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The Kirker Music Festival on Lake Como
Lake Como, Italy
tbc nights from £tbc per person
We will be returning to the romantic and beautiful shores of Lake Como for another Kirker Music Festival at the lakeside Hotel Imperiale in Moltrasio. The low-arching mountains encircle the lake forming a dramatic and mysterious backdrop which has inspired writers, poets and composers for centuries. Goethe’s Mignon spent her life yearning to be back in the beautiful place where the citrus trees blossom, Cosimo Liszt was born in Bellagio and Vincenzo Bellini spent much time in Moltrasio meeting his mistress, the opera singer Giuditta Pasta, in Torno across the lake. A statue of him reclining languidly and gazing over to Torno seems to sum up the romantic spirit.
What's included
Accommodation including breakfast
Three dinners, Three lunches
All concerts and talks as described
All sightseeing, entrance fees and gratuities as described
Services of the Kirker Tour Leader
Viola, Composer & Kirker Music Director
Simon Rowland-Jones
"Performer, editor, composer and teacher, Simon Rowland-Jones has always led a very busy, all-embracing musical life. He was founder violist of the Chilingirian Quartet, in which he played for a total of ten years, and subsequently performed with many other leading chamber groups.
String Quartet
Indaco Quartet
Eleonora Matsuno & Ida Di Vita, violins; Jamiang Santi, viola; Cosmo Carovani, cello. One of Italy’s leading quartets, the Indaco Quartet was founded in 2007 when all the members were studying at the distinguished Fiesole School of Music.
Piano
Tim Horton
Tim Horton studied at Chetham's School of Music with Charles Hopkins, Ryszard Bakst and Heather Slade-Lipkin. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995. In the same year he replaced Alfred Brendel at short notice in two performances of Schoenberg's Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle at Symphony Hall, Birmingham and the Royal Festival Hall, London.
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