From the shimmering shores of the Hebrides, to a return to
its roots: the Bath Festival Orchestra announces eight
exquisite concerts all spotlighting women composers.
● The Bath Festival Orchestra announces a season of live concerts commencing
in September 2022 and running until June 2023.
● The concerts will take place in two of the country’s leading concert venues, at St
George’s in Bristol and Cadogan Hall in London’s Chelsea.
● Guest artists across the season include British trumpeter Matilda Lloyd,
Franco-Albanian pianist Marie-Ange Nguci, Scottish tenor Thomas Walker,
and British horn player Ben Goldscheider.
● Peter Manning [pictured] will conduct all of the Bath Festival Orchestra concerts in his
role of Artistic Director.
● Committed to including lesser-known voices in its programming, the Bath
Festival Orchestra will perform brilliant works by 19th- and 20th-century
composers including Grażyna Bacewicz (Poland), Louise Farrenc (France),
Agnes Tyrell (Czech) and Irish-English composer Elizabeth Maconchy.
● The season also features classical favourites, including Beethoven’s mighty
Piano Concerto No. 5, Mendelssohn’s exquisite Overture “The Hebrides”,
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Dvorak’s colourful Czech Suite, Britten’s
Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge and Haydn’s remarkable Trumpet
Concerto.
● Elsewhere in the season, the orchestra will go back to its roots with a revival of
one of its original programmes encompassing the works of Tippet, Corelli and
Britten, previously performed with the orchestra’s founder Yehudi Menuhin at
the helm.
● Speaking of the Bath Festival Orchestra’s 2022 / 2023 season, Concertmaster
and Associate Artistic Director Maren Bosma said: “The Bath Festival Orchestra is
extremely pleased to be putting on a brand new season with canonic masterpieces,
rarely performed treasures, and everything in between. We look forward to sharing
the stage with brilliant guest artistsin beloved works by Beethoven, Haydn and
Britten.”
● The 2022 / 2023 season builds on the success of the orchestra’s recent concerts
across the country’s finest stages, having been hailed as ‘truly impressive’ and a
‘revelation’ by The Observer.