Attend all events included in the Liberation Festival, Jersey, from 7th - 10th May 2010. VIP or Standard prices available.

ABOUT THE LIBERATION FESTIVAL
The second Liberation Festival stars 10 internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings combined with community & educational events in the beautiful island of Jersey. The Festival's theme explores the artistic freedom and the power of music to liberate the spirit. Listen to exciting young rising stars including Nicola Benedetti the former Classic FM Artist of the Year, the multiple award winning soprano Elizabeth Watts, and the acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.

Promenade at the Fête de la Musique at Mont Orgueil Castle, enjoy a stunning night of concertos starring six soloists and the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, picnic to jazz at Hamptonne, or go to sea for a yacht concert in the Bay of St Aubin.

Part of the Liberation Festival 2010, Jersey.

A musical feast of multiple performances all over the medieval castle features, at the centre, a concert of Opera arias from the Royal Opera House star Elizabeth Watts.  Elizabeth who has won multiple awards including the Singer of the World Lieder Prize, will be performing classic Opera highlights from Mozart’s Don Giovanni to the Marriage of Figaro as well as other popular arias accompanied by the Eden Sinfonia.  

The dramatic setting in a marquee overlooking Grouville Bay will make this an evening to remember.  Guests can enjoy the surrounding Fete de la Musique with over two hundred Jersey musicians performing chamber music from quartets, harp recitals, choirs, to trumpet fanfares and ending with some Jazz with the Well Swung Jazz Orchestra.  Eat your fill from the Hog Roast in the Middle Ward or enjoy a selection of food and fine wines.

Opera concert programme:
Soloist:  Elizabeth Watts   
“One of the most beautiful voices in a generation”   International Record Review
Eden Sinfonia
Conductor: Daniel Cohen

Tickets are available in the Marquee for the Opera concert or as just a ground pass into the castle for all performances excluding the Opera.
VIP Tickets include champagne reception with the soloists before the concert from 6.30pm, in the interval and after the concert.

ABOUT THE LIBERATION FESTIVAL
The second Liberation Festival stars 10 internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings combined with community & educational events in the beautiful island of Jersey. The Festival's theme explores the artistic freedom and the power of music to liberate the spirit. Listen to exciting young rising stars including Nicola Benedetti the former Classic FM Artist of the Year, the multiple award winning soprano Elizabeth Watts, and the acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.

Promenade at the Fête de la Musique at Mont Orgueil Castle, enjoy a stunning night of concertos starring six soloists and the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, picnic to jazz at Hamptonne, or go to sea for a yacht concert in the Bay of St Aubin.

Part of the Liberation Festival 2010, Jersey.

A stunning Gala concert to celebrate the Liberation of Jersey features music written in times of peace between the wars.  Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, written in 1905, is one of his most beautiful works.  It draws on transcendent welsh folk melodies as well as paying considerable homage to Bach by the use of a dramatic fugue.  The double violin concerto is one of the master’s great works - with the majestic slow movement separating virtuoso playing and sparring between the two violins and the orchestra.  The final concerto in the programme, Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin and Piano, was written by the man who played a significant part in Bach’s revival.  It is a tour de force of adolescent brilliance written after the end of the Napoleonic Wars.  

The soloists include the recent Classic FM Artist of the Year Nicola Benedetti, the members of the highly acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio, as well young rising star Wen Xiao Zheng a recent prize winner at the ARD international festival.

A pre-concert talk by one of the soloists will take place in the main auditorium at 7pm.

VIP Tickets include champagne reception with the soloists in the Berni Suite at the Opera House before the concert from 7.30pm, in the interval and after the concert.

Programme:
Elgar - Introduction and Allegro (1905)
Soloists: Nicola Benedetti (Violin), Alexander Sitkovetsky (Violin), Wenxiao Zheng (Viola) & Leonard Elschenbroich (Cello)
J.S. Bach - Double Violin Concerto in D minor (1730)
Soloists: Nicola Benedetti & Alexander Sitkovetsky
Mendelssohn - Concerto for Violin and Piano in D minor (1823)
Soloists: Wu Qian & Alexander Sitkovetsky

Jersey Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Cohen

ABOUT THE LIBERATION FESTIVAL
The second Liberation Festival stars 10 internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings combined with community & educational events in the beautiful island of Jersey. The Festival's theme explores the artistic freedom and the power of music to liberate the spirit. Listen to exciting young rising stars including Nicola Benedetti the former Classic FM Artist of the Year, the multiple award winning soprano Elizabeth Watts, and the acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.

Promenade at the Fête de la Musique at Mont Orgueil Castle, enjoy a stunning night of concertos starring six soloists and the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, picnic to jazz at Hamptonne, or go to sea for a yacht concert in the Bay of St Aubin.

Part of the Liberation Festival 2010, Jersey.

The Sitkovetsky Trio and celebrated friends perform Schubert’s celebrated “Trout” Quintet based on the story of a trout’s attempt to escape to freedom as well as Tchaikovsky’s passionate Trio relating to the loss of an artist.

The “Trout” is one of Schubert’s most delightful works describing a fish darting joyously about in a clear stream to elude a fisherman. The repeated melody is effortless, thoroughly enchanting and further enlivened by a leaping, joyous figure evoking the trout darting across the stream.

Tchaikovsky’s Trio pays tribute to a former teacher, paying tribute to his skills with a virtuoso piano part, as well as rejoicing in his love of folk like themes recalling a day when the two friends had gone for a picnic in the mountains near Moscow and were given an impromptu performance of folk music by peasants.

The soloists include Nicola Benedetti - the recent Classic FM Artist of the Year, Stacey Watton - one of the great Double Bass players of his generation, the highly acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio, as well as young rising star Wen Xiao Zheng - a recent prize winner at the ARD international festival.

The concert will be preceded by a question and answer session with the soloists at 7pm.

VIP Tickets include champagne reception with the soloists.

Programme:
Schubert - “Trout” Quintet in A Major
Tchaikovsky - Trio in A minor
Soloists: Sitkovetsky Trio, Nicola Benedetti (Violin), Wenxiao Zheng (Viola) & Stacey Watton (Double Bass)

ABOUT THE LIBERATION FESTIVAL
The second Liberation Festival stars 10 internationally acclaimed artists, performing beautiful, dramatic and atmospheric music in stunning settings combined with community & educational events in the beautiful island of Jersey. The Festival's theme explores the artistic freedom and the power of music to liberate the spirit. Listen to exciting young rising stars including Nicola Benedetti the former Classic FM Artist of the Year, the multiple award winning soprano Elizabeth Watts, and the acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.

Promenade at the Fête de la Musique at Mont Orgueil Castle, enjoy a stunning night of concertos starring six soloists and the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, picnic to jazz at Hamptonne, or go to sea for a yacht concert in the Bay of St Aubin.

Come get Miss Saigon tickets and see the romantic and beautiful tale based upon the opera Madame Butterfly. This ethnic filled production was originally released onto Broadway Theatre in 1991.

It was so successful and received enough praise to last 4,092 performances before it closed in January of 2001. The composer and creator, Claude-Michel Schoenberg, got the idea for this lovely story for a photo that he discovered in a magazine article.

The photo of a child and mother being separated at a Vietnam gate just so the child could have a better life in America was what Claude considered the Ultimate Sacrifice.

Times:

Tues-Sat @ 7.30pm

Sat, Sun, Wed @ 2pm

August 19th @ 2pm

Please present voucher to theatre box office at least 30 min prior to show time.

This choreography has developed out of a ten-week course in contemporary dance technique and creative movement. The starting point for this course was a metronome (a device to mark time) and the concept of time. Movement material has been manipulated in response to time, and time has played a part in creating the choreography. This unique work has been choreographed by Ruth Tyson-Jones and the participants.

Presented by Ad Hoc Dance.

King Tut returns to New York City after more than 30 years! Opens 23rd April 2010.

Behold the legendary treasures of King Tut. For the first time in a generation, revel in the splendor of the ancient Egyptian world as you view a dazzling array of possessions unearthed from his tomb, along with antiquities representing his family and contemporaries.

Through 10 galleries and 130 artifacts, New York City will experience the world of the pharaohs like never before?

* See the boy kings golden canopic coffinette and the crown found on his head when the tomb was discovered.

* Learn about the extraordinary discovery of Tuts tomb and the beliefs and funerary processes of ancient Egypt.

* View results from the latest scientific testing conducted on King Tuts mummy, and what it is telling researchers about his life and death.

Times:

Sun-Thurs: 10am-7pm

Fri-Sat: 10am-8pm

Child: 4-12 yrs

Senior: 65+

Please exchange voucher at the box office.

Beethoven/Stravinsky

The French and the Russians have always had a soft spot for each other – in music at least!

These are the composers who give us orchestral colour, sweeping melodies and vibrant exoticism, the composers who temper Germanic convention with brilliance and fantasy. Which all makes for a perfect match when we bring a Russian conductor and a French soloist together to perform vividly imagined music with an Oriental cast.

Let your imagination loose on the tender Adagio and thrilling dances that accompany Spartacus’s uprising. Surrender to the spinning violin solos and rich orchestral palette of Scheherazade’s nightly tales – a spirited heroine in an exotic world. And discover the charming panoramas of Saint-Saëns’ most evocative concerto, with its thudding steamship propellers and croaking frogs on the Nile.

KHACHATURIAN Spartacus: Suite
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No.5 (Egyptian)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

Alexander Lazarev conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano

When it comes to heartfelt emotion, no one can match the genius Tchaikovsky. Join us for his soaring violin concerto and music from the Sleeping Beauty ballet.

here should be every reason to think of Tchaikovsky as out of touch – he was an aloof personality, full of insecurities – and yet his music cuts to the core with the irresistible impulse of honest emotion.

You can’t help but feel his astonishing gift for melody and great dramatic instincts. In this concert we celebrate his genius with the soaring themes and infectious virtuosity of the Violin Concerto and music from his ballet masterpiece, Sleeping Beauty.

Following the 2008 Elgar festival, Vladimir Ashkenazy has invited Canadian James Ehnes, “a tremendous violinist”, to return to play another great Romantic concerto.

SIBELIUS Finlandia
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty: Suite

Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor
James Ehnes violin

TEA & SYMPHONY - 10 DECEMBER
Short program: Violin Concerto and Sleeping Beauty Suite.