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Strictly “FAB-U-LOUS” Evening at Leonardslee
We're very happy that our Summer Concert Series at the fantastic Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens on the outskirts of Horsham returns for a pair of concerts beginning on Wednesday, July 26th! Tonight the Stradivarius Piano Trio (Maria Marchant – Piano, Jonathan Few –...
The Private Passions of a Wilding Pioneer
To coincide with this year's Wilding Concert at Knepp our dear friend Isabella Tree is this week's guest on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions. You can listen to the programme from 12pm on Sunday, July, 9th and her music choices include works by Schubert, Handel, Bach but...
The Wilding Concert at Knepp
We have been performing the Wilding Concert for over 16 years at Knepp and there’s a strong sense of kinship between the Shipley Arts Festival and the re-wilding efforts of the Knepp Estate. The Wilding Concert is the stunning centrepiece of our annual Shipley Arts...
Profile of a Musical Entrepreneur
Ahead of the Festival of Chichester opening concert Andrew has been speaking with the local press in support of the audacious Beyond Our World performance, featuring music by Holst and performances by members of the Bernardi Music Group and soloists from London's...
Holst will be with us in spirit
Andrew sat down on Zoom with Phil Hewitt, arts editor for Sussex Newspapers, to discuss the opening concert at this years Festival of Chichester.
We take you “Beyond our World”
We're proud to be part of the Festival of Chichester and this year we're on hand to open this fantastic event with a cosmic musical journey that will take you Beyond our World! We are joined by electric violist and conductor Nic Pendlebury and Trinity Laban ensemble...
An English Idyll at Shipley Parish Church
We enjoyed a packed audience last weekend at Shipley Parish Church where we shared a wonderful evening that celebrated music from six English composers. The concert opened celebrating 400 years of William Byrd with "Ave Verum Corpus" performed by the West London...
“He is sincere, very warm and a very disarming person…”
Andrew was delighted to meet the King just days before this weekend’s coronation. Andrew said, "It was a huge honour and great privilege to have been invited to the garden party at Buckingham Palace this week." Sussex World have the full story online, you can read it...
An English Idyll
Tonight we will be marking four hundred years of composer William Byrd. Malcolm Singer will be conducting the Shipley Parish Choir with his ‘Shipley Psalms’ to mirror Bernstein’s ‘Chichester Psalms’ of 1965. Tim Peters (Director of Horsham Chamber Choir) brings his...
Coronation Celebration
A Concert for a King. The Bernardi Music Group is honoured to celebrate and commemorate the historic coronation of King Charles III with a very special concert at Holy Cross Church, Sparsholt, Oxfordshire. We join our hosts Merlin and Laura Swire on Friday, May 5th -...