CMF on Film: Dunedin Consort plays Bach
We interviewed John Butt, Music Director of Dunedin Consort, Professor of Music at Glasgow University and former organ scholar at King’s College Cambridge, ahead of the 24 March premiere of CMF on Film: Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, with Dunedin Consort. What is your first musical memory? Well, plenty...
Meet Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason
Brother and sister cello/piano duo Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason are recognised individually for their astonishing talent and also as part of the family who impressed the judges on Britain's Got Talent. Sheku won BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016 and shot to stardom...
Anniversary year continues with 6 live June concerts
Six June events with live audience go on sale today, heralding a welcome return to (almost) normality for audiences and performers. With only a few weeks to go, the line-up for the hour-long socially-distanced events at West Road Concert Hall has just been announced, and features the Festival's...
Women in music
As the Cambridge Music Festival begins, we examine some of the great, unsung women composers whose work is being performed this year. Glance at the programme for most classical concerts and you will find that half of the population is under-represented – if, in fact, it...
Festival starts this week!
This year's Cambridge Music Festival has arrived, with the first concert on Wednesday! If you haven't booked yet, there is still availability for some events - details below. Don't forget you can get up to 25% off if you book multiple events. Handel Coronation Anthems - a few...
Behind the music: stories from CMF 2019 – Two great women behind our Rush Hour concert
Two great women who helped to launch countless musical careers Here’s a brainteaser to brighten up your day: What connects Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Quincy Jones, and Burt Bacharach? And, while we’re at it, Dinu Lipatti, Daniel Barenboim and Astor Piazzolla as well? The answer is that...
Keyboard engineering
With a reputation for daring, boundary-pushing music, how does pianist/technologist Zubin Kanga fit with the more conventional classical sounds at this year’s Cambridge Music Festival? Never underestimate your audience’s appetite for something new, he tells the Cambridge Independent. Keyboard engineering For a moment, everything seems relatively normal,...
Behind the music: stories from CMF 2019 – Hot club jazz from the ashes
Hot club jazz from the ashes Trio Manouche and Friends bring Django Reinhardt’s free-spirited jazz to the Cambridge Music Festival on 14 November. But the music might never have existed had it not been for a personal disaster, 91 years ago. In 1928, Jack Hylton, the celebrated...
The musical high-wire acts of CMF 2019
“That sense of risking everything helps to make live music special” Her work has been described as ‘magical’ and close to perfection, but 25 years after she first came to public attention, cellist Natalie Clein still gets nervous before every performance. Ahead of this year’s Cambridge...
