Pennine Spring Music
Applications open 24 September!
Applications for PSM 2023 open on 24 September 2o22 – only two days to go! Please join us for a fantastic week of music, and bring your family and friends too!
To apply, go to https://www.penninespringmusic.co.uk/join-us/
2023 festival programme announced!
After three years apart, the 2022 festival was a fantastic celebration of music, and we are now thrilled to announce the programme for 2023: https://www.penninespringmusic.co.uk/festival-programme/
From Saint-Saëns to Mahler and Haydn, and including soloists such as Shira Karmon, this is set to be another special year. Applications open on 24th September 2022. We hope to see you there!
May 2022 Festival – Applications OPEN!
We are delighted to announce that the Pennine Spring Music Festival will return in May 2022! It will run from 30th May – 4th June and we do hope that you will join us. Members both old and new are very welcome. Applications are now OPEN for those who already had confirmed places for 2020. For new members, we look forward to welcoming your applications from 16th October at: https://www.penninespringmusic.co.uk/join-us/
The programme will include:
Beethoven. Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Vaughan Williams. The Wasps Suite
Mendelssohn. Symphony No.3
Ensemble for 4 horns (for our orchestral horn section)
Vocal duets (for a duo from the choir)
Wind quintet (for winds from the orchestra)
Finzi. In Terra Pax ( for choir and baritone solo)
Solo spots for baritone and piano soloists
Rutter. Gloria (for choir and brass)
Beethoven. Piano concerto No.3
Shostakovitch. Symphony No.1
We look forward to seeing you there, and please spread the word to make this the best festival yet!
2022 Festival plans
Dear Members and Friends,
I can’t quite believe this is the second year in a row that we’ve had to cancel our lovely Pennine Spring Music Festival. We were very much hoping that the situation with Covid would have improved sufficiently for us to go ahead this year. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be and it’s very sad to think we should be in Heptonstall this week.
We will go ahead with our festival in its usual format beginning Monday May 30th 2022. We have decided to carry over the programme chosen for 2020. It would be lovely to make PSM 2022 an even bigger success than usual so please start making your plans now and encourage family and friends to join us as players, singers or audience members. By then it will have been a very long time since we could sing and play together and I’m sure it will be a very joyful occasion.
The committee and I wish you a very happy summer and hope you and your families stay safe and well. We look forward to seeing you next year.
Regards,
Diana (Chair)
Pennine Spring Music
June 2021 Festival postponed
It is with huge regret and disappointment that we are having to postpone the festival in June 2021.
After consulting the Government “roadmap” and also checking the guidance from Making Music, it has become apparent that although we would be allowed to rehearse in a venue of a suitable size, each person would have to be socially distanced, there could be no social mixing and we would have to observe strict one-way systems. Whilst people may be allowed to travel, there is no guarantee that hotels and B&Bs will have re-opened so members may find it difficult to stay and to find catering. Similarly, international travel may not have recommenced. The most worrying aspect is that if recovery is delayed by even 2 weeks we would have to cancel at the last minute.
For these reasons we have had to accept that our lovely festival is not viable at the moment. The committee will reconvene in a few weeks’ time when it is a little clearer how things are progressing against the anticipated timetable, to make a decision about the timing of the next PSM.
We very much want to keep PSM alive so will arrange Zoom sessions to mark the dates we should have been together. Further details will be provided in due course.
We hope that you and your families are keeping well and to see you again very soon.
