SARAH CONNOLLY AND IMOGEN COOPER

*From the organisers (correct at the time of publishing), please see the organiser’s website for the latest details.

Date: Sunday 16 June | 19:00
Genre: Classical Music
Venue: Theatre
Duration: 90 minutes

A truly thrilling concert for this year’s Festival, with two of the world’s most celebrated artists: Sarah Connolly and Imogen Cooper. They perform songs by Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Carl Loewe and Henri Duparc, before concluding with Francis Poulenc’s richly evocative Banalités.

All ticket holders will be welcome to attend a free pre-show talk in the chapel and will have complimentary access from 15:00 onwards to the Nevill Holt Estate gardens and 20th-century sculpture collection as well as the 2024 Festival’s exhibitions of Anthony Caro and Eduardo Paolozzi’s sculpture, marking the centenary of both artists’s birth.
“Music-making of this calibre transports us to another plane of existence” Evening Standard

Sarah Connolly was made a DBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours, having previously been awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year Honours. In 2020 she was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her outstanding services to music. In 2023 she was awarded The King’s Medal for Music, an award given annually to an outstanding individual or group of musicians who have had a major influence on the musical life of the nation. Opera engagements have taken her around the world from the Metropolitan Opera to the Royal Opera House, the Paris Opera, La Scala Milan, the Vienna and Munich State Operas and the Bayreuth, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence Festivals.

Imogen Cooper’s recent and future concerto performances include the London Symphony Orchestra with Simon Rattle, the Hallé Orchestra with Mark Elder and the Cleveland and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras with Jane Glover. Her solo recitals this season include performances in London, New York and Washington DC. Imogen’s most recent solo recordings have been for Chandos Records. Imogen received a DBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2021. The Imogen Cooper Music Trust was founded in 2015 to support young pianists at the cusp of their professional careers and give them time to study in an environment of peace and beauty.