Great Bowden Music Fest
Great Bowden Music Fest 2025
Thursday 3rd-6th July 2025
Take a look at our programme at this year's summer Fest.
​Tickets go on sale on the 21st April online and 1st May at Welton's
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Tickets:
Fest Ticket (8 in 1): £75
Evening Concert: £18
Coffee and Chamber Music Concerts: £10
12-18s: £5
Under 12s: FREE
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*All tickets have a 50p administration fee and £2 for the Fest ticket
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RISING STARS
Thursday 3rd July 2025
12:15pm
Join us for a lunchtime concert given by local young musicians either about to begin study at Conservatoire or have already started. Including an extra performance from a GCSE student's composition for string quartet.
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Tilly Crutchley - Trumpet currently studying at Royal Northern College of Music
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Noah Prydal (cello) - Guildhall School of Music and Drama commencing in September 2025
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BACH Courante, Sarabande and Gigue from 2nd Suite
SCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro
CHOPIN Etude op. 25 No. 7
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Thatcher Lai - Composer from Rugby School
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String Quartet No.1 in F Minor – 1st Movement is a classical piece composed in 2024 for Thatcher’s GCSE Music coursework. This piece is inspired by composers including Felix Mendelssohn and Dmitri Shostakovich. This piece is written in sonata form with a relatively fast tempo, with each section intending to express a sense of anxiety (from exams), mysteriousness, and thrill.
FOUR SEASONS AND THREE PLANETS
Thursday 3rd July 2025
7:30pm
BOCCHERINI Cello Sonata in A Major, G.4
Brooks Griffith (cello), Melanie Reinhard (piano)
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HOLST The Planets Op 32
Radu Prisada and Melanie Reinhard (piano)
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Interval
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VIVALDI Four Seasons, Op 8
Great Bowden Camerata
Tamaki Higashi, Marino Capulli, Vanessa White and Christopher White (violin soloists)
CLASSIC SCHUBERT
Friday 4th July 2025
12:15pm
SCHUBERT Trio in B-flat major, D 898
Christopher White (violin), Andrew Bound (cello), Melanie Reinhard (piano)
FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSICALS NIGHT
Friday 4th July 2025
7:30pm
Back by popular demand the American Songbook Quartet are making a return!
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Enjoy selected opera classics and be taken to the golden age of Hollywood musicals!
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American Songbook Quartet:
Caroline Bourg, Avalon Summerfield, William Searle, Jared Michaud (voice) Jonathan Jarvis (piano)
STRING SPOTLIGHT
Saturday 5th July 2025
12:15pm
*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT WITH TAKE PLACE IN GREAT BOWDEN VILLAGE HALL
Featuring small performances from our Music Fest regulars in solo, duo and trio settings.
FREDDIE BENEDICT QUINTET
Saturday 5th July 2025
7:30pm
Come along to an evening of jazz featuring well-known songs and original numbers. There's something for everyone!
Freddie was born from an artistically theatrical family, joining a local church choir in South London as a child, which sent him on his way to becoming the ambitious, and talented performer you’ll see on stage. His vocal talents have seen him play at some of the most sought after and iconic venues all over the world, with the Carnegie Hall, Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera House, Ronnie Scott’s, The Ritz and The Savoy to name but a few. Most recently, he was asked to sing at the BBC Proms, celebrating the centenary of Henry Mancini.
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Band Line-Up
Lead – Freddie Benedict
Piano – Chris Bland
Bass – Luke Fowler
Drums – Floyer Sydenham
Sax - Jessica Bullen
ROMANTIC HIDDEN GEMS
Sunday 6th July 2025
12:15pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op 42
Vanessa White (violin), Radu Prisada (piano)
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HALVORSEN Sarabande con variazioni
SIBELIUS Duo in C major for violin and viola
Vanessa White (violin), Charis Morgan (viola)​
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TBC
Peter Brooks (baritone), Radu Prisada (piano)
SUMMER SERENADE
Sunday 6th July 2025
6pm
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Great Bowden Camerata
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FINZI By Footpath and Stile Op 2
Peter Brooks (baritone), Vanessa White and Marino Capu​lli (violin), Charis Morgan (viola), Elizabeth Elliott-Capulli (cello)
INTERVAL
HAYDN Cello Concerto No 1 in C major Hob.VIIb/1
Elizabeth Elliott-Capulli (cello)
Great Bowden Camerata
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HOLST St Paul's Suite Op 29
IV. Finale (The Dargason) ​
Great Bowden Camerata
Elizabeth Elliott-Capulli (cello soloist)