BUDLEIGHFESTIVAL
	MUSIC and the ARTS
		23 - 31 July 2010
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Letter to all our festival visitors and to Friends of the Festival

First, on behalf of the organisers of the Festival, let me thank you for the great support you have given again this last year. More tickets were sold and there were more full houses though, once again, we were able to provide seats for all who called at the door on the night of performance. Season tickets were hugely popular again and seats for the opera sold out within two days of the box office opening. All very good news indeed. Add to this the evening performances that achieved a standard that few expected we could achieve within five years of starting. Lunchtime concerts were well attended, too.

The Music Festival will start its sixth season when it begins in July 2010. Once more we shall use both the St. Peter's and Temple with the kind permission and co-operation of both church communities. The programme looks very exciting with main evening events of the highest order.

The King's Singers make their first visit to Budleigh and the opera this year will be the Verdi favourite La Traviata and tickets for both these events will be eagerly sought when the box office opens in May. This year there will again be a season ticket, offering seats at all main evening events except for the opera, though we shall not offer a free concert programme this year.

Other evening concerts will include the 120 male voices of the Budleigh Salterton and Caldicot Choirs, the very welcome return of the London Adventist Chorale and two Orchestral Concerts.

The first of these will feature pianist Mark Bebbington in two Mozart concertos and the second will use the forces of the Festival Chorus and the Devon Junior Choir with tenor James Gilchrist in Britten's St. Nicolas cantata.

During the week we shall welcome a French pianist of distinction, Pascale Rog é ,

and then the Chilingirian Quartet.

There will be usual mix of free lunchtime concerts and two Promenade Concerts at the new earlier time of 3pm. These will feature Mark Bebbington playing the Beethoven Diabelli Variations and James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook who will give a recital. We start the series of evening concerts with the guitar virtuoso Craig Ogden and flautist Judith Hall. All in all a wonderful series of concerts and a splendid week of music making in the offing.

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