Founded in 2009, cellist Natalie Clein’s Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival is celebrating Youth and Experience in its 2024 festival which runs from 29 August to 1 September 2024, featuring concerts set in the stunning landscapes of Dorset and the Isle of Purbeck.
Alongside artistic director and cellist, Natalie Clein, performers will include violinists Henning Kraggerud, Priya Mitchell, and Nurit Stark as well as Aoife Ní Bhriain, at home both in the classical repertoire and Irish folk music, plus pianist Einav Yarden who will also be giving a solo recital dedicated to Fathers and Children, composer and viola player Brett Dean, and cellist Tatu Kauppinen, and mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts Dean.
There will be the world premiere of Brett Dean’s I Starred Last Night, I Shone, written for his daughter, Lotte Betts Dean who will be joined by a string trio including Natalie Clein. Brett Dean has also arranged Schumann’s Mary Stuart Song for mezzo-soprano (Lotte Betts Dean) and string quartet. Violinist Henning Kraggerud will perform alongside his daughter Alma Kraggerud also a violinist making a name for herself, and her brothers Franz and Hector on piano and cello. All the string players in the festival will be joining together to perform Mendelssohn’s Octet/
Full details from the festival website.
