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2021 EVENT GUIDE 21ST – 27TH JUNE
2021
★★★★★
The Northern Aldborough Festival is a minor miracle
– world class musicians performing in intimate venues
HARROGATE ADVERTISER
2021
WELCOME
“We have been resting so that we are fresh for
tomorrow.”
No, not Shakespeare, but Australian former cricket
captain Ricky Ponting.
The sentiment of a fresh re-awakening following
a ‘rest’ seems apt. The prospect of a return to live
music has been eagerly embraced by the Northern
Aldborough Festival, and we have pulled out all the
stops with a stellar line-up.
Gracing the programme are ‘Britain’s most loved
soprano’ Lesley Garrett, the former Communard
turned cleric Reverend Richard Coles and the
Russian virtuoso violinist Viktoria Mullova, who
appears with her son, rising jazz star Misha
Mullov-Abbado. Alongside these household names
are younger musicians receiving a platform early in
their careers, something the Festival has endeavoured
to provide since its inception in 1994.
From the opening night performance by oboist
Nicholas Daniel’s Haffner Ensemble to the Last
Night’s 80s themed revelry the 2021 Northern
Aldborough Festival promises an exhilarating
ambience, all the sweeter for the novelty of the live,
shared musical experience.
While the quality of the musical offering will be
ensured, so will the welfare and comfort of our
audience, and therefore numbers will be limited
and other measures taken to allow for safe, social
distancing. We urge you to book early to guarantee
your place!
Robert Ogden
Artistic Director
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THE HAFFNER ENSEMBLE
Nicholas Daniel OBE (Oboe), Joy Farrall (Clarinet),
Sarah Burnett (Bassoon), Martin Owen (Horn)
& Danny Driver (Piano)
MONDAY 21ST JUNE 7.30PM
St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough YO51 9EP
The Haffner Wind Ensemble, founded by world
renowned oboist Nicholas Daniel OBE, is one of
Britain’s leading chamber ensembles and one of the most
established wind quintets in Britain.
Sponsored by Olav & Elizabeth Arnold
The festival piano is sponsored by The Wick Trust
nicholasdaniel.co.uk/haffner-wind-ensemble/ | dannydriver.com
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Each member of the ensemble is a chamber musician and a soloist as
well as a principal of the Britten Sinfonia. The breadth of their musical
experience as individuals and their extensive work together in the
Britten Sinfonia combine to create a secure and fluent ensemble, one
which plays with freshness and vivacity and which excels not only in
the classics of the wind repertoire but also in contemporary music.
They are joined by internationally acclaimed pianist Danny Driver.
The mouthwatering programme will include
Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat
Opus 16 and Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds
in E flat K.452
★★★★★
‘The Haffner Wind Ensemble is as
flexible of tone as it is of instrumental
line-up and, under the presiding force
of oboist Nicholas Daniel OBE, this...
concert offered the treat of unusual
repertoire played with great flair’
THE GUARDIAN
‘The Haffner Wind Ensemble... played
with an infectious zest... immediately
engaging...brilliantly played.’
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Sponsored by Olav & Elizabeth Arnold
The festival piano is sponsored by The Wick Trust
nicholasdaniel.co.uk/haffner-wind-ensemble/ | dannydriver.com
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KINDRED SPIRITS: 4 Hands, 1 Piano
Emma Abbate &
Julian Perkins (Pianists)
TUESDAY 22ND JUNE 7.30PM
St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough YO51 9EP
Two leading pianists, the British Baroque specialist Julian
Perkins and the Italian pianist Emma Abbate combine at
one piano in a mouth-watering programme.
Programme to include: broad repertoire that ranges from J.C.
Bach to the present day, and they have
Grieg: Norwegian Dances Opus 35
given recitals on original instruments
Mozart: Andante with Variations
for the Finchcocks Charity, at
for four hands in G major K.501
Hatchlands Park and the Russell
Rachmaninov: Polka Italienne,
Collection. They have recently released
Scherzo Opus 11.
the second volume of Mozart’s
Emma and Julian have given complete piano duets on period
keyboard duet recitals at many instruments for Resonus Classics.
prestigious UK venues including the This album was the first to be recorded
Royal Opera House, St John’s Smith on the newly formed Richard Burnett
Square and St George’s Bristol. The Heritage Collection of Early Keyboard
varied sound world of historical Instruments and has been highly
pianos inspires their approach to a praised by BBC Music Magazine.
Sponsored by Gore Browne Investment Management
The festival piano is sponsored by The Wick Trust
emmaabbate.com | julianperkins.com
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YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE
Emilia Jaques (Soprano), Alexander Abrahams (Piano),
Annabelle Dowell (Flute), Ava Brûlé-Walker (viola)
& Penny Stirling (Accompanist)
WEDNESDAY 23RD JUNE 11.00AM
St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough YO51 9EP
The Northern Aldborough Festival is proud to present
four of Yorkshire’s most talented young musicians,
ranging in age from fifteen to eighteen years old.
Currently attending Ampleforth College, soprano Emilia Jaques won
the BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year 2018 and recently
appeared on a Friday Night is Music Night Christmas Special with
Alfie Boe. Pianist Alexander Abrahams is a pupil at Ripon Grammar
School and as a member of the select group of Yorkshire Young
Musicians, recently scooped the top piano prize at the Ripon Young
Musicians of the Year competition. Just 15 years old and the daughter
of a flautist, Annabelle Dowell is a Class A winner at the British Flute
Society Competitions. Violist Ava Brûlé-Walker heads to the famed
Purcell School in September for her sixth form studies.
Sponsored by The Wick Trust
The festival piano is sponsored by The Wick Trust
See special arrangements
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AN EVENING WITH
the Reverend Richard Coles
(Musician, Journalist & Church of England
Parish Priest)
WEDNESDAY 23RD JUNE 7.30PM
St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough YO51 9EP
The Reverend Richard Coles needs little
introduction, and is often described as Britain’s
most famous vicar, and was the inspiration for
the BBC hit comedy Rev.
Cleric, broadcaster and the instrumentalist half of the hit
80s pop duo The Communards, Richard co-presents BBC
Radio 4’s Saturday Live and BBC One’s The Big Painting
Challenge. He is a regular contributor to panel shows such
as QI , Would I Lie To You? and Have I Got News For You.
In 2016 he indulged a passion for fine cuisine by taking part
in Celebrity Masterchef, and he also joined the line-up of
Strictly Come Dancing in 2017. He is Parish Priest of St
Mary’s Church, Finedon.
Sponsored by Ogden of Harrogate
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WILLIAM BRACKEN
(Piano)
THURSDAY 24TH JUNE 11.00AM
St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough YO51 9EP
Pianist William Bracken is just nineteen years old but
has already achieved many of his ambitions, including
performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at
Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall, and winning first prize at
several international competitions.
Born into a musical family, he Programme to include:
began playing at four and his
Beethoven’s Sonata Opus 81a
studies have taken him first to the
‘Les Adieux’
Royal Northern College of Music
and then the Guildhall, where he Liszt’s Ballade No. 2 S.171
studies with Ronan O’Hara and
Martin Roscoe. William is also a Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
keen jazz performer, composer ★★★★★
and arranger.
‘I was very fortunate to see a
young pianist [William Bracken]
of immense talent playing at an
event today.’
EDWARDIAN PIANO BLOG
Sponsored by The G C Armitage Charitable Trust
The festival piano is sponsored by The Wick Trust
See special arrangements
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LESLEY GARRETT CBE (Soprano)
& ANNA TILBROOK (Piano)
THURSDAY 24TH JUNE 7.30PM
St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough YO51 9EP
Britain’s most loved soprano, Lesley Garrett needs little
introduction. Born in a Yorkshire colliery town, she first
rose to prominence at English National Opera, and during
her career has released more than a dozen bestselling
albums, performed on the world’s biggest stages and with
every leading orchestra. She appears at the Northern
Aldborough Festival with her regular accompanist
Anna Tilbrook, a repeat visitor to the Festival.
Sponsored by The G C Armitage Charitable Trust
The festival piano is sponsored by The Wick Trust
lesleygarrett.co.uk | annatilbrook.co.uk
10 BOX OFFICE ENQUIRIES festival@aldborough.comThe highly successful soprano She debuted at the 1980 Wexford
Lesley Garrett has led a career Festival in Mozart’s singspiel Zaide.
embracing not just opera and other She has sung with all the UK’s
serious music, but light classics, leading opera companies and
Broadway fare, and television was English National Opera’s
and radio appearances (as singer Principal soprano.
and host), making her a familiar
As her fame grew, Garrett’s
figure in her homeland and placing
television and radio appearances
her among the country’s most
became more frequent and she has
prominent crossover artists. Her
appeared on the BBC, ITV and has
repertory is amazingly broad,
hosted ITV Classical BRIT awards.
taking in operas by Handel, Mozart,
Offenbach, Chabrier, Verdi and ★★★★★
Janácek, as well as numbers from ‘She’s a down-to-earth Northerner...
Bernstein’s West Side Story, Styne’s she’s incredibly funny and emotional,
Funny Girl, Kander’s Cabaret, with a glorious voice.’
Berlin’s Puttin’ on the Ritz and
movie hits by Henry Mancini, LYNDA LEE-POTTER,
Harold Arlen and many others. DAILY MAIL
Garrett was born on April 10, 1955 ‘There were two exhilarating
in the village of Thorne, South production numbers for Lesley
Yorkshire, graduated from London’s Garrett...Huge fun: Garrett was, is
Royal Academy of Music and and always will be a star.’
immediately went on to win the RODNEY MILNES,
prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Prize. OPERA MAGAZINE
Sponsored by The G C Armitage Charitable Trust
The festival piano is sponsored by The Wick Trust
lesleygarrett.co.uk | annatilbrook.co.uk
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MUSIC WE LOVE
Viktoria Mullova (Violin) with
Misha Mullov-Abbado (Bass, Composer & Arranger)
FRIDAY 25TH JUNE 7.30PM
St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough YO51 9EP
One of the world’s greatest violin virtuosos,
Viktoria Mullova works regularly with
the period ensembles such as Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment, Il Giardino
Armonico and Accademia Bizantina as well
as appearing each season with international
orchestras and conductors.
viktoriamullova.com | mishamullovabbado.com
12 BOX OFFICE ENQUIRIES festival@aldborough.comJazz bassist, composer and arranger Viktoria either plays on her
Misha comes from an impeccable ‘Jules Falk’ 1723 Stradivarius
musical heritage, his parents or a Guadagnini violin.
being the legendary conductor
★★★★★
Claudio Abbado and Viktoria
Mullova. A 2017 BBC Radio 3 ‘She is simply a fabulous
New Generation Artist, Misha instrumentalist, with a mixture
is an accomplished bandleader of physical agility and mental
and a versatile sideman who has concentration that the numerous
performed at London’s landmark young pretenders could still learn
venues including Ronnie Scott’s, from.’
Pizza Express and Royal Albert THE TELEGRAPH
Hall. Misha is an experienced
composer and is influenced by jazz, ‘Mullov-Abbado couples a melodic
classical and pop music. gift with a mature balance of complex
orchestration and jazz looseness...an
Together Viktoria and Misha impressive debut.’
have created a programme that THE GUARDIAN
will include arrangements by
composers such as Bach and Please note there will be no
Schumann, contemporary jazz, interval during this performance.
original music and arrangements
from around the world.
viktoriamullova.com | mishamullovabbado.com
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LAST NIGHT OUTDOOR CONCERT
The Rozzers & So 80s
SATURDAY 26TH JUNE 6.00PM
The Grounds of Aldborough Manor YO51 9EP
The Northern Aldborough Festival
closes in style with the UK’s no. 1
tribute to Sting and The Police, in
the stunning grounds of Aldborough
Manor. Guests are free to picnic in the
grounds and watch the entertainment
on the main stage. The evening is
capped with a spectacular orchestrated
firework display.
The Police were arguably the hottest group on the
planet during their short career (1977 - 1983).
Who can forget the classics Every Breath You Take,
Message In A Bottle, Walking On The Moon, Can’t
Stand Losing You and So Lonely? The Rozzers
recreate every nuance of the Police’s live show,
delivering all these hits, along with much of Sting’s
enviable solo catalogue (Fields of Gold) with
incredible authenticity.
Opening for this world beating tribute is one of
the most entertaining acts you will see all year -
Cambridge’s So 80s. Armed with a keyboard, two
microphones, a light show and a killer backing track
they tackle a dizzying variety of 80s repertoire, some
of it extremely unexpected, complete with high
energy dance moves!
By kind permission of Sir Andrew & Lady Lawson-Tancred
Sponsored by Reed Boardall Limited
The fireworks are sponsored by TL Dallas
See special arrangements
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THE FESTIVAL SERVICE
Northern Aldborough Festival Voices
SUNDAY 27TH JUNE 10.45AM
St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough YO51 9EP
Northern Aldborough Festival Voices provide moving
choral music by English Renaissance composer William
Byrd for the Festival Eucharist.
William Byrd wrote his three Byrd wrote his Mass for Four
famous masses, for three, four and Voices in 1592, the first of the
five voices, in complete secrecy trilogy to be composed, and its
and with the constant threat of intensely personal dialectic makes
exposure and punishment as a it one of his greatest masterpieces.
Catholic dissident hanging over There are moments of truly
him. No composer had set the surpassing beauty, such as the ‘dona
Latin mass texts in England since nobis pacem’ in the Agnus Dei, that
the reign of Queen Mary Tudor, were perhaps unmatched in any of
some decades before, and to work his other compositional output.
with the essentially Catholic
This beautiful mass is combined
words of the Mass while avoiding
with two stunning motets by
detection by Elizabeth I’s secret
Byrd, the Ave Verum and
police was risky in the extreme.
Sacerdotes Domini.
See special arrangements
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TICKET BOOKINGS
TICKETS GO ON SALE 4TH May 2021
www.aldboroughfestival.com
Due to to the Coronavirus pandemic, the 2021 Northern Aldborough
Festival might feel a little different. All concerts will take place in
St. Andrew’s Church, Aldborough YO51 9EP.
At time of print we are hoping that social distancing restrictions will ease
from 21ST June 2021. However, to enable us to plan properly for your own
and our volunteers’ safety, we will be restricting audience numbers in the
church.
Please read the guidelines below before making your booking. However,
these may be subject to change according to the government regulations in
force at any time.
• BOOKINGS CAN BE MADE ONLINE ONLY
Tickets will not be available on the door.
• Please book tickets only for those in your household bubble.
• In the event that social distancing remains, the Northern
Aldborough Festival reserves the right to change the seating plan
and/or refund tickets in the event that more space between seats
is required.
• Any refunds will be made strictly in order of purchase (i.e. the last
order purchased will be the first to be refunded).
• All Covid-19 guidelines must be adhered to. Please wear a mask
and socially distance if current national guidelines require it.
• Due to changing government regulations the programme and
event guidelines are subject to change, so please keep an eye on
our website.
• Tickets are non-refundable (other than in the circumstances
outlined above).
Tickets to all evening concerts in Aldborough Church are allocated.
All morning concerts are on a first come first served basis. Tickets for
accompanied 16 & under are free for all morning concerts, but tickets
MUST be booked (proof of age may be required, please bring to the
concert). For more information, please read our Terms & Conditions.
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TICKET BOOKINGS
HOW TO BOOK
FRIENDS
Friends of the Northern Aldborough Festival enjoy a one week priority
booking period from 26TH April 2021. Friends’ membership can be
purchased online at: www.aldboroughfestival.co.uk/support/friends/
ONLINE
Please note there is no booking form in this brochure, and all tickets must
be booked online at: www.aldboroughfestival.com
HELP WITH YOUR BOOKING
Due to the pandemic we are unable to deal with enquiries or process
bookings over the telephone or by post. If you need help with your
booking, please email: festival@aldborough.com
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GENERAL INFORMATION
& SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS
DIRECTIONS, provided and signposted off the
York road. There will be no parking
PARKING & provided in Aldborough village.
ACCESSIBILITY
FOOD & DRINK
For directions to our venues,
please visit our website: We hope that The Shed and the
www.aldboroughfestival.com Festival Marquee are able to be offer
or email: festival@aldborough.com refreshments, but this is subject to
national Covid-19 guidelines.
Parking is provided at our venues
and will be clearly signposted. FESTIVAL MARQUEE
Please park with consideration for
local residents. The Festival Marquee is generously
sponsored by Andrew and Cathy
If you have any specific needs, and Kitchingman.
particularly if you use a wheelchair,
please make us aware at the time Advent Catering, the official
of booking and we will do our best Northern Aldborough Festival
to help. Caterer is offering a fully licensed
cash bar from 6pm prior to
MORNING CONCERTS performances in the church.
Interval drinks may be pre-ordered.
The Friends of the Northern
Aldborough Festival will be THE SHED
serving refreshments following
the morning concerts and The Shed (a late night piano bar)
Festival Service. was introduced in 2018 and is
designed to continue the Festival
LAST NIGHT fun after the performance. We hope
that The Shed will be able to open
Please see our website for this year, Covid-19 regulations
more details of the last night permitting, and if so, details will be
arrangements and Do’s & Don’ts. announced to all ticketholders in
Please note, ample parking is advance of the Festival.
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www.boroughbridge.org.uk
★★★★★
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