| This page was updated on 17 July 2010 |
Dates for your diary
The London Handel Society's fundraiser on Monday 1 November 2010 will be held at Claridge's. As St George's Hanover Square will not have reopened by then we will be holding the concert, prior to the dinner, at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London, W1.
Laurence Cummings conductor London Handel Orchestra Adrian Butterfield leader __________
Thursday 2 December 7pm St George's Hanover Square, London, W1 Handel Messiah Simon Williams conductor Sophie Junker soprano Alexandra Gibson mezzo-soprano Greg Tassell tenor Edward Grint baritone London Handel Orchestra St George's Choir
Further information will be posted here as it becomes available. Tickets will go on sale for both concerts online only on 5 September. Telephone bookings will start on 20 September. |
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London Handel Festival 2010 from 23 February to 2 April
Dear Concert-goers,
Thank you all for coming to the Festival this year. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and to welcome many new people too. We would like to thank the brilliant performers who worked with us and all those who helped in a myriad of other ways behind the scenes.
While we plan the 2011 Festival major restoration works will be taking place at St George's Hanover Square. This work will take six or seven months and we are looking forward to the performance of Messiah in early December to reopen the building for concerts. St George's is continuing to raise money towards all the restoration work required and if you would like to support the Campaign please go to the website http://www.campaignforstgeorges.org.uk/CONTACT/
Dates for the 2011 Festival will be posted to the website as they become available. The outline of the Festival will be in place by late August.
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Handel Singing Competition 2010 The results of the HSC 2010 are listed on the HSC page. |
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Laurence Cummings Musical Director Adrian Butterfield Associate Director/leader London Handel Orchestra
For general information please contact: Catherine Hodgson Festival Director
London Handel Festival Horton House, 8 Ditton Street Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 0BQ
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Photo of Handel by Paul Frisbee Photos of Alessandro, Poro, Atalanta, HSC finalists & LHP by Chris Christodoulou Photo of Laurence Cummings by Sheila Rock
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London Handel Society Ltd
Founded by Denys Darlow in 1978 the London Handel Festival has contributed to a Handel revival in the UK, specialising in the performance of lesser-known works of the period. In 1981 the London Handel Orchestra and London Handel Singers made their debut at the Festival. Laurence Cummings took over as Musical Director from Denys Darlow in 2002.
The London Handel Orchestra, which is made up of some of London's finest professional baroque players, and led by Adrian Butterfield, now has an excellent reputation for historically informed performance. The Orchestra performs throughout the Festival at venues including Handel's church, St George's, Hanover Square, the Royal College of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music. The Orchestra also gives concerts at venues both in the UK and Europe outside the Festival period and has performed in Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival, the Chelsea Festival, the Windsor Festival, the Oslo International Church Music Festival, with the Royal Choral Society and for the opening of the Queen's Jubilee in St George's Chapel, Windsor.
In 1999 the principals of the Orchestra formed the London Handel Players to explore the great wealth of chamber music repertoire composed by Handel and his contemporaries. They performed at the Celebration Concert for the opening of Handel House Museum and at Southside House for the Jubilee String of Pearls celebratory events. The annual Handel Singing Competition was inaugurated in 2002 to give young singers the opportunity to concentrate on the wealth of Handel repertoire. They are accompanied in the Final by members of the London Handel Orchestra.
The London Handel Society was established to promote the music of Handel and his contemporaries and in particular their little heard works, many of which have been brought to a wider public in the last twenty-nine years. The Society also encourages young singers and musicians of outstanding promise by giving them performance opportunities early in their careers.
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London Handel Festival 2010
One of the joys of having luxuriated in the commemorative anniversary year, 2009, is the knowledge that there is still so much of Handel's glorious music that is under-exposed or even unperformed. With this in mind we have chosen to do the later version of Il pastor fido for the opera which brings baroque dance to the Festival for the first time. Other highlights include a concert with Dame Emma Kirkby and the London Handel Players, a Wigmore Hall debut for Ruby Hughes, the winner of last year's Handel Singing Competition and Apollo e Dafne performed by David Bates' young group La Nuova Musica, starring Lucy Crowe and William Berger. In addition to this there is a wealth of lunchtime concerts and other events that I hope will whet your appetite. This is the ninth year of the Handel Singing Competition and I am delighted that we welcome back Andrew Kennedy, the winner of the first Competition in 2002, to take the title role in a rare performance of Belshazzar, which opens the Festival on Handel's birthday, 23 February.
In a Masterclass at Handel House, Laurence Cummings explores with students from London's conservatoires the various aspects of Handel's harpsichord writing and how we can recreate his means of expression, ornamentation and virtuosity.
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