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An innovative festival of chamber music
9 – 15 May 2009 Full programme details and online booking facility now available
Are you looking for inspiration? You’ll find it in abundance on the shores of Loch Shiel in the second week of May, when leading artists from all over Scotland and beyond will team up to perform classical music befitting the scenic splendour of the West Highlands. Albeit short of lavish concert halls, the villages round Loch Shiel offer a series of imaginative chamber music venues ranging from the awe-inspiring to the picturesque, and festival programmes are devised to match. In 2006 we staged a concert at Glenfinnan railway station, featuring music by Steve Reich. In 2007 we celebrated the Highland Year of Culture by commissioning "Lady Chisholm's Songbook", a collaborative work based on local themes and song traditions. The 2008 festival saw the birth of the Loch Shiel Philharmonic Ensemble and their inspired performance of Bruckner's Symphony no. 7 in chamber arrangement for 9 instruments - including the accordion! This is how Artistic Director Charles Mutter presents the 2009 Festival: There’s no escaping the fact that the 2009 Festival is the slimmest I’ve yet programmed: fewer events and no group larger than a string quartet. However, what’s remarkable is that despite everything (for a current definition of “everything”, open any national newspaper) we’ve managed yet again to deliver a mouth-watering array of treats, covering an extraordinary range of styles, on a budget less than a quarter of what we had to play with in 2007.
See Charles' presentation of the full programme under AD's blog.
The Festival’s Artistic Director is London-based violinist Charles Mutter, Associate Leader of the BBC Concert Orchestra.  COME TO LOCH SHIEL
FOR INSPIRATION!
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