Clifton Festival of Music

15/06/2024

📣 Tonight's your last chance to make it to this year's festival 📣

Get ready for a sublime festival finale with and BBC Music Magazine’s Vocal award winner Helen Charlston - there's Tchaikovsky, Mahler and Ravel on the menu.

🗓️ Saturday 15 June, 7.30pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral , BS8 3BX

Tickets at cliftonfestival.com

14/06/2024

For Erubusites unable to wait until 7 for their concert at Clifton Cathedral here is a youtube playlist in the meantime...

Some of the work of The Erebus Ensemble - www.erebusensemble.com

14/06/2024

Tonight at 7 - but if you can't wait join the other 53K YouTube viewers for a preview...

from the Clifton International Festival of Music 2016 at Clifton Cathedral. "The Sound of Mercy" directed by Tom Williams.Christ with me, Christ before me, C...

14/06/2024

Treat yourself this evening to stunning polyphony in the beautiful acoustic of Clifton Cathedral. Ethereal minimalism by John Tavener performed alongside Palestrina's groundbreaking setting of the mass, Missa Papae Marcelli.

Don't miss this sublime performance by The Erebus Ensemble

🗓️ Friday 14 June, 7.00pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral , BS8 3BX

More info and tickets at cliftonfestival.com

13/06/2024

Tonight festival favourites, organists David Bednall and James Gough return to the famous Rieger organ of Clifton Cathedral in a high-energy showcase of music for the king of instruments. Don't miss this fast-paced feat of musical skill and agility!

🗓️ Thursday 13 June at 7.30pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral , BS8 3BX

Tickets at cliftonfestival.com

12/06/2024

This evening we can't wait to hear festival superstar Poppy Beddoe, joined this time by Roelof Temmingh and Angus McCall performing trio masterpieces by Fauré, Brahms and Glinka.

This trio's performances are always high-energy and not to be missed!

🗓️ Wednesday 12 June, at 7.00pm
📍 St Pauls's Church, BS8 1LP

Info and tickets at cliftonfestival.com

10/06/2024

📣 We're excited to welcome Nicholas Cleobury to Clifton tomorrow at 11.30am 📣
Sharing stories from his unique view from conducting podiums in concert halls around the world, and in front of many leading choirs and orchestras, this talk will be as informative as it is light-hearted. Entry is free too!

🗓️ Tuesday 11 June at 11.30am
📍 James Room at Clifton Cathedral, BS8 3BX

08/06/2024

This Sunday Piano virtuoso and academic Douglas Stevens returns to the festival with a programme featuring two of the great masters of music for the piano, Chopin and Liszt, plus the world premiere of a piano sonata by Christopher Walker.

🗓️ Sunday 9 June at 7.30pm
📍 St Paul's Church, BS8 1LP

Tickets from cliftonfestival.com

08/06/2024

Tonight Jeremy Summerly directs a choral extravaganza: Join London’s celebrated ‘Three Choirs’ for a feast of Choral Classics including Allegri’s hauntingly beautiful Miserere mei, Deus and Fauré’s timeless Requiem, heard here in its original scoring for strings and organ.

🗓️ Saturday 8 June at 7.00pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral, BS8 3BX

Tickets at cliftonfestival.com

07/06/2024

We're so excited for this evening, as two of the world’s most sought-after Art Song specialists, tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Anna Tilbrook, headline this year’s festival with Schubert’s emotionally profound song cycle Winterreise.

📣 Only limited tickets on the door from 6.30pm

🗓️ Friday 7 June 2024, 7.00pm
📍 St Paul's Church, BS8 1LP

Remaining advance tickets at cliftonfestival.com

06/06/2024

If you enjoyed last night's performance from Endelienta Baroque they're back in just a few hours.

Tonight the undisputed master of the Baroque J. S. Bach is heard amongst his extended circle of family and colleagues in a vibrant programme of solo works, chamber sonatas, instrumental transcriptions and musical re-workings.

Show your ticket from last night on the door and pay just £5.

🗓️ This evening, Thursday 6 June at 6.00pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral, BS8 3BX

More info at cliftonfestival.com

05/06/2024

📣 The 2024 festival kicks off today 🎉
First up, a lighted-hearted, behind-the-scenes look at the making of a music festival at 6.15pm with Artistic Director, Tom Williams. Before a spellbinding evening of candlelit Baroque with Vivaldi's The Four Seasons in the atmospheric Clifton Cathedral.

🕰️ Talk at 6.15pm & Vivaldi at 8.00pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral, BS8 3BX

More info at cliftonfestival.com

29/05/2024

📣 This year's festival opens next week with Vivaldi's spellbinding The Four Seasons in the atmospheric candlelit surroundings of Clifton Cathedral. From glorious Summer’s sun, to the harsh Winter’s foreboding darkness, the power of this amazing masterpiece is still inescapable today.

🗓️ Wednesday 5 June at 8.00pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral

More info at cliftonfestival.com

27/05/2024

Join us for 'a view from the podium' as renowned conductor Nicholas Cleobury reflects on his distinguished and varied musical career, sharing stories from his unique view of concert halls around the world, and in front of many leading choirs and orchestras.

🗓️ Tuesday 11 June at 11.30am
📍 Clifton Cathedral (James Room)

More info at cliftonfestival.com

23/05/2024

Stars of stage, screen and concert platform The Erebus Ensemble explore music from across eight centuries, from stunning polyphony to ethereal minimalism, by composers including John Tavener and Arvo Pärt. Directed by Tom Williams.

🗓️ Friday 14 June at 7.00pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral

Find out more at cliftonfestival.com

20/05/2024

Virtuoso and academic Douglas Stevens performs a varied programme featuring two of the great masters of music for the piano, Chopin and Liszt, alongside a world premiere performance of Christopher Walker's Piano Sonata 🎹

🗓️ Sunday 9 June at 7.30pm
📍 St Paul's Church, Clifton

More information at cliftonfestival.com

19/05/2024

Festival favourites, organists David Bednall and James Gough go head to head in a battle of the organs on the famous Rieger instrument of Clifton Cathedral 💪

From Bach to the Beatles, don't miss your chance to choose the tunes for improvisations you’d like to hear under their fingertips 🎶

🗓️ Thursday 13 June at 7.30pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral

Find out more at cliftonfestival.com

18/05/2024

Jeremy Summerly directs London’s celebrated ‘Three Choirs’ for a spectactular feast of choral classics including Allegri’s hauntingly beautiful Miserere mei, Deus, and Fauré’s timeless Requiem, in its original scoring for strings and organ.

🗓️ Saturday 8 June at 7.00pm
📍 Clifton Cathedral

More info at cliftonfestival.com

17/05/2024

Festival Patron and Tallis Scholars conductor Peter Phillips shares his highlights from this year's programme from 5-15 June 🗓️

They including Schubert's Winterreise performed by James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook on Friday 7 June. We can't wait to see you there! 🎉

Find out more at cliftonfestival.com ➡️

16/05/2024

📣 BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award winner Helen Charlston joins with the fabulous Bristol Symphony Orchestra for a fabulous festival finale featuring Mahler’s profoundly moving Rückert-Lieder and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 6 🎶 🎻

Find out more or book now - link in comments 👇

14/05/2024

07/05/2024

The festival wishes to thank and congratulate one of its staunchest supporters, Canon Bosco MacDonald, on the eve of his Episcopal Ordination as the Tenth Bishop of Clifton. Bishop-Elect Bosco has been unswerving in his care and encouragement over a number of years and we look forward to working with him in his new role.

05/05/2024

There's just a month to go until this year's festival - we can't wait to see you at this year's concerts and events. Check out the full programme at cliftonfestival.com 🎉

22/03/2024

📣 Bristol's festival of world-class classical music is back 5-15 June 2024 🎉

👉 Find out what's on at cliftonfestival.com 👈

12/03/2024

📣 Bristol's classical music festival is back 5-15 June 🎶 🎉
Take a look at what's coming up! We can't wait to see you again this summer.

5-15 June 2024: Explore this year's festival programme.

24/06/2023

Last night we returned to the lovely acoustic of Clifton Cathedral - it is a wonderful space to perform in.

16/06/2023

Zosia talks vividly about her Young Artist concert this Sunday at 3 at St Paul's Clifton and what discovering music means to her - come and hear a star pianist in the making! www.cliftonfestival.com

Here you will find our own recordings plus some on which we have done significant production/mastering. Media company specialising in serious music. Oh yes! Really. Seriously. :) Theatre/TV/Radio/Fi

16/06/2023

We always have lots of fun promoting the Festival on BBC Radio Bristol! www.cliftonfestival.com

Here you will find our own recordings plus some on which we have done significant production/mastering. Media company specialising in serious music. Oh yes! Really. Seriously. :) Theatre/TV/Radio/Fi

15/06/2023

14/06/2023

Summer from The Four Seasons lived up to the accompanying poem/libretto set by Vivaldi on Sunday night in Bristol, with beating heat and periodic downpours aplenty! Thanks to Clifton Festival of Music for having The Players of The Hampstead Collective with our fabulous soloist Henry Tong.

Here is a sketch of some of the band, done by one of our audience members in her programme.

‘I: Allegro non molto
Under the heat of the burning summer sun,
Languish man and flock; the pine is parched.
The cuckoo finds its voice, and suddenly,
The turtledove and goldfinch sing.
A gentle breeze blows,
But suddenly, the north wind appears.
The shepherd weeps because, overhead,
Lies the fierce storm, and his destiny.
II. Adagio; Presto
His tired limbs are deprived of rest
By his fear of lightning and fierce thunder,
And by furious swarms of flies and hornets.
III. Presto
Alas, how just are his fears,
Thunder and lightening fill the Heavens, and the hail
Slices the tops of the corn and other grain.’