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词条 East Neuk Festival
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  1. History

  2. Venues and Artists

  3. East Neuk Festival Retreat

  4. Music and Community

  5. Awards

  6. External links

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The East Neuk Festival is an annual music festival that takes place over five days around 1 July in the area known as the East Neuk of Fife.

History

Established in 2004 it was the brainchild of Donald and Louise MacDonald and founding artistic director Svend McEwan-Brown.

Venues and Artists

The festival concerts take place in a range of venues including churches in villages such as St Monans, Crail, Kilconquhar, Kilrenny and Cellardyke as well as unusual spaces such as Scotland’s Secret Bunker an aircraft shelter at RAF Leuchars, gardens, caves, dells, local attractions and notably, The Bowhouse, a large barn on the Balcaskie Estate which is transformed into a performance venue especially for the event.

Musicians and ensembles join together in residencies for practically the duration of the festival playing core chamber music repertoire alongside new commissions, contemporary works, jazz and world music. Storytelling, poetry, literature, exhibitions, films and other art and installation projects also feature.

Other performers have included conductor/pianist Christian Zacharias, violinist Alexander Janiczek and writer Dr Richard Holloway, the Alban Berg Quartet, Skampa String Quartet, Belcea Quartet and Leipzig String Quartet, the Doric String Quartet, Elias String Quartet and Royal String Quartet.

The 2019 festival line up will be announced in late November 2018.

East Neuk Festival Retreat

In 2015 the Festival created the ENF Retreat, a intensive chamber music seminar designed to offer young professional musicians who have demonstrated a special commitment to chamber music an opportunity to work with outstanding established artists. It offers up to 10 young string players from around the world coaching and mentoring by a team led by Retreat Director, Alexander Janiczek (violin)' coaches have included Krzysztof Chorzelski (violist of the Belcea Quartet), David Watkins (Head of Strings at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), pianist Alexander Lonquich violist,Isabel Charisius and cellistValentin Erben, Rafael Rosenfeld. The Retreat takes place in the village of Elie in Fife

Music and Community

ENF is committed to commissioning new works by major figures that are intended for performance by professional and community musicians side-by-side. The first work in this series was Across the Distance for 32 horns by John Luther Adams in 2015. In 2016 this was followed by David Lang's [https://www.1418now.org.uk/memorial-ground/ Memorial Ground] for amateur and professional singers, a choral commemoration of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. This was commissioned jointly by the East Neuk Festival and 14-18 NOW, with the support of Creative Scotland. Premiered on 2 July 2016, it was then made available for free to choirs to create their own performances, and more than 40 performances have taken place by April 2017. In 2017 ENF commissioned a devised performance with the musicians of the Tullis Russell Mills Band in Fife, led by trumpeter John Wallace and his The Wallace Collection musicians. Inspired by the stories of Fife's miners, and the music they made in their brass bands, it was called De Profundis and was premiered in Fife on 1 July 2017. 2018's commission saw Scanner work with students from Waid Academy, Anstruther to create a sound memorial to men lost at sea in the fishing industry.

Awards

East Neuk Festival has twice been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Audience Development - in 2007 and in 2017.

External links

  • http://www.eastneukfestival.com

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