• Sacconi Chamber Music Festival • 16-18 May 2025 • Folkestone •
Thursday 19 May at 6.00pm
ExhibitionFree, no booking required
The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone, CT20 2LR
6.00pm - 8.00pm
As part of the Sacconi Quartet’s 2021 Artist’s Residency, Kate Beaugié invited local artists, filmmakers, photographers, a poet, a writer, a designer and sound engineers to interpret and document the event ‘Beethoven on the Beach’; Beethoven’s Op. 131 performed by the Sacconi Quartet, on Sunny Sands, as the sea water rose and the Earth turned on its axis, on the 24th October 2021.
The concluding event; BEETHOVEN ON THE BEACH REVISITED, will be held in the huge, imperial spaces of The Grand and will consist of a curated amalgam of the individual and collaborative creative journeys into music, space, sound, time, words, silence, light and darkness.
Also repeated on Sunday 22 May 11-2pm
Friday 20 May at 7.00pm
Concert£25 Standard/ £10 Under 35s/ Free for 8-25 year-olds
St Mary & St Eanswythe's Church, Church St, Folkestone CT20 1SE
Sacconi Quartet:
Ben Hancox, Hannah Dawson, violins
Robin Ashwell, viola
Cara Berridge, cello
Haydn – String Quartet Op. 76 No. 2 in D minor 'Fifths'
Tippett – String Quartet No. 2
Schubert - String Quartet in D minor, D. 810 ‘Death and the Maiden’
Saturday 21 May at 7.00pm
Concert£25 Standard/ £10 Under 35s/ Free for 8-25 year-olds
St Mary & St Eanswythe's Church, Church St, Folkestone CT20 1SE
Sacconi Quartet
Royal College of Music Chamber Orchestra
Purcell - Selection of Fantasias (for string quartet):
Fantasia a 4 No. 6 in F Z737 (1680)
Chacony in G minor Z730 (c.1678)
Fantasia a 4 No. 11 in G Z742 (1680)
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending (arr. for string orch)
(Hannah Dawson, solo violin)
Tchaikovsky - 'Souvenir de Florence' in D min op. 70
Wojciech Kilar - 'Orawa' for string orchestra
Saturday 21 May at 9.30pm
Late-Night Concert£16 Standard/ £10 Under 35s
Quarterhouse, Folkestone,
The Hot Club of Jupiter:
Kit Massey, Violin, Vox
Jon Shenoy, Clarinet
Sam Dunn, Guitar
Rory Dempsey, Double Bass
Matt French, Drums
Late-night candle-lit concert – something a little different every time! This year, vibrant five-piece The Hot Club of Jupiter bring their own unique brand of gypsy swing and hot jazz to the Festival!
Sunday 22 May at 11.00am
ExhibitionFree, no booking required
The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone, CT20 2LR
11am - 2pm
Another chance to experience our BEETHOVEN ON THE BEACH REVISITED exhibition. See Thursday entry for full details.
Sunday 22 May at 3.00pm
Concert£16 Standard/ £10 Under 35s/ Free for 8-25 year-olds
St Mary & St Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone
Robin Ashwell, viola
David Campbell, clarinet
Anya Fadina, piano
Simone Van der Giessen, viola
Roxanna Panufnik - Canto for solo viola
Frank Bridge - Lament and Caprice for two violas
Rebecca Clarke - Prelude, Allegro & Pastorale for viola and B flat clarinet
Arnold Bax - Phantasy for viola & piano
Sunday 22 May at 7.00pm
Concert£25 Standard/ £10 Under 35s/ Free for 8-25 year-olds
