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sometime trio’s violinist and cellist Anthony Marwood and Richard Lester, the Sussex
festival it established flourishes still. Guests for 2024 include the Barbican Piano Quartet

and Britten Sinfonia. Peasmarsh’s Church of St Peter & St Paul hosts an eclectic programme
spanning Byrd and Tallis to Elliott Carter and Valentin Silvestrov, while an excursion to Rye

culminates in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1.

Penarth Chamber Music Festival

Penarth, South Wales, 27-30 June
penarthchambermusicfestival.org.uk

It all started with a sound check 10 years ago. And so was born a festival with a unique
selling point: home is the Pavilion at the end of Penarth Pier. But not exclusively so in this

special anniversary year – a Cardiff Gala features soprano Rebecca Evans and conductor
Carlo Rizzi in the closing scene from Richard Strauss’s Capriccio (cut down to size by David

Matthews).

A late-night sequel samples Poulenc, Ligeti and Britten; while the last day references
Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon and actor Sam West’s Flat Holm Island Discs – played live

by an ensemble led by festival directors, violinist David Adams and cellist Alice Neary.

Best UK classical music festivals: July 2024

JAM on the Marsh Festival

Romney Marsh, Kent, 4-14 July
jamconcert.org
In its more than 20 years of existence, JAM has premiered nearly 200 works, and as it

returns to Romney Marsh, new music by John Frederick Hudson and Joseph Phibbs
touches Kentish base. Tenor Mark Padmore makes his JAM debut during one of three

concerts by the London Mozart Players. So too does Stephen Layton conducting the Holst
Singers, and the class of 1934 teaches the chamber music strand a thing or two.

Buxton International Festival

Buxton, 4-21 July
buxtonfestival.co.uk
Go for the opera. Stay for the chamber music, jazz, dance, or the Pavilion Arts Centre’s love

affair with books. There’s more to Buxton’s allure than the opera productions that slip so
seductively into Frank Matcham’s intimate theatre.

Peter Brook’s pared-back Bizet Carmen heralds a new production of Verdi’s Ernani, Handel
and Haydn, plus Ethel Smyth’s Boatswain’s Mate, which puts to sea directed by Nick Bond.