'Highly-respected' Ripon arts festival to return with an international class programme

The Wihan Quartet will perform Smetana’s String Quartet No 1 From My Life and Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 10 Slavonic at St. John’s Church in Sharow on Friday, August 7 as part of highly-respected Ripon International Festival.

Established in 1997 by international pianist/conductor Janusz Piotrowicz and classical music promoter Susan Goldsbrough, this high quality festival arts festival is primarily centered at the historic 13th-century Ripon Cathedral.

But it features a rich line-up of orchestral, choral, and chamber music concerts, as well as jazz, literary, and theatrical events held across North Yorkshire in August, September and, just about, October.

At last year’s Ripon International Festival, The Wihan Quartet’s searing performance of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden stunned the audience with its riveting intensity.

Among the other highlights coming up in this year’s bill of events is Orchestra of Opera North which will perform at Ripon Cathedral on Saturday, Septemebr 5.

Conducted by Janusz Piotrowicz, the musical programme will feature Verdi’s Overture - The Force of Destiny, Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy - Romeo & Juliet, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances and Brahms’s Symphony No 1 in C minor.

Meanwhile, Music at Markenfield - The Forest of Mythical Breezes – An Arcadian Odyssey at Markenfield Hall on Thursday, September 10 will see Yu-Wei Hu on flute and Johan Lofving on guitar performing works by Charpentier, Couperin, de Visée and Hotteterre.

For more information, visit: https://riponinternationalfestival.org/