The Presteigne Festival 2025
Saturday 23rd – Sunday 24th August 2025
Presteigne
We are delighted to be returning to the Presteigne Festival in 2025 as the choir in residence. Now in its 43rd year, the Presteigne Festival has a unique place in the UK’s musical calendar – ‘a festival which continues to surprise and delight. Its well-judged mixture of accessible yet probing and avowedly contemporary music, set in rewarding, carefully compiled programmes, remains a unique, matchless and irreplaceable facet of the British classical music calendar’ (Musical Opinion).
To see full details and to purchase tickets, visit presteignefestival.com
Saturday 23rd August
7.30pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF
DA VINCI REQUIEM
Cheryl Frances-Hoad With What Sudden Joy
Eleanor Alberga Violin Concerto No 2 ‘Narcissus’
Aaron Copland Quiet City
Cecilia McDowall Da Vinci Requiem
Elinor Rolfe Johnson soprano
Thomas Humphreys baritone
Katie Bennington cor anglais
Katie Lodge trumpet
Bath Camerata
Presteigne Festival Orchestra
George Vass conductor
Tickets £30 Premium – £25 Unreserved – £1 young people (aged 8-25)
Sunday 24th August
11am | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF
FESTIVAL EUCHARIST
Well-known for its exceptional acoustic, St Andrew’s Church is the spiritual home of the Presteigne Festival. All are warmly invited to worship at the Festival Eucharist. The music includes: Jonathan Dove’s Missa Brevis, a new setting of the Ave Maria by Kerensa Briggs and Caroline Shaw’s and the swallow.
Bath Camerata
Robert Brooks conductor
Edward Kemp-Luck organ
4.30pm | Priory Church, Leominster HR6 8NH
BATH CAMERATA AT LEOMINSTER PRIORY
Benjamin Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
Judith Weir Ave Regina Caelorum
Kerensa Briggs Ave Maria (World premiere)
Cecilia McDowall Regina Caeli
Caroline Shaw and the swallow
Sarah Rimkus My heart is like a singing bird
Nathan James Dearden i breathe
Jonathan Dove The Sun has Burst the Sky
Bath Camerata
Robert Brooks conductor
Tickets £20 – £1 young people (aged 8-25)
BOOKING INFORMATION
Visit presteignefestival.com or book via telephone at 01544 267800
6 May | Booking open for Benefactors, Patrons and Friends
20 May | Booking open for Online, Postal and Telephone customers
5 August | In person booking open at the Festival Box Office, Assembly Rooms, Broad Street, Presteigne.
