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Among the highlights, the UK cathedrals of Norwich and Gloucester host atmospheric
performances, while the US mountain ranges of Colorado and Idaho draw such top names

as Yo-Yo Ma and Renée Fleming. Not to be outdone, the historic cities of Prague and
Amsterdam each muster 50 pianos to stage Georg Friedrich Haas’s 11,000 Saiten. And not

forgotten are this year’s birthday boys – Holst, Puccini and Bruckner – who, from Granada
to Matsumoto, receive due celebration.

Elsewhere we run through the festivals in Europe, the US and Canada, Australia and New
Zealand, and and the rest of the world. But here, we're kicking off with the UK's best
classical music festivals for 2024. Reach for your diary, and prepare to be tempted!

Charlotte Smith Editor

The UK's best classical music festivals in 2024

Best UK classical music festivals: May 2024

Tectonics

Glasgow, 4, 5 May
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Anchored by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Tectonics returns to the Old

Fruitmarket and City Halls at the start of a second decade of genre-bending brio. Co-
curated by conductor Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell, it throws down a gauntlet on

behalf of the new, with an international line-up that includes Japanese experimental rock
band leader Koichi Makigami, New York vocalist Ka Baird and the world premiere of a

piece for orchestra and tape by Charles Uzor. Plus, violinist Ilya Gringolts gives the UK
premieres of works by Sciarrino and Mirela Ivičevič.

Brighton Festival

Brighton, 4-26 May

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Multi-arts Brighton has invited writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce to be this year’s guest director,

and he’s promising ‘a cargo of wonders’ ranging from an installation involving 100 miles of
string to mass table tennis participation.

Among the musical ‘wonders’, the LSO under Antonio
Pappano venture Barber, Ravel and Rachmaninov; at Glyndebourne, harpsichordist Mahan
Esfahani and members of the Britten Sinfonia are immersed in Bach; and asking ‘What’s so

great about opera?’, mezzo Hilary Summers caps ‘I’m a Puccini heroine addict’ with a one-
woman bite-sized version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute