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...
Anglia TV report live from Corn Exchange
Last night Anglia TV broadcast live from the rehearsal for Music for 50 Musicians at the Corn Exchange, ahead of our concert with the Colin Currie Group and Mats Bergstrom. The children were so excited to be on live TV and the piece sounded great! You...
One week down – one to go
We're halfway through this year's Cambridge Music Festival. We're looking forward to what's to come this week. Highlights include the Brodsky Quartet, Steve Reich: Drumming, Julien Brocal, and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Let's take a quick look at what's been happening so...
Colin Currie on Steve Reich
This month, it will be an enormous privilege to be back at the Cambridge Music Festival on 21 November for another opportunity to share the music of Steve Reich! For me, one of the highlights of recent years of performing was our concert at the...