Tune Up For The Buxton Fringe

PRESS RELEASE 10th June 2013

For immediate release

As ever, the selection of music available at the Fringe is wide and varied and offers something for every ear including some fantastic orchestral and instrumental highlights.

Double Fringe Award winners, the Amaretti Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Sinead Hayes, will be performing music including Brandenburg Concerto No 3 by Bach and Barber's Adagio for Strings, High Peak Orchestra's programme features Nielson's Maskarade Overture and Sibelius' Violin Concerto, and North Cheshire Wind Orchestra have a summer festival of tuneful music from England and America, including Elgar and Copland.

Following residential courses, the Derbyshire City and County Youth Orchestra and Intermediate Youth Orchestra perform their summer concerts, The Youth Orchestra including Britten's Sinfonia Da Requiem, and the Intermediate Youth Orchestra concert alongside Sinfonia Viva performing MacCunn's Land of the Mountain and Flood. Returning once again, the Manchester Recorder Orchestra will stretch your musical experience with a wide-ranging, enjoyable programme.

There is a treat in store as soloists from the Northern Chamber Orchestra, who are performing at the Buxton Festival, turn up on the Fringe for a String Quartet Recital. Nick Ward and NCO principals play a Mozart masterpiece, the String Quartet in E flat K428, with Saint-Saens' rarely performed delight, String Quartet No 1. For more string magic the Deconnet String Quartet have Something Old, Something New mixing classics with music from contemporary Manchester composers Patrick Jones and Adrienne Spilsbury, and the Bright String Trio are joined by clarinettist Emma Tennant to play a delightful Lunchtime Chamber Music programme including clarinet quartets with a jazz twist to finish.

For early music there is award-winning ensemble Partita with two different concerts: Celebrating Dowland, and Music from the Time of Rembrandt and Vermeer, 17th-century music from Italy, France, England and Holland, whereas the K'antu Ensemble's Sounds and Songs of Renaissance Europe offers something unique and energetic, with their strange and beautiful instruments of the Renaissance.

Professional pianist James Pelham returns to Buxton with two programmes; in his Piano Variety Evening, there will be something for everyone, from Mozart to Mussorgsky, and in his Baroque Festival a widely varied selection of Baroque keyboard music, performed on a Broadwood grand piano. In John Thomson's Lunchtime Piano Recital, he will play and talk about well-loved classical pieces that have inspired him, including music by Beethoven and Rachmaninov. Rachel Johnson and Jemima Palfreyman offer a varied lunchtime Flute Recital embracing the last three centuries and several countries, while Edward Billingham's Voice of the Guitar makes the most of the guitar's rich and expressive voice.

The Fringe's large and diverse Music section also boasts many vocal highlights - see the website for details.

The Fringe is hugely grateful to its many supporters including its main sponsor The University of Derby Buxton as well as The Osborne Group, High Peak Borough Council, The Old Hall Hotel and The Cavendish Shopping Arcade.

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