East Neuk Festival News
Annual music festival in Fife, Scotland
Commemorations 2024 (Inauguration: East Neuk Festival)
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2024-04-02 06:39:00
Celebrating 20 years of music in the unique and intimate venues of Fife’s East Neuk
The East Neuk Festival in Fife is beginning two years of celebrations, for the 20th anniversary of its founding in 2024, and the 20th festival in 2025. In the past two decades it has presented more than 400 events featuring nearly 3000 performers playing to a total audience of just over 200,000 people in the unique and intimate venues of Fife’s East Neuk (the fishing villages of the most northerly part of the Firth of Forth). The 2024 festival programme includes musicians from 18 nations converging on East Neuk for a five-day feast of live music, from 26-30 June, ranging from classical to jazz, experimental, traditional and contemporaryThis year's festival has a Czech flavour to some events, welcoming the Pavel Haas Quartet (in its UK debut) and Belfiato Wind Quintet playing five generations of Czech masters including Haas, Janáček, Suk, Reicha and Smetana. But there is also Japanese pianist Hisako Kawamura playing Akio Yashiro’s Sonata for Piano, […]
2022-06-24 06:45:00
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2021-07-10 11:30:15
The week in classical: Héloïse Werner, Kit Downes, Colin Alexander; East Neuk Festival; Don Giovanni
St John’s Smith Square, London; online; Royal Opera House, LondonHéloïse Werner leads a quicksilver recital, the Fife festival goes virtual, and the Royal Opera’s Don rings a bell… Héloïse Werner should be a name on the lips of any musical adventurer. You can see her work on YouTube. This young soprano-composer – and cellist too – is a one-off, who can transform a tiny fragment of song into a mesmerising drama. It’s as if her whole being is double-jointed. Her beautiful voice can flip itself from long-lined lyricism into a battery of percussive instruments: trilling her tongue at jet-propeller speed, turning a simple vowel sound into a complex expression of love or anguish, with a lexicon of facial expressions to match. Language, gesture, and how we communicate, are at the core of her music. In a 70-minute programme at St John’s Smith Square, she performed new works and texts with […]