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PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL | 21-27 AUGUST 2014
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21-27 August 2014
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Situated in an intimate town in the Welsh Marches, the Presteigne Festival has become a mecca for those seeking artistic nourishment and musical discovery. With a forward-looking commissioning policy, the organisation works closely with composers and artists to create and curate an inspiring programme of events for an ever-widening Festival community.
Having greatly extended its artistic reach over the last four years, to be seen clearly in the development of both the performance programme and outreach activity, the Presteigne Festival continues to forge ahead with a wide range of exciting new ventures.
The 2014 programme has a particularly strong Polish flavour; with other exciting ingredients including Stephen McNeff as composer-in-residence, a seventy-fifth birthday tribute for John McCabe and the inclusion of music from Welsh composers in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.
We also have a strong crop of commissions, with special prominence given to vocal and choral pieces – a new Requiem for soloists, chorus and orchestra from PaweÅ‚ Åukaszewski, an unaccompanied choral work from Lynne Plowman and a song cycle – Lie Still by Toby Young to words of Dylan Thomas. A string quartet – And the Snow did Lie from Hilary Tann, a work for clarinet and piano from Daniel Kidane (the 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society/Presteigne Festival Alan Horne memorial commission) and a new Oboe Concerto by Stephen McNeff.