Skip to Content

Ulverston International Music Festival

Internationally renowned pianist Anthony Hewitt brings together musicians and ensembles from around the world for a joyous celebration of classical music, opera and jazz, at the annual Ulverston International Music Festival. Browse what’s on at the 20th anniversary edition (31 May -9 June 2024).

 

Celebrity Recital: Jennifer Pike & Martin Roscoe

Jennifer first gained international recognition in 2002, when, aged 12, she became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the youngest major prizewinner in the...

Choral Concert: Faure’s Requiem

Our debut at Cartmel Priory – a magnificent setting for two large-scale choral works – marks Fauré’s centenary year, with his Requiem, perhaps the most consoling Requiem of all time....

Lunchtime Baroque at Bardsea: Love’s Sweet Passion

What is love? This programme is a celebration of love in all its forms, where poetry and song gently mingle together to explore the complexity of this affection. From John...

Charles Court Opera: The Sorcerer

Based on Gilbert’s story An Elixir of Love, it tells the tale of Alexis, a man obsessed with the idea that all should fall in love. Enlisting a ‘Family Sorcerer’...

Strings in focus: Paganiniana

This tantalising programme centres around Paganini, the legendary, cult figure whose dazzling violin wizardry defied physics. His ‘Cantabile’ however demonstrates his skill at writing beautiful, memorable tunes. The viola has...

Strings in Focus: Arethusa Quartet – Intimate Letters

‘Intimate Letters’ centres around the expression of romantic love through music and letters. Janáček’s string quartet no.2 was written as a reflection in music of over seven hundred letters he...

Celebrity Recital: Nicholas Daniel & Huw Watkins

Nicholas Daniel OBE has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s great oboists and is one of Britain’s best-known musicians. Passionate about contemporary music, he has commissioned hundreds of...

George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

A celebrated musical juggernaut for four decades, thrilling audiences from Tasmania in the South Pacific to Svalbard in the Artic Circle, Windsor Castle to Carnegie Hall, the all-singing, all-plucking Ukulele...

Lunchtime Piano Recital: Daniel Lebhardt

A fascinating programme framed by two Liszt Legends and works from his late spiritual period. The relationship between Robert and Clara is interwoven in to the central nucleus of the...

French Impressions – Anthony Hewitt & Friends

A celebration of French chamber music on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. No other composer quite epitomises the idea of French music in the way that...

Knowing Your Place: Ideas of the North in Words and Music

From the Viking invasion of Lindisfarne to the dismantling of Millom Ironworks, words and music weave haematite veins of the North across time & space. The result is a hybridised...

Jazz Night Dave Bristow Quintet

Parisian jazz supergroup, the Dave Bristow Quintet return to the UK for an exciting summer tour, with a special opening date at the Ulverston International Music Festival. They’ll be showcasing...

Lunchtime Recital Animato Quartet: Landscapes

Beethoven’s first quartet in the Op.18 set, in F Major, was actually the second quartet Beethoven composed, but was situated first in the published set because of his confidence in...

Royal Northern Sinfonia

We welcome the Royal Northern Sinfonia back to Ulverston for a brace of concerti, and an ebullient symphonic ending. Written in 1784, for one of his most talented students, Barbara...

Dusk Busk Last Round

At 9:30pm in midsummer, the night is young, in fact the night will not yet have begun. Located just a stone’s throw from the Coro, where the roof will have...

Tea to Tango

Celebrating the close of our 20th Edition of the Festival – join us for a tea party with a twist. At once sensual, nocturnal and revolutionary, Tango is a musical...