Presteigne Festival: Open Fund for Organisations
The Presteigne Festival board recently cancelled the 2020 Festival. Whilst very sad for our regular audience and all the artists, support staff and volunteers involved, it is imperative that the health and safety of the wider Festival community should be of paramount importance.
In place of the 2020 Festival, the organisation has arranged an exciting alternative, comprising Presteigne Digital (a series of specially-filmed concerts to be streamed via the Festival website), a Winter Festival Weekend and the Festival Orchestra’s first commercial recording project for the Resonus label, spotlighting past Presteigne commissions.
PRESTEIGNE DIGITAL | 24-27 AUGUST
Presteigne Digital runs from 24-27 August and will be available to view at any time after that. It features performances from the Carducci Quartet, Amy Dickson, Christopher Good, Clare Hammond, Tim Horton, Mathilde Milwidsky, Bradley Smith, Oliver Wass and members of Nova Music Opera in repertoire which was to have been featured at the 2020 Festival – six specially commissioned works from Martin Butler, Amelia Clarkson, Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Robin Haigh, Joseph Phibbs and Emma-Ruth Richards, together with a collection of contemporary British pieces and music by Beethoven, Britten, Janáček and Schubert.
PRESTEIGNE WINTER FESTIVAL WEEKEND | 27-29 NOVEMBER
The programme for the first ever Presteigne Winter Festival Weekend will be announced in August. A celebration of string and vocal chamber music supported with literary talks similarly comprises content originally programmed for the 2020 Festival. All events will be performed to a small, socially-distanced audience in St Andrew’s Church, Prestreigne subject to Welsh Government guidelines.