Llandeilo Fawr Festival of Music

19/07/2024

Five of the UK's most exciting brass musicians, combining orchestral sound & blend with the finesse & skill of chamber music, delighted the audience tonight at St Teilo's Church

14/07/2024

A captivating collaboration between two musical powerhouses this evening, Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain. What a delightful setting to hear such beautiful music, which included original compositions from their debut album .

14/07/2024

Harpists of all ages and standards were given the unique opportunity to learn and play with Catrin Finch today at ‘Yr Hen Farchnad’, Llandeilo.

Thumbs up, Fingers down, Elbows out and Squeeze

14/07/2024

Looking forward to a wonderful evening at a beautiful setting

6 August, 21:30 Tŷ Gwerin A spellbinding collaboration between two musical powerhouses. Dublin native Aoife Ní Bhriain is one of Ireland's foremost traditional fiddle players and a classical violinist of international stature who commands both the classical world and her Irish traditional heritage...

13/07/2024

12/07/2024

“The stunning young contralto Jess Dandy...offered sumptuous tone and beautiful legato. She's a name to watch”
NEIL FISHER, THE TIMES

We cannot wait to be captivated by Jess Dandy, who's voice has been likened by ‘The Times’ to Kathleen Ferrier. Jess will be accompanied by Welsh pianist, researcher, and writer Ceri Owen

18th July 2024 @ 7pm - St Teilo's Church

Tickets available via TicketSource, Peppercorn Cookware Specialists and Morgan Newsagents & Post Office Llangadog

06/07/2024

For our interactive Festival Guide please click the link in our bio.

02/07/2024

Just two weeks from now, on Tuesday the 16th of July, the AQUINAS PIANO TRIO ( ) - Ruth Rogers “the finest of the younger generation of violinists”,
Katherine Jenkinson, one of the UK’s leading cellists, and Martin Cousins, one of the most exceptional pianists of his generation, will be performing at St Teilo's Church as part of our festival.

The has established itself as one of Britain’s most sought-after chamber groups.

On Tuesday the 16th they will be playing:

Beethoven's Trio in Eb Op.1 no.1
Frank Martin's Trio on Irish Folk Themes
and
Brahms' Trio no.2 in C major Op.87.

Tickets are £20 and the concert will take place at 7pm in St Teilo's Church.  

For tickets please call or email:

📞 Julia Jones: 01269 594303 | [email protected]
📞 Peppercorn: 01558 822410 | [email protected]
📞 Morgan Newsagent: 01550 777697
🌐 www.llandeilomusicfestival.org.uk

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30/06/2024

Described by Gramophone as, ‘spot-on in interpretative instinct’, the Aquinas Piano Trio has established itself as one of Britain’s most sought-after chamber groups. The Aquinas Trio released 3 discs of Haydn trios on Naxos between 2022-23, all to universal acclaim, with The Strad remarking ‘The Aquinas Trio brings flawless ensemble and a lively intelligence to these relatively neglected pre-1770 works’

Tuesday 16th July @ 7:00pm

Tickets available via TicketSource, Peppercorn Cookware Specialists Morgan Newsagents & Post Office Llangadog

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28/06/2024

Tickets are now available for Llyr Williams at St Teilo's Church, on Wednesday 17th July 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

28/06/2024

Tickets are now available for Cantorion John S Davies Singers - A Choral Celebration at St Teilo's Church, on Saturday 20th July 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

25/06/2024

CANTORION JOHN S DAVIES SINGERS
Huw Tregelles Williams -Organ
John S. Davies – Conductor

Tickets are now available for Cantorion John S Davies Singers - A Choral Celebration at St Teilo's Church, on Saturday 20th July 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

25/06/2024

SCHUMANN - Sonata no.3 op.14 (3 movement version)
FRANCK - Prelude, Chorale et Fugue
RAVEL: Menuet antique
Pavane pour une Infante défunte,
Forlane from Le Tombeau de Couperin
DEBUSSY; Estampes
SCHUBERT/LISZT: 3 songs

Tickets are now available for Llyr Williams at St Teilo's Church, on Wednesday 17th July 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

25/06/2024

Tickets are now available for Treske String Quartet at St Teilo's Church, on Monday 15th July 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

25/06/2024

Tickets are now available for The Forgotten Scarlatti - Armonico Consort at St Teilo's Church, on Saturday 13th July 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

25/06/2024

Tickets are now available for Aquinas Piano Trio at St Teilo's Church, on Tuesday 16th July 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

22/06/2024

On the 13th of July you and your family will have a chance to experience at first hand - via a sing along - the beauty of Francesco Scarlatti’s Dixit Dominus.

Then, at 7:30 PM, you will have a further chance to hear some of his divine music.

In fact, you will have the only chance anyone in Wales has ever had to hear two newly discovered Scarlatti masterpieces: a 16-part Mass and a piece called Dixit Dominus. Neither have been performed in Wales previously.

So who was Francesco Scarlatti (aside from a very handsome man, as per pic 3 above)?

He was born in Sicily in 1660 into a prominent musical family. Often his fame was overshadowed by the musical fame of his own brother Alessandro and nephew Domenico.

A Baroque music composer, he lived and worked throughout Italy as well as London and Dublin, where he died in relative obscurity.

Having been overshadowed by other family members, it was the relatively recent discoveries of 3 of his works that have brought Scarlatti to the attention of classical music connoisseurs worldwide:

The scores of Scarlatti's Dixit Dominus and Messa a 16 voci were found in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and his Oratorio - called Daniele - was discovered in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and received its first modern performance in 2024.

This latter "discovery" has being hailed as "the greatest classical music find of the century."

For a chance to hear Scarlatti's genius in person, come and join us on the 13th of July.   

For tickets please call or email:

📞 Julia Jones: 01269 594303 | [email protected]
📞 Peppercorn: 01558 822410 | [email protected]
📞 Morgan Newsagent: 01550 777697
🌐 www.llandeilomusicfestival.org.uk

18/06/2024

The festival offers an array of lunchtime and evening recitals from accomplished artists - 13th July > 20th July 2024

There will also be a Coffee Morning with Elen Jones,Operational Manager for Heritage and the Arts, Menter Dinefwr - 19th July 2024

The Llandeilo Fawr Festival of Music will return this summer, with some extremely special performances.

17/06/2024

Fiona Maddocks, one of the UK's leading writers and commentators on classical music, writes in The Guardian that the Treske Quartet played with ‘impassioned intensity’ and that their ‘sound is meticulously blended’, following their debut recital at Conway Hall.
Treske Quartet ★★★★

We cannot wait to welcome them back to the Llandeilo Fawr Festival of Music on the 15th July 7:00pm St Teilo's Church

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So happy to read this lovely review of our Conway Hall in The Guardian today! Link in bio to read the full thing

15/06/2024

🎶 Mark your calendars for July the 13th, because there are only 4 Saturdays to go!

There could not be a better way to kick off our 2024 Festival of Music than a Family Sing Along led by the incredible Armonico Consort and to the sound of Scarlatti's Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi’s Gloria with period instruments! 🎻

🎟️ Tickets: £5 per adult (Children go free!)

Then, at 7:00 PM, back in St Teilo’s Church, witness history as the perform two newly discovered Scarlatti masterpieces: a 16-part Mass and Dixit Dominus. First time in Wales! 🌟

🎟️ Evening Tickets: £20 per adult
🎟️ MULTIBUY OFFER: 25% off adult tickets with a Family Sing Along ticket!

Both events are being presented in partnership with

For tickets:

📞 Julia Jones: 01269 594303 | [email protected]
📞 Peppercorn: 01558 822410 | [email protected]
📞 Morgan Newsagent: 01550 777697
🌐 www.llandeilomusicfestival.org.uk

14/06/2024

Counting down the days - 14th July 2024 at Newton House, Llandeilo

Newbury Spring Festival concert with Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Irish violinist Aoife Ní Bhriain.

16/07/2023

15/07/2023

Tonight, the last night of the Festival for 2023, the Cantorion John S. Davies Singers will perform Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem Mass, and a selection of favourite classical choral pieces for the second half of the programme.

Jennifer Walker – Soprano.
Stephen Hamnett – Bass.
Jane Watts – Organ.
Conductor: John S. Davies.

In his seven-section Requiem, the French composer, Gabriel Fauré, distilled some of the most beautiful melodies he ever composed.

Of all seven sections, the Pie Jesu, Agnus Dei and In Paradisum emerge as the most glorious, filled with rich, soulful melodies. The work garnered the praise of many other composers – not least Camille Saint-Saëns, who thought it divine.

Admission: £20.00

14/07/2023

About Last Night …… last night we were challenged with a philosophical question:
Is like a or is a like .

Well, you be the judge of that.

We’re just here to say that Saoko and Simon Blendis were the best possible introduction to Max Jaffa’s salon music.

Thank you both for a splendid, faultless, evening.

And thank you for bringing along Jaffa’s priceless’ Pietro Guarnerius’ violin.

If you missed last night, the Blendis’ CD, “Love is like a Violin”, has already had over two million streams, and is available to purchase, or listen to, online.

Today we return with:

a free Lunchtime Recital
Dr. William Reynolds – Organ
Venue: St. Teilo’s Church
Time: 1.00pm

and

Africa – A Singing Nation
Africa Performing Arts
Venue: St. Teilo’s Church
Time: 7.00pm

12/07/2023

What a fantastic way to celebrate Rachmaninoff’s 150th Anniversary with Lucy Parham Concert Pianist and Henry Goodman at the Llandeilo Fawr Festival of Music

11/07/2023

Last night we were transported to the heart of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire, Vienna, with the help of Britain’s favourite clarinettist, Emma Johnson, and friends.

It was another pitch perfect evening which almost had us all waltzing down the church aisles….

A huge thanks to all the superb musicians and also to for your patronage.

10/07/2023

What’s On Today?

Lunchtime Recitals - 1pm - St Teilo's Church

Come along tolisten to Wyn Turner, a local organist, giving the first of our lunchtime recitals.

Our Lunchtime Recitals are free.

This means that you can pop in to have a listen, and to relax, and still your mind, while enjoying beautiful classical music, without worrying about tickets.

Evening Concert - Tales from Vienna - 7pm - St Teilo's Church

Wyn's recital will be followed by Emma Johnson and Friends, who will take centre stage in the evening to perform Emma's arrangement called "Tales From Vienna".

Emma is one of Britain’s best loved clarinettist. At the age of 17 she won BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York. She studied Music and English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then embarked on her music career on a full time basis. She has performed all over the world and is one of the UK’s biggest selling classical artists, having sold over half a million albums worldwide.

Emma and Friends will begin their performance with four great chamber works:

Beethoven's Septet Op.25,
Mozart's Clarinet Quintet K581
Schubert's Octet D803 and
Brahms' Hungarian Dances 1 and 3.

These "quieter" pieces will be followed by Strauss and Lehar, the Blue Danube Waltz, and the exciting and much loved ‘Radetzky’ March.

Admission for this evening concert is £20.00 per ticket, including a glass of sparkling wine.

Many thanks to Castell Howell Foods for sponsoring this event.

And to find out more about Emma, please visit her website:

https://www.emmajohnson.co.uk

10/07/2023

Thank you to Alis Huws - Harpist and NT Dinefwr for such a beautiful evening.

By the way, if you have always wanted to learn to play the harp, or you know someone with ”the next royal harpist” aspirations, you can buy a voucher for a Harp Masterclass .