Don’t forget we’re having a Book Fair on the first day of the Tenby Arts Festival – Saturday 19th September 2015 11.00am – 2.30pm in the Church House, St Mary’s Tenby. Please join us – meet ou r lovely authors, relax and listen to music while having a cup of coffee and a cake. Stay for a short poetry reading and to discover who won the children’s competition: prizes of great books kindly donated by Firefly Press.
And here’s a flavour of Day Six
Thursday 24th
Watercolour Techniques
Graham Hadlow, well known and popular local artist will give a talk on watercolour techniques with some practical demonstration.
Graham is also donating one of his paintings “Rising Tide” to be raffled to raise money for the festival. See Additional Events for further details.
Church House
2pm
Tickets £5.00
The Divine Sarah
Sarah Bernhardt was one of the finest actresses that has ever lived. She was a contemporary of Adelina Patti and a friend of Adelina’s first husband the Marquis de Caux. She was perhaps the first modern superstar. She shocked polite society with her unconventional life style but she was an innovator in her art as she was the first actress to strive for realism in her performances.
This fascinating talk by Josephine Hammond followed by tea will take place at the
Fourcroft Hotel
3pm
Tickets £5.00 (includes tea)
The Solva Duo
Catherine Hare – flute
Isabel Harries – harp
An evening of beautiful music from this most haunting of instruments which developed from the simple reed pipes of our ancient ancestors.Catherine Hare is from Saundersfoot but studied at the Royal College of Music in London where she now performs in concerts and teaches flute. She has a wide ranging repertoire.
Catherine Hare (flute) and Isabel Harries (harp) are musicians from Pembrokeshire, who met when they both won places at one of the world’s most prestigious specialist music schools, Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. When Catherine and Isabel both decided to continue their education at the Royal College of Music in London, they formed the Solva Flute and Harp Duo, named after one of their favourite places in their home county. Despite forming only recently, Catherine and Isabel quickly became a strong partnership and have enjoyed their blossoming performance calendar.
Catherine Hare began her early musical education at Saundersfoot C.P. School and quickly progressed as a flute player, joining the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain at the age of 13. At just 15 years old, Catherine was the principal flute of both the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales and the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, where she was also recipient of the Haydn Davies Prize for Most Promising Player Still at School, and more recently, the Welsh Livery Guild Award. During her three years as a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, she was given the opportunity to play in many prestigious concert halls, including the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms. She has performed under the baton of some of the greatest conductors in the world, most notably Vasily Petrenko, Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Roger Norrington and Bernard Haitink. Catherine has also performed concerts throughout Europe, including Luxembourg, Sweden, Croatia, and on a tour of Germany with the renowned conductor, Grant Llewellyn, also from Saundersfoot. At the age of 14, Catherine began studying flute with Laura Jellicoe at Chetham’s School of Music. During her time there she won various prizes, including the Larsson Wind Prize and the Chetham’s Early Music Prize. She played principal flute in numerous Chetham’s ensembles and went on to become Head Girl of the school. Catherine is currently a scholar of the Royal College of Music, where she is supported by a Douglas and Hilda Simmonds Award, and is taught by Daniel Pailthorpe and Sue Thomas. She also has tuition on Baroque Flute from internationally acclaimed Rachel Brown and receives private lessons with renowned teacher Gitte Marcusson.
Recently Catherine has begun work as a freelance musician on both modern and baroque flutes, and has worked with the early music ensemble Ex Cathedra as well as being a regular dep flute player for the Wicked UK Musical Tour.
Isabel Harries is currently in her third year of studies at the Royal College of Music studying with Professor Ieuan Jones. Prior to this, Isabel studied with Gabriella Dall’Olio at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester from 2009 to 2011. At the age of 14 Isabel joined the junior programme at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff for weekly lessons with Meinir Heulyn. Isabel’s first harp teacher was Buddug Stevens of Cardigan where she had weekly lessons until she left for Chetham’s.
Alongside her studies, Isabel teaches several private harp and piano students and also leads music workshops in primary schools across West London. In her spare time, Isabel frequently plays background music at luxury hotels such as The Royal Horseguards Hotel, The Landmark, The Grosvenor and The Dorchester Hotel.
Besides the Harp, she also enjoys singing with local Pembrokeshire Choir the Landsker Singers and has enjoyed playing the harp in their Christmas concerts as well as their World Premiere of ‘The Nativity’ in 2012.
Isabel has played the harp in numerous competitions including local and regional Eisteddfods and was successful in 2011 winning the under 26 instrumental solo competition at Wales YFC Eisteddfod at Rhyl Pavilion. She was invited back in 2012 to be the official harpist of Wales YFC Eisteddfod.
At RCM Isabel has enjoyed playing in various performances with their Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, Film Orchestra, and the RCM Harp Ensemble. Isabel has been fortunate enough to play in masterclasses with some of the world’s leading harpists as well as performing at top venues across the UK including the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Cadogan Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Winchester Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral.
The duo will be playing Naïdes by William Alwyn, In Ireland by Hamilton Harty and Sonata Concertante by Louis Spohr (originally written for violin and harp). They will also be playing a mixture of ther own and other peoples arrangements of classic pieces such Clair de Lune & Arabesque No. 2 – Debussy, Sicilienne (from Pelléas and Mélisande) – Fauré, Meditation – Massenet and some Welsh folk tunes. St. John’s Church
7pm
Tickets £8.00
Tenby Male Choir
An evening of traditional singing from Tenby’s very own male choir.
St. Mary’s Church
8pm
Tickets £10.00
Links:
http://www.tenbyartsfest.co.uk/
http://www.fireflypress.co.uk/
Judith Barrow 