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Coco Tomita is one of the artists appearing at this year’s festival
After last year’s cancellation, the Budleigh Music Festival, Devon’s coastal classical music festival, is to return from 9-17 July.
Among the musicians appearing at the festival is the 18-year-old violinist Coco Tomita, who won the strings final of BBC Young Musician in 2020.
Other musicians include saxophonist Jess Gillam, pianist Peter Donohoe and baritone Sir Willard White, while the programme includes some unusual events, among them Colourscape – an interactive walk-through labyrinth of colour, light and music.
Jason Thornton, artistic director for the Festival, says: ‘2021 is a really important and special time for Budleigh and the Festival as we celebrate the return of live music, smiles, laughter and shared experiences. I’m so proud of everybody who is working so hard to produce this year’s Festival, particularly during some very unsure and challenging times. After all the gloom we are incre
It is being screened later, around a year after it was first recorded.
Scroll down for a link to watch. Thomas Luke, 17, won the keyboard part of the BBC competition before the Covid-19 lockdown, to get to the semi final. Speaking last year, Thomas said he was shocked to win the keyboard final after having watched the competition for years. He said: Much of what happened next was a blur! I hope the exposure I receive from winning the keyboard category will serve as a useful accolade for my future as a performer. The BBC Young Musician semi final was filmed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, when audiences were still able to attend music events without restrictions.
I hope the exposure I receive from winning the keyboard category will serve as a useful accolade for my future as a performer. The BBC Young Musician semi final was filmed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, when audiences were still able to attend music events without restrictions. Competing for the three places in the Grand Final are 18-year old Annemarie Federle (French horn); 19-year old Coco Tomita (violin); 18-year old Ewan Millar (oboe); 17-year old Fang Zhang (percussion); and Thomas. BBC Young Musician Executive Editor Paul Bullock said: “Within days of filming the semi final the UK was in full lockdown and for a while we wondered when it would be possible to stage the 2020 Final at all.
SOLACE, escape and hope are at the heart of Ryedale Festival’s online Spring Festival, which marks the start of its 40th anniversary year. Seven inspiring performances, each approximately 50 minutes, will be filmed and shared over a week in early May, in collaboration with Castle Howard, the Yorkshire Arboretum and award-winning filmmaker Cain Scrimgeour, whose stunning camerawork will capture spring’s arrival in Yorkshire. To celebrate its anniversary, the festival will reveal 40 headline events in one-off, late-announced bursts, which allows it to remain responsive to the unique circumstances of 2021 and as creative and flexible as possible. Spring Festival launches on Sunday, May 2, with the duo Michael Collins (clarinet) and Michael McHale (piano) playing Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, a virtuoso showpiece by Widor, and the spellbinding sonata that Poulenc composed for Benny Goodman.