King’s Lynn Festival’s Spring Coffee Concert series continues this week as main programme acts are teased
King’s Lynn Festival is getting ready to launch its entire programme of live classical and non-classical music with a performance this week.
Ahead of that announcement for the festival taking place between July 13 to 26, Lithuanian virtuoso pianist Rokas Valuntonis will be performing at The Assembly Rooms at Lynn’s Town Hall on Friday, March 7 at 11am.
He is one of the stars of Lynn Festival’s Spring Coffee Concert series and a prize winner of 20 international competitions – he will perform Beethoven’s Pathétique (Piano Sonata No.8. Op. 13), Chopin’s four Mazurkas Op.33, and Schumann’s Carnaval Op.9.
Adrian Parker, chair of King’s Lynn Festival, said: “There is so much to look forward to at this year’s King’s Lynn Festival, including the rest of this Spring Concerts series, with two concerts happening in March and one in April.
“We have always enjoyed a brilliantly interesting festival programme, but this time we have some of the most diverse programming yet, reflecting the wide-ranging professional interests of Anna Pool, our new co-artistic director and festival manager, who is a working composer (currently under commission with English Touring Opera), theatre director, musician, and singer in her own right.”
Tickets will be released on March 24 for five events before the full programme announcement in April.
The early-release artists with performances you can book are:
- Brecon Baroque concert with soloist and director Rachel Podger (with a programme that includes Vivaldi’s Four Seasons)
- Sam Lee, the Mercury Prize nominated folk singer and Radio 4 broadcaster, on tour with his new Mojo album of the year
- Lady Nade Sings Nina Simone
- Voice vocal trio performing their programme, Medieval Women in Song
- Freddy Kempf, masterful pianist (Beethoven’s Sonata in F minor Op.57 “Appassionata”, Brahms’ Op. 118 complete, Chopin’s Polonaise in A major Op. 40 No. 1, and Shostakovich’s Sonata No.2)
Tickets for the Spring Coffee Concert Series are £16 for an adult and half price for those under 25 and are available from Lynn Corn Exchange Box Office on 01553 764864 or online at www.kingslynnfestival.org.uk
