The 2024 Ryedale Festival runs from 12 to 28 July, featuring 58 performances in 35 locations including Castle Howard, Sledmere, Hovingham Hall, Selby Abbey and Ampleforth. The festival features seven world and UK premieres.
The Van Baerle Trio’s residency at the festival features the UK premieres of Gabriel Prokofiev’s Piano Trio No. 1 and Rob Zuidam’s Tritypch, Julian Anderson’s Ice Quartet receives its UK premiere performed by the Piatti Quartet, Kian Ravaei’s Gulistan, which explores his Iranian heritage, given its UK premiere by mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, and Barron is also presenting her new project, Spring Snow, a ground-breaking project that intertwines the narratives of Schubert’s Winterreise and the Japanese Kabuki play Yasuna, with dancer Suleiman Suleiman, and shamisen player Hibiki Ichikawa. The Marian Consort is giving the world premiere of a new work by Sarah Frances Jenkins inspired by the pre-Raphaelite designs of Castle Howard’s chapel where the work is being performed, along with music by Laurence Osborn.
Other performers include artist in residence, horn player Felix Klieser, who is playing chamber music plus Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, violinist Rachel Podger who tours a solo programme to intimate and beautiful venues across the region, and Angela Hewitt in Bach and Beethoven, plus many more.
Beyond classical music, Claire Martin celebrates the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, while folk group The Unthanks visit Malton’s Milton Rooms.
Full details from the festival’s website.
