Cheltenham Music Festival 2006 last updated : Fri 23rd Jun 06
The Cheltenham Music Festival is a huge summer celebration of live classical music with events ranging from free family workshops and young artists’ projects, through to concerts from well-loved performers and the promotion of contemporary composers.
The Festival has developed over sixty-one years, and as well as orchestral, chamber, choral and solo music, the festival also boasts education and community projects, a series for young musicians and a lively Fringe, including dance, world music and more.
This year, Festival Director, Martyn Brabyn, has chosen to promote the variety of music-making to be found in Scotland, both traditional and contemporary. There will be a ceilidh, with traditional musicians, the Blazin’ Fiddles, opera from Judith Weir as well as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra visiting from Edinburgh performing a new work commissioned from Scots composers David Horne, Edward McGuire, Alasdair Nicolson and Anna Meredith and Sally Beamish, honorary Scot, is the featured composer.
Events take place in a variety of venues including the Town Hall, the Pittville Pump Rooms, various local churches, Tewkesbury Abbey and the Everyman Theatre.
