Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts 2007:  5th-20th  October 2007 (BK)

 

From the 5th to the 20th of  October 2007 the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts will present an extensive month long programme of outstanding live music, drama, dance and visual art.   A vast array of celebrated artists and events, combining the cream of Welsh and international talent, will be coming to Swansea to make up an exciting season for the event.  With such a wide range of events catering to all tastes there is sure to be something for everyone at this, the largest festival of its kind in Wales.

The Festival will open at the Brangwyn Hall, on  October 5th, with the internationally acclaimed Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, who will perform works by Borodin, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev with pianist Denis Matsuev.

Also at  Brangwyn Hall during the Festival will be three concerts from Festival regulars, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.  The concerts will include music by Mozart, Elgar, Rautavaara and Sibelius and, to mark the 180^th anniversary of Beethoven’s death, his Symphony No.9 in D when the orchestra will be joined by the BBC National Chorus of Wales for the famous choral movement, Ode to Joy.

At Swansea's  Grand Theatre comedy favourite Les Dennis will feature as Truffaldino in a Festival Gala Performance of the classic 18^th century comedy The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, adapted for the Wales Theatre Company by Michael Bogdanov.

Among the Festival events taking place at the Taliesin Arts Centre is Festival Jazz with Pete Long’s Goodmen recreating Benny Goodman’s famous Carnegie Hall Concert of 1938, and two evenings of dance which will consist of contemporary dance from the Polish based Silesian Dance Theatre and the World Premiere of Gloria Days, the latest work by the award winning Welsh dancer and choreographer Marc Rees. This work is inspired by the extraordinary life of the 5^th Marquis of Anglesey, Henry Cyril Paget, known as “The Dancing Marquis”.

At St.Mary’s Church, Swansea, one of the world’s best known choral groups, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, will perform a special programme of English Cathedral Music.

Additional highlights at the Brangwyn Hall will include a Festival Toccata by the celebrated organist Jane Watts, to include the famous Widor Toccata; a concert given by classical guitarist, Rory Russell, the winner of the John Fussell Young Artists Platform and, following highly successful concerts in Europe and Canada, the Allegri String Quartet will perform works by Haydn, Bartok and Beethoven.

Festival Exhibition, an display of displaced contemporary art from Columbia, will open at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery on 5 October at 6.00pm and run throughout the Festival showing the work of 17 artists, which embrace several mediums – photography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, video and installation.

For more details, please visit the Festival web site www.swanseafestival.com

Bill Kenny

Tickets will be on sale for all events from 30 July 2007.   Taliesin Theatre Box Office:  01792 602060/296883
All other events are bookable from The Grand Theatre, Swansea, Box Office:  01792 475715.  

To request a Festival brochure or for further information or photographs, please contact: Hazel Hardy, Freelance Press Associate, on:
Tel: 029 20 626998 Email :  hazel.hardy@uku.co.uk
Or

Susan Croall, Administrator of the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts, on: Tel: 01792 411570 Email:              -        admin@swanseafestival.com

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