Welcome
The Northern Aldborough Festival
Introduction
The Northern Aldborough Festival was born in 1994, centred around the picturesque village of Aldborough near York. It has fast established itself as one of the most prestigious classical music events in the country and was recently described by the Times as ‘well on its way to being one of the leading fixtures on the classical music calendar’.
Our Aims
Our core aim is to bring exceptional music from world class performers to new audiences, in rural locations where it wouldn’t normally be heard. With musical talent sourced from all over the world, young and old, amateur and professional, the festival offers audiences a consistently high standard of music.
Focus on Community
The festival has always had a strong emphasis on community. Through our Outreach Programme, Aldborough Festival continues to bring concerts to schools, hospitals, hospices, childrens homes & prisons around the region.
The Music
So far the Festival has engaged some of the greatest musical talent around. Star names include Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, Edward Gardner, The Hallé, Royal Northern Sinfonia, the European Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, Fantasia Orchestra, the Kings Singers, VOCES8 and Armonico, singers Anne Evans, Lesley Garrett, Sarah Connolly, Felicity Lott, John Tomlinson, Thomas Allen, James Gilchrist and Lawrence Zazzo, guitarists Craig Ogden, Sean Shibe and Martin Taylor, violinists Alina Ibragimova, Viktoria Mullova, Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Tasmin Little, violist Maxim Rysanov, cellist Guy Johnston, trumpeters Guy Barker and Alison Balsom, clarinettists Julian Bliss and Emma Johnson, the Belcea, Fitzwilliam, Heath and Elias string quartets, jazz artists Courtney Pine, Django Bates, Claire Martin, Julian Joseph, Jacqui Dankworth, Clark Tracey and Liane Carroll, pianists Nikolai Demidenko, Angela Hewitt, Dame Imogen Cooper, Sunwook Kim, Kathryn Stott, Alim Beisembayev, Benjamin Grosvenor, Yevgeny Sudbin, Steven Osborne and Dmitri Alexeev and speakers Matthew Parris, John Humphrys, Reverend Richard Coles, Gyles Brandreth, Alex James, Tony Robinson and Lucy Worsley.
