CONCERT CANCELLED

with Orlando Jopling

Fri 26 Apr, 7.30pm St Peter’s Church, Hever

Standard Ticket £20

Friends Ticket £15

(max. 2 per Friend)

2 hours including a 20-minute interval

We have the great pleasure of welcoming international musician Orlando Jopling to St Peter’s for this, our first, fundraising concert. Orlando is a huge supporter of the festival having played, with his opera company, Wild Arts, Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love with us in 2023. In 2024 Wild Arts will return to the Two Sisters’ Theatre with Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte.

Bach’s Cello Suites were composed in the early 1700s. It wasn’t until 1890 when the thirteen-year-old cellist Pablo Casals stumbled across the sheet music in a second-hand music shop in Barcelona that these suites began to grow in popularity, becoming one of the most famous and important pieces for the instrument. Casals practiced the suites for thirteen years before performing them publicly. When he did, the music experienced a meteoritic rise in popularity. The Suites have been featured in concerts and commercials alike, transcribed for a diverse array of instruments, and interpreted by every style of music imaginable, from swing to electronic. Becoming one of the most celebrated collections of music today.

To book tickets and for more information, please visit https://heverfestival.co.uk/index.php/j-s-bach-suites-for-solo-cello-nos-1-2-and-3/