Petersfield Musical Festival

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02.10.23 Review: Petersfield Musical Festival’s 2023 choral workshop
07.09.23 Calling all singers – join a choral workshop in Petersfield
03.08.23 Profile: Jeremy Backhouse, conductor – leading the 2023 open choral workshop
26.04.23 Latest news from the Petersfield Musical Festival
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20.02.23 Petersfield Musical Festival tickets are now on sale / download the latest newsletter
22.10.23 Profile: Pam Buckley, the first woman appointed to chair the Petersfield Musical Festival
18.01.23 The 2023 Petersfield Musical Festival aims to reach a broad community
04.01.23 Sue Bint, violinist

The next Petersfield Musical Festival will take place from 15 to 23 March 2024.

For more than a century, the Festival has promoted music-making in and around Petersfield. It now provides a varied programme of choral, orchestral, family and youth concerts, smaller-scale recitals and guest performances. Over 600 local singers and instrumentalists of all ages share the platform with visiting musicians of national and international standing.

The Festival’s Michael Hurd Memorial Fund supports young musicians through grants and events. The Festival takes place at the Petersfield Festival Hall, built for the purpose and officially opened in 1935. The Festival is a registered charity, run for the benefit of the community, not for profit.

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    Petersfield Musical Festival: A Century of English Music
    March 23, 2024
    Elgar: Serenade for stringsDyson: HierusalemIreland: Downland SuiteRutter: Magnificat Festival chorus, with Petersfield and Rogate Choral Societies Milly Forrest, soprano (pictured)Nova Foresta Classical PlayersPaul Spicer, conductor Sir George Dyson was a composer, teacher, broadcaster and author, and the driving force behind...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: The music of Art Blakey
    March 22, 2024
    With the National Youth Jazz Orchestra sextet. View other events in the festival.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Petersfield Orchestra
    March 21, 2024
    Robin Browning, conductorJamie Cochrane, piano (pictured) Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 2Smetana: BlaníkDvořák: Symphony no. 8 In this showpiece concert, Robin Browning conducts the Petersfield Orchestra in three classic works from eastern Europe. Smetana’s Blaník, the last of his six tone...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Organ recital: Richard Pearce
    March 20, 2024
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Lunchtime recital
    March 19, 2024
    Award holders from the Michael Hurd Fund for Young Musicians. Rebecca McNaught (cello), accompanied by Emily Hoh (piano). Rebecca will be performing James Macmillan’s Kiss on Wood, Trois Pièces by Nadia Boulanger and Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango. Rebecca put her award , which she...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Youth Concert 2
    March 20, 2024
    Singers and instrumentalists from local schools and youth music organisations. View other events in the festival.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Youth Concert 1
    March 18, 2024
    Singers and instrumentalists from local schools and youth music organisations. View other events in the festival.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: the gemini consort
    March 17, 2024
    Musical Director: Lucy Humphris View other events in the festival.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Family Concert – “Kings and Queens”
    March 17, 2024
    Basingstoke Chamber OrchestraStephen Scotchmer, conductor View other events in the festival.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Mozart: Mass in C minor
    March 16, 2024
    Symphony no. 40 in G minor Festival chorus, with Fernhurst and Petersfield Choral SocietiesSoloists to be announced.With Southern Pro Musica. Paul Spicer, conductor When Mozart married Constanze Weber – famously in defiance of his father’s wishes – he vowed to...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Encore Choirs with guests Legends
    March 15, 2024
    Josh Robinson, director with guests Legends. View other events in the festival.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: open choral workshop – Bob Chilcott: Songbook
    September 23, 2023
    Read a review. An open choral workshop directed by Jeremy Backhouse, organised by the Petersfield Musical Festival.Accompanist: Mark Dancer Read more about the workshop in our interview with Jeremy and in another article. Download further info. Bob Chilcott’s accessible and...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Stanford, Grieg, Puccini
    March 25, 2023
    Stanford Songs of the FleetGrieg ‘Peer Gynt’ SuitePuccini Messa di Gloria Festival chorus, with Fernhurst and Petersfield Choral SocietiesSamuel Stopford, tenorEdward Ballard, baritone  Basingstoke Symphony Orchestra          Conductors: Paul Spicer and Stephen Scotchmer Paul Spicer and Stephen Scotchmer conduct the Festival...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: “How lucky can you get?” An Evening of Musical Theatre
    March 24, 2023
    With the GSA Singers from GSA (Guildford School of Acting) Guildford, University of Surrey.Musical Director: Peter Roberts Talent and exuberance overflow in the performances by the GSA Singers from the University of Surrey’s Guildford School of Acting, a 24-strong company...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Petersfield Orchestra
    March 23, 2023
    Read a review. Soloist: Cordelia WilliamsConductor: Robin BrowningLeader: Helen Purchase Mendelssohn Overture: A calm sea and a prosperous voyage,Schumann Piano concerto in A minor op. 54Elgar Variations on an original theme (‘Enigma’) op.36 Pre-concert talk at 6.30 pm. Cordelia Williams,...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Shostakovich Piano Trio no. 2 (lecture-recital)
    March 21, 2023
    Lecture-recital by Angela Zanders, including a complete performance of the work. Angela Zanders, pianoCatherine Lawlor, violinMikhail Lezdkan, cello Angela Zanders’ lecture recital will explore the composer’s fraught relationship with the Soviet authorities and include a complete performance of this intense...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Anemos Wind Ensemble
    March 22, 2023
    Roussel: Divertissement Op.6Mozart: Piano quintet KV.452William Hurlstone: Piano quintet in G minorPoulenc: Sextet With Helen Walton, flute; Lucinda Willits, oboe; Rob Blanken, clarinet, Richard Moore, bassoon; Bridget Holton, French horn; Karen Kingsley, piano (pictured). A programme that exploits to the...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Youth Concert 2
    March 22, 2023
    Singers and instrumentalists from local schools and youth music organisations. The Festival’s annual sell-out Youth Concerts bring together hundreds of young musicians between 8 and 18, in a collaboration that shows the strength of the music-making in our local schools....
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Youth Concert 1
    March 20, 2023
    Singers and instrumentalists from local schools and youth music organisations. The Festival’s annual sell-out Youth Concerts bring together hundreds of young musicians between 8 and 18, in a collaboration that shows the strength of the music-making in our local schools....
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Family Concert: ‘Dancing through Time’
    March 19, 2023
    with SouthDowns CamerataDirector: Sara Deborah Timossi The theme will be ‘Dancing through Time’, with dance music from different periods from Tudor to present. Children will love this tour of dance music from pavane to tango, presented by the string players...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Handel – Jephtha
    March 18, 2023
    Festival chorus, with Petersfield and Rogate Choral Societies. Southern Pro MusicaConductor: Paul Spicer Cara Orif, soprano (Iphis) RAMRachel Newberry, soprano (Angel)Anna Patterson, mezzo soprano (Storge) RAMMatthias Daehling, countertenor (Hamor) RCMMagnus Walker, tenor (Jephtha) RAMAlexander Bower-Brown (Zebul) RAM Written in 1752, Jephtha was...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Liss Band with Petersfield Community Choir
    March 17, 2023
    Musical Director – Mike Pennicotte-Henriewith Petersfield Community ChoirMusical Director Carolyn Robson These two popular local groups were prepared to perform at the 2022 Festival when they became a last-minute casualty of Covid. We are delighted that they will be bringing...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: open choral workshop – Mozart Mass in C Minor
    September 24, 2022
    An open choral workshop directed by Paul Spicer. Accompanist: Mark Dancer Download further info and a booking form.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: “In Praise of Singing”
    March 26, 2022
    Read a review. Festival Chorus: Petersfield Choral Society, Rogate Choral Society & Independent Singers Ella de Jongh (soprano)Isla McEwan (soprano)Samuel Stopford (tenor)Sam Hird (baritone) Basingstoke Symphony OrchestraPaul Spicer (conductor)Stephen Scotchmer (Conductor) Jonathan Willcocks: In Praise of SingingMendelssohn: Hymn of PraiseRossini/Britten:...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: “The Mikado” with the Merry Opera Company
    March 25, 2022
    Take a trip to the topsy-turvy town of Titipu in the land of Pajan! Find romance, chicanery and a legal conundrum under the capricious eye of the Mikado … Desperate to get away? Take a trip to the topsy-turvy town...
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    Petersfield Orchestra at the Petersfield Musical Festival: concert with Valentina Seferinova
    March 24, 2022
    Read a review and watch a video of the Saint-Saëns. Schumann Overture, Scherzo & FinaleSaint-Saëns Piano Concerto no 2 in G minor, Op. 22. – Soloist Valentina Seferinova [piano]Brahms Symphony no 4 Robin Browning – conductor. Petersfield’s own orchestra returns...
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Viennese Piano Duets
    March 23, 2022
    Emilie Capulet and Mark Dancer Mozart – Sonata in F, K. 497Schubert – Fantasia in F minorBeethoven – Symphony no. 5 arr. Hugo Ulrich Free Entry with Retiring Collection for Petersfield Musical Festival.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Award-holders’ lunchtime recital
    March 22, 2022
    Free entry with retiring collection for the Michael Hurd Fund for Young Musicians. Read more about the winners.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Family Concert with Meridian Winds
    March 20, 2022
    Meridian Winds Concert BandConductor: Don Lloyd Children are invited to bring a small drum or another percussion instrument to the concert. Tickets £5 via One Tree Books or online.
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    Petersfield Musical Festival: Eighteenth-Century Masters
    March 19, 2022
    Vivaldi – Dixit Dominus RV 594Haydn – ‘Mariazeller’ Mass (Missa Cellensis Hob XXII:8)Bach – Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 Aimee Fisk (soprano)Amy Holyland (contralto)Ryan Williams (tenor)Michael Ronan (bass)Sara Deborah Timossi (violin)Lucy Humphris (trumpet)Luiz de Campos (oboe)Sophie Middleditch (recorder) Festival Chorus: Fernhurst...