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Festival Service
St Magnus Cathedral, 11.15am
Conducted by Rev Fraser Macnaughton
with St Magnus Cathedral choir
Buses for Stromness will leave Palace Road at
12.30pm and return from Stromness Pierhead,
calling at Stromness Academy, at 6pm.
A seat on the bus should be booked in advance, with your Festival tickets.
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Bus £6
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Event 14: Simon Armitage - poetry reading
Stromness Parish Church, 1.15pm
Simon Armitage is one of Britain 's most widely known and popular poets. He has received numerous awards for his work, which includes nine poetry collections, several novels and an acclaimed translation of the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He has also written extensively for stage, radio and television.
‘Armitage creates a muscular but elegant language of his own out of slangy, youthful, up-to-the-minute jargon and the vernacular of his native northern England. He combines this with an easily worn erudition, plenty of nous and the benefit of unblinkered experience…' Sunday Times
Approximately 1 hour |
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Tickets
£7 full
£4 conc*
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Event 15: Ewa Kupiec piano
Stromness Town Hall , 2.30pm
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Tickets
£13 full
£8 conc*
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| Chopin |
Scherzo in C# minor, op. 39 |
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Four Mazurkas, op. 41 |
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Waltz in Ab major, op. 42 |
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Tarantella in Ab major, op.43 |
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Polonaise in F# minor, op.44 |
| Bacewicz |
Sonata no. 2 |
| Chopin |
Two Nocturnes, op. 48 |
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Fantasie in F minor, op. 49 |
Ewa Kupiec's performances of Chopin have been lauded for their originality and insight. This programme features some of Chopin's most inspired piano works plus the second sonata by Grazyna Bacewicz , Poland 's most prominent female composer. The sonata was first performed by its dedicatee, Wladyslaw Szpilman, whose inspiring story is told in the film The Pianist.
 Approximately 2 hours |
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Event 16: A Johnsmas Foy
Stromness Academy Theatre, 5pm
This year’s Foy explores love, home, migration
and belonging. Narratives weave together
through music, dance, writing and song.
The performance features dance by the Orkney
Traditional Dance Association, and writing by
George Mackay Brown, local writers and
Nalini Paul, GMB Writing Fellow.
Conceived by Nalini Paul;
directed by Aimée Leonard.
Approximately 1 hour |
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Tickets
£7 full
£4 conc*
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Event 17: The Table
Jewson's Shed, Junction Road, Kirkwall, 6pm
Karbido present an extraordinary music-theatre
piece for four men and a table.
Four poker players emerge from the darkness
and sit around a table. It’s not a game of poker,
though, but a fantastic quartet performed on
the table, which is transformed into a musical
instrument capable of detecting and amplifying
the most delicate vibrations. A mesmerising
performance which takes the audience on an
acoustic journey round the globe.
‘Awesome, manic or witty. If it’s difficult to imagine,
that’s because you’ll never have seen or heard
anything quite like it’ The Scotsman (5 stars)
‘An extraordinary musical spectacle’ The Times
Approximately 1 hour |
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Tickets
£12 full
£7 conc*
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 Event 18: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall, 7.30pm
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Olga Pasichnyk soprano
St Magnus Festival Chorus |
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Tickets
£16 full
£9 conc* |
Britten
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Four Sea Interludes |
| Poulenc |
Gloria |
| Maxwell Davies |
 new work for choir and orchestra |
| Elgar |
Enigma Variations |
Martyn Brabbins conducts an outstanding programme featuring two great British orchestral works: Britten's dramatic depiction of the sea and Elgar's inspired portraits of his ‘friends pictured within'. The distinguished Ukrainian-Polish soprano, Olga Pasichnyk, joins the Festival Chorus for Poulenc's joyous Gloria, and choir and orchestra perform the world première of a new work specially written for the occasion by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Approximately 2 hours |
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Event 19: Royal String Quartet
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, 10.15pm
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Tickets
£9 full
£5 conc* |
| Gorecki |
Quartet no. 3 ‘…songs are sung' |
Polish composer Henryk Gorecki achieved huge world-wide popularity in the 1990s with his elegiac third symphony, the ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'. His third quartet, ‘...songs are sung', is a similarly intense and meditative work, perfectly suited to the special atmosphere of St Magnus Cathedral and to the expressive playing of the Royal Quartet.
Approximately 1 hour
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Event 20: The Table
Jewson's Shed, Junction Road, Kirkwall, 6pm
Karbido present an extraordinary music-theatre piece for four men and a table. Four poker players emerge from the darkness and sit around a table. It’s not a game of poker, though, but a fantastic quartet performed on the table, which is transformed into a musical instrument capable of detecting and amplifying the most delicate vibrations. A mesmerising
performance which takes the audience on an acoustic journey round the globe.
‘Awesome, manic or witty. If it’s difficult to imagine, that’s because you’ll never have seen or heard
anything quite like it’ The Scotsman (5 stars)
‘An extraordinary musical spectacle’ The Times
Approximately 1 hour |
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Tickets
£12 full
£7 conc*
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Festival Club: Three Peace Sweet
Albert Hotel, Kirkwall, 10pm
£6 at door or £20 Club Pass in advance
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| *Concessions are available for schoolchildren, full-time students and people who are registered unemployed. Postal, internet and in-person bookings open Monday 19th April. Phone bookings accepted from Tuesday 20th April. |
