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OUNDLE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
16th – 25th JULY 2010
This year’s Festival programme is packed with almost 30 events including an impressive mix of musical genres, plus children’s events, open-air theatre, exhibitions, tours and celebrity organ recitals.
The diary below lists all the events, with more information available at the click of your mouse – and you can book tickets online just as easily!
| Friday 16th July | The Dolby Gallery, West Street | Exhibition | More Info | FREE ADMISSION |
| 6 - 8pm | Private View of work by artist Peter H Begley, & Festival Launch | |||
| Friday 16th July | St Peter's Church | Aurora Orchestra | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 7.30pm | Dynamic and innovative chamber orchestra, programme incl Mahler's 1st Symphony | |||
| Saturday 17th July | Oundle Market Place | Oundle Food Festival | More Info | FREE ADMISSION |
| 8.30am - 2.30pm | Quality food market, chef demos, tastings, street music and more | |||
| Saturday 17th July | Heron Rogers Field | Picnic in the Park | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 5pm gates open | Showaddywaddy and The Counterfeit Stones headline this open-air Fireworks Concert | |||
| Sunday 18th July | Yarrow Gallery | Harmony, Ratio and the Cosmos. | More Info | FREE ADMISSION |
| 5.30 - 7.30pm | Exhibition Preview of work by artists inspired by the Cosmos, Order, Chaos & Divine Ratio | |||
| Sunday 18th July | Oundle School Chapel | Faure's Requiem | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 7.30pm | Festival Chorus conducted by David Hill | |||
| Sunday 18th July | Stahl Theatre | Film: Nowhere Boy (15) | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 7.45pm | ||||
| Monday 19th July | Oundle School Chapel | WOOFYT Workshop | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 11.30am | Animateur, Jeremy Sampson, leads a hands on music workshop for all ages from 7 up | |||
| Monday 19th July | Oundle School Chapel | Mark Williams, organ recital | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 1.15pm | Music includes pieces by Bach, Vierne and Sweelinck | |||
| Monday 19th July | Jesus Church | Anne Page, organ recital | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 7.30pm | Music by Byrd, Purcell, Handel and Bach | |||
| Monday 19th July | Stahl Theatre | Film: Vier Minuten (15) | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 7.45pm | ||||
| Monday 19th July | Arthur Marshall Rm, Great Hall | Twilight Recital: two harps | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 9pm | Eleanor Turner and Elizabeth Bass play a programme of sublime harp music | |||
| Tuesday 20th July | Castle Mound, Fotheringhay | The Bach Walk | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 6pm | A walk with violinist Pavlo Beznosiuk, supper and concert with organist Margaret Phillips | |||
| Tuesday 20th July | Garden at Festival Marquee | James & the Giant Peach | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 6.30pm | Illyria brings the world's most popular children's author, Roald Dahl, to the open-air stage | |||
| Wednesday 21st July | Arthur Marsall Room, Great Hall | Finzi String Quartet | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 1pm | Music by Adès and Beethoven | |||
| Wednesday 21st July | From Gascoigne Car Park | Tour of the Orpheus Project | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 1.30pm | Newly landscaped garden at Boughton House | |||
| Wednesday 21st July | Festival Marquee | The Classic Buskers | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 4.30pm | Children's Event 'We're All Going to the Zoo' | |||
| Wednesday 21st July | Great Hall, Oundle School | Sam Haywood, piano recital | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 7.30pm | Music by Chopin and Schumann | |||
| Wednesday 21st July | Oundle School Chapel | Vespers by Candlelight | More Info | FREE ADMISSION |
| 9.40pm | A magical experience combining plainchant and extempore organ music | |||
| Thursday 22nd July | Yarrow Gallery | Alex Bellos, author | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 1pm | Lecture discussing the Fibonacci series and its relationship to form in nature | |||
| Thursday 22nd July | Fotheringhay Church | Stile Antico | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 8pm | Exploring Tudor and Jacobean sacred music written for private performance | |||
| Friday 23rd July | Oundle School Chapel | WOOFYT Workshop | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 11.30am | Animateur, Jeremy Sampson, leads a hands on music workshop for all ages from 7 up | |||
| Friday 23rd July | Peterborough Cathedral | Thierry Mechler, organ recital | More Info | FREE ADMISSION |
| 1pm | A dazzling programme from an awesome improviser at the console | |||
| Friday 23rd July | Fotheringhay Church | The Orlando Consort | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 8pm | A fusion of renaissance church music with that of 16th-century India | |||
| Saturday 24th July | Oundle School Chapel | Robert Quinney, organ recital | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 11am | Including World Premiere of an organ work commissioned by the Festival from Tarik O'Regan | |||
| Saturday 24th July | St Peter's Church Oundle | Youth wind orchestra | More Info | |
| 7.30pm | Youth wind orchestra is part of Cambridgeshire Music County Academy structure | |||
| Saturday 24th July | King's College Chapel, Cambridge | John Scott, organ recital | More Info | |
| 7.30pm | Celebrated American organist plays the mighty organ at King's | |||
| Saturday 24th July | Festival Marquee | Salsa Celtica | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 8.30pm | A vibrant combination of Scottish and Irish music with Latin American elements of salsa | |||
| Sunday 25th July | Fotheringhay Church | Festival Eucharist | More Info | |
| 10.30am | ||||
| Sunday 25th July | Oundle School Chapel | Young Organists Recital | More Info | Buy Tickets |
| 2.30pm | Performances by students who have attended the Oundle for Organists courses | |||