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About Mill Hill Music Festival
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The Mill Hill Music
Festival takes place every two years. It is one of the largest music
festivals in the North London and Barnet area. It offers a wide choice
of musical events designed to appeal to music lovers of all kinds.
The fundamental objective of the Festival is to give new talent a
showcase and enable people to enjoy performances by top professional
musicians in their own area at lower than commercial prices.
Over the years, the Festival has played host to some great names of
the musical world; Humphrey Lyttelton, Warren Vache, Scott Hamilton,
Campbell Burnap, The Foundations, Paul Young, Stacey Kent, Acker Bilk,
Alan Gresty & Brian White, Gwyneth Herbert, and many more.
In
2005, in a "Festival first" we had the pleasure of playing host to
the British Youth Opera, whose ethos lies in a similar vein to the Festival's own objectives. The opera company helps young singers to
develop their skills and go on to become professional opera singers.
In 2007, our opening evening concert began with the first public
performance of a newly-commissioned setting of a John Keble poem. The
Festival continued to be a great success with truely splendid
performance by British Youth Opera, a fantastic evening of jazz from
the Scott Hamilton Quartet Plus Two, and a fascinating evening of
klezmer from Gregori Schechter and the Wandering Few. The Festival
with the first London performance of Jonathan Willcock's choral
composition, A Great and Glorious Victory. This worked charts
the moving aftermath of Trafalgar, an appropriate counterpoint the
choir's triumphant performance of the Nelson Mass at the 2005
Festival.
The Festival has been going for over 12 years now.
Way back in 1995, the first festival was organised by Ms. Jane Ellison
and Ms. Marion Dewing with great success. Since then every other year
the Festival has sprung back in to life and expanded over many genres
of music.
In the lead up to each Festival, we as always find ourselves in something of
a dilemma – which artists do we book? The astonishing problem
we have, is that are so many wonderfully talented musicians to choose
from. Whether amateur or professional, just starting out or long established,
local or international, the Mill Hill Music Festival simply bursts
with gifted musicians.
From its early beginnings the Festival has had the much-appreciated
patronage of Lady Hobson MBE, Sir Alan Thomas and Humphrey Lyttelton.
Mill Hill Music Festival is organised by music lovers for music lovers,
on a not-for-profit basis, and we hope you'll take time this summer
to enjoy some wonderful music with us. |
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