Welcome to the inaugural Music@Malling Festival: an international festival of music that draws together the community with an exciting programme of events that bring international artists to historical local venues in West Malling, Kent.
The inaugural 2011 festival runs across a weekend from Friday 30th September to Sunday 2nd October and will be an annual event that promises to be unique and special; entertaining the local community with fantastic concerts and providing a groundbreaking outreach project that inspires creativity in local primary schools.
Each year the work of a living composer will be profiled alongside the standard classics. For 2011, Mark Anthony Turnage is the featured composer and his music is heard alongside works by Mozart and Mahler. Turnage is one of our most distinguished composers and his music is performed worldwide.
Events include candle-lit concerts in St.Mary’s Church, West Malling with the highly acclaimed ensemble, Chamber Domaine including a concert with the remarkable Korean Soprano, Yeree Suh. Jazz from James Pearson and the Ronnie Scotts All Stars at The Swan and chamber music from the award winning Finzi String Quartet.
Come and join us for a series of exciting events in glorious local venues.
Alan Gibbins – Chairman
Thomas Kemp – Artistic Director
Events
30th September 2011
Peter and the Wolf
11.00-12.00 St.Mary’s Church, West Malling
2.00-3.00 St.Mary’s Church, West Malling
Chamber Domaine perform a schools concert which includes a performance of Prokoviev's iconic Peter and the Wolf narrated by Matthew Sharp who was recently praised in the Daily Telegraph for his "astonishingly comprehensive versatility."
Festival Launch
6.00 Went House
Ronnie Scott’s All Stars at The Swan
7.30-10.30 The Swan, West Malling
The Ronnie Scotts All Stars and their artistic director, James Pearson perform an Oscar Peterson Tribute.
1st October 2011
Three for Two...
11am Coffee Concert Pilsdon Community, West Malling
The highly acclaimed Chamber Domaine perform a rarely heard piano quartet by Gustav Mahler, a new work by Mark Anthony Turnage from 2010 and Mozart’s dramatic masterpiece, the G Minor Piano Quartet.
Mahler – Piano Quartet
Turnage – Three for Two
Mozart – Piano Quartet in G K.478
Finzi String Quartet
1pm Lunch-time concert – St.Lawrence’s Church, Mereworth
Two delightful Mozart String Quartets rub alongside a string quartet movement by Turnage inspired by Arsenal football club performedby the award winning Finzi String Quartet – winners of the Royal Overseas League Competition. Listen out for the referee’s whistles.
Mozart – String Quartet K.387 in G
Turnage – Barries Deviant Fantasy
Mozart - String Quartet K.421 in D
Meet the Composer...
6pm St.Mary’s Church, West Malling
Pre-Concert Talk: Meet the composer: A talk with Mark Anthony Turnage
Highly Inspired...
7.00pm St.Mary’s Church, West Malling
Chamber Domaine with Yeree Suh
Conductor: Thomas Kemp
Chamber Domaine perform Mahler’s Mahlers inspirational Fourth Symphony with the remarkable Korean Soprano Yeree Suh alongside Turnage’s Led Zeppelin influenced Grazioso and Mozart’s sublime Quintet K.516.
Mark Anthony Turnage – Grazioso
Mozart – Quintet K.516
Mahler – Symphony No.4
Late night Latin Grooves at The Swan
10.00pm The Swan, West Malling
Lizzie Ball and the Ronnie Scott’s All Stars perform music inspired by Spain and Latin America. Sultry Latin sounds at The Swan.
2nd October 2011
Divertimento...
1pm Lunchtime Concert, Mere House, Mereworth
Chamber Domaine perform Mozart’s virtuosic Divertimento for String Trio in historic Mere House.
Mozart – Divertimento in Eb K.563 for String Trio
A little night music...
7pm Evening Concert, St.Mary’s Church, West Malling
Chamber Domaine
Conductor: Thomas Kemp
Chamber Domaine perform Mozart classics alongside Mahler’s famous Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony – immortalized in the 1971 film Death In Venice.
Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K.525
Mark Anthony Turnage – A Quiet Life
Mahler – Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony for Strings and Harp
Mozart – Symphony 29 in A K.204
All events, venues and artists are subject to change.
