MRF Festival '25 and CD launch
Sun 27 Apr
|St Lawrence Church, Alton
BOOK NOW to either participate from 12noon, or as audience for the Festival Concert. Both ticket types include CD launch from 6pm - donations welcome for drinks.
Time & Location
27 Apr 2025, 12:00 – 20:30
St Lawrence Church, Alton, Church St, Alton GU34 2BW, UK
Guests
About the Event
The focus of this Annual Festival will be nature and climate change, PLUS the launch of Martin Read - a celebration, the long-awaited CD of Martin' s music.
Having joined MRF Festival '23 to perform Martin's cantata The Death of Colonel Boles, we’re thrilled to have members of Oxford-based Commotio as our ensemble-in-residence this year, giving premieres of new pieces by our 4 award-holders for 2025, and one piece by Martin Read, a capella. They will also be joined by our Festival choir to perform a new work by alumnus Freddie Hodkin. Joseph Spooner, cello, will join the joint choir for John Tavener's Svyati . A new work for flexible ensemble is to be announced.
Workshops for singers and instrumentalists will start around 12noon in the Parish Rooms - final timings TBC.
Participants' schedule:
12 noon - Commotio with Festival Choir – Parish Rooms.
14.00 - Flexible Ensemble workshop – Parish Rooms.