3 concerts in Newnham and Faversham  SUMMARY:

Musique Cordiale in Kent 2019 FLYER

Gradually the heat and musical memories of the magnificent 2019 festival in Provence have ebbed. But we are planning another weekend of ‘music & rencontre cordiale’  in November.  Graham Ross (director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge and our choral maestro in the summer over several years) is conducting again and we will have, as usual, a Musique Cordiale orchestra made up of terrific players (though on a smaller scale than in the Festival  – to suit Handel’s original idea for the Messiah).  We are thrilled that two of this summer’s soloists, Dima Bawab and Freddie Long, will be joining us as well as Aidan Coburn, a favourite from last year, and we are excited to welcome Katie Bray, audience prize winner at the Cardiff Singer of the World 2019, who joins us for the Mezzo role this time. Our orchestra is again led by Colette Overdijk, currently of the City of Birmingham Symphony, and she will perform with other familiar Musique-Cordiale musicians in a Mozart String Quartet on Friday when the choir will also sing an international a capella selection as well as the Messiah on Saturday. Our final concert also features Dima and Aidan, accompanied by the formidable pianist, Toby Hession, and is in honour of Sir Roger Moate, a great supporter of Musique Cordiale who hosted our musicians after the Faversham concert in 2018 but who died this Spring. The concert takes place in the lovely Assembly Rooms whose restoration was one of his achievements (along with the peel of bells in Newnham church). Not everyone agreed with his position on Europe but he was a lovely and loyal friend of Faversham, Newnham and of Musique-Cordiale.

• Fri evening 15 Nov  ” A cappella” delights from the Festival Choir, director Graham Ross (Church of St Peter & St Paul, NEWNHAM);
• Sat evening, 6 Nov  Handel’s MESSIAH, conducted by Graham Ross, music director, Clare College, Cambridge with the Festival Choir and its fabulous Orchestra, and with some of the most talented young soloists currently to be found singing in Britain (St Mary of Charity Church, FAVERSHAM);
• Sun morning, 17 Nov RECITAL in memory of Sir Roger Moate:   Dima Bawab, soprano, & Aidan Coburn, tenor, with Toby Hession, piano: SEE BELOW for full details of this lovely Sunday morning event  (Assembly Rooms, FAVERSHAM)

SCHEDULE details for this year’s 3 AUTUMN CONCERTS

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