: the arts - music, film, theatre, story telling. Voices from the past and present tap into something deep in our make-up; the arts are hardwired into our DNA. The Harrogate International Festival is a celebration of the very best of those voices.

For over 40 years our Festival has been centred on great classical music. Celebrating the Presidency of Dame Fanny Waterman DBE, you can expect an elite pantheon of pianists, including the man hailed as a ‘modern-day Horowitz’, Arcadi Volodos, and winner of the 2009 prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition, Sofya Gulyak. The Festival is also about embracing the new, emerging talents of tomorrow with our celebrated Young Musicians series. It’s about pushing boundaries and engaging new audiences. This year we’re incorporating more literary events, featuring Alan Bennett, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris. What’s more, we’re flirting with the outskirts of the mainstream thanks to our burgeoning Fringe Festival.

Like a Russian doll, the Festival offers you the unfolding delights of music, literature, film and theatre – uncover treasure within treasure. Do something incredible. If you’re a regular Festival goer, welcome. And if you haven’t yet experienced the Festival, do something different this summer. Go on, take the plunge.

Sharon Canavar Chief Executive Harrogate International Festivals Patron:

HRH The Prince of Wales

President:

Dame Fanny Waterman DBE Vice-Presidents:

Lady Solti

Sir Gordon Linacre CBE

Mrs. Mehroo Jehangir Trustees Chairman:

Peter Blackburn CBE Hon. Treasurer:

David Haxby Dr. Jill Adam, Professor Chris Bailey Fergal Gara, Howard Hughes Cllr Pat Jones, Fiona Movley, Rob Salmon David Salter, Chris Woods

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4/5 Diary of Events - Use our handy overview so you can easily sort out your summer arts scene! Set the TV recorder (because you’ll be out!) and invite your mates for a few pints (over poetry), call the girls for a sizzling salsa night, gather all the family for thespian frolics in the park and take your loved one for a romantic evening of Chopin and Mahler!

6 Highlights and Favourites - The Festival has always delivered spectacular classical music. This year our classical programme is as compelling as ever. Find a few new features too with our expanding literary programme featuring Alan Bennett and Ian Rankin.

8 Bold as Brass

- Bellowing from the streets and parks and bouncing off the rooftops of Harrogate, our series of brass bands will announce the festivities are officially (and quite loudly) open!

8 New Music, New Venues/On Tour - We’ll be breaking down boundaries and bending the rules in 2010 with music and artists in unexpected places, featuring a festival tent and a festival tour.

10 Classical events - Be immersed in Mahler, charmed by Chopin and in awe of orchestras with our series of classical concerts, recitals and lectures.

22 Young Musicians - Putting the class into classical. Be inspired by our groundbreaking Young Musicians series.

24 Contemporary events - Watch revolutionary Russian film, sway to sizzling Latin salsa and lap up a little American soul.

30 Literary Events - Hey, good booking! Yes, you! Get your nose out of your novel for an hour or two and join some of the biggest names in fiction: Alan Bennett, Joanne Harris, Ian Rankin and more...

38 Lectures & Workshops - - Expand your horizons – Discover how the Alliance helped win WWII with espionage, glimpse the romantic life of Chopin, and take part in a workshop to perfect your Festival Staff Chief Executive:

Sharon Canavar Literary Festivals Manager:

Erica Morris Festivals and Community Co-ordinator:

Hayley Russell Development and Communications Manager:

Ruth Fawcett Artistic Director:

David Mawson Business Support Officer:

Natalie Robertshaw Financial Controller:

Maggie Wood Web: www.harrogate-festival.org.uk Charity Registration Number: 244861 Company Registration Number: 858029

salsa steps.

44 Theatre, Film & Dance - Want something to sing and dance about? You’ve got it!

48 Fringe Events - Join the cool revolutionaries on the outskirts of the mainstream taking culture to the very edge, with poetry, pints and rock ‘n’ roll.

50 Special Ticket Offers - Find out more...

52 Booking info and map

- Avoid disappointment, dial the digits – 0845 130 8840 (sales hotline). Feeling a little lost? Find your cultural feet with our handy Harrogate map.

54 Community & Education

- Taking culture across the district, we’re bringing the arts to your doorstep!

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Diary

at a glance

music | literature | arts | fringe | culture Fri 16 - Sat 17 - Sun 18 July Continental Market

Cambridge St

Fri 16 July 8pm

Celebrity Gala Festival Concert: Lesley Garrett, Emma Johnson, Julian Lloyd Webber, Andrew West

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Sat 17 July 11am

Toby Faber: Page 39 The Genius of Antonio Stradivari

Sat 17 July 2.30pm

Codebreakers: The Story of Enigma

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Sat 17 July 8pm

Showstopper: The Improvised Musical

Sun 18 July 2.30pm

Classical

Contemporary

Theatre Film and Dance

Young Musicians

Literature

Lectures and Workshops

Fri 23 July 8pm

Special Guests In Conversation: Ian Rankin & Val McDermid

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Sat 24 July 9am

Special Guest: Joanne Harris

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Sat 24 July 12pm

New Blood

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Sat 24 July 11.30am

A Masterclass with Dame Fanny Waterman DBE

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Sat 24 July 2pm

How Dark is Your Noir?

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Sat 24 July 8.30pm

Special Guest: Karin Slaughter

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Toby Faber: The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl Fabergé

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Sun 25 July 10am

James Bond, Eat Your Heart Out...

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Robin Harris - Benya Krik

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Sun 25 July 11.30am

Special Guests In Conversation: Jeffery Deaver & Jeff Lindsay

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Sun 18 July 8pm Sun 18 July 8pm

Courtney Pine: Transition in Tradition

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Sun 25 July 2.30pm

Alex Wilson, Open Rehearsal

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Mon 19 July 11am

Young Musicians: The Aurora Trio

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Sun 25 July 8pm

Alan Bennett and Alessandro Taverna

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Mon 19 July 2.30pm

David Owen Norris: A Time-Machine from 1781 – An Afternoon with a Square Piano

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Mon 26 July 11am

Alex Wilson Recital

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Mon 26 July 8pm

Mayra Andrade and Krystle Warren

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Tue 27 July 11am

Ewan Easton MBE: Sound Support!

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Tue 27 July 8pm

Peter Cincotti

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Wed 28 July 11am

Young Musicians: Juice

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Wed 28 July 1pm

Graham Barber, organ

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Wed 28 July 8pm

Armonico Consort: Monteverdi Vespers

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Wed 28 July 8pm

Jacques Loussier Trio

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Thur 29 July 11am

Young Musician: Alexej Gorlatch, piano

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Thur 29 July 2.30pm

Norman Lebrecht on Mendelssohn & Mahler Page 43

Thur 29 July 8pm

Chopin: Nocturne: The Romantic Life of Frédéric Chopin

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Fri 30 July 8pm

Yamaha Presents: Sasha Grynyuk

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Sat 31 July 2.30pm

John Rink: Chopin and the Birth of Musical Genius

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Sat 31 July 8pm

Arcadi Volodos, piano

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Sun 1 August 8pm

Australian Youth Orchestra conducted

by Sir Mark Elder

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Mon 19 July 8 for 8.30pm Christine Tobin

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Use our handy colour coded overview so you can plan your summer arts scene!

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Tues 20 July Wed 21 July 7.30pm

Oddsocks Productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Tue 20 July 8pm

The Endellion String Quartet with Benjamin Frith and Leon Bosch

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Wed 21 July 2.30pm

The Endellion String Quartet

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Wed 21 July 8 for 8.30pm Ayanna Witter-Johnson

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Thur 22 July 11am

Young Musician: Sofya Gulyak, piano

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Thur 22 July 11am

Little Read Special Guest Event: Eoin Colfer Live!

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Thur 22 July 8pm

Sir Willard White: Robeson Re-explored

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Fri 23 July

Christopher Brookmyre

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Fri 23 July 2.30pm

Alex Wilson: Find the Rhythm Tonight!

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Fri 23 July 5 pm

Special Event: ‘More Tea, Vicar?’

Celebrating 120 years of Agatha Christie

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Fri 23 July 8pm

Alex Wilson: Salsa Mambo

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9am

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Highlights music | literature | arts | fringe | culture

Festival Gala Concert

Artist-in-Residence: Alex Wilson

The 2010 Festival is testament to the 44 years that Harrogate has been bringing world-class artists to Yorkshire’s doorstep. Leading the programme is the colossal combined talent of Lesley Garrett, Julian Lloyd Webber and Emma Johnson. Before becoming world-class acts all three featured in our Young Musician series. Now, they will share a stage for a gala concert that is set to celebrate what the Festival does best: featuring established artists alongside emerging young musicians destined to be tomorrow’s stars.

This year, there is a unique chance to witness a world premiere: a work commissioned especially for the Festival from the composer, pianist, performer, arranger and educator, Alex Wilson.

Alan Bennett

Traditional Favourites

A rare opportunity to see Britain’s bestloved literary legend: Alan Bennett.

Don’t miss the chance to hang onto every word of the master of bathos, with an ‘acute eye for our foibles and fumblings.’ Alan will be sharing a stage with a vibrant young talent, pianist Alessandro Taverna.

We wouldn’t be the Festival without them! Get your annual fix of the firm Festival favourites.

Piano-Fest Plunge into a piano-fest in 2010 led by the co-founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition, the inspirational, indefatigable Dame Fanny Waterman DBE. Enjoy a wealth of lectures and recitals - from the classical to the contemporary – and there’s a chance to listen (and lunch) with the woman herself.

Authors on Stage Eavesdrop into thrilling on-stage conversations with some of the biggest names in fiction including, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Joanne Harris and Jeffrey Deaver. It’ll be a crime to miss it!

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music | literature | arts | fringe | culture Harrogate International Festival would like to thank the following organisations and individuals for their support and commitment.

Principle Partner

Sponsors

Alex is one of the UK’s foremost Latin music producers. Signed to the Candid label, his latest album Salsa con Soul was a worldwide hit. As a composer and musical director, he has had commissions from the Royal Opera House, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Society for the Promotion of New Music.

Premier Partners

The Oddsocks theatre company are back with their quirky thespian frolics in the RHS Garden Harlow Carr. This year, experience the magic and mayhem of a Midsummer Night’s Dream. It would be a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions to miss it.

Our classical strand is as spectacular as ever. This year don’t miss Arcadi Volodos, hailed as a modern day Horowitz, it’s a rare chance to see a man who sits comfortably in the elite pantheon of the world’s leading pianists.

For a unique chance to hear the future Lesley Garretts and Julian Lloyd Webbers make sure you catch the Young Musicians Series. Top it all off with the Festival’s spectacular orchestral finale - the magnificent Australian Youth Orchestra led by the internationally acclaimed conductor Sir Mark Elder.

And as usual, the friendly Festival team will be in residence in their Town Centre Box Office at the Victoria Shopping Centre.

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Associate Supporters

Regular Funders

Honorary Solicitors

Trusts & Foundations: Dorothy Parkinson Award, Sir George Martin Trust, In Memorium of Lady Bomanji, Audrey & Stanley Burton Charitable Trust, The Charles & Elsie Sykes Trust, GC Armitage Charitable Trust

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Summerfestival Bold as

Brass

music | literature | arts | fringe | culture Making the Festival buzz with brass is the multiple award-winning composer of music for games, film and television, Richard Jacques. Richard will compose a specially commissioned fanfare and finale for the Festival and work with local ensembles to bring the Festival to the streets. His action-driven scores have featured in premier TV and movie theatre campaigns for top brands such as Audi, Bacardi and Stella Artois. He also writes film trailers and has worked on the orchestration of Shirley Bassey’s hit album, Thank You for the Years.

Be prepared for some dramatic, big and bold brass action!

As you catch the sounds on the summer air, think of it as a call to arms to join the Festival! From the opening fanfare to the climactic finale of the Festival, a brass ensemble will play at the same time, every evening, to remind Harrogate that the Festival is taking place. Get ready to be stopped in your tracks as the town falls under the mesmerising spell of brass bellowing from the streets and parks and bouncing off the rooftops of Harrogate!

Town Centre Box Office Launch 3 July To celebrate our theme of the piano this year the Town Centre Box Office (TCBO) will celebrate all things keyboard.

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Ticket offers available from the TCBO throughout the Festival.

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A festival wouldn’t be a festival without a field, a marquee and a few folk wearing flares with flowers in their hair! 2010 is breaking down barriers as we take the Festival away from the civilised seats of the theatre and pitch a very big tent in Crescent Gardens. Experience a diverse range of music artists throughout each day and into the evening for an authentic festival spirit.

Festival

on

tour

Rural life is perfect for plenty of peace and quiet. But get ready to make some noise as the Festival goes on tour. Watch out for our world class artists popping up in some unexpected places.... Stuck in the sticks?

Don’t fancy trekking to Harrogate? Don’t know if you really fancy a show? Well the show will be coming to you...

We’ll be taking some of our world-class artists on the road with our exciting pre-Festival taster programme. Look out for the Festival tour bus across the Harrogate District.

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Classical Diary

Fri 16 July

Celebrity Gala Festival Concert

Royal Hall | 8pm

Lesley Garrett ~

Soprano

Emma Johnson, clarinet; Julian Lloyd Webber, cello; Andrew West, accompanist

Fri 16 July 8pm

Celebrity Gala Festival Concert: Royal Hall Lesley Garrett, Emma Johnson, Julian Lloyd Webber, Andrew West

Mon 19 July 2.30pm

David Owen Norris: A Time-Machine from 1781 – An Afternoon with a Square Piano

Crown Hotel

Tue 20 July 8pm

The Endellion String Quartet with Benjamin Frith and Leon Bosch

Royal Hall

Wed 21 July 2.30pm

The Endellion String Quartet

St Wilfrid’s Church

Thur 22 July 8pm

Sir Willard White: Robeson Re-explored

Royal Hall

Sat 24 July 11.30am

A Masterclass with St. Wilfrid’s Church Dame Fanny Waterman DBE Recital by Benjamin Frith will follow at 2pm

Wed 28 July 1pm

Graham Barber

St. Wilfrid’s Church

Wed 28 July 8pm

Armonico Consort: Monteverdi Vespers

St Wilfrid’s Church

Wed 28 July 8pm

Jacques Loussier Trio

Royal Hall

Thur 29 July 8pm

Nocturne: The Romantic Life of Frédéric Chopin

Royal Hall

Fri 30 July 8pm

Yamaha Presents: Sasha Grynyuk

Royal Hall

Sat 31 July 8pm

Arcadi Volodos

Royal Hall

Sun 1 August 8pm

Australian Youth Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder

Royal Hall

Programme to include works by Handel, Franck, Beethoven, Fauré and Gershwin.

The Festival has a history of recognising emerging talent through our Young Musician Series. The Festival’s opening concert will be a real celebration of the Series, as all three world-renowned performers made their first Festival appearances as Young Musicians. Now Emma Johnson, the classical chart topping clarinettist, and Julian Lloyd Webber, one of the most highly regarded musicians of his generation, join Britain’s favourite soprano, Lesley Garrett, for a very special event – marking the 30th anniversary of her debut appearance at the Festival.

Tickets: £44, £29, £22, U25s: £5 Boxes: £87, £58

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“I’ve everything to thank the Harrogate Festival for and I’m thrilled to be back.”

Lesley Garrett

Alan Bennett 25 July page 37

Alex Wilson 26 July page 28

Young Musicians Series July page 22

“She walks on to a concert platform and suddenly transforms herself into an expressive instrument of sublime beauty.” The Guardian on Emma Johnson “…the doyen of British cellists”,

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The Strad on Julian Lloyd Webber

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Lecture: A time machine from 1781 - An afternoon with a square piano British pianist and BBC broadcaster David Owen Norris has an international solo career that has taken him from Munich, America, Vienna, Australia and now... Harrogate!

Mon 19 July Crown Hotel | 2.30pm Tickets: £10 Unreserved

The square piano, invented in London in 1766 by the Saxon immigrant Johannes Zumpe, was a run-away commercial success, dominating the market in England and France for decades. The details of its easily-visible mechanism are fascinating. So too are the resourceful ways in which it was exploited by the composers of the time, including such great names as Bach and Mozart. Spend an afternoon in David’s company as the Gilmore award-winning artist tunes, plays, displays, talks and sings in praise of the piano. After discussing and demonstrating the mechanism, the music, musicians and the migrants, David will end with a performance of songs, poems and diary extracts that together present a picture of 1780’s England.

Another chance to experience the inner vitality and emotional drama of the Endellion String Quartet as they play a programme featuring pieces from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The quartet has the exquisite ability to capture the lyricism and poetry in scores that are extraordinarily expressive and are renowned for their chemistry and intensity.

Book for both Endellion events & save £5.

Wed 21 July St Wilfrid’s Church | 2.30pm Tickets: £18, £15. U25s: £5

Book both Tues 20 Wed 21 Endellion performances with tickets starting from just £25 per person.

Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op.76, No. 6 Beethoven: String Quartet in C major, Op.59, No. 3 Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 The Trout

Tues 20 July

Thurs 22 July

Royal Hall | 8pm

Royal Hall | 8pm

After performing at this year’s Sunday Series, The Endellion String Quartet is back by popular demand. They will be joined by the award-winning pianist Benjamin Frith and the double bassist, Leon Bosch. Frith studied under Dame Fanny Waterman and early in his career was awarded the Gold Medal at the 1989 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Israel. Leon Bosch has played all over the world with a long line of chamber music groups.

Tickets: £18, £15 U25s: £5

Tickets: £25, £19, £15, £12 U25s: £5 Boxes: £58, £37

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The Endellion String Quartet

Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op.33 No.2 The Joke Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op.10 Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op.59, No. 1

with Benjamin Frith (Piano) and Leon Bosch (Double Bass)

One of the world’s great bass-baritones, Sir Willard White is famed for his enormous, rich voice and powerful stage presence.

He has sung in every major opera house around the world, building up a huge repertoire and receiving rave reviews wherever he appears. Paul Robeson – whose voice White is often compared with - was a powerful influence on his career.

Sir Willard White: Robeson Re-Explored Ticket Hotline: 0845 130 8840

Here he explores his hero through his life and music. An evening of unforgettable spirituals, jazz and folk including the mesmerising Ol’ Man River.

“Paul Robeson lives again via the voice of a modern master.”

The Independent

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Sat 24 July Ripley Castle, Yorkshire

A Masterclass with

Tickets for this concert to be booked on 01423 562 303

Dame Fanny Waterman DBE

Katherine Jenkins

Accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra

Supported by The Friends of the Festival

The stunning Ripley Castle will provide the perfect backdrop to a very special concert of music, song and entertainment, with a spectacular firework display reflected in the magnificent lake. Following the success of her recent television programme ‘Pop Star to Opera Star’ Katherine has just completed a sell out UK Arena Tour. This is an opportunity to see Katherine in a historical open-air location.

Her special guests will include ‘One Night of Queen’. A UK based rock show re-creating the magic of Freddie Mercury and Queen, they have just returned from their third highly

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successful American tour. Performed by Gary Mullen, the winner of the TV talent show ‘Stars in their Eyes’ Gary has carved out a huge career for himself and his band The Works performing as Freddie Mercury around the world.

Tickets for this concert can be purchased on 01423 562303

Sat 24 July St Wilfrid’s Church | 11.30am Recital by Benjamin Frith | 2pm Tickets: £30 (including lunch) Unreserved Recital only: £10 Schumann: Kinderszenen Op.15 Schumann: Carnival Op.9

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Groundbreaking, inspirational, indefatigable and irresistible - just some of the ways Dame Fanny Waterman has been described. The co-founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition and Honorary President of the Harrogate International Festivals, Waterman is a pianist, teacher and judge who leads from the front.

This event is specially produced by the Festival and offers a unique opportunity to combine three events in one: a masterclass by Dame Fanny, lunch with the chance to meet the great lady, and then a recital by Benjamin Frith. Tickets for the recital only are also available.

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Wed 28 July

Wed 28 July

St Wilfrid’s Church | 1pm

Royal Hall | 8pm

Tickets: £12 Unreserved

Tickets: £30, £22, £15, £12 U25s: £5 Boxes: £66, £44

Graham Barber ~ Organ Charles-Marie Widor: Marche Pontificale from Symphony Op.13, No.1 Andante Sostenuto Allegro from Symphonie Gothique, Op.70 Herbert Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548 Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Valse Mignonne, Op.142, No. 2 Maurice Duruflé: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain, Op.7

Since his début at the Royal Festival Hall in 1979, Graham Barber has been recognised as one of the world’s leading concert organists.

Reviewing his first recording in 1975, The Sunday Times described him as a “technically brilliant, musically mature organist”. He has recorded CDs on many English, German and Dutch organs and has been described in Gramophone magazine as “one of the organ world’s finest recording artists.”

Barber has given concerts in major venues in Britain, Europe, the Far East, the States and Australia, and has been widely broadcast.

Recent concerts have been in Prague, Leipzig, Braga, Lisbon, Coimbra and Adelaide.

There is no music in the world quite like that of Jacques Loussier. This master jazz musician has electrified audiences for fifty years on the concert platforms of the world with his extraordinary Trio, and has sold millions of albums. He is known worldwide for his unique and inspired reinvention of the works of JS Bach. In an increasingly rare UK appearance, the Jacques Loussier Trio will demonstrate their pioneering approach to harmony, taking in the combined influences of jazz and classical music.

Jacques Loussier Trio

“Loussier the word’s finest pianist?

In his own style, without a doubt” French musicologist, Bernard Gavoty

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Thurs 29 July Royal Hall | 8pm Tickets: £25, £19, £15 U25s: £5 Boxes: £57, £38

Armonica Consort:

Monteverdi Vespers Concert by Candlelight

Wed 28 July St Wilfrid’s Church | 8pm Tickets: £15 Unreserved

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‘Superb!’

This year marks the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610. Performed by candlelight, this promises to be an uplifting performance by the Armonico Consort. A truly magical experience, this ensemble promises sonorous sounds in the authentic atmospheric setting of St Wilfrid’s Church.

Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Chopin, two of Britain’s most distinguished actors read the letters between Chopin and his lover, George Sands. Olivier Award winner Sam West will be joined by Tony Award nominated actress Harriett Walter, both stars of stage and screen.

Experience the mercurial music of a man whose legacy has earned him a special place in the development of music with this intimate portrait. This event has wowed audiences and garnered critical acclaim when it played at the British Library. Lucy Parham, one of Britain’s finest pianists, will perform alongside the readings to chronicle the romantic life of one the greatest and most treasured composers.

Nocturne: The Romantic Life of Frédéric Chopin Featuring Harriet Walter, Sam West and Lucy Parham ~ piano

The Times

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Fri 30 July

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Sat 31 July

Royal Hall | 8pm

Royal Hall | 8pm

Tickets: £15

Tickets: £32, £25, £22, £15 U25s: £5 Boxes: £75, £50

Arcadi Volodos Sasha Grynyuk studied at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and later at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He has been described by the legendary Charles Rosen as “an impressive artist with remarkable, unfailing musicality always moving with the most natural, electrifying, and satisfying interpretations.”

Sasha benefits from the artistic guidance of such great musicians as Alfred Brendel and Murray Perahia and regularly performs in the world’s most renowned concert halls including the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall.

With over ten international competitions and numerous awards under his belt, Sasha was nominated as the 2009 Rising Star for BBC Music Magazine.

Mompou: Scènes d’enfants Albéniz: La Vega from Suite Alhambra No. 1 Liszt: Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata Schumann: Humoreske in B flat major, Op.20 Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op.26 Trained at the Moscow Conservatory, Arcadi Volodos studied in Paris and Madrid before being propelled into the elite pantheon of the world’s leading pianists. Volodos has been hailed as a modern-day Horowitz, with his flawless technical ability and his renditions of notoriously difficult arrangements of pieces.

Arcadi Volodos is celebrated as a “keyboard genius” and is without doubt one of today’s most outstanding and internationally interesting pianists. Born in St. Petersburg in 1972, Arcadi Volodos’ first album features spectacular transcriptions and caused an absolute sensation, receiving outstanding reviews.

Yamaha is the official piano for the Harrogate International Festival.

Yamaha presents:

Sasha Grynyuk

In February 2007, Sony Classical released the CD Volodos plays Liszt which also garnered effusive praise from the press as a new reference recording.

“I almost fell off my seat! Here was a young pianist using exquisite, totally natural, rubato, indeed the hands were actually out of sync, the left leading the right – marvellous oldworld pianism that Alfred Cortot would have admired.”

Classical Source Review

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Welcome to a whole lot more going on

Australian Youth Orchestra The Clive Wilson Memorial Concert

Sir Mark Elder – conductor Ekaterina Gabanova – mezzo soprano Dean: Ampitheatre Mahler: Selections from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’ Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op.93

Sun 1 August Royal Hall | 8pm Tickets: £35, £28, £22, £15 U25s: £5 Boxes: £84, £56

For over sixty years, the Australian Youth Orchestra has been training Australia’s most talented young musicians. The young and impassioned talent will be joined on the tour by internationally acclaimed British conductor Sir Mark Elder, who last conducted the orchestra in 1982. The orchestra will be joined by Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova, who has sung all over the world after joining the Royal Opera House as a Young Musician.

Discover all you can do in Yorkshire

2010 marks the 20th international tour for the orchestra, and will include concerts in prestigious venues in cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Amsterdam, Berlin and London. The Festival and the Proms are the orchestra’s only two UK performances.

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0844 888 5122

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Mon 19 July St Wilfrid’s Church | 11am Tickets: £10

Emily Gallaghan - flute Fiona Mitchell - clarinet Ruth Rosales - bassoon

Wed 28 July

Robert Muczynski: Fragments Charles Koechlin: Trio in G major, Op.92 Beethoven: Variations on the theme ‘La ci darem la mano’ from Mozart’s Don Giovanni Jacques Ibert: Trio Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Daniel Dorff): Sicilienne

Lamar Springfield: Chipmunks Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento No.4 Darius Milhaud: Pastoral Claude Arrieu: Trio Georges Auric: Trio Scot Joplin: A selection of Rags

St James Church, Birstwith | 11am Tickets: £10

The Aurora Trio The Dorothy Parkinson Memorial Award

Juice

“...amazing razor-sharp tuning and purity of tone... they held us spellbound.” The Telegraph

The Aurora Trio is a young, versatile group performing both recitals and background music. As well as regular recitals at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall, they’re dedicated to bringing music to audiences who wouldn’t ordinary have the opportunity to attend concerts as part of the Live Music Now scheme.

“A Rach star is born.”

The Washington Post

Young Musicians Series Thur 22 July Royal Hall | 11am Tickets: £10 Clementi: Sonata in C major, Op.33 No. 3 Schumann: Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 11 Scriabin: 2 Poèmes, Op. 32 Scriabin: Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 30 Rachmaninoff: Variations on a theme by Corelli Op. 42 Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in D flat major Op. 89, No. 15

Sofya Gulyak ~ Piano The Lady Bomanji Memorial Concert

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Juice is an experimental vocal trio who specialise in giving vibrant performances with a theatrical edge. They draw on world music, jazz, folk and pop, have commissioned countless new works, and featured on BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and Resonance FM. At the forefront of the UK’s experimental/ classical scene, Juice has performed in Park Lane Group’s Young Artists Series at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall to rave press reviews. Juice have collaborated with world-class beatboxer Shlomo and performed works by avant-garde pioneers such as Morton Feldman and Meredith Monk.

Make sure you get your all your cultural vitamins and boost your soul with a healthy dose of Juice!

A Russian multi-award winning pianist, Sofya Gulyak became the first female winner of the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in 2009. As a star in high profile engagements with leading orchestras across the world, we are pleased to host Sofya as part of our Young Musicians Series. She is without doubt a leading young pianist of her time and this performance will be a very special treat for Harrogate.

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Thurs 29 July Royal Hall | 11am Tickets: £10 Chopin: Waltz in B minor, Op.69, No. 2 Chopin: Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major, Op.61 Chopin: 12 Etudes Op.10

Alexej Gorlatch Supported by Judith Roberts

The New York Times review described Alexej Gorlatch as playing with a “finesse and maturity that belie[s] his youth.” Runner up at last year’s Leeds International Piano Competition, Gorlatch will play a selection of Chopin’s pieces to celebrate the composer’s bicentenary. He joins us as one of this year’s featured Young Musicians, and with phenomenal technique, Gorlatch remains deeply expressive with a heartfelt musicality in his dignified and soulful performances.

“Mr Gorlatch demonstrated his prizewinning technique while remaining expressive and musical...a heartfelt, dignified and soulful performance...” The Telegraph

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Film

Contemporary Diary Sun 18 July 8pm

Robin Harris: Benya Krik

Crown Hotel

Sun 18 July 8pm

Courtney Pine: Transition in Tradition

Royal Hall

Mon 19 July 8 for 8.30pm Christine Tobin: cabaret

Crown Hotel

Wed 21 July 8 for 8.30pm Ayanna Witter-Johnson: cabaret

Crown Hotel

Fri 23 July 8pm

Alex Wilson and Salsa Mambo

Royal Hall

Sun 25 July 2.30pm

Alex Wilson, Open Rehearsal

Royal Hall

Mon 26 July 11am

Alex Wilson Recital

Royal Hall

Mon 26 July 8pm

Mayra Andrade and Krystle Warren

Royal Hall

Tue 27 July 8pm

Peter Cincotti

Royal Hall

Benya Krik

(PG)

with a new live score by Robin Harris

Sun 18 July Crown Hotel | 8pm Tickets: £15 Unreserved

Don’t miss the following events that ended up elsewhere in the programme

Sir Willard White 22 July page 13

Alex Wilson Dance Workshop 23 July page 46

A wedding, a revolution and murder!

Vilner’s film Benya Krik is a groundbreaking masterpiece from the silent archives.

Composer and musician Robin Harris and nine musicians will perform his critically acclaimed score to the film Benya Krik, a project that attracted Harrogate-born Robin Harris for its fusion of comedy, tenderness and urgent political drama.

Ewan Easton 27 July page 43

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Jacques Loussier 28 July page 17

Once banned and seldom screened, the 1926 Russian film is the thrilling story of Jewish gangsters embroiled in a Bolshevik trap during the Russian Revolution. Following sell-out

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successes in London and Paris, this is a rare chance to see eight of the UK’s finest klezmer musicians on piano, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin and drums.

Experience a dazzling combination of Yiddish folk, classical Russian influences, klezmer and Eastern jazz.

“The live soundtrack, deeply infused with klezmer, brings the story and its bittersweet humour to life.”

Simon Broughton, Songlines Magazine

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Courtney Pine presents Transition in Tradition

Mon 19 July Crown Hotel | 8 for 8.30pm Tickets: £18 Unreserved. U25s: £5

“She should be on a global stage, rubbing shoulders with fellow troubadours like Cave, Mitchell and Cohen.”

John L Walters, The Guardian

The BBC Jazz Awards Best Vocalist will perform with jazz pianist Liam Noble an elegant re-working of songs from Carole King’s beloved classic 1971 album, Tapestry, interspersed with older originals from Christine Tobin.

An Irish-born singer-songwriter, Tobin is acclaimed for her deep understanding of the relationship between music and emotion.

Sun 18 July

At this cabaret event, Tobin and Noble will show the range of energy, pace and strength of feeling that can be achieved through the simple arrangement of piano and voice.

Romantic and radical, Tobin is a musical free spirit who blurs the lines to create her own unique style.

Christine Tobin ~ Cabaret

Royal Hall | 8pm

Ayanna Witter-Johnson ~ Cabaret

Tickets: £25, £19, £15, £12 U25s: £5 Boxes: £57, £38

“Pine is superb...”

The Guardian

“...top of his form...”

The Independent

At the forefront of the UK jazz scene, award-winning saxophonist Courtney Pine has gained huge critical acclaim. In Transition in Tradition Pine assembles a heavyweight musical line-up drawing influences from Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Europe for an exuberant homage to the first great saxophone star: Sidney Bechet. With bass clarinet, harmonium and mandolin in the mix, plus an everevolving groove - from old school swing to Creole stomp - Pine serves up a rich gumbo of jazz flavours.

Courtney Pine was voted Best British Saxophonist at the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Awards in 2007 and winner of Best Jazz Act at the Urban Music Awards.

“…she had nerves of steel ... a tigerish confidence and a flexible, jazz-R&B prowess on vocals.

We’ll be hearing a lot more of her, that’s for sure.” Jazzwise

Wed 21 July Crown Hotel | 8 for 8.30pm Tickets: £15 Unreserved U25s: £5

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A rising star, tipped for ever bigger things, Ayanna Witter-Johnson is taking the world hostage. Her musical skills – jazz vocalist, composer, cellist and pianist – are as diverse as her cultural influences. A new and vibrant talent in World Music, Witter-Johnson has worked with the groundbreaking composer Nitin Sawhney and award-winning film composer Jocelyn Pook. Her radio credits include original material on Courtney Pine’s Jazz Crusade on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 2’s In Tune and the BBC Asian Network.

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Fri 23 July Royal Hall | 8pm Tickets: £25, £19, £15 U25s: £5 Boxes: £57, £38

2010 Artist in Residence

Alex Wilson and Salsa Mambo Strip down your soul, and get into some serious rhythms with our sizzling salsa night! Alex Wilson, the 2010 Festival Artist in Residence, will be joined on stage by his nine-piece band, so get ready to hit the dance floor. Wilson has released six solo albums with his latest, Salsa con Soul, becoming a worldwide hit on the salsa scene - a favourite of the salsa dance clubs regularly charting on DJ lists.

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World Premiere Mon 26 July Royal Hall | 11am Tickets: £15 U25s: £5

Royal Hall | 8pm Tickets: £22, £16, £12 U25s; £5 Boxes: £66, £44

Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade brings a sensual sophistication to her energised take on Cuban music. Her multi-layered music embraces Brazilian inflections, funky bass lines and flamenco guitars to create a heady mix of sounds. Andrade is arguably the front-runner of the many talents that have emerged from Cape Verde in recent years.

With a string of sell-out shows, and an evergrowing international following, Krystle Warren has quickly become hot property. She hails from Kansas City and learned to play the guitar by listening to Rubber Soul and Revolver. Busking on the streets of New York and Paris, she honed a distinctive musical style that merges jazz, blues, folk, funk and pop, combining arange of influences from Rufus Wainwright to Betty Carter, Willie Nelson to Nina Simone.

Mayra Andrade and Krystle Warren

Alex Wilson Recital

Royal Hall | 2.30pm | Entrance free with tickets purchased for performance on Mon 26 July

As a composer and musical director, Alex has written a theatre score for Britain’s leading black theatre company NITRO and commissions for the Royal Opera House, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Society for the Promotion of New Music. He has worked as a record producer for various artists, most recently Gwyn Allen in I Love Louis – A Creole Tribute to Louis Armstrong.

“Still in her 20s, she looks like a tropical diva, with her swept-back hair and colourful gown, and switched effortlessly from easy-going Latin songs to jazz balladry or the choppy, upbeat Cape Verdean.” Robin Denselow, The Guardian

Tue 27 July Royal Hall | 8pm Tickets: £30, £22, £15, £12 U25s: £5 Boxes: £66, £44

Commissioned by the Festival in celebration of the 2010 piano theme, this is your chance to see a world premiere on your doorstep.

Bear witness to the birth of a new piece of music, played in public for the first time.

Alex Wilson’s piece will incorporate piano, kora (West African lute) and string quartet.

There’s a chance to observe Alex at work as he rehearses on Sunday afternoon at the Royal Hall before performing his world premiere on Monday.

Open Rehearsal Sun 25 July

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Mon 26 July

“One of the most promising singerpianists of the next generation.”

The New York Times

Peter Cincotti

Ticket Hotline: 0845 130 8840

Brace yourselves for a breath of fresh American air. Peter Cincotti, the 25-year-old singer-songwriter mentored by Harry Connick Jr. blows into town performing a contemporary blend of pop, rock, blues, funk and jazz. Cincotti’s percussive piano playing and rich vocals infuse each song with a startling energy.

This is bound to be a popular Festival hit with Cincotti’s cinematic-inspired songs from his album East of Angel Town. The native New Yorker carries his audience on a seductive journey through dark glamorous tales of LA and invites you to take a wild walk along the mean streets of Manhattan.

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Literature Diary Throughout June

The Festival Big Read

Thur 22 July 11am

Little Read Special Guest Event: Eoin Colfer Live!

Harrogate Theatre

Fri 23 July 5pm

Special Event: Celebrating 120 years of Agatha Christie

Crown Hotel

Fri 23 July 8pm

Special Guests In Conversation: Ian Rankin & Val McDermid

Crown Hotel

Sat 24 July 9am

Special Guest: Joanne Harris

Crown Hotel

Sat 24 July 12pm

New Blood

Crown Hotel

Sat 24 July 2pm

How Dark is Your Noir?

Crown Hotel

Sat 24 July 8.30pm

Special Guest: Karin Slaughter

Crown Hotel

Sun 25 July 10am

James Bond, Eat Your Heart Out...

Crown Hotel

Sun 25 July 11.30am

Special Guests In Conversation: - Jeffery Deaver & Jeff Lindsay

Crown Hotel

Sun 25 July 8pm

Alan Bennett

Royal Hall

Don’t miss the following events as part of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime

in partnership with

In celebration of the 120th anniversary since the birth of Agatha Christie, the 2010 Festival Big Read is hitching a ride on the Orient Express! Reader-in-Residence Martyn Waites will be taking a whistle-stop tour of the North of England to meet readers in Yorkshire, Lancashire and the North East and find out what they make of the ‘Queen of Crime’.

Get on board with the Big Read by reading one of the most iconic crime novels of all time, Murder On the Orient Express, and coming along to one of our events to share your thoughts – be they likes, loves, dislikes or hates - with other readers.

Booking is essential for all events. Visit www.bigread.org.uk for details on how to book for the event of your choice.

Leeds Met Little Read The hugely popular Artemis Fowl series will be the focus of the 2010 Little Read, run in partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University. We’ll be encouraging young people across the Harrogate District - and their schools, teachers and partners to get reading the first book, Artemis Fowl, ahead of a fabulous end of term event with author Eoin Colfer.

Described by the author as ‘Die Hard with fairies’, the series follows the adventures of Artemis, a teenage criminal mastermind. Loved by young readers, the books have sold over 18 million copies worldwide.

Thursday 22 July, 11am, Harrogate Theatre Little Read Special Guest Event: Eoin Colfer Live!

Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 22-25 July

Reader in Residence: Martyn Waites

“No, I’m Ian Rankin” 24 July

Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer (it’s pronounced ‘Owen’) will be making a very special appearance in Harrogate as part of our Little Read celebrations – one of only 3 UK events Eoin will be doing this summer.

Hugely entertaining and very funny, Eoin will give a glimpse into his incredible imagination, talk about Artemis’s journey so far and what the future holds for the exceptional anti-hero.

There will also be the chance to meet Eoin and have books signed after the event.

Tickets are £3 per person. School groups welcome. Please call the Festival Office on 01423 562303 to book your place before tickets sell out!

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Fri 23 July Crown Hotel | 5pm

Special Guests In Conversation:

Tickets: £8.50

Ian Rankin and Val McDermid

Fri 23 July Crown Hotel | 8pm Tickets: £12

Special Event:

Who better to get the inside story on one Scottish crime writing supernova than another? Ian Rankin and Val McDermid are the biggest and bestselling British crime writers on the block. The scale of their success and their shared Caledonian roots mean it is easy for observers to bracket them together at the top of the literary tree. This exceptional status has led the two authors to form a private friendship, as well as lent fuel to some famously public differences of opinion!

More Tea, Vicar?

Celebrating 120 years of Agatha Christie She beats Dickens, Shakespeare, JK Rowling – and even Dan Brown! In fact only the bible outsells Agatha Christie. 2010 celebrates 120 years since the birth of the undisputed ‘Queen of Crime’. The woman who gave the world arguably its most famous Belgian and an unexpected sleuth in the form of a diminutive old lady who likes a good cup of tea, has sold over two billion books making her the most widely published novelist of all time.

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What’s her enduring secret? Join host Dreda Say Mitchell as she attempts to crack the Christie code with help from the novelist’s grandson Mathew Prichard, biographer Laura Thompson and author and Christie admirer Andrew Taylor.

This is the event crime lovers have been waiting for: two of the country’s greatest writing talents going head-to-head. Make sure you don’t miss out.

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Sat 24 July

Sat 24 July

Crown Hotel | 9am Tickets: £12

Special Guest:

Joanne Harris

Yorkshire-born Joanne Harris is best known for penning the uplifting bestseller Chocolat. Her 2005 book Gentlemen and Players explored the dangerous undercurrents at work within a boys’ boarding school and her new novel blueeyedboy is a psychological thriller set in the shiftless world of the internet.

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Crown Hotel | 8.30pm Tickets: £12

Special Guest:

Karin Slaughter

Slaughter: the perfect name for a perfect crime author. Known for her relentless plotting and searing forensic detail, Karin Slaughter’s writing never backs away from the realities of violent crime. Making a rare UK live appearance, the American author will be talking to Mark Billingham about her work, the benefits and pitfalls of global success and her new novel Broken, published in July.

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Sun 25 July Crown Hotel | 10am

Sat 24 July Crown Hotel | 12pm Tickets: £8.50

James Bond, Eat Your Heart Out...

Tickets: £8.50

New Blood

People are obsessed with looking for The Next Big Thing. Well, look no further. International bestseller Val McDermid has done the work for you. She’ll be introducing some of the brightest new talents of 2010 – Belinda Bauer, Attica Locke, Liam Mcllvanney and Stuart Neville – and letting them explain how they came to produce their extraordinary debut novels.

Let’s face it, Daniel Craig might be doing his best to keep the Fleming flame alive, but shaken martinis and enemies peeking out from behind the Iron Curtain are old news. Today our global conflicts are as much clashes between cultures than countries, the technological revolution has given ordinary people tools previously only in the hands of spymasters, and women are world leaders not window dressing. So where do we look for the next generation of high-octane international thrillers? Meg Gardiner considers the future of the action hero with help from Sean Black, Jeremy Duns, Jo Nesbø and Zoë Sharp.

Sat 24 July Crown Hotel | 2pm

Sun 25 July Crown Hotel | 11.30am

Tickets: £8.50

How Dark is Your Noir?

White-knuckle readers – those who like a good helping chills with their kills – are a growing breed. More and more, crime books are ratcheting up the terror factor to spine-chilling levels as traditional boundaries between genres become less important. Barry Forshaw keeps the lights firmly on while discussing things that go bump in the night with Karen Rose, Peter James, Steve Mosby and Christopher Fowler, four writers who have stood on both sides of that fine line between horror and crime.

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Special Guests In Conversation:

Jeffery Deaver & Jeff Lindsay

Mark Lawson talks to two of the US’s most intriguing exports to find out if they share more in common than a name and profession. Jeffery Deaver, author of the best-selling Lincoln Rhyme series and brilliant raconteur, is already a firm favourite with Harrogate audiences. He’ll be joined in conversation by Festival first-timer Jeff Lindsay, author of the acclaimed Dexter novels; books that have inspired a cult US television series and made millions of readers confront an uneasy dilemma: Should you ever like a serial killer? Expect an intriguing blend of moral ambiguity and high entertainment from the meeting of these two Jeffs!

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Sun 25 July Royal Hall | 8pm Tickets: £35, £24, £15, £12 U25s: £5 Boxes: £72, £48

Alan Bennett with Alessandro Taverna

Beethoven: 15 Variations and Fugue in E-flat major, Op.35 ‘Eroica Variations’ Chopin: Nocturne in B major, Op.62 Busoni: Kammer-Fantasie über “Carmen” Rachmaninov: Polka de W.R. Moszkowski: Étincelles, Op.36 No.6 Author of countless TV, stage and film dramas including The Madness of George III and The History Boys, the Festival is thrilled to welcome Britain’s best-loved observer with an acute ear for human foibles. In a profile to mark his 75th birthday last year, The Telegraph described him as, “our Mozart of the mundane, our Picasso of the prosaic.”

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Bennett will be sharing the stage with pianist Alessandro Taverna, born in Venice in 1983, is a vibrant young talent who has won numerous awards in national and international competitions. He has performed throughout Europe and America, including Berlin’s prestigious Konzerthaus and New York’s Steinway Halls. Alessandro has recorded for Radio Classica in Italy, for the Slovenian National Radio Television and for Classic FM Radio in South Africa.

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Lectures & Workshops Diary

Lecture: by Toby Faber

The Genius of Antonio Stradivari Sat 17 July Harrogate Theatre | 11am Tickets: £8 Unreserved

Sat 17 July 11am

Toby Faber: The Genius of Antonio Stradivari

Harrogate Theatre

Sat 17 July 2.30pm

Codebreakers: The Story of Enigma

Harrogate Theatre

Sun 18 July 2.30pm

Toby Faber: The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl Fabergé

Crown Hotel

Mon 19 July 2.30pm

David Owen Norris: A Time-Machine from 1781 – An Afternoon with a Square Piano

Crown Hotel

Fri 23rd July 9.00am

Christopher Brookmyre

Crown Hotel

Fri 23 July 2.30pm

Alex Wilson: Workshop Find the Rhythm Tonight!

Royal Hall

Sat 24 July 11.30am

A Masterclass with Dame Fanny Waterman DBE Recital by Benjamin Frith 2pm

St Wilfrid’s Church

Sun 25 July 2.30pm

Alex Wilson; Open Rehearsal, piano

Royal Hall

Tue 27 July 11am

Sound Support with Ewan Easton MBE

St Wilfrid’s Church

Thur 29 July 2.30pm

Lecture: Norman Lebrecht on Mendelssohn and Mahler

Royal Hall

Lecture:

Sat 31 July 2.30pm

Lecture: Chopin and the Birth of Musical Genius with Professor John Rink

Royal Hall

Codebreakers, The Story of Enigma

“Fascinating, accessible and enjoyable.” Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring

Stradivari changed the world of music by crafting his legendary violins renowned for their exquisite beauty. His genius prompted George Eliot to declare: “’Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio.”

Author of Stradivarius: Five Violins, One Cello and a Genius, Toby Faber takes us on an enthralling journey blending biography and passionate detective work as he explores the enigma of the man and his unique violins – the most prized instruments of all time.

Sat 17 July Harrogate Theatre | 2.30pm Tickets: £12 Unreserved

“A truly awe-inspiring talk....”

Break the code, unlock the mystery and win the day – it’s the stuff of thriller novels!

The UK’s leading authority on World War II intelligence, Dr Baldwin gives an illustrated talk about the legendary Enigma machine and the code-breaking work at Bletchley Park followed by a hands-on demonstration.

Ticket Hotline: 0845 130 8840

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Discover the story of how the Allies deciphered Germany’s secret communications through the ciphering machine The Enigma and how their ingenuity changed the world: the smuggled intelligence helped hasten the Allied victory.

Ingenious, heroic and intelligent, The Story of Enigma will be fascinating to anyone with an interest in history.

Supported by The Sir George Martin Trust

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Lecture:

by Toby Faber

The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl Fabergé “...a fascinating story which combines unique decorative art, contemporary culture, history, and the murder of the Romanovs with the excitement of a crime novel” Novelist, P. D. James The jewellery firm Fabergé famously made bejewelled Easter eggs for the Tsarinas of Russia. The character and decadence of the eggs reflected the characters of the empresses who received them. But the story of the Imperial jewels is also the story of a lost empire, the Russian Revolution, and the classic tragedy of the Romanovs. Toby Faber, author of the definitive book on Fabergé’s Eggs, shares his knowledge on this sparkling story as part of our lecture series.

Sun 18 July Crown Hotel | 2.30pm Tickets: £8 Unreserved

Special Guest:

Christopher Brookmyre Fri 23 July Crown Hotel | 9am Tickets: £12 According to The Literary Review Brookmyre’s novel. All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye is the book you’d want if marooned on a desert island or lost in space. Unbounded wit, absurd plots and sharp satire – don’t miss your chance to explore the unique mind of Christopher Brookmyre. Find out more about the man behind such winningly weird titles as Boiling a Frog and Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks at an event that promises to be like the writer’s latest novel; Pandaemonium!

Dance Workshop: Alex Wilson

Mon 19 July Crown Hotel | 2.30pm

Find the Rhythm Tonight!

Tickets: £10 Unreserved British pianist and BBC broadcaster David Owen Norris has an international solo career that has taken him from Munich, America, Vienna, Australia and now... Harrogate!

The square piano, invented in London in 1766 by the Saxon immigrant Johannes Zumpe, was a run-away commercial success, dominating the market in England and France for decades.

The details of its easily-visible mechanism are fascinating. So too are the resourceful ways in which it was exploited by the composers of the time, including such great names as Bach and Mozart. Spend an afternoon in David’s company as the Gilmore award-winning artist tunes, plays, displays, talks and sings in praise of the piano. After discussing and demonstrating the mechanism, the music, musicians and the migrants, David will end with a performance of songs, poems and diary extracts that together present a picture of 1780’s England.

Fri 23 July Royal Hall | 2.30pm Tickets: Grand Hall £8 Composer, pianist, performer, arranger and educator, Alex Wilson is one of the UK’s leading Latin music producers. Wilson will discuss his work with salsa music, while an experienced salsa dancer and instructor, Lee Knights, gives a dance demonstration and masterclass. Both are passionate about teaching salsa as a path to self-expression or as the Cubans say, your personal “sabor” or flavour. This is a great event to prepare for a sizzling night of music and dance later that day.

David Owen Norris Lecture:

A Time-Machine from 1781

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A Masterclass with

Dame Fanny Waterman DBE

Sat 24 July St Wilfrid’s Church | 11.30am Recital by Benjamin Frith | 2pm Tickets: £30 (including lunch) Unreserved Recital only: £10 Schumann: Kinderszenen Op.15 Schumann: Carnival Op.9 Groundbreaking, inspirational, indefatigable and irresistible - just some of the ways Dame Fanny Waterman has been described. The co-founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition and Honorary President of the Harrogate International Festivals, Waterman is a pianist, teacher and judge who leads from the front.

This event is specially produced by the Festival and offers a unique opportunity to combine three events in one: a masterclass by Dame Fanny, lunch with the chance to meet the great lady, and then a recital by Benjamin Frith. Tickets for the recital only are also available.

Sun 25 July

Lecture by Ewan Easton MBE:

Sound Support This very special event combines a talk and music with a twist.

Ewan Easton MBE is a classical tuba player with the renowned Hallè Orchestra. He is also the developer of a ground-breaking programme to support inmates by teaching them how to play brass instruments and read music.

The results have been phenomenal and his original programme is now being developed around the country. Ewan will talk about his motivational work and some of his pupils will be performing by special licence from the Home Office.

Tue 27 July St Wilfrid’s Church | 11am

Lecture by Norman Lebrecht:

Mendelssohn and Mahler

Tickets: £8 Unreserved

Music historian and award-winning novelist Norman Lebrecht offers a radical interpretation on the Jewish nature of Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler. Mahler converted to Christianity to become head of the Vienna Opera, but always sought to explain his peculiar identity. ‘I am three times homeless,’ said Mahler, ‘as a Czech among Austrians, an Austrian among Germans and a Jew anywhere in the world.’ Mendelssohn left his Jewish roots, composing the wedding march and partnering Queen Victoria at the piano. Hear Lebrecht argue how his active suppression of his Jewish heritage is inherent to his tragedy.

‘A witty and pacy account of genius and its costs.’ The Independent

Royal Hall | 2.30pm Tickets: FREE if attending the World Premiere on 26 July

A rare chance to observe how a professional musician rehearses and witness the process involved in preparing for a performance.

Alex Wilson has travelled to over fifty countries performing in a multitude of projects, but will there be a few last minute nerves as he prepares for the very first public performance of a new work?

Alex Wilson

Witness a behind the scenes rehearsal of the commission for piano written for the Festival from this year’s Artist in Residence.

Open Rehearsal ~ piano Sponsored by

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Lecture by Professor John Rink:

Chopin and the Birth of Musical Genius

Thur 29 July Royal Hall | 2.30pm Tickets: £8 Unreserved

In this 200th anniversary year of Chopin’s birth, Professor John Rink will talk about the life and work of the composer. A Professor of Music at Cambridge University, Rink is an expert in the history, theory and performance practice of 19th-century music.

How did Chopin create some of the greatest masterpieces in the piano literature? This illustrated talk begins with a tour of his pianos, where his musical ideas were initially conceived and fully developed. It then looks at Chopin’s compositional process and the different types of score that he produced over time, including sketches, abandoned manuscripts, fair copies intended for use by publishers, and copies presented to friends as keepsakes.

The multiple first editions and the autograph glosses in the scores used by Chopin’s students are also discussed, prior to a final consideration of the fate of Chopin’s music after his death.

This survey challenges any assumptions we might have about the identity and stability of the Chopin work, while allowing us to celebrate one of the richest musical imaginations the world has ever known.

Sat 31 July Royal Hall | 2.30pm Tickets: £8 Unreserved

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Film

Theatre Film & Dance Diary Sat 17 July 8pm

Showstopper: The Improvised Musical

Harrogate Theatre

Sun 18 July 8pm

Robin Harris: Benya Krik

Crown Hotel

Tue 20 July 7.30pm

Oddsocks Productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

RHS Garden: Harlow Carr

Wed 21 July 7.30pm

Oddsocks Productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

RHS Garden: Harlow Carr

Fri 23 July 2.30pm

Alex Wilson: Find the Rhythm Tonight!

Royal Hall

Fri 23 July 8pm

Alex Wilson: Salsa Mambo

Royal Hall

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Benya Krik (PG) with a new live score by Robin Harris A wedding, a revolution and murder!

Vilner’s film Benya Krik is a groundbreaking masterpiece from the silent archives.

Composer and musician Robin Harris and nine musicians will perform his critically acclaimed score to the film Benya Krik, a project that attracted Harrogate-born Robin Harris for its fusion of comedy, tenderness and urgent political drama.

Sun 18 July Crown Hotel | 8pm

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Tickets: £15 Unreserved U25s: £5 “The live soundtrack, deeply infused with klezmer, brings the story and its bittersweet humour to life.”

Simon Broughton, Songlines Magazine

Showstopper!

The Improvised Musical Sat 17 July Harrogate Theatre | 8pm Tickets: Dress Circle and Stalls £16 Balcony £11, Box £16 A sell-out success at the Edinburgh Festival for the last two years, Showstopper! offers everything you could want from a blockbuster musical, it just happens to be made up on the spot.

Become part of the creation of a hit show from your seats as the Showstopper! take audience suggestions for a title, storylines and musical styles and then create a musical from scratch.

“I sat weeping with joy and laughter - and the audience reacted as if it was the first night of Gypsy - hilarious entertainment by the brilliant Showstoppers.” Whatsonstage.com 44

Once banned and seldom screened, the 1926 Russian film is the thrilling story of Jewish gangsters embroiled in a Bolshevik trap during the Russian Revolution. Following sell-out successes in London and Paris, this is a rare chance to see eight of the UK’s finest klezmer musicians on piano, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin and drums. Experience a dazzling combination of Yiddish folk, classical Russian influences, klezmer and Eastern jazz.

Oddsocks Productions

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Music, magic and mayhem in the gardens!

Take a picnic to the delightful Harlow Carr gardens and feast on thespian frolics.

It would be a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions to miss out on the Festival’s favourite annual treat! Enjoyed by all the family, this year they’ll be performing Shakespeare’s most-popular and much-loved comedy featuring the mischievous Puck, the ass that is Bottom, three pairs of bickering lovers and a cast of fairies in a moonlit forest.

A magical experience in the enchanted gardens of Harlow Carr - perfect for a Midsummer’s evening!

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Tue 20 July RHS Garden: Harlow Carr | 7.30pm

Wed 21 July RHS Garden: Harlow Carr | 7.30pm Tickets: Adults £16.50, Children 7-16 £10 Children under 7 £3 Group Discount £12 Entry to advance bookers from 6.30pm, tickets bought on the door access will be from 7pm.

Seating is unreserved and not provided.

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Fri 23 July

Dance Workshop:

Find the Rhythm Tonight!

Fri 23 July Royal Hall | 2.30pm Tickets: £8

Royal Hall | 8pm Tickets: £25, £19, £15 U25s: £5 Composer, pianist, performer, arranger and educator, Alex Wilson is one of the UK’s leading Latin music producers.

Wilson will discuss his work with salsa music, while an experienced salsa dancer and instructor, Lee Knights, gives a dance demonstration and masterclass.

Both are passionate about teaching salsa as a path to self-expression or as the Cubans say, your personal “sabor” or flavour. This is a great event to prepare for a sizzling night of music and dance later that day.

Alex Wilson and Salsa Mambo Strip down your soul, and get into some serious rhythms with our sizzling salsa night! Alex Wilson, the 2010 Festival Artist in Residence, will be joined on stage by his nine-piece band, so get ready to hit the dance floor. Wilson has released six solo albums with his latest, Salsa con Soul, becoming a worldwide hit on the salsa scene - a favourite of the salsa dance clubs regularly charting on DJ lists.

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Ticket Hotline: 0845 130 8840

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MusicLiteratureArt:Fringe

An evening with: Bob Harris, Jackson-Webber & special guest July 14 Harrogate Theatre

Fear of Music with David Stubbs of The Wire/Uncut magazines.

July 24 The Harrogate Club

Robin Williamson (ex-Incredible String Band) plus Karl Culley July 16 St Peter’s Church

John Otway: Making Success Out of Failure & Chris Simpson of Magna Carta reads Fields of Eden July 25 The Harrogate Club

Poems, Prose & Pints: Creative Writing Workshop & guest writer.

July 17 & 21 The Harrogate Club Codebreakers: The Story of Enigma July 17 Harrogate Theatre

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An Evening with Field Music July 29 Harrogate Theatre

RedHouse presents Music To My Eyes; a Rock n Roll Exhibition July 23-25 108 Fine Art Gallery, Crown Place

Festival Fringe Crawl: Indie Rock Day July 31 Monteys/Blues Bar/ Rehab/Crabtrees/ St Peter’s Church

Kamamica’s Tribute to Gershwin July 23 Harrogate Theatre

Ralph McTell July 31 Harrogate Theatre

All details correct at time of going to press

Just some of the fringe highlights for 2010 Harrogate International Festival has excelled in classical music and more since it was founded in 1966. Its new offshoot the Fringe hopes to achieve similar standards in the exciting crossover between music, literature and art. The Fringe aims to explore modern ideas in some of this Victorian town’s most famous spaces and venues - The Harrogate Club, St Peter’s Church, Harrogate Theatre, the Blues Bar. . .and a secret outdoor location!

No longer lingering in the shadows - music, literature, art and more. . .the Fringe will be whatever you want it to be. To help get the party going, we’ve programmed a wide variety of special events in the heart of Harrogate.

Feel free to get involved, add events of your own, shake things up.

Ticket Hotline: 0845 130 8840

Esoteric Electronica with Primate Engineer.

July 28 The Harrogate Club

Showstopper!

The Improvised Musical July 17 Harrogate Theatre

Alex Wilson July 23 Royal Hall

It’s your Fringe.

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Almias: Anthropology/art/ music with Phil Legard.

July 25 Secret Harrogate Location

Graham Chalmers Artistic Director, Harrogate International Festival Fringe

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Summerfestival Special Ticket Offers music | literature | arts | fringe | culture Under 25s £5 tickets For most Festival events a number of tickets will be available to under-25s for just £5, giving access to some of the best seats in the house. Tickets must be booked in advance and proof of age will be requested at the performance.

Ticket Hotline: 0845 130 8840 Book online: www.harrogate-festival.org.uk

A Kid for a Quid!

Bring a child (aged 16 or under) to an event for only £1! Available when booked with a full price adult ticket.

Limited numbers available.

Young Musicians Book any three concerts in the acclaimed Young Musicians Series and enjoy 20% discount off your purchase.

Group Bookings Parties of five or more booking their tickets in one transaction receive a 10% discount on their tickets. Groups of ten or more receive a 20% discount on their tickets. Please note that this cannot be used with any other offers.

Concessions All tickets are available at 30% discount to unemployed students in full-time education and those under 18 years old. Appropriate identification must be shown. Subject to availability. Please note that this cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers.

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Summerfestival Booking Information music | literature | arts | fringe | culture You can book your tickets • • •

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By phone on 0845 130 8840 from 10am – 5pm, Monday to Saturday Online at www.harrogate-festival.org.uk In person at the Festival Box Office, from 10am – 5pm, Monday to Saturday By post to Harrogate International Centre, Kings Road, Harrogate HG1 5LA Or at the Town Centre Box Office, 11am – 3pm Monday – Saturday from 3 July and Sundays during the Festival

Booking fees Bookings are managed by the Harrogate International Centre Box Office on behalf of the Festival.

Souvenir Programme The essential full colour guide with full details, biographies and programme notes of all Festival events will be available at concerts for £4. Reserve your copy in advance for only £3 when you book your tickets at the Box Office.

You will receive a programme voucher with your tickets to exchange for a Programme Book at the first event you attend or at the Town Centre Box Office from 3 July.

Gift Vouchers Why not treat a friend or a relative to an event at the Festival? Gift Vouchers are available from the Festival Box Office for all Festival promotions, priced at £20, £10 or £5.

General Enquiries:

Please note Harrogate International Centre charges 10% booking fee on tickets bought by cheque and credit/debit card for a single event and on ALL online purchases

Festival Office, Raglan House, Raglan Street, Harrogate, HG1 1LE

Tel: 01423 562303

The booking fee is reduced to 5% if tickets for more than one event are purchased in a single transaction by phone or in person.

Visitors with Disabilities

info@harrogate-festival.org.uk

Box Office staff can help with advice and information about all the venues we use.

All venues have wheelchair access and we offer free tickets for accompanying carers for events in the Harrogate International Centre and the Royal Hall. This venue is also fitted with induction loops. For deaf or hearing impaired customers, the Box Office offers a TypeTalk service; call 0800 959598 and request extension 7226.

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Royal Hall

Reservations Must be paid for within 48 hours of booking and at least 24 hours prior to the performance.

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Tickets on the door Hotel du Vin

Will be sold at the venue 45 minutes prior to the performance, subject to availability.

The Box Office cannot refund money nor exchange tickets, except in the case of a cancelled performance. We are happy to re-sell returned tickets for sold out concerts.

A 10% handling charge will deducted from your refund.

Latecomers: Out of courtesy to both performers and audiences, latecomers to performances will not be admitted until a suitable break, which may not be until the first interval.

A large print version of this event guide can be ordered by calling 01423 562303.

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West Park

Returned Tickets

TO RHS GARDEN HARLOW CARR

All information in the brochure is correct at the time of going to print. Harrogate International Festival reserves the right to make such alterations as may become necessary.

The Harrogate International Festival is a registered charity, no. 244861

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Summerfestival Community& Education music | literature | arts | fringe | culture

Since 2005, Harrogate International Festivals has worked with over 6,000 disadvantaged young people. We believe that music and the arts have the power to change lives and empower young people.

Our projects take place across the Harrogate District, including Ripon, Nidderdale and Boroughbridge. By working in harmony with schools, youth workers, Extended Schools Services and a range of other partners, we aim to enrich the lives of young people in all areas of the district.

Musical Mums is a weekly singing group for teenage mums and babies that allows early years to access the beneďŹ ts of music from a very early age, and offers relaxing, fun social time for young mothers. The project is now in its third year, and will soon be developing a new group in Catterick.

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Our longstanding world music programme, Global Villages, has brought international cultures to children in rural North Yorkshire, ranging from Indian classical music to Brazilian samba drumming and everything in between! This touring half term project aims to teach young people about world cultures through funky rhythms and unusual instruments.

Divas & DJs is an urban music project that offers participants the chance to be a rock star! Young people can write their own songs, play instruments, DJ, MC, dance, mix computer music tracks and much more. The project culminates in a performance for family and friends where participants show off their new skills.

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