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 CONCERT Tickets for the 2014 Festival will be on sale from  1 July 2014. Tickets may be purchased here or in person at the Office de Tourism (Tourist Office) in Seillans from July 1st. Click here for our ticket booking page for online-tickets.

Details of the lunchtime concerts will be here as soon as the programme is established. View lunchtime concerts 2013.

We would like to extend our appreciation to everyone who  helped to make the 2014 Musique Cordiale Festival & Academy possible. This includes all who have contributed time, energy, advice, donations in kind (including food & entertainment, prizes, car-driving and use, free accommodation) or the funds that are vital to make this ambitious enterprise happen. The free […]

We are happy that the music director for 2013 is Graham Ross and we are thrilled that the Ensemble in residence is to be La Nuova Musica, directed by David Bates. Both Graham and David have conducted at Musique Cordiale during past festivals.  More information about them and about our soloists and the leading musicians […]

The 9th annual Musique-Cordiale international festival is scheduled to take place from 6-17 August 2013 with the Academy assembling in the previous week and rehearsals beginning on 4 August. The festival features 20 concerts, of which 9, including the “amuse bouche” opening concert and the jazz concert in Saint-Raphaël, will be free. Venues are the […]

Download Admission Form  (translations into French, German and Dutch: please contact us: traductions en néerlandais, en allemand et en français disponible: s’il vous plaît contactez-nous.vertaling naar het Nederlands, Duits & Frans beschikbaar; gelieve ons te contacteren )  Download Flyer here 2014 Academy starts 1 August 2014. Full details here soon. Bookings from December 2013  Musique Cordiale Academy 3 […]

 2013:  CONCERTS 2, 4, 7, 10, 15 & 18 We will continue to use the Chappelle Notre Dame de l’Ormeau, one of the most beautiful monuments in Seillans, for free Lunch-time concerts. The 12th century Chapelle de l’Ormeaut, lies at the southern entrance to the village, opposite the old railway station, which was once part […]

Between 6 and 17 August, there is to be a full and diverse programme of 17 concerts during the 2013 festival. The expanded  Academy for young and talented music students will take place for a week from 3-10 August and the orchestra & La Nuova Musica, our ensemble in residence for 2013, will deliver ardent […]

Tom Seligman, a graduate of Cambridge University, Tom studied conducting in Glasgow, London and Amsterdam. Tom conducts regularly for the Royal Ballet in London, having made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2010. He made his Lincoln Center debut conducting Balanchine’s Jewels for New York City Ballet last Autumn, returning in […]

2013: KLAZZ Brothers Classic meets Jazz – rencontre Classique et Jazz  + Michel Tirabosco – Music with a difference  2013 information here soon:  Musique Cordiale Festival jazz concerts this year in Seillans & St Raphael      _______________________________________ The jazz concert at Musique Cordiale 2012 consisted of a piano trio who came together specially for the festival…….. […]

Tuesday 9 August, 21.00 St Raphael Place des Templiers Strawinsky • L’Histoire du Soldat Violin • Peter Liang Narrator • Christopher Widauer, Conductor • Peter Davies Admission free Wednesday 3. August 19hSeillans Place du Valat   Strawinsky • L’Histoire du Soldat Violin• Peter Liang Narrator • Christopher Widauer Conductor • Peter Davies Interval Jazz Jean Marie […]

Seillans is one of the most beautiful villages in the south of France in the hills behind the coast, about an hour from Nice and a little more to Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. It was the home of the artist Max Ernst, who lived there for the last 10 years of his life. Seillans is fast […]

A TRULY EUROPEAN MUSIC FESTIVAL 3 – 13 August 2011 Named as one of the top ten European music festivals in 2010, Musique Cordiale is celebrating its seventh year with a programme more varied and exciting than ever.  This year the festival has a distinctly French flavour, held in Seillans, a small and exquisite French […]

Wednesday 4 August 2010 19h Mons Church Price 20€ / 15€ Baroque Showcase Ensemble Musique Cordiale Handel Concerto Grosso No 5 Haydn Violin Concerto No 1 Bach Brandenburg Concerto tbc Handel Concerto Grosso No. 2 Melinda Stocker – violin Conductor Graham Ross Thursday 5 August 2010 19h Seillans Church – Opening Concert Price 20€ / […]

Jeudi 6 août 2009 Eglise de Mons 19H (15 € & *12 €) «arias baroques» Rameau, Lully, Haendel, Bach Direction: Graham Ross Vendredi 7 août 2009 Église de Seillans 19H (15 € & *12 €) Concert de l’orchestre de chambre Haendel: Ouverture de Giustino Bach: Concerto pour 2 violons Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima Bizet: La […]

Programme Thursday 7th August 2008 Bargemon Church, 19:00 h | 15€ The History of Opera Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Verdi, Gounod, Puccini Soloists: Rosie Bell Elisabeth Drury James Armitage Andrew Staples Christopher Wray In association with Bargemon Lyrique Friday 8th August 2008 Seillans Church, 19:00 h | 15€/12€ Blissfully Baroque Telemann: Concerto for 3 trumpets Albinoni: […]

Sunday 12 August sees the opening concert of the 2007 Musique-Cordiale Festival Musiques en Liberté. This is celebrating its 3rd year with concerts in the lovely villes perchées of Seillans, Mons and Bargemon in the Var in the south of France. Performances this year include large-scale choral concerts, a string quartet, trumpet, oboe and violin […]