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Aldeburgh Festival highlights
Violet – New opera for the festival’s opening night Friday June 3. It will
be re-staged on Sunday June 5.
Houses Slide – a music/theatre piece by Laura Bowler which
addresses the climate crisis and is powered by 16 bicycles
Nicola Benedetti – Thursday June 9 the superstar violinist performs
music from Bach to jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, before performing
Bartok duos with fellow violinist Yuma Fujise. Nicola Benedetti will be
performing with Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective at Blythburgh
Church on Wednesday June 15, followed by Quartet for the End of
Time on Saturday June 18 and unveiling the Benedetti Baroque
Orchestra on Saturday June 26.
Britten Sinfonia – The orchestra will be performing two concerts on
Sunday June 19. The Recycling Concerto has been created by
percussionist Vivi Vassileva and composer-conductor Gregor A.
Mayrhofer and is performed on hundreds of pieces of rubbish collected
and created into an array of tuned and untuned percussion
instruments. Later, in the evening they and the Britten Sinfonia will be
performing Bushra El-Turk’s new percussion concerto and Beethoven’s
Pastoral Symphony.
