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The North Norfolk Music Festival
United Kingdom
tbc nights from £tbc per person
The North Norfolk Music Festival is firmly established as one of the country’s leading chamber music festivals. It’s twenty years since Barry Cheeseman and Simon Rowland-Jones, both well known to Kirker clients, held the first concert in the north Norfolk village of South Creake, five miles from the coast. Every year since, an array of established musicians, together with younger artists, have delighted the audience in the splendid settings of St Mary’s Church in a weeklong festival. Kirker has been sending clients to the Festival since the beginning where they mix with the Festival’s own audience, many having attended every festival. To celebrate the 20th anniversary, a star-studded line up of musicians have been invited to take part.
Artist
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
Iain Burnside
The Scottish pianist and award-winning broadcaster Iain Burnside has worked with the worldÕs leading singers for more than 40 years. He teaches at the National Opera Studio, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and with young singers at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
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.
Ensemble
Ensemble 360
Ensemble 360 is a group of 11 chamber musicians, each of whom has their own parallel solo careers as soloists or member of leading orchestras. Formed in 2005 by the late Peter Cropper of Music in the Round, the ensemble is based at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield where they have their own annual festival each spring.
What's included
Three dinners at the hotel and two picnic suppers at the Festival
One light lunch
Tickets for all concerts as described (seats in the church are unreserved but cushions will be provided)
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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 ticket
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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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Two Dinners
Opera ticket
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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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Two dinners
Opera tickets
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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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