Patron Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex.
Classic FM's "Festival in the South West" that uses rural churches as venues across one thousand square miles of Exmoor and Dartmoor.
The dates for this year's Festival are 8-18 October
2009 sees the Two Moors Festival going international. Associate Artistic Director, the eminent pianist, Andreas Haefliger, together with Artistic Director, Penny Adie have devised a programme which is unique, innovative and inspiring. To ensure that the Festival never loses its Foot and Mouth roots, concerts will be taking places in rural churches from Dunster on Exmoor to Chagford on Dartmoor. There is one exception with a choral concert taking place in Exeter Cathedral.
The diverse programme includes a major new work by Torsten Rasch and commissioned by Andreas Haefliger especially for the Festival. The celebrated singer, Wolfgang Holzmair will be performing Schubert’s Winterreise; the Brasil Guitar Duo will be travelling from Brazil to take part; the celebrated flautist, Marina Piccinini will be playing all the Bach flute sonatas, and there will be a performance of Bach: St Matthew Passion. Wells Cathedral School and Exeter Cathedral Girl Choristers will be performing as well as 4Girls/4Harps and singers from the National Opera Studio.
The brochure will be available from 1 July 2009 or you can pick up a copy at the Festival Garden Party on either 27 or 28 June.
We shall hope to see you at one of the many concerts in October.
PS. We are using Culbone Church (the smallest parish church in England) again this year for two concerts and we thought you might like to know more. This is an amazing experience - steep mist filled valley, no electricity and a three mile walk!
and from 2008......
Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex and the four winners of the
Young Musicians Competition at Ashburton in 2008 after their concert.