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The Kirker Music Festival, Tenerife
Tenerife, Spain
tbc nights from £tbc per person
Mount Teide, Teide National Park
Escape from the rigours of the British winter for a week of music-making in the subtropical Canary Islands. We return to Tenerife for our exclusive festival, staying at the splendid 5* Hotel Botanico surrounded by lush gardens in Puerto de la Cruz. Mass tourism is confined to an area far away from where we will be staying, and our tour will show you the island’s unspoilt volcanic landscape, well-preserved colonial villages and lush gardens.
Christopher Monckton
Christopher was a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford where he developed a passion for both performing and teaching.
Simon Monckton
Simon Monckton studied Theology at Durham University. He is particularly interested in the influence of religion on great Mediaeval cathedrals and how this differed throughout Europe. Simon has led tours to destinations all over the world and has taken cultural tours to all regions of Spain on many occasions.
Artist
Soprano
Laura Lolita Perešivana
Latvian soprano Laura Lolita Perešivana started her operatic journey when she was only nineteen years old covering Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi) at the Latvian National Opera House. She is a recent graduate of Guildhall School of Music & Drama Opera Course, where she was recipient of the Derek Butler Trust Scholarship and The Mercers’ Company Scholarship. This year Laura was one of four finalists selected for the Guildhall School’s most prestigious music prize, The Gold Medal, and performed on the stage of the Barbican Hall.
Quartet
Carducci String Quartet
Matthew Denton & Michelle Fleming, violins, Eoin Schmidt-Martin, viola Emma Denton, cello. The Carducci Quartet is one of the leading quartets of its generation, performing at venues thought the UK and America. They have their own recording label, Carducci Classics and present their own series of concerts each year in May at Highnam in Gloucestershire.
Piano
Melvyn Tan
Born in Singapore in 1956, Melvyn Tan came to England at a very young age to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey. There he studied with Nadia Boulanger, Vlado Perlemuter and Marcel Ciampi. They all inspired his lifelong passion for French music. He has circled the globe giving solo recitals and as a soloist with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors in major concert halls and festivals everywhere – Salzburg, Edinburgh, City of London Festivals, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh and Salzburg to name just a few.
Piano
William Vann
A multiple-prize winning and critically acclaimed conductor and accompanist, William Vann is equally at home on the podium or at the piano and is particularly renowned for his revival performances and recordings of lost and lesser-known works of vocal and choral music by British composers.
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.
What's included
Seven nights’ accommodation with breakfast
Six concerts
Five dinners
The services of the Kirker Tour Leaders, Christopher Monckton and Simon Monckton
All sightseeing, entrance fees and gratuities as described
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The Rossini Festival in Pesaro
Held every summer in Pesaro, where the composer was born in 1792, the Rossini Festival has always attracted the world’s greatest bel canto singers. Marilyn Horne, Montserrat Caballe, June Anderson, Rockwell Blake, Chris Merrit and Juan Diego Florez are just a few of those who have sung in Rossini’s hometown.
5 nights price from £3397 per person
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The Aldeburgh Festival
Founded by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in 1948, the Aldeburgh Festival presents world-class musicians in The Maltings concert hall, a spectacularly located venue overlooking the reed beds of this stretch of the Suffolk coast.
5 nights price from £2198 per person
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Opera at La Fenice in Venice
Venice
La Fenice in Venice is one of the world’s most historic opera houses. Inaugurated in 1792 the opera house has, like its namesake the phoenix, been destroyed by fire and rebuilt, both in 1836 and 1996.
4 nights price from £2876 per person
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Opera at La Scala, Milan
Milan
La Scala, Milan is, for most opera lovers, the world’s most revered and important opera house. The theatre opened in 1778 with a performance of an opera by Salieri and since then many of the greatest Italian operas have received their first performance on its hallowed stage.
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The Verona Opera Festival
Verona
Performances of the world’s favourite operas have been given in the magnificent Roman arena on Verona’s elegant Piazza Bra for more than 100 years. 'Aida' was first performed here in 1913 to mark the centenary of Verdi’s birth and has been performed almost every year ever since.
4 nights price from £3546 per person
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The Puccini Opera Festival
Lucca
Giacomo Puccini was born into a musical family in Lucca on 22 December 1858. As a boy Puccini sang in the choir of the Cathedral of San Martino and later received his musical education at the conservatory in Milan.
4 nights price from £2998 per person
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Two performances
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The Sibelius Festival in Lahti
Born in Hämeenlinna on 8 December 1865, Jean Sibelius went on to become a national hero. Instilling a Finnish nationalistic fervour through his music, Sibelius is credited as one of the driving forces behind the country winning its independence from Russia.
4 nights price from £2998 per person
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The Verdi Festival in Parma
Parma
The annual Verdi Festival takes place in one of Italy’s most beautiful historic cities, Parma, and the 2025 Festival brings together operas inspired by the plays of Shakespeare: Otello & Falstaff.
5 nights price from £2798 per person
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Two performances
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The Dresden Music Festival
Dresden
Since its inception in 1978, the 'Dresdner Musikfestspiele' has attracted musicians of the highest calibre, from Marilyn Horne and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, to cellist Jan Vogler who became Artistic Director in 2009.
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The Grange Festival
Join us for our annual midsummer visit to The Grange Festival held in the heart of Hampshire, at one of the country’s most magnificent neo-classical houses, Grange Park.
3 nights price from £1737 per person
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