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Jul 17 2008
IT’LL be a family celebration for John Harle when he visits Chester this month. A celebration since he’s artist in residence at Chester Summer Music Festival, where he’ll be hard at work performing, giving masterclasses, lecturing and hearing performances of his own music – “an intense engagement,” he says....
May 23 2008
WHEN the Chester Summer Music Festival ended last year many thought they had seen the last of it. But as before, it has risen from the ashes albeit in a rather shorter form. Now it is supported not only by the local councils but also by the Arts Council, who have not always appeared so committed....
Apr 23 2008
BRITISH saxophonist/composer John Harle and opera singer Alfie Boe are two of the stars of this year’s Chester Summer Music Festival....
Aug 9 2007
THE arrival of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain at the Chester Summer Music Festival was something of a coup....
Aug 8 2007
FOR more than half its history, one face has fronted the Chester Summer Music Festival. Now Andrew Burn is preparing to hang up his hat as festival artistic director after 15 years, longer than anyone else in the festival’s 30-year history....
Jul 16 2007
ONE of the sad realisations of coming to a festival performance by the BBC Philharmonic is that this could be one of their few appearances in Chester for the foreseeable future....
Jul 16 2007
THANKS to the schedules of the likes of Classic FM, it’s easy to believe that Vivaldi wrote nothing other than the Four Seasons (with the year ageing not much further than spring), a guitar concerto and a flute concerto....
