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Thank you to all our Sponsors, Festival Friends and Audiences for so generously enabling the festival to keep going during these extraordinary last two years. The 2021 festival, though reduced in content, was a great success with performances of world-class virtuosity generating delighted feedback.
We now invite you to celebrate Spring in Ripon, with a Symphony Concert on Saturday 7th May at Ripon Cathedral. We welcome the return of Royal Northern Sinfonia in a dazzling programme: Mendelssohn Overture The Hebrides, Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 – soloist Irène Duval – and Beethoven’s epic Symphony No 3 ‘Eroica’.
Janusz Piotrowicz - Artistic Director
Tickets on sale: 1st March
PREVIOUS HIGHLIGHTS
Hallé Orchestra –
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
Seckou Keita & Catrin Finch
London Mozart Players –
Beethoven Symphony No 7
Dvorak New World Symphony
Alexander McCall Smith
Ian McMillan
Miklós Perényi
Red Priest
Royal Northern Sinfonia –
Schubert Symphony No 9
Sibelius Symphony No. 1
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra –
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
St. Nikolai Choir of Moscow –
Rachmaninov Vespers
Stile Antico
Clare Teal
Wihan Quartet
John Williams
2021 Events
Marie-Elsa Bragg – Author
‘Towards Mellbreak’ and ‘Sleeping Letters’ Marie-Elsa Bragg is a writer, lecturer and Anglican priest. Her first novel ‘Towards Mellbreak’ is a hymn to the landscape …
The Kathryn Tickell Trio
Kathryn Tickell Northumbrian pipes, fiddle, voice Stef Conner lyres, vocals Amy Thatcher accordion, clog dancing Kathryn Tickell is one of Britain’s most celebrated traditional musicians, …
The Gesualdo Six – Choral Concert
Owain Park – Conductor Josquin’s Legacy: Marian Devotions & Song of Songs Josquin des Prez, Jean Mouton, Antonius Divitis, Antoine Brumel, Jean L’Héritier, Antoine de …
The Dominic Alldis Trio
– A Tribute to Jacques Loussier Dominic Alldis piano, Andrew Cleyndert bass, Martin France drums Themes by Bach, Handel, Fauré, Ravel, Satie, Bizet and Chopin …
Anne Denholm – Harp
Reinhold Glière Impromptu Louis Spohr Fantaisie in C minor, Op. 35 Trad. David of the White Rock Alphonse Hasselmans – La Source Esther Swift – …
Max Baillie violin Alexander Baillie ‘cello
Haydn, Martinu, Handel, Ravel, Bartok, Paganini’s beautiful Cantabile, Alexander Baillie: The Ballad of Flannan Isle – music and narrative A sparkling mix of classical and …
Mike Barfield – Comic writer, cartoonist and entertainer
Books include ‘A Day in the Life of a Caveman, A Queen and Everything In-between’ Shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize and …
Scenes from 2019
Thank you to our wonderful audiences, sponsors, friends and team of volunteers for helping to make the 2019 festival such a terrific success!
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WELCOME!
Ripon International Festival is a world-class celebration of great orchestras, choral, chamber and folk concerts, jazz, gypsy, literature and poetry, in magnificent Ripon Cathedral, the Royal Hall – Harrogate’s “Palace of Gold”, Markenfield Hall – mediaeval manor, and historic village churches. Come and experience the festival’s distinctive atmosphere in an area full of history and natural beauty.
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