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An innovative festival of chamber music
9 – 15 May 2010 7 – 13 May 2011
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. In 2010 we commissioned again: Thanks to funding from Arts & Business and Ardnamurchan Estate, the Festival opened with a bang at the south end of the loch, with Academy Brass giving the world premiere of "The Sound of Glenborrodale", written by Iain Ballamy, Guy Barker, Gary Carpenter and Peter Cowdrey. Spectacular Glenborrodale Castle opened its doors for an action-packed Family Gala Day. Go to www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007hqb5 to listen to Radio Scotland's broadcast from the event. The week continued with a series of musical gems before culminating in Glenfinnan with a jaw-dropping production of Benjamin Britten's musical drama "Noye's Fludde". Written for schoolchildren in rural Suffolk, this masterpiece was first performed in 1958, with the disastrous East Coast floods of the mid 1950s still in everybody's minds. Our production featured dozens of local kids, sublimely talented professional singers and a spectacular stage set - Glenfinnan Church as you had never seen it before! The Festival’s Artistic Director is London-based violinist Charles Mutter, Associate Leader of the BBC Concert Orchestra.  COME TO LOCH SHIEL
FOR INSPIRATION!
This year saw performances by:
Mary Carewe
Richard Strivens
James Naughtie
Iain Ballamy
Sue Perkins
Karin Küstner
Tae-Mi Song
to mention but a few. Click here for details on how to get to Loch Shiel.
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